I'll Protect You

Chapter 3

"Thirty-one days from now, Chiyo Konishi will be executed."
The small girl with black hair and violet eyes did nothing. She accepted her fate, she deserved it. She changed the fate of him. She had changed the fate of the boy, the ignorant, hot-headed boy. She regretted it very much, because of her foolishness Irie was now suffering. Chiyo would never forgive herself, not that she had much time left. She would only live for 31 more days.
Chiyo's eyes locked with Miyuki's blue eyes. Miyuki was shocked, that much was clear Chiyo. A look of understanding passed between the two girls.
"Chiyo Konishi has stayed in the real world for over two months, transferred her Soul Reaper powers to a human being, and pretended to be a human. Therefore she shall be executed," the Captain-Commander announced.
"N-no!" Ryuuji shouted. "Chiyo would never do that! I know her best, she'd never do that! Chiyo just woul-"
"Captain Konishi!" The Captain-Commander addressed the Sixth Squad Captain, sharply. "It would do your squad good, if you taught your Vice-Captain to hold his tongue!"
Miyuki half expected the Sixth Squad Captain to oppose of his sister's execution, but he only replied, "Yes, sir."
Ryuuji was fuming, anybody could see that. Who was this human who warped Chiyo's fate? How DARE he? Ryuuji would make him pay, he could not let Chiyo's murderer go unharmed.
Kensei was shocked. Did Chiyo really do that? Were they speaking of the same Chiyo Konishi? Kensei had known Chiyo since his academy days, she always obeyed the rules. Well...the IMPORTANT rules, that is...
Mamoru was shocked. Chiyo Konishi, the girl adopted into the great Konishi house, so well behaved when it came to important rules, was really being sentenced to death? Chiyo was the young Captain's friend, she really truly was, he had to protect her.
But then his eyes landed on Miyuki. The memories of his vision came back. No, no...protecting Miyuki was his first priority. "I'm sorry, Chiyo..." he murmured. "Miyuki...I have to save her..."
Nobody heard him but Tachibana.
~oOo~
Tachibana, Miyuki, Mamoru, Kensei, and Ryuuji stood outside Chiyo's cell. The petite girl sat in the corner of the cell staring out at the Honozakura, the thing that would take her life. With the strength of four thousand soul reapers.
"Chiyo! What the heck happened?" Ryuuji shouted, the first one to speak.
Miyuki elbowed him in the gut, "Shut up, stupid," she hissed.
"...It was my fault," Chiyo whispered. "I warped his fate. I warped Irie's fate...I turned him into a soul reaper in order to save his family...I'm awful!"
Ryuuji was infuriated, who was this Irie? How DARE he take Chiyo's spirit power? "WHERE IS HE?" Ryuuji shouted.
"I don't know..."
Suddenly there was a flash of light and everyone's eyes turned and saw a giant ball of light. The light split into three different parts. "N-no way!" Miyuki whispered.
"Somebody just broke through the barrier of Soul Kingdom, we'd better hurry," Mamoru said, grabbing Miyuki and dashing out.
"Captain, wait for me!"
~oOo~
Later that day, all Captains and Vice-Captains received a hell butterfly, their way of communicating. The hell butterfly repeated the words, "Due to the break-in of the Drifters, commence war-time orders."
"Is it really that serious? So serious that war-time orders are being given?