Chapter 4: New Talents. "Where is She Reaper?!"

The little boy ran towards the sounds of the screams in between the shacks of the BlackValley. He kept running as fast as his little legs would allow him, behind him soul reapers were battling a menos grande that had appeared and the familiar hollow that the menos grande had summoned.

The boy kept running until he reached a half destroyed shack and burst through what was left of the door. In the corner of the shack two bodies laid bloodied covering a small child. The young child was no more then 3 years old with red hair mid way down her back.

The girl looked up just screaming "Rell! Rell!" over again towards the small boy. The boy touched his face and felt blood running down his face and hand. Weird thing was he didnt remember being cut or even touched while running through the BlackValley.

Suddenly the boy was standing in front of soul reapers. This time they were yelling towards a crowd of BlackValley residents. Captain Frederick Downs was calmly talking towards the crowd, walking in front of the other reapers waving one arm around while the other stayed squarely on his zanpaku-to.

Though he could see the captains lips he couldnt hear what the man was saying. He felt a strong squeezing on his hand and looked down. Again the young red haired girl was there screaming "Rell!" again.

Suddenly Rellik was surrounded by darkness. He looked around and saw nothing except a small light off in the distance. The light surprised him. He heard that humans saw a light at the end of a long tunnel when they were on verge of death. 'So its true for souls on this end to i see.' Thought Rellik as he walked towards the light.

The light was getting brighter and larger as Rellik kept walking towards it. As he closed the distance on the light a two dark figures apreared from the light. One was a tall older man with a large beard down to his knees holding a giant axe, the other was a medium height man with a small goatee, his black hair kept short to his scalp. One of his eyes had a scar over it and the eye itself was a pale grey color. The way the smaller man held himself was clear that he was a soul reaper. His zanpaku-to, instead of at his hip, was hanging from his back.

"You know kid. You dont look like someone to give up and walk towards the light." Says the taller man in a husky voice that showed his age.

"Easy there old man. The kid just had a dramatic experience after all." The shorter man said running a finger over his scared eye. "Trust me kid. You got a lot of stuff you havent done yet. And alot to learn. Now get your ass back to your friends and find her. Find her and kill him. Understand me now. Trust no one. Make sure you kill him." The mans voice turned serious. His eyes trained on the young man.

Rellik just stared back at the man. Then the man did something that he had only seen in the mirror. The man gave him a smug smile.

"Is he awake yet Yoruichi?" Came a voice from the darkness.

"Idk. Its been three days Kisuke. Maybe you didnt act fast enough." Came a womans voice closer to him from the darkness.

Rellik opened his eyes slowly. The world was vivid. More intense then usual. The shock sent Rellik flying out of his bed pain shooting across his face.

"What the hell!" Screamed Rellik looking around seeing the two soul reapers from earlier.

Kisuke Urahara held up his hands to show he wasnt going to hurt Rellik, "Easy there kid. We not going hurt you. Just keep it easy alright. Let me expla... WHOA!" Kisuke ducked as a rock Rellik thrown went flying past his head.

"What the hell is going on? Why the hell is everything so.. So.." Rellik couldnt find the words. His head was spinning as the air itself seemed to converge around him. "Winry! I have to find Winry!"

Rellik went to stand but was stopped by Yuroichi who shoved him back down onto the bed and pinned him down. "Easy there young man! Kisuke will tell you everything only if you calm down now!"

Rellik could see the air swirl around her arms making her stronger. He didnt get it. He'd never noticed the orange tint to the air before. Something was definetly wrong, and he realized to get answers he would have to listen to these reapers.

"Well now that he's calm down now. Maybe i can talk to him." Kisuke said pulling up a chair sitting next to the bed. "Let me ask you something before I explain what happened. What does everything look like right now?"

Rellik just sat there for a minute staring at the man and woman who were just looking him expetingly. "Everything seems more vivid.. An.. And the air seems to have an orange-reddish tint to it. Its like the air is slithering across my vision. Wh.. What happened to me? Last thing I remember was that thing slashing at me."

"That thing was Mayuri Kurotsuchi. He was a prisoner back home. I had him released to be my assistant. I thought that maybe he could learn to be more social accompanying us. Apparently I was wrong."

