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Wei Ying opened his eyes to a sight of ice and small back in front of him as if shielding him from the hundreds of arrows intented to kill him.
His head which was formerly full of resenful filled voice cleared a bit from it's foggy state. Questions appeared in his mind as to why this person decided to come to his rescue albeit as unintentional it was from the look on his face.
"Hitsu..gaya." He croaked out, still stunned by the turn of event.
The white haired boy turned his head slightly at hearing his name being called, his turqouise eyes assesed Wei Ying's condition before turning his head to the front again without uttering a word, facing the numerous cultivators in gold of jin and some white of gusu. Later when he was alone in the relative safety of his cave he would ruminate about this fact, but on this moment he refocused his attention to his foes.
Wei Wuxian saw how some of the cultivators show some confution on their face, their hand that hold weapons being lowered slightly faced against the delicate and small looking child who appeared suddenly in front of them.
Oh if only they knew Wei Wuxian thought.
"Wei Wuxian what is the meaning of this?. Are you that shrewded that you used a child as your living shield now?."
"Yes the Yiling Laozu is truly depraved.."
"Indeed."
"Kill him... Don't let him beguile anymore children."
"Yes.." " Kill him."
Similar shouts rang across the valley, Wei Ying chanced a look at his companion. He still look expressionless but Wei Ying could see how his grip on his four star shaped sword tightened before he unsheathed it.
Hyourinmaru he remember how the boy called it.
One of the Jin cultivator signed for his ally to stop their cries for blood to adress the white haired child.
"Boy... Don't worry we will help you to get away from that evil creature and you can come back to your momma.."
"Step away child.. we will kill this monster and his equally disgusting vermin of wen dogs."
"Yeah... You will be free from his influence in no time.."
On and on they continued to preach the same word. With each word being uttered the hand that held the sword tremble. Without them realizing the temperature around the surrounding area drop bit by bit. Wei Ying tightened his thin robe around himself against the cold.
Oh boy he almost pitied them but hey.. they brought this on themselves. He almost let out a cackle of glee, didn't want to miss this shitshow.
Never poke a sleeping dragon indeed.
The wind picked up in speed. Before long the previously clear sky become dark and the cloud rolling in bringing thunder. Bits of snow even began to fall.
With a slice of his sword tendrils of ice enveloped the body of his ambusher, Trapping them in a prison of ice.
Horror written on their face before they regained their wit and began to fought against the ice that slowly crept upward into their bodies.
Although Wei Ying felt lightheaded from the sudden release of power, he couldn't help but feel dark satisfaction at seeing how they fought uselessly. Their core and spiritual energy to weak to fight against that of a god.
Small hand circled itself around his wrist with iron hold before he felt himself being lifted into the air. Away from the scene that almost turned into one of his worst nightmare.
"Thank you...." He murmured.
"Mm..." The rest of their journey was spent in silence.
*****
It all started a while ago.
Life in burial mounds was complete chaos and misery for Wei Wuxian and his fifty or so wens.
Lost in thought as to how to improve their meagre harvest as he was, Wei Wuxian failed to notice the slight disturbance in the air. In fact it was his friend Wen Ning who felt it first.
"Wei Gongzhi... I-" yet before he could utter another word a black hole rip itself into the sky.
Wei Wuxian tumble from his position of analyzing his array before he steadied himself. Chenqing gripped tightly in his fist.
It wasn't a long wait before something come out of the hole. Upon closer inspection it was better to say that something was in fact someone.
The figure flipped midways before landing gracefully. Wei Wuxian placed chenqing in front of him ready to draw the resentment. slowly he walked toward the figure, Wen Ning the ever present ally beside him. He stopped abruptly when he saw who it was.
A child. Taken aback Wei Wuxian lowered his flute. Silver eyes assesing their newest guest.
Though his hair was as white as the mourning robe of Gusu Lan clan and his eyes was a mesmerizing shade of teal. He was still a child. What was the child doing here In a place filled resentment and only death.
Second thing that he noticed was the outfit on the child himself. He wore black robe over white underrobe and a sleveless white outer robe. Green scarf was draped around his neck. Long sword was tied into his back with a chain secured in front of him by a star shaped pin.
