Shinigami romance. | By : Solaris Category: Bleach > Het - Male/Female Views: 6332 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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“Hey guys, we got a slight problem.” Ichigo said as he rushed into the waiting room to see his friends sitting around.
“What type of problem?” Chad asked.
“Well, Tamika has a minor concussion from the collapse and she’s able to be released but not if there is anyone at her place to watch her. She has no one to pop in and wake her every two hours like my dad wants done. I offered myself and you guys for the job since she has no friends and no family to care for her. I hope you guys don’t mind me volunteering you for such a job,” Ichigo said.
Uryû Ishida asked, “Why doesn’t her friends help her?”
Ichigo looked at him and replied. “She doesn’t have any friends at all plus by what she told my dad, she has no parents to watch her either.”
Orihime looked at Ichigo. “What happened to her folks or did she make mention of what happened to them?”
Ichigo shook his head. “She made no mention of them but for stating that they were dead.”
“That’s so sad,” Orihime said.
Ichigo looked at his friends. “So are you guys going to help me watch her?”
Uryû and Orihime spoke at the same time. “Yes, I’ll help.” Both blushed when they looked at each other.
Chad nodded as he stood up. “I’ll help too.”
“Good, I’ll tell father.” Ichigo turned and headed back to the room where Tamika was at. “Dad, they agreed. We have at least four people to watch her for the next two days.”
Isshin turned to look at Tamika. “Well, I can release you into my son’s care. But first things first, how will you get to your home?”
Tamika smiled. “The bus or we can walk as it is not that far from the Urahara’s store.”
Ichigo replied. “We’ll walk it then. There is no need to use the bus.”
“Okay, now after you get home to bed you go and no refusals as I’ll give my son full right to throw you into your bed if you don’t.” Isshin said firmly.
Tamika looked at them and sighed as she looked down at her legs. “Okay, so can I go home now?”
Isshin smiled and nodded. “Yes, you may go home. My son and his friends will walk with you home and will watch over you till the concussion is better.”
Tamika looked at him and asked, “My clothes are not cut apart, are they?”
“No, they aren’t.” Isshin stated, as he handed them to her.
“Good,” she wobbled her way into the bathroom and changed there, even though she kept part of the door open so she could see out of.
Ichigo stood there waiting as Kisuke and Yoruichi headed out of the room with Isshin following behind. Ichigo whistled to himself as he stood there waiting for Tamika.
Tamika came up from behind him and spoke, “So shall we go?”
Ichigo leapt out of fright before he glared at her. “Sure, let’s go collect my friends. I’ll introduce them to you so you know who you are inviting into your home.” He walked out of the room and to the waiting room where the others were waiting for him.
Soon, Tamika was introduced to the others. She knew who Uryû Ishida was by looking at him as she called him the Last Quincy to his embarressment. But she smiled at him before they walked out of the clinic. She led them towards where the Urahara shop was located at.
Ichigo asked, after he walked up next to her. “We’re going past the Urahara shop, why?”
“The home that some of the Shinigami uses is just past his shop, Ichigo.” Tamika replied as she looked at him. “Don’t be too surprised. There are many homes around here that belong to the Shinigami. We use them all and sometimes we don’t and live with others who know what we are but those are few and far between.”
They walked a few more blocks till they came across the blocked entrance to the Urahara shop. Tamika stopped and looked at the ruins of the shop to see Kisuke and the others standing there discussing what they would do as in rebuilding the shop.
“Tamika, so good to see you up and walking.” Kisuke said, as he fanned his face with his white fan after he noticed that they were there.
She smiled and bowed slightly towards him. “Thank you, Kisuke-san. But I am not out of trouble for the next few days. And hopefully, they don’t send ‘him’ down here.”
“Meh, they probably won’t.” Kisuke replied.
“I hope not, I am perfectly fine,” Tamika stated, just as she wobbled on her feet. No one noticed the shadow hidden behind Tessai.
