Death and Reincarnation (Madison Shecker's Story) pt. 29

"...Luck has never really been in my favor. I mean, I always was the one that would fail a hard test or trip over nothing whatsoever, or be beaten at picking up a dollar on the side of the street. Maybe it was my unlucky death that might of had to do with my unlucky streak. Who knows. Still, Luck has sometimes been there for me. Like when it was luck that I discovered my past by watching "Bleach". But, if luck had ever been wanted, it's now, as I try to save my best friend from death..."

January 6th, 2011
SOUL SOCIETY
Toshiro's Perspective
"TOSHIRO!" he hears someone yell from outside.
"What?!" (fake) Yattamori yells as she stops in mid thrust of her dagger.
She looks through the blinds and gasps when she sees the true Yattamori below, her sword drawn.

"You!" (real) Yattamori yells, seeing the fake's face in the window.

"Wow, that was quick." (fake) Yattamori says, pushing a top of one the windows to the side so that the real Yattamori can hear her, "But you're just in time. I'm just about to kill him. Just pulled out my dagger and everything."

"Don't you dare touch him!" (real) Yattamori yells.

"Say goodbye to your precious Toshiro!" (fake) Yattamori yells as she begins to thrust her dagger.

(real) Yattamori's eyes widen in horror.

"STOP!" she screams, her high pitch screetch causing the windows to break.

(fake) Yattamori covers herself so she doesn't get injured, once again stopping before she can reach Toshiro with her blade.

"Darn that girl!" (fake) Yattamori snaps.

(real) Yattamori takes the oppourtunity to flashstep up and into the room. (fake) Yattamori whipps her head around in surprise as (real) Yattamori looks from Toshiro to her, her eyes filled with anger and fury.

"Why you!" (real) Yattamori yells as she runs towards (fake) Yattamori.

"No you don't!" (fake) Yattamori yells as she puts the dagger to Toshiro's neck, stopping (real) Yattamori in her tracks.

"You try anything, and he dies." (fake) Yattamori threatens.

Toshiro moves his head slightly to look at (real) Yattamori. She covered with bloody scraps and cuts, a large gash dripping blood across her chest.

"Yattamori..." Toshiro whispers.

Both Yattamoris looks at him with surprise.

"He's completely under my control, how is he able to speak?!" (fake) Yattamori says, her eyes wide in shock.

"...you're hurt...but how...? I carried you home...from the library..." Toshiro whispers.

(real) Yattamori's eyes widen in horror.

"You snake...you disguised yourself as me so that you could trick and kill Toshiro. That's something I cannot forgive..." (real) Yattamori says, her sword disappearing.

(fake) Yattamori looks confused.

"Huh." (fake) Yattamori says.

"I CANNOT FORGIVE YOU FOR TRYING TO KILLING HIM WITH MY FACE!" (real) Yattamori yells as wind begins to violently beat against the broken windows and whip at (fake) Yattamori's body, causing her to pull her blade away from Toshiro's neck.

(real) Yattamori takes the chance and picks (fake) Yattamori up off of Toshiro then throws her to the ground, pinning her.

"You're stronger then you look." (fake) Yattamori comments.

"Thanks, I had a lot to compete with, having him as a friend and all." (real) Yattamori answers, "But now you die, just like your followers!"

(real) Yattamori holds one of her arms out to her side, Mamori Koudoutai materalizing in her hand. She shrinks to about the size of a knife and (real) Yattamori raises her above her head.

As she begins to thrust her arm down, she hears the movement of metal. She stops in mid-swing and turns, as she looks in horror as Toshiro places his sword to his chest, that if pushed, would go straight through his heart.

"Since he's under my control, it's very easy to command him to kill himself." (fake) Yattamori comments.

"Toshiro, stop!" (real) Yattamori yells as she gets up and runs over to Toshiro, pulling his sword from his hand.

"But, you wanted me-" he starts, his eyes glazed over.

"No! No, I didn't. Toshiro, do you really believe I would want you to kill yourself?! That's insane!" (real) Yattamori snaps, tears beginning to appear in her eyes.

Toshiro's eyes widen slightly.

"Yattamori...you're crying-" Toshiro says.

"I never want to lose you! Your my best friend, please, never scare me like that!" (Yattamori) interupts, her tears falling onto his face.

"Well, isn't this just entertaining," (fake) Yattamori yells as she pulls (real) Yattamori off him and slam her to the ground, "He can't hear you, he just catches bits of what's occuring out here."

