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Chapter 14

Kimura POV

'It's so dark' I thought to myself as I held my bent legs to my chest, resting my head on my knees with my eyes closed. I felt the tears run down my cheek as the vision of Toshiro falling backwards with blood spilling from his chest. I tightened my hold on my legs as I let out a sob.

My mind even tried to recreate a image that he survived and I got to see him one last time, but that had to be an illusion.

"Steward." I heard Okami's voice causing me to lift my head and look around the darkness started to fade away and I found myself curled into a body with a wing wrapped around me. Once my vision adjusted, I say Tianma looking down at me in her Pegasus manifestation.

"Tianma…" I whispered to her looking over and seeing Shenron in his favorite dragon form but now in his more intimidating size laying across from us with his head laying between his claws, so his nose was close to me. "Shenron…."

"Steward…" Finally looking up I saw Okami sitting on a large rock nest to the lake. Her five tails flowing behind her.

"Okami…. Our inner world?" I stated as I started to sit up and lean against Tianma.

"Yes, you retreated so deeply, I brought you here to guard you." She said as she looked at me with care.

"I don't want to go back…." I choked out as more tears fell down my face. I felt Shenron push his nose slightly and gently into me, trying to comfort me.

"That may cause an issue with your Captain. I did promise him, I would bring you back." At Okami's words I gasped and looked up, she had a smile on her face but was looking towards the sky. I heard crashing and banging above us, so I followed her gaze.

We were engulfed in a barrier, but just outside I saw a large dragon made of ice flying in a circle and then trying to break through the ceiling.

"He's been there for days. Very noisy." Okami turned back towards me with an exasperated look on her face. "It's not like I'm trying to let us four heal down here, no manners." She huffed while she jumped off the rock and walked towards me.

"But…... I thought?"

"You don't remember right before you fell unconscious, I brought you back to the surface per your Captains' request. You saw he was alive." She explained before continuing, "I will not let him in until you say Steward, but before that we must discuss this hunter." I watched as Okami's eyes turned hard and cold.

"We cannot defeat him at our current power level. You must have them remove the seal." She said in a growl, I watched as the light hit the collar around Okami's neck which was placed there when I was a child by central 46 after Okami manifested the first time.

"Alright. I won't stop until they remove it." I gave her my word as she looked back towards the barrier's ceiling as the dragon crashed in again.

"And I thought Shenron was irritating" she muttered.

"Hey! I am no where near as annoying as that guy! I at least some sense." Shenron retorted turning his head away.

"I'm ready Okami." I said starting to stand away from Tianma who had stayed quiet this whole time, I knew she was upset because she didn't see this coming when she read the stars. I watched Okami sigh, and the barrier begin to fall away.

Once the opening was large enough, we watched as the dragon made of ice fly up than dove straight towards the ground.

"If he makes a disaster of our inner world, I will skewer him." Okami said as she watched him. At the last minute he landed lightly as ice blew from his nostrils. The dragon watched as I stood and walked towards him.

"I'm ready to go back." I said as he opened his large claw to pick me up. He gently closed his claw around and took off into the air towards to opening. As we reached closer to the top, I felt my vision start to blur and everything go dark again as I went limp in the claw holding me.

Toshiro POV

"Captain, I am going to have to insist that if you stay in this room, you must control our powers." Captain Kotetsu shouted at me as she came through the hospital room door where Kimura was laying. I had refused to move and stay still during the past week. Captain Kotetsu had to knock me out so that they could stitch up my wound.

I glanced at her out of the side of my eye while she stepped cautiously over the frozen floor.

"My medics are being injured by just coming to check on Kimura, and I cannot have that." She finished as she stood in front of me. I was currently sitting next to Kimura's laying form on her bed holding her hand in mine. "And you should be back in your bed on THAT side of the room." She pointed to the bed in the corner that I refused to stay in.

"I'm fine." Was my only response to her before turning my focus back onto the hand I was holding. I heard her sigh before picking up the chart that was on the table.

My mind wondered back to the day after we arrived back to the soul society when Head Captain Kyoraku came into the room.

FLASHBACK – THIRD PERSON POV

"What the hell happened Hitsugaya?" Shunsui shouted as he marched into the medical room. "You look like shit, but I expected you to look worse if she" he pointed at Kimura "looks like that!" Toshiro closed his eyes as his captain shouted.

