Christmas Nightmare (Bleach Fanfic)

Soft Snow

"...I'd give my life to make sure that the two of you were alive." Gin sated, watching as Toshiro suddenly looked up to him, his eyes going a bit wide. Slowly though, a smile spread across the child's face, while a few tears came down. In turn, Ichimaru found himself smiling at the boy. This stopped though, when snow began to softly fall down on the two of them.

The silver haired man's happiness quickly disappeared, knowing full well that the snow fall wasn't a natural kind. He also knew it wasn't being caused by the child in front of him. Carefully, he spoke up. "Shiro-chan, I want you to go find Rangiku."

At this, the child taicho suddenly blinked a couple of times. "I don't understand, is something the matter?"

At that, one of the lights suddenly flickered, and both pairs of teal eyes suddenly turned to see a woman dressed badly up on the pole. At that point, Ichimaru stepped in between the boy and her, while Toshiro stood up, knowing full well who the person was. "Do you honestly think that you can control me again? I won't let you touch him."

At that, the woman let out a sharp cackle and moved directly behind the silver haired man, her hand suddenly covering his eyes. "I'm not going to make the same mistake I made the last time." Stepping back and removing her hands, she simply smiled venomously. "I don't think I am going to have a problem with you now."

At that, Toshiro watched in shock as Gin's soul form was forced out of the gigai. His body trembled as he watched the man's eyes suddenly turn red, clouding over as the hollow mask suddenly began to form. He then watched as Gin moved to the resurrection stage, standing right in front of him, a vulpine with dripping jowls.

He could see a great deal of pain in the eyes, which caused the child's throat to chock back yelling and screaming, but his reiatsu flared out in panic. This time, the expression on was rather human, rather filled with emotion. And then, Gin's body returned to normal, collapsing to the ground in front of him. "Oto-san!"

At that, the two bright teal eyes suddenly turned to glare at the woman and he reached his hand in for the Soul Candy. Upon popping the piece into his mouth, he stepped away from his gigai. "Get him to safety."

At that, the woman let out a sound as if she were trying to admonish him. "You honestly haven't figured out what is going on here. However, that does explain why I couldn't control him earlier. You obviously have just found out, so while his bond with you is strong, the one you have with him is weak and can easily be broken."

"I don't know what you are talking about." Toshiro snapped the words out, reaching to his back to draw the sword upon his back.

It was at that point that Ichimaru's hand reached out and grabbed the female's ankle. "Shiro-chan, don't even think about fighting her." Gin raised himself weakly onto one elbow. "Get away from here now."

"I can't leave you." With that, the child raised his sword up to swing at her. However, before he could do this, he found his arm wrapped suddenly in ivy, his teal eyes going wide as he tried to pull away. They darted over to where the small girl was standing, simply looking at him with a blank expression on her face.

"You are going to leave him." The woman suddenly stepped over to the small child and waved a hand in front of his face, causing his eyes to suddenly cloud over. "Actually, you're coming with us. As I said before, your powers are unstable, so I won't force you to your highest point. However, I do want you to do somethings for me."

At that, she leaned over and whispered something into the child's ear. The ivy unwrapped from his wrist and the boy stepped forward, eying Gin. The tip of his blade then slid into the man's shoulder, cutting deeply and then he stepped back as the woman placed a hand on the boy's shoulder while Toshiro looked at him blankly. "I told you, while your bond with him is strong, the bond between the two of you isn't."

"Bitch!" Ichimaru glared at the female. "I am going to hunt you down and kill you for this."

"Yes, well your son will make a nice shield for me, won't it." The woman smiled at him. "Also, your son has a rather devastating ability to control the weather." She then wrapped her arms around the boy's shoulders and leaned forward. "Now, Shiro-chan... that's what he called you, so you must like the name. Why don't you bring up a storm to cover our tracks?"

"Hai..."The response was monotone, empty of emotion. Despite this, Gin tried mustering the strength to stand up, only to be blasted by a sudden flurry of snow. When it died down, all three were gone.

"You Bitch! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to find you, and torture your body and make your life a living hell before I do so! But I'm going to kill you, mark my... words.." At that, the man felt his eyes rolling backwards into his head.

M

When Rangiku went looking for that child of hers, the first place she decided to look was up high. She jumped from roof to roof, but honestly couldn't find the child. She ran into both Rukia and Ichigo, who found themselves quite frustrated with the situation as well. It was then that the felt the small taicho's reiatsu fluctuate, from somewhere over by the park.

The three of them headed in that direction and were almost to the spot, when all three felt the small taicho's reiatsu clearly, as if he were fighting some sort of enemy. And then, the sudden gush of winter storm hit them. Despite that, they moved forward, trying to get to where Toshiro most likely happened to be.

And that was when they heard Gin yelling. "You Bitch! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to find you, and torture your body and make your life a living hell before I do so! But I'm going to kill you, mark my... words.."

Rangiku found herself rushing forward, just as the man collapsed into her arms. "Gin! Gin! Where's Toshiro? Where's our son?" She then paused, horror spreading across her fair features. "His reiatsu..."

At that, Rukia leaned in close to the man, frowning as she did so. "I thought his reiatsu was one of the highest amount the captains. It now feels like it is a fifth or sixth seat and its still dropping." The female paused, noticing the injury on the man's shoulder. "Matsumoto-san..."

At that, the female winced upon seeing the wound. "What the hell happened here. He could have taken on a lot stronger opponent, but..." Her bright blue eyes suddenly went wide. "It can't be."

"I didn't think so either." The small female shinigami shook her head, also rather frustrated with the finding.

"What's the matter?" The orange haired teenager glanced around. "And shouldn't Toshiro be here?"

"Ichigo... Hitsugaya Taicho caused this injury." Rukia stated, her mood rather grave.

"Toshiro?" Ichigo suddenly slashed his hand across the air. "Are you saying that he's gone rouge again? I know that he's mad at the two of you, but I would think he learned his lesson the last time. He also wouldn't go and hurt someone for some trivial thing like this."

"We have to wait until Gin comes back too." Rangiku stated, stooping down to lift the man up onto her arm.

As she supported him, she saw a tear fall down his cheek, and he mumbled something. "Shiro-chan... I'm sorry..."

At that, the female said what she thought straight out. "Something bad is going on. When that mess happened before Ichigo, I had a bad feeling too. It's the kind of feeling where you know your child is getting in over their head. This time... this time I feel like he is in serious danger and that something is really wrong."

At that, Ichigo let out a deep sigh and stooped down to scoop Ichimaru over his shoulder. "We'll get back to our place faster if I carry him. I'll call up my friends, while you two call up help from Soul Society. I also have a bad feeling."