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HERE'S CHAPPY TWO!
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Hichigo smirked as he gazed into Rukia's fear stricken eyes, loving her fear with every particle of his being. It's no wonder the king of this world had feelings for her…
"Hehehehe," Hichigo laughed in his bone-chilling echo-laugh, "What's wrong, Rukia-chan? Hollow got yer tongue?" Rukia shook her head, fear still echoed in her eyes. She stumbled up, eyes still locked to his own ebony wonders, and stumbled as far away as possible and a quickly as possible.
Hichigo watched her run, and chuckled to himself, "She really should lighten up," he muttered to himself, "It's not like I was gonna hurt her or anything." His smile widened, "not that that wouldn't be fun." He added as a second thought.
Two buildings away was as far as Rukia could get in her frenzied state. "Wh-what was that…?" Rukia thought aloud, "I've never been so scared in my life… and I've been face to face with the freaking Sokyoku!" Rukia looked around the corner, to where she was standing earlier, "Good," she breathed, "No sign of him." She turned around to lean against the building in relief, but was shocked to see the 6-foot smirking hollow a breaths width from her own face. She gasped, and slid down, eyes shut tight in expectance of what was coming. But… what was coming? She peeked one eye open, then both and blinked. He was…gone? Or was he ever there in the first place? Not good, Rukia thought to herself, He's got me so shaken, I'm beginning to hallucinate!
Now away from the suffocating reiatsu of Hichigo, Rukia straitened up as she noticed something she hadn't before; there were 2 of Ichigo's reiatsu's! One was, of course, his crazy inner hollow. Rukia shivered; she would never give Ichigo crap about being too weak to beat his Hollow. She could hardly bear to imagine what he was going through with this, this thing inside him. And the other? Her eyes widened, it might actually be Ichigo this time! If anyone could beat the terrifying albino, it was him! Rukia stood up and started to shunpo towards "Ichigo's" reiatsu.
Hichigo raised his head and watched Rukia shunpo across the buildings, surely in a beeline for THAT place. His eyes widened, and then narrowed. He managed a "psh," As he shunpo'd twice as fast to THAT place.
I'm almost there! Rukia thought as she finally saw her destination; this strange, blue world's largest skyscraper. He has to be there! Maybe Ichigo will know a way out of here, and away from his creepy alter-ego! Rukia continued to run, and stopped dead as she felt the hollow's reiatsu right next to Ichigo's. She thanked her lucky stars that she was small enough to hide in the window panes as she did so. Rukia peeked out just a little to be able to see what Hichigo was doing.
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MEANWHILE IN THE NORMAL WORLD
"Rukia, RUKIA!" Ichigo yelled as he shook her lifeless body, "WAKE UP, DAMNIT!" He took the glove that removes your spirit from her hand and gently removed her own, placing her soul gently in his lap. "Come on, Rukia! You can't give up! What's wrong? What can I do?!" Ichigo was close to tears as he gently shook her, trying desperately to pull her from her deep slumber, but then- "Heh, heh, well," Ichigo stiffened as his chocolate eyes widened, "looks like ya finally killed her, eh, partner?" Ichigo instantly angered, "Go away! You BASTARD! YOU did this, didn't you?! Give her back!"
His hollow merely chuckled darkly, "I don't know what yer talkin about, partner, YOU'RE the one who killed her, and it's your entire fault! If ya hadn't been a scaredy cat and let me fight that hollow, Rukia-chan wouldn't have been smothered by my spirit pressure building up behind you!" Ichigo's eyes went wider and he held a hand up to his face, horrified with himself. "M-my God… I- I killed her…"
"RUKIA!!" Ichigo jumped as he heard Renji's voice behind him, "ICHIGO, YOU BASTARD! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!" Ichigo looked up at Renji, the horror of what he thought he did still on his face. "Ichigo… you? To… Rukia? But how? WHY!? WHY DID YOU DO IT!?" Renji had Ichigo by the collar now, ignoring the dead look on his face, he started throwing punches, the sound of Ichigo's jaw crunching was not satisfying enough, so he grabbed Ichigo's soul reaper badge from his pocket (which he stole from Ichigo's body back in the classroom) and burst forth in his shinigami form. "HOWL, ZABIMARU!" and the battle commenced…
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ANOTHER MEANWHILE! BACK IN ICHIGO'S INNER WORLD
Rukia gasped quietly as she heard, "It's your fault!" and "You killed your best friend! Yer becoming more hollow-like already, partner!" spouting from Hichigo's mouth and into Ichigo's ear. Ichigo's face contorted in emotional pain and thunder boomed as clouds started to gather. It was then Rukia noticed that the window she was sitting in had a moving reflection. She looked closer and saw the outside world. Rukia gasped yet again as she saw her own lifeless bodies (gigai and shinigami) and as she saw Renji beating the crap out of a dead-looking Ichigo. Rukia shook her head as tears started to form, stupid Renji! She thought, I'm not really dead! Leave Ichigo alone!
Rukia looked up as a response to the increasing rain, then over to Ichigo and Hichigo and caught, "Good, now switch out with me! There's no need to live if you can't have yer precious Rukia-chan, right? So let me live! Let me fight him, let me kill him!" Rukia glared and suddenly, she had the resolve to bury her fear and she ran up to the two ridiculously tall guys and tried to shove Hichigo away, only to be knocked down herself, discovering he was like a marble statue. I guess her resolve got knocked when she fell, because a fresh wave of fear rose and showed itself in her eyes, causing the hollow to smirk triumphantly. "Well, Rukia-chan, seems like ya finally decided to join the party!" he grabbed her arms quick as lightning and lifted her up to eye-level, "Now that Ichigo thinks yer dead, he'll give up on life like the pathetic weakling he is, and his power and body will be mine!" He laughed a high, maniacal, bloodcurdling laugh that resonated through the rain.
Rukia struggled against his iron-hard grasp, and even kicked his marble-like chest all in a desperate attempt to get away. Oh, and save Ichigo. Yes. Saving Ichigo… let's go with that. Hichigo moved over to the needle point at the top of the skyscraper, ignoring Rukia's futile attempts at escape, and tied her wrists and ankles to it, preventing her from falling.
"Now," Hichigo mused, "Where were we, partner?" He walked casually towards him, "Oh, yeah!" he grinned, pulling his white Zangetsu from it's black wrappings, "It's time to fight the monkey-sword redhead." Hichigo thrust he white zanpaktou through Ichigo's chest, but instead of blood, a white bone-like substance flooding from Ichigo's tear ducts, nose, and mouth, forming a hollow mask over the left side of his face. Rukia yelped at the sudden outburst, and looked towards a window, trying to see what was going on out in the real world. Her eyes widened as Renji's did at the sight of the mask forming on Ichigo's face.
"Now," Hichigo said with Ichigo's outside voice as an echo, "It's time for ya to die."
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