Missing in Action
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5 years ago Soul society
Jushiro Ukitake walked slowly to the Captain Commander's office. He had been relaxing quite happily in his garden enjoying the uneventful morning. The whole reason it had been uneventful and quite probably why he had been summoned away, was that his good friend Shunsu had not yet returned from his "mission" to the living world. He wasn't late returning as of yet but he had not checked in at the required time last night and was due back before sun down. He stood outside the door to the captain commanders office sighing he knocked.
"Enter Captain Ukitake" Jushiro opened the door and walked up to the captain commanders desk "you wished to see me sir?" the old man gazed across the desk as though weighing Jushiro's soul. When he was younger this would have had him staring at his feet shuffling side to side. As a grown man the urge was still there but he had control enough to meet his commander's gaze. Finally the Commander spoke
"As you not doubt know Captain Kyoraku missed his Call in time last night and has not yet reported in. this in itself is not surprising but I feel that it is likely that he will not be ... capable of returning on time. I felt it only fair that I should mention that if He is late returning again I would be forced to take action. I also think that the fact that his reatsu cannot be detected any were in Japan is very important to note." Jushiro bowed to the commander and softly said "Thank you for telling me of this. I will keep this in mind" The Commander gestured for him to leave.
Jushiro calmly walked out think the whole time that he really needed a new best friend. Someone nice and calm that didn't drink and drag his friends away from their nice quiet gardens. As soon as he was out of sight of the 1st division he flash stepped back to his office. He left a message on his desk stating that he would be out for the day and disappeared before his to 3rd seats could figure out he was gone. He hated the thought of making them worry but if they found out he was going to retrieve his friend from the living world they would have kittens. They would also try to come with to protect him. He shuddered at the thought of his self appointed guardians following to the places Shunsu favored. Yes it would be best to just leave quickly and quietly.
Jushiro made his way to the gate. As he expected there was no problems getting through. The only reason the captain commander bothered to tell him what was going to happen to his friend was so he could go after him and the Commander wouldn't be forced to punish him. Shunsu was very lucky the commander favored them, Jushiro thought to himself. He should stop pressing his luck though. Someday he will go too far and the Commander will not over look his stepped through and headed to the hotel that Shunsu was "Supposed" to be at. If there were no clues at the room he would have to go to Urahaha's and pay the cost to track his friend and see where he had got off to.
The hotel had a police car and a fire marshals truck parked out front. Nobody could see him so getting in to the closed off building was not any worry for him. The room that Shunsu was assigned was taped off and had smoke marks on the walls. Jushiro poked his head in the hollowed out room his eyes huge. The fire marshal was in the room talk to the police office over by what remained of the bed. Jushiro eves dropped hoping for a clue as to what might have happened to his friend.
"So what your telling me is there was some kind accelerant poured on the bed and it was set on fire possibly by a match or a lighter?" the fire marshal nodded and leaned over the mattress " also there appears to be a rather large amount of melted plastic on the upper half of the bed. As intense as the blaze was and the amount of accelerant used I think we are lucky no one got hurt. "Jushiro let loose the breath he had been holding. He wasn't really worried that something like this would have taken out his friend but this wouldn't have been the first time some innocent (or not so innocent) got caught up and hurt by Shunsu's carelessness. Jushiro scanned the room and quickly can to the conclusion that any clues that might have been in here had gone up in smoke and he was going to be forced to go to Urahara's for help. He hated the Idea because of how much this was going to cost him.
He was walking to the door when a young woman in a painted on black dress looked in a called out to the cop and Marshal. "Hey where is the guy that was staying in this room, was he hurt or something 'cause he said that he was going to take me with him on his plane to Vegas an' I wanna know if he can still go 'cause I ditched my guy finally." the cop yelled at her to get out that the building wasn't safe. Being the classy lady she was ,she protested and hollered until the cops forced to escort her out of the building. Jushiro was glad for his change in luck and headed to the gate. This way he could buy pass Urahara's altogether.
An- thankyou for reading my little fict. I am going to put up the next chapter as soon as I fix the typos and stuff. Please review. I makes me a happy writer :D