Oooo fun ask meme. I was going to be like hmm I don’t know your ships (or, er. am not in the fandom for them), but /then/ I thought—can I ask for Kaito/Hanataro in a Fairy Tale AU with Awful First Meeting?

– anonymous

(lololol, I’m definitely a multishipper at heart, so I can usually find some way to wrap my head around almost anything tossed my way.)

Kaito – who was once Uryuu, who carries Ichigo’s soul next to his own, who once meant to take that soul to the nearest Power and barter for his best (only) friend’s resurrection even if it meant his own life – is resigned to his current state of being.

He’s back in time, only able to survive because of Ichigo’s soul sharing his body (there are rules about time travel, you know, and they’re technically breaking all of them), and definitely beginning to feel the strain of two souls inhabiting a single form. It doesn’t help that Ichigo is (was) someone with a Destiny: he’s an Exiled Prince, after all! And enough of that Destiny remains even in this new world to amplify the trouble that this Kurosaki Ichigo gets into.

(Kaito never realized that calling himself the Last Quincy meant something. But it does. It does, and even here in this new world where he’s not the Last Quincy it’s still strong enough to… twist things up. Twist them around. Tangle through Ichigo’s own fading Destiny to make things More Difficult for the original versions of himself and his best friend and their friends.)

(Because Destiny is registering two Exiled Princes and their entourages, not one, his entourage, and a single extra companion.)

Which is why Kaito is racing through the trees, honing in on a barely-remembered presence from his world, a Healer who can hopefully fix things that Kaito cannot.

(He didn’t mean to lead them into an ambush. He didn’t! He doesn’t remember this happening in his world, and if this has already changed so much than can he rely on anything he knows at all?!)

Kaito swoops in, snatches Hanataro up in a fireman’s carry, and flees before the Healer’s companions can even register what happened.

(Hanataro is terrified. Terrified and resigned and knowing deep in his heart that his party won’t come for him. Why would they? They’ve made their opinions on Healers clear.)

(Except his kidnapper sets him down gently in front of a battered, wounded party, their own Healer unconscious and everyone looking worse for wear. Even his kidnapper is wounded, Hanataro discovers after turning to assess the man; he doesn’t need the blonde’s pleading gaze or soft “Can you heal them?” to set to work, because he’s a Healer and he’s always been a Healer, and this was what made the blonde kidnap him in the first place.)

(He doesn’t expect to like the group, but at least they care about one another.)