well here's the second chapter, read n review, arigatou.
The sun finally began to rise in Soul Society and everything was peaceful… that is until a hell butterfly can to every person in the Seretei delivering its daily morning message.
"Good morning Taichos, Fukataichos, seated officers and residents of Seretei, this is your daily butterfly with the day's announcements. At 9:00 a.m. all the Gotei 13 Captains and Lieutenants will have a meeting at the 1st squad barracks. At 12:00 p.m. there will be a presentation on clone making by the Captain of the 12th division Mayuri Kurotsuchi at the 12th squad's barracks, anyone interested may visitand at 7:00 p.m. tonight is movie night with the 9th division where they'll be watching the movie '2010' , thank you for your attention and we leave you with the song "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai . Enjoy!"
As the song played throughout the butterflies a lot of unpleasant groans were heard but not from Byakuya Kuchiki, because before the butterfly introduced the song's name to him he smacked it into a wall causing the poor bug to only fly out the window dizzy and hurt.
Rukia got up and stretched out her back getting a few 'pops' out of it when she realized that Kaien was in her home, her face went scarlet rose just thinking about it. She got up quietly assuming both Kaien and Byakuya were still sleeping and went out to check up on the two men.
First she looked in her brother's room only for her to see him still sleeping, well of course, he had been working non-stop the past few months and only had about one hour of sleep a day, smiling she gently closed the door. Then she went to the guest room to check on Kaien to see if he was still there, she opened the door gently to see an empty bed, Rukia looked everywhere around the room looking for him.
she asked herself "Hmm… I wonder where he went?"
"Looking for me?" a voice said into Rukia's ear.
Rukia jumped into the room flying back first on the ground to see her former fukataicho staring down at her, he was wearing the standard shihakusho showing his tattoo of his family's crest on his arm. Rukia pulled herself together and explained herself.
"Actually yes I was looking for you. I was wondering if you left the estate already."
"Well not really, since that damn butterfly came and said that Kurotsuchi was going to make clones of God knows what, I got up and took a shower."
"Oh. Well I was going to have some breakfast… do you want to come with me?"
As if on cue, Kaien's stomach started to rumble and as he looked at it Rukia was giggling.
"I'll take that as a 'yes', lets go."
As the two sat at the table eating their respective meals, the atmosphere was very tense, it was so bad that if Byakuya came out, it only would made it worse. Kaien was the one who finally spoke up.
"So how'd u been Kuchiki?"
"Oh, I'd been really good. Ever since the ending of the Winter War things had been calming down in Soul Society, until Nii-sama and the other captains were working non-stop for the past few months looking for that fox demon Ichimaru."
"Wow, so a lot has happened since I'd last saw you."
"Mhm, yea it has. Um Kaien-Dono can I asked you a question?"
Kaien was then being very skeptical "Um… sure go ahead."
"Umm.. Well I w-was … wondering h-how ….-"
"I'd came back?"
"Um.. Well yes, how did you know?"
"Kuchiki, I can read you like a book. Finish your meal and then I'll tell you."
As the two finished their food, they grabbed a cup of tea and sat in the living room. Kaien then started.
"Ok so do you remember the espada you fought?"
"Yes, he was Arroniero Arru-… Arruel-….Archuel-…." *
"Yes I know his last name is weird to pronounce."
Rukia blushed "Continue Kaien-Dono."
"Alright. Well after you finished him off with that cool new move you had, Byakuya battling the weird pumpkin man and everyone else flying off to parts unknown, I saw a little light piercing through my eyes. I tried to squint them shut so I could stop the light from coming in but it kept getting brighter and brighter until I finally opened my eyes to see I was in a dark dome with splattered blood and frozen ice everywhere, and also the gaping hole in wall fit the décor nicely."
Rukia laughed at that remark as Kaien continued.
"I could've felt my fingers and feet and moved them about to make sure I was alive. I looked for anyone that was there but no one was there to be seen but I'd felt a lot of other people's reiatsu's and began to follow them."
Rukia was too entranced into the story that she wanted to hear more about it until Byakuya came into the room with his cup of tea.
"Good morning Rukia and Kaien."
"Ah, good morning nii-sama."
"Mornin' Byakuya."
Sitting at the couch next to the table Byakuya asked.
"So what're you two talking about?" taking a sip of his tea
"He was talking about how he returned here from Hueco Mundo."
"Oh really? Then continue ."
Kaien smiled, he'd never seen Byakuya so relaxed before. "Alright, so I was lurking out into the hot desert looking for the spiritual pressures I was feeling until I saw a giant hole in the sky. I rushed to see where it was coming from and saw that Ichigo Kurosaki and Unohana-san went through the hole, I had a feeling that it was going to earth so I was thinking of going in it too but it closed before I made up my mind and let me tell you this; standing in the desert wearing full clothing is not very comfortable."
After that statement Rukia bursted out into a fit of laughter and even Byakuya had a chuckle here and there.
"So I was thinking of another way of returning to Soul Society and I saw a hidden lab near me, so I went in and saw that with fixing some busted machines I could get back to Soul Society but it took a long time to work and after a week of finding all of the parts of the machines it was ready to go. I setted the coordinates for the Soul Society but before I could finish, the computer zapped me to the Menos forest. I spent 2 whole weeks fighting off hollows and when I'd finally got out I'd seen another opening in the sky , I quickly went through it and navigated my way through the closed space and finally reached to Soul Society. I was very weak and was ready to pass out at any minute but I had to find at least one person who would've believed I was alive."
"And that's how you sought me out?" Rukia asked.
"Yes, I kept my reiatsu down so no on would've noticed me and I searched for your reiatsu Rukia because I knew that you were the only person that would've believed."
Kaien finished and when Byakuya looked at the time it was 8:30.
"I got 30 minutes until the meeting so I'm going to get ready."
"Um.. Nii-sama… are you going to tell the other captains about Kaien-dono's return?
Byakuya stood up and began to leave until he said "Give me a reason not to." in his cold and usual tone, he then left.
The two remained staring at the place Byakuya was standing until…
"What a prick."*
"K-Kaien- dono?!"
1.-What? His last name is 2 hard 2 pronnounce.
2.-Yes I would believe Kaien would say that.
