Mirrored worlds 13
The two retsu unohana's had begun training as well, the black panther had become fascinated by the extent of the humans healing abilities, the human had thus agreed to train her counterpart in the ways of kido and such. The human had understood that with the beginning of the training, the panther would come access many new things that she would otherwise not understand. So it came as no surprise when retsu-San, the panther explained symptoms of low reiatsu. Unohana taicho took no more then half an hour to enter the other world and arrive at the thirteenth, knocking gently before letting herself in as she would in her own world, the panther still sat beside ukitake's bed in her human form, near identical to her counterpart only she wore black fabric to cover her breasts, her belly was bare and fur clothed her sides back and arms, her hands were human, her fur suited her and her form was no less graceful because of it. Her face much like all the other animals human form, the remains of her animal face was tattooed delicately onto her human face, her eyes remaining catlike, her ears also still remained on her head sitting on the midst of her neat black hair, she wore the typical shinigami pants though bare footed, her tail curled around her hips delicately. She looked up to the captains entrance and then looked back worried to ukitake. Retsu upon entering the room could immediately tell the captains reiatsu was extremely low, but she didn't think it was dangerous yet, she also seemed to realise that retsu-San, the panther, seemed very close to the bedridden ukitake, perhaps it was the youth but it seemed a lot of the captains here often let too much emotion into heir work, something that the human world frowned upon.
Putting this aside the captain sat down on the opposite side of the bed and nods politely 'good afternoon retsu-San' the panther smiles a little bowing 'taicho..' Unohana looked at the sleeping cat 'may I wake your ukitake-San?' The panther nodded 'of course.. I recommend scratching his ears taicho... He wakes up happier that way' unohana looks a little surprised and smiles 'of course...'. At the panthers request she gently scratched behind the sleeping captains ears and he stirred with a purr and looks around tiredly 'unohana taicho..' He takes a moment to realise there were two of them and he looks surprised then unsure '.. And unohana-taicho..?.. I'm not that tired... Am?' Unohana smiles 'your not that tired taicho' he looks a little relieved 'well I'm glad to hear that..', the panther giggles a little 'I asked her here...' Ukitake nods 'that's fine.. ' he weakly sits up and unohana gently stops him 'it's fine, you can relax taicho.. It seems you seem ill' ukitake nods resting his head on his paws 'I feel fine.. Just.. Tired... ' he yawns 'I can barely move..' Unohana smiles 'there's a reason for that... Your reiatsu is lower then your used to... ' ukitake looks a little confused trying to remember if he'd been told about reiatsu, he did remember it being mentioned after a moment 'reiatsu... It's your power right?' Unohana nods 'you managed to use a lot of it' she muses, ukitake looks a little clueless 'is that bad..' Unohana couldn't help being amused but his innocence 'well if you were sick it might be, but not this time, your fine' ukitake yawns 'so how did I manage to get into this dilemma? And what do I need to do now..' He tried to look interested but he was too tired, unohana smiled 'I've heard you have been training.. Is that correct? What did you learn' jushiro tries to think through the want to sleep 'flash step and swordsmanship..' Retsu nods 'flash step would have done it.. Perhaps you overdid it a little.. But no matter, I'll use this as a lesson for you both' she smiles and looks at the panther 'retsu-San, you can do this for a moment so you understand' unohana reaches into her bag and pulled out a wooden block with strings attached to each end and hands it to the panther 'this is a soul conversion block, the most basic and easiest to understand' the panther takes it unsure and inspects the block curiously 'how does it work?' Unohana looks at ukitake who had dozed off again, head on paws, she smiles 'place one end of the rope under ukitake's paws, it doesn't matter if he is asleep' the panther nods and gently lifts the captains paw leaving the rope under it, he stirred but didn't wake. Unohana nods 'now you hold the other end and focus your reiatsu, like I told you how, your reiatsu will go through the block and change to suit ukitake taicho's reiatsu, thus replenishing his own, it's not recommended you do this for a long perioud as it also drains your own reiatsu, but it will give him more of a chance to move' the panther nods listening and closes her eyes to focus, a kido mark appeared on the block glowing gently and the rope under ukitake's paws glowed as well as his paws as well.
