The Cherry And The Strawberry (Bleach Fanfic)

Chapter Fifty One

             Cherī's Inner World

Cherī laid in the center of the island on her back, her arms laid beside her limp, her eyes closed shut as if she was sleeping. In her right hand a faint light shined through her slightly parted fingers, looking closely the light had been coming from a small sphere that laid in her palm. Moments later Cherī's eyes started to shift behind her eyelids. She slowly opened her eyes starring up at the sky the was pitch black with many stars shining brightly down at her.

"Ugh..." Cherī groaned as she sat up rubbing her eyes.

"What's going on?" She looked around to see she had woken up in her inner world but this time it was much, much more different then she remembered. The light the shoned from the lava and magma that flowed down from their volcanos had dimmed the while area. The heat that usually could be felt was now gone. She felt cold. Both inside and out.

"Ken? Are you here?" She called out towards the harden sea of solid rock.

"How are you feeling?" Ken appeared in front of her. Cherī eyed him feeling something off about him.

"What's going on? What happened here Ken?" She questioned the red eyed wolf. He let out a tired sigh laying down in front of her, his red eyes starred tiredly at her.

"Ken? Why do you look so tired? What happened?"

"You're dying or haven't you noticed?"

"What?!"

"You can tell by the look of your inner world." He said looking around.

"And judging from the looks of it your time is nearly up. You won't live much longer."

"What about everyone else? What's going on with the fight against Sōsuke?"

"From what I remember it was not looking good. Sōsuke Aizen defeated both your parents and Isshin Kurosaki." Her breath hitched.

"W-what happened to Ichigo? Didn't he try to stop him?"

"He did until Isshin took over the fight leaving him to fight against Gin Ichimaru for some amount of time."

"Gin? He was fighting Gin?"

"Yes. In fact, Ichimaru had released his Bankai."

"His Bankai? The Hōgyoku! What happened to the Hōgyoku?!" She quickly got to her feet opening her top to find nothing there.

"Idiot."

"What'd you call me?!" She shouted at the wolf.

"Why are you worried?"

"Why am I worried? That's a stupid question! I'm worried about everyone else fighting against Sōsuke!"

"Stupid, huh? You're the stupid one here! You jumped into not just one but two fights to save the loud-mouth Visord and the Soul Reaper! No one told you to risk your life for anyone!"

"They didn't have too! I don't care what happens to me as long as everyone else is safe!"

"Do you have any idea what is going on out there!?"

"Of course not! Tell me what's going on!"

"Head Captain Yamamoto has been defeated!" Cherī gaped open at the new information.

"H-he what...?"

"Yamamoto along with the others had been taken care of by Aizen."

"That can't be..."

"It's true."

"And Ichigo?"

"Looks like he gave up hope on winning this war." She gritted her teeth, clenching her fists tightly.