Disclaimer
Remember that I own nothing. None of these Characters are originally and even the ones I thought I made myself turn out to be strangely real. Such as the fact that there really was a Lieutenant in Squad 4 with the family name Yamada during the time of Urahara's Captain Period.
(Danielle Karakura town)
It has been around three months since the last time I had been to see my cousin Danny. Not that I don't like to visit, it just is a little awkward because the subject of his parents is always hanging over us. Danny said that if I wanted that he would reveal himself to his parents and except the consequences if I wanted to stay and live with his family. I really didn't but he obviously worries about me.
Even if I did want to settle down with a family, it would not be Jack and Maddie. I don't know think I could trust them. I don't even know how Danny can stand to live under the same roof as them after that time they preformed a vivisection on him. I shivered just thinking about it. I looked up to see that the strange creatures were still flying around in the air. They didn't really bother me. I had seen them before, but they usually run whenever I approach. They were all of different shapes and sizes, but they all had these strange white masks on.
I have been traveling a lot lately using the infinity map and am now is Japan. I know a good amount of Japanese; I think being part ghost makes it easier to pick up languages, or maybe it is because I am still really ten months old even though I look ten years old and there for have a higher rate of learning.
I have been getting by pretty easily. Being a stabilized half ghost means I hardly eat more than once or twice a week and that is more to make sure that I keep growing properly, not because I really get hungry. I don't really need to sleep unless I exert myself, and even then because I can't catch a cold or anything because the ectoplasm in my blood can't catch human diseases I can just sleep under the stars. I took a large quantity of money from Vlad, so I don't need to worry about anything really… but it does get a little lonely.
I sighed and looked ahead on the road. I almost stopped in my tracks. There was an extremely ugly and extremely pink limo style car parked in the middle of the narrow street. I don't know why but I always hated that color. In front of the vehicle were three people, two girls that looked like they were the age I looked like and a creepy looking older man with a stupid looking hat on. One of the girls had black hair, will the other had light brown hair and was carrying a kitten.
Then to my shock some of the flying monsters started to fly straight at them at a low altitude. The older man shouted like an idiot and started running straight at the flying monsters. 'Normal people can't see them.' I thought in fright. 'He is going to die if he keeps running at them like that and he probably doesn't even know that they are there.' I ran straight forward past the girls that were watching the guy and the man himself and directly at the monsters.
There were three of them, I dodged the first two as they came at me before jumping up and doing a small drop kick on the head of the last, putting a bit of ectoplasmic energy into the kick. Danny had always used his hands to attack his opponents. For some reason I always preferred my boots. It might be because I spent a lot of time with Sam and saw the kinds of thing she could do with her military grade boots. The kick broke the mask on the creature and it slowly dissolved.
I turned my head in time to see the weird looking man shoot a blue ball of energy at one of the monsters. It would have been amazing, if it wasn't so slow. The shot missed by a mile and the creatures grabbed him and started to pull him off into the air. The two girls were watching and could clearly also see everything. 'I don't understand, humans aren't supposed to be able to see them.' I thought to myself.
I was about to jump up and help the man, but then a boy with dark red hair and a white t-shirt came out of nowhere and destroyed the monsters using an oversized club. The older man fell down and landed on his face. I winced; landing eight feet onto your face was probably painful. I was surprised how he just got up with all the blood coming from his nose and acted like a big hero asking if the girl if they were ok.
Out of nowhere a bunch of random people showed up and started to treat the man like I had seen Danny get treated sometimes when he didn't escape the Phangirls fast enough. The man grabbed the two girls that had been with him and started to make a break for freedom, just like I had seen Danny do several times. Will he was passing me he turned and said "Come on, you can see them to right? Then come with us." And just kept running. The boy with red hair and another girl with black hair in a pair of ponytails decided to follow they both also looked my age.
'Well it isn't like I had anything else planned.' I thought to myself with a shrug before running along to catch up.
We ran all the way to a nearby park a few blocks away. The only one that got tired was the creepy older man. "Pardon me for asking but, who are you anyways?" the black haired girl that was originally with the creepy guy.
