Tairei9: Hi people, hope you all are having a good weekend. I'm so sore, I was doing a lot of curricular activates yesterday. It's taken me all day to finish this. So here is chapter thirty-six.
Chapter Thirty-six.
The group ran up the stairs, as quick as they could. They had just finished ten floors of fighting hollows and four fighting strange people. On girl with brown hair, one guy with red hair, and a green haired girl.
"Damn," Zaraki said, obviously pissed, "I'm getting really annoyed, how many floors are there to this!!!???"
"There are nineteen most likely," snapped Yoruichi, "It is called the nineteenth tower!!"
"It doesn't always mean that is the number of the floors!!!" Zaraki snapped back.
"Will you two shut it already!!" Rukia snapped. They had been bickering for five floors and it was getting on her nerves. Byakuya said nothing, not really wanting to get into it.
"Here is the next floor," Byakuya said finally interrupting the bickering.
"Damn, already!!!" Zaraki snapped, furious. They ran into the room and looked around and saw that it was empty. The stairs were not blocked so they sighed in relief.
"Should we head straight up or rest for a moment?" Yoruichi asked. The rest looked at her like she had ten heads.
"What, how am I suppose to know who wants to do what!!!"
"Let's just get this over with," Zaraki said going up the stairs. They followed him and they were for once in silence.
"Hey the door ways coming up," Zaraki said. They all looked grave and they walked out into the next room.
"This is-!!" Byakuya said, wide eyed. Yoruichi looked horrified and Rukia was at loss for words. Zaraki was furious
"This is obviously Kurotsuchi's doing," he said, his voice low and dangerous. He clenched his sword and was looking at a certain area in the dark circular room. There were many tables full of broken and intact vials, papers, and many other objects. There was a computer, a printer, and many other machines. But he was looking at something lying on the floor. There was a chain that led to a corner. There it bounded a little figure lying on the floor.
"K-Kumiko!!!" Rukia shouted, looking wide eyed over at the now stirring figure. Byakuya spun around and saw his little girl rubbing her eyes and looking at him.
"Otou-san…" she slurred, her eyes still a little unfocused.
"Kumiko!!" He flash stepped in front over her and knelt down. He stroked her cheek with his finger and noticed she had bruises on her neck. Anger flashed through his eyes and he began to fumble with the cuffs at her wrists and ankles. She winced and he noticed that the cuffs were extremely tight on her ankles and wrists. There were bruised underneath there too. He made a mental note to kill Kurotsuchi or who ever it was who did this.
"Kumiko, why didn't you just have Naiyami free you?" Zaraki asked suddenly. Kumiko bit her lip and whispered, "He destroyed her."
"What?! Who!?" Byakuya said alarmed.
"Kurotsuchi… he destroyed her and she disappeared…gone…ow…OTOU-SAN!!!"
This made him jump and something seized him. He was pulled violently away from Kumiko, who desperately tried grabbing for him, but failed. Rukia and Yoruichi were grabbed and trapped by vines. But Zaraki on the other hand…
"YOU STUPID VINES!!! DIE ALREADY!!! DIE!! DIE!!! DIE!!!!" roared Zaraki. He slashed at them furiously only to have them come back. His eyes were flaming violently and somewhere form the darkness, there was a familiar creepy voice.
"Now, now, Zaraki. Settle down. You wouldn't want anything bad happen to the brat do you?"
The chains began to glow a violent blood red color and Kumiko began to scream. Zaraki roared but was over taken by the vines and was restrained heavily. Kurotsuchi came out of the shadows and pressed the button on the remote in his hands. The glow on the chains deceased and Kumiko's screams were reduced to crying. Byakuya's face was beyond livid. It was totally indescribably.
"What the hell are you doing Kurotsuchi?!" shouted Yoruichi who was struggling against the vines but to no avail. Kurotsuchi looked like he was out of his mind.
"Me? I am getting my ever so sweet revenge. Well, I first destroyed that stupid zanpakutou. One because it was protecting her. Two because if I did this disgusting excuse for a child would be forced back to an extremely very young age. Three because it would leave her totally helpless. Then I will slowly kill her in front of you all and then release her. I will evacuate the building and the building will go back under ground. The vines will release you and you will be able to cradle your disgusting, obnoxious, little, dead brat!!!"
Byakuya snarled and Kumiko's eyes were wide with fear and brimming with tears. Kurotsuchi pressed the button and the chains repeated the earlier motion. Kumiko's screams could be heard through out the entire building.
"Stop it Kurotsuchi!!!" Yoruichi shouted, still struggling against the vines. Rukia was frozen, her eyes huge. Zaraki was also trying to get free, also. Suddenly Kumiko's screams stopped abruptly and she fell to the floor.
"KUMIKO!!!"
"My, my, things are already falling so neatly into plan," Kurotsuchi chuckled, obviously pleased. He pressed the button and the chains stopped glowing.
"Nope."
"What did you say?" Kurotsuchi said turning around looking at Zaraki, who was smirking his craziest smirk.
"I said nope, it's not going to fall neatly into your crappy plan."
"NO! YOUR WRONG!!"
"Nope, I'm right."
"Really? And why would that be?"
"I honestly have never been so great with find reiatsu," Zaraki said, "Trashy skill. But there is one reiatsu I know very well. VERY well. And he should be here with help right… about… now."
Right as he said 'now' there was a loud boom as someone screamed.
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Okay intermission over back to the story.
"TENSU ZANGETSU!!!"
The whole ceiling blew off and Byakuya, Rukia, Yoruichi, and Zaraki fell to the floor. They looked up and saw many figures. One stood out the most.
"Ichigo!! You finally showed your sorry face!!" Zaraki said getting up, grinning.
"Sorry, but it took us a while," Ichigo said.
"Yeah, especially when Yachiru is running around everywhere trying to find Kumiko," Renji said, smirking as well.
"Renji!! Ichigo!! Thank goodness your alright," Rukia said in dead relief. Ichigo did not answer her. His attention was on Byakuya.
"Hey, Byakuya!!" Ichigo shouted starting out serious. Byakuya looked at him annoyed. He was not going to argue with him now.
But suddenly Ichigo smirked.
"Yamamoto-Taichou said you all could decease Kurotsuchi."
"Ich-Ichi-ni-…"
Everyone's attention suddenly turned to a very shaken little figure, struggling to stay awake.
"WHAT? NO!!! You CAN NOT LIVE!!!" roared Kurotsuchi. He flash stepped in fornt of her and went to strike her down.
But a certain someone stopped him.
"My, don't you think you have done enough damage, Kurotsuchi Mayuri," Unohana said gently, her sword easily blocking his, "I must ask you to please step away. Or I will be forced to gently but swiftly kill you."
She slashed her sword out, sending him sliding away. She then bent down to check on the unconscious girl.
Kurotsuchi was infuriated. He was about to attack again when Kurotsuchi felt his head suddenly burst with a huge pain.
And it was also the last thing he ever felt.
Kurotsuchi's body fell to the floor, dead.
Byakuya glared at the dead body and Unohana felt Kumiko's heartbeat. Her eyes widen and said, "No!"
She quickly began to heal and Byakuya appeared behind her as well as the rest of them.
"What's wrong?" Yoruichi asked.
"Her heartbeat is completely out of sync, if it doesn't regulate she will…" Unohana said, not taking her concentration of the girl. Everyone was in silent shock.
"Someone remove the chains, please, " Unohana said.
"There is work to be done."
Tairei9: That's it for now. Review please. 'Yawn' I'm tired. Going to sleep.