Previously: Rukia screamed for what seemed like hours. She screamed as loud as she could. For as long as she could. She gripped her hair and let it out.
Everything she had been through, all the pain and suffering. Byakuya's efforts had been for nothing.
"You know, you are extremely loud for someone so small," she turned to see a man. The same man she had watched murder Grayson's brother.
Rukia froze.
Another man came from behind her and put his hand over her nose and mouth, a rag forced her to breathe in the harsh chemicals.
The first thing that came into view was pure, unending white. And then orange, bright, bright orange. Like the color of a carrot.
Gray met brown.
"You son of a bitch!" and before Byakuya got anywhere near Ichigo's throat to choke the living fucking life out of the bastard, he fell to the floor coughing and hacking his lungs out, that's what it felt like at least.
"I need you to listen, please," Ichigo tried to plead with the now deranged looking man, "It's about Rukia." Byakuya instantly forced his coughing to quiet..
"What about her, where did they take her," he stood, "tell me now." The demand seemed scarier given that Byakuya was covered in blood.
"They took her to a facility, Aizen's facility, to be drained." Ichigo said.
"Drained?"
"Yes, take all of her powers and then toss her to whomever wants her," Ichigo stood so he could look Byakuya in the eye for what he was to say next, "I want to give you all of my powers and then I want you to save her. And I swear if she dies, I will haunt you till the day you die. You will suffer. I can promise you that." Byakuya didn't falter, he nodded, taking every word seriously.
Ichigo then placed his hand over Byakuya's heart and bowed his head. A blue light suddenly erupted from Ichigo's entire body. The energy drained Byakuya instantly, sending him to his knees. The warmth of the light itself was amazing. The energy began to flow back into Byakuya gradually, the light soon enveloping them both.
Ichigo collapsed to the floor.
Lifeless.
Byakuya stared down at the cruel man's corpse, turned and left for the factory. During the transfer, Ichigo gave Byakuya every bit of information he would need in order to get Rukia back.
Including, a mental map of the facility.
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Rukia opened her eyes to silky red velvet drapes around the bed she was lying on. The sheets were that of pure white satin. The walls a beep relaxing blue that somehow matched the gold trim and red velvet. The floors were black and as soft as clouds.
Rukia slid off the soft and unbelievably comfortable bed and stood astonished at the long, beautiful white dress that hung from her small frame. The cloth barely touched the floor. There were no shoes to be found. Which was fine, the carpet was too amazing to not want to feel. As she turned, the door opened. She watched him enter the room.
"It being my house, I wanted to escort you to dinner myself," It was Aizen. She recognized him immediately. Instinctively she began to take careful steps back away from the sociopath.
"Keep the hell away from me." Her voice shook slightly. Aizen smile, he could practically taste her terror. Oh, how she was going to scream and beg for him to stop once he began to drain her. And what he would do to her once he was done. Her skin must taste sweet. He snapped out of his thoughts and began to advance on the witch.
Like hell he was going to touch her! She reached for the candlestick holder on the dresser behind her, and chucked the damn thing at his big stupid head and ran like hell. Aizen dodged it easily, of course, and just scooped that small woman up into his arms, tossing her onto the soft bed. She tried to roll away and off the bed but he was already on top of her, pinning her down.
"Get the Fuck off of me!" she screeched, trying to pull her wrists free from his rough and painful grasp.
"Shhh," he put both her wrists in one hand and used his free and to pull a blade from beneath his coat, "you are quite the noisy little thing." He pressed the cool metal of the knife into her throat. Aizen slid the point of the blade down the length of her body, stopping when he reached her stomach. And continued to drag it slowly towards her thigh.
Rukia was beginning to panic. Just the idea of this evil fuck even looking at her set her on edge, let alone putting his hands on her. She forced herself to calm and opened her hands, aiming as best she could towards Aizen, she let all her anger and terror come out on one blow of power sending him across the room and out the window.
Dang. That felt damn good.
She through herself from the bed and out the door. She stopped when she saw the maze of hallways before her.
"I'm fucked." she thought. She ran anyway. A couple of turns and BAM! A window. She approached it cautiously, and slid it open. When Rukia looked down, she saw a ledge that, just maybe, she could reach. Lowering herself down slowly, she just barely touched the ledge and pressed herself against the wall.
Holy shit, it's freezing out here! The white dress she wore wasn't the thickest thing in the world. The long sleeves didn't help either, and the bare feet...! Oh she was toast.
Rukia began to ease herself along the wall to a pipe just around the corner. Pulling her long sleeves around her already cold hands, Rukia began to lower herself down to the snowy ground below. The instant her feet hit ice, she ran. Hard.
"Hey! Hey stop right there!" A guard called after her. She could hear his steps quicken as he tried to catch up to her, "West gate! I'm on her heels!"
Rukia pressed herself harder, hiking her dress up gave her the ability to pick up her knees and gain more ground. As she entered the tree line, she turned and using as much strength as she could afford, she imagined a huge thick rope tying itself to the top of the tree in front of her and bringing down on top of her pursuer. And that was exactly what happened. The tree crushed the man instantly.
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15 minutes of running had drained her entirely. No one followed but getting some distance between herself and those monsters seemed like the best idea; the only time she would stop, is if her legs broke off.
Byakuya saw her running, her dress billowing out behind her making her look like an angel except for the fear on her face, that didn't look so angelic. He began to run to catch up to her.
She collapsed.
He heard her sobbing and, reaching her, he pulled her tight to him. She fought, punched kicked scratched and even tried to bite him.
"Rukia!" He grabbed her head and forced her to look up at him.
She stopped, "You're-you're alive?" she placed and iced hand on his cheek. The warmth she felt proved her she really was seeing him.
"We need to go. Now." He stood, pulling her with him.
"No, no. That would ruin my day." Aizen stood before them, fire sitting in the palm of his hand.
He sent the flaming ball straight towards the two. Rukia immediately brought up her shield of ice in front of them. The fire cracked the ice and shattered it. She stared in shock. Byakuya raised his arms and called out 7 hollows, the things screeched and attacked Aizen. He blocked a few swings but as soon as Rukia iced his feet to the ground, one hollow crushed Aizen into the ground. She iced him again only this time, she covered his entire body. The ice began to creep up his arms and legs, completely covering them.
"I will kill both of you! Slowly!" He screamed as he began to melt the ice. Rukia refroze each drop and then added some. The ice seemed to come alive as it crawled up his chin and down into his throat. Aizen cried out as Rukia began to freeze his insides.
"Byakuya, take care of his little minions for me," Rukia said. Byakuy nodded.
Aizen sot out of the ice and sent the hottest flames he could toward the small girl. Her anger and determination helped her to deflect every attack. Except the knife. She stepped to her left just as it cut through her shoulder shooting pain up into her shoulder and down her arm. Blood coursed down her white dress, permanently staining the cloth. She raised her bloodied hand up towards him and clenched into a fist, freezing the ice in Aizen's body. He knew. The look on his face said it all, he could feel the cold inside. With a cry, Rukia tore the fucker in half. Turning around, she saw Byakuya still sending hollows towards the now-very-dead-Aizen's little henchmen. She imagined the ice beneath their feet and raised it into spikes, killing every. Single. One.
I am soooooooo sorry! I have been so MIA and had the worst writers block in history! And so to make up for leaving you hangin', I brought back Byakuya! YAY! I know you're just so happy right? Yeah, I understand. =) and soon the next chapter will be up hopefully this week. I thank you all so much for putting up with my craziness and laziness! Whoo! Oh and I can promise some juicy stuff in the next chapter ;) it is rated M for a reason *hint hint* lol 3
Thank you guys!
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