Psychic Chick

Part One: Becoming a Shinigami

Chapter Thirty Seven: This Is Me Dying

Main POV

I watched from the back as the rogue was wheeled into the hall and I recognised him instantly. I'm not sure I would have, had he not still been sporting the aftermath of a high pressure attack from me and his bones were all still broken from the pillar dropping. I felt a little guilty about the severity of his injuries, knowing I'd permanently disfigured him. I couldn't work out why, the very same guy had ripped off my arm and blew my chest open. I almost died because of him and here I was feeling guilty.

I'd chosen to stand behind Lieutenant Hisagi because he had no captain and it was easier to see. Although now I stood here there was nothing to see except what was probably going to fuel my nightmares now. The aftermath of my handiwork and the man that tried to kill me. I tried to get back to the task at hand, I shook myself out of my head and concentrated. I scanned his thoughts, he wasn't nervous. He was confident, smug even but he gave no indication as to why. His present thoughts just surrounded him being laid back on his gurney and how proud of himself he was to be here.

I had to keep searching as to why. I was sure the Head Captain had started to question him but I was too busy looking for something, anything to allude to danger. The minute I had something they could wheel him out of here and we could all get out too. I just hoped I wasn't too late.

"No, do you really think a pathetic little girl could be one of us?" I heard him say and I frowned. "Her being the focus of your search really was all I meant. Because of that we were all able to enter the soul society easily. The gates we entered through were virtually unguarded. I always wondered just what it was she did, to piss you off so much she was seireitei's number 1 most wanted. But I just counted my blessings. It's all thanks to her we're here."

"And just what pray tell, is so good about your current position?" Mayuri asked. "May I remind you after you are discharged from squad 4, you'll become one of my test subjects. And you know I have been waiting patiently to examine one of your kind."

"You know that'll never happen," he replied.

Why, I wondered. What was he so sure about, why did he think he was going to get out of this. I pushed harder, deeper into his mind. I went past all the present thoughts and went into the depths of his mind. I scanned through his memories leading up the the battle and I didn't see anything of note. I went back further and I could feel my forehead start to burn. Or the front of my brain anyway. It was like a red hot brain freeze.

I ignored the mild discomfort and kept searching. I looked into the battle, too. The attack he was using, I wanted to know what that was. It seemed to be a part of him. Maybe he had powers like humans had, and learned to be a shinigami afterwards. Maybe that's why he could deliver such powerful blasts of unknown origin. I searched harder, it felt like, he almost wielded his powers on suggestion alone. He decided something was going to blow up and then it did.

But that wasn't what I needed to know. I looked into his smugness some more. He knew something, something we all didn't. Although I saw no immediate plans to fight the captains and lieutenants. That was a minor relief. But I had to know what he had planned. I searched, I pushed harder and the burn got stronger. I could feel my nose running but I wiped it with my hand and ignored it. It was there, just out of reach, the thoughts I needed.

I reached for them and then I could hear screaming. A hot white heat flew though my mind. My nose that was running earlier was now gushing and I think I might have been crying. I was more than crying. The screaming, it was me. I was screaming. I dropped to my knees, the pain making it hard to stand. I clutched my head as I howled. I shook in my arms and tried to work out what the fuck was happening.

"Tina!" I heard Renji yelling faintly.

"Oh my god," I gasped. I could hear manic laughter. I cried out on the ground. "Make it stop," I begged as I tired to keep myself upright by leaning on my hands. They were covered in blood. It was my blood. My nose, my eyes, they were bleeding. "Stop. Stop this."

"You silly girl," I heard the guy on the gurney laughing hysterically like some kind of villain. "Did you really think you were the only one? Did you think I didn't know?" He laughed harder, sounding crazy. "You're not special. You're a failure. A spoiled little girl who was given the upper hand in life one too many times. Your time is up. You think because you were chosen that it means something? You'll end up just like the rest of us."

"Get him out of here!" I heard Ichigo yell as the blood continued to gush.

"Remove the prisoner," the Head Captain banged his staff and the gurney was wheeled out. I struggled to breathe through the pain, still grunting and shaking on the floor.

"I'm sorry," I gasped out. "I was a fool to think I could handle him."

"What are you talking about?" Ichigo asked. "You fought him and you won."

"I mean right now," I choked out. I was choking on the blood pouring out of my nose. "To think I could deliver any results. Oh god."

"Lieutenant Abarai, Matsumoto, escort Kurodo to division 4 immediately," Captain Hitsugaya ordered.

"What did he mean?" I asked as I looked up finally. I could see in everyone's thoughts what I looked like. I couldn't block them out like normal, my brin was too fried. "Did I think I was the only one?"

"Don't worry about that," Renji said from my side.

"No," I replied. "Captain Kurotsuchi," I looked at him. "What did you mean study one of his kind? He's a psychic, isn't he? That's what those blasts were, it wasn't some kind of kido at all, it was him. It was all him."

I pushed myself up off the ground. Maybe that's what he was so smug about. If he was a psychic though, did that mean that Urahara created him? I ran out the door and after the guys with the gurney. I had to question him. Maybe I was stupid. I was covered in my own blood, my brain resembled a panfried gyoza, and I could barely remember how to walk. I had to know. I caught up to them eventually, although I could hear Renji and Matsumoto hot on my tail.

"Hey!" I cried out. "Wait," I demanded and leapt onto the gurney, straddling the other potential psychic.

"Couldn't get enough, hey?" He asked and I could see his thoughts, his psychic power, or at least one of them was that explosive force. That one was suggestion powered. While I was searching for answers he was thinking about the blood vessels in my skull bursting. He was thinking about slowly cooking my brain, and then it was.

