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The older man spotted Hikari and ran straight for her, his speed increasing as he felt Chou's reiatsu rise dramaticly in the next few seconds. He would run over to her and gently placed Chou infront of the fourth Squad member. Diechi would look at Hikari carfully and asked a question bluntly.

"Will she make it on time? And will Chou make it?"

Chou had already fainted on the way over, however her body would continue to cough out an unusually large amount of blood. Her reiastu continuing to rise, her body once again began to shiver violently, and as he placed a hand on her forehead. He quickly pulled it away as he felt his hand seer in pain as he felt the heat rise from her body. Chou's eyes would shoot open and she began to toss and turn in pain from the intense heat of her core temperature.

"Water... I need water... Sensei... we need to keep training, I'm not done yet!"

It was obvious at this time that she was very dillusional with her core temperature, and yet she felt the heat of her body rise. She reached up for the crucifix around her neck and clung onto it tightly as she began to scream out for her father. Daichi growled angrily and ran into a different direction and came back with water and dumped it on the girl.

"Damn it Murisaki LIVE!"

((Daichi is not an actually chracter just a side char))
Daichi looked over at his pain filled pupil and then looked away. The old man felt horribly guilty for forcing Chou into such a fury. He watched the Taicho of the fourth squad do her work, while he heard Chou suffer from the intense amount of reiatsu building up in her body. She clung onto her fathers cross tightly until her hand began to bleed and was being seered from the heat of the cross her body was putting into it. He winced as he watched her hand bleed from her fathers cross and then sighed and kneeled next to her.

He then looked over at the fourth Taicho and spoke quietly, as he looked over to the blisters on both of Chou's hands.

"My wife is at home and has no idea that I took her out to train so early in the morning. If I left my name, gave you her name, and stated what we were doing here may I go back to go check up on my wife? I will come back to check up on my student ASAP if I am allowed to..."

His face looked very serious at the moment as he watched Chou squirm around.

"Yes, you may go back after you leave us your name and tell us how you ended up here. I must bring her to emergency care," the captain said. "Speak with my lieutenant before you leave."

Daichi glared at the Shinigami that walked away, he had no idea what he was talking about as he threw out the Quincy's good name in disgust. The "child" that had just been picked up by the fourth Squad captain was no more of a quincy then the shinigami that threw that comment out. How could some half blooded outsider even be considered one of them. It was becoming more and more obvious to him that Chou was a danger to herself and those around her, the only reason he was even helping her out was because she was Tatsu's kid, other then that he held no obligation to her needs nor cared about her. At first he had seen potential, but now he saw nothing but danger for her and everyone else.

The older man turned to Hitsugaya and crossed his arms as he realized that the captain of the tenth squad was indeed... short. His eye brow began to twich becauce he really did not feel like explaining his own business to a mere child, a shinigami no less, however he knew it was in his best interest to do so if he didn't want any trouble.

"I was training that girl, and suddenly her reiatsu went out of control... As to how we got here I have no knowledege of it, for as your friend has clearly stated, clearly the Quincies and the Shinigami hold no friendly ties... The last thing I remember was running down the path on my land hopinh that one of your patrol members down in the Realm of the living was a squad four member, I would have been obviously out of luck if I went to take her to a human hospital.
My name is Daichi Nakanaga... the girl's name is Chou Murisaki. If I were you I'd put her out of her misery as soon as possible, because as far as I am concerned she is a danger to herself and others around her... She is no longer any concern of mine..."

"W-why you-! You... That's horrible!" Hikari shouted, struggling to her feet, and finally managing this time. Instantly, her reiatsu level rose as she gave into her anger and she clenched her fists, taking a step forward when the captain stopped her, by grasping her arm firmly and pulling her behind him.
"Is that all, Quincy?" Hitsugaya stated, his eyes cold. "If so, then you are clear to leave. Your input is appreciated, but you don't need to worry yourself further. The girl is no longer your concern ."
Hikari tried to shake his arm off her weakly. "But that's not-"
"Misuzu!" The captain scolded her, giving her an irritated glare.
Instantly, her anger evaporated, and without that burst of adrenaline, Hikari once again sank to her knees. "...I didn't mean it, Taicho. Yes, sir, you are free to leave," she mumbled, looking down at the ground. She knew that Hitsugaya was just trying to pacify the man and get him to leave with no troubles, but she couldn't seem to let it go. He was caring for the girl and then later speaking of the girl as if she were nothing more than trash? Hikari's fatigue was finally catching up with her, and having just released the reiatsu that she'd just barely regained, plus the fact that the person she looked up to just reprimanded her, Hikari gave into it and sank into the depths of unconsciousness.
Noticing that the girl behind him had passed out, the white haired captain rolled his eyes slightly. What did she expect was going to happen, constantly having outbursts like a little child? He shook his head. She spends too much time training with Hinamori. She's just like her sometimes! He could send for help, but it really wasn't wise to stay there. Things were going on and waiting for a response from Squad 4 who were already busy with a potentially dangerous girl would probably not be the best thing. But Hitsugaya couldn't just leave the girl laying there helpless could he? He sent for a hell butterfly. "I'm taking the 4th Squad lieutenant with me. Please pick her up in the court yard gardens." He figured that the Squad 4 building was in the opposite direction of what he was going, but the court yard was on his way, and Hikari would be safer in there.
He lifted the unconscious girl and took off with her, using shunpo and arriving at the gardens, before setting her up against a sakura tree. He suddenly felt a presence, and realized that the troublesome 11th Squad, 4th seat was nearby, rolling his eyes in annoyance. He hadn't the time to be dealing with this nonsense, but at least Hikari wouldn't be left alone and defenseless in her unconscious state now. As if her friend would leave her there. Well, if he's as good of a friend as she constantly claims him to be, Hitsugaya reasoned to himself. Saying nothing, and figuring that the presence of Hikari's reiatsu was explanation enough for the rude 4th seat to figure it out on his own, Hitsugaya used shunpo and disappeared from the scene in pursuit of the other Ryoka.

