Pairing: ShuuRen/RenShuu
Rated: M
Note: Uhm...I really don't know about this one but I really hope you have a good time reading it, once again I apologize for my english. ExtinctionOfReality-darling, thanks for your support from the bottom of my heart.
Hope
Suspending on the air, his crimson hair waving by the wind touch Renji was breathing hard and fighting to maintain his focus,the smell of iron hitting his nostrils, Zabimaru on his right hand taking a defensive position, he looked by the corner of his eye to see the damage on his left shoulder, his robe was ripped and the cut was deep, the blood was still pouring out of it, he couldn't move his arm and it was a hideous bruise from the front of his left upper part of the chest, passing above the shoulder and ending in the back part, still he was lucky if he hadn't deflect it on time it would be his head popping out of his body with a clean cut.
His deep frown was an evidence of how much it was hurting and the monstrous creature was laughing like a manic above him a few meters away. Clenching his hand around his zanpakutou hilt, the fukutaichou couldn't even start to believe and understand the situation and what caused it, one second everything was perfect and in the next hell broke loose, but how? Sure Renji knew about Shuuhei constant fight with his zanpakutou spirit and how much that influenced him and his personality but to the point of being possessed by him?
The pain was excruciating and the redhead was loosing his sight, it began to get blur, he would think of those problems later for now he just wanted to find a way of bringing his lover back and to make sure they would be both got out of this alive.
He focused on Kazeshini using the body of his partner and how he would manage to take and deflect all the attacks, it was very difficult, Hisagi only for himself was very powerful and with his zanpakutou overtaking his body and mind with no human filter just the desire to destroy, this would be almost an impossible chance to win but he was decided to bring the other back with the less damage possible.
The next he knew the other was already in the air swinging the chains making the blade rotate in an impossible speed, Renji breathing hard trying to figure what the other would do next.
"Stop this shit, get out of him." the redhead was furious, he yelled at the other already knowing the answer.
"HAHAHA...You're pathetic, both of you are." Kazeshini laughed devilishly in a horrendous way.
"Hisagi, I know you are in there, HISAGI!" he let out a desperate scream.
"He won't come.", the creature grinned, "I made the precious thing to destroy him, I started with his mind and then I took over his body." he laughed again historically, "The fuck? What's the use of having someone to use my skills if he doesn't want to? Fear?", he made a disgusting noise and spit to side, "I spit on that shit HAHAHAHA".
Renji widen his eyes speechless, so much anger was running through his body that the pain of the wound passed to second place, it was almost like his fury was anesthethizing the cut, for seconds he thought of going all out and destroy that spirit, but that spirit was in Hisagi's naked body and the last thing that could happen right now is for him to loose the focus of that.
He tried to think again on a way out, he wanted to reach the other, but it was Kazeshini, as long as he had the weapon on his hands he couldn't get near, it's a long distance attack and Renji knew that full well, his own zanpakutou had similar ways of dealing but regarding this one, there was two blades, so he can attack with one and defend himself with another.
This was getting hellish frustrating and the other's grin was teasing him to the point of madness and he had to make a move, he couldn't just deflect the attacks forever. The redhead knew his shunpo ability was a bit slowed down by his wound, he had luck it was on his left side.
"Zabimaru!" he howled commanding his sword, handling it like a whip, the various segments stretching front with the power and speed he managed.
The attack was defended with a blade as he was already expecting, he withdraw his sword and swung it it the air for the next attack, knowing he was a open to be attacked, a flaw his weapon had. Jumping a bit up he whipped it again and it was another worthless attack, again and again, he was getting tired, he thought for some seconds to use his bankai and end it all but it was Hisagi, no, he had hope that he could bring the other back and he would do it.
This was a never ending circle, they would attack at distance, both defending the attack at the same time they were advancing. Kazeshini swirling its blades in the hair and Zabiramu preventing them to go further.
Loosing his balance for a second doing his wound that started to bleed again, Renji only deflect one of the blades not noticing the other coming by at his right side, it was too late, the chain was already around his neck, suffocating him, the redhead shut his eyes hard trying to not give up to the pain, concentrating to not lose his senses.
"Kubikake..".
Renji only had time to wide his eyes at that word for he knew what was coming, almost at that same second his body was pulled by the neck with the chain with a monstrous force and speed in the direction of the spirit wich was expecting him with the other blade already in his hand, a maniac grin on his face.
Kazeshini pulled Renji to him and suspended him in front of his body for a few seconds, piercing the blade on his right leg, the redhead howling with pain and trembling engulfed by the chains were giving him the time of his life, the zanpakutou spirit laughed in amusement. Then he sent the other to the ground, various meters from where they were standing. Renji's body passing through trees, the branches scratching and cutting him all over until he hit the ground, with such power and speed that the soil and rocks were projected to the air, creating a curtain of thick dust and an average hole around his bruised figure.
His body hurt all over, he was bleeding from numerous spots of his skin, his hair was a mess and he could feel hot liquid running through his forehead, the pain was unbearable, his clothes were all torn and the chains were still squeezing his neck hard. He couldn't open his eyes, he only saw dark, inside of his head he had the sensation of dizziness, like his body was spinning and his feet and hands started to grow numb and cold, he would loose his senses soon.
Suddenly he felt a presence beside him, Kazeshini would kill him now, even with his hand in that state he clenched Zabimaru's hilt for defending, he didn't knew if he had the strength be he would not give up.
The spirit walked around him and the redhead opened his eyes for a second, although Hisagi was beyond gorgeous, this creature inside him deformed the beauty of his lover, the skin was darker and more rough, the eyes were all blank without expression, the frown was hideously deep and twisted, the voice was something throaty but at the same time high pitch, he really couldn't tell but it was horrendous, the grin was the scariest thing Renji had ever saw, and of course all of his lover's personality was gone.
