Mizuiro could feel it when Yuzu's hand didn't touched his anymore. He screamed. But anyone else screamed, too while they ran threw the Dangai, the world between the Soul-Society and the World of the Living. Everyone lost grip to each other while they ran. Despite the fact that the Soul-Society, switched off all traps in here, they were too afraid. They knew the storys about the Dangai and they wanted to leave it as soon as possible. And because nobody dared to look behind (as instructed by Rukia) nobody realized that Yuzu was not with them.
Yuzu Kurosaki hit the wall behind the Senkaimon so hard, that she damaged the wall and smeared it with blood, that splashed out of her broken nose. Her forehead hit the wall so hard that she didn't lost only her consciousness...
The SWAT-Team stormed inside... crashing threw the closed doors and windows. Only to find an empty house and an unconscious woman on the ground... her face couvered with blood...
When her family and thier friends finally reached the other side, they fell down to the ground exhausted. The sun was setting down, turning the whole place in a warm orange light. Slowly Mizuiro and Tatsuki realized... they were in the Soul Society. Carefully Tatsuki looked behind her. The gate was still open, so they could look inside the Dangai. A cold shiver run over her back and she became pale.
„That was weird!" she murmured and looked around.
Slowly everyone start to calm down. The Abarais approached them and helped Ichigo with the senseless Kazui. Isshin looked after his daughters... and suddenly realized that Yuzu was not with them.
„Yuzu! Where is Yuzu?"
Everyone looked around... Yuzu was gone...
Present...
"Why?" Masaki asked.
"Her soul ticket failed!" Ichika resond. "We later found out that it was an error in the administration... but later to that..."
10 years ago...
While her family thaught that Yuzu maybe fell down somewhere in the Dangai and needed help, Yuzu was carried out of the house by two members of the SWAT team. Her face was couvered with blood, she didn't have an ID with her, so nobody recognized her as a member of the Kurosaki-family. An ambulance brought her to the nearest hospital. While in the meantime Keigo Asano decided to leave the city. He couldn't do anything. If he talks with the press he may worse everything up. But of course he watched the news as much as possible. Not knowing that the police already stormed the clinic...
In the Soul Society everyone was worried. What if Yuzu was swallowed by the Dangai. But a member of the Kidou-Corps, who watched the gate, could confirm that only 10 people entered at the other side, passed it and left it. So Yuzu never entered the Dangai...
"WHY? OH MY GOSH... MY BABY!" Isshin screamed and tried to run back, to safe his youngest child. The others had to hold him, as the gate closed and the Dangai regained it's dangerous safety features again. Making it impossible to go back without beeing killed inside.
The Shinigami and the Soul Soul society had no clue what happened to her. Or why it happened? But it was fact that Yuzu Kurosaki was left behind in the Human World... but that was not the only surprise...
„Hey, when did you change into that?" Mizuiro said and everyone realized that Isshin was suddenly wearing his old Shihakushou!
„What, the...? I didn't left my body... I just..." Isshin stammered and everyone looked into the Dangai again.
Isshins human-body, he recieved decades ago from Urahara to stay in the world of the living, was laying inside the Dangai. When he got the Gigai that day, it was not supposed to make a journey to the Soul Society. The Dangai, despite it's protective measures were deactivated, was too much for it. So it already start to crumble when they entered it. Together everyone had to watch now, Isshins body starting to get wrinkled before it crumbled into dust...
Another one who was left behind in the Human World, still walked up and down in his penthouse when someone knocked on the door. In fear Keigo, who was sure that it was the police, tried to remain calm. But what if they are here to arrest him? What if someone told the police that he and Ichigo were friends? Keigo knew that they had nothing to blame him! He left years ago, and even before he never ever was involved in Ichigo's 'business'. Keigo hooked up the chain into the door before he carefully opened it.
"Yes!"
"Keigo, are you home?" his manager Shino Midori was in front of his door.
Keigo opened the chain and let him in. He was surprised to see that Keigo 'cried'. „Are you okay. I tried to call you?"
