Save Me from the Dark (Old)

A Heart Worth Saving

  Hey! Sorry for this really late chapter, STAAR testing again😖! This has been my biggest vision for this story so far, I hope that everyone enjoys it just as much as I have enjoyed writing it. I want to thank those who have stuck with this story so far even though it seems Bleach is not the most popular thing anymore. That doesn't matter though, those who love Bleach and the pairing Ichihime are always welcome to comment and suggest future ideas for this story. Once again I thank you all, and now enjoy. (Btw don't forget to check out the YouTube video above for Imagine Dragons's Bleeding Out. I thought it would fit this chapter!)

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    It was a late Friday night in early September, three days after Ichigo's capture, Team Karakura and reinforcements from the Soul Society prepared to storm Hueco Mundo. The raid group included Yumichika, Ikkaku, Rangiku, Momo, Toshiro, Rukia, and Renji. After convening at Urahara's shop they set off for the palace of Las Noches through the Garganta that was set up in the training arena. Rukia carefully approached Orihime and asked calmly, "Are you sure you want to go through with this?" Orihime stared at the Garganta and said, "Absolutely." Rukia simply nodded her head as their group leapt through the dark void. They sped through on the walkways their reiatsu created, not diminishing their resolve to return with Ichigo; Tousen had been successfully apprehended in the previous mission. This team of friends came here to do one thing: save another friend who had been carrying the weight of the world for too long.

      Deep with in Las Noches screams echoed off the walls, jumping down the foryers, and rattling the distilled air. Blood dripped and dribbled, splattering on the ground like droplets of water. They converged forming a fluent stream that grew into a river as a limp body fell into the pool, sending the crimson liquid across the cobbled flooring. "Tch! Pathetic, and to think that this sappy bastard is to be the king of this hell hole!" A feminine voice echoed. "Keep your ideals to yourself Shikina! He is in league with those soul reapers, we need him if we are to ever to kill that Soul King of theirs and annex hollow equality." Seinaru roared. But Shikina stared at him and broke into a fit of laughter, "Hollow equality! That's what this is about?" She then said in a more serious tone, "Since when do those gits in the Soul Society ever care about hollow equality, let alone anything but their own asses? They slaughter us for a living! They look us in the eye and tell us we're going to rot in hell! I will see the heavens and earth become one and take over hell before the Soul Reapers ever care how a hollow feels!" Seinaru turned his head away and stared at the limp body bellow his feet. Torturing this wavering soul was doing no good for his cause, yet he could not deny a sudden urge to run the boy through for not providing adequate information. Listening to his hollow instincts he took one of his knarled tentacles and swiftly ran it through the boy's stomach. This resulted in an immense amount of pleasure to surge through the hollow, he then felt the urge to do it again, but ultimately found irrational for the boy was injured enough and lucky to be breathing. The pattering of heavy feet rebounded down the corridors and stopped by the door to the room. The old, tattered door creaked and groaned as it swung open in haste. "Lord Seinaru, scouts say that a fairly large group of soul reapers and humans have entered Hueco Mundo and march this way as we speak!" A canine-like hollow reported anxiously. "Shikina, chain Kurosaki up and take him to the cages that were set up in the courtyard the other day." Seinaru ordered as he spun to face the young dog hollow and said, "Tell the adjuchas to prepare themselves for a fight, and make sure that Espada does not escape from his cell!" The hollow nodded and sped off toward the temporary barracks. "This plan is going to be shot to hell before we ever get anywhere." Shikina said as she drug Ichigo by his chains through the door. Seinaru hissed and stalked after the female hollow. She was right and he knew it, but refused to acknowledge it. Why things couldn't just simply go his way, he'd never know. The two Vasto Lorde sped down the abandoned halls in a hasty sonido, exiting into the courtyard. No matter how badly injured Seinaru got tonight, he reasoned that the plan would live on even if it is modified or takes another route.