Last chapter in this ark! Next ark is going to be freaking kick butt! Oh, and I'm sorry for making Ichigo a jerk in this version n.n'
*** I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS FANFICTIOn***
Chapter 21: All Your Gigai Are Belong To Us
"W-what is that thing!" you shout. Ichigo looks closer then curses.
"It's a heartless," he says pulling out his sword.
"How do we kill it?" you ask, but Ichigo just shrugs.
"Guess I'll just go try to find out," you sigh running toward it. You grab your sword and begin to swing it, but the monster hits you with his tail causing you to fly back. You hit the brick wall hard and fall to your knees. Ichigo watches you, but doesn't show any sign that he's going to help.
You force yourself up and begin to charge it again. You swing a solid blow, but it goes straight through the monster. The street cracks as your blade falls to it.
"Wha-" is all you get to say before the monster throws you against the wall again. Ichigo doesn't even lift a finger to help. You get up and charge Ichigo this time. You pull him into an alley and slam him into the wall.
"What the hell is your problem!" you scream, but he doesn't answer. "Answer me!"
"What do you want from me?" he shouts pushing you back.
"I want your help! I can't do this by myself!" you reply.
"Well, maybe you should have thought of that before you caused all of this," Ichigo sneers.
"Me? If anyone caused this, it was you! If you had just left me alone, none of this would be happening!" you shout throwing your arms in the air.
"And what? Let you live a fake life in her body?" Ichigo asks glaring at you. This time, you don't answer. "Saya was my best friend and the only girl I ever loved. I couldn't just let you steal her away from me," Ichigo says leaving the alley. His words cut deep into. You take a step forward to follow him, but you stop yourself.
"I'll let him cool off. First, I need to go get the gigai," you think to yourself.
Once Ichigo goes out of sight, you head back over to the heartless. It thrashes around wildly. You try to use transmuted walls to trap the heartless, but it just crashes through your walls and the buildings surrounding it.
"Nothing I do is working! How do I kill an enemy I can't even touch," you whisper to yourself.
"I'm telling you, we need to go this way!" Ed shouts pointing to the left.
"No! This way!" Kyo shouts back pointing to the right. The two boys stare each other down as Axel sits on the stairs shaking his head.
"How about we go upstairs," Axel suggests.
"No!" Kyo and Ed shout together.
"Do you think Niume is ok?" Al whispers to L. L clinches his fist.
"I don't know, but in a moment I'm going to find out," L whispers back.
"Do you mean ditch this guy?" Al asks shocked. L nods.
"Follow my lead," L whispers. Al watching L closely to try to figure out what the plan is.
"Is that her over there?" L shouts running in a random direction. Al follows right away, but it takes Shigure a while to process the situation. L and Al turn into an alley and wait for Shigure.
"Hey, guys, whatcha doing?" Shigure asks nervously as he sees that it's only L and Al in the alley. L walks up to him.
"I'm sorry, but we have to save our friend," L says knocking Shigure out. He falls to the alley with a small thud.
"L! Why did you do that?" Al asks running over to Shigure.
"We can't have him following us. Just leave him here," L replies .
"What about the heartless?" Al shouts.
"Let's hope this guy has good luck," L answers with a small smile. Al scowls him.
"What do you want me to do, Al? Look, we have to find Niume," L says.
"Fine, but the moment we know she's safe, we come back here and help him," Al sighs.
"Deal," L says walking out of the alley. Al follows.
You watch the gigai dangle there. *light bulb comes on* You use the destroyed street and buildings to sneak your way over to the heartless with out it knowing. You place your hand on the heartless and are surprised that your touch doesn't go through.
"Well, that's good to know," you whisper climbing up the side of the heartless. It thrashes around trying to knock you off, and it almost succeeds a few times. You manage to get all the way to the top of the heartless without falling to the unforgiving ground.
"Ok, now I just have to ease my way to the mouth," you think to yourself. The trashing heartless makes it difficult to balance. As you get closer to the head, you feel your heart beating in your throat. You reach down into the mouth with your shaking hand and grab hold of the gigai's arm.
