Chapter Two:


"Kaminoke-san, you do not have to worry about me. I will have them to help me in your absence." Captin Ukitake said as Yohime sat before him. "You know deep down you want to go to see them again."

"Captin, you are right, but-"

"There are no buts with me." He said, "Do I have to order you to go?"

"No, sir." Yohime said, "I will excuse myself then." She said bowing before leaving.

"It's reitsu vanished." Rangiku said as they stopped.

"How?" Yohime said looking around.

"Captin, what should we do?" Rangiku asked Hitsugaya.

"We'll take shifts in patrol." He said, "You will go in twos, and I'll do single patrols."

"Who will go first?" Renji asked.

"The groups will be Ikkaku and Renji, Yumichika and Matsumoto and the final group will be Rukia and Yohime." Hitsugaya said, "From midnight to six am will be group one, Ikkaku and Renji, from six to noon will be Matsumoto and Yumichika from noon to six will be Rukia and Yohime, then from six to midnight will be me."

"Right!" They all said.

"Looks like it's our shift, Rukia." Yohime said looking at her.

"Right." She said plainly.

"We will switch at six." Hitsugaya said as the others left back towards the school. The two girls nodded.

"I'll take the this side of Karakura, You can take that side." Yohime said to her. Rukia nodded and the two split up in different directions.

Patrol went on for the next few hours until six when they returned to Urahara's shop and Captin Hitsugaya went out on his patrol of the town. Another few days went by and patrolling led to nothing. It soon became the weekend and Renji and Yohime were sparring against eachother in Urahara's training grounds under his house. It was about eight in the morning and some were still asleep.

"Yohime." Renji said pushing Yohime back as he blocked an attack. She looked at him, holding her attack. "Let's take a break and see if the others are up."

"Yeah, I'm starting to get hungry too." She replied as they both sheathed their zanpakutos and headed towards the ladder to get into the shop. No one seemed to be awake yet and the two looked at eachother blankly. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"We go out to find food?" He asked, pretty sure that was the answer.

"Well, I was going to say we try to cook, but I like your idea better. We won't worry about burning the house down." Yohime said as they entered their gigais that they left sitting against the wall.

"I like my idea better too." He said as they grabbed some money they had and headed out. "What places are there to eat at, that have a good breakfast."

"I don't know, you're here more than I am." Yohime said putting her hands in her sweater pockets. She was wearing a pair of faded jeans with a white tee-shirt that had some sort of band name of it with a faded jean jacket. Renji wore his usual gigai's white shirt with a some sort of logo on it with a pair of jeans. "It sort of feels weird not being in the school uniform like I normally am in my gigai, or not in my Shinigami outfit like I am outside of my gigai." She said as they looked around.

"Hey, this place looks interesting." Renji said looking inside a resturant window. "Let's go in here." He said grabbing her wrist and pulling her inside. They sat down at one of the tables by the windows, and the waitress came to give them menus.

"Here." She said handing the menus to them, "Would you like anything to drink?"

"Small water." Yohime said as Renji said the same.

"I'll be right back with your waters, and I will take your orders." She said leaving.

"What are you going to have, Renji?" Yohime asked him, looking at the menu. "Because I've never heard of most of this stuff."

"Hmmm..." Renji said looking it over.

"What the hell is a cheeseburger?" Yohime said looking at a picture it had. "Or french fries?"

"It's food."

"Obviously..." Yohime said glaring at Renji for a moment. The waitress returned and brought their waters.

"Are you ready for your orders?" The waitress said, pulling out her notepad.

"Um..." Yohime looked over at the menu again. "Can I get...the breakfast thing here." She said pointing to the breakfast platter that contained three pancakes, some eggs, bacon, saussage, and biscuts.

"I'll have the same." Renji said as the waitress took their orders. She then left to go put them in. "So, Yohime..." She looked up at him from drinking her water. "Why don't you talk to Ichigo? I've noticed that more and more lately. You're not avoiding him, are you?"

"Ack!" She started to chock on her water for a moment. "What makes you think I'm avoiding anyone, Renji?" She said finally.

"The fact that-"

"You don't need to answer that!" She cut him off. "I don't really know...I think I just want to return to soul society."

"Why? There's so much you can do here." Renji said, sitting back in his chair.

Her eyes downcasted to her water again. "It's just a mission, I don't like to be attatched." She said as the waitress returned after an awkward silence they had.

"Here you go! If you need anything else, let me know." She said, leaving.

Yohime took the fork and poked the food a bit before cutting it and trying it. "It's really dry..." She said sticking her tounge out.

