Chapter 3: Who am I?
Yachiru looked as the dawn broke on the Seireitei from her view on top of the eleventh divisions HQ.
"Who am I world?" She asked. "Who loved me before Ken-chan found me, and why was I alone when he found me?"
There was no reply, as always and Yachiru got angry.
"Tel me!" she screamed with all her might as she waved her Zanpakutō in the air "Tell me who I was before Yachiru, tell me who gave me my first name!"
Always silence. Every time she did there was silence and she did it every single year on the same day, her 'found day'.
No answers seem to be coming by shouting at the sky. Maybe it was time to try a different method….
"Zanpakutō…. Will you talk to me?" she said in a gentle tone to the sword. She heard the birds sing and the wind blow several wind chimes, but she heard no voice.
"I guess I just add this to my yearly tradition then…" She said in downbeat tone.
It was sometime latter in the day, Kenpachi and the rest of her division had now woke up. Yachiru was still pretty miserable.
"Frowns aren't beautiful you know Yachiru" Yumichika said while bending down to her head's height. "Why don't you tell me what got such an ugly frown on your face hum?"
"My Zanpakutō won't talk to me" Yachiru replied glumly.
"Hum… weren't you saying the other day that you didn't care about talking to your Zanpakutō, since Kenpachi couldn't talk to his either?" Yumichika pointy out awkwardly.
"But I need to talk to my Zanpakutō now!" she exclaimed. "Because maybe my Zanpakutō knows who I am!"
Yumichika sighed.
"Zanpakutō's don't just talk to you to just answer questions Yachiru…"
"Well they should!" She yelled loudly before jumping out the window in a fury.
Bounce bounce bounce. She kept jumping. She kept running.
She was so angry! She didn't even notice that she had landed in front of Captain Unohana Retsu of the forth division, until she heard her crying.
"Boss Doctor Lady?" she asked as she turned to look at her. "Why are you crying?"
It was clear that Yachiru sudden appearance had taken the captain by surprise, mostly because she was now trying to hide her tears.
"It's nothing Kusajishi-chan…" she said in tone rapidly moving towards her normal serene tones.
"Nothing doesn't make you cry" Yachiru said firmly. Unohana stared at her a few moments.
"Kusajishi-chan … do you understand loss?" her tone was slightly more mellow. "To have something precious, something that means so much to you, to be taken from you with no chance that it ever be returned, leaving a hole that hurts when you think about it too hard?"
Yachiru understood.
"Person shaped hole?" she asked softly. Unohana nodded. "I understand then Boss Doctor Lady". With that Yachiru bounced off. It wouldn't be right to interfere on Unohana version of 'found day'.
She been bouncing quiet a long time now, but she was nearing her destination. Rukongai, the seventy ninth district of the North Alley in Kusajika to be exact, where Kenpachi had found her as a baby.
It was a pretty violent and horrible place; everyone just seemed to be interested in stealing and killing each other. No mercy, no reason other than taking each other meagre things.
Then she caught Yachiru eye… Mewing, helpless, just about to be stood on!
Fast as she could she flash stepped and placed her hand between the baby and the thug's foot.
"Babies shouldn't be stepped on!" she yelled loudly at the man. As Yachiru took in the rest of the surroundings she realised there were two sets of thugs that had been fighting, some in a dark brown kind of dress, the others in a more tan type.
They all stopped fighting and looked at Yachiru and it wasn't a nice look.
"Well, well a pint sized Shinigami, I don't know about you guys, but I've always wanted to make one scream!" Yelled what looked like the leader of the browns.
"Oh you're into that kind of thing?" laughed the tans leader "But I agree that we should show this Shinigami a warm welcome"
Yachiru frowned, but was unfazed.
"I am Vice-Captain Kusajishi Yachiru of the eleventh division, move one step closer towards this baby... and you will learn the true meaning of pain." She as she narrowed her eye's and drawn her Zanpakutō.
They all stepped forward, but then suddenly it seem time had froze. A lady in a white kimono that was all splattered with blood walked through the frozen crowd. Her pink hair, while very long was also very neat indeed and tired up a complex looking ponytail. She also walked with a regal bearing.
"True justice should be poetic" She said in a voice that sounded regal as her walk.
Time suddenly unfroze and lady vanished.
Yachiru took the mysterious lady's words to heart. Quickly flash stepping; she struck at each and every single one of then thugs, but only disabling them, not killing them.
"Now you're as helpless as babies…." She said with a dark smirk "And the boot is on the other foot now isn't it?"
