Hey ya'll. I know I got other things to be working on, but I started rereading Akame ga kill and I remembered I had been working on this story for a while. Honestly they have nothing to do with each other and I can't even remember how it reminded me to work on this, but it did. Anyway, you all know the line by now. I don't own bleach, yada yada, I claim no rights to anything yada yada, please support the official release yada yada. Also, if you like Shuhei you really should check out 'Can't fear your own world'. It's actually pretty interesting...at least to me.
So the plot. Basically this is a what if story, a what if Shuhei had been turned into a vizored along with the others. Hope you enjoy!
Shuhei stood frozen in shock as the Taichou's body slid off the blade and onto the ground where the other two shinigami's bodies lay. The blind man proceeded to step over the body and enter the tent that the Taichou had exited. Shuhei heard a man scream from inside the tent before a another muffled yell that sounded like the female of the group! Shuhei started breathing quicker and soon lost control of it's pace. He felt like he wasn't getting any oxygen into his lungs.
Being from the higher districts of the rukongai, Shuhei had seen people die before. After all it wasn't strange for a person to kill another for their belongings, or a drunken brawl or fight to get out of hand and end with a soul moving onto the cycle of rebirth. However in all of those instances Shuhei had not been remotely invested in the situation. The only people Shuhei had ever opened up to where Torahiko and Gyuji for that very reason. Now however these men who saved him and his two brother figures were slain, killed by one of their own men! Shuhei just couldn't believe it.
After he, Torahiko, and Gyuji arrived at their small home Shuhei realized the taichou and his men may not know about the souls vanishing in the area. If they didn't know they could easily be the next target of whatever monster was out prowling around. His brothers told him not to go, that the taichou and his men were plenty strong enough and the taichou would probably just yell at him anyway. Shuhei insisted however and told them he would return in a few hours. Now he wished he had done exactly what they told him to do.
Self preservation screamed at the boy to turn and run, to get as far away as he could from there. After all if someone as strong as the taichou was cut down then there was absolutely nothing a small boy like him could do to help. Shuhei took a hesitant step back. It didn't feel right to just abandon the man. After all he saved Shuhei's life only hours before. Shuhei made a decision to flee and get word to the Seiretei. The man was a taichou after all, his disappearance would be noticed and they would be looking for why. With that in mind, the boy turned to head back to the village as quickly as possible.
He crashed into a solid object that he was sure had not been there before. Shuhei landed on the ground on his back. He pushed himself up on his elbows, ready to get up and make a second attempt at running. However a foot came down on his chest, pinning him on his back. Shuhei looked up in shock to see the blind man who had gone into the tent! Shuhei couldn't understand how he was now standing over him. The man's face was turned toward him, as if thinking. "A child? One of the one's from this afternoon." he seemed to realize. Shuhei felt his breath catch. He had no fantasies about this man letting him go, after all he just cut down his own friends. A stranger would mean nothing to him. As if reading Shuhei's thoughts, the man drew a katana and brought it down, resting the tip on Shuhei's collarbone. "A shame it must end this way. You should have obeyed Muguruma-taichou." he said. Shuhei felt his eyes burn as tears formed. He didn't want to die, and he especially didn't want to die like this. He wanted to see his brothers, he wanted to be home!
"Wait Kaname." Shuhei turned his head slightly toward the direction the new voice came from. He could make out two blurry figures moving toward them. One was much bigger then the other and both were black blobs, telling Shuhei they were probably shinigami as well. The blind man moved back, taking his foot and katana away from Shuhei as he did. Shuhei sat up, wiping the tears out of his eyes with his hand to try and see the new arrivals better. One was a brown haired man with glasses. He had a badge tied to his left arm with a five on it. Next to him was a young boy with silver hair and his eyes squinted shut. The man seemed to radiate a feeling of danger and Shuhei was sure that whatever the man was planning was worse then simply dying.
The boy stopped a few feet away but the brown haired man continued to move forward. Shuhei leaned back, trying to create more space between him and the be speckled shinigami. He knelt down in front of Shuhei, reaching out to grab Shuhei's chin in one hand. Shuhei felt like he was hyperventilating. "It appears he has some reiatsu. It's not very high yet, but it may have been enough to attract that hollow you informed me of earlier." the man said. Shuhei knew he wasn't talking to him, but the blind man who had responded to the name Kaname. The brown haired man then released him and stood up, turning to face his companion. "It would be such a waste to simply kill him. I would be interested in seeing how the hollowification process would react to him." he said.
Shuhei had no idea what those words meant, and his instincts told him he didn't want to find out. At the moment neither of the men were paying attention to him. If he was going to escape, now was his best chance. Shuhei rolled over onto his front and pushed himself onto his feet before taking off in a dead sprint. He was fairly confident of his ability to run. After all if he wasn't fast he wouldn't be alive now since he wouldn't be able to get away from shopkeepers with food. Shuhei couldn't hear anyone pursuing him, but he wasn't about to look back to see either.
Suddenly however he was slammed into the ground. He yelled in surprise as his face met the dirt. His left arm was pulled across his back and a weight slammed onto him directly under that, holding him where he was. Shuhei turned his face to the side, wanting to see what was holding him down. A flash of light came directly across his face, then a blade planted into the dirt by his eyes. The right side of his face exploded in pain and the child screamed. It took him a second to realize he had been cut from his chin to his forehead. Blood flowed into his eye and he was forced to close it. "Did you forget about me?" a new voice said. The boy with silver hair! Shuhei had indeed forgotten about him! He tried to pull his arm free, needing to be away from this new threat, but the silver haired fox tightened his grip. "I wouldn't try that." he said.
"That was a little unnecessary Gin." Shuhei could hear the brunette say, but his tone wasn't scolding at all. Instead he sounded amused. Shuhei gritted his teeth and hissed as fresh tears came down his face, mixing with the blood. These men were just toying with him now. There was nothing left he could do. In despair the boy let out another scream. He could hear footsteps approaching him and could just make out a white jacket. It was the blind man. Shuhei closed his other eye, not wanting to watch what was about to happen. Then all he felt was pain.