Death and Reincarnation (Madison Shecker's Story) pt. 43

"...Sword fighting has been in my nature since before I discovered Mamori Koudoutai. We had to use wooden swords in the Soul Reaper Academy, but once we discovered our zampakutous, we had to learn how to cordinate our bodies and spirits with them. But, just because we are experienced with real swords, doesn't mean we're any less experienced with different types of swords. The last time I did this, Cree and I battled it out. But, since Toshiro's here, I have a feeling that I'll be having fun with him during this class, though I want to battle Cree one more time to see if what I saw the last time was real, because if I'm right, then I'm gonna have bigger things to worry about..."

December 14th, 2010
OUR WORLD
Gym
Toshiro's Perspective
Slowly, Toshiro walks out of the boys' locker room, wishing that he could change out of the red jersey shorts and black tee. Though, when he spots Yattamori, he quickly forgets, considering that Yattamori  actaully looks ok in the outfit. Soon, her other friends follow, looking almost as good as her. As soon as she sees him, she grins and runs over to his side.
"Hey, c'mon dude, you're gonna love what we're doing in class." Yattamori says as she pulls me over to one of the two bleachers, people watching as we pass by.
"What are we doing?" he asks.
Yattamori turns and laughs.
"Sword play!" she laughs, smiling wide.
His eyes widen, before brightening slightly. He looks around Yattamori to see what she says is fact, seeing plastic swords sitting in a bin nearby.
"So, you wanna fight one on one?" Yattamori asks.
He grins.
"Wait Madison! He doesn't know anything from this section of gym." Anna says.
Yattamori laughs.
"Are you kidding me?" Yattamori says as she walks over to the bin, picking up to katanas, "Toshiro has been fighting longer then I have."
She throws one to him, he catching it easily in his grasp, before looking up at her.
He chuckles.
"Actually, you started before I did." he says as he unsheaths his sword.
She smiles.
"Well, considering what happened, you're the more experienced." she says as she unsheaths her own.
He grins.
"Just fight." he says.
Without regret, Yattamori throws her sword down on his, causing a weird clapping noise. He twists the sword with his wrist, and causing them to go into a sword lock. Yattamori grins as they stare at each other, the world around them beginning to drone out with the cheering of Yattamori's friends, as well as the other kids around them. Soon, the two see each other as they usually look, seeing Yattamori's hair grow long and her uniform takes back it's shape. He grins as he senses his eyes become blue and watches as his shagy blone bangs recede to leave one, now as white as winter snow.
"We haven't had a good practice duel since you got back." Toshiro says, "Unless you call the first day you were back, along with a few days back practice."
Yattamori laughs, her voice full of life and joy.
"Fine, come at me with everything you've got, but make sure we don't end up flying, I don't feel like explaining that to my friends." Yattamori responds.
"Fine."
As they pull away from each other, they sense their plastic blades changing into their zampakutou, the swords now shining in the light as the metal reflects.
"You ready?" he asks.
Yattamori grins.
Without warning, Yattamori throws all her weight into Toshiro's blade, smiling as she does. Toshiro takes the surprise and feels himself skid back on the smooth hardwood. Soon, he has no choice but to back flip. As he does, he feels eyes staring him down and ahing coming from all directions. But he pays no attention, doing his hardest not to be outbeat by her again. He returns with a sharp right, causing Yattamori to hold her blade tight, her wrist holding hard on the other side. She pushes him off and immediately cuts for an above hit, though he counters before her blade can hit. They stay there for a minute, gritting there teeth as each tries to outmatch the other.
"Had..enough yet?" Yattamori asks, still strugling on top to gain ground.
Toshiro chuckles.
"Are you..kidding? I'm just getting...warmed up!" Toshiro yells.
He pushes her off, taking her by surprise as she stumbles back, though she catches herself easily.
She smiles.
"And who said I wasn't too!" Yattamori says as she runs at him, her sword ready at her side.
Within seconds, their swords are crossing once again. Unable to be seen by normal eyes, sparks fly fast at each strike of the metal. Yattamori tries her hardest to counter and come through the middle, though, it seems to be in vain because Toshiro keeps her from trying. Then, as if anger had suddlenly burst from his body, Toshiro jerks his arm, therefore his wrist, in a matter that traps Yattamori's blade. Her eyes widen as he twist the katana from her hand and sends it flying. He then holds the sword to her neck, causing her to somewhat freeze.
"Match, me." Toshiro says, feeling dominant.
As she stands, Toshiro watches as she smirks, causing him a somewhat worry. She chuckles.
"You can't say match until you know you've won!" Yattamori says.
With the most grace he's seen, Yattamori disappears from his sight, and within seconds, Toshiro feels his feet taken out from beneath him. He glimpses down to see Yattamori jumping back, grabing her sword. He grits his teeth in irritation, wishing he had seen this coming, especially from her. He flips over before he hits the ground, holding his sword fast in his fist. Soon, he throws his sword against her's, sparks flying in all directions. But before he knows it, his sword is wripped from his hand by Yattamori's twist thrust, causing it to fly high in the air. Soon, he finds a sword tip at his neck, causing him to tense. He watches as Yattamori smiles, catching his sword as it falls back to Earth.
"Match, me." Yattamori says, grinning.
He grits his teeth in irritation.
"Oh, shut up. I let you win." Toshiro answers.
She laughs.
"Really, 'cause your look says otherwise."
"Alright you two, break it up you two." Mr. Chiado says, snapping the two of them back to reality.
He looks around to see kids their age cheering, loving the fight, some booing at the fact that Yattamori won. He looks back over at her to see her resheathing her Mamori Koudou, no, her plastic sword. She turns and smiles, causing some of his hatrid to vanish instantly.
"Good fight." Toshiro says, holding out his hand.
His gesture takes Yattamori by surprise, but causes her to grin even bigger then before.
