My Sunshine, My Strength
Take Me Away

Candice didn't want her in her room, but what stung worse was nobody believing her when she said she found her brother again.

Bambietta sat on her bed sulking as she glared at the far wall. Thoughts passed through her mind as she contemplated blowing up certain parts of her room, but she held back knowing full well this would get her in trouble with the Shinigami. A voice in the back of her head wouldn't stop nagging. "You're worried about getting in trouble with the Shinigami? You walked into the men's bathroom and blew up toilets. I'd call that getting in trouble with the Shinigami."

The door to Bambietta's room opened and her mouth opened up. "Go away."

"Seriously? Are you still mad at me for telling you to go away?"

The violet haired Quincy's head twisted so she could look at the tall female standing in her doorway with her hands on her hips. "What do you want? Did you come here to make fun of me for having invisible friends again?" The smaller female turned her head away and puffed out her cheeks in frustration.

"I want to know how you know this Shiro-chan is your brother."

Bambietta looked at Candice from the corner of her eye. "Why are you now interested? You didn't believe me before."

"I'm curious now because Bazz says he's digging into things. That's not like him. You should know that as well as I do."

The small female turned slightly so she flopped on the bed and spread her limps out wide. "At least he believes me."

"That's not..." The taller female stopped short. "He said something about killing your brother."

The violet haired Quincy sat up. "Are you saying he doesn't believe me? He wouldn't say something like that! He wouldn't do something like that!"

Candice moved into the room to lean up against the wall. "For some reason he believes you enough to doubt he killed your brother."

"That makes no sense. You're just trying to play some kind of game with me aren't you?"

"Do you want to get your brother back from the Quincy or not?" This comment from the older Quincy caused Bambietta's shoulders to hang down, and for the violet haired female to look nervously away. "How do you know it's your brother?"

The violet haired female swallowed before crossing her arms across her chest. "Don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"There's just this..." Bambietta paused for a few minutes. "There is a feeling. I don't know how to describe it. He's my twin though. I think I'd know."

Candice let out a sigh as she pushed herself away from the door. "All right. I honestly don't get it. Let's go see the girls."

"Don't want to."

"Do you want your brother back or not?"

"What do the girls have to do with that?"

"They're going to help us."

"How?"

"Just... let's go meet up. We don't want Bazz-B hearing us."

"Why not?"

"He's mad. He thinks this should be kept hushed up. He's delusional though if he thinks I'm going to let the Shinigami have on more thing."

"You don't care that Shiro-chan is family or not do you?"

"I don't care that you're family either. If he's your twin then he's likely another obnoxious brat like you. My point stands. Are you coming or not? Because I'll do this without you if I have to."

Bambietta pushed herself up from the bed and brushed past Candice. "Fine. Let's go. Gigi can't participate though."

Candice walked behind her as they walked first to Meninas' new home, and then to Liltotto's place. While the first female had no problems meeting up the second wasn't pleased her house was being used as the meeting place. "Why here?"

"We can't meet at our place. Bazz might overheard." The taller light haired Quincy flopped down onto the couch in the living room area while she turned her head to glare at the small kitchen. "Are you really both on your own?"

"It's not as if we have any family."

"What about Cang-Du?" Bambietta piped up as she sat down and crossed her legs in a very unladylike manner.

"Cang-Du?" Liltotto leaned back in the rather large chair. "There was a reason he was executed. The Shinigami should have left him dead. Plus... doesn't he like playing the role of your bodyguard."

"Don't need him to and haven't seen him lately." The violet haired Quincy reached up one hand to twist her violet locks around her finger.

"What exactly are we talking about? Why isn't Gigi here?" Meninas looked around.

"Gigi isn't here because she turned me into a zombie. I'm not exactly pleased with the three of you either as you didn't stop her." Bambietta's violet eyes rolled back into her head. "Plus... Gigi did it to him to."

"What?" Candice turned her head.

"Who?" Liltotto moved to sitting in a position where her legs were crossed.

"Her brother."

The smaller blond took a deep breath. "Bam-bi-chan. I thought we've gone over this with your imaginary friends before. They don't exist."

"Imaginary friends? Why is this the first time I've heard of them? Little kids having imaginary friends is so cute." Meninas picked up a throw pillow from the couch and hugged the pillow to her chest.

