A True Shinigamis Duty

The fog raised a few inches off of the ground, covering the short grass and what few flowers where brought here to the dead by their loving relatives. Amongst this fog stood a lone shinigami, his silver head of hair leaning to the side with the cool gust of wind as his long baggy sleeves overlapped his hands where pushed to the side as well. It was Joel Vinland the Vice Captain of squad seven, he held a toothpick in his lips his light green eyes scanning the area around him for nay wandering spirits. Joel let out a sigh as he raised up his right hand the sleeve rolling down to his elbow as he scratched the back of his head. 'How did I get stuck with this job?' he thought to himself a bit annoyed, this wasn't something for a vice captain to be doing this was something for a lower ranked shinigami, but alas Joel gave up and just admitted that he was stuck in this situation the sigh he let escape his lips after his thought was complete was proof enough of his raising of the white flag. Thinking to himself that perhaps it was that he had just recently been promoted to such a rank.

Joel then heard the grass as it crunched to the left normally a shinigami as seasoned as him would react swiftly but Joel turned slowly not really exerting to much effort on his part to see who was there. To his left and two tombstones down was a woman kneeling holding a single white rose in her hand, Joel's eyes suddenly widened as his eyes focused on the white rose. Joel's vision suddenly blacked out as he flashbacked three years ago....

Three years Earlier

"Hey! Neviah hold on! Your going to far ahead!" a much younger Joel walked down a dirt path in what appeared to be a park in the human world. He still wore the shinigami uniform, but the only difference being he didn't have the badge on and he had short spiked hair, ahead of Joel was another shinigami a young looking girl with long brown hair that reached down to her lower back. She wore the same shinigami uniform but the only difference being that she carried her zanpaktou at her thigh, and the zanpaktou itself being no long then a hunting knife. It was Joel's younger sister Neviah, Joel followed her as she skipped ahead of him jogging and turning rushing her lazy brother to move a bit faster but Joel merely waved her off. Joel then suddenly lost sight of his sister as they got further into the he stopped as he looked around cupping his hands over his mouth he yelled out her name but ther ewas no answer. After several tries Joel decided to run into the forest and find her, a few minutes later Joel heard a scream he turned recognizing it as her sisters voice, he started to run in the direction of where it came from.

Joel pushed through the bushes, and dodged the trees until finally stepping out into a field of white roses "Neviah!" he called out but only to see his sister running around in the field happily. Joel sighed as he relaxed chuckeling he watched his sister, as she played and enjoyed herself in the field of white roses.....

"Present Day..

The woman stood up placing the white rose down near the tombstone after the woman had left, Joel walked up to the tombstone and watched the woman walk off into the distance. He then turned back to the tombstone kneeling down in front of it to see what it read, a hint of sadness filled Joel's eyes as he realized that this woman to had lost a sibling. "I'm sorry...." he said raising himself up to his feet as he turned and decided it best to distract his mind by searching out any wandering souls. Joel didn't like to linger in his past, there were to many painfull memories there, it was similar to when one is a child and is afraid of the dark, its just something they don't like to linger in for to long. The young shinigami continued down the path of tombstones as the fog suddenly raised up higher making it harder for him to see but he kept on searching.

Joel would then feel gi huge surge in the reiatsu in the air of the cementary. He noticed it could not have been any normal wandering spirit. Viz would be kneeling over a single lonely tombstone that has been weathered to the point of only having the letter V written on it. The tombstone was covered by hundreds of years of plant build up the being teared away by the lonely arrancar that would start to cry doing so. After removing all the plants the then would begin to dig in the ground franticly searching for something and sobbing the whole time. "why has no one kept this safe" he would say to himself all the time digging and digging through the fog and mud searching for something important.

Joel was standing there silently looking off into the distance when all of a sudden he felt a surge of reiatsu rip through the air his body tensed slightly as the young vice captain released his own reiatsu to even out the situation so that the reiatsu would no overwhelm him. He looked off into the distance trying to find the location of where the source of reiatsu had come from. Joel pin pointed the location of the reiatsu source he started to walk in the direction of the reiatsu, being carefull as he did so the reiatsu source was not of a human spirit and it was not another shinigami it was a hollow like presense. Joel stopped a few feet from where the Arrancar was at digging desperately at the ground, he stood there watching the desperate being "Hey hollow what exactly are you doing?" he asked not walking much closer to the being.

Joel stood there wondering in the back of his head why this Arrancar was so desperately digging at the ground, any other shinigami would be quick to violence but Joel he was a pretty laid back guy and kind of lazy. He tried to avoid confrontation as much as possible, and besides who knows maybe this Arrancar was different then others and he was actualy a nice guy that or he would turn around and probably try to kill Joel. All this played out in Joel's head as he sighed scratching the back of his head hoping that he wasn't wrong about this Arrancar.

