An: Happy Valentine's Day!
Here's a late update from me, enjoy your chocolates!
PS. Please read chapter 5 again, I have revised it and I noticed that I haven't changed it properly, sorry guys. One epic battle plus love moments happen next chapter!
Please tell me what you think.
Everyone: Love Afresh
"What the fuck?" Kenpachi scratched his head in confusion and looked at both Orihimes', they were both too similar to discern and he gave up.
"Obviously the real Orihime is the one standing next to Urahara." Aizen scoffed at Kenpachi.
He in turn growled at Aizen, anymore of his remarks and Kenpachi would have to cut him down.
"What's everyone looking at?" Orihime looked over to the right and her eyes lit up.
"That's so cool! When did you guys clone me?"
"We didn't." Stark pointed out that the other Orihime was about to take off when Byakuran caught up and restrained her with a binding spell.
"Bakudo Number 2: Hainawa."
A yellow rope of energy entangled itself with her legs and tripped her up, causing her to drop on the Time Stream face first. Byakuya sat her down and they interrogated her.
"Who are you?"
The girl hissed at Byakuya and whispered as if she was out of breath which Urahara nodded to, he was the only one who understood what the girl said.
"She said that we cursed time…Influx…destroying… stream, I'm sorry could you say that again?"
The girl hissed once again and her legs shook violently, she broke free of her restraints and ran away from them this time at a much higher speed. Byakuya and Aizen were the first to react
"Haa, why must we always need to run?" Starrk sighed and cradled Orihime in his arms.
"Shut yer trap Starrk and start chasing her!" Kenpachi roared at him, he tried grabbing Orihime off of him but fumbled and gave up, pushing forward to the unknown.
"So is it always like this?" Urahara smiled at Starrk, merrily going at the same pace as the coyote.
"Pretty much."
The other Orihime made a sharp turn to the left which they all followed and she dove into the biggest portal they have ever seen.
It was one hundred times bigger than the portals they had ever encountered and it produced weird static sound, it was a circle of monotone, greys and black swirling against each other in a never ending spiral of descent.
"I guess the search is over." Orihime sighed and got down from Starrk's arms.
"What do you mean?"
"Urahara the only way we could go into a portal is with this watch and its owner is missing." Orihime showed him the watch on her wrist.
The man thought to himself, something about was suspicious, how were they able to use it to drag him out of his future if the owner never used it?
"Wait let me just see that for a bit."
Orihime gave him the watch and he inspected it, at the back of its clock was a small gap.
Urahara took out a small toothpick he had in his breast pocket and pried the gap open carefully.
Click.
The back of the watch clicked open and a small red ruby was in the middle of the empty watch.
He flicked it with the tooth pick and it shone a bright crimson red and the watch transformed into a golden masquerade mask. The red ruby was adorned at the top of the mask, glinting in his eyes.
"Interesting, Orihime take a look at this."
Urahara showed the golden mask to Orihime and she gasped, it was Annette's mask.
"Where did you get that?"
"The watch changed into it."
"But that mask disappeared with Annette."
"What are you guys talking about?"
The other guys gathered around them, interested in the new development.
"Lance's watch is Annette's mask." Urahara simplified the whole process to them.
"I see, there are two hypothesis' for this. One: It may be a possible that their fullbrings are the same, twins to be precise. Two: This 'fullbring' belongs to someone else and the two siblings moulded it to become their own." Aizen stated.
"That still doesn't explain how Lance took it from the Influx, I saw Annette being absorbed by the Influx along with it." Orihime was at a loss, what could this mean?
"You were away for some time; he may have been able to take it from the Influx." Starrk yawned feeling sleepy, too much work and no play for him makes one unhappy coyote.
"So the only question left is, can anyone else use?"
They all looked to Kenpachi, that was an uncharacteristic, analytical for him to say.
"Well only one way to find out."
Urahara forced his spiritual energy into the mask but nothing happened.
"Maybe it only works with fullbringers." Byakuya added, he took the watch and gave it to his wife.
Orihime did the same as Urahara and forced her spiritual energy into it. The mask compressed into two small oorbs and fused with her hairpins. In the middle of each hair pin were two small rubies, everything else stayed the same.
Right at that time, Orihime was thinking of going into the portal along with everyone and all of a sudden the rubies shone and they were all encased in a strange energy orb. It flew into the portal and they all found themselves in a strange barren wasteland, a large number of humans and shinigamis just walking around
"This must be what's left of the old world Annette mentioned." Orihime recalled the story of Annette's time.
One man tripped and Orihime helped him up
"Thank you for your help Miss…"
"Orihime, can you please tell me what happened here?"
"I don't know, one minute I was with Annette, the next I saw this weird creature swallowing the future I was in."
"You knew Annette?"
"I guess you must as well, all of us here have been sent here because of her."
"No you weren't." Orihime explained to him what really happened and he was shocked.
"So I was swallowed by that thing?"
"I guess so, wait…"
An idea popped in her head, if this is where everyone in portals went after being swallowed by the influx, then maybe her other husbands would be here.
"Renjiiiiii!"
She called out as much as she could and soon a bunch of Renjis appeared.
"What the hell?" Kenpachi looked at all of them, they were all the same. He was starting to get pissed off, if he ever saw a doppleganger again…
So she called every person she knew and so did everyone else. There were copies of everyone they knew, even themselves. The Orihime they saw was here as well, Urahara apologized to her, it turns out she escaped and was hoping to fight the Influx even though it was reckless of her to do so. Byakuya found his Orihime and so did the other husbands. Turns out that Starrk and the other husbands found that one Orihime for them was too much to share around. Other people were there as well, the people Annette met and those unlucky enough to be eaten by the Influx.
"Guys please listen; I have a way to fix this!"
Orihime stood at the highest point and pointed to her hairpins.
"I think I can transport us all out of here to defeat the influx. Annette said that everything would go back to normal if it's destroyed! Please help us; our whole entire existence will be wiped out if it continues."
Everyone murmured to each other, nodding in agreement. Kenpachi and the other husbands who just recently found their Orihimes groaned. However the humans and souls protested after they realised that they could be attacked by the hollows here so a quarter of all shinigamis and fullbringers stayed. Every single Orihime walked up to her and smiled.
"We'll help; after all we are one person." They smiled at her and channelled all their spiritual energy into the ruby embedded hairpins and an even larger energy orb enveloped those that were battle ready.
"Here we go guys, get ready."
The orb lifted them to the sky and they were transported to what was left of the time stream.
A large monster was waiting outside of the portal, it knew what they were planning and it was ready to destroy them.
The Influx was much larger this time, it used up all the energy it absorbed for this final battle.
It was as big as the time stream itself however the most surprising thing of all was that its face looked very familiar to Orihime.
"Attack!"
And so it has begun.
