Big Momma
Chapter 2: Twenty years later…
Theme Song: Naraku no Hana – Higureshi No Naku KoroNi Kai Opener
A/N: WOW! A lot of readers like this! Yayz, I r so happy! I hope that this answers all of your questions, plz enjoy.
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"Big Momma!" Suzuki looked down at little Nanao as she smiled up at the woman. "Teach me to cook!"
"Alright." The woman laughed. "What do you want to cook today?" The child thought for a moment, then replied with a smile,
"I want to make Chikuzenni for Kaname-san since he's going to be leaving soon!" The older woman smiled widely.
"How thoughtful of you Nanao, I bet he would love that."
"Big Momma?"
"Hmmm?"
"Why didn't you find us?" Suddenly the girl burst into flame, her flesh seeming to melt off of her body, exposing her bones and organs to the flame. "Why didn't you save us?"
"N-Nanao… I… I'm still looking."
"Utsotski!" (Liar!)
"N… Nanao-chan…"
"Utsotski! Utsotski! UTSOTSKI!" Nanao transformed into a demon. "USO-DA!" (Lies!)
Suzuki shot up from her bed of leaves, eyes wide, tears falling down her face. Her body was covered in sweat. Slowly, she pulled her knees to her chest and cried her heart out. Twenty years. Twenty years had passed since that horrid tragedy had occurred and her orphanage had been burned to the ground. Twenty years and she still hadn't found any of her children yet.
If they were still alive then they would no longer be children, but grown adults. She wondered dimly if any of them had survived long enough to make it to Seireitei. Yes, that was the whole reason for the orphanage. General Captain Yamamoto had wanted to influence the lives of future Shinigami from the very beginning. No doubt by now he'd either created a new orphanage or forgotten about it completely. But enough was enough… Suzuki wanted to go home. She wanted to go back to her Division to see if any of the children had made it to Seireitei.
She gripped her Zanpaku-to handle. Charybdis was restless as well. Twenty years. Twenty years since she had seen her captain… and she knew he was dead. Word had gotten around that someone had killed him in a bid to take over the division. Not that Suzuki blamed them. He had been lazy and was going on the verge of becoming an idle, complacent dolt. So now she decided to take up her Shuhakusho again and see just what this new captain was made of.
Early in the morning, Suzuki went back to the charred remains of her home yet again. This time, though, was the last. She went to the very last room, the room that had suffered the least amount of damage. Her room. Just under where her bed had been, was a trap door to the basement. In the farthest corner of the dark, cramped cavern, pushed back behind years of memories and childhoods, was a small box with no name on it. It was hers. In it, lay everything that she had put behind her when she had been given the assignment to take up the orphanage. But all she needed was her Shihakusho, hakema, and Fukutaicho badge. The flower Yarrow stood out boldly beneath years of dust. She brushed it off and tucked it into her hakema. No doubt she had been forgotten, so no need to wave about such niceties so soon.
With everything else put to order, Suzuki closed the door to the cellar behind her and then blocked it with a couple of large boulders that would take many men to move. Then she began the long walk back to Seireitei.
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Nanao woke, and felt a restless need to make Sweet Bean Jam. It was her very favorite, but that wasn't what surprised her. Behind her need was a longing for a mother figure, which she hadn't had since…
"Nanao-chan~!" Kyoraku Taicho opened her door. "Rise and shine, sunsine!"
"Not right now, Taicho, I still need to… wake up some more." She slammed the door in his face. Big Momma would never have approved of such behavior, but Nanao wanted to talk to someone else… She found him standing next to his blind captain, who had also grown up with them.
"Shuhei."
"What's wrong Nanao?"
"I… Do… Do you ever think about Big Momma anymore?" He looked perplexed.
"Who?" Her gaze shifted to the ground.
"Never mind. It was stupid." She made to leave, but Kaname's voice stopped her.
"Shuhei, Big Momma was our mother, remember? She was the one who got you out of that thorn tree that those men threw you into. She was the one who saved us when the orphanage was set afire by the rukongai men." A look of realization passed over the man's face.
"Oooooh. Now I remember."
"How could you have forgotten? She was the one who told you how real men must behave." Shuhei nodded.
"So… Nanao, is something bothering you?"
"I don't know why, but I'm craving all sorts of things she made suddenly. Even her frankfurters." The woman smiled sadly. "Even her special dish of sesame cream with sushimi and tayaki cakes."
"Yeah… That was her favorite, wasn't it?" Shuhei chuckled. "But we never really got to eat it because she always made our favorites."
"What are you two babbling about?" Ikkaku and Yumichika walked up to them. "Why are you talking about food?"
"Do you remember Big Momma?" Ikkaku's eyes widened and he blanched. Yumichika nodded.
"Yeah, I remember how we left the orphanage too. This dimwit wouldn't stay to save his life." Nanao chuckled.
"Well, at least you two didn't have to see the orphanage burn down or Big Momma get taken away by those rukongai men. You know, she made your favorite that day, Ikkaku-san." The bald man looked away to the ground, to the sky, anything but to look at Nanao.
"So?"
"I want to go look for her today. I have a feeling that this time will be different."
"Look for whom, now?" General Captain Yamamoto approached.
"Sir… there was a woman who took care of us while we were only children… She ran an orphanage." His eyes widened.
"You wouldn't happen to mean Suzuki Haragiro, would you?" It was there turn to go bug eyed.
"H-how did you know…?"
"Ah yes… By Suzuki's reputation here in Seireitei one would never guess that she loved children more than life itself… "Bloody" Suzuki… "Bloody Serpent" Suzuki. Yes, she was once a fukutaicho."
"What? Really?" Ikkaku's jaw dropped. "What company?" Captain Yamamoto only chuckled.
