Chapter 13. That Which Is Destined
I do not own Bleach.
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Hitsugaya was thrust forcefully backwards at the impact of the cero.
The red flames lapped at his skin and caused his icy wings to begin to melt. Ice shattered everywhere as his body collided with the cave wall behind him, fire dancing all around him in a cruel, scorching game.His face smashed against the rocks, blood squirting out of his mouth, staining his once pure white fangs.
Blood dripped from his entire body and onto the cave floor, and Hitsugaya's aqua eyes closed painfully as he fell limply to the ground, rocks and icicles tumbling down with him.
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Hinamori's eyes adjusted to the change in light and her ears perked up to the sound of the cave being broken into thousands of tiny pieces.
Although her eyes were half closed with pain in the effort to breath, she could make out the blurred shape of giant ice wings, crumpled and broken on the ground. Chunks were chipped out of the once finely sculpted features of the wings, tail and claws.
The Zanpakutou lay on the ground, a few feet away from the wielder's bloody hands. She tried to call out to him.
"…H…H…Hitsu…gaya…k…kun…"
Her short breaths only allowed her to pant out his name in a silent whisper. Her throat tightened even more and she was suddenly aware of how desperately she needed air. She needed to take in a full breath of it, but her lungs seemed to be locked together, disabling her ability to inhale.
Her chestnut eyes glanced around the cavern slowly, until they came to rest upon the two Arrancar. Lively blue eyes locked with dimming chestnut ones. Amusement and triumph danced and flickered in the Arrancar's gaze, taunting and torturing the dying girl. Hinamori's eyes were abruptly full of anger and the longing for revenge.
But the second the Arrancar saw these changes in her eyes, Hinamori suddenly could not breathe again. Her lungs failed her as she gasped for oxygen that did not come.
The determination in her eyes soon melted into suffering and helplessness and her weak body sagged and she fell to the ground. She lay on her right side, her chest shuddering feebly for air, but despite all of her weaknesses, willpower still glistened faintly in her eyes.
"Know you're place girl!"
The loud, harsh words stung her ears as the Vasto Lorde shouted at her.
"You and the boy are both going to die here. Be thankful that we are allowing you both to die together in the same place. Face it; it is your set fate. You cannot undo that which is destined to be done."
Hinamori's mind faded and as her senses failed her, her world went black.
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Blurred shapes clouded Hitsugaya's vision and shadows engulfed him.
The only thing that he was aware of was an excruciating aching all over his body. He had only been unconscious for a few moments, he could tell because the rocks from when he had hit the wall were still falling. The Arrancar were still standing a few yards away as well, and he could make out Hinamori's crushed form lying once again on the ground.
"Damn it." Hitsugaya cursed under his breath.
They must have done something to her while he was out, for the last time he had seen her she had been sitting up.
"Damn you bastards. What did you do to her?" But the Vasto Lorde acted as though they did not hear him.
"Did you not hear us? You are both going to die, so be a good little boy and watch us kill your friend. Not to worry, you'll be following her in just a few moments."
The same disgusting echo of a drowning animal rang in Hitsugaya's mind. He clenched his teeth and gripped his sword, sweeping his tail around and flapped his wings slowly as to balance himself as he stood. Blood fell from his mangled shihakushou and dripped off of his face, momentarily blinding him in his right eye.
"Hold on, I'm not finished yet." He snarled. "You should know, that to get to Hinamori, you have to fight me first."
He shook the blood from his eye and blinked his vision clear. He darted forward, stirring dust and ice as he took off and plunged towards the two. He purposely swung his sword early in order to make the Arrancar believe that he had missed. His plan worked, for smiles of amusement crept across their faces, thinking that he was still weary and therefore had been actually trying to hit them, which he was not.
The second after he swung his Zanpakutou, he whipped around in a full circle and let his tail flow out behind him. He smashed his tail into one of the Arrancar, he could not tell which, but he kept twisting in continuous circles.
Finally, he stopped suddenly and pulled his tail back, but then thrust it forward, throwing the Arrancar into the wall. Hitsugaya followed up his attack by charging forward afterwards and crushing his wings into the body. Blood spurted everywhere, covering Hitsugaya's wings in red, the warm liquid poured out over the cave floor and splashed into a repelling, crimson puddle.
Light blue eyes clouded over with death, and the Arrancar fell into the puddle below as Hitsugaya removed his tail.
"Pity." Hitsugaya said half-heartedly. "I was aiming for you and I might have let her live, but you let her get hit instead of taking the blow yourself. Oh well, she's dead now, but that's you're fault you damn coward." He turned to face the only remaining Arrancar. No pain resided in his brown-green eyes, not even regret.
"That doesn't matter to me." He sneered. Hitsugaya's blood began to boil.
How can he just stand there when he just let his subordinate die for him?
Tyranny was something that Hitsugaya simply could not tolerate, and anger once again filled his eyes.
"As a matter of fact, I'm sort of grateful that you killed her. Now I gain her ability to control the victim under the spell. But, I am annoyed that you killed off all of my kin, so I think that now, I'll let you know what it feels like."
He clasped his hand into a tight fist and smirked devilishly. Hitsugaya's eyes snapped away from him and flew towards Hinamori.
Her body jerked violently and she slowly sat herself up, trying to allow air to get to her crumpled lungs. Tears threatened to fall at the corners of her eyes, and her chestnut gaze begged him to help her.
"Hinamori!" Hitsugaya shouted. Then he turned back to face Akuma.
"Damn you!" Then, his dark blue eyes began to fade to purple, and his entire self began to change, out of rage, out helplessness and out of the love for a friend.
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A/N: Yes, I really like to expand my vocabulary during the fight scenes. Well here is the next chapter! Hope you liked it and plz review!