Byakuya paused in uandishi the inayofuata day's assignment when he felt ice cold deathly anger freeze whatever humanity he had left. He closed his eyes and saw Karen. As she caught a phone and vanish. Dead eyes smiled in a pale face and soon they too disappeared. He breathed in slowly regaining some control over the anger. Blinking he realized none of what he had seen au felt was his. It was hers. Hers? He concentrated on the aura that the feelings had left him with as it dissipated.
It had been months since the dreams had stopped...his feelings still were mixed about the so-called Guardian. Now that aura was stamped on him and all that had just happened.
He swallowed uncomfortably as to the meaning. She had not just been a ghost, nor a dream, but flesh and blood. One powerful enough to take over his emotional state. Dangerous, unpredictable, exciting. He shook his head and stood up from the dawati closing the book. Captain Toshiro and Ichigo came running into the room. "Captain!" Byakuya merely gave them a side-ways glance. Lips was right on their tails, a cold calm in his eyes. "No! This is not a Society problem!" Rory alisema hard and to the point as she calmly walked in. Ichigo immediately rounded on the both of them. "My sister was taken! This is beyond just your groups reach!" Lips touched a pressure point and the boy collapsed. Lips eyed the growing crowd.
" wewe do understand wewe are not invited, not wanted and if wewe get in our way wewe will pay a very big price that wewe may not have anticipated on paying. We are clear on this."
Toshiro helped Ichigo up to his feet. Rory touched the same spot as Lips had and Ichigo coughed and began to breathe again. "And Lips, wewe have a class to teach in about 30 dakika and with the women along the way you'll be late kwa at least 15." Lips opened up his mouth to argue but she shook her head. "Fine! But if wewe don't bring the both of them home, I'm going to kill all of you!" Rory laughed. "With what? You're cooking?" Lips winced and took off. "Don't worry he's not serious about killing any of us. He was aliyopewa a responsibility he wasn't expecting to have to cover. And his cooking isn't that bad." She then walked out only to be stopped kwa Ichigo's hand on her shoulder. "Careful kiddo many have laid a hand on my shoulder and have never seen the inayofuata hour. But don't worry your sister will be back kwa chajio, chakula cha jioni time if not sooner."
Ichigo narrowed his eyes. "And Jamie?" Rory's eyes took on a concerned look. "She leaves us from time to time. Sometimes it's weeks sometimes it's years and sometimes we die before seeing her again. But all of us know that she will live on carrying us in her heart. That is all that matters to us." Rory then gently took his hand off her shoulder and left.
Jamie flashed to the spot described on the card. Just another kilima among many others on the countryside. Except this one had a fake top, which now opened to reveal a brunette head coming up. She shivered involuntarily knowing who it was. If it hadn't been for her, Jamie would have spent even zaidi years under their care. Even if Jamie had started the group, it had never been intended for what it had become. The scientist raised her head inaonyesha what remained of her face. Half of it remained young and just as becoming as it had been while the other... the flesh was gone from underneath the melted eye to the thinned skin on the throat. Her jaw was connected kwa a set of wires, the teeth made of obsidian. "It is sooo nice to see wewe after all these years my beloved. As wewe can see your escape has changed me as it has everyone. It has aliyopewa us all certain opportunities to improve upon nature." The woman made to touch Jamies face with her hand. Jamie backed away a step. "And the girl?" The scientist frowned at the object of her obsession. "Oh, wewe mean that little freak that Messenger sent us as a hostage." Jamie took another step back. The woman, started to sweat. If her beauty left now the chances of getting another chance were slim to none. "She's on her way with Hunchback to the nearest escape hatch." Jamie frowned. "And how can I trust you?" The woman tightened her hands into fists. How? Ice buzzed her comlink. "She wants proof. Give her your cell phone." Jamie shook her head. "That's how wewe got your hands on the girl. wewe hold it I'll look at it. If I can determine where she is..." She vanished to where Karen came out. The Hunchback growled at her and brandished a set of pointed teeth at her.
"Are wewe alright? Did they hurt you?" Jamie alisema with no little amount of concern. Karen shook her head. Jamie sighed with relief. "Hunchback, wewe go back in and shut the door. Karen take this and go home. Be good and grow up strong, but never forget to have some fun." Jamie kissed her on her forehead and was gone. Leaving Karen, her now turned-on tracker and cell phone.
