Trading Yesterday For Tomorrow Chapter 3
Scorning Remembrance
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Kisuke Urahara's Shop
"Hmmmmm" the voice of the man echoed through the taciturn (Tas- a- turn*quiet*) room. All were silent, as their eyes were faced upon either the man or the little girl. 'POP!' the sound of the lollypop echoed as Kisuke removed it from his lips. The lollypop was a light pink purple, and the round circular shape seemed awfully hard to stick the whole thing in ones mouth, but the man had found a way. Tatsumi found it delightedly craving, but she had to refrain herself for asking for a lick, that to her was nothing that was unreasonable to ask, but yet she had to pay full attention. Lollypops were her favorite food, yes food, she considered it a meal and not a treat. But, there was no time for large lollypops.
The man's emerald eyes were gazed upon the little girl that Tatsumi had rescued about an hour earlier. She was still unconscious, and the little blood that showed made her a horrible sight.
"Tessia!" Kisuke called. Then, seeming to appear out of thin air, said man materialized.
"Yes Boss?" he asked. His knees were bowed down to Kisuke. Tatsumi had started wondering if this Tessia worshiped the shop Owner. She knew he sure acted like it.
"Can you heal these two up for me?" the shop owner then leaned closer to the man, his mouth whispering in his ear. "And make sure that one doesn't have any …mental issues…" he pointed to Tatsumi with his lollypop.
"I HEARD THAT!" Tatsumi asserted. Her arms folded as she pouted a little. 'How can anyone say that to me, I mean I am NOT…. ooooo look a bird! I wonder if I could feed it apple pancakes.' Tatsumi's mind began to wonder.
"Yes, of course Boss." Answered Tessia as his glasses glinted off the light. He moved himself over to the girl, his hands preparing to perform some sort of healing spell. That's what Tatsumi had guessed anyway.
"So, do you know where I should take her, I mean once she's healed up and everything?" Tatsumi leaned forward a little.
"Yes, I actually know who this girl is," Kisuke said casually as he again inserted the lollypop into his mouth.
"REALLY! Who is she?" Tatsumi yelped in excitement.
A slight pause. There sitting at the table was Tatsumi, Kisuke, Ururu, and Jinta, they all were paying close attention. Actually it seemed as though Jinta was busy poking Ururu with a chopstick, but besides that they were all paying close, close, close attention... maybe?
A blue light hovered over the girl, it's color was deep and Tatsumi automatically knew that Tessia was performing a healing spell. The wounds of the girl started disappearing as her skin was returning to it's pure and innocent state.
"She belongs to a friend of mine," Kisuke commented although his voice muffled. Considering he had a foot wide lollypop in his mouth, Tatsumi was surprised she understood anything he said at all. "Her name is Yuzu Kurosaki. Her father and I are… acquaintances and I believe she should be returned as soon as possible." Kisuke explained.
"YES! Very very good!" Tatsumi cheered. Her hands clapping a little.
Tessia finished up the girl quickly as he then trotted over to where Tatsumi was sitting. Again, blue light emanated from his hands as he began to heal her injuries. Tatsumi didn't even see that the man had moved, she was too focused on Kisuke to notice.
"Goodie, so where do these people live? I'll take… Yuzu there as soon as possible." Tatsumi sounded out the girls name.
"Actually I think it would be better if I returned her for you." Kisuke nommed on his lollypop. The sweet strawberry taste filled his mouth.
"NOOO!" Tatsumi screeched as loud as possible. Her hands smacked down on the table as she partly stood. Kisuke widened his eyes a bit at her sudden outburst.
"W- why exactly not?" Kisuke brought out his fan. It waved in front of his face.
"I saved her! I think I should get some credit here!" she pointed to herself with her thumb. Kisuke felt sweat drop from the back of his neck… was she serious?
"I still think it would be…" Kisuke was interrupted.
"NOOOOOOO!" the girl whaled.
"Ok, ok…" Kisuke put up one of his hands trying to calm the girl.
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"Ah huuu, this is nice. I think it fits perfectly. What do you think… Ururu is it?" Tatsumi swung her shoulders around. Her face glinted of joyfulness.
