My Authors Anoymous councilor flicked me into writting something 'from the heart'.
So this was born!
Breach
Not by Anna Maria
This wasn't exactly how I planned on going. There was a lot of blood, and thousands of crickets chirped.
Quite different from heart failure via Red Bull.
"BANKAI!" My throat ripped. My hands melted onto the hilt of my sword. Pele didn't come out like Helia did in a soft bundle of feathers. She exploded out of the blade with the force of a small bomb. Tora was knocked down.
"Have fun little god," the hooded man beside me patted my shoulder.
"Are you a Grim Reaper?" I asked.
"No. Wish I were. Poor kiddies." Dust was in my eyes and in my mouth and in my hair. Glad I wasn't Sarah.
My retna burned. Shirigami were mowed down left, right, and center. A fiery halo surrounded Pele.
I wished this were more than just a dream. It was so tantalizing.
"MORE! I WANT MORE!"
"I can give you everything you want. Just ask."
My vision started fading. Yumichika wondered why I was leaning on his shoulder.
"I don't know why you aren't accepting. I thought you hated this world."
"Those rose-coloured glasses aren't going to last forever."
"I'm a god. I can do what I want."
"Help me!" My eyes were wide. Tora immediately started yanking cords off me. Jack pulled me out of the hospital bed.
"What's the matter?"
"Mayuri." Tora cero'd a hole through the wall.
A punch sent me flying to the ground. Anna Maria stood over me, glaring. "Why aren't you fighting back?" she yelled. A kick. I rolled into a ball. "Well?"
"I don't like fighting."
"Then why are you in the 11th?"
"I'll ask for a transfer."
Everyone only acts one way in Japanese class.
"But seriously. You don't have any respect. You're just 'that little kid' No one reads your stories, no one cares about your flute playing No one cares." An eyebrow twitched, "About you." A stomp, the weight got heavier. "Everyone says you're smart, but by the way things look, you don't have the heart to tell anyone no. You're so invisible; no one ever waits for you. And that's what really gets ya. It's like you're never there." I could barely breathe again, but I could still move my hands. I forced one heavy chain after another to fall away.
"Umm," I stood up and looked at Anna Maria, "You sound like my mom."
That didn't stop me from landing flat on my back on the hard tile of the Soul Society after asking to be let go. "Are you alright kid?" Yumi stared down at me with Ikkaku. I sucked in a breath and shook my head while my air filled with tears.
"I asked for a transfer," I sobbed. Kenpachi made the me-sized hole in the office wall a gazillion times bigger as he stormed through, picked me off the ground by the front of my uniform and held me aloft.
"Now ya listen kid. Nobody not wants you around 'cause yer the only one who can do all the stuff we can't. And I don't wanna here any cryin'. If we didn't like ya, ya honestly think ya'd still be here?" he growled and dropped me.
"Angi-chan, are we gonna fly soon?" Yachiru crouched on my chest.
"I don't know," The weight felt comforting.
What's the one letter that doesn't translate well in Japanese?