You Can Go
Chapter 4

What if she doesn't make it...That thought had been rattling around her head for days now, constantly popping back up to the surface of her mind just when she thought she had finally stifled it from the last time. She's a former Captain of the Gotei 13, she's has noble blood strengthening her, her speed and strength are outstanding. She can't die – there's just no way. She can't – she won't! She pulled up all the reasons she could possible think of to banish the unwanted thought and feelings and knew it was only a matter of time till she found herself confronted by it again later on.

Yoruichi's ragged breaths caught her attention and Soifon automatically dipped the cloth in her hand into a bowl of cool water and gently dabbed Yoruichi's forehead to provide some sort of comfort against the raging fever that had taken over her.

Yoruichi was yet to show signs of waking up and Soifon had remained by her side, not sleeping since Kisuke had moved Yoruichi back to her room. Kisuke had tried many times to coax Soifon into sleeping but she didn't want to leave Yoruichi alone. Soifon had been startled when Kisuke had entered the room the next day with Unohana standing beside him; apparently he had sent a message to her requesting her help earlier that morning and having better skills at healing, was able to take care of Yoruichi's wounds better, she put bandages around the more serious ones and removed her torn clothing and placed her in one of the white patient gowns.

When Unohana finally allowed Soifon back into the room, having asked her to leave along with Kisuke while she worked, Soifon faulted slightly when her eyes landed on Yoruichi, still lost in deep sleep only now she was looking more like herself. Unohana had been able to heal all of her bruised skin and the swelling around her face was gone – if it wasn't for the visible bandages she could see poking out from underneath the robe and the fact that her spiritual pressure was still extremely low, Soi would have half believed that none of this had ever happened.

"How is she?" Kisuke asked. Soifon was stunned into silence by the healer's abilities, Unohana however did not share her disposition instead she seemed quite apprehensive.

"Her injuries are doing a lot better thanks to your skills Kisuke when you found her though she is still very weak. I don't want to risk moving her in this condition, for now she is stable and rest is what she needs. I will return to check up on her in a while but if anything happens do send for me right away." Unohana tells them both. Soifon didn't quite know how to react to this, it was mixed information and her mind was going in circles over it – Yoruichi's doing better but moving her could prove a great risk to her health, there must not be much improvement...so what counts as better if she's not? Argh this is maddening! Is she going to recover or not!

"I will explain to the Captain-Commander what has happened so that you can stay longer Soifon." Unohana added as she past by her to leave the room, "Urahara, a word or two if you can spare the time please." She continued out of the room with Kisuke offering her a drink. Soifon remained still with her back to the shoji as Kisuke slid it shut, leaving her in the room where she stood, not taking her eyes off Yoruichi aware that only one thing was certain – she wouldn't be able to survive losing Yoruichi again.

The first time had felt impossible to deal with but Unohana didn't give up on her and managed to pull her out of the depression but back then she believed that Yoruichi was alive and had laughed at the rumours of her being dead. It was messed up when she thought back to it now; she had refused to believe anything about Yoruichi being dead but was determined to kill her anyway. That's because I'm messed up...if I hadn't been so wrapped up in my own head, fighting my own feelings I might have been able to spot it, see what was troubling you all this time...you could have been trying to reach out for me and I - I pushed you away... Soi remembered all the times they had ended up alone together, she had made sure to be on extra guard during those times, dancing between the lines of trying to be friendly yet distancing herself when she relaxed too much around the playful cat and remembered the subtle change in Yoruichi's behaviour at this. If only I had paid more attention...you might have talked about it... Soifon sank to her knees beside Yoruichi when she realised she might have been able to stop any of this from happening if she hadn't acted so distant.

"I'm so sorry, wake up...please...wake up." She whispered and felt the tears building, burning her eyes when Yoruichi remained lost in deep sleep.

"You should get some rest." Kisuke's voice caught Soifon off guard and snapped her out of her memories and back to reality. Yoruichi had been asleep for 4 days with no signs of waking up and had broken into a fever. Soifon's body felt stiff and cramped from staying at her side. "And before you protest, Yoruichi would put you to bed herself if she knew what you were doing." He added before continuing past the room. Soifon couldn't help but smile at the comment as she failed to stifle a yawn, a strange morbid friendship had settled in place between her and Kisuke since they both wanted Yoruichi to recover, it gave them something to fully agree upon. Perhaps he has a point, I'm no good to her half asleep, she reasoned and placed the damp cloth on Yoruichi's forehead before standing up, stretching out her limbs with a satisfying pop. Soifon started to move out of the room but hesitated when she glanced back at Yoruichi; even with Kisuke making regular checkups on her Soi was reluctant to leave her alone completely, she didn't want her waking up to an empty room. This is ridiculous I'm just gonna be down the hallway!

