Chapter 1 Little bee big change!
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"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Zanpaktou speaking"
"Zanpaktou thinking"
'Zanpaktou/kido techniques'
It was the night after the night that her and her captain made the promise to always be with each other, always. They made this promise under cherry blossoms trees on a warm star filled night.
All was perfect for her, she had her golden eyed goddess and was fulfilling her duty as a Fon and protecting the Shihoin's Heiress, head of the Shihouin Clan, who also plays the role of her's and many other soul reapers captain and commander of the 2nd division/Onmitsukido and The Fon's duty is to protect this person even with their lives, in the presence of this woman their lives are worth but a leaf from the Shihoin tree, said tree being a hair on her head.
The woman in charge of protecting this woman's life is Shaolin Fon or more commonly referred to as Soifon. Soifon is young girl with black and slightly blue tinted straight hair cut in a hime style which reach just past her shoulders, her eyes are a shade of dark grey, and a sharp but very beautiful and at times cute face (when she lets her softer side show) .She is a very petite girl in appearance, she knows why she is like this, short, skinny, underdeveloped and weak looking, its is because she does not get enough of what a shinigami of her strength needs daily, like food and sleep. Soi does not get the appropriate amount of sleep even for a normal person she spends most nights watching over the shihouin princess as she sleeps to make sure no one tries to kill in her peaceful slumber, to make matter worst the princess like to sleep a LOT!, so at best she may get 4 hours a day. Then there's food due to her training before becoming the guard of the princess Soi had to endure her family's bodyguard training and that left scars on her mind and self esteem and so she has next to no appetite and her body is paying the price and she knows but she just can't work up the will to push past it the only reason she eats anything at all is for the sake of keeping her strength up for her captain. Finally the training and personal training Soifon pushes herself to the limit and beyond all to get stronger despite her bodies constant weakened state.
All of those problem make Soi a very tired girl all the time. She only wakes up and feels alive when she is with her light, her literal reason for living, her reason for fighting, her goddess and captain and love of her life Yoruichi shihouin.
This women is the one Soi has to protect if she is to have any worth in this world. She has been raised to protect her to think of only her well being before anyone elses she is her shield her, well guard dog and Yoruichi is happily oblivious to how far this obsession that has been implanted into her head could go.
Yoruichi is a truly stunning woman in the eyes of both the male and female population. Her short straight purple hair that almost has cat like looking flicks coming of the side catches everyone's attentions, her smooth chocolatey dark skin can make anyone drool, her felicie cat like grin is charming and intermediating at the same time whether your friend or a stranger but the most catching feature of this woman is her eyes, her eyes of the most glowing shape of gold and possess a cat like slit in the centre, when some people look into them they become nearly hypnotized but their beauty, Soi her self has fallen victim many times in the past. As if her face wasn't enough she has been blessed with a truly godly body to match she possess perfect height for a woman of her grace, curves in beyond the right places and and has also been gifted with a sizable chest that still seems like its done growing, her training as only made her body more perfect as the years go by.
Yoruichi has been seen pound away food fit for group of 30 men and not gain a pound, as well she can drink like its the apocalypse and not have a hangover though sometime she get one or two rarely. Then comes her personality she is armed with a modest yet cheeky personality, though is serious when the time call for it, most the time she is fun loving and caring for those around her especially her long time friend Kisuke Urahara and her little bee aka Soifon when it comes to Soifon she always love teasing and making her embarrassed though she acts like it isn't intentional but Soi knows it is. Yoruichi and Kisuke are very close they drink and talk together all the time, some people think that they might end up in each other arms at some point, though if that does happen Soi knows she would be sad but she also know it is not her place to intervene in Yoruichi's love life just her job to protect her from any threats and she know Kisuke to be good man who would never think to harm Yoruichi, even if she does get this urge to slit his throat or anyone who gets too close to lady Yoruichi .
Soifon has never hated Urahara as many may think that she despises the man because of his friendship with the captain of squad 2, but no that's not it all what she hates is what he has something that she does not. He possess confidence around her, shows himself to be on the same level as her not below her, he talks to her like a friend not like a superior, she wants to be like that. And why can he do all of that, because he is not her, not an en cursed Fon.
Maybe if she was not put through that training and conditioning for all those years maybe right then, from the moment she became the lieutenant she would be speaking to Yoruichi like Kisuke does talking, joking, telling stories just having idol conversation until the sun dispersed for the day.
And maybe Soi would also be certain about her feeling toward the golden eyed captain. Soi lives with the thought that maybe her feeling toward the goddess are not her own and are their because of her conditioning and are born because of her lifes duty and only exist as a way of binding her to the woman. Maybe she is making herself see the woman as her love interest so she can feel some sense of normality in her relationship with the captain, so she can use that feeling she thinks is love as a reminder that she still has emotion and that it is all hasn't been beaten out her though her conditioning.
