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Chapter 10: Time to Talk About Mikomi
Miyako here. I should tell everyone about Mikomi before anyone starts to freak out about her.
She is the sweetest person. She has always been sweet and nice. I had always believed that all nobles were jerks.
Let me back up a little. You're probably confused. Mikomi comes from a small noble family that hardly anyone notices. It's still a noble family that some know about. Those who do are too low down to talk to the nobles. They skip the step of asking for help and go straight to attack mode.
Mikomi is much younger than me. I was her protector. Her mother went to Rukongi for a visit and was attacked without her guards present. I jumped out of a bush and attacked her attackers. She was impressed by my abilities so she asked if I wanted to get out of Rukongi. I agreed happily. She took me home and told me I would protect her young daughter.
Mikomi was a mere child when I met her. Her mother opened the room and showed me a sleeping Mikomi. We were in the doorway when she awoke with a yawn and a bright smile. She ran up to us and held up her arms at her mother. She picked up the cute child and hugged her tightly. Mikomi giggled and looked to me with a smile.
"Hi," she said cutely. I greeted her in the same manner and told her who I was.
I have long since abandoned my old identity. It became necessary to get new identities.
I helped raise Mikomi. She was the first person that made me smile each day. Her whole family was nice. Mikomi was just so cute and fun though. Thanks to her personality, I continue to be her protector. Every protector of her family has stayed with the one they are protecting.
It was Mikomi's birthday when the incident happened. She was finally old enough to stand at her full height. That was barely old enough to enter the academy that soul reapers went to. She was talking it over with her parents after the festivities had ended. I stood behind her like I always had. Her parents constantly told her that being a soul reaper had many downsides by stating each one they could think of.
There was a loud crash outside and each protector took hold of the one they were meant to protect. I took hold of Mikomi around the waist and took her up to her room. We hid in her closet. She was so scared and I hated it. I held my hand over her mouth and whispered for her to stay silent. She made no sound except to breathe.
After an hour of ransacking the place, the ones that caused the chaos entered Mikomi's room. We heard shouts to look everywhere. Mikomi hid all of her expensive things in a small bag in her closet. When the men didn't find anything in her room or the bathroom, the leader left with most of the men. Two of them stayed with orders to look in the closet. I took Mikomi's small bag and stuffed some of her clothes in it. The door opened once I had finished stuffing everything inside and handed it to her.
I jumped up and attacked both men. They had no time to let out a sound. I was a silent killer. Mikomi stood and ran to her dresser to throw in more clothes. The bag was soon filled and she looked to me for a plan.
I did the only thing that could be done at that point. Mikomi was fully trusting of me. I scooped her up and left with her in my arms. A ways out, I paused to reassure Mikomi of the situation.
The attackers found us while I whispered that everything would be alright. I fought them off as best as I could. It wasn't good enough. They got to her and knocked her out in the worst way possible. They tried to take her back to their leader, but I was able to stop them and take Mikomi away from there.
I took her to squad four for help. I entered as a mere servant. Captain Unohana remembers me. She led us straight to a closed off room. No one was allowed to enter. She fixed up Mikomi and gave me a medicine that would change Mikomi's personality slightly to keep her hidden. It also hid all her memories of before that time.
I went to research and development late in the night and talked to the developers to get anything that could change appearances at least slightly. They gave me a paper that told me how to make something like that. I made the item as a pill.
Everyday, Mikomi takes the pill as medicine for the medicine Captain Unohana gave her that night. I take it in private. A month after we started taking them, we went to the academy and registered to become soul reapers. She never noticed the change in my appearance. She no longer remembers what happened. It's for the best. Once the medicine wears off, she may hate me forever.
No one knows that she's a noble. No one knows about her family. No one knows that her name is one that I came up with upon her awakening in squad four. No one knows that I chose my first name from one book and my last from a record of previous academy students. No one knows that late at night, I go to the home we left and look for clues of who ruined our lives. No one knows that her whole family is missing. No one knows that she cries out in despair at night and I have to silent her. No one knows what she's been through for such a young and sheltered girl. No one knows how different the two of us really are from how we act.
It needs to stay that way until we find who ruined everything.
That is the true story of Mikomi. I only own Mikomi, Miyako, and this idea. You have to admit that it's a twist. This wasn't my original intention, but I like it better. Thank you for reading! An extra thank you to the people that have reviewed because you did an extra thing. I am also very thankful to all that have followed or favorited. The stats tell me that BMW has 3 reviews, 3 favorites, 5 alerts, and 728 views. You probably don't know by the way I've been making my author's notes for this before now, but I get ecstatic and very nervous every time I write a new chapter.