She kicks (real) Yattamori hard in the gut, causing her to cough up blood. She lowers to be sitting over (real) Yattamori, then takes hold of her collar. Without regret, she punches (real) Yattamori across the face, causing her to go slightly limp. As she coughs up more blood, (fake) Yattamori laughs, loving (real) Yattamori's pain.

Toshiro watches, his eyes widening even more with shock and horror. His instints tell him to move, but he can't obey.

...Help her, you idiot!...

He gasps silently as (fake) Yattamori takes her dagger and lifts it above (real) Yattamori. Suddenly, he feels the numbness in his body crack, finally able to feel his arms and legs. He looks over and quickly, but silently grabs Hyōrinmaru and sits up in the bed.

"Say goodbye, Madison Yattamori!" (fake) Yattamori yells.

"Toshiro, HELP!" (real) Yattamori yells, her eyes dripping tears though her eyes are squeezed shut.

...Do you want her to die again!...

"He can't do anything for you, now DIE-" (fake) Yattamori yells as she begins to thrust her dagger down.

Suddenly, Toshiro stabs (fake) Yattamori through the heart, surprising and stopping her right before her dagger touches (real) Yattamori's chest.

(real) Yattamori opens her eyes slightly to see, then gasps as she sees Hyōrinmaru sticking through (fake) Yattamori, the blood dripping from his sword's tip onto her chest. (fake) Yattamori turns her head slightly to look at Toshiro.

"How...did you...break my spell?!.." she says, trying to take in air.

"Never underestimate a captain." Toshiro says.

(fake) Yattamori sneers as she slowly transforms into a badger-like form. Her body is slightly human, but the fur she wears is blue, her ears that of a badger under her thick black hair, her eyewhites dark, her actual eye the color of midnight. Fangs and claws grow out, finishing her transformation. Though definitely not human, she is still beautiful.

"Goodbye, Kaku." Yattamori says, making Kaku just more angry.

Toshiro is surprised by the fact that Yattamori knows her true name

"Why you-!" Kaku yells, before suddenly bursting into ashes, surprising both Toshiro and Yattamori.

As the ashes disperse, Toshiro and Yattamori stay motionless, and silent. Yattamori senses the awkwardness.

"Uh, Toshiro, are you o-" Yattamori starts.

Toshiro surprises her by taking her close in his arms.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean, I didn't mean to do this-"  Toshiro starts.

"Wow, Toshiro, calm down. It's ok." Yattamori reassures him as she pulls slightly away from him to look him in the eye.

"No, it's not. I let her trick me. Then siduce me, it's absolutely unforgivable." Toshiro says.

"Toshiro, it wasn't your fault." Yattamori says.

She becomes speechless as he holds his hand to her face, whipping the remaining tears from her eyes.

"I did cause that, even before Kaku." he says, remembering eariler.

"Toshiro, it's ok, I know why you acted the way you did."

"I still shouldn't of left without saying bye or something."

Yattamori chuckles.

"Are you like this with Hinamori? Overprotective and all?"

He thinks over the question, finding that it's true.

"I guess."

"But still, I did put you in danger tonight."

"Actually, it's more like the other way around." she says.

Toshiro becomes confused.

"What?"

"It turns out that they were actually trying to kill you to get to me."

Toshiro becomes ash white.

"Someone's trying to kill you again..." he whispers.

"And, they've got the Bijuu on their side. And I have a feeling that they're gonna be tough."

"Why do they want you dead so much?"

Yattamori shrugs.

"Who knows."

It's now they realize that he's still holding her, and pull away from each other. Without the other knowing, they become cherry red with embaressment.

"Um, I guess I'll go." Toshiro says as he gets up.

"Uh, yeah. I'll, um, see you tomorrow, I guess." Yattamori says, pushing some glass away, "I'm just gonna go ahead and uh, clean this up."

"Great."

"Yeah."

They stay awkwardly silent, still blushing slightly.

"Well, uh, good luck and bye." Toshiro says as he walks out.

"Bye." Yattamori calls after him.

After walking silently for a few minutes, Toshiro sighs heavily.

...Man, Yattamori has only been back for one day and I've already gone and made her cry twice!...I'm surprised she didn't yell at me...When we were younger and before she died, she would of smacked me over the head...

Toshiro stops and looks back towards Yattamori's home, her silouette standing out in the light of her room. She's changed out of her haori and kimono into a black tank-top and baggy, red, plaid capris. He watches her as picks up the glass, her loose green ribbon falling out of her hair to release all of her chestnut locks. Suddenly, the image of Kaku in Yattamori's image propped over him returns to the front of his mind. He begins to blush.

