A/N:
And as usual, I do not own Konoha High, Bleach, and Naruto. They belong to their respectful owners and I only own my OCs.
Acai's POV:
"What the hell were you thinking! You could've killed yourself! Especially in that gigai!" yelled a very angry Namihiko. Jeez, when did he become so worrying? He was never like this in the Soul Society, what's gotten into him now?
"I was thinking that Ichigo needed help, and you know that I can fend off on my own! What's gotten into you? And why are you so worried like great-grandfather all of a sudden!" I retorted.
"Ever since mother died and you became captain!" he angrily replied, slamming his fist on the round dining table. He worried about me…all this time. I never noticed.
I sighed. "Look brother, why are you making such a big de- " I was interrupted by a crash. Both Namihiko and I turned around and saw Yuri, with one hand clinging on the counter for dear life, and the other hand, was holding her womb. She was panting, with sweat dripping down her forehead.
Namihiko's eyes widened and exclaimed, "Shit! The doctor said that she wasn't due for another week!" he then rushed over and helped Yuri up. While I, had no idea what was going on, so I asked Namihiko, and he said, "What does it look like Acai? Yuri's about to give birth! Now help me get her in the car!" we soon got Yuri in the car and we, very speedily, drove to the hospital. I was sitting next to her in the backseat, hearing her pained groans because of her child.
The hospital wasn't that far away, but while we were driving there, my soul pager located a hollow somewhere. I looked over to Namihiko; he nodded and said, "Go, I'll take of Yuri while you're gone."
I nodded my thanks and got out of my gigai and flash stepped put of there. When I reached the location where the hollow was and found out that it was an adjucha. My eyes widened, for I had never killed an adjucha. Just by looking at it, I already felt intimated. Okay, suck it up Acai. It's just an adjucha, you can handle it. I thought to myself. I drew out my zanpoktou and rushed at it. Its mouth then opened and out came a red cero. "Bakudo 81: Danku!" when the spell wore off, I charged at the hollow again, but when I was about to attack, it then kicked me in the gut, sending me flying to the wall. I coughed up blood, tasting its metallic taste, but I wiped it off with the back of my hand, and charged at it again, this time I dodged its next attack and sliced its left arm off. The adjucha then howled in pain and charged at me, trying to slice me in half, I deflected its attack with my zanpoktou, "Bakudo 9: Geki!" I then cut its mask and it disintegrated. Hmm, I should've used bakudo 9 earlier. It would've saved time. I thought. I then went to the hospital where my gigai was to see Yuri and Namihiko.
Namihiko's POV:
Dammit, where's Acai? She should've been here by now! I'm starting to worry now, had something happened to her while fighting the hollow? I'm serious, when Acai got the signal, it contained high spirit energy. It was no doubt that it was an adjucha. I've them before, we had to go the World of the Living to fight them off when I was in the Soul Reaper Academy, it was a living hell, trying to kill them without any kido, just our zanpoktou. Dammit Acai, where are you?
As if right on queue, Acai came running over here in her soul form. She stopped right in front of me, placing her hands on her knees and panting asking, "What….did I….miss?" she then heard Yuri's screams of her painful labor. She then made a face and said, "I see that I didn't miss anything." She then went over to her gigai and got in it. "Ahh, its nice being in my gigai." She said contently.
I raised an eyebrow, "Really, is that so?"
"Hell, yeah! Did you know that I had to fight off an adjucha, who sent me flying to a wall?" she replied.
"I kinda figured. The spirit energy was huge, I just overloaded the car with mine." I simply stated.
We then heard another of her painful shrieks, and Acai cringed back and said, "Jeez, I have to go through that when I'm pregnant?"
I snorted and nodded.
"I'm never having kids then."
I chuckled, "Whether you want kids or not, you're gonna get pregnant anyway when you're about Yuri's age."
"Nope," she replied, popping the "p", "I'm never gonna have kids. Zip, zilch, nada, nope; I'm never gonna have kids."
"You do realize that the longer you're in the Soul Society, great-grandfather is going to arrange your marriage." I pointed out. The look on her was priceless; she was probably shocked that great-grandfather would do something like that. Apparently, he can, Acai was too young to know that great-grandfather tried something like that to me about fifteen years ago.
Acai opened her mouth, about to say something, that was until the doctor came in and said, "Congratulations, your wife just gave birth to a girl!" tears of joy were about to escape from my eyes. I was a father now! This is the happiest day of my life! I turned to Acai, and she was glowing, I can guess that she wanted to see her newborn niece.
"Can I see Yuri?" I asked the doctor.
