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Trascender

"Hey, Kisuke! What are you doing? Me and Tessai are going to hang out at the hideout, wanna come? We can invite the others!"

Yoruichi and Kisuke, only a few decades old, stood outside Kisuke's home in the Tenth district of the Rukongai. Unsurprisingly, Kisuke was working on something new and didn't have time to socialize.

"Sorry... I can't... I just..."

"Tch, Kisuke, put your little wooden doll up! We're going to have some fun!"

Kisuke was reluctantly, but not struggling, dragged away by Yoruichi as he dropped his project in his room. They arrived at the underground hideout where Tessai, Aizen, and a few other boys and girls where they were talking and training. One boy, with spiky, black hair angrily pointed at Aizen, nearly poking him in the glasses.

"Who the hell invited this guy!? You ruin everything, asshole, and you fucking know it!"

"I am not at all sorry if my presence offends you, Kaien. If you hate me so much, then leave."

"Gaaarrrggghh! Damn you!"

"Guys, calm down! The true party has just begun because I showed up! So stop fighting each other for no reason and start fighting over me, boys!"

Kaien and Aizen rushed over to Yoruichi, pushing and punching each other the entire time.

"Hello, Lady Yoruichi! You are looking nice, as usual!"

"Stop being an ass-kisser, Aizen! How's it goin', Yoruichi!?"

In the background, Kisuke sat away from the group, sheepishly rubbing his head as he felt awkward overlooking the Yoruichi while she pretended to pose for the boys/. An unnamed boy took notice of him, staring at him oddly as he pointed.

"Who the hell is this guy?"

"Oi, that's my friend, Kisuke Urahara! We finally got him to come out of his man-cave..."

"...You kidnapped me, Yoruichi..."

"... So I brought him with me! You should be grateful, Kisuke, that I wasted my valuable time on you...!"

"Yeah... grateful, alright..."

"Hello, Kisuke Urahara..."

Kisuke turned, jumping back when a blue-haired boy with golden eyes stared at him with a very disconcerting smile.

"Hi... and you are...?"

"My name is Mayuri Kurotsuchi... I have heard of your inventions. They are very impressive, Kisuke. I myself am... a man of science."

Kisuke was creeped out as his tongue rolled out for a second as he smiled at him.

"Oh! Uhhh... thanks... I guess..."

Across the rocks of the hideout, Yoruichi sat next to Aizen, who watched Kisuke and Mayuri, and another boy, whose name was lost to her.

"Why are you with that guy? He's havin' a conversation with Kurotsuchi, so he has to be weird!"

"He is, a little bit... but that's my friend, so don't talk badly about him. Not when he created this place for us."

Aizen suddenly looked... intrigued? One of his soon-to-be trademarked smirks appeared on his face. Away from the group, Kisuke smiled as he listened to Mayuri's many theories, her words reaching him from a distance.

"Kisuke, where are you!? Kisuke!?"

Yoruichi and Tessai hopped through the rubble of the ruined building, attempting to find Kisuke. When they found him, he was crouched on the ground, a black haori thrown over his shoulders as he stared at a blonde woman with the same hairstyle and color as Kisuke. If the situation wasn't so terrible, Yoruichi would have thought she was sleeping, with the peaceful way her eyes were closed as her hand gripped on to Kisuke's arm.

"...Kisuke...?"

"..."

The silent, angry look on Kisuke's face made her recoil when she tried to speak to him. Rearing her hand back, she rebuilt her courage to address him.

"...Kisuke... I'm sorry... I-"

"Don't be. She... won't be gone for long..."

"What...? Kisuke, what are you doing?"

Beneath him and the haori, a pink orb encased in glassed glowed brightly, shining as it neared his mother.

"Kisuke, what is that!? Put that away!"

"..."

Kisuke raised the orb to the fallen body of his mother, watching as her body violently shook. White foam began pooling around from her mouth as a despairing scream resounded through the ruins.

"Kisuke! What's happening!? You need to stop!"

An explosion of Reiatsu from the body was released, blasting them back into Tessai, who caught them.

