Michiru Ogawa felt in a kind of shock rigit. Everything became so weird. She was like in a weird dream and became unable to feel or to react to anyone or anything. The only thing she was able to do was watching her friend Mahana beeing carried into an ambulance. Crying endlessly while holding her baby-bump. Chizuru and Ryo joined them to accompain her to the hospital, where they were going to make an Ceasarean section, to safe the baby.
Mizuho Asano was screaming wildly while two police-officers pushed her on the rear-seat of a police-car. Her parents were already gone, standing in a phone-booth talking with the woman from the youth-welcare-office Keigo mentioned. Keigo meanwhile drove away, racing threw the narrow streets like a maniac, almost overruning one of the North-Koreans, who left Yuzu's apartment to get something to drink from the vending mashine. Keigo ignored him, he was to busy with beeing upset and sad.
Present...
"I don't know,... I got a total blackout. The next thing I remembered was when I sat in the park on a bench and my parents approached me, asking me what happened. And that was the moment I realized that it was already 10 o'clock in the next morning..." Michiru explained. She had to take a seat. "Keigo you sister is a maniac. Mahana was so lucky that the ambulance came in time. Her little boy survived. But he had to spend the first six months of his life in an incubator."
Keigo moaned. "Oh, my gosh... I wish I had never attend. Maybe the things would had went different. But wait, Ogawa... my sister almost killed an unborn child and was send to prison. How could she get in here six months later and take everyone hostage when she was supposed to be in custody..."
"You died!" Ogawa answered. "Two days later I got the call from the prison you were locked up. The day after I met Mayuri's father... and the next morning I learned from the news that you got killed in a traffic-accident... Kaneda rushed away, and was never seen again... and the whole world forgot the Kurosaki's and everything what occured because of them. And so everyone forgot your sister's class-reunion as well..."
"Oh, yeah... that means... it was the same evening, Yuzu had her encounter with the terrorists!" Keigo realized and went to the corridor, where the others where still trapped by his Kidou. After revealing them, Keigo went to Yuzu, took her by her hand and escorted her back to the living-room. "Yuzu, I know you don't like to talk about it... but what happened while the terrorists... you know...
"I never understood it, too!" she answered. "Something really strange happened..."
10 years ago...
The man, Keigo almost overrun, went back to the apartment in the first floor. Beeing very careful to not to be seen. Yuzu was sitting on the ground. Spellbound and with a towel in her mouth, so she couldn't scream or run away. Horrified about the gun, her suppossed boyfriend pointed on her forehead. Tears ran down her face... How could that happen? It is over now? They figured out? They know her true identity and lynch her on the spot?
Yoon, her 'kind-of-boyfriend' she thought is a great person, still pointed with the gun that fell out of his backpack on her. He looked annoyed and tired.
"I have to admit that this was not suppossed to happen!" he said. Suddenly his Japanese was much better than before. But his funny accent, Yuzu always enjoyed so much, was still there. But it didn't make it better. "Okay, Haruna... I didn't want it to end like this. But there is no other way."
He still calls her Haruna? That was good or not? So he didn't figured out that she is in truth Yuzu Kurosaki? But anyway, why the hell he has a gun? And why she is tied up now. Yuzu tried to scream again, but the towel that was wrapped around her mouth made it impossible to scream.
She listened to them. They discussed wildly in Korean what do to next and possibly they also talked about how to get rid off her. Yuzu didn't understood any word but she was pretty sure that it was not good...
Her father meanwhile, was always able to feel when one of his children was in fear, in sorrow or in danger. And right in this moment he could feel that Yuzu was not feeling good.
"OH MY GOSH... I CAN FEEL YUZU!" Isshin yelled, while he, Ichigo and Orihime sat in an office next to two members of the commission, another Shinigami who wrote down everything and Kaneda, who was allowed to join after he told them that he had the order of his captain. "I can feel her... she is sad!"
It was one of this moments, Ichigo would have normaly punch his father to shut him down but he was too tired and too woried, too. And he was too mad on the two members of the commission in front of him who seemed to ask the same questions for the maybe millionth time.