"Gotcha!" you exclaim as you begin to pull the gigai out of the mouth.
"Hey! What are you doing!" a voice shouts from on top of a building. You only get a glance of his brown spiky hair before he jumps from the building and cuts through the heartless with a giant key. The heartless screams out then disappears. A giant heart floats up into the sky as you fall to the ground. A sharp pain in your chest tells you that the gigai fell right on top of you.
"At least that's over with," you exhale pushing the gigai off of you.
"Oi! Are you going to tell me what you where doing on a heartless?" the voice that saved you asks. You get up and look at him. His spiky brown hair conflicts with his blue eyes and goofy grin.
"I, ah, needed to get this back," you explain pointing to the gigai. He stares at your strangely.
"Are you a nobody?" he asks. This time you look at him strangely.
"No. I'm a girl who has had an extremely long day or week or I don't know how long it's been," you reply trying to put the gigai back on.
"Oh, um, are you lost?" he asks.
"No. I.. well, maybe… I just have to find my friends," you answer looking around. You feel so tried once the gigai is back on so you sit down against the wall.
"Man, this place is a wreck," you think yourself looking at all the torn down buildings and shattered street.
"I could help you find them, if you want," the boy suggests.
"No thank you. I'll go find them…in a.. minute," you respond falling asleep.
"Sora, come on. Two of them are heading this way. We have all the info we need," Shigure says stepping down from some debris. The brown haired boy heads over to Shigure and opens a portal.
"Until next time, Niume," he smiles as him and Shigure enter the portal.
As the portal disappears, Al and L show up.
"Niume!" L shouts running to you. He shakes you fiercely waking you up.
"What…" you ask rubbing your eyes.
"Y-you're ok," he whispers to himself wiping a tear from his eye.
"Of course I am," you reply staring at him with wide eyes.
"I'm sorry, this was all my fault. If anything happened to you…." he begins.
"There you go blaming yourself again. Everything's alright," you say smiling a sleepy smile. He laughs a little.
"Where's-" you begin.
"Al is getting Kyo and Ed," L interrupts. You smile then look around for the boy that saved you.
"Niume!" Al squeals running over to you.
"Al? I thought you were getting the others," L says.
"Oh, well, actually I was going to check on Shigure but…" he starts.
"But?" L asks.
"But he was gone when I got there," Al answers. L sighs.
"Hey, where's Ichigo?" Al asks looking around.
"He, um, left…" you answer.
"Oh, well. Come on we need to find the others," L says helping you up. Al hugs you the moment L moves away.
"I'm glad you're safe," he says as you hug back.
"I'm glad you are, too," you reply smiling. The three of you head off towards the castle in search of the other boys.
"We're lost," Axel says nonchalantly.
"You stupid cat! Look what you did!" Ed shouts.
"Me? I said to go-"
"Hey isn't that Ichigo?" Axel interrupts pointing ahead of them.
"Yeah, it is," Kyo says.
"Ichigo! Where's Niume?" Ed shouts.
"I don't know and I don't care," he replies turning away from them.
"What the hell does that mean!" Kyo yells running up to him and grabbing his shirt.
"Look, Niume hasn't done anything to you. Just give her a ch-" Ed starts.
"Just get me out of here," Ichigo says pushing Kyo away.
"We're not leaving until we find her, so if you don't want to be stuck here forever, you'll start talking," Kyo barks. Ichigo sighs.
"Last time I saw her, she was fighting a heartless," Ichigo says.
"And you left her all alone? Heartless can only be killed with certain weapons!" Axel exclaims.
"You better hope she doesn't have a scratch on her," Kyo threatens.
"The more time you waste here threatening me, the more time you could be using to find Niume," Ichigo says walking toward a hall.
"I'll lead the way," Ed says pushing Ichigo out of the way and going down a different hall.
"How many blondes does it take to screw in a light bulb," L asks.