"You bet it was. You had me on my toes every second." Yattamori says as she takes his hand, shaking it.
He grins. Yattamori had always been a great fighter, but now, as life has begun to move forward, Yattamori's powers and abilities seem to be increasing everyday. But, with that in my mind, an odd thought pops up in his head. What are the extensions of her powers, not to mention his own?
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Cree's Perspective
Her jaw drops as she watches Tomas and Madison duel, each wielding their plastic swords as if they were professionals in the trade. And Madison's move at the end for the win just impresses her more. In the year or two that she's known Madison, she's never been so concentrated on something like this, unless you count story telling and drawing under that. As soon as they finish shaking their hands, Tomas and Madison turn to walk towards her and the others.
"That was amazing, you two!" Virginia compliments, kinda jumping on Madison.
"How did you two do that?!" Kaylee asks.
"Those moves, where did you learn them?!" Anna asks.
"Whoa, whoa, you two, give the two of them time to breath." Cree interupts.
Madison and Tomas chuckle, amused by the interactions between Cree and the others.
"Hey, Cree." Madison says, catching Cree's attention.
"W-What?" she asks.
"You and I need to do a rematch." Madison says, taking Tomas's sword from him.
"What?!"
Madison throws the sword to Cree, she catching it nicely in her grip. She gulps silently, pulling the blade slightly from it's sheath. She sighs and looks up at Madison, who's smiling.
"C'mon, it'll be fun." Madison says, still grinning.
Cree sighs again.
"Why? You won fair and square." Cree asks.
Madison chuckles.
"I think you were distracted."
"What about you? At first, you didn't even want to duel me." Cree protests, "Something about being too chicken or something. Finally, I had to coax it out of you, and then you went total master on me."
Tomas' and Madison's eyes widen in surprise.
"I did?" Madison asks.
"You did?" Tomas asks.
Madison turns towards him, a little worry in her eyes.
"You don't think-?" Tomas starts.
"-No, I don't think it's possible. Besides, she probably would of told me if I was acting like that." Madison reassures.
Now Cree's curious, as well as the rest of her friends.
"What?" Cree asks.
Madison turns back towards her.
"Uh, nothing. Never mind, it turns out I like the odds better from the last time now." Madison says as she turns around.
Cree kinda gets it now. Madison doesn't want to fight cause apparently Tomas thinks that something bad happened. Now, she wants to fight.
"What Madison, turning chicken again." Virginia asks.
Madison stops in mid step, taking Tomas by surprise. She turns.
"What?" she asks.
"Well, considering that you're running away like a dog with it's tail between it's leg, it kinda looks like you're scared." Virginia continues.
Tomas gets a nervous look on his face.
"That's not true-!" Madison starts.
"You're an idiot, Madison, really." Virginia says.
Madison cracks.
Like before, one word sends her over the edge, and her eyes burn with what looks like blue flame. She watches as Toshiro begins to pull her back, but Madison continues.
"Get into position." Madison orders, strength in her voice.
Cree nods and positions herself into the familar look that she remembers from last time. Without warning, Madison lunges into a full blow, taking Cree by surprise.
"Madison, don't go to far on her!" Tomas yells.
But, his words don't sink in, and Madison just barrels on strike after strike, making Cree wish she hadn't made Virginia do as she did. As she pulls away, she swings her sword hard, hearing a familar crash from last time. She looks down to see the nostalgic sword that she had laid her eyes on last time. She looks over at Madison's to see that her's has transformed as well, looking the same as before. It's also now that she realizes that they're alone, standing sword locked in a void all their own.
"So, it wasn't just an illusion." Madison says.
Cree looks up to see Madison staring at her.
"What?" she asks.
Madison looks down at her sword.
"The fact that you have a zampakutou. You must have abilities like mine, considering it only shows up when you fight. Though, it's strange, seeing as how that you don't know it's name." Madison explains.
Cree's eyes widen.
"What's a zampakutou?" she asks.
"What's your sword's name?" Madison interupts.
"Huh?"
"What's your zampakutou's name?!" she yells.
"I-I don't know-" Cree starts.
"-Tell me!" Madison snaps, overpowering her.
A sudden rush of strength takes Cree over.
"I DON'T KNOW!" she screams, thrusting her sword with the grace of a master around Madison's.
Her actions take Madison by complete surprise.
"What?!" Madison says.
Within an instant, yellow energy surronds Cree, sending her hair flying in all direction.
"Strike, HEBI DENKOU (Lightning Serpent)!" Cree yells.
A bright like surrounds them as it seems her sword twists unusually around Madison's, causing Madison to slightly panic.
"Mamori!" Madison shouts.
In a flash that neigher remember, they watch as Madison's sword flies from her hand, handing far on the other side of the gym. Cree pants as she realizes she holds a sword to Madison's neck, feeling Madison's tension through the air. They both pant hard as she looks around, realizing that everyone is staring at her, not beleving what she has just done. She then looks back at Madison, who's wide eyed, and her blue flamed eyes are fading back to hazel.
"You...you forced Mamori from me..." Madison whispers.
Cree's eyes widen.
Madison knows what just happened!
"She beat Madison..." she hears Tomas say, his voice full of wonder and disbelief.
She listens as she hears Mr. Chiado's pronounce footsteps coming closer.
"Match...Cree." he says, he not even believing it.
As she lowers her sword, she listens to the many whispers spreading through the room. It's now that she looks at her own sword, realizing that it's plastic once more. She looks back up to see Madison walking over to get her thrown sword.
She pants a little harder.
Not because of her tired body, but because of two other, completely separate things.
1., she had released a phantom sword called Hebi Denkou.
2., she just beat the best sword fighter in the school, her best friend, Madison. 

