Tensoku!
(Shooting the Sun!)
By- ShinigamiMania91
Chapter 09:
"You did very well..." Zaraki told her as she forced herself to stand up again. "Why don't you give up before I kill you?"
"I'd like to see you kill me, but that wouldn't be any fun if we ever want a re-match..." She said as she spat out some blood. "This battle isn't over!"
"Then come at me!" Zaraki said as she took in a breath and pushed herself off and into the ground for another attack. He sheathed his zanpakuto and knocked her away with his arm and into the wall. "Why didn't you ever call out your shikai?" He asked her, "Do you not know it's name?"
"It's name is Hiraishin... but I will never unleash it on someone who does not know their owns." She told him, "I would feel it would be an unfair advantage."
"That is the only way you will win, Yaya Chiyo." He told her as she stood up again.
"I will beat you one day, Zaraki Kenpachi, without my zanpakuto being called out." She told him, "Until then, you'll have to settle with this." She jumped up again and charged again, he grabbed her zanpakuto that couldn't cut his hand and pulled it away from her, kicking her accross the room. This time, she didn't get back up....
"Tai...cho..." She mumbled as she grabbed her sheets. "Za-zaraki-taicho..."
Shuuhei sat next to the bed, watching the cut up Chiyo as she rested. "Chiyo..." He said with a sigh, "What were you thinking... fighting an arrancar on your own..."
"I know exactly what she was thinking..." Hisagi jumped at the new voice. He turned and faced the captain.
"Zaraki-taicho..." He said as he walked over to the young girl. The pink haired vice captain on his back. "Kosujika-fukutaicho..."
"She was thinking if she could defeat the arrancar, she would be able to defeat me..."
"What are you talking about?" Hisagi asked the tall captain.
"On the first day she came to join my squad, she challenged me... and she lost." He told him, "But she trained her hardest, never using her shikai because she wanted to beat me without calling on her zanpakuto. Each time she came to challenge me, she would always lose. But every time, I used more stregth behind my attacks, and every time she was getting stronger..."
"And when this arrancar came... she thought-"
"She thought that she could beat it..." He told Hisagi. "And she was sadly mistaken..."
"But Chiyo- she's..."
"She shouldn't be a shinigami, Hisagi." He told the boy, "She's royalty and the only heir for the Yaya family."
"Yayo-chan is special!"
"Her father is quite furious right now with Yamamoto and is talking about banning her from a shinigami for the rest of March and keeping her home until she is wed." Zaraki let out a small laugh after saying this, "But I know it quite well that she would not put up with that."
"Zaraki-taicho... is that the only reason you came here?" Hisagi asked him.
"No... I was hopping she would be awake..." He told the vice captain, "So that we can plan our final match before she leaves."
Hisagi's face paled as he heard that, "I... I really don't think she should be doing something that dangerous, Za-zaraki-taicho." He said as Zaraki narrowed his eye at Hisagi. "R-really, for her safty..."
"Hisagi..." Zaraki said looking at the vice captain closely, "Is there some type of bond you share with Yaya?"
"W-what?!" Hisagi said loudly, "N-no, why do you ask?"
"Because, you seem very concerned over her... more than you should be for just her vice captain."
"Oh- well, she is also one of my closest friends, I guess you could say..." He said glancing over to the sleeping girl.
"Za...zaraki-taicho..." She said again in her sleep. "You... you won't win..."
"She's even challenging you in her sleep, Ken-chan!" Yachiru said laughing.
"Let's leave, Yachiru... She needs her rest if she really thinks she can beat me." Zaraki said turning to leave. "Hisagi, it's not nice to glare with that kind of intent." Zaraki said as he felt Hisagi's glare. The large taicho left with the tiny vice captain without saying anything else.
"Shuuhei..." He turned quickly, Chiyo's gold eyes looking for his.
"Chiyo!" He said, happy to see she was awake.
"What happened?" She asked weakly, "All I remember was Kaito raising his leg to smash in my throat... but I see that didn't happen..." She let her fingers run over her throat, her wrist wrapped in bandages and iv's going throughout them. She had wraps and bandages covering a large portion of her body. "Someone came... I remember hearing the bells in the darkness..." She said with a small smile, "It was Zaraki-taicho..."
"You can tell by his bells?" He asked her.
"Yeah... and his reiatsu..." She said with the same smile on her face. "One day... I'll be better than Zaraki-taicho... I'll defeat him without calling out my zanpakuto..."
"I honnestly think that's impossible..." He told her with a small laugh, "But I'll help you with that as much as I can."
"Thank you... Shuuhei..." She said as she rolled her head and looked out the window, "It's dark outside...?"
"It's night... you were brought in early this week..." He told her as she let out a sigh and turned her head back to him.
"You look like you haven't slept in days, Shuuhei..." She told him as she pushed herself into a sitting up position and noticing the dark circles forming under his eyes.
"I was worried..." He told her honnestly as he took her hand that ran over one of his dark circles. "I wasn't sure if you were going to wake up..."
