Fear of the dark.
All is dark. A place with no hirozon, but warm and cozy. Amid this darkness, a person wanders, sleeping, but a shine coming from far illuminates her eyelids and wakes her up.
- Uh...? - The person moans as she opens her eyes. - Ichigo!
She raises her head, looking for him, but notices that she was in a very strange place.
- Where am I? - Rukia looks everywhere but she could barely see amongst the shadows, besides, she couldn't feel her feet touching the ground. To her, that was probably another crazy dream like the one she had before, or maybe...
- Am I... dead? - The little shinigami looks at her hands and realizes that she was naked and her body emanated a light. She feels like she was back at the warmth of the womb of her mother. Rukia convinces herself and closes her eyes once more. - Looks like I'm dead, after all... - But she vacantly remembers Ichigo lying on the ground, wounded, and she cried as she looked at him. - Ichigo... Is he okay?
A strong light blinds Rukia for a second.
- What...?
The shine becomes more intense.
- What is this?
Rukia starts to float towards the light and she feels warmer as she comes closer.
- This light is not natural...
When she reaches the place of the shine, she sees a beautiful little sphere, pulsing like a heart.
- What is this ?
The sphere shines again and pulses stronger.
- It's very beautiful, but it's a weird thing to see in a place like this.
The sphere shines again.
- Curious. - Says Rukia to herself. - It's like she shines everytime she hears my voice.
The sphere shines once again.
Rukia allows herself to smile gently.
- Looks like she's alive!- Speaks Rukia, reaching out her hand in order to catch the sphere, but when she touches it, she feels an electricity passing through her arm, heating her body like fire itself.
Rukia gets scared with the sensation.
- AARRGHH! What is going on? - Rukia screams and she feels a lightning passing through her body. The electricity suddenly starts to concentrate in her belly. - What is happening? - She asks, scared.
The sphere disappears from her hand and also goes to her belly and shines again. Rukia shrinks because of the pain and starts to moan and shiver; she felt a huge amount of energy concentrating in her body.
- STOP! - Screams Rukia.
The pain stops.
- What the hell was that? - Rukia says, breathless. She gets up and looks at her hand once again. She also looks at her belly, trying to understand what happened. The moment she stops moving she feels the pain again. - Oh, no, please! - Her voice fails as she feels the pain coming back.
Her belly shines; and the shine pulses, shining intense and constantly. Rukia thinks that, if she was not dead already, she would, for sure, die now.
- AAAAHHHHHH! - She screams again, shrinking her body, trying desperately to get rid of the pain.
An explosion of lights swallows Rukia.
Instants after, when the light becomes bearable for her eyes, she opens them, seeing that she was somewhere familiar. She gets up.
- Where is this?
The place was a field covered in snow, and was surrounded by a snow forest.
- How is it possible that I'm here? - Rukia asks herself.
Then, she hears a childish laugh behind her back. She looks at it.
- Hahahaha! Run fast mommy, or I'll get there first!
It was a strange child, a boy with grey short hair, yellow eyes and tribal drawings all over his body. He was wearing a simple shirt and pants; he was also barefoot, stepping on the cold snow that didn't bother him. Rukia notices that the kid was running towards her and that she was still naked! She tries to cover herself with her hands, but the boy continued to run and passed right through her body like she wasn't there. The shinigami was scared by that and she looks at the boy who continued to run, laughing like only a child can laugh.
- If you continue like that, I will never reach you, darling!
It was a familiar voice. Rukia looks behind and startles by what she sees.
- Sode no Shirayuki!
The woman with grey hair and with fancy cleats tied all over it, wore a white kimono and walked calmly in the direction of the child, that jumped like a happy bunny. When, all of a sudden, he falls, smashing his face on the snow.
- Son! - Shirayuki hurried to her child.
The boy gets up laughing and runs again, this time he runs around her, making Shirayuki to laugh too.
- Stop it, you'll drop me like this.
- Mommy, mommy! - Exclaimed the boy, running around her and stretching his arms, like he wanted to fly.
- What is it, my child?
- Is it true that when we were born, daddy said we were a miracle?
Sode no Shirayuki laughs, hiding her smile with her hand.
- Your father said that?
He nods.
- Mana told me he did!
- Speaking of which... Where is she? - The silver zanpakutou looks around for her.
