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AN: Here is the third and final chapter of the three in one upload. Hopefully i can start uploading more regularly like I was, but if I can't, you can expect more multi-chapter updates. Thank you for X views! I'm feeling the love! You know what would make me even happier though? Reviews! Either way, enjoy! R&R
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Chapter 8: Lovers meet Again
-Hiroto POV-
Kanashimi fires her cero directly at you. There was no mistaking it. She really was trying to kill you. You roll out of the way, barely avoiding the white burst of energy that streaks by.
Coming to a stop in a standing position, you sweep your zanpakuto across your body. "Bankai, Rasuto Shi no Dansu." Your now scythe like weapon forms and appears next to you. Grabbing it, you give it an expert twirl before settling in a new stance.
Kanashimi tilts her head slightly, then disappears in a flash of sonido, only to reappear behind you. You spin around, raising your zanpakuto to block the incoming claws. Before her clawed hand hits the metal pole of your scythe, she disappears in another flash of sonido.
You look around, trying to see or sense where she could be. Suddenly you hear her voice from behind you. Whirling around to stop her, she finishes before you can reach her.
"Yami no Beru." In her outstretched hand, a wall of pitch black forms just big enough for her to be concealed by it. Still running at her, you swing your scythe, cutting through the black mass causing it to dissipate, but she is no longer behind it.
You hear footsteps behind you. Turning around, you see nothing but still hear the faint sound of sand being stepped on. A dust connects with your gut, causing you to fly back and slam into the ground, creating a cloud of dust.
"Yami no Beru. It completely conceals the form that the user is in. You must rely on your ability to sense spirit energy if you want to overcome this technique." Kanashimi fades into existence as she dispels the barrier concealing her.
"If you can't even do that, you might as well let me kill you now."
Grunting, you push yourself to your feet. She is right. You need to focus more. As weird as it may sound, you can not just rely on sight to find an enemy.
"Now to show you another power that you may acquire."
Her sword, which is an exact replica of Shi no Dansu, appears before her. She grabs the hilt and points it at you. "Tobimasu."
A burst of energy flies out of the sword, hitting you. You fly backwards a great distance before landing, once again, on your back. The energy that hit you, however, felt dull. Almost like it wasn't meant to injure, just to separate.
"This allows you to use your final technique. It has a command which must be said on order to use it. Tobimasu buys you the time necessary to do that."
Placing her sword in the ground at her feet, she places her hands together in a praying like manner and bows her head.
" Cry unto me. Burden myself. Rain blood across the sky. Become whole, ravage all that is grown, sate your hunger with my tears. Depression overtake, crumble will, and rot fortitude. Take that which we have. Steal the breathe from our bodies. Rejoice as we succumb to darkness. Be born anew from the ashes of my corpse."
She looks up at you, raising her hands to face you, palms flat and pointing away from herself.
"Shinimasu."
What comes next is absolutely unbelievable. You can't understand how it is possible, but it happened nevertheless.
Your heart stopped.
You could no longer feel it beating. Your vision began to grow black. You stumble forward, falling to your knees.
She sonidos to where you are kneeling. "Shinimasu. With this you can literally will someone to die. The only drawback is..."
You manage to look up. There is blood running from underneath her mask.
"You have to offer up your own life as tribute." She falls forward and hits the ground.
"Looks like you win. You seem to posses the will to carry on living much longer than I will. I submit. You are truly worthy of being my master. When you awake, my powers will be yours to use."
She fades into dust just as you fall to the ground, darkness overtaking you once again.
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-Soi Fon POV-
"Four days now. I don't think that this can mean anything good." Urahara casually mentions this to the rest of you. "However, we can't give up on him. We need him to neat this Vacio Mariposa. From what Shi no Dansu told us, we are going to need as many people as we can muster to kill him."
"Yeah. Hey Yoruichi, it looks like I'm going to need some training. Your going to be my partner."
Lady Yoruichi bats her eyelashes at Ichigo, causing his face to flush. "Aww Ichigo, I thought you would never ask."
"Stop it you old pervert! Lets just start already." He flash steps away with Yoruichi, leaving Urahara, Shi no Dansu, and yourself with Hiroto. Not really wanting to be left alone with the pervert, you walk over to Hiroto, who is being watched by Shi no Dansu.
You sit across from Hiroto and look at Shi no Dansu, who is combing his hair. "Why are you combing his hair?"
"He always let's me. Oto says that it helps him relax whenever he has had a tough day. It helps me relax to. So maybe this will help him relax while he fights Kana-chan."
"He likes his hair being combed?"
"Yeah. He likes a lot of things that others don't know about. He likes drawing and blueberries. He likes to read. I think that he likes you the most though."
You blush when she says that. "I'm happy that Oto found someone special. He deserves it. Especially after what happened with Yuyu." Her face morphs into an expression of sadness.
"Who is Yuyu?"
"You didn't know? I thought Oto said you were a member of the SWA."
"I skipped out the day they interviewed him. I had some paperwork to catch up on."
"Oh."
"So who is she?"
