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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 4, 2024 0:51:49 GMT -6
Bleach Unrated: REBOOTEDCurrent Arc: RejectionEpisode 452 “Running In Circles”: The family was fast asleep in their beds, Kita snuggled up with Gin as the two slept soundly. That was until a loud clap of thunder sounded through the town of Karakura, jolting Kita awake. She sat up quickly, waking Gin, as he watched her through his sharp gaze. “It’s just a storm, love,” he took her hand to lead her to lay back down beside him.Kita looked over at Gin and shook her head, Gin didn't argue and looked outside, waiting. It may be a storm or at least that’s what most would believe, but something was wrong. She could feel it in the pit of her stomach. She patted Gin’s hand tenderly, removing his hand from the top of hers.
“I will be right back. I need to use the restroom,” she heard Gin hum a reply his head nodding slightly as she stood from the bed grabbing her robe. This feeling she had was not leaving her, in truth, it was growing more intense and her gut was telling her it had something to do with Seto. Sighing, she slipped into her robe, looking back at Gin, and whispering.
“Sorry lover, I need to do this.” She lifted her hand and just as she snapped her fingers, Gin's head snapped towards as he sprang from the bed with an intense glare. She stood there with time froze looking at Gin and the look on his face. She started to feel bad. This is the second time she has done this to him and the first time did not please him either. She debated on reanimating time so she could tell him what she was doing, but she knew it would cause an argument, and then Gin demanding she stay put.
She sighed heavily shaking her head, “he can yell at me and punish me later. I have to check on Seto. Something is wrong.”
Turning she stepped into the gate, it closing behind her. The only thing on her mind was to find Seto.Moved |
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 4, 2024 1:20:42 GMT -6
Bleach Unrated: REBOOTEDCurrent Arc: RejectionEpisode 451 “Running In Circles”: (continued) When the gate opened and Kita stepped out she was still crying, soaked to the bone, and one bloody hand. Kita cringed and closed the gate. She looked up seeing Gin dressed with Shinosu at his side and he was pacing the floor. Outside the storm raged on as thunder clapped overhead and the rain fell in sheets.
Time to face the music.
Gin had spun the second time was reanimated and the look on his face was as if she had stolen something very precious to him. Her eyes lowered from his as she sniffled and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand that was wrapped in a bandage. She hissed through clenched teeth but managed to spit out. "I'm sorry Gin." |
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Jun 4, 2024 22:24:22 GMT -6
Immediately, Gin strode over to her side and grabbed ahold of her arms, but he released her again as soon as she cried out. His eyes narrowed down at her as his heart hammered. Drenched, soaked through and crying, Gin hadn’t seen his partner like this in a very long time. As she sniffled, his narrowed eyes turned to her arm, and his stomach knotted at the blackening blood on the makeshift bandage. His anger died out.
Kadaj started crying.
Gin ripepd off his kimono and pulled it around Kita, his flinty eyes meeting hers. “Sit. and don’t. move.”
Not letting her respond, he marched over to the crib to calm the child.
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 4, 2024 22:39:18 GMT -6
Kita sat where Gin placed her, not moving. Not because he said not to move but because her hand hurt so badly and she just wanted it to stop, so she sat there with her hand against her chest above her heart. The throbbing subsided a little, but the ache of the damaged skin was still very apparent.
She waited for Gin to return, which took all of a few minutes. Kadaj was silent and she guessed back to sleep. It was not his normal time to wake for a feeding, so she figured the storm and the quick rise of Gin's reiatsu is what woke him.
When Gin walked into the room he had a small tub, a washrag and small towel, gauze bandages, ointment and an antiseptic cleanser to clean her hand up. She looked away from him when he gave her a disappointed look. Her heart still ached so Gin's look only caused it to ache more.
"I'm sorry. For the life of me," she snubbed, "I did not think I was going to walk into the mess I did."
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Jun 4, 2024 22:57:25 GMT -6
“I can tell that just by looking at you,” Gin snapped. He sighed when she flinched and sat down next to her, putting the things on his other side. “Give me that,” he ordered. “Slowly,” he added when her moving caused her expression to shutter.
He looked down. “Think that you are back in the war. Extend it and wait.”
Gin waited as Kita took a deep breath and some of her trembling subsided. He pulled the hand, now extended, towards him, his mood threatening to blacken at the closer look. As he suspected, it was a burn, but he had not anticipated seeing slivers of bone underneath the blackened skin. Mouth thinning, he got to work.
Taking ahold of her upper arm to keep her still, he undid the bandage in deft movements, leaving the belt and some of her skin on the ground. Underneath the crude bandage, blisters and bleeding scrapes oozed puss. The skin had turned splotchy and red in a sickening way, showing lesions where something like a hilt had hit her hands.
Gin immersed it under water, waited, and then slowly dabbed away the soot and sand.
“We’re going to the clinic or the shop. Choose.”
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 4, 2024 23:07:19 GMT -6
Kita looked at Gin, "At this time of night, in this storm?!" Her tone was frantic but not raised.
