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Well I'll see where the plot takes me now, give you something new to read and try to stop rambling so much.
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Chapter 4 – Realisations
"Yes but, what I saw were other worlds, strange and amazing yet terrifying worlds and in them, I saw these people. Shinigami, exorcists, hollows, other humans with strange powers but all of them exactly like those here now."
"What?" the one comment voiced the thoughts of all in the room at the time, except for Lavi's as he was too busy thinking of what the statement meant and how it fit into the puzzle of their being in this place.
"Shinigami, the ones in black kimonos with swords, exorcists, those in black coats with silver adornments, hollows, the child with a mask and the albino version of the ginger shinigami and the others are human but with other strange abilities – except for that one, Chaoji, who's just human." Saeko said everything in a simple matter of fact voice, ignored the fact it sounded completely ridiculous.
"Maybe you were released too early from that place, your mind doesn't seem completely whole right now." An innkeeper started towards her while the other headed to the phone in order to call the hospital to readmit her.
Allen placed his hand on the one heading to Seako's arm, stopping the dark brown haired man and his black haired friend. The white haired exorcist rose and walked over to the girl that still stood in the doorway of the side room.
"How do you know this?" was the simple question he asked. The innkeepers just looked at one another thinking that either somehow what she said was true or that all of them were crazy.
"I saw it in my head for the past five years, Allen Walker." She spoke calmly, the shock from before slowly fading from her eyes and shifting itself to Allen's as she spoke his name. It was echoed in the eyes of many in the room, Lavi expertly hiding it with curiosity.
The silence that had followed her statement was finally broken by the innkeepers suggesting that everyone should get a good nights rest. The advice was taken and the group of outsiders were shown to some rooms they could use for the night, payment to be discussed later.
Saeko took refuge in her room, lying awake for a long while thinking on how the shinigami, exorcists, hollows and other humans had gotten into her world from their own, unless perhaps she had got them here, with the desperate wish she had wished only a few weeks past. Sleep finally claimed her as the moon reached its peak in the sky, dreams coming thick and fast into her head, relentless visions of the world, although which world, she could not tell.
Creeping, silent, cautiously approaching the clering ahead, not knowing why but feeling that I can't be seen, mustn't be seen by those I look for. I reach a position where I can see them clearly without being seen. I duck away again, just in case they could spot me, my mind racing over what I saw, not fully believing but knowing it to be true.
"How? Why? What are they even doing here?" I whisper so as not to be heard but still the edge of panic is in my voice. I ran over the sight again, not fully trusting my mind in such a state but even in such a state, the figures are unmistakable. The slicked back brown hair with matching eyes, white clothes and katana of Aizen Sousuke and the ridiculous appearance of the Millennium Earl. Singularly they are a force that could throw the balance of my world but together... it will be destroyed completely.
Leaving my thoughts I shift, ready to move off but the rustling caused alerts them to my presence. I flee praying it's only a dream i can wake up from, hoping that the union of these two dark forces is only in my imagination. I feel them catching up and myself falling as I lost my concentration on the location of tree roots. Terror overflows, freezing me in my fallen state as they come into view...
Saeko woke with a cold sweat over her body, the sun just starting to drag itself over the horizon. She quickly showered before changing and starting to prepare the inn for its morning customers, waiting for the owners to get up.
Kanda was the first to emerge from the guest rooms, heading outside to do his morning training. Renji and Rukia arriving soon after to see where the samurai had gone, not fully trusting him quite yet, after the way they had first met.
The owners entered soon after, setting about making breakfast for the travellers.
Allen and Ichigo came down one after the other desperately trying not to stare at each other, Saeko watched them enter wondering how no one else seemed to notice the pink bubbly aura that surrounded the pair. The aura dimmed a little at the loud rumbling coming from Allen's stomach.
"Breakfast in ten minutes," she told them heading upstairs to wake and tell the others. It took a while to wake Nel and Orihime, but she did it with a couple of minutes to fetch the three from outside.
The innkeepers could do nothing but stare at the huge pile of plates that built up in front of Allen as he inhaled enough food for about twenty normal people. The other exorcists were used to his eating habits so were the only ones in the room, apart from Saeko, who weren't staring.
Renji made the comment on all the starers minds, "Where does all that go?"
"Just get used to it, he's always like that," Saeko answered as she carried the pile of plates to the kitchen.
The activation of Allen's cursed eye as Saeko returned for the other plates froze everyone, animation returning with the roar that came soon after.
The word "Hollow," came from the shinigami as the exorcists ran out talking about akuma. The innkeepers and Saeko could only watch the travellers, bar Chaoji, Orihime, Hichigo and Nel, run towards the monsters only a couple of hundred metres from the inn, with its softly creaking sign that read "The Serene Willow".
The group of low level hollows and akuma took little time to be dealt with, but left the travellers with the question of what they were all doing together given that they came from different worlds.
The group returned to find Saeko clutching her head muttering incoherently, her eyes becoming cloudy once more as she slipped into the arms of unconciousness. The black-haired innkeeper lifted Saeko and carried her to her room, his companion thanking the travellers for destroying the monsters that may have destroyed the inn had they not been there. To repay them, the charges for staying were dropped and there would be none for the next night, breakfast and lunch, as well as meals for the day.
Saeko returned to conciousness only an hour later, her eyes back to normal but knowing that the dream she had the night before, having repeated and extended itself during the hour, was not just a dream but the truth. She also knew that, for now, the demons of her world were fighting against these intruders, ignoring their proposals of an alliance.
She relayed her dream to Lavi and Allen who had waited for her to wake, the others searching the area for any other hollows or akuma.
Slowly the others returned having found nothing but a native demon that had slipped away. The situation was explained to them and groups were figured out to find Aizen and the Millenium Earl, mixing exorcists and shinigami so no matter what popped up, someone would be used to dealing with it, unless it happened to be another native demon.
Saeko managed to get herself roped in by Lavi with the reasoning that her dreams could help find the joined evils and her knowledge of the land and the native demons would also be useful. The innkeepers only let her go when she consented to it, saying that if the two weren't stopped the whole world would suffer even if they would help it by removing the demons.
Lunch was eaten before they left with some provisions provided that should last about a week, even including Allen's appetite which stilled stunned everyone during lunch. The three designated groups separated before entering the town, Lenalee, Kanda, Renji and Rukia skirting around the edge to reach the forest that spread from the east side of the town and headed north to the mountains, dissipating as it reached them. Krory, Chaoji, Orihime, Chad and Uryuu headed back south to search further through the forest they had fist found themselves in. The others would head west after Saeko made a stop back at the hospital to tell Setsuna where she was going and see if he had any info on her family before leaving.
Okays, my fingers hurt from typing so much, in the few hours i've had access to a computer since it started working again.
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Kouseki.