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Author's notes- I'm really sorry for making you guys wait so much. School started a few weeks ago. My head was filled with tests, proyects, homework, I was having a major writer's block!!! I finally found time to write this chapter. Thanks so much to every one that gave me a review!!! This chapter is dedicated to Kanasukeh, it was the only person that noticed that Renji didn't appear last chapter TT. I will stop now, before I bore you to death. Please enjoy!!!

The Other and Love

She was sitting beside his bed. For the past two hours she has been at his side. Her long orange hair was a mess; her black clothes were still covered in blood. A bandage was covering her right arm. But those things didn't matter. Right know her taichou was the only thing that mattered to her.

Every now and then he will stir in his sleep, murmuring words that she couldn't catch, but was sure that it was a name. She looked outside the window. It was raining.

She looked down at her captain. Even sleeping his face still held the same serious expression. She moved towards his face, and moved aside a white band. Her hand returned to her side. She turned to her left and saw her taichou's zanpakutos. It looked just like a normal sword. She couldn't help but remember how the same sword have pierced, the person that they were suppose to save.

She couldn't believe her eyes, "oh no." She saw how her captain just stood there, looking only at Rukia. His hands were still holding his sword. Blood was pooling at his feet.

Aizen was already gone, but nobody dared to move. Slowly they saw how Rukia's eyes started to shut. Her body fell backwards but before she could the ground Ichigo caught her.

"Rukia!" Ichigo said shaking her small from, "wake up Rukia!" She opened her eyes a little bit. "Ichi-go" she said between a cough of blood. "Hang on there a little longer; I'm taking you to back to Seireitei" Ichigo said lifting her bridal style. Still on banki form he shunpo-ed towards Seireitei direction.

"Renji go with Kurosaki!" Kira ordered him. Renji simply nodded and shunpo-ed in Ichigo's direction.

They hear a scream. Matsumoto looked towards her taichou's direction. He was on his knees and hand. She immediately went to his side. She kneeled before him, "taichou?"

He was breathing hard, and his whole from was shaking. "I killed her" he kept repeating. She tried to reach for him. "Stay away!" Hitsugaya said. Suddenly she felt pain on her right arm. "Matsumoto!" she hear Kira said.

She clenched her arm in pain. Hitsugaya threw his sword, and grabbed his head in pain. "Taichou" Matsumoto said still trying to reach him. But Hitsugaya was moving away from her. "No, no, no, no" he kept saying still grabbing his head.

Matsumoto saw as Kira lunched a powerful punch at Hitsugaya direction knocking him. Kira knelt before the unconscious captain. "I think he is in shock" Ikkaku said lifting the unconscious captain and throwing him on his shoulder. "I will take him to the fourth division" Ikkaku explained. He also shumpu-ed towards Seireitei.

Matsumoto was still in the same position. Her hands clenched into fists. A pale hand appear before her. "Lets go" Kira said. She blinked away the tears that were treating to escape. She nodded and accepted his help to stand up again.

So lost in her thought that she didn't notice someone entering the room. She felt a familiar hand on her shoulder. "Matsumoto?" Kira asked bending down to her eyelevel. A little scream escaped her. "Kira you scared me!" she whispered, trying not to wake her captain.

Kira removed his hand from her shoulder. "Sorry, is just that I have been calling you but you didn't response. Is everything ok?" Kira asked sounding really concerned about her.

"Yes, I'm fine…I was just thinking" Matsumoto said rubbing her injured arm. "Why are you here Kira?" she said breaking the silence.

"General-Yamamoto wants us to report to him. He is expecting a full report about the mission" Kira explained. Again they stayed in silence. "If you want to stay, I can tell-"he tried to say but Matsumoto interrupted him. "Let's go" she said standing and walking to the door.

Kira walked to the door and held it open for her. Before standing completely out of the room, she turned around, and her gaze was directed at her captain.

'Wake-up taichou' she thought before stepping outside, and leaving the white room.

He waked-up in a familiar place. His green eyes studied the familiar surroundings. Mountains of ice acted as a shield, protecting the snow covered valley that was on the middle. Grey clouds could be seen, waiting for release the snow they held. Yes this was a very familiar place to him. It was where he has found Hyorinmaru.

He pushed his body up, and managed to stand up, despite how weak his body felt. His captain hatori was gone, leaving him with plain black shinigami clothes. But Hyorinmaru was still strapped to his back.

He could feel something was wrong. Normally when he was here a sense of calm came to him. But this time something was disturbing this frozen paradise.

"Finally you are awake" a voice said.

Hitsugaya looked around trying to find the source of the voice. "Who is there" it was more a command than a question. "You should control your temper better king" said the voice. Again Hitsugaya tried to find the owner of the voice but couldn't, a hand already on Hyorinmaru.

"After all that's the reason why she is probably dead" the voice said in a mocking tone.

Hitsugaya could felt how his whole body went cold. "Rukia" he said out loud. Memories of how his own sword pierced threw the body of the person he vowed to save. Blood moving down his sword and pooling at his hands and feet. The worst memory was amethyst eyes filled with pain looking straight at him, trying to tell him something.

"No she can't be dead" Hitsugaya said gripping harder the guard of his sword.

