Sono Rinjuu
(The Dying Hour)
By- ShinigamiMania91
Chapter 03:
"When you grow up and get married, Chiyo. You'll be given a huge responsiblity." Her mother told the toddler. "It's a power... You're grandpapa hid it before he died, and it is said when the daughter of Kyouya is born, she will gain that power when she is married and has given birth to an heir..." The small child grabbed for her mothers hand, "She will get the power of a thousand lords, and will live for what seems a thousand years..." The child played with the mothers fingers, trying to capture them all. "She will gain that knowledge, and with all this power, she will have to make the choice... to either distroy soul society, or to help it...." She picked the child up from her lap and walked over to the bed, "But I know that you will use it for good... you won't let any evil be bestowed upon our home..." She tucked in the child as the sun had been set. "Good night, Chiyo..." She placed a kiss on the child's forehead before leaving to her room. "But if not... find me when you know you cannot..." She said in a low whisper before she closed the door.
Chiyo's golden eyes opened as the sun sat in the west, nearly finished setting. She was layed on the ground while squad four members around her, healing her wounds. She moved to sit up, but one forced her to lay back down and she scowled. "Unohana-taicho." One of the guys near her said, calling the women over. "She's awaken."
"Yaya-san..." She said sitting where the guy had been sitting. "You were correct in this battle... many are wounded, but we were prepared." She told Chiyo.
"He escaped..." She cursed to herself, "I couldn't kill him...." She clenched her fist tight, "I couldn't kill the one that killed my family....I was weak..."
"I would like to disagree..." She turned her head to see Tai lee. "That was an amazing show you put on, no skill."
"How many times do I have to tell you! That's not my name!" Chiyo said as she jumped to her feet and butted heads with Tai lee.
"I was trying to give you a compliment, and all you can do is try to start a fight!" Tai lee said as the two glared at eachother.
"You want a fight, then let's go." She went to grab her zanpakuto when Shuuhei and Rangiku seperated the two.
"You still have healing to do, Chiyo." Shuuhei told her as he held her back from fighting Tai lee. "And Tai lee, you still have to help Tatsumi with the others."
"Hai- Hisagi-fukutaicho." Tai lee said as Matsumoto let her go, she walked away, "Nice going no skill."
"Why I ought ta... Wait till I'm all healed Tai lee! Then we'll settle this!" Chiyo said giving up on trying to escape Shuuhei's grasp on her.
"You two need to quit this rivalry out." Shuuhei told her.
"It's not my fault... and rivalry is healthy for a shinigami." Chiyo said sitting back down on the blanket that was layed out where she was being healed at.
"You're quick recoveries are really quite remarkable, Yaya-san." Unohana told her. "But there's one thing that puzzles me..."
"What is it, Unohana-taicho?" Chiyo asked as Shuuhei looked for an answer too.
"All the source of your recovery comes from your lower torso..." She said looking at Chiyo. "And with how much you've had to use you're quick recovery system, there won't be any child ever born from you." Chiyo looked at her, her face slightly dropping, "If you even tried to bore a child, it would not survive because you use this ablility to often for it to recover itself, and you have basically distroyed the inside of your body." She told Chiyo, whose face seemed to drop even more. "Looks like you are the last of the Yaya family..."
"No-no... you see, I need to have at least one child if I ever want to gain the Yaya family power." She told Unohana. "Is there anyway that it can be repaired?"
"I will have to research on that, but as far as I am knowledged about, there is no way for it to be repaired." She told Chiyo.
Chiyo ruffled her hair up in a furious maner to show her frustration. She stood up, against Unohana and Shuuhei's calls and walked towards the main estate. She ran down the halls until she came to a door that she slid open, to reveal a closet. Oka-san....Otou-san... She said as she pulled the articles out of the closet until it was empty. There was a door on the bottom that she pulled open.
"Chiyo- what are you doing?!" Shuuhei said as he found her, many paintings, scrolls, and boxes in the hallway around the closet. He followed her down into the tunnel that was under the closet. "Chiyo..." He followed her down the tunnel that led to a large room. "What is this place...?"
"This was my mothers secret room..." Chiyo said as she walked over to a large painting of a young baby Chiyo with her mother and father in the gardens. She pulled out her zanpakuto and pointed it at the painting.
