Chapter 13
By: Tomatopiranha
Writers note: Okay people, thanks u so much for readin and reviewing! You are all amazing! I m like SOOO sorry tht i havent updated this in like forever! I havent had the time to and its just crazy! I wrote this and the next chapter a long time ago, and i'm not sure if i can continue because i have like a super major writers block for this! Im sorry for any of you who are actually still reading this at all, if im asked i'll try my best to try and continue! So ya, im like super sorry, thx to all u who r still following! Enjoy! ^.^
"Yo, Toshiro" Rebecca said appearing next to him while he was walking.
Toshiro gasped and stepped back as he was suprised and let out a sigh.
"I told you not to do that" Toshiro said picking up the papers he had dropped.
"Haha, sorry. It's just so funny to see your reaction" Rebecca said.
"So, what do you want?" he asked continuing to walk to his room.
"I got souvineirs for everyone in the living world, your the last person who I have one for" she said holding up a bag.
"Oh? Thanks" he said turning to her.
Rebecca gave Toshiro the bag and he opened it. It was stuffed full of candy and small toys.
"(Man, I'm still getting candy even though Rebecca's here. So much for being treated like an adult)" he thought as Ichigo walked up.
"Hey guys" he said.
"Oh hey Ichico! I didn't know that you were in soul society" Rebecca said.
"Yeah, I'm not doin' much though" he said.
"Oh, then can you help me spy on Bya?" she asked quietly leaning over him.
"Spy on Byakuya?" he asked confused.
"Yes, though we can't talk about it here. Cya Toshiro, enjoy your candy" she said.
So Rebecca grabbed Ichigo's hand and they dissapeared.
"Where are we?" he asked as he appeared somewhere he had never seen.
"We're in my house. No one is here so I can talk to you here" she said.
"Okay, well what do you need?" he asked.
"Well ya see Bya got me something for my birthday, so I want to get him something for his which is comin up. Though I have no idea what he likes or anything" she said.
"So you want me to help you spy on him?" asked Ichigo.
"Exactly! But ya see, Bya doesn't tell any one about his birthday, so don't tell him that you know it's comin up or anything" she said.
"Okay, but if he doesn't tell anyone his birthday how do you know it?" he asked.
"I did research" replied Rebecca.
"Haha, you did research on him?" asked Ichigo trying to supress a laugh.
"Yeah, I do research on anyone I meet" she said. "Including you."
"Me? What do you know about me?" he asked.
"Well, your 16, you live with your family and your mom died when you were little. You saved Rukia from being unjustly executed last year. Your 177 cm tall, and your blood type is A. You are 139 lbs., and your swords name is Zangetsu. Also, you have a hollow side. You also have a slight crush on Rukia and Orehime, though it's nothing you see as desperetly important" Rebecca said. "Need I go on?"
"W-Wow! Thats impressive and weird that you do that with everyone you meet" he said.
He then leaned over to Rebecca and talked in a quiet voice.
"Don't tell anyone about Rukia or Inoue" he said.
"Haha, don't worry! I won't tell your little secret. But, it would help me keep it better if you were to help me spy on Bya" she said smiling.
"Okay okay, I guess I can help ya" he said sighing and rubbing the back of his head.
"Great! Thanks a bunch, ya want a popsicle?" she said walking over to the mini fridge by her bed.
"Yeah!" he said also walking over.
So the two got popsicles and sat down on her bed. Rebecca's house was small for a captains. The only seperate room in her house that had a door was the bathroom, leaving her house open and spacious. She had requested a small living space since she had lived in an apartment almost her whole life.
So the two of them were talking, they were good friends so it was not akward at all. While they were talking they heard a knock on the door.
"I'll get it" Rebecca said standing up leaving Ichigo sitting on the bed still eating a popsicle.
So Rebecca went over to the door and opened it. She opened the door to see Byakuya.
"Oh, hey Bya. Whats up?" she asked.
