Ch10: Lost Children
Disclaimer: I do not own most of these characters, nor do I own Bleach.
Special Thanks: Reverberating Winds, Son Of M, anbuassassin, CO Raven, Akitsuki Akira, Reige, AllenxWalker'sxEnemy, wisdom-jewel, emperor-soul, Jaden Lord of L33t, kitsune no kon, & Decrusty
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3 weeks has passed since the incident with the arrancars. The city has been returned to it's normal state, even the people has forgotten that gruesome day. Tsuna and the others have been continuing their normal lives and Tsuna's reason for not moving is unknown. As for Ronin and Masaru has been in bed, recovering from their wounds, however, they are forbidden to enter outside until they have fully recovered, their only limit was the garden. Masaru is in a whole a lot worse state than Ronin. His back still has burns from protecting Naomi. As for school, their school comes to believe that Ronin and Masaru has been home sick for about 3 weeks, under the exception of their guardian Tsuna. Each day, Toshihiro and the others would come inside to give them their homework and all the stuff they are to learn in school. For some reason ever since that day, Karin hasn't been herself. It's as if her soul was sucked out of her body.
"Hey guys were coming in!" Naomi yelled, giving a warning to Ronin and Masaru.
"And we got homework!" Toshihiro said, opening the shoji door.
Toshihiro, assisted by Naomi comes in with a pile of homework in their hands. They entered a room with two washitsu rooms, and a shoji door sperating two rooms for privacy. Masaru and Ronin were sitting down on futons and blankets covering their legs.
"GRAA!" Masaru said screaming, hitting his head with his fists.
"H-hey Masaru-san, you shouldn't be punching yourself. You got enough wounds as it is." Naomi said trying to calm him down, with homework by Naomi's side.
"I don't care! I have of all the wounds in the world…And I still have to take the fuckin EXAM!? I need to be outside! I need wide open space, high buildings, and punks to beat up for laughs! I can't take this crap anymore!"
Out of nowhere, a pile of notebooks hit's Masaru on the side of his head.
"Can you shut the fuck up Masaru! Exams I can deal with, but with your short temper I can't so shut the FUCK UP!" Ronin said screaming, already working on her studies.
Massaru quickly recovered and marched up to Ronin's room. Without hesitation, Toshihiro and Naomi blocked Masaru's path. Naomi was holding onto Masaru's waist and Toshihiro was pushing Masaru's shoulders.
"I'm gonna rip you to shreds Ronin!"
"Bring it on Masaru. That's if, before your wounds open up again." Ronin grinned.
"You little-" Then the wound on Masaru's stomach opened and Masaru feel to his knees.
"See what happened!" Toshihiro tired to pick him up.
"MASARU-SAN!"
Toshihiro and Naomi help Masaru walk back to his room and slowly laid him down. Naomi ran up to the shoji separating Ronin and Masaru, she bowed her head and closed and Ronin went back to studying.
"I'll go get the bandages."
"No, I'll do it. Please stay here and help tend to Masaru-san's wounds." Naomi then walked out of the room and closed the shoji. Toshihiro's hands then began to glow a viridian color and placed his hand on Masaru's stomach.
"This is embarrassing…"
"Shut it. How do you think I feel? This is what you get when you don't control yourself Masaru."
"Keh, well you know me man." Masaru grinned, trying to relax with a guy trying to heal his wounds.
"So when are you gonna ask Ronin eh?."
"What!" Toshihiro accidently puts pressure on Masaru's back.
"Watch it!"
"Sorry."
"You've been hiding this act since for how long? A few hundred years since Shinigami Academy?"
"How did you know this?"
"Karin."
"Oh…"
"Why not just come out and say it?"
"Well…Um… That's uh…I-I-"
Then Naomi comes in rushing through the door with bandages and the begins taking off Masaru's old bandages.
"You can go now Toshihiro-san."
"Thank you Naomi, it means a lot?" Then Toshihiro quickly leaves the room.
"Damn it." Masaru grinned, sitting up.
Naomi had a questioning face when Toshihiro thanked her like that, then Naomi slowly begins unwrapping the bandages off Masaru's stomach and then begins applying the new bandages. Karin is seen sitting near the garden's pond, feeding the koi with some old bread. Raven's day from Tsuna's company was his half day. He sat on the porch staring at Karin with Nari sitting by him. Nari just drop off Raven's green tea and they some how got into a conversation.
