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She led Jushiro out of the park and towards the small clinic down the road. She helped out at the clinic often when the hospital didn't need her help. The man that ran the clinic was a bit eccentric, but his daughters were always nice.

They rounded a corner and Sakura sighed in relief. The lights were still on. "I'm going to warn you. You may find the doctor a little weird at first. But he's a good man. And a good doctor." Sakura opened the glass door and looked around. "Yuzu-chan? Karin-chan?"

Jushiro looked around the small clinic. It was small, but it seemed to be running very well. He caught sight of a blond haired woman walking our from a side door into the entrance. She looked to be a little older than Sakura.

"Sakura-chan! It's so good to see you. And not good. What's wrong?" The woman hugged Sakura tentatively.

"I'm fine Yuzu-chan. Can you take a look at Jushiro-kun for me?" Sakura disentangled the girl from her neck.

Yuzu turned to the white haired man curiously. "Sure. This way to the back." Yuzu led them both to the back and got them settled in a room. Yuzu began checking over the man once he had sat down. She had him hocked up to a blood pressure machine with a pulse monitor in under a minute. "This goes under your tongue." Yuzu placed the thermometer under his tongue and held it there till it beeped.

Jushiro was surprised how touch she could do at once. 'A woman's ability to multitask.'

Yuzu pulled the thermometer out once it beeped. She wrote down the number on her clip board. "Just relax. How long have you been feeling unwell?" She checked his throat as she asked and moved to his ears while he answered.

"Most of my life. I've had an illness since I was child. None of my families doctors could figure out what was wrong." Jushiro didn't understand what she was doing. But he let the healer work.

"What are your symptoms?" Yuzu bagen unhooking him from the blood pressure machine and recording the numbers.

"Coughing, sometimes with blood and sometimes without. Chest pains. Trouble breathing at times. I get tired really easily and can't be out in the sun for too long either." Jushiro was surprised the woman wasn't freaking out. Most everyone freaked out when he explained his illness.

"Sounds like a serious case of pneumonia to me. Leaned toward a bit. I'm going to listen to your lungs." Yuzu pulled a stethoscope out of a drawer. "Sakura-chan, can you tell Oto-san to come here? I'm going to do a blood draw as well. That way we can make sure it hasn't gotten into your blood. And if it has, then we can fully treat it."

Sakura nodded as she headed out of the room. "Okay. I'll be right back."

"Can you take a deep breath for me?" Yuzu had slid the stethoscope on the man's back. She frowned as she heard gurgling with his breathing. "So what is a shinigami doing in Karakura town? Onii-chan said he would be the only one sent out here."

Jushiro looked at the woman behind him. "What makes you think I'm a shinigami?"

"Onii-chan said shinigami have ribbons coming from their hearts. You have a red ribbon." Yuzu replaced the stethoscope and wrote more things down on the clip board. "I've only recently been able to see them, but I can see them more easily than Karin and Onii-chan."

"Who are you?" Jushiro though the names were familiar, but he couldn't place them. "Who is your Onii-chan?"

"So who have we got here?" Jushiro looked towards the door to the room. His jaw dropped at who he saw. "Long time no see, Ukitake-san." Isshin smiled at the face his friend was making. "Yuzu, you can go get some sleep. I've got this guy taken care of."

"Okay." Yuzu handed her dad the clip board as she walked out of the room.

"Shiba-san?! Isshin Shiba?!" Jushiro was stunned. The man had been named dead for years. And there were rumours that he had helped to defeat Aizen, but he never believed them.

"You look like you've seen a ghost, Ukitake." Isshin laughed at his own joke. "So Unahana-Taichou still doesn't know what's wrong with you. And here is my daughter diagnosing you with pneumonia in five minutes. I think it's a good thing she doesn't know where I live. She just might skin me."

"Unahana Retsu is dead." Jushiro dropped his eyes. It had been almost ten years since Unahana had died during the Quincy War. It still hurt him a bit to think about her.

Isshin punched himself mentally. "Sorry to hear that. Let's get you set up. Even though you're in a Gigai, your blood will still be the same as if you weren't in one. Urahara has improved the Gigais a lot." Isshin set up all of the equipment. He frowned as he searched his pockets. "Dang it. Forgot something."

"What did you forget?" Sakura leaned on the door frame. She was surprised Yuzu wasn't helping her father. "Want me to get it for you?"

"No, no. I'll grab it. Can you prep him for a blood draw? You can poke him if you want." Isshin smiled as blush spread across the girl's cheeks.

"I'm not trained for that. I'm scared I would break something." Sakura liked helping, just not stuff like that. Despite how much she loved helping in hospitals, she was scared of the sight of blood. "I'll get him ready for you."

"Okay. Be right back. Don't try to do anything inappropriate." Isshin ducked out of the room before a clipboard hit his face. The girl had good aim and a strong arm.

Sakura fumed as she walked to the door and picked up the clipboard. Isshin really pushed her buttons at times. She returned it to the desk and gave Jushiro an embarrassed smile. "Sorry about that. He's always like that whenever I help out with male patients."

"At least he hasn't lost his sense of humour." Jushiro laughed thinking of the thigs Isshin and Shunsui had talked about over sake. They had, of course, dragged him along with them.

"You know him?" Sakura was surprised. She knew Karin and Yuzu spoke about seeing ghosts, but she didn't think Isshin could.

Jushiro sat back as Sakura probed his arm for a vein. "Yeah. A long time ago."

Sakura nodded as he spoke. She smiled as she found a vein. "There is one. So Isshin is going to poke a needle right there. And then we can get a good blood sample." Sakura looked to see how many tubes Isshin had brought with him. "And by a tube count, about six tubes of blood. Have you had much experience with needles?"

"I've had to be on an IV more than a few times." Jushiro didn't mind needles as much, but he didn't enjoy them.

Sakura smiled a bit as she saw the small amount of discomfort on his face. "Hopefully we can get you off of that IV for good."

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