"How long do you want to ask us this questions again?" Ichigo asked mad. "Seven weeks... You are trying to figure out who exposed us for seven weeks now. My sister is still alone up there, because some stupid idiot forgot to stamp her good-dammed soul-ticket. We lost contact with her. My son is suffering, my sisters are suffering, my friends are suffering... and you see what I have to endure with my father all day! So what is the reason you wanted to see us?"
"We think... we are close to the breakthrou!"
Suddenly the Kurosaki's were much happier.
"Really?" Orihime asked.
"Yes, we still can't prove it, so we can't try to reset the memories of the humans yet. But, we are still waiting for some evidence, some of our comrades organize right now from the world of the living. We just wanted to let you know that the things are going on better now. And if everything runs as well as we expect... I think we can tell you a name no later than the day after tomorrow." the Shinigami explained.
"Aww... that sounds great!" Ichigo said relieved. "But..."
"But?" the Shinigami asked.
"I see it in your face! There is a 'but'!"
"Well... But, there is still the fact that your Gigai was destroyed in the Dangai, Kurosaki-san!" the other Shinigami said to Isshin, who nooded.
"You... are going to tell me that I can not return! I left the Soul-Society so many years ago. My home is the world of the living now..." Isshin said slightly upset. "My family..."
"What I wanted to tell you is... that the Special Gigai, you once had, is not recoverable. And we don't know how long a Standard-Gigai will hold, since your Shinigami-Powers almost fully restored over the last years and your Gigai was able to get older with you..."
"I think I understand what you mean!" Isshin said. Ichigo and Orihime were surprised and shocked.
Isshin always knew that this day will come. Ever since he could feel that his powers restored. He and his late wife Masaki talked about it but they always thought that everything will be fine. Isshin was turned into a human, and would die as a human decades later. Now his human body was destroyed by the Dangai and Isshin was transformed into his former Shinigami-Form. But he didn't know how to go on now. Was he even welcomed back in the Soul Society, that easy? Ever since the Gotei 13 figured out that he was alive, living in the human-world in exile and the father of a substitute-shinigami, he thought that he will be never allowed to come back until he dies and his Soul is 'konzoed' back. But now, the times had changed... and they would have to accept it.
Ichigo will be able to handle the clinic. Isshin was sure that he is ready. Yuzu will be devastated but with Karin's help she will be get over it. And latter would first reproach him for not taking good enough care of his Gigai before getting upset and than be as cool as a cucumber like always. But anyway, Karin changed a lot over the last weeks. Her family just thought that she is just upset about the rumors about her and Hitsugaya. They had no clue that all of the rumors, were not only true, they went much further...
"Is this everything?" Ichigo asked.
"Yes, for now!" the Shinigami said and Ichigo, his wife and his father stand up to go.
"Hm... just one question..." Ichigo said and turned to the other two Shinigami. "... and who are you? Are you in the comission, too?"
"Oh, no... I'm just here because my captain wants to know everything." Kaneda said and bowed to introduce himself. "Ochi Kaneda, member of the twelth division. I am very honored to meet you Kurosaki Ichigo-san."
Ichigo smiled and bowed, too. "Thank you. Nice to meet you, too Ochi-sensei... ugh... san! Sorry, I mean san! Your name is a little bit confusing me, I once had a teacher named Ochi! And you are?"
The Shinigami who wrote down everything bowed too and smiled. "Kurosaki-san, I and several other people currently work on your official autobiography..."
"WHAT..." Ichigo yelled when he heared that someone wrote a book about him.
"...I am here, because we didn't want to miss the chance to ask you, how you want to call your book?"
"DON'T DARE TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT ME!" Ichigo yelled upset and left the room with the others.
Present...
"Oh... so that's the reason your autobiography has this weird title?" Michiru realized and smiled for the first time that evening.
Ichigo just shrugged. "Where should I know that this guy takes it seriously?"
10 years ago...
The Kurosaki's left the small house where they met to rush back home. Karin didn't feel well today morning and they wanted to look after her.
