Disclaimer: Don't own Bleach or YYH
Disclaimer: Don't own Bleach or YYH
Chapter 7: Where did Ichigo and Yusuke go?
"Rika?" Kurama asked for about the billionth time into his phone. Finally he hung it up and put it in his pocket, and looked over at his friend Hiei. Hiei was just as short as Rika and he was a very angry little guy with long black spiky hair. He wore a long black dress looking garment, but at the moment he was wearing his black pants and black tank top. "We have to go," Kurama said to him and Hiei just looked at him crossing his arms.
"Are you worried she hasn't done the dishes since you've left?" He retorted not liking when Kurama worried about that stupid girl.
"No she said she was about to fight Jin," he said and Hiei still just looked at him, "And not in a sparring situation."
"You really think that Jin could hurt her?" Hiei was tired of training for the day he walked over and grabbed his cloak/dress off of a nearby rock and headed back to their little shack. Mikai was not the most beautiful place you could find to train in.
"She said that Koenma was gone, like kidnapped gone," he called after Hiei, he groaned and made his way to his apartment to talk to Yusuke. "Yusuke?" He called out standing in his living room looking for someone. Ichigo walked into the room and looked blankly at him. "Where is Yusuke?"
"Um…,I think he said something about going out for a walk or shopping or something," Ichigo said not really remembering where Yusuke said he was going. "Something wrong?"
"I think me and Rika have figured out why Yamamoto thinks he has the right to kill all of your friends," he said looking at the young guy who looked confused.
"Inoue is not my only friend," Ichigo said pointing to the red head behind him and he let her come in and say hi to Kurama.
Kurama thought, what were the other people Botan had told him where being executed. He pulled out his phone and called her and instantly her face appeared on his screen. "What were the other people you told me about?"
"Well, lets see they just announced that Renji Abarai, Uryu Ishida, and Yasutora Sado were captured and then Urahara, Uruzu, Jinta, Tessai, and Yoruichi are now all supposed to be captured and brought to the soul society. Why Kurama what is going on?" Botan looked at him frightened, she had been staying in Yamamoto's barracks and didn't really know what was going on besides the things he had told her.
"Koenma and all his workers are all gone, Rika went there and no one was there except for Jin, who she claims she is fighting," Kurama said and Botan looked like she was going to cry, she closed out the line and Kurama looked up at Ichigo and Inoue.
"Those people did you hear her?" Kurama said looking at the stunned Ichigo and upset Inoue.
"That is, that's everyone we know except Rukia!" Inoue cried shaking her head, this couldn't be.
"Renji, Ishida, and Chad are all captured," Ichigo couldn't believe it, had they captured them in the middle of the night? "What should we do?" He looked up at the older man hoping that they could all just go to the soul society and kick some major ass.
"Well, first I have to find Koenma," Kurama said wondering if he just wished himself to Koenma if he ended up there. "When Yusuke comes back tell him what I told you, I will call you guys shortly." Well it was worth a try, he closed his eyes and made a mental picture of Koenma and he felt himself rise off the floor and then land on the floor. He opened his eyes and he was staring at Koenma in his true form, which was like a teenager. He didn't look hurt or anything he was just sitting at a couch in this weird room with only a couch. Behind the couch he could sense George.
"Kurama, is that you or am I imagining things again?" Koenma said and George peeked up from behind the couch and looked at Kurama.
"No sir I see him too," George said standing up straight and walking out from behind the couch.
"Sir, what is going on?" Kurama asked he felt weird, they were just in this room. Koenma seemed to be acting weird and Kurama couldn't place what it was.
"I don't know you tell me! I'm taking my second nap of the day and then when I wake up I'm on this couch. I don't even know who did this, I've been sitting here for about a week now and every once in a while food mysteriously appears," Koenma said he was really pissed off; he crossed his arms and closed his eyes.
"Well, I don't know much but Yamamoto has decided to execute everyone Ichigo has come in contact with and Rika is in your office fighting Jin," Kurama said watching as Koenma just sat there.
"In that case you better get out of here, and get Rika and go arrest Yamamoto for kidnapping me!" Koenma screamed like a whiny baby but he looked weirder because he now looked like he was about 20 years old.
"Sir," Kurama nodded and pictured Koenma's office and then he was there, he looked around and Rika wasn't there. He walked out into the hallway and saw the huge mess. There was blood and debris everywhere, he looked around and spotted 2 bodies down the hall a little ways. He ran up to them and the first one was of Jin's his face was completely ripped apart, and Kurama knew he was dead.
Fearing the worst he walked over to Rika's mangled body, he knelt down and searched for a pulse on her neck. "Get the fuck off me," Rika screamed sitting up and startling Kurama.
