A/N: I DON'T OWN DIGIMON OR BLEACH! (IF YOU DIDN'T GET THE MESSAGE, THIS IS A DISCLAIMER…)
Someone talking "Hi!"
Someone thinking 'Hi!'
Someone Texting Hi!
Someone on the phone or TV "Hi!"
Someone talking from a Data-Link "Hi!"
Someone from the past talking "Hi!"
Digimon Savers Tu: Human
[Opening: For the Future – Do As Infinity]
Chapter 01: The Runaways
"… In other news, there was a new breakthrough with the incident that took place yesterday" The Anchor-man told the audience as he motions to the screen that the crew behind the scenes inserted for the viewers to see "For those of you who might not be in the loop, yesterday two creatures razed the city of Yokohama to ashes. Experts on the subject are conjuring several theories about the origin of these creatures. Some suspect these creatures to be Kaiju, much like the ones from mythological stories"
The screen changes to see an interview in another channel between two people that sat in comfy sofas "… Godzilla existed; many people have asserted this theory. They never expected though for him to wear armour and throw balls of fire!"
Another feed "It was a lion that spoke! I'm sure it was cursed!" Cried a girl dressed as a Sailor Senshi. Her friend who was dressed as Madoka Kaname nodded while crying as well.
Once again the screen changed to show a blurry recording of the battle between Kon and MetalGarurumon X "I tell you! It's a plush toy! Pixar was right! John Lasseter was right! All of his crew knew the truth!" The madman speaking turns to the screen and shouts "Come out, Buzz Lightyear! Come forth and save us!"
"Idiots, all of them" Touma mutters as he shuts down the TV "That's why I don't watch television"
"They're doing their job, Master" Gaomon comments while drinking tea from his seat besides Touma "DATS paid them well to do what they're doing…"
"The people are still not ready for the truth it seems" Touma stands up and puts on his DATS jacket "It fits too tight"
"You have grown in the time we were separated, Master"
"You too, my friend. You too…"
-DST:H-
"We have to stop"
Bazz looked behind him to see Yukio breathing heavily. He was not the only one.
Tatsuki had started shivering when they were passing by Hiroshima. Bazz had no idea where they were, but Yukio assured him they were on their way to Kagoshima.
That was like, literally, the end of Japan.
"Tatsuki, how are you hanging?" Bazz looked down at his charge and saw her blearily open her eyes.
"I feel like shit"
"Good, you look like that" Bazz chuckled as he rested her at the shore of the river they were relaxing at.
It's been a day since they started running away from the authorities. Fortunately, getting out of Kanagawa was easier than getting in. The journey down the country was mostly silent with the rare stop to catch their breath. More for Yukio than Bazz.
The young blonde was not accustomed to travel at top speed non-stop.
This was one of their last stops before arriving to Makurazaki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Yukio had a safe place for them to stay there or so he said.
"How much?" Tatsuki asked as Bazz helped her to sit up "Are we there yet?"
"No, but we're close" Bazz reassures her. He turns to look at Yukio who was inspecting his broken videogame "Where are we?"
"Prefecture of Yamaguchi. More specifically we're near Mine-shi" Yukio replies, not really paying attention "I say two to three more hours at our pace"
"Great" Tatsuki mutters sarcastically while shivering again.
"Hey what's with all that shivering?" Bazz questions her as he walks around her "Let me have a look at that injury"
"Hands off, pervert!" Tatsuki howls at him, though winces when pain strikes her in the back. She may not be able to feel her legs, but above her butt it was game. The point where the boulder struck her still pulsed in pain.
"I'm not a pervert! I'm trying to see that it was not infected!"
"I can do it myself!"
"You can't, Tatsuki!" Bazz shouts at her "Ichigo asked me to take care of you! Lift your shirt!"
Tatsuki growls at him but ends up looking away from him, most likely from the mention of Ichigo. After much struggle, she did as asked and Bazz got to work on pulling the gauze away to see the gruelling sight of Tatsuki's normally unblemished skin tore apart and hastily cauterized, thanks to Bazz's technique.