They stared at each other. Before Wei Wuxian couldn't contain his curiosity anymore.
"Who are you?." He asked thus breaking their standoff.
"F*ck." The boy said. Wei Wuxian titled his head, he didn't understand what the boy had said but he had a feeling it was rather an unattractive word. He was very glad that neither a yuan nor Wen Qing was here.
***
Hitsugaya Toshiro the child prodigy captain of tenth squad of gotei 13 look at his surrounding with calculated eyes. He was still trying to catch his bearing after being dumped into this place so sudden.
He was on his way to the soul society, a lone hell butterfly as his only guide through the dangai when suddenly his communicator cracked to life before it went static. He stopped and spread his spiritual energy rrting to srnse further disturbance when felt some kind of energy that was trying to pull him. In an instant it got stronger and before he could fight against back, it already ensnared him.
Falling through the sky he steadied himself by instictively pulling the reiatsu before landing on the ground. Only second from landing he could already sense the hollow like energy emenating from this place. Wherever this was.
Sounds of footsteps brought him back from his musing. He turned his body to see a man holding a flute and a walking corpse. Huh weird. The man was obviously alive yet his companion was clearly dead but one thing that stand out was he didn't have any chain or hole that indicated as being a hollow.
Ripped from his contempletation Hitsugaya turned his attention back to the man when he heard what the man was saying.
Chinese.
Well f*ck.
Damn mayuri and his minions. He'll make sure their barracks will be extra cold this coming winter. Judging by his rotten luck this won't be as simple as it seems.
Unfamiliar he was with what the boy had said Wei Wuxian asked the boy again this time a bit slower.
"Uh... Who are you?. Are you lost?." He asked a bit hesitantly while scratching the back of his neck.
"Who are you?. Where am i?." The boy's voice was clipped. It was said in the same no nosense tone as Wen Qing. Wei Wuxian repressed a shudder.
"Hey...isn't it polite to introduce yourself rather than demanding answer when you're in someone else home?." He reorted back.
"Hitsugaya Toshiro... Now where am i and who are you?." The boy said it while sighing as if he was dealing with unruly children. Wei Wuxian felt offended, he was the grown up here.
"Wei Wuxian the Yiling Laozu and Wen Ning welcome you to the burial mounds." He said with a flourish. He was sure that whoever this child was he would be terrified of this revelation for what living human hadn't heard the terrible tale of the evil Yiling Laozu yet his guest only look at him with unimpressed stare.
"Is that so?. Then i'm sorry to have trepassed into your property. If you'll excuse me." With a nod of his head Hitsugaya walked away from the duo. He pulled his sword and out of thin air, a traditional wooden door apperead in from of him. Thrusting it forward while mimicking the motion of turning a key to open a door. His face turned sour when it remain locked and no matter how many times he tried it the end result still remain the same. Huffing in frustated breath he sheathed Hyorinmaru back. Hitsugaya glared at the two men who stood few feets apart from him. Uncomfortable with the thought that they had seen the whole spectacle.
Wei Ying was rather dumbfounded when when boy just apologize to him before walking away. It is after all not everyday that people apologize to him and then just continue on as if they were a stranger bumping into each other on the market.
He followed the boy at a sedate pace trying to gauge what kind of threat or maybe puzzle this child presented. He was clearly not a normal child indicated by his well off clothes, his impecable and cold manner reminiscene of Lan Zhan and of course he wouldn't overlook the long blade on his back.
Was it a heirloom?. It is certainly look fancy enough to pass as a heirloom. If such was the case then, was he running away from home or pursuers?. Or was it A new exotic sword toy for some young master for he clearly come from wealthy family or at least Wei Ying thought so. Then what made him to land in the middle of burial mounds?.
So many thought ran around in his head yet none of it make any sense and he was nowhere closer to resolve the problem at hand.
What happened in the next seconds of his obeservation of the child made him raise chenqing to his lips when he saw how a door suddenly appeared in front of the child.
Is this a trap from the cultivation world?. To send in a child and then have him opened the portal from the inside for them to storm in. How low have they sink in, He thought desperately. Torn between protecting his people and the morality of slaughtering children in cold blood.