The red haired pointed to himself proudly and declared, "My name is Jinta Hanakari, the one that is going to be batting cleanup in the big leagues some day."
"Isn't super strength kind of cheating in professional sport?" I asked him.
"No." He said looking a little upset. "And I don't need it, I got talent."
"Sure you do, could you even lift that club without whatever you are doing to enhance your strength?" I asked. The way he looked down I would say no.
"I'm Ururu Tsumugiya." The black haired girl that was with the red head said. She gave a little bow, she was wearing a pink skirt but not in an unforgivable amount of the color like that car. She seemed pretty shy and not like all of those cheerleader types that I can't stand.
"I'm Danielle Phantom, but I prefer Dani, nice to meet you." I said give a smile.
"Wait here just a second, do you say Phantom? You wouldn't happen to be related to the Danny Phantom of Amity Park would you?" Asked the creepy guy.
I was a little taken aback that he know who my cousin was, most people outside of the states didn't believe that Amity Park was even a real place, let alone my superhero cousin. "Um, yeah, he is my cousin."
"Amazing and super great." The creepy guy said giving a little dance. "First the younger sisters of my first student and now the cousin of my second all with abilities of their own, how lucky can one man get."
"Who even is this guy?" I asked.
The brown haired girl looked shocked. "You don't know about Don Kanonji? He is a big time TV star. Oh and I'm Yuzu Kurosaki and this is Cammy." She said giving a little bow, introducing herself and her cat. She seemed a little too excited about all this, but at least she was nice.
"Kurosaki?" Jinta looked like he recognized the name. "Then you two must know carrot top."
"You mean you know our brother?" Yuzu asked him.
"Sort of." Ururu answered calmly and looked at Jinta before looking back at Yuzu. "You see that cat?"
"It seems a lot of Hollows are popping up lured here by its spiritual power." Jinta said. A super powered cat huh? That is so cool. I always was a bit of a cat person, not the stuck up house hats like Vlad's, more of the living free alley cats. Though Danny only had his sort of dog, Cujo.
"Hollow? That's what you call them?" The black haired girl that had yet to give her name said.
"What are they? I have seen them in other towns, but never this many, and they all just ran way whenever I looked at them. I never saw any attack anyone." I asked.
"Hollows are spirits that had one of their souls eaten and become soul eating monsters." Jinta said in a matter a fact way. My eyes widened. The creatures I had been ignoring for so long were… how many people died because I didn't act. I shook my head. 'You didn't know. The only thing to do now is to take care of them for now on, like Danny would do.' I thought to myself. "Anyways that cat is what is luring them here. It would be better for everyone if it just moved on."
"What but Cammy's not a ghost." Yuzu said a little upset.
"What? You got it all wrong, that cat is a spirit." Jinta said trying to say that there is a difference.
"No he isn't you need to stop being mean." Yuzu started to cry.
"I don't understand, why does the cat need to pass on?" I asked. "The hollow things aren't exactly strong. Maybe a hunter can use the cat. That way it gets to stay here if it wants and the hunter gets something that will draw the hollows away from other people?" It seemed reasonable to me.
"If only it was that easy. There are billions of hollows in their world, and they aren't all as weak as the ones from earlier." Jinta sighed.
"Wonderful." The crazy man shouted. "What a treat to find so many young and gifted children. Though none of you are a powerful as me." Is this guy thick in the head? "I know I am going to make you all my pupils." Jinta and the unnamed girl both punched the man in the face.
"No thanks." They said together.
Then man fell to his knees. "There is power in you. That much I am sure. But I will do it. So much power, so little time. Of course I will first need to see your true power." He said.
Jinta and the unnamed girl started to argue about who was stronger between them and ran off following the man with the funny hat.
"Well that was weird." I said looking that Yuzu and Ururu. I had no interest in showing off my ghost powers. Not that it mattered if people tried to make me leave town. If someone reacted badly I just left. I never stay in one place to long anyways.
Ururu turned to Yuzu. "Do you know what? Without protection that cat will be attacked again." She said in a rather monotone voice.
