Chapter 24: Uncertainty
Summary: My name is Kurosaki Karin. 17 months and some after my brother lost his powers I… died. After training so hard in almost two years to become stronger and protect my family back in Karakura, I needed to leave them after a freaking car accident. But I'm not worried. My life here in Soul Society just began. [HitsuxKarin]. Maybe I'll write stories for another partners, too.
Disclaimer: I don't own Tite Kubo's Bleach, and its characters. I just borrow some scenes on the manga and twist it into something that will blend with my story.
We're on the "The Thousand Year Blood War".
Previously on Hitsugaya Karin…
A beautiful woman came out of the kitchen. "He's right, Kurosaki-kun. You'll need all the food you can get. Do you know that all of the Royal Guards here did something good for Soul Society, and was rewarded by the Soul King? My contribution was the ginkongan." She smiled at Kon. "I made the artificial soul pill, and was invited to be one of the Royal Guards. Can you fill your body pumping with energy? Well, now you are packed with reiatsu that will keep you going in a place such as this. And Kobayashi-san's right. My role is to prepare you for your training here in the Soul King's dimension." She smiled.
Ichigo, Renji, Nanami, Karin, and Rukia stared at her. "Who the hell are you?"
Kyoraku is back from his trip to the Human World. After the updates his vice-captains reported to him about the clean-up of Soul Society, retraining of the shinigamis, and making a 'safe' evacuation centers for the people of Rukongai, he is now facing the members of Central 46.
"Can you repeat what you just said, Captain Kyoraku Shunsui?"
Kyoraku opened his closed, unharmed eye. "I want Captain Zaraki Kenpachi trained to his best potential."
"Make him stronger? Are you out of your mind?!"
"No. Actually, it's not my idea, but I thought about it and I found some merits from it. The one who convinced me to do it is none other than the first Kenpachi, Unohana Yachiru." Kyoraku indicated Unohana, and she stepped up from the dark.
Ichigo, Renji, and Kon were passed out on the floor, covered with their own blood, and the girls are ignoring them.
Nimaiya grinned. "What a show of strength! Welcome! Welcome to my paradise!" He shouted while girls of all shapes and sizes cramped against him.
The dancing girls went towards the unconscious boys. "Oh, sweety, look at the three of you. Did the Amazons hurt you? Don't worry, we'll take care of you." And they gathered the men in their deadly appendage.
Rukia have a tick mark on her forehead, and Nanami is looking at her with worry. Karin shook her head. I'm going to have a headache anytime soon. She thought.
Nimaiya laughed. "Okay girls. That's enough, you're going to kill them of suffocation any minute now."
The girls pouted. "Awww… Okay, daddy. We'll behave now."
The three boys have stupid grin on their faces. "This is wonderland! This is heaven!" Kon shouted. His happiness was cut short by a powerful punch courtesy of the irritated Karin.
On the other corner, Ichigo is trying to woo the angry Rukia, who started to act like those characters from the mangas she used to read in the Living World. "Oh my heart hurts. I'm sorry but I think that marrying you is of consequence. From today onwards, you lose me." She said, tears running down her eyes as she turns away from Ichigo. She's clutching a handkerchief on her left hand and wiping her tears dramatically.
Ichigo bent on his knees, and held on to Rukia's right hand. "Oh, Rukia, my Rukia, I'm so sorry for being affected. From now on, these eyes will only follow thee."
Mera Hiuchigashima entered and looked from between the kneeling Ichigo and crying Rukia. "Sorry for interruption." She looked at her master and kicked him. "It's time to start, stop wasting time."
"…" The shinigamis stood in front of a shack found in a cliff. "Are we sill on the same place?"
Nimaiya sobbed once, then twice, and then he burst into tears. "Waaahh! Why? Why? My house is…waahhh!"
Mera patted him on the back. "There, there." She looked at the others. "Well, this is his real house. He created that place because his real house shouted 'I'm dead poor!' If you look at the house of the other Royal Guards, his looks like a house in a squatter's area." With this, Nimaiya cried louder.
Yachiru entered her Ken-chan's room. "Ken-chan, are you there?" No one answered, and then her eyes caught something. She went near the altar-style cabinet and reached for something. In the cabinet is her Ken-chan's captain badge, and a letter addressed to her. She picked them up slowly and started to cry.
Isane looked out of the window found in the Fourth Division office. Behind her is a low table with a letter and Unohana's badge on it.
Unohana is walking on a land where bodies lay around. She doesn't care. She lived for the blood.
