Uneventfully Extraordinary
[A/N] Hi! Thank you to Littlesister28516 for alerting, neko-cookie-yuki and aujourd'hui for alerting and reviewing, TippyTurtle for favoriting my story, and LuciansLycanNightShade for doing all three! I'm grateful that people are enjoying this. Sorry for the late update… I'm a failure… but if you knew you would understand, or not… but that's okay! Because while fighting with this chapter I put together ideas for the future! Because, yes, this IS going somewhere… hopefully :3
Well, again those of you who want romance, you know what to do, there's a poll, or well you could review. Got one vote for romance so still holding off, though it definitely is beginning to look like a probability because I'm thinking up ways to keep this from being too bland…
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or any of its affiliated characters, both Bleach and its characters belong to Tite Kubo; I do however retain the ownership of my OC Yumi.
Story Start
Standing before a tan woman with gold eyes and violet hair a young woman with teal hair and violet eyes carefully backed away. Taking a few steps back the currently half undressed teal haired woman stared fearfully at the nude golden eyed woman before her, "Yoruichi… Y'know, I think it's time you admitted your feelings for me. I mean really, every time I see you human you have your clothes off, it's almost like you're suggesting something…" the violet eyed girl struggled to joke in the hopes of discharging the predatory look she was being given.
All she received for her efforts was a large grin that only added to threatening look directed at her. "Yumi, why are so afraid of clothes? Is it because you secretly love them?" Yoruichi asked in a knowing voice.
A slight blush graced Yumi's cheeks, "Why would I like such frilly things! They just get in the way!"
Yoruichi's smirk grew. "If its frills your worried about, hehehe" She chuckled darkly.
"OH HELL NO!" Yumi yelled and ran out of the room. Unfortunately Yoruichi was slightly faster.
"Come on," Yoruichi pulled the struggling shinigami into the room.
The two blondes, Hirako Shinji and Urahara Kisuke, were sitting together at the table in Kisuke's back room, attempting to keep the latter from spurting blood everywhere yet again, while Shihoin Yoruichi and Yamamoto Yumi stood in the doorway. Both thankfully clothed.
When the two women had entered the room Kisuke was thankfully facing away from the door across from Shinji. Shinji seeing them enter, and the unfortunate outfit the cat-woman had forcefully put on the teal haired girl, immediately blushed and turned to his fellow man, "Urahara, whatever you do don't turn around."
"What are you talking about Hirako-san~?" Kisuke questioned attempting to turn his head when Shinji's hands grabbed his face.
"For your health, don't turn around. That cat is trying to kill you, I know it," Shinji said adamantly.
"If it's Yoruichi-san's appearance, don't worry~! I've seen her transform many times before~!" this received the shop keeper a roll of the eyes from Shinji and a kick to the back of the head from Yoruichi. With Shinji's grip loosened from Yoruichi's kick Kisuke was able to turn his head to complain about how Yoruichi no longer loved him, but the moment he turned his head he fell to the floor, thankfully without a nosebleed this time.
"See? I told you that dress was a knockout," Yoruichi gave a shit eating grin to Yumi.
Yumi simply scowled, turning her head away from the patronizing woman beside her. Adorning her frame was a black spaghetti strap mini dress with an empire waist, which flared out after that white empire belt with bow, with millions of black ruffles that lifted the top of the dress to a 60 degree angle as opposed to its original 0. Covering the top of this dress was a white cardigan with three quarter length sleeves.
Shinji had given up on reviving the KOed blonde, "Why is she wearing that she's not going to a wedding or anything is she?" he asked sarcastically.
"As a matter of fact no, she's not going to a wedding or anything in this," Yumi answered in third person indignantly.
"Don't be like that Yumi-chan," Yoruichi's grin got impossibly wider, "You chose this dress yourself."
Shinji's expression was overflowing with disbelief. "Oh, WHATEVER! The clothes you gave me were either frilly as hell or skanky as hell! What do mean I chose it myself, if I wore anything I chose myself it'd be a yukata…" she began grumbling to herself resentfully.
