Chapter 9
By: Tomatopiranha
Writers note: Hiya, I don't really know what to say in these notes, but hope you like this chapter! And Yay thanks for the comments! thank yuuu! (btw, some of this is a glimpse into Rebecca's past. Not a lot though)
"What?" exclaimed Rebecca.
"Yes maam. Urahara called today saying that your mother from the living world wishes to see you" explained the messenger.
"Geez, now that old hag is finally pretending to care for me? What a bunch of bull. So, they want me to go to the living world and clear this all up?" she asked.
"That's right. Captain commander gave direct orders that you go to the living world tomorrow morning with the sixth squad captain."
"Bya is coming too? Why?" she asked.
"There has been an increase in allancar appearances in Kurakara town, and Kurosaki Ichigo is going on a family vacation and Rukia is to come back to soul society for the time being. Captain commander needs someone to keep a watch over the town for the next two weeks, so until Ichigo and Rukia return you two will be staying there" explained the messenger shinigami.
"Ah, I see. -sigh- Guess I'll be at the gate in the morning" Rebecca replied.
"Yes maam', please excuse me" the messenger said shunpoing away.
"Damn, stupid mom" she said walking out the door.
As she got to the door frame, she yelled at the shinigami who she was recently fighting with about the newspaper.
"Hey you. You had better hope that you don't sell any papers today. I do not forget things easily" she said giving him an evil glare walking out.
So Rebecca went to her room where Kira was working diligently.
"Oh Kira, your here early" she said walking in.
"Yeah, I need to get some work done from yesterday" he replied.
"Okay, well just to let you know. Tomorrow I am going to the living world for two weeks. I was gonna tell you when you came in but your already here" she said.
"You're going to the living world? Okay, but why?"
"Well my mom suddenly is pretending to care about me so I have to go take care of that. Also Ichigo is going on a family vacation and there has been more allancar appearing in the area lately, so I also have to help with that" she explained to him.
"Alright, but that seems like a lot of work? Will you okay by yourself? I can come if you want. I've only gotten to see the living world once and that was just to interview you" he said.
"It's alright Kira, Bya is comin' also. Anyways, right now soul society has to stay cautious. It would be bad if something happened and the squads captain and vice captain were not there" she explained. "Tell ya what though. If you really want to go to the living world I promise to bring you at a later date when the whole Aizen matter is done with. Just you and me."
"Really!" he asked as his face grew brighter.
"You bet!" she said.
"Wow, thanks!" he said happily. "I'll go tell the squad that you'll be leaving tomorrow."
"Sure thing" she said as Kira shunpoed away to go tell the squad.
"Ha, he sure seemed happy" she said to herself.
The next morning Rebecca had packed up and went to the gate where Byakuya was waiting.
"Hey Bya" she said walking up.
"Good morning Rebecca"
"(Hmm, I wonder when she started calling me 'Bya'? I guess I didn't notice)" he thought to himself.
"Are you ready to go?" he asked as the gates opened.
"You bet I've got everything I need in here" she said holding up her bag.
"You got that in the living world right?" he asked.
Her bag was black, white, and orange and it had purple skulls all over it.
"Yeah, soul society doesn't have cool bags like these" she said.
"Hmm, an odd sense of taste"
"Hah, says the one wearing a scarf" she said smiling walking into the gate.
The two of them walked through the very long gate to finally arrive at the living world.
"Augh, that took forever" Rebecca said stretching as they walked out.
"Indeed" agreed Byakuya.
"So, I guess we need to go to Urahara's shop to pick up our gigais first right?"
"Yes, lets go" Byakuya said shunpoing off.
"Haha, you think that you can beat me to the shop with a head start? Lets just see about that" she said to herself heading off using her lightning step.
Rebecca had already arrived at the shop, and Byakuya arrived about a minute and a half later to her standing at the door.
"Hey there slowpoke" she said smiling and waving leaning against the door frame.
"You never cease to amaze me Rebecca" he said. "Let's see if anyone is here."
So the two of them walked into the shop to see if anybody was there and saw Jinta carrying boxes.
"Oh, it's the little brat" Jinta said as he looked over to see Rebecca.
