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Saguru POV
"How is my favorite twin brother doing? After all, crushing the hearts of woman, making straight men question themselves, defeating the evil that is paperwork must be very tiring?" I tease, slinging an arm around my brother, who sighs at my words.
"I don't do any of that. I merely do my best as a Shinigami and as a member of the Gotei 13 is expected to do." Sosuke sighed, then frowned, "Besides, I am your only brother, Saguru." He adds.
"You'd still be my favorite if I had more." I say sweetly. (I have to bite back my reply at the Gotei 13 remark; the only thing I've seen that is expected of the place is corruption.)
"Invading our division again, Aizen-kun?" Blinking, I turn to see that familiar cat-like grin. "Really, others will think you're one of my subordinates if this keeps up." he actually sounds rather amused at the end.
I think he actually likes me pretty well, suspicious brother or not. Even though I broke the windows to sneak in after that one time. (I cleaned it all up in the end!)
"Just sneaking in some brotherly bonding before a mission, sir! I'll only be abducting your lieutenant for a bit, so no worries!" I state cheerfully.
I actually get a raised eyebrow at this, "You have a mission? What is it?"
"Helping rebuild in District Five; some Hollows went crazy there, so the poor souls pooled some money together to get us Shinigami off our asses to help with construction. Naturally, this is delegated to my division, with no way of knowing how long this will take. Though personally, I think they're using the rebuilding as an excuse to have some Shinigami in town, what with all the disappearances and all. Honestly can't say I blame them." I find myself explaining, noticing how the Fifth's Captain narrows his eyes on the disappearances part.
"I see, so you're going to have your older brother treat you before you go?" The blond asks.
"Nah, we'll split the bill like always; besides, neither of us consider the other older or younger. We're equals in that regard, even though Sosuke-nii could totally beat my ass into the ground if he wanted to." I admit, scratching the back of my head.
But it's true. While I woke up first and was able to keep us mostly on track, Sosuke is the more mature and (ironically) stable one. It's been like that since we're been kids, we just don't consider the other younger or older, my twin agreeing with me on that issue. So it gets a bit awkward when people ask us whose the older brother. I just shrug and/or use my Retsu smile, while Sosuke, being the tactile guy he is, smiles and redirects the question. The only reason I told Shinji is because I want to leave soon so that I can have my brotherly bonding time.
As for the stronger part… I am no idiot, I know I'll lose to my brother whose had a century of healthy meals, real training, and different power levels. Enough said.
"So see ya, Taicho-san!" I exclaim, dragging my brother by the shoulders, causing him a light stumble to which he gives a huff.
"Come on Nii-san, your tofu awaits!"
Yup, that put the speed in his steps.
After getting some Douhua with ginger syrup for me (I like my sweets) and my brother's with hot sauce, we both took a walk around the city, just generally catching up.
"…Hey, Sosuke-nii?" I ask, after my brother told me how he had finally finished the paperwork that had backed up on him. (Seemed the stuff kept breeding every time he turned his back. I call Shinji messing with him.) Seeing I had his attention, I continued.
"Why did you become a Shinigami?" This has been bothering me for a while, both because of my knowledge of the future and… The fact that Sosuke holds grudges like a scorned woman.
I honesty wonder how my brother managed to do it, work with the people who may have kidnapped and possibly killed me. I knew it couldn't have been easy for him, knowing he genuinely cares for me.
Quiet answered me, a thoughtful look over taking his face. I waited for it, as I knew he was thinking of how to word his answer. My brother was always careful with his words, that's probably what made him a great manipulator.
"I have various reasons for why I joined with the Gotei 13." He starts, my eyes focused on his as I take another bite of my treat. "But my main one, the reason I knew I had to come…" Here he actually hesitates, though his eyes spark with the darkness I always knew my brother was capable of having. It sucks that I couldn't help lessen it for him.
"…I needed to find out what happened to you." He says, looking over at me, genuine regret on his face.
Not this again.
"Honestly Sosuke, it wasn't your fault; life just hated us and put those damn minions in our life." I sigh, not really wanting to have this conversation again.
"None the less, if I had been stronger at the time-" my chocolate-eyed brother cut himself off, his grip on his chop sticks nearly snapping them in half.
"And if I was able to control my Spiritual Energy better, they never would have even noticed us." I say, my face grim. And thanks to my unstable mind, I'll never be able to suppress my energy, only make it non-threatening.
My brother goes to say something, but I raise my hand with my chop sticks, pointing the slim sticks of wood at him.
"We both agreed to disagree on this topic, remember? I apologize for bring it up again, even on accident. So lets now just relax and chill, okay? I have no idea how long I'll be gone, and I don't want to leave on a sour note." I say, cutting the topic down to size.
"… Alright then." Sosuke sighed, "So have you managed to learn that new healing Kido you've been having problems on?" is asked, my brother respecting my desire.
As I ramble about the new Kido spells I've been learning, I can't help but wonder just how much I've effected things here.
Only time will tell.
(Speaking of time, I really should have paid more attention to the timing of my mission.)
(AN)- On to the Guest reviews!
To LemonManiac: You didn't offend me at all; in fact, question me all you want, though I might get a bit passionate on the subject. I have arguments with a friend of mine about Bleach a lot, and the corruptness of the Gotei 13 and Central 46 was one of them. They argued that the place wasn't really that bad, it was just Aizen that screwed everything over. I disagreed, as any organization made up of more then one person is guaranteed to be corrupt; Aizen could only do so much as he still had to act like he was loyal.
...In fact, we would probably still have this argument about it if my beloved friend didn't love Uryu so much; the near genocide of the Quincy (with no Aizen involved) was really a deal breaker.
To jil: Don't worry, I plan on writing more.