1000 Years: One Shots (Part 1)

35.) Broken Trust II

Title: Broken Trust

Genre: Angst

Characters: Toshiro and the Vandenreich

Summary: Toshiro heads to Vandenreich only to find his big mistake coming back to bite him in the butt.

Rating: T

Broken Trust II

Toshiro found himself opening the gate and path with great ease. Getting there seemed to easy as he arrived in the place. Glancing around, it wasn't much different then Soul Society and he found himself taking everything in. He then began to wander about until he got to outside a village. He pulled his clock around him and slid into the shadows of a building.

Looking around he found himself watching the villagers move about. Things seemed no different and his mind tried taking in everything. "I don't understand. They seem no different from us."

His conscious suddenly found himself feeling the presence of someone coming behind him. The child taicho turned to look at the person, only to find himself sent flying with a nice kick to the stomach. "What the hell do you think you're doing lurking around like that in the shadows?"

Toshiro felt his hand reach for his blade, only to pause as he heard those around him speak. "It's a Shinigami." And... "What's a Shinigami doing here?"

"You're a Shinigami?" The man came up and spit on the ground. "They wish death to any with Quincy blood. Brat, why are you here."

The small boy frowned, narrowing his eyes. "I don't know what you mean."

"You're here to spy on us, aren't you. To give us away to your comrades so that the can come and kill us." The man suddenly kicked Toshiro in the chest again and he then felt the man stepping on his throat.

"Stop it!" A voice rang out from the crowd. "He may be a Shinigami, but I doubt his majesty would be pleased with you harming a child."

"Take him to the ice palace. Let them deal with his punishment."

Toshiro found himself scooped up as his fingers twisted around his throat. "I'm a..."

"I don't care squat about you, but I can't have word getting back to our leader that I killed a Shinigami brat without his permission." The man began to drag him only to have the small taicho suddenly fight back, biting down on his hand. To his surprise he found himself held down by others while someone landed a blow that knocked him unconscious.

The next thing he knew he was waking up in a dark cellar, his body hanging limply from chains on the wall. "Boy... did I mess up again."

"Boy..." Toshiro glanced up and saw that two men were looking at him.

"Who are you?"

"You don't have the right to speak with us Shinigami." One of the man suddenly kicked him in the still sore spot.

"All I did was..." The boy found himself kicked in the stomach and the content of his stomach coming up. He gritted his teeth and clamped his eyes shut. "All I want to know is where I am and who these people are." He could feel them beating on his body and he was unable to fight back with the way his body was chained. He could feel the blood starting to drip from his mouth.

He heard the jail door open and he continued to keep his eyes shut. "What the hell do you think you three are doing?"

"Your highness."