藤本獅郎 :: Shiro Fujimoto (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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backyardbbq2014-06-15 09:30 pm
lionson) wrote in backyardbbq2014-06-15 09:30 pm
Stupid....I don't even know what to call this one
[So.
Ichigo.
Your house.
There are some weird things about it.
For one, there is frequently the sound of scratching and scurrying within the walls. Isshin has laid down many mouse traps, but they never seem to catch anything, and the scurrying does not stop. It's been going on for at least a year, if not longer, and nothing seems to be working. Even Yuzu and Karin have complained about it.
Additionally, on some nights the faint sound of a crying infant can be heard. But oddly enough, it isn't coming from outside. It's coming from beneath the floor in Ichigo's room, as if Ichigo has a noisy baby for a downstairs neighbor. But at the same time, if anyone investigates, there is never a baby down there. In fact, from the lower part of the house, it sounds like the crying is coming from upstairs! It is quite strange.
Along with all of that, small objects have been going missing. Toothpicks, buttons, safety pins, and so forth. Anything small and not attached to something bigger seems to walk away as if it had two feet.
Speaking of two feet...is that shoeprints in the spilled flour on the counter? But the prints are so small, there's no way anyone could make shows that small, right? Even Yuzu's dolls don't have feet that small!
There certainly are a lot of strange occurences in the Kurosaki household, and it will take some serious investigating to get down to the bottom of it.]
Ichigo.
Your house.
There are some weird things about it.
For one, there is frequently the sound of scratching and scurrying within the walls. Isshin has laid down many mouse traps, but they never seem to catch anything, and the scurrying does not stop. It's been going on for at least a year, if not longer, and nothing seems to be working. Even Yuzu and Karin have complained about it.
Additionally, on some nights the faint sound of a crying infant can be heard. But oddly enough, it isn't coming from outside. It's coming from beneath the floor in Ichigo's room, as if Ichigo has a noisy baby for a downstairs neighbor. But at the same time, if anyone investigates, there is never a baby down there. In fact, from the lower part of the house, it sounds like the crying is coming from upstairs! It is quite strange.
Along with all of that, small objects have been going missing. Toothpicks, buttons, safety pins, and so forth. Anything small and not attached to something bigger seems to walk away as if it had two feet.
Speaking of two feet...is that shoeprints in the spilled flour on the counter? But the prints are so small, there's no way anyone could make shows that small, right? Even Yuzu's dolls don't have feet that small!
There certainly are a lot of strange occurences in the Kurosaki household, and it will take some serious investigating to get down to the bottom of it.]
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[He's not happy about it-and truth be told, he honestly thinks his family would accept Shiro and his sons-but he's not about to push it. Obviously, this guy has reasons for acting the way he does and it's not his place to ask.
Although a certain term catches his attention. Giants are pretty obvious, but...]
...You call yourselves Borrowers?
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Yeah, because we borrow stuff.
[Like the 'cradle' Shiro is currently setting his little baby in, now that said baby isn't crying anymore.
Then he's going to walk over to where Ichigo is, and try to touch his huge face. Which he can do, because he has ghost-abilities just like Ichigo does.]
Y'know, you're a lot more solid than I expected someone who walks through walls to be.
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[Feel free to yell at him for that, by the way-again, not that he really cares about the small items that are being taken, but that's definitely not borrowing by any stretch of the imagination.
He flinches a little at Shiro touching him, simply for the fact that he wasn't expecting it-and the feeling of a tiny hand on his face is kind of unsettling.]
Well, yeah. You can see me, so you can touch me.
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[Yeah no he knows exactly what's up, and he doesn't try to mince words like other borrowers do.]
But that's the name we've used for centuries.
[One touch is enough to prove what he thought, and he pulls his hand away. Then he decided that no, one more thing is needed, and he flicks Ichigo on the tip of his nose.]
C'mon, I'll go up to your room. We don't need your family seeing you hanging out with your head in the floor.
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Although the flick is pushing it, mister.]
Gah!
[RUDE OMG. Still, he nods, and pulls his head up-good thing too, the blood was starting to run to it-blinking before finally making his way back to his poor neglected body. If Shiro's quick enough, he'll be able to see Ichigo going back into his mortal body like how someone slips into a costume.]
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Huh.
Well that sure is a thing.
While Ichigo is 'waking up,' Shiro climbs up one of the legs of his desk, and he's on the top of it pretty quickly. For someone so tiny, he's pretty good at getting around.]
So.
You sure you're not a ghost?
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[Really, him waking up took very little time at all-it was his real body, not some gigai. Sitting up, he scowls at the tiny man-although it's more out of habit than anything else.]
I told you already, I'm a shinigami. But I've got a human body and a human family-the shinigami thing's more of a part time job than anything else.
[Well. Mostly human.]
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[Shiro might have appreciated it a bit more if his height weren't measurable in tens of centimeters at the most.]
I suppose it's better for you giants to take care of the dead. People as small as me have a hard enough time against cats and lizards, let alone the souls of dead people who are over a meter tall.
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[Although protecting people is awesome, so. He'll deal with it.]
Yeah, I bet. Actually, who takes care of the souls of the dead for you guys?
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Sometimes there's Borrowers like me, who can see ghosts. They either talk to the dead or take care of their final business for them. That usually gets 'em to move on, but sometimes it doesn't work, and they...change.
[He frowns thoughtfully as he tries to think of a way to explain it.]
It's like...alright. So, hear me out on this. Borrowers have this...chain, I guess, that goes between their body and their soul. When they die, that chain breaks, and if they don't pass on, then eventually the spot where the chain was becomes a hole. Then they change into something else entirely, and usually they get pretty big.
I don't really know what happens after that, but I've seen Giants in black clothes before, fighting them.
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[Ichigo instantly says it-his face grim and set. So they did become hollows-and gained in size, too. At least there were those that could convince them to move on-maybe they had their own soul society, or just came to the same one everyone else did-but hearing him confirm that these Borrowers went through the same cycle of life and death as they did was at once interesting and slightly unnerving.]
They become hollows-monsters that eat souls. Shinigami reap them, and thend the souls to Soul society-the land of the dead, pretty much.
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[Honestly, Shiro isn't surprised. He knew something had to happen to them, since the world wasn't overrun with those monsters. And it's a comfort, to hear that they at least get to move on, instead of being damned.]
I'd say that it'd be handy to have a me-sized Shinigami, but I don't think they'd be very effective at fighting hollows.
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[He does chuckle at that, though.]
Maybe if they stayed the same size as you guys. But...they always get big, huh? Make sense, I guess.
[That meant there were probably gillians and arrancar that were originally Borrowers, weren't there? It's sobering to think about.]
Maybe you'd be good against mice hollows or something, though.
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[Which are still a challenge, to be honest.</small.] Truthfully, if we can find our dead, it's not that hard to convince them to pass on. Most Borrowers aren't attached to this world like Giants are. The problem is that a lot of times, we never find their bodies.
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[He was about to question that, but he cuts himself short. with the way they could be taken away by cats, or something else....god, how much of a struggle is their day to day lives?
...speaking of...]
Hey, um...if you ever need anything, I could get it for you.
[That way he wouldn't have to tromp out and around-and while they don't have any pets (besides Kon), there's still other dangers he'd have to watch out for.]
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Actually, if you're going to offer, I wouldn't mind baby food. Rin and Yukio eat so much, I can barely keep up with them. And since nobody in this house eats any, I have to go pretty far to get it.
[The lack of pets is exactly why Shiro chose this house, by the way. No pets is the best for raising two growing boys.]