[Bleach] A Trinity of Seeming (3z, 5z)
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Title: A Trinity of Seeming
Rating: PG
Fandom: Bleach
Characters: Shinsou, Kyouga Suigetsu
Disclaimer: The names of the swords nor the personalities/appearances etc of their wielders do not belong to me. The characterisations of the swords, however, were ones that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yuusei_enigma and I invented without canonical evidence and should not be taken to be the characterisations/appearances that Kubo Tite uses/will use.
Notes: Cooperated-upon withyuusei_enigma because we love zanpakutou crack.
Spoilers: The the Soul Society arc (stuff about Aizen)!
Words: 1,127
Summary: Shinsou is new to the Division and finds what might be a friend if he could just recognize it.
Fifth Division smells different from the Academy, and the people in it treat him differently. Animals wandering around the Academy dormitories are unusual; people stop to pet them because they think they're dogs. In Fifth, everyone knows what they are - zanpakutou - and nobody pets Shinsou any more, which isn't very fun because it means he doesn't have an excuse to bite them.
But things smell so interesting that he almost doesn't mind, and for the first time in a long while he smells a cat, but when he tries to go up to it and sniff it to see if it's the cat he remembers (gray as he was silver, dust-formed and graceful), it takes a swipe at his nose and he has to run away to keep it from doing him further damage.
His nose bleeds for a few days, and Gin laughs and tells him it was all his fault, but brings him something sweet to eat anyway, and Shinsou can feel him sad inside.
To make him feel better, Shinsou goes exploring again, this time as a little boy to see everything that nobody will let a fox see, because little boys don't have teeth and claws to hurt people and hide secrets with. This is why people are stupid, because Shinsou is not a little boy, and he is glad he is a fox, which is tricked not by sight but by smell.
He sees a kappa asking a giant globe for a trade of something, and is so busy wondering if they're sharing candy that he nearly walks into someone else, noticing her only because of the shadow she casts rather than because of the way she smells, which is very strange.
He looks up at her, then up and up - she's very tall, and he is very short, being so little and young. She is wearing a blue kimono, floral-print, the saffron-shade of the flowers stitched into the cloth the same color as her hair. She is very beautiful, he knows.
Shinsou takes two quick steps away from her, listening to her apologies with wide eyes, and tries to look not like a fox but like a little boy. He wants her to like him, and lots of people don't like foxes.
"What's your name?" she asks, kneeling to be eye-to-eye with him, giving him a face-height view of her bosom, which is modestly covered but still ample.
"Shinsou," he says, because nobody who ever asked him for his name has ever wanted to kill him. Would be fun if they did, though. He thinks about saying Gin's name, too, but stops himself, the look on her face like her mind is tasting the words. "What's yours?"
She ignores his question and instead touches his hair, her fingers tangling in it as though she is checking the quality of good fabric. "The fox," she observes softly, and her voice is so gentle and warm that he doesn't mind that she's touching him.
"Yeah," he responds, proud that she knows his name already, that he has a reputation in the Gotei 13 already.
She kisses his forehead then, like a mom or a big sister, and stands up, her sharp-nailed fingers trailing up his cheek. "My name is Kyouga Suigetsu," she says, so kind, "and if you come here tomorrow at this same time, I think I can find a playmate for you. If you would like one." The way she smiles makes him glad of the offer, because Kyouga Suigetsu looks so very nice.
---
He comes back the next day and she isn't there, but there is another little boy standing, shuffling his feet with nerves, and his hair is bright-orange, like the tip of something on fire. It stands up at the bottoms and sags at the top, like it was standing to attention and got tired, and Shinsou thinks the boy looks very silly.
"You look stupid," he says, and the boy shoots back, "So do you."
They go on in this vein for a while, just talking, trading insults, before Shinsou thinks to ask him if Kyouga Suigetsu told him to come.
"I am Kyouga Suigetsu," the boy says, puffing his chest out, all pride.