"How many?" you question.
"Two. One to hold the light bulb and one to spin the ladder around," L answers. You laugh while Al sticks his tongue out at him.
"I maybe a blonde, L, but at least I don't fall victim to something so silly," Al says with an evil smile.
"You wouldn't dare," L replies.
"Wouldn't I?" Al asks. L covers his ears.
"Straw-ba-ba-ba-berry, Straw-ba-ba-ba-berry, Straw-ba-ba-ba-berry Shortcake" Al sings.
"N-no stop! You're making me hungry…" L whines, you and Al laugh.
"Look! It's the castle!" you shout running up to the door. You begin to open, but it burst open, slamming you in the face.
"I told you to turn left then go straight hundreds of time!" Ed shouts.
"Yes, and that lead us to a dead end, shrimp!" Kyo shouts back.
"Shrimp?"
"Great! Now Niume is probably in mortal danger and it's all your fault!" Kyo sighs.
L and Al go over to you and help you up.
"L? Al? Niume?" Axel asks pushing past Kyo and Ed.
"Hey, Axel," you greet holding your broken nose.
"What happened?" he asks seeing all the blood.
"Ah, nothing," you smile.
"Niume! You're bleeding!" Ed shouts running over to you.
"I'm fine," you promise. Kyo whacks Ed in the head.
"This is all your fault," he says.
"Mine?" Ed yells. Ichigo walks out of the castle and away from you and the guys.
"Do you want to fight, pipsqueak?" Kyo shouts.
"Bring it, you damn cat!" Ed yells. You sneak out of the group and head over toward Ichigo.
"What do you want," he asks in a cold voice.
"I'm sorry," you whisper. He freezes. "I know she meant a lot to you. I also know you meant a lot to her."
"It doesn't matter now. Saya is gone…" he says turning away from you.
"'You win. I'm giving full custody of our body, but on one condition, take care of Ichigo and Rukia for me,'" you whisper. Ichigo turns and looks at you.
"What?" he asks.
"Those were her last words to me. She wanted me to take care of you. I don't know why, but…it hurts me to see you like this… so alone… You said that my emotions were too much for her to handle, and now I get it. She loves you that's why it hurts so much," you explain looking at the ground.
"She's still there?" he asks taking a step toward you.
"Somewhere in here," you reply pointing to your head then heart.
"Can she hear me?"
You nod.
"Can she see me?"
You nod, and he grabs your hand.
"Can she feel me?"
You blush like crazy and nod.
"I'm sorry I've been an ass, Saya," he apologizes.
"I'm sure she forgives yo-" you begin but are cut off by Ichigo kissing you.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?" Kyo shouts.
"Just saying good-bye," Ichigo shouts back.
"W-what?" you stutter.
"Saya, …Niume, you deserve to live. Saya wants to, so… I guess, I have no choice. If I stay by you, I won't be happy and neither would you. This will be the last time we meet," Ichigo says walking past you over to the guys. You grab his arm.
"I'm not some kind of disease. You can't just get rid of me then everything will be ok. We are connect by Saya. If you leave forever, neither of us will ever forgive you!" you shout with tears running down your face. Ichigo stares at you.
"Come on," he whispers holding out his hand. You look at it.
"No way!" Ed shouts slapping Ichigo's hand then holding out his hand.
"What makes you think she wants your hand, bean sprout," Kyo says holding out his hand. You smile a little.
"Can we please just go home," you ask.
"Why? Aren't you having fun here?" Axel asks opening a portal. You smile more.
"Come on, let's get you home," L says.
"Right! Last one there is a rotten egg!" Al shouts.
"You're on!" Ed replies running in the portal.
"Loser cleans the house!" Kyo says running in. Al and L run in after him while Ichigo shakes his head in shame following them.
"You have weird taste in men," Axel chuckles.
"That may be true, but you're going to have to clean the house!" you shout laughing and running into the portal. Axel just chuckles some more and walks into the portal.