Yuzu looked concerned. "Do you think so? Before we had Don Kanonji and Karin to make sure we were safe." I am guessing that those were the names of the man with the hat and Yuzu's sister. "What do we do know?" Yuzu asked.
"I could ask my boss if he would help." Ururu offered.
"Sounds like a plan I guess." I said. "Can I tag along? I would be able to help if you run into anymore of those hollows." I offered.
"Thank you, but what about your family? Won't they get worried?" Yuzu asked me.
I started to rub the back of my neck, a bad habit I picked up from Danny whenever he was uncomfortable. "Well I don't really have any family other then my cousin, but he is back in the States." I admitted. "I really just go where I want and visit him whenever I feel like it."
"What!? That sounds so sad. You don't have any parents? Don't you have a home? What do you do for food?" Yuzu started to ask me questions one after another.
"Don't worry. I might not have parents but I have enough money to get by and the world is my home." I said with a smile while we followed Ururu towards her bosses place. "I would rather not talk about those kinds of things if that is ok with you. Can you tell me who that weird man was?" I asked. She seemed surprised that I never heard of Don Kanonji. Apparently he was some kind of TV star. I never watched too much TV so I did recognize him. It was nice talking to Yuzu, I never really had a chance to talk to anyone 'my own age'. Ururu was also really nice, even if she didn't talk much. It wasn't until then that I realized I never really had friends of my own. Sure there was Sam, Tucker but they were Danny's friends. And Valeria was a ghost hunter and didn't know about Danny, it made things awkward.
After we had been talking and walking for a will we reached the 'Urahara Shop'. We walked up to the front door but there was a sign of it that I couldn't read. "Out to lunch." Ururu read it out loud. "Sorry." Ururu started to get depressed that her idea to help wasn't working that well.
After Yuzu and I cheered her up she asked us. "What do you want to do?"
"Well if you think that this Kisuke person can do something, then I guess I will wait until he gets back. There is really nothing else we can do." Yuzu said with a shrug. Ururu still looked a little depressed so she added. "Thank you Ururu." Ururu cheered up and smiled back.
Suddenly Ururu's smile was gone and her eyes widened. "Hollows they have come here now." She said seriously. I turned to see that she was right. Almost a dozen hollows were standing there waiting to attack. "Hurry inside." Ururu instructed us. We followed her through the front door and out through the back. Ururu then turned around lifting a heavy cannon over her shoulder and running with it back towards the hollows.
"Ururu!" Yuzu called after her.
"Don't worry Yuzu, I think she knows what she is doing, but if they really are drawn towards the cat then we need to get away so that they stop coming. That is the best thing you can do to help Ururu." I comforted Yuzu. I was worried to, and a little guilty. I didn't want to reveal my ghost powers to Yuzu and Ururu. I didn't want them to react badly. They were the first real friends I ever had. "Come on, I will keep you safe." I told her and we started out of the back alley.
"I think we should head for the roof tops. That way no one will get hurt if something happens." Yuzu said thinking about civilians.
"Good idea." I responded seeing some hollows circling about.
We head for the roof of one of the taller buildings. 'Why are earth did we do this. Now there is nowhere to run.' I thought to myself turning to see that we were surrounded.
Some of the flying ones started too swooped down at us and I moved in front of Yuzu and Cammy preparing to throw up a ghost shield to stop them. But before I could Cammy started to glow pink and the hollows bounced off of an invisible shield. "Cammy?" Yuzu asked in astonishment.
I looked back towards the hollows and saw that they were again regrouping. But before they could attack Don Kanonji jumped out of nowhere shouting. "Smells like bad spirits!" On the top of his lungs. He shoot off one of those blue energy balls, but it was so slow that the hollow it was aimed at easily dodged it.
The hollow in question lunged at Don Kanonji who squealed like a little girl. But Jinta got behind the hollow and hit the energy ball back at the hollow and destroyed it. The glow around Cammy disappeared once we were safe.
