Road To Recovery [Closed, NDE Joint-Training]

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Asmoskon continued to hold Hotaru down while she struggled to get up and start attacking Sue. Thanks to the development of his muscles holding down Hotaru was simply easy. When Sue backed off though and began to leave Asmoskon listened to the threat that Hotaru had issued to her. He couldn't help, but ponder how that encounter would actually go and who would be the last one standing. Sue wasn't a fighter yet her ability was one that Asmoskon himself wouldn't cause Sue pain. He knew Hotaru could take an incredible amount of pain he just wasn't so sure that she would withstand the degree of pain she would inflict upon Sue.

That wasn't the issue now and he had allowed his mind to go off track. It seemed that all of this had rushed along the pleasantries of being back together with his beloved Shinigami. Now it was time to fess up to everything that had happened while the two of them were apart and while Hotaru was right in that she had told him everything that she had done. He had done far more and far, far worse then she. That was the main reason that he hadn't come clean already there was still the twinge of doubt within his mind that if she knew of everything she wouldn't be able to see him the same as she did now.

So when Hotaru was finished demanding that he tell her everything Asmoskon let out a sigh and gently motioned her off of him. He then moved from the bed standing up and dressing himself at least his lower body. Once his pants were on he began to actually think of how he could start off everything. "Well to avoid talking over every little detail I'm going to tell you the major stuff for right now. When we split I wasn't the same person I began to focus solely on my work at first. I started taking on jobs that any mercenary would. I've killed normal humans, I've fought on the behalf of governments at war with one another."

Asmoskon began to walk over towards the window as the memories of everything started to flow throughout his mind. "I've been injured more times then I can remember now and come close to death more so then when we were together. After awhile I started to fight off my depression with a different girl wherever I could be it after or before a mission. It wasn't long until my name started to gain a reputation and when that happened I started receiving assignments to assassin the spiritually aware. I've killed a total of twelve Fullbringers, three Bounts, four Mod Souls, eight Arrancar and . . . fifty nine Quincy."

"That boy Jak that you were working with at the prison when we first met up. I received an assignment to kill him for being a constant nuisance. It didn't take much to defeat the boy and I just needed information from him. I promised him that if he gave it too me I'd allow him to live. He gave me the information and I put an arrow through his chest. I gave him the chance to live yet I still did something so wrong." Asmoskon felt like he could stop here yet he had been told to tell her everything and everything hadn't been spoken yet.

"I don't know if you've ever been in the situation Hotaru, but killing on the field of battle is different. Watching someone cry and beg for their life. Scream in pain while tears stream down from their eyes. It's different it drove me to become something dark something that didn't care so long as the result was justified in my eyes. While all of that was going on I began my crusade against the Vandenreich and it has resulted in so many deaths on both sides. I've lost more people who plagued themselves to the cause of being free then I'll ever be able to forgive myself for. Watching the little fade from the eyes of children shot down is something that I've had to bare."

"It got to the point that I started moving on my own leaving my followers behind to be more effective by myself. I turned myself into a weapon of death aimed right at the Vandenreich." The memory of the battle field which left the permanent scar crossed his mind and Asmoskon's right hand moved up to his closed eye socket. "I've taken families from the Vandenreich. Soldiers young and old. Boys and girls younger than myself have been killed in ways that to not befit the man I was before. They eventually got ahold of me and stripped me of my eye yet I've survived. It kept getting worse after I lost my eye though. I encountered the strongest individual in my life and nearly died without being able to land a single mark on him."

"Something in me broke during that battle that led to my hallucinations. After that things kept getting worse and I kept losing and getting injured in battle until the other day when you found me." Asmoskon was just about finished speaking letting out a breathe and inhaling for one when he realized he had overlooked one thing. "Throughout all of that I was sought out and joined an organization here in the human world where I have risen through the ranks and have become one of the senior authorities of the Military. I'm currently reforming my Noble Family as well which brings us to this point in time where my official name is Major Asmoskon Masurao of Xcution."

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru watched as a few emotions played across his face. She really hoped that he was going to tell her everything. He got up off the bed, after lightly moving under her, stood up and put some pants on. She looked at him in just pants and could still see the boy he was. The man he became was hard, but she could still easily see the boy he was under all the muscle and gruffness. She was so curious what had happened between the boy and the man. She sat up in bed, grabbing the sheet off the bed and tying it around herself to make a makeshift dress out of it.

She sat and listened to everything he had to say. She was completely quiet while he spoke. She didn't want to interrupt anything he had to say, so as to not derail his train of thought. It seemed that he was as broken as she thought when she had run into him the first time at the jail. But, she wasn't too surprised that he delved more into his work to fight the Vandenreich. She was a little surprised to see that he also worked as a mercenary. She could tell that he has a lot more battle experience, but when he said he had a different girl every night to get rid of his depression, it didn't make her happy.

It made her feel somewhat betrayed. But how could she blame him? They were technically apart. She shouldn't feel that way, but she did. He then told her the number of lives he had taken. The Quincy number didn't bother her too much, since his original plan was going against the Vandenreich. But the other numbers with the other spiritually aware...that bothered her. It bothered her more than she thought it would. She also finally found out why Jak hated Asmoskon. She would hate him too if that happened, but she was at least glad that Asmoskon was feeling sorry about what he did.