Ichigo noticed it and spoke up. “We better get you to your home, Tamika, you are starting to wobble. Bye Kisuke-san.” He gently nudged her to start moving towards her home.
Tamika smiled as she lead them another five blocks before going up a few steps into a house and opened the door. “This is the house that I use when I am here. A few other Shinigami use it as well but they left for the Soul Society already so the house is basically empty for the next two weeks.”
After they got into the house to find that it was well furnished with Japenese furniture and locating all the rooms that they would be using, Ichigo had Orihime take Tamika to her room and get her into bed.
Orihime looked at Tamika. “Who is ‘him’?”
“Wha?” asked Tamika, as she pulled off her clothes and got into her white kimino that she used as a nightgown. She slipped into the bed that Orihime got ready for her.
Orihime looked at her. “Who is the one you are worried about being sent here?”
Tamika blushed as she lowered her head before she looked at her. “Don’t tell the others. But it’s Renji Abarai, he is . . . “
“He’s a Shinigami. I know who he is. He goes to the same school that Ichigo does.” Orihime stated.
She looked away. “Oh, then he might be residing within one of the other houses. I hope he doesn’t come and be a bother.”
“Why?”
“Oh if he knew I was injured he would come to make sure that I was getting the proper care or haul me back to Soul Society to make sure that I would.” Tamika stated, as she leaned back against the pillow.
“Oh hopefully he’ll understand that you are getting the proper care. Now sleep, I’ll wake you in two hours,” Orihime replied, as she looked at her.
Tamika nodded and closed her eyes to the sleep that was trying to overtake her. She saw Orihime pull the blankets over her before everything went dark on her.
~~~~~
Ichigo had just emerged from one of the rooms when he saw Orihime emerge from Tamika’s room. “Is she asleep?”
Orihime nodded. “Also, she warned me of another Shinigami who might come here and be a bother.”
“Who would that be?” Uryû Ishida asked.
“Renji Abarai,”
Ichigo slapped his face with his hand. “Why would he be here?”
“You know he goes to the same school that we all do, Ichigo. He probably will have some type of device to track her down like he did with Rukia.” Uryû Ishida replied.
“Maybe and maybe not, I’ll go search for him if he is around,” Ichigo said, as he approached the door.
“But your father wants you to watch over Tamika, Ichigo,” Orihime stated.
Ichigo slapped his forehead. “That’s right. All we can do is hope that he doesn’t come here and be a bother. But why would Renji be concerned over a lone Shinigami? The only one who he would be that concerned about would be Rukia.”
The others all had a puzzled look on their faces as they knew the tall red head’s admiration for Rukia that bordered between like and love, but what other secrets did the tall red head have. They didn’t know and probably to ask him would get their heads taken off as the red head was also very private about his private life.
Ichigo pulled out of his school bag that he brought with him, his homework and started to work on it. The others followed suit knowing that it was probably the best idea since it would be quite boring there even with the TV set turned on.
It was no more than an hour later, that they heard a cry coming from Tamika’s room. Orihime and Ichigo was there first only to see Tamika moaning in her sleep. Orihime looked at Ichigo and spoke, “Nightmare?”
Ichigo nodded. “Better wake her from it.”
“Right,” Orihime went to her side and gently shook her awake. Tamika looked around with eyes full of fright and then she slipped back into a deep sleep. Orihime turned to look at Ichigo who shrugged his shoulders. “That’s weird. She did have a nightmare but what was it about?”
They returned to the living room when Ichigo made the comment about the accident.
Orihime thought about it before she nodded. “She might be reliving it in her dreams. Maybe you should go see Kisuke and ask him if the gigai the false body might have dreams?”
Ichigo nodded and headed for the door when he stopped. “Someone would have to wake her in an hour?”
“Don’t worry, I’ll do it. Now go before he leaves the shop, Ichigo,” Orihime stated.
