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Post by Karin Kurosaki on Apr 26, 2024 17:20:25 GMT -6
Karin looked into the clinic and then turned back around, pulling her jacket off as she went. She jumped up the stairs, threw the door open and hollered at her sister. “Yuzu, put lids on the food and call the shop. We need Tessai and that shopkeeper. Kita can’t do everything. Then get down here.” She tossed her jacket and shirt into the house. Her jeans would have to go after this, but there was no time to completely change.
She huffed and flung herself down the stairs, pushing the older man aside as she went to a cupboard behind the desk and pulled out a box, throwing on gloves and a lab coat. She pulled her hair up and washed her hands. “Put a tourniquet on her arm, Ichigo. We’ll start there. We're shit healers but we can do something about that arm.”
She pulled out a kit and started looking through bottles. “Is she still conscious?” she asked the older man.
"No." Methuselah shook his head. "By the time I arrived both had been injured. I could barely sense a heartbeat from her. I am sure Isao thought she was dead."
She nodded and continued her preparation. "Some survived that in the pillars. She'll probably make it with Kita coming, but until then, we'll try some things. You said something about poison. Do you want me to burn the arm?"
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Post by Methuselah on Apr 26, 2024 17:37:51 GMT -6
"Kinzo's saliva and blood are poison." Methuselah pulled down his hood and exhaled. He walked over to Coda and pointed to her wound without touching it. "Do you see these black marks? That's the path of the poison. It's gone above her elbow now." Methuselah frown at the indentations and tears made by teeth. "You'll have to...Take off more of her arm above those marks. Burning the wound won't help."
Methuselah stepped away from Coda and the Kurosaki working on her. He stroked his beard and sighed. "I would strip her. He bit her arm off which meant she was most likely on the ground fighting. If she passed out, I guarantee that he bit her in other places." He sighed again. Each sigh showing more of the shame that came with his brother's rage. "Look at her neck, torso...hips and thighs. And, her..." Methuselah cleared his throat. "Intimate areas..."
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Post by Isshin Kurosaki on Apr 26, 2024 18:15:35 GMT -6
Returning from a house call, Isshin walked through the front door of the clinic, stopping short he looked down when he noticed something trailing across the floor. Blood droplets. Leading from the front door of the clinic to the examination rooms.
"What the hell is going on here?" his brows furrowed as he started a quick path to the back.
Suddenly--before he reached the door that led to the back--there was a bunch of noise and many voices echoing from the back. He pushed open the door to see none other than Imai Kamlyn standing in the hall the blood droplets leading into one of the rooms he was standing in front of.
"Kamlyn? What is going on here?" As the man turned to his voice, Karin brushed past them covered in blood, removing the gloves she was wearing.
"We need more bandages!" Karin called out as she was leaving the room of Isao.
Yuzu's voice from the supply room, confirmed the request as Karin darted into another room.
"What the hell happened?!" Isshin asked again as he set his medical bag on a nearby counter and rolled up his sleeves.
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Post by Methuselah on Apr 26, 2024 18:22:30 GMT -6
"I'm not sure." Methuselah shook his head. "This is the state they were in when I arrived to Coda's place. Kinzo did this." He stepped away from Shiba and leaned against a wall with his arms folded over his chest. "I've already explained to your son and daughter the injuries that I could see. Isao has a hole in his chest. And, Coda will undoubtedly lose more of her arm."
"Yes...But what happened, Imai?"
"I can not answer that question. I do not know."
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Post by Isshin Kurosaki on Apr 26, 2024 18:42:33 GMT -6
Isshin sighed heavily glancing into the room his son and daughter were both in, "So the female is in the worst shape?"
Imai nodded as Isshin stepped past the man and into the woman's room. "Karin, I need you back in the room with the male tending to him." She nodded and left the room headed across the hall. "Ichigo, keep pressure on that wound." His son nodded slowly.
"She's bad."
Isshin nodded, eyes on the woman's wounded arm seeing a blackish tenge wrap around the nub that was her arm. He grabbed a pair of gloves and slipped them over his hands. He lifted the arm looking at the wound. "Are there any more wounds on her like this?"