"Are not," Shinsou tells him, miffed. "She was pretty. And tall."
The boy grins. "I was. And now I'm not."
Shinsou doesn't quite get it, but he thinks that the boy is lying, so he doesn't ask again as they wander through streets and into the forest outside the boundaries of Seireitei, where they climb through the trees. Sometimes he thinks he sees the boy's face change shape, his teeth elongate or his hand change into a fin, but it's just an illusion. When Shinsou looks back - he always does - the boy looks the same.
At the end of the day, Shinsou says, "I had fun. Can I see you here tomorrow?" They are standing by a fountain, the stone worn by water for so very long, and the boy sticks his hand in the water to cool it off. Shinsou squints, thinking the boy's hand is washing away, but it isn't.
"Sure," the boy agrees, and nods at him, and they part ways.
---
He comes the next day and is alone at first, so he sits on the edge of the fountain and sticks his hand in the water, then cupping it and lapping up the water from his palm. Everything is bright today, and Shinsou is waiting for the boy -
But what walks into the alcove is not a little boy almost-like himself, but a monster, something like a Hollow - skeletal, with a crust of not-skin above like a shell or a full-body mask that moves and ripples with the creature's motions, and Shinsou, angry at being disturbed while waiting for his friend, attacks like any good zanpakutou would, blade appearing in his hand -
He runs into what seems a barrier of ice, the blade in his hand bending away and his body impacting with a wet-sounding, low noise that means only pain.
"I don't want to harm you," the creature says, mouth opening wide in a smile as the barrier dissipates and Shinsou looks up, lying in the star-shaped shadow that the Hollow-like thing casts. "You're still the friend from yesterday and the strange little boy from the day before that."
Shinsou's heart sinks, looking up at this strange, strange thing that won't want to be his friend now. "Kyouga Suigetsu," he says, and it smiles.
"My name indeed," it says, and gives him a hand to standing, its claws blunt against his skin, leaving trails of water behind. "Remember it well, because it's the only thing about me that doesn't change."
Title: A Trinity of Seeming
Rating: PG
Fandom: Bleach
Characters: Shinsou, Kyouga Suigetsu
Disclaimer: The names of the swords nor the personalities/appearances etc of their wielders do not belong to me. The characterisations of the swords, however, were ones that
yuusei_enigma and I invented without canonical evidence and should not be taken to be the characterisations/appearances that Kubo Tite uses/will use.Notes: Cooperated-upon with
yuusei_enigma because we love zanpakutou crack.Spoilers: The the Soul Society arc (stuff about Aizen)!
Words: 1,127
Summary: Shinsou is new to the Division and finds what might be a friend if he could just recognize it.
Fifth Division smells different from the Academy, and the people in it treat him differently. Animals wandering around the Academy dormitories are unusual; people stop to pet them because they think they're dogs. In Fifth, everyone knows what they are - zanpakutou - and nobody pets Shinsou any more, which isn't very fun because it means he doesn't have an excuse to bite them.
But things smell so interesting that he almost doesn't mind, and for the first time in a long while he smells a cat, but when he tries to go up to it and sniff it to see if it's the cat he remembers (gray as he was silver, dust-formed and graceful), it takes a swipe at his nose and he has to run away to keep it from doing him further damage.
His nose bleeds for a few days, and Gin laughs and tells him it was all his fault, but brings him something sweet to eat anyway, and Shinsou can feel him sad inside.
To make him feel better, Shinsou goes exploring again, this time as a little boy to see everything that nobody will let a fox see, because little boys don't have teeth and claws to hurt people and hide secrets with. This is why people are stupid, because Shinsou is not a little boy, and he is glad he is a fox, which is tricked not by sight but by smell.
He sees a kappa asking a giant globe for a trade of something, and is so busy wondering if they're sharing candy that he nearly walks into someone else, noticing her only because of the shadow she casts rather than because of the way she smells, which is very strange.
