Chapter 7: Property

Two years after Ichigo's capture

Ichigo was laying next to Halibel in their bed after a hard's day work. And by work, it was more like a survival thing with keeping the other arrancar at arms length from her. She had developed a strange reflex that, when triggered against nearly all of the males in this hell, she would react violently. She had put many of the males on notice, but there were still a few who didn't get the message and among them was Grimmjow. He was, for the most part, stronger than her and would often overpower Ichigo for his own twisted amusement most of the times. Among all the people here, Ichigo hated him the second most, with Aizen of course being the number one of that list. Aizen was the only person besides Halibel that would treat Ichigo kindly, and while the orange haired girl respected that notion, she hated him for allowing and even encouraging all the horrible things that's happened to her. Halibel couldn't go against what her leader spoke when it came to most things, but Ichigo was one order she could NOT follow. She was protective of the girl at first when she and her fraccion stumbled upon a group of Grimmjow's fraccion taking turns passing her around like she was a piece of fresh meat. Halibel saw so much red at that moment and nearly castrated all of them had it not been for Gin stepping in to let cooler heads prevail. Halibel's fraccion were absolutely shocked at their masters usually calm and collective demeanor completely change in that instant. It was such a shock that they decided to keep an eye on their master and this former soul reaper turned arrancar for any sort of trick. While yes it did disgust them as to what Grimmjow's guys did to her, they were more concerned for their master than anything else. After that instant, Halibel had decided to bring Ichigo some semblance of comfort and safety by befriending her. It was rocky at first, but soon enough Ichigo started to appreciate the blond beauty. It didn't take too long after many other attempts of gang rape to Ichigo, some even having the girl beaten within an inch of her life, for Halibel to do something drastic. She had been harboring feelings toward the girl ever since she saw her after the transformation, and seeing Ichigo like this just made her snap. Halibel trained Ichigo roughly and without mercy to properly defend herself within Las Noches and all of Hueco Mundo. Aizen didn't approve at first until he started seeing the results himself. Ichigo's hollow powers had tripled since Halibel started training her and she was more in tuned with the laws of the hollows now. She wasn't as strong as any of the Espada from six downward yet, but she was indeed getting there. That 'reflexes' that she had developed was also intriguing to the man as he hasn't felt her wrath whenever he laid a hand on her at all. That came as an advantage when he started to treat her more or less like a daughter he never had. True, he still allowed and encouraged others to do what they please with her as long as she doesn't die, but he still comforted her and gave her rewards for whenever she proved her strength to him and others. Her biggest reward being when she defeated the seventh Espada, Zommari, in combat in front of all of Las Noches in an arena style battle. Her reward being freedom to leave Las Noches whenever she pleased, though this came with a restriction on it. She had to have a dampener on her at all times so she couldn't open a garganta to get out of Hueco Mundo, she had to be back inside the palace within twelve hours or when the situation was dire and she was needed, and she had to be accompanied by an Espada of Aizen's choosing. The first time she left Las Noches was with Halibel, where the blond confessed her feelings to her. Ichigo was shocked and in disbelief, but admitted that she harbored feelings for the woman as well. That was late last year.

Now, as Ichigo lay next to Halibel and slept softly with her, Halibel looks down to to the girl sleeping in her arms. At how beautiful she was and how peaceful she looked right now. It was almost as if she was changed like this specifically for the blond.

Halibel held her protectively and somewhat possessively. Protectively for fear of her just disappearing from her grasp, and possessively through the belief that Ichigo belonged to her. Every moment the two were together felt special to Halibel. Every time they talked, Halibel felt truly connected to her. Every time they kissed, Halibel never wanted the feeling to end. Ichigo was so much more to her than anyone would believe. Aside from defying Aizen, she would do anything for this girl and to keep her as well.

Anything.

She looked down to Ichigo and kissed her passionately on her forehead. She leaned up and went over to the side of the bed to pull out a red and gold shark tooth on a black chain. "No matter what, you will always be mine."

Las Noches

Halibel sat on the edge of the bed she was given to allow herself to heal and continued to twirl the necklace in her hand. It was similar to the one she gave Ichigo, only this one was fully golden with a red chain holding it. Halibel knew she had to find and bring back what was hers. Her Ichigo, no one else's. If she so much as assumed another woman even looked in her Ichigo's direction, she would kill them in the most horrible of ways possible. For now though, she would have to rest as the wound on her left shoulder wouldn't be fully healed for several days even with her advanced healing.

"Ichigo." She started as she looked to her own shark tooth necklace with a possessive look in her eyes. A look that would spell trouble for the object of her desire.

Done. LOL.

PEACE!