Jamie reappeared in front of the near fainting scientist on the hill. "Oh my God! She's returned!" She alisema into her link. "Of course, I did! I don't make and then break a deal."
Jamie got onto the elevator disk with the woman. "Don't wewe want to look back?" Jamie shook her head. "Why? I gave my word. For me there is no rescue. No out this time. What point is there for me to look back?" Jamie could tell the scientist was excited, the woman hugged her close as they descended.
Karen waited where the door had closed. P.B was there within 15 dakika after Jamie had vanished. "Mom's inside, isn't she?" Karen paled. "Why would she give herself over when she...." P.B. hugged the girl close as tears flowed down her face. "Because mom never breaks her word no matter what. She wanted wewe free, to her that is worth her life." Karen started to cry and hit P.B. as hard as she could. P.B. took it. "Sh... its ok. Mom can't die, but even if we know where she is her word still stands. This is her fate until God changes it. Let's get wewe back home." Karen shook her head. "How can wewe just leave her in there with those people?" P.B.'s eyes looked down and her throat choked up. "Because she's been here before. wewe have no idea who we are. No idea who she is and what she's been through. This is what she does. Who she is....and I hate it that I have to leave her inside with monsters who want nothing zaidi than to tear her apart and find what makes her special. But if we go storming in there.... she isn't the only one inside.... When they went rogue, she burned the whole complex but instead of dying they became what wewe saw. Penitence is a heavy word, especially for someone who has had over 3000 years of her own guilt. She has never forgotten one sin of her own making. They are one of hers." Karen paled at the idea. "Why?" P.B. walked with her hand in Karen's towards the road. "Envision being cursed to live centuries being the only one of your kind. Not able to advance into the afterlife au have your own family. At least those bounts could be killed and advance into another life, but mom...no. She was tired of watching her life continue...she created the group to find a way to end her life. But only hers. That group became her purpose, there was 100 years of work. In that time the group found plenty of good, but never a way to end her life. In time people retired changed and power became zaidi important to them then her goal. They started to find special people like Marz. In fact, it was because of Marz that the lab perished in her escape. There were many victims of the lab. Harmonies great grandparents were one of those that survived the experiments and made it out. Mom always looked after them, but guilt can't be that easily assuaged."
Karen paused and pulled. "But she didn't know. How could she hold herself responsible?" P.B. tugged gently. "That's mom. She'll make them help us to find Voro and Harmony if she has to, but she won't allow us to come after her. Perhaps they will be able to find what she has always wanted, a way to go to him." Karen blinked; she opened her mouth to ask who him was when Toshiro arrived in his reaper captain uniform. P.B. let go of Karen's hand. Lips was there on his legendary faster than his lips bike. He hardly stopped when he flung his arms around P.B. "What the Hell is wrong with wewe going off like that! wewe scared us all to death!" P.B. just choked on her words as she fought her tears. Lips pushed her head into his chest and held her close. "Come on kid. We've got dirt bags to put away. wewe know mom. When it's time the rock will roll away and God will kick her punda out of her funk. It's not like she hasn't done this before, and if we aren't here one of our kids will. Ok?" P.B.'s lips quivered but she nodded and took his hand. "Sorry I didn't bring the car, but I was already on the bike when the tracker came back on. But I'm sure, yup there they are." A black sleek shadow of a car flowed like a fira, viper towards them. "That will be Flack, Ichigo and the rest of your family. Mom...well she's always been generous when she can be. Now we'll be leaving, before he starts asking too many questions." Toshiro frowned. "You're just going to leave her in there?" Lips grabbed up the reaper and thrashed him. "Do wewe know how much its killing me to leave her there! She saved me and my sister and all she ever asked was to respect her wishes. All this time I've been keeping to them... all this time she's traded herself over and over and over to the point I stopped counting how many times she's done it and when she isn't doing that she's walking into terrorist camps drug and war lord strong holds taking them down one at a time. Getting us to blow the whole damn thing up with her right in the middle of it! Most of the time we get her she's in the coroner's office au the morgue. We pick her up and have to heat her like some damn turkey hoping we get her back and not some gruesome horror. She will keep her word...none of us can break it. Damn it! It's all because of him! One damn promise she couldn't keep, and she carries that guilt forever! What 8-year-old makes a promise like that! Tell me!" Tushiro let the man finish as he saw into the man's eyes. For those who were of Jamies family there really was no way out for them. Her word was not only her word but their rule and law. "You'd better get moving unless wewe want Ichigo to get wewe back for making him go limp and not getting her back." Karen informed them. Lips eased the captain down with a trembling hand. "Why didn't wewe stop me?" Tushiro shook his head. "You're lucky I felt obligated to your people for rescuing Karen." He softened a little. "And I understand, her word is your law. It's not an easy thing to follow." Lips nodded stutteringly. "Thanks. Yeah, K's right, we'd best get moving. Got to get that bastard Voro anyways."
