Chapter 12
By: Tomatopiranha
Writers note: Hellooo :) another chapter comin up for ya! Sorry bout' the longish wait for the last chapter :( i broke my iphone and i had to wait until it started working till I could keep writing. (thts because I usually do all mu writing under my desk in math and history class) so yeah. Hope u enjoy!
"Rebecca!" Matsumoto said clinging to her from behind.
"Kyaa!" she yelled falling backwards as Matsumoto was hanging from her neck.
"Oh hey Matsumoto! Why are you here?" asked Rebecca now sitting on the ground outside of Inoue's house.
Matsumoto had come to tell Rebecca that it had been two weeks since she came to the living world and that she could come back to soul society now.
"I came to tell ya that it's time to come back to soul society now" Matsumoto said.
"Oh yeah, I guess it has been two weeks" Rebecca said standing up. "I'll head back in the morning."
"Hai" Matsumoto said jumping up.
"Oh, but first you have to help me think of something that I should bring back to Kira as a souvineir" Rebecca said.
"Alright! I was going to go shopping anyways while I am here, so I'll come with ya" Matsumoto said. "And by the way do you have a place where I can crash at tonight?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure that Orehime will be fine with you staying over since we are leaving tomorrow."
"Oh, I know her! I've actually stayed at her place before" Matsumoto said as they were walking up to Inoue's house.
"Hey Orehime, Bya! I'm home" Rebecca said as she walked in the door.
"Hey Rebecca, who's Bya?" asked Matsumoto walking into the door.
Byakuya then walked out of his room and over to Rebecca.
"Welcome home" he said to Rebecca.
"Waah! Kuchiki-Taicho, what are you doing here?" asked a very surprised Matsumoto.
"What do you think I am doing? I was here to help with the mission" he said with a blank expression while talking to Matsumoto.
"Oh? And you two are staying at the same house huh? What did you two lovebirds do? Just to let you know Rebecca is mine" Matsumoto said joking around and hugging Rebecca.
Rebecca then turned pale and started coughing. The rage of coughing led to her choking up blood.
"Oh my god! Did I just make you cough up blood! I'm so sorry Rebecca!" Matsumoto said franticly releasing her grip on the new adult.
"Oh no, it's not because of you. Don't worry" Rebecca said looking up at Matsumoto as she sat on the ground after Matsumoto had let go of her.
"B-But you just coughed up blood!" Matsumoto said.
"Actually, this is better than it was before thanks to Bya" Rebecca said to her.
"Huh? What the hell happened? You seem really sick or something" she said.
"Well we don't know exactly what's wrong with me, but since I have become a shinigami I have been getting huge migraines and it got worse. I was getting them almost once or twice a day, but apparently Bya has healing powers. So he helped as best as he could, and I don't get them anymore, but I'm just sort of sickly now. I'm sorta like Ukitake now. I'm gunna ask fourth squad when we go back, so don't worry" Rebecca said smiling.
"Oh? That really nice of ya Kuchiki-Taicho" Matsumoto said.
Since the amusement park, Byakuya and Rebecca were now closer than they had been before.
"Oh and Bya, me and Matsumoto are going out to the mall later, do you wanna come?" asked Rebecca.
"(Hm, Matsumoto is coming? I'm not sure how that would turn out with me being there, I don't really know her at all, it might make things a little awkward for Rebecca and I don't want that)" Byakuya thought.
"I'm sorry, but I have to get some work done before I return tomorrow. I would like to go but I can't" he said.
"No prob, I understand. I was just gunna get Kira a souvenir is all" she said.
"(Kira? Why is she getting one for Kira? Well I guess he is her vice, but still. I would feel better if she was getting something for a girl)" he thought.
"By the way Bya, where is Orehime? Is she out?" Rebecca asked.
"Yeah, she is out with that Tatsuki girl" he said.
"Oh, okay. Well, let me go get dressed into my normal clothes before we go" Rebecca told Matsumoto.
So Rebecca stood up from the floor and walked to her room where she got dressed. She then came out ready to go.
"Let's go Matsumoto. Cya later Bya" Rebecca said walking to the door with Matsumoto.
