Hollow Hybrid Diary
Disclaimer: I have not now, or ever owned Bleach, however I feel as if I am a slave to its will to share my borrowed imagination.
Chapter 12
She woke up sometime during the night to the fragrant smell of puke and disinfectant. She opened her eyes to investigate, and near immediately shut them. 'Am I dead or something?'
EVERYTHING WAS GREEN!
When she managed to get the courage to open them again, she put her pillow over her head to shield from the strong color.
'Wait… pillow? Am I in bed? Why am I in bed?'
Sitting up, (btw, that was a bad decision, because everything spun, and made her nauseous), she regained her wits and surveyed the room she was in.
In one of the corners sat two people, one with a bucket while the other seemed to be comforting the one with the bucket. She didn't realise who they were at once since she was still trying to remember who she was in the first place.
When she surveyed the rest of the room she found a bag of red stuff hanging from a metal hanger with a tube that led to… (Following with eyes) … to her flippin' hand!
"Ahhhhhh! There's a needle in my hand! Get it off! Get it off!" she yelled pulling at the tube. The two in the corner focused on her and sweat-dropped as her tantrum continued, and eventually a nurse came in to try to give her a tranquilizer. That didn't turn out too well, so she left and came back in with 3 male nurses to hold her down, which she still fought tooth and nail to get out of, but was still weak from blood loss.
(ANOTHER FRICKIN' NEEDLE IN MY ASS!)
When this was all over the short white-haired person in the corner with the bucket muttered tersely, "She can fight hollows but she's scared of a little needle?" before he was overcome by another heave. Matsumoto ran her fingers through his hair lightly and rubbed his back sympathetically until it was over.
Then she turned on Leía, "What the hell did you do to my taicho?"
Leía was still awake and finally recognised the two, but was definitely high now off the tranq so her voice slurred. "Isssssss noooot my fault thaaaat heeee have a-a loooow tol-lllllll-errrrrence."
Matsumoto said nothing more, but the betrayal seemed to be palpable. She trusted Leía to take care of him it seemed. This was more than just pity, or care for a co-worker. She had hints before in how she spoke of him, but this was the first time that it seemed so blatant. Matsumoto saw him as her son. She needed to take care of him. Not as her captain, but as her child… but maybe that was just the drugs. The room didn't seem to be green anymore, there were shades of pink and purple, and when Uncle Kisuke turned up with Rukia and Ichigo in tow, they seemed to radiate oranges and yellows and blues.
Kisuke-jii was explaining to her that her body was home and that she was in the Ishida hospital so she would not be kept on record- blah de blah blah blah. She was not listening from the start, just enjoying the colour show. She heard something about the green room is the insanity ward, but that was all that sunk in. (I guess screaming at yourself while waving a wooden sword around classified as being mad.)
While he was explaining Leía was losing her entire grip on reality. All of a sudden she stood on her bed and began speaking. "Ahoy there mateys! Where shall we sail? West?" she spun to face her left, her hospital robe exposing half her rear in the process. (Matsumoto hid Toushiro's eyes as did Rukia with Ichigo while Kisuke was too accustomed to it with Yoruichi to give it much thought, instead, just looking directly at her face than anywhere else.)
She abruptly turned back to face him and changed character. "Hello oh humble plebs. Hail the queen. The king shall be along shortly. I am the messenger to tell you-"
Something seemed to click. "The king said to keep princess Leía safe… she is special so Darth Vader might come for her." She wrinkled up her forehead, "They don't want to be alone. Take care of them."
Matsumoto tried to get her to sit, but Leía saw her coming and tripped her yelling, "No! I will not give up to you hooligans! For King and For Country!-"
Kisuke allowed his spirit pressure to rise a little and that coupled with Matsumoto grabbing her foot as she jumped so she fell flat on her face, effectively shutting her up. She was out like a light bulb.
He sighed in the shadow of his striped hat. "She's going to have to stay her longer than I anticipated. You can leave; Yoruichi and I will keep watch in turns until we can get her out of here."
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When she woke up for the second time, only Kisuke-jii was there, and after explaining the layout of the fight with her hollowfied dad and apologising for the very embarrassing scene that occurred the last time she was awake, (I swear, I don't remember anything!) Rukia came in dragging a blushing Ichigo by his ear. He refused to look at her and well, let's just say that she was quite glad he didn't. She apologised to them as well and then the males were kicked out of the room while she changed. It took quite a while since she still had two broken ribs and a couple stitches on her head, but they managed. She also needed Rukia's help to walk out of the hospital. It amazed her that an 'insane' patient was walking out of a hospital without the slightest resistance.
When they were completely out of the hospital, Rukia and Ichigo led her to Kurosaki Isshin (mush nicer than junior, but more insane), who treated her broken ribs and gave her some medication for the concussion. Leía thought that he tried to heal her, but for some reason it didn't work, however he said nothing about it, just told her to take it easy for the next week and to come back sometime during the week to replace the bandages.
