"...Three days...I was in that world for three days! How on Earth does that transfer to being a month in the Soul Society?! Seriously, that's just weird. Oh well, can't change it now, now I have to concentrate on my first mission back as Captain. And from the look on Toshiro's face, the huge stack of files in my hands, and my heart beating like crazy, something inside of me tells me that this isn't going to a walk in the park, or fun for that matter. Oh, and to top it off, I'm under strict watch by Aneko, who isn't taking a step towards me since my "evil outburst". Oh, how I missed this place...
December 5th, 2010
2:26 a.m.
OUR WORLD
Madison's Perspective
Madison stairs at her ceiling as she finally gives in after trying to fall back asleep at least 10 times. The ceiling fan is on high, creating a soft wind that blows her bangs back and forth across her face, her only entertainment
at the moment. She looks over at the clock and watches it until is turns to 2:27.
"It's been three days, Toshiro..." she says to herself.
Ever since she got back, she's been on edge about being away from her friends, especially Toshiro, in the Soul Society. Madison has never been the type that likes to make people worry. She liked to see everyone smiling and having a good time. That is why she likes it when her family do stuff together. Vacations, dinner, movie nights, game nights. These are all things that she loves, especially because of the comedy that usually occurs. She turns on her side and sighs.
Suddenly she feels a weird chill run across her body, and holds herself tight to keep her warmth in. Slowly her teeth begin to chatter, a occurance that had never happened before now. The chill turns slowly into a cold wind rushing around her, causing her to pull the covers higher then usual.
"What the heck is-" Madison begins to say through her chattering teeth.
...Madison...
Madison's eyes widen as Toshiro's voice passes her mind. She sits up straight in her bed, noticing the cold wind begin to become warmer. She looks down at her cross necklace that she just noticed looks like the number symbol of Toshiro's squad, and sees a thin layer of ice has formed.
"...Toshiro...the chill...it was his spiritual pressure..." Madison says to herself as she realizes the cause of her uncomfortable experience.
But the situation had a few problems. 1, she had never been seriously affected by his spiritual pressure like she had just been. And 2, how would she feel his spiritual pressure on this side? It was pretty much impossible.
...Madison...can you hear me?...
But that is definitely his voice. Slowly, Madison's heartbeat slows, and for the first time, she's feeling tired. she lays her head square in the middle of her pillow and fights to keep her eyes open.
...What's happening to me?....
It's now that she realizes she can no longer feel her legs and hands. She looks around to see her room fading into a white void, the same that she traveled through last time when her soul was transported to the...
The Soul Society!
Her soul is being called by her body in the Soul Society! That, and Toshiro...
No, he would never be capable of doing that. At least, as well as she knows of course.
Finally the void fully envelops her. She watches as her 3-dismensional body is transformed into her skin from the Soul Society, then her kimono and haori. Her right eye is covered by her bangs quickly and her hair magically is drawn back in her lime green bow. The feel of the clothes makes her smile, glad that she's finally returning after the past three days. She then begins to glow until suddenly all around her is black.
When she reopens her eyes, she finds herself looking up at a white ceiling, with rays of mid-day sunlight shinning through the cracks in the window blinds. She turns to look around to see she's in an all too familiar squad 4 patient room. But, she smiles anyway, because if she is in a squad 4 patient room, it means she's in the squad 4 grounds, which is in the Sereitei, in the Soul Society.
"Yes!" Madison says as she sits up, pushing the covers off, then turns to face the door, now noticing that her hair is down and her bangs are pushed over.
It's now that she remembers her last time trying to get out of the bed. She jumped off and immediately fell. But, Toshiro had caught, then had help her stand up, while looking at her....
She shakes her head as if to shake the awkward memory out of her mind, which still makes her blush. Slowly she presses her feet to the cool, hardwood floor, and, while holding the bed, stands. She feels her ankles give and she falls flat on her butt. Hard.
"Ow!" Madison yelps, as she tries to stand back up.
