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From the darkness that surrounds me, I walk toward the sole light that shines dimly from afar.
When I got close to it, it blinded me, so I squeezed my eyes closed until it stopped.
Upon opening them again, I only could stare in awe.
Before me a scene had unfolded that I haven't seen for many decades.
I was standing in my fathers clinic, watching the mentioned man treat the injuries of the young me.

I was sitting on the stretcher, sobbing and crying, while my father cleaned the cuts and bruises on my arms.
I remembered, it was from the day I first got into a fight after mom died.
A few older kids had ganged up on me and beat me up pretty bad.

"It hurts dad."
I heard myself complain and dad smiled at the small version of me, speaking the promise that he held as long and as well as he could.
"I know, but I promise from now on I'll keep all the pain away from you."

Before my eyes the scene changed and turned to one that just recently happened.
After Shiro and Rukia had left for training, I sat in my chair, reading the autopsy report over and over again.
I knew what was going through my head by then, but what surprised me was that I actually said out loud one thing.
"I won't let anything harm you, even if it's me."

Black swallowed everything around me and I was floating in nothingness.
I wanted to find the exit, but wherever I looked it was the same.

"Dad!"

That single cry echoed through the vast space.
I have to get out of here.
Now!

...

Like someone just shot him Ichigo froze.
His jaw relaxed and let go of Rukias arm.
The woman collapsed against the now conscious orangette, who supported her then.
With tears in her eyes she smiled weakly up to him.
"You're back. I'm so glad."
She whispered.
Ichigo carried her to a safer place, closer to the ships bridge.
He laid her down and fetched the gun from her hand.
After he gave her a kiss on her forehead and the promise to end everything quickly he returned to the bow.
Ichigo looked down at the combatants and caught fragments of the events from Shiro, which fanned the burning hate in him even more.

"Juha!"
His shout distracted all three and made them raise their heads toward him.
Ichigo had taken the magazine from the gun, bit into his left thumb and spread the blood flowing from it over the bullets, in the meantime.
He loaded the gun and aimed.

"Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further."
Ichigo said and at the same moment he pulled the trigger he added, while glaring at the bearded man.
"That is for scaring my child."
The bullet hit Juha in the head and the man toppled over.
Byakuya was fast to react and used the opportunity.
With a single swing he beheaded Juha, thus ending everything.

While the three Vampires and Rukia began leaving the vicinity of the ship, everywhere on the world the S.I.N. slowly returned to their original states, with some exceptions who didn't survive for long though.

As soon as Ichigo had taken a few steps away with his daughter in his arms, he began to falter.
Shiro and Byakuya hurried to his side.
The latter took the female from Ichigo and set her down, before he turned his attention to the orangette.
"You know the cause of all this. Don't you know a way to heal him?"
Shiro pleaded to the older.
"There is only one way to make it stop."
Ichigo looked at Byakuya.
He felt feverish.
"What is it?"
"You have to exchange your weak blood with the purest Vampire blood to balance out your soul."
Shiro stared at Byakuya.
"But Ichigo doesn't have enough blood left to..."
"I know. An exchange in his state also means that the donor has to give up his life, when worse comes to worst."
"Who would...?"
"I. will. To end the circle of hate forever and put my brothers soul finally at ease, I will give up on this life. I lived long enough and it's time to hand the reigns over to the young ones. Though you already took them as it seems."
Byakuya just showed the faintest smile, them bared his underarm and took one of Ichigos.

Both bit into each others and minutes went by, until Ichigo let go of Byakuyas and the raven fainted almost instantly afterward.
Shiro checked his pulse, it was very weak but still there.
If they'd get a transfusion for him fast, he could survive.
As if his thoughts had been heard, a dark car pulled up next to them with screeching tires.
"Shiro-sama. Ichigo-sama. I am happy to see you doing fine. Everything has been taken care of, so I took the liberty to come and lend you a hand."
The pale, raven haired Vampire said as he got out of the car, and taking a cool chest from the cars trunk.
"Ulquiorra, how did you find us?"
Ichigo asked him and the answer he got was more than vague.
"Ichigo-sama and the young Miss aren't the only ones with extraordinary sensors."
Ulquiorra set the cool chest next to the fainted Byakuya and opened it.

