The Last Days Part 2

This chapter is still ongoing.

It's been one week since the encounter with the Shinigami in the world of the living, a week since Katsurou and Junsui found themselves in a strange new place where all the rules are different and where their best friend is nowhere to be found. Katsurou arrived in district seventy eight of the east districts while Junsui was sent to the first district of the west districts, places so far apart and so different that it was as if they were sent to different worlds from each other, an illusion not easily shattered. Sitting in a tall tree on the eastern side of the district and isolated from everyone else, Katsurou thought about the last week that he has been in the Soul Society, When he arrived, he still wore his casual clothing from the world of the living and quickly stood out as being unusual and learned from the local elder that when a soul passes into the Soul Society, they are given clothing of the traditional style that everyone wears with no cases up until Katsurou of anyone retaining the clothing they had from their former life. It was during this conversation that he learned that he had died and passed onto the afterlife and learned everything he needed to know about the Soul Society. But while Katsurou accepted he had died, he was not content with his surroundings, nor with his ignorance of how he died, making up his mind then and there to learn just how how he died and why he was the only one to retain his old clothing.

The elder and others tried to tell that there was no way to do that and that Katsurou should find a family unit to help him adjust and survive in the Soul Society but Katsurou has made up his mind to find his way out, no matter what, believing that a family would only slow him down. Since then, he's explored a large portion of the district on his own and lived isolated on the outskirts with little success at finding a way back to the world of the living. For a moment, doubt entered Katsurou's mind, doubt that he would find a way but he quickly pushed away that doubt and closed his eyes, letting his mind wander in search of what he needed. A few minutes later, the local elder called from below to him but Katsurou didn't regain consciousness of his surroundings immediately for his mind was deeply entagled in the reishi around him, only opening his eyes and becoming aware of his surroundings a couple of minutes later. "Sorry for interrupting your meditation but I came to see how you are doing. Your always alone and yet I don't sense the desire to be alone from you and always pursuiting what is impossible with relentless determination. Why are you so determined to return to the world of the living where you will become vulnerable to becoming a Hollow?" The elder said. "I hate leaving important questions unanswered such as why and how I died, why I don't remember dying and why I am the only one with clothing from the other world. But most importantly, I need to find my friend, last time I saw him, he had been captured by a Shinigami as my escape tunnel started to collapse."