59 Fusion (2/2)
Turning to Nel again, he saw that once again tears were threatening to come out of her eyes.
”D-did you just save me?”
Itsuki never replied as he checked for injuries on her body. At first, he thought it would be fun meeting the child Nel, but reality hit him harder than a truck. He just decided to ignore her as he knew she wasn't alone.
Seeing Itsuki walk away, she suddenly shouted,
”A-are you running away?”
Itsuki never looked back,
”A-a-are just going to run away?”
Seeing no response, she started bawling her eyes out,
”Meanie, I wanna play some more! I'd wather die den stop now”
A tick mark appeared on Itsuki as he got annoyed for the first time in history. Seeing that she wasn't leaving, Itsuki turned around and gestured for her to follow. Nel was immediately joyful when she saw this and ran up to Itsuki, hugging him out of the blue.
Itsuki was frozen with the sudden hug while Nel blabbered on. Picking her up, Itsuki looked at her in the eyes,
”Guardians, where?”
”I dwon't know, I lost dem”
Itsuki didn't know what to say. He knew that her two 'older brothers' were unreliable, but he never expected them to be this unreliable.
”Shinigami-san, want to carry on playing eternal tag?”
Itsuki was about to shake his head when Nel was already running off. Tired of being led by the whims of this kid, he just grabbed her and put her on his shoulders.
”D-dis is not how eternal tag works…!”
Itsuki chose to ignore her and carried on looking for her older brothers so he can leave her to them, and he can leave this place. While walking, he found out that the ability of his eyes had upgraded. Activating them, he would see floating lines here and there. To experiment on things, he put Nel to sleep and went some distance away. He traced the lines with a sword only for a large rift to open up and suck everything in.
Creating some distance, the rift began to close similar to someone healing a cut. It seemed he can, on some basis cut though the concept of space. He couldn't kill it yet as he didn't know how, and he felt his eyes weren't strong enough. Returning to Nel, they carried on their journey when she woke up. Itsuki didn't know how long he had been in Hueco Mundo, due to being in that hollow mode and the fact that there was no concept of night and day within Hueco Mundo. The sky stayed the same wherever Itsuki went.
Currently, Itsuki was just walking with his tattered Shinigami attire and captain's haori when he heard a few voices.
”NEL…!!!!”
”NEL, DON'TCHA KNOW!!!”
”BAWA! BAWA!”
A group of misfits looked around shouting for Nel, unaware of the possible dangers it can cause.
One of them was a humanoid Arrancar whose head is almost completely covered by his mask, which resembled an insect-like head with large mandibles and horns. His left eye was yellow in colour and could be seen through the eyehole while the right one was covered by a purple cloth. Blonde hair could be seen falling onto his back while the upper part of his purple body was covered by a white armour like vest. Beneath that was a hollow hole positioned near his stomach and he wore a loin cloth that was a lighter shade of purple. He only had three toes on each foot.
The other was a rather large fellow. He had a large body with small limbs. He wore a hooded yellow body suit with black polka dots of various sizes. His head was very large, being almost as big as his body. Unlike other arrancar, his tiki hollow mask covered his whole face where the eyes and mouth functioned as if it were his own. The mask had exaggerated colourful features including large eyes, teeth and a prominent nose.
Lastly wasn't an arrancar but rather a snake like hollow. His mask was a simple plate on his head with horns on either side. He had large pink lips and teeth. His body consisted of a hard and solid back with a lighter coloured underside.
”Pesche! Dondochakka! Bawabawa!”
Nel was started to run to them when she noticed the absence of Itsuki.
”Itsuki…”
Itsuki looked back at Nel as a Garganta opened next to him. Itsuki gave a small smile as he saw reluctance in her eyes while a bit of water appeared on the edges. She had gotten quite attached to Itsuki throughout their journey and didn't think that they would part when she reunited with her brothers.
Seeing this Itsuki took out a feather and gave it to her, it was from Seikyo. Itsuki had found it in one of his pockets, it must've fallen off some time before his hollow transformation.
Itsuki didn't speak as he patted her head and walked into the Garganta. Her three companions had just noticed Nel and rushed towards her.
A brave face replaced her sad one as she wiped her tears off and grasped the feather.
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Author's note
I, using my intellect, have come to a conclusion, it seems my health is ok now. Or I was just sick for like a day and gotten better the next day. you cant tell with the nose blocks caused by hay fever and the coughing caused by asthma. Was too tired so my last two chapters weren't of the best quality, but, if I can be bothered, i'll go back and redo them