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Death and Reincarnation (Madison Shecker's Story) pt. 42

"...Ok, I know that my friends have more then a few opinions about Toshiro, I mean, Tomas, but still, just because I'm hanging out with him, doesn't mean I'm dating him, seriously. Toshiro doesn't even like me like that anyway, so why do I even care? This is such a stupid argument that seems to come up every time I begin to become friends with a guy. Virginia and the others always find a way to make it awkward for me and the guy. I swear, if they make it weird what so ever between Toshiro and me, then I'm gonna be mad, no kidding. Because  he and I both know that there's nothing like that going on, and nothing ever will happen. End of discussion, period. But, as I say that, why do I blush?..."

December 14th, 2010
OUR WORLD
7:59 a.m.
Madison's Perspective
Madison yawns as she gets out of her mom's car, her sister following close behind her. She looks towards the steps up towards the steps leading to the walkway into school, and sees Toshiro waiting, leaning against the stone. She quickens her pace and meets up with him with moments.
"Hey." she says as she runs up the steps.
He turns and begins to walk with her.
"So, what do I do?" Toshiro asks.
"Just follow me. Remember your name?"
"Tomas White."
"Good."
Within moments, they're inside the building, turning into the old gym where most of the p.e. classes take place. After turning out to be in one of the hallways, lined with red lockers meant for 7th graders, they quicken their pace as they run a staircase diagonal from the gym exit, and right before the entrance to the band area. Soon after turning into one of the 8th grade hallways (made known by the blue lockers), Madison finds herself running into people she could of gone without seeing.
"Hey, Madison!" Cree's familiar voice says into her ear as she appears besides them.
"Oh, hey Cree." Madison responds.
Cree smiles, before noticing Toshiro walking next to Madison.
"Hey, who's this? I've never seen him around before." Cree asks.
"Oh, this is Tomas. You know, the one I told u about." Madison responds, pointing at Toshiro.
Cree smiles.
"Oh yeah, Hi Tomas, I'm Cree, Madison's best friend." Cree says as she reaches across Madison to hold her hand out to Toshiro.
Toshiro responds and puts his hand in her's, shaking firmly.
"Tomas, nice to meet you." Toshiro says as he pulls his hand from her's.
"So, where are you two headed?" Cree asks.
"The attendance office, Tomas is a new student, so he has to get his stuff." Madison answers.
"You know, I could answer." Toshiro comments.
"You don't know where we're going what-so-ever." Madison argues.
"You could at least let me answer the questions meant for me." Toshiro states.
"Oh, Shut up." Madison answers, all of them turning the corner.
Cree chuckles to herself.
"Wow, you two act like an old married couple." Cree comments.
"No we don't." Madison and Toshiro say at the same time, causing Cree to laugh more.
"Wow. Well, I'm gonna leave you two to your business, see you at lunch." Cree says as she walks off, leaving the two of them alone again.
After a few moments, Toshiro finally breaks the silence.
"She seems nice." Toshiro says as they walk into an office, a large desk sitting in front of them.
"Yeah, she is. Trust me, out of all of my friends, she's the most normal. Virginia, not so much." Madison says as she turns to face the lady at the deck.
"Hello Madison, who's this handsome young man?" the lady asks.
"This is my friend Tomas White, he's a new student." Madison responds.
"Hello." Toshiro says, grinning.
The lady smiles.
"Nice to meet you, now, lets look for you in the database." the lady says as she turns to her computer.
Toshiro looks worried. He leans over to whisper in her ear.
"But I'm not the database." Toshiro whispers.
Madison chuckles.
"Found you, Tomas White, grade 8, 14 in only 6 days, and moved from Japan, nice." the lady says.
Toshiro's eyes widen in surprise.
"Now just wait here while I get your new class scheule."  the lady says as she gets up and walks to a room behind her desk.
Toshiro turns towards her.
"How am I in the database?" Toshiro asks.
"Last night, I broke into the database and made you a fake file." Madison explains, smiling.
Toshiro grins.
"Impressive." Toshiro compliments, causing her to laugh.
Within moments, the two find themselves in their advisory, being Mr. Bailer, their later social studies teacher. Madison goes and puts her stuff at her desk, before returning to Toshiro's side.
Soon, Toshiro and Madison are in their own designated seats, right next to each other in the back of the class.   The class soon becomes hushed as the morning announcements come on, followed quickly by the pledge of allegiance. As the words cross her lips as they have since she was in kindergarden, she looks over to see that Toshiro, well, is having a harder time. When they stop and and pause for a moment of silence, she makes her voice cross his mind.
...It's a pledge that we say here in America, I'll help you with it later...
Toshiro nods and sits with everyone else as the voice ends.
...So, what else do I need to know?...
Toshiro's thoughts go across his mind, meant to be read for her. She grins.
...so much Toshiro, so much...
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Toshiro's Perspective
11:18 a.m.
He quickly throws his stuff into his locker directly across from Yattamori, not wanting to be left behind by the only person he knows. As he closes the door, he feels an arm grab him and begin to pull him away.
"What the-?" he says as he turns to se see his abductor.
He falls quiet when he sees it's Yattamori, laughing at him for reasons he doesn't know.
"Why are you pulling me?" Toshiro asks.
"Because, I didn't want you to get lost on our way to the cafeteria." Yattamori answers, releasing her grip.
She reaches into her jacket pocket, then slaps something into his hand. He looks down to see green strips of paper, markings on each side.
"What's this?" he asks.
Yattamori is surprised by his question.
"It's money. Three bucks, and 50 cents." she answers.
"Oh, well, why are you giving it to me?"
"You want to eat lunch, don't you?"
"Yeah."
"To do so, you have to pay the lunch lady at the end of the line."
"Oh, alright." he answers as they begin to walk down a grand-like staircase, a beautifully done mural on either wall, the wall in front of him having what he guesses is the main entrance.