Yet when nothing happen he focus again on the child seeing how he frowned before sheathing his sword back and turning toward them. The door dissapearing as sudden as it come behind him.
Wei Ying's mind whirled with questions and possibilities.
"Interesting... What is that?. What is it called?. What does it do?. It's a door right?. Did it connect to somewhere. Can you open it?. Can anyone open it?. Do you know how it operate?. How does it powered?-" a tug at the hem of his robe stop Wei Wuxian tirade. Wen Ning with apologetic (well as apologetic face as a corpse can make) face, well who cares anyway his tone conveyed enough.
"Wei gongzhi he won't be able to answer you if you didn't give him any chance to." His friend whispered. Wei Ying laughed.
"Door. None of your bussiness. None of your bussiness. Yes. Yes. At the moment no. No. Partially. I don't really care." Surprisingly the boy did answer his questions without batting an eyelid.
Wow Wei Ying was impressed. He was about to open his mouth again when the boy's hand signaled him to stop.
"Listen-" "Xian gege" something small latcherd itself into his leg making three man become silent suddenly.
"Aiyoo... A yuan my little radish what are doing here?." He scooped a yuan into his embrace before passing him to Wen Ning.
Wen Ning take the child gently and craddled him in his embrace as if shielding the todler with his body.
"Xian gege promised to play with a yuan today but he forget..." The toddlers lips began to tremble.
"Aiyoo... A yuan don't cry.. your Xian gege promised that he will play with you later but now he has to take care of something first okay?. So can you play with your Ning gege for now?." A yuan still looked a bit hesitant before he nodded. Wei Wuxian signaled at Wen Ning to bring their youngest resident to a safe place. In the distance he could see how Wen Qing come to them, he shook his head at her. She stood for a moment worry evident in how she held herself. He shook his head again before she relented and the two siblings turned to go back to their settlement.
"Now then what was it that you're about to say?." Wei Ying said cheerily while trying to mask his fear.
Hitsugaya knitted his brow together puzzled by this development. He took another look at the place that they're standing on. Noticing how despite the unwelcome energy there seem to be some kind of settlement in this desolate place. Plot of land half filled with wilting plant. Shacks that barely stand and some elderly men and women that peeked their heads looking at them from distance.
"No living human should live in this kind of enviroment."
"No. Wait...What... What do you mean?." It was not the respond that he expected.
"Exactly like what i said. This very air that you breathe is poison."
Like he didn't know it. Wei Ying smiled a feral smile.
"So what do you advice we do?. Oh great sage..."
Hitsugaya look at him with calculating eyes.
****
Hitsugaya looked at the water inside the cracked cup in his hand. Their situation so confusing for each other to be settled while standing and be on guard without resulting to bloodbath.
So here he was sitting on a rackety chair with the man from before in front of him. This close he can see how the people were even worse than what he thought. Despite being elderly they were malnourished, some were even sporting some injuries.
But he has no busines in meddling with human affairs.
From the corner of his eye Wei Ying saw how the child take a look at his surrounding before his turqouise eyes soften and then harden again. Seems like he has reached some conclusion.
"So honorable young master... How can this lowly patriach be of service to you?." He asked mockingly. It was cruel to treat a child this way but he has to keep a front to keep his Wen safe. No matter what, this child was still an unidentifiable factor.
"Nothing." Was the calm reply.
"Nothing?. Then why are you here?." He sneered.
"I don't even know where here is." He answered with the same calmness as before but Wei Ying could already see how it strain him to keep it going.
"Heh tall words from someone that dropped in my garden and destroy our seeds."
"Sorry..."
"Haah... Don't be i don't even like radish. So which sect that sent you here."
"i'm not."
"Now... Now... Don't play coy you can just go back to them and said that the Yiling Laozu has no interest in their offer."
"Like i said-"
"It's no use even if they send children. I won't change my mind." For some reason Wei Ying felt how the temperature dropped suddenly and he can see how his breath puffing out.
"....." The child bowed his head making his bang covered his eyes. His shoulder tremble.
"Heh. You can just drop your act. I'll send you home to your family without any repecursions."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Hitsugaya said through gritted teeth.
"Really. They must be pretty desperate if they ask you to go this far."