Kisuke shuffled along the corridor, he had needed to grab some more coffee but decided to check up on Yoruichi before turning in for the night. He slid open the door and saw there was no need for him to really enter the room since lying on the floor next to Yoruichi was Soifon, fast asleep with her hand resting on the edge of the quilted cover keeping Yoruichi warm. Kisuke just slides the door shut, silently smiling at what he just witnessed thinking the two of them were being impossibly stubborn and all of this could have been avoided if they just had an honest conversation with one another, though everyone is allowed to make mistakes he concluded and continued on his way.

Yoruichi's mind felt dull and heavy, like she was coming out of some deep sleep and summarised this was more than likely the case since her body felt like a dead weight, muscles groaning in protest when she moved but she fought against the strong pull of peaceful sleep and continued to reach out to the familiar presence. She couldn't really remember why it felt so familiar but she knew she wanted it; it was unyielding in its strength and its warmth provided a path forward, away from the dull mindless sleep threatening to consume her again. Afraid that sleep would try and pry her away from the new warming presence she tightened her hold around it, unwilling to lose it again now that she had finally reached it.

"Y-Yoru-" the familiar voice gasped out.

That voice...it sounds close by... Thinking it was sleep coaxing her away from the first real thing she had been able to feel for what felt like a long time now, Yoruichi instinctively wrapped herself around the warmth, clinging to it desperately and ignored the pain coursing through her body from the movement and strain she was putting on it.

"Yoru-ichi-"

Soifon? Why do you sound in pain? What's going on? Yoruichi's instincts kicked in and she scanned the area, feeling out any dangers close by but couldn't find anything at all so focused on opening her eyes instead which for her was easier said than done since her eyelids felt like a ton of weights.

"You're-you're ch-choking me!" Soifon gasped out between gulps for air as she tried to pull Yoruichi's ever tightening arms from around her neck as the Goddess, now wrapped firmly around Soi's body cracked her eyes open, blinking a few times to take in her surroundings.

"Soi?" Yoruichi's voice rasped and she realised how dry her throat was and also realised that she was practically strangling Soifon with her grip. "Oh sorry!" and she quickly relaxed her arms though kept them in place, not wanting to lose the warmth Soifon's body heat was providing.

"It-it's...fine." Soifon mumbled pathetically as she struggled to control her emotions at having Yoruichi awake, moving and talking all in one go. Soifon had to fight the urge to wrap her arms Yoruichi and hug her back and not let go of her, conflicted over shouting at her for being an idiot or thanking her none stop for actually waking up and knew she'd most likely end up doing both.

Thankfully Yoruichi spoke again, sparing her the trouble of trying to work out what she should say next, "You look how I feel."

"Tsk." Soifon rolled her eyes at the comment. Yoruichi cracked a smile to hide the fact that she just winced at having stretched out her legs to examine her body's strength. She might have been able to get away with it too but with her body pressed into Soi's, the smaller woman had felt her shudder. "How do you feel?"

"I feel starving."

"I'm not surprised." Soifon laughed through a snort and forced herself to sit up, untangling herself from Yoruichi and waited for her to shift back onto the mattress and back under the covers. Soifon had fallen asleep beside Yoruichi again and was now very glad she had done so despite her body aching from lying on the hard floor, it was worth it knowing Yoruichi had not woken up in the dead of night alone since she would no doubt force herself up to get her own food instead of calling for help.

"Where you going?" Yoruichi asked with a yawn when Soifon stood up to leave the room.

"I'm going to get you some food. Try to stay awake, you need to eat." Soifon explained, noting that Yoruichi was already closing her eyes. "I'm glad you're alright." Soifon added quickly before leaving the room.

Not wanting to make a huge meal in case she couldn't wake Yoruichi when she returned, Soifon prepared a sandwich along with a drink and rushed back to Yoruichi's room and was surprised to find her sitting up, wide awake waiting for Soi's return.

"Thought I would have to wake you up." Soifon commented as she knelt beside Yoruichi and offered her the sandwich which Yoruichi accepted gratefully.