"Wow now that's a bike." Isshin alisema as a motorcycle buzzed kwa them almost so fast Ichigo couldn't feel the aura that marked the bike as the Hoards property. Flack frowned and stepped up the speed even faster than the 15 over the he'd been going. "Hey, aren't we going a little too fast?" Ichigo alisema tensely. Flack gave him a sideways glance and stepped harder before flipping a switch and rolling the car. Bars popped out making a roll cage around the car, they stopped perfectly in front of the two clinging together. Flack immediately flipped the button again releasing the bars. "Karen are wewe alright!" Karen and Tushiro were grabbed up kwa Flack and squeezed till they could barely breathe. "Thank God you're alright!" Isshin hurried and was about to place a kick in the man's back when the man merely twisted and squarely placed a kick to Isshin's groin. "That's pretty rude mister. Then again what wewe are is kind of rude." Flack eased the two in his arms down. "Rude! I puked in the car wewe rolled us so badly. You're the one that's rude! And how dare wewe pick up my sweet baby!" Flack frowned. "She's your kid? wewe must be kidding mom's genes would have never gone that sideways. Of course, wewe could be her brother's side, but wewe don't look like him au even smell remotely evil. Karen is this really your pop?" Karen laughed lightly. It was a sound that alisema it was out of practice and raspy. "Yes, Lips this is my dad. Dad this is my new teacher. The one I was telling wewe about." Isshin blinked. Her new teacher? Oh, the one who was helping her with her computer skills. The one she had a crush on. He eyed the man, strong well skilled and rich. "That was who I thought wasn't it. P.B and Lips?" Karen nodded. "Moms kept her word, then until she's out we'll be making our nyumbani in Kara Kura. Hope wewe don't mind having us as neighbors."
It had been months since the dreams had stopped...his feelings still were mixed about the so-called Guardian. Now that aura was stamped on him and all that had just happened.
He swallowed uncomfortably as to the meaning. She had not just been a ghost, nor a dream, but flesh and blood. One powerful enough to take over his emotional state. Dangerous, unpredictable, exciting. He shook his head and stood up from the dawati closing the book. Captain Toshiro and Ichigo came running into the room. "Captain!" Byakuya merely gave them a side-ways glance. Lips was right on their tails, a cold calm in his eyes. "No! This is not a Society problem!" Rory alisema hard and to the point as she calmly walked in. Ichigo immediately rounded on the both of them. "My sister was taken! This is beyond just your groups reach!" Lips touched a pressure point and the boy collapsed. Lips eyed the growing crowd.
" wewe do understand wewe are not invited, not wanted and if wewe get in our way wewe will pay a very big price that wewe may not have anticipated on paying. We are clear on this."
Toshiro helped Ichigo up to his feet. Rory touched the same spot as Lips had and Ichigo coughed and began to breathe again. "And Lips, wewe have a class to teach in about 30 dakika and with the women along the way you'll be late kwa at least 15." Lips opened up his mouth to argue but she shook her head. "Fine! But if wewe don't bring the both of them home, I'm going to kill all of you!" Rory laughed. "With what? You're cooking?" Lips winced and took off. "Don't worry he's not serious about killing any of us. He was aliyopewa a responsibility he wasn't expecting to have to cover. And his cooking isn't that bad." She then walked out only to be stopped kwa Ichigo's hand on her shoulder. "Careful kiddo many have laid a hand on my shoulder and have never seen the inayofuata hour. But don't worry your sister will be back kwa chajio, chakula cha jioni time if not sooner."
Ichigo narrowed his eyes. "And Jamie?" Rory's eyes took on a concerned look. "She leaves us from time to time. Sometimes it's weeks sometimes it's years and sometimes we die before seeing her again. But all of us know that she will live on carrying us in her heart. That is all that matters to us." Rory then gently took his hand off her shoulder and left.