"Listen here you bastard. I don't know what the hell are you talking about and don't patronize me like i'm some kind of children..." Hitsugaya lunged at the man, fisting his lapel and shook him with it.
Between the child's rant and his body being shook Wei Ying have difficulty in concentrating about what to say. Who knew that the child packed this much strenght in his small body.
Hitsugaya shunpoed away from the man when a small needle sailed past him and embedded itself into the ground. He looked at it with critical eyes.
"Wei Wuxian... Stop playing around. And you, what do you want kid?." A woman look at them with fearsome glare, nedlees glinted in her fingers.
The white haired child glared back at the woman and then at the man before walking away. But after he takes a few steps a shrill note was heard and a group of walking corpses blocked his way.
Iritated Toushiro looked back at the duo noting how the man apparently controlled the corpses with his flute. He held the urge to run the man through with Hyorinmaru.
"Hado no 58: Tenran." Placing the palm of his hand outward and focusing his reiatsu, massive tornado was formed which swept away the corpses.
Both Wei Wuxian and Wen Qing shared disbelieving look at each other. He stood in front of Wen Qing placing himself as a shield if the seemingly innocent child decided to attack them. Wei Wuxian stood his ground when the white haired child advanced toward them with menacing aura. He refused to let Wen Qing get hurt even though they kind of brought this upon themselves by scaring the child.
"Quit your chittering and stop following me. You said you don't want me to be here yet you keep trying to lock me in this place." With practiced ease the white haired child pointed his sword at Wei Wuxian and thin layer of ice spread where it touch strands of his unruly hair. Wei Wuxian made a mistake in looking at the child eyes but saw no emphathy in those cold calculating turquoise. He gulped in trepidation.
"He did said so but how can we be sure that you won't report anything that you've seen here back to wherever you come from?." Wen Qing steady voice sounded behind Wei Wuxian's back.
"Just what are you talking about?." Hitsugaya sighed trying to dispel all of his annoyance in one go.
"Uh... Are you perhaps not from any sect?." Wei Ying asked rather slowly.
"No. I don't even know what you mean most of the time." That deadpan tone was not what they were expecting. Yet in such a short order it did make sense for the oddity that their guest presented.
But that's just confusing. Wei Wuxian thought though outwardly he voiced another question.
"But... That high level spell and your sword?."
"It's called kido and this is Hyorinmaru my companion." Hitsugaya said after debating with himself for some time.
"Then what are you doing here?." He asked, his mind begin to get curious.
"I was on my back when out of nowhere some kind of energy pulled me here." I'll skin the imbecile who caused this he muttered. Who knows what kind of state his office is already in right now because of this unexpected detour.
"Oh.. well then what about that door thingy?."
"It's the gate that is used for traveling."
"So it's like a teleportation talisman?."
"I think so." Even though he didn't know what it was.
"Why won't it open?."
"I don't know. It rarely happen."
"So that means you're stranded here for the time being." Wen Qing collected voice brought them back to reality.
"I guess so." Lowering his sword Hitsugaya stare at the far off horizon.
"Stay with us." Wei Wuxian chirped. It's a dangerous move to invite unknown people into his already precarious territory but Wei Wuxian was always a man of action.
"Wei Wuxian." Wen Qing snapped at him while Hitsugaya just look at him in disbelieve.
"No thank you." He declined the offer without any conscious thought. After those word were said Toushiro proceded to walk away from the duo. Wei Wuxian snapped from his surprise by the action ran after the child and stand in front of him, blocking his way.
"Hey.. hey.. listen. If you stay here at least you'll have someone that you know and you could gather some informations. We won't harm you but who knows what people out there would do to you if you decided to wander alone with that get up."
Hitsugaya felt his eyebrow twitched at the implications.
"I can protect myself." He glared at the man.
"Sure you are." Wei Ying looked up and down at the child in front him. While he seems to posses great power in his tiny body. His unique appearance alone would make any less than savory man on the street salivate to get him in their hands. Not even mentioning the foreign yet beautifully made sword that he was carrying. It certainly would fetch quite a price in the underground market.
"What can you even do?." Hitsugaya snapped back at the man when he felt how those silver eyes looked at him with pity and concern.