"He was too strong." Toshiro opened his eyes to look at Kimuras father. "I believe that when she saw me take the force of the cero, she lost control." Toshiro let that sentence sink in to Shunsui.

"Okami." Shunsui said as I nodded my head, turning my gaze back to Kimura. "I heard you finally let people in on the secret of you two." Toshiro looked back at Shunsui before opening his mouth.

"You knew?" he asked and Shunsui smiled.

"Of course. Do you think I'm blind?"

"I vaguely remember being very good as being unreadable." Toshiro said sarcastically.

"Oh, don't get me wrong Toshiro, you are, just not when she's around. You can't hide the way eyes change when she's around you, only the oblivious people miss it." Shunsui explained to Toshiro. "Don't worry Captain, if I could pick anyone for my daughter it would be you."

Toshiro turned his head so sharply to the head captain in shock and watched him walk out of the room but pause at the door while saying "Bring her back to me."

END FLASHBACK

I continued to rub my thumb on Kimura's hand when I suddenly heard a groan from the bed. I snapped my head up and moved closer. Captain Kotetsu heard it also and rushed over. Kimura started to groan more while shaking her head.

I moved to the other side of the bed not caring that I felt my stitches stretch. "Shhhh. It's alright Kimura." I place my hand on the side of her head letting her feel me.

"Toshiro." I heard her whisper before laughing lightly. Captain Kotetsu started healing her again trying to help take away the pain as she started to come to.

I knelt on the floor next to the bed bringing my mouth close to her ear. "Come back to me, you promised you wouldn't run." I whispered gently to her before kissing her ear slightly.

Kimura POV

I started to come to, my eyes hurt as I opened them. I turned my head to the side and saw what looked like dust falling, but than realized it was snow.

"Snow…." I whispered and saw Toshiro's face come into my line of vision. "It was real…. You're really alive."

I watched as Toshiro picked up my hand and placed it on the side of his face closing his eyes, then kissing my palm.

"It was real." He whispered before standing up, I started to ask where he was going when I heard the door open and close, and Captain Kotetsu came into my sight.

"Glad you decided to come back to us Lady Kimura." She said with a smile on her face, using my clans title. I watched as she looked over my chart. "You gave us all quite a scare. I thought for sure I was going to have to bring in space heaters if you stayed unconscious any longer." I gave her a confused look but than turned my head towards Toshiro who glared at her back.

"You're healing nicely. The wound on your side is stitched up, so try not to move too much. I think another 3 days and you should be good to go."

"No." I heard Toshiro say to her, causing her to turn towards him.

"No?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"She's leaving today. I will fill out any paperwork, but I am taking my third seat with me" Toshiro said in a tone that gave no room for argument.

"Captain Hitsugaya, you are barely healed yourself." She retorted. I watched them go back and forth staying silent as their words stopped coming and what looked like a staring contest started. I knew the moment Toshiro won because Captain Kotetsu sighed and turned away. "Fine. But any issue I want her back here immediately!"

Toshiro turned to start walking towards me, I saw the slight limp in his step and furrowed my eyebrows. He came up to my bed and pulled the covers back. I was dressed in white shitagi top and pants.

"Toshiro, please don't hurt yourself." I whispered to him, he glared at me silencing me with a look. He was angry and I did not have the strength to fight him. I slipped his arms under my knees and shoulders lifting me off the bed. I wrapped my arm around his neck and back as he flashed out of the room and out of the medical wing. I was always in awe at how easily he maneuvered inside buildings while using flash step.

I opened my eyes that I hadn't realized were closed once I felt him take a normal step and heard him slid a door open with his foot. I turned my head when I heard the door slid close and saw we were in his home. He started walking back towards his bedroom and gently laid me on his bed, before sitting next to me.

I kept my gaze down towards my hands as I felt the tears slid out of my eyes. I only looked up when I felt Toshiro lift my chin with his fingers.

"Never again." He said in his stern voice that he reserved for commands. "Never again will you retreat into yourself like that." II watched as he finally let the barrier around his eyes slip away to show the fear, he held in them.

