You could not believe the site before you. The bloody bandages that were sprawled out across the bedroom floor, the ripped up pieces of clothing that belonged to Kenpachi and the splatters of blood all over the floor from the poor attempts of stopping the bleeding. You glanced over at Kenpachi, who was sitting on the edge of the bed with a look that you had never seen him wear before. He seemed disappointed, but at the same time he was determined and thankful.
"Kenpachi-Taichou," you whispered. His green eye flicker over to you, seeing you standing in his doorway, an expression on your face that he had not seen in a long time, not since the day you stumbled upon your father. Moving into the room, you closed the door slowly to where it didn't even make a noise upon closing. Stopping at the end of his bed, you stood there as if waiting for him to say something.
"Who did your bandage job?" He grunted, looking away with a deep frown on his face, "Because it looks like shit." His gaze fell back onto you; you could see it in his eyes that he was irritated. You knew he was too stubborn to ask for help so he must have attempted to do the job himself. Picking up a clean bandage, you moved over to him.
"Sit up straight," you ordered, he gave another grunt before slowly moving to where he was straight up on the edge of the bed. Nothing was said between the both of you while you moved your hands around his wounded chest. Because he was so big, you had to nearly push yourself against his chest in order to get your arms around his back. You could feel his hot breath caress your cheek, his whole body smelled like sweat and iron from the blood.
You ignored everything that was happening and focused on your job, you had to get him bandaged up because that was your job. Finishing up with his chest, you moved to his face where there was a nasty cut across his nose to the right side of his face. Your fingers lightly touched the incision, seeing just how deep it actually was, before wrapping that up as well.
"Was he strong?" Those were the first words that you had spoke since you started to bandage him. He looked at you, again, you saw the determination in his eye and could tell that you were indeed correct.
"Yes," His gruff voice was a bit horse, no doubt that he had damage to his vocal cords or lungs while he fought against the Ryoka. You nodded, pulling away from him and looking over your bandage job. You had done a well job, at least better then what Kenpachi had tried to do by his self.
"Was it the same one who put Ikkaku in the 4th division?" He nodded; this told you that the Ryoka had gotten even stronger. After what Ikkaku had told you, the Ryoka that he fought was indeed strong, but even fighting against Ikkaku the Ryoka had some trouble. You started to pick up the rest of the bandages that were sprawled out among the floor; you couldn't stand to see all this mess in your father's old room.
"Kenpachi-Taichou, it seems to me that there is a reason why the Ryoka are here and it's not just to cause trouble and fight the Soul Society." You told him, catching his attention. He raised an eye, listening to what you had to say.
"It seemed that ever since Rukia Kuchiki returned from the human world, the Ryoka attacked. I wonder, I wonder if they aren't trying to save her?"
"And what gives you that idea?" You looked over at the gruff looking man. He seemed tired and couldn't care less about Rukia, but it seemed that he wanted to know where you were going with this.
"Just think about it for a minute. Rukia's execution date was set for a few months away when she first got here, and then when the Ryoka appeared, they kept moving the date closer and closer. I think they're trying to save her and that's why her execution date keeps getting moved, so that they won't have the time to save her." Kenpachi just sat there, looking at you with such an intense stare that you thought he would put whole through you. He rubbed the back of his hair; it seemed that he didn't know what to think about what you had to say.
"I think you're thinking too much into the whole thing." You scoffed at his reply; of course he wouldn't understand your thinking behind everything. Then again, he wasn't friends with Rukia so he couldn't care less if she lived or died. Hell, you weren't even sure he knew who she was besides that she was a Kuchiki. You turned away, starting to head to the door with the bandages in your hands. You should have known that he didn't care for anyone else but his self.
You knew that if you were to get to the bottom of all of this, you would have to figure things out on your own and the only way to do that was to find the remaining Ryoka, if they were still alive, and ask them some questions of your own.
"Where do you think you're going now?" Kenpachi's voice stopped you in your tracks. You didn't bother to turn toward him; you knew you were just being set up for a pointless argument.
"I'm going to go find the Ryoka, ask them why they are here." Everything was silent, you didn't know what he was doing for your back was turned to him but you had guessed that he was just sitting there and looking at your back.
"You'll never be able to get to them, not where they're at least not on your own." You turned around just in time to see Kenpachi stand from his bed. You gasped; he looked as if he was going to fall as soon as he stood. Without thinking, you rushed over to his side and steadied him by placing your arms around his side. You knew he was a large man, but you didn't think he was as heavy as what he actually was when you were trying to hold him up.
"You idiot, what do you think you're doing! You can't move right now, half of your wounds are hardly even closed! If you move now, you'll open them back up—"
"I know where they are, and you'll never get to them by yourself." Your eyes widened. He seriously was not trying to tell you that he would help you get to them, was he? You scoffed; he was too full of his self for his own good.
"Then just tell me where they are and I'll go by myself." You told him, trying to push him back down onto the bed but found the task nearly impossible to do. You felt his large hand cover your wrist, pulling you away from him. You blinked, seeing that he was standing by his self now and only after a short amount of time. You were shocked, how was he able to stand with wounds like that?
"They're in jail, at least some of them are while the other Ryoka, he's still out there somewhere." You pulled your wrist from his hold, frowning deeply before crossing your arms over your chest.
"So, you and I are going to storm the jail and try to find where they are? That's crazy, you're insane!" He gave you a toothy grin, the one that you always saw on his face when he knew there was a challenge for him or he was having fun beating the crap out of some poor soul.
"No, not just us, but Ikkaku and Yumichika are coming as well." You shook your head, he was a crazy bastard when it came right down to it and you would never understand what went on in that head of his. Glancing back up at him you sighed, but he did have a point you would need all the help that you could get even if that meant having to team up with Kenpachi for a bit. But, you figured that it was better than nothing.
"Alright then, when do we leave?" you asked and was given an even larger smile that made you raise a brow.
"Right now."