"But how are you so sure? We both know that nobody is lucky enough to survive one attack of Hyorinmaru" the voice said, this time with a sadistic voice. "Who the hell are you?!" Hitsugaya demanded.

"That's easy king" said the voice stepping out from behind a huge block of ice. The wind became colder, and the clouds started freeing snow.

"I'm you" he said.

Hitsugaya couldn't believe his eyes. An exact replica of himself stood in front of him. It looked like him but at the same time no. His clothes were like his but in white; his skin was ghostly pale, and his hair grey. But the most shocking thing was his eyes. They were neon green, surrounded by a pool of blackness.

"Is rude to stare at people" he said breaking the silence. Hitsugaya stood in a fighting stand, "Who are you?" He didn't like how this replica of him felt so much like a hollow.

"I thought we were geniuses but maybe I'm the only genius here" he said in a sarcastic voice, "I'm you."

"Liar" Hitsugaya said lunching at him. His attack was blocked by Hyorinmaru. Hitsugaya jumped away from him. 'Impossible' Hitsugaya thought 'I have Hyorinmaru on my hands.' He looked down at his hands to confirm it.

"Surprised?" he said with a smirk, while putting his sword lazily on his shoulder. "I told you already I'm you. Do you believe me now?"

"No" came Hitsugaya reply.

The other him frowned a little at this. "Stubborn brat" he said. "Don't call me brat" Hitsugaya said. More snow started falling and the wind became stronger. The other looked around amused. "I told you to control your temper. This exactly why our toy is dead" he said. He a cruel smile formed on his face when he saw how Hitsugaya gripped harder his zanpakutos. "Because you can't control your temper we don't have a toy anymore" he said acting as if he was sad.

"Rukia is not a toy" Hitsugaya said icily. The other started moving around him. "How are you so sure? Remember you were aiming to kill. We both saw how her eyes start shutting down and her body fell, on the arms of that stupid shinigami wannabe, lifeless. Don't try to fool yourself, we killed Rukia" he said smiling like a maniac.

Hitsugaya couldn't stand it anymore. "She is not dead!" he said lunching again at him.

Effortlessly the other blocked Hitsugaya attack, and grabbed him by the neck, suspending him in the air. "Here me well king" he said with all traces of playfulness gone, "She is dead. We killed her." With each word he said, he gripped harder Hitsugaya's neck.

Hitsugaya tried to free himself but couldn't. "You can't escape king. You have been in power for to long, is time for to go out and play. Who knows maybe I can't find us another to play. I have in mind our vice-captain. How does that sound?"

"Don't you dare harm her" Hitsugaya chocked. The other smirked. "You are not in position to order me. You are stating to bore me king. I will let you go for now, I will give you an advice. If you don't want me to consume you, you will need to find a way to become stronger" he said in a dark voice. They held each other gaze, trying to intimidate the other.

"Until next time king" he said with a cruel smile. He threw Hitsugaya to the ground, making a whole in which Hitsugaya fell.

Hitsugaya fell on water. He keep sinking and sinking. His eyes started closing. 'She is not dead' he thought finally closing his eyes.

He waked up gasping for air. When he calmed down he noticed that he was alone in a white room. 'I'm probably in the fourth division' he thought. He moved his hands towards his neck. He massaged his neck tried to ease the pain.

He thought about with his encounter with his other self. Could it be really him? 'No' he thought 'he is a monster.' He shack his head trying to get rid of those thought. He looked at the window. It was raining. "Rukia" he said. Awful things happened when it rained.

He jumped off the bed, glad that he still was on his uniform and not on a uncomfortable yukata. He saw Hyorinmaru laying on a wall. He went to him, and strapped him to his back.

He stood in the middle of the room with his eyes closed. 'Concentrate' he thought. He knew Rukia couldn't be dead. She was stronger than what people thought. "Please" he said. He could feel the spirit energy of Ichigo, Matsumoto, Renji, and Kira and of more people, but couldn't find hers. "Please" he pleaded again to no one. 'She is not dead' he kept repeating in his mind. 'You are strong Rukia, I know you are alive.' Suddenly he detected very weak spirit energy. "Thanks" he said to no one in particular.

She wasn't farm from where his room was. He walked threw a long hallway eager to see her again. He was careful to hide his spirit energy. He wanted to be alone with her. Reaching the end of the hallway he found her room. He was bout to open the door but he heard a familiar voice.

"I'm glad you are awake Rukia" men say from inside the room. 'Kurosaki' Hitsugaya thought. He opened the door silently just enough to watch what was going inside the room. "How do you feel?" Ichigo asked moving to sit beside Rukia at her bed.

"I'm feeling good" Rukia said moving closer to him and resting her head on his shoulder. He rapped an arm on her smaller from. "I was afraid I was going to lose you" he confessed bringing her even closer to him. She snuggled to his chest "I was also afraid."

"I was jealous about Toshiro, I thought he was taking you away from me" Ichigo said. "You don't have to be jealous. He was only a distraction until you came. You know very well I only love you" Rukia said bringing Ichigo's face closer to hers. Ichigo closed his eyes and leaned his head towards her.

He didn't want to see or hear anymore. "So that's how it is" Hitsugaya said making his hands into fists, almost drawing blood. He turned around and shunpu-ed outside, where it was still raining.

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