"She was Oto's beat friend when he was a kid. They did everything together... but her family was killed. Oto's as well. A bunch of soul reapers found her a few days later. Near the seireitei, but she was dead. She killed herself."
You look at the ground. He was really burdened by such memories?
"That sounds terrible."
"It was. He didn't have a zanpakuto yet, but I was still there for him. He trained very hard to become the neat soul reaper he could be. Most days we wouldn't even talk. He would wake up, train, and then go to sleep. He ignored me. It hurt. It hurt a lot, but I never gave up on him. He always tried too much to protect his friends and he didn't ask for anything in return. I want to be able to help him someday, so he can feel the way we all feel with him."
He is one special guy. You know that first hand. He never thinks of himself, only others.
"Maybe when he wakes up you can tell him what he means to you. I'm sure he would like that." Shi no Dansu nods and continues combing his hair. You notice a silver teddy bear sitting by her feet.
"What is that?" Shi no Dansu looks to where you are pointing and smiles.
"That's Oto Jr. Aunt Yoruichi got him for me."
Oto Jr.? You will have to tease him about it later.
You look over to where Ichigo and Lady Yoruichi are training. They moved farther away to provide adequate room so they wouldn't mistakenly kill Hiroto. It looks like Ichigo was hit by Lady Yoruichi's shunko, as he was now kneeling on the ground. Moving your view to Urahara, you find him sitting on the same rock, looking out towards Icgigi and Lady Yoruichi, watching their fight.
Turning back to look at Hiroto, you see blood trailing out of the corners of his mouth.
"Lady Yoruichi! Hiroto is bleeding!" Urahara, being the closest one to you right now, rushes to your side immediately. Lady Yoruichi and Ichigo run up behind Hiroto just as Urahara sits back from inspecting him and stopping the blood flow.
"The bleeding must be from a wound he has sustained with his hollow. His body is just replicating what is happening inside on the outside. Its just like the relationship between soul and gigai. I'm not sure if he is okay, but we can expect this fight to be over soon... one way or another."
All of you now sit around Hiroto, waiting for him to wake up. You need to see that he is okay. You need to be able to be held by him again. What you wouldn't give for just one more kiss.
A few minutes later, blood begins to trickle from his mouth again. You lean forward with a rag in attempt to wipe off the blood, but are stopped when a hand grabs your wrist tightly. You look in shock as you find out who's wrist it is. You slowly look up into Hiroto's face. His eyes are wide open and doesn't seem to be breathing.
He coughs slightly, spouting more blood. Some of it gets on your arm, but you don't care.
"Hiroto, are you ok?"
He looks up at you and nods, unable to speak because of his coughing. You reach over and pat his back, hoping to dispel his coughing fit.
"How long was I unconscious?" He looks over at Urahara.
"My my, aren't you the inquisitive one. To answer your question though, you have been unconscious for four days. Some of us were getting worried that you wouldn't wake up."
"Well I'm fine now. Soi Fon." You flinch when he says your name. His tone is cold, all traces of warmth seemingly gone. "Will you help me to the bathroom so I can wash off my face."
"Of course." You grab his arm and wrap it around your shoulder. You stand up, lifting him with you so he can try and gain some footing. Once he is somewhat stable, you both began your trek to the ladder which leads to the surface.
Upon reaching the ladder he removes his arm from its resting spot, which saddens you a little bit.
"I should be able to flash step to the top, but I will need you there to support me. Can you flash step up there ahead of me and wait?"
You nod in response and flash step up to Urahara's shop, where you wait for Hiroto to appear.
After a few minutes of waiting, Hiroto crawls over the edge and rolls over on the ground. "That hurt like hell." He groans as he tries and pull himself up to his feet.
"Are you okay? You know I could have helped you get up here."
"Yeah, but I had to talk to them alone for a second."
"Alone? Why? What can't you tell me."
"Just help me to the bathroom and I'll tell you when I'm all cleaned up."
You frown at him, but hoist him up and carry him to the bathroom anyways.
Once you had limped along to the bathroom with him, you leaned him up against the sink so he could wipe the blood stains off his face.
He picks up a rag and wets it underneath a stream of warm water. Reaching for his face with the rag, you stop him.
"Here, let me get that for you." You grab the cloth from his hand. Slowly, you wipe the blood away from his mouth. You shudder slightly. Seeing him in such a vulnerable position, barely able to stand and flinching at every touch the rag makes.
"What was it you talked with the others about?"
The look he gives you makes you shake from want. It is a look of utter lust. "I made sure that they would stay in the training room for a while. We wouldn't want to be disturbed." He wraps his arms around your waist and pulls you into his chest.
"It has been too long since I've been able to do this." You sigh contently into his chest, warmth filling your body at his words.
He pulls you away from him and tilts your head up to face him. "Soi... I missed you. It might sound stupid, we were only apart for a few days, but I couldn't stop thinking about you the whole time..."
"It is not stupid. I feel the same way Hiroto." He smiles down at you and kisses your cheek. You pull him back towards you before he can pull away, and you kiss him right on the lips.
He gratefully accepts it and pulls you closer to him so that your bodies are hugging each other. After a moment, you pull apart and look at the ground sheepishly, afraid to ask your next question.
