V stares at Tatsuki with curious eyes; her look doesn't give the same pressure as her reiatsu.
V: 'Strange… How come I couldn't sense her reiatsu?... Is it because of the limitation I got when I transferred here when my Future was destroyed…?'
The Quincy looked at the tomboy down and up, sighed. Tatsuki didn't like his attitude, so she turned around and looked back at Quincy with a glare.
Tatsuki: "Forget it, I don't have time to waste it with you. Next time, watch where you're going."
Then she started walking to her house. V didn't stop her; he only looked at her as her figure faded.
V: '…What an annoying woman…'
Quincy was about to walk away, too, but he remembered he didn't have a place, and he couldn't go back to Hoshito's house. He turned to the way Tatsuki went and decided to follow her and observe her in the meantime.
# Somewhere in an abandoned house #
Tsukishima sits down on the damaged couch, reading his book, while Yukio is busy with his game console. Then a high-spirited boy came with food in his hands.
Shishigawara: "Tsukishima-San, I came with the food you asked for!"
Tsukishima: "Good work, Shishigawara-Kun, so did bough bottled tea and rice balls as I asked?"
Shishigawara: "Of course! Here it is, Tsukishima-San!" he said while handing the food to Tsukishima.
Tsukishima: "…Shishigawara-Kun, this isn't bottled tea I asked…"
Shishigawara: "Seriously?! I will go and bring it!!"
Tsukishima: "Stop Shishigawara-Kun, it doesn't matter anymore."
As Fullbringers took their food, a figure showed up in shadow part of the building. The figure is tall like a grown man.
Figure: "You look relaxed for someone who almost died at the hands of Captain Tsukishima."
Yukio and Shishigawara were surprised as they couldn't sense the reiatsu of the figure. Tsukishima in other hand, wasn't surprised by the figure's visit; he was amused.
Tsukishima: "Ara, did something happen in the town to make you come to me?"
Figure: "Yeah, something like that… more important, what do you think of the kid?"
Tsukishima: "Hoshito Yuru, was it? He isn't much to say than an unstable hybrid…"
Figure: "I see… well, I came to tell you that Hoshito Yuru had a fight against six Hollows, and he beat them all."
Tsukishima smirked at this; he closed his book and turned to face the figure. Yukio listened closely to their conversation, and he was surprised at this.
Tsukishima: "Heh~ that kid, he isn't bad, I guess… but I can't imagine him beating six Hollows alone. Did he get some help from someone?"
The figure: "Yes, someone helped him, but he isn't Ichigo and his friends."
Tsukishima: "Oh! Then who is it?"
The figure: "That one I don't know about, he uses reichi like Quincy, but he doesn't fight like one."
Shishigawara: "I don't get it. Does that mean a Quincy helped him?"
The figure and Tsukishima looked at the boy for a moment, then went back to their conversation.
Tsukishima: "I guess we should let things unfold for now, since stories take time to set up big moments."
Figure: "Suit yourself."
Shishigawara: 'They just ignored me…!!'
The figure turned to leave but then paused and glanced back.
Figure: "Before I forget, I wanted to tell you. Did you put your seed in the boy?"
Tsukishima: "From the beginning, I put it in him."
Figure: "I see…" The figure then left.
Yukio, who was sitting in one chair, glanced at Tsukishima with concern expression covered with a calm demeanor.
Yukio: "That guy is very rude, entering and leaving without a word."
Tsukishima: "True, but thanks to him I'm alive right now."
Shishigarwa: "I don't think giving you an artificial thing on your chest is being alive."
Yukio: "What did you say?!" he said with surprise expression.
Tsukishima glanced at his apprentice coldly, then went back to Yukio. He then unbuttons his shirt and shows an artificial limb clinging to his chest. Yukio's eyes went wide when he saw it, and his expression went from concern to worried.
Yukio: "What the hell is that?!"
Tsukishima: "This is an artificial limb he gave when Shishigawara-Kun was carrying me," — he said with a composed expression and put his hand on the artificial limb — "He told me this one won't last until 17th March."
Yukio: "What?! Does that mean—"
Tsukishima: "I got until Ichigo's graduation ceremony," — he said with a smirk on his face, he then buttons his shirt — "Well, it's enough time for me to get my revenge against Ichigo, I don't care about Hoshito Yuru, but I guess it doesn't hurt playing with a character like him."
Tsukishima opened his book and started reading.
Shishigarwa: '…. Tsukishima-San…'
# Hoshito's House #
Hoshito: "Oi, Ichigo, may I ask you a question?"
Ichigo: "What is it?"
Hoshito: "Why this shady bastard here?!" points at Urahara, who is sitting in the living room, smiling at them.