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Post by Methuselah on Apr 26, 2024 18:48:45 GMT -6
"I've already told your daughter that it is possible Kinzo bit her in more places." Methuselah sighed again.
Ichigo shook his head. "He said to check her intimate areas." he whispered to his father.
Methuselah nodded and turned away from the men working on the Zayasus. "You will also need to take more of her arm off above the black markings. If there are black markings anywhere else, you might as well consider her dead."
"Could Kita stop the poison?"
"It's possible but she isn't here, is she?"
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Post by Isshin Kurosaki on Apr 26, 2024 19:07:46 GMT -6
Isshin looked around, "did anyone think to call her, or even Urahara or Tessai?"
"Yeah, I called Kita, and Yuzu called Hat and Clogs and Tessai," Ichigo informed his father. "They should be here soon."
Isshin nodded just as Kita walked into the room.
"I am here now. I also brought Kisuke and Tessai with me." She walked past Isshin as her eyes widened. "Koi--" slipped from between her lips, Kita immediately started healing her. "She is suffering from blood poisoning." She looked at Ichigo. "We need to get her out of these clothes and see what other places she might have that need immediate attention."
Ichigo's face flushed scarlet, "I...I,"
"Dammit Ichi!" Kita pushed him aside, "Go help your sister." Kita sighed and looked at Isshin as he stepped up and started removing Koi's clothing.
"Is there a high level of poison in her system?" Isshin asked as he cut away the woman's shirt, he watched as Kita only nodded her head.
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Post by Methuselah on Apr 26, 2024 19:17:16 GMT -6
"Again...Kinzo's blood and saliva are poison." Methuselah was becoming annoyed with having to repeat himself. "He more than likely bit her in other places. And, the room they were in was covered in blood. If it were all Coda's she would be dead already."
Methuselah glanced over at Coda. He closed his eyes and turned away for a moment. "Damn it, Kinzo." The woman was covered with black spots. The telltale sign of of Kinzo's poison. The spots covered her thighs, stomach and all of the areas Methuselah feared his brother had gone. Shame pulled at his heart. This was the work of his brother. So brutal and cruel. How could they be so different.
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Apr 26, 2024 19:31:16 GMT -6
Kita glared over at Methuselah with his mumbling, "So your telling me one of yours had something to do with this?" Her attention jerked away from the man and back to Koi. "Colored me shocked." Her tone sarcastic with dark undertones. With what Methuselah had mumbled, all Kita could think about was the day she went to the home of the Quincy and his family and found Evita, beaten--physically and mentally--and raped. Her anger swelled at the man behind her.
"But don't worry, Methuselah~ thanks to the Soul King I can purify her blood, removing all of the bastard's poison." As Isshin stripped away her clothing Kita could only sigh and shake her head. That bastard ripped Koi apart as bad as Grimmjow did her that night he found her in the halls of Las Noches.
She looked back at Methuselah with narrowed eyes. "I hope you killed the bastard that did this to her. One of yours or not."
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Post by Methuselah on Apr 27, 2024 8:51:07 GMT -6
"I'm not worried for Coda or Zayasu, Miyamoto." Methuselah inhaled deeply. "But, now I worry for you. Your bitterness is tangible. And, that could very well prove to be harmful to your healing...For others and yourself." Methuselah turned to walk away. "Thank you for taking care of them. I'm sure you will do you best." He pushed open the door to clinic. As he walked down the steps, he saw a young woman standing at the bottom of the stairs.
Methuselah's eyes went wide as the young girl ran off. "Leave her." he grunted, turning his head slightly. "It would be best to stay dead, boy." his voice dropping to a whisper. As he turned his gaze back to the street, he saw Urahara and Tsukabishi. He nodded as the two walked pass and entered the clinic.
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Apr 27, 2024 15:16:40 GMT -6
Kita grew more annoyed at Methuselah and his comment about her healing being weakened because she was bitter. Was she bitter? Yes. She was, she had every right to be after what Methuselah allowed his son, Naito, to do to poor Evita, however, it was not going to interfere with her healing abilities. It hasn't in the past and it won't start now.
