Shinjita iin desu ka? Is it okay to believe?
Chapter ten:
Am I...Dead? No...I can still feel pain, I can still feel the hopelessness I last felt as I was again, wounded by these bastards...But...where am I? I doesn't have the same smell as Urahara's shop...no...it's not there...so where...? Yohime opened her eyes to be staring up at a white ceilling. Where...am I? She said closing her eyes and opening them slowly. She put one of her hands infront of her and exaimined it and stretched it out towards the ceilling. How am I still...alive?
"You're back in my world..." She looked over to see Hiroko. She went to move, but couldn't from the pain.
"Why am I here?" She asked him.
"You're being healled by my grandfather..." He said simply. "I am no longer your enemy..." He said seeing her glare. "I'm here to help you get stronger, to help you defeat Sui..."
"Sui!" Yohime said sitting up, he gently pushed her back down.
"Rest is what you need for now. Sui barely missed your heart because of your reaction." Hiroko expained as she looked at him helplessly.
"Sui...I know who-" He cut her off.
"Sui is someone out for revenge against you, like everyone else was." He said, sitting back off his knees.
"What did I..." She started, looking at him.
"You didn't do anything to me. My grandfather on the other hand..." She turned away, and closed her eyes. "You would have to ask him about it...but for some reason, he has forgiven you..."
"Hiroko..." She looked back at him, "Am I a bad person?"
"No..." He said looking her in the eyes. "Everyone has their mistakes in life, and has their right's in life. Becoming a Shinigami was your calling, it only came natural. And from what I hear, you try to help others. Kamitsumi, you had every right to kill his parents, and family."
"How do you-"
"Know all this? I peered through your mind while you were out." He laughed as she glared at him. "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about some stuff." She sat up and pinned him to the ground.
"What do you know!" She demanded out of him as he smirked, looking so smug.
"Basically everything that was in your mind. Even the stuff that was locked away, like your memories of your life before a Shinigami..." He said, "And what you desire..."
"Ichigo, you should take it easy." Hanatarou said, pushing Ichigo back down on the futon he was laying on. Ichigo just pushed back, knocking Hanatarou away.
"Not now, Hanatarou..." Ichigo said, standing up. He walked towards one of the windows in the room where he stayed at. Her reitsu has vanished again... He thought looking outside. Where are you...Yohime...
He turned after hearing the door open up. Yachiru and Zaraki stood there, well Zaraki with Yachiru on his shoulder. "Ichigo..." Zaraki started. "Yachiru and I have to head back to soul society, and they will be sending a different captin as my replacement here."
"To bad we can't say bye bye to Yoh-chan...right, Ken-chan?" Yachiru said sadly. "Ichigo...find Yoh-chan and bring her back to us! Yoh-chan belongs with us and not gone like she is!"
"I will bring her back..." Ichigo said, "...If it's the last thing I do..."
"Ichigo..." Hanatarou said in awe.
"We'll be leaving now, Ichigo...I look forward to another battle one of these days!" Zaraki said before leaving.
"I wonder who the other captin will be..." Hanatarou said, making Ichigo think about it to for a moment, before returning to his previous thoughts.
"Baron-san, how are they doing?" Baron looked up to see someone's silloet in the shadows.
"They are healling right now still. Has Sui-san been able to track us yet, Fubuki-kun?" Baron said as Fubuki shook his head no. "By the way, how are your wounds going?"
"They are almost fully healled. If I hadn't started to send the spirit particles in my snow right away when she attacked me with her ban kai, I would not still be alive..." Fubuki said, glancing down at his torso which was wrapped up and blood stained. "She missed my heart and other vital's on purpose, I think. I don't really think she wanted to kill me." He said as he sat down against one of the walls.
"Does Sui-san know that Hiroko-kun and her are still around?" Baron asked Fubuki.
"Doesn't look like it." Fubuki said, "Sui knows I'm around still since I went and got Yohime." He glanced over at the two teenaged bodies.Princess...
"Tell me what you mean by 'desires' !?!" Yohime yelled at Hiroko who smirked, and dodged one of her fist.
"I'm sorry, but that's a secret." He said liking her reaction to it.
She grabbed him by the scruff of his top and brought him close to her face. "I am far older than you, you better tell me what it is, or I will shatter you and this world like I have done before." He looked at her surprisingly.
"Distroy this world like before?" He said looking at her, "Oh no, if you had distroyed this world, we couldn't be here right now. This is a different one."
"What the--" She paused looking at him confused. He started to laugh as she looked around. "Shut up! Are you messing with me?!"