"Hehe... You are in the presence of the grandmaster of the demonic cultivation himself. Surely two head is better than one. We can figure why you can't use your mode of transportation together. Beside we have Wen Qing the genius doctor in the whole cultivation world."
"You keep mentioning cultivation and sect from the beginning. What's the deal with it?."
"Don't tell me you've never heard of cultivator before?."
Hitsugaya shot them a look so cold it could freeze the air. Wei Ying scratched his nose when he looked at the other woman for help.
Well what a situation, to be completely misunderstood like this. Wei Wuxian thought.
***
He's back to sipping water from the same cracked cup.
"So that's how it is..." Wei Ying finished his tale with a sombre air.
Hitsugaya processed the information that has been told by the man. Part of him still didn't believe the story completely, for what kind of war in the living world that it evaded the radar of soul society or any patrolling shinigami. Yet another part of his mind has already churned with thoughts and plans. Placing the cup back, he regarded the elderly men and women who had continued to plow the field or sewing the clothes or whatever it was that theyd done before his abrupt arrival.
A bit more reassured when they saw the young man whom they regarded as the de facto leader conversing with the white haired child that they thought he was no longer a threat. How foolish. One slash of his Zanpakutou could freeze this place entirely but when he looked at the elder especially one in particular that reminded him stronglynof his own granny in rukongai. All Toushiro could feel was warmth and sadness.
Wei Wuxian was eyeing his guest when he saw how those hardened turquoise soften as he saw popo and get a faraway look. Well hopefully their guest couldn't be that cold hearted when he could smile like that.
***
Other than their tumoltous meeting in that first day they rarely interact together. Hitsugaya -as he said he prefer to be called- often times choose to be alone or dissapearing for hours on end and only come back before it was nightime before retiring to his temporary residence.
Which is why it was such a surprise when Wei Wuxian felt a hand steadying his weakening body from hitting the ground. The boy showed no outward emotions but his touch when handling his body was gentle.
"What are you doing?." Hitsugaya asked.
"Oh nothing special... Just trying to cleanse some of the land so we could plant more radishs." The boy raised an eyebrow at him then at the plot of land that he tried to cleanse with little progress before finally turning his gaze at the laughing group of eldery.
"I hope you don't make me regret my choice." He said.
***
Wei Wuxian felt pity for a yuan the moment he saw those downtrodden eyes, alas there's nothing much he can do in their condition.
"Here." A cold voice said and Wei Wuxian turned to see Hitsugaya handing a crafted figure of ice dragon that looks suspiciously like mini Hyorinmaru to a Yuan. Something that was leagues better than the toy that a Yuan crave before. The child eyes sparkled in delight at seeing the gift.
"Thank you snowy gege, a Yuan like it very much." A Yuan thanked him with gaptoothed smile before running off to play with his new toy.
"A yuaaan..." Wei Wuxian called but the child ignored him. Already too immersed in his game. He turned his attention to the other.
"Who would have thought that the great Hitsugaya Toshiro would have a soft spot for children?." He teased.
"Shut up." Hitsugaya said before walking away. His skin couldn't quite hide his reddening cheeks.
He run after the dissapearing figure. Wei Wuxian didn't stop the teasing words on his lips even with the threat of being turned into icicle.
***
"Aiyaa... I never thought that it would be this hard. You make it look so simple." Wei Wuxian plopped onto the hard ground. Sweat beaded in his forehead.
"You just have no talent in it." Hitsugaya replied coldly.
"That's cold Toshiro."
"Don't call me Toshiro, beside look at your caligraphy it's atrocious."
***
"Wei Wuxian don't go." Wen Qing pleaded at him.
"Ah don't worry Qing jie i have a Ning with me." He said to calm the woman while slipping the present into his robe.
"Wei Wuxian."
"Even if it's a trap i would still go." He said resolutely.
***
"You really are an idiot." Hitsugaya said to him when they're far enough away.
"I know. But what are you doing there?."
No answer.
"Are you perhaps worried about me. I'm touched."
"If you don't shut up Hyorinmaru will be the one that touched you." Hitsugaya said with menacing aura.
"Ah... sorry...Where is Wen Ning?."
"I asked him to do me a favour."
"And what is that?."
