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On with the story!!
In the world, there are many things to really care about; based on your person. For me it was fame, glory, power and money… but not anymore, not anymore. To others, the rare kind, it is family. Just their family and friends. These people…are what I want to be one day… but I will never get that chance.
Chapter 2: Emotional Breakdowns like Dominoes
"You!"
His smouldering green eyes stayed fixed at the sight of that woman before him. At the same time her sparkling purple eyes were glued to the man before her. Uryū stared at them, with a questioning look on his face.
"Do you two already know each other?" He asked. Both of the persons turned to him.
"No." They said at the same time. When they realised this they turned back to each other and began staring again.
"She is the one I was telling you about over the phone Ishida. She is the one that almost ran me over!" Toushirou said while pointing at Rukia.
Uryū looked at Rukia, as she made a nervous smile. It then went very quiet.
"Well then, since you two already have met each other in some way, Hitsugaya you are going to be the supervisor over Rukia," said Uryū, as Toushirou stared at him in shock.
"You want me to be in charge of and supervise the person that ran me over?!" He yelled at Uryū, as his face began to turn red, and his vein popped out.
"Yah, Uryū. Can't you give me a better person! Do this for me!" Rukia pleaded as she overcame her shock of seeing Toushirou.
"Nope, you two are going to stick together until, Miss. Rukia can find her own way through the hospital. That is final." Uryū said as he turned around and sat back down in his brown leather arm chair. He spun the chair to face the window that was behind him. "Now excuse me, because I have work to do."
Toushirou turned around and snorted through his nose. He walked to the door, opened it and slammed it.
"Wait!" Cried Rukia, as she ran to catch up. She also slammed the door. When she got outside she banged straight into Nemu.
"Oh. Hi there Nemu! Do you know where Toushirou went?" she asked.
"He went down that hallway." She said with a straight face as she pointed to the hallway that was to the left of Rukia.
"Thanks." Said Rukia as she ran down the hallway.
She ran to the end of the hall and saw that Toushirou was waiting for her by the front desk with Orihime, who was trying to talk to him.
"So Hitsugaya how was your day so far?" She asked.
He didn't reply. Then Orihime saw Rukia. She waved, looking slightly relived.
"Rukia! How are you? I heard everything from Uryū, so here is you doctor coat." She said as she pulled something white out of a bag. It was a new and clean doctor's coat that even came with a name tag that said 'Dr. Kuchiki' on it. Rukia gladly accepted it and put it over her arm.
"This is your surgeon outfit," Orihime said as she pulled out some blue cloth out of the same bag, "You can change in the bathroom over there." as she pointed to the door and the right side of the room.
Rukia nodded and looked over at Toushirou. He was just standing there, and didn't say a word. He was also wearing the surgeons outfit with the doctor's coat of top. She realized that most of the doctors (although some only had the surgeon outfit on) she had seen had that on. She walked to the bathroom as her heels clicked.
"Oh! Remember to change your shoes!" Cried Orihime as she heard the noise from Rukia's heels.
"Right." Rukia replied as she opened the door and went inside.
A few minutes later Rukia came out in proper wear and shoe wear to, with her large black bag on her shoulder that was now stuffed with her other clothes.
"Hitsugaya, please show her to the locker room." Orihime asked him politely as she handed Rukia a pager.
He walked off into a hallway.
"Rukia, don't worry about Toushirou, he might be a little cold at first but he'll be nice after. After all this hospital is like a family." Orihime said with an encouraging smile.
Rukia nodded and walked off to follow Toushirou. He led her to a big bright room with lockers all on one side.
"That's your locker." He said as he pointed to the locker number 13. He handed her a sheet of paper that had her lock combination on it. He walked over to another locker. Number 10. He opened it and shuffled around in it.
Rukia turned to her locker and opened it and stuffed all her stuff in there. A few minutes later she had organized it to perfection. Or her version of perfection.
"Look I'm sorry for almost running you over", said Rukia as she shut her locker not looking at him, "And I'm sorry that you have to be my supervisor."
Rukia could feel him staring at her. Then she heard him sigh.
"Whatever. Come on, let's go to lunch." He said as he opened the door.
Rukia looked at him surprised.