"Who's a little brat!" she yelled.
"Is Urahara here?" asked Byakuya.
"Yeah, he's in the back room" replied the young red-head.
"Thank you, come on Rebecca"
"Okay, I'm comin" she said.
So the two of them walked to the room in the back of the store where Urahara was organizing boxes.
"Hey Urahara" said Rebecca.
"Oh, why hello Rebecca. Long time no see, I see that you have become a captain" Urahara said.
"You bet, thanks to you. Do you still have my body layin' around here somewhere?" she asked.
"Why yes I do, and I also have a gigai for Byakuya" he said opening a large cabinet.
So the two shinigami's got into their human bodies so that they could be seen by normal people.
"Augh, I never noticed how stiff a human body is" said Rebecca stretching now back in her body.
"I agree, these are mildly uncomfortable" agreed Byakuya.
Just then Yoruichi walked in.
"Hey Rebecca! Nice to see ya again!" Yoruichi said not noticing Byakuya yet.
"Hey, is that you Byakuya?" she asked.
He gave her a silent reply.
"It is you! Haha, nice to see you Byakuya! How's my favorite little playing buddy!" she said patting him on the back.
"Little playing buddy? Haha, how cute Bya" said Rebecca chuckling.
"I was not your little playing buddy" Byakuya said taking Yoruichi's hand off of him.
"Yeah yeah, you know it was fun" she said.
"It certainly was not fun when you took my hair tie" he replied. "What are you doing here?" he asked.
"Well I heard that Rebecca was comin' back for a little while and I came to visit. I didn't know that you were coming too" she said.
As they were talking Rebecca's phone went off.
"What is it?" Byakuya asked.
"It's an allancar" she replied. "I got it, there's only one."
"Okay, come back when you're done. Tessai is making curry for dinner tonight" said Urahara.
"Sure thing" she said disappearing.
"You just let her go by herself?" Yoruichi asked.
"Yeah, that girl is capable of way more than you think. She's even faster than you Yoruichi" Byakuya said.
"Hey, don't rub it in!" she said.
Rebecca appeared in a park to see Ishida, Inoue, and Sado fighting an allancar.
It was a middle aged man with dark skin, most likely Indian. He had his mask around the bottom of his chin, and it wrapped around his neck. The allancar also had four arms instead of two which was odd. He was floating in the air while the other three were fighting it from the ground.
"Oh, it's that Ishida dude. I wonder who the other two are" she said to herself switching to her shinigami form. "Go shopping for video games for something" she told the modified soul now using her body.
"Okay!" said the modified soul running off.
Rebecca then was about to go help the three fight the allancar when she stopped.
"Hmm, maybe I'll just watch from the sidelines and see just how powerful those three are" she said to herself now hiding in a tree.
So the three of them fought the allancar as Rebecca watched from the sidelines.
The allancar had a sword for each hand, which made it difficult for the three fighting him.
After fighting for a while the allancar wanted to finish them off.
"Hmph, this is taking too long" he said. "If I can't kill all of you at once, I'll just do it individually" he said firing a cero at Inoue.
"Inoue!" yelled Ishida as she did not have time to call out her shield.
Suddenly before the cero hit her, she disappeared.
"What the?" wondered Sado as Inoue had just disappeared.
"Where did she go?" asked Ishida.
Rebecca had grabbed Inoue and taken her up into the tree so fast that no one saw her, and it seemed like she had disappeared.
"Who are you?" asked Inoue.
"I'm Rebecca, don't worry I'm on your side. I'm a shinigami" she replied.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Orehime Inoue. Thanks for saving me" she said.
"No problem" Rebecca said smiling as she put her down on a branch.
Ishida and Sado were still fighting the allancar.
"Haha! One down, two to go" said the allancar.
"You freak, I'll kill you" said Ishida.
"Now" said Sado as they both jumped from both sides at the allancar.
Evading Ishida's arrows the allancar shot a cero at Sado before he could do his move.
Sado had suddenly disappeared just as Inoue had.
"What the hell is going on here?" wondered Ishida.
