Wilted Blossom

Three:Savior
Byakuya X Sakura

"Shit!!" Sakura cursed as she dodged another tail swipe from the gigantic hollow in front of her. The damn thing laughed before swinging at her with its huge claw, which she flipped over with mild ease. The gash on her side bleeding more profusely with every step she took.

"HA! Stupid shinigami girl, you thought you could defeat me?! I've killed lieutenants, hell, captains also! What would make you think that a pathetic little seventh seat such as yourself could slay me!? I'll enjoy devouring you!" It chuckled once again before flinging its huge tail at her, hitting her in her abdomen and sending her flying back some thirty feet and through several trees.

Sakura was drain in every since of the word. She had severely underestimated the beast at the beginning of the fight and it was coming back to bite her in the ass now. How was she to know that the hollow could drain spiritual energy and use it as its own? She could barley move it was so bad, but she persisted to stumble to her feet ad draw her sword, persistent to win. That was the way she was taught when she was alive so why bail on it now?

"What, you're going to use that useless thing against me?!" It brought down another claw on her, she simply sidestepped.

"Cut the sky, Taishoku Akatsuki.(1)" The hollow let out a cruel laugh as Sakura pointed her sword at it, it stopped when it noticed the shinigami's blade glow red. The handle grew long narrow until it was as tall as the girl and the blade grew and widened, curving into a shape similar to a crescent moon. The hollow glared at Sakura."

"What are you going to do with that toothpick? Stupid shinigami, seventh seats aren't even supposed to have shikai!!" It roared angrily before charging at the girl. Sakura didn't respond but simply raised the weapon above her head before twirling it behind her body once. She closed her eyes.

Everything turned red, forcing the hollow to stop in it's tracks and look around the already devastated battleground. There was no blue or green or any other color, just red. The beast looked up to see a blood red moon and screeched at it's unmoving opponent.

"What is the meaning of thi-" It howled in pain as it's huge claw tumbled to the ground. It continued as it thrashed around, tumbling trees over and creating more damage. Sakura just stood there, unmoving, counting her breaths as she ignored the bleeding at her side.

"How is that possible, you didn't even move!!" It screeched. Sakura slowly inhaled before opening her eyes.

"Do you want me to go slower for you?" She asked very slowly. The hollow roared before Sakura disappeared, reappearing on the monster's back, stabbing it and reappearing in the same spot she was in, all in the course of a second at the most. The hollow howled in pain and anger. The girl charged at the hollow swiftly once again, causing the hollow to rear up on it's back legs to barely dodge the crescent blade when realization struck it. It's reflexes had slowed considerably.

"You, your sword, it slows things down!" It accused dumbly. Sakura nodded.

"Yes. Everything within a certain radius of my sword turns red and anything that turns red slows down, except for me." She slashed her weapon lengthwise for enfaces. "Now, my shikai is a very well kept secret, no one knows about it and I would like to keep it that way." She charged at the monster, blurring out of it's vision. It's scream echoed through the forest as the blade lodged itself into the hollow's neck, it's wielder landing on it's back. The hollow thrashed and howled before finally throwing Sakura off of it and into a nearby tree. Sakura rubbed the back of her head, which she was sure was bleeding, before gasping when she looked up.

Everything was slowly beginning to regain it's original color and what truly frightened her was the shape of the hollow. Every wound on the beast was healing, even the arm she had cut off when she first used her shikai was reattaching. Sudden fatigue struck her and the hollow couldn't resist a laugh as she tried to stand.

"Did you forget?! I absorb spiritual energy! Your stupid weapon just gave me a big boost of power!" Sakura cursed herself openly. "You were doomed from the start shinigami!!" it back-handed Sakura with tremendous force, sending her flying through several trees until a large bolder halted her, her weapon lodging itself in a tree before changing back to it's unreleased form.

Sakura didn't need to move to tell her right leg was completely broken, her head was bleeding severely and the wound on her side had grown. She blinked a few times but it didn't help, her vision was getting blurry and her eyelids were heavy. Lying down on her back wasn't helping, it was getting hard for her to breath. The hollow began to move towards her.

"Die shinigami bitch!!" It roared before charging at her.

"Scatter, Senbonzakura." Sakura allowed a small smile to grace her lips when she heard the cold voice. The hollow let out one final howl before silence etched its way in the forest area. Sakura felt a presence next to her before that person raised her off the ground. She felt the wind past her face as the person carrying her used flash step to get her to safety.

"Captain Byakuya…" She acknowledged in a low whisper. Said man looked down at her, he was not happy at all.

"You were being stupid, you could have died." He said coldly. Sakura could have laughed, the man really have no heart for his subordinates! Scratched that, he had no heart at all.

"Sorry." She replied, sounding as sour as she possibly could.

"You could have died, no, you almost died. It's not something you should take lightly, Haruno." The man scolded as if he was speaking to a child. Sakura was slowly beginning to lose consciousness due to blood loss. The captain noticed and increased his speed.

"Don't talk." He ordered. Sakura snorted but winced due to the pain it caused.

"You sound like you actually care." She muttered sarcastically. Her response was silence as she slowly slipped away into a deep sleep. Byakuya watched her carefully as he ran to the small group of fourth division members to help heal her, her sword resting next to his own almost happily.

"And what if I did?"


(Author Notes)

(1)"Cut the sky, fading red moon."

Oh my frickin god I am so sorry that this is so late! Please forgive me!! I have some good reasons why it's late but I'll just skip the excuses I have planed so I don't waste your time…

It could have been better. I don't really like it that much. I wrote around half of it in school so that's why there's a major contrast (in my opinion) between what I wrote and what I typed. The only thing I liked is what I did for her shikai! Some credit goes to Maria and Tori (Panda-Chan21) for helping me with the ability of the sword. Haha, Bya-kun has a crush! And I think I made the hollow a bit talkative…

I was talking on the phone with Tori and she gave me a thought. Even though we don't deserve it, do you think some of you could do fanart? We would very much appreciate it and you don't see a lot of SakuraBleach Xover pictures let alone pairing pics with Sakura and someone from Bleach so if you have time…

I drew a picture of shinigami Sakura and her shikai for THIS one you could say. There's a link to it on my profile so please go see it when you can, it's not that special though. Crap in my opinion but everyone at school likes it so whatever.

The next one I'm going to do is UraharaXSakura because that was the next one on the list to be requested. I'm going by the order by which they were requested. I have no idea what to write for that one so any suggestions? ANY AT ALL!?

Maria's still doing UkitakeXSakura but I doubt she'll get it done soon. No offence Maria!

ALSO! TsubakiXOrihime fic? Yes? No? Give me your thoughts please!!

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