Summary: As of late, Rangiku has been more and more depressed even though it's been four years since the defeat of Aizen's army. Ichigo has been reclusive of late since their is hardly any hollows to fight since the fall in Hueco four years ago and rarely finds anything exciting. Friends of both parties have tried everything to cheer them up and yet everything failed. In a last attempt, they bring the two of them together and it's an instantious click. But will forces of the unknown threaten to tear the relationship apart?
A/N: Shout out to TTfanTT :D We have a new name for Rangiku's hollow! Now for the disclaimers, Toushirou?
Toushirou:I don't wanna do it *crosses arms*
Rangiku: But captain! Its your job!
Toushirou: Im not going to do it!
Rangiku: Not even for some candy?
Toushirou:... *starts chasing Rangiku*
Momo: *sighs* I'll do it... Anyway! Here are the authors noticfications:
"", ''- Speaking Normally, thoughts
''- Private Thoughts
"" or ''- Hichigo, zanpaktou's, etc speaking
Chapter 12: Bankai: Oujou Karitori Haineko (Death Reaper Ash Cat) Part 2
A week later on Valentine Day...
"Rangiku!"
Rolling her eyes, the soul reaper waved her hollow off. "Be back later Hichiku..."
"Kay." Watching her host leave, she closed her eyes. "You can come out now Haineko..."
Dropping down, the zanpaktou spirit crossed her arms and glared at the hollow. "Were you two ever planning on telling me?"
"I highly doubt it." Flicking her hair over her shoulder, she looked over her shoulder lazily at the pissed off soul reaper.
"When did this happen?"
Walking past her, Hichiku sat down on the edge of the building that they were on. "Past week, gotta say she is doing far better then Ichigo in training."
Looking at her in shock, the zanpaktou spirit turned to the hollow. "Say what? You've been training? Are you nuts?"
"Yea, she never told you?"
"Hell no! I haven't seen her in the past week! And what the fuck are you doing attacking a pregnant woman?"
"You act like its been years and yell at me one more time and see what I do to you..." She said harshly, shutting the spirit up effectively.
"But, I've been there all these months..." Sitting down next to Hichiku, Haineko looked down sadly.
"She didn't want to worry you. You know how she is." Laying down, midnight blue stared up disinterestedly at the forever blue sky.
"I know ... You said she was better then Ichigo..."
"Hmmm?"
"Better then Ichigo?"
"Yea, so?"
"What do you mean?"
"... You know she's pregnant."
"Yea, you can obviously see..."
"Ichigo is a visard first off."
"A what? How in the hell?"
"The unorthodox way he became a soul reaper had caused him to gain a hollow at the same time... And because of his hollow I came to be."
Sitting silently, Haineko let everything process in her brain and tried to make sense of it all. "Wait, so, how?"
"The kids."
Sitting silently again, she was startled by the ground suddenly shaking. "What's going on?"
Narrowing her eyes, she hissed. "Damn that fucker..."
Opening her eyes in the real world, she slapped away the hands of hr silver haired prison ward.
"Aww! I was sure I had you this time!"
"Please, you'll never have me." Getting off the bed, she stumbled a little but caught her footing. 'Damn, these sessions are killing the hell out of me...'
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing. What did you come in here for?" Eyeing him, she hid her discomfort of standing to long.
"Now that's not a nice way to treat your guest is it?"
Shuddering at the sound of the new voice, she stood her ground and refused to look at him. "Screw you both."
Letting out a low chuckle, Aizen walked past Rangiku's form and next to Gin.
"My lord." Ignoring the gagging noises from the other occupant, Gin bowed to Aizen.
"At ease." Raising a hand to signify that the bow was unnecessary, he still kept his eyes on Rangiku.
"... You got an eye problem or something? Cause I can rectify that..."
'Rangiku! No! Stop it!'
Narrowing her eyes, she calmed down slightly, still not trusting their motives. Sitting down on her bed, she awaited what kind of nonsense they would pull today.
"Hmmm, Rangiku darling..." Aizen started.
"Im not your darling."
"Today is Valentines Day as you know," He continued without stopping. "And I was hoping that all three of us could spend it together... All three of us."
Narrowing her eyes, she turned her body away from them and looked out the window. "I hate you so much... I don't want to spend anytime with you or for that fact be near you... The person I want to be with most is home where I belong at..."
Sighing, the hollow woman crossed her arms and muttered a string of curse words under her breath.
"Hey, hey, I'm not on there side but take it easy. You'll force more spiritual energy out of her if you get pissed off."
