A/N All right! chapter 4, so far so good right? A nice long chapter to hold you over till next week. These are getting progressively longer each time. How odd.

Just so everyone knows I typed this chapter out 2x's, yes I finished it and it was AMAZING and then my computer decided then, to be a little punk and die on me, 4000 words down the drain. Now I save like every paragraph. I did it early too on Monday because I was so excited and now its all last minute due to college essays and my Internet thingy being broken. Boo. I hope you appreciate it and it might be better than the first time I typed it out but still. Anger at computer. Shame shame, go and sit in the corner and think about what you did. Sorry for the rant. On with the story.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own BLEACH. I know already. You know, I know, so why must we keep rubbing it in my face?... HM?... Right, to keep me in my place. I get it.

4: Apology for weakness

A couple was walking by in the park and was enjoying a wonderful evening. "Isn't it such a wonderful night, dear." They glanced over to see a teenage girl in a school uniform that appeared to be meditating. A strong gust came by followed by an unsettling chill. "Um maybe we should go to your place." They were scared them off by the oddity while the girl stayed where she was.

Yumi smiled 'Good, now there won't be any weak human by standards.' her eyes were still closed searching for the best out come. She needed to look a head and be as prepared as possible because once the battle started she would need to know which direction to look in. 'It's here' She opened her eyes and looked a head.

"ARE YOU THE ONE TRYING TO TAUNT ME, LITTLE GIRL?"

Yumi smiled "Yes, and I think it worked quite well. It definitely got your attention I am sure."

The monster laughed at her attitude "YOU'VE GOT SOME MOUTH ON YOU. I HOPE YOU CAN BACK IT UP GIRLY, I WANT A CHALLENGE."

"A challenge you will receive." Yumi got up from the bench and stood in the middle of the park looking in front of her. "I will kill you for all the pain you have caused you disgusting monster."

The hallow lunged for her trying to feel her out to see how good she really was without helping her out with his tauntings'. She dodged every one of his attacks moving with ease like prerehearsed choreography. She smiled when she heard him yell in frustration.

"HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT!"

"oh. Doing what? You mean dodge your every attack. I thought you would be less predictable, how disappointing. What does it feel like to have your attacker toy with you." she ended with hatred. All the people he's eaten all the souls he's taken, she remembers their pain and she won't let him continue on to hurt innocent people. Her mind wouldn't let her rest if she didn't make sure he was eradicated from existence.

With that she held her hand up in the wrong direction. 'I've got her now!' He charged at her from her side. Just when he was so close that he couldn't stop his charge, her wrist bent and she swung in his direction. Creating a fist she released a large amount of raitsu and blasted his invisible arm off.

"AAAAHHHARRR!"

Uryu and Ichigo heard the hallow's scream in pain. Their eyes widened and rushed towards the direction of the yell. What they saw was Yumi, fist out stretched and a now visible arm of a hallow at her feet. She was frowning as she looked at the arm on the ground.

"Damn, I missed." she said with a disappointed voice.

'She missed? It looks like she hit it to me' So it was her. Yumi was hiding her spiritual pressure from them. This means she is definitely stronger than she looked. And here she was facing this hallow like it was the most normal thing in the world. She looked up and frowned in their direction, then her eyes widened and she jumped to her left dodging the monsters next attempt on her life. She screamed at the hallow as she attracted it. She hates it. How does she even know about hallows?

"Asamoto!"

"Look, stay back ok?" she said gruffly as she dodged another attack hoping that they would just leave but knowing they wont. 'Damn it, so this is the only way hm.' She tried again for another attack aimed in the direction that she predicted would be the most probable.

"ARRH I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"Not if I kill you first!" she yelled back, 'I can't let it survive. This thing must die or else it will keep killing. I will not lose. I can't.' She fisted her gloved hand and sent out a blast of raitsu at the point she saw best effective.

"I missed again!" she sighed painfully, even though her attack made full on contact, the being still was alive and a capable killing machine still. 'This is not good, that was a last attempt to stop what will happen next. I did not want to get hurt in this fight damn it!'