He nodded and let Acai and me pass.
Acai's POV:
After the doctor let us pass, we saw Yuri, resting peacefully. I can't blame her; she went through all that pain just to bring her daughter into the world. But looking at her, her hair looked like a rats nest, and sweat was still dripping down her face from all that hard labor. Next to her was brother's daughter, my niece. She looks so tiny and adorable.
I then decided to sit on the chair next to Yuri, whereas, Namihiko could sit next to his child. I looked over to where Namihiko was and saw him beaming at the child and at Yuri; it was like he could beat the sun if they were in a competition to see who shined the brightest.
Yuri stirred in her sleep and then her eyes opened slowly, she then looked over to Namihiko, and then at the child tiredly. She then looked at me and asked, "Did you kill the hollow?"
I nodded and helped her as she tried to sit up, "You have a daughter. You know that right?"
Her eyes then held happiness in them and nodded, "Now, I am wondering what to name her."
"Well, don't you guys have any ideas on what to name her?" I asked them.
"Well, we're at crossroads," Namihiko admitted, "We're deciding on whether to name her Ayame, Aiko, or Megumi."
"Well, they are nice names, so it's hard to choose which I like the baby to have." I said.
"You see, that's why we are at crossroads."
"How about Ayame?" asked Yuri.
"I like that," I said, "what about you brother?"
"I'm fine with it." He agreed.
"Good, then could you fill out the documents for the baby and me to get out of this place, I do not like hospitals." Said Yuri while making a face.
"And why is that?" I asked her.
"She just doesn't like them in general for some reason." Namihiko replied.
I opened my mouth in an "O" formation as if I understand, then I closed my eyes for sleep to take over me.
I woke up due to Namihiko trying to nudge me awake. I groggily opened my eyes, the dawn light just flooding in the room. I turned my head to where Yuri was, and she was on her bed, peacefully sleeping as if she never gave birth. I stretch my arms and crack my back and whisper, "Brother, what time is it?"
"Four thirty in the morning." He responded. His hand then went to his mouth to cover his yawn.
"Are we going home now?" I asked him.
He nodded. I then got up from the uncomfortable chair and stretched my legs as I stood up. I was careful not to make a sound while walking out of the room; I did not want to disturb Yuri after she just gave birth. Hey, if was her, I wouldn't want anyone to disturb my rest.
I then followed Namihiko out of the room, careful trying to not make my heels click.
That Morning
Normal POV:
Acai couldn't wait to go home. All she wanted to do was to go to bed. She was trying very hard to concentrate during classes, and she tried to stay awake at all times, but it was too difficult for her.
But during Science on that day, the principal called for Sakura, Naruto, Sasuke, and Acai to her office. Acai didn't feel like going, but she had to. She didn't want to get into anymore trouble than she was in now. So, she stood up, along with the others that were called to the principal's office, and went into the direction where the principal's office resided.
When they all reached the principal's office, they saw their principal, who was a buxom woman, with blonde hair tied into loose pigtails, and wearing a suit. When the gang saw her, she was glaring daggers at them. They all shuddered except for Acai, who was still trying very hard not to sleep. "Well, let me start off with this; what the hell were you thinking?" she then turned to Acai. "Kuchiki." The principal called. For Acai, that was enough to keep her awake, she just remembered what she did last night when she was in Karakura. Shit! Shit! Shit! I'm screwed now! She thought.
"Yes, Ma'am?" she asked.
"Tell me, why you went beyond the ropes during that live episode of 'Spirit Hunter' last night in Karakura?" she asked.
Acai nervously laughed and rubbed the back of her head and responded, "Hehehe…well, that boy with the orange hair and the girl who went with the boy, went beyond the ropes, and I was trying to stop them from interfering, but I also ended up getting up in trouble and went back behind the ropes." Man, I hope that she doesn't see through my lie and punish me severely.
"Then why were you fighting security?" The principal asked.
"Well, they came out of nowhere, so my instincts kicked and I went into self-defense mode." Acai replied.
Then Sasuke raised his hand, "Ms. Tsunade, if you don't mind me asking; why did you call me, Sakura, and Naruto here when Acai is the one at fault?"
Then the principal then pointed to him and responded, "It's because you were with her when she went beyond the ropes!"
This time it was Sakura's turn to say something, "Yes, we were with her, but we didn't think that she would do something like that." She reasoned.
"I don't care if you didn't think that she would something like that, but I will not tolerate it! By doing this stupid act you ruined the reputation of this school!" the principal exclaimed.