With that she turned her attention to more important things. Ignoring there pathetic and hypocritical cries for mercy and help.
She picked up the little baby girl in her arms after putting her Zanpakutō back away; she had short black hair and big brown eyes.
"Imōto-chan, I'm going to take you somewhere better than this..." She said softly to her newly found little sister. Somewhere much better she thought to herself. Holding her close she bounced away, she knew her destination clearly.
It was sometime latter that she finally reached her destination, the HQ of forth division.
"Boss Doctor Lady!" she shouted loudly as she jumped into said captain office. She was there with her Vice-Captain, at a desk. "I want you to meet Aiko-chan." Both of the women in the officer stared at Aiko-chan, in what looked like a mix of surprise and amazement.
"I know it's asking a lot, but she got nobody, you could do with someone and I don't think I can give her what she really needs…" She said as placed Aiko-chan into Captain Unohana Retsu arms.
"Kusajishi-chan ...." Started Unohana, but Yachiru didn't let her remotely come up with any excuses.
"She doesn't belong alone in Kusajishi" Yachiru said firmly "She belong with someone who will love and protect her. One more thing I will be checking up on her too, so you best be a good parent"
With that she left Aiko-chan with Unohana and bounced away. She had one more thing to do that day, one last important thing.
"Ken-chan!" Yachiru yelled loudly and repeatedly as she bounced into eleventh divisions HQ and it didn't take long for her squad's captain to come out and see what all the racket was.
"Yachiru, you been out all day…" He said in his normal big manly voice.
"I know Ken-chan" She spoke while locking her eyes with Kenpachi's. "but I had important things to do. I needed to figure out who I really was. I was thinking foolishly my past before you was more important than my past and present with you in who I really was".
"I know it sounds strange, I know your blood doesn't run through my veins, but you done so much for me, the important things, the things that a father should do for a daughter." She said in a voice that became surprisingly shrill. "So can I call you father, Ken-chan?"
He looked at her with a thoughtful unreadable face, clearly thinking her words over in what seemed an eternity.
"You think I ever thought of you as anything but my daughter?" he asked her. She beamed at him in reply. "Come lets get back to what we do best…. daughter of mine."
Yachiru was picked up and put on his shoulder. Where she belonged. With her real father, not of blood but of something much more important than that.
Her farther of heart.
Tōshirō complains
*A certain white haired pretty boy runs craftily across the roof tops*
*stealthily creeps down a drainpipe*
*quietly walks down a street… only to find a pack of savage rabid fangirls await him*
Fangirls: There he is, hug him!
*quickly Tōshirō runs up the wall and jumps over the fangirls, then breaks into a run, spins around a corner and goes through a door, slamming it shut and locking it with the six locks provided.*
Draco: I see you finally arrived Mr Hitsugaya
* Tōshirō slowly catches his breath*
Tōshirō: Had some problems with fangirls… since everyone knows I'm the number one character in Bleach!
*pull a cool looking pose to the camera*
Draco: Yes…but anyway you said you had some complaints?
Tōshirō: I do have some complaints, firstly you spelt Hollow, Hallow.
Draco: *cough's* only one letter!
Tōshirō: Secondly and more importantly... where the hell am I! I can understand Ichigo and Rukia getting more lines... but Yuzu and Yachiru are getting way more than me!
Draco: Oh don't worry you get some major scenes and romance with a fair maiden latter, just got to wait a few chapter.
Tōshirō: Romance with a fair maiden... its Karin isn't it?
Draco: Nope.
Tōshirō: Momo?
Draco: Not her either.
Tōshirō: I'm all out of ideas now *sighs*
Draco: Aren't you supposed to say Rangiku at this point?
*Tōshirō blinks*
Tōshirō: There in no way that she's a maiden; trust me I'm her captain.
*Draco makes a note*
Draco: Anyway, If that's everything…
* At this point a mysterious young girl with very long blond hair, big blues eyes and carrying a miniature silver windmill with weird writing pops up*
MYG: I'm a maiden and my name is Mary *smiles sweetly at a rapidly very scared looking Tōshirō*
Tōshirō: No way, no way no way!!!!!!!
*Rapidly runs away screaming*
Draco: So can I safely put chaotic evil as your alignment then?
Mary: Course not I'm chaotic neutral, I do whatever I want! *giggles*
Draco: …. Does this include setting people on fire for the fun of it?
Mary: Course not; they set themselves on fire for the fun of it! *manic giggling*
Draco:…