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And without rambling I give you Chapter 5

Chapter 5 - Unknown Past

"You're leaving? Where to?" The doctor was surprised, to say the least, at Saeko's sudden decision to leave the town that she had just been able to properly see and live in, when she had seemed content as she was only a week before.

"It's kind of hard to explain." The girl sat calmly in the man's office while he paced around its edges. She pushed the straying strands of ash blonde hair back behind her ears, thinking on how she might tell him about her journey without sounding completely insane.

"PLease try. You seemed so happy when I spoke to you last week." Her mind drew a blank on how to explain, so she just tried with the truth, knowing that it was going to make her sound insane no matter how she phrased it.

"I know this will sound completely mad, but please let me finish before you going thinking of re-admitting me." She quickly went through an abbreviated version of what had happened, meeting the ones she'd been following in her mind, the dream and plan to stop whatever Aizen and the Millennium Earl were plotting. Silence filled the room for a couple of minutes as the doctor absorbed what she had said.

"You were right, it does sound mad and I think we may have let you out of here too early with the excitement caused by your returned sight. Let's get you back to your room and let you sleep on this." She yanked her arm out of the grip he had made with the last sentence.

"I'm not hallucinating, there are five of them outside, just talk to them, they'll tell you I'm not making this up." She struggled against the new hold he had on her, terrified of the thought of having to stay in the hospital again after the five years she'd already spent there, thinking she was completely nuts.

"Really?" the sarcasm was almost dripping from his words, "Then show me this 'Allen' from your past hallucinations, with his so called 'anti-akuma weapon' known as 'innocence'. Can't you just accept that he's nothing more than a delusion?" By now he was staring into her face, silently pleading with her to accept it and move on.

"Tell him yourself that he's a delusion, see what he thinks of the idea." His hopes that she would ssee his truth were shattered with that sentence. He followed her to the entrance, ready to grab her if she tried to run after he confirmed that these people she saw were just figments of her imagination.

BUt this was soon forgotten as he froze upon seeing her speaking to a strangely dressed group of four teenagers with a young child that had a strange bone-like mask on her head. Two of the teens appeared to be twins, practically identical apart from the clothes and one had ginger hair with brown eyes, while the other was albino with yellow eyes that had black sclera that the doctor could find no logical explanation for. He unfroze as he noticed Saeko heading back to him, leading the other white haired teen. Seeing the white hair, grey eyes and slightly ragged scar down the left side of the face, he remembered the description Saeko had given of the exorcist 'Allen Walker' from her five year hallucinations.

"Hello, my name is Allen Walker, Saeko said you needed some conformation on her story of why she's leaving. Is there some way I can help?" The doctor shook the offered hand, replying quickly.

"I'm Doctor Setsuna More, would I be able to see your left arm, that should give all the conformation I need as long as Saeko's descriptions from the past five years are accurate." Allen agreed, removing his glove and rolling up his sleeve, revealing to the doctor the smooth black arm with segmented and clawed fingers and four red arrowheads making the shape of a cross on the back of his hand. With everything settled, Doctor More could see no reason to stop Saeko from going where she needed to. All he asked of her was that she return safely when all was finished.

The doctor looked on sadly at the leaving forms, wishing he could have had some information on the girls family, so she may have stayed a little longer before vanishing on a probably hopeless quest. Sighing, he returned to work, praying that she would live through this and get the chance to see her family once more.

Ryôsuke took that moment to grab his friend, babbling at high speed, making only the odd word understandable. He dragged the man to the Room of Records, continuously talking, something to do with 'Saeko', 'hidden room', 'demons', and 'killed'.

"Wait, wait, wait. Can you repeat that with spaces included?" The doctor had given up trying to make sense of the twenty four year old's superbabble on the way and instead asked about it when they'd got to the room.

"Oh, right, sorry. Well I couldn't remember any records of Saeko's family since I arrived after she did, so I had to look around but turned up nothing and I found this hidden room which was revealed when I leant on this stone here, in the room there were a load of records that were best forgotten but Saeko's were there too because she had been given to the people who raised her by a demon when she was seven years old saying that her memories were sealed for her protection, these people were killed by demons around four years later, a year after Saeko's arrival here but it also said that when she was released she should be returned to the demon, I know don't know why but they seem to need her for something." He took deep breaths to recover from the slightly slower babble that had streamed out at a just understandable rate.