Jamie flashed to the spot described on the card. Just another kilima among many others on the countryside. Except this one had a fake top, which now opened to reveal a brunette head coming up. She shivered involuntarily knowing who it was. If it hadn't been for her, Jamie would have spent even zaidi years under their care. Even if Jamie had started the group, it had never been intended for what it had become. The scientist raised her head inaonyesha what remained of her face. Half of it remained young and just as becoming as it had been while the other... the flesh was gone from underneath the melted eye to the thinned skin on the throat. Her jaw was connected kwa a set of wires, the teeth made of obsidian. "It is sooo nice to see wewe after all these years my beloved. As wewe can see your escape has changed me as it has everyone. It has aliyopewa us all certain opportunities to improve upon nature." The woman made to touch Jamies face with her hand. Jamie backed away a step. "And the girl?" The scientist frowned at the object of her obsession. "Oh, wewe mean that little freak that Messenger sent us as a hostage." Jamie took another step back. The woman, started to sweat. If her beauty left now the chances of getting another chance were slim to none. "She's on her way with Hunchback to the nearest escape hatch." Jamie frowned. "And how can I trust you?" The woman tightened her hands into fists. How? Ice buzzed her comlink. "She wants proof. Give her your cell phone." Jamie shook her head. "That's how wewe got your hands on the girl. wewe hold it I'll look at it. If I can determine where she is..." She vanished to where Karen came out. The Hunchback growled at her and brandished a set of pointed teeth at her.
"Are wewe alright? Did they hurt you?" Jamie alisema with no little amount of concern. Karen shook her head. Jamie sighed with relief. "Hunchback, wewe go back in and shut the door. Karen take this and go home. Be good and grow up strong, but never forget to have some fun." Jamie kissed her on her forehead and was gone. Leaving Karen, her now turned-on tracker and cell phone.
Jamie reappeared in front of the near fainting scientist on the hill. "Oh my God! She's returned!" She alisema into her link. "Of course, I did! I don't make and then break a deal."
Jamie got onto the elevator disk with the woman. "Don't wewe want to look back?" Jamie shook her head. "Why? I gave my word. For me there is no rescue. No out this time. What point is there for me to look back?" Jamie could tell the scientist was excited, the woman hugged her close as they descended.
Karen waited where the door had closed. P.B was there within 15 dakika after Jamie had vanished. "Mom's inside, isn't she?" Karen paled. "Why would she give herself over when she...." P.B. hugged the girl close as tears flowed down her face. "Because mom never breaks her word no matter what. She wanted wewe free, to her that is worth her life." Karen started to cry and hit P.B. as hard as she could. P.B. took it. "Sh... its ok. Mom can't die, but even if we know where she is her word still stands. This is her fate until God changes it. Let's get wewe back home." Karen shook her head. "How can wewe just leave her in there with those people?" P.B.'s eyes looked down and her throat choked up. "Because she's been here before. wewe have no idea who we are. No idea who she is and what she's been through. This is what she does. Who she is....and I hate it that I have to leave her inside with monsters who want nothing zaidi than to tear her apart and find what makes her special. But if we go storming in there.... she isn't the only one inside.... When they went rogue, she burned the whole complex but instead of dying they became what wewe saw. Penitence is a heavy word, especially for someone who has had over 3000 years of her own guilt. She has never forgotten one sin of her own making. They are one of hers." Karen paled at the idea. "Why?" P.B. walked with her hand in Karen's towards the road. "Envision being cursed to live centuries being the only one of your kind. Not able to advance into the afterlife au have your own family. At least those bounts could be killed and advance into another life, but mom...no. She was tired of watching her life continue...she created the group to find a way to end her life. But only hers. That group became her purpose, there was 100 years of work. In that time the group found plenty of good, but never a way to end her life. In time people retired changed and power became zaidi important to them then her goal. They started to find special people like Marz. In fact, it was because of Marz that the lab perished in her escape. There were many victims of the lab. Harmonies great grandparents were one of those that survived the experiments and made it out. Mom always looked after them, but guilt can't be that easily assuaged."
