A recent review made me realize that Somethings must be done.
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"DADDY! WE'RE HOME!" two perfectly synched voice boomed from the front door. Ichigo took his eyes off Xahan for a brief moment and then looked back at her to see she was gone. Unintentionally Ichigo gave a sigh and a sad smile to were Xahan was once sitting.
"Daddy!" Masaki's voice was getting louder, judging by that increasing volume. It sounds that she is running towards his studio.
"No fair!" Rani's voice was echoing through the hall as she ran after Masaki.
"What is it?" he opened the door to his studio and the twins tackled him to the ground.
"WE'RE HOME!" they said to their father.
"So I see….." he said from the floor.
"Mom bought dinner! She said to wash up and head down!" Masaki said.
"Great…..what did she bring?"
"Mom brought Sushi!"
"…..alright…uh girls?"
"Yes daddy?"
"Get off of me"
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"Girls! Remember to wash up! I'll set the table!" Yoruichi shouted as she carried dinner to the kitchen. From the kitchen, Yoruichi could hear the sounds of small feet running down hallway. She shook her head in dismay and smiled. Kids will be kids. The flash goddess walked over to the kitchen and walked into the darkness.
"huh?" something was off. Yoruichi set the things on the table and flicked on the lights. Someone was here, sitting at the head of the table was a 16 year old girl with short black hair and really green eyes, they look so familiar…
"Hello there" she said with a smile as she sat back. Yoruichi saw that some broken chains hanging from her sternum.
"You're not human" Yoruichi stated.
"Neither are you" the girl said with a giggle.
"What exactly is your business here? Did you live here before or what?" The flash goddess was getting peeved from this tyke.
"Live here? Nah. I'm crashing here. And as for my business….I'm just seeking help" she stated.
"Seeking help?"
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"Seeking help…..why my help?"
"Something wrong mom?"
"Hm? Oh sorry! I was thinking out loud again!"
"It's fine Mom, anyway how was your day?" Aiden asked his mother as he looked concern for her.
"I met someone today….."
"It wasn't that guy with the blonde hair and green hat was it? Dad said if you ran into him again, to call the police" her son to her.
"Relax Aiden. It wasn't him and I think your uncle and father took care of him….." she trailed off as she recalled as Mr. Urahara was trying to be suave with her as she showed him around town. The end result wasn't pretty on his end, to put it nicely.
"Oh? Who? Another Soul Reaper?" Aiden asked her.
"Soul Reaper? Honey…..where did you hear that?" Melinda looked at her son with interest.
"Well….I use to call them the shinnies remember? But Rani told me that their proper name was 'Soul Reapers'" he explained his answer.
"Why? Did someone tell you too?"
"Yea…someone did…" her mind trailed off to earlier in the day
-/Earlier that Day!/-
"What are you?" Melinda asked as she saw Ichigo standing in his captains uniform and his limp body on the ground.
"That….will take a while to tell you, but in the short run I'm a Soul Reaper. Captain Ichigo Kurosaki of the 5th division of the Gotei 13" he introduced himself.
"And I'm Xahan Schiffer! A soul bound spirit in need of crossing over!" Xahan introduced herself.
"Is there a reason you're telling me this or what?"
Well there is…you see 15 years ago, a soul reaper was dispatched here and went missing. And well….."
"Yes?"
"The records show that you in particular have been contact with him…..when he disappeared" Ichigo stated.
"When he disappeared?….The only person I knew that disappeared was…oh my god!" realization hit full force.
"Melinda? What is it?"
"The only one that I knew to disappear was…..my father…" she stated to Ichigo.
"Any reason or cause of his defect?"
"It's really all a blur for me on the day he left…all I can recall is blurred images of him and…..my parents arguing. I was up in my room at the time and he left. That was the last time I ever saw him" she said recalling that somber day.
"so you have no idea to where he could've left?"
"No…but….." A question drawled on her tongue as she said the last word and Ichigo caught it.
"Is there something wrong?"
"If…my father was a soul reaper…..like you and in my family, from my mother's side, we're able to see the dead and communicate with them. Then what does that make me?" she asked him.
"Well…..I'm not the person you should be asking that. If ya wanna know then ya have to ask my wife on that. She knows more about heredity of soul reapers than I do and she can give you a sure answer" he told her. A small spark of hope lit up in her eyes, a chance to know who her father was and a chance to explain more her origins of her gift.
"Alright then. When can I speak with her?"
"I can bring her in tomorrow after we drop the girls off at school, but there's a more important matter at hand" he began.
"Yes?"
"This" pointing at Xahan.
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"So…..you know about Xahan now?"
"Yes, sweety. But why would you keep her a secret from me?" Melinda asked him.
"She asked me not tell you until she spoke with you first" he answered honestly.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you but she was adamant about it…..she said…..when the time was right or something"
"Why would she say that?"
"I'm not sure"
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"…And so that's why I'm stuck here….anyway, I best be going now…."Xahan said as she got from the table and began to walk away.
"Wait!"
"Yes?"
"If what you said is true and all you need to do that in order to pass over….why all this waiting?"
"…..I'm not so sure…..something deep down told me to wait….call it a gut feeling Miss" and with that Xahan faded away. Yoruichi looked at the spot where she faded from before moving to set the table. The story that this spirit told her, plagued her mind. She couldn't say what was bothering her, but she felt that things were going to go badly from here on.
"Hell is going to break loose….." she said out loud.
"What's going to break loose mom?" Masaki entered the dinning room with Rani in tow.
"Hm? Oh! M-my….pants! My pants are going to break loose soon due to my pregnancy sweety!" she said as a lame excuse.
"Okay!" Masaki said believing her.
"What ever" Rani gave her a look, before brushing it off and taking a seat. Rani suspected something was off with her mom, she sensed Xahan here earlier. She didn't say anything though, judging on her mother's expression, it wasn't the time and place to do so. Either way, Rani wanted answers from why Xahan was speaking with her mother.
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FORESHADOWING! Nah! Anyway a reviewer, 6Black Key Wings9, left me a nice review and well…I figured to finish it before time gets me. Anyway enjoy~!