"Hurry up or we will get the crappy food." He said with a frown on his face.
She walked out with him and he led her to the cafeteria.
"TOUSHIROU!!!"
They both turned around as tall woman started running over to Toushirou. She had long wavy orange hair with grey eyes and a large chest. She was wearing a surgeon's outfit.
"Oh TOUSHIROU!" she yelled again as she ran over to the pair and hugged Toushirou and squished his head in between her assets.
PAUSE
Name: Rangiku Matsumoto
Age: 28
Job: Surgeon
Info: Classified
PLAY
Matsumoto's POV
"TOUSHIROU! I missed you so much!" I cried and I hugged him. Of course I squashed him, its tradition. Oh it goes back way back then. Oh and then his vein popped out, me and that vein have history.
"Matsumoto, I'm giving you 10 seconds to get of me" he growled, that's not a good sign, "10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…" and bam my arms were of. Meanwhile that cute little lady that was standing beside Toushirou started walking off to the cafeteria line. I ran up to her, whoa she's short like Toushirou, and a hugged her as well, but the proper way.
"Hey! You are new right?" I beamed at her. She was so cute!
"Hi. I'm Rukia." She said to me, she looked nervous and she wasn't looking at me!
"Hello cutie! I'm Rangiku Matsumoto" I said as I dragged her and Toushirou to our regular table, "Here! You can sit next to me!"
She nodded then Ichigo came.
"Yo." He said as he plopped down on the chair beside Rukia. I stared at him. After a few minutes he turned over to look at me, but he saw Rukia.
"What the hell are you doing here, Short cake? I knew you couldn't resist me." He said to her with a suggestive smile. And well Rukia, kind of snapped. She got out of her chair and stomped over to the cafeteria line. And Ichigo followed after her.
"So, Shirou, do you like her?" I asked pointing my head into the direction of Rukia and Ichigo, they were arguing and Rukia kicked Ichigo in the shin, and started yelling. They were making quiet a scene.
"Hn…" That was all he said…I need respect so I bugged him the usual way.
"SHIROU!! TELL ME!!" I yelled. He glared at me and muttered something under his breath. "What Shirou? I didn't quite catch that." I said as I grabbed his head.
"I said I think she is flighty." He growled at me as he shoved my hand away. Ouch…Wait did he just call Rukia 'flighty'?
"What did you say?" I said as I glared/looked at him. He looked up at me with a bored face.
"That's what I see from her. And for your information, she almost ran me over this morning." He replied as he glared at her and Ichigo who were now making small talk. I looked over at her in surprise, wow; I never knew she had it in her to run over Shirou.
"Well, seeing as how you are acting I think you deserved it!" I said and I got up and cut the line and stood behind Rukia and Ichigo.
"Bunnies are so much better than lizards!!" She yelled at Ichigo.
"NO! Lizards are way better! They can eat your pretty rabbit any day!"
"That's why rabbits are better! They aren't blood thirsty creepy asses!"
"Now, now! Let's get some lunch, I'm starved!" I said making them jump. Oh I love these kids.
"Oh, hello Rangiku!" Rukia said as she smiled. Ichigo said something but his face was stuffed with food.
We walked over to the table by the window; I shoved them far away from the ass with white hair. Why would he think Rukia would be flighty? She has to be smart to have gotten in here so easily, I mean ever whitey over there had trouble getting into this hospital.
I turned back to look at Toushirou and sighed. As long as Rukia doesn't find out, I guess I will be alright. I wonder if he will give me his desert.
"SHIROU-CHAN!! COME SIT OVER HERE WITH US!!" I yelled over as I waved like a maniac. He turned to look over at us by the window, and looked between Rukia and me. Luckily Rukia was having another argument with Ichigo. He stared at me and then I smiled. And he did a little one back. Wait he smiled?
He walked over, and both Ichigo and Rukia looked up.
"Yo." Ichigo said when he looked away from Rukia.
"Hey Toushirou!" Rukia also called out as she glanced at him from the corner of her eye.
Normal POV
He stared at them from a distance, and he growled something under his breath. Then he walked away, just when that happened Rukia's, Matsumoto's, and Toushirou's pager started vibrating.
