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Eriko, still holding up the Captain level girl on her back, entered the hospital and looked around. Seeing a form of sorts, the Sanseki placed the limp body of the girl on a row of chairs and filled it out to the best of her ability.

Character name: Hakase, Hei
Description of wounds: Unconcious

When she had completed it, Eriko sat on an adjacent seat by Hakase-Taicho and waited for any medical attention. She really hoped that she had not messed up in some way - again.

Eriko felt herself relax under a sudden force of sleepiness and instantly, forced herself awake, not wanting any more harm to come to the younger person. She looked around and saw a woman approach Hei. It was obviously the Captain of the Fourth Division and so, Eriko knocked her head back and listened as the woman spoke to Hei as if still awake and perform a healing Kido as well. After this, she looked up and caught the smile directed towards her. The Sanseki nodded but asked, "So, what went wrong? And what happens now?" Whatever bit of responsibility she had felt by bringing the girl here was not going away, apparently. Her jaw tightened.

At the sudden entrance of her Taicho, Eriko stood and straightened her posture. She figured it would be more respectful to do so than to stay seated in too relaxed a manner. Her mind got a little befuddled at the double mention of "Hakase-Taicho". A few seconds though, it clicked that the woman was related to the girl, still floating on air. Her mouth twisted inquisitively but relaxed into a line as her own Taicho addressed her.

"I think it depends on one's definition of 'not too hard', sir. However, I did enjoy myself and a learned a bit more about my Shikai as well as Cho." Eriko smiled at this, telling him silently that that was her Zanpakuto's name. She looked back at Hei as Lee talked about "that body" being not meant for such strain. So, that was not Hei's true body...interesting.

Eriko chided herself harshly. Duh, she would be waiting for the girl to wake up. Her interest in the young girl's well-being was stroked even more when the awake Hakase-Taicho stated that it was classified information as well as her reference to the other Captain as a male, rather than a female. Eriko kept her eyes on the limp body as she spoke, "I'm not sure. There was a Garganta and she came out of it but looked completely different in a black skin, white cryptic markings on that and then there was that reiryoku," Eriko shuddered but continued, "She air-walked to the floor but by then, she was weak and fell to the floor, returning to her current state as you can see. Oops, I meant 'he' and 'his'. Anyway, Lee should be able to give you a better idea. They had left through a Garganta."

~~~~I know that you never loved me;

~~~~~~I know that you never cared at all,


She was in a hurry, though why, she wasnt quite sure. Something was telling her that she needed to get to Hei. A few people she had literally crashed into told her that they hadnt had any wind of the fearsome captain. They seemed oddly relived because of that fact. Assholes. Stopping in the middle of an alley, Mochi fixed her staff better on her back, then began using a simple set of shunpo's and airwalks to get to the fourth squad area.

If anyone knew where Hei was, it would be Yuki. Hopefully. Landing in front of the Hospital, the small woman jogged into the room and squeaked, then just barely had time to stop herself before she bumped into the back of another captain.

"s**t. Sorry! Um. I need to find Hei, does anyone know where he--" her sentence was cut off when she looked around and saw the floating girl. Whoa.. "Um. Well, like I was saying. Wait. Hei? No. Cant be. " it took her only seconds to dismiss the ridiculous thoughts of her lover being in the body of a ten year old girl. Then again, this was Hei she was talking about. For all she knew, he could implant --or whatever he did-- himself into a bird and fly around to spy on people.

Rubbing her head slowly, Mochi turned to Yuki, hoping like hell she had an answer that would fix all of her confusion. "Can you help me understand a few things Captain Yuki-san?" Then, as if only now remembering her manners, she bowed to all of the people in the room.



~~~~~~~No my love we can't be friends,