"Too cold." Yoruichi managed to explain through mouthfuls of food and used the glass of water to wash it down with though still managed to grab Soi's wrist when the captain made to stand up again once Yoruichi had finished the sandwich, "Now where you going?"

"I was going to get you another cover to keep you warm."

"Don't need it when I have you." Yoruichi stated and lifted the covers up for Soifon to climb under and join her. Soifon however seem to have forgotten how to move, caught completely by surprise. There was no playful glint shinning in her golden eyes, no teasing hint in her words, Yoruichi had been completely honest with her request for Soifon to get in beside her and keep her warm. She thought of it as a request only she had no choice when Yoruichi pulled her under the covers and although she made a feeble protest, she didn't stop it from happening and nor did she stop Yoruichi from wrapping herself around Soifon's body like she had done so earlier only this time, Soifon put her own arms around Yoruichi. If anyone asked her, she would tell them she had done it to keep Yoruichi warm during the night though she couldn't deny the fact that she was more than happy to stay that way for a very long time.

"You're an idiot." Soifon muttered under her breath and tightened her hold on Yoruichi, a little scared in case her Goddess vanished again.

"...I know..." Yoruichi mumbled back and pressed herself closer into Soi's body, savouring the warmth shared between them both as she fell asleep.

Soifon woke up with a smile for the first time in ages and felt more than content and very relieved that Yoruichi had finally woken up after being asleep for little over a week and she seemed to be her usual self though Soifon still wanted to know what had happened to make her run off to Hueco Mundo in the first place she wasn't going to push Yoruichi for answers just yet, she was still recovering and she would need breakfast. With that in mind, Soifon forced herself to get up and leave the warmth of the covers.

"Yoru-" Soifon stopped mid sentence when she realised the bed was surprisingly empty and she saw that Yoruichi was not in the bed and the door leading out into the hallway was open. At that moment she heard Kisuke laughing in the distance along with Yoruichi's laugh. What the... Soifon got up and headed towards the sound, curious at first but when she established they were both in the kitchen, a frown formed across her brow and she practically stomped into the kitchen where she saw Kisuke leaning against a counter half reading a newspaper while Yoruichi, still in the white robe stood by the oven frying some eggs.

"So you're telling me th- Soi! Good morning, how'd you like your eggs?" Yoruichi asked, smiling at her.

"What do you think you're doing?" Soifon seethed, glaring back at her.

"Making breakfast, I'm hungry and I assumed you would be too." Yoruichi explained, seemingly oblivious to Soifon's building temper. Kisuke however was slowly edging his way towards the exit, hiding behind the newspaper.

"You shouldn't even be moving let alone making breakfast! You should be in bed, resting! If you were hungry you could have woken me up, I would have been more than happy to make you something." Soifon advanced on Yoruichi who simply grinned back at her sheepishly.

"You looked too cute to disturb though." Yoruichi pouted, crossing her arms for good measure. Soifon felt her cheeks burn at that comment, more so since Kisuke was present to hear it and she realised she just gave away the fact that she had spent the night not only in Yoruichi's room but in her bed as well. Spluttering over what to say back to Yoruichi, the creak on the floorboards behind her alerted her to the ever retreating Kisuke so she turned on him, grateful for the distraction. "And you! You were just standing there! You should have made the breakfast instead of letting her do it!"

"Eh...It just kinda happened..." Kisuke trailed off, ducking behind the newspaper for protection but before Soifon could start on him some more, Yoruichi cut her off.

"Oh lay off him bee, he just got carried away seeing my up and about that was all." Yoruichi patted Soi's shoulder to pull her attention away from Kisuke.

"Yeah, about that – Back to bed!" Soifon ordered and grabbed hold of Yoruichi's arm, dragging her from the kitchen, silently thankful Yoruichi didn't put up much of a fight since she didn't want to accidently hurt her.

"What about my eggs?" Yoruichi whined playfully, quite happy to let Soifon lead her away.

"I will bring them to you after I get you back into your bed." Soifon answered, stopping short of Yoruichi's room and indicated for her to enter.

"You know, if I knew you wanted to get me into bed this badly I would have made last night more special for you." Yoruichi flashed Soifon a flirtatious smile as she passed by her, grinning at Soifon's wide eyed expression as her face burned bright red. "Oh and by the way," Yoruichi added once she had settled back on her bed "I'm still hungry." And she chuckled silently as she watched a rather flustered Soifon mumble something about fetching her something before hurrying off back down the hallway.

