In fear Orihime forgot that her powers were still activated. Michiru Ogawa screamed like she was tortured, when she touched the shield with her burned hand. Ogawa's mother screamed in fear, too and jumped forward to 'safe' her daughter. But the woman was stopped by other people who wanted to prevent her from running into her own doom. But maybe the worst of all was that everything was caught on film... because several people used thier smartphones, camcorders or other devices to film the boy under the shining bubble...
Present...
„I remember it!" Makoto said with a forced smile, because she knew that the footage didn't reach thier channel first. "The highest rating in the history of TV JPN!"
„Okay... what is your problem with TV JPN?!" Keigo asked and remembered that this channel was her sore point.
"You turned me into a witch!" Orihime said sadly. "I helped my son, but despite that fact, it was the most embarassing moment in my life..."
10 years ago...
Isshin somehow managed to close the door, before the people could storm inside. But the glass-doors wouldn't hold long with all the people, pressing against from outside. A police-siren sound up and went closer and closer. In his own panic, Isshin didn't know how to help instead of using Kidou against the crowd.
"BAKUDO NO. 1! RESTRAIN..." Isshin screamed, using a Kidou on the people who tried to break the door.
Outside the people who got affected by Isshin's spell start to scream when they realized that someone or something affected them. 10 of the maybe 29 people suddenly fell down to the ground, unable to move, with thier hands locked behind thier backs. 16 other people ran away in panic, Ogawa's mother still tried to safe her daughter, who fell down to the ground unconscious, a man with a smartphone hid behind a parked car to send the video of the accident to TV JPN. Only the man with the camcorder left, standing with his running camera in front of the clinic and continued filming Isshin who closed the curtains. Ogawa's mother screamed for help and hammered with her fists against the door.
„NOOOOOO... LET HER FREE! LET HER FREEEEE..."
Inside Isshin realized that he just worsened everything.
„WHAT DID YOU DID?" Ichigo screamed in shock when he realized that his father just attacked the people outside. „RUKIA! MEMORY-REPLACER! NOW!"
Rukia already prepared the device to use it on the people outside. Suddenly it became silent. Only the man with the camcorder was still standing and remembered to run away.
„HOLD ON AND GIVE ME THE CAMERA!" Ichigo screamed and opened the door to follow the man.
Inside the clinic, Ogawa got unconscious. Orihime stopped the healing process and ran away to hide upstairs again. Tatsuki and Mizuiro pulled Ogawa back to the living-room while Renji and Chad looked after Kazui. Everyone realized... it is out of control...
"It is out of control!" Keigo realized, too. He was still in the boxroom with Makoto, in the building of thier TV-network.
"Keigo, since when you are aware of this?" Makoto asked harshly.
"Offically... since the day this wannabe-god appeared and destroyed the half city. Inofficially... I knew it since the day I was forced to let this two guys live with me. And before I saw it so often. I was simply too stupid and too naive to realize whats going on directly in front of me..."
„You mean, you were brainwashed too often before you could act!" Makoto interfered.
Keigo turned away from her again and was going to cry again. She was right. Keigo was brainwashed many times. But of course, when Ichigo's powers affected him as the others... he suddenly remembered more and more things. His loud and intrusive behaviour made it not easy to talk with them about the whole mess that's going on. Especially because they always denied it, or he recieved a slap from Tatsuki. If he was honest, Makoto was right. His friends treated him like trash. But he couldn't tolerate that the media turns them into monsters. He knew that it was time to act...
"Makoto... I don't want to hear anything anymore. You stop broadcasting! And you won't publish anything anymore about the Kurosaki's or the Shinigami or anyone else of them!"
"How dare you to say this! You can't force me to!" Makoto said mad.
"Yes, you heared right! I don't want you to publish anything about the Kurosaki's or someone else. You have no clue, how many problems that will cause." Keigo moaned and looked into Makoto's eyes. "Makoto-chan... Believe me, I saw things I would really love to forget... And I only tell you because I am really worried about you. This is too hot, even for you! And for everyone else in this world, too."
"You only say this because you are afraid of them?! Admit it!"
"NO! I tell you because I'm afraid of the consequences! Believe me, I left Karakura to leave all this mess and all the pain behind me. I couldn't bear it anymore. Now... after you are going to tell the whole world... I don't know what to say now. And now you show me the package with the evidences... or I will tell the news-announcer of another channel, that I smuggled that footage out of North Korea... and not you, as you told everyone. I can prove it."
"You won't dare... the report about the North Korean nightlife was my breakthrough!"
"I'll dare! And you don't need to threat me! My sister threatened me worse for trivia. You are as much in trouble as I..."
Present...
"I have to admit that it was the first time I got afraid of you." Makoto told. "Normally I thought that you are afraid of me!"
10 years ago...
