While Keigo was taken into a single-room, conected to several medical-devices monitoring all his vitals, and Makoto was forced to talk about him in her meeting... Ichigo had to think about Keigo, too...
Ichigo knew that Keigo would run away. He would had bet on it that Keigo leaves the city and hides somewhere. That was so typical for Keigo, to run away. But he was also glad, because it would mean that Keigo is 'safe'. And that his name was not mentioned in any report so far meaned that he might get spared by this mess.
They where on the way back to the Kuchiki-manor. They had to prepare to stay here for some time. A couple of days? A week, maybe? Or even longer? Mizuiro and especially Tatsuki were not very happy about that. Both never expected that thier first visit to the Soul Society would also mean to be trapped there. Latter just had a violent outburst and attacked Ikkaku Madarame. A very embarrasing moment for both of them. Especially when tomorrow the 'special-issue' of the Seireitei-communication-magazine' will be published, with both of them on the cover during the incident. A Shinigami approached them... jelling Ichigo's name and stopped him.
"Kurosaki-san... please, one moment!" the foreign Shinigami jelled and reached Ichigo to talk with him. "I have just a few more questions!"
"Go on!" Ichigo moaned annoyed. He was just excited for the moment, it will be over.
"This friend of you... Keigo Asano? He is gone! We can't find him anywhere! Do you really don't know where he could be?"
"Honestly, no!" Ichigo moaned again. "I haven't seen him for a long time, actually! He has nothing to do with the Shinigami, so you should not bother him with that. "
"It's just... you said that your friend is... how-it's-called... bubbing...?"
"Dubbing!" Ichigo corrected him. "Yes... Anime and movies..."
"So he seems to be a well known person? Is he very famous?" the Shinigami asked.
"Well... I think..." Ichigo honestly didn't know it. Keigo had to. "Why?"
"It's just... We don't know how long it will take to erase all memories out of the people's heads. But there are a lot of wrong facts circling in the world of the living! Like the soul-eating-thing and so on... Do you think, your friend could... you know... tell the humans some true facts. It would at least help to calm down the people."
"Hey, I understand what you mean!" Ichigo said and stopped. He had to think about it. Keigo was really a well known person. Dammed, he is some kind of a TV-star. A person many people know. If he talks to the press or to the police he could at least clarify all the lies that were told. But does Keigo even knows enough to explain anything? No, never... "Your idea sounds interesting... but... I am afraid Keigo does not know enough to clarify something. I bet that he even believed the lies that were told in TV. I would have to talk to him before..."
"I understand!" the Shinigami said and noted something on his little notebook. "I go back now. We let you know if there is anything new."
The Shinigami left. Ichigo looked after him and than went on his way back to Rukia's house... he was slightly afraid that his reputation may rely on Keigo's statement. He was not aware that Keigo was wasted. In a coma he would not wake up recently. Keigo's manager meanwhile, rushed back to the hotel to destroy every evidence of Keigo's suicide-attempt. After that he went to the set of the series to lie to the filming-staff and crew...
"Pneumonia?" the executive producer and the director jelled simultaneously.
"Yeah... he is in a terrible condition." that was even not a lie. "He is in hospital now!"
"Gosh... he looked so terrible when he arrived. Now I understand why?" the producer said shocked.
"Will he be able to screen his final scene within the next days?" the director said.
"Well... that's why I actually came to talk to you... May it possible to screen his scene... later. In a few weeks maybe..."
"NO!" the producer said instantly.
"No chance!" the director added. "Everything has to be done until tomorrow. We could actually re-screen him a little bit in the studio in Tokyo... but for that we have to rewritte the script... where is the scriptwriter..."
Shino was disappointed. That meaned a deep setback for Keigo's career... But now there where more important things to arrange. His flight back to Tokyo is going to depart in two hours. He hoped that Akira was able to get in Keigo's apartment somehow till he arrives...
In Tokyo meanwhile, Makoto was still in the meeting. Now beeing confronted with Keigo's conection to the Kurosaki's...
"...we got this scan of a yearbook-page from a former classmate of Kurosaki. She send it to us by E-mail." her colleague explained and handed it to Makoto. It was a class-photo from the first year of high-school. Dated May 2001. Actually just a few days before Ichigo met Rukia, but Makoto was not yet aware of it. She looked on it and recognized Keigo immediately. Standing there in the second row. Smiling happily. Ichigo right next to him, looking annoyed and grimly. All other faces instead of everyone from Kurosaki's closest-circle where overpainted to make them unrecognizable. "The woman who sent it to us, claims that Asano was part of this group."