- She's with him! - The boy fills his cheeks with air.
- Okay. - Shirayuki kneels and extends her arms to her son.
The little boy runs to her mother, jumping on her arms.
- Let me tell you a story about the day you were born.
- Me and mana, right? - Corrects the kid.
- Yes. - Grins Shirayuki, correcting herself. - You and your sister.
- YYUUPPII! - Says the child looking deep in the eyes of Sode no Shirayuki.
- So, when I and your father met... - She starts, walking away and slowly disappearing at the horizon.
Rukia watched everything, perplexed, without moving. She couldn't believe what she had heard.
- Sode no Shirayuki... Son? That boy was a zanpakutou? That's impossible! I've never heard, in the history of soul society, of a zanpakutou being capable of having children! – Rukia says, confusing herself. - But why do I bother? This got to be a dream!
- Who are you? And who gave you permission to walk into my memories? - Asks a harsh male voice, interrupting Rukia's thoughts.
She looks besides her and sees a handsome young man with silver hair, yellow eyes and drawings all over his body.
She freezes and the boy also startles when he sees who she was.
- It can't be! How did you get in here?
Ichigo wakes up, holds his zanpakutou and stands in position of combat. - Rukia! - He looks around for her, but she wasn't there. Nobody was there. - Where am I?
That place had buildings, but they weren't in vertical position, they were horizontal. Ichigo knew that place.
- This is my interior world... Did the old Zangetsu called me here? - Wonders Ichigo, as he walks, looking for him. - Hellooo! Zangetsu! Are you there? Hey, oldie!
No answer.
- Where is that man? - Ichigo asks, scratching his head.
- It's true, daddy, and mano said that mommy was angry!
Ichigo hears the voice of a child coming from his right side.
- What? A child? Am I hearing things? - Ichigo hurries his steps, following the sound of the voice.
- And what did she said?
- That she would ground you. - Answers the child.
Zangetsu laughs.
Ichigo approaches and hears the laugh of the zanpakutou without believing it. He sees a little girl with black hair and red eyes, wearing a cloth that was similar to the clothe of a zanpakutou and she was sitting beside the man in the edge of the building while they talk.
- She said that, did she?
- She did, she said she would ground you and that...- She looks aside, in a place very close to Ichigo.
Ichigo startles, thinking that she was looking at him.
- Oh! And she said she would ground you too, mister.
Ichigo looks at his right and sees his interior hollow frowning at the little girl.
- Yeah, and she thinks she can insult me like that! - Mocks the hollow.
- Well, the last time you did obey her, didn't you? - Answers the girl looking at the hollow with an expression on her face saying: " I know you're not that tough."
The hollow looks away from the girl, ashamed, remembering the occasion.
- Humph! I hate that woman! Why can she defeat me?! Next time, I will defeat her! - He clenched his fists, revolted.
- But you never won her! - Answers the girl, laughing.
The hollow gasps.
- SHUT UP! - He shouts, turning his back on the girl.
- All you have to do is: stop teaching those children things you shouldn't, so you won't have problems with Sode no Sirayuki, you know that she's possessive... - Reminds Zangetsu, looking sideways.
- It's true, mommy said something about you being too malicious and teaching bad things to us. She got very mad at you, remember that time when she almost froze you to death? - The girl states.
- HUMPH! What can I do? That's how I am, I'm a hollow, remember? It's written in my DNA: I'm evil! And I wouldn't freeze to death... It's just that... - He lowers his head and whispers to himself: - It's just that I got scared with that devil look of her...
- If you're evil, then mommy is the satan himself... - The girl raises one eyebrow.
Zangetsu laughs.
The hollow was furious and completely disconcerted.
- AARRGH! You see, that's why I like that boy, he's more like me and doesn't treat me like that!
- That's what you think, 'cause his just like his mother and worse than you... Why do you think he doesn't leave her side? - Zangetsu speaks.
- Grrr! - The hollow clenches his fist. - Damn, since that stupid king got married, that Yuki- Onna ruined everything! - He points angry at the sky. - Now it's always night in this place and there's a huge moon blocking my view, and, on top of it, now there's fields of flowers spread everywhere! What does she thinks this place is, a midnight garden?!
- Have you forgotten that we have the same spiritual core? Our worlds are connected, is completely normal that this place is influenced by her wills. - Zangetsu explains.
