Chapter 9
Finding the Poisoner
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, the Tite does. I only own my OCs and OOCs
Warnings: This is AU and contains possible spoilers. Also this is considered a part of my Mi Hermano AU so it has spoilers for that. Another warning is that this contains character death.
No flames please, but constructive criticism is always welcome.
A few days after being healed by the Lady, Tarra was in Squad Four learning about healing from Retsu Zaraki. They were chatting happily about their work, and Tarra was learning quickly from the kind lady Captain. She excelled in kidô, though that was partially from the fact she had been studying it for such a long time when she was still too ill from the poison to do much else.
She had also surprised Soi Fon and Yoruichi with some of her hand to hand prowess. Not that she could beat them, but they decided to go easy on her at first, which resulted in her nearly pinning Soi Fon.
Yoruichi mentioned that she liked Tarra's spunk.
When it came to Squad Three, she was trained by Izuru Kira and Rose in swordsmanship and they also taught her some of the more basic kidô techniques.
After she trained with Retsu she went to Squad Five and trained with Shinji in many techniques.
In Squad Six she trained with Byakuya once again, learning kidô, though she had yet to cast a single spell. Everyone was confident that she would soon.
There was a rest day after that, then she went to Squad Seven and trained with Sajin. He worked with her hand to hand powers as well, though he focused more on physical strength than technique.
The first time she visited Squad Eight she blinked at Kyôraku and then checked to see if she was in the right place. That got a chuckle out of Nanao who assured her that she was indeed in the right place. Kyôraku was a little different in his approach to training at first, however. He started with testing her logic. They played a game of chess with Tarra coming out on top in just under five minutes. The second game they played Kyôraku was the victor in three minutes. The third game lasted an hour before Nanao called for it to end so that they could actually train. Once that happened they practiced swordsmanship with two blades, just in case she had a double bladed zanpaku-tô.
It was after training with Kyôraku and returning home that Byakuya stopped her from eating something. He had made it a habit to touch everything in his home and to handle the food that she was to be served just before it reached her. Arthur arrived not thirty minutes later and began to question the staff about who had handled the food and who could have added something.
Eventually he found one woman who he questioned with the use of Excalibur's abilities. Using the third light of Excalibur, he forced her to speak the truth. She admitted to both poisoning Tarra and to slowly poisoning Byakuya. She had wanted Tarra out of the way, and had wanted Byakuya for her own.
Tarra's thoughts on the matter were that the woman was of stalker material. She and Byakuya were just a little creeped out when the woman called him "hers." As was Arthur apparently because he looked from Byakuya to the woman with a look of profound worry before telling the woman that she would need some mental evaluation before she went to prison for attempted murder.
Byakuya was just glad that Tarra was now safe.
Tarra was just glad to have lost one nuisance to her living a happy life. She would never admit to Byakuya that there was more than one that was causing her trouble though. She felt she had caused him enough problems since her arrival.
End Chapter 9