In the Kurosaki-Clinic, Isshin used all aviable furniture to block the front entrace, while Chad did the same with the other entrace to the living area. Orihime took the still senseless Kazui and hid with him in the bathroom upstairs. Ichigo arrived back after he catched the man and forced him to hand him the memory card. Now he helped his father to block the entrace. Outside the police arrived...
"Well done, father!" Ichigo said mad. "Now everyone believes that Orihime is a witch..."
"Where should I know that the door was opened..." his father defend himself.
Ichiro really wanted to kick his father, but he knew that it was useless. His father was right. It was not his fault. It was an accident. A really fatal accident. For now the people fled. His father released the people in front of the entrace from the Kidou to let them run away. But now the police stood in front of the entrace, together with Ogawa's mother. And it was a matter of time before the people return.
„HELP ME! THEY KEEP MY DAUGHTER AS A HOSTAGE INSIDE!" she screamed.
"YOUR DAUGHTER IS NOT OUR HOSTAGE!" Isshin screamed. The wront window was already shattered, so they could hear everything.
„Oh no, Ogawa is still here..." Ichigo remembered. „Ehm... Ogawa-san. Your daughter is free to go. She is fine. And don't care for the payment. The treatment goes on the house..."
„DON'T DARE TO TOUCH MY DAUGHTERS SOUL!" the woman screamed angrilly.
„WE DO NOT EAT SOULS!" Ichigo screamed back before he saw that Renji entered, with the unconscious Ogawa.
„Hey, what about her? She can't stay here!" the Shinigami asked.
Ichigo ran towards him, took Ogawa off his hands and carried her back to the window to hand her to the police.
„OFFICER! HERE IS THE WOMAN! TAKE HER PLEASE!"
Carefully and full of fear, one of the policemen sneaked closer to the entrace. Of course he was afraid for his own soul. But it was a chance to 'rescue the hostage'. Ichigo lift the woman up, to get her threw the hole in the window. Carefully he handed her over to the policeman.
"SHE IS ALIVE!" he shouted towards his colleagues after feeling her pulse.
Immediatelly the policeman pulled Ogawa away from the house and towards an ambulance that waited at the next crossroad.
"Officers, please... I know you and all others might think that we are monsters... but we aren't." Isshin yelled. "Would you allow... there are more uninvolved people inside... please, let them go..."
Isshin was talking about Tatsuki and Mizuiro. They weren't mentioned in the report but the people knew that they were friends.
Slowly, Rukia, Renji, Chad, Mizuiro, Tatsuki and Ichika arrived, too. Rukia just finished a call to the Soul Society.
"We can't let you here! Give us a some time. We will prepare a gate for you to follow us!" Rukia explained.
"Where?" Tatsuki asked a bit shocked. "Please, don't tell me that we are going to the Soul Society?"
"Do you prefer to stay here and get lynched?" Rukia asked. „Renji... now comes your move..."
Tatsuki and Mizuiro looked on each other. They never imagined to go to the Soul Society 'alive'. Renji placed himself in the middle of the room. He knew a Kidou that might help them. At least for the next few hours. Everyone could hear him murmuring some strange words, before a loud bang occured. Everyone was shocked for a moment but suddenly it was quiet again. And the house was sealed from the world outside. An invisible barrier protected them now...
Outside meanwhile, Ogawa woke up in the ambulance and felt dazed...
"Aww... I have headache!" she wailed. Her mother hold her hand and was relieved. "Mom, I had a strange nightmare! I was in the Kurosaki-clinic after I burned my hand..."
„OH MY GOD! YOUR HAND!" her mother screamed and pointed on her other hand in shock.
Ogawa lift her hand and suddenly remembered everything again. She didn't knew what was more shocking. The fact that one of her best friends is a witch... or the fact that her burned hand wasn't burned anymore... Orihime healed her hand, too...
Present...
"Well done, Orihime!" Ogawa said when she remembered it and lift her hand. "Not even a scar is left behind!"
"Thank you!" Orihime said and became a little bit red.
"So you are a good witch!" Makoto said.
"I don't like the word witch!" Orihime said and was mad on her again.
10 years ago...
Finally Makoto brought Keigo to her desk were she presented him the package she recieved...
"Here we are!" she said abashed while she used a key to unlock a drawler. She took out a package and presented it to Keigo. It had the same form and size as the one he send to Kazui a few days ago. "It arrived the day before yesterday. Photos, videos, newspaper-articles and detailed informations about everyone. About the Kurosaki's, thier friends and these other Shinigami..."
Keigo took the package to look inside. He found douzens of photos, hardware, and documents. "Who is the sender? This package just looks exactly like... my one..."
"I don't know! There is no sender!" she answered while Keigo found the adress-label of the parcel-service. It was addressed for the editorial office directly. Keigo looked on the stamp from the post office and noted the date and the time. When she didn't looked on him... Keigo stole some pictures out of the box...
