Pros: Ice Abyss is an original story wrriten by me. All events that happen in this story are mine and some are taken from Bleach. Shima and Ina also belong to me.
Cons: All characters in this story, except Shima, belong to Kubo Tite, the creator of Bleach.
Author's Notes: Ha! Finally! It's out! I finally got rid of that stupid writter's block that I was having XD. It's been a few weeks now, hasn't it? I have reasons for the delay, but those are irrelevant. I just want to apologize to my readers and do hope that you remain loyal readers to this story. The chapter was very fun to write. I sware there must be at least 3 different genres in this chapter XD. Well enjoy!
Ice Abyss"Byakuya-sama…" Shima breathed before falling into the sanctuary of pleasure that were Byakuya's lips.
They had a soft and cooling effect on her. She felt her eyes close and her hands strength their grip on his hands, feeling the scarce warmth in the pale Byakuya Kuchiki. As she squeezed his hands tighter he did the same and each pulled in closer to one another. He opened his mouth to her, Shima was a little shocked by the action, but the pleasure of it quickly washed shock away. Her heart beat faster as their tongues danced. He seemed highly experienced and it made Shima smile. Her captain was much different then before. He was aggressive and she swore she heard a slight moan of contentment rupture from him.
They broke apart and kept their foreheads together as they both slightly panted. As Byakuya drew and exhaled breath Shima felt the kenseikan slightly bump against her upper forehead. Byakuya's eyes were focused somewhere behind her and Shima's eyes were focused on the wood below the two. What have I done? She thought to herself and both brought their eyes up to the other's at the same time and Shima's special way of knowing what her captain was thinking struck her more then ever.
"What have…. I done….?" She breathed in a whisper and brought her head and hands away from Byakuya.
He seemed unmoved, with a passive expression on his face. He was staring off into space, deep in thought. Shima dropped to her knees and cradled her head in her hands.
"What have I done?!" She yelled as she cried.
She gasped as a body sat gracefully next to her, closer then he would have before. He placed his hand on her shoulder.
"It is not only you, Shima. I have also done wr-"
"KUCHIKI-TAICHOU!" A shinigami barged through the door and yelled inside.
Quicker then Shima's eyes could follow Byakuya was on his feet, in front of his vice captain, purposely covering her from the shinigami with his dense robes. Shima ceased her slight sobbing. He had a passive face and the ice abyss returned to his eyes.
"What is your business here?" He asked simply.
The shinigami was doubled over, panting, but he straightened his back.
"The fugitive, Rukia Kuchiki, has been spotted. I have been ordered to inform you that you are to go get her." He panted.
Shima rose her head a to face him, but the shinigami didn't seem to notice. Shima saw the side of Byakuya's face. Nothing was on the barren flesh that was his face.
"Understood."
The shinigami bowed.
"hai, Kuchiki-taichou."
With that the door clicked behind the shinigami as he left the room. Byakuya glanced back at Shima who was making her way back up to her feet. He then looked at the two-sheathered blades and picked up Senbonzakura and Sasshi, Shima's blade. He handed it to her and began to turn, but a firm hand clasped onto his shoulder. His eyes grew slightly wide, but when he faced Shima he had no expression.
"We will speak of this later, right?" She asked smiling with crescent moon shaped eyes.
Byakuya smiled internally, but remained impassive on the outside.
"Yes we shall"
He then lightly shrugged off her shoulder and turned for the door and clicked it open.
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Rukia's feet padded strongly along the sidewalk as she sprinted down the road. She knew whom she was running from, but where she was running she did not know. Flashes of Ichigo ran through her mind, but she dismissed them as the purple backpack matched her footsteps and bumped up and down against her back. What have I done? She thought not even being aware of the fact that Shima had spoken those words only minutes before.
The moon hung like a glowing egg in the sky above her and the stars were strung across as if the finest silk maker in all the land had made them. Streetlights created a soft orange glow off of Rukia's body. She then stopped short as she felt another presence, but then dismissed it and sprung forward with all her might.