"What the hell Asamoto!" yelled Ichigo. "How are you doing that?" Uryu and Ichigo was in shock from the few seconds that they watched from her fight with the hallow, or to be more specific, when they watched her fight nothing since they couldn't see the hallow she was fighting to begin with.

Getting over the proof of her powers quickly they rushed to her side. The instinct to yell at her for keeping her powers hidden was conflicting with the one to protect her. "Are you alright."

"You idiots!" she yelled as they came to her side. She couldn't help it. Even though she saw that this would happen the act still amazed her. How could they be so self sacrificing. She could protect herself and she was better equipped to fight this hallow but they still wanted to help her.

"Who are you calling an idiot! We are just trying to help you." She shook her head with disbelief.

"Stupid! You'll only get in the way!" To be honest, the numbers are better and it would be easier to take down the hallow but now she'll have to change her fighting style. Yumi knew she had to look out for them too because this hallow was past playing games now. It was serious about killing her. Dead serious. Instead of just looking out for herself and watching the hallow, she had to incorporate both Ichigo and Uryu into her calculations. She knew it was a possibility before but Yumi really hoped she wouldn't have to bring them into it.

"I SEE NOW! THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS ARE THEY NOT? I THINK I FOUND YOUR WEAKNESS LITTLE GIRL!"

"Shit." she said as she knew she needed to make a quick decision. Her or them, she made a mistake and was going to pay for it. She moved in that instant, she stopped thinking, she just moved.

Uryu looked in front of him and saw Yumi's shoulder bleeding from the attack that was meant for him. It was so fast. Before she was mad at them and the next thing, she was jumping in front of an invisible attack. Something that he would have believed improbable from this girl just a hour before.

"Now you die" she said in an angry pained voice. "Kill it now that I have a hold of it!" she barked at the two before the thing lashed out and tried to get her, only succeeding in slashing open her left cheek.

Ichigo jumped into action while she held the monster with Uryu's help.

"Right in front of me Kurosaki! That's where you need to strike!"

"GETUSGA TENSIO!"

Just as Ichigo finished his attack the hallow appeared just before it desinegrated from being defeated. Only then did Yumi and Uryu released the hallow. She sighed in re leaf from the outcome. She looked a the Quincy and shinigami and nodded in approval. 'They didn't get hurt, no one else did either so mission accomplished' She just wanted to head home and rest up her arm before her Aunt found out. But of course the two had different ideas about what would happened next.

"What were you thinking hm? Trying to take on that hallow all on your own! Are you stupid or something!"

Yumi sighed "something..." and gave Ichigo a tired look.

"Ichigo, she is hurt. I'll take her to Urahada's shop because it's close. I'll explain to them, and you should inform what happened to everyone else." just before Ichigo was going to complain Uryu continued to say "Orihime might be worried and you might want to tell her it's ok."

"...Fine." he said after giving them both a good angry glare. 'You better watch her Ishida!' And he jumped out of sight. Uryu then turned to Yumi.

"Come on, we need to get that bandaged." he grabbed her hand from the arm that wasn't injured and began to drag her towards the said shop.

'It's my own fault' she thought as she was roughly being pulled by her arm. 'I would be mad too.'

He was upset. 'Why did she have to go and get herself into trouble? I knew something was up, I should have seen this coming. What was wrong with her? She shouldn't have jumped in the way like that. Now it feels like it's my fault she's hurt.' he was silently dragging her still and might have done that the entire way if she had not said something.

"You don't have to take care of me ya know? I know I don't deserve it."

Uryu stopped and looked back at her. She was still bleeding from her cheek and when he let go of her hand he was dragging along with, she moved it to the wound and put pressure on it.

He sighed "Look you did take down that hallow, I know it would have been harder without having you there. You got hurt so I'm taking you some where you can fix your arm without having to lie to whoever you would have seen."

She nodded and they continued on but this time instead of being dragged they were walking side by side. They were silent for a little while, trying to sort through their thoughts. 'How did she do that anyway? And how does it connect to all the weird things she's been doing lately?' The questions continued to burst through his mind until he had to say something.

