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Post by Captain Isao Zayasu on Jun 1, 2024 15:00:42 GMT -6
Bleach Unrated: REBOOTEDCurrent Arc: RejectionEpisode 448 "Coda & Zayasu": Isao rolled onto his side, to face the bed he shared his room with. He sighed as he looked at his wife who was still in a bad way since her fight with the Quincy. “Koi…” he whispered, trying to wake her. “The fuck do you want?” she groaned. Isao smiled. He rubbed the scar on his chest and looked up at the ceiling. “Nothing. I just wanted to say your name.”Koi grunted and turned her back to him. “Well, say it to yourself next time…”“But, I miss talking with you.” he admitted quietly. “They put us in the same room days ago…You’ve barely said a word to me.”“Shut the fuck up…that’s four words right there…” Koi kept her voice low. “Now hush.”Isao chuckled. “By my count…That’s twenty-three words so far.” |
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Post by Koi Coda on Jun 1, 2024 15:01:33 GMT -6
Koi wasn’t in a talking mood. She hadn’t been since the Quincy boy decided to use her as a chew toy. She had finally woken up a few days ago, shortly before putting her in the same room as Zayasu. Every day, he would talk to her and she would ignore him.
“So, I’ve decided to step down…” Isao looked at his wife. “To take care of you.”
Koi growled as she rolled over onto her back. She looked at Isao. “Why the fuck would you do that?!” she snapped. “I lost an arm! But, I’m not a fucking cripple, you moron. I don’t need you to take care of me like I’m fucking broken!”
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Post by Captain Isao Zayasu on Jun 1, 2024 15:02:27 GMT -6
“Woman, please!” shouted Isao. He sat up in his, a hand still on his scarred chest. “I am so tired of your shit! Let me do this for you!”
“I don’t need you to do anything for me.”
“I’m not asking!” Isao huffed and threw the blanket off of his legs. “For as long as we have been married, you have treated me as if I am some sort of accessory for you to use only when you see fit. And, I am tired of it.”
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Post by Koi Coda on Jun 1, 2024 15:03:24 GMT -6
“No one told you to stay, Isao…” whispered Koi.
Isao opened his mouth to speak but no words came out.
Koi pushed herself up and adjusted the brace they had the remainder of her arm in. “You’ve known how I am all these years…And, all these years you’ve put up with it. My arm gets chewed on and now you want to rescue me?!”
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Post by Captain Isao Zayasu on Jun 1, 2024 15:04:49 GMT -6
Isao found himself angry. And, the scar on his chest burned. “Well, this conversation most certainly took a turn, didn’t it. Say what you mean, Koi Coda…”
With no hesitation, Koi looked at Isao and spoke loud enough to hear. “I don’t need you around. I’m fine on my own.”
“Say…what you mean, Koi…” A tear rolled down Isao’s cheek.
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Post by Koi Coda on Jun 1, 2024 15:18:38 GMT -6
“What the fuck do you mean?!” she snapped. “You told me to say what I meant…I said it. Then you go and say it again…”
“Because you don’t mean that!” shouted Isao.
Koi shook her head, and adjusted the brace again. The strap kept falling from her shoulder. “When have you ever known me to say something that I don’t mean, you stupid shit?!”
“Koi!”
“Isao! Don’t be an idiot!” shouted Koi. She picked up a pillow and threw it across the room at him. “We work well in doses. Every few months, we get an itch, we fuck…say ‘I love you’ then go our separate ways. Why does it have to be more complicated than that?!”
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Post by Captain Isao Zayasu on Jun 1, 2024 15:20:28 GMT -6
“Seriously, Koi?!” groan Zayasu, swatting at the pillow. He fell back onto his bed. “What’s wrong with you?”
“I don’t like people!” whined Koi. “You’re a person. But, I kind of like you. Not enough to…you know…want to be around you all the time. But…”
“But, what?!” Isao raised his hands and waved them around dramatically. “My wife just told me that she doesn’t want to be with me anymore.”
“That is not what I said, you deaf twat!”
“Then make yourself clear, woman!”
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Post by Koi Coda on Jun 1, 2024 17:26:14 GMT -6
“I think I was very clear, man!” Isao grabbed another pillow and threw it. “You’re just being a stubborn ass!”
“Me?” questioned Isao, sitting up. “I’m being a stubborn ass?”
“Yeah!”
“Yeah?!”