"I'm sorry, Captain Unohana, but the search is off. I'm not surprised that you would want to relieve your stress." One of the Eleventh Division's member exclaimed while looking around the dead bodies with admiration and fear in his eyes.
Unohana furrowed her forehead and frowned. She was about to tell the man that she's not the one who killed the people around them when a young boy erupted from under a pile of bodies. He has a sharp, laughing eyes, and he's grinning. He was covered in blood, not his, but from those he had killed. When he drew his sword to attack her, a feeling she had long forgotten came back to her. She felt happiness for the first time. She felt joy in this hell disguised as heaven.
"Let us begin, Kenpachi of Zaraki." Unohana drew out her sword, and faced the serious Kenpachi.
Kenpachi blinked and grinned. "Heh, I've been waiting for this for years. Come with all you got, Unohana-san."
"Ha. Ha. Ha." The young kid panted in front of her, but she can see the joy in his eyes. She knew that look. It is of someone who loves fighting and has found a worthy opponent. She knew it because that's house she feels right now. She knew that she looked like him right now somehow. And she loves the thrill.
Their swords crossed each other. Their fight was intense and her subordinates watched with awe, but then the two of them stopped. Her eyes were wide with shock, and it was filled with worry. The kid in front of her had stabbed her in her chest. It's okay, she's not going to die, she can heal herself, but she's worried of the kid. His powerful strikes became much slower. It's still powerful, but the passion was gone. This kid in front of her is suppressing his own power. He doesn't want to hurt her. He doesn't want his worthy opponent gone. Unohana Yachiru watched in horror as the body of a young Zaraki Kenpachi hit the ground and began coloring it with the hue of red. Of his warm red blood.
"Is that all you got, Kenpachi? You'll die if you don't take me seriously." She blocked Kenpachi's attacked and used the force to kept herself out of his reach. "If you don't come at me with true killing intent, I'll kill you here and now. Bankai! Minakushi."
Kenpachi watched as red surrounded him, and revealed Unohana's simple sword. He attacked. He swung his sword madly. He thrust, and missed, and slashed, and he saw Unohana was sliced. He paused, not wanting to hurt her any longer.
Unohana stopped moving, and showed Kenpachi her flesh healing. "I learned how to defy death, Kenpachi. I learned it for today. I waited, and got ready for this day… Now attack me!" She began to push Kenpachi back, and he decided to go all out. Unohana smiled, as she sliced through Kenpachi again and again, bringing him back from his eternal sleep so he could fight her back and become stronger.
Kenpachi is confused. He knew that the darkness consumed him a couple of times already. He felt collapsing, but before he could completely die, he can see the light again. He didn't care. He just attacked. He never did wonder why, and with a stronger will, he brought his sword up and stabbed Unohana.
Unohana smiled as the tip of Kenpachi's sword entered the only scar she has. She let go of her sword and smiled.
"He-hey, Unohana, don't joke. What the heck? Why didn't you blocked?" Kenpachi asked her as he draw the sword out of her body and throw it away.
Unohana smiled when she saw his worried face. He's so cute. He smiled but he coughed up blood. "I- I don't have anything to teach you more…I have no regrets."
"Hey! Don't say that! Come on! Heal yourself! Unohana!" Kenpachi shouted as he watched her eyes closed up. "If you don't have any reason to live anymore, then I'll give you one! Heal yourself, woman, and be my wife! Teach me the way out of the dark! Hey, Unohana! Open up."
Unohana smiled. "A wife, huh?" She healed herself. "There. Now let me sleep. I'm tired…"
Unohana healed the young boy, but left him alone in that place. Kenpachi woke up and looked around him. He felt like something happened but can't put anything together. And then years passed, and he met a little girl who he named Yachiru. And then he took the name Kenpachi. Kenpachi of Zaraki.
Kenpachi sighed with relief when her wound closed up. He stiffened when he suddenly hear a voice.
"I'm so glad! You can hear me now. Hello, Kenpachi. My name is… Nozarashi…"
Karin, Nanami, Rukia, Ichigo, and Renji landed on Kon when they reached the palace of Senjumaru Shutara. The woman is already waiting for them in front of an Imperial Palace styled mansion.
"Welcome to my place. Please follow me inside." She turned her back on the group.
Karin and the others exchanged glances and she shrugged and followed their next host.
Shutara led her guests on her workshop, and addressed her guest. "I specialized in weaving, and I would be the one making your garments." She said while implying the clothes and fabrics all around the room.