"You're kidding me right? A prisoner!" Rellik screamed lunging towards him. Had Yoruichi not been sitting between and grabbed Rellik he'd have beaten him to the best of his abilities. "He could have killed me and Winry!"

"I stopped him ok." Explained Kisuke. "I couldnt just sit back and watch him strike down a young man just for rolling his eyes. Although that is a very disrespecctful thing to do." Kisuke continues. "Lets start at the beginning shall we?

"After Mayuri attacked you Yoruichi here slammed him into the ground while I scooped you and your friends up and took off. They brought me here to your... Lovely home. I use that word usely. You know you have a giant trash heap behind your street? I regress. Anyways, I treated your eye the best I could. After saving you from the poison that Mayuri and soaked his blade in before he slashed you, I realized I wouldnt be able to give you your sight back."

Rellik was somewhat confused by that. He could see him perfectly clear as though he had perfect vision.

"I see your confusion." Continues Kisuke laughing quietly to himself. "Though I couldnt give your eye back its original vision I could give you something new. Something better. It was just an experiment I was doing back home. Soul Reapers gather their energy from a source called reishi. What you're seeing is, the orangish-red air. That's reishi. It was only a fifty fifty chance I would work. Otherwise you'd just be blind. I didnt save your eye. I made it better for you."

Rellik was staring at the captian with wide eyes. He couldnt believe it. If its true then it made since. His vision was more vivid because of the reishi around him. The air that swirled around Lady Yuroichi's limbs was her gathering reishi into them.

"Now that seems to me to be good news. Your friends have been waiting around for you." Yoruichi says opening the door. "You three hiding over there. He's awake finally. Come on in."

It didnt take long before Blast, Jen and Mac came running into the small shack. All of them hugging hard throwing them between them.

"Guys.. Guys.." Rellik said through grasping breaths. "GUYS! You're killing me here!"

"Oh sorry man." Blast said staring at his friend. His eyes drawn to his left eye. "He couldnt save it huh." Blast turned his attention to Kisuke, "You did try and save his eye didnt you?"

Kisuke smiled and winked at Rellik, "I did try my best but there was nothing i could do." When Blast's gaze went back to Rellik he held his finger to his mouth giving Rellik the 'ssh' gesture.

Rellik just nodded his head and smiled towards his friends. "Its not that bad now is it?" Rellik just laughed quietly. Until he saw the look on his friends faces. "Its not is it guys?"

Jen just sat there holding a small peice of glass in her hands that she would use as a mirror. "I'm 'orry Rellik. 'ut it not great."

She held up the mirror to Rellik's face and what he saw shoock him to his core. Staring back him was a younger version of the man from his dream. A scar worked its way up from his bottom right nostril up to the tip of his left eyebrow. His eye looked pale white. He understood why his friends thought him blind. Had he not been given the explination by Kisuke he to would think he was blind in his left eye.

Looking over at Kisuke and Yoruichi, Rellik said, "I guess that explains why things look lopsided huh?"

"I'm so sorry man. First Winry. Now you find out this. You're alot tougher then any of us gave you credit for." Mac says looking over to the soul reapers whose faces looked even graver then before.

"What do you mean 'First Winry'?" Asks Rellik. "Where is my little sister? Kisuke? Yoruichi? You said I been out for three days. Where is she?"

"Now Rellik Yoruichi has been here the whole time keeping everyone out." Kisuke says again holding up his hands and standing up getting between Yoruichi and the children.

"Where is Winry Reaper?!" Rellik screams standing up. The air again began to swirl around him. Though no one else could see it.

"On the first night when i was treating your eye from the poison, Yoruichi was stationed around here to keep an eye on everything. But somehow someone had snuck past her.."

"Get to the point old man!" Again screams Rellik.

"Old man.." Kisuke's head shrunk low. "I'm not that old am I Yoruichi?"

Yoruichi just slapped Kisuke in back of the head, "Snap out of it Urahara! Tell the kid how i royally fucked everything up." She said her gaze drifting lower then Kisuke's.

"You cant blame her Rellik. We're both to blame. We were so pre occupied with you that we didnt realize until the next morning that.." He paused along time just staring at Rellik. "I'm so sorry Rellik. She was gone the next morning. Abducted in the night."