"I-I never saw Karin like this. She's been like this for3 weeks now. It's so hard to watch her be like that. She not even calling me 'Rai-chan' anymore."
"You're telling me. She didn't even smile or anything when I cooked her favorite dish. Could it be that she's upset about something."
"That's impossible. It's hard for her to hold a grudge and even if she gets angry at something, after a few hours, she would forget about it. Something really is bothering her."
"Why not just talk to her?"
"She won't open up to me. She would just try to smile and say 'I'm fine'."
"Hmm…I got a plan." Before Raven was about to drink his tea, Nari's words made Raven jump and have his drink spill all over his white coat.
"What in the world did you say Nari?"
"Don't worry, I was planning on doing this tonight anyways."
"What are you going to do!"
"It's a surprise for the kids. Trust me on this Raven." Nari said in a seductive way, feeling Raven's chest. Raven rejects her by pushing her hands away from him and fixing his glasses.
"E-even if you do, Tsuna's bound to find out."
"Didn't I just say trust me?"
Raven decides to trust Nari…for once and lets out a deep sigh.
"Please don't make me regret this."
Nari reaches her head over to Raven's ear and whispers.
"Trust me…"
Then Nari quickly gets up and walks away. Raven whips some spit from his ear and shakes his head.
"Women…"
Later on at the dead of night, Nari and then all the teenagers, including Karin leaves the house. Even though Ronin, especially Masaru's wounds were still open, Masaru quickly agreed to Nari's offer without hesitation. As for Ronin, at first she kept on refusing Nari's offer. The way Nari "influenced" Ronin was by ticking Ronin on her soft spot until she decided to come along. Nar was wearing hip hugger jeans, a sleeveless gray bottom up shirt, with a teal tie, teal hems, black fingerless gloves that reached up to her elbow, and super model fashion style boots. Ronin was wearing blue jeans, a gray sleeveless bottom down shirt with purple hems revealing her belly and her gray sleeves reached up to her mid upper arms, and also a purple tie around her neck, and she also wore similar boots, similar to Nari's. Arashi wore a white button up shirt with short sleeves worn over a long sleeved black shirt, cargo jeans, and black and white converse shoes. Karin simply wore her white and light blue sera fuku. Toshihiro wore a pair of wide leg blue jeans, a open crimson hoody revealing a white t-shirt, and a black and white high converse. Masaru was wearing a black jeans jacket with a black t-shirt with a red skull on it, sagging black jeans, and brown steel toe boots. Naomi wore a pink puff jacket with grey fur around the hood, a plain white t-shirt, blue jeans, and black white and pink converse. They slowly walked up to Nari's silver SUV and Ronin got shotgun before anybody else did. Karin, Toshihiro, and Arashi sat in the middle of the car, while Masaru and Naomi sat in the far back.
"So where are we going tonight Nari?" Toshihiro asked.
"Kitties, we're going to race!"
"It's not underground is it?" Arashi asked. The only reason he would go along is for drinking.
"Oh no, we're going to the Silver Dragon tonight guys." Arashi smiled as he heard of the name. It was one of the best clubs with the best liquor a guy could ask for.
"Are you sure Tsuna won't catch us and I don't know…Maybe kill us this time?" Toshihiro asked.
"Don't worry, a friend of mine did a little favor for me."
Back at the house, Raven created a special gigai with the same characteristics and reiatsu similar to Nari and the others. If it was to make Karin smile, Raven would do anything for Karin to come back, however, he doesn't know that Nari's taking them clubbing. They drove into the heart of the brightest part of Tokyo. They arrived at one of the fanciest hotels. Nari's parked in the underground garage and they made their way up to the highest part of the hotel. As they got closer and closer, the sound of techno could be heard. They finally arrived to their destination and the elevator opened, Japanese people were seen dancing, lights going on and off and techno beats rumbling the very walls. Half of these people we're teenagers, and some of them were from their school.
"You sure this is safe Nari-san?" Naomi asked, holding onto Masaru's arm.
"Yeah, if MASARU, doesn't get into any fights."
"Well since we're here. Let's do something." Arashi said, putting his hands into his pockets and made his way, walking into the crowd, and making his way to the bar that was on the other side of the room.
"You heard the man!" Nari grabbed Ronin's arm but Ronin tried to break free until Toshihiro, Masaru, and Naomi pushed her into the crowd, eager to start dancing.