Karen paused and pulled. "But she didn't know. How could she hold herself responsible?" P.B. tugged gently. "That's mom. She'll make them help us to find Voro and Harmony if she has to, but she won't allow us to come after her. Perhaps they will be able to find what she has always wanted, a way to go to him." Karen blinked; she opened her mouth to ask who him was when Toshiro arrived in his reaper captain uniform. P.B. let go of Karen's hand. Lips was there on his legendary faster than his lips bike. He hardly stopped when he flung his arms around P.B. "What the Hell is wrong with wewe going off like that! wewe scared us all to death!" P.B. just choked on her words as she fought her tears. Lips pushed her head into his chest and held her close. "Come on kid. We've got dirt bags to put away. wewe know mom. When it's time the rock will roll away and God will kick her punda out of her funk. It's not like she hasn't done this before, and if we aren't here one of our kids will. Ok?" P.B.'s lips quivered but she nodded and took his hand. "Sorry I didn't bring the car, but I was already on the bike when the tracker came back on. But I'm sure, yup there they are." A black sleek shadow of a car flowed like a fira, viper towards them. "That will be Flack, Ichigo and the rest of your family. Mom...well she's always been generous when she can be. Now we'll be leaving, before he starts asking too many questions." Toshiro frowned. "You're just going to leave her in there?" Lips grabbed up the reaper and thrashed him. "Do wewe know how much its killing me to leave her there! She saved me and my sister and all she ever asked was to respect her wishes. All this time I've been keeping to them... all this time she's traded herself over and over and over to the point I stopped counting how many times she's done it and when she isn't doing that she's walking into terrorist camps drug and war lord strong holds taking them down one at a time. Getting us to blow the whole damn thing up with her right in the middle of it! Most of the time we get her she's in the coroner's office au the morgue. We pick her up and have to heat her like some damn turkey hoping we get her back and not some gruesome horror. She will keep her word...none of us can break it. Damn it! It's all because of him! One damn promise she couldn't keep, and she carries that guilt forever! What 8-year-old makes a promise like that! Tell me!" Tushiro let the man finish as he saw into the man's eyes. For those who were of Jamies family there really was no way out for them. Her word was not only her word but their rule and law. "You'd better get moving unless wewe want Ichigo to get wewe back for making him go limp and not getting her back." Karen informed them. Lips eased the captain down with a trembling hand. "Why didn't wewe stop me?" Tushiro shook his head. "You're lucky I felt obligated to your people for rescuing Karen." He softened a little. "And I understand, her word is your law. It's not an easy thing to follow." Lips nodded stutteringly. "Thanks. Yeah, K's right, we'd best get moving. Got to get that bastard Voro anyways."
"Wow now that's a bike." Isshin alisema as a motorcycle buzzed kwa them almost so fast Ichigo couldn't feel the aura that marked the bike as the Hoards property. Flack frowned and stepped up the speed even faster than the 15 over the he'd been going. "Hey, aren't we going a little too fast?" Ichigo alisema tensely. Flack gave him a sideways glance and stepped harder before flipping a switch and rolling the car. Bars popped out making a roll cage around the car, they stopped perfectly in front of the two clinging together. Flack immediately flipped the button again releasing the bars. "Karen are wewe alright!" Karen and Tushiro were grabbed up kwa Flack and squeezed till they could barely breathe. "Thank God you're alright!" Isshin hurried and was about to place a kick in the man's back when the man merely twisted and squarely placed a kick to Isshin's groin. "That's pretty rude mister. Then again what wewe are is kind of rude." Flack eased the two in his arms down. "Rude! I puked in the car wewe rolled us so badly. You're the one that's rude! And how dare wewe pick up my sweet baby!" Flack frowned. "She's your kid? wewe must be kidding mom's genes would have never gone that sideways. Of course, wewe could be her brother's side, but wewe don't look like him au even smell remotely evil. Karen is this really your pop?" Karen laughed lightly. It was a sound that alisema it was out of practice and raspy. "Yes, Lips this is my dad. Dad this is my new teacher. The one I was telling wewe about." Isshin blinked. Her new teacher? Oh, the one who was helping her with her computer skills. The one she had a crush on. He eyed the man, strong well skilled and rich. "That was who I thought wasn't it. P.B and Lips?" Karen nodded. "Moms kept her word, then until she's out we'll be making our nyumbani in Kara Kura. Hope wewe don't mind having us as neighbors."
