TZC: Heal Thyself
I found a bunch of my old writing notebooks yesterday. This is potentially a very good thing.
Title: Heal Thyself
Series: The Zanpakutou Chronicles
Word Count: 197
Rating: G
Disclaimer Post
Summary: Sometimes, a shinigami and zanpakutou just can't figure each other out without a little outside help.
Notes: So, once upon a time, there was a second continuing storyline in the TZC-verse, called Walking Wounded. I think I was...not at my best when I originally plotted this, because even the outline is just depressing. It was going to feature Kira and Wabisuke and Hanatarou and Hisagomaru and was basically going to be an unknown number of chapters of just the four of them being dysfunctional and self-destructive and refusing to let anyone help them. You can see the only remaining fragment of that version of the story here. But then the story stalled, because Hisagomaru stopped talking to me and Wabisuke went from basket case to badass. (Seriously, another of the fragments I found from a later story has him physically manifesting and going postal on Gin's ass, and that was not the scary version of that scene.) But I think this particular scene is important to the characters of Hanatarou and Hisagomaru as they are in TZC and furthermore, I think it needs to stay.
Hanatarou, we need to talk.
Hanatarou looked up at his captain’s face and, to his surprise, felt only intense relief. He’d thought he would be afraid when this moment came. He was always afraid. So why wasn’t he now? His answer came from Hisagomaru, as part of him had always known it would.
Hana…we need help. It isn’t right to only work together in a crisis and to fear each other the rest of the time. Maybe Captain Unohana can help bridge that gap.
So…that was it? He’d been looking for help within himself, and that wouldn’t work. He needed to reach out, as much as the thought of doing so terrified him. And Captain Unohana… He looked up at her, and saw his answer. Softly, in the privacy of his own mind, he shared it with his zanpakutou.
Captain Unohana won’t hurt me. I can let her help us because she won’t hurt me.
Hisagomaru didn’t say anything, but Hanatarou got the distinct feeling that, if he did, it would be something along the lines of “Oh, thank God.” He smiled at them both, and answered his captain out loud.
I’m ready.
Finally. He was ready.
Title: Heal Thyself
Series: The Zanpakutou Chronicles
Word Count: 197
Rating: G
Disclaimer Post
Summary: Sometimes, a shinigami and zanpakutou just can't figure each other out without a little outside help.
Notes: So, once upon a time, there was a second continuing storyline in the TZC-verse, called Walking Wounded. I think I was...not at my best when I originally plotted this, because even the outline is just depressing. It was going to feature Kira and Wabisuke and Hanatarou and Hisagomaru and was basically going to be an unknown number of chapters of just the four of them being dysfunctional and self-destructive and refusing to let anyone help them. You can see the only remaining fragment of that version of the story here. But then the story stalled, because Hisagomaru stopped talking to me and Wabisuke went from basket case to badass. (Seriously, another of the fragments I found from a later story has him physically manifesting and going postal on Gin's ass, and that was not the scary version of that scene.) But I think this particular scene is important to the characters of Hanatarou and Hisagomaru as they are in TZC and furthermore, I think it needs to stay.
Hanatarou, we need to talk.
Hanatarou looked up at his captain’s face and, to his surprise, felt only intense relief. He’d thought he would be afraid when this moment came. He was always afraid. So why wasn’t he now? His answer came from Hisagomaru, as part of him had always known it would.
Hana…we need help. It isn’t right to only work together in a crisis and to fear each other the rest of the time. Maybe Captain Unohana can help bridge that gap.
So…that was it? He’d been looking for help within himself, and that wouldn’t work. He needed to reach out, as much as the thought of doing so terrified him. And Captain Unohana… He looked up at her, and saw his answer. Softly, in the privacy of his own mind, he shared it with his zanpakutou.
Captain Unohana won’t hurt me. I can let her help us because she won’t hurt me.
Hisagomaru didn’t say anything, but Hanatarou got the distinct feeling that, if he did, it would be something along the lines of “Oh, thank God.” He smiled at them both, and answered his captain out loud.
I’m ready.
Finally. He was ready.