"Any other proves of it instead of this blurred image?" Makoto asked, tried to remain as cool as always.
"A lot of statements." the man continued. "Some of them claming that Asano was a friend of them. Others claming that Asano was a victim of thier bullying! Actually I don't know what of this is true. The statements contradict each other."
Makoto imagined that the last one was more true. It would explain Keigo's reaction in the boxroom. She start to feel bad... really bad. And only she knew the reason why she felt so bad for Keigo... they had both something in common...
"I and Asano are friends. I have a good connection to him. I want you all to give everything that comes in about Asano, directly to me..." Makoto ordered harshly. "And... I need a background-check about Asano! Everything you can find from his birth, till today..."
The other people in the room where surprised but they understood it. Makoto was by far the most talented journalist in this room. She would be able to firgure out the truth faster. Makoto took all the files and photos of Keigo they got and put them into her folder before facing her colleagues again.
"So... what about the other humans?" Makoto decided to change the topic. "Arisawa and Kojima?"
A woman opened a folder and presented her a flyer from a dojo in Karakura. "Tatsuki Arisawa, who is the best friend of the witch Orihime Kurosaki, is working as a karate-instructor for kids. Many parents are pretty worried now. And she seems to have a violent past... she actually has a police-record for hurting classmates in middle- and high-school. And there are unconfirmed reports about that she 'destroyed' a whole classroom in June 2001. And she was never sentenced!"
"Sounds like a very friendly person." Makoto said sarcastically. Her colleague meanwhile continued to search her files.
"No siblings, both parents still living in Karakura. No partner, no boyfriend and no kids. Nothing suspicious in her finances. Apart from her 'anger issues'... a normal unconspicuous woman." the woman told and took another file. "And now to Kojima. From the neigbouring Naruki. Parents divorced. Grew up with father and stepmother in wealthy circumstances. Works for a big Japanese import company. Has something to do with wine! He is regulary travelling to East Europe. And he spend the last two months in Chi... Chisi... nau... I don't know how to pronounce it... well the capital of Moldova. I already called our offices in Kyiv and Bucharest to investigate there a little bit. Maybe they find something?"
Makoto nooded... but it was actually nothing new. She already knew it, because she figured out before. And she figured out a lot. She found out about Orihime's terrible parents and already planned to expose them and to denounce them. She found out about Chad and his sad past. She even found the people who tried to kill him and Ichigo several months before they start high-school. Some of them were never sentenced. She didn't understand: Why is Karakura full of delinquents? Why there are people trying to beat others to death and don't get even arrested? Or sentenced? Keigo was right when he told her that the police there is so incompetent...
"The Karakura-Police-Department seems to have a competence problem!" Makoto said, to avoid the matter about Keigo. "Let's see what we figure out..."
The meeting ended. New tasks, new hints and new informations were exchanged and so they continued working. Makoto took her smartphone again to check her messages. Still no respond from Keigo. Instead of calling him again, she send him a voice message.
"Keigo... I know you are mad on me! But please call me back. It's getting more and more difficult to hide the 'thing'. What ever happend! I can help you." she said. After finishing this voice message, she send him another one. "Really,... I want to hear your voice!"
Ichigo thought about Keigo's voice, too while he told his family and friends about the Shinigami's idea to use Keigo as some kind of 'informant' in the world of the living. The adults sat together in the living-room of Rukia's and Renji's house. Ichika left with Kazui. Hoping that it calms down the boy, who was in a terrible condition. Orihime wanted to join them but Isshin told her that it might be good for the boy to have some time for himself. Ichigo meanwhile told them everything...
"Do you think it could help?" his father asked.
"How much does he know?" Karin added.
"He knows enough to clarify all the canards!" Ichigo said. "At least I hope so!"
Mizuiro hid a 'no' in a cough.
"What is that meaning?" Ichigo asked.
"Ichigo... I don't think Keigo knows enough!" Mizuiro said and made a worried expression.
Tatsuki, who still suffered from her outburst and the humiliating incident with Ikkaku, nooded. "Kojima is right! Ichigo... we all don't know anything about your powers. The only thing we know is that you have them. And that's it!"
"Ichigo, honestly I, Tatsuki and of course Keigo doesn't know anything about the Soul Society. These... kids-drawings Rukia made... were not really helpful."
Ichigo had to smile. He was right. But the truth was not very happy. "So, that means... Keigo is right when he hides. He wouldn't be able to clarify anything."
