AUTHOR'S note Hello readers! Here is the repost of the chapter! I found a beta as gwendal's wife. Thanks to her. The chapters wil take longer from now to be post but it will be a beta chapter!
I hope you will enjoy it more
Chapter 6
It was already 7 am. A red-eyed Tsuzuki had stayed with Hisoka all night in the infirmary, therefore resulting in his not getting much sleep. Right now, Watari had just finished checking the young boy's health.
"It seems everything is okay, bon..." the scientist said reassuringly.
Hisoka took a deep breath and nodded. "Yes, I feel much better."
"I'm glad to hear that." Tatsumi said, worry written all over his face. The secretary then turned to Tsuzuki. "You should get dressed Tsuzuki. Work begins in one hour."
"But..." whined Tsuzuki while yawning.
"No buts! We'll keep Hisoka here for few hours for precautionary measures but you are going to work." ordered Tatsumi.
Tsuzuki tried to come up with an excuse. "I can't. Shinigami must work in pairs, so if my partner is here, then…"
Tatsumi cut him off with a scary smile. "You don't need your partner to do the paperwork, now, do you? Now please go to work."
"Awww… You won't…" the violet eyed shinigami turned into his puppy form knowing that Tatsumi couldn't resist it, but to his surprise the secretary was firm in his decision.
"Tsuzuki!" threatened Tatsumi, with his shadows now ready to attack.
"Eeee! Okay, I'm going, I'm going!" Tsuzuki said in fear while running out the office. He came back to peek at Hisoka. "Don't worry, I'll come to see you at lunch break" He then ran out again while Tatsumi was throwing threatening looks at him.
Hisoka didn't answer. He was still in his thoughts wondering what had happened to him. It wasn't the first time he fainted like that. It happened at the gensoukai too, but the weird thing was he couldn't remember what he had done.
"Well, I thought he was never going to leave" Watari looked at the empty doorway.
Tatsumi nodded in triumph while relinquishing his shadows.
After a few minutes of ear breaking silence, Tatsumi spoke up quietly. "Kurosaki-kun, Watari and I would have to talk to you about something important."
"I'm sorry about…" Hisoka started. He didn't want the secretary to be mad at him. After declaring those words, he sensed Watari tense up. The scientist was nervous about something they have to tell him. Hisoka frowned. "It's not about what just happened right?" he asked.
"No it has nothing to do with what happened." answered Tatsumi answered slowly and unsurely. He sensed tense from him as well.
Watari came closer to Hisoka and patted him gently on the hand. "We have something to tell you about our case… It may be not easy to hear... but we're here..." Watari wanted to show the boy his sympathy.
Hisoka didn't feel anything from Tatsumi but Watari's feelings seemed to overflow in him.
"What does this have to do with me?"
Tatsumi cleared his throat and began. "Our case had been an investigation about your family Kurosaki."
"What?" asked a shocked Hisoka.
"I'm sorry you had to find out like this. We have been sent to Kamakura." added Watari.
Hisoka's eyes became as cold as ice.
"You've been sent because of the Yatonokami." stated Hisoka.
Watari and Tatsumi looked at each other in mild shock.
"You knew about it?" asked the orangey blonde scientist.
Hisoka nodded slowly, his eyes cold and still.
"Why didn't you mention it when you became a shinigami? We would have sent a team so much earlier to help your family."
"I didn't care." Said Hisoka "I didn't want to help them."
The two older shinigami were silent.
Watari broke the silence. "Too bad we couldn't join you during the case. Our investigation would have been so much easier." He finished with a nervous laugh.
Hisoka ignored the comment. "So what happened?" asked Hisoka "Have you met my 'wonderful' parents?" He asked sarcastically.
Tatsumi didn't comment but answered plainly. "Yes, though what we found out was disturbing… Are you sure you're ready to hear it?"
Hisoka nodded. "Hmm. Go on."
Tatsumi cleared his throat and continued. "Your mother was pregnant since two years and was in a state of horrible health."
Tatsumi and Watari looked at Hisoka. The young boy didn't show any feelings. His eyes were as cold as before.
"So?" urged Hisoka.
"We suggested your father to take her at the hospital…" Watari was cut off by a small sarcastic life that was emitting from the teen. Tatsumi was shocked but didn't say anything.
Hisoka then began to explain. "My father must have told you it was impossible. For the sake and the honor of the family, he did not hesitate to do the same thing to me. I spent three years dying slowly in a dark room like I was a paria. I'm thinking he did the same thing to her."
"I'm sorry..." Tatsumi said sympathetically. "I don't mean to bring up such painful memories, but I have to ask you some questions. You had a medical record so we thought you were at the hospital. Was doctor Hazam the one who took care of you?"
Hisoka stayed calm and collected while answering the question. "I don't remember who the doctor was… I don't remember a lot from that time except the pain and I couldn't handle my empathy. It had increased my suffering."
Hisoka didn't like remembering the last 3 years of his life, kept hidden in a dark room of the ancestral house. It had been awful.
His parents did not care about him, they just cared about the village and the family reputation. They were talking about producing another heir in case he'll pass away. He knew also they called a great doctor to cure him because they couldn't afford to lose him for the sake of the village without having another heir for the moment.
Tatsumi continued.
"We found out about the Yatonokami's legend and the curse. Nagare-san told us that the child Rui-san was carrying wasn't his either"
It felt weird to Hisoka to hear Tatsumi speaking about his father and calling him Nagare-san. He didn't want to but he also felt horrible for his mother.
