Web of choices
This is a fan interpretation of Kisuke and Yoruichi's life at the shinigami academy.
I hope you enjoy it :)
Obviously bleach dose not belong to me but belongs to Kubo Tito all other original characters however are mine,hehe.
Also thanks to every one who read and enjoyed Memories on the wind. :)
Chapter 1 The shackles of responsibility
The front yard was swamped with a mass of white. The only way to tell gender at all was by the tale tale flashes of red or blue.
Kisuke, Yoruichi and Tessai forced their way through the throng towards the main entrance.
A young man stood at the top steps flanked by a giant and a petite girl. He was ticking names of a long list as students surged past him. He had short silver hair and a tattoo of a crescent moon and two falling starts on his right cheek.
He smiled cheerfully at the three teens, "First years," he asked?
They nodded.
He held the parchment out to them, "tick your names off and your dorm room should be listed next to it," he told them brightly.
Kisuke and Tessai were in the same dorm, room five on the second floor of the west wing.
Yoruichi was in room sixteen on the first floor of the east wing.
She scowled at this but she consoled her self with the fact that she would see the boys at meal times and in lessons.
"dinner is at seven," the petite girl informed them.
They thanked the trio for there help and entered the building.
The corridors were swarming with students jostling and shouting loudly.
A small teen collided with Yoruichi and sent them both sprawling. The boy yelped and sprung to his feet, "Oh...urr...I'm terribly sorry," he stammered, offering Yoruichi his hand.
She grabbed it and hauled her self to her feet, "Watch were you're going shrimp," she teased.
"Hey I'm not a shrimp," the boy protested, "I'm just vertically challenged."
Yoruichi sniggered.
"It isn't funny," the boy complained, "and my names Sattoo, not shrimp."
Yoruichi nodded still grinning, "I'm Shinhouin Yoruichi. These are my friends, Urahara Kisuke and Tsukabishi Tessai," she introduced. All three bowed politely.
"Kyouraku Sattoo," Sattoo told her also bowing. He glanced around them worriedly, "You haven't seen a tall young man with a purple bandit stripe across his face have you," he asked hopefully?
Yoruichi looked at her two companions and shrugged apologetically, "sorry no, its quite hard to pick out any one in this crowed."
Sattoo looked crestfallen, "He's my elder brother but father told me to make sure he signed in and doesn't slack off."
"We can help you look if you like," Kisuke offered.
Sattoo's face lit up with delight, "Really? Would you? That would be great," he babbled.
Kisuke laughed and ruffled the small teens hair, "Your just like a puppy you know."
Sattoo practically bounced along the corridor the others trailing in his wake. He babbled constantly about any thing and any thing he could think of.
The crowds were starting to thin as the students busied themselves with unpacking and catching up with friends.
They scoured the halls and empty class rooms for Sattoo's errant brother but they couldn't find him any where.
"He's got to be some where," Sattoo cried exasperatedly, "When I find him I'm gunna pummel him," he grumbled.
Kisuke suppressed a snigger, getting an mental image of the small teen leaping at a very tall man and then being held back by a hand on his forehead.
Yoruichi giggled and was obviously getting the same image.
Sun light streamed in through the open shutters of the dormitory window. Kyoraku Noe sat on the sill leaning against the warm smooth wall. He could see Sattoo bumbling about in the yard below them hear inside.
He grinned lazily, his brash little brother wouldn't think to check the dorms so he was safe, for now. He fingered the wooden whale that hung on a cord around his neck. His uncle had given it to him for his seventeenth birthday.
He gazed out at the blossoming trees and watched a couple of bats flit around the darkening sky. Some stray birds chirped and swooped from branch to branch free in the cloudless twilight.
Oh how to be free like the birds in the sky. To travel the winds and go where ever they take you. To be free of troublesome responsibilities and expectations.
How Noe wished to be free like those carefree birds in the trees but it was not possible. He was the eldest son of the head of the Kyoraku clan. It was expected that he would take over after his father passed on. It was assumed that he would be brilliant at shinigami techniques and possible join the Goti 13 like his uncle Shunsui
He tilted his head back against the cooling wall and closed his eyes. In his mind's eye he was free to soar in the deep blue sky and dance under the twinkling stars. That was his freedom.
"You Know we could always check the dorms," Kisuke suggested.
Sattoo groaned, "Oh no,I didn't think of there! Damn you Noe, you jerk of an older brother," he cried!
"Where's his dorm," Yoruichi asked calmly?