"You'll find out later." Hitsugaya look at him with secretive eyes.
"You wouldn't tell me?."
"I could. But do you want to be late to your nephew's celebration."
****
The guards in Jinlintai didn't quite know what to make of the odd pair. On one hand it was the Yiling Laozu, they have an order to apprehend him but on the other side Hanguang jun himself is the one who escorted him when he saw both man and child.
"Wei Ying...."
"Lan Zhan..."
The atmosphere felt awkward. Wei Ying looked at the man clad in white beside him and at the white haired child on his other side. Both of them didn't say any word while their eyes only focused upward at the grand sight of Jin clan estate, but he knew for a fact that neither of them actually paid any attention to the decorations. He sighed, He was surrounded by such a bore.
"Wei Ying... Are you okay?."
"Of course i am. Lan Zhan...why shouldn't i?." He twirled and smiled and the other man.
"But your use of resenful energy?."
In such a short time Wei Ying's mood soured, "are you still at this again?. We are at Jin Ling one hundred celebration day. Must you always bring that same topic again and again?." Wei Ying snapped before he pulled his smaller companion's hand and dragged him across the steps ignoring the protest coming from the white haired male mouth's.
"Wei Xiong.... it's so nice to see you among this unfamiliar face." His friend Nie Huiasang throw himself at his friend who catched him purely by reflex before he even realize his action.
"Ah... Nie xiong... It's so rare to see you at this kind of gathering. Are you finally out of inspiration for your painting?." He joked.
"You know me Wei xiong. Beside..." With a snap of his wrist Nie Huiasang opened his fan and leaned his face closer to Wei Wuxian. His fan hiding part of his face while he whispered at his friend, "a little birdie tipped us that things will get interesting during this gathering."
From the corner of his eyes Wei Ying saw how his white haired friend jolted a bit but he paid it no mind focusing instead on Nie Huiasang words.
"Really?. What kind of thing Nie xiong?." He whispered conspirationally back.
"Ah... You'll just have to wait and see Wei xiong. I can't spoil you lest our benefactor became upset." With some relictance he extricate himself from Nie Huiasang and walked toward the woman who held a baby in her arms.
"Shijie... Peacock" He smiled at the woman while pulling out the carved box from his sleeve. Explaining it's use to the couple before looking at the baby.
"Hello little Jin Ling i hope you don't grow up to be mini Peacock like your father." He joked at the baby while the said father spluttered in indignation. That easy atmosphere was broken with the arrival of Jin Guangshan. The sect leader eyes lingered on jos two unusual guests.
"Aiyoo... Young master Wei... What a pleasure to see you here." In an instant the slimmy voice of the Jin sect leader made Wei Wuxian tensed his body. Thus the previously low murmur of the present guests in the reception hall become louder with the new fuel.
Wei Ying saluted the older man. " I thank sect leader Jin for his generousity in inviting this lowly one." He gritted his teeth while spewinh out the word.
"No sense... No sense... It shouldn't even be mentioned. We are family after all, no?." The man said with a victorious smile on his face while hos hand waved the golden fan lazily.
"And who is this young boy that you brought with you?."
"Ah...he is-" Wei Ying moved to shield his white haired friend with his body. Shielding him from the sect leader's greedy gaze which proofed to be useless when the boy in question step forward by his own volition.
"Hitsugaya Toushiro." It was said in the most bored voice that Wei Ying had ever heard coming from the boy.
Toushiro swept his gaze around the room. Making some of the people that met his eyes flinched or broke their contact, uncomfortably turning away.
"What an interesting name... Say did you come from any sect, young boy?. If not why not join the Jin sect for we are obviously in the right position to train you.."
Toushiro raised one unimpressed eyebrow, putting his hands in the sleeve of his shihakuso, "is that so?."
"Yes... After the sunshot campaign we are the only one of the great sect still left intact after the Wen razed the other sect to the ground.."
"So you are saying you're the most powerful one now?."
"Well ...." Jin guangshan said, taken aback by the question.
"Ah... Why don't young master Wei and his young guest sit down. That way you can catch up with each other." Jin Guangyao hurriedly come over them with a placating smile.