The little girl agrees.
- Argh! Then why there is not a single buiding in her world?! - The hollow objects.
- Because she said it ruins the landscape. - Zangetsu answers.
The little girl agrees again.
- And you're okay with that? Why don't you do something you stupid old man?
- Why would I bother? - Zangetsu looks at the sky with a grin. - I like the moon and the sky had never been so clean before. Besides, an abstract place like this, after such a long time, gained colors.
- Humph! - The hollow folds his arms and looks upset at the ground.
- Hey, don't make that face! - The girl smiles, getting up. - Because me and brother, we love you! - She says, hugging the hollow.
He doesn't hugs the girl back but doesn't push her away either.
- Daddy, thank you for taking care of us. - She opens a large smile.
The hollow caresses the head of the young girl.
- Fine, now go play 'cause I have to... Trim the flowers... - He answers in a bad-mood.
Zangetsu grins and closes his eyes, happy.
Ichigo was perplexed.
- What the hell is this? What is going on here, hey Zangetsu! - Screams Ichigo, calling his zanpakutou, but he didn't seem to listen. - Oi! - He screams louder, but there's no answer.
- They can't hear you, because they are just memories. - Says a calm female voice.
Ichigo looks aside and sees a young girl with black long hair, she had red eyes and wore a cloth that reminded, in some details, his own when he was with his bankai.
- Who are you? - Asks Ichigo, sweating.
The woman looks curious.
- I make the questions. - She talks back at him. - How could you get in here?
The boy with silver hair looks at Rukia intrigued, and, for some reason, he already forgot she was naked.
- You? That boy that was here with my zanpakutou... Was that you?
- ...
- Answer me, please! - Rukia asks, suffering with her doubts.
The boy with silver hair looks Rukia deep in her eyes, looking for something.
- Yes, that was me, but it was a long time ago... - He answers closing his eyes and lowering his head.
- So, you are the son of my zanpakutou?
- ...
- Answer me!
The boy nods.
- What is your name?
- I can't tell you my name. - His voice was low and his look serene.
- Why not?
- Because I can't.
- What do you mean? What place is this and how did I get here?
- One day you will understand, but at the moment, all I can tell you is that you need to survive if you want to understand one day who we really are.
- We? - Rukia was confused.
- You must have heard a boy mentioning a sister.
- Yes, who is she?
- One day you will find out.
- So, what is this place? Am I dead?
- No.
- Then why am I here?
- I'd like to know that too... - He seemed to analyze her.
- Damn, if I'm not dead, then what do I have to do to get out of here? My friends need my help, Ichigo needs my help!
- ... I can get you out of here.
- Oh, please! - She begs.
- But you'll have to promise me one thing. - His voice becomes lower.
- Huh?
- Don't die Kuchiki... Rukia. - He says worried.
- Me? Don't die? Of course I don't want to die, but... Wait! How do you know my name? I still have some questions! Why did Sode no...
The boy touches Rukia's forehead with his finger. She faints, falling to his arms.
- Our connection is too strong. It happened sooner than I thought... The spiritual bond is synchronized... Damn, I'll have to act...
The boy puts his hand over Rukia's delicate face and a whitish-blue light comes out of his hand. Then, he holds her in his arms and carries her though the snow field.
- It's time to visit that idiot...
He says as he observes Rukia's face. He grins as he remembers her.
- It's been a long time... Mom...
Ichigo looks at the young girl, still trying to understand what he saw, but something caught his attention. She looked like the children he just saw with his zanpakutou.
- You... Wait a second, that kid was you? - He asks pointing at her.
- Yes. - She says, straightforward.
- So, you are a zanpakutou?
- Exactly.
- How is that possible?
- Do you believe in miracles? - She asks with a grin.
Ichigo hears the question and thinks for a second.
- Yes, I do. - He tells her the truth.
- Well, then, I'm a miracle. - She smiles, but then lowers her head, unhappy.
- But... - Ichigo looks at the girl for a moment and realises that she looks tired and she was sweating a little. - Hey, are you all right?
The girl with black hair looks at him, trembling, untill she loses the strength in her legs along with her balance.
- Hey! - Ichigo rushes to hold her.
The girl falls to Ichigo's arms.
- What is happening to you?