"Ms. Tsunade, if you're gonna punish us, then don't punish them, just punish me, I am the one who is at fault." Acai replied, she didn't want her friends to get into trouble for something she did. Well, Sakura and Naruto were her friends. She couldn't care less about Sasuke.
"Very well, if that's what you wish, then stay after school for the next week." The principal said. "You're dismissed." She commanded with a flick of her hand.
They all bowed and left the principal in her office.
Acai couldn't help but yawn all throughout fifth period. She was so tired, that she felt like ditching class and heading up to the rooftop just to sleep. Then, a thought came to her head: how come Sasuke doesn't trust me? She then ripped a piece of paper from her spiral notebook and wrote down: Hey, Sasuke, how come you don't trust me? Waiting for the right moment to pass the note to Sasuke, she waited until the teacher thrusted his head in the air and started to daydream. When it came to time when the teacher did that, she quickly placed the note on Sasuke's desk.
After reading the note, Sasuke wrote down: Because, I find you suspicious.
He then passed the note to Acai, after reading it, she wrote down: Suspicious my ass. Give me a better reason why you don't like me.
Well, I'm wondering why someone would enroll into school in the middle of the year.
Well, that's stupid.
Well, too bad, you just seemed to come out of nowhere, why?
Like I said before when I first came here, my dad is on a business trip in America, so he left me in the care of my older brother.
Stop saying all this crap; tell me the real reason why you're here!
Look, Sasuke, I'm not going to tell-
"Kuchiki!" the teacher yelled out.
"Yes, sir?" she asked.
"What are you doing exactly?" he asked.
"Writing notes?" she replied questionably.
"Hmmm. How come I have a hunch that you're lying. And that Sasuke was involved." He rubbed his barely apparent stubble on his chin. "Just to be on the safe side, I'm sending both of you to the principal's office. Come on skedaddle." The couple then got out of their and walked to the principal's office….again.
Meanwhile, the only person who was spectator of this situation was the red-headed Karin. She watched the situation with scorn; she was thinking that she was the one who should've been passing notes to Sasuke. Should she tell the teacher what she saw, and risk being called a snitch? Or should she just keep this a secret for the sake of her captain and watch her captain and her "beloved" grow closer through distrust? She was torn. For the first time in her life, she accomplished something that she didn't expect even herself to reach. She became a soul reaper of lieutenant rank. But she didn't think that her captain would do something that rash. She knew her captain well enough to know that. But Karin let bygones be bygones. She'll just imagine like that never happened.
When saw Acai and Sasuke in her office again, she swore that she was getting very angry at the duo. When the duo came in, she saw her in the same position as she was when they last saw her an hour ago, except the only difference was that was glaring daggers at them and you could see the vein popping out of her forehead. "First the incident at Don Kanonji, and now this, passing notes in the middle of class. Tell me why the hell you would start passing notes in the middle of fucking class?" she asked furiously. Calm down Tsunade, clam down. You don't want to hurt your students with a very hard punch in the face. She thought to herself. She had promised herself to always control her temper, or else things would go bad very fast. (Look at the example in her thought!)
"ajsidhhaihdandhahnjxajkbfgf." was all it was to the fifty-one year old principal, for she did not understand one bit of their sentences. She just shook her head and went around her desk to sit in her comfy desk chair.
"Enough!" the principal commanded. The two students went dead silent after hearing their hot-tempered principal tell them to stop. They both looked down at the floor, waiting for their punishment. "Kuchiki, you will have an extra week of detention," she then turned her chair towards Sasuke, "and you, Uchiha, will have only a week of detention with Kuchiki starting today after school. Understand?"
They nodded.
"Dismissed." She then ordered with a wave of their hand. After bowing, they left the office.
Acai's POV:
After staying quiet and attentive as I could for the next hour. Then came lunch, I went over to Ino, Sakura, and Hinata. "Hi guys." I said to them.
"Hi Acai," Ino said, "what happened that made you and Sasuke to the principal's office?" she asked me, curious of the thought.
I scowled, "Can we go somewhere private you guys? Somehow I feel all the students' stares on me, especially all the girls in the class who like Sasuke, Karin especially."
They nodded as if they understood what I meant and took me to the roof, where we can eat peacefully and explain what happened.
I opened my bento and put some rice into my mouth with my handy chopsticks, "Okay, here'sth whath happenth," I then swallowed the rest of the rice that was in my mouth, "I was yawning all throughout fifth period and then a thought came into my mind: why doesn't Sasuke like me. So I ripped a piece of paper from my spiral notebook and wrote down why he doesn't like me, so when I passed it to him, it kinda turned into an argument. After that, caught me and Sasuke in the act and sent us to the principal's office."
