A/N: Aye, this is the first story i shall be posting. Please be kind, ain't that used to write in English, used to french a lot XD So huh, please comment, and if you find any errors, I'm terribly sorry, I don't have Microsoft word anymore so I'm using word pad -_-'' And don't hesitate to state your opinion and if you have any ideas to make this story better, share and I'll probably take it if its within my line of sight for the story :). Now lets get down to business.
Me: Shana, mind doing the disclaimer, pretty please.
Shana: S-sure, the author doesn't own anything, now can I go see Dart?
Me: ... Sure go ahead..
Chapter 1
This is it...thought Rose, as the explosion washed over her and Zieg.
They finally defeated Melbu Frahma, and the Moon That never Sets was now exploding, along with the Divine tree, all creations are dying.
She could hear Dart scream for her out there, and as the last burst of energy washed over them, she lost touch with Zieg, and felt herself lose consciousness. Dart, take care of Shana...Guys, I love you all, but finally, I'm going to join my old comrades, Sayonara... That was her last thought before she finally lost consciousness.
Little did she know that fate had reserved her another surprise. At the second she lost consciousness, the explosion caused a dimensional distortion and her body slipped into it, landing into an unknown world.
Renji was late. Very late. So late that he was fearing getting welcomed by Senbonzakura when he would finally reach his taichou's office. As the fukutaichou of the 6th division, led by Kuchiki Byakuya, the current head of the Kuchiki clan, he was expected to be on time, and knew that if he didn't, his captain would be really mad at him.
Cursing under his breath, he used shunpo to reach the entrance to his division quickly, and slipped inside. If only he didn't drink all night! Matsumoto, the fukutaichou of the 10th division, had made him drink all night, making him wake up late with one hell of a hangover.
He saluted all of the other shinigami that greeted him with only a grunted "morning", and finally reached his taichou's office. Taking a deep breath, he counted to three and finally stepped inside.
"Abarai-fukutaichou, reporting in, sir!" He said as he entered the office.
"You're late, Abarai, as my fukutaichou, I'd expect no tardiness from you." Answered the ever cold Kuchiki Byakuya, a frown on his face.
First he had to deal with Kusajishi-fukutaichou early in the morning, running around his mansion, now his own fukutaichou was late. He sighed in exasperation and waved Renji off. "Get to work, you are not to leave your paperwork unless asked to."
"Yes, sir!" Renji nodded and got to work.
They were working for a couple hours when suddenly a loud crash was heard outside. Byakuya sighed heavily and ordered his fukutaichou to go see what was going on.
Renji happily stepped outside, relieved to be out of the paperwork. He used shunpo to quickly reach the group of shinigami that started to accumulate where the crash was heard. A small building was crushed down, and in the middle of it laid a woman, with a weird outfit, and a sword lying next to her. Her outfit was midnight blue with some gold lines on the outward lines, very tight fitting. She had long raven hair and something stood out of her hair, looking like a pair of black ears.
Renji barked a couple of orders and she was pulled out of the ruins, and moved to the 4th division.
It hurts...thought Rose as she finally came back from the depths of her consciousness. Then she realized that it shouldn't hurt. She was supposed to be dead, and she didn't believe in the after life, so why the hell did she feel like she had been walked over by a huge crowd.
She opened her eyes, only to close them right after being greeted by a harsh light. She grunted, not happy at all. Then revelation came to her as she stood up.
"Zieg!" she yelped as she looked fervently for her lover. The only thing she saw was a white wall and a couple of empty hospital beds.
"So you're awake," said a male voice to her right.
She jolted out of bed looking to the guy, only to grunt in pain. Damn, what the hell happened to her. She moved into a defensive stance and eyed the man carefully. The man was tall, had a black bizarre looking outfit with a badge on his left arm. He had a sword straddled on his waist, and striking red hair held by a white bandana. He also had the weirdest tattoo she ever saw, starting to his eyebrow.
"Who are you?" she asked with a cold voice, no emotion showing except defense. He had surprised her, which never really happen usually. She was the one to spook other people, not them.
The man sighed, but answered. "Abarai Renji, fukutaichou of the 6th division of the Gotei 13," he said while moving toward her a little. "Look, just sit back on your bed, you had one hell of a fall, you crashed down a whole building."
She eyed him carefully and moved back to her bed, her whole body was sore. That's when she realized she was in a hospital dress. Her hands shot to her neck, searching for her necklace, realizing it was gone. Panic shot through her and she launched herself at the guy, gripping his clothes and pushing him into the wall, strongly enough to make it shake and cause small cracks to appear.
"Where are my clothes?!" she hissed angrily. She refused to listen to her body who screamed at her to stop moving and glared at the man.
"Whoa! Calm down, they are in the small desk," he said, his hands gripping her own hands and removing them from him.