"Hey Byakuya!" Ichigo said waving his hand with the popsicle from the bed.
"Whats Kurosaki doing here?" he asked.
"Oh, umm. Well nothing much, I just ran into him walking around. So what did you want?" she asked blocking the view of Ichigo from Byakuya.
"Nothing much, just seeing if you were feeling better. But I see that your busy, I'll come later" he said turning to walk away.
"Ah, Bya. We wern't doing anything. Really" she said sticking her head out the door as he walked away.
"(What was Kurosaki doing in Rebecca's house? Did they really just bump into each other walking around. Well, knowing Rebecca she may have actually ran into him. She's not the brightest one. But, what if, by some chance, the two are, say, dating? No. That can't be it. Rebecca would not date Kurosaki, would she? Wait, why do I care? But, I must admit, I don't know how I would deal with the idea that the two are dating)" Byakuya thought walking away.
"I'll meet up with ya later!" he heard Rebecca yell to him from his door.
"-sigh- That sucks" Rebecca said closing the door.
"Whats wrong?" Ichigo said still sitting on her bed.
"I dunno, but I think Bya got jealous that you were in my house" she said sitting on her kitchen countertop.
"Byakuya get jealous?!" Ichigo asked suprised.
"Yeah, it's sorta hard to tell unless you know him really good" she said. "And ya know, Ukitake said that when he was younger he was really short tempered also."
"Wow, I would have never guessed" said a still suprised Ichigo.
So the two kept casually talking for about an hour until they heard another knock at the door. So Rebecca hopped down from the counter and answered the door. It was Isane.
"Oh, heya Isane" Rebecca said.
"Hi Rebecca, Unohana wants me to tell you that he hopes you feel better" she said handing her a box of chocolate.
"Awesome!" Rebecca said taking the box. "Tell her I said thanks a bunch! Oh, and tonight do you want to sleep over?" Rebecca asked Isane.
"Okay! Sounds like fun" she said. "Cya later" she said walking out.
So Rebecca closed the door and then walked over to Ichigo.
"I'm gunna ask her if she knows anything about Bya's likes and dislikes. She's probably been here for a while so she might know something" Rebecca said.
"Thats a good idea" Ichigo said back.
"Hey, well I gotta go run some arrons. I'll catch ya later Ichigo" Rebecca said patting Ichigo's shoulder.
So the two headed out the door and went on their ways. It was Rebecca's day off, so she did not have to work.
After a few hours, Rebecca came back to her house since she had finished running the arrons. She felt bad about what happened earlier with Byakuya, so she decided to go talk to him beore his Isane came over for a sleep over. So she used lightning step to go to his captains office.
Once she got there, she stood outside of the door not sure weather to go in or not.
"(What will I say when I go in there? Hey Bya, sorry about earlier, just forget about it. No. Thats sounds like me and Ichigo actually did something. Damn it! I don't care. I'll just wing it like I do anything else)" she thought.
So Rebecca inhaled and opened the door. To her suprise, she only saw Renji in the room.
"Oh, hey Rebecca. Whattcha doin here?" Renji asked spinning his chair to face Rebecca.
"Oh hey Renji, Bya's not here?" she asked.
"No, he's out right now. Why, ya need ta talk to him or somethin? If ya want I can take a message" he said.
"Naa, it's okay. It's not something that I can really leave a message for" she said.
"What, is it a love confession or something?" Renji said joking around.
"N-No! Thats not it" she said looking at the ground.
"Did you two get in a fight or something? You seem sorta down" he said.
"Well, not exactly. It's sorta long story, but I think he got the wrong idea bout' me and Ichigo" she said.
"Oh I see. Well, if it helps any he said that he was gunna go talk to captain commander about a funds issue or somethin like that" Renji said.
"Really? Thanks Renji! Cya" she said dissapearing.