"Kisuke, what is happening...?"

"She's... alive...! She's alive! Mother, I'm here!"

He broke free from Tessai's grasp as he ran to the hunched over Hollow.

"Kisu...ke..."

"Mother, I'm here!"

"Ki...su...ke... why...?"

Those were her last words before she roared into the sky. Lifting her arm, she aimed a spike for her son's heart. Kisuke nervously backed away before his mother was kicked by Yoruichi.

"Kisuke, you need to move!"

Tessai used a Bakudo to keep her still while he helped Kisuke.

"Kisuke, I'll cover your escape. She will continue to come after you!"

Kisuke watched as Tessai and Yoruichi attempted to fight his hollowfied mother with their fists and Kido. He knew they wouldn't last long, at this rate. There isn't much you can do against a former Captain of Gotei Thirteen, even if she was retired.

"I... I..."

Do you want to save them?

"Wha-!? Who... who are you!?"

Can you understand me...? It is of the utmost importance that you hear me, otherwise you will be viewing your friends in a body bag.

"What... are you my...?"

Obviously, fool. I believe you are ready... Say my name proudly... or don't say it all.

"You're not very nice... You sure you're my Zanpakuto?"

...Is that really the question to ask now, fool? Now wake me up... It was becoming rather... droll... in this mad castle you call an inner world. Now say my name! It's-

"Awaken from your slumber... and don't fail me... Benihime!"

"Thanks, Kisuke... You saved us, even if you passed out while she was still alive."

Kisuke stared out the rainy window in Yoruichi's infirmary room in the Shihoin mansion. A tall, dark-skinned man, dressed in a long-sleeved haori tied together at the waist with the handle sticking out from the inside of his robes walked into the room. The high collar of his haori did little to hide the stern expression on his face.

"Damnit, Yoruichi... Every time I turn my head, you're in more trouble... Can't you sit and train in the yard like a normal noble brat?"

"Sorry Uncle Ichi... but I had to save Kisuke from his mother! She was attacked by a Hollow and..."

"Cut the shit, Yoruichi. Former Captain Sasuki Urahara was murdered by the Quincy. I had Stealth Force members watching you both the entire time."

Yoruichi opened and closed her mouth repeatedly, unable to make an excuse. Kisuke only turned around, a dejected look upon his face, and held his hands out, as if he was prepared to take his punishment.

"Kisuke, don't! It's not your fault!"

Kisuke face, covered in dirt and sweat, forged itself into a falsified smile, attempting to comfort Yoruichi.

"...Don't worry, Yoruichi... I'll be fine."

Raiichi Shihoin stared at the face of his niece, wrought with guilt and depression. Instead of acknowledging Kisuke, he only turned on his heel and walked away, his lieutenant, Sui Feng, treading along behind him.

"What are you doing, boy? I didn't see anything under that cloak."

Kisuke, confused, looked at Raiichi, who waved over his shoulder.

"But... but you just said..."

He was scared when the man flashed in front of him, holding him by his head as he looked him in the eye.

"I... did not see anything... under that cloak. Do I make myself clear?"

Kisuke could only nod as he watched the man let him go and marched out of the room.

"And if anyone asks, boy, you're with us. I'm investigating you to see if you're fucked in the head."

Turning the corner, Raichi said no other word. Kisuke was confused as he listened to him, but Yoruichi filled in for her uncle unstated words.

"He means you can stay with us, Kisuke!"

When Yoruichi tried to reach Kisuke, she was surprised when Tessai blocked her out.

"Oi, Tessai, move! I need to see what's wrong with Kisuke!"

"He's... not in the mood..."

"Move it, lug!"

Yoruichi dropped kicked him as she ran into the room of Kisuke, who was tinkering with his 'toys' again. It was a wooden doll, but flat.

"Kisuke... what's the matter? I heard from Kaien that you're were a little sour at his clan's party."

"No... it's nothing... I just found out what Mayuri did..."

Yoruichi looked confused until she finally remembered the odd boy who Kisuke was friends with.