Rangiku turned over to look at Rukia and said, "Aren't you excited!?!?! This is going to be your first patient here!" She got up and stared dragging Rukia away as Toushirou followed behind. "See you later Ichigo!!" She called before she, Rukia, and Toushirou left the cafeteria.
Once they were in the hallway, Toushirou pulled out his pager. "We are to head to the ambulance loading dock" He said as his face scrunched up, "Another emergency."
"Oh, Shirou. I wonder why Ichigo wasn't called. He usually gets called for most surgeries." Rangiku said as she started to pull Rukia into a faster pace.
Rukia watched silently. Her eyes flipped back and forth between Toushirou and Rangiku.
"I don't know why, and we should hurry up."
"Come on! Have some fun!"
But there conversation stopped when they arrived at the ambulance loading dock. At the dock was Uryū.
"What's up Uryū?" Rangiku called to him. Uryū never usually came with any surgeons when they had patients.
"It's somewhat confusing but it was the Kurosaki residence that called us," Uryū said as a frown and a confused look appeared onto his face, "Isshin called and he also told us not to get Ichigo to do the surgery, he said that it would have been-"
He never got to continue because they all heard a siren coming down the road. They turned around and saw the ambulance coming at them. The men hoped out of the ambulance and opened the back and pulled out a plain but sturdy stretcher where a young girl lay with short brown or blond-ish hair that was held up by a clip. Blood could be seen under the bandages that the paramedics put on to try to stop the bleeding.
PAUSE
Name: Yuzu Kurosaki
Age: 16
Job: Cook at nearby restaurant
Info: Ichigo's younger sister
PLAY
When she was out of the ambulance two people jumped out and one of them ran to the girls side, the other a man, ran over to the group of surgeons. The one that ran to the girl's side was around the same height with black hair and brown eyes, that were red from crying.
PAUSE
Name: Karin Kurosaki
Age: 16
Job: Helper coach in the soccer camp
Info: Ichigo's younger sister and Yuzu's twin sister
PLAY
"Isshin, what's wrong, what happened?" Uryū asked as he tried to call the older male down as Rangiku, Toushirou and Rukia ran to the girl and started pushing her into the emergency room.
PAUSE
Name: Isshin Kurosaki
Age: 56
Job: Retired private clinic doctor
Info: Father of Ichigo, Yuzu, and Karin
PLAY
"Yuzu! She was walking home then something happened! Karin was out for a walk when she saw Yuzu's bag and then Karin found Yuzu. My baby girl was attacked!!" He yelled before he broke down into tears and leaned onto Uryū's shoulder.
"Shouldn't we call Ichigo?" Uryū whispered, while dragging Isshin to the window by the surgery room Yuzu was in. Karin ran there already and she was waiting with tears in her eyes.
"No. I forbid it. He has gone through enough pain." Isshin said as he looked up into Uryū's eyes for the first time since they arrived.
Uryū stared back, feeling confused. What did Ichigo go through? But, he turned his eyes, so did Isshin back to the window as Rukia, Rangiku and Toushirou were accessing Yuzu's injured body, while a nurse tried to stop the bleeding. Then Rukia helped the nurse.
"Hey, I think it is a bullet wound and a stabbing wound." Said Rukia as she and the nurse finished cleaning the wound, even though it was still bleeding profusely, but it was not a deep wound so it would be easy to heal. Rangiku and Toushirou moved closer to Yuzu's body.
"You are right", Toushirou said, "I'm going to give her an anaesthetic shot." He moved to her left side and gave her a needle, while the nurse came up to the female surgeons with tools.
"Rangiku, you fix up that stab. I'll do the bullet wound." Rukia said as she grabbed a couple of metal tools from the nurse.
Rangiku nodded. She looked for the stab wound and located it on the right side of Yuzu's body, the area of her lung. Her eyes widened.
"Rukia, the stab wound pierced her lung… now she has internal bleeding and the blood is flooding her lungs." She said as she cleaned out the wound even more.
"What? Toushirou go help Matsumoto." She replied as she pulled out the bullet from the wound. The bullet had hit somewhere near her stomach but had missed all the vital and important parts of Yuzu's body. It also wasn't very deep, which was surprising. She grabbed a needle and thread as Toushirou went to the mic to talk to Uryū.
