Present...
„We were young, careless and so much in trouble for skipping the first two classes of the day... But we were also happy that there were no secrets anymore. The adults were not as lucky as we were... Well... at least they tried to..."
10 years ago...
Keigo Asano stepped out of his kitchen to handle some cups filled with a red, self-made, cold soup to his guests: his manager Shino Midori and his girlfriend Akira Fukuota.
„What is that?" Shino asked when he took one of the cups.
„Try it!" Keigo answered.
Both took a each a sip and liked it.
„Hmm... Interesting!" Akira said. „That's tomato... and what else..."
„Tomato, cucumber, bread, onions, garlic, water, pepper, salt, oil... I got the reciept from the Internet. Spanish Gazpacho!" Keigo told.
„Hmmm... Tastes good!" Shino said and took another sip. Akira liked it, too.
„Shino, I wanted to talk to you about this stupid detergent-commercial... I start to regret it!" Keigo said.
„Keigo, I tell you again to trust me in this. Every big actor began like that..."
„But... it's sort of disturbing, isn't it. I mean... a skirt full of blood weared by a murderer... Sounds like that commercial was written for criminals." Keigo wailed. „Or by someone who is mentaly sick..."
„Stop wailing... You should be happy about your paycheck." Akira moaned and cut Keigo off. „You get much more money than with the other commercial you wanted to screen."
„But... I think it is a very serious matter!" Keigo said.
Keigo tried to get cast for a commercial for a child-protection-organisation. They looked for celebritys who where willing to work for free to support them. But instead of telling children to seek for help when someone hurts them, he had to tell people to buy overpriced detergent that could possibly discolor thier clouthes.
„Keigo, I know you are sad that you didn't got into the commercial you would have liked to. But instead I organized you a small role in the upcomming 'Crime-Lab-Tokyo'-Special."
„The Special-Episode?" Keigo asked, now a little bit happier. „You mean, our big season Finale which is screened down in Okinawa. The big special which has to show the producers to continue the series or to cancel it? The one in which one of the main-characters will die?"
„Excactly! I booked a flight for you next week! Unfortunately you will have to return her for your dubbing on one day." Shino said and handed Keigo his booking-confirmation. „Imagine... your name could be among the main-cast in the next season. Think about it!"
After these words Shino prepared to leave and Keigo led him to the door.
„Do you really think that they will promote me into the main cast?"
„Keigo, you can't hide behind the microphone in the dubbing-studio for the rest of your life. At some day you have to show the people the live action version of Keigo Asano and not the Anime character he is just borrowing his voice. Really... And with your two little scenes in that movie... Believe me... Especially because you will need the money to pay the rates for your greenhouse here... Really, you have to many plants up here."
Shino left. After Keigo closed the door he watched Akira lifting up from her deck-chair to watch Keigo's jungle, he was very proud off.
„Your agent is right! You have so many plants up here. And there are so many insects." she said disgusted and turned to a big bush of roses. „But I have to admit that these roses are really nice!"
„Thank you." he said with a smile, remembering when Arisawa told him that he would never be able to care for a plant. And now he had an whole jungle. He went outside again and aproached his girlfriend. „Akira... it's good that we are alone now... there is something I want to talk with you about..."
Akira pushed his hands away when he touched her hips and almost poured the soup about his head. „Keigo... I... I'm not in mood..."
„Okay... SO lets just talk... I need to talk to you about our relationship..." Keigo said with his trademark loud voice.
Akira was annoyed. Originally she came here to talk with Keigo about thier relationship, too. But not like he wanted. But after a few minutes Shino appeared and Keigo left to mix that soup, that she liked really much, and now Keigo start to talk again with the shrill version of his voice, she thought only dogs should be able to hear. But now she thought that it was not the right moment. Especially because he was so happy now. Maybe he took one of this dammed pills before. She should wait until he is sober.
„Keigo... I think I should go now. I have an apointment with the real estate agent." she lied.
„Ah... yes... You know, the real estate agency that sold me this penthouse here has some real interesting offers in this neigbourhood. You should call them!" Keigo said and pulled a buisiness card out of his pocket to hand it to Akira.
