A/N: wow, 7 reviews! thanks a lot! I might be able to post everyday but it would only be in about this short, i would really love to finish this one. I have so much install for this story, i hope you stick around while i dole it all out! This one's for all those guys who reviewed chapter 13! my thanks to you all!

Disclaimer: 14 chapters and bleach is still not mine...shall i try going bankai?? oO

On The Wings of an Angel

Chapter 14: Half-Death

Wake up, Hikaru, wake up...

Huh? Who is it?

It's me...

Tsubasa? Where am I?

Inside your own world. Hikaru, you must fight back...

Fight who? I see, I'm dead right? Mom is going to be very mad...Dad will, well, whoever killed me won't have much time left to live either, once Dad finds them. That's for sure.

No, Hikaru! You don't understand! You can't die just yet...

Just then Hikaru was forced out of her own world. When she opened her eyes she looks down on her own body, lying lifeless and bloody on the ground.She gasped involuntarily.

"I'm dead? Wow...I'm really dead..." Hikaru repeated aloud, confirming what is already obvious. She looked around searching for the silver-haired delicate looking woman who is the embodiment of Tsubasa, but she couldn't find her anywhere.

"Hikaru!" Ichigo yelled at the top of his lungs. He was on hyper mode doing shunpo like a god. He has never felt so empty before, he felt it clearly-a part of himself died, and he knew very well which part.

"Hikaru..." Rukia kept mumbling to herself, gripping Ichigo's shoulders so hard Ichigo winced.

"Oh dear, here goes Mom and Dad...now I've really done it this time..."

Ichigo's breath was caught in his lungs, his heart ached so fiercely he thought it would burst. There lying before him in the pool of her own blood, was his daughter. Rukia climbed down from his back shakily, her hands covering her mouth.

"Hi-hikaru..." Ichigo whispered. A movement caught his eyes and all coherent thoughts were driven out of his mind. Standing before him in blue jogging pants and windbreaker, just like before they entered Soul Society, stood Hikaru's soul self. The chains of fate hang limply on her chest.

"Hi Dad, hi Mom...uh, I'm sorry...I guess I just got myself killed?" Hikaru said, in near tears.

"Hikaru! What happened to you?!" Ichigo gritted his teeth. It was obvious that his daughter was dead. When they entered Soul Society, somehow Kisuke managed to bring Hikaru's human body inside as well. Now, her body is dead. The thing that shocked him the most is that Hikaru's soul self is still there, beside her body and the chains of fate still intact on her chest. It brings back some terrifying memories in him.

Rukia hurried over to her daughter's soul-self, embracing her tightly. "Hikaru! I don't know what I'd do if I ever loose you!" She cried while her daughter awkwardly embraced her back.

"Dad, two masked men attacked me. I fought back but then they pressed something on my back right after I went bankai. I was stunned for a moment, one of them twisted my grip on Tsubasa and used my own zanpakuto to stab me. Everything happened within a heartbeat...it was horrible Dad, I felt totally helpless..." Hikaru let her tears fall freely at that, her mother tightened her embrace on her. Truth be told, the moment Tsubasa pierced Hikaru's heart, she felt no pain. Tsubasa had numbed her from the pain of dying, but what happened was burned in Hikaru's mind. The moment she died by her own zanpakuto...

"Two masked men? Were they wearing shinigami uniforms or any uniform of some sort?" Ichigo's eyes narrowed into his death glare.

"They were wearing black ninja outfits, I guess they're not shinigami. Their reiatsu felt...corrupted...but they were wielding their own zanpakuto..."

"Let's get you back to Kisuke, maybe he can do something to prevent you from turning into a hollow." Ichigo said through his gritted teeth. Someone will pay. He won't leave even a stone unturned, he'll search for the bastards who killed his daughter.

"Mom, you can let go now. I don't think I'm going anywhere in this condition."

"I have to tell Nii-sama about this. Traitors must still be among us here in Soul Society. It is impossible for intruders to enter without being detected! Ichigo, do everything you can to save our daughter...if she dies... I die..." Rukia choked on her words.

"Don't worry Rukia, she'll make it through. I did remember? Go, tell Byakuya about it. There'll be hell to pay." Ichigo said with that dangerous glint in his eyes. "Hikaru, let's go." he added pulling his daughter.

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"This is what I feared Toushiro...now, she needs protection all the more; that is, if she makes it through the transformation." Yamamoto-taichou told Toushiro, who holds the dead body of his new fuku-taichou in his arms. He arrived at the scene of her death just before Ichigo and Hikaru's soul-self left for Kisuke's weird store. Ichigo entrusted him with his daughter's body since Rukia has gone off in her haste to tell her brother of her daughter's plight. Toushiro reluctantly looked at Hikaru.

"Damn! She reminds me so much of Hinamori!" he mentally cried. Everything that is Hikaru from the moment of their first meeting reminds Toushiro of Hinamori Momo. From the way Hikaru talks to the way she moves, everything is reminiscent of his first love. Then the thought of loosing Hikaru even before he gets to know her really ticks something off in his heart. He'll definitely have to search those bastards who had killed her, after all, Hikaru is his fuku-taichou. Hyourinmaro smirked at his chosen's last words.

A/N: the reviews are great! even the suggestions! I know i can't satisfy everyone but i'm here to share my fantasies to those who care to read them thanks for the many hits! I didn't know my story would be appreciated by so many people, thanks again!