Chapter 15 – The Vision of Battle Yet to Come and Meeting the Beast Within One's Lover
Ichigo's P.O.V:
Vision Scene
The sounds of swords clashing and people screaming in the far distance, are muffled by what I'm hiding in as I weakly, lay curled up in the small alcove made of two stones slabs that had fallen over each other.
I feel another jolt of pain, go through my abdomen and know that the baby – Ukuro – was coming, no matter what. The contractions had started, just as Aizen, had come onto the battlefield and Shiro, sensing that he intended to come after me had distracted him, by attacking him.
I can feel my heart, pounding against my ribcage and through the bond, Kenpachi's pain, anger and rage that was coming off him in waves as he tries to reach me. He been separated from me, during an explosion and I was alone with no-one to help me.
I know that I would have to do it, myself and placing my back against the make-shift wall, I part my legs then rip the lower half of my Shinigami uniform, so that it wasn't in the way of me giving birth to him or her.
Soon, another contraction hits me and makes me cry out at the pain it causes, then begin to push weakly the child out of the comfort of my womb. It hurts, so much and tears soon start running down my cheeks, while I dig my hands into the Captain's uniform that Kenpachi had given me as a gift.
There would be no doubt, that people would be hearing these cries and Kenpachi, I can feel through the bond is panicking and shocked – because neither of us, expected me to go into labour now.
Suddenly, a wailing echoes in the small hidden space and placing my hands, between my open legs, I pick up my new-born child – my fourth child. I place him on my chest and he snuffles against it, sniffing my scent so he is comforted by it then smile at him, weakly.
A noise sounds and suddenly a shadow covers the entrance to my hiding place as I grab hold of my sword, holding it out in front of me. The child is silent in my arm and I can feel my heart start to pound against my ribcage as they step down into the hiding place.
End of Vision Scene
What had I just seen?
I lay there, under the futon cover and stare up at the ceiling as I try to think of answer for what I had just seen. A Battle was happening and I had been separated at some point from Kenpachi, while I think back to it then was giving birth to the child that was growing within my womb, right now.
Why had been shown it?
Was Zangestu inside my Inner World, showing me something that was yet to come to pass?
Or, was just something that was being shown to me, by an unknown force that I didn't know about?
I had no answers to these questions that were whirling around my head.
Kenpachi, shifting in his sleep makes me turn my face away from staring up at the ceiling and look at him, seeing how peaceful he looked. Like, nothing could disturb him from his sleep, except a nightmare.
His face, suddenly begins to twitch and the hand closest to me, starts to spasm as I begin to feel through the bond – pain, fear and something else – that was frightening me. I try to get through the bond, but it was like it was being blocked from the inside and soon he shoots up, hunching over himself.
"Kenpachi? What's wron…" I begin to say, only to be suddenly pinned down hard and his body getting over mine then feel him bend down his head, scenting me. His eyes in the moonlight, don't glint green, but a swirling mass of gold that I had seen before in his eyes.
He moves, inhaling deeply in the process and this told me that this wasn't him – it was the Beast within him, that was in control now – then he lifts his head to look at me. I bring my hand up to his cheek, taking hold of it and he nuzzles against it then moving to one side, lays down next to me.
I roll to face him and snuggle into his chest, while he tucks the duvet cover under me – so I didn't get cold – then places a hand over me, resting it on my back as I allow sleep to overcome me.