Star lines of Destiny

Disclaimer I do not own any of the Bleach characters in this story. The only person I own is my OC character Natsumi and Nakito and right now Nohaya. Have fun!

The Air Temple

The sun shone between the trees but it did little to help the four. The forest still seemed cold, damp and lonely. The animals had become quiet. Natsumi woke to see the other three awake and ready for her. Hitsugaya nodded and Natsumi nodded back. The all continued towards the temple.

A cold fiery blast of wind met the four. It was coming from the temple. Around the temple oddly enough, there was no single living thing insight. It seemed as the trees, grass shrank from the temple, and the dirt seems to not even be there. The temple itself was also oddly shaped. A bridge reached directly to the door. It was crooked and seemed broken but when Hitsugaya touched, it seems to become new again. The temple was also tiny that it seems like the four if went in could not move at all. The temple had many signs that seemed to be the heart of the temple it glowed and pulsed with the same beat. The temple was made of ivory and marbles reaching high up into the air.

"Let's go." Hitsugaya said.

He cautiously stood on the bridge. It stood firm. Nohaya followed next along with Natsumi. Nakito came last. The bridge creaked and swayed as a blast of wind shook it.

"Be careful ok? This isn't going to be easy." Hitsugaya yelled to them behind him but his voice was lost as the wind blew again.

Nakito with the help of her wolf yelled back. "Got it!"

The bridge started rattling. All four of them made it towards the door. A phoenixes face was like the doorbell. It was carved of brass and as Hitsugaya tried to touch it, the phoenix spoke scaring all four of them.

"Who may you be that dares come near the Air Temple. All I shall say is that you are wasting your time. Go back if you want to live." The phoenix head spoke.

"No! We shall not! Let us in." commanded Hitsugaya.

"As you wish but do not let us be easy on you." The phoenix head said. As it said that, the door creaked open.

Natsumi ran forward to go on. But as she did that, she felt some liquid touch her.

"It seems like a barrier but for whom?" Natsumi asked.

"I don't think we shall know." Hitsugaya said.

Hitsugaya entered followed by Nohaya.

"I don't want to go in. I don't think it's a good idea." Nakito stopped at the beginning.

"Come on you will be fine. Look at me? I'm fine." Hitsugaya said.

"Yeah." Nohaya echoed.

Nakito hesitated and then touched the barrier. Suddenly the phoenix head spoke.

"No earth shall come in be gone!" It said.

The bridge broke away and Nakito screaming fell. Hitsugaya rushed forward and grabbed her hand before she fell all the way.

"Let go!" Nakito cried, as Hitsugaya seemed to slip forward.

"No I can't!" yelled Hitsugaya.

Nakito threw something at him. It was a diamond necklace. Shocked Hitsugaya let go and Nakito fell down. There was a brilliant flash of blue light and Nakito disappeared.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Hitsugaya yelled and collapsed crying.

Natsumi rushed forward to help him but stopped to see the bridge rebuild itself. When she realized she had frozen Nohaya was already there.

"There, there, you will be fine. We have to finish the quest first right? Then we can tell the other people that Nakito had gone." She cooed.

Natsumi nodded. She new that what Nohaya said was right but she felt torn at the same time. Natsumi couldn't bear losing her friend. But she knew there was no choice. She lifted Hitsugaya up to his feet.

"Look at you. You are a mess. We all know that Nakito is gone. But what can we do? We can sulk here yeah and we can cry but Yamamotou taichou gave us a missions and I think we should follow it. Coming here meant death and we all knew that but we still came. Are you a boy and the boy genius or not? Are you a captain of the tenth division or not?" Natsumi said to him.

He paused shocked. Then Hitsugaya regained his normal composure. Natsumi smiled.

"You are right Natsumi. We have a mission. A loss is a loss but there is no time to morn. We must quickly hurry back in." Hitsugaya stood up.

Natsumi took a side-glance and saw Nohaya's murdering look. She smirked at Nohaya. Nohaya stuck her tongue out at Natsumi and stood up too.

"Let's go!" Natsumi said.

Nohaya snorted. "You seem to hyper."

"Well I'm not thank you very much." Natsumi countered.

They those two seeing that Hitsugaya had already gone in followed him inside.

The air temple immediately looked bigger then the outside. It was like an illusion. The three were walking on the cloud and on top of them dragons floated and so did phoenixes along with many type of birds that the three never saw before. One was what felt like it was made of light. The bird glowed brightly and was like the sun it was the light of the temple. Without it, the temple would've been dark. There were also dragons that looked like they were made of pure gold. The dragons gleamed brightly and breathed fire that looked like purple. The three gasped. Along what seemed like walls were pictures of angles but yet it seemed like real for the angles moved. They pointed at the three and whispered among each other. But the angels dare not get closer. They stayed where they were not daring to get closer. The many air creatures on top so the three but did not come close either.

"Are they scared of us?" Nohaya asked.

"No. They think we cannot harm them. But I'm assuming that if us three try to get near the seal. These creatures would attack us. So we must be careful." Hitsugaya said.

Natsumi looked around. "I understand."

"I feel this weird wave coming from over there." Nohaya pointed.