"What did you mean, I'm not the only one?" I asked as I perched on him.

"You think Urahara was the first person to create an enhanced human?" He said. "You think you were even his first attempt? You have a lot to learn, silly girl."

"Then tell me!" I demanded.

"Nah," he chuckled. I suddenly felt very warm all over and looked down.

"Shit," I said as I threw my arms out. "Bakudō number 39 Enkōsen!" I screamed and shields shot out of both my hands. I was able to cover both the guards but I couldn't do anything to protect myself. The force of the blast sent me flying backwards and I let out a tremendous yowl as I soared and then hit the ground. I lay back, head almost too heavy to lift. I felt my right arm, the pain in the shoulder was worse now. I pushed myself up with that arm though, for some reason I couldn't get the hand on the other side to work. I looked down and spotted the problem.

"Shit," I sat looking at my arm. My hand from the middle of my forearm down was missing. As was one of my legs from the hip down and the other from the knee down.

"Tina!" Renji screamed as he rushed to my side.

"Oh my god," Rangiku said as she stared in horror at my bloody body, or what was left of it.

"What happened?" I heard Captain Hitsugaya yell on his approach.

"Captain," I looked up at him, covered in blood and looking rather apologetic. "I'm sorry, I went to question him on what he meant. He gave me some information, I think, that could be useful. I think it's about the other rogues."

"You can report that to me later. You need to get yourself healed," he told me. "Lieutenant Hisagi," he pointed to someone who had been standing behind him in shock this whole time. "Go to lock up and retrieve Hisakata Shimizu immediately."

"Hai," he nodded and flashed out of the way.

"Lieutenant Kira, collect any stray limbs you can find," he ordered. "Lieutenant Abarai, pick her up and bring her back to the Captains Hall."

"Sir," Renji nodded once and scooped me up. Or what was left of me.

"I'm starting to think someone up there just doesn't want me to have limbs," I joked tiredly.

"Tina please," Renji said and I looked up to his face.

He had tears streaming down his cheeks. This must have been really traumatising for him. He missed my chest bursting open 10 days ago but he'd already seen me take a hit on the battlefield which resulted in me losing an arm but I don't think he saw me actually lose it, or reattach it. Now right in front of him he was seeing his girlfriend missing part of her arm and two legs. I was slowly bleeding out in his arms and he was wondering if Hisagi would get back with my sword in time. Not to mention he'd just watched some guy turn my brain into toaster strudel.

"Sorry," I smiled softly through all the blood. "I love you."

"Don't," he choked. He got me through the door of the Captain's Hall and I could see all the horrified stairs from all the captains and lieutenants that hadn't left to investigate the explosion.

"Set her down there Abarai," Toshiro ordered. "Unohana can you start working on healing her while we await Hisagi's return."

"I can Hitsugaya but I'm afraid it would do very little, we haven't much time and her wounds are very several," she replied. Shit.

"I'm right here," I commented.

"I see," Hitsugaya replied. A green light started over me as a grey haired lieutenant knelt beside me.

"We have to try anyway, Captain," she said and I saw Izuru come over with my limbs. He lined them up with their respective body parts and then started up his own kido field.

"I have an idea," I said aloud. "Captain Hitsugaya can you please use your Hyōrinmaru to freeze my injured limbs?"

"What would that do?" He asked as he drew his sword.

"If you freeze them together not only will it help me when my zanpakuto gets here, but it'll also slow down the bleeding," I replied. "Lieutenant Kuchiki, will you please make me some ice? Lieutenant Hinamori, will you melt it for me?"

"Yes of course," Hinamori replied and drew her sword. Rukia came over, still looking grim and pulled out her sword. I tried to gently lower myself back using my only attached limb but I struggled. Renji slid behind me and helped me lean back, using himself to prop me up.

"Easy," he said. He put a hand on my forehead and started stroking it and my fridge. I could see most of the captains looking like they already knew I was going to die, and I couldn't blame them. Most of the lieutenants wore a similar expression but the ones helping me mixed it with a look of determination. I focused on my breathing, doing it slowly. I felt sleepy. Heavy too. Shit. This is it, this is me dying. I couldn't hear Hisakata anymore. Oh god.

"Damn it Hisagi," I whispered. "Fuck."

"Shhh," Renji soothed as he stroked my hair. "You're going to be fine baby. It's okay," I could feel his voice was heavy, his throat tight. He was trying desperately to hold on, for me but that only made me tear up.

"I'm so sorry," I blurted out amongst the tears I was way less good at holding in. "I promised I'd stop looking for trouble. I shouldn't have chased after him. I should have left when Head Captain Yamamoto ordered me to. And now you have to deal with this. You're watching your girlfriend slowly bleed out on the floor and there's nothing you can do about it. I'm so sorry I did this to you."

"Shhh," he replied. "Don't think about that now. You're gonna be fine. And don't worry about me, huh, I'm going to be be by your side until your better. You'll pull through," I could tell he was lying. "And then when you are, I'm gonna fucking kill you." That part was the truth. I laughed. I threw my head back and I laughed hard.

"I love you so much," I told him and he ran a hand through my hair.

"I know," he nodded. "I love you more than I've ever loved anybody before, more than I'll ever love anybody again."

"Good," I nodded. "Because I'm a really jealous ghost."

"Perfect," he replied. "I'll make sure to bring lots of other women home just so you'll haunt me and I can see you again."

"I'll never stop loving you, in this life or the next," I replied.

"Tina," Rangiku kneeled beside me. "It's alright now," she gripped my only hand. "You're gonna be just fine. I promise."