While Keigo scared millions of humans, Michiru Ogawa tried to find a place to hide from the panic-stuck crowd of people, running in her way and threatening to trample down her. In panic she tried to grab a wire mesh fence and hold on to not to be trampled down by the people. She screamed while she fight for her life...
Kaneda hold the hands of the both kids and accompained them to the roof. He was really mad on them...
"Why did you did that? You break into my captains warehouse and destroy it! You steal a very dangerous prototype and you have to test it on Keigo?!" Kaneda moaned while he put the video-tape and the helmet into his pocket.
Kazui cried. "I didn't want to hurt Uncle Keigo. I only wanted to prove his innocence..."
"I want, too! But we are not allowed to interfere. And there are also other ways than..."
"OGAWA!" Ichika screamed and pointed on the crowd.
"What way do you mean with a Ogawa?" Kaneda asked confused.
"NO! OGAWA-SAN! The woman who helped us! She is in danger!" Ichika screamed and pointed on Michiru, who was going to be trampled to death.
In shock, Kaneda saw that the girl was right and Michiru, who hold on the mesh fence, was slowly disappearing in the crowd.
"AAAGGHHH... I will help her! You wait here!" Kaneda screamed and jumped of the roof to help Michiru...
Michiru finally lost her grip and fell down to the ground. She screamed while she saw dozens of feets and legs passing her head closely. A woman tread on her hand, a child fell over her feet. She knew it: Someone will tread on her head or somewhere and she will get killed. Nobody could hear her screams, because everyone else was screaming, too. But one person, wearing a black Kimono, could hear her, while he used his Zanpakutou to cut the fence over her and pulled the almost senseless and injured woman to pull her threw the hole to the other, safer side of the fence.
Michiru needed quiet some time till she realized that she was safe. She cried. She was screaming hysterically and was to scared to open her eyes. The big crowd in front of the prison was gone and they left an empty street full of debris and trash. She laid on the ground between the trees of the little forest across from the prison. Slowly she realized that the Shinigami was back again...
"Awww... You safed my life!" she wailed loudly before she realized what she just said and looked on the Shinigami confused. "Eh... you safed my life?!"
"Are you okay?"
"OKAY? I'm talking to the death!" Michiru wailed.
"Well, I'm not 'the death'! I'm just that what follows after the death..."
While Michiru and Kaneda start to fight, Kazui and Ichika watched them from safe distance.
"Oh, she is well!" Kazui said relieved.
"Your mother would be really mad if her friend died." Ichika murmured. "What did he mean with parcel?"
"Keigo said: I have to find the package!" Kazui remembered. "But I don't know which one?"
"Which one?"
"I really don't know how I... wait!" Kazui remembered. "The Shinigami said that Uncle Keigo send a package by a delivery-service! It's not the same!"
"You mean it's not the same as the one the woman talked about. But this one we don't need to find... we know where it is... It's true that he send one... but not the same..."
"WHA?" Ichika finally didn't understand.
"Yes, that's it! Uncle Keigo was in the post-office and he send a package. A package that looks exactly like the one in the TV-channel. But maybe... it was for me..."
Meanwhile Kaneda helped Michiru to stand up again...
"I think I know why Asano became insane. You Shinigami are dangerous." she ranted and looked on the holes and the stains in her dress.
"Oh, please Miss... calm down. It's not the end of the world just because you are now able to see us!" Kaneda said.
"If it means to become as sick as Asano I don't... awww... What did you did to this guy in there? Why the crowd was in panic?"
"I didn't harm Asano. The kids put this horrible helmet on his head! Asano got an epileptical attack and this news-announcer screamed into the camera. So the people got afraid..."
"So many things could have happened!" Ogawa ranted and looked for her keys, she dropped in the crowd. "I go home and pray that you strange 'people' are able to delete the memory of this horrible events... So get these two little hellions and..."
"OH NO! THE CHILDREN!" Kaneda interupted her when he realized that he left the kids alone.
Kaneda jumped over the fence with shunpo and left the confused Michiru alone.
"You are lucky that you are so cute..." she murmured quietly and became red... "If you were not a living dead, I would hope to drink a coffee with you some day..."
Back on the roof of the prison, Kaneda looked around worried. The children escaped again. But at least he had his captains invention, so he fulfilled his mission. If the children realy want to get into trouble, okay. He had enough trouble by his own. But he wished them all the best and good luck. He wanted Keigo to be free, too.
While he went back to the Soul Society, the children sneaked downstairs to see Keigo been carried into an ambulance. He was spellbound with belts on the stretcher...
"Please, forgive me!" Kazui wailed with tears in his eyes.
