The Yachiru Theory

Disclaimer: I don't own and all.... that.... stuff....

So, I wrote one KenpachiXYachiru story called When You Love Someone. It was very fluffy and sweet. It focussed all on their relationship and besides that had little plot. I wasn't going to write more KxY buuuuuut this idea popped into my head and I just ended up writing it all down anyways. See, the theory I once heard was that Yachiru is really... WHAT? You thought I was going to give you the plot of my fanfic that easily? If I did that then why would you read? Anyway, enjoy! Even though there is actual plot in this, that doesn't mean there will not be smex. Because there will. Maybe.

Chapter 1: Background

Kenpachi Zaraki was once again staring determinedly at his zanpakto. He didn't even register anything else in the room. Not the table in the corner, nor the mat on the hardwood floor, nor the darkened lamps around the edges. He was trying to make his mind completely blank. He wanted to see nothing but his sword sitting flatly on the floor in front of his feet.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He felt a breeze sweep in from the open open window to his right, and the shuffle of feet out in the hallway on his left. The dead silence in the room was edging on his nerves but somehow he felt as if it was required for the spiritual ritual he was trying to invoke. He opened his eyes and stared intently at his sword.

He felt a rush of affection for it, as he always did when he looked at it. It had helped him achieve so much, it had slaughtered so many, yet it was not even alive to really appreciate it.

If only he could learn it's name! Then he would be so much more powerful. He would control it, he would learn from it, he would grow along with it. Even since his battle with Ichigo he had started a habit of clearing his schedule to be alone so he could just sit and stare at it, try and talk to it, find a way to hear it's voice.

He had achieved nothing yet. Less than nothing. It seemed to him that his zanpakto was simply stubborn. It didn't want to help him. He was getting frustrated, to say the least.

He closed his eyes to inhale again but when he opened them, instead of seeing his nameless sword, he saw two maroon eyes and a flushing cheeks.

"Kenny! If you stare too long you'll get a headache and get grumpy again!"

Kenpachi was far to used to Yachiru's odd interruptions to be surprised now. He took her timing as a sign that he should give up for the day, it didn't seem as if he was getting anywhere anyway.

"Damn thing. What the hell do I have to do to get it to work?" he grumbled angrily as he stood up and placed his sword back at his waist.

"Don't yell at it silly!" Yachiru replied in a cheerful tone.

Kenpachi sighed in dismay. "You seem perky today. What did you do?"

She jumped onto his lap as he leaned back against the wall. She started counting off on her fingers as she spoke,

"First I went to go get some candy from Bya-kun but he didn't have any so I was mad when I was walking down the street in the 19th section street-"

"What were you doing over there?" he asked incredulously.

"I got a little lost 'cuz I was so mad about the candy."

"What if you accidentally go in the restricted areas one time because you're lost? Then i'd have to come and get you and everything. It'd be a pain in the ass."

"You would come and get me? Yay! Kenny my hero!" She cheered.

He rolled his eyes. "Ok, ok. What happened in the 19th section?"

"Well There were a bunch of little soul reaper trainees and they were-"

"Lemme guess- training?" he interjected.

"Yeah!" She replied enthusiastically. "They were really concentrating then their instructor saw me and she got really nervous for some reason. She kept asking me how come I didn't have any missions or anything and if I would help the others train. At first I didn't want to a'cuz training is boring most of the time but then I saw a whole PILE of snacks sitting out over to the side. She said if I helped then I could have any of the snacks that I wanted!"

"You helped some kids train?"

"Yup! Then when we were done everyone was feeding me their food like they didn't even want it! They kept asking how come I was a lieutenant if I was so small and cute." She smiled slightly at this.

He frowned in contrast. "Was it guys who were saying this?"

She shook her head. "No, mostly it was girls. But Mi-kun... I don't even know if he was a girl or a guy. He kinda looked like both but he talked like a guy and he was wearing the male uniform. He sure looked like a girl though. Plus he was hanging out with the girls...."