Yoruichi's grin shrank a bit, but soon enlarged enough to possible split her face in two, "But you did choose it…"
"That's it!" Yumi yelled and promptly began stripping of the cardigan and began working on the frilly number she was wearing attempting to make her way out of the room, but she tripped on Kisuke's cane that had somehow ended up across the room when he fainted.
At this point the blonde began to awaken, only to be met with the sight of a Ruffle Monster on the floor. "Be gone foul beast! My Adorable little Yumi-chan is terrified of Ruffle Monsters, but I am feeling gracious so if you leave now I will spare you're life!" Kisuke called out presumptuously. Only to be met with silence. A few minutes past where even the Ruffle Monster refrained from stirring, then the room broke out in laughter. Shinji and Yoruichi were rolling on the floor, while the Ruffle Monster grew arms and legs and began to pound them against the floor also laughing in a voice that sounds suspiciously like Yumi. When the laughter died down the Ruffle Monster used its new found legs to stand up, while it used its new found arms to attempt to straighten its self out. The finished product of these efforts being a slightly disheveled Yumi.
The bluenette promptly gave the shop keeper a hug. "Well at least someone remembers that I hate ruffles," Yumi grinned, then straightened. "Okay! Hirako-san, let's go so I can hurry up and change into decent clothes~!" She said with brand new energy and picked up the sword that had been inconspicuously hiding in the back of the room.
"Um yeah," he mumbled and stood as Yumi grabbed her cardigan from the floor, and made sure her ever present choker was secure, "Hey what are you gonna wear for shoes?" he asked the bluenet.
Yumi gave him an evil smirk, "Well, definitely nothing Yoruichi-dono gives me." And preceded to the front of Urahara's home that doubled as his shop, sliding her zanpakuto through her white belt.
Yumi and Shinji were standing in front of an empty lot in an old district of Kurakura that was home to several old warehouses. "So this is it huh?" Yumi asked whistling at the empty lot.
Shinji quirked an eyebrow, "Do you even know what you're talking about?"
Yumi gave him a smirk, "But of course, Hirako-san! Now all we need to do is find a way in before those Second Division members find us."
"…yeah follow me…" Shinji said searching for reiatsu as he entered the lot and disappeared.
Yumi grinned, "Cool trick Hirako-san~! My turn~!" and she skipped into the empty lot disappearing.
When she had walked through the threshold to the lot, Yumi felt like she was being eaten by an invisible wall, it was pulling and sting her, like it was trying to digest her. The strangest part though, was that she could have sworn that it was prodding her reiatsu, like a person's. After what seemed to be hours, she came through the strange wall and was only four three feet from where she had been standing before. 'Obviously I have no sense of time…' she thought to herself, as she looked towards Shinji, smiling when she saw a large warehouse behind him. Shinji was standing there with a thoughtful look on his face while he was spacing out, "Soooo, gonna invite me Hirako-san?"
Shinji snapped out of his thoughts and looked to a grinning Yumi, "You sure you wanna go in there? It's like the zoo, not the best place to live…" He said hoping to delay the situation.
"And yet you managed to live there and not smell like elephant droppings…" Yumi mused, "Surely, there is something that Hirako Taicho has yet to teach me…" saying the last bit to herself a bit too loud, causing Shinji to shoot her a reprimanding look, to which she simply grinned in response.
"Che. Whatever, come on." Shinji caved, leading the bluenette into the warehouse, "Oi, we have company so everybody wake up!" Shinji called into the dark of the warehouse.
Before Yumi understood what happened she was pinned to the ground in front of the doorway, a black haired woman wearing a sailor type school girl uniform and glasses over her, and said woman's braided black hair tickling her nose, "So you are cute, I knew it would be a good idea to keep you here, good work Shinji," the woman said in a calm tone.
Her tone however, did nothing to ease Yumi's discomfort as she began to struggle under the black haired woman, "Let me up!" Yumi yelled, as her efforts brought her closer to once again becoming a Ruffle Monster.
Lisa leaned back so she was simply straddling the downed teal haired girl, then she began to take in her appearance. Thankfully just as a perverted glint entered the black haired woman's eyes Yumi was pulled out from under her, albeit roughly, by a muscular man with gray hair.
