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A/N: Thank you to those who have reviews! Domo arigatou gozaimasu! Continue to R&R!
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Chapter 4: Aizen-sama.
She wanted to stay, she had really wanted to stay and faced them, telling them all the truths and begged for their help. But, her pride and hatred made the decision for her; she left them without telling them what they should know.
She jumped from trees to trees and then jumped off the tree after hundreds of paces. She landed onto a small plain grass land. She felt the presence of two chasers. She didn't turn around, "What do both of you want now?" her voice was stern and annoyed.
"Yare, yare," Ichimaru Gin appeared with his usual mocking grin and Tousen Kaname was behind him, "Aizen-sama, you've found us."
The lady glared at Gin, "You're not answering my question, Gin."
"My… You're too cold today, Aizen-sama."
"You want a flaming hell or a freezing one?"
"I guess I've made you angry, Aizen-sama. Okay…," Gin scratched his head, "…weird, I don't seem to remember what I supposed to tell you…"
"Hurry up or I'll make sure there is no traces of you once you leave for hell."
"Patience, Aizen-sama… Ah, I remember now… But, it's a bit too crowded here, isn't it?" Gin's eyes darted to a direction.
"Aizen-sama, sumimasen," Kaname said for the first time, "We can't just risk anything," and he took out his Zanpakutou. Gin took out of his Zanpakutou and aimed it at a huge tree.
"Ikorose, Shinsou!" and it shot towards the tree. Three fast figures jumped away from the tree before it was destroyed by Shinsou. Gin retracted his Zanpakutou and before him, seven figures stood around them.
"Kurosaki-kun, Abarai-kun and Rukia-chan…hajime mashite?" Gin asked sarcastically.
"Kuchiki Byakuya-san, Quincy and the other two persons…," Kaname bowed slightly. The turquoise-eyes lady did neither talking nor anything.
"Ichimaru Gin, Tousen Kaname," Byakuya said, "There will be no harm done if both of you obediently follows us to Soul Society. And joshi-san, it would be great if you could also follow us for some…informations."
The lady responded nothing but both Gin and Kaname tightened their grip on their Zanpakutou. Silence fell around them…
ZHWWIIING!
Byakuya's Senbonzakura met rather harshly with Kaname's Suzumushi, creating sparks of fire when the blades slid onto each other. Zangetsu was fighting with Shinsou with killing reiatsu and with the sudden coming of hollows, the others were busy fighting them. Strangely, the hollows weren't approaching the lady even by two meters far. It seemed that they were afraid of her…or someone had ordered them not to attack her…
The lady stood still for a while and then she gave a threatening glare, "Leave at once, both of you."
"Aizen-sama, this isn't the time for joking," Gin replied while holding back Ichigo's attack, "We're both are busy on something."
Suddenly, a high murderous reiatsu filled the atmosphere and every single of the hollows vanished. Gin suddenly fell onto the ground while holding his bloody rib and Tousen coughed blood after being thrown to a tree by unknown force. Both Rukia's and Orihime's eyes widened with fear as the reiatsu increased by each second. They nearly died of suffocating but slowly the fright left them as both Ichigo and Renji took their place in front of them.
"Heh…," Renji grinned nervously, "Who the hell is she? Only the Gotei 13's captains have this high…murderous reiatsu."
Chad, Uryuu and Byakuya didn't really have seen what had happened but the lady's robe hem's movement indicated that its owner did moved. But, for some reasons, what they could only see was that the lady wasn't moving at all.
"I'd say once again," she said sternly, "LEAVE."
Gin opened his mouth to argue but both of Kaname and him knew it was pointless to argue; instead they just nodded slightly and vanished from sight. Silence fell once again around them…
The lady started to walk away and this time, none of them tried to stop her. Instead, they just watched her disappearing from their sight, totally speechless. They stayed like that for a while…
"Err…," Uryuu decided to broke the silence, "…what now?"
"Let her be," Byakuya replied and started to walk away, completely ignoring the surprise faces that stared towards him.