So Rebecca appeared outside of the door where captain commander usually was. She put her ear up to the door to listen to what was going on. As she listened, she heard Byakuya talking also. So she waited outside of the door so that when Byakuya walked out, she could talk with him.
So Byakuya and the captain commander had finished talking, and Byakuya headed to the door. Rebecca did not hear him walk up to the door so she still had her ear up to it. As Byakuya opened the door it hit Rebecca in the face.
"Etaaa!" she yelled as she sat on the ground with her face in her hands.
Byakuya then closed the door behind him to see Rebecca sitting on the ground with her face in her hands.
"Rebecca?" he wondered looking at her.
"You should walk louder!" she said with her face still buried in her palms.
"I don't know what your talking about. Are you okay?" he asked kneeling over.
"Yeah" she said taking her hands from her face.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
"Well, I really wanted to clear up what happened earlier" she said looking up at him. "Ichigo and I wern't doing anything. I really did just meet up with him at random, so we were just talking since we haven't seen each other in a long time. There is nothing between us at all" she said.
"(Wait, why am I explaining this to Bya? Why do I not want him thinking that I am with someone? Do I, like him or something?" she thought as her face than deeply blushed.
"What the hell am I thinking!" she yelled not knowingly outloud.
Rebecca than noticed that she had yelled that outloud. "Oh, sorry" she said in a quieter voice.
"(What a relief)" he thought.
"Rebecca" Byakuya said.
"Yeah?" she said looking up at him.
"... you should get your hearing checked"
"Wha! Bya, your so cold" she said spreading out her arms exploring the floor.
Byakuya stared down at her for a moment. She looked as if she was searching for something as her arms were searching the floor.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"When the door hit me, my contact came out. I need to find it" she said still groping around the floor.
"You wear contacts?" he asked mildly suprised.
"Yeah, without them I'm almost blind. And whats worse I lost my right eyes contact" she said. Rebecca was now almost completly blind since she had lost her contact, the other one that was in did not help at all since her hair was covering that eye.
"What does it look like? I will help you look for it" Byakuya said.
Rebecca stopped for a moment and looked over in the direction where she saw the vauge outline of Byakuya. She burst out laughing.
"What is it?" he asked.
"You want to know what a contact looks like? Haven't you ever heard of them?" she said chuckling still searching the floor.
"Well, I have heard that you have to put them in your eye" he said.
"Yeah, but their clear. They are like little clear circles" she explained as Byakuya had never seen what contacts look like.
After a few minutes of blindly searching, Rebecca could not find her contact.
"-sigh- I can't find it. Guess I'll just have to go home and get my glasses" she said standing up.
"Will you be okay?" Byakuya asked as Rebecca was staggering.
"Yeah, I'm not blind ya know" she said walking partially sideways.
SMACK
Rebecca had ran into the wall next to a door. She fell down to the ground, sitting and holding her hurting head.
"I told you" Byakuya said walking up to the sitting girl.
"Ouch. Okay, you got me. Can you please help me back home?" she asked looking up to what she thought was Byakuya. She was actually looking up at a statue next to the door.
"You want the statue to help you back?" said Byakuya.
"Wh- This is a statue?!" she said touching it.
"Geez, you really must be almost blind without your contacts" he said holding out his hand to help her back up.
Rebecca could vaugely see Byakuya's hand stretching down to her, so she accepted the offer for help and stood up.
"Okay, so you do know where my little apartment is right? You were just there earlier" she said.
"Yes, I know where it is" he replied.
Rebecca grabbed Byakuya's arm as he led the way to her house.
"Rebecca" Byakuya said.
"Yeah?"
"Why do you not just pull the hair from your other eye so that you can see from that one? Also, why do you have hair covering only one of your eyes. Is it your sense of fashion or something?" he asked as Rebecca was still clinging to his arm.
"Ya want to know why I cover this eye?" she asked.
"Well if its okay with you" he said.
"Okay, but you cant tell any one else okay?" she said turning to face him letting go of his arm.
