I DON'T OWN BLEACH or Breaking Benjamin's "Anthem of the Angels" Please take time to listen to it on leTUBE. It is worth buying, no album has effected my writing like this one has.
Chain of Fate
Anthem of the Angels
"White walls surround us
No light will touch your face again
Rain taps the window
As we sleep among the dead
Days go on forever
But i have not left your side
We can chase the dark together
If you go then so will I
There is nothing left of you
I can see it in your eyes
Sing the anthem of the angels
And say the last goodbye"
Chapter 11; Benihime sings
Ichigo hears the rain pouring outside, as the lightening flashes through the small bedroom window. It's all so incredibly slow, his breathing, the clock's tick, and the heartbeat in his ears. His hands tighten around Kisuke's pale form. Hoping against hope there is some remnant of him left to at least say goodbye. It's futile, he knows but it doesn't stop him from looking into the ashen blue eyes for a spark that will not rise.
"You always tell me what I need to do Kisuke." Ichigo wonders how the rain can fall inside the room? "Don't leave me." He sees it, he has seen this before. That dark emptiness creeping along his spine, the familiar void that is settling around him. Ichigo is fine to deny the word, the wicked sounding word of separation.
"How long has Ichigo been in there with him?" Yoruichi appears around the corner to Kisuke's room.
"Six hours, he hasn't moved or spoken." Tessai replies holding Ururu's sobbing body to his chest. "We felt him-"
Yoruichi slides the door open seeing Ichigo holding Kisuke on his lap smoothing the blondes hair away from his pale face.
"Ichigo." She steps into the room her yellow eyes growing wide with sadness. "Kisuke is go-"
"Get out."
"Come have a drink Ichigo." She reaches toward the bed only to be pushed back by Ichigo's reiatsu.
"GET OUT!" His eyes pour with thick tears, blood trickles down his chin from biting his lip.
"I-I'm sorry Ichigo." She whispers stepping outside quietly shutting the door behind her.
"Yoruichi-san, did the barrier get lowered in time?" Tessai asks lifting Ururu's now sleeping body in one large hand, curling her against his chest.
"I hope so, if not Kisuke really is lost forever."
"Will you tell Kurosaki-san?"
"Not until I know for sure." Her hands shake lifting a drink to her lips. "I don't want to put him through anymore pain. I-I never want to see that face I just saw." She drops to the floor struggling to focus on possible solutions to the problem in front of her. "His face..." Superior tactics and cunning will not ease the pain in her heart. "I can't look at that face again."
"I know what went wrong with the experiment. Urahara-dono's zanpaktou materialized the first day he became powerless." Tessai pulls the sword out from a closet. "If she was able to materialize, it means Urahara-dono still had some latent abilities. He wasn't completely human." She lifts her arm up grabbing another drink to dull the ache building in her chest.
"Benihime is here?" She drops her drink suddenly feeling Ichigo's bankai activate. "He wouldn't!" She flash steps quick as possible breaking through the door and grabbing the black blade pointed at Kisuke's chest. "This doesn't work on the dead Ichigo." Blood from her hand sliced on Zangetsu edge drips down on Kisuke's pale face.
"Let me try! " He drops the sword and leans his forehead on Kisuke's chest. "I have to do something!"
"Ichigo..." Before Yoruichi can explain to him, a soft red glow streaks past her. Benihime drops into Ichigo's hands with a sober hum radiating through his body.
"Benihime is singing for us." He holds the glowing blade to his chest with a devastated look on his face. "The song is... beautiful."
"She is singing for you. I hear nothing Ichigo."
"Wait a minute, if Benihime is here!" Ichigo's eyes pop over to Yoruichi's.
"Before you get your hopes up. All it means is his spirit is somewhere."
"Open up the gate to Rukongai. I'm going to look for him." He places his empty body next to Kisuke's before pulling the blanket over them, then touches his palm to Urahara's cold face. "I'll bring you back Kisuke."
"Ichigo, one last thing before you go. There is a chance he won't recall his former life. There is a chance he won't remember his time being human."
"He won't remember being with me you mean?"
"Yeah."
"It's enough... just being near him." He smiles warmly before jumping through the gate with both swords in his hands.
Landing in Rukongai safely Ichigo closes his eyes and begins to concentrate on Kisuke's reiatsu.
"I swear I'll find you."
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For three days he searches day and night finding nothing. No one has seen or heard of Kisuke. Ichigo slowly falls down in exhaustion, his body landing in front of a shinigami wearing a white haori and a pale green scarf.
"Hmm, no matter how you look at it. This is Kurosaki Ichigo." Byakuya motions Renji over to his side.
"Oh, Ichigo?" Renji picks up his pale body, staring at the deep circle under his eyes. "What is he doing here? He looks like walking death."
"I'll find you, I swear." His voice whispers. Byakuya's eyebrow arches in curiosity, a twinge of familiarity wraps around his chest.
"Take him inside, and summon my personal physician."
A/N; Short chapter because it's ready to go and people seemed concerned over me ending it. Which I'm not yet ;D Plus I don't want to have too many breaks in a chapter.
Just a quick note for reference. The barrier Tessai speaks of his the one that doesn't allow Kisuke in Soul Society. I assumed you would understand that. But If you didn't now you know^^
The next chapter will be longer I'm sorry it's short but I wanted to ease people's fears about it being over. Plus it was ready so I thought why not update ;D I want to thank the people who took the time to review my last chapter.
The duckies will return soon no fears! Please stay with me! I hope this story isn't bad. I keep worrying over it not being liked as much as my Bya Yaoi edit LOL. I'm being silly eh? Oh dear I hope this doesn't suck too much!