"You mean the Fifth Seat of my uncle's division? That weird boy who likes to dress up in make up sometimes?"

"Don't call him weird!"

Yoruichi jumped back in shock as Kisuke screamed at her. Kisuke apologized and went back to angrily working on his invention.

"...Sorry, Kisuke... what did he do?"

"... During a mission with his upper seats, he killed a Quincy and experimented on his body... He's now being held in the maggot's nest for using his Bankai on Captain Shihoin when he discovered him."

"...Really?"

"... I told him to wait... that was not what he was meant to do... Too hasty, that idiot was..."

Yoruichi's eyes narrowed in anger as she realized his implications.

"Wait... you're supporting him? Do you not realize that those were the actions of criminal!?"

Kisuke jumped away when Yoruichi's voice raged in his ear. He waved his hands in surrender as he attempted to explain Mayuri's actions.

"He's not bad...! He was... he's just a... little misguided, that's all."

"A 'little' misguided!? He tried to kill my uncle! He's a psycho!"

Hearing that word set Kisuke on edge as he hopped to his feet and yelled back into Yoruichi's face.

"He's... he's not a psycho!"

"He is! You can't seriously agree with this man! He's the reason we're at war! He's the reason the old man ordered the extermination of the Quincy!"

"Do you think I'm a psycho, too!? All he wanted to do was study a Quincy! I would have dreamed of such a moment! Do you think I'm crazy, as well!?"

Kisuke's cheeks burned red as he attempted to catch his breath. Yoruichi's eyes hardened as she glared back into his.

"Yes. If you support this man after what he's done, then you are just as bad as he is!"

Kisuke turned away from her continuing to work on the Tenshintai. Yoruichi, glaring away from him, was suddenly interested in what he was making.

"What is this, anyway?"

"Don't worry about it... It's just the work of a mad psycho, after all..."

Huffing in anger, Yoruichi angrily walked away, slamming the door on her way out. Kisuke stared at her over her shoulder before returning to his work.

Kisuke did his best to avoid Yoruichi after what had happened recently. He didn't know what to say to her. However, his luck eventually ran out as he walked into his room, noticing her staring out the window.

"Yoruichi..."

Snapping out of her stupor, she turned to look at Kisuke, angry tears running down her face. However, the look in her face disappeared as she saw him.

"Oh, Kisuke...! I didn't... expect to see you here..."

"... In my room?"

Yoruichi suddenly looked around, realizing where she was.

"Oh, crap! I forgot... I usually came in here when something I wanted to talk to you... But... I forgot you... were mad at me..."

"I'm not mad at you, Yoruichi... I... I just didn't want people to look at me... the same way as they judged Mayuri."

"No one thinks you're weird..."

Kisuke's pointed look made her roll her eyes as she restated what she meant.

"...Well, at least I don't..."

"You're worse than me, cat woman. Who else gets the sick pleasure out of shocking everyone when you're naked?"

Yoruichi gasped in false shock as she pretended to get angry at Kisuke.

"I am not worse than you! And you do too, Kisuke! Unless you've forgotten...!"

"When have I ever...?"

Then he remembered when Sui Feng's granddaughter, Shaolin Feng, came in on the moment Kisuke was revealing his Gigai idea to Yoruichi. She's never looked at him the same since.

"Okay, that was not intentional and you know it."

"Not the time with Shaolin, Kisuke..."

"Then what ti-?"

He paused when he remembered that one time he went on a date with Kukaku Shiba... and Aizen showed up, stalking his ex-girlfriend... and he tried to get Aizen to never look at Kukaku again... so when Aizen peeked through the window to see what Kisuke and Kukaku were up to, Kisuke gave him an eyeful of p-

"Okay, let's not try to remember that."

"But that was hilarious!"

"I don't want to think about Aizen looking a my di-"

"Lady Yoruichi!"

One the elder female servants of the Shihoin clan opened the door to the room. Behind her leg was little Shaolin Feng, who glared at Kisuke when she saw Yoruichi in his room.

"Lady Yoruichi... Master Shihoin's funeral is underway. Please let us escort you to the pyre..."