Soifon soon found most of the days passing by in a similar routine and soon preferred the ones spent with Yoruichi being her usual teasing self compared to others as it meant she was coping better with her injuries. The downside to Yoruichi recovering was the more awkward moments happening between them both when their conversations ran dry since both of them were unwilling to take the conversations deeper; Soifon was worried that she would slip up and reveal her true feelings if the topic was opened about Yoruichi going into Hueco Mundo and how she nearly died. Yoruichi felt equally worried that she would have to tell her why she had left and that Soifon would reject her feelings and that it would drive Soifon further away from her and what was left of their friendship would be lost forever so she did her best to act like her usual self and took to teasing Soifon as always when the two found themselves alone together for extended periods of time till she eventually got fed up and left. Yoruichi did feel guilty for doing so but at least this way she knew for certain that she had Soifon's friendship since she always returned to check up on her later on. She believed this plan was working just fine till Soifon entered her room one evening, wearing her Captain's haori once more, the first time Yoruichi had seen her wear it since she had woken up.

"You almost look official again." Yoruichi teased and got a scowl in return.

"Now that you are able to move freely and take better care of yourself I see no need for my assistance anymore and must return to the Soul Society – I'll have to retrain my entire squad for leaving Omaeda in charge for so long." She added, dreading the amount of work she would have to deal with upon her return. Yoruichi did her best to hide her disappointment; she knew Soifon would have to return eventually only she had hoped she would have stayed longer, great on top of all of this I'm still acting selfish and wanting her to stay against her will, Yoruichi frowned at this thought so bit back her protests of Soifon leaving.

"Then you must forgive me for not seeing you off personally, thank you for all you have done." Yoruichi told her, rolling onto her side so she wouldn't have to watch Soifon leave the room. There was a moment of silence before she heard footsteps followed by the sound of the shoji door being slid shut and silence one more. Yoruichi tightened her grip on the covers as she fought down the need to chase after Soifon and ask her to stay longer.

"Is that it? A simple thank you?" Soifon's voice startled Yoruichi, to the point she was too careless in sitting up and grunted in pain from her healing wounds though pushed past it.

"What? Were you expecting a kiss goodbye?" she joked doing her best to lighten the mood despite Soifon's scowl growing at this.

"You did so before." Soifon stated without missing a beat.

Yoruichi froze at this, realising that Soifon was determined to continue down this route. Dam it Soi why must we have this conversation, we were doing just fine without it taking place! "It was a mistake." Yoruichi quickly lied, doing her best to look uninterested, hoping it would throw Soifon off and make her drop the subject. She knew that wouldn't happen when Soifon's scowl intensified even more.

"So you accidently pushed your tongue into my mouth?" Soifon asked, not believing it for second and wished Yoruichi would just tell what had upset her so much that she would use the kiss as a distraction while concealing her own feelings about the kiss.

"I-I was upset and not thinking clearly." Yoruichi admitted carefully, wondering how she would be able to get through this and still keep her feelings guarded to protect her friendship with Soifon. "And I'm sorry I used you in such a manner." She concluded, holding out her last hope that Soi would just leave it at that and not push the matter further. Soifon clenched her jaw, ignoring the jab in her heart that felt like Yoruichi's words had just stabbed her there. Despite trying to convince herself that was the case for months, having it actually confirmed that the kiss had meant nothing was still painful to hear.

"What had upset you then?" Soifon asked, pushing past her feelings to see to Yoruichi's.

"It was nothing."

"With all due respect, it clearly wasn't just nothing for you act the way you did." Soifon countered.

"I just wasn't thinking clearly alright." Yoruichi snapped back, silently screaming at Soifon to just leave and let it go, there was nothing else she could say without it leading to more questions.

"I don't believe you. You would have to be acting very stupid indeed to just run off into Hueco Mundo to die."

"I didn't go there to die." Yoruichi was failing to hide her growing frustration.

"Then why did you go there?" Soifon advanced closer to her despite feeling very nervous, this was the first time that she could recall where she felt like she was arguing with Yoruichi since their fight together before she knew about Aizen's betrayal.

"Because of you alright," Yoruichi stood up to rid herself of the feeling of being pressured by Soifon's advance. "I did it to get away from you. I thought you would be better without me around." Great now there's no going back...I hope you're happy Bee. Yoruichi sighed when she realised there was nothing she could do now to stop this from happening.