"She just got here Lisa, give her some time before you attack her," said a man with long blonde hair and an angular face.
Yumi wasn't listening though; she was too busy staring down the gray haired man that was holding her in the air under her arms. "… I know you…" said the gray with narrowed eyes.
"… You're very muscular…" Yumi said, causing the gray man to raise a pierced brow, "…And you appear young… but your hair is gray…" The man's already narrowed eyes glinted with a dare. "Jii-san* are you going through your midlife crisis?"
"THAT'S IT!" The gray yelled throwing Yumi across the warehouse.
"KENSEI!" a thin green haired girl whined, "Why did you throw Yumi-chan?" the lime haired girl then jumped onto his back and began pounding on him, "That's so mean! We haven't seen her in such a long time!"
"MASHIRO GET OFF! ARGHHH!" he yelled when one of his piercings caught on Mashiro's orange gloves. How this happened will forever remain a mystery to the rest of the vizards, but frankly they didn't really car. "WHY YOU LITTLE-!" he detaches the small woman and throws her off; he then starts breathing heavily in the hopes of not killing everyone in a three mile radius.
At this point a dark-skinned man with a star shaped afro is helping Yumi up, "Are you okay?" he asks.
"Huh? Oh yeah, sorry I wasn't prepared for an old man to throw me… but yeah I'm fine, it's not like that old man is like my Tou-san or anything… dude is scary… and buff…" Yumi shudders at the memory of seeing her Tou-san shirtless when he was training with Shunsui. "You're… Aikawa Taicho, right?"
"I'm not a Taicho anymore, but yes, I'm Aikawa Love. You're Yamamoto Yumi?"
"You can just call me Yumi," she said nonchalantly, attempting to keep the vast ruffles of her dress from eating her.
"OI YOU BOKE!" a small blond girl with freckles and read capri pants and jacket called out to Yumi, with a sword slung across her shoulders.
Yumi turned towards the loud girl and froze for all of five seconds before launching herself at the blonde "Sarugaki Hiyori Fuku-taicho!" Hiyori froze the moment skin met skin as she was tightly embraced by the teal haired girl. Yumi picked her up continuing to hold her and began swinging her around, "Sarugaki Fuku-taicho! It's been so long! Kyaaa~! I just saw Urahara-san earlier and he's doing well too~!" She squealed happily, effectively causing everyone in the warehouse to stare in disbelief. Somebody likes Hiyori? Something is obviously wrong with the universe.
"B-b-b-boke! L-let me go!"
"Hmmmm? Okay!" the teal released the blonde and smiled brightly at her. Then she noticed a small blush grazing the blonde's cheeks, instantly turning her smile into a shit eating grin. "So did ya miss me?"
"BOKE! OF COURSE I DIDN'T MISS A RUNT LIKE YOU! YOU WERE ALWAYS IN THE WAY AND NOW YOU'RE STILL IN THE WAY!"
"Aw Sarugaki Fuku-taicho! You're so mean to me! Even after all those special nights we had together!" Yumi teased her, simultaneously making everyone except Mashiro and Hachi blush profusely.
"B-BOKE STOP TALKING LIKE THAT!" The blonde haired girl yelled gaining a dark aura. Hiyori then charges Yumi sword in hand.
"Sarugaki Fuku-taicho!" Yumi whined, "These are the only clothes I have right now!" as she narrowly dodged the blonde's sword. All Yumi received was a growl in reply, and they continued on Hiyori lunging, slashing, and thrusting her sword at the teal, while Yumi, easily dodged all her attacks, making the entire scene seem more like Yumi was a dancing puppet and Hiyori the puppeteer. "Sarugaki Fuku-taicho, I thought you would have learned some new moves by now, and you've gotten slower…" She trailed off in thought, "Grrrrr, DAMMIT SARUGAKI! STOP GOING EASY ON ME!" she yelled at the blonde as she dodged an attack aimed at her entrails.