Giving the zanpaktou spirit a dirty look for being right, she huffed and stormed off.
"Aye, what now?"...
"You still pissed?"
"Very..."
Waving her tail back and forth, Haineko sat and thought quietly. "Why..."
"Hmmm?"
"Why are you guys training?"
"... To achieve bankai..."
Taking in a sharp breath, Haineko counted to ten before speaking again. "So all those hidden bruises?"
"Yep..." Suddenly, a hand was on her throat and she was staring into green eyes.
"You fucking bitch! You're gonna kill her!"
"Oh and I suppose you were going to help her? Last time I checked your lazy as fuck and..." A punch to the jaw made her instantly go and throttle the neko.
Coughing, she kicked the spirit in the stomach to free her air way before tackling her.
"Fuck that!" Rolling out the way, she round housed the neko before impaling her with her own sword and twisting it. "Listen, I know I'm putting everyone in danger here but what other choice do we have? She's basically alone here and the one person she can trust can't stand up to the man who rules over every god damn thing in this world and you expect her to be defenseless? YOUR FUCKING SELFISH! YOUR LUCKY I DON'T KILL YOU RIGHT NOW!" Pulling out her sword, Hichiku whipped it to the side and cleaned the blood off of it before sheathing it. "Think about what you've done before you come and find me." With that, she left her to bleed on the the roof of the building.
"Happy Valentine's Day..."
Looking up, Ichigo saw Orihime holding a card and a small box of chocolates out to him. Smiling, he took it and placed it in his bag away from all his books so her present wouldn't get ruined. "Thanks Hime."
"No problem." Taking a seat next to him, she stared up into the cold blue February morning sky. "... How have you been these days?"
"Ok I guess, college is kicking my ass already and I've just started it too."
Laughing, Orihime patted his back. "Ah, and you decided to go into the medical field as well... Good luck!"
"You know what...!" Shoving her lightly, he started tickling her.
"AH! Cut it!" Hitting his chest gently, she leaned into him giggling as soon as her torturer stopped. "Phew, next time you do that I'm making sure to bring Kon along!"
"For what? So he can molest you! Ha!"
'He's finally laughing... That's good.' Smiling up at him, the orange girl couldn't help being in love with the teen even though his heart was with another. 'Even if I can't be with you... The thought of you being in love... Will always make me happy."
"Im surprised Uryuu and Chad are not with you, don't they go to a college near you?"
Lowering her eyes, she kept her mouth shut.
"Orihime?"
"Hmmm?"
"Why did you get so quiet all of a sudden?"
"... Kinda didn't wanna bring up Soul Society... Uryuu is with Nemu right now and Chad is with Isane. Apparently she's had her eye on him." Orihime said laughing.
"Orihime..." Hugging her, he sighed. "It's ok, even if you didn't say anything I still think about what happened..." Looking up towards the sky, his eyes dimmed as he daydreamed about Rangiku and the kids.
"I hope their ok..."
"... Me too..." 'Be strong Rangiku... We'll rescue you soon...'
(Later...)
"How are you today Lady Rangiku?"
"Oh Ayame..."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry... Bad habit." Smiling, the medic stepped into the room and closed the door behind her once she brought in the sonogram machine.
"I know."
"You know why I'm here unfortunately."
"Yea, that pompous asshole..."
"Which one?" Sharing a laugh, the silverette started the machine up and helped her friend to lay down. Placing her hand on the swelling abdomen, she smiled softly. "They're growing so much... I wonder who they'll look like?"
"Hopefully me."
"In that case their screwed."
"Ayame!"
Dodging the well aimed kick at her, she turned and grabbed the bottle full of gel on the machine and squeezed some into her hand before walking over to Rangiku. "Stomach please." She chimed.
Nodding, Rangiku undid the clothing she was given and waited as Ayame spread the cool jel on her.
"Ok, ready?"
Nodding, Rangiku turned her head towards the screen and cooed. "Their adorable!"
"Yes and very healthy..."
"I know your surprised as I am seeing as how many times I get abused in this fucking place."
Clicking the keyboard, she changed the view to 3-D and moved the transducer around so she could get a good look at the twins. "Ok, heart rate is normal, both are moving... Now to the next part." The look that she received made her flinch back a little. "Rangiku... Please..."
Sighing, the strawberry blonde pulled up her sleeve and held out her forearm to the espada. "Make it quick please."
