Things Change [INV]

"Fuck those idiots."

He gritted through his teeth as he slammed his fist into the tile wall of his shower, cracking it and putting a rough indentation around where his knuckles met the ceramic. The Soul Society seemed to have no idea on how they impacted the lives of the Humans whose lives they completely fucked over. Nor did they care really, as was apparent when they tried to slaughter all of which who remained alive after their little experiment. They feared what they did not understand. Maybe if they would have put more of their skills, technology and resources into finding a way to rid the need of the Bount having to consume souls, then maybe they would not be in thi-.

"Geez." A voice interrupted his chain of thought through the sound of pounding water on the top of his head.

"You can really be a little bitch sometimes you know that? You look at yourself as a monster and a outcast. But in reality-" His doll Tyr began to say. "We are way more than that. After all, I am a god you know."

Alrich's eyes snapped open as he abruptly turned the shower off. Taking a moment to clear his mind of his dolls ridiculing words, he stepped out and grabbed a towel from the rack to his left. In a hurried action, he tied it around himself and quickly shuffled out of the room, making his way to his bedroom. Turning off the light he shut the door and for a moment, just stood in the darkness with his eyes closed. There were so many different conflicting things tearing at his mind at the moment, that he felt like he was going to be sick. The room started to seem as if it were spinning around, and before he knew it Alrich was waking up, his body outstretched on a park bench. His heart raced as he jumped up to his feet, but as he did he winced, due to his body feeling like it was hit by a truck.

"See, that was not so bad now was it?" His dolls voice said with a hint of gleeful laughter in it.

"What did you do?" Alrich demanded in his mind silently as he sat back down on the bench.

"Me? I did not do anything." His doll snickered. "You did everything. But don't worry you did not do anything bad."

Alrich growled to himself as his felt like he was going to throw up. His head felt like he was on medication, and his stomach felt like he had some for of rotten meat mixed in with acid held inside of it. What did he get himself into last night? Why could he not remember? It was all so strange. What was even stranger, was the person who say down next to him, who went unnoticed due to the dilemma that was raging inside of his head at the very moment.

Well, not until she spoke his name. Which brought him out of his sickness induced trance like some form of smelling salts.

His head snapped to the side as he looked into the eyes of someone he had not seen in a very, very long time. "Tenshi?" He managed to cough up, his body still felling like it was trashed to oblivion. A confused look washed over his face, which was mixed with tiny splashes of pain and sadness, which was a mixture of the pain he was feeling not only physically and mentally from what mysteriously happened to him the night before, but also due to the female that sat next to him.

"Aha, this is perfect." Tyr whispered in the mind of his amber haired master, full of malicious intent.

"I ..." Alrich tried to say but fell short, the feeling in his stomach was only starting to get even worse at this point. A myriad of different emotions were just swarming his body, as if reenacting some sort of fierce and bloody battle from history. It was awful. What the fuck man? What had happened to him last night, and even more pressing at the moment. What THE FUCK? Why was SHE here? Why now? Was this all some sort of sadistic nightmare that he was having? or another trick setup in his mind by his doll. Fuck that guy sometimes. Like for real. Fuck everything right now.

As Tenshi touched his skin, memories flooded back from what seemed like forever ago. The time they had spent together was the only salve Alrich had been introduced to that could ease the pain he or any of his kind had been through. But right now, it was all too surreal, and as she touched him he recoiled in cold sweat. His eyes looked confused, and half glazed as if he was on some sort of drug. He tried to push out words, but no matter how hard he tried, nothing came. And before he knew it, everything went black. And as he went out cold, all he could hear was the laughs inside of his head from Tyr.

With a jump Alrich found himself sitting up abruptly in his tent, a sigh of relief left his lips as he fell back into the furs that lined his makeshift bedding. That was weird as hell. Blinking he stared at the ceiling of his roomy tent, his eyes adjusting to the light of dawn that peeked through the entrance flaps. A yawn escaped him, as he got up and began to get dressed.

"Alrich? You up buddy?" A voice called for him from outside of the tent, it sounded a lot like Alrich's own, but with a more hoarse, dry tone to it. As if he were older.

"Yeah father, be there in a sec-."

...

The words barely escaped his mouth before Alrich realized. His father was dead. Where the hell was he? This was impossible, as the tent he was in was exactly as he remembered his old hunting tents were when he went with his father and the rest of the village to go hunting. But, that was years ago. Like literally almost 700 years ago. What the flying fuck?