This immediately caused the blonde to smirk and gain a sadistic look, "So you figured I was going easy huh? Boke it's cause I didn't want to hurt you but if you insist," she brought her hand up to her face, pulling it down as a white, for lack of a better word, goblin mask with a horn centered between the brows formed on her face. Yumi noted the color change in her eyes too; the whites of her eyes had turned black and the irises gold.
Then Yumi noted the reiatsu. Instantly Yumi's mind flooded with images that left her weak, Kisuke standing over her teaching her about her reiatsu, the Taichos while they were training, a small cat with a hollow mask and a hole through its chest, Aizen standing over Hirako-san about to attack him while he has some strange white goo coming out of his face, the Taichos of third, fifth, seventh, and ninth, along with the Fuku-taichos of eighth, ninth, and twelfth and a large man with pink hair all laying on the ground writhing in pain under Kisuke's calculation and thoughtful gaze and shocked look of the Kido Corps Commander, the day she went to visit her friends and everyone was gone, Kisuke, Yoruichi, Shinji, Rose, Love, Kensei, Lisa, Mashiro, and Hiyori, Her crying all alone in her room afraid even more of Aizen Fuku-taicho and screaming every time she heard a sound in her room. She knew where this reiatsu was from. She'd never forget it.
Breaking out her daze Yumi looked down at her arm seeing red stain her cardigan where Hiyori had cut her. Looking back up to the blonde she shivered. What neither the blonde nor the teal had noticed was that the rest of the vizards were watching carefully; ready to keep anything from going too far, and also watching for any change in Yumi in relation to the secret they never meant to share with her. "So this is what Urahara-san meant by hollowfication…" Yumi said quietly gaining a few unnoticed looks as she stared down the vizard before her. Suddenly Hiyori disappeared from in front of the teal causing Yumi to immediately release her reiatsu blanketing the inside of the warehouse and drew her sword, sheath and all, from her belt. She turned around quickly and blocked a second attack from Hiyori, but the malice that had rested in those unearthly eyes, had dimmed and looked more like Hiyori's.
Yumi and Hiyori continued their dance, now much more evenly matched than they should have been, as Hachi, a large pink haired vizard in a green suit, felt this reiatsu yet again. He had attempted to examine it while she had walked through his force field that hid the warehouse and the reiatsu inside of it, but she had rejected him, and managed to speedily walk through the barrier. Now that she had released her reiatsu however, he knew it immediately, it was the same one that had washed over him while he had gone through his hollowfication. Before, much like a few of the others he had mistaken it has Urahara's, and others had thought it was Tessai's, but now he knew that the young woman before them had been there.
"Gin, have you been able to locate her yet?"
"Gomen, Aizen Taicho, loo' 'ike sh' h'din' pr'ty well. C'dn't ev'n f'nd s'm reiatsu a' Urahara's."
"That will have to be fixed…" Aizen said.
"Perhaps the brute, Zaraki can be used. He seems to want to find her just as much," replied a new voice.
"Kaname, good you're here," Aizen acknowledged him.
"B't ya f'rget, Zaraki Taicho wans ta figh' 'er. Pro'lly ev'n k'll 'er," Gin pointed out.
"If he fights her, we will save her right before the fatal stroke," Aizen decreed, "then she will no doubt join us, having to little will to resist after such a fight, and feeling grateful."
"Tha's on'y 'f 'e c'n f'nd 'er" Gin chuckled out.
"Don't worry about that Ichimaru Taicho, I ensure Zaraki finds this teal haired weasel," Kaname ironically said.
"…'ow ya kno' sh' 'as teal 'air?" Gin asked cautiously.
"My Fuku-taicho often referred to her as such. I assume that is the color of her hair?" Kaname asked.
"…yea'" came Gin's confirmation.
"Kurotsuchi Taicho, please give you're report," Yamamoto stated, standing at the head of the meeting hall that all the Taichos had gathered in.
"It appears that she could burn out this next week if she either continues to use her reiatsu or has kept off her monster. However, if she hasn't done either of these things it could be a month minimal. Without further details on the target I have no way of knowing the exact amount of time." He shot a glare towards the second division Taicho, "Obviously some people need to be better at their jobs."
