Sorry its been a long time coming, but it seems like I've been working on this chapter forever, so I just thought I'd post it, and get on with the next chapter a bit earlier. Myself, I'm not upto date with the anime (ep151) and the manga (chap 310) so when I finally catch up, I might get more ideas.
anyways, enjoy the (short) chapter, and I still love reading your reviews.
As the smoke cleared, Aizen smiled at everybody. "A welcoming committee? How thoughtful!"
I turned round, suddenly an unwelcome but known prescence was behind me. "YOU!!... I thought..."
"Ulquiorra, you are so believing. You really thought a Cero would kill me?" His smile was cold and mocking. "Besides, I can't leave yet... there's someone here I have to save..."
He walked into the group of Shinigami and pushed his way through to the person he wanted to see. No one stopped him on his journey, they just stood and stared. On finding her, he pulled her towards him and their lips met with a fiery passion. "Gin..." Rangiku breathed with a racing pulse.
"I thought about it for a long time and decided there was no way I could leave you. But as you won't come to my side and I won't fall to yours; I forfeit my stay in this battle and walk away." He turned round, "Sorry Aizen, having her heart is more important to me than your power. But good luck with the battle." Then Gin and Rangiku left.
"WHAAAAAAAA...??" The Brat was flustered with rage.
Rangiku turned round, "sorry Captain, turns out I have things to do!" She smiled and waved at him.
In the meantime Komamura was having words with Tousen,
"Tousen... which route is NOW the one with the least bloodshed? Still the one that Aizen controls or the Shinigami route? Gin has left the battle; Espada's 3 and 4 are on our side and alot of the other numbers having fallen in their own battles with the Shinigami. So I ask again, Kaname. Which route do you take now?"
Tousen stood tall and answered "Let the battle rage for a while longer - THEN I will give you my answer. But in the meantime I will stay on the side of Aizen."
"Aizen-taichou!" a piercing girls voice broke the silence and everyone looked round.
"Hinamori." Hitsugaya caught her as she ran towards Aizen. "What are you doing here?"
She looked up at him "Shiro" and smiled.
"You shouldn't call me that" he said, "Why are you here?"
"Aizen-taichou came back for me." She stared at her hero with tears in her eyes, then looked back at Toushiro. "I have to go to him, he needs me."
"No. Stop. He killed you last time you went to him, what makes you think he won't do it again?"
"That was just an accident, he didn't mean to do it" Momo smiled. Love indeed was blind.
I turned round, they had returned. "I thought you'd gone" I growled at him.
"So did I" said Gin, "However, Rangiku said she would leave on one condition. That we took someone else with us."
Rangiku approached Toushiro and took Momo's hand. "Come", she said to her "I have a task for you." Momo nodded and went with her, Rangiku linked arms with Gin on the way passed and they left again.
"That was unfair", said Aizen
"You took advantage of the fact that she loves you." Hitsugaya shouted.
"Wrong, the Aizen she loved died many years previous," he replied, "She should have seen through the illusion and not been so weak and pathetic."
I was still cursing myself at the mistake I made with Gin that I didn't hear him until he spoke,
"Hey Ulq..."
I knew that voice. I turned round and jumped back, unsheathing my blade. Grimmjow just stood there sneering at me.
"Hey Ulq... What about it then...? A one-on-one. Best man wins. Just us two. No bystanders."
I knew their game, they were trying to trick my mind by blanking out everyone else. I tore down these walls as if they were paper. They were trying to separate me from her. However my mind found her, lost and bewildered wondering what was happening, stuck in the emptiness.
"What is this place?" she asked me
"Its an illusion." I replied, "they are trying to trick your mind into seeing despair, into seeing a world without hope, without love, without me."
TBC