"As I already said: You don't need to care about! I survived worse!" Keigo moaned silently. The scared paramedics tried to ignore that Keigo was talking to someone, they couldn't see. "Just find the package... I hope you like it..."
After these words, Keigo went silent. The doors of the ambulance were smashed close and the scared paramedics went to the front cabin, to avoid to touch Keigo as long as possible. They drove to the next hospital. With howling siren, the ambulance raced away and left the children alone in the prison-yard.
"Well... at least we got him out of prison!" Ichika said smiling.
In Soul-Society, everyone was still scared about the recent events when Karin came back and was angry on her family.
"THERE YOU ARE! I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU EVERYWHERE!" she shouted, but was cut off by her brother who turned up the volume of the TV.
"...we still have no contact to our colleagues in the penitentinary but we have confirmed information about a stampede in front of it, at the same time Keigo Asano was attacked by the Shinigami..." the anchorman explained while a picture of the floating, blood spiting Keigo appeared.
Orihime was crying. Ichigo was totally succint. Tatsuki and Mizuiro turned away from the TV and were upset. Chad looked on the screen in shock and was silent as always...
"Hey, what's going on here?" Karin asked. She didn't knew anything about the horror-movie the others had to see.
"The children..." Isshin start. "...visited Asano in prison. They used one of captain Kurotsotchi's inventions and almost killed him and turned him insane..."
Karin was shocked. While she settled down next to her family... Hanataro Yamada ran towards thier house. He need some time to recover and to get sober again. But now parts of his memory were back...
At the same time, Kaneda stormed back into his captains office. He wanted to bring him his device back. After he stormed inside he fell on his knees humbly and begged for mercy.
"TAICHOU!" Kaneda screamed desperateyl and handed him the helmet. "I've got your device!"
Mayuri Kurotsotchi stood up and took the helmet to investigate it. He saw the blood stains and that the tape was missing.
"It was used!" he said angrilly.
Kaneda fell on his knees again begged for mercy again. "Taichou-sama, I tried to stop them, but the kids used it on Asano and..."
"DO YOU MEAN, THIS DEVICE WAS TESTED ON A LIVING HUMAN!" Mayuri screamed. Kaneda nooded silently. "That's great!"
"Huh?!" Kaneda was confused.
"Well... It means that my invention is also usable on living humans. How he reacted? What did you see?" Mayuri was totally euphoric and curious.
"He..." Kaneda was shocked. "...looked like someone who has an epileptic attack..."
"Interesting!" the captain wrote down everything. "And everything was recorded on the tape?"
"I don't know!" Kaneda murmured when he took the tape out of his pocket. "I had no chance to watch it, so far. I..."
Mayuri ripped the tape out of his hands to put an old 80s style videorecorder out of a cupboard to watch the tape on a little screen.
"So, lets see if it really worked!" the captain said and put the cassette into the recorder. The tape start to run and the first picture that was aired was a surprise...
"Copyright-Warning!" Kaneda was surprised. It was one of this warnings that also appeared on the beginning of normal videos.
"Memories are in Copyright of the person who has it! I'm breaking several laws in the world of the living!" the captain explained without emotions and the picture changed to another one: "The following memory is 39 hours and 47 minutes!... Wow... not bad. Looks like Asano is suffering under really bad insomnia, or he is really tough..."
"Stop this tape, captain!" a man yelled.
Mayuri was scared and pressed on the pause-button before he turned. The whole commission of inquiry came to his office. The chairman looked on him and Kaneda with crossed arms and as well on the screen.
"Please, you have to knock on the door before you enter!" Mayuri said mad.
"We are very sorry. But you need to hand out this tape to us!" the chairman murmured. "Normaly we have to confiscade this device... But you are lucky... that the use of it was approved!"
"What?!" Mayuri and Kaneda said at the same time.
The chairman handed a letter to Mayuri. It was a letter from the responsible authorities. Mayuri took the letter to read it and was surprised.
"Hmm... Ha ha ha... The Kurosaki's will be very happy..."
The Kurosaki's still gazed into the TV screen. The anchorman of the show used a tissue to clean the sweat off his face and tried to calm down, live on air.
"... we've got unconfirmed informations, that Keigo Asano was set into a nearby hospital. We have no further informations about his condition. But eye-witnesses say that he was surprisingly calm after the incident...
The picture cut to a woman, a former classmate of them, who weared a t-shirt with the words 'Asano is the victim'. "... they jinxed him again. Like they always did in the past. They use some kind of Shinigami-shit to turn him to thier slave... Asano is a very kind person,... Why they do that to him?"
"Why do you act like his best friend? As I know you never talked any word to him?!" Orihime moaned. "Why everyone pretends to be his best friend now?"
"I don't know? Maybe they just want attention, or money... or both?" Mizuiro answered.
