-1Urahara K.
Chapter 1
Escape
1:00 AM, the forest just outside of the town past the Soul Society
"Huff, huff..."
I can't believe what predicament I've planted myself into this time. First it was the whole promotion, then the incident, and then the split up...and now I'm being chased by those I've once known and called friends. No, not now. I don't have the energy or time to be thinking about the past. After all the past is the past and there's nothing better than the present. Even if the present seems like a horrible nightmare that is impossible to escape from. I just hope that the others made it out safely...I don't know what I would do if they were hurt...or even worse. Gah, quit it, you have other things to be worrying about. You're almost at the tunnel warp gate. Come on last a little longer legs. I know your tired of running all night, but you need to last a little longer. A little farther and you'll see if everyone made it alright.
"I sense him this way hurry."
Just great, I've been found. Maybe I should take a different route. I feel the ground under me pull my body down as I see that my foot was snagged on a loose tree vine. Tumble after tumble I fell as I went downhill, landing on my back against a boulder at the bottom.
"Ow, that's going to hurt in the morning...wait a sec is that."
In the distance I see the portal along with only one figure standing to the side, hiding within the confined space that I placed the portal a few years back. I stood up and raced to the destination. Pure silence was all around. A sign which stands for keeping guard and preparing for a quick and painful death. Come on Kisuke, you can't be thinking about death at a time like this, not while the exit is just a few moments away. At last I pass through the trees and enter the field where the portal stood, silently waiting.
"Huff, huff...pst, is someone in hear? It's me Kisuke. It's alright to come out now."
"Kisuke! Thank god you made it. I was worried that you didn't make it past the town." Yes, it's Yoruichi. Thank goodness she's alright, but I couldn't help to wonder about the others as I and Yoruichi shared a long hug and glance into each others eyes.
"Quickly! We have to leave now Kisuke or this escape would be for nothing."
"Wait, what about the others? Where are they? We can't just leave without them. I won't abandon them."
"There's no time we must leave now. I'm certain they'll be fine."
"No, I'm not leaving my comrades behind."
"Damn it! Kisuke...their all dead, I saw them killed earlier. Byokuya saw to their demise, as he will yours if we don't leave." I can feel her tugging on my cloak as I stood in disbelief that the ones who rescued me from death are now picking daisies in the watchful eyes of death. I could hear the other captains rushing on foot to our location as I snapped out of my daze. I could see that Yuruichi wanted to shed a tear, but her strength, will, pride, and determination wouldn't allow it and so I looked around. A small circular hat was sitting on a rock beside me, as if it were calling me, yelling at me to take it and so I did. I placed the cap over my head and hid my sight under it's darkness that welcomed my soul with opened arms.
"Alright Yoruichi, let' leave this place and never return. This place...shall only be the past, nothing more. Kisuke will stay here, but Urahara will leave."
"What? What are you..."
"Come now, we have no time." with the last of my energy I force open the portal. a bright light shun as it gave away our location. Every captain that was chasing me, was now in a direct route to where I stood. I gave out a small silent laugh as I pushed Yoruichi into the portal softly. One last shrug within the soul society and I followed Yoruichi, with no turning back or last glance at what I was leaving. For I knew that there was nothing that could keep me within the Society any longer. My time serving those ignorant fools was over. Now I shall serve a new world where many questions will be raised, with little answers to help guide me. A dark path opened as the light we once entered died out, breaking the portals gate. That way there would be no way of the captains to follow me and Yoruichi escape that dreadful place.
"Kisuke...where will we go now?"
"I'm not sure. We will go where ever this portal leaves us at and stay there."
"But it's so dark, how will we know where to go?"
"Trust me Yoruichi, we will find a way. See there, the light is re-opening, it only means one thing. Which is life." I can feel Yoruichi brush against the side of me as she wrapped her arm around my mines. Perhaps hoping for some comfort from me or just to follow me closely. I would hope it to be both, but I know that now's not the time for any of that. There is only one goal for my life from now on, and that's to watch over Yoruichi. Make certain that nothing will happen to her, for us both are the only ones that know one another and are the same.
"Kisuke...I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what? I'm the one who should be apologizing. If it weren't for me, you and the others would still be in the society, living life without any worries."
"But you would be dead...and I'm not even sure what I would've done if I saw you taken away by that blade. I would have been lost forever."
"I suppose your right, but because of me, three other people are gone forever. I ask you this, was three lives worth my one and only life?"
"...I don't know...I can't answer that."
"Yes, I knew you wouldn't be able to. But the past is the past, there's no going back ever. We might as well forget them now, even if it does sound harsh and terrible. There memories and lives will always be remembered, but not by us. We can't afford to dwell on the past. I'm certain that they wouldn't want us to do anything hasty because of their deaths." At last the light we had been proceeding to was now in our touch. We both entered the light and exited moments later inside of an old and broken down shop.
"This is it. The end of the line, now we must restart everything from here. You have the bag right?"
"Yes, it's right here." I can feel the instruments within the bag as Yoruichi passes the bag to me. Everything seems to be within it. Items that can be changed into human money, a list of foods that are edible here and a few of my small inventions with schematics to larger ones.
"This place is a junk yard, I'm not even sure if this place is safe to live."
"Don't worry Yoruichi, in time this place will sprout out and become a rose."
"You and your metaphors, can't you ever speak normal." I can hear her giggle as she searched the rubble. I myself gave out a real laugh for the first time since I was incarcerated. We both laughed for minutes, laughing non-stop for reasons unknown to me. Perhaps her joke was that funny or we were just relieved that it was all over. All that work that she had placed her time in was over, my lonely days in a cell will only be a memory and all that running was finished. Our goals were over. Now all that was left was to retire from being a soul reaper forever. I'm not even sure why I brought my Zanpakto with me. For some reason I have the feeling like someone out there might need it, or me. So with that one sense I kept it within my cloak, hiding it within a cane I was given before I was arrested. A new invention of mines that not even the soul reapers knew of. It was the only weapon I had and needed in order to do my part in the Escape.