"What… what do you think?" Tatsuki asks in a low unsure voice.
Bazz doesn't bat an eye at that, storing the moment for later use "You'll live for now, poor me. Still you need medical attention"
"Bite me"
"Didn't take you for such a kinky girl"
"Shut up"
Before things escalated further, Yukio decided to intervene, least they get found because these two idiots spoke up "We need to move on…"
Why was he with them? Right, they're with Ichigo…
Damn
-DST:H-
"Aren't you worried about them, Lilly?"
The younger one turned to look at the taller one before resuming watching the TV. They were in an apartment that was barely furnished. It was dark and the only source of light was the television.
"Nope" The girl says, making emphasis in the 'p' "Let them come if they want, I'll kill them all"
The taller one was resting against the wall behind the couch "Can't argue with that"
The younger one, Lilly, turned to look at her taller companion "Belle, what could you make of Ichigo Kurosaki?"
"The boy is nothing to both of us, though because you asked me to shot him and called him a Shinigami…"
"He's on my list!" Lilly shouts suddenly, startling Belle "His species… they killed what's precious to me! I won't forgive him!"
"But you said…"
"Even if he doesn't have an ounce of spiritual energy, he used to be a Shinigami!" The girl shouts out in anger "He… his group… they killed Starrk… They killed Blanc!" The venom dripping from her voice was obvious to anyone in the vicinity "I can't just leave it like that!"
"Neither can I" The older woman, Belle, admits "Anyway I can, I'll help you"
Lilly nods as her mind wanders…
"Who are you? I like your hair!" A young blonde girl asked her once upon a time.
Lilly closes her eyes and shakes her head 'I won't ever forgive him… He will pay…'
"It's time for you to go to school, Lillynette" Belle reminds her to what she nods.
Lillynette Gingerback is what many would describe as a humanoid hollow, an Arrancar. Before Sousuke Aizen came into power in Hueco Mundo, all she had was her partner, Coyote Starrk. During Aizen's reign in Hueco Mundo, she had her fellow Arrancar, people who could stand their spiritual pressure.
They were not alone, she was not alone…
After the war though…
-Flashback-
A brown haired man laid in the debris as he bleeds to death. Coyote Starrk accepted the fact that he was going to die. He chose to pursue this path along Aizen, but the only regret he had at the moment was what his companion felt.
She did not choose this…
With the last minutes of life, he delved into his energy pool and expelled the weak signature he felt inside him.
The Shinigami were occupied with Aizen, that's good as they wouldn't be seeing this.
Slowly, the energy he expelled reformed into a body and his Resureccion Form vanished into dust.
The green haired young girl blearily opened her eye and blinked in confusion. The confusion slowly turned into realization as she remembered what just took place.
"Starrk…" She looks at the fallen Arrancar "Why did you do this? We're partners! We are supposed to die together! I-!"
"Lillynette" With that simple whispered word, the girl's voice dimmed into nothing "I will die, but you won't. I wanted to follow this path… you don't have to"
"But Starrk! I don't know what I would do without you!"
"Live"
-Flashback End-
It was painful to have to leave her partner behind like that, but it was his wish.
Lillynette always did what Starrk asked of her…
But that was no more. She ran and escaped… But that was not the end of it…
She had to conceal her nature from the Shinigami…
And that's how she landed on this… carcass that she used nowadays…
"Gingerback please read the next page"
Lillynette now realized that she was in her classroom. Most likely she arrived on autopilot and took seat. She didn't even have her book out, the reason why the teacher was calling to her, that's for sure.
Hastily taking out her book, she opened it to the same page that one of her classmates had and started reading out loud.
'I hate classes…'
-DST:H-
"So… we finally meet"
Ichigo raised his head from the bunk bed he was resting on. Even he had to admit that the cells were well furnished. But now his attention was needed somewhere else than the comfy bed.
Looking up proved to be a mistake as the light from the corridor blinded him. When his eyes re-adjusted to the new source of light, he managed to discern a green haired woman that loomed over him.