As she reached a clearing in the sidewalk she came to a stop, doubling over from the entire running. A Street light flickered above her, threatening to go out. Once she had caught her breath she came to a standing position and gasped as she fell back from another shinigami standing directly in front of her. Rukia's eyes shot out wide and her eyebrows flew up in disbelief.
"S-Shima-fukutaichou….." She breathed
Shima smiled, but this time it seemed more mysterious then normal.
"Your senses have dropped, Rukia-san." Shima said as she held her hand on the hilt of Sasshi.
Rukia stumbled to her feet, still wide eyed. Her eyes then resided as she switched her eyes to the ground.
"You are here to take me away, right?"
Shima smiled more like Ichimaru-taichou then ever before.
"Well you do cat-"
A blue flash flew across her on her left side and her eyes grew wide as she spun around seeing a being she had not seen in quiet some time. A Quincy. Rukia gasped.
"I-Ishida!"
Shima smirked at the young boy.
"Quincy, eh? I have to say I did believe your breed was nearly extinct. What can I do for you?"
"Well the breed is still alive and well and I do believe you have something I want."
"Oh? And what's that"
"Hand over Kuchiki-san or I will have to use force."
Rukia gasped.
"Ishida don't get involved! Run!"
"Too late, Kuchiki-san, I'm already involved." He said as he held the blue Quincy bow in his hand and glared at his opponent.
Shima laughed.
"You plan to use force to rescue Rukia-san from me? Ha! You wouldn't be able to defeat me and even if you some how did, I did not come here without back you know."
Ishida's expression slightly turned to shock and Rukia's face completely lost whatever controls it had left. Shima smirked and opened her mouth to speak, but Byakuya, with his hands behind his back, walked out from behind a corner, behind Rukia. He did not bare his white captain's robe so the moonlight gave him an even paler look almost representing his name, White Night.
Rukia stood frozen with fear as Byakuya walked lightly passed her. Ishida's eyes grew large. He recognized this shinigami yet he didn't know from where. He believed his father had shown a picture of this man, but Byakuya had been a little younger then. Byakuya's eyes didn't even glance once at Rukia as he passed by her.
"N-nii-sama…" She breathed from her frozen fear.
He took a spot behind Shima and only a few feet from Rukia.
Ishida turned his attention to the new shinigami.
"And you are…?" He asked.
"My name is of no importance." Byakuya said in a smooth tone with a passive face.
Shima smirked at his comment and faced her opponent.
"I do believe back up does come in second, correct? If you defeat me then you can face my taichou."
Ishida's eyes flew open wide.
"Your…t-taichou?"
"Hai. 6th division's captain, Byakuya Kuchiki."
Ishida's eyes resided. So that's him. The heir, or appears to be head now, of the Kuchiki family. As expected he is quite poised. Even a touch of beauty to him. That was why my father had shown me him. Because he was largest potential threat to the Quincys, excluding the captain-commander of course, but this man. There is no telling how much power he has gained in 7 years. Even at the time he was a threat to the Quincys. He thought.
"It seems you aren't going to attack. Well I guess I get the first hit."
Before Ishida could react a strong pain erupted in his right shoulder. Shima appeared on the other side, Sasshi unsheathered. Rukia's eyes grew wide once again. Her shunpo is amazing even on Earth…What is it like in Soul Society? Is it as strong as nii-sama's? No that's crazy talk only a select few can surpass him and she's only vice captain. Rukia thought.
"ISHIDA!" Rukia screamed and took a step forward.
Shima looked back and sheathered her blade as she smirked and the Quincy fell to the ground.
"Well that wasn't exactly fun." She said as she made her way back to Rukia.
As she passed Byakuya she couldn't help, but to nearly taste the feminine smell of cherry blossoms coming from Byakuya.
She then unsheathered her blade and set it on Rukia's shoulder. Rukia gasped.
"Are you going to come quietly, Rukia Kuchiki?" She asked her in a slightly stern voice.
Rukia darted her eyes around and then sighed with defeat and nodded. Shima released her blade.