"Did you?" Keigo asked and looked on the display of his smartphone. Two missed calls! But he didn't mentioned them because he tried to call the Kurosaki's all the time. "Sorry, I was busy!"
The next 30 minutes they talked about Keigo's character in 'Crime Lab Tokyo'. Keigo slowly calmed down again when he realized that Shino didn't seem to know about his 'Karakura-connections'. But he was still not able to listen to him. Because he was worried about the Kurosaki's. But why? Why, he should be worried? The Soul Society will do as always and erase everything out of the peoples memories. But what will happen to the Kurosaki's now? The people will lynch them! Or Makoto? Will the Shinigami give her the death-penalty for exposing everyone? Keigo was lost in his minds. His manager meanwhile realized that Keigo was not as cheerful as normal.
"You don't listen to what I say!" he complained.
"Huh... I am sorry? What did you said?"
"I just told you that you gonna be in the main-cast in the next season and you don't even smile? What's going on with you?" Shino asked. "Keigo... did you took any pills, again?"
"Wha... no! I mean... Wow, I will be in the main-cast... That's... nice!"
"Nice! That's everything? Okay, what's going on? You cried! I can see it. And you make a face like someone is dead?" his manager asked. "Is it about Akira? Did you two finally broke up?"
"No, Akira has nothing to do with... What do you mean with finally?" Keigo was suddenly very mad.
"Well, I don't know but I think she is playing in a whole other leauge! Okay... so what's up?"
"It is... just a problem from my past I thought I solved, but... anyway, it will be solved by itself as always... I have to catch up my flight..."
Present...
"We know what happened in Okinawa!" Ichigo told. "My son... well... found out by making a movie out of it..."
"Pah... please, I remember the incident in the prison! You may talk normally with me!" Makoto moaned. "Your son put a helmet on his head, roasted him and record his memory on a tape..."
In Karakura meanwhile, the teens denied to tell anymore to the kids...
"Why?" Keigo jr. moaned.
"Because, that's it!" Kazui told. "After that I was in Soul Society with my parents and Yupa was in hospital for a month. And that just because your aunt, thought she has to punish my parents for your father doing the right! But luckily she failed..."
10 years ago...
Mizuho Asano knew that something was going on when she realized that the people around her were talking about the Kurosaki's. Now that the Kurosaki's were exposed, it wouldn't be long before her brother's connection to him will be exposed as well. And soon after the youth-welcare-office will see that her brothers statement was not more than an attempt to swallow the boy's soul. Mizuho was not aware that this was too hot for her, too. She had to realize that when she mentioned that the police evacuated the buildings on the other side of the street. People ran across the street in fear the ground could collapse. Sirens howled over the city. In fear thier souls could be swallowed, thousands of people left the city. And Mizuho meanwhile had to realize that her brother's name didn't appear in any report about the Kurosaki's.
"What? Did his lover thought that she has to protect him? I knew it... I should have send it to TV JPN!" she said mad and took her phone to call the the editorial-office.
After waiting for amost an half and hour in the holding pattern (thousands called the TV stations to give a statement), she kept it as short as possible.
"...Keigo Asano, ask him about the Kurosaki's! He is fully aware..."
After that she hang off. The man in the editorial-office of Tokyo-One was surprised. He wrote Keigo's name and a question-mark on a note and handed it to Makoto who threw the note into the trash-bin. She was aware of it, but she kept her promise. After learning about the injured Yupa she felt bad...
While Keigo went aboard of his Nihon-Air-flight, from Tokyo-Haneda Airport to Naha Airport in Okinawa, a young Shinigami named Kaneda Ochi, who died in a well-known Nihon-Air-crash in 1985 while flying from Haneda to Osaka-Itami, was among some other Shinigami watching the Kurosaki's and thier friends walking threw the alleys of the Sereitei towards the Kuchiki-manor. The only reason they were so calm was that they were so much exhausted that it was hard for everyone to walk. They relied on the other Shinigami to keep sure that she doesn't get hurt.