"So you're the one who thinks using guns against us is good idea" Ichigo starts with a drawl "What do you want?"
"You brought this on you, Kurosaki" Minerva says offhandedly as she open his cell door and enters, not before closing it once again "It will be easier for you if you cooperate with us. Where are the others going?"
"You don't know?" Ichigo smirks at her; even if he doesn't know either "Thought you would have located them through satellite or something"
"As much as we fancy ourselves being the FBI or another organization of the like, we don't have access to that kind of technology" Minerva admits as she leans on the bars "So tell me or you're going to make me take action. Do something… I don't want"
Now Ichigo's eyes narrowed dangerously "What?"
"Ichigo Kurosaki, Son of Masaki Kurosaki and Isshin Kurosaki. Has two sisters, Yuzu and Karin" Minerva repeats from reading the files she held in her hands "As of right now, Yuzu and Karin have gone to their school, Karakura Middle School. They're on their third period, History"
Ichigo's eyes widen at the implicit message "You don't mean…?"
"A shame isn't it? Such beautiful young ladies; most likely would grow to be as beautiful as their mother…" Minerva grins menacingly now "So I ask once again, where those three are going?"
Sweat beads ran through Ichigo forehead as he glared with hate filled eyes at the green haired woman "If you lay a hand on them, I swear I will kill you with my own hands!"
"Then tell me!"
"I don't know!" Ichigo finally shouts. The life of his sisters hangs on his shoulders, what could he do?
"You don't know…" Minerva mutters before punching the wall in annoyance "Damn it all!"
The woman left, but Ichigo could only stare at one thing. Minerva in her rage blew a head-sized hole in the wall to the next cell, Miki's cell.
Leaving aside that the woman just punched a hole in a concrete wall, Ichigo decided to speak to his cousin.
"Miki?"
The woman slowly crawls up to look at him and seems relieved "You're fine… thanks god"
"You're here because you helped us, right?"
Miki chuckles humourlessly at that "Why else? Maybe because I defied that woman"
"She's bad news for everyone. Where did she come from!?"
"The UN sent her to regularize DATS operations… because of your group's actions; we were seen as 'Not Good Enough to protect our World'" Miki growls in frustration "They sent that woman who installed a dictatorial regime on us. I can't think of any reason why anyone would approve of this"
"I need to get out of here, Miki" Ichigo tells her, a bit of desperation on his voice "She's targeting Yuzu and Karin. I can't let her!"
"They're useless to her now, Ichigo" Miki explains to him "Now that she knows you don't know anything, they won't matter to her. She's has much more important things to think about"
Suddenly the world trembled under their feet. Miki fell to the ground harshly while Ichigo managed to keep his balance.
"What was is that!?"
-DST:H-
"The Soul King… is dead"
The world rumbled as cracks started appearing all over the worlds.
Yhwach meanwhile laughed like a maniac while the powers of the Soul King washed over him. Having absorbed the Right and Left Hand of the Soul King, Yhwach was an omnipresent being, the likes Sousuke Aizen dreamed to be
His own Elite members of the Sternritter stood around him. Uryu meanwhile watched on with a bead of sweat running down his face 'Soon the chance will appear… I hope it won't be too late…'
"Finally I take my rightful place" Yhwach says as he reforms the Royal Palace in his own image "Soul Society is broken! The Royal Guard is nigh but ended! The only one who posed a threat to me is powerless!"
Uryu lowers his gaze at hearing that. While Ichigo would be a wonderful addition to their ranks, he was powerless to help. And many were fine with it. He fought one war and defeated an enemy beyond the power of the Soul Society.
He helped us when we needed him the most. He came through when the horizon seemed bleak.
This time he won't need to stand up to take the responsibility. It's something he alongside Orihime and Chad decided when this situation appeared to them.
They would fight for Ichigo, for him to not need to fight once again…
It was proving difficult, but he was sure they would pull through.
Ichigo never surrendered, they wouldn't start now….
-DST:H-
"It stopped" Ichigo grunts as he leans on the wall "What's going on?"
