1000 Years: One Shots (Part 1)

2. Calculations

Title: Calculations

Genre: General

Characters: Rin, Akon, Hiyosu

Summary: All Quincy kill Hollows instead of sending them to Soul Society, or do they?

Rating: T

Date Posted: 07/22/12

Calculations

Akon stood in front of the research group. "The members of the twelfth division will be going out into the Rukongai to kill twenty-eight thousand citizens of the Rukongai."

"I don't understand." Rin blinked a couple of times at the older research assistant.

"Because we need to reset the balance." Hiyosu spoke up with his big lopsided grin.

"That's not what I meant. I meant how do we know how many need to be killed." The small shinigami sat behind his computer, his mouth twisted up in confusion. "I mean, doesn't the balance need to be as close to a one on one soul ratio as possible? How can one measure how many souls were removed from existence? I know we can measure the spiritual pressure, but how can you measure the number of souls needed to rebalanced. Everyone knows it isn't exactly a one on one ratio."

"We counted the number of Hollows." Akon stated. "You remember participating in that."

"Yes... but..." Rin frowned again. "But one Hollow doesn't equal one soul. It equals the Hollows soul plus the souls that it has taken in to increase its abilities. And each soul has a different level of ability, so while you can measure how much spiritual pressure is gathered into one physical body you can't measure how many souls are in one body due to the fact they widely vary.

"Yes... well Quincy only destroy the Hollows," The man with horns looked straight at the boy and saw the look of surprise. "Some of their family members were eaten by Hollows and they want to send their family on to Soul Society, right?"

The answer seemed to please Rin. Hiyosu leaned over to whisper into Akon's ear. "Is that even true?"

"How should I know. I think we're lucky he's not asking whether or not he has to kill somebody too or not."