"So this is the famous Kurosaki-clan?!" Kaneda asked his comrade next to him.
„Yeah, but it looks like the group is not complete!" his comrade said.
For now they knew that Yuzu was on the way to the general-hospital. They knew that the Ishidas will keep sure that nobody will get close enough to her to harm her. And it was true. Before leaving, Ishida senior ordered everyone who was aware of the 'spiritual' or his Quincy-powers, to not to talk to anyone and to keep sure that every new patient, who is close to the Kurosaki's, get's the most possible protection. This way, Yuzu (who was not recognized by the police but by the nurses), got a new name. Yupa, (Kazui's friend) meanwhile, had not that much luck. He was recognized by all present police-men and it was hard to believe for his parents that thier son left with the Shinigami-boy the school to go to this cursed shop with the big cave under it.
"He... he jinxed him! Yeah... this little monster jinxed my baby to swallow his soul!" his mother cried while she hold her son's hand. He was still unconscious. "Why else he should have gone to this shop?"
"I don't know... But I talked with my colleagues. They are searching everywhere for the Kurosaki's." her husband told. „They somehow managed to escape from thier house, but we will find them."
Both were still unaware that his son got his injuries from one of the SWAT-team members. In that moment, Yupa start to cough. He finally woke up.
"Oh, Yupa... don't worry. Everything will be fine!"
„Ka... Ka..." Yupa tried to call for Kazui, but the pain in his chest was to big. That was no big surprise after the SWAT-team member tackled him and broke his rib. "Where... Kazui..."
His parents were shocked...
Kazui meanwhile, finally woke up...
„YUPA..." Kazui screamed when he woke up and sliped down from the strechter, his father and Renji used to carry him to the Kuchiki property.
Ichigo was so scared that he dropped his side of the strecher and looked after his son.
"OH, KAZUI... How are you? Are you okay?"
"YUPA... HE AND I... Where?" than Kazui realized that they were in Soul Society. "Why we are in Soul Society?"
"Oh, Kazui... I am afraid that something terrible happened." his mother said in tears, but relieved that her son woke up.
"Where is Yupa?" Kazui asked worried. "Did the police arrest him?"
"Yupa?" Ichigo asked and slowly realized what his son was talking about. "Please don't tell me that he was with you in the Urahara-Shop! WHY?"
When his father start to scream, Kazui was too scared to tell him the truth. It was fact that everything was just his fault, because he and his friend were not careful enough. "He... followed me and... tried to help me..."
"Awww... Yupa is really a true friend!" Orihime said.
Kazui knew that she was right. Yupa is really a true friend. He would never betray him. And now he left him behind there. He didn't want to imagine the cruel things the police will do to him to force him to talk...
"Come on, Kazui!" Ichigo said. "We stay at the Abarai's house as long as the Soul Society needs to replace the people's memories."
Kazui followed his parents and watched the Shinigami glaring on them. He also watched Tatsuki and Mizuiro looking on everything in awe. It was thier first visit to the Soul-Society and so both were very curious. Together the group reached the Kuchiki-manor. It was almost midnight. It was a horrible and exhausting day. Isshin just lost his human-body, Yuzu got hardly injured and was in hospital now, next to Ogawa, Yupa and douzens of other people who got injured in stampedes and during the evacuation. Thier house was half destroyed and the people were afraid of them. To make it worst, they all had to flee now and hide here in Soul Society.
Ikkaku Madarame, passed and greeted them. They had a short talk about the events and he told Ichigo that almost two thirds of the 11th division was send to Karakura to help in the memory-replacement. And of all Shinigami, he was the first one to ask Ichigo about Keigo, despite the fact that he disliked him most...
"Did you got rid of that nuisance with the loud voice, or why you didn't let him come with you?" the lieutenant of the eleventh division asked.
"OH NO, KEIGO!" Ichigo suddenly remembered. Keigo was still in the World of the Living, too. "I totally forgot about him! RUKIA..."
