"When Curiosity becomes Intrigue"

By Quick-n-Popular

Disclaimer: "Bleach" and all its characters are properties of Tite Kubo.

Chapter One: A Spectator

It was rainy night for town of Karakura. The cicadas had stopped their chirping and in their place was the frequent booming of the thunderous skies. However, more sounds accompanied the night. Because of these additional sounds, one Lisa Yadomaru found herself drawn.

Having just came from getting the meals for her group, the outcasts known as the Visoreds, unto themselves; Lisa was enjoying the evening walk back to the Visoreds hideout, reading a erogenous-manga under her umbrella when she was disturbed by the unmistakable sounds of swords clashing. Normally, she would have disregarded such a noise as she had ran into public events that were Edo-era re-enactors sparring, but this noise was unmistakable. These were the sounds of two zanpaktou wielders, and three traces of reietsu were in the vicinity and they were unbelievably high.

Normally, such a sudden revelation would have sent the Visored-girl running for her life as Soul Society had declared them to be executed nearly one hundred years ago; but dammit all, her curiosity had gotten the best of her and she was intrigued to watch whatever scene was being played out. Deciding she was being dumb enough to venture out to where the action was happening, she decided not to risk exposure any further and masked her reietsu to the point of being mistaken as a teenage human, which, oddly enough, seemed to fit as she was dressed in a sailor-fuku outfit and did look the part visibly. Nodding to herself in self-satisfaction, Lisa went on to investigate the scene.

It was nothing what she thought it might be. Four individuals were there, three unmistakably Soul Reapers based on their appearance and, judging by the haori and badge on two of the individuals, a captain and his lieutenant, no less. The other two were a Soul Reaper and a girl dressed in a dress wearing a backpack. The girl seemed distressed by the event but was frozen on the spot, the captain was impassively watching his subordinate and the other Soul Reaper fighting each other. The fight continued on until the Lieutenant decided to release his Shinkai of his zanpaktou, which was named Zabimaru. The blade turned into a serrated blade that got larger to size at the tip. It was here that things seemed to turn to the worst for the orange-haired Shinigami. However, Lisa was amazed that the boy still seemed to manage his own and turned the tables on the match against the red-haired lieutenant. However, it was still an uneven match as the Captain came into the fight and shunpo-ed behind the boy taking him by surprise and then…

Lisa blinked, confusedly. It looked as if the captain severed the spirit chain that would connect a human's soul to their body, thus ending their life. But that would be unnecessary for a Shinigami whose already a plus soul to begin with. Unless…Now it made sense, the boy was a human with Shingami powers. This intrigued Lisa more and more as she watched but, sadly, she had a feeling that the experience was going to be short as it seemed the boy was going to die soon. Lisa watched as the girl agreed to go back to Soul Society with the two men and then tearfully commanded the dying boy to stay away and not come after her, telling him that he should live out his life before it ended.

Lisa sighed, bringing her manga up once more; it was an interesting, albeit short, experience. Out of a sense of nostalgia, she thought of the idea of possibly sending the human shinigami's spirit to Soul Society, and was about to take the steps to him when another odd occurrence happened.

A man, one whom she thought she'd never see again after his farewell all those hundred years ago, Kisuke Urahara, appeared on the scene looking over the boy and with him the other boy that Lisa had neglected to notice.

However, the event she had witnessed along with this sudden revelation as to whom the human Shinigami seemed to familiarity with, spurned her curiosity once more and caution be damned as she soon found herself trailing the man who had saved her and the other seven Visoreds from annihilation. Despite her overwhelming interest in the orange haired boy and the unknown ties he had with the blonde-haired man, Lisa decided to play it safe for once this evening and followed them short to a sweets shop which had Urahara's name outside of it, oddly enough.

Deciding she had done enough for tonight, Lisa headed back to the hideout, already her mind working on the information and trying out what should be said to Shinji and the others.

There were eight of them. Eight of whom used to be among the elite of the Gotei 13. Captains and Vice-Captains, all of whom had been turned into hollows and then subsequently placed on immediate execution by the Captain Commander Yamamoto. If not for the rescue by Kisuke Urahara, the captain of the kidou squad Tessai, and the Captain of the second division Yoruichi Shihoin, they'd all be most likely dead. However, despite their gratitude for their saviors, the eight of them were weary and distrustful of everyone, save each other. Thus, they have not been in contact with the three who saved them since their departure nearly one hundred years ago. Which leads to the argument they are now having.

