Even Now

Even Now - Chapter 21 "Past"

Chapter 21 -Ichigo-

The Past

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"Are you sure you are okay?"

A pair of grey orbs looked at me. The girl with angelic face blinked her eyes twice before smiled widely and looked away from me. She said nothing but her eyes and her smiled had told me that I shouldn't have to be worried about her. Her eyes assuring me that she was fine and would be fine no matter what. I knew no matter how many times I was going to ask her, she would answer me the same way she did.

I didn't understand how she could be so calm. There had been a big chance that she would met Aizen again soon. After all that had been done by the bastard to her, I expected to be more... Scared.

She rested her head on my shoulder. I could smell a faint aroma of strawberry from her hair. She said nothing but, though I couldn't see her face from our current position, I knew that she wasn't sleeping. She looked so calm. Calmer than the rest of us though I could say that she was the one who had been through the worst episode with the psycho bastard. I didn't understand what she had in her head right now. She wasn't stupid, she should have known that what we would do now was going to be dangerous. I didn't want her to get hurt by Aizen, again.

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"Me?" He chuckled, he looked at me with his brown eyes before he laughed manically. I didn't say anything until he stopped laughing and looked at me with those eyes. The same eyes that had been looking at me years ago. He smiled, "I didn't hurt her. It's you. You hurt her."

"Shut up!" I gritted my teeth, my hand clenched on the wooden sword tightly, "I would never hurt Orihime! I love her!"

The sick bastard narrowed his eyes, smile had been gone from his face, "I am the one torturing her, but you are the one who caused her pain."

"Cut the crap!" I shouted. I lost my patience. I didn't come to this place to talk. I didn't fight his men on my way to get here only to hear him talk shit like this. I came here to get Orihime back.

"Ichigo-kun..."

I gritted my teeth and shifted my eyes to the girl I loved. She was standing not too far behind Aizen, a black haired young man held her hands behind her body not letting her go. The man gave me a weird look, as our eyes met, I saw an expression I couldn't interpret on his face, as if he wanted to say something but he couldn't.. That man, Ulquiorra Schiffer...

"It is all your fault, Ichigo Kurosaki," said Aizen the smile had slowly faded from his lips as he spat my name, "you killed the woman I loved now I would make you feel what I'd felt."

"I wouldn't let you touch her!" I was about to attack him when someone pulled me from behind and throw me easily to the wall across the room.

"Ichigo-kun!"

My head hit the wall and it made me dizzy. I groaned as I tried to stand up to see who was the man who had been attacking me. I could felt that my head was bleeding but I didn't care.

A man, taller than me and Aizen stood in front of me. He had this wide grin on his face. I didn't knew who was the blue haired man but I knew one thing that he was one of Aizen men. Now I had been outnumbered. There were three of them in this room and I wasn't sure how I should fight them all with Orihime in this room. They could hurt her anytime to bring me down and I didn't want it to happen. Renji wasn't here yet, the men downstair must have been slowing him down. Now, I had to face these people alone.