She took it without any emotion and put it into her purse before she left without really saying something. After she was gone, Keigo slowly start to consider about thier relationship. Sometimes he felt like back on the roof of his former high-school. When they sat together and the others were always annoyed when he opened his mouth. Akira sometimes had the same behaviour when he talked with her. She looked annoyed. Just like his so called friends. Sure they had an 'relationship' but thier so called 'relationship' felt more and more like it was only one-sided. Keigo laid down on his deck-chair and looked up into the blue sky and than on his plants.
„At least, you never get bugged by my voice!" he said to one of his palms before looking up into the sky again... seeing a Shinigami jumping high over the roofs hunting a little hollow... „Oh, please... when it will ever stop?"
Keigo woke up from his dreams when the phone rang. He picked up to talk to his property manager down in the lobby.
„Asano-san, there is a package for you!"
„Oh, really... Great! Thank you, Sakura-san. I'll be downstairs soon."
Keigo went downstairs to get the package, he waited so long for now. Thanks to his 'contacts' he was able to organize something very special. A birthday-present for the only person that never hurt him. Happily, Keigo wrapped the toy into colourful present-paper and start to write the greeting-card for Kazui...
Present...
„Luckly your father didn't know that this present will become a troublemaker, Keigo!"
„Why?" Keigo jr. asked.
„You will find out soon enough..."
10 years ago...
Douzens of kilometres away, in Karakura, in Western Tokyo... It was surprisingly quiet inside the Kurosaki clinic. And that was good. It meant that neighter Ichigo, nor his father were at home and that Yuzu propably sat alone at the front desk to watch the clinic and call them if anyone needs help. For Karin Kurosaki, it was the perfect moment to have some private time. Not alone, but private. This time he was even some kind of romantic when he arrived. They spend some time with talking before it went more 'intimate' and before both could even think about... they already did it. They just did it, like they did maybe a thousand times before...
Honestly, everyone in her family and the Soul Society knew that Karin Kurosaki and Toshiro Hitsugaya were friends. Everyone knew the story about Hitsugaya meeting Kurosaki's younger sister during a mission in the world of the living and befriend her. Sure they were always rumors that there was something more than just a 'friendship' but thanks to thier big effort, they were always able to deny and to hide thier secret relationship. For around 8 years now. Which was an incredible long time for an affair... but did she really wanted an affair... or was she really in love with him.
Karin was alone now. Toshiro just left. She put on her clouthes again and thought about what just happened. Sure it was not the first time. But how long will they go on with it. He is around ten times older than her, despite his young-man appearance (which he prefered more than 'big-boy'). But she is human and he is a Shinigami. Not only a Shinigami, but also a Shinigami-Captain. And to worse everything up he was the successor of her father... She had to be careful. Honestly... it was a scandal. A scandal...
Karin did not want to imagine what happens if anyone ever finds out. Gosh, she is even so stupid to do it in her fathers house and not in the small apartment she shares with ther sister for some time now. She checked herself in the window before she walked down the stair to met Yuzu in the entrace-hall of the clinic.
„Some patients?" she asked like nothing happened.
„No!" Yuzu said with a bright grin on her face, while she hid it behind her magazine.
„You look so amused?"
„Do I?"
„Yeah?!"
Karin saw that Yuzu was pretty amused about something. Maybe she read something funny in the magazine. But that was impossible as it was just a reciept for russian cabbage soup. Karin was now a little bit worried...
„Come on, what is so funny?"
„Karin-chan... One question..." Yuzu began and had to smile. „Do you and... Toshiro-kun... always do it in Ichi-nii's bed or do you sometimes use daddys...?"
„WHAT?!" Karin screamed so loud that even some pedestrians outside stopped to stare on thier house.
Yuzu didn't held herself and start to laugh. Karin face, turned into a deep red while her hands turned into fists. Than she suddenly became pale...
„Yuzu... how... how dare you to think that I and Toshiro... please, don't be ridiculous!" Karin said and moved on like nothing happened. Karin thought that Yuzu has no evidence. He was not in a Gigai, so she was not able to know that he was here just a few minutes ago.