It would be several hour's later before Chou woke up. Her conciousness was the first to awaken, her eyes however did not open right away. She listened for any sounds in the room, nothing. She began to hope that everything that had happened was just a dream, if it wasn't she'd probably be scolded for sleeping in, to make sure she called out softly, "Sensei... I'm sorry for sleeping in again" there was no reply.

She then dared to hope that she was back home, in her bed back in her home town in Southern California. If she opened her eyes now she would most likely find that her dad had already left for work, and her mom was either down in the living room waiting for her with vicious intent, or had already gone out drinking. She frowned at the thought, but atleast it ment her father wasn't dead.

She'd open one eye reluctantly to greet the day, when she saw a wooden plank she was startled. She opened both eyes to quickly see where she was. It looked to be an old style Edo period room, which told her she definetely wasn't home or in a hospital from home, nor was she at Daichi's house. Her face looked paniced for a minute, it was the equivilant of a five year old waking up in a strangers house. When she went to lift her arm and any portion of her body it refused to budge, everything hurt horribly. She finally forced herself to sit up through all the pain and began to look around, she had noticed that a strange glowing tube made up of something she had never seen before come out of her hand much like an I.V. in a normal hospital would. Her arm didn't even look like it was even hers, it was scrawny and looked to have never been used in it's life.

She paniced and her eye's widened, she was so scared the scream she tried to force out wouldn't even come out. She went to move her hand to pull out the strange glowing wire from her arm, and she felt someone's hand clasp on hers. She'd turn to look over to see who had grabbed her hand, her heart nearly skipping a beat from how scared she was. When she turned she saw a silver haired young man laying in a bed next to hers. He looked very sickly, and yet he seemed to have a friendlt feeling about him. She couldn't help but stare because of how beautiful she seemed to find him. His eyes locked with her's in concern and he spoke softly. Unfortunately for her she had no way of knowing that the man in the bed next to her's was Ukitake the 13th Squad's Taicho.

"I wouldn't pull that out if I were you miss..."

He'd cough into his free hand weakly. He'd then smile compasionately after coughing.

"They'll make you stay longer if you do, that and you might hurt yourself..."

He'd chuckle as he caught her staring at him, he only seemed to have this problem with his subordinates, so he felt quite flattered. It was refreshing to have just one person do it, considering the only thing his two subordinates did was constantly bicker over trying to please him. Chou found herself blushing and quickly looked away, realizing she had been staring rudely.

"I wouldn't want that at all... By the way thanks for the advice Mr...um...?"

He'd cuckle weakly as he saw Chou's embarrassment and spoke softly. Neither one of them had realized his hand was still firmly clasped on her's and they wouldn't for awhile. She'd wince loudly as she felt burning surge through her hand. She hadn't felt the pain until now because she was so frightened, she didn't even notice it was bleeding.

"I'm sorry miss, the squad four members weren't able to heal your hand because you were clinging onto your cross too tightly, so they couldn't remove your hand from it without hurting you. My name is Ukitake, it's a pleasure to meet you miss. It's not often I get to see a new face around here... Does a pretty girl like you have a name?"

She'd blush at his statement, not many people called her pretty at all especially not in this condition. In fact alot of people assumed her to be bad luck because she always seemed to end up in the hospital at home in the US because of falling down a flight of stairs or something similarly dangerous. She spoke horsely because this was what her body permitted.

"My name is Murisaki, Cho it's a pleasure to meet you Ukitake..."