"Kami I thought you were dead, don't do that!" Kurama tried hard not to yell at her. He looked at her scraped up face and arms. Most of her clothing had been ripped to shreds by the force of the wind, her pants had been turned into shorts and her top was completely gone. Kurama looked at her hand it had a huge gauge in it and as well as her leg and she had bruises everywhere.
"The bastard dead?" She asked looking around Kurama at Jin's body before looking back at Kurama. She sighed, "Thank god, the ass wipe pierced my hand with my own sword!" She tried to stand up to go collect her swords but she almost fell as soon as she was on her feet. Kurama stood up and caught her and helped her walk over to her swords and phone which were mysteriously placed in a pile close to them. Rika bent down and picked up the swords and placed them back on their sheaths on her back. She shrugged her shoulders and they disappeared.
Kurama let her go for a second as he bent down and picked up her phone and handed it to her. "Let's go," he said and she nodded before she passed out putting all her 100 lb weight on him. He brought them back to their apartment and he took her to their bedroom and lay her in the bed. He sighed and walked to the kitchen to grab a bucket of water, washcloths, and many bandages.
"Back already?" Ichigo asked from the kitchen table as Kurama walked in. "Yusuke's not even back yet."
"Yeah, well at this point in time I would say he is not going to be back for a while," Kurama said grabbing a bucket out from under the sink and he placed it under the faucet. He turned the water on and then began to search for the bandage wraps and healing seeds he had left in the cabinet.
"Is it okay to ask what you are doing?" Ichigo watched him strangely as he grabbed a bunch of stuff out from the cabinet.
"Well I brought Rika back and she is pretty hurt," Kurama said walking back over to the sink and turning the faucet off. He turned and leaned his back against the counter and rubbed his temples, "She is stupid," he said to himself.
"Well Inoue is really good at healing," Ichigo said taking his last bite of cereal he had been eating.
"I can do it," Inoue said standing in the doorway looking at both of them.
"Well I guess you can help me," Kurama said pulling the bucket out of the sink and walking to Rika's room as Inoue and Ichigo followed him. He sent the bucket down on the carpet and handed Inoue a cloth. She took it and helped him wipe all the dried blood off of her.
Ichigo looked at the half naked unconscious Rika lying on the bed. Whoever she had fought he was stronger than her, but some how she had pulled through. He turned and walked out of the room figuring they could do it without him. He walked into the living room and sat on the couch. He was not used to this, he barely knew what was going on and he had some girl he just met fighting his battles for him.
All his friends were going to be executed if he couldn't figure something out soon. Suddenly he remembered where Yusuke had gone; he went to take Kon back home. He had been wondering why it had been so quiet around there lately.
When Kurama and Inoue had finished cleaning her wounds Kurama got up to grab her some fresh clothes to put on after they bandaged her. He turned and started to dig in her dresser and when he had turned back around Inoue was doing something he had never seen.
Inoue had a large orange barrier looking thing over Rika's entire body. Kurama walked over and watched as all the scratches, bruises, and deep cuts just seemed to vanish. "How are you doing that?" Kurama asked her and she turned to look at him.
"I'm not really sure, but I was once told that I have the power to reject anything that has happened and I can reject injuries and things like that, I don't really understand it totally yet, but," she pointed at the 2 little fairies on either end of the orange heal barrier, "These little flower fairies are the source of my power."
"I see, that is very interesting," Kurama said trying to think of where he had heard of rejection before. He could have swore there was a demon he had once met that had the same ability. After another few minutes the little fairies flew back and rejoined the others on her hairpins. He looked closely at the hairpins, he seen them before, but how and where?
"She should be fine now all she has to do is rest until she feels able to get up," Inoue said as she got up off her knees and looked at Kurama.
"Thank you so much," he said smiling at her and she nodded and reached for the bucket. "Oh no it's alright I will clean up," he said grabbing the bucket from her but she didn't let it go.
"I'll take the bucket and you can get her dressed," she smiled at him and he let her take the bucket and leave the room. As she walked out of the room she thought about where she could dump the bloody water. She remembered there was a laundry room with a large tub on the other side of the kitchen, she slowly walked and dumped the water into the tub. As she did so she thought about what a nice and handsome man Kurama was, she liked him.
She started to wash the grim out of the bucket and all she could think of was Kurama. His hair was so much redder than hers, she wondered if he ever got made fun of for his hair. She remembered people always picked on her for her orange-brown locks, and Ichigo used to as well. She had the sudden urge to run back to Kurama to ask him but she stopped herself. She barely knew him, and she was pretty sure that he was way to old for her. She blushed and tried to stop thinking about him all together.