She woke up, breathed heavily and sweating. Her hands were holding out, trying to reach something…someone…
She looked around her, she was still in her apartment room. She wiped the sweats and the buried her face into her hands. Her turquoise-eyes slowly filled with sad tears. The surroundings somehow began to become cool and a melancholic aura created.
"Sousuke…," and she slowly drifted into her past...
"Sousuke?"
"Hai?" Aizen Sousuke smiled gently towards her, stroking her dark blue hair softly. Her face became warm.
"Is it okay for you to spend your time here? I mean, you're a Taichou and-"
"Hinamori-kun is more than enough and she's a hardworking Shinigami. And it is my holiday anyway."
"But still…"
"Not another word," Sousuke put his index finger onto her ruby lips – she was positively sure her face was deep crimson – and smiled warmly, "This is my pleasure as I cherish every moment I spend with you…"
ZWIISH!
She snapped back to the present. Someone – or two – had just passed her window apartment. She looked out of the window. There was no one in sight but there were two trails of reiatsu, two trails of different but familiar reiatsu…
Hastily, she grabbed her cloak and her shoes. Then, she followed the reiatsu trails swiftly. The trails brought her to Karakura woods and stopped at a large plain area. Two figures stood on the plain area and she quickly hid herself in bushes nearby. The figures were far but the moonlight provided enough light for her to see them. She couldn't believe what she saw that she had to cover her mouth from gasping.
Aizen Sousuke and Kuchiki Byakuya stood facing each other.
"Why are you stopping here after running away from me, Kuchiki-san?" Sousuke smiled mockingly, "Tired? Why are you running away from me in the first place? Afraid of me? So not like you, Kuchiki-san…"
"Three mistakes," Byakuya said, "First, I'm not tired at all. Second, I'm not running away from you; I'm only trying to avoid unnecessary damages at local residences. Third, I'm afraid of you? Why should I feel afraid of you? Tell me one good reason for it."
"Not afraid even a little?" Sousuke took out his Kyouka Suigetsu, "Not afraid even if I could relive your past?"
"What nonsense are you-" Byakuya stopped and his eyes widened. Hisana appeared in front of him and held out her hands towards him, giving one of her brightest smile. His mind tried desperately to tell him that it was only an illusion created by Sousuke but he didn't hear any of it. His sense of right was locked all of sudden and he didn't even notice Sousuke smiled evilly.
"Byakuya-sama… I miss you so much…," Hisana's voice was mesmerizing and soft. Byakuya made a few slow paces towards Hisana that slowly changed into a run. Nothing in the whole universe seemed to be important to him. The mission, the turquoise-eyes lady, Gotei 13, Four Noble House, anything…it was no longer important. For him, he just wanted to embrace, to hug with his own hands, his own arms the woman he cared and loved with all his life. Even when Sousuke grinned satisfactorily and evilly and a blade was waiting for a shower of his blood, he didn't take notice. What he cared now were only him and Hisana…
SHHOOOK!
Warm red blood landed itself on the grasses and Byakuya, creating spots of crimsons. Byakuya snapped out of Sousuke's illusion. Now, he could clearly saw a blade instead of Hisana and the blade was showered in blood. But it wasn't his blood…
"Why…You…," Sousuke was speechless. Sousuke's Kyouka Suigetsu had stabbed someone that was the last person he had wanted to hurt. His shock hazel eyes stared right into a pair of turquoise-eyes.
The lady grabbed Sousuke's Zanpakutou – despite making her hand bleed – and pulled the blade out of her abdomen, not slow but not fast either. Her lips tightened in pain. With the blade's complete removal, more blood flowed out of her. She then fell unconscious but never reached the blood-covered grass. Byakuya's arm successfully caught her.
Byakuya looked for Sousuke but he had just disappeared. But somehow, a bottle of medicine was in his hand. Byakuya knew the owner of the bottle at once. Sousuke had used the medicine once in a mission for a deep cut he got from a hollow and his cut slowly healed…
Byakuya, using shunpo, went to the rented house while carrying the unconscious lady with great care. His attention was focused to only one.
"Whoever you are, don't die…"
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A/N: Exams are slowing me down currently, so sorry for the late update.