A soft voice made him grimace, for a moment, before he fell to his knees in pain.

Tyr.

His doll was trying to get to him again, however this time it was different. Alrich could not fight back this time. He could nto keep out the sound of his dolls voice. Was it because they were one in the same now? It had nto been very long since the two of them merged for good, due to complications that almost killed Alrich, if it had not been for his doll.

"You miss this don't you?"

Alrich looked up and saw his doll Tyr, a preteen looking boy with malefic intent deep within his eyes, looking around the tent with a curious gaze. Alrich remained silent and averted any attempt his doll had to gain direct eye contact. Tyr was right, he did miss his old life. His real life.

"Its not real any longer. This is a dream."

"I know is." Alrich barked back.

"But you don't want it to be do you?"

Ouch. The dark haired boy hit home with that comment, causing a pained look on his master face that seemed to be as if it was due to real, physical pain. He wanted everything back, he missed his family. He was tired of running, tired of being afraid. He was alive in the physical sense, but in reality he had been dead for a very long time.

"Then stop running. Take full control of the power bewteen us. Trust me."

The two went silent afterward, Tyr finally having wrestled the gaze of his masters eye from the floor. Alrich said nothing for a long time, but his doll awaited patiently.

"Fine."

At the very moment those words rung in his consciousness, the tent dream he was having was whisked away, and replaced with nothingness. Then a red light split through the darkness, and Alrich's voice echoed, not only in his slumber, but it was repeated by his unconsciousness state-body. Two words could be made out within ear splitting screams and howls of anger, his body enshrouded with energy at this point.

"No more."

Hearing the voice of Tenshi Alrich snapped out of his dream fully, a wild look in his eyes as he was able to regain focus on his surroundings. With her doll pointing a blade at him on the bed, he rolled off off and recoiled away from both of them. What did he do? What was she doing? Why did the room look like a tornado hit it? The sudden adrenaline that overtook his body died down and he realized what happened. He had merged during his dream, and that was bad. When it happened, alrich took on an entirely different persona, the one that was buried deep within him that only the power of his doll let surface.

"S-sorry. I shouldn't be here. Its not safe. The soul society normally can not track us down, but if what just happened was anythign that I think it was, we more than likely can not stay here for too long. We need to leave before there are a hundred people banging on your door, or worse, tearing it down."

Without much more he looked for the door, but made no movement as to not provoke either of the figures before him. ALrich had a lot more baggage with him than the last time he and Tenshi had seen each other. And he did wish this was not the case.

Holy shit the feels. The adrenaline he was feeling from his startled awakening died down as he grasped the situatuion at hand. It indeed had been a long time since the two had seen each other, and he felt bad for reacting how he did. The problem was they could be in a lot of danger right now. What should he do?

"It may not be safe anymore, the Soul Society now know who I am. They know my name. Ever since I .."

He trailed off as flashes of the fight between him and one of the Captains from the Gotei puroed through his mind. It was not fair if he dangered her, nor did he want to be found by those bastards anyway.

"Are you sure it will be safe here? I don't know what just happened so there is no telling what kind of read that they might of gotten."

His paranoia had kicked in and now he had no idea of what to do. If he left alone they could come searchign for him and find her instead. And there would be no way he could let her take the fall for what he had done. For him being so stupid to get into the way of what the shinigami were doing that day, after he and his doll had gone to such great lengths to remain hidden.

"If its not safe, would you go with me? I could take you somewhere where we could be safe for a while, until we know that everything is okay here."

".... Sleeping?"

Sleep was not something he normally did since his dolls dilemma. As he heard Tenshi's voice Alrich stirred with a hefty groan. Snapping his eyes open the light hit him like a truck, making them close just as fast. With a heavy sigh of fatigue he opened them again and stared at the ceiling for a brief moment. last night was not a dream after all. Even though those words rang in his head, it took him glancing over to to Tenshi to solidify his thoughts. With a sleepy smile he yawned as he peeked at her through a single yellow eye.

"Did I actually sleep? Thats new."

Grabbing at the hand she nudged him with in a gentle embrace, he squeezed it before sitting up. AS he did however he tried to take her off guard, pulling him into his lap, positioning her so she was looking up at him. His smile grew stronger and he gave her a short kiss. He wanted to tell her how much being with her again meant to him. How much he loved her, and how bad he felt for losing her in the first place. But all he could say was;

"Thank you. For everything."