Ichigo nodded before he hurried out of the house and down the street. It took him twenty minutes before he reached the Urahara Shôten to see Tessai standing there with Yoruichi talking to her. “Can I see Kisuke-san? I need to ask him a question?”
“He’s in the underground arena right now, Ichigo.” Yoruichi replied.
“Thanks,” Ichigo went to where the tunnel was at and climbed down it to find Kisuke weilding Benihime, moving slowly as he practiced his fighting moves. Ichigo waited till he was done before speaking. “Kisuke, I have a question about the gigai, the false bodies that you allow the Shinigami to use while here?”
Kisuke glanced over at him after he transformed Benihime back into his cane and with a flick of his wrist, his fan was open and fanning his face. “Oh?”
“Do they have dreams?” asked Ichigo.
Kisuke fanned himself another minute before shutting his fan and looking at him from beneath his hat. “Depends on what kind they have.”
“So they can dream?”
“Meh,” Kisuke replied, as he popped open his fan once more.
“They can dream which means that they can have nightmares,” Ichigo stated.
“They are like normal human bodies, they bleed, cry, feel pain, feel happiness, get pregnant, have dreams and various other normal human things,” Kisuke replied, before he started to walk towards the ladder and climbed up to the surface of his ruined shop. “Tessai, the underground is still in good shape. I think we can start rebuilding the shop as soon as possible.”
“Good, I’ll start gathering the tools to rebuild the shop as it was before.” Tessai stated, as he walked away.
Ichigo looked at Kisuke who was still fanning his face. “Anything else, Ichigo?”
Ichigo shook his head but then remembered. “Is Renji still hanging around here?”
“Meh,” the sound of his fan closing. “Why do you want to know?”
“Well, Tamika is worried that he’ll show up at her home and be a bother,” Ichigo said, as he started to walk away.
“Well, he shouldn’t really worry unless she gives her powers to one of your friends,” Kisuke replied.
“She can’t. Not in the form she’s in?”
“She can’t only when she’s in her Shinigami form could she give it to them,” Kisuke stated as he opened his fan once more and started to fan his face as he turned away from Ichigo.
“Thank you,” Ichigo bowed and left the shop for the home of Tamika.
The shadowed form emerged from behind Tessai. “What happened to her, Kisuke?”
“Accident. Might have some side effects being in closed areas.” Kisuke said, before walking away with Tessai leaving the form behind and the form started to head in the direction where Ichigo headed in.
~~~~~~
“Ichigo, any information on the faux bodies from Kisuke?” asked Uryû, looking at him as he entered the home.
“Yeah, they can do everything that we can which means she can have nightmares.” Ichigo replied. “How is she?”
“She had another nightmare, this time she woke fully up. I was in the room about to wake her when she woke up screaming.” Uryû stated.
“I had to help calm her down and reassure her that she’s not in the collapsed shop anymore.” Orihime replied.
Ichigo nodded. “Seems that we might have to help her get over the fear that she might have.”
They nodded silently.
The shadowed form walked to the house cocked the head to the side before walking down the street. The shadowed form reappeared on the roof of the house and leaned against the wall like the person was waiting for something.
“Ichigo, do you think she’ll be staying here for long?” asked Uryû. “I mean she probably will have to go to the high school to fit in around here, especially if she is seen around us.”
“Probably, we can ask her when she recovers from her concussion,” Ichigo replied, as he scratched something on his paper before returning to his books. “Gah, I hate math!”
“Having trouble?” Orihime asked, looking at him.
“Yeah,” Ichigo showed her what he was doing and soon they were working on correcting the mistake. Ichigo slapped his head when he realized that it was a simple miscalculation on his part.
It was an hour later, Orihime glanced at the clock and hurried to the bedroom of Tamika to find the bed empty. She made a short cry of shock which brought the others into the room.
“Where is she?” griped Ichigo, looking in the room.
Chad noticed the bathroom light was on. “She might be in the bathroom, Ichigo.”
Orihime headed to the bathroom to find Tamika splashing water on her face. “You okay?”
