Its not Heaven - Chapter 7 - Yuzu -
Yuzu stared at the Soulreaper in front of her. He had longish light blonde hair parted three ways, blue eyes, and was only about two inches taller than her own 5'6".
"Well? Answered me you fake! Who are you and why are you dressed like a Soul Reaper?" He ordered. Yuzu tried to rip her arm from his firm grasp but his tight grip made her efforts go in vain.
But she continued to struggle."L-let go you creep! I demand a lawyer!" she screamed. She stomped down on his foot, effectively loosening his grip enough that she could free herself and shunpo to safety.
Izuru muttered a few words before following her."Wait! I just want to know who you are and why you are dressed like a Soul Reaper!" Yuzu didn't respond right away, she just kept trying to flee.
"Just go away! Mind your own business!" she yelled to him. Izuru channeled more Reishi into his feet, making him move faster.
He was almost on her When she suddenly halted, causing him to crash into her.
"Oof!" they fell off the top of the building, landing harshly on the sidewalk below.
Izuru braced himself for the impact, falling from a three-story building would NOT feel good.
When he hit the ground he noted that it was... Soft?
Izuru looked down, he'd apparently landed on her. That must have hurt a lot, since there were tears pricking the corners of her soft brown eyes. Instantly, he felt guilty at hurting a girl. She probably wasn't much older than Captain Ichigo Kurosaki was when he broke into Soul Society.
Yuzu looked up at the person who knocked her off the building, then landed his bony butt on her. She frowned(tried to scowl) at him, then pushed him off her back.
Yuzu stood, brushing the dirt off of her. "That hurt you, you jerk! What'd I ever do to you?"
Izuru stuttered, trying to apologize. Yuzu took the chance to attack."Bakudo number 21, Sekienton!" a flash of light erupted from her palm, exploding into a red smoke that enveloped the area. Yuzu quickly fled, using her fastest Shunpo to get away and back home quicker.
Izuru was unknowingly(to him) ditched. When the smoke cleared and Izuru stopped coughing, he scanned the area for that girl, but she was gone. Poofed away with the smoke.
"Damnit. She got away." he swore. "I guess I'll just keep an eye out and tell the others to look for her as well." then took off to some other place.
Yuzu arrived at her home a quarter til five. She gazed into the window, watching her body make dinner. She searched out the spiritual presence in the house, confirming that her dads was in the clinic next door, and Ichigo, aka Kon, was in his room.
Yuzu was utterly exhausted from today. First the boatload of tests, and other stuff in school. Then the hollow that almost killed her, and then the Soul Reaper. He was a problem and still is. But at last she had attained Shikai.
Yuzu tiptoed to the bottom of her window and lept from the ground to her window on the second story. Good thing she'd left it open, or she'd be screwed.
Silently, she opened her bedroom door, peeking through a crack to make sure no one'll see her in her Soul Reaper form. No one was there. She opened the door enough that she could squeeze through and closed it back, though it did creak slightly.
Yuzu stiffened. She listened to see if Kon had heard the creak, but luckily he didn't. He was probably listening to music or texting some girl. Nothing new.
Walking down the stairs, her modsoul/body had finished cooking dinner.
"Lets do this quickly, before they come down for dinner." Yuzu told her body. She then sunk into it, falling to the ground.
"Ouch." she stood, dusting herself off.
"And where did you go?" she snapped her head around to the doorway, long hair flying over her shoulders. There, stood her father, tapping his foot in the doorway, face doing the traditional Kurosaki scowl.
"Uh, nowhere, daddy! I was just cooking dinner!" she tried to slip her soul candy into her back pocket of her shorts, but was caught.
"Yuzu, you don't have to lie to me anymore. I've known about this for the past five years." he said sadly,"Ever since Ichigo left to join the Gotei Thirteen."
Yuzu hung her head guiltily, trying to fight the tears of her brother leaving them. "I know. But Karin and I, we thought it would be best if we did what Ichigo did. He saved everyone, us and the Soul Society."
Her father nodded in agreement. "Yes, and now I have to ask, with Karin gone, what will you do?"
Yuzu mustered every bit of her confidence to say her answer without her voice cracking,"I am going to the Soul Society. I just learned my Shikai today, and I want to officially become a Soul Reaper with Karin!"
A wave of sorrow crossed Isshin's sorrowful face,"Karin, will not remember us. Ichigo will, because he is still technically alive. But Karin, she's dead. Every soul looses its memories when a Konso is performed."
Yuzu felt every piece of hope in her heart shatter. "NO! Karin won't forget us! She won't!" Yuzu took off, slamming the door shut.
Isshin sighed, he knew he shouldn't have told her, but she deserved to know.
Yuzu ran, tears running down her flawless cheeks. Karin couldn't have forgotten her! She just couldn't! They were twins, practically two halves of the same soul.
Yuzu stopped at the park where Karin used to play soccer, and look over at the setting sun. Yuzu gazed out to the horizon, the sun shone a dull orange, colouring the clouds nearest a deep orange and the ones a bit further away pink.
She fell to her knees, sobbing, her forehead touching the railing, and long hair escaping its ponytail in waves. Out of nowhere a warm hand fell upon her shoulder, she hardly noticed it at all.
"Yuzu-sama, there is nothing you can do, except be strong. Everyone loses loved ones, its an inevitable outcome." he soothed.