- I can't protect you for long... My power is limited and my stupid brother refuses to fight...
- What are you talking about? What brother? I don't understand! Am I dreaming? It's this some kind of... Illusion? Am I crazy? What day is today? Am I dead?! - His head was about to burst with all those questions.
She laughs and with a weak smile she holds his face.
- Look, no matter what happens, you and Kuchiki Rukia can't die.
Ichigo looks surprised at her.
- You know Rukia? - Asks Ichigo, still holding the young zanpakutou.
- I know her more than you can imagine... Just like I know you, Kurosaki Ichigo.
- How do you...?!
She passes her hand over Ichigo's eyes and she starts to lose consciousness.
- What... You...?
Ichigo falls and Hiryuken supports him, putting him on the ground. She kneels beside him.
- This is dangerous, our spiritual DNA is sincronizing, if it continues like this, they will find out the truth sooner then we planned... - She speaks, worried.
The young zanpakutou gets up with difficulty and looks at the sky.
- Hisana... Do something or our dream will not come true...
Fisus laughs and swing Hisana, loving the scene.
- What is it, my child? For someone brave and confident like you, you're not acting so strong right now.
Hisana couldn't hear because she was concentrated on not losing consciousness.
- I can't ... Faint or they'll win... Damn, if I had my full power... - Hisana speaks to herself, very low.
- Did you say something, my child? - Asks Fisus looking at her.
- ...
- Hey! - Fisus swings her so violently that she spits more blood.
" No... Please... I don't want everything to get dark... I... I... I'm afraid of the dark..." She thinks as she faints.
- What the hell? - Fisus grumbles, taking off the sword spiked in Hisana's belly and keeping only the one spiked next to her heart. He walks towards Rukia and Ichigo, who were still unconscious.
- Wake up... - A deep and mysterious voice echoed in Hisana's head.
She wakes up in a street completely destroyed. She looks at the skies and to the buildings also destroyed. It was raining and there was blood on the street.
- Mommy! - Screams a child.
Hisana turns her head and sees an eight year old child crying. She remembers that night perfectly well, because those images always haunted her dreams.
It haunted her every time it got dark.
- Mommy please, open your eyes! Please, don't leave me mommy...
The child cries over the body of her mother, lying dead on the ground.
- Hisa-chan... - A low voice speaks to her.
- Urahara-san... Mommy... Daddy... Uncle... The're...! - The child cries, trying to breathe.
Urahara hugs her and carries her on his arms. She hides her face on his shoulder.
- Hisa-chan... Let's get out of here. - He signs to Yoruichi and she goes to the bodies of her companions.
But they feel a huge reiatsu coming to them.
- It can't be!
- Kisuke, take her away, now! - Orders Yoruichi.
- Take her away? I did not allow you to do so.
A lightning comes out of the sky and a man comes out of it, levitating and surrounded by hollows.
- Magnus! - Yoruichi and Urahara speak together, fearing that creature.
The man has a bleeding scar on his face. He was tall and had an imposing voice, has a long and light hair and giant muscles that made him a huge wall.
-Urahara Kisuke and Shihouin Yoruichi, I order you to leave the girl on the ground and leave this place while I'm still calm. I had enough of that worm, hurting my face like that. - He says, referring to Ichigo.
- Only over my dead body! - Urahara challenges.
- Do not try me, shinigami... Even Kurosaki Ichigo couldn't stop me and he was the most powerful of you all. What do you think you insignificant rat can do? - Magnus asks snapping his fingers.
The hollows surrounded them.
- Kisuke... I'll cover for you, then you run with her to the hideout, understand?
- But I can't leave you with them...!
- Yes you can. You know that if they get her, we will be completely doomed.
- But...
- GET READY! - The moraine stands in position for battle.
- Ugh! - Urahara bites his lower lip.
- SHUNKO! - Yoruichi's overcoat becomes a white energy running through her body, concentrating mainly in her arms. - NOW KISUKE!
- Wake up Benihime!
Urahara begins to run and to destroy hollows close to the ground. Yoruichi was destroying hollows through the skies.
- Kirisaki! Benihime! - The red shield launches several missiles cleaning Urahara's way with the little girl on his arms.
- How many times do I have to tell you how useless this is? - Magnus says and Kaliver appears in front of the scientist.