She walked over to the desk, opened it, and began rummaging through it, hands shaking nervously. Finally, the small necklace holding all of her powers came into view and she immediately took it and held it close to her heart. She sighed in relief and glared at the guy who had a weird name. She quickly put it around her neck, and hid it under her hospital gown, earning a raised brow from the red head. She glared at him and went over to the bed silently.
"So...Who are you?" asked Renji, determined to not waste anymore time.
"Rose," answered the woman, leaning back on the bed, obviously not wanting to chit chat.
Renji waited for her to tell him more, but sighed in exasperation at her non cooperation.
"Look, I don't think you get it. Here, you're a ryoka and you are really lucky to not have been tied up. This place, usually only us shinigami can enter, so either you start talking, or you get interrogated by that creep Kurotsutchi with his weird experimentation's. We're getting answers either way, and the latter won't be pleasant." sighed Renji. Rose remained silent.
Rose slowly turned at him, eying him another time and suddenly sighed.
"Man I'm too old for this kind of thing," she sighed. "I don't know how I ended up here. I was suppose to die in the the explosion of the Divine Tree and The Moon that Never Sets, alongside my lover, Zieg. Next thing I know after blacking out, I'm here in this bed and Zieg is nowhere to be found."
Renji observed her to see if she was lying when Unohana-taichou suddenly came into the room.
"Oh my, Abarai-fukutaichou, why didn't you came to tell me our friend here woke up?'" She asked with her gentle smile, somehow not so gentle. This woman could be terribly scary when she wanted to, even if her face didn't change at all when she emitted that scary aura. Which she was doing right now.
"S-sorry, Unohana-taichou, I was questioning her," answered a frightened Renji.
"I see, now would you please leave, I will inspect her. Isane..." said the fourth Squad leader as another figure appeared into view.
"Yes, taichou?" answered the young woman named Isane.
Renji hastily nodded and left the room, without looking back. Rose looked at him and held back a chuckle. Wait... Did she just laugh? A stunned look appeared on her face, making her stare into space.
"Is everything alright?" asked the kind woman, a calm and warm smile on her lips, while her eyes had a slight worry as the other woman gave her a board with papers on it.
Rose nodded, her composure coming back. She was more than ten thousand years old! She was the damn Black Monster for Noa's sake! It's a chuckle that would get her out of character! She controlled darkness as her own self, she had been chosen by the mighty dark dragon. So it's certainly not a different world with weird people who would throw her off her feet.
"I'm Unohana Retsu, taichou of the 4th Division, the health care division, and this is my fukutaichou, Kotetsu Isane," explained the woman with a smile.
Rose observed her a little, and decided that this woman was not to be taken lightly. Her high stature, her long black hair braided in front of her, her gentle smile, and this aura that could be scary if she wanted to. Rose decided to not piss off that woman if she wanted a clear explanation of this world. As for the other woman, she reminded her of Shana, except a taller and more shy and less confident version. Her short silver hair made her ask herself if this woman was a Wingly.
"I shall examine you now Miss..." said the woman with a small question in her smile.
"Rose."
"Well then Rose, let's see what we have here."
The healer started to examine her, her hands glowing with Reiatsu, going for her eyes, her motricity, looking at her heart, her muscles, the small cuts that had happened during her crash. It took around fifteen minutes and then suddenly, the woman stopped.
"Well isn't this most interesting, it's seems you are alive, Miss Rose," stated Unohana, with a small frown.
"Is there something wrong with me being alive ?" Asked a very sarcastic Rose, rolling her eyes.
"Well, yes," stated the Medic. "You are, after all, in the Soul society, the place where souls go after they die."
It took a while for her to absorb the information the woman just gave her. She was in the world of the dead? How the hell was she still alive?
"I don't understand," said Rose, for once destabilized.
"Neither do I, you are still in your body, and not in the form of a soul. That's impossible, since even humans have to use a special gate to transfer them into soul form to travel here," commented the Medic, full of wonder.
Then suddenly the image of a certain choker came into her mind. At the end of the Dragon Campaign, more than 10,000 years ago, Charles Frahma had given her a choker that made her immortal, so she could kill the Moon Child every time it was born, every 108 years, to refrain her brother, Melbu Frahma, from giving birth to the 108th species of the Divine tree, the God of destruction. That's how she became the Black Monster
"Um..." started an unsure Rose. "I might have the answer to that. I should have a choker that gives me immortality somewhere in my clothes. If you let me check, I'm sure you could examine it."
Unohana just nodded and Rose got up, and looked in the desk. Her gear, her head band, her sword, her backpack with some spells and potion was there, but the choker was nowhere to be found. She gave an annoyed sigh and slumped back onto the bed.
"Sorry, it seems it's not there. I wonder where the hell it went..." she wondered, still confused.
"Hmm...An object that can give you immortality..." started the braided woman. "Isane, send a Hell Butterfly to Kurotsutchi-taichou, I think he could enlighten us on that matter."
"Yes, taichou," nodded the silver haired woman, making a black Swallowtail-Butterfly appear out of nowhere, and hastily sending it to whomever was the receiver.