When he talked about killing on the battlefield, she knew it well. It seemed he distanced himself to fight alone and she knew that no one person can destroy an organization like the Vandenreich. He was hell bent on that mission, doing whatever he could, even losing his eye, so he could achieve. When one person he came up against almost killed him, it seemed like that was the breaking point for him. It led to the hallucinations of her that he would see. He kept losing and falling deeper into despair until she found him.

But, through his pain, it seemed he was able to find an organization to help him. It seemed that he was a senior authority in their military and reforming his Noble Family would be a huge endeavor. When he said his official name, she smiled. She walked up behind him, hugging him from behind. He was still facing towards the window, his back towards her. "I died on the battlefield, Asmoskon. I know how the killing field is. I never struck down children, but I did strike down men, separating them from their families because it was my duty. I know some of what you speak. But, I don't like that you slept around.

It shouldn't bother me so much, because we were apart, but it still does. I will stay with you, helping you work through everything, and helping you to rebuild your Family. But, there is one thing you must do for me. You need to give me some sort of sign. I need to know that you're not going to go out and look for other women again. I need to know that that will NEVER happen again, because if it did while we're together, I would be more broken than you were while we were apart." She continued to hug him, resting her head on his back, enjoying being close to him.

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Asmoskon kept standing while he picked up the sounds of Hotaru getting up from the bed and walking up behind him. He had just finished telling her everything that he felt was necessary and actually made any type of difference or mattered at all. He felt Hotaru's warmth against his back as she hugged him and then she began to speak. When she actually was speaking Asmoskon was just listening know that she would understand what she did yet that most of what he did wouldn't make either sense to her or she wouldn't be able to put herself in his shoes. What he didn't think that did happen was her attention seemed to be gathered up in the single detail that he had been with other woman.

He of course knew how she felt due to that being the exact reason that had drove them apart to begin with. Yet now it seemed like she was avoiding that fact completely and that he was the only wrong here. Asmoskon was prepared to defend himself in this regard when he realized that there was no point. There was no reason to fight or argue when they had been apart for too long and neither of them wanted to stay apart. While he felt she was being unfair no one is perfect and he was going to deal with everything about her even her faults. He grinned for a moment of course knowing that she would be dealing with far more of his then he would of hers.

So this left him with only a few possible ways to survive. Hotaru wanted some sort of sign that he could give her that would prove that the two of them would stay together. That he would be faithful to her like she planned to be to him. Asmoskon grinned actually hearing how she wanted that type of sign. When they had split Asmoskon had been ready to already give her that sign and she had been carrying them around since that day. It was a few moments after she had stopped speaking that Asmoskon began to turn around and as he did the necklace that had been around her neck the previous day was lifted up from the stand which also had his eye patch and other small accessories on it.

Asmoskon smiled down into Hotaru's eyes while the necklace floated through the air and into his right hand now out in front of Hotaru. Attached to the rings were the two rings that Asmoskon had brought with him the day that they had split apart. They were the wedding rings of his parents and thankfully Hotaru had kept them with her. That had been a major sign to Asmoskon while he had been recuperating that Hotaru truly was going to be by his side. So now moving his left hand down Asmoskon gently takes Hotaru's left hand with his right and the female ring moves down onto her finger. "Will you accept my sign firefly?"

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru stood there, hugging him from behind. She knew she was wrong for just worrying about this one issue after everything else that he went through. But, it was bothering her. He turned around, having a smile on his face and she noticed something. It seemed that the necklace she was wearing was now floating through the air. She had left it next to his eye patch on the side table. She watched it float, wondering how in the hell he was able to do that. Hotaru watched it during its entire flight, landing in his right hand, which was now out towards her.

She then looked up towards him and saw the smile on his face. It made her smile as well. She looked at the necklace and was thinking why he would even need it. All that was on the chain was a locket and.... It was then she remembered that she had put the rings that Asmoskon threw at her when they broke up in the first place. She didn't know the full extent to what the rings meant to him, but she kept them close to her, because it was the last thing he had 'technically' gave to her. She had always admired the rings.

When he took her left hand, she didn't know what was going on. It wasn't until the ring was getting put on her finger did she realize what was happening. He was putting the ring with the diamond on it on her finger. She thought back to how she saw it in the human world, with the woman wore two rings and the male usually wore one and they were happy together. She learned, through searching for Asmoskon, that it was called marriage. The female got one ring first and then both get a ring during the actual ceremony.

Hotaru had no words as she looked at the ring on her finger. She heard Asmoskon say if she would accept his sign and tears welled up in her eyes. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes, so happy that they would finally be together, like they should've been. "I accept! I accept it of course!" She glanced down at the ring again and then looked up, beaming at Asmoskon, before getting up on tippy-toe to wrap her arms around Asmoskon and plant a kiss on his lips. She was so excited now, she had no words to say on the matter.

[Amagai Kuchiki]

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