"I believe he things that every lie they told in TV is true... Anyway I wouldn't rely on Keigo and his pervert view on life and everything. He would just embarrass us." Tatsuki replied.
That was kind of true. Ichigo realized that Tatsuki and Mizuiro learned more about the Soul Society in the last two days than in the last decade. And Keigo... if he really believed everything they told in the report, it would be one more reason to him to hide.
"I think we should talk to Keigo... are you in touch with him?" Ichigo asked.
Tatsuki shaked her had. She didn't want to confess that she ignored Keigo's birthday greetings for her. She figured out later and realized that she offended him. She didn't got anything for her next birthday. Mizuiro told that he sometimes had brief chats with Keigo on WhatsApp. And that Keigo didn't even read his last message.
The situation between them was difficult enough... Chad meanwhile decided to change the topic...
"Where are Rukia and Renji?" he asked when he bend closer to Ichigo.
"They are with thier divisions!" Ichigo explained. "They have thier meetings now..."
"And why you are not with your division, now?" Mizuiro asked.
That was the moment Ichigo realized how less his friends knew... just a moment later a Shinigami knocked on the door... they found a way to contact Yuzu...
Indeed, every division in the Seireitei had a important meeting now. Every Shinigami was called and so they listened to thier captains, lieutenants and seated members telling them about the recent events in the world of the living, and why every Shinigami was ordered to be very careful and stay away from spiritual aware humans. Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends were war-heroes. They were very famous in the Seireitei. And so thier public humiliation in the world of the living was a huge shock for many Shinigami.
"...we are deformed as monsters to the humans. As Soul-Eaters..." Kenpachi Zaraki told to the division. Many members of the eleventh division felt very offended. But one suddenly got flashbacks. From his short 'encounter' with Asano in the parking-garage, several days ago. "...we request everyone... who might have a hint or a clue... who might be responsible for this scandal, or if anyone of you saw or heared something, please contact the commission of inquiry..."
The Shinigami, who remembered everything Keigo said to him, suddenly thought that he might deliver some answers. And so he left to talk to the new formed commission...
"He told you a what?" a member of the commission asked him, after spending almost an hour in the queue because so many Shinigami wanted to give a statement. And most of them were not even helpful. But this one became interesting.
"I recognized him! He is on a list of humans who... well my lieutenant said he gives shelter to Shinigami who need a place to sleep. I met him just coincidentally. He tried to ignore me, and when I came closer... he shouted on me that he is 'not' able to see me and than he called me a 'Soul-Eater'..."
"And you are sure that it was Keigo Asano?"
"Pretty sure!"
The commission member noted it... this was actually a big clue: Keigo Asano described the Shinigami as 'Soul-Eaters' long 'before' the TV report...
In Tokyo meanwhile, Akira was so upset that she cried when she entered Keigo's house. His property-manager saw her and was worried.
"Hello, are you okay..."
"Ehm... yeah... sorry I am fine. Ehm, I need your help... Keigo... Asano... he is in hospital! I need to get into his apartment to get him some fresh clouthes and such stuff..." Akira told upset.
After telling a 'faked' story about a sudden pneumonia, and the true story about Keigo's bad condition, Sakura-san was of course willing to help her to get into the apartment. Akira had no key but now she had help from the property-manager to 'burglarize' into Keigo's penthouse...
In the Soul Society meanwhile, Kazui walked with Ichika threw a lonely alley... thinking about Yupa and all the others who got hurt... and about his own mistakes.
"Come on! You are not fault!" Ichika said again. "If it's really your fault, they would had already figured out!"
"Hmm... Maybe!" Kazui murmured. "They hate us! They hate us for what we are!"
"Why?" Ichika did not understand.
"They think we are monsters!"
"The Hollows are the monsters! And we and you fight them!" Ichika protested, looking into Kazui's eyes. "So that's makes us and you to... to... how do you call them... super... super..."
"Superheroes?!"
"Yes, that's the word!" Ichika said. "I only know the storys about our parents but they are so impressive... normally your family should be the most popular family in the world of the living."
Kazui tought about it... she was right!
Some people, who knew everything or at least enough to understand everything, would really refer Ichigo and his family as superheroes! Keigo thought the same back then. Today he thought that everyone who is not able to see them has a better life. That's at least what he thought while he walked threw the darkness. Not knowing how he got here or what happened before. He is drunk. And he took pills... is he on the way to hell now? Suicide is a sin! So that's maybe the punishment. But he was just in hospital. But something weird happened. This had to be a bad dream... a nightmare! And he was just going to start a journey inside his soul...