Viz would continue digging through the gave trying to find the coffin that he knew was in that grave. He would have ignored what the shinigami had asked him and as he heard his nails hit wood he knew he had reached what he was searching for. "finally after all these years" he uttered and pulled out a beautyful jewel and gold and jade encrusted coffin. He then would rip it open a white mist would flow out of the coffin as the smell of putrid rotten meat would quickly spread around the cemetary meaning it was an old body. "Finally my old body iv found you" Viz would immedietly start cring as he pulled out a katana whose steath was entirely black and made pure black diamonds and it having a hilt in the shape of roses. He would start hugging it also with an extremely old red envelope with a letter inside the envelope had written in old japanese ink "Im sorry my beloved"

Joel watched the odd Arrancar clearly his presence had been overlooked by the being Joel stood there watching quietly as the Arrancar cried his eyes out having found 'his old body' perhaps they were tears of joy? But the real question here was what would the Arrancar want with its old body? Joel took a step forward and increased his reiatsu just enough to be noticed he cleared his throat. "I asked you a question....What are you doing here? It is obvious you are not here hunting souls but I am positive that this whole body thing is just a front for your true intentions" Joel was normaly a pretty relaxed guy and let many things go. He was a passive shinigami which most of his comrades looked down at him for, but one thing he could not stand was being ignored he stood there maintaining his reiatsu at its current level so that the Arrancar would think twice about ignoring him.

Joel this time around was putting up a serious and defensive front to make seem as if he was angry, this was just to get an answer. But then again he had no idea how the Arrancar would react to this and in the back of his head he thought to himself that good ol what if? and his what if was that what is this Arrancar decided to get violent and attack him? 'Man...that would be a pain in the ass" was all Joel could think to himself quietly as he waited still for the Arrancar to show some sortof recognition to him.

Viz would the look at the shinigami and he would calmly say " O Hithere i didnt nootice you^^". "Im sorry if i bothered you i was just trying to find my body from 300 years ago." "My old boyfriend killed me because of a misunderstanding and he burried my sword here with me and in turn it turned into my Zanpaktou i was just trying to get myself all together so i can live in peace in the human world" Viz yould then get up and placing his stuff under a tree and closing up the coffin and looking back at the shinigami. "can you help me out here this thing is super heavy now and i really want my grave to look its best for tommorows celebration" Under the tree there was also a small box with traditional Japanese altar preparations meaning that he was preparing his own funeral.

Joel finally got the Arrancars attention he stood there listening to the Arrancars explanation all and all it seemed that Joel had made a mistake by believing this Arrnacar to be an enemy he infact was here for personal reasons. "I appologize for the rudeness" he said as his reiatsu began to settle around him as it slowly descended to wards the ground before fading away and vanishing into the low mist. His light green eyes kept on the Arrancar then moved onto the grave that had been clawed open by the Arrancar, he took a few steps forward letting his arms swing at his sides slightly until he came to a complete stop. His long baggy sleeves overlapping his hands and concealing them from view ”Alright then I guess I can lend you a hand…” he said as he looked into the grave still then his gazed moved up to wards the Arrancar though Joel was one to give people the benefit of the doubt even for a nice guy like him this seemed like a bad idea, a shingiami helping an Arrancar.

"Thank you" he would said smileing. "I dont have anyone to take care of my grave anymore so i have to come here everymonth to pray for myself" that was said with an air of sadness Viz remembering how no one had ever come to his funeral and that being what made him turn into a hollow; the fact that no one cared about him enough to bury his body exept for the one that ordered him to be killed.
"It must be easy for you you probably have people in the Seretei that care for you and worry about your well being; no one really pays attention to people like me all i want is to be happy and do what I never got to do when i was alive" Viz would then pick up half of the coffinthe bones comming out of it. "Oh no!!!!" Viz would fall on his knees crying, "I cant belive that happened"

Joel listend to the Arrancars story then he chuckled "Actually I'm kind of a loner, I am a vice captain of a squad but other then that my fellow shinigami don't really talk to me unless it involves the job in any way" he then approached the coffin. He started to stretch and limber up to prepare himself to lift it, bending his knees Joel gripped the bottom of the coffin. But before he lifted the Arrancar got ahead of himself and the bone fell out of the coffin, Joel jumped back in shock "Gah!" was all he could say as he fell on his bottom sitting there watchign as the Arrancar fell to his knees. Once again he was crying, Joel scratched the back of his head letting out a sigh "Hey man, you should stop with all this crying..." Joel pushed himself up to his feet then stepped forward to wards the Arrancar. Joel rubbed his chin as he looked down at the sobbing Arrancar with his light green eyes, "Come on, get on your feet and lets get this coffin out of here" he said as he stood over the Arrancar waiting for a reaction.

"How can i stop i just desecrated my own Grave" he said still on his knees crying. "this always happens to me i cant do anything right. First my love kils me, then im used and abused as a hollow and then im thrown out like a piece of garbage, i got fired from my human job and now this!"
Viz would then get up taking his sword out. "Im just a failure at everything dead or alive i dont belong anywhere. I though if i came back to my grave id feel some value but i cant even do that right. I guess no one ever come on the aniversary of my funeral because im such a failure at everything i don't even deserve to exist why would i ever think about giving myself a proper ritual"
Viz would sit under the tree throwing the bag with ritual stuff away still crying and putting his swrd to his neck. "I don't deserve anything anymore!"