"Good let us go th-"
"Don't move!" A voice ruptured from behind her near the fallen Quincy.
Byakuya's eyes faintly lifted and Shima turned her body. She smiled at the young man with bleached hair. She took steps forward, passing Byakuya once more. Rukia stood, dumbstruck.
"And who might you be?" Shima smiled with crescent mooneyes.
"I am Kuraski Ichigo."
Both Byakuya and Shima's eyes lifted to the 'shinigami'. She noted the large Zanpoktoh on his back and looked a little puzzled, but then wiped it off.
"Oh? So the reports were true. You were the one that stole Rukia's powers. If that is the case." Shima unsheathered her blade, " Then I cannot allow you to leave here alive."
Ichigo rested his hand on his blade.
"Before we begin this I would like to know the name of the person I am to kill."
Shima smirked.
"If you defeat me then I shall supply that answer."
"Tsh."
Silence rose and then Ichigo drew his blade and charged at Shima.
"ICHIGO NO!" Rukia yelled.
Shima didn't even look at him as she unsheathered her own blade and blocked his attack with one hand on her blade. Ichigo's eyes grew wide.
"Oh? Is it my turn? My bad I wasn't paying any attention." She smiled.
Suddenly the pressure that he was placing on her blade disappeared as she appeared behind him. He fell from the loss in force against his blade. Shima laughed as he stumbled back to his feet.
"Hey brat can I ask you something? Do you know the name of your zanpoktoh?"
"It has a name?"
Shima laughed.
"A shinigami that doesn't know the name of his own zanpoktoh? How pathetic. Well seeming as though you're going to die here there is no point in explaining it to you. You would never understand." Shima smiled as she raised her blade above her head.
Ichigo's eyebrows and mouth turned into a question like look. Shima merely smiled.
"Air canvas, Sasshi." She said simply and her blade transformed into a furry like ribbon.
Ichigo's eyes grew wide.
"what?"
"As I said you would never understand. Now go ahead attack me with all your might."
"Ok you asked for it! AGHHHHHHHH!" Ichigo ran at the girl.
As he swung his blade down, Shima made a few quick slashes with her brush and his lade was stopped by a wall. His eyes shot up.
"What?!"
He tried to force his sword out, but it was futile. Shima smiled and made many quick, flowing designs and vines appeared around Ichigo. Both, Ichigo and Rukia's eyes shot open.
"Ichigo…"
Shima smirked and clasped her blade between her hands.
"Constrict, Sasshi!" She yelled slightly and the vines constricted onto Ichigo.
He let out grunts of pain as they became tighter around his body. He struggled and struggled.
Shima laughed.
"It is futile. Someone of your low level cannot do anything to escape Sasshi's bind."
Ivhigo grew silent and, suddenly, a large amount of spitual energy flooded the area. Byakuya seemed unaffected, but Shima's foot slid a little and her eyes grew wide.
"What?!"
The green painting of vines disappeared as Ichigo jumped out landing a shallow slash on Shima's left shoulder. Her eyes continued to be wide and Rukia just stared in disbelief as she barely held herself up off of the ground. Byakuya's eyes traced up to Shima's eyes and her cut.
Shima turned her head to shinigami on her opposite side.
"Psh. Lucky"
He rushed at her again, but her blade became hard and she blocked the attack, but only just. She quickly drew another sword to hold with her left hand and attacked him, but only to be dodged. As her head was turned her drove his elbow into the back of her neck. Her eyes flew open in wide fear as spit flew from her mouth with droplets of blood. She landed on her knees coughing barely holding both blades, back turned to Ichigo.
He drove his blade down on her, but when it reached her it vanished. Shima caughed and turned her body, wheezing because of the direct attack. Her hands were on the floor and her knees were touching it, making her seem like a child playing as a dog.
Ichigo's face was in pure shock and Shima was weezing, but shock just made it worse. Ichigo's eyes then turned to Byakuya who held the blade.