"You just said that you feel that Yuzu is sad?" Ichigo asked his father.
"Seriously!" his father said upset. "I feel that right now, something is pretty botherring her. No it is like... she is in fear..."
Isshin was so right. Right in this moment, Yuzu was still treatened with a gun, while she finally stopped to try screaming. Thinking about what's going on next. Or why this is going on anyway? And why her boyfriend suddenly speaks thier language much better than he first pretend? When he kills her, will she be with her family again? Or will she need a Konzo to pass to the Soul Society? Will she keep her memory? How does a Konzo feel? She was well aware of the whole 'Soul-Circle' but she didn't exept it to affect her in this early stage of her life. Yuzu was so lost in her minds that she even missed how the group of Koreans (Yuzu suspected to be from North-Korea now instead from South-Korea), went to the other side of the room to argue about what to do now. It was the perfect chance for Yuzu to lift up and leave threw the unlocked door. But she was too confused to do so. Instead she cried and prayed to get directly to her family or at least into a district close enough to the Seireitei to make it easier for her family to find her.
The war of words between the Koreans became louder and louder. But one of them suddenly stopped and felt a weird power in the air. Confused the group looked towards Yuzu, one shrieked and the one with the gun let it drop to the ground. Yuzu didn't see anything as her eyes were full of tears. But she felt strange as well. Some weird energy was tickling her arms... and suddenly she could feel that the rope that was used to tie her hands up behind her back seem to fall apart and her arms were free.
One of the Koreans screamed something she didn't understand. But she kind of felt that it was a: "What the hell was that?"
The other one seemed to give a: "I don't know!" as respond.
Despite her hands beeing free now, Yuzu was too scared to run away. They would have shoot her immediately. But instead they seemed to be scared... but she was scared much more...
"What did you did?" her supposed boyfriend asked scared. "What was... that?"
Yuzu had absolutely no clue what he was talking about. But she asked herself, too how she was able to tear her bonds. She knew that she was far not strong enough. Her eyes were still full of tears so she was not really able to see something. But she could see that the group still looked on her in fear.
One of them went one step away and hit something in the shelf...
Despite her new, faked identity, Yuzu was able to safe some photos and other stuff from her family. Including a photo of the whole Kurosaki-Family, that was all hidden in the small colourful box in the shelv. When it fell out, after beeing hit by the arm of the man, the whole content was spilled over the ground in front of them. And everyone could see the family-photo of Yuzu (with her original-hair-colour) with her father, her siblings, her sister-in-law and her nephew. The Koreans lift up the photo to look on it and compared 'Haruna' in front of them, with Yuzu from the photo. Suddenly they realized that she was not the person she demand to be, too. She was a part of this family of 'living-deaths' and 'witches' everyone was talking about.
In fear another one took his gun out. He wanted to shoot her immediately before she swallows thier souls or anything else. On the other side there was one who knew that Yuzu was the 'maybe only partly normal human' in this family and had not special abilities. The other one begged to leave before her brother appears and destroys them. Yuzu didn't understand any word of thier conversation but it turned more and more weird. When she saw the second gun she start to scream, lift her arm... and saw a strange blue light appearing in the room.
Yuzu was still unable to see what happened, or why there was this blue light right in front of her that looked like an arrow. What ever it was, it was enought to scare the terrorists so much that they ran out of the apartment and didn't even took thier stuff with them...
Yuzu closed her eyes and hid in the corner. She was still too scared. Several minutes later she finally opened at least one eye to see what happened.
The terrorist were gone. They left without thier documents and and thier other stuff. They only took thier guns with them. And they even didn't closed the door after them when they stormed out. The weirdest thing, was a small but conspicious burned spot on the wall, right were they stood.