"No, no, I am not." He said, still laughing. She shook him, which caused him to stop laughing at look at her. "Okay, maybe I did..." He said as she tossed him to the ground.
"So this is the same world, right?" She said, turning from him and looking at all the blank and whiteness in it. "It seems so...boring..."
He fell to the ground his foot twitching, with a sweat drop on the back of his head. "What do you mean boring?!" He said, jumping up and pointing a finger at her. "It's only like this because it has more space. My actual world looks different!"
"Let me see it." She said turning to face him.
"Wha-?"
"Let me see the real you, the one that has something inside his world." She said, her hands behind her back as she ignored the pain coming from her chest and everywhere else.
"It's weird, you wouldn't want to be there." He said obviously thinking of escuses.
"Hello, how weird can it be, I'm a Shinigami who has people after me, I befriend my once enemies that tried killing me, and there is a Quincy-Shinigami! How much weird is left?" She said to him simply.
"Fine..." He said, "But you have to close your eyes while it changes. And no peaking, or else it won't come correctly."
"Fine fine..." Yohime said closing her eyes. She could feel everything changing around her, and the ground disappear from below her as she gained step in the air.
"You can open them now." He said softly as she opened them. "This is where I would go before I had my powers. I lived in a small village in a hidden valley, and this was a secret spot." It was an open valley inbetween mountains, in the center there was a lake with an island in the middle that had a small-looking fort. The grass was green and the trees were in bloom. There was a boat in the lake to take you from one side to the other, and there was a tire swing in one tree, and a regular one in another.
"You use to...live near this?" Yohime said, landing on the grass. "It's not weird...it's wonderful."
"After my village was massacured, I ran away to my grandfather place which was right over those moutains." he said pointing in the directions. "I know now that the reason why everyone was killed was because of hollows, and a menos." Yohime looked at him. "I wasn't strong enough then to defeat one, but now it's just so easy too."
"I'm sorry to hear that..." Yohime said looking at him.
"Are you almost fully healed?" He asked suddenly. "The whole time you were in my world, I've been healling both you and myself."
"Oh, yeah, I believe I am." Yohime responded.
"Okay, I'll be right back to relieve you of this world." He said disappearing into nothingness.
"Grandfather, we are done healling." He said to his grandfather who let go of the barrier that was around the two. He dove back into his mind and retrieved Yohime and brought her back.
"I thank you very much for taking me and healling me, Baron-san, Hiroko-kun." Yohime said saying her thanks.
"What about the one that brought you here, Princess. Doesn't he get a thanks?" Fubuki said, standing up from sitting by the wall.
"Fu-Fubuki?!" Yohime said starring at him. "I thought that you..."
"Not quite. I was able to heal myself right as you started to attack me." He explained. "How's your wound doing?"
"Which one?" Yohime said as he laughed and rolled his eyes. "Oh and sorry for leaving you in the district back then. I spent a while looking for you, but I couldn't find you...I didn't want to get caught by the bandits either, so I left when they started to come near where I was looking for you."
"It's okay..." Fubuki said as she spotted the wrappings around his torso.
"Damn, did I do that to you?!" she said, exaiming his wrappings. "The bleeding still hasn't subsided?"
"No, I just threw ketchup all over it so it looks that way." He said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Really?" Hiroko asked seriously.
"You're kidding, right Hiroko-kun?" Fubuki said looking at him like he was an idiot.
"No...were you?"
"Of course I was, you dolt!" He said, hiting Hiroko on the back of the head.
"Ow...that hurt." Hiroko said rubbing his head.
"Good!" Fubuki said, crossing his arms again. "Princess..." He turned back to Yohime. "Sui doesn't know that you're still alive for sure, but she's most likely to send people after us."
"I figured..." Yohime said standing, "And when they show up, I'll just-"
"You are not fighting, princess!" Fubuki said as her jaw dropped.
"And why not?!" She argued.
"Because, what kind of man would let a wounded woman who is still in recovery fight when she has three men on her side that can defend her?!" He said looking at her sternly. "I will not allow you to fight until you are at your best."
"You suck..." She sighed, rolling her eyes and rolling onto her back. She shot up, "okay...no laying on the back..."
"When you can lay on your back and not whine or get watery-eyed from the pain...I'll let you fight." Fubuki said as she glared at him. He just smirked.
Hey! Yay! Chapter ten! What do you guys think of it so far? I mean, Unamariposa is the only one who's reviewed...And I'd like to see more of those, then I might do more chapters or something, knowing I have people that like it...and what they think... right right? Well...this is really going to pick up again within the next chapter or two...so stay tuned for those!
-Paige LeStrange