"S-stop . . . !." Oh no, I was getting tired "Stop. . . Please stop . . . gah!" I had finally passed out, and unknowing of what Byakuya might do to me . . . . .

"Ngh. My head . ." I said while groaning and holding my throbbing head, sitting up. "Huh? Where the heck am I . . . .?" I mumbled looking around at the white room, quickly looking over at the door, to see a nurse walking in, but regretting it as my head started throbbing from the fast movement. As the nurse walked into the room she saw me sitting up.

"Oh! You're finally awake!" and with that she quickly left the room, and after a few minutes walked back in again, but this time with Ishida's Dad and my own father in tow.

"Ichigo!" My near sobbing dad said rushing up to me and putting me into a bear hug "Thank goodness you're awake!" I struggled against his hold and punched him in the face, pushing him away.

"Why wouldn't I wake up?" My eyebrows furrowed as I looked at my father. To my surprise Ryuuken answered my question.

"You had lost a lot of blood when you were found, we thought you would die but you held on. It's amazing you're alive, you're lucky." Before I could say another thing my teary eyed dad jumped up and hugged me again.

"Oh my beautiful son! I almost lost you! Your sisters are so worried about you! Bwaaaaaaaa!" As he sat there crying on me, I realized he must have been very worried. I hugged him back, pressing my face against his shoulder, my mind foody from the sleep and apparent blood loss.

As my dad cried on me, Ryuuken explained that I should drink some more water and later he and my dad were going to come back to ask me questions but for now I needed to rest. Isshin refused to let go of me even when Ryuuken attempted to get him off.

"Hey goat face, let me rest so I'll get better, ok?" I said softly. Isshin's form still shook but he slowly let go. He gave me a soft kiss on my forehead before finally getting up and leaving the room with Ryuuken.

I scratched my head 'What happened? I remember walking down that street when. . . Byakuya? He was attacking some lady I think.' I shook my head 'Why is it so hard to remember what happened?' I thought to myself when all of a sudden I was interrupted with a load shout outside of my room.

"Ichigo! Are you ok! We heard you were attacked!" I looked up to see Rangiku, Toshiro, Ikkaku, and Yumichika

"Of course I'm fine! Why are people thinking I'm not going to be ok?" I saw that they glanced at each other, something clear that I'm missing something.

"Ichigo," Toshiro started softly "you were found nearly dead from blood loss and the body of a dead woman just a couple feet away. "You were almost the victim of a murderer that's been killing people for the last month or so" he stated carefully and I just stared at him

"M-murderer?" I looked down while thinking about what happened. If I remembered correctly, that would mean Byakuya was a killer.

"Oh don't be so glum about it! You're alive so what's the big deal!" Ikkaku stated, making it sound like death wasn't important

"Quiet down Ikkaku, it's not beautiful to shout like that" Yumichika said, tilting his head away from Ikkaku.

"Oh shut up!"

"Stop fighting you two! Well Bye Ichigo! I hope you feel better and watch out don't let something happen like that again!" Rangiku said as she pulled Ikkaku and Yumichika out the door.

Toshiro quietly looked at me and said "Be careful out there" it was so quiet I had to lean forward to even hear the words.

"Come on Toshiro! Hurry up!" Rangiku shouted from outside the door. Toshiro looked at me again and left, me being left again to the silence of the room.

I sighed 'So does that make Byakuya the murderer? Or could it just be my memory? No it couldn't be that, it feels like it happened . . . but then that would mean Byakuya Kuchiki is a murderer. Even if that is so, I'm still alive. Maybe I was meant to die but I lived? Does that mean he will come back to kill me?' I thought over again as my thoughts raced for all the options

'How could this be happening? This is just too weird. . . I mean come on! Why would Byakuya attack and kill all those people . . .? It's just. . . It couldn't happen! No way!'
When once again the door flew open and Rukia come flying in, punching my arm roughly

"Ow! Why did you do that?" I yelled at her holding my arm.

"Idiot! What were you doing walking around at night with all that's been going on with the murder?" she yelled back at me.

I was about to say something back to her when I noticed Renji and Byakuya standing at the door. Renji had his arms crossed and gave me this hard stare while Byakuya stood there with that normal black and cold face. Rukia looked back at them and sighed

"What were you doing anyway? You should have known there was a killer lurking about! Ready to kill you and anyone that's out!" Rukia crossed her arms, giving me a hard stare.

"I just wanted to go for a walk!" I said trying to defend myself.

"Why?" Renji said suddenly, looking at me like I was the idiot.

"There was nothing better to do" I said, glaring at him. I looked at all three of them, my eyes lingering on Byakuya as he still stood in the same spot.

"So did someone tell you what happened and you came here to punch some sense into me?"

"No they didn't need to; it's all over the news! I was watching some TV with Brother when it came on! It said about how you are the first person to live after an attack! I told Renji about it and we came here to see if you were ok!" I was shocked once again.

"It's on TV?" I glance at Byakuya again "Why did Byakuya come?" Rukia was going to say something when his voice cut through hers.

"Can I not see if you are alright Kurosaki?" I looked at him skeptically thinking it would be best if I didn't say anything about what happened.

"Hm fine then" I mutter when I was once again hit on the head "The hell!"

"Don't be so disrespectful to Brother! He came all this way to see if you were alright!" She shouted again. I sighed "Fine, fine! Sorry!"

"Rukia, Renji. Would you mind if I had a moment alone with Kurosaki?" Byakuya said while keeping his face straight and void of all emotion.

"Of course Brother!" Rukia said and pulled Renji out of the room.

Byakuya smirked at me and shut and locked the door. I gulped knowing I wouldn't be able to protect myself. He walked over to me slowly; He kept his eyes on mine till he made it to the bed, leaning over so he was face to face with me. I shuddered as he leaned in close to me.

"What do you want" I said looking away, breaking the staring contest we seemed to have going on. I heard him chuckle and bring him mouth close to my ear, whispering

"Didn't you learn from the first time not to take your eyes off me?" As soon as he said that he had me pinned against the bed, arms pressed above my head.

"H-hey! Get off!" I yelled struggling to get free from his vice like grip hold. He laughed again and moved both of my hands so he was holding them with only one of his and ran his free hand over the bandages over my neck

"My, my, how horrible. Covering up that beautiful mark I gave you" He said tearing the bandages away to look at the bite mark he left on my neck. "There that's better, don't you think?" He said nudging my neck. I winced as my neck was still sore from what happened

"Stop it! What is it you even want from me?" I wanted to yell as loud as I could but he's already proven that he's faster than me and the roaming hand on my neck seemed to keep me quiet.

"That's easy" He started out looking me in the eyes as he slowly said his words.

"I want you as my mate"