AU. DAYS OF YESTERYEAR IN THE EYE OF OUR STORM. /pt.1
a wild fucking au developed with @ryuujinjakka (literally) overnight spinning potently out of control. so buckle in for: the au where everything is not the same because yamamoto and yhwach met early when they were young (but will they somehow end up in the same place? stay tuned.)
before there were rules and limits to what a soul can do, a boyish soul with a powerful reiatsu and a flaming sword named YAMAMOTO SHIGEKUNI ventured into the world of the living. there he met another boy — or what appeared to be — named yhwach.
yhwach was young then. a few decades after the villagers discovered him as an eyeless, earless, voiceless, breathless, lifeless babe … that cured and made more powerful all who held him. they molded him into the shape of a youngster with their souls exchanged and embedded in his. and now he sees.
when he met yamamoto, the first thing he asked was if yamamoto wanted to be cured of something, and to gain more power, all yamamoto had to do was touch him.
yamamoto refused, stating that he suffered no ailment and if he wanted to get stronger, he will achieve it of his own accord. which threw young yhwach for a loop, as nobody had NOT wanted something from him before. but they struck up a friendship then. yamamoto recognized yhwach’s reiatsu as overpowering — perhaps as powerful as his own! and he came to challenge him, and was challenged by yhwach in return.
the youngsters grew stronger together, with yhwach never sharing his soul with yamamoto, and he never asked again for yamamoto’s hand.
until one day, by accident, as yhwach was losing his footing, yamamoto grabbed him out of reflex, and a piece of his soul was exchanged with yhwach’s —— worse for them, it was the piece that held ryuujin jakka.
losing his zanpakuto, yamamoto was furious and demanded that yhwach returned the piece of his soul. but yhwach didn’t know how. up until then, it had been a natural process. the soul pieces returned to him when the holders died, and along with all their memories and life forces. but since yamamoto was clearly distraught, he said he will figure it out, and for yamamoto to wait for him to come back with a solution.
he went back to the village and experimented with his powers for a week, prematurely taking the lives of several villagers, and achieved an early version of auswählen. with which he used to reverse the process of soul exchange, and return ryuujin jakka to yamamamot, who was then happy again. even more so. amidst yamamoto’s excited celebration, yhwach suddenly grabbed his wrist —— and nothing happened. yhwach revealed that he, now, can control the power of his soul exchange, much to yamamoto’s initial surprise and subsequent JOY.
their friendship continued then , now without the concern of yhwach accidentally taking yamamoto’s soul …
what he didn’t tell yamamoto (at least not then), was that a piece of his soul was left inside yamamoto, connecting him to yamamoto. he also never explained to yamamoto why he sometimes disappeared in the middle of their time together. and yamamoto never found out. that was, until one day, he disappeared in the middle of a race with yamamoto, and yamamoto decided to track him back to the village to investigate what’s going on.
as it turned out —— yhwach’s overwhelming reiatsu combined with those in the village that had exchanged souls with him attracted hordes of HOLLOWS that regularly attacked the village. when he disappeared, he was being called back to the village to defend it; people did not understand what was causing the attack, neither did yhwach.
yamamoto entered the scene and assisted yhwach in exterminating the hollows. he then explained to yhwach what the hollows were and that they were attracted to yhwach’s reiatsu.
yhwach, upong learning this, decided to leave the village so it would be safe from the attacks. yamamoto then asked him to come to the SOUL SOCIETY with him. an invitation that yhwach accepted.
and thus their journey continued in the soul society …
yamamoto brought him to nimaiya oetsu, who forged ryuujin jakka. oetsu upon meeting yhwach immediately knew he was no regular soul. and there would be no zanpakuto for the merely humanoid being. but yhwach said to forge him a sword anyway: a double-edged broadsword to carry with him alongside yamamoto.
‘he does not know what is foreign or strange about me’ he told oetsu. ‘he does not care. he simply wants to be together, because we are the only ones who can stand beside each other; when he is around, THE WORLD STANDS STILL.’
he emerged out of oetsu’s smithy with a new, nameless broadsword by his hips. he came up to yamamoto then, and took his hand. ‘let us race,’ he said. and they took off running. he won’t disappear this time. and they did not let go of each other’s hands.
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