So the two shinigami girls went to the mall leaving Byakuya at home. Of course Matsumoto went crazy shopping. Rebecca had decided on a gift for Kira and got him a rice cooker (to make up for breaking his) and a random bobble head. After Matsumoto and Rebecca had been shopping for a while, they stopped for some food at the food court. After eating they continued shopping, and Rebecca ended up buying much more than she had thought she would thanks to Matsumoto. After three hours of shopping the two went home barely able to drag their bags with them. They walked up to the door, and noticed that the door was locked. Because of all the bags, Rebecca could not pull out the key or knock on the door with her hand. So she banged the door with her head. Byakuya opened the door to see Rebecca on the ground rubbing her head.
"Rebecca?" he asked looking down at her.
"Bya, I think I bruised my brain" she said.
"You hit the door with your head didn't you?" he said.
"Man, you know me to well Bya" she said chuckling standing back up.
"Aww you two are just to cute! You should date" Matsumoto said shrieking.
"Well, it wouldn't do us much good today since we're busy with lottsa work since we are goin' back tomorrow. -sigh- I hate paperwork" Rebecca said walking in taking the mountains of bags in.
"Umm, what's with all the bags? Those aren't all for Kira are they?" asked Byakuya.
"Oh, is Kuchiki-Taicho jealous of Kira?" said Matsumoto.
"No" he replied.
"Haha, their not all for Kira. I sorta splurged a little buying souvenirs for a bunch of people" she said.
"Oh, I see" Byakuya replied.
After a little while, Inoue came back with Tatsuki.
"Hey guys" Inoue said walking in the door.
"Hey Orehime" Rebecca said. "Matsumoto came and said that we are goin' back to soul society tomorrow" she said walking over to Inoue.
"Oh? Well than we'll have to have a big dinner tonight then!" Inoue said. "Matsumoto,Tatsuki, want to stay the night?" asked Inoue.
"Sure" they replied, even though Matsumoto had already planned on staying.
So as it ended up, Matsumoto, Rebecca, and Inoue made a large dinner. After Byakuya and Tatsuki managed to choke down dinner with the others, everybody showered and watched TV. It was a fun night for all of them, it seemed as if it was sort of a leaving party for Byakuya and Rebecca. After a few hours of having fun almost everybody fell asleep.
It was then 2:33 in the morning, and Rebecca was still awake after she thought everyone had fallen asleep.
She was feeling a little claustrophobic stuffed in the living room with four other people, so she went outside to get a breath of fresh air.
As she got up, Byakuya was just about to fall asleep when she heard her get up. He was curious to see what she was doing, so he watched as she walked out the door.
"Ahh, this feels great" she said as she walks outside of the stuffy house to the brisk, cool air.
She stretched her arms and decided to go sit on the roof since it was a nice night. So she went up to the roof and as she sat down she saw something. It was the gate from Huendo Mundo opening.
She sat quietly and watched as an allancar walked through the gate and it shut behind him. Rebecca quickly switched to her shinigami form once the gate closed, hiding her reiatsu so that it would not notice her.
It stood for a moment, than it headed off to the park where there was a little soul child. Rebecca used her lightning step to get there way before he did, and she brought the child somewhere safe. After she had done that she appeared at the park to greet the allancar.
"Who are you" it asked.
"I'm Rebecca. Any last words before you die?" she asked.
"Hm, yeah like, that's never going to happen" it said back.
The allancar was very big, and was a dark red head with skin as white as Rebecca's before it had gotten sunburned.
"Well then, if that's all you have got to say than fine. I'm still going to kill you" Rebecca said.
"I don't think so kid. You're a wimp, a punk, and a kid. And kids can't beat big men like me" he said flexing his muscles.
"Don't call me a damn kid! What the hell! I'm 18 now, an official adult! Geez ya old geezer" she said back now pissed.
"Old geezer?" it yelled back.
Rebecca smirked as she had just found out what annoyed the allancar.
"Yeah, that's right! You're so old that we could put you in a museum" she said taunting it. "And look at that skin, old and wrinkly. While mine is like a baby's, soft and not old."
"Okay, your dead now" it said as it growled and released its sword.
The allancar then turned into what looked like a giant rock, and fell to the ground. The rock like thing shattered into pieces and the allancar emerged from it.
"Let's just see you dodge this with your lousy shunpo!" he said as his power was similar to Byakuya's instead his was with little bits of metal, not cherry blossoms.