Setsuna was silent, absorbing the information, once more fearing for the girl he'd just let walk away with a group of teens, or younger, from other worlds. He truly believed now that there was no chance he would ever see Saeko again, whether she be killed by the other-worldly threats or taken by the demons of this world.

He swiftly exited the room with a mumbled thanks, leaving the younger of them to stare at the records around him. Ryôsuke gathered the records of Saeko and returned them to their place, resealing the secret room after him, then got back to updating of current records and fetching of information for others, which he had been putting off in the search for the girl's records.

The girl herself, unawares of the newly discovered records, was quite happy as she was. She walked beside Lavi, a few metres behind the others, talking about random things in her world and discovering that there was another person who noticed Allen and Ichigo's supposedly hidden feelings for each other. They quietly laughed at those in front, knowing that they all seemed to love Ichigo.

The group of six had been walking for a couple of hours, Nel carried by Ichigo, and had, so far, seen nothing but a couple of horse drawn carts with goods to sell in the town. All that had happened was Hichigo getting hit by his ginger counterpart as an attempt to stop his constant glaring at Allen, who had been trying to ignore the murderous intent aimed at him.

As darkness started creeping over the land, the group stopped and created a quick camp composed of three slightly ragged tents that had been a gift from the innkeepers and a small fire made by Lavi, being the only one who could light a fire without matches or flint. Saeko made a very filling stew, using her limited knowledge picked up from working around the The Serene Willow.

After a quick relay of information about the area and the demons of this world, it was decided that everyone should get some sleep in order to get a decent amount for the dawn waking. There were two to a tent, the girls together, exorcists in a another and Ichigo with his, now outer, hollow. A couple of hours later, Ichigo decided to sleep alone outside the tent so as to escape the hollow that seemed intent on clinging onto him.

I look around, not recognising my surroundings. A flash of gold in the corner of my eye grabs my attention, looking to where it was I see a familiar winged golden ball with horns and a fluffy tail that is currently larger than its body. It hovers before me, conveying with its actions the question of where Allen was. I beckon to it, telling it i can take it to the cursed boy's location. It lands on my head, curling its tail round my neck, waiting to see if I can fulfil my claim.

The sensation of a tiny hand prodding her forehead brings Saeko out of her dream and back into reality. Her sapphire eyes open slowly to the dim interior of the tent, she bolts up at the sight of golden fluff in front of her eyes. The golem hovers before her, waiting for her to get up and take it to Allen.

Saeko creeps out of the tent, trying not to wake the log-like Nel, just being careful though it wasn't actually necessary. She stifled a laugh at the sprawled out position of Ichigo on the ground and carried the golden golem to Allen who was sitting outside his tent watching Ichigo sleep.

"Timcanpy!" He scrambled up and scooped the winged ball from Saeko's arms, cuddling it happily while it nibbled a finger contentedly.

"How did you get him?" Allen asked, curious but not suspicious of the girl who could be a great help in finding the location of Aizen and the Millennium Earl.

"I don't know how. I had a dream where he was looking for you,I told him I could take him to you. When I woke he was prodding my forehead as if waiting for me to lead him to you, I don't know how he got there though," Saeko fell silent, half-expecting to be called insane. Instead she got a friendly hug from the cursed teen with thanks for getting him the golem, however it happened.

Breakfast consisted of simple bread and cheese in order to move on quickly, Saeko now carrying Nel while she slept on in her log-like state. Ichigo stayed as a peacemaker between Hichigo and Allen, the relationship between said two quickly becoming similar to the one between Kanda and 'the moyashi' which the hollow had also started calling Allen, knowing it irritated him.

Lavi and Seako again stayed behind, seeing the logic in keeping out of the way of the irate hollow and the object of his irritation. They were beginning to realise that at they rate they were going it would be a very long day, most likely with many more of the same to come during their travels.

Yays another chapter done already, never knew inspiration could come in such waves.

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