"Now we just wait for our comrade to show up," said the woman with a small smile.
Noise was heard outside, and soon they saw someone walk in. Expecting him to be Kuro-something, Rose eyed him carefully. That red haired guy did say that Kuro guy was weird. The guy who walked in had this nonchalant feeling about him, as if he didn't have a care in the world. He was not short, neither tall, had silver hair that fell onto his forehead. He also had squeaky eyes closed shut plus a creepy smile that, Rose guessed, never left his face. Definitely a Wingly. Only a Wingly can be this creepy... thought Rose as he made his way to her bed.
"Ichimaru-taichou, what pleasure brings you here?" asked the Medic, the menacing aura starting to shoot out.
"Ah, Unohana-san, I was jus' bein' curious 'bout the thing that fell 'to the 6th compound," he said, his smile growing larger, if that was even possible. "T'was a woman, I see..."
He looked like he was eying her, and when he reached her eyes, Rose did not avert her gaze and looked him straight in the face. Creepy or not, Wingly or not, she had fought Melbu Frahma, it's not like the likes of him would scare her. Suddenly, he opened a little bit of his eyes, staring directly into hers. She met his gaze head-on, not disgusted by his red eyes. God, even Meru had red eyes and she wasn't the most scary being Rose had met. Scarily joyful? Yes. Scary to the point of making you shudder in fear? No. She felt a smile reach her lips at the thought of the cheery head and couldn't stop a chuckle. He looked at her with confusion, and then she couldn't hold back a laughter.
Both Ichimaru and Unohana looked at her, then looked at each other, dumbfounded.
"Ya sure ya didn't give her somethin' funny, Unohana-san?" asked the Fox like taichou, not sure how to react to her momentary laughing.
"I don't remember giving her anything since she had awoken," said the Medic with worry in her face. "Maybe the painkillers are still working, but it has been too long for it to still have secondary effect..."
"Wingly, hehe, alike, haha, Meru is more scarier than him, pffft," she went on in her laughter. When she finally stopped laughing, she let out a big sigh, a smile lingering on her face. "Ahhh, I haven't laughed like that since the Dragon Campaign! Ah! Dart would be laughing his ass off if he had seen me right now," she said with a smile. Then her face darkened. She was in an other world, it's not like she could see him, or anyone else. She sighed, shook her head and looked at them. "Sorry, I have been holding all kind of emotion since I got the choker of Immortality, I guess 10,000 years of holding back have broke down into this."
Crickets could have been heard as they looked at her, dumbfounded.
"How old are you," asked the Medic, not sure if she had understood well.
"Hmm, around 10 or 11 thousand years," said Rose, frowning while she made the math in her head.
The others looked at her like if she was some kind of weirdo. She shrugged. "If you don't believe me, your problem. Now where is that Kuro guy, I hate staying in hospitals," she said, not mentioning that she wanted to test if she could still summon her Dragoon spirit in this soul world.
"How disrespectful!" Suddenly claimed a voice and everyone turned to see where it came from. "I grace you with my presence, how disrespectful, but I don't expect people like you to understand."
A man stood in the entrance, and it was the most freaky guy Rose ever saw in her life. He had a weird looking hat, cone like hears, another metal cone serving as a pinch, his face was painted black and white and he was wearing the same outfit as the others except he had a purple scarf and his sword sheathed in front of him. If she had been someone else, Rose would have shuddered. Her out of character time was finished and now she was back to being the Rose that everyone knew in her world. She straightened her shoulders and looked at him.
"So you're the one that's gonna inspect me? You're better not pull anything funny, or else you'll visit the death dimension...or maybe I could open the Demon's gate for you..." she said, leaking a little threat in her voice, looking him straight in the eyes.
"How insolent! You dare threaten me, the one who freely offer to inspect you? You little..."
"Kurotsutchi-taichou, let's not get sidetracked. We just need to figure out why she is still in her human body, and not a soul. Nothing else, is that clear?" Said the fearsome woman, her menacing aura directed to the creep.
"Tch," grunted the scientist. "Nemu, make sure that this insolent woman gets to the laboratory."
"Yes, Mayuri-sama," answered the said Nemu, appearing out of nowhere.
Rose sighed. She was supposed to die, and now she is stuck in a world of weirdos. That was just her luck.
A/N: Whoa, that was something! Hehe sorry for the OCCness, I just had to make her laugh, the ever so stoic Rose needed a little out of character to adjust in the crazy world. And the question of pairing... hmm I dunno really, I really like Gin, but sadly hes too much doing things for Matsumoto, soo.. Mb Byakushi, or Shiro-chan :) i love em. She's definitely gonna hate Aizen though, totally and Mb I would make her meet the Vizard.
Warning, I'm sooo gonna add Meru in it. Don't ask how, I don't know, but I'm soo gonna add her :D
See ya next chapter!
