Again, sorry for the long wait. I've been pretty taken up by the back-to-school period, but now everything is turning back to normal, so I've started translating again.

I don't know at what rate I'll be able to publish but I'll try doing it as soon as I can, now that I'm getting used to it translating's become easier. I have many chapters to catch up anyway.

So, here is the fourth chapter of What Her Heart Wishes, English version! Have a nice time reading.

"Say, do you want to come have lunch with us?" proposed Ichigo as Lisbeth stood up from her desk after the bell had rung.

The brunette with red strands of hair hesitated, but even if she had been hanging out with Ichigo and his friends for a whole month, while she had arrived two months ago, she still didn't really want to enter the group, protecting as much as she could her classmates by not revealing to them the existence of Hollows. Even if she liked them a lot, she couldn't force them to share her problems. The only one to whom she confided in was the young man she had met shortly after she moved in, Uryu. She had discovered, much to her surprise, that he was a friend of Ichigo's, and since then they had gotten closer. The young man had tried to discover what she knew exactly, but also what she was, which would always disturb Lisbeth, who had no idea. He had briefly explained to her what were Soul Reapers, Quincy and Arrancar, as well as Visored, and humans with high reiatsu, but he wasn't able to determine which group she belonged to, even if she didn't care. She was dangerous for those who did not see Hollows, that was the only thing that she was truly aware of.

She ended up accepting Ichigo's proposition and followed him to the roof where the whole group gathered to eat lunch. She greeted Orihime and Tatsuki, who were already there, and went to sit a bit to the side, before taking out the bento Tessai had made. The others arrived one by one, but something caught the brunette's attention. There was something odd in her acquaintances' reiatsu... It seemed... different. She shrugged, telling herself she was tired, but she wasn't the only one who had noticed it. Because while she was going home, Uryu caught up with her and asked if she too had felt the change in their friends. She nodded, intrigued, especially seeing her friend worried.

"Uryu... You're not hiding something from me, are you?"

He denied her claim, even if the Quincy was angry at himself for not explaining her more clearly what he was... As well as their group of friends, but he didn't trust her completely yet. Also, she was always very mysterious concerning her family, she had insisted on people calling her by her first name, refusing to convey her last name. She almost never talked about her past, and he had the feeling that seeing Hollows was not only usual to her, but that she had grown used to it. Even Kurosaki had taken a while. But her no, like if she saw those monsters since such a long time that it had stopped surprising her. He insisted on escorting her to her house, so as to make sure she was safe, but she politely refused.

"You noticed the disturbance of reiastu Ichigo has?" she asked to change the subject, feeling that the boy wouldn't go on about her powers, like always. Although she did hide the monster that was in her from him...

"Yes and no... I would've liked to ask him about it, but I'm not sure I'd have enough tact to get anything out of him..." he answered.

"You should try you know, he respects you a lot. Do you want us to stop by his house? Even if I have no idea where he lives," she said a little embarrassed, sliding her hand onto the back of her neck and sticking her tongue out.

The boy sighed, before grabbing her sleeve. He didn't really want to leave her all alone, he had a bad feeling.

"I'll show you," he grumbled, pushing his glasses up his nose.

He soon reached Ichigo's house, Lisbeth right behind him, before sighing, as he felt another reiatsu next to the orange-haired boy.

"Orihime," guessed the brunette next to him. "She was quicker than us," she thought out loud, looking up at the red-glowing sky, before a noise put her on guard.

"Did you hear that?" she whispered to her friend.

He nodded, and they scrutinized the town and buildings around them, until he pointed her a man with a white shirt and trousers on a power line. They glanced at each other.

This wasn't normal, or at least not for a human being. The stranger suddenly jumped away, green sparkles under his feet, and Lisbeth's eyes widened in surprise. It was just like the Fullbringers of Devil's Game. Like Haruka. That was not a good sign.

"Stay here," ordered her Uryu, before leaping after the man.

She tried stopping him, but she barely managed to brush his sleeve before he used a similar technique to follow, now she was sure about it, the Fullbringer. She started running, keeping her gaze on them, trying to stay at the same level as them. But suddenly the man turned to face Uryu, and another man, sword in hand, appeared in her sight, and she shouted to alert him. But too late. Uryu got hit by the sword and fell to the ground. She ran towards him, before one of the men, the one who had slashed at her friend, stepped down in between her and the boy lying on the ground, a pool of blood spreading from underneath him.

"I'm sorry, you weren't expected, but I cannot let you speak."

The sword came down on her before she had the time to defend herself, and everything went black around her.

Kisuke's head shot up when the telephone rang. He stood up grumbling, before picking up the receiver.

