Sono Rinjuu
(The Dying Hour)
By- ShinigamiMania91
Chapter 04:
"You can't see him right now!" Kiyone said trying to stop Chiyo from entering the captains main quarters where he layed sick again.
"Yes! He isn't feeling very well, and you have no right to go in." Sentarou told her standing next to the smaller girl.
"If you don't move out of my way this instant, you won't be Shinigami any more." Chiyo threatened the two who gulped and slowly moved out of the way. Chiyo opened the door, Kyone and Sentarou protesting, claiming they tried to stop her. "Ukitake-taicho..." Chiyo said bowing at the door.
"Ah- Yaya-san." Ukitake said noticing the girl. "What can I do for you?"
"I need you to do me huge favor, Ukitake-taicho...for the sake of Soul Society." Chiyo said, her eyes staying on the ground as she stayed bowed.
"Really? That's an interesting way to ask for something." He said with a small smile. She raised herself to sitting on her knees, her eyes showing she was very serious about it. "Oh... you're eyes show me you really do mean business..."
"Keiya..." Chiyo said, "I need you to tell me where Keiya-san is at."
"How do you know her name?" Ukitake said shocked that someone had mentioned her.
"My mother told me her name." She explained, "She told me she can help me."
"Your mother..."
"Was Yachime Nase." Ukitake's eyes widened. "Keiya-san's old best friend."
"Right..." He said nodding. He turned to Kiyone and Sentarou. "Do you mind giving us a minute?" He asked his subordiates.
"Right Ukitake-taicho!" The two said sliding the door closed, leaving Chiyo with Ukitake.
"She's in the real world..." He told her, "In a small village outside of Karakura town..."
"Urahara-san is in Karakura town, right?" Chiyo asked him.
"Yes. I take it you are going to be seeing him too?"
"That is correct. Urahara Kisuke, Souhoin Yoruichi, and Keiya-san..." She said, "They are suppose to help me grow stronger so that I can save soul society from Koirukai Saeki."
"Yes..." Ukitake said, "That boy that just caused that battle yesterday..."
"Do you have any pictures of Keiya-san, Ukitake-taicho?" Chiyo asked, "So that I will know what she looks like?"
"I believe I have one around here..." He said going over to a dresser and going through the drawer. "Ah- here's one." He said handing it to her, the grinning girl in the picture with a piece sign over one eye as she had her vice captain badge in the other. "She may look a little different as of now... it's been a good three hundred years since she's been in Soul Society..."
"Right... thank you Ukitake-taicho." Chiyo said standing up as she took the picture, she stuck it in the inside pocket of her uwagi. "I will repay you when I return."
"If you can save soul society, I believe that is a repayment in itself." He said going back to his bed, coughing.
"Please, I hope you feel better." She said as he nodded letting her leave. She opened the door and Kiyone and Sentarou were sitting outside, ears listening in. "Please do not easedrop again." She said glaring at the two before she left.
"Okay. I figured out where Keiya-san is at." Chiyo said as she entered Hisagi's office. "So as soon as we can, we're going to leave."
"I have Hoin Fui doing the paperwork while we're gone, and Matsumoto and Kira are going to be checking in and making sure she gets it all done." Hisagi told Chiyo and she nodded. "Are you okay with all of this?"
"I should have seen it all there, Shuuhei..." She said pacing his office. "What was I thinking, if it really was my father, he wouldn't let me go to the shinigami academy. No hollow would be able to get inside of Soul Society unless it was escaping from somewhere, and squad 12 isn't anywhere near the Yaya estate, and it came out of the estate and right towards my mother and me... I should have figured when the maids and servents would always pull me inside when the sky would get cloudy, and with those clouds came my zanpakuto, but I didn't see it at all... It was all right in front of my eyes..." She said wipping tears that brimmed her eyes with the back of her hand. "I'm such an idiot..."
"No you're not..." He said hugging her and holding her tight. "You just didn't see what was there..."
"I was blindsighted with the freedom that I was given... it's what he wanted from me..." She said turning and burring her face into Shuuhei. "Stupid... I was so stupid..." She said as tears finally fell, landing on Shuuhei's uwagi. "And I wasn't even strong enough to kill that bastard..." She sniffed back as she stepped back from Shuuhei.
"Don't cry..." He said running his thumbs under her eyes, wipping away her tears. "Everything is going to be all right and in the end he'll be dead."
"I hope so..." She said as she moved her hand onto his chest, "Shuuhei..." she said as her finger tips reached the bottom of his hair. He kissed her softly and when he parted away from her she leaned against him, her arms around his neck.
There was a knock on the door and the two quickly seperated as Tai lee entered the office. "Tai lee..." Shuuhei said seeing the girl.
"Hisagi-fukutaicho... Chiyo-san... take me on your journy too." She said.
"How many times do I have to tell you- wait- what did you call me?" Chiyo said use to the name Tai lee would call her.
"Chiyo-san..." Tai lee said, "You're off to save Soul Society by training. I want to come too." She said looking up at Chiyo seriously, "I don't want to be left behind or else how am I suppose to beat you?"
"Tai lee, she isn't doing this to get stronger to beat you, she's-"
"I want to help save Soul Society." Tai lee cut in. "I want to do something worth doing."
"All right." Chiyo said, "You can come with us."
"What?" Shuuhei said confused.
"Thank you, Chiyo-san." Tai lee said as she stood. "It means a world to me."
"Then make sure you train hard, or how else do you expect to keep up with me?" Chiyo challenged and the two girls grinned at eachother as they had their challenging glares. "We leave tonight."
"Right." She said nodding before turning and leaving. "I will be back at dusk."
"Good."