Carefully Yuzu lift up, that was the moment she realized that her right hand was, slightly bleeding. She saw that blue light around it?! She was trembling everywhere. Carefully she went to the open door to look outside. It was quiet as always since her family got exposed. Everyone still hid at home and only looked outside to place apples there. Yuzu looked around. It was creepy silent everywhere. The silence was over when she closed her door. The squeaking of the hinges seemed much louder than normal. The door closed, as carefully as possible before Yuzu looked around. As she used her injured hand to close the door, she covered the door handle with blood. As well as the door self, the wall where she hid, the carpet, and the table. It looked like a crime scene. That was a ridiculous thought as this place is a true crime-scene. She realized in fear that she just gave shelter to a group of terrorists. God-dammed North-Korean-Terrorists! And they knew now her true identity. As soon as they go to the police, they come and arrest her...
In fear she closed all curtains, switched off all lights and and electronic-devices before she used a towel to wrap her arm in. Walking up and down, she imagined what happens next: The police arriving, shooting her in fear... and her soul luring the next hollow long before her brother arrives to Konzo her. Yuzu fell on her knees, picking up the photo of her family from the ground and apologized. She apologized for beeing so careless and so stupid. But than she remembered: they are Terrorists! They can't go to the police! As soon as they go to the police they will be arrested and thier 'great-leader' would be disappointed. And North-Koreans don't dare to mess up with thier great-leader, or not... But what if... what if they come back and force her to join them. What if they kidnap her to keep sure she remains silent. Or to force her to support them. She can't be a North-Korean! She can't even cook over there, they don't even have food... Yuzu went into the tiny bathroom, looking into the mirror.
She looked both horrible and ridiculous. Her black dyed hair grew and her true hair-colour was visible. Her face was white as chalk but also deep red from her shame. With trembling hands she opened the faucet to pour water over her bleeding hand. He didn't remember where or how she cut her hand but it was still trembling and tingling. Full of fear and shame she looked into the mirror again. It was her fault. It was just her own fault. She knew that it was over. The police will arrive soon. Yuzu washed her hairs, to get the colour out and too look normal again. She wanted to look normal when they come. Than she sat down on the ground in front of her door and waited for the police... for hours and hours...
Present...
"...It was so weird. I never understood why they suddenly left. Maybe I scared them so much, that they got afraid? But I know that it must had to do something with the blue light I saw..."
"A blue light?" Ichigo asked.
Slowly everyone who knew about it, start to suspect that Yuzu possibly developed Quincy-Powers that evening.
10 years ago...
While Yuzu waited for the police... Keigo raced with high-speed back to Minato. Overruning almost two pedestrians and a bike-rider, he entered the parking-garage, stormed into the lobby and rushed towards the elevator. Passing the office of his property-manager Tahiki Sakura, who was relieved to meet him before she went's home.
"Oh, good evening Asano-san. Good to see you, I need to talk to you about this animal-house on your terrace. You know that animals are against the house-rules. The people complained about the noise and the stench... aghh..." the woman was scared when she saw Keigo's expression. That mix of sadness and anger let her freeze. "Aw... you know... that can wait till sometime later. Good night, Asano-san..."
The scared woman went back to her office to lock up and to leave, while Keigo hammered against the call-button of the elevator like a maniac...
He wanted to be alone. He wanted to be alone to cry, to eat and to drink... He wanted to forget this horrible evening. He knew that his sister hates him, for calling the youth-welcare-office. But using thier parents who never had a clue how they were and what was going on really,... Keigo really wished to punch his sister into her god-dammed face just to show her how painful a punch into the face is. He had no clue that his sister was in custody right in this moment after throwing a chair on the pregnant Mahana. Latter one, was in hospital now where they made a ceasarean section to safe her baby. Keigo cried endlessly while he finally reached his floor. When the doors slid open and he went to his door, he saw immedately that someone was in his apartment...
Since the beginning of Kurosaki-Gate, he always locked the door twice and jammed a short piece of rope in the door to see if someone entered. The rope was gone, which meaned that someone entered his apartment while he was away. And the door wasn't locked anymore. Carefully he opened the door, switched on the light and looked around. Nobody was inside. Just his private-zoo was at home. Everything looked normal. Keigo first thougt that he just forgot to lock up but he could swear that that he locked up and jammed the rope in the door before he left. But he was still to upset to think about it. He throw down his jacket, stormed towards his refrigerator in the kitchen and looked what was inside. It was empty, despite one egg, an half apple and one a half bottles of Vodka. But there was also an old bottle of wine in the back, Keigo forgot he had. Without looking on the label, Keigo uncorked the bottle and drunk almost the whole bottle in one go...
