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Bleach Fan Fiction ~ The Glass Portal To Another World
Shattered Segment 8: Eggs
The egg that Keigo was holding hatched. Actually, all three of them hatched. But more hatched from inside the crevice between the rocks and flew out. If you added them up, there were six of them.
He stared at them.
They stared at him.
He stared at them.
They stared at him.
And he noticed the resemblance. "Are you…" he started. "Are you Mickan's kids?"
They all shook their heads simultaneously.
And then, the six chicks acted out a scene for him and used sign language for words. Surprisingly, Keigo understood them.
"Mickan, can you fix the roof today?" his wife asked. "It broke a bit from the storm yesterday." She paused and smiled. "I know you'll do it anyway, because you love this house."
He put down the newspaper and nodded, smiling. "Of course," he said. "I'll get the supplies after I feed the bird."
He stood up and dumped out the old birdseed and refilled it with new ones. When he opened the cage, the bird didn't fly out, it stayed in and seemed to smile and say 'Thanks.'
"Daddy!" a little girl shouted, running up to him. "My teddy bear ripped. Can you fix it?"
"Not yet, after I fix the roof," he replied.
She paused. "Okay, I'll wait," she responded. "I want the house to be fixed, because I want to stay here forever. I love this house."
He patted her head and left the house. He bought a bit of wood from the store in town, away from the mountain where his house was, and came back.
When he opened the door, his wife had a worried look on her face. "What happened?" he asked.
"The mountain…" she replied.
"No…" he said when he heard a rumble. The house shook and some plates shattered on the ground. "No…" he repeated, not believing it.
The trembling of the ground grew more intense and his daughter pulled on his shirt. "Daddy, we have to go!" she said, and pulled him out of the door.
The mother followed. And he was in too much of a shock to notice that he left his bird behind.
The bird was silent as they left though.
They were halfway down the mountain when they heard an explosion. And cinders flew up into the sky and lava flowed down the side of the mountain.
"Cover your nose!" he shouted. "Don't breathe in the toxic gas coming from it."
The daughter refused once she remembered something. "The bird!" she shouted and started to run up the mountain.
"No!" he shouted and tried to stop her, but she slipped out of his grasp and continued upwards.
The volcano that used to be a peaceful mountain exploded again. And he ran towards the girl. But his wife stopped him. "We can't have two people die!" she shouted over the sounds. The rest of the people that lived on the mountain were already down at the base, and kept running towards the town, where it probably wouldn't reach to.
The aftermath was horrible. Everyone that went up the mountain again had to wear gas masks. Everything was in ashes. All of the plant life was gone. His house was in ashes.
Even though he was still living, his soul was corrupted over the loss of his house, bird, and daughter and he transformed into a Hollow. He ate the soul of everyone who came up there.
Keigo waited for more when the bird stopped, but it never came.
The bird pointed at his pocket.
"My notepad?" he asked and took it out.
The bird told him to write the word 'House'.
He did, and the words disappeared off the page with the same blinding light as the last time he wrote.
The scenery changed, and there were plants, plants everywhere. In the midst of the plants, was a house. His handwriting was on it.
"Ichigo!" he exclaimed, running back towards the volcanic rocks that haven't been turned to plant life yet. "Come see!"
When he kept shouting Ichigo's name, only to be ignored, he jammed his fist into the demon's back, distracting it. Seeing another foe, Mickan turned towards Keigo and started giving chase.
"Hey, Keigo!" Ichigo shouted, almost out of breath from fighting for so long. "That's dangerous!" He ran after the two, along with Ryuuji and Chad.
When Mickan arrived by the house, he paused in awe. Keigo read off what the birds were showing him, "In your despair… you created your own horrid world that didn't actually exist and affected the rest of the citizen's lives. Now open your eyes… and see that your bacon is here…" Keigo paused. "Bacon?" he asked.
The door of the house opened and a woman wearing an apron appeared with a pretty girl by her side. "Honey, you're finally home!" the woman exclaimed.
"Daddy!" the girl exclaimed. She was a teen now, unlike what the birds showed Keigo.
There was silence as the wind gently blew away Mickan's feathers and his mask disappeared. He actually looked human again.
In his despair, he created a different space that differed from reality. After a few days, plant life grew once again on the mountain and his daughter was found alive, escaped into the jungle that Ryuuji's grandmother lived. He thought it was going to stay the same scarred place and his Hollow self created that.
"Daddy!" the girl shouted again and ran towards him. She hugged him. "I missed you," she said.
Mickan was crying and he bent down and embraced her. "You grew up so pretty!" he exclaimed through his tears. When a human becomes a Hollow, they can go back, unlike the souls.
The woman, his wife, glanced at Ichigo and the rest. "Are these your guests?" the woman asked.
Mickan paused. "Yes," he said finally. "They are my very good friends. Please treat them well."
"I welcome you in," she said smiling. "Thanks for taking care of Mickan in his absence. We have some bacon ready."
"Bacon!" Keigo exclaimed and ran into the house rudely.
The volcano disappeared and was replaced with a beautiful mountain. The scenery completely and the townspeople far away were finally at peace.
***
Once they arrived back at the café, Keigo exclaimed. "They're all asleep!" at the sight of Inoue and Uryuu snoozing on the table.
"Well, that's expected," Ichigo said. "We took a long time."