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Here's chapter 7, taking place a year later from the last chapter!
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Chapter 7: Alert
Deep within the darkness of the Abyss, bounded by thousands of chains and locked away into a sealed box, sleeps a red stone ruby. This stone was never meant to be awakened or used ever again, sealed off by the ones who've created it.
A black-clocked figure wearing a straw hat with the kanji 2 on it walked up to check on the seal once again. The guards bowed to him as the man came towards them.
"My Lord," they both said.
"Is the seal alright?" asked the male.
"Yes sir!" they both replied.
The man nodded as he took one last look at the chains and turned to leave when suddenly, the chains crumbled and broke into pieces as the box roused up. The man stopped and turned back to see the box falling into the hands of another man.
"You!" he said. "How did you get out?!"
The other man laughed as he cut down the rest of the guards, now leaving only the man wearing the black straw hat. "Silly Rabbit," he said. "Did you really think that I'd be in there forever? Please." He looked at the black box in his hands and smirked as he opened it up to see the red glow of the stone. "Magnificent…" he then closed the box and looked down towards the other figure. "I'll be taking this now. I have unfinished businesses to clear up with that dragon." He roused up and disappeared from the Abyss.
The man in black grinned his teeth before he two disappeared from the Abyss.
At another place deep within the Abyss, the white door cracked opened a bit to revealed a long, black haired girl tide up by chains inside, sleeping.
She slowly opened her deep green eyes up a bit, slowing much sadness hidden within them. "It has began," she whispered as she looked out the tiny cracked in the door, before closing her eyes and going back to sleep once again.
The door closed up once again as the figure of a blond haired boy in black left the Abyss, an unhappy frown on his childish face.
The man in the black hat appeared out of the large, black gate. The guards at the gate bowed to him and said, "Welcome back, 9th Shikage-sama."
"Ah," the man said with a bit of a pissed off tone in them. "Has the others been assembled?"
"Hai," the guard on the right answered. "They are waiting for you in the meeting room right now my lord."
The 9th nodded as he quickly made his way towards the meeting room.
The guards at the meeting room bowed before opening the great, black gate for him and let him enter.
The 9th stepped into the dark room while the doors closed behind him, and bowed to the ones gathered there.
"The seal has be broken," he reported. "The stone is gone. Taken by the man the 7th had sealed up and locked away all those 5000 years ago."
The woman to the left, in white clothing with a white hat decorated with pink peonies and sakura flowers on top with two gold strings a tagged to it, and a white cloth covering her said, "He is most likely going to Earth in order to finish his work."
The others nodded.
"Sakura-Shihime is correct," agreed the 2nd Shikage, who was leading. "He is most likely to go there. Earth is the place where he could do so as he wishes."
Then, a blue light appeared within the room as a figure appeared from within it and sat at the head of the room.
"1st Shikage-sama," the others bowed in greetings to the little boy as he opened his eyes. "Welcome back."
"Everyone," he said in a divine voice as he opened his glowing blue eyes and looked around the room to find some empty spaces. He frowned. "I see not everyone is here… oh well, it's good to be back. Now, let us deal with this mess. Oz," the 9th Shikage bowed upon having his name being called, "seal off the gate to the Abyss. Make sure no one else, but us, can get in and out of there. Put an alert seal there if you have too. You'll be leaving post for a bit since I need you to go to the Human world as well."
"Hai," Oz bowed and left to do as he was ordered to.
"Takumi," a man with the kanji of 8 on his black straw hat stepped up, "send a messenger over to the others in the human world and alert them of this. Also, the 5th, 6th, and 7th Shikage needs to know about this as well, especially the 7th."
"Troublesome," Takumi murmured before leaving the room to get some Shigofumi messengers to deliver the message.
"We must also do something," the 2nd Shikage said.
"Yes," the 1st agreed. "And we will… Call the left over Heavenly Guardians here! I will not loss another one of us, especially not my youngest child…" the 1st waved his hand and an opened scroll flew overhead as he wrote down his orders while the doors closed behind Takumi.
"I can't believe he graduated before us," the black haired preteen whispered to the other preteen beside him.
"Yeah," agreed his light green haired friend. "I can't believe it either. The boy really is another white haired genius."
The two friends nodded in agreement with their other friends as they watch the boy, in his 3-year-old body, standing up there with everyone who's graduated.
Sho knocked on the door and waited for a reply.
"Come in," said a males' voice from the other side of the room.
