[X] Hollows, dead souls, and the fact that Karakura Town has more ghosts than most places, apparently.
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[X] The memory consuming fairies, and if Arisawa has noticed anyone around her forgetting things recently.
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[X] The memory consuming fairies, and if Arisawa has noticed anyone around her forgetting things recently.
Even if Tsukabichi said that Urahara was almost done with Arisawa, he and Fujino still ended up waiting for some time before the other two returned to the entrance of the store. The children who were around earlier weren't anymore, but from the lack of comment or apparent concern on Tsukabichi's part, it probably wasn't important. Maybe they had gone to play outside somewhere.
The wait went on for some time, before Tsukabichi spoke up.
"I don't suppose you'd like to purchase anything?" He asked. "We don't have anything for ESPers specifically in our stock, but we do also sell candy."
"I don't have any money on me right now." Fujino replied. "Sorry."
"Understandable." Tsukabichi accepted the answer, before the room fell into silence again.
Eventually, Fujino heard the footsteps, and before long, Arisawa and Urahara returned.
"And we're done." Urahara mentioned. "If Arisawa keeps following Asagami around and runs into any more Hollows, she'll be able to lend a second hand, now."
"Damn straight." Arisawa replied, a joyful tone to her voice. "And you're sure nobody's gonna comment on this?"
"As I've explained a hundred times, we have safeguards for this kind of thing. Nobody's gonna think it's strange. Not unless they were already involved in the supernatural."
"Kisuke." Tsukabichi spoke up, suddenly. "Before we send the girls off, there's another problem."
"Of course there is." Urahara sighed.
"The Familiar is a recreation of a proper Fairy. It retains a memory-consuming ability. Asagami has enough spiritual power to be resistant, but Arisawa does not."
"Hold on." Arisawa interrupted. "It does what now?"
"Devours memories." Tsukabichi explained. "If it gets on you, it would be able to take your memories of any certain thing, preventing you from remembering anything it takes."
"...I see the problem." Arisawa noted. "How do we avoid this problem? I mean, I can barely see them at the best of time, and even if I try really hard to avoid them, I have to sleep sometime."
"I can probably find something in the back which can help you." Urahara noted. "Gimme a bit, I'll see if I can find something. Tessai, come give me a hand."
"We'll try not to take too long." Tsukabichi assured the two girls. "Sorry for keeping you."
There was footsteps again, which was presumably Tsukabichi and Urahara leaving the room, before Arisawa started talking.
"...Well this seems complicated." She noted. "Ghost monsters, magic candy sellers, fairy's that eat memories..."
"It is strange, yes." Fujino nodded. "From what I understand, there's someone controlling the fairies that are trying to keep things hidden."
"Any idea what?" Arisawa asked.
Asagami took a moment to think about how to describe her theory to Arisawa.
"...I suspect it might be relating to why I'm here." Asagami began. "Which would explain why they came after me. I think they have something to do with the girl I'm looking for, Misaya. There was talk of a rumour about fairies a little bit before she went missing, and now they're here when I look for her."
"So what you're saying is, it's really important I figure out some way of not forgetting the last few days ever happened." Arisawa noted.
"I sincerely hope so." Fujino noted. "Whatever the reason, the fairies do seem to be trying to keep people from finding Misaya. One of the girls at the doctor's clinic earlier mentioned that they passed by the train station around the time Misaya would have arrived, but then couldn't remember anything about it. For all we know, she saw Misaya and the fairies got her."
"For all we know, I saw Misaya and the fairies got me." Arisawa muttered. "Well, this just got creepy."
"At the very least, if this is related to Misaya, then you won't have to worry about it for very long." Asagami pointed out. "If it's something following her, then once she leaves, the fairies will as well."
And if Misaya is responsible for the fairies, then once she leaves, they obviously won't be around here any more. But that would take a while for Fujino to explain. She really should tell Arisawa everything, if Arisawa was dead set on helping her, but it was likely to be an explanation that took a while, and right now, Urahara and Tsukabichi could come back and interrupt the conversation at any second. So for now, she may as well keep it simple.