For about 15 more minutes of tripping, falling, collasping, and total abuse of her butt, she finally gets enough balance to walk across the room without tripping over her own feet to grab her new kimono and haori. As she dresses, she notices a colorful object out of the corner of her eye. She turns and her eyes widen. It's a bouquet of purple orchids, light pink sweet pea, yellow roses, and yellow/orange chrysanthemums, the November birth flower, in a crystal vase with a lime green ribbon tied around it.
"Flowers? Who got me flowers?" Madison says to herself as she walks over to the vase, picking up the card in one hand while wrapping the sash around her belly with the other.
To Yattamori, Wake up soon...
...Toshiro...
Madison feels her cheeks get hot. Toshiro had got these for her? Since when had he been so...caring? She looks back down at the card and sees a P.S. below the short message.
Day 25...
She drops the card. Day 25? She's been gone for more then 25 days?! That's almost a month!
Madison turns back to a small calender sitting on the table with the flowers.
January 6, 2011
Crap! It has been a full month! But in the other world it's only been three days!
She quickens her pace and finishes getting her outfit and hair in it's usual sort, then rushes out the door.
I need to find Toshiro! Or at least Aneko...
It's now that she remembers her incident with Aneko during that weird trance thing during the duel with Kenta. She'll have to apologize as soon as she sees her again. If she wants to see her again that is.
When she rounds the corner, she finds squad 4 members looking at her in shock. As she runs past, she hears them yelling "Captain Yattamori is awake!", "Get Captain Unohana!", "Locate the Head Captain, along with Captain Hitsugaya, and notify them at once!"
As soon as she exits the building, she flashsteps as fast as she can out of there. She senses others following, but they quickly disappear from her thought, her brain only focused on getting to the Squad 10 barricks as quick as possible. When she nears the Squad 10 grounds, she sees a familiar face staring at her from below.
It's Rangiku.
"Yattamori!?" she yells as Madison flashsteps overhead.
Within seconds, she's feet from Toshiro's barricks door. Madison suddenly feels her heart beginning to pound as she walks up the steps to the porch leading to the door ahead. When she comes to stand right in front of the door, she can hear Toshiro pacing inside, making her butterflies even worse. She takes a deep breath and raises her hand to knock on the door.
Suddenly, just before her fist hits the door, it swings open, to reveal Toshiro in an apparent hurry. But when he sees it's her, he freezes in mid-step, staring straight into her eyes.
"Toshiro..." Madison says, breaking the awkward silence.
Toshiro's eyes widen.
"Yattamori...that's really you? You woke up?" Toshiro says, still staring at her.
For no reason, Madison cracks, tears beginning to form in her eyes. It wasn't until now that she realized how much she missed him.
"Toshiro!" Madison yells as she throws her arms around his neck and pulls herself close to Toshiro, who's surprised by her outburst.
She can't see, but he's turning redder then a cherry, embarrassed.
"Ya-Yattamori?!.." Toshiro yells as she begins to cry.
Toshiro's surprised expression turns to a content frown, and he puts his arms around her, still blushing as he does so.
"I know, I missed you too." Toshiro says as Madison stills sobs into his shoulder.
Rangiku appears a distance away and immediately takes to the shad as she notices the scene. She watches, and grins.
"Welcome back, Yattamori..." Rangiku whispers.
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Toshiro's Perspective
Yattamori and Toshiro walk silently together up to the doors of the Head Captain's office. He looks over to see that Yattamori's tears have mostly dried, and her nose and eyes are no longer red from the stinging of the tears falling down her cheeks.
She notices him looking at her and turns her head. Toshiro immediately whips his head, making it more awkward.
"Toshiro...?" Yattamori says.
"What?" he asks.
"I don't get it, why are you acting all nice to me?" she says.
Toshiro stops and turns towards Yattamori, who stopped a few paces behind him.
"What do you mean?" he asks.