Without taking her head off the railing, she replied,"I know, But its just so hard..." she looked up at his concerned face, her eyes puffy from crying, then back off to the sunset. "First it was mommy, then Ichigo, and now Karin. They're all leaving me... But still, I'm going to find Karin, whether she remembers me or not."
Mitsuharu's gaze never left his master. Even though they had first spoken only hours ago, he was already devoted to her. He would do anything to protect his master from any harm, physical or emotional.
"Whatever your choice, Yuzu-sama, I'm with you all the way," he smiled brightly. "I'm sure we can go to Soul Society, and then we can find Karin. Anything that pleases you." Yuzu snapped out of her staring, and quickly hugged him.
"Thank you Mitsuharu! You're the best Zanpakuto in the world." She let him go, before turning away toward home. She had to apologize to her father for storming out earlier.
Upon arriving home, she noted that the door was open. Yuzu peered inside, the house looked fine. Until she stopped in the kitchen.
There her father lay, collapsed on the floor in a pool of his own blood. Yuzu screamed, like when Urahara carried her twin's mangled body to their house. She hurried to her fathers side, putting her hands over the gaping hole in his chest, attempting to stop the blood freely flowing from his chest.
"No! No you can't die! You can't! Daddy, please don't die! Not you too..." tears were streaming off her cheeks and chin by then. Her father reached his hand up, grasping hers until it went limp.
"Noooo!" she screamed. She closed her eyes, wanting nothing more than to die as well.
'Yuzu-sama, look!' Mitsuharu exclaimed. Yuzu's eyes flashed open, seeing her father, well his soul, standing in the doorway dressed as a Soul Reaper.
Yuzu hastily stood, running to her father's arms, his blood still coating her hands. "Daddy! I thought you died!" she sobbed. Isshin rubbed his hysterical youngest daughter's back.
He looked at his body, bloody on the tile floor and sighed,"That Gigai cost me a fortune...its sad it got destroyed, it had about another fifty years left. Damn Arrancar." he grumbled.
After several more minutes, Yuzu finally stopped crying enough to ask him,"Daddy, why are out dressed like a Soul Reaper Captain?" Isshin sighed again.
"Its a long story, We'd better sit down."
An hour later, Yuzu sat in the living room with a surprised expression. Her father had once been a Soul Reaper captain, and he hadn't told them! 'I should be mad,' she thought, 'but at least he finally worked up the guts to tell us about it, unlike Ichigo. He just left for the Soul Society without so much as a good-bye.'
"Wow. Why didn't you tell us?" she asked.
"Well, first of all I didn't want any of you any more involved with that world than you already are. And... I didn't have the guts or a reason to tell you. Only Ichigo and that was during the winter war..." he trailed off, knowing that Yuzu had already been informed of the winter war.
"That's cool. How you were a captain, I mean." Yuzu stared toward the kitchen, where Isshin's dead Gigai lay. "And, why is your Gigai dead?"
Isshin closed his eyes, rubbing his temples. "Apparently, there are still Arrancar in Hueco Mundo that want revenge. And I suppose they found our house, thinking Ichigo still lived here, inevitably trying to kill him. But before they could kill his body I disposed of them. Though, apparently, another one was waiting down here and killed my poor, expensive, Gigai." he emphasized 'Expensive'.
Yuzu nodded. "Well, what are we gonna do about it?"
"Call the police, say someone killed me. Work up the water works about it and all. Then leave Kon and your body here and go to the Soul Society."
Yuzu broke out into a grin. This had to have been the best day ever! Even though her dad's Gigai died...
"Yay! We can go find Karin now?" her father nodded, heading out the door. Yuzu popped her Soul Candy into her mouth, leaving her body to her Mod Soul, and following him out the door.
"But only if you can master your Shikai." Yuzu scowled.
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Bwa-hahaha! This is one F****d up chapter XD So now I guess they'll go to SS. But the question is: WHEN? heh, heh, does anyone think that this Fanfiction is moving too fast? Slow? Just right? Plz inform me or else I'll probably fuck it up somehow. And I'm sorry if Yuzu seemed too whiny, but the stress just finally got to her, and she basically had a meltdown. Hmm.. Probably 2 or so more chapters b4 it starts getting good.
Started-07-08-11
Finished-07-17-11
And also, this chapter was a brain-fart and I completely changed what I was gonna originally go. Cuz originally Ichigo was a human, and I changed it around so now he's in SS. sorry 4 any confusing on that subject. And yeah, Karin and Yuzu are rather pissed about their 'Ichi-nii' choosing SS over them. And later chapters will be MUCH later, since I don't feel like writing and don't really have much time to do it.
And a special thanks to Codry, who was the ONLY one who reviewed chapter six. thank youuuu~ and thank you to Revolation, Codry and kittyxx92 for reviewing ch5. and a SUUUUPER special one for Old Blue River, who is like the awesomeness editor^-^ And I'll start thanking anyone who reviews.
And I soooo recommend Codry's fanfiction, 'To break is all I know' its soooo awesome! I absolutely HATE Aizen, but Kami, her story is like, a 9/10 on my awesomeness scale. I rate my story a 6.5/10.
My Authors Note(s) was like, WAAAAY to long. I think I added shit like 5 times. And this just MIGHT be my record for longest chapter. my record's 1700 words so far. -S.D-
E/N: That was... a very long author's note. Longest chapter yet! Woot! Hahaha five pages. And S&D, don't berate you're own writing. It doesn't do much for the process...