"Don't give me that. The weather will never touch us and Sojiro will be here for his little brother. Th--" Gin was cut off.
Kita hissed as she jerked her arm not meaning to, but her quick response caused her to flinch. "NO!" Kita's eyes widen, her heart pounded in her chest, "the boys will go with us! I won't leave them here!" Her head shook like mad. "I won't!"
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Jun 5, 2024 0:03:04 GMT -6
“KITA!” Gin hollered, finally overriding her. She stopped. “I never said I would leave the kids behind, but you can’t carry Kadaj with that arm. Sojiro will carry his brother and I will carry you.”
“I don’t need carrying…” Kita mumbled.
“You wouldn’t say that if you saw the sight you make now, drenched to the bone, white as a sheet, and holding a bleeding, burnt arm where I can see bone,” Gin retorted. “You look like hell, and you’re explaining what happened when I have you all safe!”
She still hadn’t spoken up. Had he gone too far?
Damn it! Old habits died hard.
He touched her face. “Please?”
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 5, 2024 0:11:06 GMT -6
Kita snubbed wiping away her tears with her good hand, "Go get the boys. I will wait for you here." When Gin turned to leave the room to get the boys Kita called out to him. "Gin," He turned looking at her, "please hurry. The pain is getting unbearable."
Gin nodded. "It won't take long. Hang in there." He used shunpo to disappear.
Kita sat tolling over where she wanted to go. She would feel bad going to the clinic because it wouldn't be just Isshin they woke. The rest of the house would come to help as well. She did not want all that attention right now. She hurt and she was worried sick about what she saw in Hueco Mundo. Plus, she looked down at her oozing, bloody and black hand. The skin was drawn, her fingers in a bent position and she could not straighten them out. It burnt her so badly she doubted her hand would ever straighten out again, but she was hoping with Tessai and or Kisuke healing her, she might at least get some range of motion back.
She started crying again, realizing what a fool she was for grabbing Chinmoku. The heat that confronted her when the gate opened was beyond intense. She looked at her other hand, seeing small blisters on the palm of her hand and forearm from her blocking the heat when she first arrived. She let her good hand smooth down her hair, pulling a few strands forward. Her hair was not singed, and it did not feel as if her face had burns, but she crossed the floor to the mirror to make for sure. Nothing. It seemed she was quick enough to block her face. She stared into the mirror, she truly was a sight. She then shivered realizing she needed dry clothes on. She walked over to her dresser to grab dry clean clothes. Shaking Gin's kimono off, she was able to remove her bottoms and underwear and get dry underwear on before she heard the bedroom door open.
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Jun 5, 2024 0:58:56 GMT -6
Gin reentered the room with Kadaj in his arms, half asleep and sucking on his thumb. “Soji’s up. He’s-What are you doing?!" Gin gawked at her, face full of tears and her clothes on the floor, and then carefully deposited Kadaj in the middle of the pillows before standing in front of her. “What part about not moving did you not get, Kita?”
“I needed to change…”
“Not with those burns, you should have waited. You'll tear the blisters or worse, fall over,” he tried to reason, tone still curt. “I could have helped.” He picked up his kimono and wrapped it over her again, retrieving the belt and tying it. “I know you’re capable but stop trying to do everything on your own. That’s not why we got out of there. Now please wait.” He pushed her back to sitting on the bed, leaving a moment later. He returned dressed in another kimono, a towel in hand. He threw it over her and started drying her hair off, actions harsh but any actual movement against her, gentle.
“Gin…”
“What, dearie?”
“It’s becoming numb…”
“It will,” Gin hissed, hand tightening around the towel. “That’s a third degree burn and one of the worst I’ve seen. You’re lucky you didn’t pass out.”
He continued to dry her off as best he could.
“Shoes…”
“No,” Gin argued. “You don’t need them, and they won’t stay on right now. Close your eyes and meditate. Sojiro will be here soon."
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 5, 2024 1:14:30 GMT -6
Kita sat with her eyes closed and took deep breaths through her nose and exhaled through her mouth. She let her mind drift, not thinking of her pain, not thinking of the mess she saw in Hueco Mundo, and putting the ordeal with Chinmoku as well. She had no answers and Seto was nowhere to be found to her such answers. Why did the gate keep taking her to Chinmoku when she was asking for it to take her to Seto.
What did Chinmoku have to do with any of it, why was parts of Hueco Mundo on fire, why was it rain in parts of Hueco Mundo and where was Las Noches. She took a deep breath through her nose and exhaled once more. Her mind would not stop churning. So many questions with no answers. She took another deep breath only for her breath to catch and a audible whine to escape her as she clutched her hand to her upper chest and a tear to trickle down her cheek.
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Post by Sojiro Ichimaru on Jun 5, 2024 1:53:21 GMT -6
Sojiro ran into the room, stumbling a bit with his shoes. “I’m ready, I’m- Mom!” Sojiro dropped his last sneaker and ran over to the bed, bumping it and startling Kadaj. He’d heard she was hurt, but he hadn’t considered how badly. “Mom, what happened?”
