Chapter 6. The Ambush
I do not own Bleach gosh darn it!
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Hinamori glanced out of the window and almost fell off of the couch.
"Oh my goodness! Look how late it's gotten! I should be going Hitsugaya-kun!"
She stared at the blackening sky once more; the purple stars glittered slightly and shone a faint light on the world beneath them. She had stopped by to visit Hitsugaya and discuss the strange reiatsus that they had been sensing. He had said that no one else had felt such reiatsus, and her information for him had been the same. No one in her district had felt those reiatsus either.
"Fine." Hitsugaya said reluctantly. "But I don't want you going alone, because even if no one else sensed those reiatsus, I'm one hundred percent sure that I felt them. And I think that they're still around here, but I can't tell where. I'm coming with you."
Hinamori nodded. She did not want to trouble her friend into accompanying her, but she could not help but feel insecure. The two left the 10th division's building and began to walk through the deserted streets of Seireitei, hardly able to see from the dim light that ignited from the thin slice of moon.
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"Lets just attack now Akuma! We could easily take out that girl! And he doesn't even have his Zanpakutou with him!" One of the Arrancar hissed through the shadows to Akuma.
"Patience." The leader replied. "We will wait a few more moments, and if the girl has not left by then, we shall attack." The shadows flickered slightly as the fifteen Arrancar darted stealthily after the boy and the girl as they began to walk away.
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Hinamori suddenly stopped walking and turned around. Hitsugaya realized that she was no longer beside him and he too stopped and turned.
"Oy, doushita Hinamori?" He saw her staring into the shadows behind them, and when she did not respond he started to worry. "Hinamori?" The girl snapped out of her trance and turned back to him.
"Gomenasai." She apologized. "I-I just thought that I heard something."
With one last worried glance over her shoulder, she turned back to the white-haired taichou and continued the walk beside him. But he noticed that she kept stealing glances over her shoulder, and he moved a bit closer to her.
Then, without warning, Hinamori stopped dead again and looked around frantically, her heart pounding. When Hitsugaya glanced the total nervousness and horror in her eyes, fear began to creep down his spine like a raindrop.
"What is it?" He asked worriedly. She hesitated a moment before responding shakily.
"I-I swear that they're near. I-I-I could swear that I-I felt those strange reiatsus again. T-They seem like they're near to here, a-and they want to kill. They're going to kill us Hitsugaya-kun…"
Her voice faded into a hardly audible whisper. Fear swelled throughout her body, clutching her heart and causing her entire body to shudder. Hitsugaya's eyes widened in fear, not only at the things that she had said, but also at the fact that her eyes were loosing their lively shimmer. The chestnut eyes that he had come to know to be beaming were now dimming, the light fading slowly as if she were being hypnotized.
"Hinamori!" His shout was laced with uneasiness and worry.
But the sound of her name seemed to snap her back into reality. The light returned to her eyes, but the fear hidden there still remained. She wanted to run, as fast as she could and as far away as she could, but her feet would not allow her to do so. Terror overcame her and cemented her to the spot.
Hitsugaya did not know what to do, panic-stricken, he tried to follow her empty gaze. But as complete fear conquered his body as well, he saw a sudden flash from the shadows, faster than a bolt of lightning. Several dark figures dashed forward towards the two un-suspecting Shinigami. But the majority of them were headed towards the aqua-eyed boy. Hinamori broke free from her frozen state of terror.
"LOOK OUT!!!" She screeched, and at the very last second, she shoved her friend out of the way.
Hitsugaya was forced backwards and almost lost his balance, than he gasped as he saw the scene before him. About fourteen dark shapes had surrounded the two of them, but one leapt forward from the rest. An ambush!
They appeared to be Shinigami, but Hitsugaya could tell that they were not only Arrancar, but Vasto Lorde, the only kind that could take on human-like forms. The one that darted forward stretched forward and clamped his fingers around Hinamori's throat. The force of his jump forced her backwards, and her body smashed sickeningly into one of the walls surrounding them.
"HINAMORI!" Hitsugaya shouted.
The Arrancar released his grip on her throat and stepped back to face him, a smile on his face, as if he took pleasure in his actions.
Hinamori's body fell limply to the ground. Rage surged throughout Hitsugaya's entire being, and an icy aura emitted off of him. Freezing winds surrounded the area, and mist gathered into thick, invisible clouds around them.
"Don't touch her…" He growled, his voice becoming low and scratchy, like the growl of a lion.
"Oh-ho!" The lead Arrancar taunted. "It seems that you don't like it when I injure her." He smirked.
His voice reminded Hitsugaya of an animal that had gotten it's throat sliced open, and was drowning in it's own blood. Hitsugaya's teeth were clenched together, but he felt as though they were turning into fangs. The ends sharpened like icicles, and he felt ice creep over his hands and feet, as if he were fighting alongside Hyorinmaru, although his Zanpakutou was not with him.
The shapes around them remained motionless, not having been given the orders to move. The leader of the Arrancar took another step closer to Hitsugaya.
"Hitsugaya taichou, is it? I have a deal for you."
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A/N: Here starts the HitsuHina stuff and it shall continue for many chapters to come!!
FYI :
Doushita means 'What's wrong?'
Gomen / Gomenasai means 'sorry' or 'I'm sorry'.