While they start to discuss wildly again, Hanataro arrived in front of the house and start to knock on the door.
"Kurosaki-san, are you there?"
"Not yet, Hanataro!" Ichigo moaned, because he wanted to listen to the news.
"Kurosaki-san, your sister... I remember a little bit... Your sister was not killed. She commited suicide!" Hanataro jelled. But there was no respond from inside the house. Hanataro knocked again. "Please, let me in!"
In TV the programme became really strange. Thier former school was shown. Former classmates, parents, curent student and teachers came together. A field of flowers, notes, pictures and candles was set in front of the main entrace. It looked like a mourning rally. Encouraging messages were wrote down. A photo was shown, showing a mad Tatsuki attacking Keigo. A classmate took it once, secretly. 'Shame on you, Arisawa!' was written on it.
"Maybe he figured out thier secret? Or they really jinxed or hypnotized him? There is no other explanation, why he still relies on them. All the violence and he never fight back. Okay, he wasn't able to fight back, but he even never said anything bad against them..." another former classmate explained. "Maybe he was supposed to die in this staged group-suicide..."
"KUROSAKI, PLEASE!" Hanataro's voice jelled much louder from outside. The door was locked, but Hanataro shook the door as strong as he could.
Angrilly Ichigo finally stood up. Not only because he couldn't bear the untruths of his former classmates anymore. Because he also remembered Keigo's story about Hanataro and Yuzu on his couch. In anger, he grabbled the member of the fourth division and pulled him inside.
"What did you did with my sister on Keigo's couch?" Ichigo asked mad.
„Did?..." Hanataro realized that he was in trouble.
In the world of the living, Michiru Ogawa finally found her keys on the road and tottered back to her hardly damaged car. She was at the end. She had fully sympathy with Keigo now. She hoped to be spared by the Shinigami now. Otherwise she would became as insane as Asano. Her body was full of bruises and scratches. Her dress was damaged anf full of dust and mud. She cried, because she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Carefully she opened the door of the much more damaged car and start to scream when Kazui and Ichika appeared out of the nowhere, again. In fear she fell back.
"OGAWA-SAN! We need to go to my house!" Kazui jelled. "We have to find the package, Uncle Keigo send me!"
"AGHHH... When do you 'angels-of-death' leave me alone?" she wailed. "I don't want to die..."
"You only need to drive us to Karakura, again. There we can look for the package in Kazui's house!" Ichika moaned. "Why do you whine?"
"You still ask me, you little..." Michiru stopped when Ichika hold her Zanpakutou in front of her face.
"I little what?"
"Ehm... you little... sweet, lovely, kind-hearted and handsome young girl..." Michiru wailed, while she saw her face reflecting in the blade. Now she understood Asano much more. Once again, she was thier hostage. But she also knew that Kazui wouldn't find anything in the hardly damaged clinic of his grandfather. "...I... think you won't find it there. The package... must arrived after you... and your parents left... and the parcel-services never... leave packages in front of empty homes..."
"Oh, no! Right... But mommy picked up a package in thier office one time." Kazui asked Ichika for her communicator to call his parents. "I ask her... She knows where we have to look for."
In the Soul Society, Hanataro told everything what happend in Keigo's apartment. He told them about Yuzu, who asked Keigo for help after she fled. Keigo wanted to help her, but there were some problems with the lawyer. And than the situation escallated when Keigo's ex-girlfriend told this lies to the press. Yuzu drank the gazpacho, to kill herself while Hanataro took a few gulps, too. Yuzu fell asleep peacefully. Hanataro fell asleep, too. But next to her. Because that, both laid on the couch. Everything was harmlessly. He only avoid to tell them that he kissed her, twice!
"Is that really true?" Ichigo asked.
"Hey, why do you agitate again? Even if Yamada, kissed your sister... That's normal?" Rukia said. "It was the same when Kon kissed Orihime and Tatsuki. You agitated, too..."
"IT WAS SO MORTIFYINGLY!" Ichigo screamed while Orhime and Tatsuki were confused and surprised.
"What? When did this pervert teddy-bear kiss me?" Tatsuki asked. She was angry anyway.
Before the fight was going to escallate again, Rukia's Denreishinki, her communicator, start to ring. When she looked on the display, she saw that it was her daughter.
"IT'S ICHIKA!" she screamed excited and picked up the call. "Hello!"
"Mommy?" Ichika's voice came of the communicator.
Everyone went closer to Rukia to listen carefully. Finally there was a trace off the kids...
"Ichika... Why did you did that? What did you did with Asano?" Rukia asked mad.
"We didn't want to hurt him!" she wailed. It was really rare that Ichika wailed. It was an indication for her guilt and that she was really sorry for everything. "We didn't know that this device will hurt him..."