...Why did I give in so easily?...I mean, yeah at the time I thought she was Yattamori, but still...I let her overwhelm me...And when she kissed me, if I think about it, but with the real Yattamori-...

He ends the thought there, now cherry red as he thinks about it. He looks back up to see Yattamori still cleaning. She turns slightly and catches him in her eye. She smiles and waves, her hair falling perfectly around her face.

He grins and waves back, before turning back and walking again. He begins to blush as another thought tumbles through his mind

...for a minute, she actually looked, different...

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February 17, 2011

SOUL SOCIETY

Madison's Perpective

Madison sighs as she closes another of Mahinaheme's records, tired after a hard few hours of research. Suddenly, she feels a tap on the shoulder. She turns to see Hinamori's smiling face.

"Hello, Madison!" Hinamori says.

"Hey, Momo, what's up?" Madison says as she turns in the chair, unsually happy to hear someone not call her by "Yattamori".

The appearance of a basket shuts her up instantly.

"What do ya' think? It's 3 and you haven't had anything to eat today. I guessed you must be hungry." Momo says as she holds up a paper bag from the basket.

Madison smiles, and chuckles.

"Care to take a break and join me for a late lunch?" Momo asks.

"Sure, anything to get me away from this." Madison says as she picks up her papers.

"Great!" Momo says as Madison passes her to walk to her captain's unit.

About 20 minutes later, Momo and Madison are sitting on the hill of a meadow, laughing about old times over their lunch.

"Remember that winter when we tricked Toshiro into jumping into the pond?" Momo asks as she laughs.

"Yes! I remember how shocked we were when he swam in there for about another half hour because he was barely effected by the cold water!" Madison laughs, remembering Toshiro's iced over hair dripping across the floor when he finally returned to the house.

"Or the time you beat him in your first flashstep race?!" Momo laughs.
"Oh yeah, I think he sulked for about a month before getting over that one!" Madison laughs, leaning on Momo for support.
"And ever since, he tried to beat you!"

"And he always lost! His face was always priceless!"

The two fall back, laughing histaricly as they lay there on the ground. After a minute or two of trying to gasp for air, they lay still, watching the clouds pass.

"You know, I'm releaved that you returned." Momo says, breaking the silence.

"You've told me that at least 15 times." Madison comments, looking at her.

"But really, I am grateful."

Madison becomes more serious.

"After you died, Toshiro became such a depressed mess. And I went without smiling for months. I eventually got better and accepted your death, but Toshiro never was able to. Whenever I accidentally brought it up, he would go into a tirade about how it was his fault you died, heck, a few times, he even began crying..." Momo explains.

Madison's eyes widen in shock.

"...Then, he became cold. Even colder then before. He hid his emotions behind a wall of ice. And when he did become Captain, it's just made his subbordinates feel nervous around him. After a while, he did loosen up, probably because of Rangiku, but he still was cold most of the time. Then, suddenly, you returned, and for the first time, I saw Toshiro happy and smiling again. The first day, I hadn't know that you had returned, so when I saw him, I expected him to be in cold mode. But the minute he saw me, he smiled and waved. I was so shocked, I think my jaw dropped to the floor." Momo continues.

They both laugh.

"But, when I asked and noticed your necklace wasn't around his neck, I got super suspicious. Then, out of thin air, he told me that you had been reincarnated and returned. He was so happy, smiling so big I swear he might of gotten stuck like that. I think I started crying as soon as I got home, I was so glad that you were back, and that you had shattered his wall." Momo finishes, starring back up at the sky.

Madison watches her for a moment, then smiles, and looks up too.

"I didn't do anything. But you did a lot." Madison says.

"What?"

"I was gone for 14 years, living in a different world with only a shell of the memories and knowledge of this world. Heck, this place was nothing but a dream to me. You, on the other hand, had such a hard time here, trying to take care of Toshiro through my death. I can't even start to imagine how much trouble you two went through." Madison explains.

Momo watches her.
"So, I guess I should be thanking you."
"For what?"
Madison turns towards her and smiles
"Thank you for keeping each other alive and happy."
Momo slightly gasps. After a moment, Momo pulls Madison into a hug, surprising her. Madison grins as she hugs her back. Moments like these were scarce in this world, so she decided to make the most of them, even if she is having trouble breathing.