She looks up at him and steps closer to stand right in front of him. Slowly she lifts her hand to trace the scar on his right cheek, the same she had created with her blade while under her evil influence. He understands. Yattamori feels guilty about cutting him.
She turns from him.
"I hurt you...and Aneko...and I probably scared most, if not all my squad."
"That wasn't your fault-" he begins.
"Then who's fault is it?! Who made me stab Aneko, and swing at you?! Tell me!" she snaps, causing Toshiro to back up.
"I-"
"Toshiro, something has happened to me. I don't know when, but it did."
"Yattamori, your still you-"
"No, I'm not Toshiro. I'm not that happy go lucky girl who you joked around with when you were a kid. I'm Madison Shecker. A 14 year old who just wants to draw and hang out with friends and be a normal teenager! Yattamori died, I might look like her and have her memories, but I'm not her!" Yattamori snaps.
Toshiro's eyes widen in surprise, and he gasps.
It takes a few moments for Yattamori to register what she just said. She rubs her head with her hands, and pushes her bangs out from in front of her right eye, a rare occurance.
"I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean what I said. I just have all this crap going on in my head and-"
"Yattamori, calm down. It's ok. You don't have to apologize. I understand how you feel right now."
"How?"
"I blamed myself for your death, remember?" Toshiro says as he begins to walk again.
...And I still do...
Yattamori's eyes widen and she walks quick to catch up with him.
"But that wasn't your fault-"
"Let's not talk about this now, alright." Toshiro asks, cutting her off.
She nods as the door opens.
"Yattamori. Glad to see that you've fully recovered." the Head Captain says from behind his desk as they walk in.
"Thanks Grandpa Yamma. Now, why did you call me?" Yattamori asks.
"I have your first assignment for you." the Head Captain says as he hands a file to one of his squad member, who walks it over to her.
"What is it?" Yattamori asks.
"You'll know, trust me." the Head Captain answers.
She turns over the file and her eyes widen as she reads the name on the cover.
"Princess Mahinaheme's location file?!" Yattamori says.
Toshiro's eyes widen in alarm.
"You gave her that assignment again!?" Toshiro yells.
"She was the last one to work on the case and gain any new information, so I only thought it suited her-" the Head Captain starts.
"It's because of this cursed search that Madison died in the first place!" Toshiro yells.
December 5th, 2010
2:26 a.m.
OUR WORLD
Madison's Perspective
Madison stairs at her ceiling as she finally gives in after trying to fall back asleep at least 10 times. The ceiling fan is on high, creating a soft wind that blows her bangs back and forth across her face, her only entertainment
at the moment. She looks over at the clock and watches it until is turns to 2:27.
"It's been three days, Toshiro..." she says to herself.
Ever since she got back, she's been on edge about being away from her friends, especially Toshiro, in the Soul Society. Madison has never been the type that likes to make people worry. She liked to see everyone smiling and having a good time. That is why she likes it when her family do stuff together. Vacations, dinner, movie nights, game nights. These are all things that she loves, especially because of the comedy that usually occurs. She turns on her side and sighs.
Suddenly she feels a weird chill run across her body, and holds herself tight to keep her warmth in. Slowly her teeth begin to chatter, a occurance that had never happened before now. The chill turns slowly into a cold wind rushing around her, causing her to pull the covers higher then usual.
"What the heck is-" Madison begins to say through her chattering teeth.
...Madison...
Madison's eyes widen as Toshiro's voice passes her mind. She sits up straight in her bed, noticing the cold wind begin to become warmer. She looks down at her cross necklace that she just noticed looks like the number symbol of Toshiro's squad, and sees a thin layer of ice has formed.
"...Toshiro...the chill...it was his spiritual pressure..." Madison says to herself as she realizes the cause of her uncomfortable experience.
But the situation had a few problems. 1, she had never been seriously affected by his spiritual pressure like she had just been. And 2, how would she feel his spiritual pressure on this side? It was pretty much impossible.
...Madison...can you hear me?...