"I understand" he said also turning to face her.
Rebecca hesitently pulled the blonde hair from her one eye, uncovering it. Her left eye was a bright red color, obviously unnatural to any race of human.
As Byakuya saw her eye, a flash-back came apon him.
It was very many years back, when Byakuya was still a boy.
"Grandfather. Welcome home" he said rushing towards him.
"Hello Byakuya. I heard an interesting story today and thought that you would like to hear it" he said.
It was extreemly rare for Byakuya's grandfather to do this sort of thing, so Byakuya was over joyed.
"Of course grandfather" he said.
"Well, I heard that a long time ago that there was a special being, not known to be human or shinigami. There was only one of this mysterious person, so he was never given a proper name and he wore an eyepatch. At first, the man lived on earth, living his life as a normal human. Though at first he did not notice anything, the man was slowly devoloping power as a living being. This was impossible for something like that to happen. So it was very suspicious. After a while, the man was called by a former shinigami to make a decision weather to stay on earth, or go to soul society where his powers could be used. The man chose to go to soul society, for his powers could then be awakened. As he became a shinigami, his speed was like none other. It was 50 times the fastest shunpo with out even trying. This man had incredible power like none other. After a while though, he started to get sick. Nobody could figure out what it was, and it had started since he had become a shinigami. It progressed for a long time, although as it started to clear up, things turned for the worse"
Byakuya was still in his flashback, he did not want to remember it. It had just come to him.
"Another shinigami than asked the man why he always wore the eyepatch. He showed the other shinigami what was under it. He had a bright red eye. Not possible for any normal being"
Byakuya then noticed that everything that had happened in the old legend had happened the same to Rebecca. He did not try to hide the look of terror on his face. He remembered the end of the legend, though he tried to not think about it. Rebecca is different. I will protect her. The same thing will not happen twice. This is what Byakuya thought not paying any attention to what was happening around him at the time.
"Bya!" he heard as he snapped back into reality.
"Bya, are you okay?!" asked Rebecca franticly as even though she could not really see well, she could tell that something was off with Byakuya.
"Yes, I'm fine" he said looking at her.
"Geez! Ya scared the hell outta me there! Ya didn't answer or anything, was it really that shocking?" she asked.
"No, I was just a bit . . . suprised" he said.
"Really? I thought you wouldn't see it as that much of a big deal. I mean, I just don't show anyone it cause it's embarrasing is all" she said.
Rebecca started rambling on about how when she was younger she had always wondered if the eye had mind reading powers and such, though she was just rambling on to herself as Byakuya started thinking to himself again.
"Oi!" he heard as he felt Rebecca grip his arm again.
"Ya dozed off again. We aren't gunna make it back it ya keep doin' that. I'm havin a sleep over with Isane tonight so I have to get back at some point" she said.
"A sleepover with Isane?" he asked.
"Yeah, why ya askin?" she said.
"Well, it's nothing much. I just heard rumors that she is a very noisy person while sleeping" he said.
"She snores?" she asked.
"Not exactly" he replied.
"Oh well, I'm a pretty deep sleeper, so i'll be fine" she said smiling not knowing the tortures that would be happening later.
After a little bit of walking, Byakuya and Rebecca finally got to her house.
"Thanks Bya, can ya help me find my glasses once we get in?" she asked as they walked up to the door.
"Okay" he said.
So the two walked into the small house.
"Hm, your house is not very big. I thought that they gave other captains bigger ones than this" he said as he had a huge mansion house because of his family position.
"Yeah but I'm used to living in an apartment, so I asked to live in a smaller place" she said.
"I see" he said leading Rebecca over to the couch. As she sat down, he asked her where the glasses were.
"Oh, there over by the sink" she said pointing over to the bed.
"Thats not the sink Rebecca, thats the bed" he said.
So Byakuya walked over to the sink to see where they were sitting. They were at the edge of the sink, so he picked them up and brought them to her.