"Maybe it's an earthquake" Miki suggests as she stands up once again "What should we do?"
"I need to get to Aegiomon" Ichigo says while thinking over a course of action "My Data-Link as well and I need to get this limiter out" He looks at the apparatus that was implanted on his skin.
According to Yoshino this worked to limit his Digisoul Output in order to avoid him being digitized like he almost did yesterday. Problem is that they set it on zero, meaning that he could not generate any Digisoul to get out.
They learn… somewhat.
-DST:H-
"Well, isn't this a surprise?" The man sat behind the desk in his office, looking at the magenta haired woman "How long has it been, Yoshino? A year I think…"
"Cut the game, now" Yoshino tells the man as she takes seat in front of him "I need your help, Kosaburo"
The green haired man's smile widened at that "And pray tells why do you think that I would willingly help you? Last time I worked with you my agency… got somewhat discredited you know?"
Kosaburo Katsura is a man in his late twenties that in the past fought with DATS after a job going awry. Much like Yoshino, he's a Partnered Human whose Digimon sidekick was a crafty Biyomon.
As he was a Personal Investigator, he took odd jobs from those who had money. After the Seven Demon Lords debacle, his agency took the fall for the incident.
So working with DATS once again was not in the best of his interests…
"This is not for DATS"
Now Kosaburo's normally squinted eyes opened fractionally "Oh?"
"There's… something going on, DATS is not the same as it used to be" Yoshino starts telling the man she trusted as much as she trusts Masaru to not punch something during a day. It's not much… "You must now something of what's going on"
"To tell you the truth, I thought you were going to ask me to track those three teenagers that got away from you" Kosaburo reveals to her, now in business mode "But this intrigues me nonetheless, Yoshino. This is not how you work… You're such a stickler for rules, for protocols"
"Because those rules are against my morals is that I'm doing something about it" Yoshino tells the man "There's this woman, Minerva that-"
"Stafræn you mean?" Kosaburo interrupts as he turns around "Biyomon bring me the Case 29A9!"
"On it!"
Yoshino's eyes widen at that, but for two reasons "You! You have Biyomon with you!? And you knew what I was coming for!?"
"To the first and redundant question, yes Biyomon is with me" Kosaburo smirks at that "Can't have my partner in crime without me for long"
"Right you have that Dive System of yours… thought it was dismantled" Yoshino mutters the last part.
"My dear! You speak as if you didn't know me!"
"Right"
That's when Biyomon came into the room "Here it is, Kosaburo!"
"Thanks, Biyomon" The Pink Bird nods at the praise and leaves the room "Back onto business, and for your second question, Minerva Stafræn, delegate of the UN in DATS. That much is known. I'll be giving you a freebie, Yoshino. This just arrived this morning and I was going to send it to my real client"
"Someone is investigating her as well? Why is it that I'm not surprised?"
"Because there are many inconsistencies with this woman" Kosaburo tells her as he opens the file "You won't believe what I found"
Yoshino pick the photograph she was offered and gasps in horror at what she saw in it.
"Scary isn't it?" Kosaburo grabs the photograph once again and files it "Found it in Hokkaido, where Stafræn used to live before coming here. Her work took her everywhere. And before coming here, she was summoned to the UN HQ in New York. That was in May the 26th from this year, the day Cosmo World was attacked"
"But how does all of this tie in with that… mangled… that thing?"
"The body I found with Biyomon's help has been dead since that same day and the DNA scan reveals that the body that's been found dead, that same body in the photograph is Minerva Stafræn"
Yoshino stays rigid at that "What?"
"That leaves us with a persistent question, just who is the woman we now call director of DATS nowadays?"
"And you know who she might be?"
Kosaburo reclines in his seat "That's where I'm stumped. But I have theories based in awry scans I made through the city"
"Scans? What do you mean?"