He turns when she does with all the other kids, and walks down a ramp type walk to exit into a hall with the red lockers lining the walls, two double doors opening and closing in front of them that must lead to the cafeteria. He holds the door as he walks in to see many tables lined up into different sections of the room. Kids sit at all the tables, filling them up within seconds after being empty. He feels Yattamori pull him through some groups towards one the larger tables in the center of the room. Though only one girl sits there now, he has a feeling that because of Yattamori sitting there, there must be at least 6 other girls that fill the table, making him feel a bit on edge.  Within seconds, he finds himself sitting amonst a bunch of girls, including the girl named Cree, staring at him, making him feel just as awkward as he thought it would as the girls just kinda stare at him.
"Madison?" one of them asks.
"Yeah Virginia?" Yattamori asks.
Virginia points at him.
"Is this Tomas?" she asks.
Yattamori nods.
"Oh, so you're the famous Tomas." another girl says.
Toshiro feels himself slightly shutter.
...What the heck did she tell them?!...
"Hi, I'm Anna, nice to meet you." a blonde next to him says, smiling.
He grins.
"Thanks, I'm Tomas." Toshiro lies.
He watches as a slight blush rises to Anna's face as she turns back.
"Here, let me introduce everyone. Ok, going from your left side, that's Anna-" Yattamori starts.
"-Hi." Anna says again.
"Kaylee." Yattamori continues.
"Hi Hi." Kaylee responds.
"-Bianca." Yattamori says.
"Hey." Bianca answers.
"Hannah."
"Yo." Hannah responds.
"Virginia."
"Hey." Virgina answers.
"You already know Cree."
"Hello again." Cree says, smiling.
"And everyone knows me, ok, let's go get food." Yattamori says as she gets up from the table, soon followed by the others.
Toshiro once again feels himself being pulled up from his arm, looking up to see Yattamori smiling. Slowly she releases, and they come to a stopping point behind other people there.
"So, Tomas, are you and Madison dating?" Virginia asks.
Both of their eyes widen in automatic surprise and slight disgust.
"No way!" they both yell at the same time.
Toshiro looks over at Yattamori to see that her cheeks are slightly red, meaning she's blushing.
For the rest of the way through the line, the two don't speak, the atmosphere now awkward because of Virginia's question. Luckily though, Cree finds a way to start a new conversation that lightens the air, causing the two to forget the awkward situation totally.
When the lunch period finally ends, the group finds themselves walking back towards the steps. As he laughs at Yattamori and Virginia's stupid argument, he finds himself pulled away from the group. At first, he thinks it's just one of Yattamori's friends, maybe Anna or Kaylee, but when he turns around, he finds a girl he's never met before.
"Uh, hi." Toshiro says.
He looks over the girl. She has jet black hair, straight as a b-line with a clip keeping her hair out of her eyes. Her eyes are a alert gray, mysterious in a way that he can't fathom. She wears a purple 80's tee, one shoulder exposed as the top hangs loose over her body, matched with dark wash skinny jeans, black chucks as her shoes. And for some reason, she has a lot of piercings in her ears, rings of silver and purple rhinestones sparkling in the light, and kinda making him on edge.
"Hello there. What's your name, new boy?" the girl asks.
"Uh, Tomas, Tomas White." he answers, feeling weird using the fake name.
The girl chuckles.
"Well Tomas, it's nice to meet you. I'm Kimmi, Kimmi Joice." she says, moving her arm up her side, making him feel awkward.
"Nice to meet you Kimmi, sorry, but I need to get to my next class-" he starts as he begins to walk off.
Kimmi pulls him back hard, almost dislocating his shoulder.
"Tell me, Tomas, why are you hanging out with such a nobody like Madison Shecker?" Kimmi asks.
He feels the hairs on his neck stand.
"What's wrong with her?"
Kimmi smiles, chuckling darkly.
"So, you don't know, do you?"
"Know what?"
"That Madison Shecker and her little groupies are the most hated bullies in the school."
His eyes widen.
"What?" Toshiro asks
"It's not your fault. Her group always goes out for the new kids, especially the, well, good looking ones." Kimmi says as she pats his shoulder.
"What's that mean?"
"Whenever there's a new kid, her group immediately seeks them out. If they like the kid, they allow them to join the group, if they don't, they boot them to the bottom of the popularity food-chain."
He begins to feel anger boil inside him.
"But hey, don't worry, I got to you just in time. Now that you know what she's up to, I'm sure you'll no longer be hanging with her, so why don't we become-" Kimmi starts as she reaches to caress his face.
"Enough." Yattamori's voice says, her tone dangerous as a hand stops Kimmi's before it reaches his face.
They both turn to see Yattamori holding her wrist, staring her down with hate in her eyes.
"Get away from him Kimmi, right now." Yattamori says, her voice that of anger itself.
Her tone causes Kimmi to back up, but now leave. She frees her wrist from Yattamori's hand.
"Why do you still fight the truth, I've already revealed your little plot, so there's nothing you can do." Kimmi says, before rest her head against his chest, surprising him, and rising Yattamori's temper, "He's my friend now, so beat it, scank."
Yattamori cracks.
Without regret, Yattamori grabs Kimmi by the neck and slams into the wall, releasing and surprising Toshiro. He looks to see her eyes burning like blue flames, rage taking over her body as she tightens her grip.
"How dare you-" Yattamori starts.
"Your eyes, they're blue again! How is it that you do that?!" Kimmi breaths, trying to get air.
Toshiro's eyes widen. Kimmi had said again.
...she's done this before?...
He immediately reacts.
"Yattamori, stop!" Toshiro says as he loosens Yattamori's grip enough for Kimmi to get free.
Yattamori blinks and gasps slightly looking around as her eyes turn back to hazel. She looks up at him.
"Huh? What? What happened?" she asks.
His eyes widen again.
...she doesn't remember what she's done...
"Shecker!" Kimmi yells.
Yattamori turns to be met with a slap to the face, causing her to stumble into Toshiro.
"You little wench, I'm gonna get the dean on you, you hear me?!" Kimmi yells.