After she finished she walked to the living room in search of Ichigo, but he wasn't there, and she went to his bedroom, he wasn't there either. Maybe he was in the bathroom she thought and walked back out to the living room and sat on the couch to wait for him. Someone started walking down the hallway and she perked up and looked to see who it was but it was Kurama not Ichigo. "Do you know where Ichigo is?" she asked though she knew he probably didn't know either.
Kurama walked over and sat on the couch with her, "I don't feel him here anymore I think he left," he said and Inoue blinked at him. Had she not felt his presence leave? Kurama sighed, "Why can't everyone just stay put?"
Inoue wasn't sure if she was supposed to answer him or not so she just looked at him. He bent forward and rested his elbows on his knees and looked forward. "What are we going to do?" she finally asked him and he dropped his head.
"Well how long do you think it will take for Rika to wake up?" He asked staring down at the floor, now that Yusuke and Ichigo were gone they couldn't sit in the apartment for much longer.
"Maybe a few hours," she told him though she wasn't too sure it was all based on how exhausted Rika was.
"If I remember correctly with rejection you have 3 different things you can do, defensive, healing, or depending on your mood offensive correct?" he closed his eyes still with his head down, he was slowly remembering facts about rejection, he wasn't sure why he knew so much about it.
"Well yes, how did you know that?" She looked at him, did he know something about her powers that she didn't? "So you have heard about it before?"
"Well you see, those hairpins are an ancient artifact, it was made by a demon named Orihime Shinikoshi," he told her as he remembered exactly why he known about it. Back in the day he stole those exact hairpins, well Youko stole them, from the creator. He had possession of them for only an hour before he was hunted down by other demons and had them stolen from him. Shortly after that incident when he tried to steal it back from another demon and he was severely injured by a hunter and ran to hide inside of a human, his now mother. He tried to remember the name of the hunter who had hurt him and taken them, "Do you recognize the name Hikjo Inoue?"
How did he know her grandfathers name? "Yes he is my grandfather on my father's side," she said and he finally sat up and looked at her.
"Who gave those to you?" he asked curiously maybe her grandfather had given them to her for her safety.
"My brother bought them for me," she said now she was looking away from him. "Can I ask you a personal question?"
"Sure," he said, he wasn't afraid to answer personal questions, Rika told everyone everything about him anyways.
"Did you ever get made fun of for your hair?" she asked looking back at him and he had a smile on his face.
"Of course I did, when I was little I always pleaded with my mom to die it black just like everyone else, but she never would. I just learned to deal with getting beat up and when I got higher marks at school the abuse continued, but I knew I was better than all of them so it started to never faze me after a while," he had talked about his childhood in a long time. After he had turned ten all his powers had come back but he was still unable to go back into his original form. He had met up with Hiei when he was 15 and stolen something that would save his mother and hopefully revert him back to his fox demon form. That was when he met Yusuke and they both were able to save his mother from death and to repay Yusuke's kindness back he agreed to be a spirit detective.
"I figured you did but you seem so strong that I wasn't sure," she said smiling at him, she was glad she asked, it made her feel a little better. "When I was little my parents used to abuse me and my brother so we ran away to live together by ourselves, but I still got picked on at school because of my hair. One day after I got beat up my brother gave these to me as a gift. I didn't like them at first, but that night he died in a car crash and I've been wearing them ever since. Do you think he knew what they were?" she asked him.
"Well the man who took them from me was your grandfather, so maybe your grandfather gave them to your brother to protect you 2 against your parents and then when your brother saw you coming home with bruises at night he gave them to you," he said, that was pretty sure what had happened. He couldn't believe that his beautiful girl in front of him had gone through so much her whole life. No wonder Ichigo saw it fit to protect her, she didn't need anymore abuse.
"You had these?" She took them out of her hair and looked at them in her hand.
"I stole them from the creator but then I got them stolen from me," he said and she held them out to him. He grabbed her hands and folded them over so they were in her fists, "No they are yours, I don't need them, I don't even remember why I wanted them, the thrill maybe," he laughed and he pushed her hands back towards her. They both jerked their heads when they heard a loud scream from Rika's room. "These are yours now; will you use them to help Ichigo and your friends?"
She nodded and he smiled before standing up and walking to Rika's room. He opened the door and looked at her sitting up in her bed clenching her head in her hands. "What happened?" She looked at him.
"You killed Jin and then I brought you back and Inoue healed you," he told her, and she reached back behind her and grabbed a pillow. She threw it at him and he dodged it and it hit the wall behind him. "Get up, we have to go find Yusuke and Ichigo."
"You aren't looking for anyone," she screamed at him.
"Koenma gave me the mission of getting you and Yusuke and arresting Yamamoto," he said smirking and she smiled as well and jumped up out of bed. That Yamamoto man was going to get it, and she was very excited.
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