“Yes, just needed to use the bathroom and to get woken up.” Tamika stated.
“Well, you still need to rest. A concussion is not to be taken lightly,” Orihime replied, as she helped her back into her room.
“I know.” Tamika said, as she went to her closet and pulled out some normal looking clothes.
Orihime got the others out of the room so she could dress. She sat there talking to Tamika while she pulled on her clothes. Tamika headed for the door and walked into the living room and then passed it as she went to the kitchen where she started to make some soup for everyone to eat as well as pulling some smoked salmon from the fridge.
After they had dinner, Ichigo noticed a feeling that he got and he told them that he had to go and shifted into his Shinigami form and raced off.
Tamika watched as he disappeared from view with a longing gaze.
“You want to go with him don’t you?” asked Chad.
Tamika nodded. “It feels funny not being able to go on a hunt. My head is still out of it to where I wouldn’t be able to shift out of this gigai very easily. But I wouldn’t mind seeing him in action.”
Orihime spoke up. “Come on then, we can probably figure out where he went.”
They went racing out of the house and down the road. Uryû yelled out to them after he saw Ichigo standing in the middle of the park. They crept into the shadows and hid as they watched him fight off a big Hollow. It was then, they noticed another Shinigami coming to Ichigo’s side.
“Renji!” Tamika whispered.
Orihime turned to look at her and whispered. “Do you know him?”
“I know of him, but not on a personal level.” Tamika lied, as they watched as the orange haired and the red head destroy the Hollow before turning on each other and started to yell at each other.
Chad and Uryû went racing towards them hoping to stop them from killing each other before both men started to chuckle before grasping each other’s hand before going off in their own direction.
Ichigo noticed that they were there. “What are you guys doing here? And what is she doing out of bed!”
“Well, I made them come with me. I wanted to see what the official subsitute Shinigami could do.” Tamika said.
“Well, what do you think?” Ichigo stated, arms crossed in front of him.
“I think you could have handled the Hollow without Renji’s help. You were doing fine before he jumped in to help.” Tamika replied, as they started to walk back home.
“Uh, gee thanks, Tamika.” Ichigo said, as he shifted back to his normal human form. “So what division are you?”
“I prefer not speaking of my division, Ichigo.” Tamika stated, before she glanced towards the boarded up Urahara shop and soon they were past it.
“Ooookay,” Ichigo replied, as they kept walking towards her home.
The others wondered which division she was apart of now that she refused to speak of it. Orihime figured it might be the same one that Renji is a member of, but she would have to talk to the red head to find out and sometimes that was hard to do with him since at school he always stood off alone and if she went to his side, she have to act not like a friend but as someone trying to be his friend.
Ichigo wondeed if Renji would know of her and which division she was in. He would have to ask him after pulling the red head away from his groupies at school. Who would have thought that he would be popular with the girls at school? Maybe it was because of the tattoos he had or that he just came off like a ladies man but the girls adored him.
Uryû watched as Tamika headed into the kitchen, he followed her just to help out if possible. He noticed that she was working on bringing down the rice cooker. “Can I help with that, Tamika?”
She turned to see him walking up. “Oh thank you, Uryû. I most appreciate it.”
Uryû reached up to the third shelf and pulled the rice cooker down. “A better place for this would be left on the counter or in one of the lower cabinets.”
“Yeah, but the previous Shinigami placed it up here even though I had it set down there,” Tamika pointed towards the left lower cabinet by the stove. She went to another cabinet and pulle out a small bag of rice and then grabbed a wet/dry measure cup. She dealt with the rice before she turned to the fridge and opened it to reveal a fully stocked fridge. She pulled out chicken strips that were raw, and some smoked salmon.
Uryû watched as she cooked the chicken and placed out several plates. He tried to question her about her knowledge of Renji but she replied that everyone knew about him. “Surely, you know something about him? You have that look in your eyes that said more than your words did, Tamika.”
