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And she only reveals what she wants you to see

What most people didn't know about Kusajishi Yachiru, was that she was in fact, almost my age. Despite looking about eight, she was in her early twenties. She'd been pretending, for her own safety, to be the baby she looked to be for some time when Kenpatchi found and "adopted" her. Now that I know her better, I have to say it's more likely she adopted him. He was valuable to her, at first only because her was interesting. Heartless as he seemed to be when fighting, he had the compassion to take her along when he left the scene of the awful battle. Being a latecomer, he never knew the battle had originally started over the "demon child" some of the villagers had discovered that she could speak as well as any teenager and glowed with pink reiatsu when angered. Some superstitious people had wanted to kill her, and others insisted she could be an asset to their community. The old woman who'd housed her for the past several months, since finding her alone in the woods, believed she was an angel, (or some kind of higher being, at any rate) and her four sons and their families sided with her. The battle had drawn many blood-thirsty, fight-craving warriors like Kenpatchi, who did know why they were fighting and weren't on anyone's side, like moths to a flame. Kenpatchi had been different, though, because he had survived. And because he cared enough about a pink haired "toddler" to rescue her from the gory aftermath on the battlefield.

She'd never told me in so many words, but I knew she loved him. Loved him for protecting and helping her, but even more so, for needing her. When a person is alone, they are unable to be happy. Kenpatchi needed her, if only so that he would not be alone anymore, and for that she loves him.

For all that, he still doesn't know the truth, that she's much older than she appears, and that the character she plays is not her. When I first began to suspect, I thought I had discovered this truth about Yachiru, but I know her well enough now to know I'd never have been able to figure it out if she hadn't wanted me to. I like to think that she, like Kenpatchi, was alone, and the reason she wanted me to know was because she needed me the same way, because she lacked a companion. I may never be sure.

Much of the time I spend with her is devoted to my constant endeveour to know her, to really know her, as I know myself, as I knew Hisana, as I know Renji and Rukia. Why, I have asked myself so many times, is she such an enigma to me? So hard to understand? But all the blame does not sit with me. I am an observant man, not lacking in intelligence. She is the reason I don't understand. She does this on purpose, I think. She is hiding.