An: I'm so sorry guys!
I mean it! I never meant to post that chapter I swear!
There were a bunch of files in the docs that I hadn't deleted before I uploaded this.
I made that before I made the decision of trying to fix every single chapter. (I was depressed.)
I only noticed after checking my mail when you guys just started to review like that and
I thought 'What the hell?' and I actually saw what I had posted. So once again, I'm sorry.
Starrk: Timely Gratitude
"Guys settle, down we need to go now."
Lance tried calming down the three men who looked ready to attack each other.
After Orihime told them about what they needed to do, they were fuming.
Even the usually stoic Byakuya looked pissed off.
"You don't understand … I simply just want to stab them in their dirty mouths that touched my beloved."
He raised his blade up.
"You are the one misunderstanding Byakuya, I am the one Orihime loves."
Aizen's voice sounded restrained.
"Both of you shut the fuck up! Orihime fucking chose me not you pansies."
Kenpachi's announcement made the two turn from each other and face him with a murderous look on both their faces.
"Guys just stop!"
Orihime intervened; this was getting too out of hand.
She turned to Lance for help. Suddenly he had a flash of brilliance.
"Alternate."
The three melted away from each other's sight and only Lance and Orihime could be seen by them.
"Where the fuck did you go?"
Kenpachi increased his spiritual pressure and Lance had no choice but to freeze him with his fullbring. Kenpachi's eye's still darted about and his mouth flexed slightly. He was still pissed.
"We can't have him just give our position away to the influx, Ichigo carry him."
Lance went forward again and all of them began to press on.
Aizen and Byakuya were irked but they calmed down soon after realising it meant one less competition to look out for.
The further they went forward, the fewer portals there were, the only ones that were present were the collapsed portal; their futures erased from the timeline.
"Lance I think there's one over there."
She pointed in the distance where a faint glow could be seen.
"No time to waste, let's go!"
Running, they made it in less than a few minutes and Orihime jumped in.
Aizen and Byakuya were surprisingly silent; they were just in slight awe of something as intricate as the portals in the time stream. Lance' powers increased each time an orb or cube was added and with each, he unlocked another new innate ability of his. Kenpachi was still frozen but his eyes darted about, his mouth stuck in a perpetual grin of arrogance and anger.
Whilst in the portal Orihime was busy running around trying to calm her daughter.
The girl was about to be a six year old and she was such a cry baby.
"Sh… Sh… Go to sleep."
Her baby girl stopped wailing and gurgled before falling asleep.
"Hey, Ori…I'm home."
A man with long, wavy brown hair came up to Orihime and hugged her tightly, he smelt of
spice and a scintillating musk.
"Welcome home."
He kissed her forehead, not letting go of her.
"Orihime I've made sure that your husbands will not see each other and Ichigo… not until the battle."
Lance reminded.
She didn't listen; she was too entranced with her husband, lost in his wonderful blue-grey eyes.
A brief kiss was exchanged by the two and Lance knew to sync with Orihime almost immediately.
Flash.
Another arrancar was transformed into a human. This time it was the Primera.
Coyote Starrk, the lone wolf. Even as a human, even when he was reborn… he was alone.
He was able to remember all of the pain, all of the sadness as an arrancar and how Lilinette was gone.
"Why am I… still alive?"
His fist slammed into the brick, bleeding from the impact.
Stark cursed at moon, it mocked him. It was always there wherever he went.
"Hello?"
Orihime noticed his ragged state. His clothes were torn and his fist bled down. His eyes filled with forlorn and hate, she felt worried. She heard his question, his plea for help and she was the one,
the only who answered.
"What do you want?" He spat.
"I-I want to help you."
Help him? He was beyond help, he may still be alive but his feelings have died long before.
"Leave, I don't need your help."
"But-"
"Just leave."
He turned, walking away from her as his blood trailed away.
Orihime left him; she understood that he needed his space.
Tomorrow yes tomorrow was when she would surely save him from despair.
Crackle.
Yet again, the memories cracked and Orihime was sent back.
"What's wrong?
"It's… nothing."
"Whenever you speak like that, I know something's the matter, just tell me." Starrk comforted her.
He kissed her hand and his eyes gazed into hers.
"I don't want to lose you!" Orihime blurted out.
She said it, she finally said it. She'd been acting tough all this time, pretending to have fun with them, with him but she still couldn't forget the time Annette was absorbed by that… Monster.