"Ichika, you and Kazui... come back immediately! And you will give this device back to Kurotsotchi-taichou!"
"But, Ochi-san already took it!"
„"WHAT? Ochi found you and left you behind?" Rukia was now totally confused.
Ichika handed her Denreishinki to Kazui, so he could explain what they will do next.
"Hello!"
When Orihime heared her son's voice, she ripped out the phone of Rukia's hand to talk to Kazui. "KAZUI! SWEETHEART... Are you okay?"
"Yes, mommy!"
"You never... NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" Orihime jelled with tears in her eyes. "You never ever step in front of a TV-camera!"
"Sorry!" he said ashamed.
"I don't want you to get into trouble. And you don't have to apologize to me. You have to apologize to Keigo-kun, after all he got hurt because of your stupid actions..."
"But when I tried to apologize, he just said that I need to find the package. And that's the reason we are still here. Ogawa-san gets us to the post-office and there we will find it..."
"WAIT! What did you said? Who gets you there?" Orihime thought that she misunderstood him.
"Ogawa-san! Do you want to talk to her?" Kazui said a bit happier and handed the phone to to the scared Michiru. "Say hello!"
"He... Hello...!"
"OGAWA-CHAN?!" Orihime screamed scared. "Now... don't tell me you can see the children?"
All others got curious when they heared Michiru telling everything.
"KAZUI, ICHIKA... YOU LET OGAWA FREE IMMIDIATELY! AND AFTER THAT YOU COME BACK HERE, NOW!" Ichigo screamed after he took the phone.
"But first we need to find the package!"
"No way! Keigo exposed us! He is the reason we had to flee... Why are you such to be obsessed with him..."
"But..."
„WHY?" Ichigo screamed.
"BECAUSE IT'S ALL MY FAULT!" Kazui screamed and start to cry.
Ichigo and the others were shocked. Ichika lowered her head, she knew the story because Kazui told her trustly. Michiru was confused.
"Kazui, what do you want to tell us?" his father asked confused. The others, who could hear everything too, looked on him curiously. "Kazui,... my son... talk to me! What did you mean with: It's all my fault!"
Kazui start to cry. Now he had to tell them the truth. He had to tell, before someone else gets hurt or becomes insane. So far, only Ichika knew the truth...
"It's... my fault, that we got exposed! Because of me, everyone knows we are Shinigami!"
Kazui's confession shocked everyone. Nobody was able to say something. Ichigo didn't want to belive it. The words of his sound halled threw his ears. "Kazui..."
"Daddy... I can't go on!" Kazui wailed under more tears. "I can't admit that they punish Uncle Keigo for my mistakes. I just look for the package and than I come back and explain everything. I promise it. But I have to do it before someone else has to suffer. I'm so sorry!"
"Kazui... wait..." Ichigo couldn't say anything, because his son already hang off. "AGGHHH... KAZUI... DON'T HANG OFF!"
"Oh my gosh... That means... our son..." Orihime start to tremble before someone knocked on the door and opened it...
The commission, Kaneda and his captain arrived. They had a videorecorder and Mayuri's invention with them...
"Kurosaki-san, we need to show you something!" the chairman explained.
Ichigo wanted to ban all of them out. "NOT NOW! GO AWAY! My son just told me that..."
"Don't worry, your son is innoncent!" the chairman said. He was pretty sure why Kazui confessed now. "We knew about and checked everything! We'll explain later, this is more important!"
The Kurosaki's and thier friends watched Mayuri connecting a videorecorder at the running TV. Kaneda helped him. The commission handed a letter to Ichigo:
"...because of the hard circumstancials... the use of the mentioned device on Keigo Asano, born April 1st 1986 in Naruki-shi – Honshu – Japan – World of the Living, is approved. The memory is allowed to be recorded, to collect hard evidence for his guilt in the Kurosaki-case, file number bla bla bla... to prepare a prosecution and a... conviction..." Ichigo read loudly. "Do you mean that this video..."
"Yes... Your son, brought us the evidence we need! Right here on this tape is... Asano's whole memory of the day, you and your family got exposed!" the chairman explained and presented them the video-cassete. "We came here to watch it with you together, for the first time. We do it this way, to keep sure that the tape wasn't faked or something else. Your son and the little Abarai, won't be punished. Both are very lucky, that the use was approved, right before they break out... By the way, where are they?"
The kids were on the way back to Karakura and forced Michiru Ogawa to bring them to the post-office, to look for the package... But Ichigo avoid to tell the commission the truth.
"The children are... on the way..."
"Okay, we can start without them! Take a seat!"
Everyone went back in front ot the TV again...
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