"You must have known about us having powers."

"What?" she said in surprise to the statement, the last thing she thought he would have said. She assumed he would start spouting questions like everyone else normally would have done.

"I know you have amazing control of your spiritual presence so you must have felt ours, when you got here."

Yumi looked at her feet sadly. "Yes, I knew before. I know that Kurosaki is a soul reaper and that all of you have powers."

"But that's not all is it? There is something different about you Asamoto."

Him saying that didn't surprise Yumi. "I doubt you will believe me."

"Really? We just fought an invisible monster, we face hallows all the time. I doubt that you'll find something I can't believe with proof."

Yumi smiled sadly. 'He's right you know? You're found out so just admit it already.' She sighed in defeat. "My powers,. . . . oh its just so hard to explain."

"Take your time. I'll wait."

Yumi stayed silent for a little while trying to figure out how to explain without confusing him and not reveal too much so she didn't scare him.

"Well, to put it simply, I see through time."

Uryu tilted his head and flashed some confusion and disbelief. "What do you mean?"

"I can sorta see the future." 'and do a couple of other things but lets start with that.' she added in her mind.

Uryu frowned and kept walking. More questions filled his mind along with the initial doubt of the whole thing. He had to put together what he had seen today along with the odd things she has been doing recently at school. Yumi watched his face carefully. She knew he needed time to work through the initial doubt and logic before she continued. She nodded when she gaged his reaction.

"I say sort of because the future is not set in stone, you see?" She looked at the sky through the trees. "I only see what is going on during the course we all as individuals choose. If you change your mind then it can change the future, which in turn changes what I see. It's not that reliable for really serious things as you can see." she said in a matter of fact tone as she pointed to her cheek and arm.

"I see." Uryu responded as he worked though what she said. 'It makes logical sense.'

"Most of the time it's a burden rather than a blessing. When it comes to certain people, I find that it is easier to block out what I see because it's more trouble than its worth. For example, that first conversation with you I decided that it would be better to talk to you without cheating."

"Yes, well, thanks for that." Uryu saw that they were hardly walking due to the conversation and saw how they still had a ways to go till they got to Urahara's. "We should get moving." Yumi smiled weakly and he saw her wounds more clearly.

"It's not your fault."

"How would you know if I blamed myself? Can you read minds too?"

Yumi laughed "No, sadly not. That would be crazy, being able to somewhat see the future AND read people's minds. No, I was just stupid and foolish. I should have been more prepared. After I missed the first time I knew that if you both caught up to me, that he would try and use you against me. I underestimated his speed. I made a choice and this is the consequence of my actions. It was just chance that he attacked you instead of Kurosaki, and if he did I would have done the same thing. It's my own fault not yours."

"Hmm, Well, it looks like we're here." Uryu walked up to the entrance and Yumi stood behind him as he knocked. After a little while, what appeared to be a giant opened the threshold.

"Hello Mr. Tessai, sorry to bother you but I was wondering if you could help my friend. She was recently injured." He stepped aside to reveal Yumi to the man.

"I am sure the Boss won't mind. Please come in and I'll see what I can do."

Yumi followed the man into the shop. From what she could see, hardly anything normal was sold here. She glanced around and got the feeling that this wasn't an ordinary shop. The two children looked up from their cleaning. 'Yes this place, not a normal shop at all.' she thought as she looked back at Uryu. Not necessarily unwelcome but unknown. And that is all it takes to put her on guard for anything.

"So I hear Mr. Ishida brought a pretty little friend! Oh and here she is! But look, she's hurt! Now what did that to you hmm? Shouldn't our mutual friend Uryu had protected you?"

Yumi looked closely at this Urahara. He seemed to be joking and playfully poking at Uryu but something of an undertone peeked through. Like he was really observing her and she didn't like that. Something about him screamed that he was smarter than he looked. She better not let down her guard around him.

"Can you help or not?" Uryu was obviously a little upset at the jibe.

"But of course! What kind of person would I be to turn away a pretty girl in need? Jinta go get the supplies in storage space for Tessai and Ururu could you get some tea and snacks for our guests? Thank you."

