CHAPTER 4
The miracle
Everyone stayed at Ichigos home for that night. They wanted to know if an animal would really come. The night had been quiet. Everyone thought about what they had heard from Ichigo. It was still so unbelievable for them, to believe, that Ichigo was theoretical the god of this world now. They knew that Ichigo would never lie to them, maybe he would sometimes keep something a secret from them, but he would never lie only when it came to protect them. The all knew that and still they just couldn't accept it. You could when a friend told you he had suddenly become god. Late at night, they finally started to drift off to sleep expect for Ichigo. He was still to shell shocked about that dear, to really sleep.
The next morning was uneventful. The stood one after another up and soon breakfast was ready. Every time the bell of the house rang, the stopped in their tracks to stared at the door. It was ten o'clock, when they heard Cooee (an owl scream) outside of the door. Ichigo want slowly to the door and opened it. And there at the doorstep stood an owl. In the bright daylight before him sat an owl.
"I have come to get you kami-sama. Like promised, please follow me." Ichigo only nodded.
"I think I will go insane if the animals talk to me too often" he whispered with wide eyes and loud he said:
"I will get my things. Can you please wait here for me?" At that the owl nodded. Ichigo went up to his room to get his back. He thought about leaving his body, but from what Zangetsu had said, he couldn't and so he left it be. He threw his bag over the shoulder and went down again. He said a 'goodbye' to his friends and left. He didn't know what else he should do.
His friends at the meantime saw the weird exchange between their friend and the owl. It looked like the owl was nodding one time and they just saw how petrified their friend was at that. They had heard him mutter, about that he would go insane if more animals talked to him and the friends somehow understood. He had gone through enough for them and now they couldn't even help him. They didn't understand animals and also didn't become a god and so even the support that they could give him was little. His live had changed drastically since one year. They still couldn't believe it, it had only been one year and he had changed so much and had become so strong. They didn't know what he had to leave behind for this and what he suffered through this. They were scared that they would lose him, when the time came and he left even more. They had been happy, that he had told them about his problems, but now they understood why he normally didn't. They couldn't understand his pain and they wouldn't know what he lost because of them, so they couldn't help, because they didn't understand.
Ichigo had already gone a pretty good distance when the owl, that had sat itself on his shoulder, asked him:
"I can see why our leader has summoned you to him. There were other nearer kami-samas, but no one was as strong or gentle as you. You give of an aura, which reaches the sky, but still doesn't hurt anyone. He had been missing for one week, when he suddenly came back and said:
"I have found the perfect kami, to witness the birth of our first one. He will surprise you all. He even agreed to come."
"Everyone had stood with their mouth open, when he had said that. Kamis, often grant wishes to animals. Most of them are old man, who scream at you and want you to go away.
"How old are you anyway? You are about a hundred aren't you?" asked the owl unexpected.
"Sorry to disappoint you, but I am only seventeen. I just became a good two day ago. You don't know how it freaked me out! At fist a am a human. Then I become a shinigami and have a hollow part. Then I die and shatter and the next week, I am a god. I fucking god that has a strong connection with earth and cannot die anymore."
The owl just stared at him and then it almost made him deaf when it screamed:
"You have only been a god for two days and you can already understand us and have so much power? You are a shinigami, a hollow, a human and a god? You are only seventeen in human age and are now immortal? You have the worse luck ever!"
"I know, you don't have to put salt on the wound, do you? But tell me, it looks like there are more goods here then I thought. How are they starting to exits?"
"You really don't know anything, do you? Gods are created, when human believe in them. There is a god in every rice corn and so a god, who is in every rice corn, was created. They also start to exist, when many people wish that there love ones are protected by a god. They are then created from the earth with its power and are given life."
"Oh, so they were also involved in the killing of this world. It was dying before because of the lack of energy and they use it to live and exist right?"
"Yes that's…, wait, the earth was dying? I didn't know that, you can't feel it just jet, if it really was fading. How did you?"
"I am connected with this world and you could say she is eating my energy. She is slowly recovering, but it will take some time."
"Wait you give her energy and not the other way around?"
"When I was about to die in my soul form, she gave me energy to survive. I split through that, but I was soon put together again. The power I had received to live over a hundred till I merged together again is still inside me and has doubled my own. My three parts (human, shinigami, hollow) merged together and trough that I became really powerful. She gave me her power to survive and I give her power to survive. It is a fair trade. Trough that thought, she won't let me die, because she would die then also."
The owl just looked at him for a bit and then seemed to think. It what the kami had said was true then he was now the soul or god of this world. He was stronger than anything. There Leader had really found a quite good kami. Ichigo wanted to be there at nightfall and so took the owl into his arms. The owl was shocked at first and wanted to protest, when she was let go again and they stood before the forest. She looked and blinked and looked and blinked again. They would have needed another day to arrive there, but the kami had done something and now they had already arrived. She was brought out of her thoughts when he said:
"In which direction is the den?" She said nothing and just pointed in the right direction. When the sun was about to go down she noticed the small light he was emitting. It couldn't be seen by the humans, but the animals could see it and it was really warm and comfortable. She sat on his shoulder again and started to doze off.