"Just what it seems" Kosaburo takes out from another file a map with what looked like heat readings "These are not heat readings. As you can see, the red area is where Kamonyama Park is. These readings are from yesterday, around the time a Tankdramon and a Kyukimon realized into our world. These readings are clearly from that Orange Haired boy and his partner-"
"Ichigo" Yoshino interrupts him "His name is Ichigo"
"Oh the boy? Well Ichigo-kun as you seem to be sensible to him being called a boy; was fighting Kyukimon while a little north of there his two friends were fending the Tankdramon"
"Okay so what of all of this?" She says, burying her embarrassment at the man's teasing.
"You know that everything I do has a meaning behind" Kosaburo chastises her "You see, at the same time these readings were taken at DATS"
The map showed the DATS building and it had a larger reading than the other two sites of battle "What the… There was a Digimon there all the time?"
"My theory falls on that, Yoshino"
"It could be WarGreymon X. He was taken prisoner" Yoshino says but stops at hearing herself "But he's in another facility…"
"That's what leads me to my unlikely theory" Kosaburo says as he pulls a DVD case "Have you ever seen Men in Black, the movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith?"
"What does that has to do with our…" Yoshino's sweat drop rapidly turned into a frown as what the man was proposing fell into place "Wait you don't mean that…"
"Edgar, poor man that he was, was victim to a parasite that simply took his identity…" Kosaburo sing sang for her "I don't necessarily mean that in this case it was a parasite, but…"
"But that would mean that Minerva is not human… a Digimon maybe?"
"That's what I'm trying to prove. Unfortunately, I don't have enough resources to get close to her like that, but I know someone who might be able to assist me in this endeavour…"
"You want me to work for you!?"
"It's the least you could do for me, Yoshino. After all I've been gracious enough as to give you free information that my client had to pay for"
In a silent tug of war where Kosaburo kept his confident smile and Yoshino glared daggers at him, the atmosphere suddenly turned tense.
It was the green haired man who decided to break the silence "Well I understand your position, Yoshino. So I'll give you an easy, and satisfactory, way out. Tonight at seven I'll be coming to your apartment and we will be going to-"
"Like hell I'd date someone like you!" She shouts at him scandalized at the notion.
"Oh that's right" Kosaburo's smile turns into a mercilessly teasing one, a fox-like expression one would say "Ichigo-kun would not like it if you were with someone else…"
The storm came as predicted "What the!? How did this turn into me dating Ichigo!?"
"Who said anything about dating Ichigo-kun?"
A guttural growl came from Yoshino as she walked away "I'll help you"
"I knew you would look at things my way" Kosaburo sang cheerily as she left his office. When he heard the closing door, Kosaburo's cheery attitude vanished as if it never was real "I wonder how someone like Ichigo Kurosaki is to bewitch someone like Yoshino…"
Without much to do, he turned back to work.
"Biyomon!" I need you to deliver this report!"
"Where to?"
"The guy with the Fisherman Hat!"
"Okay!"
-DST:H-
"So what can you gather out of this?" A cat-like Digimon looks up from the screen she was reading "It doesn't make sense why they would be raiding the Core Field"
"I don't think it has anything to do with Chronomon, if that's what's worrying you" Gatomon says as she goes back to the computer screen "Do you have any idea of what it could be, Kudamon?"
"I don't know and that's what's worrying me" Kudamon admits "I may need to take counsel with the other Royal Knights"
"Try talking with UlforceVeedramon, he's old enough to remember most of the old history"
"You know him, Gatomon?" The holy Digimon asks.
"I fought along him in a war long time ago. Baalmon was there as well, though he used to be a Wizardmon back then" Tailmon remembers with a smile.
"Ah I remember, your tale about aiding the Digimon King of that time"
"Yeah that one"
Kudamon nods at that "It would surely be helpful in this war to have a strong Digimon like him"
"That's why Baalmon went to the human world. Digidestined have been called and they will come to help"
"You seem convinced of that"
"Well I've seen it once or twice in some of my nine lives" Tailmon replies cheekily "I know for a fact that the Digital World will choose fine kids to protect us…"
-DST:H-
"Bazz! Stop harassing that cat!"