Rebecca had brought Sado to the tree just as she had done with Inoue. Although, it was a little bit more awkward. Rebecca had picked Sado up like a princess as she had done with Inoue. Although Rebecca was tall, she was extremely skinny, so Sado was twice her size.
"There ya go big guy" she said putting him on the same branch as Inoue.
"Who is she?" he asked Inoue.
"She's a shinigami. She saved both of us from being hit by a cero" she said.
Ishida was then fighting the allancar by himself.
"Haha! Your all alone, you cannot possibly defeat me now!" said the allancar releasing his sword.
He now looked as if he could be an Indian god. He had many exotic tattoo's and piercings all over his body, and along with his four arms he had six tentacle like things coming from his back.
"Wh-What the hell" said Ishida now starting to panic.
"Scared aren't you puny human! I will become the immortal god! Nothing can kill me, nothing can!" he said laughing.
Suddenly all of his arms/tentacles had fallen off as it seemed.
"Who's immortal?" asked Rebecca now standing in the air above the allancar.
"It's you!" said Ishida.
"Y-You bitch" said the allancar now without any arms.
"Ha, immortal. What a bunch of bull. I just cut off all of your arms before you could even notice that I was here. How lame" she said.
"I'll kill you" he said.
Before he even knew that she had approached him, Rebecca had sliced him 114 times. What was left of the allancar then disappeared.
"Ishida" yelled Inoue as her and Sado ran up to him from the tree.
"You guys, your alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, Rebecca saved us before we got hit by the cero" she said.
"Yeah, sorry bout' not helpin ya earlier, but I wanted to see your strength" she said. "Actually, even though I had to save you, I'm sort of impressed. What kind of powers do you two have?" she asked Inoue and Sano.
"She can call out these little fairies and he can use really huge punches" said Ishida.
"Basically" Sado said.
"Anyways, thanks for helping. I haven't seen you for a while Rebecca. Where have you been?" asked Ishida.
"You already know her?" Inoue asked Ishida.
"Yeah, I met her once. She beat me in a race and then spit coffee all over Kurosaki" explained Ishida.
"Hey well I didn't know that there were hot drink machines, it's not my fault" said Rebecca.
"You've never seen a hot drink machine?" asked Inoue.
"She's from America. I guess they don't really have them there" said Ishida.
"Foreigner buddy's" said Sano giving her a thumbs up as he was from South America.
"Haha, yeah" she said. "Well you see I originally came to Japan for college but I ended up becoming a shinigami. And now I'm a captain" she explained.
"Wow! That's so cool!" said Inoue.
"So if you're a captain, what are you doing here?" asked Ishida.
"Well it's sort of a long story but I'm going to be here for the next two weeks" she said.
"That's good because Ichigo is going to be gone on vacation for two weeks and Rukia is not here either" said Sano.
"That's one of the reasons I'm here" she said.
"That's nice" said Inoue. "If you want, I can let you stay at my house if you have nowhere to stay."
"Really? You sure it would be okay?"
"Yeah, I live alone anyways. It would be totally fine" she replied.
"Thanks! Although Bya is here also, would you mind letting him stay for a little while also?" asked Rebecca.
"Bya? As in Byakuya, as in Rukia's older brother?" asked Ishida.
"Yeah, the really elite looking guy" said Rebecca.
"Sure, I wouldn't mind at all" Inoue said.
"Wow, thanks!" Rebecca said. "I already promised that I would eat dinner at Urahara's though tonight. So I'll go eat and tell Bya to come!"
"Okay, do you know where my house is?" asked Inoue.
"It's okay. I can just follow your reiatsu" replied Rebecca.
"Okay, see you tonight" Inoue said.
"Yeah! Cya" she said disappearing.
Rebecca then appeared at Urahara's shop.
"Oh, just in time" Urahara said. "Tessai just finished dinner."
So everyone sat down at the table and got their food.
"Itadakimasu" everybody said before eating.
"So Rebecca, did you take care of the allancar?" asked Urahara while eating.
"Yeah, easy as pie" she said. "Oh, and Bya. I found us a place to stay tonight."
"Really? Where?" he asked.