A moment passed, before Fujino noticed that Arisawa had stopped talking.
"Is there a problem, Arisawa?" Fujino asked.
"...Maybe it's nothing." She began. "But a while ago, back on the last day of school before break? A few friends of mine were acting weird, and were looking at a desk and classmate they barely knew like there was something weird. They didn't say anything, but they seemed confused. And Orhime's out of the town for now and Ichigo's been avoiding me since then so I don't know for sure, but..."
"...You think there's something strange going on." Fujino finished. "You think that something similar to this happened. Something to do with memories."
It didn't take a genius to connect what they were talking about to what Arisawa's sudden train of thought had been sparked by, after all.
"I might be wrong." Arisawa admitted. "And I should really corner Ichigo later to find out for sure. But this has gotten me thinking anyway. These fairy things, they aren't the only things that can erase memories, are they? If they were, then why would Hats and Clogs think he can do something about it?"
"Are you referring to Urahara or Tsukabichi when you call them Hats and Clogs?"
"Er... Urahara. My bad." Arisawa apologised.
"That... Is a fair point, though." Fujino admitted.
"I'm going to have to look into this as well." Arisawa muttered under her breath. "Well, maybe later. I've got no idea where Ichigo might be this time of day. If we're looking for that friend of yours, maybe we can keep an eye out for him as well."
"Perhaps." Fujino noted. "How late is it, anyway?"
"Just after lunch, around now." Arisawa noted. "Did you eat anything before we met at the train station? I could buy something for you if you haven't eaten yet."
"I'm good, Arisawa." Fujino replied. "Don't waste anything on me. I'm not hungry anyway."
Before Arisawa could reply, Fujino heard footsteps coming towards them.
"I think Urahara's found something." She noted, just as a door opened.
"Here we go." Said the man himself. "Got something for you, Arisawa."
Arisawa moved, but then suddenly stopped.
"Cash up front." Urahara asked.
"Wait, since when am I paying for this?" Arisawa asked.
"Fixing your arm was on the house." Urahara replied. "This isn't. Surely a girl like you's got some money, right?"
"Are you seriously going to make me pay for the right of not forgetting everything?"
"Look, I'm not running a charity." Urahara began. "If I just let anyone come in and take stuff for free, the small children that work here would starve. Think of the children, Arisawa."
Arisawa sighed. "Fine. How much?"
"How much do you have on you?"
"...Is this price going to vary depending on how much money I am currently carrying?" Arisawa asked.
"I highly doubt you can pay the full price, so I'll give you the discount required to be a decent human being. How much?"
There was a grumbling sound from Arisawa, before she started muttering again. "Here, just take everything. Happy?"
"Very much so." Urahara replied. "Here, catch."
There was the faint sound of something being thrown, and then something being caught.
"A pill a day keeps the fairies away." Urahara noted. "Take one on your way out, take one every morning, and... I'd say take an extra before you go to bed after that, just to be on the safe side. Too much time over the twenty four hour mark might be risking it."
"Thanks." Arisawa grumbled. "I appreciated the chance to be relevant, and not be mindwiped and have to sit this out. Wish that didn't cost me."
"And I wish I was getting more out of you than I was losing for this discount." Urahara replied. "We're all disappointed in this exchange."
"I feel like you weren't like this as much when we came in." Arisawa noted. "I feel like you got less serious once you finished lecturing Asagami."
"Probably, yeah." Urahara agreed. "Anyway, neither of you have any more money, so you shouldn't have any more business here, at this point. Bye. Have fun. Try not to break your arm again."
"Thank you again, for the warning." Asagami bowed. "I appreciate knowing more about what is going on, now."
"Yeah, thanks." Arisawa replied. She started walking out, and Fujino followed, a moment later. Tsukabichi said his farewell from within the store, and Fujino waved back, as she felt around to make sure she was walking through the door, as opposed to into the wall.