"Why? It's fun! Besides I need to test my techniques. After I blacked out my powers went awry" Bazz tells her while rubbing his ear with his finger.
"But on that poor cat!?" Tatsuki shouts at him "What did it do to you!?"
"It was giving me the stink-eye"
"Cats can't do that!"
"Oh? Have you ever seen that Cat-Woman Shinigami who roams Karakura!?"
"Yoruichi is a different matter altogether!"
"How so? She prances around like a cat all the time!"
"We're here" Yukio's voice cut through the conversation with little success.
"It doesn't justify to try and burn a cat to death!"
"I was giving the cat a sun-tan for free at that, for fucks sake!"
Yukio watched them bicker back and forth and was already regretting this "If you're done with you crisis inflicted marriage spat, we're here"
"We're not married!"
"I'm not in crisis!"
Yukio rolled his eyes "Yeah right, we've arrived"
That's when the arguing duo realized that it's been some time since they entered a town.
"Where are we by the way?" Bazz asks the resident blonde. Yukio looks at him and points to a sign that said the name of the place they just arrived.
"Makurazaki" Tatsuki read as she watches over the town they just arrived to "We're here now, where to?"
"We take the trolley"
"Huh?"
It was not long before they sat in the Train Station waiting for the train to arrive. Tatsuki sat in the bench while Bazz plopped in the ground.
"Damn it, this looks like one of those runaways movie where they travel through the forgotten towns of a country…"
"Didn't take you for someone who watches movies" Tatsuki idly comments as she sips from her oolong tea can.
"Well… me and some of the Sternritter would always get away and go to watch some film. Many of them are psychos, but the others are normal people trying to find their place in the world" Here Bazz chuckles as he looks to the sky "Usually we would feel… like if we were the characters…"
Tatsuki eyes him with curiosity "You mentioned the Runaways movies, you feel imprisoned or something?"
Bazz turned to look at her, not really knowing what to say to that…
"I got them" Yukio interrupts as he walks in, tickets in hand "It should arrive soon"
"Why are we using this rundown train?" Bazz asks, trying to clean his head away from the last conversation "We could easily run all the way there"
"We're tired" Yukio says nothing more on the subject, but Tatsuki could tell that there was more.
As the train arrived to the station, they got on and noted that besides them, there was only an old lady who seemed to be blind.
Taking that in account, the Digidestined released their Digimon who were more than happy to stretch their legs.
"Such a long trip!" Coronamon whined as he sat down in a seat. Lunamon followed his lead and sat there as well. Baalmon opted to stay up while leaning against the door of the train "Where are we!?"
"We're in Makurazaki, in the prefecture of Kagoshima" Tatsuki replied not taking her eyes away from Yukio who seemed to be in his own little world.
Yukio stared through the window as the town was replaced by vast fields where the green and yellow were predominant among other colours.
The glass window reflected his eyes which only showed sadness.
Tatsuki could not leave things like this and so she asked "Why are we truly here, Yukio?"
Yukio looks at the others and sees that beside Coronamon and Lunamon who were playing among themselves, everyone was looking at him expectantly.
The blonde boy looks at the window once again and sighs "When I was younger… My parents and I used to travel through this train to visit my Grandmother. From my family, she was the only one who mattered to me"
"You look sad so…"
"She's not dead, at least not yet…" Yukio's eyes never leave the corn fields "Travelling through here is… one of the few good memories I have with my parents"
Bazz looked down at that, knowing what was implied 'I don't love my parents, and they didn't either'. Curious how similar one can be, despite the years separating them…
"We're going to your Grandmother's home?" Baalmon asks, breaking the silence.
"No one will find us there, because she doesn't live there anymore" Yukio replies with finality.
The subject would not be addressed any further…
It did not take long for them to arrive to the place they were meant to go.
"Shirasawa? Never heard of this place at all" Tatsuki mutters as the train blurs behind them. Bazz readjusted her weight as she clamped on his back.
"This is the Ibusuki Makurazaki Line. You've never been out of Tokyo or Kanagawa, Tatsuki. You wouldn't know of it" Yukio comments as he starts walking, leaving the others in the dust.