None of his friends knew about it. While his friends in the Soul Society where glad that Keigo 'ran away' and not 'worses' everything with an 'embarrasing' statement, his friends in the world of the living were afraid that Keigo might be jinxed and under Kurosaki's control...
Shino arrived several hours after he brought Keigo to hospital and together with Akira he start to search Keigo's penthouse, but without leaving a mess or anything. They looked everywhere. In the shelvs, in every box, and even under the carpets or behind the pictures on the walls. They found not much. Nothing that showed any connection to the Kurosaki's and not even to Karakura. They found not even anything about Keigo's family. No photos of his parents, or anything like that. It was no surprise for Akira.
"His parents neglected him!" she told.
"Really?"
"They left to work somewhere else and left him and his sister behind. He once told me under tears, after the twelth shot..."
"Does he have siblings?" Shino asked while searching the drawers of the dresser in the bedroom. "Or any other relatives we can call?"
"A sister, I think! But they don't have any contact to each other. And he said that I should be happy that I never met her. Sound like she is a crazy lunatic!" Akira explained while she searched Keigo's wardrobe.
"If this letter from the youth-welcare-office is true she is more than crazy!" Shino said. He found a letter. "Listen to this... 'Dear Asano-san. According to your statement we made a visit to the suspect... oh my gosh... That woman is so sick!..."
"What?" Akira asked and took the letter. After reading it she knew why Keigo always became pale when his sister was mentioned. "Boah... So many shit in the world!"
They took the letter into a box. It was just one of many documents they would take with them. Than they found a hidden envelope in one of the shelves...
"What is this?" Akira asked and opened the envelope. "Looks like photos... AAAAGGHHH!"
Akira screamed so loud, that even the pedestrians down the street could hear her. Shino was so shocked that he torned out the whole drawer out of the dresser. While Akira dropped the envelope and almost became unconscious, Shino saw that it was filled with photos of Keigo and the 'Shinigami-Gang'...
Akira became pale. And together they looked back on the photos, they spread now on the ground in front of them. And next to an answering-mashine filled with dozens of frantic messages from Makoto, his producer and some people who demand that they are former classmates of him, burned documents and photos in the bowl on the terrace outside... Keigo was a part of it... But did he also knew about it before? And if yes, is he cursed? Or jinxed? How did he escape?
"He... he... tried to follow them? To the world of the dead, did he?" Akira asked shocked.
"He never talked about his past! I always felt like... he is running away... from his past!" Shino replied. "And this messages on the mashine...?"
"Did he... I mean... If he really ran away... why he..." Akira stammered and a tear ran down her face.
"Fukuota-san, please don't tell anyone. Keigo had a reason to keep this secret for so long. I don't know! But what ever happned... only Keigo can give us answers. If he ever wakes up?"
The last sentence was a little bit too much for Akira. She lift up and went outside on the terrace. Shino watched her taking the water-hose and pouring Keigo's plants... Akira really wanted to break up with Keigo. She really wanted to break his heart because she felt that she is not loving him. But she loved the nice colorful roses on his terrace. And she didn't want them to wilt...
Shino meanwhile went back to the answering-mashine to listen to the messages again and to write down the names of these so called 'former classmates'. Some of the messages where pretty offending and denouncing. Others sound like they feel sorry for him... What the hell is going on here?
The same question Keigo's 'lunatic' sister asked to hersefl too, after realizing that her brother was not mentioned in any report by now. She spend hours on hold at the telephone to reach someone from this stupid tv-channel. She told them Keigo's name. Several times even. But even after the fourth or fifth call, they only told her that they will 'check' it. There was nothing to check in her opinion: He was and is still a deadbeat idiot, who is only obsessed in Kurosaki. Submissive and obedient to Ichigo! All that, she told to everyone she called. And everytime she felt like nobody believed her.
Full of Anger she took the phone and smashed it on the ground. Shattering it into pieces loudly... just a second before someone rang the doorbell.
Fuck, she thought that this is the police now, to evacuate her, too. The evacuated area, on the other side of the road, was opened again, after structural engineers checked the cave under the Urahara-Shop and the ground over it. But despite the confirmation that the place would never collapse, most people (especially familys with children, including her ex-husband and her son) avoid the area. And everyone who returned placed a bowl full of apples in front of thier doors and on balconys and windows. Many people seemed to have thier knowledge about Shinigami from the Manga and Anime 'Death Note' and thought that apples are really able to appease Shinigami... Others thought they may become 'Light Kagami' and scared others with self-made 'death-notes'...