"Well, that's over." Arisawa noted. "We were in there for a while."
"It wasn't that long." Fujino replied.
"Well it was a long time when it was just some old guy standing around looking at your arm." Arisawa replied. "Didn't help that it took forever before anything even happened. Didn't notice a difference until pretty much the end, I was starting to think I was wasting my time."
"That's unfortunate." Fujino admitted.
The two walked off for a bit, getting some distance from the store. Fujino heard Arisawa swallowing something, likely the pill that Urahara had prescribed.
"This has been a day." Arisawa sighed. "I start out bored and decide to lend a hand because, hey, it's not like I'm doing anything. Now I'm finding out about memory eaters and there's a decent chance that people have been messing with memories around this place for a while now."
"That does seem like it would be worrisome." Fujino agreed.
"One thing at a time, though." Arisawa decided. "Your friend has those fairy things following her, right? We should figure out what that's about, and figure out how to make it stop."
Fujino took a moment to think about it, before deciding that now was probably a good time to explain more about the situation to Arisawa.
"It may be more complicated than that." Fujino replied. "I honestly don't know enough about the situation to rule anything out, so there's a lot of possibilities. For all we know, it could be Misaya herself controlling the fairies, and trying to keep hidden.
"...Huh." Arisawa reacted. "Your think that's a possibility? Is there any reason she'd want to stay hidden this badly?"
"The same reason she ran away, likely." Fujino replied. "A friend of hers died a few months ago, and a teacher she was close to died a few days ago. I don't think she's in a good headspace, right now."
"...Yeah, that sounds pretty rough." Arisawa noted.
"I'm... Not entirely sure what to do, if that's the case." Fujino acknowledged . "If the fairies are keeping her hidden on another's command, that's concerning, all things considered, but it's something that can be dealt with. If Misaya doesn't want to be found, then it may be difficult to convince her to come home."
This was seeming more and more complicated by the moment, Fujino had to admit. This was already going to be more difficult than when she had helped Miyazuki Risu.
Back then, Fujino had been lucky. In that situation, Fujino had known the right words to say. The friend Risu was mourning, Andou Yuuko, had spoken with Fujino before, and Fujino had just been able to use Andou's words when speaking with Risu to encourage the girl to keep living. Fujino did not know Ouji Misaya's friend, Tachibana, enough to be able to do the same. Nor was she able to repeat anything said to her by Kurogiri, the dead teacher.
But then, Fujino could worry about what to say to when she actually found Misaya, didn't she?
For now, then, with the theory that something supernatural was almost certainly involved with Misaya's situation, perhaps Fujino should use her supernatural trait a bit more to find her. She didn't have any leads at the present, but perhaps if her clairvoyance saw a fairy, or even Ouji herself, at a distance, the situation would simplify itself.
As the conversation between herself and Arisawa lulled, Fujino took a moment to breath, and opened her mind's eye yet again.
It was only a brief glance, a scan around, of the area around Fujino. Even if this would help, she did not want to do it for long. And as she searched for anything that might help her find Misaya, her eyes turned towards a Hollow instead.
It wasn't far from Fujino right now, the oddly formed creature with a head that seemed to be backwards on it's body. It's movements certainly reminded Fujino of someone trying to walk backwards, as it approached-
[X] -A small girl, who stumbled away from the Hollow with an alarmed expression.
[X] -An orange-haired boy, who was moving away from it at a surprisingly fast pace.
[X] -From the looks of it's path, it would be cutting Fujino and Arisawa off, at the next intersection.
Even if Tsukabichi said that Urahara was almost done with Arisawa, he and Fujino still ended up waiting for some time before the other two returned to the entrance of the store. The children who were around earlier weren't anymore, but from the lack of comment or apparent concern on Tsukabichi's part, it probably wasn't important. Maybe they had gone to play outside somewhere.
The wait went on for some time, before Tsukabichi spoke up.