Karin was all alone and she decided to go outside, to get some fresh air. Arashi sat at the bar with a couple of random girls from his school, feeling Arashi's body. Arashi sat there and smiled as drank his shots and the company of woman. Nari, Ronin, Toshihiro, Masaru, and Naomi danced, dancing to the beats of the music that played in the air. Karin sat by the edge of the balcony, leaning against the rails gazing up at the sky, all alone.
"I appreciate what your trying to do for me Nari-chan, but I'm not just in the mood…"
A group of 5 teenagers slowly approached Karin from behind.
"Hey there cutie." A teenager said, he was a big Japanese masculine teenager that could pass for the age of 20. He was wearing an open white dress shirt with a tank top under it and wearing a pair of blue jeans with white casual shoes.
"Leave me alone."
"C'mon baby, why don't you come and dance with us?" A Japanese teenager with good looks said. He was wearing a black suit with black formal shoes.
"No."
"Oh, REJECTION!" Another good looking teenager said, with a white tank top with formal blue pants and shoes.
"Surely she'll dance with me?" An American teenager said. He was wearing a green quick silver shirt with black jeans and black converse.
"Sorry but no." Karin said ignoring them, still looking up at the black sky. The sky was so dark that not even the shed of light from a star was up.
Then a Japanese teenager in the middle of the group slowly reaches his hand towards Karin's shoulder. He was wearing a tucked in white dress shirt with black pants, black formal shoes and a solid square buckle around his waist.
"Listen here girl, why don't you just come with us and we'll promise you fun." The teenager smiled with humble expression as his hand was on Karin's shoulder, feeling her bra.
"GET OFF ME!" Karin screamed, slapping away the guy's hand.
"You little bitch!" He was about to punch Karin, but Karin gave him a roundhouse kick to the chin that sent him flying, crashing into his gang.
"WHY YOU!"
As the young teenager quickly recovered from his fall, he quickly ran towards Karin, pulling back his fist. Karin simply stood there with no expression on her face. As the boy's hand was about to throw his punch, but a light brown skin hand grabbed his fist. The teenager quickly turned around to find a masculine looking Filipino teenager holding his fist with the same expression on Karin's face. Behind him were 5 other people. 3 of them were girls, but one was a woman, and two of them were teenaged boys. As the leader stared at them, he could feel his body weighing down upon him.
"What in the world's going on around here?" Toshihiro said with no expression on his face.
"These guys aren't bothering you are they Karin?" Masaru said, looking down at the guy that tried to assault Karin.
"They are." Karin said with an emotionless expression.
"Don't you dare look down on ME!" The guy threw his other fist at Masaru's face.
Masaru's head jerked a little to the left side of his body and he eyed at Nari. Nari let's out a sigh.
"Just one."
Masaru slowly turned his head with the punch still on his face, and looked at the guy with a grin on his face. Masaru pulled back his hand and punched the boy and he was sent flying to the cement rail. The guy's body fell to the ground and he was knocked out.
"Hey, it's them from school! They're those fuckin weirdoes that always sits at the corner."
"So what should we do!! They knocked out Boss!"
"I know, let's fuckin mess em up-" A teenager said. But suddenly Ronin appeared in front of him.
"Good idea." Ronin smiled and gave the guy an uppercut and sent him crashing into the cement rail.
The rest of the gang was about to take a step forward, but Toshihiro, Arashi, Nari, and Naomi bravely took a step forward. As they looked down on them, the rest of the gang picked up their fallen comrades and ran off.
"Well, that was intense!" Nari said, stretching her arms.
"Karin, please tell us what's wrong with you?" Ronin said with her arms crossed against her chest.
"There's nothing wrong." Karin said, forcing a smile on her face.
"Karin, tell us. We're all your friends. You should tell us what's bothering you." Ronin said.
A short pause came from Karin. A cold wind brushes against everyone's skin from that silence. Karin lowers her head, and looks down crying. Nari walked up to Karin and hugged her.
"You don't have to tell us if you don't want to Karin." Nari said smiling.
Karin wrapped her arms around Nari and began crying.
"I feel so confused! I don't know what I'm doing anymore!" Karin wailed.
Then everybody gathered all around her and everybody gave Karin a hug, comforting Karin.
"We're all your friends here Karin, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to." Nari smiled.
Then Karin lets out a big wail to find all her friends and family around her.