- Let go of the girl Urahara Kisuke.
- Never!
- You can't protect her from all of us.
An explosion knocks Yoruichi and she falls to the ground, catching fire, while lots of hollows were flying to get her.
- Yoruichi! - Screams Urahara, worried.
- She's not dead, but she will in case you do not hand me the girl.
- Urahara-san... - Hisana cries to him, shivered with fear.
- Do not worry, Hisa-chan, I will not let you go. If I do, your parents will be very angry with me... - He says, holding her tightly.
- But... But...
- No "but"! Hold on Hisa-chan!
- What are you intending to do? - Kaliver says, not having fun anymore.
A sudden shine comes out of Benihime, overshadowing everybody's view. Urahara takes this chance and runs frantically, but he faces the one he would less like to face.
- Why you worms can't know when you're already defeated? - Speaks Magnus, holding his sword and threading Urahara's chest with it.
Urahara coughs blood and Benihime falls from his hand and he falls, but he was still holding the girl.
- Urahara-san! Urahara-san! No! - Hisana cries desperately.
Magnus comes to them and holds the child in his arms, but she struggled bravely against him.
- Let me go! Let me go! I don't want to be with you!
- You don't have a choice. If you want to stop me, you'll have to kill me.
- Help me Urahara-san Yoruichi-san!
Yoruichi was lying on the floor, hearing the child screaming for help. Her heart aches because of that and there was nothing she could do. That was the worst feeling of all.
Magnus starts to drag the little girl with him. Kaliver watches the scene along with Granus, Fisus and others like them.
When suddenly he feels a hand holding his leg.
- Let go of the girl... Bastard! - It was Urahara, trying to fight back.
- Let go of my leg or I'll do it myself, cutting it off.
- Do your worse, devil!
When Magnus raises his sword to kill Urahara, he feels a bite.
Hisana bites Magnus's arms as she cries.
- Hisa-chan...!
Magnus knocks her off by hitting her head with the hilt of his sword.
- No!
That's all Hisana hears before she falls unconscious.
Things got dark again. When Hisana wakes up, she sees herself in a giant tube, with lots of needles with wires stuck in her body and a mask giving her oxygen. She sees mans with holes in their chests walking by, some of them were observing her and taking notes.
She starts to hit the tube as she cries, but nobody listens to her or sees her tears. A man notices that she was kicking and punching, so he calls another man, looking older. He steps forward, close to the tube and watches the kid. He smiles maliciously and presses a button. Hisana feels takes a shock and loses consciousness again.
- Do you want that to happen again? - Says the deep mysterious voice again.
- No! - She answers automatically.
- Then why are you acting so hopeless and weak?
- ... I... I...!
She sees images of her parents, family and friends dying in her mind.
- NO! STOP! - Hisana screams holding and head and closing her eyes.
The images did not stop.
- STOP! - She says on her knees. - I SAID STOP! - Hisana roars at the skies.
Fisus was walking calmly when he feels Hisana moving. He stops and looks at her.
- You're awake? You were so quiet that I thought you were having sweet dreams, my child. - He says looking at her with a grin.
- I...
- Yes? - Fisus brings his ear closer to her, so he can hear her better.
And that was a mistake.
- I... I...
- Yes?
- I... Got you! - Hisana raises her head. She pushes the sword off her body and approaches more Fisus face.
- What the...?!
Hisana bites his neck and with her two hands she concentrates and energy and throws it against Fisus's forehead.
Fisus is thrown a long way back, spinning, and so does Hisana.
- ARGH! - Screams the deep hollow bleeding his black blood. He gets up, so angry that his reiatsu explode, evaporating the building's rubbles around him. - You harpy witch! I want to kill you so much that I don't mind being killed by my master after I do that! I will not accept a worm like you to do something like that to me! - He screams, making more reaitsu to explode. He runs with his sword on hand, ready to rip her heart off her chest.
Hisana raises and, even badly wounded, she feels no pain. Her reiatsu covers her body in the shape of a red light and sparks surrounded her. Her eyes were more red and she was smiling an evil smile.
- Kill me? Who, you? - Her voice was different. It was metallic and she was feeling like someone else.
Fisus jumps to her, moving her sword and cutting the air as she dodges him and laughs, making him more and more angry.