"Kimmi, stop." Toshiro commands, taking Kimmi by surprise.
"Why do you defend her?! You saw what she did-" Kimmi says.
"-You pushed her to her breaking point!" Toshiro yells back.
"What I say is true-"
"-It's all false!" Toshiro snaps, "Yattamori would never use people like that, so shut up!"
"Yattamori? Who's Yattamori?" Kimmi asks.
His eyes widen.
...oops...
"Toshiro, that's enough." Yattamori say as she stands straight.
He looks over at her.
"She isn't worth it, let's go. We're gonna be late for Social Studies." Yattamori says as she turns back towards the stairs.
"But Yattamori-" Toshiro starts.
"-I said that's enough." Yattamori snaps, taking him by surprise, before she calms, "Come on Toshiro, please."
He sighs.
"Fine." he answers as he walks up behind her.
"Toshiro?! Yattamori?! What are you two talking about?! What's going on?!" Kimmi yells, "Trust me, I'll find out, one way or another.
Toshiro listens as he hears Kimmi's stomps trailing away in the other direction, causing him to sigh greatly.
"Dang, she's a lot of work-" he begins.
"-Don't trust her." Yattamori interupts.
"I know that."
"Good, she's manipulated so many girls that used to be my friends into hating me. I don't know what I would do if I lost you too."
Toshiro stops.
Yattamori isn't the type that gets easily upset, she's always been the laid back type who could get over anything. But lately, she seems so emotional and off for some reason. It's worrying and kind of depressing as he thinks about, making him on edge. The carefree spirit of Yattamori's has begun to fade away into emotional  off and on known as Madison Shecker, and he hates it.
He walks over to her side.
"Don't make fun of me."
Yattamori looks surprised.
"Do you really think I'd stop being your friend after something like that? I think that if I can see past Devena, I'm probably never gonna leave."
Yattamori stares at him for a moment, before smiling.
She chuckles.
"I think this world is beginning to rub off on me." she says before looking back up with him, "I know that by now, and it's the same for me. Thanks Toshiro, you're a true best friend."
Toshiro feels his cheeks begin to become hot. He turns away.
"Uh, yeah, d-don't mention it." he says.
His studdering causes her to laugh, happy tears beginning to appear at the corners of her eyes.
He smiles.
Ok, he might of exaggerated just a tad on the emotional on and off thing. As he thinks back, Yattamori has always kind of been like this. Happy go lucky most the time, then every once in a while, having a tiny break down from all the bad stuff that's escalated over time. And, as he still thinks back, he realizes that most of her breakdowns have one same reason.
Him.

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Death and Reincarnation (Madison Shecker's Story) pt. 41

"...Crap, crap, crap! How the heck did this happen? How the heck did Toshiro even do what he did when he tackled me as I was trying to go through the senkaimon to get back home?! Truly, sometimes I wonder about how Toshiro can get into the messes he gets himself into. It seems everytime I come over here, we get into some problem that somehow gets everyone at least a cut or two. But, now, it's not really mental or physical issues we have to deal with. Well, actually, it really is physical if you think about it. Now, I have yet another problem that I have to figure out how to fix. So, how am I gonna do this at all with all that's going on with this problem?..."


December 13th, 2010
OUR WORLD
10:43 p.m.
Madison's Perspective
Madison opens her eyes to see the room dark around her, surprising her. She slowly sits up to see that she was right. Around her is medical equipment and another IV is in her wrist, irritating her. She sighs as she looks around, seeing her mother and father sitting in chairs nearby. She looks away, feeling a little guilty. Her parents are suffering from her other life, worrying about her and her health. Suddenly, she remembers how she exactly got back to this world. Toshiro had fallen into the senkaimon too, so, what happened to him?! She quickly draws herself into the void to discuss with Mamori over the situation. She reopens her eyes to find herself floating in the void, back in her Soul Reaper uniform. She looks around, and notices a slight chill to the air.
"Ma-Mamori! Where are you?!" Madison yells out.
Within an instant, her zampakutou, Mamori Koudoutai, is standing above her in her released form as a Pegasus, her wings spread wide on her back as she neighs strong.
"You called, Master?" Mamori asks.
"Where's Toshiro?" Madison asks instantly, surprising Mamori.
"What do you mean?"
"Toshiro entered the senkaimon with me, and I can tell that he's no longer there! Now where is he?!"
Mamori wraps her wing around her.
"Calm down, I'm sure he's fine. The senkaimon that the gem on your bracelet creates if safe for everyone to pass through to either world."
"Then where is he?!"
Mamori sighs as she lifts her wings, then turns her head. Suddenly, she begins to glow a green color, taking Madison by surprise.
"Madison, call out Toshiro's name, and if he is truly here, he will immediately appear among us." Mamori explains.
"Uh, alright." Madison answers, before turning away from her.
Her hand goes immediately to the cross necklace around her neck and she shallows hard, beforing opening her mouth.
"Toshiro!" she screams, worried about him.
From behind her, she senses Mamori disappearing, being replaced by an familiar icy presence. She turns around to see the outline of Toshiro appearing in front of her, each second it getting more and more detailed. When finally, Toshiro is made whole, he begins to fall over, luckily to be caught by her. She quickly turns him over to check him out, and sighs, happy that he's breathing normally and seems perfectly fine. She shakes him.
"Toshiro, wake up! Toshiro!" she yells.
Moments later, Toshiro's eyelids begin to twich as he begins to wake, blinking for a few seconds before they can stay open. As soon as he sees the void around them, he immediately reacts by standing on his own, or at least, trying to.
"What the heck!? Where are we?!" Toshiro yells, not familiar with the room.
She walks over to him.
"This is the area between the Soul Society and the other world, stupid." she explains
"But why am I here?"
"You fell into the Senkaimon with me, remember?"
"Oh yeah." he remembers, "So, what do I do now?"
Madison scratches her head as she tries to think.
