That Time: Only You (A Bleach Love Story)

Chapter 8

"She's slowly remembering everything. .." Yui said.

He watched everything through Chii's mirror.

Chii looked down and bit her bottom lip. "Is this right...? I don't want to do this anymore..."

Hakure glared at Chii. "We have orders to follow. We can't disobey him."

Yui looked at Hakure. Then touched the mirror.

"You're my dark counterpart. But, even you know this isn't right." Yui told Hakure.

Hakure looked down and clenched his fist.

Chii had a sad look on her face. "Let's warn her! We could still he-"

Suddenly Ryo grabbed Chii's mirror.

Chii's eyes widened. "H-Hey!"

Ryo grinned and looked at the mirror. "You weren't thinking of helping them, were you? I mean come on. I brought you three here."

Hakure glared at Ryo. "We won't betray you. Give her back the mirror."

"Ah, I forgot. This is Chii's lifeforce. If this mirror were to break. Your little friend no longer exists, right?" He asked.

Chii took a step back.

Rangiku, Orihime and I all slept in Uryu's bed.

Byakuya walked towards us and touched my face. "Goodnight..." He whispered.

He walked out of Uryu's room and closed the door.

In the living room were Ikkaku, Yumichika, Renji, Ichigo, Chad, Uryu and Toshiro.

"This Ryo guy... You sure you haven't heard of him before?" Toshiro asked.

Byakuya nods his head. "I do not re-call any memories of him. Accept for that fact that he was mentioned."

"All of the Kuchiki files is in the Soul Society." Ikkaku said.

Suddenly the air began to feel heavy and the door to Uryu's house opened.

Chii ran in the house with her mirror.

"Chii?" Yumichika looked at her.

She was soaking wet from the rain.

"Y-Yui..." She turned to face them and fell to the floor.

Everyone ran to help her.

"There's blood on her dress... You don't think..." Yumichika looked at them.

Uryu carried her. "Let me treat her."

A few minutes had passed by and Chii woke up.

"Ah...! W-Where... Huh?" She had sat up and saw Yumichika and Byakuya.

Yumichika pats her head. "It's alright, what hapened?"

Chii looked down and stared ather mirror. Then, she took out a piece of paper from her pocket.

"This is for you..." Chii said, as she handed the paper to Byakuya.

"What is this?" He asked as he took the paper.

It was burnt up and torn.

(Listen to Morning Embrace from Bleach OST)

"When we visited the Soul Society, it contajned information of Loom... Well, Ryo." Chii told him.

Byakuya tried to read it, soon his eyes widened.

I tossed and turned in my sleep.

What...? Why...? I can't remember him....

Blue hair... those eyes....

I woke up and noticed that Rangiku had pushed Orihime and I off the bed.

"What the..." I yawned and stretched.

I looked at the time and saw it was barely midnight.

"So, you were sent to kill her? To restart her history?" I heard someone say.

I got up and pressed my ears against the door.

It sounded like Byakuya, Yumichika and... Chii?

"Yes, I didn't want to do it. But, Ryo attacked us. Because we wanted to help you." Chii said.

Byakuya lookes at her. "What happened to Yui and Hakure?"

Chii had a saddened painful look in her eyes. "I don't know about Hakure... But..."

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"Chii, you need to go to Blossom." Hakure said.

"N-No! I can't!" Chii cried.

Yui's eyes widened as his ribbon blade broke and Ryo slashed him across his chest.

Blood splattered everywhere.

"NOW CHII!" Hakure yelled in an angered tone.

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I took a step back upon hearing what happened.

Then my head began to hurt once more.

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"Why did the zanpakuto's manifest?" Byakuya asked.

Yui answered this. "Ahm... Well, you see... When Aizen put you all under Kyōka Suigetsu, we wanted to help. But, we didn't know how to wake any of you up."

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"Aizen... I need to remember more... These aren't making sense to me..." I told myself.

I slowly opened the door. Only to find Byakuya leaning close to the door in the guest room from the inside.

I slowly tried to make my way out.

"Byakuya, Blossom will end uo being curious about everything." Chii said.

Byakuya looked at her. "I will never allow herself to be in harms way."

"I know you were married once. But, you do realize that even back then. She went with-" Yumichika stopped once Byakuya glared at him.

"I know that." Byakuya looked down.

I had passed Byakuya only to be stopped by Ichigo

"So, you going to run off?" Ichigo asked.

He glanced to the living room. In there were Ikkaku, Toshiro, Chad, Uryu and Renji.

They were talking and laughing.

Ichigo then looked at me. "I hope you realize, that they all came here to protect you."

"But, you're all protecting the other me right?" I asked.

Ichigo shook his head. "Even if we were only protecting the other you, you're still the same person. No different from the other one."

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"Ichigo, you're crazy! Get Rukia!" I yelled.

Ichigo stared at me with a shock look. "Blossom, ca-" I cut him off his words.

"She's right there! Don't pull off a dodo move! I'm not the one on execution!" I yelled.

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"Ichigo, I won't leave... I won't run away. IF you promise to tell me everything." I told him.

Ichigo looked behind me and shook his head.

"It's for the best if I tell you." Someone said.

I turned around to see Byakuya.