bleach belongs to kubo tite, only I own the mirror idea though

~The Human Seritei~

Jushiro slept well that night and woke early like usual in high spirits, something about the strange encounter with himself was intriguing, it fascinated him to no bounds, the mirror though vanished about mid morning, he was slightly disappointed but it just meant he could let his mind wander about possibilities, Shunsui was rather weirded out by his good mood, aware that Jushiro doesn't lie, and he was speaking too honestly to call a lie either, the story though was too strange to really believe. Shunsui decided to call it a day at midday because even if he was working, he wouldn't be able to focus. Jushiro was as usual up to date with his own work and by midday he was as free as a bird, that was about the time he noticed his soul communicator. it's coordinates seemed off and it seemed to show more information than what existed around him, particularly when he was walking through Seritei, according to his communicator, there were unknown plant life around Seritei, Which that definitely wasn't right as Seritei was kept in flawless order. he started perhaps thinking that it was still aligned to the world on the other side of the mirror, the buildings he had seen did seem to fit the description of the world he had partly seen. He decided against having it checked and instead just replaced it while keeping his old one, it fascinated him to no ends.

It was about the time Jushiro was at home when his soul pager beeped, but it wasn't his new one, it was from his old one detailing a message about a hollow in the thirteenth, the phone beeped again as an answering message was sent if that, ten minutes later "mission complete", it was signed though by himself. Jushiro looks thoughtful and sits on his bed full of questions, was all this really possible, he wondered if he could contact the other world like this. Jushiro sighs lying down and looking at the phone, after a fair while of letting his mind wander he decided to shower and then settled down to eat, the phone however beeped once, then twice, and finally a third time, he picked it up and read the messages with slight shock "there seems to be an unknown connection to this line" the other captain seemingly reacted "I will investigate the cause". the third time however he had received a private message "I have my suspions as to who you are, and I only ask you clarify them for me, who are you?".

Jushiro was surprised, that message was definitely from the captain... But it was also definitely speaking to him, Jushiro nods and replys "I am Taicho of thirteenth division, Jushiro Ukitake" for a few minutes the phone was quiet and he ate a few mouthfuls of his dinner, when the phone beeped again it was another private message "it seems I was correct, turns out we were meant to meet once more, did your technology perhaps link to ours?" Jushiro chuckles at the message replying "it seems so, my soul communicator recognised your Seritei and has been showing me strange readings all day, I found this rather fascinating so I didn't get my communicator realigned" the message it seemed was answered quicker this time "well, I can't say I'm honestly surprised, I would probably do something similar... But I suppose there is a reason for that... Would you grace me with a call Taicho?" Jushiro smiles replying "if you don't mind me intruding at this hour Taicho..." Jushiro then finished his meal before the phone beeped again "it's really no bother, I am rather fascinated by today's events".

Jushiro really wasn't sure if calling would actually work but he was willing to give it a go, after his hair was brushed, it was dry enough now and it had bothered him being messy, once it knotted, it was extremely painful. Jushiro then clicked on the mystery contact and it actually started to dial, after a few beeps the call was answered by the cat "I would assume it does work then Ukitake Taicho" the human counterpart smiles "hai, so it seems, I half expected it not to work... Our worlds must be rather similar..." The cat chuckles "perhaps that's it... So then you have been seeing our seritei on your device then?". The human nods "hai, at first I didn't realise because they were so similar... But it became obvious when there were said to be trees growing in the halls..." The cat sounds interested "excuse my curiosity but what is your Seritei like?" The human looked thoughtful "well I didn't see much of yours but I believe based on what my communicator has showed me, my world differs to yours in that we keep our Seritei clean, we don't allow trees and such unless they are in gardens..." The cat sounds thoughtful "here the trees and vines act as pathways, the roofs are too tall for me to jump up on them alone so I have to climb trees and such" the human smiles "ah, I understand... If I may... What happened to your Seritei?" The cat chuckles "it's a rather long history but I will tell you the basics, about a thousand years ago there was a civil war, back then humans lived here in equal numbers to us animals, up until the war we worked together. During the war, the humans tried culling us off, losing the war though they left to go to another world because back then we had the ability to traverse the tears safely. Way back when, the animals, such as myself were experimented on and we gained human abilities".

The human listened fascinated "that's rather incredible" the cat smiles "really? What of your world then?" The human chuckles "well we are a pure human race, however I'm not sure if it's the same for you, but soul society is just that, the world of the dead, we shinigami form the divisions to protect the human world and such... I have a Feeling you already know this though..." The cat nods thoughtfully "the Gotei has much the same purpose here... Excuse me if this is a rude question but you sound like a young race", the human muses "not particularly, I am over two thousand years old" the cat seemed surprised "really?" The human chuckles "yes, I am one of the few remaining of what's called the original Gotei, but that's a whole another story". The two captains chatted for quite a while about topics ranging from history to the antics of their seemingly identical best friends, it was rather late before they realised what time it was, apparently they both had a habit of spacing out while doing something whether it be talking with someone or paperwork, they both agreed though for their own safety, they should both get some sleep. These phone calls ended up happening pretty frequently, at least once a week if not more for a time, all at night when it was quiet, after a few weeks the cat had started talking about the mirrors though.

Apparently their research division had learned how to not only detect the mirrors but predict were they would appear, but not just that, they'd been working on it for a while but they had just made a breakthrough discovering how to make their own mirrors, it was still to be researched as they hadn't quite figured out how to keep the mirror open for a long period but they were looking at being able to explore different tears at will, it finally got to a point where the cat asked if the humans would like to participate in the research, it was a mirrored point as they both agreed to take their information to twelfth the next day. Mayuri was of course fascinated by the information, immediately interested in the concept, each jushiro gave their own mayuri the other worlds statistics and it was a mere hour before the two mad scientists themselves exchanged information between each other and started working together with the promise of letting each other have the others data. It was no more then a month and a half before the two mad scientists had figured out a method to open new tears and keep them open indefintly, of course closing them at will as well. Of course after the success the scientists moved onto other topics, experimentation being a favourite topic of course. it was at this point that the two worlds were able to interact with each other more easily now and that's where many amusing things happened.