"Urahara shop, what can I do for you?"

"Urahara, since when do you have a daughter?" exclaimed a voice on the wire, one that he knew well.

"Ryûken, she's sixteen years old, so since sixteen years I'd say... even if I only learned about her existence a little more than two months ago, why? And how do you know about her?"

"She was attacked near Kurosaki's, and my son too, they were probably going home together... I don't know what happened, but she is severely hurt. You need to come. Urahara?"

The former Soul Reaper clenched the receiver in his hand, close to crushing it. Who? Who could of possibly hurt her daughter? True, he was doing all he could to keep her at a distance from him, but it was above all to protect her... He could not deny he liked her, and she was a clever opponent at shogi, that was a nice change.

"Very well, I'm coming," he answered drily, before hanging up.

A shadow rose up behind him.

"What are you going to do? Between the Soul Society that's starting to put their noses into my son's business, Ginjo's return and this attack, your daughter is no longer safe in Karakura. If ever the Soul Society discovers her... You said yourself that there were great chances of her being able to see Hollows.

The blond sighed, pulling his hat over his eyes.

"Really Isshin, I don't know, I don't know... I'm first going to go see her, I'll improvise after, it usually works," he said, shrugging, before leaving.

The former Soul Reaper watched his colleague go, his shoulders bent. The blond could say what he wanted, he had taken a liking to the girl, and would do anything to keep her away from the Soul Society. But like father, like daughter... There were high chances that the girl had inherited some specific traits from her father, like his own children.

Kisuke would not be able to lie to his daughter and the Soul Society forever.

Ichigo barged in Uryu's room, worried, while Orihime was already there. The Quincy, behind the curtain that kept his intimacy, was grumbling about the young girl telling him, before they heard voices rising in the room next door. They recognized the voice of their friend Lisbeth, but even more surprising... Urahara's. They fell silent, and eavesdropped even if unintentionally the argument in silence, astonished, as Ryûken came into his son's room.

"Since when do you care about me?! Like if I didn't know you considered me as a burden!"

"Calm down, Lisbeth, you've barely left the operating block..."

"But I don't care! All I notice is that you're only worried about me when it suits you or that you don't have the choice! Go away, I don't want to see you!"

"My daughter..."

"I FORBID YOU TO CALL ME THAT WAY! ONLY MOM HAD THE RIGHT TO!" yelled the young girl, before sobs were heard through the wall. "Go away," she repeated in tears, "go away."

They heard the door slam, and clogs echoing in the metallic corridor.

Ryûken spoke first.

"To be attacked and both left for dead... Yet you still have enough energy to contradict adults, frankly you resemble each other."

"Left for dead?" noticed Ichigo. "Uryu, who attacked you? Uryu, tell me who it was? Who dared? Tell where and how it happened!"

The Quincy asked him not to get involved, before lying. He didn't remember. He couldn't let Ichigo, without powers, deal with this case. He hoped that Lisbeth wouldn't say anything. His father, along with Ichigo and Orihime ended up leaving, until his father's angry shouting echoed from the room next door.

"Where has this foolish little girl gone? Does she really want to die or something?"

Uryu froze. Between the fact of learning that Lisbeth's father was Urahara or that the girl had vanished to who-knows-where while being badly injured... He didn't know what irritated or worried him the most.

Except there was one thing the Quincy was wrong about. Lisbeth was not badly injured... or at least wasn't anymore. The wound had already practically closed up, and she could nearly hear the little mocking disembodied voice in her mind laugh and make fun of her.

"For once you are pretty glad I'm here to save your life... Once again."

The brunette gritted her teeth, and hurried to go back to her domicile, coming in through the window. She felt her father's reiatsu, and quickly hid her own so he wouldn't notice her. She packed her things quickly, before going through the window again and heading for the train station. She could no longer bare lying not only to her friends, but also to her father. That was what had triggered the quarrel just now, well, when she had reproached him of only worrying about her when it was necessary. He could worry about many things, she knew he was well aware of her lone night trips, however he had never stopped her, while this time it was still daytime and she had been with a friend, and he had dared to lecture her about it. Her heart ached, she had hoped that this silly guy would be able to do his fatherly duties, giving her a second home as her mother was dead... But he had done nothing of the kind, and now she was tired of it. So much that she had decided to join Devil's Game. At least they took good care of their members... And she would be able to ask questions about the two men who had attacked them. One of them was a Fullbringer, she was ready to bet.

She took a ticket at the counter, despite the time she'd need to wait, there wasn't any train for her town before dawn, which was in a few hours, and took out her phone to send a message to Haruka.

«I'm coming back. Tell Devil's Game that I've changed my mind.»