"Send in another surgeon. Rukia needs help to help her sew up the wound." He called out, before going to aid Rangiku.
Uryū disappeared, but came back with a very tall woman, with pale purple-ish white hair.
PAUSE
Name: Isane Kotetsu
Age: 24
Job: Nurse
Info: Classified
PLAY
"Sorry, I couldn't find a surgeon so I sent in a higher up nurse. I hope you do not mind Rukia." Uryū called through the speaker as Isane walked over to Rukia, and as Toushirou adjusted the light over Yuzu's pierced lung for him and Rangiku to see better.
Rukia motion Isane over and pointed to the needle and thread, and she also passed the bloody bullet over to Isane. Isane took the bullet and put it onto the tray that was located near Yuzu's head, while Rukia stopped the bullet wound from bleeding. Isane then treaded the needle and passed it over to Rukia. And Rukia began to sew the wound close.
A few minutes later Rukia finished sewing up the bullet hole, she moved over to help Toushirou and Rangiku.
"How are you guys doing?" She asked as she also dismissed Isane with a nod.
"We managed to remove the blood that was flowing into the lungs and sewed up the wound that let the blood in there." Rangiku said as her brows furrowed in concentration. She let out a sigh, when she finished stitching the rip in Yuzu's muscle. "Now I finished sowing up the ripped muscles."
"Do you guys know Ichigo's family?" Rukia asked as they continued to work.
"No, Ichigo's very distant when we bring in the subject of his family; he always changes the subject, like he wants to avoid it." Rangiku replied.
"But, we always knew about his dad. He complained about his father every day, like how he bragged about his younger twin sisters. This girl here", he said pointing to Yuzu, "she is Ichigo's younger sister; her twin is up there with her father Isshin.
"I have gotten all the blood clogged up. So all we have to do is so it up." Toushirou said as he started to get a needle threaded. "Here" he said as he passed the needle to Rukia.
She started sewing, when they heard cry from the window where Karin, Uryū and Isshin were. She paused in sewing and looked to the window, Toushirou and Rangiku also looked up and they all saw Ichigo standing there, looking so shocked and scared, with his eyes looked on Yuzu's body. There was some yelling and then Ichigo broke down in to tears and collapsed. Isshin, Karin and Uryū ran to the fallen Ichigo, Uryū called to some of the passer bys and they carried Ichigo over to a stretcher and moved him into a recovery room.
"Uh…I think we should get back to work," said Rangiku as she tore her eyes away from the bodies of Ichigo, Isshin, Karin and Uryū. She grabbed the needle from Rukia and finished of sewing up Yuzu.
"Isane! Could you get some blood? She's lost to much! We need to make a blood transfusion." Rangiku said as Toushirou and Isane went over the blood box. They came running back with a large bag. Isane handed Rukia a needle that was connected to a tube that was connected to the bag and Rukia stuck the needle into one of Yuzu's veins and watched as the blood traveled from the bag to Yuzu's cold body.
Together they pushed Yuzu out of the surgery room by her stretcher and moved her to the room Ichigo was in. Room 5. They laid her down next to Ichigo.
"What happened?" Toushirou asked as Rukia and others at down on the chairs outside of the recovery room 5. He then moved to sit on the armrest of Rukia's chair.
"Well, Ichigo has gone through many things with us. Many events that would have made a normal person break down and never be the same, but Ichigo has always held up." Isshin said as he pulled Karin into a hug, "This family has gone through a lot."
"It's about time he broke down; he's been hiding how he really feels for a long time; ever since 'that' day, when our mother died." Karin said with a sad face as she hugged her father back. Everyone was staring at her. "He blamed himself; he went into deep depression and even went into suicide mode. Until dad made him go into rehab."
Everyone looked very shocked, they were really surprised, they all could have never guess that Ichigo had this type of past. And they all felt pity.
"He got better, after awhile, but he never talked out it every again." Isshin finished off.
Rukia suddenly stood up and said, "Excuse me; I have to grab something, that I left behind." And she walked out the door.
No one really replied. They were slightly too shocked. Then Ichigo woke up.
