Chapter 29

Finding Direction

By Demon-of-Cats

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, the Tite does. I own my OC's and OOC's

Warnings: This is AU and has some spoilers.

No Flames please, but constructive criticism is welcome.

"MORIA!" Sajin called as he ran into Squad Four.

"Captain Komamura," a frantic Hanataro cried as he and several other medics chased after the huge Captain, "Please quiet down and slow down!"

"QUIET DOWN?" Sajin stopped and turned toward the group, "QUIET DOWN! MY WIFE IS INJURED AND MY CHILDREN ARE MISSING AND YOU TELL ME TO QUIET DOWN?"

"Captain Zaraki is treating your wife sir," Hanataro got out.

Sajin glared at Hanataro and the nurses and then turned and followed his nose to where he could smell his wife. He walked over halfway across the base before he found her in a treatment room. Her torso was covered in bandages and she looked to be in serious pain still.

Retsu was in there as well and treating her to the best of her abilities and using her own zanpaku-tô for healing as well. She had a look of extreme concentration so Sajin decided to wait in the hallway until she told him that he could come in.

Then Shinji ran in, in a similar manner to Sajin, and glanced in the room. His face showed the same thing that Sajin felt and when he sat down on the opposite side of the hallway as his brother-in-law and watched the door.

They both turned when they noticed the clinking of metal boots on the floor.

"Your Majesty," Sajin said and nodded his head slightly in Arthur's direction.

Arthur nodded back and then looked at Shinji, who had stood and preformed a more formal bow. He didn't smile but he did nod.

"What is going on?" he asked after a few long and very drawn out moments.

"My wife was attacked," Sajin said, "She is in that room being taken care of by Lady Zaraki. My children have been kidnapped and currently I can only tell that they are alive. I do not need to tell you what that means if you have worked with my kind long enough."

Arthur's eyes narrowed as did the eyes of the man next to him. This man wore black armor trimmed in gold with the same seal on his breastplate that Arthur had on his own. He didn't wear a helmet though and his bright blonde hair was held back with a black headband.

"Lancelot," Arthur said and turned to his friend, "If you could, return to England and get Merlin. We will need his help with this. Bring the Kurosaki boy as well. I could train him while we are here . . . on that . . . might as well bring all of MY trainees. They haven't been seen here in a while."

Lancelot nodded and then turned away before he vanished.

Arthur then looked at Sajin and said, "I know what it means. Your children are in another country . . . another soul society."

"Aren't all the soul societies connected though?" Shinji asked.

"Not through the realm of the dead," Arthur said, "To get to another soul society you must pass through the world of the living. Although how someone did that with children is beyond me at this point. Babies even more so. Hmm?"

For several minutes nothing happened. Those that waited for their loved one just did that. It was all they could do.

Sajin and Shinji both stared at the room Moria was in with wide eyes. Moria's spiritual pressure had dropped suddenly.

Arthur didn't miss a beat. He walked into the room and drew Excalibur and pointed it at Moria, "Lady of the lake's holy blade, Excalibur! First light, holy healing!"

A pure white light escaped from the blade and entered Moria's body. For a moment it seemed that time stood still, and then Moria's body turned white like the light that had pierced her. Her body stretched and then she curled up tightly into a ball before going slack and laying flat again on the bed.

When the light subsided her eyes blinked open and she looked around, "Where am . . ." and then she sat up suddenly and looked around more frantically before crying out, "WHERE'S THE BASTARD THAT TOOK MY KIDS!"

Arthur smiled at her quick reaction.

Retsu smiled as well and gave Arthur a thankful look before turning to Moria, "Please lay down Mrs. Komamura."

Sajin then glanced in the room and Moria spotted him. She knew of his abilities and their limits, so she asked, "Are they alive?"

Sajin nodded, "They are still alive, I just can't sense where they are."

Moria clenched at her chest and remained seated on the bed. She didn't smile as she said, "The man that attacked me was named José. Not a name from around here is all I know."

Arthur frowned and then said, "A Spanish speaking country then, or someone from one. No one would dare bring them to Europe, the lady of the lake would know immediately and then Excalibur would know and then I would know through Excalibur. The Americas are possibilities then, two in fact."

"Well you have narrowed my searching field then Arthur," another voice spoke. The voice was elderly but there was strength in his words. His eyes were sharp as a knife point and darted around the room. He wore a long robe and a tall pointed hat on top of his head of matching emerald greens. In hat and cloak sparkling fibers were woven into the fabric to give it a shimmering effect like the crystal they embodied.

"Merlin," Arthur said, "It's good to see you here in Japan."

"Who are the babies I am helping to find?"

"Komamura children . . . where are my trainees?"

"Visiting friends," Merlin said and then glanced around and said, "Komamura huh?"

Arthur nodded.

"My son's name is Kureno and he is a child not a baby. The baby twin girls are Haruka and Himiko."

"You look just like your great-great-grandfather. Just as impatient as he was when it came to his children as well. Alright to start I need a hair from you and the mother of the children."

Moria glared daggers at Merlin and then plucked a hair from her head, which Merlin took and twined it with Sajin's hair before glancing up at her and asking, "Is that your natural hair color?"

Moria nodded as a ghost of a smile played at her lips.

"Alright then," Merlin said and then walked out of the room. He stopped just outside the door and then looked back in and asked, "Do you have siblings?"

"Yo," Shinji said from behind Merlin.

Merlin turned, nodded and then yanked a hair from Shinji's head before he walked off down the hall into a room. The only person in the room was evicted quickly, it was a nurse, and as the door shut a barrier appeared over the door.

"He'll be in there for a few minutes," Arthur said and then glanced at Shinji, "Do not expect an apology from him."

Shinji just rubbed the side of his head and blinked at the door Merlin had just gone through.

During the time Merlin locked himself in the room privately Retsu finished healing Moria.

"EUREKA!" Merlin yelled and flew out of the room he had locked himself in with more vigor than anyone thought a man who looked as old as he could accomplish, "The children are in N.A.S.S."

"No acronyms unless everyone in the room knows what they mean," Lancelot said, surprising everyone. He had just suddenly appeared.

Merlin chuckled and then said, "They are in the North American Soul Society."

End Chapter 29