Agh! Running out of creative chapter title names... Gah!
Anyways, sorry it's so short...
If I owned Bleach, there would be moments where everybody just cuddled. There would be no reason for the cuddles, they would just... happen.
"Where are we going?" Renji asked. "We don't even know where this monster is!"
"Yes we do," Byakuya replied smoothly.
"What? No we don't!"
Byakuya's only response was to hold up a shiny black disc. A red dot was at the centre of the disc, with a green dot moving towards it.
"You put a tracker on it?" Renji exclaimed. "When?"
"When it took them," Byakuya said softly. Kaili gave him a sideways look.
"I didn't see that!"
"You were… otherwise occupied."
"You mean I wasn't paying attention." Kaili stated flatly.
"Not to me."
"So, where is it then?" Renji asked, already dreading the answer.
"Hueco Mundo. Where else?"
"How long until we reach the portal?" (Totally not the right word) Renji wanted to know.
"Two minutes."
Tara and Bren were bored. Very, very bored. And when they were bored, they found ways to amuse themselves. This was no different when they were hanging upside down from the ceiling in something very close to the web that spiders wrapped their prey in while being held captive in some big cave by a huge invisible monster that they had yet to see. And so, they were singing.
What is this feeling?
Fervid as a flame!
Does it have a name?
Ye-es!
Loathing, unadulterated loathing!
And so on. The other two people in the cave didn't seem to be too pleased by their beautiful singing voices. Well… if the two of them were to be honest is was more like, beautifulish singing voices. Not even beautifulish. More like… not bad.
But that was no need to whine like that. There was no way that they would get better entertainment in this place, so they could've shut up. Besides. Neither Tara nor Bren cared about the two bitches. For all that they were concerned, they needed to get their priorities straight. After all, their ears bleeding couldn't be nearly as bad as the fact that they were hanging upside down from the roof of a big, dank, dark cave after being kidnapped by a nasty invisible monster. Not even close.
They found themselves standing in front of a huge mountain, scarred with crisscrossing paths and pockmarked with caves.
"It's the top cave, isn't it?" Renji asked.
"Yes," Byakuya replied calmly. He and Kaili started up the nearest path. With a groan, Renji followed them up the steep side of the mountain. Before long, something began to prick at his senses, something strange, and yet extremely familiar. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pinpoint where he'd felt it before. After some examination however, it turned out that it was two different spirit ribbons, twined together so that they mixed and formed an almost inseparable string. It was so familiar, and he could feel the answer tugging at the corner of his mind, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't reach it. It was in so frustrating!
Tara and Bren had switched songs again.
One short day,
In the emerald city!
One short day,
To have a lifetime of fun!
One short day…
Janice and Annica didn't seem to understand that filling the cave with sound, no matter how out of tune they were, was the only way to keep from being swallowed up by the heavy silence of the cave. But the two friends knew, that going quiet would only allow the evil to creep back in, and maybe this time it would eat them up.
They fell silent, however, when a shadow crept from the mouth of the cave, and for the first time since they had been kidnapped, they set their eyes on their captor.
An ominous rumbling drew Byakuya's attention upwards, to the sudden avalanche of boulders heading towards them. Quickly, he grabbed Kaili's wrist, and she, Renji, and him ran for shelter. The rocks barely missed them, and if Byakuya had bothered to reach out a hand, his wrist would have been broken by the oncoming stones. Instead he pressed back against the mountain side, holding onto Kaili tightly, as though she might somehow be snatched from his grip by the avalanche. Renji had a firm grip on Byakuya's other hand, like he had the same worries.
That now familiar voice rang through the air, bouncing off the side of the mountain, and echoing through the caves.
"Don't give up easily, do you?" it asked. "That's really too bad for you. Because I don't either, and I've always been told that I'm too hard on my toys." Chuckling softly, it continued. "You've got a full day. If you haven't gotten here by then, it's bye, bye to these delectable females!" There was a shriek from above them. "A full day, remember. And I don't plan on going easy on you."
As suddenly as it had started, the rocks stopped falling, although distant crashes from below them showed that there were still some continuing down the mountainside. Cautiously, Byakuya pulled away from the rock behind him, and peered out from their little nook. It was only when Renji pulled him into a tight hug that he realized that he was shaking. He allowed the embrace for a brief moment, before pulling away reluctantly, and holding out a hand to Kaili.
"Come on," he said softly. "We've only got a day, after all."
Sorry again for the short chapter...
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-Stormy