Urahara followed by Tessai Uryu and Yumi went to a room in the back of the shop.

"I hope you don't mind if things are a little messy or not to your liking, we didn't know we would be receiving a guest"

"Oh, it's quite alright. I am just happy to be helped at all. I am very lucky."

"Aww well aren't you sweet! I am very happy to help you my dear!"

"Asamoto-sama, I wouldn't complement him. He takes it very personally and can get quite annoying ."

"Why Uryu! What a horrible thing to say." he scolded as he shook his finger.

Yumi smiled at the scene. This odd man is ridiculous, but it is interesting to see how he interacts with Uryu.

Once they sat down, Tessai began to clean her wounds with what the red headed child brought. He gave her an odd look, like disbelief or confusion. Yumi couldn't understand what could be bothering him about her. She was a little lightheaded for some reason and she decided to let it go and think about it another day.

"Would you like some tea miss?" said the timid girl

"Yes, thank you." Yumi smiled politely and took the cup easily with the hand of her uninjured arm.

The whole time Uryu and Urahara drank their tea quietly for something to do. 'She hasn't even flinched once with pain' Uryu saw as he watched her carefully being treated. Even when being disinfected she just sat there calmly without moving, drinking her tea quietly. The only thing that gave her away was the fact that she looked tired, drained. There this girl sat as if nothing happened and that getting her arm rapped up was not only normal but painless too.

Urahara looked over at Uryu and gestured that they needed to talk somewhere else. Yumi had been waiting for them to leave to talk and was surprised it took that long. When Uryu turned to begin to excuse himself, Yumi was already smiling.

"Go ahead it's alright, I understand."

Of course she did. Why wouldn't they need to talk to each other? She didn't expect them to just let her use them and not conspire or at least communicate. That would have been selfish and unfair of her. She gently nodded understanding the situation.

As they left the room Tessai looked up from his work.

"You can handle pain well I see. Most people would have at least flinched at this kind of wound even if it isn't as deep as it could be."

Yumi looked into her half empty cup of tea.

"Yes well, to be honest this pain is nothing compared to what I've felt."

(BLEACH/bleach/BLEACH/bleach/BLEACH)

"Uryu, this is the girl you were talking about correct?"

He nodded remembering coming to Urahara a couple of days after he met Asamoto Yumi.

"So Ishida, what do I owe this pleasure?"

"I was wondering if you knew the possibility of someone not having any spiritual pressure?"

"Why? Have you met someone like that?" Uryu just nodded "Wow, that would be amazing, but there are other possibilities. An explanation could be that she can just hide her pressure but to make it invisible is difficult. Many can make their pressure hidden but I have yet to meet someone who can make it completely invisible. Especially a human if that is what she is.

"This Asamoto Yumi seems human enough but then again nothing normal ever happens here."

"I'll look up a few things, if anything gets out of hand or she does anything that's unexplainable then let me know. This Yumi Asamoto name sounds familiar, like I read it somewhere before. I'll Let you know"

"I see. This is quite a development. From what I felt, she most definitely has more power than we initially believed. This girl is something else I be live."

"Why? Did you find something?"

"No not for sure just yet, there are so many possibilities and the one I'm thinking of is quite a long shot, especially going off the information I have. To be honest it's not always reliable."

"I understand. She said something about being able to see through time. Does that mean something to you? Is it even possible?"

Uryu saw how Urahara's eyes lit up at this new information. The man was curious for sure about this girl and her abilities. It might be because he was in the research department, and you only get their if you have certain qualities.

"I don't know if it's possible but I will look into it and let you know."

"So what do you suggest we do with her now?" Uryu looked at the man waiting for his response. While they all joked about Urahara, he truly respected him and his opinion. The man was strong, intelligent and experienced. Those are all qualities that they have seen from this man, and he took his advice seriously even if he didn't always agree or follow it.

"I'm thinking you should stick close to her. Figure out as much as you can, be her friend but don't let down your guard. Before we were being possibly overly cautious but now we have an actual reason to worry. She is capable of something and the unknown can be dangerous, though I doubt she is here to specifically attack us, it is a possibility. From what I've seen she seems like a nice enough person with just a lot to hide. It doesn't necessarily make her an enemy."