Kazeshini stopped looking down at the defeated shinigami, grinning at him, pulling the chain for his amusement, then he pressed a foot on Renji's shoulder above his wound, more blood coming out, laughing like a psycho as the redhead arched his back, shut his eyes hard and howled in pain.
"Isn't the smell of blood great?" and he continued to laugh like it was the most funny thing he ever seen.
"Shh-shut...", Renji tried to speak but failed.
"What did you say?" the other placed his hand on his ear making fun of the other, "I can't hear you.." he sang and pressed even more his foot making the shinigami to howl once more, " Ha, you are pathetic, that's the sound of weakness, going around saying you want to save your friends and all but you know the truth, don't you?" he laughed, "Seriously...how many battles did you won?..ah?...Hahahaha...", the sound was hideous, "I hate people like you, powerful and yet weak, if you have the power you must win and kill, kill, kill. And what did you do?...Nothing." he shook his head, "So pitiful, it makes me sick, you can't even fight me because I am inside your lovers body and I am his zanpakutou, you couldn't even save Rukia, you couldn't save Orihime, you can't save anyone!" he laughed again and leaned close to Renji's ear "I know you think of yourself as a stray dog, nothing better than anything, that you would slit your throat in frustration if you had the courage for it, don't worry, I'll do that for you!".
Kazeshini placed the tip of the blade close to the other's neck ready to cut the sensitive flesh already bruised from the chain.
Hisagi opened his eyes, waking up in discomfort feeling all of his right side wet. Everything was dark around him, some putrid smell hitting his nostrils. He sat up and looked to his sides more than once, nothing. It was just darkness, the air was heavy and thick. Where was he? Wait why was he wet? He looked down and his eyes widen as his breaths started to sped up feeling, feeling his body freeze...it was blood, dark red liquid all around until his ankles, like an infinite pool of crimson just like the darkness around him. He stood up fast, his fingers curling, not muttering a sound in shock.
His breath was speeding up as his anxiety and panic grew, he looked at himself and noticed he was naked, that rang a bell, he was with Renji having a wonderful time, all that he remembered was feeling very tired all of a sudden and falling asleep.
He looked around him again...Nothing. He started to run, where, he didn't knew, he just wanted to find Renji, something, getting out of there, that horrible place. As he was running he stumbled in something and fell, it had a weird texture, soft but strange. He shivered disgusted, his body covered in blood, he glared at the spot he stumble and his eyes grew wider as he noticed it was an arm, just the member, as he was standing up he noticed the body parts all around him, arms, foot, legs, eyes, guts, ears, scalps, hands, knees...he felt nauseous bringing his hand to his mouth almost vomiting.
A hard pain hit his head and he blanked out all of a sudden, blinding him because of how strong it was, he crouched screaming in agony, his hands pulling his dark hair to the point of actually detach some locks.
And suddenly like some sort of film or memories long lost, he was watching everything inside his head, tears started to run down his face and he shook his head countless of times, he was trapped inside his own zanpakutou's world and not the other way around as it should be.
Was he not careful enough? He thought he had everything under control, much more now that Renji offered to help, why? How? He punched the ground hard, messing the blood around, drops of blood splashing around, as he was seeing inside his head what was happening outside that putrid world, his eyes shut down hard, but tears still flowing out and his heart, his heart was beating so fast and hurting like never before, he felt so powerless.
"No, please... not Renji." he begged to somewhere, "I am so powerless. Why this?..It was precisely this I was afraid of." he stood up not knowing what to do, "Renji fight fucking back goddamnit.." he yelled in the middle of darkness desperate, his anxiety making him scratch his throat.."Fuck this shit.." he punched himself to calm down.
He steady his breath slowly, he opened his mouth to say something but no sound was heard, he tried again breathing deep, "Kazeshini..." his voice was firm and apparently calm, watching Renji in that state mixed with his own feelings made Hisagi realize something, "...you are hideous and monstrous, only by feeling your spirit around I would be terrified if you made me snap and I surpassed you but nevertheless you are a part of me, so I suppressed a part of myself too which clearly left us to this situation...I piled up your feelings together with mine.".
To his surprise he felt the air thickness getting a bit lighter, he looked up as inside his head he sensed Renji's pain and another tear ran through his cheek.
"Our paths are linked, you don't like it and believe me when I say I don't particularly find it good, but as I said you are a part of me and we have to deal with that, I promise I won't surpass you anymore and you will not choose my path because we are together in this and we are one."
Hisagi clenched his fists, what he just said messed up with all his body and mind, after years of pushing to the side the urges and the needs of his zanpakutou, all he did was piling them up not controlling or resolving them, what a fool he was.
By the time he had done talking Kazeshini was near Renji humiliating him, he tried with all his might concentrating to take over his true body and mind again, digging his nails in his own flesh in desperation.
He wanted to go away from here, to his lover's arms with his refreshed resolution, without fear and even if he had fear, he wouldn't be alone, fighting side by side with that man in battle as in life.
He watched as Kazeshini almost ripped Renji's throat loosing control again and screaming in despair only to swallow it dry and stuck up with it because he couldn't loose the concentration now, he couldn't, the life that was at stake was too precious for him.
Renji was breathless, he looked at the blade trembling and haunting his throat, then he looked at Kazeshini noticing a shade of grey in those hateful white eyes and his own softened.
"About damn fucking time..." he whispered. He knew not everything was saved, in this point it was up to him too. He knew Hisagi was giving his all on the other side and there was hope.