"Cammy?" Yuzu asked the cat which meowed in response. "Oh Cammy." We then turned around to see a display that I am embarrassed to admit I was there to see.
"Sorry to keep you waiting little girls." Don Kanonji said with is arms crossed across his chest, Karin and Jinta on either side of him in ridicules poses. "But there is no need to worry anymore because we are here."
"Karakura Red, Karin Korusaki." Karin said still in the weird pose.
"And the real Karakura Red, Jinta Hanakari." Jinta said also in a dumb pose. This apparently led to another fight between Jinta and Karin. 'No sense of priorities. Glad Danny and I aren't like this.' I thought to myself. 'Then again I am hiding my powers out of fear of being rejected.' The thought saddened me a little.
"Look this is what we are going to do. We will decide who is red based on your performance today." Don Kanonji said.
This lead to a rather lousy fight. Jinta managed to hit several hollows but they all just stayed out of Karin and the pole she had with a blade on the end that she took from Don Kanonji's reach. She ended up abandoning it and using a soccer ball instead. Don Kanonji didn't even do anything but shout motivation trying to get them to compete with one and other.
"Karin?" Yuzu called out worriedly.
"Yuzu, Dani get out of here." Karin said to her sister.
Yuzu and I started to run for the fire escape when the hollows released that there intended prey was escaping. They tried to give chase.
Yuzu tripped, I looked back and saw one of the hollows swooping down to get her and my blood started to boil. I jumped in front of her lifting one leg up as far as I could before bringing it down on the top of the hollows head with plenty of ghost energy, not only destroying the mask and erasing the hollow but leaving a mark of the ground. "Don't you dare. Hurt. My. Friend!" I shouted.
A blue ring appeared around my waist and expanded over my body. Gone was my normal clothes and black hair with blue eyes. I was in my black and white jumpsuit with the Phantom logo on my chest. My white hair and green eyes had settled in. I was ready to fight.
Charging up the bottom of my feet with an ecto bolts kicked my right foot out towards the hollows that were on the ground releasing a wave of ectoenergy that throw them back and destroyed some of them. Placing my right foot on the ground I pivoted on it shifting my weight and doing a spin kick with the other leg this time aiming at the aerial enemies. Knocked back and startled the hollows tried to regrouped.
"A ghost?" "Why is there a ghost here?" "Imposable she was alive." "Damn ghosts." The hollows started to curse me.
"Sorry, did I forget to say boo?" I teased.
"Dani, is that really you?" Yuzu asked from behind me.
"Yeah it's me. Sorry I didn't tell you." I apologized before turning my attention back to the hollows. A small group of them jumped forward and I was preparing to take them out when shots were heard and the Hollows disappeared. I turned my head to see Ururu with the large multi-shot cannon from earlier at the fire escape.
"What is this, two more of the new generation? Wonderful, there are so many red candidates here." Don Kanonji said in that wacky fashion of his.
"Wow, Dani… you're a ghost?" Jinta said with wide eyes before shaking his head. "I don't care, neither of you two are going to take the red title from me."
"How many times do I have to tell you 'you're not red'?" Karin shouted.
"Doesn't matter to me. I always liked the color blue better." I said raising my hands covered in the ice blue energy of the Phantom Phrost. I shoot the blue beams of energy across the group of hollows freezing about five of them to the spot.
"Great then you can be Karakura Blue." Don Kanonji said clapping his hands together. "As for the rest of you. Whoever gives the top performance gets to be Karakura Red." I am not sure I want to know what they are talking about.
I returned my focus to the hollows because something was happening. They are turn into a red and black liquidly like thing and began to morph together. In the end they turned into one hollow roughly forty feet long with no legs and a snake like tail. "What on earth is that?" Karin shouted.
"So you finally showed yourself bad spirit king? Come on kids it's time to get to work." Don Kanonji said.
"Yeah!" Everyone shouted.
"But first let's go over our strategy." Don Kanonji said.
"What are you kidding. All he has done is reduced the number of butts we have to kick down to one. Ururu I am going get behind it, once I get its attention fire at it from its blind spot." I said walking forward charging up my feet with ectoenergy. "You know what they say about larger opponents. The bigger they are, the louder they cry uncle."