"What?" Soifon visibly recoiled at hearing this, her brain searching for any action on her part that would have caused Yoruichi to think this.

"All I cause you is pain – Don't try and deny it." Yoruichi cut her off when she saw Soifon about to speak. "I messed up your life before and I'm doing it again right now, I forced you away from your duties as Captain and kept you here with threats of just catching you again...I-I abused our friendship and forced myself on you...I don't see how I am worthy of your trust anymore but you need to know, I never intended to do any of this, I wanted to do what was best for you...though I guess none of that really matters now since you clearly don't want our friendship anymore. I won't hold it against you and will continue to work professionally along side of you should the situation call for -"

"What on earth makes you think I don't want your friendship anymore?" Soifon interrupted her, completely dumbfounded as to why Yoruichi would actually think that of all things.

"I thought that was pretty clear by now, you've been acting distant towards me and in some cases outright avoiding me, like I said I had to force you to spend time with me. You've been slowly pushing me out of your life!" Yoruichi lost herself to her own emotions, feeling hurt and betrayed that someone she trusted her life with wanted nothing to do with her anymore.

"It was never for that intent!" Soifon yells back, "I only did all those things to protect myself!" She paused, breathing deeply to calm herself down now that she had Yoruichi's attention. "My world revolved around you and nothing else so what did you think would happen to me when that was taken from me. I had nothing. Anything that was me back then was because of you. The only reason I survived it was thanks to Unohana, she stopped me when I tried to take my own life since I saw myself as unworthy to be by your side since you left me without a single word. She helped me rebuild my life, it wasn't an easy process to say the least but she refused to give up on me and I slowly found a purpose for being again." She paused, taking a moment to see the shocked expression on Yoruichi's face at hearing that.

"Now that you've got that little insight into the hell I was forced through, maybe you can understand why I wanted to put some space between us. When you came back of course I understood the reason you left but I noticed I was falling back into old habits and I couldn't allow that to happen in case you left again. I had to protect myself."

Yoruichi simply nodded in understanding, containing the waves of relief and the feeling of fireworks exploding through her chest when she realised that Soifon didn't want to end to their relationship and that the captain still wanted Yoruichi in her life. Yoruichi also knew what she had to do. She would have to tell Soifon the truth.

"Soifon...the day you asked me why I didn't take you with me I told you that it was because I didn't have enough time to really consider each and every possibility and I also didn't want to mess up your life as I did mine and that I thought you would be safer and become stronger if left in the soul society...although those are some of the reasons why I didn't take you with me...there is another reason I never told you about. So ask me again why I didn't take you all those years ago."

Soifon blinked, slightly confused as to what relevance this had though did as asked, "Why didn't you take me with you?"

"I didn't take you with me because you were and still are my one weakness." Yoruichi admitted.

"What?" Soifon looked like someone had just slapped her across the face.

"Everything happened so fast and none of it was making any sense. My only hope of getting any answers at all would be if I got to talk with Kisuke and Central 46 were going to make that impossible, picking the easiest course of action, doing what everyone did just to set some answers to it all. Hell, had it been anyone else besides Kisuke even I would have fallen for it. I grew up with him Soi and I just knew it was impossible for him to really plot against the Soul Society, I had to take action."

"Here's where you come into it, part of that action I wanted to take was to go to you, to tell you what was going on. I wanted to confide in you all of my concerns, that I was actually scared about what had to be done and that my actions would mean people I considered my friends and allies would be ordered to hunt me down, capture or even kill me if possible. I was about to shatter my world as I knew it and I needed to go to you only I couldn't. A huge part of that world was based on you and if I went to you, I was afraid I would lose the resolve needed to go through with it. Seeing the look in your eyes when I told you I was about to break the laws we both lived to uphold for man you didn't even like...it would have been too much..."

"If you asked me to stay, it would have only have taken you asking me once and I would have done so to be with you and to spare you that pain of losing everything – I would have stayed and people would have died. Good people, innocent people would have died. Because of me." She paused, letting that reality sink into herself as much as Soifon."By given into my feelings I would have turned a blind eye on what was happening and no one could have known or have been prepared for Aizen's plans and the world we now know would be a very dangerous place for both the humans and us alike."

There was a sombre silence between them both, Yoruichi hit by the truth of her words just as much as Soifon was.