“I don’t really know much about him other than he’s a lieutenant of the 6th division and he’s not one you want to get between his target and him.” Tamika stated, as she prepared several dishes.
“So why don’t you have more Shinigamis here?” he asked.
“Because I refuse to have them here, even though I am one. Past history with them,” Tamika stated, as she walked out of the kitchen and told the others that she had some food prepared.
The others wondered what would a Shinigami from Soul Society knew about cooking real food. They were shocked when they saw the food that she prepared. She was already off to the side munching on her own food.
“I lived here different times and learned how to cook this realm’s food. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to put my wobbly body back to bed. I’ll clean up in the morning,” Tamika stated, as she headed for her room.
Uryû followed her into her room. “You seem a bit upset back there?”
“Sorry, I am not fond of some of them.”
“What did they do?”
Tamika got up from her chair and closed the door. “Don’t tell the others this.”
“I won’t.”
“They allowed my parents who were right up to the status of lieutenant of the 9th division to die. The only ones who came to my parents’ aid was those of the 6th division. The 9th division which my folks were apart of never came to their aid when they called for help.” Tamika stated, in a huff.
“Your folks were slain by the Shinigami?” Uryû asked.
“Not exactly, they were slain by Hollows but they called for help from their division but they never came, only the 6th division showed up to help my parents even though it was too late when they arrived.” Tamika replied. “I found out years later that the 9th division never went to their aid. Their captain thought my parents were getting too much praise when it came to hunting Hollows down that they refused to go to the summons for aid when my folks needed the help.”
Uryû asked, “I can see why you hate them but why weren’t you there to help your folks?”
“I was still in training. I wasn’t ready to go out on a mission yet.” Tamika replied. “The ones who told me about their deaths was the Captain of the 6th division - Byakuya Kuchiki. He told me about their deaths but never made mention that my parents’ main division never showed up till I became a Shinigami of their level.”
“Of their level? What did he mean by that?”
“They could handle four Hollows at one time. I can do it but it leaves me weakened and vulunerable to attack.” Tamika stated.
“So the Shinigami let your parents be killed?” Uryû Ishida asked.
Tamika nodded. “The 9th division’s vice captain was the one who allowed my parents to be slain. I blame him for their deaths, no one else.”
“I know how you feel. I may not be a Shinigami but a Quincy. My grandfather was slain by Hollows but the Shinigami came to his aid too late to be helpful to my grandfather. I blamed them for his death. But working side by side with Ichigo against the Hollows made me give up hating most of the Shinigami but for the current head of the 12th division. I don’t like him very much.” Uryû said.
“I have to agree with you there. I don’t like him too. He’s a mad scientist.” Tamika replied, as she looked at him. “Some of the Shinigami are not all bad, they might be misguided but they are good souls.”
“Like Byakuya and Renji?” Uryû asked.
Tamika smiled. “Do you know what most people call Byakuya, Uryû?”
He shook his head. He knew of one name – noble but he wasn’t aware of any more names for the Aristocrat. “What do they call him, Tamika?”
“You know they call Yoruichi, the Goddess of the flash step. They call him the God of the flash step. He’s a master at it. Even with his soft spoken self, when he wants to move, he moves like lightning. Not many Shinigami want to practice with him as he ends up defeating them before they even have a chance at hitting him.” Tamika said, as she looked out the window.
“But for Renji?” asked Uryû.
“He usually will fight with him.” Tamika responded, as she glanced at him. “I did on one occasion practice with him. I could not match his movements nor get my sword onto his flesh. He was just too fast for me.”
“And he’s very powerful spiritually,” Uryû replied. Tamika nodded. “I better get back to the others, they’ll wonder what I am doing here with you,”
Tamika smiled as the young Quincy walked out of the room before she picked up a book and started to read it till she grew tired. She placed the book up and changed into her nightgown. She turned off the light and fell into a deep sleep, unaware of the shadowed form crouched on the tree branch outside of her room before the form vanished.
TBC . . .
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