"I don't suppose you'd like to purchase anything?" He asked. "We don't have anything for ESPers specifically in our stock, but we do also sell candy."
"I don't have any money on me right now." Fujino replied. "Sorry."
"Understandable." Tsukabichi accepted the answer, before the room fell into silence again.
Eventually, Fujino heard the footsteps, and before long, Arisawa and Urahara returned.
"And we're done." Urahara mentioned. "If Arisawa keeps following Asagami around and runs into any more Hollows, she'll be able to lend a second hand, now."
"Damn straight." Arisawa replied, a joyful tone to her voice. "And you're sure nobody's gonna comment on this?"
"As I've explained a hundred times, we have safeguards for this kind of thing. Nobody's gonna think it's strange. Not unless they were already involved in the supernatural."
"Kisuke." Tsukabichi spoke up, suddenly. "Before we send the girls off, there's another problem."
"Of course there is." Urahara sighed.
"The Familiar is a recreation of a proper Fairy. It retains a memory-consuming ability. Asagami has enough spiritual power to be resistant, but Arisawa does not."
"Hold on." Arisawa interrupted. "It does what now?"
"Devours memories." Tsukabichi explained. "If it gets on you, it would be able to take your memories of any certain thing, preventing you from remembering anything it takes."
"...I see the problem." Arisawa noted. "How do we avoid this problem? I mean, I can barely see them at the best of time, and even if I try really hard to avoid them, I have to sleep sometime."
"I can probably find something in the back which can help you." Urahara noted. "Gimme a bit, I'll see if I can find something. Tessai, come give me a hand."
"We'll try not to take too long." Tsukabichi assured the two girls. "Sorry for keeping you."
There was footsteps again, which was presumably Tsukabichi and Urahara leaving the room, before Arisawa started talking.
"...Well this seems complicated." She noted. "Ghost monsters, magic candy sellers, fairy's that eat memories..."
"It is strange, yes." Fujino nodded. "From what I understand, there's someone controlling the fairies that are trying to keep things hidden."
"Any idea what?" Arisawa asked.
Asagami took a moment to think about how to describe her theory to Arisawa.
"...I suspect it might be relating to why I'm here." Asagami began. "Which would explain why they came after me. I think they have something to do with the girl I'm looking for, Misaya. There was talk of a rumour about fairies a little bit before she went missing, and now they're here when I look for her."
"So what you're saying is, it's really important I figure out some way of not forgetting the last few days ever happened." Arisawa noted.
"I sincerely hope so." Fujino noted. "Whatever the reason, the fairies do seem to be trying to keep people from finding Misaya. One of the girls at the doctor's clinic earlier mentioned that they passed by the train station around the time Misaya would have arrived, but then couldn't remember anything about it. For all we know, she saw Misaya and the fairies got her."
"For all we know, I saw Misaya and the fairies got me." Arisawa muttered. "Well, this just got creepy."
"At the very least, if this is related to Misaya, then you won't have to worry about it for very long." Asagami pointed out. "If it's something following her, then once she leaves, the fairies will as well."
And if Misaya is responsible for the fairies, then once she leaves, they obviously won't be around here any more. But that would take a while for Fujino to explain. She really should tell Arisawa everything, if Arisawa was dead set on helping her, but it was likely to be an explanation that took a while, and right now, Urahara and Tsukabichi could come back and interrupt the conversation at any second. So for now, she may as well keep it simple.
A moment passed, before Fujino noticed that Arisawa had stopped talking.
"Is there a problem, Arisawa?" Fujino asked.
"...Maybe it's nothing." She began. "But a while ago, back on the last day of school before break? A few friends of mine were acting weird, and were looking at a desk and classmate they barely knew like there was something weird. They didn't say anything, but they seemed confused. And Orhime's out of the town for now and Ichigo's been avoiding me since then so I don't know for sure, but..."
"...You think there's something strange going on." Fujino finished. "You think that something similar to this happened. Something to do with memories."