- Stop laughing so I can cut you, rat!
Hisana stops dodging and receives the attack with wide open arms.
Hisana falls to the ground, laughing.
Fisus does not believe what he sees.
- Why?
- What do mean " why?"? You asked me, haven't you? - Hisana stands up, laughing. - What else do you want to cut? My head, maybe? - She suggest, showing off her neck.
Fisus was trembling with anger but also with fear and anxiety.
- You... I fought you already...
Hisana grins and her body quickly regenerates.
Fisus grins back and covers his body with his energy.
- Since the beginning, I was willing to fight this other side of you!
- The " other side of me"? What are you talking about? I am Kurosaki Hisana. - Her name sounds distorted and her shadow, for an instant, turns into a snake and then comes back to normal.
- And that's why I'll love to rip your head off!
Fisus jumps to Hisana and they start to exchange blows in the ground, levitating and fighting in the air after a few punches. They were flying throughout the air like ferocious and fast birds.
Hisana uses her two hands to strike a blow like a hammer in the head of Fisus, that falls violently towards the ground but he falls on his feet and prepares to fly towards Hisana again. But Hisana is faster and she grabs his tail and spins him in the air, throwing him away against a building.
In turn, Fisus throws a cero with his mouth towards the building, preventing his crash, but behind the building, there she was: waiting for him. She kicks his head, breaking his neck as Fisus cut her ribs. She coughs blood and is thrown away, breaking buildings and opening a crack in the streets.
Fisus uses his sword to slow down the speed.
- Stand up and let's keep playing! - He flies towards her.
- Play?! - Hisana was standing up, holding her ribs.
The two crash against each other.
A huge crater opens in the ground and Fisus starts to cut and hurt Hisana, she screams and attacks Fisus back, not minding her wounds and her pain.
They were smiling.
- I never thought I would have such a great time with you, it's a shame it has to end! - He laughs.
- Me too! - Hisana says receiving a punch in her stomach and retaliating with a punch on his face.
Fisus disappear and with one violent punch covered in his black reiatsu, he throws Hisana kilometers away. Hisana hits a statue that is completely destroyed with the impact. She coughs blood and tries to get up.
Fisus grabs her neck and raises her from the ground.
The two stare each other for a while.
- Looks like this is the end, isn't it, my child?
Hisana bleeds, her eyes losing its intense red color. She feels that is harder to breathe but she looks firmly in her enemy's eyes.
- It was fun playing with you, " Primordial Experiment."
Hisana continues to stare him. The name she called Fisus makes him clench his teeth.
Fisus raises his sword and prepares to give her the final blow.
- DIE!
His sword is stopped.
More blood is spilled in the ground.
Hisana was blocking the sword with her arm. Fisus was surprised to see that she was still strong enough to block his blow.
- I don't remember giving you the permission to call me "my child ". - Says Hisana. - Moreover... - She moves her free arm behind her back. - "Primordial Experiment " my ass!
- How can you block my attack with so much strength?! - Fisus says, amazed.
- I remember I told you that I would protect their future and there's nothing... - Hisana holds something that was hidden behind her back. - Nothing that I won't do to protect them! - Then, Hisana raises one of Fisus's blade that she hid under her clothe.
- When did you...?! - Fisus interrupts himself when he remembers the blow he unleashed on her ribs... That's when she grabbed one of his blades and hid under her clothe.
He looks frightened at her and she replies with a smile.
- When you arrive in hell, tell them I send my regards!
Hisana rips Fisus's head off, making him scream before he evaporates right in front of her. However, Fisus, frightened with Hisana's blow, attacked with his sword, without knowing that he had cut off Hisana's arm.
She screams of pain and kneels, holding her arms trying to stanch the blood.
Hisana was breathless as she tries to keep her eyes open. All the aggressive reiatsu covering her body was slowly disappearing. She sees a young girl and a boy coming towards her. He had silver hair, she had black hair.
- Did you... Came to laugh of me...? - She asks tired.
The girl ignores her and regenerates her lost arm.
Hisana feels relieved with the pain going away.
- Thanks Hiryuken.
- Hisana... - Hiryuken says. - They walked into our memories.
Hisana looks at them astonished.
- How could that be possible?
- Spiritual DNA, sucker! - Answers the boy.
Hisana lowers her head and thinks for a second. That was surely a bad thing.