"Well, it looks like we're gonna need to get you a gigai for my other world."
"A gigai? Where are we gonna get a gigai?"
"Let me concentrate about that, alright, I think I've already got something for you." Madison says as she turns away from him.
"Like what?"
"You'll see." she says over her shoulder, before turning back.
She breaths deeply as she begins to concentrate, trying to remember all the details that she had thought up that one time. Suddenly, Tomas White pops right back into her mind. His blonde shagy hair and his warm, green eyes, and his perfect physical condition body.
Without warning, a bright light appears in front of her, a breeze blowing past as it gets brighter. She smiles, then turns to face Toshiro, who's surprised by the light. Madison points back at it.
"Go through there, and you'll be in my room at my house." Madison instructs.
"Your room?" Toshiro asks.
Madison nods before running over to his side.
"There's a gigai waiting for you in the other world, so go ahead."
"I don't know-" Toshiro starts, before being pushed from behind.
Madison dominates over Toshiro's weight and pushes him towards the lighted doorway. Finally, he works his way out of his grip, then turns and glares at her for a minute, before turning back.
"You're sure about this, Yattamori?" he asks as he walks closer.
She nods, smiling.
"Positive."
He smiles then turns back to face the the light. After a sigh and a moment to think he walks into the light, ultimately disappearing from the void and her pressence.
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December 14th, 2011
OUR WORLD
1:03 a.m.
Toshiro's Perspective
He blinks as he sits up in the bed, surprised by the now black surrondings, meaning it's night.
"Where am I?" he says as he gets up, noticing that his voicec is a little lower then before.
He gets off the bed and notices that for some reason, the ground feels farther away. Trying to get over the weird difference, he sees a door not too far away. He reaches and opens it, to see a hallway with three other doors lining the walls. He walks to the one opposite of his and opens it. From inside, he can see a mirror reflecting back at him, though the room is to dark to see his face. Bracing for anything, he finds the light switch and flips it up, revealing himself. His eyes widen in shock, for instead of seeing his regular spiky white hair and piercing turquiose eyes, the boy looking back at him has unpointy, shagy blond hair, and strong, but warm green eyes. The surprise makes him shaky on his own feet, causing him to loose his balance.
"What the-?" he starts before the lights of a car beginning glowwing in the window of the room he just came out of.
He quickly turns off the light in the bathroom and hurries back to the bedroom, closing the door behind him. slyly, he moves the curtain of one the windows so to see what is going on outside. From inside a van walks out a girl that seems maybe a year or two younger then Yattamori, and as she turns, gives him a chill when he sees their resemblence. Next, comes a big guy, probably 17 or 18, in a leather jacket, probably a jock. Then comes an older couple, probably the parents of the first two people. But, instead of closing the door to the car, the women reaches her arm into the van and apparently grabs something. Within a moment, another girl comes out, one sticking out being her curly/wavy chestnut locks. The girl looks to be the age of Yattamori, though her hair and other assesories look like those that Shecker has.
It's now that it finally hits him as he sees the girl's face. The girl is Shecker! He immediately retreats to the side of the bed that can't be seen by those looking in through the door, and tries to figure out what's going on. He thinks back to the last thing that Yattamori had told him about the lighted doorway, which luckily explains much to him. Pretty much, he's in Shecker's world, one where her family lives and her other friends. He thinks of the girl and boy who had exited the car right before Madison. The two must be her siblings, a subject of which Yattamori never really got into in the Soul Society.
Suddenly, he hears a door open nearby and a even lower voice.
"Get to bed Abigail, we all have school tomorrow." the boy says, his footsteps echoing from the hall.
"I know, I'm going, I'm going!" the girl answers, her voice higher then what he had expected.
The girl's footsteps walk past the door of the room he's in, allowing him to breath a sigh of relief. Since his eyes had now adjusted to the lighting of the room, he can tell that the room definitely doesn't belong to a boy, meaning that the room he's in belongs to Shecker.
Suddenly, more footsteps echoe through the house.
"Madison, go straight to bed, alright dear, and we'll see you in the morning." he hears the women say.
"Kay Mom, good night." Shecker's voice says, calming him slightly.
Within seconds, he hears the door to the room open. Shecker's humming of some unknown song ceases instantly, probably detecting his spiritual pressure in the room. She closes the door silently, but quickly, before turning back to face her bed.
"Toshiro?" she whispers, just loud enough for him to hear.
He peaks his head up to see her over the bed, surprising her slightly when she first sees him. It's now that he gets a real good look at her. She wears usual blue jeans and green tee with a black jacket. In the small light she now turns on, he sees she's wearing the cross necklace, a thin layer of ice covering it, which surprises him. But what takes him by surprise even more is the purple diamond shaped gem hanging from a chain connected to her pants. She climbs across her bed to be sitting right above him, looking down at him.
"Wow, I didn't actually think that would work." she says as she looks over him.
"What does that mean?!" Toshiro whispers, irritated by her false belief.
"That doesn't matter, you're safe in this world, aren't you?" she asks, smiling.
He sighs in irritation.
"Why does my gigai look like this? I thought that you were gonna make it look like me-" Toshiro whispers.
"-In this world, there aren't any boys with white hair and turquiose eyes. You want to blend into this world, don't you?" Shecker interupts.
"I guess but-"
"But nothing, now close your eyes and lay back down, I need to change." Shecker says as a slight redness rises to her cheeks.
Toshiro immediately does as told and sinks back below the bed, not wanting to make the evening more awkward then it already is.
Minutes later, the two find themselves sitting on her bed in the dark, talking up a storm about tomorrow's events. Initally, Toshiro is going to act as a new student, and Madison has made sure that he's in all of her classes. His fake name is Tomas White (really originial), and they're old friends who were spilt up after his Father moved them to Japan because of his car company. And, because of job promotion back to the states, along with being tired of biking everywhere, he moved back and is here to stay.
