Background:June 26th, 2018
A tragic accident occurred today. A young man speeding down the Shinjuku Highway was struck by a semi truck, he and a young girl from a high school that will not be named are both in critical care. In Shinjuku Primary Hospital;
“Your brother is in critical condition,”
I remember the conversations like I was there in the room. Coming in and out. As if something was tying me down. I kept trying to fight. I kept trying to come back. Why won’t you let me come back? It’s not fair. She’ll lose everything for no reason! For my mistakes. For my mishaps. I was trying to make everything right. I was trying to keep her safe.
When Toko and Yoru were 8 and 5, their Father left their Mother without a word. They knew the two were getting a divorce, but he left without saying goodbye. It was like he never really loved them, or maybe they wanted to believe - to find some kind of justification that it was just too unbearable for him to say goodbye. Maybe that hurt less to think like that.
“It’s been four years, are you sincerely going to protect her like that,” a practically angry woman in old fashion clothes yells, “What are you holding onto? Because once you go - there is no coming back and I am going to have to cut you down like the weakling you are.”
“Who does she have once I am gone?”
“You are gone! Don’t make me slap some sense into you!”
I am gone. Just like Mother. Toko was fifteen at the time, I was going on eighteen, and Mother was very ill. I remember her not looking the same, how much weight she lost, how much she looked dead before she died. That’s when I started working. I left school to maintain the house, to take care of Toko.
During their adolescents their Mother fell ill and died due to complications with pneumonia. Leaving Toko and Yoru to tend to themselves. Yoru quit high school and began to work ordinary jobs, but they didn’t pay well. Despite this, Yoru took the offer of a suspicious stranger promising him money and protection for him and his sister.
“So, I moved on, now what? What changes?”
“Wait, you remember everything,”
“Yes, is that a bad thing, don’t tell me that spirits forget who they are,”
“That’s how it’s supposed to happen,”
“That’s shit, just like everything about dying is shit, you have to make it more shit,”
“You’re supposed to be at peace,”
“Well, I am not, how do I become whatever you are-
-you can’t-
-Why can’t I?”
“Because-
“Because, you’re? Let me talk to someone, don’t go wandering off before I do,”
So Yoru did exactly what Yoru was told not to do so and he wandered off in the capital of Soul Society. How he ended up joining the Shinigami Academy was mostly by pure accident. And how he managed to pass the exam was by pure accident and less skill. Though he would make up for it during his lessons in the Academy. There are secrets about Yoru that they are keeping from him and maybe from the rest, maybe the Gotei 13 are waiting to see what happens, maybe they are waiting to put him down and execute him. Or maybe they think they can tame him. Whatever the case may be, for now Yoru is a prickly ally.
Whether he is or isn’t on the Gotei 13. Considering the current events. Yoru don't necessarily know much about how any of this works. He’ll just observe from the sidelines. He has no real honor the way some do to the Gotei 13. That doesn’t necessarily mean he wouldn’t like to see the rest of this group come back together out of this stronger. Sometimes things don’t always make sense in Soul Society and sometimes he doesn’t know how he fits. But he knows he is being quietly observed and quietly watched for some unknown reason.