Urahara K.

Volume II Chapter 1

The Mystery Begins

A door is opened and an Asian man with bleach colored hair stepped through the opened door. His face was covered in the shadows of the night as his body glowed with dripping water and steam flowing off his skin. He wore only a large white rag around his waist with his arms slouched down in exhaustion. His feet were instantly covered in mud once he stepped into the dirtied earth. The setting was filled with trees, boulders, and a little shack that was connected to the small bath hut that the man had came out of. The man raised his head and his blueish grey eyes sparked a reflection from the moons glowing light above. From one moment to the next, his face was covered in light to reveal his identity. Kisuke Urahara, the man who was exiled to the living realm along with his two comrades, Yoruichi Shihoin and Tessai Tsukabishi. Kisuke stepped out of the light and made his way into the little shack that he had created on his time in the Living Realm. Inside were boxes filled with unusual body parts that were the same skin color of his and in one of the opened boxes was a face that looked exactly like Kisuke's. In his little time in the world, he was able to create a means of being seen by others and interact with them. There was also a small bed with piles upon piles of sketches on plans of future devices. Among these plans were top secret plans for mechanisms that were shaded in black lines and written through a series of phrases that only he could possibly understand. Near the bed was a small table that too was occupied with his work, except this type of material were the actual projects that he was working on. Pills, herbs, black boxes, shinny jewels, and metallic alloys were scattered on the table and under it. The room was so small and occupied with things that Kisuke was forced to just take a seat on the ground and never sleep, never eat, and never stop working on his many creations.

The night soon ended and the sun quickly shinned its rays of light through the nooks and cracks of the shady shack. Kisuke was still wearing a single cloth around his waist as he was writing something in an observation journal that he would write in everyday to record the progress of the suit he was wearing. A light shot through a crack and landed on his eye which quickly irritated him.

"No! wrong! it's all wrong again."

His hand shook violently as his eye stayed open even as the light was shinning brightly on it.

"There is no Rapid Eye Movement, unstable muscle structure and intensifying needs of cool downs."

He slapped his shaking hand over his eye and a his face structure suddenly changed from unstable and anger to relaxed and sad.

"Why? after a year of occupying myself in this dreadful place have I not been able to create a perfect host for my souls unique pressure....Every single one is a failure. Yoruichi is making promise in her social practice as well as transformation techniques while Tessai is forming a means of new kido spells. Me on the other hand, have made little to zero progress since I introduced these useless bodies to them."

He stood up and cracked his hand a certain way to make it stop from shaking. He then stepped outside where there was a warm breeze that he could only see, but not feel.

"Yet another fault."

In the distance a rift opened and the sounds of a hollow could be heard coming from inside the black hole. Kisuke raised his head as he heard the roars.

"Not again, not so soon."

He snatched a box and tossed his clothing and important papers as well as a few unfinished devices into the box. The roars began to grow closer and closer to his location as he quickly packed everything that he could. In about one or two minutes he had enclosed as many things as he possibly could inside the box he held and quickly leaped out of the door. Upon exiting the shack, a large Menos Grande was standing in front of his path. Kisuke dropped the box and stared at the creature before him.

"H-How did he get here so fast...."

He placed a hand over his waist and felt around the rag around his skin.

"Damn....the bath house."

His eyes centered toward the bath house where the door was wide open with a sheathed blade sitting near the wall.

"No chance of you being able to come back another time is there?"

The Menos only lowered his head to Kisuke's height and shook it's head from side to side as a growling hiss was coming out of its throat.

"Thought so."

He quickly moved and raced toward the bath house in flash step. The Menos swung it's hand at Kisuke and launched him even further away from his destination. As he flew in mid-air, the Menos appeared in Kisuke's path and dropped its arms down on him to force him into the ground. There was a loud crash and the animals around them raced out of the woods as quickly as they could. In the settling dust, the Menos brought it's arms and hands out of the ground and plucked Kisuke's broken and bloodied body suit out of the ground. The Menos let out a laugh as it released Kisuke, to drop him far down once again. Before Kisuke landed, a mysterious woman figure appeared in front of the Menos. She quickly caught Kisuke and raised a blade which made the Menos stop its arm in mid swing. He looked down at the woman figure who was wearing a greyish colored cloak and hood around herself. The only thing that gave away her gender was the fact that she had particular curves around her chest and waist which were rather large. She held her blade out and an unusual aura quickly gathered around the sharp edges of the blade. A blade which was slender and long with a sharp spiral around the hilt over her hand. It glowed a yellowish color on the surface of the metal and shined a crimson color around what appeared to be setting off a thin barrier around her entire form. The Menos took a step back, fearing of the unnatural and unknown pressure that she was exerting from her slender body.

"Come on weakling, just try and touch me already."

She raised her head to allow her glowing red eyes poke out of her hood.

"Fine then, either way your dead. Now Die!"

She flash stepped at an incredible speed and appeared behind the Menos. From one second to the next, the Menos found itself without a head which slowly made it vanish into tiny particles, back to the place where it came. The woman landed on the ground with her blade to her side while she still held Kisuke like a sack of potatoes. She lowered her head and stared at his back which was bloodied and scarred from that small battle with a Menos. Kisuke let out a low moan as his hand cringed into a fist and was then released a second after. She lifted him over her shoulder and straightened her back as she sheathed her blade. She then reached inside the back of her cloak and pulled out a blanket which she wrapped around his waist to cover up any dignity he may have still thought he had.

"Hmph, naked men flying out of sky. What's next? This land....it's pathetic as well as it's people. Father will be proud to hear of this finding. Very very proud." She straightened Kisuke on her shoulders and leapt onto a tree branch which she quickly jumped off so she could make it onto another branch, and then another and another and so forth. As she moved so perfectly through the trees, moving further and further away from Kisuke's temporary home. She lowered her eyes to watch Kisuke's hair flow in the breeze and continued to sprint through the trees.

"Why is this one so special?...he's not like the others I've seen before. There is something very very off about him."

She said to herself as she raised her head and headed off to an unknown location.

~To Be Continued~