"It looks fine, miss." The quiet girl nodded, she continued to sweep the front deck of the shop. Dust was flying upwards because of this action.
"Oh, oh, oh please call me Tatsumi!" the shinigame waved her hand around. She continued to do spinning circles. She had put herself in her gigai, the look of the fine work of science was spectacular. She was glad that all soul reapers were required to have one, or else she might have to borrow one from that creepy shop keeper.
"Yamasaki, the girl is ready to leave." Called Kisuke from within the shop. He trotted down the steps towards Tatsumi. Next to him walked the girl. Although she was walking she seemed lifeless almost.
Tatsumi stopped her twirling as she peered at the girl. Kisuke spoke up, "I have erased her memory so that she has no recollection of the events that took place. I have also given her a special sedative that makes her partly unconscious. She can still walk, and maybe speak a little, but she won't be able to comprehend what is going on till the sedative wears off."
"Wait… why did you give her this sedative… thingy?" Tatsumi questioned. Her knees bent down as she stopped at eye level with the girl. Her eyes were still dull, but she looked as if she was alive… kinda.
"The memory eraser takes an hour to work its magic, so since she was leaving at this moment. I had to improvise." He explained. "Besides I didn't want you to have to carry her all that way. But, by the time she wakes up fully you will be at the Kurosaki clinic."
"What clinic? I thought I was going to her house not a hospital…" Tatsumi was getting more confused by the second.
"You are, there house has a clinic attached to it. Okay then… do you have the address?" Kisuke asked.
"CHECK!" Tatsumi nodded.
"You got Yuzu?"
"CHECK!"
"Are you sure you don't want me to take her, it would be much…." He was interrupted.
"Come on Yuzu! Let's get out of this junk yard!" Tatsumi exclaimed as she took the hand of the girl, and practically dragged her out of the shop. Dust trailing behind the two as the tornado rushed along.
"….junk…. yard?" questioned the hurt shop keeper.
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Inside the Kurosaki Household
"Have you found her yet?" asked the concerned raven haired girl. Her hand clasped tightly against their family phone. Her face had a worried expression. She tried not to stifle or cry, she really wasn't that type. All she really wanted was to find her sister, she had been missing since that afternoon to get groceries. Karin wanted to hit herself for not going with her… what had happened. It was already 6:00 pm, and still no sign of the Kurosaki.
On the other end of the line was her brother, he had gone out earlier searching for his sister. He too though didn't seem to have any luck. "No… not yet. I'll call you as soon as I see anything," he seemed to be acting calm. But Karin knew that her brother was just as worried as her.
"O-ok," Karin whispered. She hung up the phone, her eyes were scared. She hadn't been able to do anything for her sister, unlike her dad and brother. Ichigo had been searching for about 4 hours all across the city, and even her perverted father had contacted the police and started investigating where she was. It all kind of seemed surreal to Karin, her sister had never disappeared, or turned up later than expected, this wasn't like her. Which means that something had to have happened to her.
"DING DONG, DING DONG!" Karin looked up from the counter to their front door. Their door bell echoed throughout the house.
Karin jumped up from her stool and trotted solemnly over to the door. Her hand opened the door, she hoped it wasn't some dumb Magazine seller or something stupid like that.
"Ya, what do…" her grey eyes widened as she saw two people. One she did not recognize at all, but the other was all too familiar. Her heart filled with joy, "Dad! It's Yuzu!" she called out to her father who was in one of their back rooms.
"Yuzu! Are you alright, we were so worried!" Karin stepped up to the girl, a look of complete relief filled her.
"YUZU!? MY LITTLE ANGEL!" cried Karin's father. He came running through the living room with tears pouring out of his eyes, his arms outstretched, and sparkles floating off his body. He then tripped over their coffee table, seeming to break about 15 of his bones. His face planted into the carpet, but he kept on moving; now crawling in pain to his little girl.
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10 minutes later
"Thank you so much for bringing us out little girl!" cried out the man. Tatsumi had found this… supposed father of Yuzu's to be quiet… interesting…. 'Yeah that's the word' Tatsumi thought. His tears still flowed out of his eyes, he seemed happy to Tatsumi, or relieved she should say.
