Just Another Morning

The spiritual anomaly wasn’t particularly powerful, nor did it necessarily feel particularly like any particular kind of being, but it was unusual enough that it caught her curiosity. So much even that she almost completely forgot about getting food. So she stopped off at a corner store to pick up a questionable breakfast burrito and began to munch down on it as she made her way towards the source of the anomaly. Soon she came to a moderate two-story house, bound in caution tape and a huge hole next to the front door. The damage didn’t seem particularly recent, but it seemed pretty obvious what would cause that kind of damage, though maybe not to the normal humans that put up the caution tape. The mystery probably served to keep normal people away for the time being.

There were two presences inside, it seemed, and one made a sudden shift by the hole, coming out into the light. A tiny little thing, a little black ball almost rolling into the sunlight, and as it stretched out its body with a tiny squeak of a yawn, Blu’s eyes lit up as she did everything she could to keep herself from letting out a squeal of adorableness. She had never seen a Hollow so tiny and adorable! How could such a thing exist? She approached it quickly; it was so small and its presence so slight that there was no way it could be dangerous. She doubted its Reiatsu was even enough to poison her as Hollows were so known to do in the old days. She offered her hand towards the little creature and it approached, rubbing its tiny little masked head against the back of her hand.

Apparently it was no stranger to people, which only went to reassure her that it was safe. Or maybe the other people had died because of the little creature. But was death by adorable creature not worth it?

Anyway, focusing, she brought her attention to the giant hole and the other presence inside, that was more noticeable, and… strange. It had the faint feel of Shinigami clinging to it, but it definitely wasn’t a Shinigami. She approached with pronounced footsteps, knocking on the front door fairly loudly, while trying to peer in through the giant hole next to it.

“Hello? Anybody home?”

It didn’t take long for a response to come, as a mysterious girl dropped from seemingly the roof and landed behind Blu. She must have overlooked that. Anyway, examining the girl, she was wearing what seemed to be a Shinigami’s robes- which would at least partially explain some of the Reiatsu clinging to her, though Blu had the feeling the story behind it would be interesting if shared- but underneath was definitely a human, though a seemingly powerful one. The girl explained that nobody had lived here for months, and yet within minutes of finding the place the adventurous Quincy had found a living, breathing person at this house, as well as an adorable little pet Hollow.

“And yet, here you are!” Blu said enthusiastically, tilting her head to the side as she offered a friendly smile. “Sorry, felt something interesting out this way and I wanted to come check it out. If I’m intruding on something personal, I can always come back another time. The name's Blu Min Feng, Quincy, but the most laid-back one you'll ever meet! And..." She leaned to the side, looking past the girl, pointing at the small black creature rolling playfully behind her. “Is that your pet Hollow? Cause if not I might adopt the little critter myself.”

“Well good, cause I had absolutely no idea what to think about that,” Blu responded to Shiro’s comment on her current outfit. Blu had heard about some group of humans with Shinigami powers running around a while back, but hadn’t seen or heard anything of them as of late. Maybe a failed project run by the Shinigami? “Either way, doesn’t seem like you’re particularly hostile towards me for being a Quincy, regardless of your partnership or lack thereof with the usual wearers of robes like that, so no problems here!” She took one more look back at the house. This girl had lived here a while back… which meant that she was probably right about the cause of the hole, but didn’t want to pry any more than that on what might be a touchy subject.

Instead, she allowed the conversation to flow back to the adorable Hollow rolling around over there. “That’s true, yeah, but I don’t even feel enough Reiatsu coming off of that little guy for it to bother me. And if it does…” She paused for a moment, before beginning to walk over to the little Hollow and pick it up. “…well, I’ve heard of worse ways to go out than the presence of something this CUTE!” She hugged the Hollow tight and then turned back to Shiro. The Hollow squeezed out of her grip and climbed around into an odd perched position on her shoulder. Well, if she wasn’t sure it was used to the company of human companions before, she was pretty sure now.

She did wonder what had come of his previous friends, though.

“Well, anyway, being alone and thinking about depressing things is no fun, and usually doesn’t lead anywhere good. I should know.” Queue flashbacks to slaughtered family and missing brother. “So what say we take a walk and try to make something more interesting and upbeat of your day?”

“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to like… drag up depressing stuff like that, or anything…” Blu averted her eyes, not sure what to do. Her curiosity seemed to have stirred up something better left forgotten, if something like that even could be forgotten. If it had happened only a year ago, then most certainly it wasn’t forgotten yet, at the very least. She merely nodded awkwardly and moved to continue patting the little Hollow on the head as the seemingly human girl walked into the broken house to retrieve clothes. The fact that she had clothes in there seemed odd, what with there being no front door that was actually effective… but when she came out wearing an odd blue shirt and green skirt that didn’t match so well, causing Blu to struggle to hold in a laugh, she assumed that the girl was living somewhere else now and that pickings here were slim.

“I’ve seen worse,” Blu reassured her. Huh, at least some people lucked out and found new homes to go to after having your own home taken away from you, Blu thought. But that was not a matter for now… besides, Blu enjoyed her more, to say, nomadic lifestyle, though she wouldn’t mind a consistent place to be able to fall back on. Regardless, today wasn’t about her now. She’d found another kindred soul to try to cheer up!

“The name’s Blu, by the way,” Blu said casually, waving in a friendly and nonchalant manner, “Blu Min Feng. Nice to meet ya!”