Isshin looked over at Kita as she healed Koi, her reiatsu starting to climb, he could tell she was annoyed, but her strangling everyone around her with her reiatsu because she was angered was not going to help any of them. "Kita," Isshin called out to her softly. "Calm down. Remember you're here to help the wounded. Koi and Zayasu need you." He reached over to her and touched her forearm. "Deep breaths. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Breathe."
Kita did as Isshin told her, her eyes closing as she breathed, clearing her mind of everything but the issue in front of her. Isshin was right, Koi and Zayasu needed her--needed them.
"Good girl," Isshin replied patting her forearm, then returned to cleaning Koi's wounds.
Opening her eyes Kita was more at ease as she took a deep breath. Just then Kisuke entered the room pulling their attention away from Koi.
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Apr 28, 2024 14:38:17 GMT -6
Kisuke wiped his hands on a towel as he looked between Isshin and Kita. "Heal Koi as best you can. Isane and a medical team are coming to get Koi and Zayasu to take them to a proper facility for healing.""Hey, my facilities are proper," Isshin grumbled. Kisuke looked at Isshin from under his hat, his look told the man 'You know what I mean'."But her arm. I have not been able to regenerate it. I am still purifying her blood." Kita informed him."That's fine. Purifying her blood is the most important thing right now. It's not like you can't regenerate her arm later if that is what the hard-headed woman wants," Kisuke stated as he tossed the towel into a Bio-hazarded container."How is Zayasu?" Isshin asked. "Well, the hole in his chest is nearly closed. I am sure Tessai will have it closed by the time Isane gets here." Kisuke's head shook, "if this is not a shit show and a half." He looked up at Isshin. "We need to put this bastard down. He's more unstable than Grimmjow and Nnitora merged."
Isshin said nothing, only nodded as he continued bandaging Koi's wounds. Just then, Kisuke heard Tessai call out his name. "Keep healing until they get here." Kisuke turned and left the room going to see what Tessai needed.--END RP-- "Strange Stripes"
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Post by Ichigo Kurosaki on Apr 28, 2024 18:56:38 GMT -6
"No Substitutions": (Continued) "I really wish I wasn't such an open book," Ichigo huffed, ruffling his hair. He looked over to where Koi and Zayasu had been laying. Dying. "If I had known at least some Kido... I could have helped them better. And not just them. There's a lot of people I could have helped. Whether it was in a fight or afterward."
He turned back to his dad, frowning. "I don't want to just be a 'substitute' Soul Reaper anymore. I want to stand with all of our comrades as equals. I need to get stronger. Our enemies have gotten stronger and I've been stagnant."
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Post by Isshin Kurosaki on Apr 28, 2024 19:24:20 GMT -6
Isshin's eyes widened and the proudest, yet goofiest grin crossed his face as he looked on at his son. Suddenly both of his hands clasped down on his son's shoulders. "My son wants to attend Shin'ō Academy." His voice cracked like he was going to cry.
Without realizing it Isshin started lightly shaking his son. "I am so proud of you, son. I knew one day you would attend or at least I was hoping." Isshin started sniffling. "I love you so much." Isshin jerked Ichigo into his arms and hugged him tightly. "So proud."
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Post by Ichigo Kurosaki on Apr 28, 2024 19:37:31 GMT -6
Ichigo's face twisted into a mixture of exasperation and defeat over his dad's shoulder. In reality, he was going to ask his dad to teach him what he knew, and once he had learned what he could from him, he would seek out another to teach him the rest. He thought it would be good to learn from his own father since he had been a shinigami captain after all. And in a split second that sentiment left his mind entirely.
No way in hell am I asking this crazy ass to teach me Kido!
He sighed and patted his dad's back. "Thanks, Dad. That... that means a lot." He pulled away from the hug, blinking in thought. Maybe his dad had a point. "But... do you think they'd even let me join? And would they make me start from the beginning or could I just take the classes I'm missing?" He placed a hand on the back of his neck. "Seems kind of a waste of time to make me go through zanjutsu classes. And what else do they teach there anyway? I mean, what else is there to being a full-fledged Soul Reaper?"
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