"Hmmmm." Was all Ino said.
"I have noticed that Sasuke is cold towards you." Hinata pointed out.
"So what happened in the principal's office?" asked Sakura.
"In the principal's office, I got another week of detention, while Sasuke has detention this week with me." I replied to Sakura's question. "The only thing good this week, is that Yuri gave birth to a girl." I said nibbling on a piece of omelet.
"What? You're telling us this now?" Sakura and Ino asked at the same time.
I held up my arms in defense, "What! I didn't have any time telling you today! She only gave birth to her at three a.m. in the morning! I've been trying really hard not to fall asleep in the middle of class!" I said.
"That's why I saw you yawning all day in class!" exclaimed Sakura.
"So, what's her name?" Hinata nicely asked.
"Her name's Ayame. Ayame Kuchiki." I responded. I like the name; it has a nice ring to it.
"When is Yuri coming out of the hospital?" Sakura inquired.
"She's coming out of the hospital tomorrow." I replied.
"Tell her I said congratulations." Ino said.
"So, hey, how about you all come to my house and then we can go to the hospital to see Yuri and Ayame after I come back from detention?" I asked them.
"It's fine with me." Ino replied.
"Me too." Sakura replied.
"Me three." Responded Hinata.
"Great, now I'll call when I'm at my house, then we all can go by bus." I said while closing my bento and heading back to class.
School was finished, and as much as I would've liked to go home and fall asleep and not do any homework, I have to stay here, at school and deal with my punishment. The only good thing about detention is that there aren't any teachers in detention. So, I can nap without a care in the world. The only problem is that Sasuke's here.
So here I was napping, until he asked, "So why are you really here?"
Really, we're on this again? I thought we were off of this topic for the rest of the day. "I'm not telling you." I then closed my eyes to continue napping.
"That's not an answer dammit!" he said.
"So what? Just because I came to Konoha unannounced, doesn't mean that I have to tell everyone why I am here."
"So what? So what? You came here, in the middle of the school year! Who else wouldn't be curious on why?"
"It was pretty common in my old school. And apparently, no one else cares as to why I came here so suddenly." I said to him.
"It's because they're stupid! They don't care if they're hiding something-"
"It's called, 'go with the flow'. Deal with it Uchiha." I calmly retorted.
He didn't say anything after that. Hmm, looks like I won this argument. Sasuke, zero; Acai, one.
"You know, I saw you, coming through the window on the day you first came here, wearing a black robes, and something white over it. On the back, it said seven, and on your left hip, you had a sheathed sword, casually walking to your body, and a you kind of," I can tell he was trying to find words to describe how I got into my gigai, "dissolved into your body. Anything you want to tell me about that." He said.
"It's simple. You were hallucinating." I simply replied.
"I was not." He defended.
"You are. You seemingly have a crush on me, and started hallucinating about me." I explained.
"No, I do not have a crush on you! Why would I have a crush on you?" he defended.
I chuckled, "Jeez, you can't take a joke, can't you?"
He then turned his head the other way, and remained silent after that. I then smirked and thought, Sasuke, zero; Acai, two. I then got out my soul pager and texted Rukia: Did u guyz get in2 trouble because of last nite?
Rukia texted back: No, did u?
Yea, but how can u guyz not get in2 trouble? I don't think itz fair in my opinion. :(
Remember my awesome acting skillz?
No need 2 say more, I can guess wat happened.
Ok.
Btw, how's Kon?
Kon? Perverted as ever. =.=
So, did u get your pwers bak?
Sadly, no. Did Uri hav th bab yet?
Yea, she got th bab a few hours after Don Kanoji.
Boy or gurl?
Gurl, her name iz Ayame.
Ayame. Thtz a nice name. Wen do u think they'll produce an heir 2 th clan?
How th hell should I know. U usually don't know wen these thingz happen.
U know unless u hear them…
DX Ewwww! DX DX DX DX DX DX thnx 4 bringing tht up Rukia! Now u scarred me 4 life DX DX DX DX
*smirk*
Txt u l8r Rukia. Rite now I need 2 remove these horrid thoughts from my mind.
Ok, Bye :)
I sigh and look at the clock. Fifteen minutes left. Fifteen minutes left to get out of this silent shit hole. I sigh; this is gonna be a long fifteen minutes. I then put my head down against the cold wooden desk and start to nap like there's no tomorrow.