"Thank you for your report Kurotsuchi Taicho," Yamamoto cut off the squad two Taicho's retort.
"Yamamoto Sou-taicho," Aizen stepped forward, "What if we sent someone out there to draw her out? Like someone she was close to? Then we might be able to gain the data Kurotsuchi Taicho needs."
"She betrayed the Soul Society!" cried out Soifon, "Any one we think she may have been close to she may simply have been using!"
"Are you suggesting we were manipulated by a baby girl," Jushiro asked dubiously.
"I..." Soifon attempted to respond.
"The girl has taken to my Fuku-taicho they have been friends for roughly the last eighty years or so," Kaname said.
"Or' w' c'd jus' s'nd Zaraki Taicho," Gin added. Everyone turned to him, "Insp'r'd b' ma am'z'n inta'l'ct?" he teased.
"Why would Yamamoto Yumi have any connection to Zaraki Taicho?" Byakuya asked in a stoic voice.
"W'll th' day 'for sh' l'ft sh' an' 'im t'lk'd 'r so I 'erd, an' kno'n Yumi sh' di'n't pl'n tha'. So sh' obvi'sly 'ikes 'im 'f sh' b'th'r'd t' t'lk ta 'im an' 'e w'sn't p'rt o' 'er ev'l pl't," Gin explained. Everyone looked at him quietly with large eyes, still attempting to understand the gravity of his answer, "Insp'r'd b' ma am'z'n inta'l'ct?" he teased again.
"She did always want to go to the eleventh division once Zaraki Taicho came into the fold," Shunsui mused.
Yamamoto couldn't believe what he was hearing his long time daughter, who he raised, trained, and taught was currently the topic of a love discussion! With Zaraki Taicho no less! This was not acceptable! Soon his control began to erode and a small amount of his reiatsu washed over the Taichos alerting them to the So-taicho's anger.
"Sorry Yama-jii, but it really does seem likely…" Shunsui said in their defense earning him a wave of spiritual pressure to rest on his shoulders.
"Regardless, we shall go back to the previous topic! How to lure her out," Yamamoto said dejectedly.
"I agree with Ichimaru Taicho we should send the eleventh division Taicho to lure her out," said Histugaiya Taicho earning a glare from the Sou-taicho.
"Would it not be more prudent to send someone of a lower rank?" Byakuya said in a monotone.
"It would, but since it was Taichos that she attacked and her fee-, ahem, friendliness towards Zaraki Taicho he would make the best candidate," Soifon explained.
"Zaraki Taicho you have said little on this matter," Yamamoto pointed out hoping to find a way to keep him from his daughter, err target, yes it wouldn't due to have the target die before her trial, where hopefully he could speak out for her and reduce her punishment… maybe not him but he might be able to get someone to…
"Che. I'll go as long as I get to fight her," he said disinterested, he was bummed that she probably wouldn't be at full power when they fought, so this… whatever this was, was more of a chore than the exciting battle he wanted.
Yamamoto inwardly sighed. If this man would of put up more of a fight then perhaps he might have been able to pull him off the mission he was about to give him, "Zaraki Taicho you will go to the World of the Living and do your best to locate and draw out the target Yamamoto Yumi. If necessary you will engage her, but your duty is once this is done is to bring back a sample of her reiatsu for Kurotsuchi Taicho to test. The equipment you need to accomplish this will be given to you before you pass through the Senkaimon tomorrow morning. Accompanying you will be Hisagi Fuku-taicho, who Tousen Taicho had volunteered earlier. Please prepare for your mission. Meeting adjourned." Yamamoto finished. At least he sent Hisagi, though the man had only been with them for a short period of time, roughly fifty years, the man had a remarkable record, and he had known Yumi for a very long time, so she wouldn't get hurt, at least he hoped as much.
By the time Yumi and Hiyori were done fighting, err playing, with each other Yumi was covered in cuts and bruises, while Hiyori only had a small along her collar bone. "Huh, guess you're better than I thought," Yumi smirked to the small blonde, leaning on a support pillar.
"Boke, you haven't gotten any better…" Hiyori scowled down at her.
