Chapter 20
Toshi and Katsu
Katsu and Toshi stood outside the meeting hall listening to the screaming that was coming from the other side of the door. Toshi was pacing back and forth and pulled on the stray pieces of hair that had fallen out of her ribbon and were hanging about her face.
"Do you think we're in trouble?" she asked nervously.
"We almost leveled a building today," Katsu replied calmly, Toshi rolled her eyes.
"I know that," she replied bitterly. "How much trouble do you think we're in?"
"A lot," he replied simply.
"Do you think we'll get punished or something?" she asked.
"Calm down," he replied coolly.
"What do you mean calm down, we almost leveled the entire observation stadium." she replied. The door opened and out stepped their father. His face was dark and there was no hint of a smile on his face.
"Come inside guys." He said. The twins stood and stepped inside the room. The rest of the captains were standing in their lines looking down at them as if they weren't just screaming their lungs out a minute ago.
The giant door shut behind them loudly.
"It was Katsu's idea!" Toshi screamed raising a pointed finger in his direction.
"What do you mean this was my idea!?" Katsu yelled. "You're the one who said you wanted to fight her."
"I was following your lead!" she yelled.
"No you weren't, I didn't say I wanted to fight." He replied.
"So why did you?" Shinji asked quickly.
"Because I had to, she can't fight alone." Katsu replied.
"It looked like she was doing a good enough job to me." Kenpachi said.
"You don't understand," Toshi started.
"We fight together. She can't fight without me and vice versa." Katsu finished.
"Why not?" Toshiro asked.
"We don't know, we're just following instructions." Toshi said.
"Whose instructions?" Toshiro pressed.
"The prince and the princess," She replied with a simple smile, she had no idea that her answer made no sense to the other people in the room.
"And that is?" Shinji said with a confused frown.
"Their zanpakuto," Jushiro answered.
"So they told you that you can't fight alone?" Toshiro asked.
"Yeah, they said it's too dangerous because they need each other to balance themselves." Toshi said.
"If there's no balance we could seriously hurt ourselves." Katsu added.
"Then that settles it." Karin said finally speaking up. She stepped forward and grabbed the pacifiers from around the twins' necks.
"No, give her back!" Toshi yelled.
"Karin, what are you doing?" Toshiro asked.
"I'm not letting them keep these; there no way I'm letting them walk around with something so dangerous if they can't control it." She replied sternly.
"But you just can't take them away from them." Toshiro retorted.
"Oh really, and whose going to stop me?" she asked. The rest of the captains looked amongst themselves to see would step forward and claim that fight, in the end no one was stupid enough to do that.
"You can't just take them!" Toshi screamed.
"And who are you to order me around young lady?" Karin asked.
"Give her back!" Toshi screamed. The entire room grew hot.
"Cop an attitude all you like, you're not getting these back until you learn how to control yourselves." She said sternly.
Toshi poked out her bottom lip and stomped out of the room.
"Dad," Katsu said.
"Huh?" Toshiro answered.
"What happens when you take a zanpakuto away from its wielder?" he asked.
"We would know kid, we don't know. None of our moms have ever taken out weapons away from us before." Kenpachi said with a crooked smile as he leaned down to get at eye level with Katsu.
"Please back away from me?" Katsu said smoothly. The stale heat of the room was easily replaced with a harsh chill. It was so cold in the room that you could see your own breath.
"Katsu, please watch where you're releasing that reiatsu, not all of us want to suffer okay." Shinji said.
"Sorry," Katsu replied.
"The only thing we can do to ensure your safety is to make sure that you all know how to use the powers you were born with." Said head captain Yamamoto. "The two of them will enroll in the academy immediately." He declared.
"Hai," Toshiro said to him