Tatsumi sat on the couch in their living room. Her hands placed comfortably in her lap, and the three family members on the other couch. Yuzu, had fallen asleep right at the moment when she sat down. So, this left the Father and her Sister to be greeting Tatsumi.
"Oh… it was no trouble!" Tatsumi sang. 'IT WAS A LOT OF TROUBLE! I SHOULD MAKE THESE PEOPLE PAY FOR WHAT THEY PUT ME THROUGH… oh look candy!' Tatsumi again became distracted. Her hand glided over to the bowl of sweets placed in the middle of the tan coffee table, her hand then indulged itself to the many candies.
"You don't know how much it means to us, we really appreciate it." The raven haired girl spoke up. "Where did you find her anyway, and how did you know where to bring her," Karin wondered. Tatsumi's eyes widened at the question. She choked on one of the hard candies. Her fist pounded on her chest… till finally after giving herself many bruises out popped the candy.
"Uhhh heee" she laughed nervously. "A funny story that is... I actually… ummm, well she told me!" Tatsumi spat out. "YA! She told me where she lived…. She was ummm lost… in the park…. By a bench…" Tatsumi started spitting out random things that came to her mind. It's a good thing she stopped their or else she would soon be talking about starships and aliens that had abducted Yuzu.
"Oh… really? Which park?" Karin stated simply.
"I uhhh, well I ummm got to use the bathroom!" Tatsumi stood up so fast, it was as if a tornado busted through their doors.
"Uhh, down the hall on the right?" Karin pointed in the direction of their guest's bathroom. She was a tad confused by Tatsumi's actions.
Tatsumi ran in that direction, opened a few doors before finding a bathroom. She closed it tightly behind her. The soul reapers body leaned against the shut door, almost exhausted it seemed. It was as if she was so tired she could fall asleep… right in their bathroom.
Tatsumi's blue eyes blinked a few times, almost trying to get tired of this sudden tiredness she felt. It was an overwhelming feeling that had just come over her. It was like she hadn't slept in weeks, and now… that she could she didn't want to. Tatsumi rubbed her eyes with one of her light skinned hands… still the sleepiness kept arising itself to the surface.
Tatsumi felt her body drag to the floor. The floor of their bathroom feeling like some kind of sleepy pillow… she couldn't take it. This feeling was absolutely terrible, how weird it would be if she fell asleep like this in someone's bathroom. But, she just couldn't make herself wake up. 'What's going on?' she asked herself. Her eye lids gently closed themselves as she fell asleep.
"Tatsumi… where have you been!? I've been looking all over for you!" What? Who is that… where am I? That voice… its familiar. It's dark… it feels like I'm floating. In mid air, as if I'm soaring through the sky.
"Tatsumi! Are you listening to me!?" There… that voice. It… is… so familiar. Who is that? And what exactly is going on!?
"ARE YOU IGNORING ME!?" that voice! WHO IS THAT!?'
Tatsumi's gaze was suddenly filled with a bright white light. A light that was so heavenly comforting it was as if she could be serenaded in its grasp. She seemed to zoom through the space, having the white light come and go. And then…. Black had once again appeared.
'"TATSUMI!" a strict and harsh voice erupted the sleeping girls ear drums. It was loud… and ever so bold.
Tatsumi jolted her head up. Her hair flying in front of her face for several seconds before landing in its designed place. Then, it all came to the girl. She must have fallen asleep at her desk. The small child's eyes were sleepy, scorned with an undesirable state of mind. She had been resting her eyes for what seemed only a second, her head only on her arms to peer at the table. But, then she had fallen asleep. And now, the teacher stood there, her grimaced face staring into that of Tatsumi's.
"Tatsumi, please refrain from snoring in class next time you decide to take an afternoon nap!" the female turned around and walked back to the black bored.
"Yes… I'm sorry Ms. Onchi," Tatsumi felt eyes on her. Giggles from fellow class mates arose. They all seemed to find this mishap funny. Tatsumi blushed a little as they all stared at her intently, laughing and some even angered with the girl that she had interrupted class.
"Please read line 2 of the paragraph please Tatsumi," the teacher took her seat.