"Well, do you really wish me to answer?"
"Yeah, tell us old man." Kenpachi approached with a wicked grin on his face. "Who'se this "Bloody Serpent"?"
"The only Shinigami ever to be able to harness the power of the ultimate storm… the weilder of the zanpaku-to, Charybdis. That is all I should have to say." Everyone, save Kenpachi, looked stunned.
"Y-you mean to say…?" Yumichika looked mortified. Captain Yamamoto only nodded.
"Suzuki Hiragiro was once the fukutaicho of…"
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Suzuki sneezed. Someone, somewhere was talking about her. Or had been. Either way, it meant someone still remembered her. She had been walking for about fifteen days now, and she was almost to Seireitei. A couple of hours should do it. Suddenly, a scream caught her attention and she whirled just in time to see a hollow attack a girl… her eyes widened. That girl…!
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Nanao was glad that, for once, Kyoraku Taicho did not want to pester her and follow her about. But her glee became horror when she stepped outside Seireitei. A hollow was fighting some other Shinigami from Eleventh division, but soon had its sights set on her! She had left her Zanpaku-to at home and soon became cornered. But just as she was about to be devoured…
"Engulf and devour… CHARYBDIS!" That voice… The hollow was soon cut to pieces in a storm of flying blades. Familiar long, red wavy hair seemed to materialize before her. The person before her turned to look at her. Gentle green eyes smiled down at her.
"Nanao-chan… A Shinigami should never be without their Zanpaku-to." Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. Suzuki gave a mock frown. "Shinigami don't cry."
"Big Momma! It really is you!" Nanao simply threw her arms about the woman she had called mother and cried. "I… I missed you… so much…"
"Shhh." A hand patted her head softly. "Of course it's me, dear. I'm so glad you're alive. Now… let's go home. I want to see how this new captain is running my division." Nanao blanched.
"B-Big Momma! No! You can't fight Kenpachi!"
"Kenpachi? Where have I heard that name on someone other than my own captain…" The woman shrugged. "Ah well. I want to see the others as well. Come on." Suzuki began to walk towards Seireitei. "Coming?"
"Y-Yes, Big Momma!" Nanao happily caught up to the woman and the two of them began to walk back to Seireitei, using the few hour trek to do a LOT of catching up.
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Yumichika watched as Ikkaku paced back and forth. Rangiku sat there drinking sake, Gin was watching her with a grin, Kyone and Isane were playing with flowers. Shuhei was… poking the dirt with a stick. And Kaname sat there silently brooding over things in his mind. Then they heard it. That light-hearted, sweet laugh that could make everything that was bad in the world go away. Yumichika couldn't help it and he ran out to meet Nanao and the woman he had missed since leaving the orphanage.
"BIG MOMMA!" He gave her a huge hug.
"Yumi-chan?" Her eyes widened and he pulled back to look at him. "My, my, you've really grown up since you and Ikkaku left. But you're still such a pretty boy, I missed you too, dear." She pulled him into a huge hug.
"What? What kind of panzy-ass fifth seat goes running up to a woman like that? Pussy!"
"Ikkaku-chan!" Suzuki released Yumichika as she began to scold the bald man. "That is not a good thing to say to Yumi-chan! He's been a very good friend to you!"
"Screw this." Suzuki snarled and bitch-slapped him into a wall. "Ikkaku-kun. You are not a child anymore, but a grown man. So I will treat you as a man. If I ever hear you say such disrespectful things to anyone ever again, I will not hesitate to beat you senseless. I didn't raise you to be a pig, I raised you to be a man able to fend for yourself!" Ikkaku's eyes were wide.
"B-Big Momma…" He touched his cheek where she had slapped him.
"Next time I will use my zanpaku-to." He lowered his gaze.
"I'm sorry, Big Momma."
"Don't say sorry to me. Yumi-chan is the one you need to be saying sorry to." He growled but looked his friend in the eye.
"Yumi-chan, I'm—"
"Hey, what the fuck? What are all you pansies doing over here… and Ikkaku, why the fuck are you saying sorry to this slut?" Kenpachi appeared and grinned down at Ikkaku. "You going soft?" The move came from Suzuki like a flash, she drew her zanpaku-to and sliced Kenpachi's arm open.
"Never call me a slut, you inbred moron." The man turned and grinned at her, then he looked startled.
"Wait, wait, wait… You? You're this Big Momma these freaks keep yapping about? YOU'RE Suzuki Hirogane, former Eleventh division Fukutaicho before Yachiru was?" He backed up a few feet. "You're that chick…" She looked him over, then frowned.
"I thought that name Nanao mentioned sounded familiar." She sheathed her Zanpaku-to. "Well. I'm not going to persue this any farther… but mind you, if you piss me off again I will not hesitate to take you by storm." Suzuki walked off, everyone save Kenpachi following her.
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Kenpachi was stunned. That woman he had saved in the woods twenty years ago… That was Suzuki! But now he had bigger problems to deal with… He had already pissed the woman off… and she gave him a MAJOR hard-on. Hell, his cock hadn't been this hard in… ever. So he decided to set out to try and patch things over, for now. He wanted Suzuki, and there was nothing that he would let get in his way!\
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A/N: BY POPULAR DEMAND! Big Momma Chapter 2! Enjoy, and if you do a little research, you will find that indeed I did not fuck anything up on this. Kaname's favorite food really is Chikuzenni, it is chicken simmered with vegetables. Yarrow is the flower of the Eleventh divison crest, it is the flower of battle. Shuhei's favorite dish really is frankfurters and Nanao's is really Sweet Bean Paste. Just to let those of you who don't already know, I r not making this up. So please enjoy and do keep up the reviews! I loves you all and good night!