I kicked off the ground using my ecto charged feet launching myself forward. The hollow swung an oversized arm at me but I just turned intangible letting it pass straight through me. I landed a knee in its lower jaw and it staggered slightly. I used the upward momentum to flip over behind him and started to toss ecto bolts at its back.
The hollow turned giving out a shout of pain and swung an arm at me. I dodged it with easy and flew just out of reach forcing it to turn and move towards me. Ururu then started to fire on his blind spot on the back of the head.
The hollow raised one hand to try to block the fire and turned his head trying to see what was shooting at him. This gave me an opening to come in close and I kicked the inside of the elbow of the arm that was still supporting him causing him to lose balance and fall on his face. I flew up above him and started to make icicles and threw them at him.
Unfortunately the icicles I made weren't concentrated enough and didn't have a sharp enough point to penetrate the hollows skin. The hollow whipped out its tall but I turned intangible letting it pass straight through me again. This was a mistake.
"AAAHHHHH!" I turned my head to see Yuzu and Cammy being thrown off of the roof together.
"Yuzu!" Karin and I shouted. I was preparing to fly to her rescue when Cammy started to glow pink again. Cammy grow out and turned into a huge lion with a flaming orange mane and a red head piece and saddle. Cammy flew over to Yuzu and caught her lowering her gentle to the ground.
"Ok, that was cool." I admitted.
"What is that?" Jinta asked.
"It is a Miracle, or combined desire for justice has called forth a miracle." Don Kanonji said in his usual goofy manner. Cammy then jumped up flying back to the roof and rammed the hollow knocking it off of the roof. "That is the hero robot sent to us by the gods. The Karakura Sonic Lion." Cammy roared as if to approve the name.
"That is clearly not what happened but I do like the name." I said with a smile. Then I remembered what was going on. "Shouldn't we finish off that hollow?" I asked.
This shocked everyone out of reveling in how assume Cammy the Sonic Leon was and got them focused back on the task at hand. They all ran down the fire escape as fight as they could and reacted the bottom before the hollow could recover.
"Alright kids, attack formation." Don Kanonji said. Everyone got prepared to attack, will I was five stories up making the sharpest spear out of ice that I could manage. Don Kanonji used some kind of technique to produce two of those extremely slow moving energy balls of his. Jinta hit them with his oversized metal club and knocked them into the hollow.
It caused a moderate amount of damage. Karin followed it up by kicking a soccer ball at the hollow. I have no idea how such an attack managed to push the monster back. But Ururu followed it up with her cannon fire and that did quite a bit and held the hollow still. I dived down at full speed aiming for the mask. The spear head going through one of the eye sockets of the mask and into the hollows head getting buried deep in the mask. The hollow gave out one final scream and disappeared from existence.
"You know it really should have try combining before we wiped out half of its guys." I commented as I flouted back towards the others. The others along with Cammy who had reverted back to the shape of a kitten were gathered around Yuzu making sure she was ok. They looked to me as I approached. "Sorry I didn't tell you I am a ghost. People usual don't respond well to that fact." I apologized.
"Doesn't really matter." Jinta said trying to hide the fact that he was nervous. "I am still the best on the team, even if you have all those ghost abilities."
"You kicked butt." Ururu said simply with a small smile.
"Thanks for saving Yuzu back there." Karin said.
I looked to Yuzu afraid of what her reaction would be. "You were amazing Dani, I just wish I could have helped more."
"Wonderful the Karakura Super Heroes are born today." Don Kanonji said loudly. I wonder if he realizes the fact that everyone was in danger or if it is all a TV stunt to him.
"Sounds like fun, what do you think Dani, Ururu?" Yuzu asked clapping her hands together.
"I suppose it couldn't hurt, can I be Karakura Pink?" Ururu asked his she monotone voice.
"Sure I think I will be Yellow." Yuzu said then looked at me.
I rubbed the back of my neck. "I guess I already said I would be Blue, even if it was just for the banter." I finally said with a smile. "Just don't ask me to change my uniform, it tradition."