But that is definitely his voice. Slowly, Madison's heartbeat slows, and for the first time, she's feeling tired. she lays her head square in the middle of her pillow and fights to keep her eyes open.
...What's happening to me?....
It's now that she realizes she can no longer feel her legs and hands. She looks around to see her room fading into a white void, the same that she traveled through last time when her soul was transported to the...
The Soul Society!
Her soul is being called by her body in the Soul Society! That, and Toshiro...
No, he would never be capable of doing that. At least, as well as she knows of course.
Finally the void fully envelops her. She watches as her 3-dismensional body is transformed into her skin from the Soul Society, then her kimono and haori. Her right eye is covered by her bangs quickly and her hair magically is drawn back in her lime green bow. The feel of the clothes makes her smile, glad that she's finally returning after the past three days. She then begins to glow until suddenly all around her is black.
When she reopens her eyes, she finds herself looking up at a white ceiling, with rays of mid-day sunlight shinning through the cracks in the window blinds. She turns to look around to see she's in an all too familiar squad 4 patient room. But, she smiles anyway, because if she is in a squad 4 patient room, it means she's in the squad 4 grounds, which is in the Sereitei, in the Soul Society.
"Yes!" Madison says as she sits up, pushing the covers off, then turns to face the door, now noticing that her hair is down and her bangs are pushed over.
It's now that she remembers her last time trying to get out of the bed. She jumped off and immediately fell. But, Toshiro had caught, then had help her stand up, while looking at her....
She shakes her head as if to shake the awkward memory out of her mind, which still makes her blush. Slowly she presses her feet to the cool, hardwood floor, and, while holding the bed, stands. She feels her ankles give and she falls flat on her butt. Hard.
"Ow!" Madison yelps, as she tries to stand back up.
For about 15 more minutes of tripping, falling, collasping, and total abuse of her butt, she finally gets enough balance to walk across the room without tripping over her own feet to grab her new kimono and haori. As she dresses, she notices a colorful object out of the corner of her eye. She turns and her eyes widen. It's a bouquet of purple orchids, light pink sweet pea, yellow roses, and yellow/orange chrysanthemums, the November birth flower, in a crystal vase with a lime green ribbon tied around it.
"Flowers? Who got me flowers?" Madison says to herself as she walks over to the vase, picking up the card in one hand while wrapping the sash around her belly with the other.
To Yattamori, Wake up soon...
...Toshiro...
Madison feels her cheeks get hot. Toshiro had got these for her? Since when had he been so...caring? She looks back down at the card and sees a P.S. below the short message.
Day 25...
She drops the card. Day 25? She's been gone for more then 25 days?! That's almost a month!
Madison turns back to a small calender sitting on the table with the flowers.
January 6, 2011
Crap! It has been a full month! But in the other world it's only been three days!
She quickens her pace and finishes getting her outfit and hair in it's usual sort, then rushes out the door.
I need to find Toshiro! Or at least Aneko...
It's now that she remembers her incident with Aneko during that weird trance thing during the duel with Kenta. She'll have to apologize as soon as she sees her again. If she wants to see her again that is.
When she rounds the corner, she finds squad 4 members looking at her in shock. As she runs past, she hears them yelling "Captain Yattamori is awake!", "Get Captain Unohana!", "Locate the Head Captain, along with Captain Hitsugaya, and notify them at once!"
As soon as she exits the building, she flashsteps as fast as she can out of there. She senses others following, but they quickly disappear from her thought, her brain only focused on getting to the Squad 10 barricks as quick as possible. When she nears the Squad 10 grounds, she sees a familiar face staring at her from below.
It's Rangiku.
"Yattamori!?" she yells as Madison flashsteps overhead.
Within seconds, she's feet from Toshiro's barricks door. Madison suddenly feels her heart beginning to pound as she walks up the steps to the porch leading to the door ahead. When she comes to stand right in front of the door, she can hear Toshiro pacing inside, making her butterflies even worse. She takes a deep breath and raises her hand to knock on the door.
