Chapter 10

A hand stroking my cheek, is what I feel as I come around and weakly flutter my eyes then jolt upwards, only to gasp weakly as I feel the collar around my throat as my vision now clears to reveal a room, which is completely white, while there is only one window, thin and not showing much, outside. I turn my head to glare at the person, who had stroked my cheek and see that a person, with slightly spikey blue hair and part of mask on the left side of his face stands there, grinning at me as it all comes flooding back.

Kenpachi, being stabbed by Aizen and Yachiru, watching in mute horror as he falls to the ground. I couldn't feel anything through the bond, meaning it was being blocked somehow then the sound of a door sliding open, brings me out of my thoughts as someone comes in.

Aizen, now walks up to bed and indicates for "Grimmjow" - as he was called - to leave the room and I watch quietly as the Espada, leaves while the door slides shut behind him, now leaving me alone with the once former Captain, who betrayed the Soul Society and his Division. He looks down at me and suddenly his hand reaches forward, as I flinch away from it, only to feel a slight click noise as he releases the collar around my throat.

"There, now you can breathe, Ichigo." He says, as swing my legs out the bed and get up as he steps back to watch me as I breathe shakily, because wherever I was it was difficult for me in my human form, not my Shinigami form, to breathe the air as I manage to make a few steps, forward then feel him, take hold of me as my breath now comes in short gasps as I feel sweat form and run down my body

"Liar, you did that on purpose to see what I would do. You know, I don't have it with me or we would be clashing swords at this moment." I gasp out, as I suddenly feel a twinge in abdomen as the little ones sense their Mother's distress and place a hand weakly to it, to reassure them that everything was alright, when it wasn't.

"Maybe." He says, as he sweeps me off my feet and holds me bridal style in his arms as he now carries me back to the bed as I try the bond again, to see if I can reach Kenpachi when suddenly I feel something, a flicker of his Reistsu then reach through the bond, reach for it.

"Haa. Ichigo, where are you?"

His voice, I can hear his voice and all his emotions flooding into me – anger, despair and surprise – as I distantly feel Aizen, lay me down on the bed, who suddenly frowns at me as I seem to look at something distantly, while my eyes are now swirling with unknown colour.

"I don't where I am. Find me, find me …. Kenpachi."

I say through the bond, then suddenly feel blinding pain shoot through me as Aizen, sensing now what I was doing places his hand on my temple, making me start to thrash on the bed as he probes into my mind's defences then jolts slightly as his eyes go wide. He surges into the heart of it and suddenly shadows seep in, making me give harsh scream as I distantly hear Kenpachi, sensing my agony and pain through the bond, scream my name as the Soul link that had been made between us suddenly breaks apart.

Reistsu, explodes upwards into the air and I feel as though I'm being torn apart as the familiar Hollow hole forms in my chest, while I try weakly to stop it from happening then hear the voice, which makes me jolt as in mind's eye, I see the person come out of the shadows and hold out their hands, which are pure white.

"Stop fighting, Ichigo. Let go, it's my turn now to be in control, your majesty"

I try to keep my eyes open as darkness now slides across my eyes covering it, while I pray that this Demon, inside me, won't harm the children that are growing inside me as I now succumb to its control and sink down into the abyss, where the monster of the deep, waits calmly to chain me to the ocean that has been made from all the pain, anguish and grief in my life.

TO BE CONTINUED IN THE SEQUEL.