Chapter 9 Forgotten path
Hollows point of view
Why was it that she had spoken to me so calmly? And why hadn't I devoured her? She is the first being I've come across and haven't tried to destroy. I don't understand it.
I could see lights ahead of me in the darkness. Lights from houses and bigger buildings. The air was whipping at my face as I ran and my robes that were tattered at the bottom billowed as I moved. I need new clothes. These robes are shinigami. I am not shinigami.
As I thought about what would be suitable to were my thoughts wondered once again. I don't understand. Why didn't I kill her? I wanted to. She smelt like food. She smelt like a good soul should smell. But why? Why hadn't she removed her sword? Why did I even save her? I could of let the hollow kill her, and then killed the hollow...AHHHHG. WHY?
I closed my eyes for a second. I'll just forget about it for now. It does not matter. I'm just curios about her that's all. Nothing more to it. Now I have something to do. Some one I need to see.
I crossed into the little town at that moment loving how the streets were all empty at night, yet lights shone brightly everywhere. Street lamps with there yellow glow, and bigger buildings and shops with there neon lights blaring away into the night. The moon was hardly showing here. I liked that. It was something that would always be there, but yet it was being discarded so easily by the modern world.
I stopped for a second catching a breath. I could feel my strength getting much stronger and building up but also the unease was creeping its way back into my chest. What if I loose my sanity? Should I even be worrying about it? Ive never worried about it before? It shouldn't matter should it?
Shut up. I told the little voice that was nagging in a far corner of my brain. I don't need you. Ive never needed you.
I set of again at full speed and sniffed the air like a wolf on the hunt. I couldn't smell the thing that I was searching for at first. Just the damp street, and the fresh air being brought it from the wind, and now and again the faint scent of a shinigami that had passed hours ago, but not the persons scent I was searching for. Not his.
I was searching for Ichigo. I new sort of the location were he lived but not the exact place. I had spent my whole life in his soul yet I hardly knew anything about the world he lived in. While sitting there in his inner world, id often feel his emotions now and again. Some times id hear little snippets of conversation. Some times I would see through his eyes but only very briefly. That only happened when his confidence would be wearing thin and he wouldn't fight me off as much.
I passed some roads that's Ive seen before looking through his eyes but I knew he didn't live on those streets. I sniffed again this time smelling a light warmth on the air. I stopped and then back tracked a couple of streets. It was stronger here. The street was smaller then the others I had passed. The little houses were mostly bunched together and it was darker here because there were less street lamps.
I found myself wandering down the road liking how comforting the darkness was. I sniffed again it was the warmth I had been searching for. I knew Ichigo. And I knew his scent. It was always very warm. Like being in a tropical rain forest. A hot breathing and living scent. But the smell I was sensing now wasn't as warm as it had always been but I knew it was his. I could not be mistaken.
As I got almost to the end of the street I noticed the scent was coming from the top window of a small house. The window was open and the curtains either side had drifted out of it slightly. There was no light from inside the room. And I couldn't see him from this angle but I knew it was his room.
I ran at the wall of the house scaling it easily. I grasped the ledge and pulled myself into a couching position on top of it. The curtains light material brushed against my arm.
He was at his desk. His arms leaning on the wood and his face in his hands. I realized that I shouldn't be cautious, he wouldn't be able to sense me now.