"Thanks Bya" she said as she slipped on the sleek black and majenta glasses.
With her glasses on, she looked as if she was the total opposite of what she really was. She looked like she was a smart, rich, sweet loving girl that was totally innocent, weak, super generous, and could not hurt a fly.
"I feel like a nerd" she said very bluntly ruining the mood taking a sip of beer.
"They make you look smart" Byakuya said.
Rebecca's bangs were still covering her eye with the glasses on.
"Thanks, but I really do feel like a geek now" whined Rebecca. "Bya! What if they ask me math questions!?" she whined even louder thumping her face into her thighs still sitting on the couch.
"Math questions?" he asked.
"Yes! I wore these in school one day because I was tired and I didn't feel like putting in my contacts. Although in math class, the teacher said that I should come demonstrate how to put pi into something or something. Then he kept making me answer stupid questions that I didn't know!" she yelled as she was getting angry at the thoughts.
"Don't worry. I'll make sure to take care of all the math questions that anyone asks you" he said.
"Thank you so much!" she said jumping up from the couch and hugging him.
There was then a knock at the door.
"Isane!" she said running to the door.
"Hey Isane" Rebecca said opening the door for her.
"Hi Rebecca! How are you doing. . . Kuchiki-Taicho! What are you doing here?" asked a very suprised Isane.
"I was just helping Rebecca get back home. I'll be leaving now" he said walking towards the door.
"Cya Bya! Thanks!" she said waving at him.
Byakuya walked out the door, shutting it behind him. He then went back to his captains room.
"(Hm, I'm in a good mood because of course I was just with Rebecca and she just hugged me. Though I am in a bad mood because of what I remembered. Emotions are very weird things)" he thought to himself shunpoing to his room.
"He helped you get back? What happened?" asked Isane.
"Oh I just happened to lose my contact for this eye, so I was almost blind without it. He led me back home so that I could get my glasses" she said.
"Oh, I see. He sounds more generous than normal. And your glasses look so cute on you" she said.
"Thanks" Rebecca said smiling.
So the two kept on talking for a while. After asking some questions, Rebecca had found out that Byakuya liked the number 7 and he liked to eat grapes.
"Sorry I can't tell you anything more about him. I don't really know him all that well, so it's a little difficult" the tall girl said.
"Nah, it's fine. I just wanted to get something for Bya's birthday" Rebecca said drinking a juice box.
Rebecca and Isane then heard a loud bang on the door.
"I'll get it" Rebecca said hopping up from where she was sitting.
As she opened the door, she saw Renji. Obviously something was up, he did not seem normal.
"Yo Renji, whats up?" she said leaning against the door.
"What did you do to my captain! One minute he is in a great mood, the next he is like a mine field! Taicho is always calm! Something is obviously wrong with him! Didn't you two make up?" he said obviously weirded out by his captains odd behaviour.
"Yeah, we're fine. I dunno why he's like that though. Probably just his 'time of the month'" she said quietly to Renji.
"Huh?! Are you stupid?!" he said.
Rebecca then burst out laughing.
"I just wanted to see your reaction. That was halarious! -cough-" she said still laughing after she had just coughed up blood.
"Dude, your gunna end up killin' your self if ya keep laughin" Renji said.
"Nah, I'll be fine" Rebecca said whiping her mouth.
"Anyways, I dunno why Bya's like that. I'll ask him bout' it tomorrow" she said.
"Okay then. Cya" Renji said.
"Bye" she said closing the door behind him.
Rebecca then went back to her sleepover with Isane. Over the evening they had a fun time, and they ate cup ramen for dinner. Isane had heard rumors about Rebecca's cooking, so she suggested the easy make meal.
After watching a few episodes of the anime Black Lagoon, the two had fallen asleep on the couch. It was a small couch, so the two of them had just managed to stay on it with out falling off, though they were a little cramped they did not mind. (Rebecca had brought a television back from the living world to soul society)
"The number is blue!" Isane yelled suddenly sitting up.