After a little, unohana stopped the panther 'careful now, it you will be the same, I will take it from here' the panther nodded and let go of the rope, the block stopped glowing then and unohana took up the rope to continue 'do me a favour.. Meditate for me, try and realise the difference in your power now.. This is important for knowing your limit' the panther nodded and did as instructed, she had with help got a basic idea of her reiatsu and it took her moment but she could eventually sense the difference in her power, just as asked, she looked at unohana 'reiatsu take time to recover doesn't it' unohana nodded 'it may take a few days, perhaps a week if like ukitake-San, and you lose most of your reiatsu, it depends on the person..' The panther nods thoughtful, unohana looks at the sleeping captain 'may I enquire as to what you know of ukitake taicho's condition..' The panther looks a little surprised then frowns 'I believe his condition is caused from his original experimentation, it causes his body to fail.. I haven't yet found a way to prevent this from happening... But I can usually restart his organs..' She looks depressed at this, unohana looks thoughtful 'I see... I may just be able to offer some assistance with that' the panther looks hopeful 'is that so?' Unohana nodded 'I have yet been able to cure my own ukitake's condition... But I can give you medicine to strengthen your ukitake's body..' She once more stopped transferring reiatsu as jushiro would be fine now, she gently pulled back the blankets and held her hands over the sleeping captain, her hands glowed as she concentrated and nodded a little disturbed 'his soul is strange... Just what experimentation happened to him..' The panther looked worried again and sighs 'he never told anyone.. I do know when the human that saved him did so, he was about to die..' Unohana concentrates and the sleeping captains form glowed for a moment before the glow focused on what looked like deep scars around his body, the panther looked shocked 'what is this..' Unohana frowns 'the scars... The remainder of what the experiments did too him... And his body is torn.. Its amazing he is still so healthy..' The panther looks guilty 'can anything be done?' Unohana sighs 'I don't think so.. I'm not sure even if surgery could fix it.. It's healed this way...' The panther looks upset and unohana relaxes her kido hiding the scars once more before reaching into her bag and pulling out a small container that rattled, she gave this to the panther along with the conversion block 'you should have ukitake taicho take one of these everyday... I have his counterpart take them and he rather dislikes the taste.. So it might become a bit of a hassle.. I'm not sure if you have similar tastes.. But tea often helped swallow it down' the panther nods 'hai, I'll keep that in mind..' She looked at ukitake thoughtfully before scratching his ear, in sleep he purred gently and sighed relaxed. Unohana smiles gently 'I must admit... My ukitake is rather childish at times.. It seems as your ukitake has some quirks as well..' The panther nods 'hai... He loves sweets.. And he will love you if you give him any sort of attention.. He adores it.. Particularly his ears and belly if he is in the mood.. He rather enjoys sitting in laps..'.
Unohana can't help but smile 'he reminds me of a house cat.. But isn't he a bit big for laps?' The panther smiles back 'perhaps, but I don't think anyone minds... Even kyouraku taicho gives him attention... Though there might be a deeper meaning to that..' She sighs 'something to do with sake perhaps..' Unohana sighs 'what a worry..'. Ukitake suddenly sneezed in his sleep surprising the two girls, they both resisted a laugh as not to wake him, even breaking through unohana's work facade. It was obvious ukitake was feeling better as he curled up in his sleep, and sighed before falling Ito deep sleep again. Unohana nods 'well I had better return home, I'm sure you can handle most things until your next training session, so I will leave you like this.. Remember to keep an eye on your reiatsu ok' the panther nods smiling 'hai taicho, thank you' unohana nods and stands with her medic bag before letting herself out, the panther watched her go before standing and changing back into her panther form, before curling up beside jushiro and sighing happily before falling asleep. She often did curl up with jushiro, and he with her, it was comforting as they were similar and naturally cuddly, dangerous but cuddly animals, they probably had a little something more then friendship, but perhaps they didn't even know this.