He had no clue that right in this moment, in the Sereitei, the members of the commission came together for a last meeting... One of them presented Keigo's smartphone, they stole from him weeks ago, and his chats with Makoto. Another one had the pictures from the survivelance-cameras of Keigo and Makoto entering the boxroom. For them is was clear that all traces led to Keigo... Another one confirmed that Keigo was not at home but that he opened Keigo's door to search his apartment. Keigo definetely burned something on his terrace... Keigo Asano... was the traitor?
Latter meanwhile, continued ranting, drinking and crying in his penthouse. Always holding the bottle in his hands. Listening to the 10 messages on his answering-mashine. From his producer, who asked him for the dub of a commercial and to take the 'chance', from Makoto who tried to convince him to finally give him an exclusive-interview, from a reporter of another TV-network asking for an interview on the whole Kurosaki-bullshit and, much to his surprise, from his mother who cried and begged to call her and his father back because they want to apologize for the incident at the class-reunion. Keigo deleted the message before she could finish. He didn't even want to think about how they figured out his number and was mad, now that he had to change it. He was done with them. With everyone... With his parents, Mizuho, Makoto, the Kurosaki's... that was the only matter the people were interested in. It was not him,... it was all about the Kurosaki's. It was all about the Kurosaki's in his youth, it was all about the Kurosaki's now and it will be all about the Kurosaki's for eternerty... even the bottle of wine.
Looking on the label, Keigo immediately remembered the day he got it. It was the day he met his so called friends for the last time. The day of Chad's big fight they watched together in TV. Mizuiro just returned from a business-trip to Moldova several days ago. The country he lived in for several months prior to the day the Kurosaki's got exposed. Keigo knew it from Makoto's notes. And he brought wine for everyone. Keigo got the oldest one: A wine from 1986. His birth year. Still with Russian label and Soviet symbols. Of course he was happy. He wanted to safe it for a very special occasion. Later he figured out that it was also the year of the Chernobyl-disaster and that the radioactive-cloud blowed over Moldova, back then. So he hid the 'radioactive-wine' in the refrigerator and forgot it. Of course it was ridiculous to believe that this wine was radioactive. And even if it was, one bottle wouldn't kill him. Keigo was more mad about the fact that the bottle was already empty. In anger he threw the empty bottle on his couch and went to his liquor cabinet to look what else he had. There was a bottle of Sake...
Akira meanwhile entered the lobby downstairs, holding her stomach. She couldn't go on with it anymore. The whole situation was was too much for her. She was Keigo's girlfriend (partly inofficially, partly offically), but after he changed so much since this whole Kurosaki-shit happened she was afraid of his behaviour. Sure he was intrusive and annoying, but now he turned scary. So she looked for another one. Toranosuke Mota was a famous star-lawyer. Wealthy, successful but also sober and clean. But the most difficult thing was, that the doctor told her that she is pregnant. And that already in the ninth week. It was definetely Keigo's. She didn't know Tora long enough to get pregnant from him. The day after tomorrow, they will fly to Dubai together, for a short vacation. But before she flies she should at least talk with Keigo. She had no clue what to expect when she goes upstairs.
Keigo was already out of action. He swallowed some sedatives with the sake and fell asleep within seconds. Now he snored so loud that Akira could hear it from the corridor. She was shocked. She was also shocked about the fact that the door was open. Seeing the mess, Keigo left before rushing to his wine... And she was shocked about the drunk and sleeping Keigo in the armchair, with an open bottle of Sake in his hands and an open box with sedative-pills in his other hand. Akira went closer and found the empty wine-bottle.
