~PROLOUGE~
"Yuki Hitsugaya! Report to me after class!"
Great, just what I need on my mind.
The class filed out, happy that it was toward the end of the school year. Yuki, on the other hand, not so much. Summer was just problematic. It forced her to be out in public with people, which was not on her fun list. Sure, Kaoru was fun to hang out with, but she felt different. The walk up to the teacher's desk seemed longer than it should have in the stuffy classroom. Her dark blue hair, cut at a downward slant, stuck to her face. The lack of moisture in the air was practically suffocating her, and the lack of air conditioning.
"I know it is the last couple days Yuki, but you need to focus." She just nodded. Not exactly what she wanted to listen to.
"Sleeping or zoning out is unacceptable. Now, I will not tell you again."
"Right." Of course she would get the strictest teacher in the school right before summer break, the nerdy teacher that took everything literal and serious. Fate had its way of toying with her.
Walking in the empty courtyard, she saw Kaoru, in her infinite wisdom, sitting in the sun with her shimmering short blood-red hair and black clothes. Kaoru didn't care enough to think about absorbing heat with her clothes, since she didn't mind it.
"Hey, I heard. What a nag!" Typical Kaoru.
"Hey, you don't even have her and you don't like her." Kaoru hopped up and they started walking home in the streets of Karakura. Yuki could feel the heat emanating off her. That's disturbing that she can stand that much heat. She's an inferno for god's sake. Of course, Yuki would never say that to her face, that could start a big argument of how Yuki can stand cold easily.
"Well, when you look that rough, I wouldn't yell at you. How much sleep did you get last night?" Yuki gave a nervous giggle, a sure sign that the answer wouldn't be good.
"Okay, when is the last time you got at least five hours of sleep?" Stupid questions. Yuki had a hard time lying to Kaoru because they had been best friends since second grade. Kaoru can't remember her family or where they are, if she has any, and Yuki's only family is Toshiro, who's too busy to be at home for more than five minutes, so the girls lived together.
"About a month," Yuki said quietly.
"What?! Are you an insomniac now?! Geez…" Luckily, Kaoru never pushed on subjects and that ended that conversation as they approached home.
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The darkened room reeked of blood and corpses. A dark man stood over a table, covered in blood. His dark sinister eyes showed frustration in the pool of blood that had formed on the table under the single dim light hanging above it.
"Remove this one too," he said, gesturing toward the corpse on the floor. It had been sitting for days and was giving him a headache. Not one of the specimen had produced the results he had wanted. A servant came in silently and dragged the body away to god-knows-where. He walked to the computer-like machine and looked at the now bright screen. He needed another lead, something to renew his belief that it could be done, that he could recreate his own warrior of sorts with powers beyond imagination. He waited patiently for a signal to show.
After pacing for roughly an hour, a bright beep echoed through the room. This is generally how he found his targets; a signal would be produced if someone had high spiritual pressure. He lazily went to computer; he wasn't all that thrilled because so many searches had been fruitless, this was nothing exciting. Then, two, no, three, more dots appeared. He seriously looked at his computer with more enthusiasm, for he had never seen a human town with as many high spiritual pressure individuals in one town. The count had risen to about fifteen.
"Karakura Town, hmmm, might be worth a visit…" He started typing madly, researching their spiritual data and frequencies. He started laughing, in a mad scientist-like manner.
"Yes! Worth a visit it is!"
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Two intense stares filled the room, Yuki on one side of the living room and Kaoru the other.
"Go head, you can start," Yuki said darkly.
"No, by all means Yuki, go for it."
"All right, but don't be mad at me when I kick your ass."
"In your dreams twinkle toes!" Both the girls dramatically leaped to the center of the room and landed on the light-wood coffee table. Their hands came out, ready to strike the final blow, the blow that would decide the winner. They shouted at the same time:
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!!!!!
It was all over.
"Damn it! Again! I did it last time! You cheat!" Kaoru was the victor.
"You stupid idiot! You can't cheat in rock, paper, scissors! I can't read minds!"
"Whatever!" Yuki stormed off to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
"Just so you know, you're a WAY better…!" A pan came flying from the kitchen, missing Kaoru's head by inches, obviously not an enthused chef.
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"Here," Yuki said glumly as she handed her the bowl of miso ramen. Yuki plopped on to the couch next to Kaoru, staring at the new hole in the wall. They ate in silence, deep in thought. Yuki was starting to fall asleep, which she didn't want to, nor did she realize. She always had the same nightmare and it was not high on her fun list. She didn't want to tell Kaoru; it would only make Yuki look more pathetic than she already was. It was a nightmare where Yuki was with Toshiro and Kaoru on a mission. A hollow was near and they had to vanquish it. Everyone seemed different; they seemed run-down, as if they had been fighting a lot. When they approached the hollow, though, it was human, whom she could never see clearly. Some parts were unclear and her dream skipped around, but the end result would always be Toshiro and Kaoru dead. Yuki would look down in the pool of blood and she would have a hollow appearance, her hands and sword bloodstained. That's when she'd wake up in tears. Yuki snapped back to reality, realizing that they both had finished their meals.
"Yuki, you look like crap, go to bed, your face almost fell into your ramen…" She had a slight, but concerned, grin on her face.
"I'm fine, really, just deep in thought." Kaoru gave an exasperated look and grabbed the dishes.
"So how's Ichigo?" Yuki and Ichigo had been dating for a few months now. She would still blush when someone said dating.
"Fine, I guess." Kaoru had her own boy toy too, Byakuya Kuchiki. When Yuki first heard the news, she was surprised that he knew how to show affection. Kaoru walked back in, but stopped; a high spiritual pressure had been released. It was suffocating, thickening the air, making it so heavy. Then, Yuki managed to jump up because Ichigo's spiritual pressure had just been released moments later.
"Ichigo!" Yuki popped out of her gigai and jumped out the window.
"Yuki, wait!" Kaoru popped out of her gigai and followed her. Yuki was running as fast as her legs could carry her. This was bad because the pressure was so thick, not even head captain Yamamoto had spiritual pressure like this. Heading a little way out of town, she arrived to a small forest, where Ichigo and a stranger were fighting above. Kaoru had caught up to her, frantic.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to do that? It freaks me out when you run off like that!" Kaoru looked up at Yuki, who was totally spaced out.
"Yuki? Hey, focus, I'm yelling at you." It was the mysterious man in her dreams, the one she could never see clearly, but gave that ominous feeling. They were now aware of the two girl's presence. Ichigo was slightly cut up, but was more huffing and heaving.
"Yuki, go back home! Don't get involved!" Yuki began drawing her sword, but the man had flash stepped to her side.
"I really think you should listen." In the close proximity, he was smothering her. She couldn't breathe, he was overwhelming her. She attempted to flash step back, but was tripping. Kaoru drew her sword, but he flicked her away like a fly. Ichigo charged at him, but he effortlessly tossed him.1 He threw Ichigo away like garbage as he slowly approached.
"Freeze them in the moonlight, Kôritsuki!" She managed to mumble. At this point, releasing to shikai was the only thing she could do that seemed logical. Ichigo had stumbled back up and Kaoru was cussing up a storm, ready to pounce again. Yuki flashed stepped behind him, but he was one step ahead. She swung, but he caught it with his hand. She tried to look up, but her vision blurred. His face always seemed shrouded in a cloud. Her eyes couldn't stay focused and right before she passed out, she heard Ichigo scream, "Bankai!"
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