"I still say it's a bad idea, baldy! Obviously, the kid's going to go after that girl, and we shouldn't have anything to do with it!" A loud girl's voice yelled.

A man with shoulder length blonde hair winced and subsequently put his finger in his ear, murmuring incoherent curses.

"I agree with Hiyori on this one, Shinji. We don't know what Urahara's intentions are. You know how manipulative he can be." A man with long blonde hair, wearing a frilly shirt said.

Shinji sighed, "You all know that he's going to use the Shattered Shaft on the kid to get him back his Shinigami powers. There's a good chance that the boy's going to hollowfied before he can break out, that is if he doesn't fail and die."

A man with an afro spiked in three directions on his head, turned the page of the manga he was reading before sighing, "Look Shinji, training the kid isn't the thing, the point is will he still be alive to train after Urahara sends him to Soul Society to rescue the girl?"

After Lisa had came back and told everyone of what she had witnessed, they all agreed on what they thought the events might mean and especially what Urahara's involvement was with it. It was not an uncommon thing to have a Shinigami Substitute in the Living World and it wasn't uncommon for Urahara to involve himself where he felt he could manipulate the events; especially to where he could send a vindictive message back to the place that had banished himself along with the ten others.

Shinji sighed tiredly and rubbed his eyes. They'd been going around circles like this for about an hour now.

"How about I go and observe him, for the time being."

Shinji and everyone else looked in direction of the speaker, whose eyes were glued to the erotic manga she was reading.

"Lisa," Kensei growled, "You know we cant be exposed-"

"We won't. Urahara has his own little secrets and knows not to pry into others'. Besides, he doesn't want Soul Society to know his location anymore then we want them to find ours." Lisa said, turning another page.

Shinji looked at her seriously, "You know what will happen if you end up going with him to Soul Society, right? None of us will come after you if anything should happen."

Lisa sighed, shutting her book close and laying it on her lap.

"I know."

Everyone was quiet and no one said a thing until Hiyori spoke up. "You're being damn stupid, Lisa. And you, baldy, shouldn't be letting her do this!" She smacked Shinji upside the head with her sandal causing him to come crashing into the wall.

It was a quiet day at the sweetshop as Kisuke Urahara rise and yawned before getting dressed and settling down to Tessai's breakfast made for him, Ururu, and Jinta. Afterwards, he trotted on into the room where Ichigo was recuperating, only to see the teenager was still passed out cold.

Shaking his head in thought, Kisuke moved on until a knock at the closed doors to the shop came to his attention.

"Don't worry about it, Tessai. I'll get it." He called out as his mind went rampant as to who it could be, since his "regular" customers didn't usually arrive until the late afternoon.

Sighing, he came to the door and brought out his fan and put upon his jovial appearance.

"Well welcome valued customer, here to the-" He stopped himself in his rehearsed speech as when he opened the door, he immediately recognized the individual behind it.

A person he hadn't seen in one hundred years.

"Good Morning to you, Urahara-san." The girl with the twin pig-tails and red-rimmed glasses said as she put down the manga she had in front of her.

Urahara's eyes narrowed, suspiciously. "You as well, Fuku-taicho, Yadōmaru. This is highly, unexpected."

Lisa nodded, she then arched her neck to the side to peer past Urahara. "Is the boy up, yet?"

Kisuke's eyes widened. 'Now, I wasn't counting on this.' However, his eyes soon bore their usual mischievousness. 'This shall be most interesting. I wonder how it'll all play out…'

To be continued….

A/N: Not sure how this'll all play out as this was a spur of the moment idea. However, I'm curious to see what would have happened should a Visored had been in all the mix in the Soul Society Arc.I am aware that this is probably riddled with inaccuracies or confused information. I'm still compiling my information from the Beach wiki so, please either bare with me or tell me nicely what I'm doing wrong.

Please Review and give me your thoughts on this idea of mine. Q-n-P