"That was along the lines I was thinking too." Uryu nodded as he glanced back to the room they came from remembering what he's seen of the girl. "Maybe we should head back before she gets too suspicious."

"Ha, I doubt she isn't suspicious already but I would like to get back to my tea before it gets too cold."

"Ishida- sama, you don't have to walk me home ok." Yumi said with a little frustration. This situation was pretty odd for her. She didn't hate Ishida Uryu but after everything and the awkwardness between them that just progressively got worse was not making it easier. She didn't like how it felt at the shop but being alone with Ishida was worse. 'I can't read minds and he hasn't made any choices other than to stay silent. I CAN'T READ MINDS!'

"Asamoto-sama you are hurt and could possibly be attacked this late at night. With that injury a human can be dangerous to you. I can't let you walk home alone."

'Some how I get the feeling that he wants to know where I live. I wouldn't put it past him. But I am not THAT un trustworthy am I, that he needs to have a plan of attack?' They continued to walk silently, both minds racing, processing the tasks before them. She glanced at him to see him looking down allies discretely. 'You idiot, he might just actually be a caring person. Not everyone has to have ulterior motives.' She mentally pulled her hair with frustration. 'You think too much you dummy' and Yumi sighed.

Uryu looked at her with a raised eyebrow questioningly. She just nervously smiled and tried to wave the thoughts away. Trying to help herself along she waved her hand giving off the message never mind. Uryu just shrugged and turned back forward pushing his glassed farther up the bridge of his nose.

After a while of silence out of no where Uryu breaks the silence. "Why didn't you just tell us?"

Caught off guard and getting over the initial surprise Yumi looked sadly at her feet. "It was too hard."

Uryu frowned and kept walking forward but she stopped. "I know it's not an answer you deserve but I should explain what I can now." He looked at her waiting as she gathered her thoughts staring at her boots.

"I'm sorry" she said as she looked in his eyes then up to the sky. She said it so sincerely and sadly that he couldn't help but believe her.

"I was scared and weak, I'm human. I couldn't do it no matter how much I wanted to. I hate that. How can I be so weak? I don't want you to see that, I don't want anyone to see me weak. It was too hard and painful to try and explain, so much so that I can't explain it to you. It's my weakness and I'm not ready yet. I'm sorry."

He watched her face stricken with so much pain with whatever she was talking about. She took the hallow's attack with ease, without flinching or showing pain but this is pain.'Someone or something hurt her to this point' he thought with a frown. 'She'll be hard to open up, a tough nut to crack so to say. But I can't say that I blame her.' He knew he needed to say something, anything to let her know he understood.

"Apology accepted"

She looked back to see Uryu already turned and walking in the direction they left off at. "I see now why you ride your motorcycle to school." he said as he looked over his shoulder waiting for her to catch up. "You live really far away."

Glad to see the other topic was over for now Yumi began to feel a little better. She realized he was being quite tactful with making her feel more comfortable. She smiled and replied "Yeah but it is the only school around here. My Aunt didn't really think of choosing her home because it was close to a school, at the time it wasn't a priority."

They continued on for a short time when they were down the street. "It's just up ahead." she said as she pointed to a specific home. Uryu nodded stopping three houses down. Yumi decided to start.

"Thanks for everything today. . . Uryu, goodnight."

"Yeah, see you at school tomorrow. . . Yumi."

A/N D'AWW they're friends now! I tried to make them formal with each other and I think they were even in their thoughts so I wanted to make it a visual advancement in their relationship. So now they are friends, YAY!

I wanted this chapter to show how strong Yumi was as well as how weak and human she is too. She is developing as a character and I hope I'm doing well with the other characters too. (Urahara had his part in this chapter)

I am really liking this story but I rushed this chapter b/c its almost Friday now and I just finished it, so there might be mistakes. Sorry. I can only publish it at school and first period is the only actual time I can do it. Darn Internet thingy braking. Boo again.

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