Yoruichi became downtrodden again when the woman's words were spoken. Head bowed, she slowly stood up as she was handed the orange kimono of the Shihoin

clan heads.

Kisuke and Yoruichi stared at the pyre as it caught flames, her uncle's remains becoming ashes in the winds. He looked down at her as she buried herself into the Kimono, not knowing what to say.

'This time, Yoruichi... I don't know how to help you...'

"Kisuke...Will you help me...?"

"Hmmm?"

"I... I'm going to kill that man."

Images of the tyrannical Quincy King flashed through her head as she watched her uncle's decimation at his hands.

"I'll... kill him... Help me kill him..."

The deep male voice woke Kisuke out of his slumber as he set his green, striped hat back straight.

"Kisuke, how are you holding up?"

Yawning, he glanced at the black cat sitting at his counter.

"Oh... hey, Yoruichi! Everything's been fine! Business going great, like it usually does."

Yoruichi turned her head and gave a smug look a Kisuke.

"Which means no one is showing up? Of course no child wants to go to your candy store. That stubble you got going on makes you look like a creepy pervert."

"But I am a creepy pervert! Except... not for children..."

"Sure you are, Kisuke..."

Kisuke grabbed his cane as he walked outside with Yoruichi.

"Did you find him?"

"No... he and the Vandenreich are hid quite well... I think it would be better to worry about Masaki. You know her and Isshin are having their child, don't you...?"

Kisuke looked towards the ground as he narrowed his eyes.

"So he's going through with this...?"

"Yes... Are you going to...?"

"If necessary..."

Yoruichi sighed as she watched the dark upon his face, like when he accidentally hollowfied his mother.

"Kisuke..."

"..Yoruichi...?"

Yoruichi hopped up on his shoulder, looking him directly in his eyes.

"...Promise me... that you won't ever lose yourself... If you need me to be here, I will."

"Yoruichi, I'm fine..."

"I don't want you going insane here, locked up like some mad scientist like Mayuri..."

"I'm not..."

"Just promise me... that you will never, ever let that same wicked boy who created the Hogyoku show himself to me again..."

Kisuke's hair curtained over his eyes as he held Benihime out. Ichigo felt the sudden pressure drop, signaling the end of Yoruichi.

"Yo-Yoruichi!? Shit! Urahara, we have to go! Urahara!?"

Kisuke slowly walked past Kagura and Ichigo, not saying a word as he blasted a hole during the front entrance.

"Urahara!? Hey, Uraha-"

He was fear-struck when the murderous Reiatsu silenced him and everyone in the building. It was worse than anything he ever felt in his life.

"Urahara..."

Promise me... you won't lose yourself...

Using an advanced Ransotengai technique, Juhabach created false limbs for him to move as he floated on his platform. Like a missile, a red beam of light blasted his platform, causing him to crash into the ground. Getting up and shaking his head clear, he turned around to see Kisuke Urahara staring the corpse of the former Shihoin mistress. His bloody-red Reiatsu burst, turning the sky blood-red as his gazed down upon Yoruichi, his hair shadowing over his eyes.

"Kisuke... Urahara?"

"I'm sorry... but I'll have to break that promise... Yoruichi... I see nothing... but blood..."

Promise me... you won't lose yourself...

"..."

You've helped me... so many times...

Kisuke held his blade up as it flashed different shades of red, his anger stormed the sky and darkening it to a maroon color.

But... the one time I could have... I failed...

"Bankai..."

If this is it for me... please forgive me...Yoruichi...

"Awaken... Benihime Tenteikan..."

Trivia:

-Raiichi is Japanese for 'lightning one' or 'one of lightning'

-His captain haori design is based from Gin's Heuco Mundo/Fake Karakura Town look.

-His Lieutenant was Sui Feng, as in the grandmother. The daughter had Shaolin Feng at an early age, so her Grandmother was still alive for a little until she died.

-Benihime Tenteikan is roughly japanese for 'The Crimson Princess's Imperial Heaven Crown' or 'The Heaven's Imperial Crown of the Crimson Princess',