Natsumi and Hitsugaya gulped. The place where she pointed had pictures of two creatures with the face of a woman and the body of a bird with wings. Their teeth were as sharp as sight. The wings were seemed to be made of steel and dark as night. They hissed as Hitsugaya, Natsumi and Nohaya came closer to where they were. Natsumi looked up. She saw as all the creatures edged closer eager to watch what would happen.

"This isn't going to be easy." Hitsugaya said. "I wasn't expecting to get all the creatures attention."

"Well nobody said life was easy." Natsumi answered.

"But nobody said it was hard." Nohaya said.

"Shut up will you." Natsumi answered.

They took one giant step closer until they could touch the weird woman/bird people. At once chaos spread.

First, the dragons roared and rushed down at the three who ducked. The woman/bird broke away from the picture and held swords, which made wind, stir around them.

"So you want to challenge us? I accept." Hitsugaya grabbed his sword and went into fighting position.

Natsumi followed the same. She hoped that the Hikaze would sort things out for her.

Well here, I go…………What ever that means. Natsumi thought.

"You shall not get near the seal. It was ours from the beginning and it shall be ours to the end. You can try as you might but the whole temple shall be against you. We the Secreis shall not let you pass." The secreis hissed.

The dragons lunged at Nohaya. She squeaked and ducked. Hitsugaya blocked the coming dragon and tried to slice it. It dodged swiftly and headed for Natsumi. Natsumi felt her sword burn. It seemed to ask her let me fight, let me fight. Natsumi took the sword out and it burned. Fire licked the edge and leaped at all who was near that Natsumi sensed as an enemy. "Hinokaminari! (Fire lightning) " She yelled.

Now what was that spell? It just came to my head and I yelled it out." Natsumi thought.

The fake sky of the air temple grew dark. Then lightning flashed but no this wasn't normal lightning. This was fire. It pelted across the sky and struck the dragon that was lunging at Natsumi. It shrieked. Natsumi grinned.

"Silly humans that won't kill me yet. I am not a dragon for nothing." The dragon snickered. Its comrades did the same things. Natsumi felt crestfallen.

"It's fine Natsumi. They are part of the air temple. You tried your best for now." Hitsugaya said.

"I don't think that's my strongest attack." Natsumi said. She struck at a bird.

Hitsugaya answered, "What is weak against air?" He was fighting a dragon.

"I have no clue." Nohaya called. She was also fighting a bird.

"Air is undefeatable. That is why nobody will ever get near the treasure!" A bird laughed.

"Well I'm sick and tired of slashing around." Hitsugaya complained. "Hyourinnmaru sotennizase!" The dragon came out. Hitsugaya jumped on Hyourinnmaru and let the dragon fly around. Many dragons and birds shrieked. They froze and fell to the ground shattering into a million pieces. Natsumi decided to add her own tricks.

"Hikaze Hi no arashi! (Fire storm)" She yelled. The ice that touched the ground started to melt into water. The birds and dragons shrieked as their home started to flood. The secreis tried to blow the water back to no avail. Those who were frozen melted into water and some drowned. Finally even the secreis died. Natsumi smiled. Hitsugaya landed returning his sword to his sheath.

"So what are we going to do about the water?" Hitsugaya asked.

Natsumi shrugged.

"My power is light. I could try something." Nohaya answered. "Taiyou no hikari!" (Sun's light)

The water started to try up as Nohaya said those words.

"Good job Nohaya." Hitsugaya commented.

Nohaya blushed and looked away.

"Well get to the seal now." Hitsugaya said.

Nohaya walked towards the seal. She lightly touched it. The seal burned a purple color before swirling around Nohaya. Nohaya turned to them hypnotized. " Hoshino Seira is ready for judging. She shall turn into her true form as soon as possible. While that is happening the air phoenix awaits her." Nohaya then fell. Hitsugaya caught her just in time and scooped Nohaya up bridal style. "Time to go back to camp." Hitsugaya said. Natsumi followed Hitsugaya.

The dark night was less scary then last night. Natsumi heard a wolf howl which reminded her of Nakito. She shivered and hugged herself tightly. The fire wasn't doing much to warm her up. How I wish you were here Nakito. Hitsugaya taichou hasn't changed his mood much. He left the camp after settling Nohaya in her tent. Natsumi thought. She leaned closer to the fire feeling tired. Suddenly she felt something warm drape her back. Natsumi tried to look behind. She saw Hitsugaya. He had taken of his captain robe. "You seem cold." Was all Hitsugaya said. His voice didn't show any feelings. "Oh. Thank you." Natsumi blushed at the close contact with Hitsugaya. She snuggled up into the robes. Nakito. I'm sorry to say wherever you are but I think…… I think……I think I love Hitsugaya Taichou. I keep thinking about him now. Would you get mad at me for taking him from you? Natsumi thought. Hitsugaya sat beside her.

"You wouldn't mind if I lean over would you?" Natsumi asked. Hitsugaya looked startled. "No not at all." He said. She leaned onto his shoulder and before she closed her eyes she saw Hitsugaya look at the stars. Hitsugaya watched Natsumi. He picked her up bridal style and took her to her tent. Nohaya was in there. He gently placed her down and put the cover on her. What was that warm feeling? Natsumi thought in her sleep.

Ok. Another chapter done. Please review! Thank you very much!