Keigo stole several pictures, some articles and several documents before he closed the package again. Fortunately nobody saw him.
"You never mention my name, okay!" Keigo threatened her with a harsh voice. "Don't forget that you owe me something!"
She accepted his wish, reluctantly. And she agreed to keep his name out of it as long as possible. Keigo left the editorial office and rushed back to the dubbing-studio. There he switched of the microphones, secretly...
"Aww... what a grap... Why is nothing working anymore..." the producer ranted when he realized that the microphones seemed to be broken.
"Oh, so sad... well... that means I can go home. See you when I come back from Okinawa!" Keigo said innoncently and left the stuido before someone realized that he switched off the microphones to go home earlier...
In Karakura, the ambulance with Yupa arrived in front of the hospital. His injuries were worse than that of Kazui. Next to his tear gas intoxication, he had a broken arm, a broken rib, douzens of bruises and scratches everywhere. The policemen knew Yupa, as he was the son of one of thier colleagues. And so they called his parents immediately who rushed to the hospital. Both were relieved that thier son was alive, but also shocked about his injuries...
"HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO MY BABY?!" Yupa's mother cried when she saw her son. "DID THIS KUROSAKI BOY DID THAT?"
The policemen were to ashamed to confess that they were responsible for the childs injuries. But luckily for them they had no time to talk with Yupa's parents because they had to continue with the evacuation of the area over the secret basement...
The Kurosaki's and thier friends, had to realize that too. The TV was still running. And of course the news reported about the 'gigantic area that might collapse'...
"It can't collapse, or not?" Mizuiro asked a bit worried.
"A collapse is totally impossible. Not even an earthquake could let it collapse." Isshin told. "Urahara was very carefully when he constructed it."
"But is it even possible to fill it with concrete?" Tatsuki asked and pointed on the TV again. The anchorman told that the authorities will try to fill the whole area with concrete. "I mean... I was there once or twice and I know that there isn't enough concrete in the whole contry to fill this basement."
"The shouldn't even dare to try it. I am sure the Soul Society will seal the place while they erase the memories of the people..." Isshin said, hoping that he was right.
It was creepy silent outside. The police blocked the roads. The neigbours left thier houses. In the city center the people, who lived over the secret basement, were evacuated. Everywhere was chaos. And the Kurosaki's and thier friends sat together in the epicenter.
"And... what now?" Mizuiro carefully asked.
Present...
"Yeah... what now?" Keigo jr. asked impatient.
"I am done with my part. I was in hospital and didn't see or hear anything!" Yupa said a bit mad and crossed his arms.
"I was still out of action!" Kazui said and crossed his arms, too.
"What?" Ichika asked mad. "Do you want me to continue?"
Her friends nooded. Ichika moaned. They were right! She knows how the Soul Society went on...
10 years ago...
Ichika followed her parents back to the Seireitei. She could see how worried her parents were. She was too young to realize everything, but she knew that severe consequences will follow.
„How this could happen?" her father asked her mother.
„I don't know. But we should hurry and arrange everything. It is not just Ichigo, the whole Soul Society is exposed. We have to arrange everything."
„And what? As I know there are no procedures in a situation like this! Because nobody ever immagined that something like this is even possible."
„Yes, I know. But first of all we should inform the others..."
"Can I help, somehow?" Ichika suddenly asked and scared her parents. They totally forgot her.
„Yeah... yes you can help us!" Rukia said and kneeled down to face her daughter. "Ichika, please go and tell your Uncle that we call in everyone for an emergency meeting. And than wait at home for further instructions..."
"Is this an attempt to get rid of me?" Ichika asked. She knew that she was supposed to stay at home because she is too young.
Rukia became red. Her dauther was way too smart for it. "Ehm... please, just... don't disturb us!"
They already stood in front of the gate to the Kuchiki-Manor. Her parents opened the gate and shooed her in before they left. Ichika was mad...
Present...
"What? Since when you surrender as easy like that?" Masaki asked.
"To be honest... It was the very first time in my life, I had absolutely no idea what I should do!" Ichika told.
10 years ago...
While Ichika told everything to her Uncle and went to her room as ordered to think about everything what happened, her parents called all captains and lieutenants together to make up a plan.
Ichigo Kurosaki was the hero of the war against Yhwach and the Quincys and nobody really wanted to see him suffer. But also they had no idea that the Shinigami and the Soul Society could be exposed to the 'Human Society'. It never seemed even possible. Not in the true way, but in a faked way displaying everyone of them as a soul eating monster.
The Kurosaki's and thier friends were still trapped inside thier house. Keigo went home to burn the evidences and the Ishidas already boarded a plane to Germany (the country of the Quincys) before someone shows up with an arrest warrant.