He looks up at her, then up and up - she's very tall, and he is very short, being so little and young. She is wearing a blue kimono, floral-print, the saffron-shade of the flowers stitched into the cloth the same color as her hair. She is very beautiful, he knows.
Shinsou takes two quick steps away from her, listening to her apologies with wide eyes, and tries to look not like a fox but like a little boy. He wants her to like him, and lots of people don't like foxes.
"What's your name?" she asks, kneeling to be eye-to-eye with him, giving him a face-height view of her bosom, which is modestly covered but still ample.
"Shinsou," he says, because nobody who ever asked him for his name has ever wanted to kill him. Would be fun if they did, though. He thinks about saying Gin's name, too, but stops himself, the look on her face like her mind is tasting the words. "What's yours?"
She ignores his question and instead touches his hair, her fingers tangling in it as though she is checking the quality of good fabric. "The fox," she observes softly, and her voice is so gentle and warm that he doesn't mind that she's touching him.
"Yeah," he responds, proud that she knows his name already, that he has a reputation in the Gotei 13 already.
She kisses his forehead then, like a mom or a big sister, and stands up, her sharp-nailed fingers trailing up his cheek. "My name is Kyouga Suigetsu," she says, so kind, "and if you come here tomorrow at this same time, I think I can find a playmate for you. If you would like one." The way she smiles makes him glad of the offer, because Kyouga Suigetsu looks so very nice.
---
He comes back the next day and she isn't there, but there is another little boy standing, shuffling his feet with nerves, and his hair is bright-orange, like the tip of something on fire. It stands up at the bottoms and sags at the top, like it was standing to attention and got tired, and Shinsou thinks the boy looks very silly.
"You look stupid," he says, and the boy shoots back, "So do you."
They go on in this vein for a while, just talking, trading insults, before Shinsou thinks to ask him if Kyouga Suigetsu told him to come.
"I am Kyouga Suigetsu," the boy says, puffing his chest out, all pride.
"Are not," Shinsou tells him, miffed. "She was pretty. And tall."
The boy grins. "I was. And now I'm not."
Shinsou doesn't quite get it, but he thinks that the boy is lying, so he doesn't ask again as they wander through streets and into the forest outside the boundaries of Seireitei, where they climb through the trees. Sometimes he thinks he sees the boy's face change shape, his teeth elongate or his hand change into a fin, but it's just an illusion. When Shinsou looks back - he always does - the boy looks the same.
At the end of the day, Shinsou says, "I had fun. Can I see you here tomorrow?" They are standing by a fountain, the stone worn by water for so very long, and the boy sticks his hand in the water to cool it off. Shinsou squints, thinking the boy's hand is washing away, but it isn't.
"Sure," the boy agrees, and nods at him, and they part ways.
---
He comes the next day and is alone at first, so he sits on the edge of the fountain and sticks his hand in the water, then cupping it and lapping up the water from his palm. Everything is bright today, and Shinsou is waiting for the boy -
But what walks into the alcove is not a little boy almost-like himself, but a monster, something like a Hollow - skeletal, with a crust of not-skin above like a shell or a full-body mask that moves and ripples with the creature's motions, and Shinsou, angry at being disturbed while waiting for his friend, attacks like any good zanpakutou would, blade appearing in his hand -
He runs into what seems a barrier of ice, the blade in his hand bending away and his body impacting with a wet-sounding, low noise that means only pain.
"I don't want to harm you," the creature says, mouth opening wide in a smile as the barrier dissipates and Shinsou looks up, lying in the star-shaped shadow that the Hollow-like thing casts. "You're still the friend from yesterday and the strange little boy from the day before that."
Shinsou's heart sinks, looking up at this strange, strange thing that won't want to be his friend now. "Kyouga Suigetsu," he says, and it smiles.
"My name indeed," it says, and gives him a hand to standing, its claws blunt against his skin, leaving trails of water behind. "Remember it well, because it's the only thing about me that doesn't change."
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Date: 2006-08-07 09:39 pm (UTC)...I want AiGin pr0n now D: