Chapter 3 : young woman
A knock on the door went unnoticed, and the following voice that announced the arrival of her protege, personal guard, and servant from the Feng Clan along with it, before someone entered her room. Finally taking notice of the new arrival, Yoruichi reached a hand out towards the younger woman and waved her over.
"Come 'ere Sui-Feng. "
The young woman timidly approached her mentor and idol before kneeling down next to the futon, she was about to ask what was bothering the older woman when the collar of her training clothes was snagged in Yoruichi's iron grip and Sui-Feng was dragged into a rather tight embrace. "Yoruichi-sama! What is.
. .
" She trailed off when she realized something odd, her mentor was doing something she'd never seen her do before.
She was crying silently, holding onto Sui-Feng like a child would a stuffed animal and burying her face into the younger woman's chest. "Sui-Feng, I'll answer your questions later.
. .
just let me stay like this for a bit alright?"
Sui-Feng nodded dumbly and like that Yoruichi eventually drifted off to sleep. It had been a long day for her, and she'd been more tired than she'd thought.
Sui-Feng meanwhile just frowned in thought. Her mentor's current emotional state must have something to do with her last mission.
Over the last sixteen or so years Yoruichi had been disappearing rather often, stating that it was on orders from the Sou-Taichou and that she had things to check up on in District Thirteen. Which was cause enough for concern in Sui-Feng's opinion.
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District Thirteen was home to some of the most terrifying beings Sui-Feng had ever heard of; humans with supernatural powers that defied the laws of physics, and demons the size of small mountains with powers beyond even Captain Class Shinigami. These humans had strength enough to shatter concrete with their bare hands and speed even greater than Yoruichi—the goddess of flash!—in some cases.
She had never quite known what business Yoruichi could have had in such a place, as hollows were far too wary of the place to set foot there to hunt for souls. It was a rather simple matter for the Shinigami of the Hachiban-tai to Konso the souls of those that died in that pocket dimension, since any hollows that did appear there were disposed of by the residents before long.
So she opted to stop thinking too hard on it and just stroked Yoruichi's hair soothingly as the woman slept. Before long Yoruichi had woken up, and almost immediately set into her story.
What she had been sent to do in District Thirteen, and what she had witnessed over the past several months since she'd left for District thirteen, up until her return just that morning. Needless to say, Sui-Feng was shocked, and after hearing about this young man whom Yoruichi had been looking after for so long, she too felt her mentor's pain and heartbreak.
It would almost be like watching your own child die.
So Sui-Feng made her mentor a promise, she would search the Rukongai high and low whenever she had the chance. She would find this boy and bring him to the Seireitei for her, and she would protect him with her life just as she would Yoruichi.
Yoruichi was touched and proved it by drawing her protégé into a warm embrace, whispering her thanks into the younger woman's ear and revelling in the bright blush the action brought to the young woman's face. When she released her she held her at arms length and smiled.
"Thank you Sui-Feng, that means a lot to me; I'll be searching as well, a person who was as powerful as he was in life is bound to have staggering strength now that his soul is unbound from it's physical shell. It would do the whole of Soul Society some good to see that he's properly trained.
"
Sui-Feng nodded before kneeling at the foot of Yoruichi's futon, her head bowed submissively. "I promise you again Yoruichi-sama, I will find this boy, this I vow upon my very life.
"
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When Naruto opened his eyes to the world, the first thing he had noticed was that his normal clothing was gone, replaced by a plain beige kimono with white underclothing and a pair of straw sandals. He had also been standing in some sort of room with plain white walls at the back of a long line of similarly dressed individuals.
Now though, after travelling for the past three days, he had gone to sleep in the centre of a large forest clearing at the edge of a wide lake. Bird-song filled the air, having been what woke him, and a soft breeze carried through and gently ruffled his hair like a doting father.
Pushing himself into a sitting position, he looked out over the clearing and took in the sight of the large lake that dominated over half of the clearing, it's crystal clear water affording him a view straight to the sandy lake-bed and dozens of schools of fish. Surrounding this clearing was a dense corpse of trees and shrubs, and beyond that his sharp ears could just barely make out the sound of a large mass of people; likely the village he'd entered upon first arriving in Soul Society.
Slowly dragging himself to his feet, Naruto moved into the shade of the trees before leaning against one and sliding back down to the grass. He was tired, and hungry, but he'd felt worse.
He just needed to rest a little bit more and make his way back into the town before dark.
Thinking back on what had happened, Naruto rested his head on his knees and wrapped his arms around his legs. He'd died, and the shinigami had performed a 'konso' as she'd called it.
Sending his soul to what she had called Soul Society. When he'd arrived he'd been greeted by another person wearing similar clothing and handed a ticket of some sort, it had simply said W3.
He'd been directed to what they had called West Rukongai District Three or Hokutan. When he'd arrived, he had opted to stay out of the village for the time being and made his way into the woods.
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