"Hiroto..."
"Yeah Soi."
"I'm pretty sure Urahara has... a few spare rooms... we could go- EEK!"
You give an unexpected squeak as Hiroto lifts you off the ground, bridal style.
"Hiroto! You shouldn't be carrying me in your condition!
"I'll be okay. Your not even close to being heavy. Besides, your going to need all of your spare energy." He gives you a grin and a wink. That causes you to bury your face in his chest in order to hide how red tour face was. You used to never do this, blush that is. Then he shows up. A such as you hate blushing in front of people, you wouldn't trade Hiroto for anything in the world.
He carries you to a nearby room and slowly opens the door. As it closes, you can only think about how lucky you are to be with such a wonderful guy.
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-Yoruichi POV-
"You think they are asleep yet? I'm hungry!" Ichigo complains loudly to himself.
"Why don't you go check? I'm sure that they wouldn't mind you barging in on their alone time." You smile at the unmistakable look of fear on the face of the strawberry.
"Whatever..." He grumbled to himself, muttering something about how unfair life was. There was also something about a sandwich.
"What's going on? Why are Oto and Mommy-chan upstairs alone?"
At this, Kisuke nearly laughs out loud before regaining his senses. "Well now, that's not something for us to tell you. You need to hear that from Hiroto and Soi Fon." Kisuke tries to hold in his laughter as you explain the best you can to Shi no Dansu
"Why?"
"Well it is their job to inform you of anything that concerns themselves."
"Why?"
"Because it is not appropriate for us-"
"Are they making babies?" Kisuke loses it. He starts laughing like a mad man, falling off his rock in the process. Ichigo joins him, laughing like there is no tomorrow.
Shi no Dansu looks at them in confusion and then looks back up at you, silently asking for answers.
"Well, I don't know... its not really our business if they-"
"I want a baby brother." This statement shocks you and both the guys into silence. She what?
"You want... a baby brother?" Ichigo asks tentatively, cautious about how to deal with the information you all were just given.
"Yep! I've always wanted a baby brother. Oto has always taken care of me and I want to be able to do the same to someone else."
"Well you know, Ichigo is younger than you, so technically..."
"Really!?" She looks over to where Ichigo is sitting. "So Ichi-nii is..."
"Yes he is like a baby brother to you."
Shi no Dansu is silent for a few moments. The she jumps at Ichigo, who is trying to get away. "Ichi-chan!"
He freezes and let's her slam into him, knocking him back to the ground. "I am not cute!"
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not!"
She grabs his face and squishes his cheeks together making him look like a fish. You can't help but chuckle at the sight of him. "But your so adorable like this!"
Kisuke bursts out laughing again. Really? Where that man gets all of his energy you have no idea.
"Well she is right, you are completely and utterly adorable." You couldn't help yourself. He was kind of cute like that.
"No I'm not! Now get off me you stupid brat!" Kisuke and you both freeze at his words.
"Uh, Ichigo? That's not a very-"
"What the hell did you say?"
"-good idea." Shi no Dansu looks up at Ichigo who froze from hearing her voice.
"What?"
"Are you deaf or something? I said what the hell did you just say? You think I'm a brat?
"I didn't mean it like that-"
"Then what the hell did you mean?"
"I- uh..."
"Let me tell you something punk. I can put up with a lot of crap, but if you insult me or Hiroto, I will rip your face off and feed it to you, you got me?"
Ichigo is sitting as still as he possible can, trying to not provoke her anymore. "Yes ma'am "
"So you won't do it again?"
"No ma'am."
"Good." Her face morphs into a look of happiness. "I'm gonna go to sleep now. If you have to move then carry me with you." Not but a few seconds after that she was snoring lightly, a sure sign that she had fallen asleep. Ichigo looks up at you, silently pleading to help him out.
"I'm sorry Ichigo. She said you have to carry her. We wouldn't want to make her angry again, now would we?"
Ichigo let's out a small whimper and shakes his head. He stands up, picking up Shi no Dansu with him.
"Aww you look so adorable!"
"Shut up." He mumbles to himself.
"Well I'm sure they are done now. If they aren't... well Soi Fon sure is a lucky girl then."
Ichigo makes a face of disgust. "I really didn't need that image in my head. That's disgusting."
You just wave him off. He just doesn't understand yet. Once him and Rukia finally do the dance with no pants, he won't think its disgusting anymore.
"Let's just go before Ichigo starts complaining about food again." Urahara stands up and dusts himself off. You start walking towards the exit with Urahara and Ichigo, carrying Shi no Dansu, in tow. Flash stepping up to the shop, you walk to the room which you can sense Hiroto and Soi Fon in. Slowly opening the door, you peak inside to find them both curled up on the bed.
You smile and close the door. "Should we wake them up? We will need them both for what's about to come." Urahara walks up behind you as you close the door. "We will need them at full strength if we are to kill Vacio."
"All the more reason to let them sleep for a while longer. They will need their full strength." Urahara just shrugs and you both walk away, only stopping to give one last glance at the door, glad that they get a few more hours of peace.