Silently, Baalmon followed and soon the others did as well.
Soon they arrived to what looked like a route "Route 226" Yukio clarifies as they arrive to what looks like a hospital. Yukio recalls Baalmon and the others follow as well, no without complains by Coronamon.
Without questioning, they entered behind him and waited as he spoke with the clerk "Yukio-san! It's been a while"
"Kanade-san, I'm here to see her"
"Of course! She's at the Playroom right now"
"Thanks" Yukio turns around and tells them to follow him "My Grandmother is here, please behave"
Seeing the delicate situation they were in, they nodded and followed.
Opening the door to the Playroom, Yukio managed to discern an Old Lady who was playing Solitaire alone by the table. Her back looked visibly crooked while a wheel chair sat by her side.
Yukio approached her and spoke to her close to the ear and somewhat loudly "Hello Grandma"
The woman slowly turns toward Yukio and you could see the joy in seeing him. She replied with visible excitement, though she could barely be heard.
Both of them spoke for a while until Yukio told her that he would be staying with his 'friends' in her house for the foreseeable future.
She nodded and told him to looks for someone, they couldn't hear as they maintained their distances.
Yukio did not like to hear of whoever they were seeing now.
With that he stood up and walked toward them. Tatsuki exchanged looks with Bazz who was about to speak and they followed Yukio out of the room.
As they walked outside the Hospital, Yukio stopped and the duo soon followed suit "Her name is Kaguya Shinomiya, she's my Grandmother by my mother's side. She's suffering from a degenerative disease that works on her bones. That's all I'm telling you, Bazz. Stop prying for more"
As Yukio started walking away, Bazz received a slap in the head "You were too obvious, idiot!"
"Oi! I didn't even say a thing!"
Yukio stops at hearing them once again "Bazz, take Tatsuki to the hospital. Tell them that I sent you, Kanade already saw you with me. They won't say a word as I already payed her for it"
Tatsuki's eyes widened at that "So when you were greeting her…?"
"That's right"
With that he left and walked down south "Please look for the Sueko Hair Salon when you finish. I will most likely be there"
Tatsuki watched as he walked away and sighed "He's such a reserved guy…"
"We're lucky to learn so much of him even if we know him for such a short time" Bazz comments as he carries her back toward the hospital "You were found in a car wreckage, that's what we're telling the Doc"
"Whatever…"
-DST:H-
It was nightfall when Bazz arrived to what looked like a family home that had a hairdresser's shop in the front. It was the only place that fit the bill.
Bazz walked behind Tatsuki who sat in a Wheel Chair, much to her chagrin.
Apparently, Bazz did a very good job at tending her which the doctor commended. Dr Kadomatsu rapidly stitched the gash and covered in gauze and medical tape before sending her to 'rest' while being pulled on a wheel chair. After that she was given a bottle of painkillers to fend off any lingering pain.
"This seems like the place" Bazz comments as he rings the bell. It did not take long for a young blonde woman to open the door for them. She looked to be in her thirties and seemed to glow with joy. She wore a simple t-shirt like the ones one would use to sleep and short jean shorts.
"Ah! You're Yuki-Chan's friends!" She says as she helps Bazz to pull Tatsuki inside "I'm Mao Ichinose, Yukio's cousin!"
The woman pulled them inside and they were greeted with the deadpan face of Yukio who seemed uncomfortable as hell.
"So this is your cousin's home?" Bazz decides to break the tension.
"I thought that this place was empty" Yukio rolls his eyes "It's full to the brim I see"
"Don't be like that, Yuki!" Mao pouts as she hands them a glass of water to them "I'm living here temporarily while I use Granny's Hair Saloon to work"
"You're a hairdresser?" Tatsuki wonders out loud.
"That's right!" She tells them and shows them all the trophies she won in competitions.
On opposition to Yukio's usually dull personality, she seemed to wrestle with the sun to see who shone more.
