Hey guys took me a while, but one of my reviewers gave sudden inspiration to type up the next chapter, so here it is! Let's start in a flash back!
Disclaimer-Do not own.
'NO! DADDY, I'M SORRY! PLEASE DON'T TAKE HIM AWAY!" she yelled to a man in his early forties. The man had a bundle of blankets containing a crying child no more than a week old. The girl was being held back by a woman, probably her mother.
"You have not right to call me that! Look at this, this monstrosity! How could you!? And with a Catholic Latin, NO LESS!" he yelled at her. She had tears running down her face.
"Daddy!"-[SLAP!]
"WHAT DID I TELL YOU!?" her father yelled.
"B-BUT, YOU'RE A JEWISH GERMAN AS WELL! HOW COULD YOU SAY SUCH THING!? ESPEICALLY AFTER AUSCHWITZ" the girl yelled to him.
"WHAT HAPPEN TO ME AT THAT TIME IS DIFFERENT! THIS CHILD IS TRASH AND WASTED AIR, NOTHING MORE!" he went to the door and went into his car on the drive way. The girl ripped free of her mother's grasp and ran after him, but it was too late. He was already out of the driveway when she got there. She ran into the street and looked at the car that speeded away, neighbors and people passing by looked to see what was going on and asked her, but she only lost it.
"NO, BRING HIM BACK!!!!" she yelled that her throat burned. She fell to her knees as her knees buckled under her.
"ULQUIORRA!" she yelled and everything went black.
-Monday-
Rani woke up in a morning sweat with her heart racing. She took deep breathes as she laid down on her twin sized bed. That dream…..it felt so real, and yet how could someone do that to their own child?
"You see who they are now." someone said making her jump up again. It was Xahan again, she had an angry expression on her face with tears down her cheeks. This time she wore a green plaid short skirt with black leggings under it. She also sported a white Khaki jacket and a black tank top under a fish net shirt with some dark forest green fingerless leather gloves.
"What happen? Rani asked as she sat next to the earth bound girl.
"I had a child……with a Latin-American boy I met from school" she said.
"Why did your parents flip out bout it?"
"My dad did only, he……has a problem with minorities especially ever coming into America, but Mom and I didn't."
"You see, I was only 16, having a promising future in our family's business, honor roll, and Jewish. The boy I fell in love with was 18 and in the Marines, after he graduated from school. Sadly for our relationship the services had him stationed a 2 hour drive away" she started.
"Uh huh" Rani said as she was getting sucked into the story.
"So before he left I wanted to show him, how much I love, so we…..uh" the ghost was getting a little embarrassed.
"Had sex?" Rani said like it was nothing. Xahan looked at her oddly. She was dead for over 30 years and still had trouble saying sex and this girl just spits it out like nothing?
"Yea that and I got pregnant. I told my mom about it and who was the father of the child. She helped me and stuff, and when dad found out that I was pregnant, my mom covered for me"
"How'd he find out about the father?" Rani asked her.
"When I was giving birth, I didn't know Markus heard about me being in labor, he rushed over and then…….." she started crying again.
"Went down hill?" Rani finished for her, she shook her head yes.
"T-that's why….I gave you….that dream, so you could see why I'm still stuck here!" she stated. Xahan stood up and walked towards the window and vanished into the air like that. Rani walked over to the window to realize it was early morning and seeing Xahan walking down their front lawn.
"Xahan….." she said sadly, her words still burned into her memory.
[KNOCK!KNOCK!]
"Rani are you awake?" her mother called from the other side of the door.
"Yes, mommy" she answered her gaze never leaving the window.
"Good, then. Get changed" she said.
"Why?"
"you start school today" she said as the sounds of her footsteps fainted as she walked away.
"Crap, I hate school" Rani said as she walked over to her dresser and pulled out a black shirt with the number 15 printed in purple on it, she also got out some dark blue skinny jeans for kids, and some orange converse sneakers for foot wear. She pulled out her school case and put her sketch pads and art supplies in there, along with some note books. Rani combed her hair and left it down, she didn't feel like fixing it nice, she put only a black hair band to keep it place. There, finished. She put on some black sports gloves and walked out the door with only to say these words.
"It's gonna be a long day"
"Rani what took so long?" her sister asked her as she sat down at the table. Rani just grabbed a plate and served herself some pancake and poured chocolate syrup on it.
"I like taking my time" she answered her dully.
"Not so much" he father said as he pulled it out of her grasp and set it next to him. Rani looked at her dad and saw he had his face in the morning paper, but what was odd it was upside down.
"Mom beat ya to the bathroom?" Rani asked as she scoffed down her breakfast.
"Yes, yes she did" he said and lowered the paper down to reveal a black eye that made him look like a cute panda bear. The two girls placed their hands on their mouths to avoid laughing at their father's condition.
"GOOD MORNING!" and that's when he put the paper back up and their mother walked in with a huge smile on her face and already dressed to go. She grabbed three pancakes in one fork and ate them down and gulped down about a gallon of milk. Meow!
"Geez mom! Don't dry out the cow!" Masaki said as she witnessed her mother morning routine in disgust. She looked over to her family at the table and saw her husband's face in the paper. She carefully walked over and sat on the table with caution, crossing her legs over each other.
"Oh honey! What's going on in the world today?" she asked him. The twins left the table, their appetite gone and decided to wait it out.
