Chapter 2:

Some things left unsaid

That Sunday Rosa was with Mr. Hat and Clogs and Chad. They took her from place to place, shopping for all the necessities as a student and most definitely as a girl, in which during those intermissions Chad and Kisuke spent their times helping the other girls instead. Rosa would purposely pop up asking the guys about which tampon brand was better and would either one of them show her how to use a douche? Then the two would end up knocking rows of items off shelves and having to spend their proportioning, cleaning up. Whoops! Sorry guys!

Rosa opened up a bank account and Urahara had made all necessary transfers of currency from The Department of Children and Families in the Americas to her account under his legal supervision before Rosa was declared his foster daughter. Chad's apartment and all other expenses were paid by funds abuelo left him, more then enough to get him through college just as long as Chad calculated correctly and wisely each year, with a given that he'd take up a part time job at the coming of age.

Kisuke offered to help get Rosa started with an allowance. He didn't want anything in return. Rosa proposed she'd clean and stock up the shop. Her studies were more important to him and rather have her contribute to that instead, but Rosa couldn't just take something for nothing so they settled for cleaning and stocking during inventory.

It was unusual, as the law was written for those coming across countries to be adopted by American families, therefore the government took responsibility, however the situation was vice versa so things were a little complex and even though Sado was technically affirmed as an adult and Rosa's only living relative, that either were aware of, though the system states to release children into the care of a capable relative first, they weren't exactly comfortable just sending her off to be with him. It wasn't a matter of doing the right thing, but a matter of how bad the government would look if something was to go wrong, of course that's not what they would actually say. So the focal point was emancipating a child into an entirely different country.

They would not have believed Rosa and Yusutora to be brother and sister if it wasn't because of the video conference. Rosa and Chad ran to the screen as if it didn't exist and literally tried to hug one another through it. In tears the two had fell to their knees pleading for each others forgiveness; the boy in his Japanese tongue and the girl with her Spanish. It was very heart felt. In the end they laughed, calling it even as they continued the rest of the conversation in English. Everything was processed through video and telephone conference and neither knew how Kisuke did it because the odds had seemed to be completely against them, but somehow he did it and here she was.

They walked and man did they walk. They walked everywhere. One thing was for sure, Rosa never had to worry about cardio so she could practically eat whatever she wanted. Amongst the many stops, that day, was an E-Mobile store. It was so damn high tech she swore she was out in space on the mother ship. She got this electric blue android that literally was in the shape of a mini suitcase. It had to be sidle opened. It was bizarre and she liked it! Eager to try it out, she opened her phone to,

"Puta de la madre!" The lettering was in Kanji and it was the bitch's mother's fault! "Nobody text me!,"Rosa shouted and walked out the store. Kisuke and Chad attempted to exchange her phone with the English alphabets, but Rosa refused knowing that even though it would make things easy for her, it would also take longer for her to learn.

"Iee! Ayuda me por favor!" Rosa pleaded for her brother's assistant, already in frustration too early Monday in the morning. While looking at herself, in a full length mirror ,she was fidgeting with a bow. Pulling it from the white collar of her shirt she started smacking it against the glass. Chad came to the bow's rescue as he took it from his sister's hand. His height, menacing over hers, yet he was gentle as he slipped the ribbon around her neck. When he was finished he stepped back and gave Rosa the room she needed to examine the perfection of the knot as if she needed to witness that. She already knew in her mind it would come out perfect. Rosa stepped closer to the mirror, tugging at the bow, but Chad stopped her before she messed it up. Muttering to herself, "I hate this thing… feels like it's choking me."Chad mentioned, "Why didn't you get ties?"Rosa quickly looked to her brother as if she could punch him! "Oh now you tell me I can wear a tie!"

"It was in the pamphlet."

"I CAN'T READ THE PAMPHLET IDIOTA!" Very easily to make out that she called him an idiot.

He'll wait to let her know that she could wear her own jackets too.

Chad buttoned up his shirt. Rosa, bent at the waist, rolled up black opaque stockings with a blue feathery design around her thighs. During the dressing Chad reminded Rosa,

"You know, you didn't have to start class today. Kisuke convinced kouchou sensei,"the school principal, "to give you time to get to know the area."She had no idea what a kouchou sensei was, but if Mr. Hat and Clogs was involved, than everything was fine. Rosa stood up and looked at herself in the mirror. School uniform of a white short sleeved collared shirt, BOW!, very short light gray tennis skirt, which made her very cautious of bending over, and black stockings that added her own individuality. She brushed her fingers through her short brown hair that fell in layers, just below her shoulders. The shorter lengths cupped her face, with bangs that covered her right eye, while the longer ones flared out. She wore no make up. Never really cared to, beside the fact that she couldn't afford to. Her lashes were naturally long and lips rose in color. She watched her mouth form the words as she answered her brother, "I just want to fall into place as quickly as possible."

The past couple of nights she could not sleep. She was having nightmares and Chad would leave his mat from the floor to bring her comfort. Because of the secrecy in Rosa's move from Mexico to New York, Chad couldn't find his sister for a really long time and when he finally did he found out her circumstances were not good. He didn't know Rosa's history. No one other than Rosa would know about her past. When Chad inquired, her reply was, she got lucky. It was obvious, she didn't want to talk about it and Chad was not going to push it.

No longer wanting to relinquish in the past, Rosa turned to her brother, looking for his opinion,

"How do I look?"

Fingers, like the teeth of a comb, Chad brushed his wavy bangs to the side and gave it, "School girl hot."

"…..."

"I should feel weird for saying that right?" Chad added after a very long, confused pause between him and his sister, suddenly feeling uncomfortable.

"I guess," She shrugged, "I don't know," and smiled, suggesting it didn't bother her. It broke the awkwardness, "Thanks anyway!" She jumped up to try and kiss his cheek which caused her to bump her brow bone with his. They were stumbling over in "ow," while rubbing their brow at the same time grabbing for their books and bags, than left the apartment to meet up with the others for school.

END