Yeah, that will be buyable, but, why is there an uneasiness as he lays there with Madison, who has fallen asleep?

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Death and Reincarnation (Madison Shecker's Story) pt. 40

"...Finally! I'm back to being one person, and everything is normal again here in the Soul Society. God, I've missed you much that I'm behind on my Mahinahime case. Crap. Why couldn't they assign this to someone else. Seriously?! I'm getting tired of working on this, and might I say I say, it's one of the most boring things I've ever done in my life because I've already read all this information 14 years ago, and let me just say. it only entertained me then because 1, I was younger, 2, I hadn't read any of this info before, and 3, it was my first written assignment as a captain, and I was blindly excited. But, through all this, something bothers me...what time is it in the other world I live in?...

February 23, 2011
SOUL SOCIETY
Madison's Perspective
Slowly, light begins to peek through her eye lids, consciousness beginning to take hold once more. She blinks as she begins to open her eyes.
"Madison, can you hear me..?" Toshiro's voice sounds through her ears.
She looks up in the direction the voice came from to see the fuzzy image of white.
It's Toshiro.
"Toshiro...?" she says, her voice cracking.
He sighs.
"You had us worried." Toshiro says.
"Us?" Madison asks, confused.
"Yes, us." another voice says.
As her eyes finally clear up, she turns her head to see Aneko and Momo standing at the head of her bed, while Rangiku sits nearby.
Suddenly, the last thing that happened comes back to her. Yattamori, the fight, Devena, everything. But, as she goes through her memories, she notices something else. She remembers everything from before she came back.
"What happened?" she asks as Toshiro helps her sit up, "Where's Yattamori, and Devena?"
"You defeated her, remember?" Toshiro answers.
"What about Yattamori?" Madison asks.
Aneko and the others look confused.
"What about you?" Momo asks.
Madison looks away, then takes off her covers and runs into the bathroom connected to her room. She flips on the light and slowly turns towards the mirror, already expecting what she might see. She feels herself gasp slightly as she looks at herself in the reflection. In the reflection she sees herself, but with slightly longer bangs pushed off to the side, long strands of her chestnut hair hanging down in front while the rest of it hangs down to just above her thighs. Only one person that she has ever known to have hair even similar to this...it's Yattamori.
"I'm back to normal..." Madison says, not believing what she's seeing in the mirror..
She hears footsteps coming into the room.
She turns to see it's Toshiro, smiling.
"I'm Yattamori again." she says, smiling back, before turning back to look at herself in the mirror.
"You're not Yattamori." Toshiro comments.
She turns to look at him, confused by his words.
"What?"
"As you once said, Yattamori is dead, you're your own person, Shecker." Toshiro explains.
She becomes stunned by Toshiros words as she realizes that she had actually said that to him the day she had woken up after her fight with Kenta. She looks away for a minute, then begins to smile.
"You know Toshiro, now that I'm back to normal and remember everything that I knew before, to tell you the truth, I don't care. Because you know what?" Madison asks.
"What?" he asks.
"I am the same girl, just..with a new twist. So, call me Yattamori!" Madison yells as she tackles Toshiro, accidentally, knocking them both to the ground, causing everyone in the room to laugh, even Toshiro himself.
Slowly, she props herself on the bottom of her palm, still laughing hisarically as she does. When she opens her eyes, she finds Toshiro laughing too, making her even happier then before. As he now opens his eyes, still chuckling as he stares up at her.
Suddenly, for each, a awkward memory returns. For Madison, it is the accidental kiss they shared when Toshiro helped after she lost control while flashstepping. For Toshiro, it is the time when he had been, well, enchanted by the fake Yattamori. The two begin to instantly blush, and Madison quickly gets off of him as fast as she can being only in night gown. Luckily, they do it gracefully enough that Aneko, Momo, and Rangiku don't notice, seeing as how they're kinda still laughing. When finally everyone calms down, Toshiro and Rangiku step out while Momo and Aneko stay to catch Madison up with her assignment as she gets dressed in her captain's attire.
"So, basically, you think that Mahinahime was killed all those years ago?" Aneko asks.
"Pretty much, I mean, wouldn't you expect her to come back as soon as all the rouge Soul Reapers were captured?"  Madison asks as she pulls her sash around her stomach.
"I guess so, but records show that she had a sercet power that could bring down 20 men in one second. It seems she be able to overpower them easily." Momo comments.
"I wonder what her power was." Aneko comments.
"I looked through some records to see if she had a zampakutou, but nothing came up. I guess she just wasn't taught." Madison says.
"That would make sense, considering she's the royal princess." Momo agrees.
Madison smiles as she ties the bow at the bottom at the bottom of her tied sash. As she looks down at the bow, her vision suddenly become blurred.
"What the-?" Madison starts as suddenly she no longer sees the room she is in.
...Madison, what is wrong?...
Mamori's voice sounds through her head, the first since she had been separated. The calming voice made her relaxed, happy that she isn't entirely alone.
"Mamori, what's going on?" Madison yells.
...you are having a vision. Remember? You, as a time psychic, have the ability to see the past and future...
"Oh, yeah..."
Without warning, a strong light takes hold around her, until finally she finds herself in what appears to be a palace from feudal times, something that she has only seen in books and TV shows.
...Where the heck am I?...
Out of nowhere, a blade peaks from the corner of her eye, her instinct to perry taking over as another sword hits the coming blade. She feels the sword come again and again at her own, until finally, she finds a point. Without mercy, she swings her arm, curves her blade around the other swordsmen's, and flings it from their hand, it landing about 10 feet behind her. She sticks the sword at the man's neck, prepared to strick and finish him. But, without warning, he begins to clap, and smiles.
"Great job, your higness, you are becoming a master at wielding your zampakutou faster then anyone I have ever seen in my life. I do not see why you keep this secret from your parents, they would be amazed by your talent-" The girl at the other end of her blade praises.