She wasn't trying to sound rude, it was just what she had gotten used to growing up at home. She wasn't aware that using titles were important in this country. Ukitake would blush slightly at the fact she hadn't used one and chuckled softly, assuming she just must have forgotten her manners in the panic.

"Not at all the pleasure is all mine, Murisaki- san..."

She would look a bit stunned by the fact that he had used a title for her and then said absent mindedly.

"Please just Chou is alright..."

Ukitaki's face would go beet red, because he now assumed that she really was interested in him, and that letting him use her name so lightly was quite a give away. She was unaware of this and looked completely oblivious to what she had said and then saw him blushing profusely and spoke sounding a bit confused.

"What is the matter...? Did I say something wrong?"

Ukitake went to speak, but before he was able to, the door slammed open and his two subbordinates ran in making a fuss.

"Ukitake- Taicho! Are you feeling any better today?! We just got a report from Byakuya - Taicho (Sorry I can't remember how to spell his last name) there is a large amount..."

The man subordinate would be stopped and then shoved by the girl subordinate who continued to relay the message. They however seemed to preoccupied with themselves to even notice that Chou was in the room.

"Of Reiatsu in the are...a?"

The girl was both shocked and surprised by the fact that the 13th Taicho's hand was clutching onto Chou's. She then looked paniced and began to point, waving her finger in over dramatized panic.

"Taich-chchcho! That strange girl is holding YOUR hand! Doesn't she even know who you are?!"

Ukitake blushed for a quick second and then it disappeared quickly as he quickly let go of Chou's hand. He would then clear his throat sounding a bit annoyed at the two.

"Lets get back to the point shall we? What is it that Byakuya- Sama wanted?"

The girl's face went from panic to seriousness in about 1.2 seconds. She then calmed down from her over dramatized panic from Chou and went back to her over dramatized panic of the situation.

"Ye-yes Byakuya- Taicho wanted us to come tell you that he wanted you to come help him check out the situation..."

At this Ukitake jumped out of the bed he had been resting in and was oddly enough dressed and ready to go. He looked a bit better then he had been when Chou first noticed him and he ran out the door shouting back to the two.

"Tell him I am on my way!"

Chou looked at the two in shock and spoke stumbling on her words unable to comprehend what had just happened.

"What about Ukitake's condition?! Shouldn't he be resting?! A minute a go he looked really ill..."

The girl turned after hearing this and barked at Chou angrily. She couldn't understand how some strange Ryoka could show her captain so much disrespect so easily. She reached out to slap her, and hit Chou hard enough to cause her face to turn.

"Don't you DARE, use Ukitake- Sama's name with such disrespect! A Ryoka who has no clue as to what goes on here has no business in our affairs! And Ukitake- Sama is more then able to handle himself unlike some pathetic girl like you who can't even keep blood down..."

With that a member of Squad four walked in to check up on Chou, and saw the girl yell at the top of her lungs to Chou, who's eyes were wide open with her face turned to the side. He would also notice the huge red mark on her face. It was Hanamaru, as soon as he saw the look on chou's face he walked over to the girl angrily and slapped her face hard. In which the girl clasped the spot she had been slapped and whimpered.

"How DARE you come into this area and disregaurd a very ill patient! For all you know you could have made the situation WORSE! Unohana- Taicho left this girl in MY care! So I will deal with her as I please... now get out! Before I decide to make up a report to send to your Taicho..."

The girl looked angry and ran out, the man who had come in with her looked dumb founded by what had just happend and ran after her. Hanamaru (sorry if that isn't his name I haven't watched or read up on any of this in a long time) walked up to Chou, and gently set a tray of food down on her lap. He'd speak in a much softer and shyer tone then he had a moment ago.

"I'm sorry about those two miss... they are a bit obsessive when it comes to Ukitake- Taicho. I brought you some food... you must be hungry, it was the crack of dawn when they brought you in here wasn't it?"

Chou would nod silently just staring at the boy, it was hard to believe he was the same person who was yelling at the two people earlier.

"Then you must be starving... that is a long time to go without eating... Lets see... I brought you some Onegiri, and some soup, they won't let me feed you anything more solid until we can figure out what the problem is exactly. You look as if you haven't eaten well in quite awhile though, which isn't a good sign. So I'll let you eat and I will check up on you later ok? I'll see you soon!"

Chou was quite surprised, alot of people here... where ever she was, were a lot kinder to her then most people she has ever met in her life other then her father. She sipped at the soup slowly, and found that it tasted wonderful, discovering she was really hungry and devoured most of the soup. She would then stuff her face with the Onegiri hungrily wincing at the pain she felt in her right hand from holding onto the rice ball.

She would look out the window and notice such lovely trees growing outside of the strange building, she found herself so relaxed in this strange place. She wondered where her sensei had gone to, and how she was going to get back.