Ichigo had noticed that the owl had started to sleep. Maybe it was because she was tired. It had been awake all day long after all. Ichigo looked into the den, but it seemed to be vacant. He looked around, but saw no white deer. Then he felt a tug on his pants and looked down. There stood three little fox babies that looked curiously up to him. He smiled a bit at them and they started to yelp. He noticed at that moment a movement in the bush and looked around. The white deer and a brown fox stood there. The deer seemed to smile at him and the fox looked surprised. Then the deer started to say:
"I am sorry kami-sama that we have not sufficiently welcomed you. We have thought that you would arrive about tomorrow. We have put my wife somewhere else, because we have spotted hunters in these parts off forest. I will call a meeting for all animals to introduce you. Please follow my friend here the fox, to bring you to the meeting place."
With that he disappeared and the fox came over to him.
"Kami-sama, please follow me."
"Could you stop calling me with the sama? I already have problems to cope with the kami, but the sama is really needless."
The fox only nodded with wide eyes. All kamis want to be called with the sama at the end, but it seemed this boy was really special. It seemed like he didn't like the title. The fox had also already noticed the light surrounding him. It was a pretty yellow light, with a tone of orange.
They had had gone a short way, when they arrived at a huge stone. It was more like a boulder and many animals had already gathered there. It was dark, but Ichigo didn't really have a problem with seeing anything. He was led to the very top be the fox and saw how more and more animals gathered in front of the boulder. Then he saw a flash of white and the deer came running and jumped to the top of the boulder, where the fox and Ichigo stood. Then he started to speak:
"We have gathered here today, because I want to introduce you to someone, but not just anyone. It is the kami that I have found. He will live here till my child is born and I want you to show respect toward him. Please step forward kami-sama. Ichigo stepped forward and looked at the animals. At the foot from the boulder the animals had started to whisper. They were all in awe of his powers. They could not see the power, but they could feel the aura and also even thought he was powerful he had a gentle and warm aura to him. He really was a beautiful god and the animals had all asked themselves, how their leader had convinced such a powerful kami, to come to the birth of his child.
"I will live here till the birth happens, so I will ask of you just one thing. Please don't use the sama. I really had it to be called like this. It is still hard for me to even accept the kami, but the sama, like I had said before, is needless."
Like the fox, the animals were surprised. A god, that didn't want to be respected or even to be called one, it was a mistery, but somehow they were happy. The god seemed to be friendly, even thought he scowled a lot. It was refreshing to meet a kami, that wasn't so stuck up as the others. Soon the meeting was stopped and they all went to bed.
Ichigo woke up and at first needed to remember why he was in a forest. Then he remembered and jumped down the tree. He had slept on it and even thought he should know well the pain of laying there, he was felling refreshed and like he had slept on the softest bed. It wasn't normal to feel that way, but Ichigo soon dismissed it. It wasn't so important and he was still tired. He went to the river, which he had seen yesterday and washed his face. Suddenly he had a weird feeling of someone talking to him and listened closer.
"Please kami-sama, heal my mother. She is on her dead bed and only has a week left to live. She was hit by a car and we are not rich enough to pay for the operation. Ichigo told one animal that he would go away for a short time and went looking for the voice. He had a feeling of being pulled in the right direction and with a shunpo he went to the starting point of the pull. There stood a little girl around seven before him and looked at him with wide eyes. He was standing on the steps of the temple and it looked like this girl had uttered her wish.
"Are you kami-sama?" asked the girl with hope in her eyes.
"Can you bring me to your mother? I will grant your wish." Ichigo said without even knowing how he would help her and grant her wish. He had also took on his god form, that he hidden and soon had the girl in the arms and was with one step at the hospital. She girls without much asking brought him in and soon they were in a room and she pointed at her mother. A man sat on her side. He looked worn down and had heavy bags under his eyes. Ichigo went over there and the child followed him. Without even thinking of it, he held out his hand and held it over her body. The body started to glow and color started to appear in her face. She had been deathly pale at the beginning, but now she looked healthy. Ichigo nodded to the child and left with a quick sunpo. Some of the forest inhabitants saw him in his godly form and where overjoyed. It was said, that whoever saw a god in his real form, would have luck for the rest of their lives. Under the animals that saw him that time where the fox, his woman and the three baby foxes. They had thanked Ichigo for that, but he didn't understand why.
The next day, a newspaper brought out a really weird article. One of the forest residents always got a newspaper. He read them gladly and now he was at the article and read it to the other forest residents, which had gathered around him.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
A wonder happened yesterday evening. A woman that had been deathly injured in an accident would have died without a proper operation in the next few days. When the doctor entered the room of the woman yesterday, he saw a child dancing and singing around and she always screamed:
"She is healed. The orange haired god healed her."
After that the doctor checked on the injuries of the woman and she was really completely healthy and unwounded. When she woke up and was asked what she thought about this wonder she said:
"I was in terrible pain, when I suddenly saw an orange and yellow light that said, 'you are still not ready to go to the afterlife' and with that the pain went away. I believe my daughter when she said, that she had wished to the gods for me to live and one had appeared before her. She said that he had taken her in the arms and had brought her here with just one step. She had felt save and warm with him and the orange light, which I saw was just like that."
The woman is allowed to leave today and the child has yet to stop smiling. She wished us towrite one of her sentences down:
"If you read this orange haired god, then you will also read this sentences. I want to thank you for all you did for me. Thank you very much."
With that the newspaper article ended, all the animals that were there at that time stared at Ichigo when he had just passed them. He had noticed the stares and turned around. He didn't understand the stares that he got and asked:
"What, why are you all staring at me?"
The animals didn't answer him and just gave him the newspaper. He looked at the article and smiled a bit, but then he frowned and asked:
"Since when can animals read newspapers?"
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Hope you liked it.
It's a bit weird with the animals and the other things, but I somehow just needed to write that.
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