Who: Kenpachi Zaraki (
sinister_bells) and Yachiru Kusajishi (
inpiecesofcloud)
When: After
this.
Where: The Zaraki &Kusajishi residence
Format: Paragraph
What: Yachiru tells Kenpachi all about the big fight between Priscilla and Riful.
Warnings: None, really
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Is it a monster? )
The door creaked when she opened it and walked into the apartment, her head hanging uncharacteristically low and the blood on her shoulder and soaked into her clothes sticky-dry. She rubbed an arm against her face to try to wipe away the tear-streaks, with very little success. It had been so hard to see Scilly like that, and scary. Yachiru was not the type of kid who scared easily but there were a very few things that could frighten her. And she had been terrified by that sensation, by feeling Scilly being swallowed up by her own power, lost in an inferno of energy she couldn't control.
Once in the room, she made a beeline for Ken-chan. Without a word, she jumped up and threw her arms around his neck, hugging him tight.
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She'd been crying. Yachiru had been crying. Ikkauku was more likely to cry than her. What caused this?
"Yachiru-" Whatever he was going to say was cut off as she jumped into his arms. He hugged her back, feeling a little off-kilter by the whole thing. Could he even remember the last time something made her act like this?
"Kid, what's going on? What happen?"
He wasn't even going to ask about the blood he could feel on the shoulder of her robe. For once, blood didn't feel good. Not like this.
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It wasn't exactly the truth, and even now she knew it. But for the moment she just wanted to hold onto him, shaking with sobs, and wish she was back in the Seireitei where nothing like this ever happened.
After a few minutes she pulled back, hiccuping, and she felt like there were no tears left inside her. She rubbed at her eyes with the back of one hand and continued to cling to Kenpachi with the other.
"It was- it was- Scilly," she choked out, still sniffling and gasping. "She was almost- almost gone."
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He waited for her to calm down - no use in trying to question her until then. One hand rubbed her back as he listened to her sobs. Finally she stopped crying, sat back and dried her eyes.
"Priscilla?" He'd long ago grown accustomed to Yachiru's nicknames and was quite proficient at figuring them out. Why was she talking about her though?
"What about her?" Did she see the video? That wouldn't be too hard to explain. But then again, where'd the blood come from? There was grit from the ruins on her too.
She'd been there.
"What d'you mean, almost gone?"
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"She was fighting," she began, wiping her nose on a sleeve and streaking more dirt across her face. "And she was so mad. It was like her reiatsu wanted to swallow her up and she couldn't stop it. It was gonna swallow her up and never give her back!"
She threw her arms back around Kenpachi's neck, as if she was afraid he was going to disappear on her, too. "She's so strong," she said into his neck. "But she wasn't strong enough to stop it." Her voice dropped to a whisper, almost inaudible, and she said "I was scared."
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This time had been different. She had released the power and couldn't control it for some reason. Priscilla was too good for that, to just lose control. She'd been one of the most fun fights he'd ever had and one of the most difficult. Every move of hers had been measured and planned.
"Who was she fighting" he asked quietly, more to himself than Yachiru. Who made Priscilla lose herself like this? The answer had been on the Forge too. Riful.
Riful had taught him to use the Forge. Helped him find Yachiru - to an extent. It wouldn't be the first time someone counted as "good" did something terrible though. Really, what did it matter?
He just held Yachiru for a few moments. A silent reassurance that he wouldn't leave; that he could never be swallowed by his power. Eventually he broke the silence.
"What happened to your shoulder?"
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Turned into a monster. Is that what Riful was? The tentacles, the discoloration. Was she some sort of hollow, maybe an arrancar? He'd find that out later, Riful would surface eventually. Creatures like that always did ( ... )
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"I'm okay, Ken-chan," she said, nodding. She shrugged her shoulder a little. "Doesn't really even hurt. Stupid Riful It's all her fault. It's all all her fault. I think she really hurt somebody Scilly likes. I couldn't tell, he was gone already when I got there. But I think. And she fights like a cheater, too. I hate her."
But Riful was only the cause behind what had scared her so much.
"I told her to. I told her come back! I said not to lose because I was scared and I didn't want her to go away. And I hugged her." Yachiru's breath hitched again and she shivered, leaning closer to Kenpachi. "I held onto her and I begged her not to go."
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"Fights like a cheater, eh?" He could have laughed at that. Considering all that had happened, that Riful apparently had done, that she should also be accused of cheating- Well, it was amusing.
He stood up, still holding Yachiru so she didn't fall. He headed for the door.
"We'll get that shoulder fixed up at the clinic. Then we'll see what's going on." Because this surely wasn't over, not by a long shot. He closed the door without locking it - who would dare steal from him? - and headed to where he thought the clinic was. Well, Yachiru knew, at any rate. She'd point the way.
"You did good today, kid."
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She nodded, resting her head against him, at the suggestion of going to the clinic. She didn't really care either way about her shoulder wound. It wasn't nearly as worrisome as the persistent fear she couldn't seem to shake off.
"I did, Ken-chan?" Giant brown eyes turned up to stare at him, questioning, uncertain. Worried. "You think so?"
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He ambled through the streets, not too concerned about losing his way or even getting there quickly. Yachiru's strong and quite resistant to injury. She'll heal fast.
"Yeah. You did. You brought Priscilla back. I'm proud of you." A smile forms, a touch of pride in it.
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Her little fists tightened in the fabric of his robes when he speaks. And when he smiled, she smiled back, small but genuine, and then she rested her forehead against his chest. For Ken-chan to say he was proud of her - she knew he was, but to hear him say it out loud - it almost made everything that had happened tonight okay. It made her feel like she was big and strong like him, like there was nothing she couldn't do, no one she couldn't fight, no battle she couldn't win.
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