Rebecca appeared next to the allancar while seemly still standing in the same place she was before.
"W-What? I didn't know that shinigami had a sword that could make them duplicate! That must mean that the you over there isn't the real one, that's why it looks like I'm cutting you but I'm not" it said panicking as more seemly illusions of Rebecca appeared around him.
"Nope, your wrong bud. I am me, all of me is one. I'm just movin' a tad fast is all" she said smirking. "Though third squad is the one that deals a quick judgment, sometimes it's a little fun to play. Tell ya what, I'll give you a choice. You wanna play with me and have a long painful death, or a swift one?" she asked slightly smirking.
"You bitch!" I'll kill you!" he said as he tried to hit Rebecca.
"Aww, guess oldie doesn't want to play. Oh, well. Goodbye then" she said then stopping.
Rebecca had stabbed the allancar through the skull and returned back in place.
"Hah, piece a cake! -cough-" she said as right after she said that she coughed up blood.
"Haha, woops" she said laughing at herself.
Byakuya then came from the line of tree's into the park where Rebecca was at.
"Oh, Bya! What are ya doin' here?" she asked as she had thought he was already asleep.
"Oh well I heard you get up so I wondered if everything was alright" he said.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about it, I just killed another allancar. No biggie really" she said walking over to him.
"Does no biggie leave blood coming from the side of your mouth?" he asked.
"Oh, that wasn't because of him. Don't worry" she said. "Ya know, I'm really glad that you helped to try and heal me. Even though it didn't do much, it still helps. I mean I would rather be sick all the time than having big migraine and passing out once or twice a day" she said.
"You still have them?" he asked.
"Yeah, and they last a bit longer too, but they are a lot milder" she said. "I wonder what's wrong with me? I mean it can't be a normal sickness, and it started when I became a shinigami. I wonder what it is."
Byakuya walked closer to Rebecca and wrapped his arms around her.
"(W-W-What is this)" she thought blushing.
"Rebecca, I felt immense pain when I first lost my wife. It was devastating to say in the least. I didn't know what to do until I found Rukia. She was the one who kept me going after that. Though she was there for me, I still missed my wife. Then, there was you. I felt the same way for you that I did for my wife. I will not go through that much pain again. I will not anything happen to you, I will not let this sickness kill you like one did my wife. I will not let you go" he said wrapping his arms tighter around Rebecca.
"I know that you have been through a lot. I know the pain of losing a loved one. Trust me, I loved my father like no one else. Though, sometimes you have to let go of the past. Keep movin' forward. Thanks for carin' for me Bya, it really means a lot" she said also hugging him.
The two stayed inlocked in each other's arms for a minute, and then Rebecca spoke up.
"Why don't we head back before anyone noticed that we're gone" she said smiling at Byakuya.
"Okay, but first you've got some stuff still on your face" he said wiping her face with his large hand.
"Gack! Hey, I'm not a kid ya know, I can wipe my own face ya know" she said backing up.
"But it's bugging the hell out of me" he said still trying to wipe off her face, because of his mild ADD it actually did bug him.
"Ahh, no Bya" she said laughing and running away.
"But I need to get it! It'll drive me mad on the way back" he said playfully running after her. It was the first time he had done that with anyone since he was a child. His inner self just seemed to slip by when he was with Rebecca. His temper, his playfulness, and of course his usual cool self which he was very proud of.
After the two had calmed down they walked back home in a very good mood.
When the two got walked in the door, they found three girls staring at them from behind the couch.
"Umm, what are you guys doing?" Rebecca asked.
"Well, we waiting for you to lovebirds to comeback. I woke up when I heard Kuchiki-Taicho walk out the door, and I didn't see you here either. So I knew that you two were having a date, so I woke up Orehime and Tatsuki and told them that we needed to spy on you, but they didn't want to invade your time. So, how was it? Did you two make out? Oh my god! Don't tell me your pregnant Rebecca!" Matsumoto shrieked joking around.
"What the hell Matsumoto! None of that happened! You pervert, we just killed an allancar!" Rebecca shouted with her face a deep red walking over to Matsumoto.
"Well since when did it take two captains to kill one little allancar? I think something else happened back there that you're not telling me" Matsumoto said smiling.