Meanwhile Rukia was walking down the halls when she spotted Isane. She was walking fast and turned down another hallway. Rukia started running to catch up.
"ISANE!!" She yelled as she continued to run to catch up with the taller woman's longer strides.
Isane stopped and turned around only to see the short Rukia crash into her. She got up and apologised, "I'm so sorry! I didn't see you!" while she stuck out her hand to pull Rukia up.
"Sorry, it was my fault" said Rukia as she dusted herself of and grabbed Isane's hand, "But I came here to ask you, where is the bullet that was in Yuzu's body?"
"Oh. I put that on the dispose tray."
"Do you know where the dispose tray is?"
"It's by the largest surgery room."
And with that Rukia took off. After walking for a bit she reached the room. There was the tray. And the bullet. She picked up the bullet and looked at it. It was dirty so she walked into the scrub room, where she washed it. She looked as the remains of the blood on the bullet drained away. And then she looked very closely at the bullet. On the bullet was a tiny design and initial. Rukia squinted her eyes to see and she let out a startled gasp.
There on the bullet was a small design of the number 6 with the initials of 'GJ'.
She pocketed the bullet and looked around to see if anyone saw her. No one was there so she started on her way back to the other.
After a few minutes Rukia re-entered the room, where she was greeted with the sight of the whole Kurosaki family in an embrace. She walked over the Rangiku.
"What did I miss?" She asked.
"You missed the whole touching scene of Ichigo's family getting back together." Rangiku said as she dabbed her eyes.
Rukia looked over to the huddle with a smile, when Ichigo's head turned over into her direction and he smiled and mouthed 'Thanks you'. Rukia just nodded.
"Thanks you so much, Rukia, Rangiku and Toushirou! Without you guys I…well wouldn't have been here!" Yuzu said as she broke free from the gigantic hug.
Rukia and Toushirou just nodded, but Rangiku ran over and hugged Yuzu yelling, "Don't worry! Ran will be here for you!"
"Now I think it is best to leave Yuzu to sleep for her recovery. She still is very sore." Toushirou said as he turned towards the door and started walking and with that all of the surgeons including Uryū and Ichigo walked out of the room.
"How did you like that for you first surgery here?" Uryū asked Rukia as they continued walking. Ichigo, Rangiku, and Toushirou all turned to look at her.
"Well I guess-" she never got to finish because there was a loud scream and some loud swearing and yelling from the lobby of the hospital.
"YOU CANNOT JUST COME IN HERE AND DISRUPT THE PEACE OF THE HOSPITAL!"
"Hey, isn't this a place of death? Dear woman don't scream you are killing my ears."
"YOU CANNOT JUST WALK AROUND! I SAID 'Please be seated in the waiting area.' AND WHAT DO YOU DO YOU RAMPAGE AROUND AND START SCARING THE PATIENTS!!"
Then the was a calm call of, "Miss Inoue, calm down, Mr. Ishida would not like to-"
Toushirou, Uryū, Rukia, Ichigo and Rangiku all started to walk at a faster pace, but Uryū just ran, until he came into view of the lobby. Rukia pushed passed him to look at what he was staring at.
And there he was. In his full leather clad glory with the number six design on the back. He was standing in front Orihime, who was holding a pot of flowers ready to throw at him, and Nemu who was trying to stop Orihime.
There he stood with his cocky smirk and was looking at the two women in front of him.
Nemu turned to look over at Toushirou, Uryū, Rukia, Ichigo and Rangiku. She quickly whispered something into Orihime's ear. And Orihime turned over to them.
"Uryū! Get this man out of here!" She yelled over to them.
The man turned over to see who she was talking to and saw the group of surgeons. He zeroed in on Rukia, who was staring at him.
He walked over to them, as Uryū started to open his mouth, but he was to slow.
"Rukia, dear! How are you? Did you miss me?" He said as he opened his arms ready for the hug that would never come. His cocky smile and dark eyes still in place.
All eyes turned to Rukia.
She whispered one word: "Grimmjow"
PAUSE
Name: Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez
Age: 25
Job: Classified
Info: Rukia's ex-boyfriend
PLAY
TBC…
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