"Special occasion?!" she said disgusted. She knew about the wine and why it was hidden. After she went closer to the snoring Keigo, she could smell the alcohol out of his mouth. And she saw that he was injured, from a slap maybe. "Gosh..."
So that was the man, with whom she expected a child: an alcoholic, an drug addict...
Present...
"I couldn't go on with that..." Akira said when she and Makoto suddenly stood in the door. Both were originaly left behind in Michiru's car, but they escaped and entered the house. It made no sence to run away, so Akira decided to take the chance and face her dead ex-boyfriend. "I was afraid. I mean... a unstable alcoholic as a father... would you be happy about that."
Tears ran down her face. Keigo was sad, too. He understood her. They both made mistakes...
10 years ago...
Akira took a pen and a note: „Thats enough! I can't endure it anymore! Keigo... I say it simply: It's over!"
Akira was totally upset. She throw the note on Keigo's chest, stormed towards the door and smashed it close, so loud that Keigo woke up. Dazed and confused, he mentioned the note and after reading it,... he took much more sedatives, with Sake...
In the Soul Society meanwhile, Ichigo could feel it. He could feel that right in this moment, something terrible was going on. On thier way back from the office of the commission to the Kuchiki-Manor he suddenly stopped after feeling that cold shiver running down his back.
"What's wrong?" Orihime asked.
"Something is going on!" Ichigo said. He could feel it.
"Of course something is going on..." Isshin said. "Haven't you two mentioned that we are followed!"
Isshin pointed on Kaneda, who stood just a few metres behind them and smiled innoncently.
"You again?" Ichigo asked confused. "What, is Kurotsotchi so interested in us?"
"Yes, sorry..." Kaneda said.
"Aww... It's okay. I mean it is not your fault!" Ichigo moaned and took a deep breath. "More important is that we get Yuzu here as quick as possible, before something happens to her."
"And how,... we still can't leave this place?" Orihime asked.
Ichigo suddenly got an idea...
"Hey, Ochi-sensei... SAN! Dammed, I mean san..." Ichigo was still confused.
"You can call me Kaneda, if that is easier for you!"
"Sorry... Are you interested in a special mission to the world of the living?"
Present...
„Yeah... I remember... If he didn't ask me, I would have never met your mom!" Kaneda said to his son. His ex-affair start to grin in afraid...
10 years ago...
Kaneda was brought to thier house, where he recieved a note with Yuzu's current adress and with Keigo's adress. He knew Yuzu from a photo that was published in a magazine. So Ichigo didn't have to describe her.
"Okay,... this is all you need. If Yuzu is not at home, she might be with Keigo. I told her to go to his place if anything happens. If you see him, please tell him that I am sorry for pulling him into this. You don't need a Gigai, he is spiritualy aware."
"Sure... Oh by the way, how I recognize this Keigo?" Kaneda asked. Because Keigo was the main-suspect, his photo wasn't published in the Soul Society so far.
"Oh, yeah... Orihime? Do you have a photo of Keigo?"
Orihime was already searching everything she safed from thier house. Looking for a photo of Keigo. But to be honest there weren't any photo's of Keigo within. Finally she found an old one. Ichigo was not very happy about her finding.
"Orihime... How old is this photo?" Ichigo asked. Keigo was no older than 15 on this photo. "Well, it is pretty old... but it looks like this is all I can give to you?!"
Kaneda was surprised, too. "He seems familiar to me! He reminds me a little bit on..."
"I know... Sosuke Aizen!" Isshin said abashed. "With glasses, a different hair-cut and a Haori, he would be a perfect doppelganger..."
"No no no... Not Aizen! I wanted say he reminds me a little bit on this funny lab-technician from Crime-Lab-Tokyo. But now that say it... he really looks a little bit like Aizen..."
After that Kaneda left the house, to report everything to his captain, as ordered and to ask for the permission to go...
Present...
"Aizen?" Keigo asked offended and looked into the mirror.
"Who is that?" his father asked.
"And than? What happened after?" Mayuri asked curious.
"That's it!" Yupa said. "The rest of this story is already told!"
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