Before he could get answers, however, his father stood up. “We’ll find out later. Get your shoe on and get your brother. We’re going to the shop but she’ll be okay.”
Sojiro nodded quickly and knelt to retrieve his shoe, slipping it on and tying the laces. He tipped his hood up, covering his hair. Standing, he jumped at another tremendous clash of thunder outside. “Has it been this loud before?” he muttered, rubbing his ear.
“Not that I know of,” Gin murmured, taking Kita up in his arms. “Maybe we’ll get the answer to that as well. Are you ready?”
Sojiro carefully wrapped the sling around his body and positioned his crying brother against his torso. “Supplies?” he asked.
Gin blinked. He’d forgotten that. His eyes narrowed. “Later.”
“They’re by the door…” Kita murmured.
“Of course they are,” Gin muttered. He waved at his family. “We’re going now.”
Sojiro trailed after his father, wondering how long it had been since he’d seen him this irritated and sharp. He wrapped his arms around the sling, hoping nothing more would happen.
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 5, 2024 2:01:21 GMT -6
Sojiro had grabbed the bag with Kadaj's things in it and walked back over to his mother and father's side. Kita looked at her boy giving him a small smile as he reached up and took hold of the sleeve of his fathers kimono. Her good hand lifted looking at Gin.
"You ready?" She watched his head nod and she snapped her fingers, the Godly gate opening and the family passing through to go to the shop.
Moved
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 7, 2024 1:37:56 GMT -6
Bleach Unrated: REBOOTEDCurrent Arc: RejectionEpisode 455 “Second Visit; A Shove in the Right Direction”: After breakfast, Gin and Kita sat on the edge of the bed. Gin was changing her bandages, keeping the wound cleaned dry and the ointment Vacanze created, generously on the wound like told. Last night Tessai and Vacanze did everything they could. They did not stop healing and working on Kita's hand until neither of them could do it any longer. They worked to near exhaustion.
They were nowhere near being healed as it should be, but every other day they wanted her to come by for another healing session. Between the healing sessions, they wanted her to keep it covered with a bandage, changing at least three times a day, or more if needed, and make sure the ointment Vacazne created for the burn was applied at every bandage change.
As Gin unwrapped her hand Kita hissed a few times, her hand was still slightly drawn and most of the feeling had returned. So the pain she felt last night was a walk in the park compared to the pain now. Thank the Gods Vacanze's ointment numbed the wound when it was applied and helped it stay numbed for at least a good 6 to 8 hours. When her hand was completely unwrapped she lifted it as Gin turned to get the ointment and new bandages, she wanted to take a better look.
"It still looks horrible. Now I have two bad scars," She looked at Gin and smiled coyly trying to make light of the situation hoping it would help her ignore the pain, "I keep doing foolish things and I will have caught up to you." |
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Jun 7, 2024 1:56:54 GMT -6
Gin’s eyes narrowed down at her, but he kept his tone even, despite her little joke. “Let’s not try to compete with me when you can no longer heal yourself, dearie. You’ll drive the children nuts.”
He understood what she was doing, trying to bear with it by teasing him, and usually he would go along with it, but he hadn’t been able to keep a level head about the incident the whole night. He’d snapped at her multiple times. For running off without him. For injuring herself. Because he was helpless, he hadn’t been able to stop.
Gin should be used to Kita being injured by now, but seeing her like that, without the glow of Sumi’s assistance around her as she suffered, shook him deeply. He had even considered, multiple times, asking for the goddess to help. He may yet try. He hated the scar. It was represented something she suffered alone and something more tying her to Vale. He was being pathetic.
However, he didn’t want to yell anymore. It wasn’t like him, and he hated the shuttered expression she’d get.
“We need to be careful until it’s healed,” he continued. “This is different than most of your pain. I don’t want it getting worse and weighing on you.”
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Jun 7, 2024 2:06:25 GMT -6
Kita nodded a soft hiss escaping her as he applied the ointment. She looked away hoping that not watching made the pain less, but it didn't. "Well that didn't work." She giggled softly a hiss blending with her giggle.
She looked up at Gin, he was so meticulous and was being so gentle. A warm smile crossed her lips, her good hand lifting as she cupped his cheek and caressed it tenderly. "It's been so long since I have seen you this gentle."
Gin sighed and closed his eyes at the touch, pausing in his ministrations. "We stopped looking for it when we did this in Las Noches. Perhaps that was a mistake. I'm sorry I snapped."
Kita shook her head, "You had every right. You were worried about me and I will admit what I did in grabbing Chinmoku was foolish. I felt that heat," she looked at her other arm not seeing any of the smaller burns. She looked back at Gin, "I don't know what I was thinking, or if I was even thinking." She fell silent then spoke softly, "but I would like to know what is going on in Hueco Mundo."
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