- Do not worry, they didn't found out about anything yet because we manipulated their memories. But it's dangerous to keep doing that, sooner or later, they will start to suspect something is wrong. - They girl warns.
Hisana looks at them and asks.
- What did you do with them?
- Ichigo walked into my memories and Rukia... - The girl speaks looking at her brother.
- I took care of her. But I wasn't pleased to see her walking in where she wasn't welcomed. - He answers, feeling superior.
- Thank you Hiryu... - Hisana does not finish to say his name. She looks sadly at the ground and then looks back at the silver hair zanpakutou. - Forgive me for forgetting your name, but can you let me call you your sister's name since you two are... One?
- Well, you deserved that I took my name off your lips. And do never try to thank me for anything, because I will still make you pay for what you did that day. - He stares her with cold eyes filled with repulse.
- I'm sorry... - She looks resigned at him.
- Nah, do you what you want, for I'll never help you again, so it doesn't matter if you remember my name or not. And it would be a shameful thing to hear my precious name coming out of such and ordinary mouth like yours.
- That's enough brother, you're going too far! - His sister looks reproachful at him.
- It's okay Hiryuken... I deserve it.
- See? You're not even worth the effort of my powers! Do you know how irritating it is to see you miserable like that?
Hisana was feeling bad about hearing those things but she had no arguments.
- See that? You're an idiot! You waste time helping some ex- master that can't even fight Hiryuken anymore! - He says angry, showing his sharped teeth at her.
His sister gets up from the ground and faces him.
- Brother, there are time that I really don't understand you! But if you continue with this, I'll have no choice but to be extremely mad at you!
- Like I care about how you feel! - He mocks her.
The girls says nothing when she realises that her brother would not change his attitude. She sighs and disappointed, she gives her brother her famous look of disapproval.
- Bah! - He protests, turning on his back.
Hiryuken smiles tenderly and kneels again besides her master.
- Hisana, listen, my brother is right, although he didn't need to say it like that. - She says looking angry at her brother. - You can't have such doubts anymore, because every time you do, our powers decrease a lot. I almost failed protecting our parents back then, my power was gone with the blow he gave me and it took hours for me to get it back.
- I know, and I'm sorry, I'll try not to fail next time. - Hisana looks at the boy with silver hair. - I know you think I am not worth it... But I promise you I will make you proud of me! - Hisana looks determined at him.
- Yeah, cut the bullshit; sister, let's get out of here, I can't stand looking at that tramp anymore! - He starts to vanish like a ghost.
Hiryuken touches the tired face of her master.
- Hisana, we still have many enemies to face and if we really want to keep our promise, you'll have to mature more. - She advices.
- I know, but if you keep being by my side, nothing is impossible, right? - She smiles back.
The black haired zanpakutou smiles, closes her eyes and disappears.
Hisana gets up, already feeling better. She looks up and sees that everything happened at the right time.
The domain was starting to disappear.
She runs to her friends and sees that Hiryuken had done an excellent job.
Ichigo and Rukia were healed, but because they had lost a lot of blood, it would take a few more hours for them to wake up. She looks at Inoue, who was alright but needed to rest, just like the others.
- Damn! Now, what do I do with them? - Hisana puts her hands on her head.
The domain was disappearing faster.
Hisana sighs, hoping she didn't had to do what she was thinking.
- Yeah, that's the only way... He'll kill me...
She takes off a dispositive from her pocket that could only be used in cases of emergency and could only take her to one place.
A little gateway opens and Hisana puts one by one inside of it. She deactivates her zanpakutou and grabs her parent's swords, then she walks into the portal just in time that the domain disappear completely.
The streets were normal, the plaza was normal, and people were walking through the battlefield like nothing happened.
"Knock, knock, knock".
Someone was knocking strongly at Urahara's store door.
Ururu opens it.
- Hello... - She is frightened by what she sees.
- Hi, Ururu-san, could you, like... Give me a little hand? - Hisana says, uncomfortable and a little ashamed.
She was at the door carrying two people on her back more three with her arms.
Far away from there, in another dimension, Kaliver sat in the edge of a destroyed building. He was waiting the right moment to act. The orders were already given and soon he would accomplish them.
– Hisana...
The creature whispers, looking at the black horizon.
To be Continued...