"Y-You...would have...stayed?" Soifon asked quietly, her voice barely above a whisper.

"Yes." Yoruichi stated again.

"Why?"

...Yoruichi breathed in deeply "...Because I-I..." She hesitated, examining Soifon's cold stance, she couldn't work out what she was thinking or feeling. It was unnerving. "I think I...I think I love you." It wasn't the best answer but it was the truth.

"You think or you know?" Soifon remained her usual impassive self.

"I-I don't know, I do but...it's confusing ok. I know I love you Soifon - but that's based on what we already have...and there's these other things too - Dam it I'm not good at this alright!" Yoruichi exclaimed, annoyed for acting so unsure of herself, it didn't help that Soifon was showing no emotion whatsoever. She sighed in frustration when Soifon remained quiet. "Look when you started acting differently and ignoring me it felt like you didn't want my friendship but then you started interacting with others and saying you were busy with others and it made me jealous and I had to fight the urge to just carry you off and away from them so you would be with me and I actually did end up doing just that so -"

"Yoruichi." Soifon stated, stopping the Goddess from rambling on.

"Yes?"

"You really aren't good at this are you?" Soifon chuckled, noting the discomfort Yoruichi was in at having to try and openly state her true feelings. Yoruichi folded her arms, playfully pouting though smiled at seeing Soifon laugh, it made her feel more confident that Soifon wasn't going to turn away from her in disgust in having her former mentor admit she wanted to explore their relationship further.

"Like you could do any better." Yoruichi continued her pouting.

"Then let me try." Soifon took a step closer, a rare smile crossing her face at seeing Yoruichi's eyes widen as she now stood at her side. "I knew a long time ago that my feelings for you were that of love. This is where you have to remember what I said earlier and how I had to fight with myself relentlessly on not viewing your constant flirtatious attitude as teasing and nothing else so I didn't risk what friendship we have been able to rebuild between us. I only acted distant towards you to try and control the way I felt about you so I could still have time with you."

"You have to understand I was a complete wreck after you left. If I told you how I felt and you left me because of that...I don't think I could survive knowing it was my fault. And that only in my wildest dreams did I actually think you could possibly feel the same way about me...so having you in my life as a friend was better than not having you in it at all..."

"But know this, my feelings for you haven't changed. All my fighting did was prove to me that will never change. I love you Shihoin Yoruichi and you don't have to say it back to me," Soifon added, noting the struggle taking place within Yoruichi at hearing those three words. "I don't want you saying it out of guilt or because you feel you should. The day you say those words to me I want you to know without a doubt that what you feel is true. It doesn't matter how long it takes you, I've waited a little over a hundred years for this...what's another century or two?" Soifon added with a genuine smile as silence settled between the two once more.

"How'd I do?" Soifon asked quietly, slightly concerned at seeing Yoruichi so still and quiet for any length of time.

"Soifon..." Yoruichi turned to face her, uncertain of what to say yet again. Soifon had literally blown her away and was pretty sure she still hadn't really taken in what had been said but she did know that the space between her and Soi was getting too much for her to put up with. Without any warning, Yoruichi wrapped her arms around Soi's waist and picked her up, pulling Soifon into her body as she did so. Yoruichi tightened her hold on Soifon, pressing her head into her collarbone, content to stay that way and smiled when she felt Soifon relax under her arms as she hugged Yoruichi back and let her head rest on Yoruichi's shoulder.

"What do we do now?" Yoruichi asked, her voice muffled from her having her head pressed against Soifon.

"You should probably put me down. You are meant to be recovering. " Soifon sighed, quite happy to remain were she was for some time. Yoruichi lifted her head up which made Soifon have to do the same so they were now looking at one another. Yoruichi dipped her head slightly so their foreheads were touching, resting against one another.

"I will but on one condition." Yoruichi spoke slowly, happy to make this moment last as long as possible.

"And what would that be?" Soifon asked, her voice barely above a whisper as she too, was equally happy to remain in Yoruichi's arms.

"That you stay here tonight."

"Of course." Soifon whispered back with a smile.

A/N: Well - Taaa Daaa! All done and I'm quite proud of this, I'm hoping I came up with an original idea for Yoruichi not taking Soifon with her as well.
Sorry it took so long to finally update this but I got stuck on how to have Yoruichi wake up but again, like how it turned out.

Hope you enjoy reading this and a huge thank you for all the reviews receieved, they are very much appreciated!