Suddenly, just before her fist hits the door, it swings open, to reveal Toshiro in an apparent hurry. But when he sees it's her, he freezes in mid-step, staring straight into her eyes.
"Toshiro..." Madison says, breaking the awkward silence.
Toshiro's eyes widen.
"Yattamori...that's really you? You woke up?" Toshiro says, still staring at her.
For no reason, Madison cracks, tears beginning to form in her eyes. It wasn't until now that she realized how much she missed him.
"Toshiro!" Madison yells as she throws her arms around his neck and pulls herself close to Toshiro, who's surprised by her outburst.
She can't see, but he's turning redder then a cherry, embarrassed.
"Ya-Yattamori?!.." Toshiro yells as she begins to cry.
Toshiro's surprised expression turns to a content frown, and he puts his arms around her, still blushing as he does so.
"I know, I missed you too." Toshiro says as Madison stills sobs into his shoulder.
Rangiku appears a distance away and immediately takes to the shad as she notices the scene. She watches, and grins.
"Welcome back, Yattamori..." Rangiku whispers.
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Toshiro's Perspective
Yattamori and Toshiro walk silently together up to the doors of the Head Captain's office. He looks over to see that Yattamori's tears have mostly dried, and her nose and eyes are no longer red from the stinging of the tears falling down her cheeks.
She notices him looking at her and turns her head. Toshiro immediately whips his head, making it more awkward.
"Toshiro...?" Yattamori says.
"What?" he asks.
"I don't get it, why are you acting all nice to me?" she says.
Toshiro stops and turns towards Yattamori, who stopped a few paces behind him.
"What do you mean?" he asks.
She looks up at him and steps closer to stand right in front of him. Slowly she lifts her hand to trace the scar on his right cheek, the same she had created with her blade while under her evil influence. He understands. Yattamori feels guilty about cutting him.
She turns from him.
"I hurt you...and Aneko...and I probably scared most, if not all my squad."
"That wasn't your fault-" he begins.
"Then who's fault is it?! Who made me stab Aneko, and swing at you?! Tell me!" she snaps, causing Toshiro to back up.
"I-"
"Toshiro, something has happened to me. I don't know when, but it did."
"Yattamori, your still you-"
"No, I'm not Toshiro. I'm not that happy go lucky girl who you joked around with when you were a kid. I'm Madison Shecker. A 14 year old who just wants to draw and hang out with friends and be a normal teenager! Yattamori died, I might look like her and have her memories, but I'm not her!" Yattamori snaps.
Toshiro's eyes widen in surprise, and he gasps.
It takes a few moments for Yattamori to register what she just said. She rubs her head with her hands, and pushes her bangs out from in front of her right eye, a rare occurance.
"I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean what I said. I just have all this crap going on in my head and-"
"Yattamori, calm down. It's ok. You don't have to apologize. I understand how you feel right now."
"How?"
"I blamed myself for your death, remember?" Toshiro says as he begins to walk again.
...And I still do...
Yattamori's eyes widen and she walks quick to catch up with him.
"But that wasn't your fault-"
"Let's not talk about this now, alright." Toshiro asks, cutting her off.
She nods as the door opens.
"Yattamori. Glad to see that you've fully recovered." the Head Captain says from behind his desk as they walk in.
"Thanks Grandpa Yamma. Now, why did you call me?" Yattamori asks.
"I have your first assignment for you." the Head Captain says as he hands a file to one of his squad member, who walks it over to her.
"What is it?" Yattamori asks.
"You'll know, trust me." the Head Captain answers.
She turns over the file and her eyes widen as she reads the name on the cover.
"Princess Mahinaheme's location file?!" Yattamori says.
Toshiro's eyes widen in alarm.
"You gave her that assignment again!?" Toshiro yells.
"She was the last one to work on the case and gain any new information, so I only thought it suited her-" the Head Captain starts.
"It's because of this cursed search that Madison died in the first place!" Toshiro yells.
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