Chapter 21
Rukia's Victory
Ichigo's eyes widen since Hiyori's time is nearly up in the barrier, but a blue reiatsu starts to shine from Rukia's hollow.
"What's happening?" Ichigo asks, and Hiyori's eyes widen as she sprints for the edge of the barrier, and Hachi lets her out.
"She did it. Faster than you did, too, though not by much." Hirako says, and Ichigo stares within the barrier as Rukia's hollow skin and fur begins to crack, and the blue reiatsu starts shining through all the cracks.
Everyone watches as an explosion seems to occur, and when the dust settles, Rukia is standing there, with her hollow body parts all shattered at her feet. Only the black and red curved mask with its fox ears remains, attached to her face.
"Rukia!" Ichigo shouts, and Hachi dispels the barrier.
Ichigo runs towards Rukia, just as she starts to lose her ability to stand, from being so exhausted. Ichigo falls to his knees and catches her in his arms, and her head falls forward onto his chest. Her mask drops down at his feet and she just leans against him.
"So…how do you feel?" Hirako says as he strolls up to the couple. Rukia turns her head and answers in a raspy voice.
"A hell of a lot better." Rukia answers, and then she closes her eyes.
"Rukia?" Ichigo asks, and Hirako holds up his hand.
"She can't hear you. She's completely drained, and she needs rest." He tells him, and Ichigo picks her body up and grabs her mask to carry up the stairs.
"I'll stay with her until she wakes up." Ichigo assures him, and Hirako nods thoughtfully at him as he watches Ichigo look lovingly at the small girl in his arms.
"Hey Ichigo…what is that girl's full name?" Hirako asks as he points at Rukia in Ichigo's arms.
"Kuchiki Rukia." Ichigo answers instantly, and he begins to walk up the stairs.
Ichigo doesn't notice how behind him, every single one of the Vaizards have broken out into a huge smile. They wait until Ichigo is completely up to the regular area of the hideout before beginning to talk excitedly.
"This is good for us right?" Mashiro asks quietly, though very excitedly.
"I definitely wouldn't call it bad…I can hardly believe it. A member of nobility, is inflicted with the same type of curse that we are. If they decide to accept her, then they'll have to accept us." Hirako says thoughtfully.
"They don't even know what's happened with her though, do they?" Hiyori asks curiously.
"We have to assume they know. I can't imagine that there is not one soul in Soul Society who hasn't put surveillance on them. It's only a matter of time. I think she knew that, and wanted to get it under control as quickly as possible." Hirako says.
They all jump when they hear Ichigo's voice shouting down to them.
"Oh, I just wanted to tell you all, not to get your hopes up, simply because Rukia is a member of the Kuchiki clan. Her brother sometimes puts the law above the love of his family." Ichigo calls down, and everyone looks at each other.
"Did he hear us?" Mashiro asks as she looks at her comrades.
"No…he realized that we would get our hopes up after he told us who she is. I believe him. In fact, I get the sense very strongly that he has fought her brother on her behalf in the past." Hirako says, and everyone nods.
Nobody doubts his ability to see things about others that can't normally be detected. Nobody in the group really thinks Ichigo would lie about such a thing either. They can't count on the fact that she is a Kuchiki to get them completely accepted.
"We can never catch a break." Risa mutters, and Kensei nods at that sentiment. Everyone starts up the stairs closely.
"We've grown by two more in the past year. Soul Society can't just off us all so easily, especially considering that we have personal history with some of the strongest Shinigami there. It won't be so easy for them, even if they do decide they want to do away with us all. We'll fight for our lives." Hirako says, and everyone nods a bit glumly.
Almost all of them would like to be back at Soul Society, even Hiyori, who claims to hate both humans and Shinigami. Their ties had all been cut so suddenly, and Risa has often wondered whatever became of little Nanao.
Ichigo isn't immediately in sight, and they realize he's gone to one of the upper levels with his girlfriend. Hiyori looks up at the area where Ichigo's reiatsu is oozing like always and she scoffs. Risa and Kensei exchange a look at this.
"I wonder how long that dickhead can keep his mask on for, these days." Hiyori asks, and everyone chuckles at that. Ichigo hears them and doesn't appreciate it.
"Long enough to win against my opponent!" Ichigo shouts down angrily, and everyone laughs at that.
"Last time we trained you were at eleven seconds! Eleven! Please tell me you can keep it on for longer than a minute these days!" Hiyori shouts up and Ichigo's voice is shrill when he responds.
"Shut the hell up! I'm trying to rest with Rukia!" Ichigo shouts and that earns him applause from Kensei, Love, and Rose.