"I'm not a little kid. He's not imaginary either."

"Prove it." Liltotto leaned forward into the palm of her hands. Her eyes dulled from utter annoyance.

"Bazz-B believes it to be true." Candice's arms spread across the back of the couch. "He said something about how he'd thought he killed Bambi's brother a long time ago. The Shinigami have him. I'd think you two would want the Quincy to get him back."

The smaller blond let out a sigh indicating her annoyance was growing. "How are we to get him back? Do we even know his name?"

"Shiro-chan." Bambietta blurted the words out.

"We can't go by that!" Liltotto flopped back into the chair and let out a groan. "We need..."

"I know his name. Bazz-B let it slip."

Meninas hugged the pillow tighter. "How will we get him back though?"

A silence fell over the room. Candice raised one eyebrow before leaning forward so her elbows were resting on her knees, and her chin in the palms of her hands. "I want to petition for custody. Since we're family they can't turn me down."

The smaller blond's voice rose suddenly. "Can't turn you down? They certainly can Candice! They're Shinigami after all! They're trying to do anything they can to insult us."

The magenta haired female hugged the pillow even tighter. "We need to do it though. He's one of us."

"Question is how would we go about doing this?"

"Go directly to the head captain to submit some kind of form. Don't let it get bogged down in the mess they're creating for all our requests."

Bambietta's feet suddenly shot out straight before she pushed herself up from the couch to a standing position. "All right. Let's go then."

"Now?" Liltotto's eyes widened.

"Now." Candice pushed herself up from the couch. "You two coming with us or not?"

"I'm coming. I want Bambietta-chan to get her nii-chan back. Or is it otouto-chan?" Meninas continued to hug the pillow.

"He's my twin so nii-chan."

Liltotto rolled her eyes into the back of her head. She stood up and placed her hands behind her head while she followed the other girls. "You guys are crazy."

A few minutes later they found themselves at the first division, and they simply walked into the head taicho's office. A woman stood there and pushed her glasses up. "Why did you just walk into this place?"

Candice ignored the woman and walked over to the head taicho. Bambietta however pushed past her and slammed her hands down onto the desk. "I want my brother."

Kyoraku's smirk deepened as he folded his fingers together. "Your brother."

"You Shinigami brainwashed him to believe he's a Shinigami."

"Excuse me?" The woman pulled her clipboard closer.

Kyoraku waved his hand at the woman. "Don't worry Nanao-chan? I can handle this. I'm not sure what you're talking about."

"You Shinigami..." Candice covered Bambietta's mouth stopping her from talking.

"One of your Shinigami is actually a Quincy. We want him back."

Nanao frowned at the four girls. "You want him back? How do you propose that? You can't make him do something he doesn't want to do."

"This Shinigami's still a child." Candice removed her hand from Bambietta's mouth so she could cross her arms across her chest. "Thus we can claim legal guardianship."

The man leaned back as he looked at the four girls. "Nanao-chan. Can you find the forms?"

The woman's head jerked towards her taicho. "Are you sure?"

"We don't want to strain our relationship with the Quincy."

Liltotto let out a sound of disgust. "What relationship?"

The woman left and brought out the forms. She watched as the girls filled out the forms and handed them back to her taicho before leaving. She watched as her taicho looked at the forms. A frown appeared on his face as he tipped his hat down. "This isn't good."

"What isn't good? This is just some ploy isn't it?" Nanao watched as Kyoraku took something from his desk.

His finger traced down the list. "Basterbine Bambietta. The report on her powers from the fifth and seventh divisions is quite interesting. Her powers are fire based, and her wings of her Vollstandig is like that of a dragon."

Nanao's face quickly paled. "Wait? The Shinigami they're claiming as one of their own? Hitsugaya Taicho."

Kyoraku let the paper touch the desk. "Yes."

"But... he's a Shinigami. His powers are that of a Shinigami."

"It's still possible. Don't ask me to explain how. He doesn't have a clue who his family is."

"What about Rangiku?"

"Don't tell her as of yet. I'm going to be calling a captain's meeting for tomorrow morning. Send out hell butterflies to the remaining taicho, but don't tell them what this is about."