"Great then there are no complaints about me being Red." Jinta said with a smile.
"I told you that I am Red." Karin shouted and jumped on Jinta and they began to fight again.
"And I Don Kanonji the TV personality will be your charismatic leader producer Karakura Gold." Don Kanonji said. Immediately the fight between Karin and Jinta ended.
"Leader? You? You have got to be kidding me." They said angrily.
"Come on kids it is time for you to put your differences aside and follow your leader producer." Don Kanonji said swinging his arms around.
"We quit!" Jinta and Karin shouted together punching Don Kanonji in the face and knocking him unconscious.
"That lasted longer than I thought it would." I joked.
Yuzu laughed but then with a sad smile said. "I guess Cammy really is a spirit. Does this mean that he has to pass on?"
"I am afraid so." Jinta said sadly.
But then another voice was heard. "Now I would say that."
We all turned to see a man with light blond hair underneath a stripped hat, in one of his hands was a cane and in the other a fan. With him was a very tall black man wearing an apron.
"Mr. Urahara!" "Boss!" Jinta and Ururu said as the man approached.
"The cat may be a spirit with a good deal of spiritual power, but I don't think anymore hollow will try to attack it." Urahara said fanning himself while bearing a smug grin.
"Why is that?" Yuzu said with a hopeful smile on her face.
"Well that is easy. Hollows never go near ghosts. They put up to much of a fight and aren't worth the trouble. And from what I saw of your little fight this little girl is one interesting ghost." Urahara said closing his fan and pointing it straight at me. "Please indulge me little Missy, how does a ghost like yourself have a spiritual presents. I was lead to believe from the historical documents that ghost particles can't hold onto spiritual energy."
I blinked. I didn't know any of that. To tell the true I never cared much for the random spirits that couldn't interact with the outside world. "It might be because I am only a half ghost." I said hardly thinking. 'Shoot, I didn't just tell him that did I?'
He smiled. "And here I thought that ghost particles were incompatible with both organic and spiritual particle. You learn something new every century. This is a sweet deal, now the hollow attacks will slow down even though there is no decent Soul Reaper guarding the town. Since you aren't attacking us right now I am going to assume you aren't a bad ghost." He said rubbing his chin. Then a frown crossed his face. "You look familiar. What is your name again?"
"Danielle Phantom, but I prefer to go by Dani, spelt with an 'i'." I said transforming back into my human form. Both Urahara and the man that accompanied him paled.
"Three days ago a boy by the name of Danny Phantom showed up in town to be part of a rescue team. I sent him into the Soul Society." Urahara said.
"That sounds like something my cousin would do." I admitted.
"Is your cousin… also a half ghost by any chance?" He asked.
"Yeah he is." I responded not understanding their reaction.
"Out of curiosity… how strong is he." Urahara asked.
I smiled. "Danny is the strongest there has ever been. He even beat Pariahs Dark in single combat about a year ago and he has gotten stronger since." I said proudly.
Urahara looked like he might have also been a ghost he was so white. "Mr. Tessai… I think we might have just sent a ghost… into the Soul Society…"
"Not only that. But he only got Soul Reaper powers a month ago. That mean that without them he was already more powerful then Pariahs Dark." The black man now identified as Mr. Tessai said.
"Oh man we screwed this one up." Urahara confessed.
"What do you mean?" I asked them.
"Last time a ghost was in the Soul Society Pariahs wiped out half of the Seireitei. And if what you are saying is true. Then we just sent a ghost with the destructive power of a Soul Reaper, plus the unstoppable abilities of a ghost into the Seireitei." Urahara said with a gulp. "We sent them in trying to stop a disaster. But we might have just signed their death warrants. I was worried about that ghost dog getting out of hand but this. Why didn't Yamada tell me this?"
"Danny isn't a killer." I said with a glare. "He only tries to help people, and Cujo is a good dog."