"I guess with the right girl around, you aren't so innocent!" Kensei shouts up, and they can feel Ichigo's reiatsu exuding anger. He obviously gets real touchy when the subject comes to Kuchiki Rukia.
"Shut up! Don't talk about Rukia like that!" Ichigo shouts and everyone snickers below.
Ichigo sighs as he hears them go about their normal business of errands and food runs. He can hear noises below, but generally whoever stuck around is being rather quiet as they amuse themselves.
Ichigo cuddles close with Rukia by spooning with her, and holds her mask in one of his hands as he holds her with the other.
She won her inner battle, just like I knew she would. I couldn't expect anything less of Rukia.
Ichigo flinches when he hears the voice of his hollow speak up in his head, and he shuts his eyes tight and tries not to listen, but he can't help but listen.
When are you going to rip off your robes and bury yourself in her again? You know you want to do that again.
Ichigo shakes his head to clear the voice of his inner hollow away. He doesn't think of it as him burying himself in her, he thinks of it as them sharing something special…making love. Then Ichigo blushes, when he realizes he was just massaging her breasts as he laid there. He stills his hand, and then he hears his hollow laughing in his head.
Ichigo squeezes his eyes shut hard, and allows sleep to overcome him after awhile, but of course he ends up falling asleep to a very descriptive summary of what his hollow would be doing with Rukia if he were the one holding her instead of Ichigo.
I'd rip off that black robe and squeeze those irresistible light pink buds. I'd touch her everywhere. Then I'd suck on her toes. I bet she'd like that. I'd get her so turned on, that she'd be willing to do whatever I wanted in order to get my big hard cock deep inside her.
I can just imagine it now, what I could make her do. She'd be so willing, just because she'd want me that bad. I know exactly how to pleasure her. She likes to feel a tongue on her most sensitive places. You know the places, King. Those places that drive both of us more wild than all of our best battles. I bet she would love to return the favor, don't you remember the feeling of having a tongue against you when you're rock hard?
I couldn't believe you actually shared your consciousness with me a bit while that psycho bitch had you bound. But that's what allows me to know that my instincts don't merely exist for fighting. Fucking that girl made me feel really alive. I want to fuck her, and hear her scream as her body spasms from the pleasure I bring her.
She is so tiny…and so fucking tight! You thought so too, King, don't deny it. You want to feel her all around you when you're rock hard again too. I'm not the only one who wants to feel that wet, tight, and perfect place again, am I? We both want her King. Don't be so selfish next time, let me be there more.
We can even make a deal where I shut up a whole hell of a lot more if you let me out completely to see her from time to time. How would you like it if I were keeping you from her? We can both enjoy what she offers to us. We'll take it all, and she'll be ours completely!
This in turn, affects his dreams, and he ends up dreaming about a very extremely kinky sexual encounter with Rukia, all thanks to his inner hollow's ramblings in his head as he had drifted of into sleep. In his dream, he and his hollow take turns having sex with Rukia, who morphs into Hollow Rukia every time he lets his hollow take over.
When Ichigo is being poked away by Rukia, he opens his eyes and sees her with a strange expression on her face.
"Rukia?" Ichigo mutters, and Rukia blushes.
"You woke me up…you were…poking me." Rukia says as she points at his groin. Ichigo blushes when he realizes he's woken up with wood.
"Ah…uh…poking you?" Ichigo whispers, and Rukia blushes again.
"Um…yeah. It wasn't just that you were…hard…you were rocking into me, and I knew you were sleeping so I thought I should wake you." Rukia says, and then Ichigo blushes when she looks back at his midsection.
"Sorry…" Ichigo mumbles, feeling like a total moron. She always finds a way to stun him though.
"Is there something I can do…to help you with that?" Rukia asks, and Ichigo turns even more red. Of course there was plenty that she could do, but if any of the Vaizards caught them, he'd never get over his embarrassment.
"It's okay-" Ichigo starts to say, but then she takes a hold of it, and Ichigo lets out a quiet groan at that action.
"Let me help you." Rukia whispers, and she begins to slip her hands into his pants and she grabs a firm hold on him and begins to stroke him, up and down the length of his hard-on.
"Oh shit…Rukia…" Ichigo mumbles as his body quickly reacts to her touch, without her hardly having to even work at it.
She's fucking perfect!
Ichigo easily ignores his inner hollow's voice, since he's too focused on Rukia's hands on his erection, and he grabs her by the head and yanks her forward for a kiss as she keeps on stroking him under his pants.
He pulls away and begins to breathe more and more heavily as her hands move continually up and down, and around the length of his arousal, and she can tell when his feet start to react that he's about ready to lose it. Rukia pulls his pants away to keep everything from being stuck inside, and keeps on rubbing him sensually.
