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Summary: A drabble about… Kusajishi Yachiru.
Warning: Mostly my imagination, with episode 40 spoilers.
Author notes: Based on some things I watch in episode 40, inspired by tt episode, I write this fic. Enjoy reading and review D.
Kusajishi Yachiru: A life of pretence
She was a child.
A child abandoned by her parents.
A child picked up by a man after the whole group of people she was with was killed by him.
A child who loved the smell of blood. One who was not scared of blood.
However, she was just a child, after all. And a child like her had one thing she was afraid of.
Being lonely.
She had been lonely until she met the man.
Loneliness made her felt that her existence on the face of Soul Society was of nothing. And this greatly scared her.
So she pretends. Pretends to be friendly. Pretends to be friends with others around her. He gave her a name. And she gave herself a promise.
Kusajishi Yachiru would always call Zaraki Kenpachi Ken-chan and the others whom she meets in future with a nickname she creates for them.
Seeing her Ken-chan losing to Icchy, she felt grateful to the man whom she had a new nick for. At the same time, she felt sad and happy for Ken-chan. Sad thatt Ken-chan lost but happy that he had fun battling Kurosaki Ichigo a.k.a. Icchy.
Carrying Ken-chan on her back, she jumped up the building's outer walls and they settled down on a random rooftop. And she believed in her speed to rush to Division 4 to seek Unohana-taichou's help.
That's her pretence. That she can't remember directions. That she does not remember where the buildings are.
But if this pretence of hers was revealed to be fake; she would not have the joy to clutch onto Ken-chan's back and run to and fro the same places as she remembered. She was scared of loneliness. And she wanted to be happy.
All she wants was to drive the feelings of loneliness away. Even as she grew up, she was still a child at heart.
A life of pretence or not, she would not feel lonely again. And be happy in her life.
Owari