As she continued her ramblings Kenpachi sighed. Girls and gay guys were fine for Yachiru to hang around. At least it wasn't some more guys chasing her around like she was a piece of meat. Zaraki swore if he saw one more guy look at his precious Yachiru with hungry eyes again he would chop him up and eat him for his mid-morning sandwich.

Speaking of which, he hadn't eaten anything all day, and all Yachiru's snack talk was making his stomach growl. She sensed that he was about to stand and hopped off his lap as he stretched and yawned as if it ere morning and he just woke up.

"You're getting lazy Ken-chan." She joked when she saw his tired movements.

"It's not my fault there haven't been any damn missions lately. Not that I really care. Non of them would be good enough for me anyway. Come on, let's get some food. You're still hungry right?"

"Of course!" She squealed.

Like he even had to ask. Even if he pretended not to, he couldn't help but wonder sometimes where she put all the food she ate. He figured she was just a black hole and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

"What should we eat?" She asked as they walked into the kitchen.

"How about sandwiches?" his meat-head sandwich idea from before had really wet his appetite. The more he thought about it the hungrier he got.

"Coming right up!" She smiled and lifted her hands over head as if in a banzai motion. He sat at the counter and watched as she seemed to hop at the speed of light around the kitchen, grabbing different ingredients as she went. A long time ago they had made a system surrounding food that they just never seemed to break, no matter where they went. The system was this:

Kenpachi found the food. Yachiru made the food.

It worked quite well back in their first days together. When Kenpachi finally decided he would look after this tiny little baby girl with pink hair, he realized he would need a little help. What did he know about girls, especially innocent ones? After traveling through a few towns and noticing Yachiru's increasingly large appetite, Zaraki sought the local old lady to help feed them.

She was a kind old thing. Kenpachi couldn't remember her name and Yachiru had been too young at the time to even remember her face. The only thing Yachiru remembered was everything that nice old lady had taught her about cooking.

The old lady was so good at making amazing meals out of giant animals that Kenpachi would kill, he wondered if maybe her late husband had been a hunter. Her food was always the best. Her rule, Yachiru recalled as she pulled the mayonnaise out of the fridge, was, "Always use everything."

Yachiru always did. Every spice on the rack, every meat in the mix, every spread on the shelf, she put it in and hoped for the best. Luckily, Kenpachi wasn't very picky. She was even more picky than him, but if he ate something, she would at least have to try it.

As Kenpachi chomped on the foot high sandwich Yachiru had made for him and watched her try and find a way to put her mouth around hers, he thought back to the time when they were living with the old lady.

Yachiru could barely walk. She had taught herself to crawl quickly out of necessity after the few times Kenpachi had started leaving her behind. Kenpachi saw this as so pathetic he picked her up and put her on his shoulder. He could barely feel her back then, she was as light as a feather.

While they were living with the old lady Yachiru grew about 2 years. A lot changed in her in those two years. The years were different back then. She grew quickly and the phases of her life seemed less important and more vague, as if her growing up was just as the passing of time. She could walk well and soon after that she began to run. Kenpachi noticed her quick, agile movements and decided to see exactly how fast he could get her to go. He pushed her hard in her premature training, but she didn't mind. It was enough for her if, when she had accomplished something, Kenpachi just gave her a pat on the head and let her sleep with him that night. Suddenly her skill seemed to increase overnight. Not only was she fast but she was strong and her spiritual energy was growing. Kenpachi noticed that it seemed like every time her energy grew, so did his. He trained her harder and spent even more time together. She would barely leave his side.

Through all this time, Kenpachi did not stop fighting. He would go into town on days he didn't have to hunt for food, and hunt for something else. He wanted strength, he wanted to find the strong and to beat them into the ground. Yachiru loved nothing more than to watch him when he did this. These battles were the joys of her life.

At first Zaraki had not wanted her to see. After he realized he cared about her, he tried to make her stop watching him all together. This was the one and only time Yachiru had ever lashed out at him in violence. He remembered what she yelled when he tried making her stay back as he fought. With tears in her eyes and pink swarms of anger seeming to swirl around her she screamed,

"You'll lose if I'm not there!"