"Nothing, just the DOW Jones going down a little, but that's it" he said from behind the paper. His wife pulled the paper down and saw his eye.
"Ichigo! Your eye! How'd it get that way!?" she asked innocently as she went to get a bag of ice.
"You should know you're the one-!" but he didn't finish his wife kissed him on the lips to shut him up and when done placed the bag on his eye.
"There! All better?" she asked him as she got the keys to the car.
"Yes…." he mumbled as he blushed and held it in place.
"Ok, well! I'm off to take the girls to school!" Yoruichi said as she grabbed her phone and purse. Suddenly a flash came over to Ichigo and gripped his left leg.
"DON'T MAKE ME GO!" Masaki pleaded as she looked up to her dad. He walked over to the front door and started to peel her off his leg.
"Honey you have to" he said as he finally got her off his leg. Masaki then grabbed his torso and held on real tight, yep she was hanging around her Aunt Yuzu too much…..
"Quit being a wuss, what would Aunt Soi Fon think of you now if she saw you like this?" Rani said a bit harshly.
"She say suck it up and live it through" Masaki said and let her father go. He kneeled down to his daughter and hugged her to make her feel better.
"Besides you have your sister with you, so it won't be all that bad" he reassured her.
"Alright then…." she said.
"Good then, I'll see you guys later then"
"Bye Daddy!" The two twins said at the same time as they walked down the pavement walkway of their house. Their mother opened the car for them and seated them, finally waving her husband goodbye and drove out of the drive way. From the next door neighbor's window stood Xahan and Aiden watching them as they left.
"Did you really have to give her that dream?" he asked her as they moved away from the window.
"Yes, I believe she can help us…..I just know it" she said as she sat down on his bed. Aiden grabbed his bag for school and anything else he needed.
"Are you sure you don't want to come with me to school?" he asked her as he was at the door.
"Yes, I'm sure…..I….I have to think things out a bit" she said as he left by herself. Aiden then bid himself goodbye and left her alone. Xahan walked over to the window and looked down at Aiden and his family……-Family, she wondered what it was like to raise a child and have a loving husband at your side?
"No matter the past is the past…..and I have yet to be justified for my death" she said and then vanished.
Ichigo was cleaning the kitchen and putting away the stuff on the breakfast table. It only took him about a half an hour to clean the place up and then get ready for work. He went to his room and pulled out a simple red maroon shirt that had a hollow skull on it, like his badge, and put on black jeans, with white Van sneakers with checker designs on them. He went into his study where he kept his computer and other stuff, you see Ichigo worked part time as a RPG and Game Designer for major online game companies and for SEGA, so he was a stay at home dad that earned the moola!
"Alright what's my next assignment?" he said to no one in particular as he checked his e-mail…..hmm junk…….-junk…….junk……not junk!
"Here it is! Design a new character for the Sonic series games? I just gave them a new one a month ago!!" he said as he pulled out his sketch pad and pencils, and finally pulling up Photoshop. As it loaded he began to sketch out ideas for a new character.
"Let's see…..foxes, bunnies, hedgehogs, echidnas, chameleons, crocodiles, bats, cats, bees……man everything has been done!" he said as he looked back at his computer Microsoft word was open and had writing on it.
"Look behind you?" the message said. He turned his chair around quickly and came face to face with a teenage girl that looked out of time and fashion.
"Who are you?" he asked as he got up. The girl only looked at him as she put her hands in her pockets.
"Xahan Hanao Schiffer, and you must be Rani's father" she said simply as she introduced herself to him.
"That's not what I meant, are you stuck here, earth bound?" he clarified.
"Yes, but…..even if you use your sword it won't make a difference…." she stated as her green eye bore into his brown eyes.
"Why's that?" he asked her. She walked through him and looked at his family pictures. One of them caught her attention.
"I'm looking for my son…..…." she said as she turned around as she held the picture of one of Ichigo's friends.
"What!? How old are you!?" he asked her.
"I was 16-17 when I died" she said
"What year?"
"1980, I was the youngest of my siblings" she said as she sat herself down on the chair.
"But how….?" he asked her as he pulled up another chair.
"I got pregnant at a young age" she said explaining why so had a child that early.
"How do you know about my daughter?" he asked her.
"She didn't tell you? She accidentally kicked her ball into the next yard under some bushes where I was hiding from Aiden's mother, Melinda"
"Melinda? You mean Melinda Gordon?"
"You know her?"
"Yea, Mr. Urahara told me about her when he bought the house here" he answered her.
"Well FYI she can see the dead as well" Xahan spilled.
"Yea, well what's that gotta do with me?" he asked her a bit annoyed.
"You'll see in time, but for now……..go to town" she said as she suddenly appeared at the door way.
"Go to town? Why?"
"Feel the pressure and you'll see" she said as she vanished into the air leaving him alone. He flopped down back at his chair and looked at the computer screen. His deadline wasn't until July 16, so he had three months. He pulled out his cell phone and called his wife.
"Hey Yoruichi? No, everything's fine…..yea it's clean……uh, look I'm going into town to buy more inks and pencils, anything else I need…….sure thing see when I get back, bye" he finished as he got up and grabbed his wallet.
"Feel the pressure? What's that mean?" he said as he grabbed his skate board and rode his way into town. For him the pieces was in play.
Sorry if it's short! I've been very busy with my other stories but don't worry it'll be done soon!
-Kenny R&R
