That Time: Only You (A Bleach Love Story)

Chapter 31

Ichigo and I had decided to head home.

It was getting really late.

"Is it me or is it too cold ?" I asked Ichigo.

Ichigo looked around and pulled me close to him. "Yeah... TOO cold."

Not long did Ichigo stop and turned around.

Behind us, was a guy wearing a mask and a black coat.

I looked at the mask figure and was ready to call out Hakure and Yui, but...

"Blossom, Blossom, Blossom." The figure said my name.

"Who are you?" I asked.

The figure just held his hand out to me. "You wanna know? Come with me."

Behind the guy, Sakura and Ryo appeared.

"Ryo... Who are you...? Really?" Ichigo said.

Ryo looked away and closed his eyes. "I am Ryo Kuchiki. I'm not like Sakura. I am an actual Soul Reaper who did nothing but ruin the Kuchiki name."

"So, you really are..." I paused and looked at the figure.

Through his mask, I can see his eyes. He had red eyes that seemed to be piercing right through me.

"Blossom, stop stalling. Come on." The figure said.

Ichigo quickly ate his soul candy and became a Soul Reaper.

He looked at me, "Blossom, I want you to get away."

"Ichigo, you can't. It's three vers-" Ichigo stopped me.

"Listen to me. This guy, if you do remember him. You have to realize they won't be that same person anymore." Ichigo told me.

Then, he ran to attack the figure. Only for the figure to grab the edge of Ichigo's sword with his hand.

"Really? Straight on attack? No plan?" The figure, placed the palm of his hand on Ichigo's stomach.

My eyes widened as his hand started to glow.

"This is..." Ichigo's eyes widened.

"Ichigo!" I yelled his name.

Only for a loud explosion to happen and dust was everywhere.

"Why are there hollows everywhere?!" Byakuya yelled angrily.

Everyone was outside the mansion. Fighting Hollows.

"I'm not that bright, but... If we stop her, they should too." Yumichika said, as he pointed to the girl from the prom who had summoned hollows through music.

Byakuya looked at her and soon realized. "She's... the distraction...! Blossom!"

He tried to get away from the Hollows, only to be stopped by more.

He glared at them and clenched his sword.

Ichigo held his waist and was breathing hard. He was able to escape the attack.

"I.... I know who you are..." Ichigo said.

The figure stared at him. "Really now?"

The figures eyes widened as the mask he wore cracked.

It revealed his face. He had a hollow mask on his right cheek. Blue hair...

"I feel like... I know you." I said.

Sakura started to clap. "Bravo. You FEEL like you know him. But, do YOU really remember him?"

Sakura was right. Do I really know who this guy is...?

"Grimmjow... I thought you wanted to protect her!" Ichigo yelled.

Grimmjow frowned. "Protect her? You're right. I did. Until all of you showed up. Specially that Byakuya."

"What did Byakuya do to you?" I asked.

"Byakuya is the reason I'm like this. What I wanted to do, was keep yiu safe from Aizen. It's funny because he builds an army of Arrancars. Only to get you. As I watch after I had revived him and Hisana, I found out that we were just pawns to fight the Soul Reapers. He had no intention to even kill you. Oh wait, the super fun part begins. When everything was going crazy in the Soul Society, I was going to kill Aizen myself. But, I ran into your boytoy. He told me that no one should kill Aizen but him. We had an argument about it. Yeah." Grimmjow grinned.

"You were the one who brought them back...?" I asked.

Grimmjow nodded. "Just him and Byakuya's lover. I gave them soecific orders. Orders that both of them ignored."

Ichigo tried to stand straight. But his wound seemed to be deep.

This made Grimmjow laugh. "Hahaha, alright. Let me finish it before you die Ichigo. Byakuya killed me. I tried to do the right thing. Only to be killed! I swore I would return and kill him."

I looked down and I closed my eyes.

"That's not true." I said.

Sakura sighed. "Oh, sweetie. It's true. See the trouble you cause? If you didn't like Byakuya, no life would be killed. Some people would still be alive."

"And if she chose to dislike Byakuya. Some things would have been regretted." Someone said.

That voice... I turned to see Aizen and Byakuya.