Ironic…
"You must be tired from all that travelling!" Mao tells them as she ushers them to the bathroom with a pair of towels "Please take a shower! I'll find something for you two to wear!"
Bazz and Tatsuki nodded, though Tatsuki had to ask for help to bathe, much to her own shame. Mao was more than happy to help. Bazz went after them, though while the girls bathed, he spoke with Yukio.
"Does she know?"
Yukio shook his head "Of course not. I wouldn't tell her that we're nation-wide fugitives. It's luck that this town is barely connected with the rest of the world"
"Though this is a nice place from what I've seen" Bazz comments with a smile "Wouldn't dislike the idea of living somewhere like this. Peace and quiet, not one soul to bother me that much. Can't get better…"
"That's why I liked coming here" Yukio mutters as he walks away toward one of the rooms "There are enough rooms for the three of us, pick a room you like"
Bazz nods and sits in the couch, thinking of what they would do from now on…
-DST:H-
Near Makurazaki, a shadow stretched in the ground and a white robed man rose from the insides. He got the trail and he knew where to go.
"He went through here… I'll take my time then… With the Soul Society down…"
With that Jugram Haschwald started walking at a peaceful pace…
-BREAK-
[Ending: The Town of Island – Satori Shiraishi]
Hello people! It's been some time. I expected to finish by the end of august, but I wrestled with something about chapter four which I don't know what to do.
Now I know…
So onto the chapter…
First we see Touma settling into his old lifestyle while Gaomon returns to his old ways.
Bazz, Tatsuki and Yukio seem to be running away like an old runaway flick. Here I will deepen our knowledge of Yukio's past and motivations as it wasn't mentioned at all, except that tid bit of info about his relationship with his parents. Mao Ichinose is an OC who is simply the bubbly cousin everyone has somewhere. Kaguya is also an OC that fills Yukio's past.
A bit of trivia here is that the doctor that attends Tatsuki is called Dr Kadomatsu, the same name that the main researcher of Digimon Online has in the Digimon World 3/2003. Excellent game by the way.
Onto Ichigo, he meets Minerva and re-encounters with his cousin, the ever beautiful Miki. Regarding Minerva, we see that she is clearly not human at all, the question is, and who she is!?
Now we introduce the last Digidestined of this batch, Lillynette Gingerback. One annoying fact about Kubo Tite is that he seemingly has an easy time killing Arrancar characters while Shinigami one way or another get to live. Lillynette and Starrk as the strongest Espada, at least by rank without taking in account Yammy, had the most potential to grow into strong characters for the next arc (Quincy Arc). Of course the story was rushed and the remaining Arrancar had little to no spotlight.
In this story Lillynette has more story with the Digimon than the other characters which will be revealed slowly though the episode and the next. I'm excited to work on her character as it is the most promising to make grow.
Now the most questionable and delicate thing. Yhwach's plan would not stop, even if Ichigo was out of the picture. His friends work hard to make him ignorant of this threat. They feel that they owe him that much. So Ichigo will be uninvolved when it comes to Yhwach. I'm merely giving away that scene to show that the canon of bleach still runs. The world doesn't stops because one character goes somewhere else. In my opinion, with the arrow of death shot by Uryu at the end of the manga it became glaringly annoying that anyone that can distract Yhwach can defeat him, proposing that the person is strong. So Aizen and maybe Renji or another powerful Shinigami should be able to strike down Yhwach after he's shot and his powers are paralyzed momentarily.
Another issue would be that you think that Kosaburo Katsura is an OC. He's not as he appeared in Digimon Savers: Another Mission. I highly recommend that you at least read the argument as it is partially pivotal to the story; at least one of its plot lines is directly affected by it.
Last but not least, Kudamon and Gatomon have an interesting conversation… for those of you who did not get the reference, unlike the cap, I suggest that you read Digimon Xros Wars (Manga) as it might clear some holes you might have during future plot lines, specially Baalmon's one.
So now that everything is clear, I think, it's time to say hello people. I'll be updating next Sunday (For me at least).
So Bye-Bye!
NEXT CHAPTER: The Turn of a Friendly Card