„Karin-chan... I saw him comming!" Yuzu smiled. „And I could hear his... ohhhh... ahhhh... Do you realy think that I am so stupid? I am so happy for you... know I always knew that you two are matching perfectly together. I mean you are the only one who is allowed to tell him by his given name and you share so many character traits and a not to forget that you..."
„SHUT UP!" Karin jelled angrilly. „You... You... won't dare to tell anyone? I mean... how in the world are you able to know that he was here... He was not in Gigai?"
Yuzu's smile suddenly disappeared and the magazine fell out of her hands. „He wasn't?"
„No!"
„Oh, that would explain the costume. And I thought you two are making some role-playing-games..."
„Please,... no details..." Karin wailed before she realized what was going on. „Yuzu... I think... you finally developed..."
Right in this moment the door opened and thier older brother Ichigo entered the house. „Hey, I'm back..."
„Ichigo... turn into a Shinigami!" Karin ordered him with a harsh voice.
„What?" Ichigo was surprised.
„Please Ichi-nii... We have to check something." Karin said with a harsh voice again. „We'll explain after..."
„Okay..." Ichigo was still confused. But here in the clinic nobody would watch them. So he grabbled his Substitute-Shinigami-Badge and left his body to turn into his Shinigami-Form. He immediately mentioned Yuzu's astonished glare and that she didn't looked on his 'dead' body like always. This time, she looked on him.
„And... You see him?" Karin asked her sister.
Yuzu was speechless, so she just nooded. Now Ichigo was surprised, too.
Is it true? Is Yuzu realy able to see him? Carefully he went closer and slowly moved with his finger in front of her face. Her eyes followed his finger, one more proof that she is able to see him.
„Yuzu... How many fingers do you see?" Ichigo asked and hold four fingers in front of her face.
„Four!" she answered still astonished and lift her own hand to test something. She grabled her brothers nose. „AGGGHHHH..."
Ichigo start to scream, too. Just like Karin. All three screamed loudly before the door opened again and Isshin entered, too.
„HEY,... WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING LIKE IN A HORROR-MOVIE?" Isshin jelled and saw his son in Shinigami-Form and his daugthers in front of him. „What's going on here?"
To show him what was going on, Yuzu just grabbled the sleeve of her brothers Shihakushou and pulled on it. Isshin only need to see it to understand that his youngest dauther finally developed spirituall awareness...
„WOW... NOW WE HAVE A REASON TO THROW A PARTY!"
In a supermarket, not far away from the clinic, Orihime Inoue was walking threw the ailes. Today was going to be the day, the whole family comes together for dinner. And Yuzu wanted to cook for all. Orihime was asked to buy some things. When she reached the cash desk... she met an old friend... Michiru Ogawa...
„Ogawa-chan... Hi!" Orihime said happily to her friend when she saw that Ogawa was working today.
Michiru Ogawa, former classmate of Orihime, Tatsuki and friends, worked in this supermarket for quiet some time now. She was happy to meet someone she knew.
„Orihime, hi! How are you?" she asked while she scanned each of the products from Orihime's basket.
„Thank's, good! And you?"
„Oh, I'm fine... A lot of work over the last weeks but I am fine..."
„I heared about you and Hiro. I am so sorry!"
Present...
„Who is Hiro?" Mayuri asked. His mother never told him about a man named Hiro. „But my father's name is Kaneda?"
„Yes, that was long before your father. You don't want to know..." honestly, Yupa didn't want as well, but Michiru told him once while she was a little bit drunk...
10 years ago...
„You don't have to be sorry. It shouldn't be..." Ogawa said with a sad note in her voice and changed the topic to not to talk about the guy, she thought loving her, but turns out to be a thief who burglars her account. But she was too ashamed to mention that. „...I just don't have luck with the men. I think the one and only even doesn't live in this world..."
Present...
„Your mother didn't know that that was the truth!" Yupa told and had to laught a little bit.
10 years ago...
Orihime could only shrug, while her smartphone start to beep. She recieved a message from her father-in-law: 'Buy a cake! We celebrate tonight!' With several emojis and pictures. Orihime asked Michiru for the cakes and she ran back into the market to grab a frozen cream-cake from the refrigerator before rushing back to the desk to pay.
„You celebrate something?" Michiru asked as she scanned the cake. „1.960 Yen, please!"
