Mirrored worlds 14

Unohana taicho, the human counterpart reported what had happened to the human ukitake and asked him to perhaps be a little more gentle with the little bobcat in which he admitted maybe he was to rough, he would counter that next time. After unohana had gone home and the two big cats had both decided to go to sleep, the cats ended up sleeping for the remainder of the night and next morning, cuddled to each other happily. Jushiro woke early feeling much better, he got up and stretched with a yawn, accidentally waking retsu who slept lightly. Retsu woke in much the same manner, stretching and yawning before sitting and smiling at jushiro 'how do you feel today?' Jushiro smiles 'perfect, the two of you really fixed me up' retsu nods 'unohana taught me how' jushiro nuzzles her lovingly 'well thank you.. I owe you.. Both?.. It's confusing with two of you..' He chuckles and retsu nips his ear playfully 'I'm sure we are not the only one.. Are you working today?' Jushiro twitches his ears 'well.. I don't know.. I feel like I should practice what I learnt:: but I also think I should do my paperwork..' Retsu looks thoughtful 'both of those are important... Perhaps you should let your body recover another day..' Jushiro looks thoughtful 'if you think so, I will' retsu nods 'hai' jushiro suddenly pushes her over playfully before nuzzling her belly making her laugh, he jumped away before she could get him though, retsu sits up with a playful sigh 'will you perhaps be patient enough to do your paperwork today..' Jushiro lays on his belly innocently resting his head on his paws, his tail flicked playfully 'what do you think?' She smiled 'I don't think you are..' There were some very subtle differences between the captains, most were because of lack of understanding and age, they were no older then a thousand years and their youth provided a sense of innocence which made them different, in fact, if she was given a choice, unlike her counterpart, she would probably play with ukitake... Though a lot of people would, he could be serious at times, but most of the time he was a lot like a kid, it wasn't hard for ukitake to convince retsu to skip work, and once he took off out of the division, retsu followed him happily. 'I thought I said to take it easy ukitake -San..' Jushiro smiles 'I'm not working that hard' he says while jogging, it didn't take too long scaling roofs and such to get out of seritei and head out to the forests where they climbed trees, jumping from the tops to get to their destination. Their destination was a place that they had found on one of their adventures, adventures which took place when jushiro needed a change of pace or some stress relief, jushiro adored exploring and having fun, in a good mood shunsui would fly over head chatting to him and they would both disappear for the day, it worried rukia a lot at times.

They finally came to the clearing, a river ran just at the edge of it and the other side was a rock wall covered in vines, there was also a little cave behind those vines, jushiro sat in the centre recovering his breath for a moment before running and jumping into the water playfully, retsu watched amused at the captains playing. Jushiro sits in the water and then looks at retsu 'are you going to join me?' Retsu smiles 'no, it's fine, I'll need a bath later' jushiro lays on his belly in the water and stares her down playfully before running to pounce on her, drenched, she only just Dodges and runs a few steps away.. Jushiro then starts chasing her determined to make her wet too, when he finally caught her, he tackled her playfully 'I knew I'd catch you eventually..' Retsu sighs, the water was cold 'jushiro.. You are a child..' Jushiro smiles innocently 'really?'. Retsu often thought that maybe the experimentation had caused him to have a childish mind, she was reminded of the scars and it wasn't so unbelievable 'yes..' She playfully bites him and pushes him starting a play fight, anyone who was with jushiro often couldn't help falling into the same childish state for a few hours. After a fair while of play fighting, jushiro tired and curled up beside the river quietly, retsu nuzzled him gently 'you ok?' Jushiro nods 'I'm just resting.. You?' Retsu smiles and laid beside him 'I'm perfectly fine..' Jushiro shuffles over to rest his head against her 'thank you for coming with me' retsu looks playful 'you didn't really leave me a choice..' Jushiro looks thoughtful 'I guess I didn't... My apologies' retsu shakes her head 'it's fine.. I don't mind.. I've had fun' he sighs gently 'I'm glad I'm not the only one..' Retsu rested her head over jushiro gently and relaxes and within minutes of peace, jushiro was asleep, retsu stayed awake and comfortable watching over the sleeping jushiro, but she was startled when he suddenly woke and panted roughly, retsu nuzzled him worried 'are you ok..' Jushiro shook his head and tried to stand before collapsing, panting and whimpering.. '.. Can't... Breathe.. Hurts...' Outwardly the captain was fine, however retsu himmediately recognised the signs, she quickly changed form ignoring her nudity for the moment and gently inspects jushiro's form, his heart was failing.

Jushiro was quickly becoming weak, panicking a little, in turn retsu couldn't help but panic a little, she quickly had to remember her training, retsu had shown her how to restart a heart and she had turned out to be ok at the effort as well. She put her hands on the captains chest and concentrated, she could immediately feel his life force fading so she made sure she did it right, focusing she spoke an incantation, a healing bakudo, at first it didn't work, but after a moment she felt his health stop declining, slowly calming, in a few minutes he was regular once more and retsu trusted that he would remain fine, though she still watched him like a hawk. Jushiro calmed slowly as well taking in grateful breaths, his strength had been sapped, he did however have the decency to avoid looking at retsu in her human form once he realised, despite a less sensitive approach to human forms, they did still practice decency, retsu blushed once she had treated jushiro though she wanted to be able to help just incase, she however had no clothes with her, so she transformed despite the toll it would start taking from her. She had become very tired herself now after treating jushiro and changing, so she laid beside jushiro worried and looked at him "are you feeling ok now?" Jushiro nods "thank you... I guess I owe you again.." Retsu shakes her head "nonsense... You still here is payment enough.. Can you stand..." He shakes his head "I'm sorry... I'm to tired.." Retsu smiles gently "it's fine.. We can stay here while you rest" jushiro nods and drifts off to sleep and retsu curled up against him so she could make sure he stayed well, namely listen to his heart. Eventually she fell asleep and woke when it was dark, jushiro had slept peacefully but he could no longer stay here. Retsu then decided that since it was dark, she would carry him home. She transformed though used the darkness to hide her lack of clothing, it was hard to carry those sort of things around when you were a panther so she often came to situations like this, so she wasn't overly sensitive about it. She gently picked up the sleeping captain who stirred and cuddled to her, he was afraid of being carried and only really put up with it when he was ill, or it was unohana carrying him. Retsu shivered lightly and started walking, her human form was much more sensitive to the elements, jushiro was quietly lulled back to sleep when retsu started humming and he fortunately fell asleep before paying attention to the fact he was being held as he was.

Retsu was able to successfully sneak back into thirteenth carrying the captain without showing herself off further and got him into bed so she could once again change into her more comfortable and covered form, she decided to go back to her division though once she had again made sure it was safe to leave him unattended. She had been away from the division for almost two days now so she didn't go to bed, she decided to catch up on paperwork instead, reading through all her notes as well, writing down the symptoms if his latest attack into her treatment diary, she hoped using this method, in the future she could better help the sick captain.