There was silence for a long time in the shack. The four children just staring at the two captains. The silence lasted for seemed to Rellik for hours. He couldnt believe it. He couldnt save her. He couldnt be there for her the way she needed him. He wasnt the big brother he promised he would be the day he burried their parents. He wasnt there for her like he promised after the soul reapers had told the Black Valley residents that the Seiritei was going to be cutting back on supplies to the Roukon District.

"No. She's just in the back room." Rellik says walking past everyone banging the door open to the back room where they both slept.

The room was different however. There was almost no reishi in the room. Just barely enough for his eye to pick up.

"No." Rellik just fell over to the ground, his head spinning his eye causing pain to shoot through his head.

Rellik awoke in the dark backroom of his shack. Kisuke, Yoruichi, and his friends all sitting around him.

"What happened?" Asks Rellik as he sat up slowly, Jen holding onto his arm as he did so.

"Easy Rell. Take it easy." Blast said his face showing concern for his friend.

"You just had to much to fast is all Rellik. You need rest. We were just telling your friends here that they were going to have to keep an eye on you from now on. Tomorrow, we head back home." Kisuke explained. "But tonight I think Rellik would like to be alone. Why dont you kids head on home and let us have some private time talking with Rellik here."

Jen, Mac and Blast all just gave Rellik another look all giving a little smile towards him as they walked out the door. Blast staying behind at the door a few minutes longer then the others staring at Rellik before walking out himself.

"I know today has been very tiring Rellik." Says Kisuke. "But you must understand that no one. No even your friends must know about your eye. If any one were to find out they would wanna use you for their own purposes. You wouldnt be able to be well you anymore. You'd become a tool for other. An expendable tool at that. They would use until they harnessed the power of your eye for themselves. Trust me it took me overa century to harness the ability i gave you, and like i said earlier it was only a fifty fifty chance that it would work anyways."

"Yeah i got it. You gave me this gift. Dont tell anyone." Replies Rellik sharply just staring at the wall. "Tell me how that helps me get my sister back."

Kisuke just looks at Rellik with sad thoughtful eyes. "I may be a genius but i dont have all the answers Rellik. You must figure this out for yourself."

"He's right Rellik." Pipes in Yoruichi. "If you want your sister back you'll have to find your own way to find her."

With those last few words the soul reapers left.

Kisuke and Yoruichi appeared in front of Head Captain Henry Yukes' office. Yukes was a giant of a man. Shaved head and clean cut facial hair he was very similiar to Head Captain Yamamoto of Japan. Having both trained together once upon a time and having the two most powerful fire zanpaku-tos in the world.

Yukes just looked up from his book and placed his reading glasses on the desk in front of him. "Captains. I suppose that you've been gone for 3 days that you've enjoyed yourselves." Yukes says placing his book on the small shelf behind his desk. "Your companion Captain Aizen left a few hours ago. Saying he had matters back home he needed to finish up. And due your instructions Captain Urahara, Mayuri Kurotsuchi accompanied him."

"Thank you Head Captain. We'll be more then generous in our report for Captain Yamamoto back home." Says Kisuke who looks at Yoruichi who knew to keep her mouth shut about all that they've learned here.

"Please be sure to visit anytime captains." Yukes replies looking for another book on the shelf. "Good bye."

With the Kisuke and Yoruichi departed home.

Days passed before Rellik finally emerged from his home. By now the entire BlackValley had heard about what happened. He just walked down the street seeing everyone staring at his face. But he wouldnt let their looks put him down. He kept walking until he reached Mac's home, where his three friends were sitting outside. They all lept to their feet when they saw him approach. Jen holding out her arm as in to help Rellik the last few feet to the steps. Blast and Mac just staring at their friend.

"Jen I'm fine." Rellik says turning his gaze towards her in which she visibly shivered. He just smiled. "Its good to know the scar isnt that bad." He laughed which caused the others to laugh. "I've decided I'm going to save Winry."

That statement cut the groups laughter cold. Mac just leaned against the door looking at Rellik while Jen just kept looking from Mac to Blast. Blast crossed his arm after pushing his oversized hat back.

"How do you plan on doing that Rellik?" Asks Blast staring at his friend with curious eyes.

Rellik just smiled and thought back to his dream. 'Trust no one. Make sure you kill him.' The one line kept repeating in his head. He didnt know who his dream self meant. But he was going to find out.

"Easy." Rellik says staring at each of his friends individually. "We're joining the soul reaper academy."