He was taken aback by her words but he made her stay home anyway. He won his battle but when he returned to the house with Yachiru and the old lady Yachiru refused to speak with him.

"But I won." he growled angrily.

The old lady only smiled. "That is because the Little One was watching you from behind a tree."

That night, Kenpachi promised Yachiru that she would always be there when he fought.

Yachiru's affection for cute nicknames was also due to the old lady they had lived with. She had a lot of names for both Yachiru and Zaraki. For Yachiru there were ones like Chibi, Little one, Pinku, Rosy, and Baby. For Kenpachi she used words like, Traveler, Swordsman, Young man, and O-Itami, Which meant, 'the one in pain.' Though she only used the last name when she was being serious.

Yachiru picked up the nicknames and started making up her own for everyone she met. All of this was because of the old lady that Yachiru did not even remember well. Kenpach took another bite of sandwich and thought sadly that it was probably for the best that she did not remember. The old woman's death was traumatic enough the first time. No use reliving it in memory. It even took away his hunger as he thought about it.

Kenpachi had left for town with Yachiru one morning, completely oblivious to the menacing auras that were watching their small cabin with vengeful eyes. As soon as they were out of sight, a group of bandits raided the tiny house, pillaging everything inside. The old lady, who was defiant for her age, tried to resist, but was no match. She called for Kenpachi to rescue her, but neither he nor Yachiru could hear her from the village they had just come to. The bandits left after they had stabbed her, leaving her bleeding on the floor of the kitchen she loved to be in so much. When Kenpachi and Yachiru came home to discover her she was still alive, but only enough so she could smile as Yachiru cried over her. Then, as she finally faded, she muttered one last word,

"Ridou..."

Kenpachi always assumed it was the name of her late husband, and that she was going to join him like she always wanted to do. He had no anger nor very many feelings at all when she had died. He had killed and seen far too much death to let himself be affected by it then. Yachiru, on the other hand, was furious. Kenpachi had seen her anger growing and growing, manifesting into her spiritual energy and forming waves of power that shot off of her like sparks. The tears in her eyes made light reflect off of them in a dangerously seductive manner. Even though she was only a child, Kenpachi could tell she was more terrifying than most men are in their entire lives. As her anger grew, something inside him grew as well. A great power embedded itself in his chest, and he clenched his fists before barking out,

"Yachiru! Would you like to kill them?"

Without looking up, she replied using a twitchy nod of her head. He bent down and lifted her onto his shoulder. As tears continued to stream down her cheeks, a smile placed itself on Kenpachi's face. He ran with her until they found the group of bandits.

This was the first time Yachiru had ever really used her strength. Kenpachi did not fight. It would not have been right if he had. It was not his anger, not his revenge, not his battle. He just watched as Yachiru seemed to form a zanpakto out of thin-air, and wield it as if she had been doing so for hundreds of years. She tore all those giant men apart, and Zaraki just watched, the same power he had felt before becoming stronger in his own soul. He glanced down at his sword, it seemed to be pulsating. He wanted to hold it, to wield it beside Yachiru and to assist her... but he was afraid. It felt like more power than he could ever imagine, and it scared him.

So he just watched, and waited until it was over. When that tiny, pink-haired girl finally put down her sword, panting with lethargic breathes, the power within Kenpachi seemed to be over with as well. It went as quick as it had come, and just as spontaneously. He didn't understand it, and he very little desire to understand it.

Only many years later, when he thought he had grasped as much power as he possibly could, did Kenpachi regret not taking up his own zanpakto at that time. Maybe that was the key to his zanpakto's power, and he had just been too afraid to accept it.

As he watched Yachiru munch on her sandwich, Kenpachi felt his sword emit a strange energy. Maybe soon he would learn the secret behind his own power.

Thanks for reading chapter 1! I have absolutely NO CLUE when chapter 2 will be coming out so..... alert! Or something...

Anyway. Review if you like the story so far!

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