"What are you talking about? I've gotten so much faster since I was little and I even cut you this time!" Hiyori looked down at the cut on her clavicle, "And you had you're stupid mask out half the time! So mean… trying to hurt my pride… But You Will Not Succeed! I Have Pride Of Steel! Mwahahahahaha!" Yumi begins laughing and posing like a super hero causing Hiyori to turn and walk away grumbling about idiots and how they never have any uses.
Noticing that Hiyori was no longer there Yumi slouched back against the pillar and sighed. 'Kuchikukan?'
'Yes?'
'What are we gonna do?'
'What do you mean?'
'What are we gonna do? Are we just gonna hide for the rest of our lives? Are we gonna face the Soul Society and all my friends and family? Are we gonna give up? What are we planning?'
'We'll find the ones that set us up. Then we will take revenge.'
'But what about the Soul Society? Will we ever go back?'
'Hirako-san and the others were innocent of any crimes and they have stayed hidden from the Soul Society for the part hundred years. We have been in this predicament for only days. I cannot speculate on what will happen but I hope we return on day.'
'Me too… well now we have a plan, I guess…'
"Yamamoto-san?"
"Just Yumi will do," Yumi murmured breaking out of her reverie, raising her eyes from the sword in her hands to the man standing before her. He was the large pink haired man from earlier wearing a green suit.
"Yumi-san, could we speak for a moment?" hearing the cautious tone from the large man Yumi bit back her sarcastic remark and nodded, then moved to stand up, only to be stopped, "You don't have to move," he then sat down in front of her.
"I'm sorry but I don't know you're name," Yumi smiled softly.
"Pardon my manners, my name is Ushoda Hachigen," he said.
"Yamamoto Yumi," she grinned, "So Ushoda-san what did you want to talk about?"
Hachi had a thoughtful expression as he worded his questions in his head. However, he simply said, "Your reiatsu is very familiar to me."
"Oh…" came Yumi's reply looking slightly uncomfortable, "Well… I'm assuming you want an explanation…?" she left the question hanging.
"It would be appreciated," he smiled encouragingly.
Yumi sighed, "Well about a hundred or so years ago, I felt Hirako-san's reiatsu spike, and it was slightly off, so I went to check it out, when I got there, he was fighting Tousen Taicho, and everyone looked… odd, they all had masks or white stuff forming around their faces. I wanted to help but I was scared since Aizen Taicho was there, so it wasn't until Urahara-san showed up that I attempted to do anything… I heard Urahara-san say something about Hollowfication, and remembered what he had said about my reiatsu, so after I checked that Aizen or anyone else wasn't around I released my reiatsu on all of you, and all of you calmed down… So that's why it felt familiar, and judging from how Sarugaki Fuku-taicho acted when I let out my reiatsu I'm guessing it really does mess with you guys… she was so slow…" Yumi pondered her thoughts with a touch of melancholy in her voice. "Gah! There I go again! If Hirako-san heard me he'd probably scold me again for talking about what I see. Ushoda-san please don't tell him! I don't want him angry with me again!" Yumi pleaded, standing up and waving her arms around.
Hachi chuckled, 'Unfortunately I will have to tell Hirako-san, but… I will promise to make sure he doesn't talk to her about it…' he promised himself. "Of course Yumi-san."
Chapter 12 End
[A/N] TheBigPumkin: Gosh this took forever! I am so sorry!
Yumi: You're telling me! I was stuck between the ware house and shouten for weeks!
Pumkin: Don't get snippy with me! I'll put you through hell! You know I will! Or I'll put you in a creepy story with your least favorite person…. I think it'll be Christmas themed…
Yumi: I'm Sorry Pumkin!
Pumkin: NO! It's too late for pet names! My wheels are turning!
Yumi: Nooo!
Pumkin: Don't worry you'll prolly be an elf or something else unimportant… Any who the next bit of plot has been set up! So it'll work! Maybe!
Jii-san*- Old man/ grandpa
Thank you for reading! I was really bad about updating so if you want to yell at me I understand… ILY? Any who the Pastafarian holiday dubbed Holiday is coming up! I'm so excited I might have to eat spaghetti!