"Matsumoto! Nothing happened! Sheesh" Rebecca said starting to calm down.
After everything settled down, everybody went back to bed for the night.
"Rebecca.. Wake up Rebecca... Come on we're going to be late" Rebecca heard still dozing in and out of sleep.
Suddenly Rebecca felt something cold touch the middle of her back as she was lying on her belly. She suddenly snapped out of her sleep and jumped up trying to get the cold thing out of her shirt.
"Ieeee!" she yelled jumping around.
As she was jumping, a half melted ice cube fell from her back.
"What the hell was that for?" she said looking down to see Byakuya sitting on the floor by Rebecca's bed.
"You would not wake up, and I don't wish to return late to soul society" he said. "So, I put and ice cube from my drink down your shirt."
"Wow! I didn't know you could do things like that Bya! Haha, I guess this is the inner Bya" she joked around.
"Hm, well. For some odd reason I seem to act a little more.. natural with you. If it inconveniences you I will stop" he said.
"Aww, you're so cute" she said chuckling.
"I don't want to be called cute by someone younger than me" said Byakuya standing up.
"Well I am a grown up now" she said smiling.
"Yes, well. You should go back to soul form and come out so that we can leave. Matsumoto and I are ready to go" he said.
"Okay, I'll be right out" she said walking over to her stuff.
The three shinigami went to their soul forms and Byakuya opened a personal gate back to soul society.
"Cya Orehime, Cya Tatsuki" Rebecca said waving as the door back to soul society shut.
"Bye" they both said.
"Come again" Inoue said.
So the three shinigami went back to soul society.
"It's gunna be nice goin' back to soul society" Rebecca said. "Stayin in my human body is so stiff. Haha, and I'll be able to use lightning step easier" she said.
"Yeah, but once we get there you are going to the fourth squad" Byakuya said.
"Alright, I'll go later tonight if it'll make ya any happier. But I ain't takin' any pills, ya hear" she said to Byakuya.
"Why? Are you scared of pills?" Byakuya said trying to sound funny but failing.
Rebecca crossed her arms and looked away.
"Wait, don't tell me you really are scared of pills?" he said looking at her.
"Hmph, pills are stupid" she said.
"Yeah, pills are stupid. My Rebecca doesn't have to swallow any stupid pills" Matsumoto said laughing and clinging to Rebecca's neck.
"Waah!" Rebecca yelled falling backwards.
As Byakuya turned around to see what was going on, he saw the two girls sitting on the ground. He let out a sigh.
"If we don't hurry we're going to have to make up the work that we missed" Byakuya said.
"Aww, I hate paperwork" the two said standing up.
So they continued their way back to soul society. They saw the gate at the end of the door. Rebecca was starting to feel claustrophobic so she ran ahead of the others so that she would get out first. While she was running, her thoughts started to run off and she dazed off. Before she knew it she had ran into the gate head on. She was not paying attention so she did not notice that it had not opened yet.
"-SMACK-"
Rebecca sat down holding her sore head to see Matsumoto laughing and gripping her stomach as she looked like she was about to fall over. She also saw as Byakuya smiled.
"(His smile is so great. Even though my head is sore, I feel fine with him)" she thought to herself.
Byakuya and Matsumoto walked up to her as she was still sitting on the ground.
"Oh my god Rebecca! That was hilarious!" Matsumoto said laughing.
Byakuya then let his hand down to help Rebecca up.
"Oh, thanks" she said grabbing his hand and standing up.
"You know, the person who entered the gate first has to be so close to it for it to open" he said to her.
"Haha, oops. Guess I should have asked" she said rubbing the back of her head.
So the three of them walked through the gate, and entered soul society.
"Hooray! We're finally back!" Rebecca said.
When they walked through the gate, people had noticed them. Suddenly a crowd of people gathered around them. At first, Rebecca did not know what was going on until she actually listened to what they were saying.
"Smith Taicho is it true that you and Kuchiki Taicho are going out?"
"What did you two do while in the living world?"
"Did you really get Kuchiki Taicho drunk so that you could have him sleep in your lap?"
"Oh my god! That damn bastard at the newspaper place actually printed the picture! He is SO dead!" she yelled.
"Bloom, Senzobakura" Byakuya said as he put his sword in shikai to scare off all of the gossipers.