"It's at a girl named Inoue's house. She seems to be on our side. She a girl with dark orangish hair and little fairy things" Rebecca said.
"Ahh, you must mean Orehime Inoue" said Urahara. "Yes, I know who she is. She is a friend of ours."
"Yeah, so we're staying over at her house for now" said Rebecca. "We should head over after dinner."
"Okay" he replied.
So after dinner Rebecca and Byakuya went over to Inoue's house.
"Oh, you're here" said Inoue. "Sorry if it's a little untidy in here, I was just making dinner."
"Oh no, it's totally fine. It smells good, can I help you cook?" asked Rebecca.
"Sure! That would be great" said Inoue. "First let me show you your rooms."
"Kuchiki-san, you will be sleeping in this room" she told Byakuya taking him into a smaller room. "And Rebecca, you will be sleeping in this room with me" she said taking Rebecca to their room.
"Wow thanks" she said putting her stuff down.
So after Rebecca had taken out all of her stuff and got settled in, she went to go help Inoue cook.
"(I really hope that Inoue is a good cook, because if it is just Rebecca cooking I don't know if I can make it the next two weeks)" though Byakuya.
"Bya, come try this!" yelled Rebecca.
"What is it?" he asked walking into the kitchen.
"I helped Orehime cook and it turned out pretty good. Try some" she said.
"Umm, what is it?" he asked looking into a pot filled with a brown sludge.
"It's a fruit pudding ramen omelet with hot sauce and sour cream" explained Inoue.
"Oh, well, I'm sure it sounds delicious. Although, I am quite full as I have already had dinner tonight" Byakuya said trying to get out of eating the gross concoction.
"Okay then, we'll just have to cook something even better tomorrow then, right Rebecca?" Inoue asked.
"You bet" she said.
"Say, what are you going to do tomorrow then?" asked Inoue.
"Well probably not much. I just have to go tell my mom to leave me alone today and keep an eye out for any allancar" replied Rebecca.
"Well then after you talk to your mom you should come to school tomorrow, we get alot of transfer students who come and leave anyways so it would not be to uncommon."
"Oh really? Sure, I guess we could come, right Bya? We don't have that much to do during the day unless an allancar shows up."
"-sigh- I guess if you're going to school then I should go also" said Byakuya.
"Okay then, tomorrow me and Bya will come to school with you Orehime" Rebecca said.
"Rebecca, it is 'Bya and I', not 'me and Bya'" corrected Byakuya.
"Yes sensei, excuse me" said Rebecca being sarcastic and smiling.
"Anyways, I've gotta go to America tonight and talk to my mom. I'll be back later" she said.
"You're going to America already? Have you gotten a plane ticket yet?" asked Inoue.
"Heh, I don't need a plane to take me there. I can get there in about 2 minutes, 3 tops" Rebecca said.
"What? How?" asked Inoue.
"Well even though I'm a shinigami, I can go over 50 times faster than their shunpo. It's like my own special power, and I can use it as much as I want without getting tired. I can make it overseas easily" said Rebecca.
"Wow, that's amazing!"
"Haha, thanks" Rebecca said rubbing the back of her head. "Well, I had better get going. I'll be back tonight, you don't have to wait for me to come home."
"Okay, see you later than" said Inoue.
"Be safe" said Byakuya.
"Yeah, cya then" she said disappearing.
About two and a quarter minutes later Rebecca was in the state of Washington, USA.
"Geez, lightning step is harder to do in this stupid gigai" Rebecca said arriving on top of the apartment building.
"Guess I'll go see what my annoying mom is up to" Rebecca said going into the building.
So she went up to the floor that her mom was staying in and went into the room to see something that she would have never expected.
"Yo mom, you still here? Stop callin' me, you're the one who kicked me out so don..." Rebecca said looking at a soul when she entered the room.
"Rebecca?" she asked.
"Yeah mom it's me. What did ya need me for? I don't have any money to give you, and your dead right? You look like you're a soul now. So what's the point of me coming here?" she asked as she was very cold with her mother.
"I wanted to see you. How are you doing darling?" asked the soul.