It didn't take a genius to connect what they were talking about to what Arisawa's sudden train of thought had been sparked by, after all.
"I might be wrong." Arisawa admitted. "And I should really corner Ichigo later to find out for sure. But this has gotten me thinking anyway. These fairy things, they aren't the only things that can erase memories, are they? If they were, then why would Hats and Clogs think he can do something about it?"
"Are you referring to Urahara or Tsukabichi when you call them Hats and Clogs?"
"Er... Urahara. My bad." Arisawa apologised.
"That... Is a fair point, though." Fujino admitted.
"I'm going to have to look into this as well." Arisawa muttered under her breath. "Well, maybe later. I've got no idea where Ichigo might be this time of day. If we're looking for that friend of yours, maybe we can keep an eye out for him as well."
"Perhaps." Fujino noted. "How late is it, anyway?"
"Just after lunch, around now." Arisawa noted. "Did you eat anything before we met at the train station? I could buy something for you if you haven't eaten yet."
"I'm good, Arisawa." Fujino replied. "Don't waste anything on me. I'm not hungry anyway."
Before Arisawa could reply, Fujino heard footsteps coming towards them.
"I think Urahara's found something." She noted, just as a door opened.
"Here we go." Said the man himself. "Got something for you, Arisawa."
Arisawa moved, but then suddenly stopped.
"Cash up front." Urahara asked.
"Wait, since when am I paying for this?" Arisawa asked.
"Fixing your arm was on the house." Urahara replied. "This isn't. Surely a girl like you's got some money, right?"
"Are you seriously going to make me pay for the right of not forgetting everything?"
"Look, I'm not running a charity." Urahara began. "If I just let anyone come in and take stuff for free, the small children that work here would starve. Think of the children, Arisawa."
Arisawa sighed. "Fine. How much?"
"How much do you have on you?"
"...Is this price going to vary depending on how much money I am currently carrying?" Arisawa asked.
"I highly doubt you can pay the full price, so I'll give you the discount required to be a decent human being. How much?"
There was a grumbling sound from Arisawa, before she started muttering again. "Here, just take everything. Happy?"
"Very much so." Urahara replied. "Here, catch."
There was the faint sound of something being thrown, and then something being caught.
"A pill a day keeps the fairies away." Urahara noted. "Take one on your way out, take one every morning, and... I'd say take an extra before you go to bed after that, just to be on the safe side. Too much time over the twenty four hour mark might be risking it."
"Thanks." Arisawa grumbled. "I appreciated the chance to be relevant, and not be mindwiped and have to sit this out. Wish that didn't cost me."
"And I wish I was getting more out of you than I was losing for this discount." Urahara replied. "We're all disappointed in this exchange."
"I feel like you weren't like this as much when we came in." Arisawa noted. "I feel like you got less serious once you finished lecturing Asagami."
"Probably, yeah." Urahara agreed. "Anyway, neither of you have any more money, so you shouldn't have any more business here, at this point. Bye. Have fun. Try not to break your arm again."
"Thank you again, for the warning." Asagami bowed. "I appreciate knowing more about what is going on, now."
"Yeah, thanks." Arisawa replied. She started walking out, and Fujino followed, a moment later. Tsukabichi said his farewell from within the store, and Fujino waved back, as she felt around to make sure she was walking through the door, as opposed to into the wall.
"Well, that's over." Arisawa noted. "We were in there for a while."
"It wasn't that long." Fujino replied.
"Well it was a long time when it was just some old guy standing around looking at your arm." Arisawa replied. "Didn't help that it took forever before anything even happened. Didn't notice a difference until pretty much the end, I was starting to think I was wasting my time."
"That's unfortunate." Fujino admitted.
The two walked off for a bit, getting some distance from the store. Fujino heard Arisawa swallowing something, likely the pill that Urahara had prescribed.