The meeting of the captains and lieutenants took a few hours. But the plan was as follows...
The Soul Society will arrange that all memories in the world of the living get replaced. In the meantime, the Kurosaki's and thier friends will 'evacuated' to the Soul Society. The gate in the secret basement was already destroyed by the SWAT-team, so they had to bring another one to the Kurosaki-clinic. Everyone agreed that the 'uninvolved' humans will be brought here, too. And so they left to prepare everything for the 'accepted Ryoka' to arrive...
Inside the clinic, everything the Kurosaki's and thier friends were able to to was waiting. Outside, the police blocked off the area around the house. But it was a matter of time before they will storm the house or do what else. Everyone was in the living-room now. All doors and windows were locked. A bookshelv was used to block a window while the couch was used to block the other one. The TV was still running, so they knew what happened outside. Kazui was still unconscious and laid in his mothers arms on the armchair. Yuzu tried to act like everything is fine and prepared something to eat. It was afternoon now. And it was silent outside. Too silent...
In Minato, Keigo arrived home and rushed to upstairs to his penthouse. There was no trace that someone knew that he was a friend of them. Makoto hold her word and kept his name out of it as long as possible. He throw his trolley on his bed and walked up and down. It was the first time he was able to freak out, without to be seen. After he turned on his TV, to listen to the news he start to search his drawlers. After a few seconds, he found what he was looking for: The reciept of the adress-label of the package he send. The stamp was from the same office, the time and the date were the same (there was only a two minute difference)... but the package, Keigo send, was not the package with the evidences... it was addressed to Kazui...
"How is that possible! I mean... I never..." Keigo murmured. "No, no... It can't be!"
Keigo searched the drawler again till he found his cigarettes and ignited one for himself.
"I thought I stopped smoking?" Keigo murmured and took a deep breath from the cigarette. Than he took the reciept again and looked on the stamp one more time. "No! No... it's impossible..."
Keigo put the reciept into a bowl. Than he took out the photos and the other stuff he stole out of his pocket to read it. On the backsides of the photos, names and notes were written.
"It's impossible to photograph Shinigami! How they were able to take a photo of Kazui?" Keigo asked himself before he threw everything into the bowl and took it out on his terrace to ignite everything with his cigarette. "There are way better photos of Kazui..."
For hours he tried to call the Kurosaki's or the others... nobody answered...
In the Kurosaki's house, they meanwhile talked about thier upcomming journey to the world of the dead...
"Okay, please make it as painless as possible!" Mizuiro said and closed his eyes. He mentaly prepared for the death.
„What?" Ichigo asked.
"When you kill us!" Mizuiro said and shocked them. "I mean, my soul have to be out of my body to go to the Soul Society, right?"
"Nobody needs to be killed!" Ichigo yelled. "You will only have to run threw the spirit exchanger..."
Suddenly a door appeared at the wall, When it opened, Rukia and Renji came threw it. Carrying several bags with them...
"Okay Guys... This is it!" Rukja yelled and explained everyone how they get threw the gate. The doors already closed again and disappeared. „What you just saw... was a Senkaimon. We have to place a device here that turns your 'Kishi' into 'Reishi'. Just when you passed the gate, you will be in the Dangai. That's the world between yours and ours. The Sereitei deactivated the protective mechanisms, so you can all pass it safely. That's really important. Run until you are out and than we see each other on the other side..."
Everyone got a 'Soul Ticket', to carry it with him to be able to pass threw the gate. Ichigo took his unconscious son on his shoulders, while he ordered the others to grab someone elses hand. They run together in a chain. Renji offered to carry the suitcases Orihime prepared and Rukia took a backpack she packed up, too.
Outside meanwhile, the SWAT-team prepared to storm the clinic...
Inside, Renji used his Zanpakutou to open the Senkaimon again. In awe, Tatsuki and Mizuiro watched the door appearing again. A portable Reishi-Henkan-ki (a spirit exchanger) was prepared, they had to pass it before they enter.
"Okay,... ready?"
Everyone was ready. They knew that they couldn't stay here. It was too dangerous. The Seinkaimon opened and a bright light appeared. Only visible for the people inside. Outside the SWAT-team was ready to storm in. Not knowing who or what waited for them inside.
The group meanwhile prepared to run. Renji and Rukia already went threw it again.
„OKAY... At three... ONE... TWO... GOOOOO!" Ichigo yelled and so the whole group start to run threw the gate...
Ichigo, his son Kazui on his shoulders, Orihime, Isshin, Karin, Chad, Tatsuki and Mizuiro passed threw the gate... and Yuzu, who hold Mizuiro's hand until the very last moment... grashed with a loud bang against the wall behind the Senkaimon and hit the ground unconscious while the gate closed and wanished ... her Soul-Ticket failed...
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