“Fuck off!” Koi was growing more and more annoyed with the conversation. “This is why I don’t want to be with you! You vex me to the core!”
Isao laughed. “You…You…I don’t know what to do with you, Koi. But, if you don’t want to be with me then…Okay…”
Koi went quiet. She looked at Isao who had fallen back to his back. “Okay…”
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Post by Captain Isao Zayasu on Jun 1, 2024 17:27:09 GMT -6
Isao cleared his throat and wiped his face. “I will…I will return to the Eighth. And, what? Are you going back to Karakura?”
Koi nodded.
“Fine.” Isao sighed. And, they both went quiet. After a few moments, Isao looked at Koi. “Fine.”
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Post by Koi Coda on Jun 2, 2024 2:32:05 GMT -6
Koi laid back down and turned her back to Isao. She was finally rid of him. It only took…Well, she didn’t know how long they had been together. It felt like that had always been together. You couldn’t count the number of times they’ve ended and began again. It was their thing. And, not once before had they gone through with it.
The worst thing to happen in their relationship, before this, was the day Koi was exiled. Even then, Isao would always come back to her. But, this…This was hard. She knew he would cling to her. And, in truth, she wanted him to.
“Isao.” she whispered after what felt like hours of silence between them. It had only been a handful of minutes.
“What?”
Koi looked over her shoulder, finding Isao sitting on the edge of her bed. She closed her eyes and let her head to her pillow again. “Nothing…I just wanted to say your name…”
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Post by Captain Isao Zayasu on Jun 2, 2024 2:53:10 GMT -6
Isao didn’t smile. He was hunched over with his hands in his lap. “Go to sleep, Koi.” he mumbled, lifting a hand to his chest.
“I’m fine.”
She was not. She hadn’t slept since they put her in his room. She dozes off. A restful moment here and there. But, then she’d wake up. Sometimes cursing and screaming. Other times, she’d be totally silent as if she had completely given up.
After a few more moments of silence, Isao finally spoke. “Why are you so mean to me?”
“Why are you such a pussy?”
“Enough…” he said sternly without raising his voice. “I’ve had enough, Koi Coda. We’ve been married far too long for me not to recognize what this is. Far too long not to recognize that this is what you do when you’re afraid. I become a target for your rage…Your fear…” He looked over his shoulder at her. “But, I am tired of it. I nearly lost you. And, you act as if it's my fault.”
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Post by Koi Coda on Jun 2, 2024 18:16:29 GMT -6
“Because it is!” she shouted. She sat up and turned to face Isao. “You weren’t there!”
Isao closed his eyes as he sighed. He didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t tell her that her own recklessness is what put her in harm's way. That was an unnecessary detail that she already knew. “I-...” he didn’t know what to say.
“You weren’t there…” Tears rolled her face as she looked down at the bunched up blankets covering her legs.
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Post by Captain Isao Zayasu on Jun 2, 2024 18:19:28 GMT -6
“Koi,” Isao turned to Koi, and gently placed a hand to her leg. “What…What happened?” He could barely remember what happened during the fight. Just a hollow. Then the Quincy came. He wanted to know what happened before he got there.
“I wanted him to die, Isao…” Koi wiped her tears. “For Hutch…”
“Tell me what happened, Koi.”
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Post by Koi Coda on Jun 2, 2024 18:20:34 GMT -6
“He got out…He got out.” Koi looked at Isao, tears streaming down her face. “He…He…He’s not real. He can’t be real.”
Isao took his wife’s hand. “What do you mean? What do you mean he’s not real?”
Koi shook her head. She looked down at what remained of her arm. “He…He’s a Quincy. But, he…He could grow bone…Like a hollow.”
“Wait…” Isao was confused. “We fought a hollow back there.”
“No!” Koi snatched her hand from his. “He’s not a hollow. He’s a Quincy!”
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Post by Captain Isao Zayasu on Jun 2, 2024 18:38:14 GMT -6
“No, sweetheart,” Isao shook his head. “From what I remember, the Quincy came later. Methuselah is the name I heard.”
Koi slammed a hand to the bed. “No! Listen! The boy is a Quincy! He’s…He’s different. He…He became like a hollow.”
“Koi, that doesn’t make any sense.”
“Fucking hell! No kidding!”
“Okay…Okay…” Isao moved a bit closer to Koi on the bed. “What happened? Tell me what happened…From the beginning.”
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