"Nothing is ever quick in here, you know that." Looking down at the appendage presented to her, the silver haired girl shuddered at how enlarged the teeth marks on her arm were for such a small thing she used. Diving into the carriage of the base of the machine, she came back up with a sack that had small rows of teeth at the opening. Holding it down to a small patch of healed skin on Rangiku's arm, the back came to life and instantly attached itself to her arm.
"Ah!"
"Easy or it'll bite harder..." Touching the sack, her face slightly turned green as she saw eyes stare at her. Hearing the door open, she turned and looked at the person entering and snarled.
"Fucking bitch."
"Fucking spoon." Crossing her arms, a blue dome appeared around her and Rangiku before a scythe came crashing down.
"Watch who your talking to."
"Get the fuck outta here Nnoitra before I fuck you up like I did before."
Narrowing his eye at the girl in front of him, he sucked his teeth. "I'm surprised you can even see..."
"No thanks to you." Brushing her hair away from her face, her hollow mask came into view. "Breaking my fucking mask you son of a bitch." Touching the sides of where her eyes were supposed to be, the small remains of cracks were just visible as the rest slid into her hair forming small clips that held the sides back.
"Keh, shoulda killed you wench."
"You here for a reason? If not leave the fuck now or else." Instant in the the black pools, two green lights started to shine.
Staring at her, gold irises trailed down to the pregnant mother who was glaring at him as well. "The sack..."
"It was just put on, you'll have to give it time." The green light was now full force and started to take shape in the form of eyes. "Anything else?"
"Is that anyway to treat your adviser?" Laughing, it soon stopped as the lanky espada barely dodged the cero that was aimed for his head.
"YOU COME BACK AND YOUR FUCKING DEAD YOU FUCKING RETARDED SPOON!" Slamming the door closed, the light in her eyes started to recede and and sighed.
"He really likes to push it doesn't he?"
"Unfortunately..." Walking back over, a pale hand touched the sick and grunted in disgust. "Nasty thing, I hate even having it in my presence..."
"... Hopefully it'll be done soon, it seems to perform its job much quicker..."
Frowning, Ayame didn't reply to that statement and instead pinched around the mouth to force it to release its grip. Grabbing it before it could latch back on, she slapped it as soon as it started to grunt and gripped it tightly before tying a rope of twine around it. "You need rest for a while, it drained quite alot of your spiritual pressure."
"Really? I didn't even feel it." Nursing her arm, she grimaced a little when she felt her skin tighten and heal instantly.
"... Lemme take this now before someone else comes and you really have to worry about something." Holding the wriggling sack tight, she made sure everything was in place before wheeling the portable machine out the room and back to the medical ward...
"You have what Lord Aizen asked for?"
"Yes Szayel." Handing over the bag, she turned to leave so she wouldn't have to watch the experiments that were going to be done.
"Ayame..."
"What?"
Arms wrapped around her waist and instantly she relaxed back into them as lips danced precariously around her earlobe. "Pull another stunt like that and your dead."
"..."
"...What?" Keeping her back to the zanpaktou spirit, Hichiku stared out into the endless abyss of her world.
"... You were right..."
"About?"
"Everything,Rangiku does need to get stronger... We don't know when Ichigo will come or if he'll come to save her."
"Oh he will come."
"How do you know?"
Turning around, she looked at the spirit. "I'm connected to him cause I am connected to those children. I was formed from those children spiritual energy and since they each have half of their father's spiritual energy, both shinigami and hollow... Well lets say that I'm kind of like his tracker in a way."
"Tracker?"
Looking back over the horizon, she sat on the edge of the building. "Its very faint but I can somehow sense when he is under some amount of pressure, if he's in a mopey mode or something. But it has to be really strong in order for me to pick up the vibes."
"Oh... So... What are you going to do?"
"You mean we." Getting up, she stretched out and yawned.
"Whayda mean we?" Haineko asked eying the hollow in a sneaking suspicion.
"You heard me Neko, I said we. I have a plan and if all works out she'll get stronger and if case comes to case be able to take on Aizen...somewhat." She added silently.
That got the pink cat's attention and she gave a toothy grin. "Well even though its slim it's better then nothing. Lay it on me then partner."
"Alright, hope your ready cause once it starts there's no going back."
A/N: Yes! Finally I got this done! I wanted it to be a two part but I guess three will do for you guys. College is a bummer and zaps my creativity as well as my energy. I will be updating the AnakinxAhsoka story very soon, try to get the Kingdom Hearts one up and work on the ByakuyaxNel and the Final Fantasy one. Look out for more updates :D!
P.s: btw, let me know if I need to do this chapter over cause I know its not my best but I tried for you all :3