Chapter 3: Fuyurin
Toushiro and Ryou went to each their end of the field, and made their starting battle poses. All of a sudden, an extreme chill flowed through the audience. A figure out of air and moist circled around their feet, making their way towards Toushiro. His one hand was up in the air, his eyelids where closed, and even if only bearly, his sword was glowing. Ryou's eyes minished and went into a direct assault. "Bankai! Kagemaru!" he shouted and his sword changed shape into what might seem like a round, flat and a sharp looking sword. Toushiro's eyes opened and Momo could almost swear that she saw them glow for nearly half a second. "Fuyurin!" he whispered, and his own sword changed.
The first thing noticed, was that, like his previous bankai, his sword became a part of his body, like a ice wall stuck to his back. The sword became sharpley iced, like a fork with three ends, eventually those ends melted together to an enormeously sharp sword, and some of the ice developing from it, made tremendous and outrageous wings on his back, just like with Hyorinmaru, but these were more powerful! These wings of his, suddenly became smaller, and dissapeared into nothing.
"What was that?" Renji shouted out nearly leaning over the rail. "That… was Fuyurin's real form." Byakuya replied. Momo felt herself panick when she saw the new soul of Fuyurin, a dragon that made Hyorinmaru seem like a mere child. Yamamoto just laughed. "Keep your eyes open Hinamori- you don't want to forget this battle." A strong aura that chilled over the whole audience appeared and even Ryou quivered by it. He took his sword and let it swipe over Toushiro's skin.
"Toushiro!" Momo yelled out, Toushiro didn't even seem like he was there as his cut became ice and healed itself. Ryou jumped backwards a little. The chill that had appeared by the seats of the audience suddenly escaped into the air towards Toushiro, they were all like small dragons spinning around him for a second. Toushiro smiled a bit. "You are hardly made for captain." He started and fastened his grip over his sword.
"It's my turn." He shouted and ran towards Ryou, the dragons around him went ahead ripping up Ryou's 10th squad captain cape, and starting to give him some small cuts at the same time before they dissappeared. Ryou was to worried about defending against the upcoming dragons, that Toushiro's attack, was unexpected. Ryou looked at Toushiro's eyes. They were completely white, a glowing white, and his expression showed a sign of hatred! Toushiro launched his final attack and slashed Fuyurin through Ryou, he was smiling… nearly laughing.
Things became completely quiet in the audience as Momo screamed with all her might. "TOUSHIRO!" all of Soul Society might have heard it. Ryou fell towards the ground with just his one attack, and by the scream of Momo, Toushiro's white eyes got color back in his face. He looked towards Momo's scared and frightened face. "Momo…" he whispered. He looked at Ryou's bloody body. Fuyurin and Kagemaru retreated, and Toushiro fell down on his one knee, holding his balance upon his sword. Ryou was dead. Toushiro started coughing up blood, he looked down trembeling when he saw Kagemaru had hit his stomach, and got a pretty deep cut. A second later he fainted unconscioss upon the ground.
Slowly Toushiro opened his eyes, streams of sunlight hit his face. Slowly he got up and looked around his body. His eyes got bigger. Every single one of his scars were gone. And his cut from earlier on, was healed! He turned and saw Momo laying over his bed, she was soundly asleep. He turned against her, and slowly took his hands over hers. Just then Unohana, the 4th squad captain entered. "Hitsugaya, it seems you are awake again." Toushiro let go of her and Momo opened her eyes slowly. "T-Toushiro…" she began, and suddenly huggen him, sitting down on his hospital bed. She started crying. "M-Momo." He whispered, and stroke her hear nearly comferting. Unohana went over to Momo. "Your squad just called for you Momo." Momo looked over at Toushiro, and then towards the ground. "I understand." She left without even saying goodbye to him. "Is she okay?" Toushiro asked. "Nope, she is pretty pissed at you actually." Unohana replied and started taking some of the bandages on his left arm.
"What? Why would she be that?" he questioned. Unohana avoided the question at first. "You should ask her yourself." She sat down next to him. "Where is Fuyurin?" Unohana shook her head. "It has been moved from your posession Hitsugaya, you killed Ryou." Toushiro's eyes grew wider. "No I didn't! It was a gentle attack! Only ment to make him unconscious! You can't take Fuyurin for that!" Unohana shook her head. "That's what you think Hitsugaya… your sword is way to advanced for you. You aren't even aware of your own strength anymore…" she took off some more of his bandages. "Your organs were highly damaged, it was no big deal healing your scars from the past few years, even Ryou's attack was nothing much for me… but your sword Hitsugaya, left an even bigger mark by stealing your aura and lifetime, for these past three weeks you have been in a coma, your life was in imminent danger when we saved you off the battlefield, a second longer and you would have been dead… again." Toushiro helped her with the last bandage, and slowly he got to his feet, rubbing his one hand around his wrist. "Still… I need Fuyurin back." Unohana shook her head. "Until you are strong enough to control it- No Hitsugaya… no."
Toushiro slept unpeacefully that night. He… he killed Ryou, infront of Momo. He had problems sleeping because of it. An image of Fuyurin developed in his head. He could control Fuyurin… he would control him. And with Fuyurin… he would defeat the head-captain. He thought of all the people he had lost… Rangiku, Yuki… and Kiba. Inside him… he was crying. But slowly he was able to sleep.
I know I promised you two chapters today, and I am deadly sorry! We are having an exam tomorrow, and I stayed at school till around 4, then I (accidentily!!) deleated Microsoft Word off my computer! Yes! Completely! (And no I don't have Open Office, I think I deleated that a long time ago) Anyway I downloaded Microsoft Word from Limewire, and thank god all my stories and work are back in business! Thanks for following me all this way, I'll see if I can have my next chapter featuring Yuki, Kiba, and Rangiku when Toushiro recalls his past up by midnight.
Thanks!
-Alex