In it were several blood packs.
Shiro hurried to feed them to the elder, as he said to his follower.
"You'll never tell me all of your tricks will you?"
Ulquiorra had moved over to Rukia and began to treat her injury, before he prepared a blood transfusion for her.
"By time you learned of most of them, that has to be enough, Shiro-sama."
Once Byakuya was stable again and Rukia almost back to normal they got into the car and drove to the mansion.
There Byakuya was given one of the living wings farthest from Ichigo and Shiros, for certain reasons.

A week later, he and Rukia were fine again and every inhabitant of the mansion got together and Byakuya explained everything, that Shiro already knew and some more.

"When the raid on the Gaulish village occurred, I was about to visit our father and see my little brother for the first time. I went in between the fights and put everyone there to sleep. I erased all memories from the slayers to that point and killed them afterward. Unfortunately my brothers reincarnation was the sole slayer that already died, so I couldn't erase his memories. A lot later I found his new incarnation by coincidence and almost missed my chance again. I took all his memories and a portion of his soul in which I sealed them. Because of that no slayer can remember of any previous lives that go back farther that one generation after the one of the raid. Now that Ichigo got my blood, I also gave him back the missing part of his soul, together with the memories stored in it."

Shiro nodded, then turned to Ichigo.
"Now you. You owe me an explanation. Who are really Rukias parents?"
Ichigo sighed and began.
"Fine. Haruka is Rukias mother, that much is true. Her biological father though, would be me."
"How in the world..."
Ichigo shut Shiro up with one gesture of his hand.

"The two had problems receiving a child. After a medical check they learned that Akira was infertile to 90 percent. I offered to help them and stored a sperm donation at our laboratory. Haruka got the key from me so that she could get it when she wanted to use it. Not long after she got pregnant, but told me that at the same time that she used my donation, they tried it themselves one more time. It wasn't clear then who the father was. When she gave birth I was told that it was a baby boy that had been stillborn. There was no word of a second child, so I didn't care much about who was the father anymore. Also I don't know if there ever was a boy or not, or why they hid Rukia from me, but she is my daughter."

Rukia smiled and cuddled into Ichigos side, in return he hugged her.
Shiro smiled at that and said.
"Then she is my daughter as well."
"Actually she's your niece."
Ichigo corrected.
"Then Byakuya-san is my uncle as well?"
"I don't know. Are you?"
The orangette asked the raven.
"I am."
He confirmed and the four smiled and the other silent audiences in the room exchanged looks, before they retreated to leave the happy family on their own.

"Since she's a mix of three races, do you think turning her will be safe?"
Shiro spoke out a thought that just hit him.
"We won't do anything, unless Rukia wants it."
All gazes fell upon her and she couldn't help but be embarrassed.
"I want to stay with all of you forever. Also..."
"Ah, I know. You want him to do it, don't you?"
"Yes."
She said small voiced.

Him, that was the fifth person that stayed in the room together with them.
Shortly after the struggle with Juha, Rukia had expressed her feelings to him, that she had gotten clear about in the time he had treated her back to health.
He had accepted them, and now they were a very happy pair.
Ulquiorra pulled her over to his side and kissed her temple.
"Only when you're really sure about it."
He said and Rukia nodded.

The two of them excused themselves and left to Ulquiorras prized garden.
Under the Sakura tree, with the setting sun in the background, they enjoyed their privacy.
"I want to be like all of you."
Rukia eventually said.
The Vampire didn't say anything, but just confirmed her words by looking deep into her eyes, before he helped her into her new life.

It's the year 2112.
From here on out a long time of peace will begin, under the watch of the government of the unified races of Vampires and Slayers.
It's a nation withing nations, ruled by two Kings and their twelve counts and countesses.

Angeli Sanguis II – Piaculum
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