Tatsumi peered down at her desk… to find 2 things that were abnormal. One, there was the largest puddle of drool on her desk that she had ever seen, and 2 that her book had graffiti on it. Tatsumi felt her heart sink a little, 'The other kids must have done this' Tatsumi thought.
She looked to where the teacher specified and started reading aloud. "Umm, '1650 years ago, before the time our leader was present. There was a man. His name was Unisuke, this man….'
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"Okay students of the Yamaski Household, tonight you have to reread the pages that we studied today, now run along you children," a roar of 'awwwwwsss' arose from the 8-14 year old kids. Tatsumi was not one of them, she was reserved as she started packing her bag.
The crowd of students flooded into the hallway, leaving Tatsumi to linger behind them. She picked up her bag as she walked out of her classroom and into the filled halls. She held her bags in front of her chest, making sure that they would not fall.
"Hey!" she heard a female voice. Tatsumi peered her gaze up… to see a girl standing there. She was beautiful to Tatsumi. Long silver locks of combed and perfected hair, deep golden eyes that befitted models, and a nice already curvy figure. "I saw you sleeping in class today!" the girl smiled, a tad devilishly. She looked to be at the age of 14 to 15 years old. Tatsumi on the other hand was only at the age of 9. The silver haired girl bounced back a little, her neck length hair bouncing in the wind a little.
A deep blush red fell on her face, "Uhhh I know, are you going to make fun of me too?" questioned the blue eyes of Tatsumi.
"WHAT? No, you got it all wrong kid! I am talking to you for one reason and one reason only," the girl zoomed up to Tatsumi's face, making it so they were only merely inches away from kissing.
"W-what is it then?" Tatsumi asked. Her voice stuttering a bit.
"I heard that you were a trouble maker… like me!" she pointed to herself.
"WHAT!?" Tatsumi questioned. Of all the rumors that had been going around about her… a trouble maker was the first one that was completely wrong. Tatsumi was the exact opposite of a trouble maker, it anything she tried to be the purest of girls.
"YEAH YEAH!" the girl nodded her head. Her lip was curved to the left, making for a very troublesome smile. ]
"Oh, no. You got it all wrong. I try not to be a trouble maker!" Tatsumi shook her head vigorously.
"PHFFFFFTTTTT! Please, I've heard better lies from my Grandfather! I can see it in you, the little rascal just waiting to break free and make your name known!" she put up her fist.
"But, I don't…" Tatsumi was interrupted.
"The name is Ayama Yamasaki!" she smiled.
"Uhh, Tatsumi Yamasaki," Tatsumi reluctantly said.
"COME ON I wanna show you something!" Ayama grabbed Tatsumi's hand and pulled her off down the hall. Tatsumi wailing for her to please stop all the way.
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"You see that, Tatsumi?" Ayama asked, her eyes wide with adrenaline.
They were behind one of the walls that lead to the courtyard. Tatsumi wanted to run away, but this girl didn't seem like she would let that happen. Tatsumi peered over the corner, only seeing what was expected.
"The maid sweeping?" Tatsumi questioned.
"NO! That is the person who keeps telling me to pipe down in the middle of the night! You know how I'm going to get back at her?" she asked, her toothy smile kind of creped out Tatsumi.
"Nothing, I hope…" Tatsumi felt a surge of worry for the maid fill her.
"WHAT THIS!" she said excitedly. "Wait for it…"
Tatsumi looked over… wanting, and not wanting to see what was going to happen at the same time. There sweeping was the maid, she swept and swept. Nothing in particular happening to her. Then, she stepped on the next cobble stone to get a window cleaner.
But, it was no normal stone, it pushed down, and then it all went downhill from there. A bucket fell from eh sky, landing on the maids head as water splattered everywhere. Then, that seemed to trigger another bucket to fall from the sky, this one landed in front of the girl. Splashing a slimy and slippery green liquid where the maid was standing. The maid slipped and fell on her back. This then brought out paint can that fell from the sky, splattering on her and making her the color of a deep green.
Tatsumi had a horrified look on her face. What she had just witnessed was horrible. Just… horrible. Tatsumi's gaze drifted over to Ayama, she was on the ground rolling around in laughter. Tatsumi felt like this girl was… pure evil.