Love never really goes away - Toshiro Hitsugaya

Chapter 6

"I wonder if it is dark outside, it is hard to tell the time in this room," Kisuke says as he finishes off his 17th apple

Unmei was sitting on the Gound with her chin resting on her fist as she struggled to keep her eyes open. A large yawn escaped her lips as she slightly leaned over to see how much Ichigo had progresses over the last few hours but when she looked over she saw him lying there with his face against the ground 

"Ichigo are you ok?" She asked with concern laced in her tone, she knew that she would stop him from being taken over from the hollow no matter what it took and no matter what problems it would create, she wasn't going to let him become a hollow and she certainly wasn't going to let him die.

Ichigo slowly moved and lifted his head up to look at the girl who wore a concerned expression on her small, delicate face. and he slowly began to question himself 'dammit, how long have we been here? what time is it? what's happening? How much time has passed? i cant tell How can i climb out of this place?

"Jinta go and take him down some food please" Unmei sighs as she leans back and lays on the hard ground beneath her and Jinta nods his head and grabs a plate full of fruit and runs down and hands Ichigo the food 

"I bought you some food, i figured that you might start getting hungry" Jinta said as he smirked down at Ichigo 

"Hah! what are you talking about?" Ichigo asks as he smirks back over at jinta "as if id get hungry, take a look. there is still quite a few chains to the link of fate"

Jinta loses the smirk as it is taken over by a frown "I guess it can't be helped then if you can't tell the time in a place like this."

"Time?" Ichigo asks in confusion and stares up at Jinta 

"70 Hours have passed since you have come down here" Jinta replies "some quick ones start turning into hollows already, also one more thing, the last encroachment is nothing like the others"

"Huh?" Ichigo asks in fear and shock and then looks down towards the chain and it suddenly began eating itself a lot faster and all the chains came to life 

"all the chains?" Ichigo asks in fear "stop! stop! all of you stop!" 

Unmei quickly stands and goes to jump down the hole but kisuke stops her

"let me go" Unmei growls and looks down at Ichigo in fear as she watches white liquid pour from his eyes and begin to form the mask of a hollow "this isn't how it was supposed to happen"

kisuke tightened his grip on her as she struggled to get free 

"ICHIGO!" she screamed out and looked at the boys with tears beginning to form in her eyes 

Ichigo began to scream and his spiritual pressure began to circle him 

"He will be fine, just wait" Kisuke ordered as his daughter began to get out of control and release her spiritual pressure, causing everything around them to shake rapidly and Jinta and Ururu fells to their knees "watch him carefully" 

Unmei slowly calmed down as she watched what was happening "he's still resisting" she whispers in shock and Ichigo continued to scream "he's going to become a visord" 

The mask had almost completely covered his face and his loud screams of pain continued to echo throughout the whole room.

Unmei covered her ears and closed her eyes, not able to bear the sight or sound of Ichigo in pain.

Ichigo broke free of the restraints that were wrapped around his arms