Urahara looked at me and then sighed. "I can only hope you are right. Because there is nothing I can do about it now." Then he lifted up his head and the smile was back. "Anyways, if you stick around the cat then you don't have to worry about any hollows attacking it. And since it has realized its spiritual powers it won't turn into a hollow regardless the amount of time it spends here."
"Really that is great." Yuzu said. "Do you want to stay at my house Dani? We have plenty of room." Yuzu asked with a smile.
My eyes widened and I looked at Karin who nodded. "So you're not scared of me? Or think I am weird."
"You helped protect my sister, and you haven't seen weird until you met our dad." Karin said with a shrug.
I laughed. "You have never seen my uncle and aunt." I joked.
"Really because our dad has a giant poster of our mom from when she was alive in the middle of the kitchen wall that he openly cries on when someone upsets him, and he does a flying screw kick at our older brother whenever he enters the same room." Karin said.
"They drive around town in a tank shouting how they are going to tear ghost apart molecule by molecule and don't wear anything but skin tight brightly colored jump suits." I responded.
"My brother and I have been able to see the spirits of the dead since we were little kids and now Yuzu can see them to." Karin responded as if it was a competition but I know who will win.
"My cousin and I are both half dead and the ghosts built a museum in his honor and worship him as a superhero, and I am really only ten months old." I responded.
"Ok you win." Karin said hands in the air. "Your family is weirder then mine."
"You're kidding, I only scratched the tip of the iceberg on my families weirdness." I said with a victories grin. But then I looked down and blushed a little, I really did want to stay… if only for a little while. "But if you're sure you will have me I don't see why not. I should warn you though. I only sleep one or two nights a week and only need to eat about as many times. It is a half ghost thing."
"I will make note of that." Urahara said getting my attention again. "What? I want to know all I can about everything. Curiosity is my sin, I can't help it." He said with a wacky grin. "Maybe you could come over and tell some things about ghost? Not necessarily how to fight them, just what they have been up to. They disappeared from the Soul Society about a thousand years ago. I want to know what they have been up to all this time."
"I guess that couldn't hurt anyone." I said looking at the guy, he was crazy, but I liked him more than Don Kanonji.
"Great, then I guess we will get out of your hair then. Oh and Jinta, make sure you finish your chores before you go hollow fighting. And don't try blaming Ururu for it." Urahara said with a grin before walking off. Ururu giving a little bow before following and Jinta looking like he was caught with a hand in the cookie jar.
I followed Karin and Yuzu back to their house with Cammy explaining to them the differences between Ghosts and Souls or Spirits. It took a little will to explain to her father what was going on but his reaction was different than I expected. "So let me get this straight. You want to let a girl you meet only today that is not entirely human into our home when she has no contacts, no medical history, or anything that proves that she even exists." Their father, Isshin Kurosaki said. I was prepared for him to say no. Why would anyone except something like this out of the blue? He clapped his hands down on his knees and looked up with a serious look in his eyes.
Suddenly all pretence of seriousness was gone. "Ok!" he shouted with a goofy smile on his face. I was a little taken aback. "I am going to go call an old war buddy of mine to make some fake birth certificates and medical records. I will also need to contact another one to hack a school and make a fake history for you. But since you're going to be in a primary school no one will ask question." He said scratching his chin and acting like it was no big deal.
"Dad you weren't part of a war." Yuzu said.
"Sure I was, it was a doctor thing a little while back. The war on poor medical research." He said clearly making this stuff up as he went. "Of course none of them have forgiven me for leaving after I met your mother, but I can still call in a little favor like this one." He walked over to a phone and picked it up along with a camera. Dialing a number he waited for someone to pick up on the other side. "Ryūken, it's me Isshin… sorry I didn't tell my son anything about yours so that is just as much your fault as it is mine… Sorry, but I didn't call because of our kids. I have a ten month old girl here with the appearance of a ten year old, no medical record and no birth certificate and I want to take her in and start sending her to school… yeah I know… I know… yes I am an idiot and this is none of your business, but please this isn't about us. The girl has nowhere to go… thanks, I will send you a picture of her right away, her name is Danielle Phantom but we should probably change the family name to something a little less obvious…"
He covered the mouth piece and asked what I wanted the family name to be. "I guess Manson would work right?" I asked.
"Sure thing." Isshin said with a grin before turning back to the phone. "We're going to go with Manson for the family name… thanks I owe you one." He hung up the phone. "It is just that easy. My other friend never answers his phone, so I will have to walk by his shop. Yuzu, help you friend feel at home." He said before walking out the door.
"He works fast." I commented. "From Karin's description I thought he would be different."
"He is a goofy guy but he is always serious when it comes to helping people out." Karin said. We spent the rest of the day talking about things and they helped me settle into a guest room. Isshin had me signed up to go to school with Karin and Yuzu. Things were looking pretty good.
(Clockwork, Clockwork's tower)
I watched as young Danielle's little adventure came to an end. Passing my hand over the monitors I saw an image of Captain Aizen and then to a picture of destruction, hundreds dead and buildings crushed and mountains turned to rubble. In the middle of it all was a strange creature that was in the shape of a man with eight wings with mouths at the joints and covered from head to foot in a white plaster like exoskeleton.
"We can't ignore this threat any longer. Clockwork you must do something." An Observant, the bane of my eternity started to wine. He glared at me with his over sized eyeball that just screamed to be punched. "If you don't then even the Ghost Zone may not be safe."
I exhaled a breath that had no air in it to calm myself before speaking. "That is the problem with you Observant, you watch, but you never act or plan. The world has already pervaded us with a solution all we have to do is take it." I shifted from my older form back to one of a child as my staff moved by the monitors changing them to a live feed of Daniel jumping across the Seireitei.
"The child will not be victorious. You know that as well as we do." A second Observant said.
"Perhaps if left to his own devises. He has grown much in the last month all in order to be part of this rescue mission. But after it is over he will return home for his never end fight against the ghosts that you refuse to stop. If we want him to be ready, then we must take action to prevent that. Forbid the ghosts from entering Amity for six months. In that amount of time we will be able to see whether or not there is any hope." I explained my plan to the Observant shifting back into my adult form.
"And if he should fail?" the first one asked.
I shifted into my elder form, a saddened look on my face. "Then there was never any hope to begin with. The future Aizen is of the level that his presents the same problem as Dan's. I can't simply erase him from history because he is no longer bound by logic. Preventing his existence will not stop his from existing when history says he should. The boy is our only hope against this kind of threat." The monitor changed showing Daniel overcoming his older self. "You say I put too much faith in the boy. You just don't understand that there is no other option. Just like killing him would not have stopped Dan it will not stop Aizen."
The Observant looked at each other. "Just make sure he is stopped Clockwork. It is your…"
"…responsibility, I know, I know, god I don't even need to see through time to know what you are going to say." I complained. Maybe I am being childish but the Observant don't understand that time is not all powerful. Some things will exist because the universe will have them. I shook my head. "I am busy, so if you would be so kind as to observe the door." I joked, but they started at the door for a whole three minutes before realizing I was telling them to leave. 'God, these things are stupid. Why do I have to work for them?' I sighed turning my attention back to the monitors, an image of Samantha Manson appearing. 'Soon you will realize your part in all this. Everything is exactly as it should be… I hope.' I thought.
Yes I am pulling out the Clockwork card. Deal with it.
I decided to bring Danielle and Sam into the story, and Cammy is going to stay. I am planning on having the Karakura superheroes to actually take part in future events. Yes I will be adding a lot of extra content when/if I get to the Bounts as far as bad guys go. That is because Danny is a beast and where Ichigo and his friends failed hard against the Bounts do to their lack of versatility, Danny has a lot of different skills that are not just shot the thing or bulging the thing.
Like Danny, I had Danielle be nervous about rejection at first and then reveal herself because she didn't have a choice. I am sticking with Hollows not wanting to risk a fight with a ghost as a means of keeping them away. So until Ichigo and his friends come back and flaunt their tasty souls out in public the town is safe.
(Spoiler to my story at least) There are a lot of similarities between Cammy and Cujo, and the two of them will be a team in the future.