...Your highness..?...
"Don't you ever speak of this with my parents!" she hears herself snap at the girl, surprising her.
Madison begins to freak. She wasn't the one that said that!
"But, Princess-" the girl starts.
"No, Kiara. If my parents were to discover that I wield a zampakutou, and even know shikai, they would disown me, if not send me to the streets. My parents made it clear to all of their children that they did not want us to gain the power of a Zampakutou, for they think that it will make us somehow wicked or dependent on their powers. But, I realized soon enough that they did not do as they said it would. I have not only gained intuition on how to protect myself, but, when I become Queen, I believe my knowledge and experience of these swords will actually help me become a greater leader then my parents." Madison hears herself explain, "But, until the time that I take the throne of the Soul Society, you must keep your lips shut, and your mind hushed."
Madison can't believe what she's hearing. Parents? Princess? Future Queen of the Soul Society?! It's clear now. She isn't just in the memories of anyone, she's in the memories of the one that she has been looking for the last 14 years.
Princess Mahinahime.
As she watches the girl solemly nod, Madison tries to make sense of why she is seeing this.
...So, she did have a zampakutou. But, for some reason, her parents didn't want her to, so she never told them and kept it hidden away. That would make sense to why the zampakutou's existense was never recorded. But, still, why am I able to see this, I shouldn't be able to see into her memories, from this long ago...
"Y-Yes, my lady." the girl answers, "But, my lady, what is your zampakutou? What does it do?"
Mahina sighs and turns towards her, holding out her blade horizontal to the ground. As she does so, Madison tries to see the guard and hilt.
...If I see the hilt, I might be able to find out if she's disguised as a soul reaper nowadays...
"My zampakutou I guess you could say, controls that of which controls all of us." Mahina states.
...What the heck is that supposed to mean?!...
"The name of my sword is..." Mahina begins, before the world around Madison begins to contort and the image fades.
...NO!...
Within a second, Madison finds herself starring back down at her sashes' bow.
"Madison...?" Aneko's voice asks, sounding worried.
"Damn it! I didn't see it! And I didn't hear it either, I so close!" Madison snaps.
She looks up at that moment to see Momo and Aneko starring at her, surprised to hear her say the word "Damn", considering she never says stuff like that. It's now that she realizes that they have no idea what she is talking about. She grins awkwardly.
"S-Sorry. I uh, had um, a-" she starts.
"Vision?" Aneko finishes.
Madison becomes surprised by the fact that Aneko actually knows what happened.
"H-How did you-?" Madison starts.
"You're a time psyhic, meaning that you probably have the ability to see the future, and second, I've been you're lietenant for a while now, I think I've got a gist of what your abilities are by now." Aneko explains, smiling, "So, what did you see this time?"
Madison looks away, then sighs.
"She had a zampakutou..." Madison starts.
"What?" Aneko asks.
"She had a zampakutou! What part of that is not easy to understand?!" Madison yells, irritated.
"Who had a zampakutou?" Momo asks.
"Mahinahime!" Madison answers.
"Mahinahime!? That's impossible, it wasn't in the records-" Aneko starts.
"The Soul King and Queen didn't want their children, including Mahinahime, to have the ability to use a zampakutou, so they forbid it. But, Mahinahime accidentally learned about her own and began training with someone without her parents' knowledge. That explains why information about her zampakutou was never writen down. It's because other then maybe one person, no one knew about it." Madison explains, "But unfortunately, the vision didn't last long enough for me to see the guard and hilt or hear her say it's name, so we're still at a loss."
"How did you see all that? Our abilities don't let us see other's past experiences without at least owning something of their's." Aneko asks, stunned by Madison's explanations.
Madison's eyes widen in surprise, before she looks away, trying to find the reason herself.
"Who knows, the important thing right now is that we got a new piece of information that can help us in the future with this case." Madison says as she walks away, opening the door to Toshiro's surprise.
"Madison? What happened?" Toshiro asks as she walks down the hall.
"We're going to go see Grandpa Yama." Madison says.
"Madison, wait." Toshiro says as he stops her.
His actions surprise her.
"Toshiro, what's wrong?" Madison asks.
"I was thinking about it, and I was wondering, haven't you been here for about six days?" Toshiro asks.
Madison is surprised by his question, at least until it finally sinks in about why he said that.
Six days here is about 15 hours back home in her world. Meaning, she's missing school and is probably right now sitting in a hospital bed with her family wondering why she won't wake up!
"Crap!" Madison yells as she begins to run out.
"Madison, wait!" Toshiro calls after her as she exists the building.
Suddenly, in mid pace, she feels a sight pressure around her right wrist, stopping her in her tracks. She looks down to the surprise of a chain bracelet around her wrist, with a purple diamond-shaped charm hanging from one of the rings.
"What the-?" she starts.
Without warning, the charm begins to glow and shines a bright light, blinding Madison and the others for minute. When they can see again, Madison finds a senkaimon like void ahead of her, white light shining from within.
"What's that?" Aneko asks.
"Seems to be a senkaimon or something." Madison says as she walks closer to it.
Suddenly, Toshiro's arm stops her from walking closer, surprising her.
"Toshiro, whay are you doing?" she asks.
"Be careful, you don't know where it leads to." Toshiro warns.
Madison looks back at the portal, not believing in Toshiro's words. Suddenly, from inside the portal, the familar whiney of a horse sounds out, surprising her.
"Mamori.." Madison says as she steps out from behind Toshiro, surprising them.
"Madison, what are you doing!?" Toshiro calls after her as she walks towards the senkaimon.
"It's ok, this senkaimon is a connection between this world and the other world I live in. I'll be fine, don't worry." Madison says as she goes to put her hand into the void.
Suddenly, she feels herself tackled from behind.
"Madison, stop!" she hears Toshiro yell.
But, it all fades as the white light engulfs her, sending her back to where she belongs.