"Why not?. I'm sure we have a lot to catch up." He said while nodding his head with an uncharacteristic smirk at the delegation clad in white and another one clad in dark green.
At once Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue stand from their sitting position, in their hand a leaf of documents was gripped tighly while their face were blank.
Pandemonium broke when both young sect leader accused the Jin of doing crime with war prisoner in their camp. With official written report backed by the testament and the state of the prisoner bought in by Wen Ning during the heated word war.
Cementing the argument further Lan Wangji stated that he had played inquiry on the souls of the departed in the marked site on the map that displayed the location of each prisoner camps. Scheme, scandal and evildoer were laid out for all to see. With every passing second each voice shout outdoing one another to be heard.
Nie Huiasang smile with satisfaction at the display of chaos in front of his eyes. He thanked the other man for giving him the foresight in attending the celebration for it is the day to be celebrated indeed. He dragged his still confused friend to a less crowded area which in this case turned to be some garden. Certain in his knowledge that his brother and the Lan siblings will come with his Dage.
At first it was only a head of white hair that appeared in the garden but before long it was followed by three other people. Among them was his brother who scowled with agitation.
"So when will Jin xiong replace his father?." Nie Huiasang said by way of conversation.
"Huiasang we didn't say anything of the sort." Lan Xichen tried to explain.
"Oh come on it was plain to see after that whole fiasco." He waved with his fan.
"Well... You're not completely wrong about it. The Jin elder will decide the matter after they finished with the trial." Lan xichen said with dejected air.
"And many loose end that they need to wrap of course." Wei Ying added with glee after he came out of his bewildered state.
"There is still one last thing Wei Wuxian." At the sound of Hitsugaya's voice all head turned to the white haired boy.
"Ah... Right." Wei Ying said while pulling out the stygian tiger amulet from his lapel and handed out the item to the small outstreched hand.
"Wei Ying what are you doing?." Lan wangji leaped from his position intent on ridding the boy from the cursed item.
Wei Wuxian barely catched the billowing sleeve, halting it's owner movement, "Lan Zhan don't worry he knows what he's doing. We've disscuss this numerous times while we're still in burial mounds."
"But-"
"He's right. This thing is the one that caused me to be unable to go back." His voice freeze the adult in their motion. Though it didn't erase the concerned experssion on their face. With a smooth move he pulled Hyourinmaru from it's sheath.
All of the people present there could feel how the sword exuding a cold aura similar to that of a winter. It's sharp blade glinted elegantly under the shine of the sun.
"Reign over the frosted heaven, Hyourinmaru."
After the large pressure of power died down, long sleeves were being turned down and they turned their head collectively to see the brittle shard of stygian tiger amulet broke and disintegrating.
"It's done?." Wei Wuxian asked.
"It's done." Hitsugaya comfirmed.
"Thank-" Wei Ying's word got cut by the appearance of a traditional paper sliding door followed by a man with red hair who come from inside guided by a black butterfly.
"Hitsugaya taichou...." the man looked at his surrounding before he noticed Hitsugaya's presence and bowed his head.
"What took so long Abarai?." Hitsugaya voice was cold, devoid of emotion as he looked at the older shinigami.
"Hai... We're sorry sir. The 12th division has some problem to establish a connection and opening a senkaimon to this place."
Sighing Toshiro turned back to the people that has seen the whole spectacle. He inclined his head at each of them before looking at the silver eyed man.
"Well i guess this is it, Wei Wuxian. I hope i don't see you in a very long time." He said.
"I'll keep that in mind." Wei Ying smiled at the farewell.
Turning on his heel and with a sure step Hitsugaya entered the newly opened senkaimon. This time his sword slide smoothly finding no resistance in opening the door. The red haired lieutenant of sixth division followed the captain before the gate closed and it dissappeared from mortals eyes.
"Wei Ying who is your friend exactly?."
"Hm... Ah don't worry about it Lan Zhan." Wei Wuxian waved it off.
"Your friend was the one who contacted us and providing us with the information to move against the Jin."
"Is that so?. Then you could say we were blessed by the god himself." With a smile Wei Ying turned to go back to his shije and little Jin Ling. Sure he still had many problem to adress but his white haired friend has already shown him there were many ways to solve problem.