Ichigo stifles a groan as he erupts from Rukia's attention, but then he stares in horror at the mess that landed on the floor about a meter away from them.
"We have to clean it up!" Ichigo hisses, and Rukia nods even though she looks at him like she doesn't have a clue.
"With what?" Rukia asks innocently, and Ichigo glares at her.
"I don't know…this was your idea!" He whispers at her, and Rukia blushes.
"Shut up, you liked it." She mutters, and Ichigo sighs before he looks around for something to clean it up with,
"Can you use kidou to get rid of it?" Ichigo asks hopefully, and Rukia looks at him doubtfully.
"I suppose I could transport it somewhere." Rukia says slowly, and Ichigo nods his head rapidly at that solution.
"That'll work!" Ichigo hisses under his breath so as to not call attention to themselves.
"Where do you want to put it?" Rukia asks with a confused look on her face. Ichigo turns red when he hears his hollow speak up in his head.
Tell her to put it in her mouth!
"Uh…a dumpster…or the trash somewhere I guess." Ichigo says, since he does not want to say what his hollow just said in his head. He's quite sure it would earn him a painful kick to the face.
Ichigo watches as she mutters a chant under her breath and watches as kidou flies from her hands and surrounds his…ejaculation, and then it disappears. She looks at him apologetically.
"I don't know any coordinates of trash cans or dumpsters, so I left it in your bedroom." Rukia tells him, and Ichigo's eyes widen at that.
"Oh my god. I hope nobody notices it. Where did you leave it?" Ichigo asks, and Rukia blushes.
"Your bed." Rukia says, and Ichigo groans.
"Well…at least it's not here." Ichigo says, and he hopes nobody was in his room when it appeared there, and if so that nobody actually asks him about it.
"If you two are awake, then get down here!" Hiyori shouts, and the couple turns red.
"We were on our way!" Ichigo shouts back, and Rukia grabs her mask off the ground, before they hurry down to where everyone else is.
"You both look refreshed," Hirako says, though he doesn't understand why they both blush.
"Are you ready to begin your mask training?" Hiyori asks Rukia in a loud voice, and Rukia simply nods at her.
"We'll head into the underground area again." Hirako says, and Hiyori turns on Ichigo.
"You're going to be training too. I want to see how far you've come in keeping on your mask." Hiyori tells him, and Ichigo nods. He had kind of figured that would be the case.
"Are Rukia and I going against each other?" Ichigo asks, and Hiyori scoffs.
"This is supposed to simulate a real fight, so no. I'll be working with you, like always." Hiyori informs him. Mashiro steps forward and smiles at Rukia.
"I'll be working with you on this training!" Mashiro says, and Rukia smiles at her.
"Thank you for your help with this," Rukia says as she offers Mashiro an appreciative bow.
They all head into the underground area, and the training begins. At first, Rukia's mask gets smashed due to an intense attack from Mashiro, but it only happens that one time.
Ichigo's mask finally breaks after five hours of fighting with Hiyori and she was surprised when he held it on for over an hour.
Ichigo is surprised though, that Rukia' mask only broke once, in the very beginning, she's been wearing her current mask for nearly five hours.
She impresses everyone in the room, when she completes the fifteen hour minimum for keeping the mask on, with only having it break on her once.
"That's the second fastest that someone was able to maintain that kind of control!" Mashiro tells Rukia excitedly. Rukia knows it wasn't Ichigo and so she looks at the girl with interest.
"Who was the fastest?" Rukia asks, and Mashiro smiles at her.
"I was the only one who was able to maintain my first mask for fifteen hours. Still, you did really good. You were the only one to even come close to me in that department!" Mashiro tells Rukia with a smile.
Hiyori is shooting taunting looks at Ichigo, who feels a bit shamed, that Rukia only needed one day to complete training that he still hasn't completely mastered. He can only hold his hollow mask for five hours, tops.
"It's really good that you did it fast. It may end up saving your life." Hirako tells Rukia who nods solemnly. Mashiro smiles widely at Rukia.
"No matter what, today was your victory!" Mashiro's smile is so genuine, that Rukia finds herself smiling back. This is a really nice girl, and it was nice that she was the one who worked with Rukia.
"My victory, huh?" Rukia asks with a smile, and Ichigo puts aside his pride to walk over and stand next to her. He grins at Mashiro.
"You're right of course, today was definitely, Rukia's victory." Ichigo says and Rukia smiles up at him. He looks back at her, with eyes full of love. Neither one realize that they're thinking the exact same thing.
Thank you for doing so much for me, for staying at my side, and making me happy.