"What? Since when have you cared about me? And don't call me darling you whore"
"But sweetie, I missed you"
"Who are you? You're not mom, geez" she said turning to her shinigami form.
"Go wait it the lobby Su" (the modified soul's name).
"Alright" Su replied.
"Oh, so I see that you're a shinigami?" said the soul.
"Yeah, what about it? If you don't explain who the hell you are I'm gunna kill you" Rebecca warned.
"Oh? You would kill your own mother?" it asked.
"You're not my mom, and besides. What has mom ever done for me huh? She kicked me out when I was 15, and I somehow had to find a job at the age of 9 or she would have beaten me" she said looking both sad and angry.
"I've never had a mother. Now die imposter" she said leaping at the soul disguised as her mother.
"Well that's no fun, I guess I can't mentally torture you then if you hate your mother that much. What about your father?" the soul asked.
"As if I would tell you!" she yelled as she swung her sword at the soul possessing her mother's form.
The soul had turned its right arm to its original hollow form.
"Well if you're not aware, your mothers dead. I killed her. Along with your father" it added.
"Liar."
"Hmm?"
"You're wrong, he died in a car wreck when i was 6"
"Yes, well I mean his soul. You see once he became a wandering soul on earth, I watched him get eaten by a hollow" it said.
"What?"
"That's right. Now, show me those emotions so that I can kill y. . ." it said before falling over dead.
"Shut up. You and my mom" she said as she watched the impersonator of her mother and the killer of her father fall over dead. She had stabbed it in an instant.
"Dad" she said with her sword still drawn.
As night grew on, Rebecca stayed in the room that her mom had died in a year earlier at the hotel. She now had no family left that she knew.
"If you see dad, tell him I love him" she said before leaving the room.
So Rebecca went back to Japan after a long night.
When she got back to Inoue's house all of the lights were off.
"Good, I guess they went to bed" she said to herself.
As she tried to open the door, she noticed that it was locked.
"Aww man, they locked it. Guess I'll just have to pick the lock" she said grabbing a piece of metal from her pocket.
"Hehe, good thing I always keep this handy" she said now picking the lock.
Once she had picked the lock, she went inside. Suddenly she was hit in the head with a broom.
"Oww! Geez, what the hell was that for?" she said now sitting on the ground looking up at Byakuya.
"Sorry Rebecca. I thought you were a burglar" he said.
"Sheesh, well if it were a burglar you could have just used you sword and sliced them to bits" she said.
"That would be a little harsh though" he said.
"Dude, it's called sarcasm. -sigh- Oh well, no use fighting over it now" she said. "Let's head off to bed."
"How did it go with your mother?" asked Byakuya.
"Hmph. Come to find out she's been dead for about a year now. Some stupid hollow took form of her body to try and kill me" she said still sitting on the floor.
"Well did it turn out okay?" he asked.
"I guess you could say that" she said.
Rebecca was talking in a voice different than her normal way. She was noticeably sad about something, although it was not her mom.
"It's okay Rebecca. It's all over now" Byakuya said patting her head and helping her up.
"Yeah, thanks" she said.
"We have to go to school tomorrow right? You should get some rest."
"Yeah. Thanks Bya, you're pretty cool" she said smiling.
"(She's adorable, like a little puppy dog)" he thought.
"Well, goodnight" he said walking off to his room.
"Night" she said.
Rebecca walked into the room where her and Inoue were staying. There were two futons laying side by side, and in one Inoue was sleeping.
She got into bed completely exhausted and covered her eyes with her arm.
"Hm, you know what it's like to have no parents don't you" she said looking over at Inoue who was sleeping.
Just as she had said that, Inoue suddenly talked in her sleep.
"No, don't eat the banana! It has a mustache!" she yelled in her sleep.
Rebecca stared at her for a moment, and then burst into laughter.
"What the hell? I'm so gunna tease you about this in the morning!" she said still laughing.
Rebecca calmed down and looked over at Inoue.
"(Hm, you're a lot girlier than me aren't you?)" she thought randomly.
Rebecca then put in her headphones, turned on her music, and drifted asleep ready for the next morning.
END OF CHAPTER 9