"Don't worry! We have checked everything! Keigo's name did not appear in any report so far." she explained while she opened the gate. "Looks like he is lucky now!"
"I hope at least he get's spared by this mess..."
Keigo indeed somehow managed to get spared so far. He was sitting in the business-class on the flight to Naha and was not able to calm down. A flight attendant offered him some newspapers, but he denied to take one. He was too afraid to read something he didn't know before. But he also thought about how this could happen and who send the whole stuff to Makoto? Keigo took a piece of paper and a pen to make some notes.
First of all, he needed a name for this mess. Kurosaki-... Kurosaki... GATE! Yeah, Kurosaki-Gate would be a fitting name for this chaos. Next to Watergate and Diesel-Gate it fit. So Keigo wrote 'Kurosaki-Gate' in big letters on the top of the page. Followed by a list of names. A list of everyone who knew about the whole Shinigami-shit.
The same list was required by a older Shinigami who showed up in Rukia's house shortly after she and her guests entered it. Ichigo wrote every person he knew that he or she was aware of his secret on a list. It was a short list and nearly useless, as everyone (exept Keigo) was here now...
Keigo finished his own list, and he made a second one with anyone who could (maybe) know about it. That included all of his classmates, some bullys Ichigo fight down and others who hate Ichigo for some reason. And that was a long list. Keigo even didn't knew thier names so he wrote down just names like 'guy no 11.' or 'guy from the shop'...
In the Soul Society, Kazui was still trembling in fear. The adults finally calmed down a little bit and decided to go to bed.
Renji and Rukia offered thier house, on the Kuchiki-property, to spend the night in, while she, Renji and Ichika move in the manor again. Tomorrow everything will be fine again, Rukia said when she and Renji brought some futons for everyone. Yuzu was safe for now, Yupa alive and Keigo still out of trouble. Isshin only cried for his body but was happy that his Masaki-forever-poster survived the Dangai. Everyone was too tired to do something now. But they were excited for the moment, they can return. Nevertheless, someone needs to get punished for all the mess. And everyone was keen to know how and why this news-announcer exposed them in TV.
Tatsuki and Mizuiro were normally very excited to be here and got the promise that Rukia shows them a little bit around when the situation got calmed down. And so everyone went to bed. Only Kazui was not able to sleep. Knowing that everything was just his fault and that it was a matter of time before everyone will know that he broke the rules...
It was not the first time, the Soul Society changed the memories of the whole world. But it was not as easy as everyone thought. It was a difficult process, focusing on the orgin of the event. And that was for everyone the live-report... unaware that the true orgin (Keigo's sister) was busy with destroying all remaining evidence that was left in her son's bedroom...
When Keigo arrived in Naha and left the plane, he rushed to the next aviable TV screen to watch the news. Unfortunately they still reported about it... despite it was 3am in the morning. Keigo spend the rest of the night and the early morning on the airport, watching TV... till the director called and asked where he is...
Keigo rushed out of the terminal and took a taxi to the hotel were the episode was screened. His friends meanwhile woke up after a short, restless night. Two Shinigami from Kidou-Corps, who were responsible for the memory-replacement, arrived on the property. When Renji saw them getting closer he saw in thier faces that something was wrong... and he should be right...
The Kurosaki's and thier friends meanwhile were happy about the new day, because they knew that it meaned that everything was allright again. Together they prepared for breakfast, while outside Renji and Rukia didn't know how to explain to them that the process failed...
"And how we tell them?" Renj asked.
"Don't ask me! I have absolutely no clue how we tell them that they maybe never ever can return..." Rukia murmured and took a deep breath. "Okay... Renji, this is it..."
After these words, she knocked on the door and opened it to face the Kurosaki's and thier friends.
"Good morning!" she yelled with a slightly overfriendly voice. "How are you on this wonderful morning?"
Everyone looked on her. They never saw Rukia like that. She was way too friendly.
"They still need some time, don't they?" Orihime asked disappointed. "Please be honest. Well, we need some time to organize a new Gigai for Isshin anyway..."