"This has been a day." Arisawa sighed. "I start out bored and decide to lend a hand because, hey, it's not like I'm doing anything. Now I'm finding out about memory eaters and there's a decent chance that people have been messing with memories around this place for a while now."
"That does seem like it would be worrisome." Fujino agreed.
"One thing at a time, though." Arisawa decided. "Your friend has those fairy things following her, right? We should figure out what that's about, and figure out how to make it stop."
Fujino took a moment to think about it, before deciding that now was probably a good time to explain more about the situation to Arisawa.
"It may be more complicated than that." Fujino replied. "I honestly don't know enough about the situation to rule anything out, so there's a lot of possibilities. For all we know, it could be Misaya herself controlling the fairies, and trying to keep hidden.
"...Huh." Arisawa reacted. "Your think that's a possibility? Is there any reason she'd want to stay hidden this badly?"
"The same reason she ran away, likely." Fujino replied. "A friend of hers died a few months ago, and a teacher she was close to died a few days ago. I don't think she's in a good headspace, right now."
"...Yeah, that sounds pretty rough." Arisawa noted.
"I'm... Not entirely sure what to do, if that's the case." Fujino acknowledged . "If the fairies are keeping her hidden on another's command, that's concerning, all things considered, but it's something that can be dealt with. If Misaya doesn't want to be found, then it may be difficult to convince her to come home."
This was seeming more and more complicated by the moment, Fujino had to admit. This was already going to be more difficult than when she had helped Miyazuki Risu.
Back then, Fujino had been lucky. In that situation, Fujino had known the right words to say. The friend Risu was mourning, Andou Yuuko, had spoken with Fujino before, and Fujino had just been able to use Andou's words when speaking with Risu to encourage the girl to keep living. Fujino did not know Ouji Misaya's friend, Tachibana, enough to be able to do the same. Nor was she able to repeat anything said to her by Kurogiri, the dead teacher.
But then, Fujino could worry about what to say to when she actually found Misaya, didn't she?
For now, then, with the theory that something supernatural was almost certainly involved with Misaya's situation, perhaps Fujino should use her supernatural trait a bit more to find her. She didn't have any leads at the present, but perhaps if her clairvoyance saw a fairy, or even Ouji herself, at a distance, the situation would simplify itself.
As the conversation between herself and Arisawa lulled, Fujino took a moment to breath, and opened her mind's eye yet again.
It was only a brief glance, a scan around, of the area around Fujino. Even if this would help, she did not want to do it for long. And as she searched for anything that might help her find Misaya, her eyes turned towards a Hollow instead.
It wasn't far from Fujino right now, the oddly formed creature with a head that seemed to be backwards on it's body. It's movements certainly reminded Fujino of someone trying to walk backwards, as it approached-
[X] -A small girl, who stumbled away from the Hollow with an alarmed expression.
[X] -An orange-haired boy, who was moving away from it at a surprisingly fast pace.
[X] -From the looks of it's path, it would be cutting Fujino and Arisawa off, at the next intersection.
- Location
- USA
[X] -An orange-haired boy, who was moving away from it at a surprisingly fast pace.
- Location
- Germany
[X] -A small girl, who stumbled away from the Hollow with an alarmed expression.
- Location
- Lost in Hell
[X] -An orange-haired boy, who was moving away from it at a surprisingly fast pace.
- Location
- singapore
[X] -A small girl, who stumbled away from the Hollow with an alarmed expression.
[X] -From the looks of it's path, it would be cutting Fujino and Arisawa off, at the next intersection.
I kind of want to go a little bit before we add more characters. I like this exploration and discovery of the hidden side of Karakura that we have going on with Arisawa.
I kind of want to go a little bit before we add more characters. I like this exploration and discovery of the hidden side of Karakura that we have going on with Arisawa.
- Location
- Florida
[X] -A small girl, who stumbled away from the Hollow with an alarmed expression.
- Location
- College Station, Texas
[X] -From the looks of it's path, it would be cutting Fujino and Arisawa off, at the next intersection.