Rebecca had fallen off the couch onto the carpet because of the sudden movement.
"W-What hap-pend?" Rebecca said rubbing her eyes.
"I had a weird dream!" Isane said completly awake now.
"(I guess this is what Bya mentioned earlier about the rumors going around about her being a noisy sleeper)" Rebecca thought rubbing her temples. She yawned and then climbed back onto the couch. "-sigh- Okay then, I guess I'll go back to sleep then" Rebecca said pulling the blanket over the two.
"Good night" Isane said.
So the two went back to sleep, though throughout the night Isane had done the same time two more times.
It was then 12 in the morning. Rebecca heard a knock at the door. She reluctantly stood up and answered the door. It was Kira.
"Hey Rebecca. I was just seeing if you were okay. You don't have your vacation day today, so I thought something might be wrong" he said.
"Huh, why are you so damn happy" Rebecca said with an evil look on her face as an evil aura came around her.
Rebecca was only half awake, and she was in a horrible mood. She was NOT a morning person, and it did not help that Isane kept her up half the night.
"U-Um Rebecca..." Kira said.
"What!" she snapped.
"U-U-Umm, I'll come back later! Excuse me" he said at his evil looking captain.
Rebecca than fell over onto her vice captain.
"O-Oi, are you okay?" he said holding up his captain.
"Please Kira" she quietly said.
"What is it?" he said back.
"I can't stand it here anymore! Let me sleep at your house for a few hours!" she yelled still being held up by her vice captain.
"Okay, but we still have work today" he said.
"I'll work late tonight, but I NEED to sleep" she said rubbing her eyes.
"Okay, lets go then" he said.
"Can you give me a piggy back?" she half mumbled closing her eyes.
"Okay" he said leaning over.
Rebecca than got onto Kira's back. It was harder for Kira to shunpo with her on his back, so he just decided to walk. Almost instantly Rebecca had fallen asleep on Kira's shoulder.
"(Hm, our captain is sorta cute. Ah, its not like I like her or anything. She's just like a little sister cute)" he thought smiling looking at Rebecca asleep on his shoulder.
So Kira carried his captain to his house. They got in and he set her on the bed. As she layed down, she almost instantly curled into a ball in her sleep.
"Guess I should leave a note for her, she probably won't remember what happened" he said to himself looking for a pen and paper.
After Kira had written her a note, he looked over at her. He noticed that she was wearing glasses. Even though he did not wear glasses, he knew that you were not supposed to sleep with them on. So he walked over to her and took off the glasses. When he did that, he saw Rebecca's other eye.
"Wow! Thats so cool!" he said to himself. "So thats why she has her hair like that. Man, I can't wait till me and Rebecca go on a vacation to the real world. It's going to be so fun!"
Kira than sat the glasses on the table close to the bed. He then headed out the door to get back to work. As he opened the door, he saw Hisagi.
"Oh hey Kira, I was just comin' over to see if ya wanna go drinkin tonight" he said.
"Well, I don't know if I can tonight. I'm sorta busy with stuff" Kira sighed.
"Aww, what kind of stuff?" Hisagi said.
Kira turned sideways so that Hisagi could see Rebecca fast asleep on his bed.
"Ah, I see. You and Rebecca were up all night together" Hisagi said chuckling.
"No, it's not like that" he said. "I came to see where Rebecca was this morning and when she opened the door she collapsed on me. She said she was super tired."
"Oh? Why didn't she just sleep in her own house?" Hisagi asked.
"Well she was having a sleep over with Isane" Kira said.
"Ahh, that explains it. Well then, I guess I'll catch ya later" Hisagi said waving and walking away.
"-sigh- I guess it was good that it was only Hisagi who came. What would other people say if they saw this?" he thought.
Kira then looked back at his captain. "Goodnight" he said walking out the door.
END OF CHAPTER 13