"Ehem... How about a nice little sightseeing-tour threw the Sereitei for our guests here." Renji suddenly said with a bright smile and pointed on Tatsuki and Mizuiro. "I mean it is thier first visit here and we should show them a little bit around..."
Renji's smile was a bit too bright. Everyone realized that something was wrong.
"Are you kidding me?" Ichigo said and walked closer to them. "Since when are sightseeing-tours aviable here? What's going on? What happend? Oh, my gosh... is Yuzu..."
"No, Yuzu is fine so far... It's just... The memory-replacement... it... it failed..." Rukia confessed.
"And that means...?" Mizuiro asked.
Kazui watched everything threw the half opened door. In fear he closed it when the adults start to scream on each other and fight about the consequences and who is responsible for it. Tears ran down his face and he wanted to hide in the other room. But when he entered the room, he faced Ichika.
„HEY! I know that you are hiding something!" Ichika said while she hold her Zanpakutou on his forehead. "Tell me... do you have something to do with it?"
Kazui became pale...
Present...
"That was the moment everyone of us realized that we were much more in trouble than we first thought!" Kazui told.
His parents meanwhile, tried to remain calm with Makoto in the room.
"How you figured out that we are here?" Keigo asked her. "Or first tell me,... why you are still interested in the Kurosaki's anyway? You know that you can't expose them again..."
"I am not here to expose them again. I am aware of it for years and I understand now that it is too hot for me. No, to be honest... your ex-girlfriend contacted me several weeks ago. She remembers a little bit and she is afraid of your son's 'magical-powers' or whatever..."
"Akira? You are in touch with her?" Keigo asked. "Did she tell you to follow them here?"
"Well, she followed them here. I just joined her!"
"Woah... wait, she is here?" Ichigo asked shocked.
Makoto looked on him and smiled innoncently. "She is waiting in the car!"
Everyone was shocked. So Keigo's ex-girlfriend was here, too. Everyone looked on Keigo who surrendered. "I'll take care of her!"
Keigo flash-stepped away, only to appear with his surprised ex-girlfriend in his arms, a second later. When Keigo grabbled her, Akira was fixing her lipstick and was focused on her makeup mirror. So she needed a second to realize that she was not in her car anymore. She was shocked when she saw that she was in Keigo's arms. Her first mind was the incident with 'Hollow-Keigo' the night her son was born.
"AAAAGHHHHHHH..." Akira screamed so loud, that everyone had to hold his ears.
Keigo was so scared that he dropped her and instinctively used a Kidou on her to cut her off.
"Akira... I know that it might be strange for you to meet the dead father of your son but I am not a Hollow anymore! I was never a Hollow. Believe me... Holeigo didn't obey me. At least not always..."
10 years ago...
Keigo just talked with the producer and the director on the set, which was on the property of a holiday-resort...
"Asano, go and get some rest. You look terrible." his producer said and hold his hand on Asano's forehead. "Gosh... You have fever!... Go to bed... before you infect someone. We have a strict schedule. We will screen your scene tomorrow. I have some Paracetamol in my bag. Take one of them and you will feel better..."
Keigo threw the medicine, he got from his into a trash-bin secretly and locked himself up in his hotel-room. Keigo was awake now for almost two subsequently days. He was on the verge... but he was unaware that deep inside his soul... someone he never mentioned realized that he was getting suddenly stronger. This was his chance... his prison was never as weak as now. If he just gets a chance to use his own voice, instead of hearing his ones all the time, complaining about his life, his sister, his friends, his girlfriend all the time...
He walked up and down. For hours and hours he just walked up and down while the TV was on and news were aired. Finally Keigo drunk something... but unfortunately it was some alcohol from the minibar. He also took sedatives, he got from his last therapist.
"Aghh... they taste ugly!" a voice in Keigo's mind said. Keigo was shocked and hold on. Were that his minds. "Yeah... yeah... it's time to listen to me..."
For the first time ever... Keigo listened to the voice of his secret Inner-Hollow: Holeigo!
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