Sho slide opened the door and walked in to the room to find the 10th division taicho, fuku-taicho, and third seat, his new taicho, fuku-taicho, and third seat, all there inside the room. As usual, Toshiro was doing his paperwork, with Karin by his side, while Rangiku was trying to somehow sneak sake into his tea (again, since she was not satisfied all those years ago when he took on an entire bottle and did not even faint!). Finally, she gave up and slumped down on the couch, giving up since no matter how much her taicho drink, he did not seem to weaver in the slightest.
Sho chuckled a bit at that before moving farter into the room to now stand right in front of Toshiro's desk.
"7th seat Zoldyck Sho, reporting sir," he said.
"Ah," Toshiro said without looking up from his work. "Karin, take him."
Karin smiled as she put the paperwork down and moved to take Sho's tiny little hand into hers. "Come on Sho, let's go see Yamamoto-so-taicho now."
"Hai, Ka-san," Sho smiled as he took her hand and was lead to the door.
Upon hearing the boy called Karin 'Kaa-san' (which mean mom for those of you who don't know), Rangiku opened her eyes wide and turned back to look at the little boy as he passed her by.
Sho smiled at her shocked expression and said, "Tou-san (meaning dad) doesn't get drunk that easily, Obaa-chan (grandma). Instead of trying to spill his tea, just give him the entire bottles. He won't go down from just that little taste of a liqueur. Ka-san on the other hand…" his eyes trailed off towards Karin before smiling at her as she smiled back and lead them out of the room.
Rangiku watched after them in shock before looking back at her captain, who was still doing his paperwork.
"Ta-ta-Taicho!" Rangiku screamed. "You and Karin-chan... You and Karin-chan!" she pointed at him with a big smile on her face. "When? How? Aaahhh, why didn't you tell me anything Taicho? I can't believe-!"
Toshiro sighed as he looked up, a blank expression on his face. "Matsumoto, calm down," he calmly ordered the frantic woman.
Rangiku camled down and smiled back at him. "I'm so happy for you Taicho!" she ran up and hugged him. "You've finally become a man now! Oh how are we going to tell the Kurosakis about this? How long have you been keeping this from us anyways?" she pouted.
'Hopefully for as long as possible,' he thought. "Matsumoto, the only reason why he calls us that is because it's a shorter version of our names. Toshiro and Karin," Toshiro slowly explained to the over exited woman.
Rangiku didn't look convinced. "Really taicho? Because he sure does look a lot like you to me."
Toshiro sighed once again. Of all things, he just had to be stock with this kind of work. "He has deep blue eyes, Rangiku. I have deep green eyes."
"Oh, your right. But he still looks a lot like you though, Taicho…"
Toshiro sighed and went back to work once again.
Killua put down the scroll and growled. "Aaahhh, I hate my job!" he complained.
The white fox looked up from his napping place beside the boy.
"What is it now?" Honoka asked as she put down the basket of fruits, just having come into the room.
Killua looked up to his partner. "A Shigofumi just came from the Village and delivered this thing," he held up the black scroll, "to me."
Honoka moved next to him. "What does it say?" she asked.
Killua sighed as he handed it over to Honoka to read it. "Dad, do you want to go and give this to Aniki or should I?" Killua asked as Honoka quickly read over the scroll beside him.
"What?!" she screamed as she put the scroll down. "How-?" she turned towards Killua to find him with a black face on as he stared back at her, a hand holding out the other scroll meant for his older brother.
"I'll take it Killua," said the white fox as he got up from his nap and shook his fur. "Since I'm already in my animal form, it'll be easier. You just stay here and explain into Honoka-chan." He took the scroll into his smiling mouth. "Besides, I need to get out more. And it's been a while, since I've been in the Seireitei." And he took off into the sky with a glint of happiness in his eyes.
Karin and Sho were walking towards the 1st division office when they heard a loud boom coming from the 4th division and an, "Onii-chan, STOP! Don't kill Hanataro-kun!", and they both sweet dropped.
"Come on Sho," Karin said as she pulled on his arm, "let's go see you're idiot strawberry of an uncle and your aunt Yuzu, with her boyfriend, first."
Sho smiled. "Okay," he jumped happily as he allowed Karin to pull him towards the 4th division.
Toshiro suddenly stiffened and looked over to Rangiku, who he'd forced to do her work since she was there, and quickly muttered some words under his lips, his eyes sharpening on her form.
Rangiku suddenly found herself sleepy and soon drafted off to a deep sleep.