-Dream Time!-
I was walking. The place where I was going, I didn't know. The fog was so thick that I tripped over my own two feet. I got up and continued walking to my unknown destination. I looked down; I couldn't see anything due to the fog being so thick. But I could make out the faint color of my favorite obi and kimono. I kept on tripping over my own two feet because I couldn't see where I was going. I felt like a child just starting to learn how to walk for the first time. I couldn't take it anymore. I sat up; placing my legs against my body and tears started to fall down my face and quietly sobbed.
I then heard footsteps coming toward me. I looked up, tears still falling down my face. I saw the faint outline of a petite woman, who was shorter than me, and I saw another woman who seemed to be around my height. They came up toward me and saw the petite woman whom I had mistook for Rukia. "Rukia?" I asked.
The petite woman chuckled, "No, I am not Rukia," I should've known that the petite woman was Rukia, her face had a gentle smile, unlike Rukia, who almost never smiles, "but can you guess who I am?"
'Let me think.' I thought. I look at the petite woman again. She was about an inch or two taller than Rukia. She had the same hair as her, and the strand that they didn't tuck in their hair, but the woman's was longer and more frayed at the end. She also had the same eye color as Rukia's: purple with a hint of blue in them. The only difference between her and Rukia was that the woman's face looked kinder and softer, whereas Rukia's face looked hard and emotionless.
I gasped, and she asked gently, "Have you found out who I am yet?"
"Mother? Is that really you?" I asked her nervously.
She nodded. "Yes, I am. It is finally nice to meet you, my beautiful daughter." She then offered her hand to help me up, and I gladly took it. Then shedding tears of joy, I had finally met my mother for the first time. After helping me up, we then embraced each other. Meeting each other for the first time in years, we have a lot to catch up on.
"Mother, are you mad at brother for marrying Yuri?" I asked.
She shook her head and responded, "No, I am not. I am actually rather happy for him, unlike your father."
"Then you know about his child?"
She nodded, "Yes, I know about Ayame. I felt how his wife felt when she saw her child after giving birth to her. A rush of emotions goes through you after you give birth to a child: happiness, pride, exhaustion, and a whole lot of other emotions that I can't even describe."
"Are you happy that father had fulfilled your death wish?" jeez, it sounded like I was interviewing her for a magazine. I should just stop with the questions. But, I want to know more about mother. What caused her to pass on like that? Yeah, I know what I've learned in biology. Man, that was awkward. I shook my head from the thought and continued to listen to mother.
"I am happy that Byakuya fulfilled my death wish, but there is one that he didn't fulfill." She said.
I look up at her, thinking 'What does she mean?' "Mother, what do you mean?"
She looked up to the sky as if she were in deep thought. "I also wished him to take care of you, Tobi, Namihiko, and you. Mainly you to be precise, you were born prematurely. I was hoping that I would've survived to take care of you and your brothers, but fate didn't allow that to happen." She said sadly.
After having a lot of idle chatting, telling her what happened to Tobi, but she remained strong, not crying or anything. I admire her for that. Then a question arose in my head. "Mother, who is the woman standing next to you?" I asked her.
My mother then looked at the woman, and nodded to each other. Mother then said, "Well, dear, I can't tell you that. You need to find that out yourself." She then looked up and said, "We don't much time to talk to each other now. You are about to wake up, but I'll tell you this: the one you like could be next to you as we speak."
'Huh? Does she mean by Sasuke' I thought with disgust. Now, why would she think that? He's a jerk, a showoff at times, and he has his own fucking fangirl club! Led by my lieutenant! I wonder what's wrong with her! But I saw everything dissolve into white before I could say good-bye to my mother.
-End of dream ): -
I woke up because Sasuke hit me on the head with our history textbook. My head shot up and grasped my head with both hands, yelling out in pain. "What the hell did you do that for?" I asked painfully, still grasping my head.
"Because detention is over idiot." He calmly replied. "You weren't waking up when I kept prodding your shoulder, so I decided to hit you in the head with the textbook, and looks like it worked seeing that you're up and alert." He then walked through the desks and went through the door to go home.
I crossed my arms and puffed my cheeks in anger. How dare he hit me in the head! If I could, I so would've killed him a long time ago. I then muttered curses, grabbed m stuff, and went home.
A/N:
Finished! I would've updated sooner if it weren't for my dad hogging my computer. Yes, we share computers, but it's the only computer in the house that has an access to a printer, and he needs iTunes to update his iPhone, just because he wants to watch cricket directly form his phone. And sorry if Rukia is OOC! I didn't mean to! And do you think it's a nice reunion for Acai and Hisana, tell me in the reviews. Until next time! R&R!
