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Chapter 9- Fade Away

Kisuke's POV

"That damn brat! How could she lose?" The older silver haired woman yells. I'm sure she was referring to the two different reiastu that were out in the forest. One of them is now weak while the other has disappeared. She looks around the room frantic and in a hurry.

I watch her run out of the room I was in and then come back quickly with a zanpakuto. "She's almost here." She whispers holding up her sword. I could feel it too, the owner of this weak reiastu was so close.

"Hado number thirty-one, Shakkaho!" A red blast shoots through the concrete wall sending some bits of stone flying while the others disintegrated.

When the smoke clears I look over at the hole in the wall and see Emiko on the other side. Black wings were extending from her back as she holds a scythe tightly in her right hand. Her eyes now red meet mine and she shows a slight smile. "You're unharmed." I watch as her eyes wander over my arms and legs that were tied together.

"I've been waiting for you Emiko." The silver haired woman stands in front of me blocking my view of Captain Kimura.

"I know." She responds, her voice sounding cold.

"Then you know that now I'm going to kill you."

Emiko's POV

I quickly step through the hole I had made and throw my scythe right at Hitomi, but she quickly shunpos out of the way and appears behind me. I feel the cold metal slice through my back making me stumble forward.

"You look worn out. I guess Kaori put up one hell of a fight." She laughs appearing in front of me. I see her raise her leg to kick me so I hold up my scythe to block it.

"Hado number one, Sho." A small blast of energy is released from my left hand, pushing her away and giving me a chance to stand up.

"That was pathetic." She shunpos back over to me and quickly stabs me in the stomach.

"Emiko!" Kisuke yells from where he was sitting.

"I thought after all these years you would've become a lot stronger. I guess I was wrong." She pulls out the sword and my back quickly hits the floor. I look up at her as she stands over me laughing.

"Tell me why." I struggle to get the words out.

"Oh you're still breathing?"

"Why do you want to kill me so badly?"

"Hmm, I thought the answer to that was clear. It's your zanpakuto. When you are killed your zanpakuto spirits will die too, and that's what I really want."

"Why do you fear it so much?" I whisper and mom's smirk turns into a scowl.

"Ignorant girl! You've failed to learn the most important thing about your own zanpakuto. Once you kill someone with your bankai their soul can never again be reborn into the world of the living, and later die and either become a hollow or come back to the soul society. The power you have is unfair to say the least. You shouldn't have the right to decide what happens to another's soul."

"How do you even know what I'm capable of? You left me before I became a Soul Reaper! You're doing this out of your own selfishness." I narrow my eyes at her.

"Is that what you think Emi-chan?" She presses the blunt end of her sword down hard onto my chest making it even more difficult to breathe. I close my eyes wanting to be relived from the pain.

"Get up. Get up now Master!"The normally childish voice was now harsh and serious.

"We refuse to have it end like this. Get up or we will die!" Tsumi's voice echoes in my head.

"NOW!" They both yell causing my eyes to snap back open. With my scythe still in my right hand, I take my left and wrap it around the end of my mother's sword.

"You're still trying to fight back. It'll just make your death more painful in the end." She tries to pull her sword out my hand so I tighten my grip on it.

"Consume all impurities, Tsumi to Sukui." I smile when I see her sword begin to turn black. She jumps back letting go of her zanpakuto to prevent it from spreading to her. "That won't stop it. What you said before gave me this idea. Our zanpakuto are a part of us and because of that you will also suffer." I say slowly get up off the ground.

"No, I will not die until I have made sure you have taken your last breath!" She quickly lunges forward to attack but she suddenly stops halfway as black begins to spread up her both of her legs.

Leaving her there for a minute I turn back to Kisuke who was still sitting against the far wall. I take my weapon and quickly slice into the ropes that were tired around him.

"Emiko, you need to be healed as soon as possible or you won't make it." He says lightly touching the deep wound on my stomach.

"Please give me a few minutes alone with my mother. Then after we will leave." I beg him and he nods reluctantly.

"All right, no more than five minutes." He says and leaves the room through the whole in the wall I made earlier.

"How do you know about the power of my zanpakuto and bankai?" I walk up to my mother. Now all the way up to her neck was covered in black and she started to let out short and shallow breaths.

"He lied to me." She finishes just before the rest of her was covered. I quickly release her from it like I did with Kaori and lay her body down on the floor.

"Tell me who you're talking about." I slap the side my mom's face forcing her to open her eyes. "What's his name?"

"He never told me his name, but I know he's a member of the Gotei 13." She whispers and closes her eyes again.

"Mom, open your eyes." I shake her roughly feeling desperate. "Don't die now!" I continue to shake her body until Kisuke comes back into the room.

"We need to go now or else you'll die too." I feel his hand grasp my shoulder. I keep my eyes on my mom and couldn't help but panic when her body begins to fade.

"No!" I bring what's left of her close to mine. "I wanted you to suffer. I wanted you to know how I felt, but I didn't want to kill you."

And soon I realized that there was nothing left of her.