"Orihime get a hold of yourself!" Lance snapped.
This would never end well. Regretfully, Lance pulled Orihime out of the portal, Aizen and Byakuya immediately went to her side after seeing her shake in terror.
"What's wrong?" They both asked her comfortingly.
The two of them tried to reassure her after her from her about the worries that she faced.
"A-And -hic- I… Don't want to lose you guys!" She wailed.
"Well if you don't start getting more people, they're all going to die anyway."
"Eh?"
After hearing this, Orihime wailed even louder.
He didn't want to do it but Lance had to threaten her.
"Listen, the more time we waste on your prattling, the influx is still out there somewhere destroying other futures, you better fix up or I'll have no choice but to find someone else."
His voice was cold; it didn't have the same tone as before when Annete was around…
'How could I be so foolish? Lance is also angry that the influx took Annette and he's trying desperately while I'm here just wasting precious time.'
Aizen and Byakuya didn't like the way Lance threatened their wife, Kenpachi looked the same but it wasn't quite as clear because he was still frozen in place.
"You, I know you have your reasons but you do not threaten my wife!" Byakuya lost his composure and aimed a spell at Lance.
"Stop! Lance is right, I need to hurry up or else we can't save Annette."
Byakuya dropped his hand back down.
"I see,"
He walked up to Lance, their faces centimetres apart.
"Next time I see you threaten my wife, I won't stay my hand."
The malice in his voice made it clear that he wasn't kidding.
Lance just ignored the man while Orihime dived back down to the portal.
Starrk was worried. He knew Orihime was an emotion person but he'd never expect her to burst out in tears so suddenly. She fainted after the whole thing and he had placed back down on their bed.
Her hair was flayed our all of the place covering her beautiful visage. Tucking her hair back carefully, he gazed longingly at her face. What happened to her?
When she came to, Orihime noticed she was back on the bed, Starrk slept by her side, stroking her hair as he slept. It was as if he'd done that for years now.
"Starrk, I'm sorry for worrying you, I was just nervous."
His eyes lazily opened and he smiled at her.
"You don't have to worry all by yourself, after all I'm your husband and that means we go through everything together."
Orihime giggled as he started tickling her.
"Old man get off her!" Their daughter growled, she jumped at him, biting his leg in anger.
"Oi oi Lilinette, is that how you talk to your father?"
She didn't say anything but she did push him out of the bed, sticking her tongue after she heard him groan.
"Lilinette don't bully your dad!"
"But mom-"
"He is your dad so treat him with respect."
Starrk just laughed it off and hugged his two girls.
"It's fine, after all Lilinette's just showing her love."
The little girl's face turned bright red and she turned away from her father.
Orihime knew that Lilinette did care for her father but the little girl never knew how to express it other than using violence.
"S-Shut up stupid daddy…"
Their daughter got up and walked away back to her room.
"Don't you wish we could stay like this forever Ori?"
"Starrk we can't go on like this."
"What do you mean?"
"There's something going on right now and if we don't stop, Lilinette could die."
His eyes widened.
"You're lying."
"I'm not; I need you to come with me just for a little while. So that we can create place where Lilinette would never have to worry about anything."
"I'll do it."
He hugged her tightly; he knew Orihime would never lie to him about this like this.
After all, a husband should put his trust in his wife.
That was the cue, Lance activated his fullbring and as the two were transported away, poor Lilinette witnessed them disappear from her eyes.
"Daddy?"
"We're only going for a little while 'kay? Be brave."
Lilinette could do nothing but cry as her parents were carried into the light.
Neither of them looked back at their daughter, for they knew it would only sadden them to see her like that.
An emerald cube with dropped into Lance's hand and the dirty yellow orb fused with the 2 o'clock.
Slowly, Lance's spiritual pressure increased.
"So where did Ichigo go Lance?"
Lance looked back, he wasn't there. Kenpachi looked like he knew something so Lance decided to unfreeze him. Lance's fullbring was still in effect which meant that the husbands couldn't see each other yet through spiritual pressure alone, Kenpachi was able to track them and what they were doing.
"You dumb fuck! Ichigo, Aizen and Byakuya had to distract that influx thing while you had your back turned!"
He meant this for Lance, who was fuming.
"Looks like we need to get them back."
"Starrk, Kenpachi can you help." Orihime begged the two, she just hoped the other three were alright.
"What do you think? / Of course."