Mizuho walked up and down to think over the recent events. Maybe she used the wrong way. Maybe she should had used something that is not as big as the Kurosaki thing. But she didn't know what else would hurt him. Keigo needed to be punished. But how? She knew... her brother was a loud, intrusive pervert who always tried to get attention. His self disgracing behaviour was so embarassing for her. She let him feel it. Unaware that her own behaviour was not very helpful, too. Than the doorbell rang again...
"WHAT?!" she screamed so mad that everone who would had stand in front of the door would have run away immediately. But the couple outside wouldn't...
"Mizuho-chan, it's us!" Mizuho regonized her mothers voice. In shock and surprise she opened the door.
Her parents were here. Here in her apartment. Carrying a picknic-basket with them. With big eyes Mizuho glared on them. But instead of saying hello, she was only able to jell: "What are you two doing here?"
Her parents bowed and entered. Both believed that Mizuho's harsh behaviour now, was just because she was worried that they were here. Or she was worried about the current situation in town. But in truth she was not really happy to see them anyway. And now they entered her apartment, and put some stuff on her table. Her mother brought some fish, rice-balls and muffins as dessert. And her father brought a small bottle of Sake.
"What you two are doing here?"
"We were worried about you. We figured out that you live right next to the evacuated area. But looks like you don't have to leave your apartment." her mother said.
Mizuho listened to her half-hearthed. She was not happy to see them...
"What happened with your phone?" her mother asked slightly shocked.
"Aww... I was just clumsy..." Mizuho lied and pulled out the cable of the phone and took the pieces away... they should not know that she broke it by herself.
To be honest, she didn't care for her parents anymore. Not since they left her with Keigo behind to work whereever. Ignoring invitations, forgetting birthdays, and at most for leaving her alone with her stupid, dimwitted brother. Sure, they worked very hard and she and Keigo had a really carefree life (at least financial). Now, over the last years they changed and seeked for Mizuho's attention. And over the last years, they really tried to improve thier relationship to her. But just like her brother, Mizuho didn't really care about what her parents think about them. In that point she agreed with Keigo (and that was a miracle itself that they agreed in something). She was not very happy about how thier parents were always away, never at home, forgot thier birthdays and only showed up when they really had to.
But unlike Keigo, Mizuho was married, had a 'proper' job, a well-ordered life... at least to the outside and was therefore more reliable than her brother. After her divorce her parents, of course were on her side, not knowing how she treated her husband and later her own child. Now she was wondered why they showed up today. Maybe trying to act like real parents and take care of thier daughter? But Mizuho normaly didn't care how her parents think about her but she hid her repugnance and decided to tolerate thier appearance.
"Where is your son?" her father asked.
Mizuho discreetly locked the door to the former room of her son. Now it became more complicated, because there were things she did not tell to them...
"I asked my ex-husband to leave town with him. It would be the best if he is not here right now. You see what's going on out there." she said pointing on the window.
The houses on the other side of the street were part of the evacuated area. The area was re-opened but the people were still too afraid to go back. Only a few people returned. They saw a bowl of apples standing on the top of a brick-wall...
"I always knew it!" her father said headshaking. "I always knew that this Kurosaki is not normal! But that's even worse than I ever imagined. I still can't believe that your brother always justified this monster!"
They sat down at the table and start to eat. They talked about the recent events and the Kurosakis. And of course about Keigo...
"What if the rumor is true?" her mother asked. "What if... they really jinxed him?"
"Jinxed?" now Mizuho was curious. Now her parents appearance became possibly useful. "Please tell me... who says that Kurosaki jinxed Keigo?"
"I just talked with the father of one of your brother's former classmates. His son told him, after the report in TV that your brother is obsessed of this monster and his gang. Keigo was treated by them like trash. He was abused by them. And he ran after them like a mangy dog." her mother said and start to cry. "Are you in touch with him?"
"Who?"
"With your brother?" her father continued. "The last time we met him, he denied to talk to us. He even changed his adress after we figured out where he lives. That time he lived in a capsule-hotel in Higashi-Kanda. Can you imagine that? He prefered to live as a homeless. He had no job and was very unfriendly and impolite to us. Than he even pretend that you throw him out. How ridiculous is that? Demanding that you treated him worse than this Kurosaki..."
They had no clue what was going on in thier apartment when they were not at home. And they spend a lot of time not at home. Mizuho knew that and just shrugged, to show that she had no clue what he was talking about.