"Bya! What the hell are ya doing! Stop" she said as it was too late. Byakuya had almost sliced the fans to a million pieces each as they all ran away.
As Byakuya's sword returned to it normal form, Rebecca yelled at him.
"You coulda killed me!" she said as she stood up. She had ducked and put her head down to avoid the flying petals.
"You could dodge it" he said.
"-sigh- Okay okay, just please don't try to slice anyone else" she said.
"Okay" he replied.
"Well then, I'll be off. I'm gunna go see Kira. I'll catch you two later" she said disappearing.
Rebecca appeared in front of her captains room where her and Kira worked. She decided that she would try and surprise him. So she put down her bags and creaked open the door quietly. Kira was organizing books on the shelf behind the desk.
So Rebecca quietly walked in without him noticing and stood behind him. She suddenly pinched his sides, making him yell and jump.
"Bwahaaha! I gotcha good!" she said laughing.
"Rebecca! Your back!" he said happily.
"Haha! You bet I am -cough-" Rebecca said coughing up blood again.
"Holy crap Rebecca! Are you okay! Oh my god! Let me call someone" he said worried.
"No no Kira, I'm fine. You don't have to call anyone" she said wiping her mouth.
"B-But Rebecca"
"I'm fine, I'm going to go to fourth squad later and ask them what's wrong with me. I'll explain it later. Anyways, besides that. I got you a souvenir" she said rushing to her bags outside of the door.
She ran back in with the large bag filled with stuff that she had bought for people.
"Here ya go" she said smiling handing him a rice cooker, a bobble head, and a can of silly string.
"Oh thanks!" he said putting the stuff on the desk.
"No problem" she said smiling. "Hey well I'm gunna go greet people from the squad, then head to fourth squad. I'll see ya later Kira" she said.
"Yeah, thanks"
So she headed off to greet some people from her squad that were walking around. She also went and talked with some of the other captains. After that she went to the forth squad. They did a special check up to see what was wrong.
"Rebecca, we just looked over the reports and it seems that there is nothing wrong" Isane said.
"What? But, then what's with me bein' all sickly?" asked Rebecca chewing on a lollipop given to her by Toshiro.
"Really, I don't know. Sorry. But if you go to Mayuri's place, maybe he could help you" she said.
"Mayuri?"
"Yeah, he's better than us for unknown things like this" she said.
"Okay, thanks Isane" Rebecca said standing up.
"No problem. Hope you feel better" she said as Rebecca disappeared.
So even though she did not want to, Rebecca appeared at the twelfth squad to see Mayuri.
"-sigh- He had better not do any experiments on me" she said to herself walking in.
As she walked in Mayuri was walking through the hall. He noticed her and shunpoed over to her.
"So, are you finally going to let me experiment in you?" he said with a weird smile in his face.
"No, but I do need your help" she said hesitantly.
"Ohh?"
A few minutes later, Rebecca was in Mayuri's testing lab sitting in a chair with multiple tubes connected to her.
"U-Umm, is this safe?" she asked.
"Yes of course it is, probably most likely" he said. "Look, here come the results now" he said looking as a paper came out of a large machine.
"Ohh, very interesting indeed" he said looking at the paper.
"What is it?" she asked.
"I don't know. But it is interesting" he said still looking at the paper. "We can't do anything about it for now, but I might be able to find something out if say, you let me test a few things on you?" he said holding up a bottle of unstable medicine.
"H-ha, well. I think I'll just wait until you find a cure" she said sort of freaked out.
"Fine, suit yourself" he said getting up and leaving.
"Wait before you leave, what is that blue thing on your head?" she asked pulling off the tubes from her forehead.
"What? This thing is my magnificent hair" he said turning away leaving.
"Wow, blue hair?" she wondered as she walked out of twelfth squad.
Rebecca disappeared from twelfth squad and appeared back in her captains room where Kira was.
"Hey Rebecca" he said turning around. "Did you find out what's wrong?" he asked.
"No, but did you know that Mayuri has blue hair?" she said.
"Um yeah, that's sort of a given" he said.
"Oh, I thought it was a hat" she said.
"Haha, a hat?"
"Yeah! A big fluffy hat or something" she said.
END OF CHAPTER 12