„I don't know what... My son's birthday is next week. But Isshin is really excited about, so it is maybe something ordinary he is just happy about." Orihime told and handed 2000 Yen to Michiru.
Michiru typed something into the cash-register to put the money in and to hand the change to Orihime. „By the way,... do you know that big advert near the school. That one with Asano?"
„Yeah, of course... He looks good! But I don't understand the message of this commercial, despite I bought three family-packs of that detergent right after I saw it for the first time..." Orihime murmured. „Which is enough for a year maybe!"
„Someone vandalized it!" Michiru told. „Someone scratched his face!"
„What? They vandalized it? Who did that?"
„Who knows? Despite the fact that he is now some kind of celebrity... there are still many people who believe that he is just a pain in the neck..." Ogawa told.
„You know... We haven't seen Asano for years now! Sometimes I think, he doesn't want to talk to us anymore?"
„Asano? The burdock Asano? Please, he adores your scary husband so much.. I can't imagine that!" Michiru said and the both woman said goodbye to each other. Orihime throw the 40 Yen change into the little donation-box next to Michiru and left the supermarket to rush home. Now she was pretty excited to know what they celebrate.
Orihime didn't know that someone was watching her from safe distance... taking photos of her...
The person, a woman around 30, laughed amused when she checked the photos. Now she thought it is time. She couldn't waste any more time. Her plan has to be a sucess... so she gets him back. And her revenge...
Present...
„That's horrible!" Keigo jr. jelled. „Who was that person?"
„I'm afraid... she is you aunt, Keigo!" Yupa answered.
10 years ago...
Mizuho Asano was never an easy person. Sure she was a person who had feelings. But her violent behaviour was something many people let feel weak and small around her. Her brother Keigo was a perfect example. He was the one, suffering under her outbreaks most. Reacting with that loud and annoying voice she hated so much. She was always mad on him. She blamed him for everything that went wrong in her life. She even blamed him for thier parents always leaving them for thier own. After she banished him out of thier apartment she was happy to have some space for herself. She married... But everytime they had a little dispute... she became violent again. One day, when she was so mad on her husband for forgeting her juice again... she took the hot Wok from the stove and smashed it on his bald head, burning him and . Neigbours called the police... and he divorced her... When she was pregnant in the forth week... calling her a tyrannic-psycho in front of all neigbours and friends.
She forgot him and raised thier son alone. Not even telling him about his excistance. She didn't need him. For what... The apartment belonged to her parents, so she didn't have to pay rent. And her parents still transfered them money. So where was the problem?
Mizuho went home and entered her sons former room... It was empty. Her ex-husband took everything with him. She was still in fury when he remembered the day the police came to arrest her... for child-abuse! She was shocked, who ever dared to tell these fairytails. Sure she gets loud... and sometimes she might become a little bit rude... expecially when her son sat in front of the TV one day and was amused about his uncles voice comming out of the TV and Mizuho 'punished' him for liking this horrible voice, she had to hear everytime she turns on the TV.
Luckily for the boy, his uncle was always very worried about him, since the day he learned about his birth. So he regulary called the youth-welfare-office to warn them about Mizuho. And it worked. Now the boy lived with his father and his new wife. He already calls her 'Mommy'. Mizuho was so mad about that. Every day, she went to the office... demanding her son back. But her agressive behaviour always let her been banished out. But one day, she was able to grab the file... learning the true identity of the 'monstrosity' who took her child away... her own brother...
First she wanted to kill him instantly... but her new plan would not only ruin his life... it would ruin her brothers reputation and his credibility. The youth-welfare-office will have to give her son back to her when they learn about the crazy stuff her brother is involved in...
She switched on the light... revealing that the empty room was not really empty. The wall was full of photos, documents, newspaper-articles and other stuff. Notes written by her brother and of course the only device in this world, that was able to photograph these creatures: the camera, the Shinigami forgot in thier house. Carefully Mizuho looked for the best and most impressive photos, as well as Keigo's notes, newspaper-articles and other stuff to send it to the one person,... who seemed to be the perfect tool for her plan: Her brother's 'love-interest' Makoto Hirabata. The famous news announcer...
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