"You need to put butter and surup on it too, you idiot." Renji said laughing as she glared at him. "Here." He took her knife that she had and opened the packet of butter and put it on. "See? Then you just pour the surup over it all."

"Interesting..." She said exaiming it. "Strange things they have created."

"Try eating it now." He said as she took another bite, expecting the same resaults. "So?"

"It is surprisingly good." She said. They sat and ate their breakfast for a while. Both their phones went off as they felt the reitsu of the shinigami.

"It's him. We're the closest." Renji said standing up, his phone infront of him. "Let's go." He said, as he started to run for the door. Yohime behind him, leaving the amount of money on the table.

"Marikuri..." Yohime said popping her in. Her gigai was knocked back as she jumped out. Renji's doing the same.

"How close is it?" Yohime said looking at Renji who still had his phone out.

"Pretty close." Renji said, "It's over here."

"Right." They landed in the middle of an empty park. "Aren't parks normally filled with childred on the weekends?"

"Yeah...this is strange." Renji said, the reitsu still strong. A young child spirit ran by, Renji picking him up by the back of his shirt. "Hey you! Stop crying!" The kid looked at him for a moment before yelling and screaming again. "Stupid brat..." Renji mumbled.

"Hey, what's your name? I'm Yohime." Yohime said looking at the boy softly.

"Ma-mamoru." He said.

"Can you tell us why you're running?" Yohime asked him as he nodded and pointed in the direction he came from.

"Big man, wearing clothes like yours..." He sniffed, "He come out of nowhere and attack me and my friends." He sniffed again. "He try to take us and eat us. I runned though and escaped..."

"Renji, do a soul burrial for him, I'll head in the direction to see if any of the other kids are still around." Yohime said, as Renji nodded. She jumped off towards the direction the kid came from. She ran into the clearring beyond the trees and froze as she spotted the Shinigami they were after. "You..." She said under her breath.

He turned towards her and looked at her, half of his mask was on, covering his right side of his face. His black hair covering over his face until hid nose, with a scar running over his left cheek from above his eye. He wore a shinigami outfit with the sleeves missing and his top opened, revealing the white under laying. On his right arm was formed like a hollows, his left normal. His zanpakuto sat on his back, slanted to the right. He only showed part of his left eye under his hair, and it was gold and black, as if it was a hollows.

He noticed her as she stepped into the clearing. He turned towards her as he swallowed another childs spirit. Renji soon landed by her as she starred at the guy. "Renji..." She looked at him. "Do we...fight him?"

"Until Captin Hitsugaya can get here." Renji said pulling out zabimaru. "Call for him, while I stall."

"Right." She said pulling out her phone. "Captin Hitsugaya...we have found him." She said into the phone. "Renji is going to stall until you are able to get here." She looked over towards Renji and the guy. "I'd try to get here fast if I were you."

"Your turn." Renji said as she closed the phone. She looked at him, his sleeve on his left arm was almost completely gone, and his arm was bleeding. She looked at him like he was crazy. "Go get him." he said pushing her forward towards the guy.

"Kaminoke, Tenrousei!" Yohime said, pulling out her zanpakuto. She jumped into the air as he appeared behind her, his zanpakuto drawn. His speed is amazing... She said, jumping away from where she was in the air, using the spirit particles in the air. He kepted jumping infront of her or behind her, trying to attack. She was barely able to keep an eye on him with his speed like this. She'd finally go to attack him, only for him to shunpo again. He knocked her into the ground as she went to attack him once. "Dammit..." She said pushing herself back up.

She flipped to the side as he went to land another blow with his arm of hollow. "Yohime!" Renji yelled as her zanpakuto was thown out of her hands like it was nothing, and she was thrown into a solid oak tree. He ran over to her, Zabimaru out as the enemy charged at them, drawing out his zanputo. Renji tightened his grip on Zabimaru's hilt, as he shifted feet to get a better plantation onto the ground. "Howl, Zabimaru!" He yelled as the enemy approached.

The enemy dealt the blow, Renji pushing back, only to start sliding back towards the tree where Yohime once sat.

"Go!" They heard someone yell as all of sudden the Shinigami was frozen solid. "HAAAAA!" A familar person yelled as he sliced through the frozen shinigami's body, shattering it.

"No way!" Renji said as Yohime starred at the two before them.

"It's you!" She said excitedly.

"You miss us, Princess?"


OH! I forgot to put the disclaimer in the first chapter of the sequel, so if you wanna see the disclaimer, go see the first chapter of the original work...which is called Shinjita iin desu ka? which means Is it okay to Believe? in english...yeah, I'd say you should read that first before this. Thank you! And yes, I realize I am lazy...

-Paige