"What if he is with them now?" her mother asked worried. "What if he followed them to this... other world... or what ever... This 'Soul-Something'...?"
"Better not! I don't want our name pulled into this mess. Your brother always knew how to disgrace our family." her father said. In his eyes Keigo was a deadbeat and Mizuho was the allways reliable angel. "I mean... look on him now. Does he really think that 'actor' is a career with a future? I mean, have you seen this ridiculous detergent-commercial? Sometimes I ask myself what we did wrong?"
Mizuho knew a lot of things. And she was just happy that she does not live with him anymore. But she was not happy that he was a well known Seiyuu and actor now... and that his voice was everywhere... In every radio she turned on... she heared him in every foreign movie she saw... they were no words to describe her hate towards his voice...
They talked for around an hour. After that she lied to her parents that she had to finish something really important for work and they left. Actually, thanks to her parents, she had an idea...
Curiously she searched her drawlers for everything remaining from her time in High-School... Maybe she finds a solution there... Yeah... thier High-School-time... his class...
Mizuho found an old class-photo of Keigo's class. The same one, one of his classmates send to the press. He smiled, as always. Despite the fact that the most people in his class disliked him. Ichigo and the others right next to him. These people will help her... they all share her opinion...
Yuzu Kurosaki meanwhile, was still crying when suddenly the phone next to her start to ring. In fear she looked on the phone. She was going to be released from hospital in a couple of days, and was feared to go home, as she had no home anymore. It was surrounded by police and a 'crime-scene', now. And the people will shoot her instantly when she tells them her real name. Haruna Kobayashi was a name, she had to continue to use. At least as long as possible... But who called her here? Here in hospital? On a phone that normally couldn't used without paying a high fee...
In the Soul Society, Isshin walked up and down worried while listening to the dial tone. Isshin used his contacts, as former captain of the tenth division, and arranged with some guys from the twelth division to get a connection to his daughter. With him, Ichigo and Karin stood now in front of a weird device that looked like a old phonograph, but made sounds like a modern telephone.
"Oh, Yuzu... please pick up!"
Yuzu was scared, but she decided to pick up. No matter what happens. She had nothing to lose. "Hello!"
"Oh, Yuzu..." Isshin yelled relieved and he and his other two children went closer to the phonograph. "Yuzu, are you okay?"
"Daddy..." Yuzu cried happily. "Daddy... what happened? Why I am still here?"
"We don't know! But tell us... how are you?"
"I am... fine. I think! I... hit the wall pretty hard." she murmured before she start to whisper. "I have... terrible headache but... I experienced worse. My name is Haruna Kobayashi and I fell down a stair. But I don't know how long I am able to keep this lie alive. I am afraid. When I leave the hospital they will kill me."
"Yuzu... Can you hear me?" Ichigo asked and Yuzu made a confirming sound. "Listen... we will send someone to pick you up as soon as possible. Do you have something to write?"
Yuzu looked on the table next to her and found a pen and a note-block. "Yes!"
Ichigo dictated her Keigo's adress in Minato and his phone-number. He was able to get a glimpse on a file with Keigo's data. He was surprised that the Soul-Society had his adress long before him. "Listen, that's Keigo's adress. Keigo Asano, you remember him?"
"Yeah, your funny friend with the loud voice?!" Yuzu realized.
"If anything happens, go to him... He somehow managed to get spared by this mess... maybe he can help you?" Ichigo hoped.
"And your number? How can I call you?" she asked.
"I am afraid. This is a one way communication, only. There is no chance to call the Soul Society from the world of the living with a normal phone..." Isshin explained and heared Yuzu start to cry. "Aww... please... Yuzu... stop crying... please!"
"How this could happen?"
"We will find out... Don't worry!" Ichigo said. "All Shinigami had to leave the world of the living and the way back is still closed. But I promise to you, that we will do our best to solve this."
They spend around two hours with talking about the recent events. Yuzu cried the whole time. Promising to call Keigo as soon as possible...
She was not aware that Keigo was connected to various mashines in another hospital in Okinawa. Still fighting for his life... at least his soul did...
"YOU CAN'T KEEP ME CAPTURED IN HERE FOR ETERNERTY!" a roaring screamed deep inside Keigo's soul screamed...
Keigo could hear it and looked around in fear... to see the shadows approaching him... the demons of his past... haunting him...
"HELLLOOOOO!" he yelled into the darkness. "HELLO! Is there someone? Is this the hell?"
Keigo looked for his way threw the darkness... suddenly facing someone...
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