Ichigo faced him as Byakuya's hand rested on the hilt of his blade. Sudden;t, he appeared behind Ichigo and blood raised into the air, tainting the ground and Ichigo fell down and hit the ground, hard. Shima gasped as her breathing became more and more controlled until she could finally speak. She held her head in shame.
"I am sorry, Kuchiki-taichou." She said. Byakuya glanced back at her and then faced forward.
"It was only to practice my skills" He said
"Ichigo! Ichigo!" Rukia held running over to the group.
Shima rose to her feet and cut her off while Byakuya stood next to Ichigo.
"Stop, Rukia" Shima whispered to her as she held the struggling Rukia in her arms, "Do not rush to his side. It will only make things worse." Rukia's struggling subsided and tears grew in her eyes.
"Hai, Shima-san." She said sollemly and Shima released her, but Rukia ran to Ichigo's side. Shima used shunpo and cut her off, pinning her to the lightpost.
"Stop it, Rukia!" She yelled, "Do not make things worse for yourself just to be near a mere human! Or you will cease to exsist…" Shima's grip hardened on Rukia's throat, but not with the intenet to kill.
Byakuya took a step nearer to Ichigo.
"Why waste what little life you have on a child such as this, Rukia? Nothing you do will be able to help. He is dead." Byakuya said and Rukia's head tilted down as she began to cry.
Byakuya felt a grasp on his robes.
"Who ever said I was dead?" Ichigo asked
Shima gasped slightly.
"Amazing…" She mummered in a low voice to where not even Rukia could hear.
"Let go." Byakuya said without even looking back at the child.
"I can't hear you. Look at me when you speak." Ichigo said in a challenging voice.
"Is that so?" Byakuya turned his head, "I see you don't need that arm"
Rukia charged from Shima's hand and landed a kick right on Ichigo's hand, making it fly off of Byakuya's robes.
"Rukia? What are you doing, Rukia?!" Ichigo yelled.
"Shut up, Brat!" She yelled at him with a new found look in her eye.
She turned her head to Byakuya.
"I am ready to recive punishment for my sins, nii-sama. I now relive that my actions were wrong and fighting is futile. Please take me to Soul Society where I will await the sentence Room 46 shall besto upon me."
Shima walked over to Byakuya's side, a little closer then normal, but not to where anyone could take notice.
Byakuya nodded and turned on his heel, Shima close behind.
"There is no need for a final blow. This child will die with in the hour. Shima."
"Hai, taichou."
She took steps forward and a voice spoke behind her. It was faint and she could barely hear it.
"Rukia…." It was Ichigo's voice, but Rukia didn't even glance back. Shima smirked slightly at the act that Rukia was putting on.
Shima knew that Rukia belived she was fooling her brother, but Shima also knew Byakuya wasn't buying it. He was head of the Kuchiki family. Tricks like these were child's play to him.
Shima drove her blade into mid air, the brush particals turning stiff like a blade.
"Unlock!" she yelled slightly.
And the doors to Soul Society appeared before the three. Shima swung her blade and it reverted back into it's normal form. She sheathered it and was first to disappear behind the white mist. She transformed into a pure black butterfly as she disappeared.
Byakuya follwed close after her and last, but not least, Rukia followed, looking behind the doors as they slid shut behind her, leaving Ichigo damp with tears, blood, and rain along his body. He struggled to keep his eyes open, but, after a few minutes struggle, darkness incased him.
Not much of a cliffy, but whatever XD. I think I began getting lazy near the end because it's about 12:30 and I started at 10:30 so I've been writing for a while XD. I enjoyed this chapter a lot because I got some fluffiness in and fighting. Oh and Shima's shikai is released! Yay! It is a fun shikai lol. Another thing I loved was the fact that I got to play a bunch of different characters XD. Fun stuff. Anyway, I'll update as soon as I can, but I can't guarantee that it will be right away. I will try as best as I can, but I cannot be certain…
Sneak Peek: Chapter sneak peek.
"Sentence and betrayl. Chaos surrounds the one of holy robes."
Good luck with that one XD. Untill next time, peace .