Hey, I finally wrote chapter 3. I hope you like it!
Kira quickly shunpoed through the labyrinth of Seretei and soon he was out in Rukongai. Kira then slowed down his pace to an average walking pace.
Kira soon arrived at his destination, well almost. He was but a 100 meters from the small shack just beyond the woods in front of him but as Kira came close he found himself very reluctant to move further.
Ichimaru taicho, please help me, tell me what to do, I am lost.
Kira stood in place for almost half an hour until he felt an odd form of reiatsu flicker from the direction of the shack. This was the push that Kira needed.
He proceeded forward slowly, the tree branches and leaves cracking and rustling beneath him. It was late afternoon and soon to be evening.
Finally the woods opened up to a small clearing with a rundown shack and no sign of inhabitants at all.
Then Kira felt that same flicker of reiatsu rise up again once more. He rushed inside to find nothing surprising or odd.
Everything was covered in dirt, dust and just plain abandonment. There was no sign of anyone living here in at least the past several decades, Which was true, both Matsumoto and Ichimaru lived in Seretei ever since they became shinigamis over a century ago.
Kira looked around trying to find any sort of clue that could give information about his former captain.
He looked everywhere, even going to the trouble of removing the floor boards to see if anything was hidden under them, but to his luck he found nothing. After nearly two hours of searching, Kira had lost all hope that he might find something here.
The sun was very low in the sky, just about to set. The young fukutaicho decided to look one last time around the perimeter of the shack for anything outside.
As expected, he found only some sticks that looked like it was used for dueling, and some patches of old ripped kimonos. Two to be precise.
Then as Kira walked around the shack he stumbled on something and found himself on his hands and knees. He looked back and saw nothing. Kira must have just tripped over his own hakama as he was absorbed in his thought.
Kira stood up and started again, but once more found himself on the ground. Again he tried to get up but was pulled down. He had no idea what was going on or why this was happening to him.
Once more Kira tried to get up but to no surprise found himself on the ground. Kira wasn't one to get frustrated easily nor was he a hothead like his classmate and fellow fukutaicho Abarai Renji, yet this particular problem was rather troublesome and irritating.
Kira tried to free himself several more times until frustration really kicked in and he decided to resort to using kido.
Hado #1 Sho! Kira was thrust away from the force pulling him there and for a moment he thought himself free until he was once again pulled down to the not existing force.
Kira tried several more powerful spells but found similar results as his first try. He had given up and was just laying there trying to figure out how to free himself. Then he a thought came into his mind. Why didn't he try this before. Of coarse this must be Ichimaru's doing.
Kira reminisced one one of Ichimaru;s quotes from the letter..."Your a smart kid Izuru, you'll figure it out..." I sure hope your Right Ichimaru taicho but I still think you are overestimating my abilities.
Then Kira tried to get up one final time but this time he raised his spiritual pressure and let it out completely. A gust on wind formed and a loud BOOMING sound and Kira was free, he was free to stand and leave if he wished but not only that something strange started happening.
Kira felt the reiatsu from earlier from underneath him, except this time it wasn't just a faint flicker. This time it could definitely not pass as just merely a figment of someone's imagination. The reiatsu was real, it was strong, and it was demanding, sharp and poisonous. But most of all it was oddly familiar to the young shinigami.
Kira immediately started digging, first he used his bare hands and feet but the ground was hard so he resorted to using kido.
Kira kept on digging endlessly for nearly another hour, The hole in which he created had completely swallowed him up in height, figured that Kira was not the tallest of the shinigami's it was still quite engulfing.
After digging for so long, Kira finally hit home. He saw a small wooden corner in the ground. He dug it out. It was a simple wooden box, nothing to elaborate or beautiful of any sort. It was very simple and old. Kira tried shaking the box but it made no noise. He tried opening it but of coarse it would not. Kira felt power from the box, he felt the very strong reiatsu around it, it was almost empowering as it pulled Kira towards it.
Kira was stuck again, but he was very glad that he found it. It was not exactly what he had expected but all the frustration from before was replaced with worry and a speck of curiosity.
Kira looked at the box for a long time, just looking at it not even attempting to open it. It's magnificent essence overpowering him. But it wasn't just that, why was it that this feeling coming from the box was so familiar to Kira, why does it remind him of something important. Kira wondered...this must be taicho's doing...
Ichimaru taicho, I am lost...I don't know what to do anymore...why did you leave me this...this box...this letter...why did you leave the sanbantai, why did you leave soul society, why did you leave Matsumoto-san, why did you leave me...mhmhhhmm ehhh...Kira started sobbing as he drowned in his despair.
It started raining, the sun was far beyond the mountains of Rukongai, with the dark storm clouds vastly approaching.
Lightning struck near by, and again, each time closer. It was pouring hard now. Kira was shunpoing with the small wooden box tucked tightly in his shihakusho pressing against his thin chest as he fought the tears that trickled down his face with the rain.
Kira went as fast as he could but the storm was getting stronger every minute, the wind was blowing towards Kira, his hair and clothes completely soaked as he headed towards Seretei.
Finally Kira found sight of the great wall that divides Seretei from the vast labyrinth of Rukongai. Kira made it to Seretei, jumping over walls and running back to the Sanbantai Barracks as fast as his shaken legs could carry him without encountering a soul. It was a good thing too, as anyone who found Kira with an odd box coming from Rukongai at night in the pouring rain would surely question his intentions during this time of little trust and great suspicion for treachery.
BOOM! Lightning struck once more just as Kira made it inside the fukutaicho's quarters. Kira gently placed the wooden box on his desk and went into the next room to change his wet clothes.
When he returned, Kira could not help but pick up the box and just stare at it as old memories of his captain flooded back into him. He just stared at it for ages so for ages and ages trying to decide what to do until the fatigue drifted him into sleep..
Kira woke up the next morning at his desk, with the tiny old wooden box still around his arms like a teddy bear. His throat was soar and he had a splitting headache.
It was morning now and Kira had work to do but he had caught a bad cold from last night's rain storm, but he still pushed himself to get to work... after all he was in charge of an entire division now. But the little box was almost calling for him, it was as if it was asking Kira to stay with it. He didn't fully understand what was going on but he knew that the box was calling him somehow, but why...why was it doing that.
Ichimaru taicho, what is this all about, please tell me, I don't know. What am I supposed to to with this box. I feel that it is not my place to open it but what can i do now? Kira scratched his head, adjusted his sash, and fixed himself up for the day.
The young fukutaicho went about his morning routine trying to ignore the box and his sickness, he brushed his teeth, had some tea, fixed up his room, but the box just wouldn't leave Kira's mind.
It was driving him to insanity now. Kira finally gave in and tried to open it, but of coarse it wouldn't budge, he tried again and again. He tried kido, his zanpakuto and everything else possible but nothing happened.
Then Kira finally realized it after so long, he put some of his reiatsu into the box while holding it...and it jiggled a little, he tried again with a little more reiatsu and again his results improved. The third and final time Kira focused all his reiatsu into the little box and it finally clicked open.
"Oh yeaaah...*cough*...*cough*" Kira exclaimed in achievement as the box finally opened...Kira looked inside to find yet another piece of paper folded up..or more?
Well that was chapter 3, thanks for reading, please review. It really does give me motivation. Thanks!