"In the west wing on the second floor," Sattoo told them , "But I don't know which room," he added miserably.
"Then we can just search each one," Tessai said logically.
Sattoo nodded cheering up again.
The found that each room had a list of names of the people who slept in them pinned next to the doors, so all they had to do was scour the each list for Sattoo's brother's name.
Sattoo cursed as he noticed a piece of parchment pinned to the notice board, "oh shoot! I forgot about the introduction speech," he yelped!
Yoruichi looked confusedly at Kisuke and Tessai.
"What introduction speech," Kisuke asked?
"Its for us first years, the student's who take the registrar at the main entrance are supposed to tell us about it," Sattoo fummed.
"Ha! Got him," Yoruichi called, "Kyoraku Noe, right?"
Sattoo nodded, shoving the door open, "Found you, you lazy git," he yelled pointing an accusing finger at the young man lounging in the window frame.
The young man yawned, "my,my, Sattoo-Kun, must you be so loud," he complied?
Sattoo fumed, "Father told me to keep an eye on you and we're gonna be late for the introduction speech!"
Noe shrugged, "Fine,I wasn't planning on going any way," he replied stretching.
Yoruichi grinned evilly and yanked the lazy student of his perch, "you've been hear before, we haven't. How about you show us where to go?"
Noe sighed heavily, "Well since your such a pretty lady, I suppose I can be persuaded," he said with a lopsided grin.
Noe offered Yoruicji his arm, "after you, your highness," he teased lightly.
Yoruichi arched an eyebrow at him and Kisuke glowered.
"Don't do that you pervert," Sattoo yelled swatting his elder brother on the head. (he'd had to climb onto one of the bunks to reach.)
"Troublesome," Noe grumbled and slouched as if he was trying to hide in his uniform, "this way, bratlings."
He trailed out of the dorm and headed back the way the others had come.
The main hall was packed with students and Noe hung back by the door leaning on the frame. Sattoo jumped up and down trying desperately to see over the heads of the many people in front of him. Tessai felt sorry for the small teen and made to offer to lift him up.
Noe's hand shot out to stop him, "Don't, he'll cling to you forever if you do. Anyway its good training for him. Help improve his bouncing capabilities."
Yoruichi smothered a giggle as a tall man strode out on to the raised step in front of the assembled students.
"Work hard and strive to do your very best while under this roof," the man bellowed, "Do not seek to be content with merely graduating this school but aim to someday lead the squads you intend to join."
A ripple of excitement filled the room and Yoruichi could hardly suppress hers. She grabbed Kisukes hand beaming up at him.
He looked momentarily surprised but gave her hand a small squeeze and a secretive smile.
Chieko smiled as she neatly sorted and folded the washing on the servants quarters, Kisuke would have arrived at the school by now, she thought. She was very proud of him but worried that his curious nature would get him into trouble. Their mother and father would be proud, Kisuke would continue the clan after all, she had none of his talent.
She stood and brushed her self off, she hefted the basket up and wandered towards the laundry room. Chieko was worried about her father's research, he had deemed it dangerous and had been planning on destroying it but now it was out there some where in the soul society. She shuddered at the thought, at least not many people would be able to read the complicated formula's..
She smiled softly and ducked indoors, "You'll make us proud Kisuke."
Two figures sat under a blossoming cherry tree. The gentle wind breezed across the landscape ruffling the long grass as it went.
"Are the tests ready sister," a soft voice asked?
"Yes brother, this batch look more promising than the last," the young woman replied.
"Excellent," her brother responded.
"The new lists are very interesting," the sister announced, "look at this name, Urahara Kisuke."
Her brothers pale blue eyes shot open, " Urahara? Well, isn't that a coincidence," he murmured.
"Don't worry he's merely another insignificant speck.," his sister told him.
"Do not presume to lecture me, sister. We are justice. We are eternal."
They stood taking each others hand in their own. The wind whipped their hair around their faces and tugged at their clothing, red on white.
"Every thing is in place I presume," he asked?
His sister nodded.
They smirked and wandered back through the field they had been resting in. They walked slowly as if they hadn't a care in the world.
The young man turned back and smiled sinisterly at the large building in the distance, "Enjoy your peace while you can little Urahara," he sneered.
His sister smiled softly, "The board is set and the pieces are moving."
"And so it begins."
Author's Note
well hears the first chap, I hope you liked it :)
Kind of creepy ending hear. :P
I know that there's a lot of new characters its important to the plot to develop them so I hope you like them anyway. :)
thanks for reading silvermonkey