A/N: Okay, this is my very first fan fiction. So please be gentle... :) There might possibly be errors because my mother language is not english. Please, understand if there is wrong words/wrong phrase etc. Tell me if you found a mistake so a fix it. :) And tell me what you think about my first chapter of this story, please. Hope you like it. :)
Chapter one: For You Own Good?
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I said no."
"But… Ken-chan…"
"No!"
"You are so stupid!" Yachiru shrieked, throw her fist towards Kenpachi's face – missing it only about 20 centimetres – and ran away. She slammed the boor shut behind her. Kenpachi sighed and scratched his head. Damn Retsu Unohana. Why she had to interfere his life like this?
It all had started about a week ago. It was no secret that Kenpachi and Yachiru were very close. They had always been. They were like father and daughter or brother and sister or just best friends or something all that mixed together.
Then someone had realized that Yachiru were a girl. Then that certain someone had also noticed that it was pretty odd for a man take care of a child by himself. And then, finally, that certain goddammend-soon-to-be-killed-by-Kenpachi's-blade-when-he-finds-out-who-it-was someone had figured out that they – Kenpachi and Yachiru – were no relatives.
It was not a secret. Yachiru was so small. Yes, she was somewhere about 100 year old, yes, but if she would be a regular human she would be somewhere around 5 or 6. She was a child. Kids were innocent! Kids didn't understand certain things like that to someone else it would seem quite odd that they were sleeping in the same bed.
Unohana had called Kenpachi to private a meeting.
Kenpachi wasn't really hopping with joy when he had gone to see her. He was actually quite curious to see why she had called him for a private meeting. And he wasn't allowed to take Yachiru with him.
It was then when he saw the look on Unohana's face when his senses warned him. Something was wrong…
"Please, sit down, captain Zaraki."
"Um… I rather stand. I mean… this doesn't take long… Does it?"
"Well, it depends. Please, sit down. There is something I want to talk you about."
Kenpachi sat down. Unohana smiled at him, but there still was something very wrong.
"Yes? What is it?"
"Yachiru."
"What? What about her? Is this about her teeth? I already told her to stop eating so much ca – "
"It's not about her eating habits", Unohana said and looked suddenly very sad. "It's about you."
Kenpachi didn't understand.
"I thought you said it's about Yachiru?"
"It is."
"But… The why I – "
"Kenpachi", Unohana sighed and Kenpachi went silent: since when Unohana Retsu used to call him by his first name? Where did the polite "captain Zaraki" disappeared to? "You know that there are certain things about parenthood. One is to keep the child safe. Parent also should take good care of the child and teach her some very important things and – "
"Enough this bullshit", Kenpachi couldn't take this anymore: what the hell was going on? "Just tell me! What is it? What is this crap about protecting the child and such? Have I ever harmed Yachiru?"
"I don't know", Unohana looked Kenpachi straight to the eyes. "Have you?"
"What?"
"Kenpachi… I've been told that you and Yachiru… Well…"
"Yes?"
"You two are very close, yes?"
"Well, yeah… I mean I gave her name and… such… I mean, we have been together for such a long time and she… I… What? What is this? What you want me to say? Spit it out, already!"
Unohana sighed and stood up. Kenpachi remained seated and watched Unohana when she walked to the window. She opened it. Summer breeze made the curtains move slightly. Kenpachi's bell started to ring softly.
"I don't know the details", Unohana said finally, after a very long silent. "All I know is what I've been told. Kenpachi, I want you to understand that I don't believe that you would hurt Yachiru… In any way. This is very difficult for me too but these things have come to my knowledge and I cannot just ignore them."
Yes, it have bee a week ago… That dark Monday morning, even it had been very beautiful day otherwise. It was summer, after all.
He still could feel the disgusting feeling inside his stomach when Unohana had told him why she had call him. Someone had thought it was very strange that he was so close to Yachiru and Yachiru were always climbing his back.
Unohana had asked him all those nasty, disgusting, ugly, terrible things… Like, is it true that you sleep in a same bed whit her? Is it true that you have kissed her on the mouth? Is it true that you two take baths together?
Kenpachi had felt so dirty. He even had started to believe that he actually HAD done something wrong.
What, yes, Yachiru slept in the same bed.
Yes, Yachiru had her own bed in her room, but she didn't want to sleep alone. She had once told Kenpachi that she had been so much alone back in 79 District that she didn't want to be ever alone anymore… So, even if Kenpachi tugged her to her own bed she eventually came to his bed.
No, Kenpachi had not kissed Yachiru on the mouth, it was she who had kissed him. No, they didn't always do that. No, Kenpachi did not enjoy being kissed on the mouth by Yachiru.
And yes, they took bath together. Why? Because if he would let Yachiru to take a bath alone not even the all-mighty old man Yamamoto would know what could happen. I mean there would be a) water b) soap c) Yachiru.
Ikkaku and Yumichika had noticed how – uneasy their captain had looked like when he had came back.
"What's wrong, captain?" Ikkaku had asked. "What did she want?"
"I have question for you. Two, actually", Kenpachi looked them. "Have either of you told anything, anything to anyone from 4th Division? About me? Or Yachiru?"
"What?" Ikkaku looked his captain uncertain. "No."
"Yumichika?"
"No, I have not, captain. What is it?"
"Question number two", Kenpachi sighed. "What do you think about me and her?"
"What do we…?"
"Are we somehow too close?"
Ikkaku and Yumichika looked slowly at each other. Their captain was certainly the craziest in all Seiretei but now he was acting rather oddly.
"What is it, captain?" Ikkaku had asked. "What's wrong?"
Kenpachi had told them. Both Ikkaku and Yumichika had their jaws dropped open – or at least, Ikkaku had, Yumichika had put his hand over his mouth very femalely and gasped.
Even if all those disgusting things were not true Kenpachi could feel how he was constantly being watched. Even he didn't see anyone from the 4th Division he could feel their heavy gaze upon him. And Yachiru.
Yachiru… Kenpachi looked the door which the little girl had just slammed shut with such force…
She had asked him why he suddenly didn't let her to climb up to his shoulders. Or did not give her goodnight kisses anymore. She had also been strictly told to sleep in her own bed. If she came to Kenpachi's room Kenpachi would carry the shrieking and crying Yachiru back to her room and leave her there without saying a word.
It hurt. Kenpachi sighed again. This was so painful. Even if Unohana told him that he was doing the right thing…
He heard Yachiru voice coming from the front-yard of 11th Division barracks: "Ken-chan hates me! He hates me!" the little girl cried with so loud voice that all the Seiretei would hear her. Kenpachi stood up and looked outside of the window: Yachiru was there, crying in the arms of Yumichika. Ikkaku were standing next to them, looking very sympathetic at the crying little girl...
Kenpachi could also feel tears in his eyes, but shook his head.
It's for your own good, Yachiru. You are too young to understand how dirty grown-ups can see some things…
There was a knock from the door. Kenpachi turned away from the window as the door opened. It was on of those men who ran around spreading information when something happened.
"Captain Zaraki. There will be a captain meeting at eight."
"What? Why?"
"Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki had just come back from the world of the living. They have some information about Aizen."
Kenpachi nodded and the man left, shutting the door behind him. Yachiru's cry had been quiet down. Kenpachi felt ill. He wished he could just call from the old-man and tell him that he wouldn't came to the meeting… But he had to.
Kenpachi sighed and looked to the front-yard again. It was empty now. Yachiru had gone somewhere along with Ikkaku and Yumichika.
It's for your own good, Yachiru.