Chapter Eleven: Seireitei! Here I Come!
"Woah! What happened to you, Yuki-kun?" Tatsuki asked Yuki the next morning at school about the band-aid that covered most of her left cheek, and the small cut that was above her eyebrow.
"I got in a small fight yesterday." She said emotionless.
"Is that what happened to your arm too?" Tatsuki asked about her arm in the sling.
"Yeah..." She said, "It still needs to heal. It should be fully healed by the time the weekends over."
"Wow. You must heal fast or something."
"Yeah, something." Yuki said with a little laugh.
Toshiro walked over and took his seat. He turned to Yuki and looked at her cheek. He knew her arm would still be hurting. "What happened to you, Toshiro? Fight too?"
"If you wish to call it that." He said coldly as he glanced up at her. He then looked back at Yuki an eyebrow raised. "Genkei?"
"Yeah." Yuki said. "I told you he hates me."
"He's just upset." Toshiro said and she nodded. "I'm going to head back for the weekend..." He said as Tatsuki left when Orihime walked into the room. "Do you want to go again to go into the liabrary with Ukitake-taicho and Kyouraku-taicho?"
"Yeah. I found a book last time about it. I want to find it again. If there is a way to take the shinigami out of us, it would be perfect." Yuki said.
"But wouldn't that leave you open? Would you be okay with that?" He asked her.
"Yes. Humans are always left open... and if that's what I want to become, then I should be well aware of that." Yuki told him and he nodded. "I'm just not sure how Genkei and the rest are going to respond to the action."
"Hopefully they'll take it. If not, they will probably be executed..."
"With a life that would end, no matter what, we will die. I would just like to see what it's like to go on in life... as you know..."
"I sometimes wish that too... but being captain of squad 10 is my duty." He said, "Maybe if I ever get exiled, I'll come join you." He said with a small laugh. She smiled.
"Maybe. But then you'll be younger than me." She teased, "If I'm dead by that time."
The bell rang and class began. Toshiro turned around and continued with class. The day went on and once school got out. Yuki was the first one out and she quickly went to the house, ignoring any comments from Genkei that was shot at her. She went into her room, and put in a pill and jumped out of her gigai. "Don't let them know I left. You have to be like me for a whole weekend." She told the gigai. "Can you do that for me."
"Anytime,Yuki-san." Her gigai said nodding.
"Thank you." She said bowing her head as she grabbed a bag and put it on her back. She put in some ointment incase she got hurt there and had no medical care. She threw in some band-aids and neosporn for the cut above her eyebrow. After she packed those in her bag, she slid her window open, and just as she was about to jump out, her door slammed open, causing her to lose balance and fall out. "Ouch..." She said as she picked herself off the ground.
"Look, Yuki! I'm sorry for being an ass! It's just that you're doing things that you wouldn't normally do ever since you started to talk to that captain! DO you like him as a captain more than me, Yuki?!" Genkei asked her gigai.
"Thank the heavens..." She said as she inched away from the house before running down the street using shunpo.
When she reached Urahara's shop, she went inside and went to Toshiro's room. "That was fast." Toshiro said as she closed his door when she entered.
"I got out fast." She grinned.
"I'm almost ready. Renji and Matsumoto are coming as well. I have all ready talked to them about your condition and how you don't want to fight anyone there." He explained. "But if someone attacks, you will not hold back." Yuki nodded. "Yamamoto knows you came once before, and he knows that you'll probably try to come again. Ukitake-taicho, and Kyouraku-taicho are going to assist you to the liabrary and help you with your research. Abarai, Matsumoto and I are going to try to speak to Yamamoto again."
"Are you sure he'll hear you out?" Yuki asked Toshiro as she sat on his futon and watched him pace around the room, picking up things, looking at them, then putting them back down or in a bag.
"No. But that's why I have Abarai and Matsumoto with me."
"Taicho... I'm all ready to go." Matsumoto said opening the door.
"Wow... no one knocks, huh?" Yuki smiled as Matsumoto looked at her.
"You just appear everywhere, don't you? Where's the rest of your squad?" She asked her.
"At the house." Yuki said. "I tend to work alone a lot."
"Let's go." Toshiro said grabbing his bag. "Where's Abarai?"
"All right let's go." Renji said coming into the room. They all went out front, all in Shinigami form, and went through the gate.
When they arrived in Soul Society, Ukitake and Kyouraku were waiting there with Nanao for the group. "Okay, we will see you later. After you're done with whatever you need, go to my divisions quarters. You'll be staying there this weekend." Toshiro told Yuki. She nodded, and Toshiro, Renji and Rangiku took off while Ukitake, Kyouraku and Nanao left with Yuki.
"Thank you so much for staying with me, Ukitake-taicho, Kyouraku-taicho, Nanao-fuzentaicho." Yuki said as they reached the liabrary.
"Let's begin our search then, Yuki-kun." Ukitake said as they opened the doors to the liabrary.
