Hollow Hybrid Diary

I'm very sorry it took so long for me to update. It was rude to start a series, if I wasn't going to continue. But yes, I am going to continue it, so here I go…

Disclaimer: I have not now, or ever owned Bleach, however I feel as if I am a slave to its will to share my borrowed imagination.

Please pardon the change from 1st person to 3rd person, but it is so much easier to write the past in 3rd person, especially since I get to add other people's emotions when I get their input. :)

Chapter 2

"…he's passed on a year ago, he's not coming back." Her mother's words echoed in her head somewhat menacingly as she and Jayda walked to school.

"What you thinking about?" asked Jayda.

"Hmm?"

"You haven't said a word since we left home…kind of a miracle actually." She smiled genuinely.

"I have a project coming up in a couple weeks, and it has something to do with what tou-chan did."

A glimmer of sadness filled her eyes for a second, but was soon replaced by apprehension and sarcasm. "Shipping insanely large crates of candy from the United States to Tokyo?"

Leia actually laughed, "No. Small business owners…"

Luckily, before her astute sister could ask anymore, they had arrived at the gate just as the bell rang, and had to make a run for it.

She was just about to turn off her phone as she hurried down the hallway when the principal stopped her. "Young lady!"

"Ohayo Miss Mackenzie." She answered in a sickeningly sweet voice.

"Don't you 'ohayo miss Mackenzie' me!" she ordered, "Why is your phone out?"

'Can this day get any worse?' she asked herself mentally as she finally made her way to class, late, with a warning letter waiting to be read by her mother.

Miss Mackenzie must have really been in a bad mood that day, since seniors usually didn't get into trouble over those things.

She'd really have to find a way to get back her phone before her mother found out, or she'd been in even more trouble.

"Leia. Question 7a. How would we go about answering this question?"

She jumped. She hadn't really been paying attention, more important things on her mind at the time. Physics was both her favorite and most hated class. Mrs. Saram was teaching one of the most interesting subjects, and yet she somehow made you want to drop it, due to how boring it had been brought across.

"Uhhh… kinetic energy. ½ mv2, find the velocity from the momentum and use it to find the energy…" she was growing tired of these classes. She knew the whole syllabus, having covered it in lessons during the summer vacation.

Silently, she went back to worrying about more important matters, starting with her father's sudden disappearance. He was definitely alive…she'd know if he was dead. He was just missing…and everyone was having temporary amnesia or something…

She had always been able to find her father or anyone in her immediate family for that matter. Then again, she didn't think she'd had any extended family, so it could be considered her entire family.

She was even able to find him when he tried hiding. She remembered how overjoyed he was when she was able to find him after decided to follow him just to prove it when he'd tried to hide his presence. She was 9 at the time, and it was the first time she'd been formally introduced to Kisuke-jii, Tessai-jii and a strange couple of children who's personality never seemed to fit their age, Jinta and Ururu. Later on she met another such girl, but they didn't really talk, her name was Kuchiki Rukia if she wasn't mistaken, and she had the attitude of a princess trying to survive the real world, yet she'd always had the feeling she'd been faking it.

Leia always had the feeling that they were hiding something, however, never actually got around to trying to figure it out. Every time she had the smallest inkling of deciding to, she somehow found herself either on vacation or something, sometimes merely being distracted by something (yeah, don't really have a long attention span).

Focusing everything she had, she spent the entire morning trying to figure out where exactly her father was. She felt as if she knew where he was, but yet the information was still out of her grasp, like grabbing at smoke. She was sure she could count every soul in the city, maybe in the whole of Japan! But he still wasn't there. And she greatly doubted that he was beyond that border…he was somehow further…just beyond her boundaries of this planet or something.

Kera Jiraiya suddenly decided that she'd been quiet long enough. "Leia! Leia wake up!" he was one of the only persons who spoke to her since the 'accident'. Everyone else seemed to give her a wide berth, especially since she stayed mostly by herself. She was deemed as a freak, due to the fact that she could see ghosts, not that anyone knew, because she sometimes 'spoke to herself' and she had skipped a couple grades, so she was the youngest in her class. While everyone else was 17 or 18, she was still 15.

"What Jira?"

"You haven't said a word since Physics! Stop thinking so hard, you might blow a fuse or something." He joked.

She gave him a small smile, "Yeah."

Just then she jumped up, turning to her left and grabbing her bag in one movement. "I found him!"

She took off that second, leaving a very confused Jiraiya behind. "Okay? I'll see you later then."