"Was he Yatonokami's child?
"Yes." nodded Watari.
Hisoka felt sick. "They thought I was too…" the teen said. "But I looked too much like my father that I couldn't be thatmonster's child."
Watari felt uneasy.
"That's true Hisoka…." He hesitated and the young boy noticed it.
"But? There is more to this, right?"
"Indeed. Your father's blood had been tainted with the curse… I took some of your blood earlier and you have some too… Yatonokami 's blood, I mean. I'm sorry..." Watari looked away.
Hisoka's heart missed a beat. He asked the first thing he thought out loud.
"Is this why I'm empathic?" He asked in a low voice
Watari shook his head. "No, your empathy had nothing to do with it. It's your own thing bon."
"How can you be so sure of that, Watari?" the young boy asked calmly.
"Because we later found out that the Yatonokami wasn't a monster or a demon…"
Hisoka frowned. He didn't like where this was going.
"What was it, then?"
"Yato... was a shikigami. Long time ago he fell down to earth from one of those gensoukai's holes. He is from Touda's family: the snake one."
Hisoka was stunned. "A shikigami! You mean, I have a shikigami's blood?!"
"Yes." Watari replied calmly. "You remember the time when you fought and won against a shikigami and he became yours? That was the same for your ancestor Ren who won against him, except Ren was human and not a shinigami. Yato never accepted that condition. He had been trapped and was forced to live with the Kurosaki for each generation. Only the extinction of the Kurosaki family could free him. He lived with the Kurosaki's heir as a parasite."
"Like the one in Terazuma?"
"Yes." Said Watari "Yato didn't want to live like that so he was poisoning each new heir. That's why each member of your family died and married young; because the curse was on them, too."
"What? What curse?" Hisoka was confused by now.
"For example your grand father married at 16 when his father was still alive bearing the curse. He had two sons with his wife before his father died. The blood lineage was safe. Your father did the same he married young and had a child. But unfortunately it was a girl…"
Hisoka interrupted Watari. "Wait? A girl? I don't have a sister!"
Watari and Tatsumi looked at each other.
"You didn't know?"
"...No."
The older shinigami went pale, but continued anyway.
"Your father married your twin sister's mother Kasane when he was sixteen. They had a little girl. But the Kurosaki's family couldn't have a girl as an heir as a first born. So your uncle... killed her. Her name was… Hisoka. The same as yours."
"Oh my god." said Hisoka in shock "If what you're saying is true, then this explains my dreams."
"What do you mean?" asked Watari.
"When I was still alive I used to dream about a little girl who was chasing me because I stole her name. I didn't understand. Then the girl kept me company. I thought it was my imagination. That it was another me…"
"I'm sorry, but... It was your dead sister…" Tatsumi said sadly.
"Did you find her soul?" asked Hisoka.
"We didn't... Because when she died she reached Meifu…We checked."
"So why I was seeing her there?"
"I think," said Watari "it's because of your empathy. Your father cherished his little girl in his heart. Your empathy felt it and created it. Your sister's soul has never been there."
"I see... so I took it from my father. That's explains why sometimes she was so violent with me and sometimes caring… it was in fact my imagination mixed with my father's feelings for her."
Hisoka felt bad. What a horrible family he had. He also felt jealous because his father had loved his sister but not him. He also had his dead sister's name. It was creepy.
"Are you okay Bon?" Tatsumi was worried. "We can continue later..."
"No, go on." The teen said
"So your aunt Kasane killed herself. She couldn't bear her little girl being dead for the sake of the family name. Your father married Rui, her twin sister..."
"This is such a shock..." Hisoka commented while looking into the distance.
Tatsumi debated with himself on whether to continue, but seeing the look on Hisoka's face he began again. "...They had you, but by the time they had you Nagare's blood was already tainted by Yato's possession. The fact you were empath gave them the idea that you were the monster's child. But we know otherwise."
"How?"
Watari smiled a little in order to cheer up the kid. "Because empathy doesn't exist in any shikigami. They don't have that kind of power. We checked. It is by your gift only".
Hisoka didn't know what to think. He has shikigami's blood. His empathy was only his and he didn't know if he was happy to learn about it. He would have preferred it to be not his own power.
"Bon… I know how much it is for you to handle..." said Watari.
Tatsumi continued. "The fact is we released your family from the curse. They are now free and so is the village. Yato is back to the gensoukai and he is waiting for his judgment. Your father is safe and healthy. But…" Tatsumi stopped.
"But what?" Hisoka asked. Tatsumi looked away while saying the last part of the news. "Your mother is dead, and so is the child she's carrying. I'm sorry."
Hisoka didn't say anything. Watari sat close to Hisoka in case the teen might burst into tears. But to their surprise he just sat still.
"I see." Hisoka finally said. "I see..."
Watari carefully took Hisoka's hand in an effort to comfort him. "She is now here. In Meifu. We didn't tell her about you being here as a shinigami. But if you want to see her, it's possible. She is waiting for judgment." He said softly.
Hisoka froze .His mother was there.
"She dealt with a lot of things. Her life had been hard. She didn't say a word since she was taken from her body."
"Maybe you could go to see her. Explaining your empathy… find peace with her." Proposed Tatsumi.
Hisoka was pale. He felt tired, confused, disgusted, angry, and sad, but inside him a tiny little spark of hope continued to burn. Maybe Tatsumi is right. Maybe he isn't. All he has to do is find out.
TBC