As soon as Rangiku fell, a white figure fell down from the roof and Toshiro quickly stood up and slapped his hand on the window frame behind him, his eyes narrowed on the white figure before him.
"Hi Shiro-chan!" Gin waved in greetings to the serious boy, a happy smile on his face.
"Can't you see I was still getting ready?" Toshiro questioned. "If she saw you… if they knew you were here-."
"Oh calm down Shiro-chan," he said as he sat himself down on Rangiku's desk. "What are you so worried about? Everything went fine didn't it?"
Toshiro sighed. "You, Killua, and Karin… you all really…" he whispered out before sighing again to calm himself down.
Toshiro looked at the man before him. "Why are you here?" he asked.
"Right to the point as always I see." Gin was still looking at down at Rangiku, a warm smile on his face as he played with her hair.
Toshiro crossed his arms. "Dad."
Gin laughed and looked up at his eldest son. He took out the black scroll from within his white kimono and handed it to his son. "An alert from the village. So now you have a reason to be really worried, Shiro-chan."
Toshiro took the scroll, his eyes still oh Gin. He looked down at it. "Why did you come instead of the Shigofumi who was supposed to deliver this to me?" he asked as he opened it up to read.
"Gin smiled. "Because he was afraid that you would freeze him, then destroy him into tiny little pieces of ice," he explained.
"And why would i do that?"
'"Because, you know... it's him..."
"Oh," Toshiro realized, a bit of anger laced in his voice as his eyes sharpened.
Once done, Toshiro closed up the scroll and, not looking pleased, said, "Damn. It's already here. What Karin predicted."
"...How is Karin-chan and Sho-chan?" Gin raised an eyebrow.
Toshiro turned his gaze back to his father. "Sho's fine, but Karin…" he looked down.
Gin nodded in understanding. "Well, the others and I will be waiting for you in the Human world. Bye-bye Shiro-chan." Gin waved and disappeared.
Toshiro sighed and looked down at the scroll in his hand before looking up at Rangiku. 'Sorry... kaa-sa. But my lies are my life right now. But it's also not just mine anymore...' Toshiro thought as he moved back to his desk and went back to his paperwork once again.
Karin burst through the door to fine her younger twin sister restraining their older brother from killing Hanataro, who was quivering in the cover, his neck inches away from the tip of Ichigo's banki.
Karin took a deep breath and yelled out, "Ichi-nii, stop it before I make you!"
Everyone stopped and looked over to Karin.
"Karin-chan," Yuzu brightened. "Thank goodness you're here. Onii-chan-."
Karin cut her off as she stomped in and whacked Ichigo upside the head.
Yuzu speechlessly stared at Sho, who gave her a smile before going back to look at Ichigo, now holding on to Karin's shihakusho instead of her hand.
"Ow!" Ichigo cried as he finally looked at his black haired little sister. "The hell Karin? Can't you see I'm busy trying to kill this little punk?"
"For what?" Karin yelled back at him.
Ichigo pointed Zangetsu at Hanataro's shaking form in the corner. "He made Yuzu cried! I saw it!"
"That's not true, Onii-chan," Yuzu interrupted. "Like I was trying to tell you, I cried because of something else. Hanataro-kun only tried to comfort me. He didn't make me cry."
"Then who did?!" Ichigo questioned.
Karin sighed. "This is pointless," she whispered. "Come on Sho, let's go." Karin took hold of Sho's hand once again.
"Hai, Ka-san," Sho said as they both walked out, but he looked back one last time at the scene.
"Kaa-san?" Ichigo and Yuzu suddenly questioned as they both stopped and looked towards the door, only to fine Karin and Sho already gone.
"He really does look a lot like Hitsugaya-taicho," a random shinigami said.
"Yeah, and I heard he's a genius too," another added.
Yuzu looked at them and they all flinched before hurrying off to do something. Yuzu looked back to her older brother, whose head was now down and his eyes hidden behind his bangs, with a smiled. "Now Onii-chan, I'm sure there's-."
"Toshiro!" Ichigo yelled at the top of his lugs and dashed out of there and towards the 10th Division with burning rage and furry in his eyes.
*Story questions:
What does the man who took the stone what to finish and who is he after?
What is the red stone that was so locked up in the Abyss?
Can anyone guess who Oz and Takumi are? (hint: they're both from an anime)
How is Karin, Honoka, Gin, Toshiro and Killua connected to the Village?
Who do you think are the 5th, 6th, and 7th shikages?
What do you think will happen now?
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