"I wasn't sure if I had died or not..." She told him, "But then I heard someone's voice, I heard them saying four words back to me..." She said with a smile, "And I knew that I couldn't have died... I had a reason to continue to live, a reason to wake up again..."
I love you too...
"Because of you, Shuuhei... I kept myself alive. I probably would have given up had it not been for you..." She told him as they hands entertwined together and he leaned closer placing a light kiss on her lips. He pulled away quickly, not wanting anyone to walk in on the two if they did anything there in the fourht divisions area. He let her hand go back to her.
"You need to rest, Chiyo." He told her as he stood from his chair. "So... rest up..." He helped her lay back down, "And if you need anything..."
"I'll ask Unohana-taicho because you'll be in your office getting paperwork done and resting yourself." She said running her fingers through his hair while he was still in reach. "Right, Shuuhei?"
"Right..." He said, sad that he had to leave her side. He stood up from making sure she was laying down and tucked into her bed before leaving. "I'll be back in the morning." he said before he closed the door and left. She closed her eyes and let herself drift into a sleep that she needed.
The next day, Hisagi was down the hall from the room when he heard yelling coming from within. He ran down and opened the door to see Chiyo with her zanpakuto pulled out pointed at Unohana as she yelled about not having anything injected into her system without a full analyzation of it. It took four squad members to get her away from her zanpakuto and forced her to take the injection in her arm. "This goes against my codes!" She fought still as the injection was done.
"Yaya-san, it's for your own good. You're healing process is remarkably fast, but you still need the antidote of the posion that was thrown into your system from the arrancar. This is a special antidote that the 12th division has made for your body type and the type of poison it was." Unohana told the girl as she still tried to fight back. She then noticed Hisagi, "Oh- Hisagi-fukutaicho."
"Ohaiyo gozaimasu, Unohana-taicho." He said with a bow. "I came to see how Chiyo was doing, but I can see she's just as lively as she would be unscratched." He said with a smile as Chiyo crossed her arms and turned away from him. He laughed a bit as he walked over, "Do you know how much longer she'll need to stay in the fourth division, Unohana-taicho?"
"For a couple of more days the least considering her healing recovery she has." Unohana told him.
"I'm telling you right now, Unohana-taicho, I'm perfectly capable of leaving today and going back to my duties!" Chiyo said spinning herself to face the taicho.
"We still have more tests to run on you, Yaya-san. You need to stay a couple of more days for our sake and for your sake."
"ARGH!!!" Chiyo didn't hide her frustration as she layed back onto the bed.
"Please don't tell me this is how you're going to be acting next month, Chiyo-sama." Her golden eyes widened as she sat up and faced a boy with curly black hair and silver eyes with a black ring around them. "I honnestly don't think your father would approve of this behaivor."
"Saeki-sama..." Chiyo said spotting the boy, her eyes fell to the ground, avoiding eye contact with him. "Gomen..."
Saeki... Koirukai Saeki... Shuuhei said looking at the guy.
"Why do you stare at me with such an evil intent?" He said sharply to Hisagi. "Is there something you have against me?! How can you though, you don't even know me... yet... those eyes... what is it that you want..." He demanded of Hisagi coldly. Hisagi didn't answer, "Nothing... or so you will say..." He looked towards Chiyo, "Chiyo-sama- who is this boy and what does he have to do here." He demanded from her.
"He's my vice captain on the squad I'm on..." She said, "Saeki-sama..." she added quickly.
"You're still mingling down with those low lived shinigamis?" he said scrunching up his nose, "What is it? charity work?"
"No... Saeki-sama... I.. I, myself, am a shinigami because I chose to be one..." Shuuhei couldn't believe this, Chiyo couldn't even look the guy in the eyes.
"Well, you're planning on quiting once we are wedded." He told her, not even questioning it. "You can't be playing these silly games anymore,Chiyo-sama."
"H-hai... Saeki-sama..." She said, her hands clenching the sheets underneath her.
"Wonderful to hear... and you won't be getting these cuts anymore, so that's just fabous as well..." He said walking over to her. He placed his fingers under her chin and raised it so she was forced to look into his eyes, "Chiyo-sama... you've had your freedom... and it's just about to end..." He told her, as her eyes still tried to look away from his, "Once you're out of the fourth divisions medical care unit, you'll be back at home, and getting ready for our little wedding. Only a couple more days you have in this filth of a place these shinigamis stay in..." He told her, "Be happy I'm saving you..."
She turned away as his touch left her and he left the room. The door closed as Chiyo clenched the sheets tightly as tears hit her hands. Shuuhei turned and faced her, upset with this sudden news, but he couldn't touch her with six members of squad four in the room. All he could do is watch her cry, looking so fragile, so frale...
And to not be able to comfort her at all tore him up inside as well...
OMG! I hate Saeki! I actually didn't plan on him being this cruel! AHHHH!!! But what do you think?! Let me know and I'll be happy! haha there's only like 1 or2 more chapters left... so stay tuned!