"What are you doing!? You're not going to distroy the painting are you?" He said as he looked from Chiyo to the painting. She had her mothers features, her black hair and golden eyes. Her father had black hair too, but his eyes were a deep brown.
Oka-san... I'm here to find you... weather you're a hollow, or a doushin... come to me... "Taichonoboru Oka-san..." She said as a bright light shot out of the tip of her zanpakuto and into the painting, knocking Chiyo off her feet, Shuuhei went and caught her. A small orb appeared from the painting and floated down towards Chiyo and Shuuhei.
"Chiyo..." It spoke in a soft smoothing voice as it floated around her.
"Oka-san..." Chiyo said looking at the orb. "Is it really..."
"Hai..." The orb said, "It is me..."
"But how... I thought you would have come back as a hollow...." Chiyo said.
"Do you really think that this ex-vice captain would let some weak hollow keep her in that disgusting stomache?" The orb said making Chiyo smile.
"You were a shinigami?" Chiyo asked standing up and walking forward.
"Of course!" The orb said, "Where do you think you got all your spunky shinigami spirit from?" Chiyo let out a small laugh. "But you're here for the Yaya power right?"
"Saeki wants it to distroy Soul Society..." Chiyo said suddenly getting serious. "And I can't have a child so I need you to tell me how to get it, oka-san..."
"Ah- well that does seem like a problem..." The orb said floating over towards Shuuhei. "Who's this?"
"Oh- Uhm... that's the vice captain of the squad I was on..."
"Hisagi Shuuhei..." He said putting his hand out only to realize the orb could not shake his hand. "Oh sorry..." He said looking away as he stood up and retracted his hand away.
The orb turned back to her daughter and floated back towards her. "The power has been inside of you this whole time, Chiyo..." The orb said, "You still have three more restraints on you and your power... there is only three ways to get that power, but one is disreguarded now..."
"What are the other two?" Chiyo asked her mother.
"You are killed and the power will come out in a solid form of your reiatsu that can then be used since no restraints will be on it..." She said, "But I highly doubt you will want to be killed..." The orb said as it hummed a bit thinking, "And the other is to distroy the rest of the restraints and then the power will unleash itself, but with as little training as you have, it would kill you, and you're brought back to the first one..."
"So are you saying I have to die no matter what?!" Chiyo said in disbelief.
"Oh no deary... You just need more training... You're body would not be able to handle that much power." Her mother told her, "You're body has the stregth too since you were on squad 11, but you need more than just that... You need to rise up more... You need to be of a greater level than most of the captains in the gotei are... you need to be almost at Soutaicho's level... but that takes years of practice..."
"I don't have years though..." Chiyo told her mother, "Saeki can attack at any moment, and so I need the power now."
"I think I know a couple of people that can help you..." Her mother spoke, "Her name is Keiya... She was once the captain of the tenth division, before Kurosaki Isshin and Hitsugaya Toshiro... And before that, she was vice captain of squad thirteen... Jyuushiro... he's still captain of the thirteenth squad right?"
"Yeah, why?" Hisagi asked her.
"Jyuushiro and Keiya-kun were really close... almost as you can say, lovers.... but they never made it public... And I'm pretty sure that they still have contact with eachother..." Her mother told Chiyo. "She can help you train, we were in the academy together, and she was top of the class, especially after meeting Shunsui and Jyuushiro. All three of them can help you, and if you go to the real world, my old captain, Urahara Kisuke, will be a great help too."
"Right..." Chiyo said nodding. "So I have to find Keiya-san, and Urahara-san..."
"Shuuhei..." Hisagi looked over to the orb as it floated towards him. "Go with her and make sure she gets everything done. I know you're a vice captain, but this is the sake of Soul Society we're speaking of. I'm sure it can wait..."
"A-all right." Hisagi said as the orb floated away.
"Now go! The sooner you can, the sooner you will grow stronger." The orb said, "I must leave back now... but you know where to find me if you ever need me, Chiyo..."
"Right oka-san." She nodded as the orb went back into the picture and Chiyo turned to Hisagi. "Let's go find Ukitake-taicho."
"Right." Hisagi nodded as the two left the room.