"Ahm, Shutara-san, why do we need a new set of clothing?" Nanami wondered.
Shutara glanced at her. "The clothes' function's is not only to cover you from nudity." Nanami blushed. "My clothes are made to make the users comfortable. It will also morphed when you call forth your Bankai, and will contain your reiatsus once you leave this place. Besides the fashion, it will protect from weak attacks."
"Like armor?" Renji asled.
"Yes, but much lighter." Shutara said. "Now, if the females could enter that room. I will take your measurements." She pointed at a door on their right, and then she looked at the boys as the girls go in. "Please refrain yourselves from touching anything here." She said and followed the girls.
Ichigo and Renji looked at each other. "So, you're going to marry Rukia?"
"Hai," Ichigo sighed.
"Are you sure about this? I mean she's pretty scary, you know?" Renji asked.
"You're one to talk. How can you like Tatsuki? She's not even a girl." Ichigo complained.
Renji grinned. "I'll tell her you said that." Ichigo paled, but then he shrugged and wanders off looking around the big room. "And I can justify that she's really a girl."
Ichigo winced, as he looked back at his friend. "Too much information." He looked past Renji's shoulder and saw Nanami came out of the room looking red. "Hey, Nanami-san, what's wrong? Do you have a fever?"
Nanami's blushed deepened and shook her head. "Sh-shutara-san said that she got a room ready for us… I'll be going to mine…" She whispered and went out of the workshop.
"What happened to her?" Renji asked. Moments later, Rukia and Karin showed up. Both of them are red… with anger. Ichigo and Renji backed off from the fuming girls.
"How dare she say that my chests are flat!" Karin shouted.
Rukia sobbed. "She said… my body is straight! NO curves!" She looked at Ichigo. "If you take of your clothes in front of her, I'll castrate you! You, too Renji! For Tatsuki-chan!" She shouted before walking out of the room, Karin following her.
"What the hell?" Renji and Ichigo asked when the room opened and Shutara appeared.
"I told them their sizes. Kobayashi-san's bust is big. Her husband's lucky with her. Kuchiki-san is too straight, and Kurosaki-san doesn't have a boobs…" She told them.
"That doesn't sound very right…" Ichigo said. Bothe he and Renji were blushing.
Shutara looked at them. "Now its your turn. Please take off all your clothing. And with all, I mean all." She snapped her tape measure like a whip.
"With the fundoshi?" Renji asked. "Can't you take our measurements with the thing on?"
Shutara's eyes gleamed. "Oh, I can, but I will need to cut off your 'pet' from your body, too." Ichigo and Renji paled and their sweat dropped. They hurriedly took off their garments and spend a few minutes of the horrifying, embarrassing, and locked-in-the-pandora-box moment of their lives.
Kyoraku is sorting out through the reports on his desk when a man approached. He lifts his head up and saw Unohana on Kenpachi's arm.
"It's done." Kenpachi said.
Kyoraku raised an eyebrow when he realized that Unohana is still breathing. "She's alive?"
"…When this war ends, you'll have a double wedding…" Kenpachi said before walking out of the First Division.
Kyoraku paused and tried to understand what the Eleventh Division's captain said. After a few moments of brain processing, he grinned. "Maybe, I need to ask my precious Nanao soon…"
Shin is on her clan's training ground overseeing a group of men practicing their sword skills, and hand-to-hand combats. He asked the healthy males of his family to sharpen their skills so that they could protect the compound from the next invasion. The women are already supplying the evacuation and hidden places their family can retreat to. He still have some problems with some of the elders. He then instructed those who are loyal to him not to help these 'fools' when the war starts again. He sighed and picked up his own sword and start swinging.
Toshiro closed his eyes. He's on the cave where he faced Hyorinmaru before. With a shout, he charged towards the dragon, and tried to win him over again.
Matsumoto is on the entrance of the cave. She hugged herself when flakes of snow came out of the cave. The cold is very welcome, but she has a sad smile on her face. She watched this happen before, back when her Captain wants to get stronger for Hinamori. She closed her eyes and turns her back on the cave. She'll lead the Division while her Captain is gone, that way she could be helpful. Maybe, I should consider having Bankai too…
A/N: I'm so sorry for the delay! I know what to type next but my mind is wrapped up in Naruto's hands. Gomennasai! Also, I can't promise to update in the next couple of weeks because I'm preparing for a big exam. Don't worry! When summer comes, I'll be able to update more.
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