"I'm sorry…. I thought I lost you…. I didn't know what else to do..." I started to ramble and only stopped when I felt his fingers fall on my lips. He reached out to me and pulled me roughly to him. I only had a moment to gasp before I was straddling his wait. The movement caused his shihakusho to slide open more, for me to see the bandages on his chest. I placed my hand lightly over his wound, before he pulled my hand away and hugged me tightly, tighter than he ahs ever held me before, his arms were shaking with the strain of holding me this tightly with his injury. I let my head fall to the crook of his neck as he kissed my hair.

"I almost lost you." He murmured roughly. I adjusted myself in his grip as much as I could so I could look at his face.

"I'm sorry you were injured fighting for me." I said as I rested my forehead against his.

"I'm not." He replied opening his eyes to stare at me. His hand slid into my loose hair turning my head so he could lean down and take my mouth with his. He teased my lips, gently biting down on my bottom lip for me to give into his silent demand to open for him. I complied and melted into his desire as he drank me in.

I slowly pulled back so I could take a breath. I looked down and saw the blood seep thought his bandages, I gasped causing him to look down at his wound. He pulled my face up rubbing his nose against mine.

"I would rather bleed than not feel you in my arms or taste your lips." He pressed his lips to mine to silence me. "You are the only one who will ever see my pain." He held my face in his hands as he continued to stare at me. "You're mine Kimura, in every way, I will never let you go. I will follow you to death and bring you back if need be." Toshiro said with such fierceness that the room started to grow cold.

"Not every way." I said to him, his eyebrows scrunching at my comment before understanding dawned on his face. His eyes which previously held the fear he felt melted away to show his hunger. I pressed my lips to him, and my hands slid into his hair. The taste of him rolled over my tongue and I moaned into his mouth. I was desperate to drink him in, feel him. His hands found my hips and pulled me against him, causing me to gasp as desire washed through me.

Toshiro moved his hands to cup my face holding me steady. "Before I make you mine fully…. Let me in…." I tilted my head at him, confused. "Let me in… I refuse to go on without being able to feel you." I hesitated at his words then felt his spiritual pressure rise. He moved his one hand to freeze the door to his bedroom creating a secluded barrier for just him and myself. He brought his hand back to my face and release more of his hold on his spiritual pressure, pressing his forehead to mine his breathe coming out in cold gusts.

It felt as if I was being hit with a tidal wave of power, and my own pressure started to rise against his.

"Don't fight me." He whispered. He was so strong, as his left arm wrapped around me pulling me closer and deeper into his hips.

"I think you might actually consume me…" I confessed as my body started to shiver and tremble from the pressure and desire, I felt.

"For the rest of the night I will do more than that…. Let me in." He commanded as his hand that was on my back slip beneath my top to feel my skin. I gasped at the sensation as his power exploded through my veins and wrapped around both mine and Okami's like a protective sleeve. "Trust me…" My body finally gave into his commands and stopped fighting. The ice that I felt turned into a cooling mist as it flowed through me as I continued to gasp opening my eyes to look at him.

His right hand that was still cradling my face moved to my hair as he smiled "There I am." He whispered before taking my lips in a hungry kiss. His hands trailed down my body grabbing the backs of my thighs trying to pull me even closer to feel his desire.

I suddenly felt the need inside me burn as my hands moved to push his haori off his shoulders he released my thighs to help me push it off the action causing him to pause momentarily before he started to pull on the sash holding his hakama together so he could get rid of that also.

"Will this hurt you?" I asked between short pants.

"Yes, but I don't give a damn." He responded in a husky voice as he untied my shitagi top and pants to expose me to him. I knew that tone, it was his demanding tone that he always made sure to use to ensure that I never deny him. I started to protest but he silenced me by grabbing my thighs and turning us so that he was kneeling between my legs gazing down on me.

I suddenly felt embarrassed being so exposed to him like this, and felt myself turn red.

"You're blushing… now?" He asked teasingly.

"I can't help it with the way you are looking at me as if I am about to be devoured." I retorted.

Qat my words, Toshiro leaned down to bring his mouth to my ear.

"I will devour you." He whispered as he ran his finger between my exposed breasts. I gasped at the sensation. "You need to stop me now Kimura, I don't think I will be able to restrain myself if you do not stop me." His gazed turned serious as he caught my attention as I continued to gasp.

"Toshiro…... make me yours." I whispered.