~~~~~In fact I liked you much better

~~~~~~~When you'd just pretend.

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A feeling of comfort washed over Hei's unconscious body as Yuki used the Chiyudō on him. The pain from the wounds on his right hand and left shoulder faded away like a distant memory. Shrouded in darkness, Hei stood before a tan-haired, 10-year-old girl wearing an oddly tailored, white Shihakusho. Both beings stared the other down for a few moments, no words exchanged. Then the small girl merely smirked at Hei and held her hand up to his waist, fingers extended and waiting for him to take hers in his. Hei held out his own hand and laced his fingers with her own and for a few second all they did was hold hands. Seconds later, the room was flooded with a bright light and Hei's consciousness took him back to the Soul Society, but he didn't quite wake.

The girl that lay upon a bed of wind shuddered as the effects of her age and gender pills wore off from her body. Her body began to change slowly, as though she were experiencing a metamorphosis of sorts. Her hair turned black and her body lengthened, growing older as it were. Her clothes ripped here and there, finally getting to the point where they only barely covered the ample chest and genitalia of an exact duplicate of Yuki. This person remained this way for a moment, until she began to change once more, becoming an older lady, possibly in her 50's or 60's. A third change took place as this old woman became an older man, an older version of Hei, or rather his true appearance.

Several things about him were different, his hair was grey and he had lost most of his boyish charm that was more apparent when he was younger. Another thing interesting about him was that he now sported a more muscular build. Something within him snapped and he was on his feet in an instant and in the next instant in front of Mochi. His arms was bent at the elbow and cocked back slightly, his hand looked like he was holding an invisible ball, but not all the way so that his sharpened nails were still extended and now centimeters from her face. It was only the revitalized pain from his shoulder hand that stopped him from clawing her face off. Black threads of shadow held his wounds closed, the gash on his shoulder and the puncture wounds on the back and front of his right hand.

Both areas had an imprint of darkness which more or less resembled a dark spot covering the affected area. He had halted because the imprint had put a partial imposition upon him due to his half-light nature. Looking into his eyes, Mochi would see that his irises were just now fading into focus, having been gone until just now. Only just now was he returning to his clear-headed self, having sealed off his emotions and feelings in the earlier fight. Lowering his hand slowly he breathed a heavy sigh and dropped his head. He put a finger to her stomach and fell over once more as the black threads on his wounds began to unwind and disappear from his body, causing him to leak blood once more.

As Lee spoke, Yuki slid over to the nearest wall and leaned up against it. Still keeping a calm demeanor, she was quiet as she tossed ideas around in her mind regarding what had really happened in Hueco Mundo. Mochi's actual appearance was of little surprise, just as Lee's wasn't though her coming to this location was curious. Even though Mochi's initial question was rather vague, she knew what was meant by it. She smiled at her and made to motion towards Hei's body. "Your guess is as good as mine." She lied, not wanting to answer the question at hand. As Hei awoke, she wasn't too alarmed, since she felt it coming, thought looking at a her twin in female form, an exact copy of what she looked like now, an older form which she had yet to reach, and then Hei's true appearance was all a little unnerving to say the least.

It was just a reminder of how much he sacrificed to make her feel better about staying eternally young while he continued to age to a certain degree. What happened after was of no surprise, but still disturbing. After all, she had seen it the first time he sealed away his emotions and feelings, nevertheless she wasn't expecting Mochi to be attacked. She made to grab his wrist just before he struck Mochi, but released him once he became lucid again. Then he began to fall over as she felt a Chiyudo being undone upon his body; she had paid these no mind earlier since he was aligned with darkness to begin with. She grabbed him by the armpit as he slid to the floor, watching as Eriko caught him as well. After waving to dismiss the small Shinigami from supporting her brother, she dropped to her knees with him in her lap. Yuki ran her finger along the gash on his shoulder. If one could see on a microscopic level, they could watch as veins, tissue, and skin began fusing back together, closing the wound without leaving a scar.

Taking note of the blood dripping onto the floor, she located the wounds on his hand. Taking his into her own, she gripped his hand and did the same to it that she had done to his shoulder. Now all that remained was the imprint of darkness and the bloodstain on his hand. Moving her hand to his forehead, she thumped it. "Stupid idiot. I know for a fact this wound was intentional. What did you do?" He was a Kendo expert, this much was true. There was just no way he would allow himself a crippling wound to his hand unless either something was way wrong, or he was just that much more powerful than his opponent. With a soft sigh she looked at the older man, hardly able to comprehend that he was her twin.