And here she stands now hearing the news of Yoruichi's betrayal of soul society, being marked a traitor for assisting in the escape of Kisuke Urahara after being reported performing experiments on his fellow captains and some of the lieutenants and his own lieutenant being amongst them.
When Soi hears of this she feels hurt,worried,lonely and empty not angry at the woman for leaving her just hurt that she might never see her again, worried because she wont know is she will be safe without her there to watch out for her, lonely because her whole circle of friends was was a circle with just her in it, even her so called family holds no place their, Yoruichi was more family to her than they ever were hell Kisuke might was as well be a part of it and they very rarely talked, and lonely because Yoruichi was all she had anymore, especially since she lost her brothers to shinigami missions. Soi feels no hate or anger towards the dark skinned woman for her choice, Kisuke seemed to be the only one who talked to her like a normal person and Soi never did that no matter how hard she tried that side of her could never break free, so she could see why she valued him so dearly.
Soi fon was currently in her room sitting on her bed with her legs held against her chest and some slight tears streaming down her face, her will was slowly breaking away as if someone was carefully chipping away at it with a chisel "what do I do know shes gone my reason for everything I do gone" Soi said in sad and dead voice as the moonlight shines on her from the window next to her bed.
Luckily for Soi her zanpakuto had a suggestion "leave Soi don't stay here it won't do good any for you" said Suzumebachi Soifon zanpaktou, the sword that has seen everything Soi has seen, the only being in this world who truly knows Soifon, and because of that soifon has always at most times been reluctant to listen to her but this isn't most times, and this will become a turning point in their relationship.
Soi is surprised to hear Suzumebachi but is glad to know she still has someone left to help her in her time of need " what leave? where I can I go? I can't go back home" she says with venom she does not like it their its cold and unwelcoming and when they know she isn't protecting the princess of the Shouhin clan they will be even more cold and unwelcoming and will probably disown her…... well banish her as they call it.
Suzumebachi sighs she knows Soi doesn't want to go back and Suzumebachi doesn't want her to go back either "that's not what I'm suggesting, what am saying is leave soul society maybe not forever or maybe forever, just leave if you stay here you know what will happen will be made the captain of this division and you will be forced to take over Yoruichi's duties and I know how painful that will be for you and I fear the side effects, leave soul society, I know the only reason you're is here because of her nothing else so there's no point in staying if the end result is you being in constant pain and further loneliness" said Suzumebachi in a shocking serious and throughout speech for her she is usually sweet and child like be this really had Soi surprised. Soifon didn't know her sword had such a strong serious side to her, in fact she rarely ever talked to her only ever seeing her as tool to help in her duty of protecting Yoruichi, but now maybe that way of thinking can change.
Soi sighed in defeat she was right the only reason she was here was because of Yoruichi and staying around fulfilling her now exiled captains duties would only make her hurt more and she herself fears what she may become if she stays "alright we leave tonight I don't know where to go but maybe now that she is gone, I can find myself, regain what I lost and become me I would really like to find out who I am and not what I was made to be by them" Soi said with a mixture of excitement and venom.
Suzumebachi sighs happily at her masters resolve to find herself "feww! about time too for a moment there I was thinking I would have to continue being serious, any longer and I thought I may loose my honey sweet charm" she says in mock relief and Soi just giggles at this, which shocks the bee spirit to her core"di-did you just giggle you never giggle! who are you what have you done with my master you imposter!" the sudden shouting quickly annoys Soi so to quiet the spirit of her sword before she could continue she materializes a large pan to appear over Suzumebachi and make it land directly on her tiny head with great impact "ne-never mind ouch it's you al-alright" said Suzumebachi twitching in pain under the pan.
Once the hyper zanpaktou settled down Soi spoke up "so if you are now done having your fit we should leave now with all this chaos around it should make it easier to leave unnoticed for a while and by the time they notice I'm gone we should be long gone by them" all she got was tiny thumbs up from the still recovering spirit of her sword from her inner world, which made Soi smirk in pride at her 'work' "okay good let's get a move on I will pack some food and other essenials and will leave". With the plans set Soi got started on packing getting things like spare cloths mainly more ominstulto uniforms, food, water,sleeping and camping equipment and some hygiene and medical health products "well I think we are now set huh? lets leave" she said as she adjust Suzumebachis sealed form on her lower back and the backpack on her back.
As soifon sped her way through the seritie she came to the location she was looking for, it was one of the areas close to the saki saki wall of Seritie, but what made this particular spot important was that it possessed a good sized crack running all the way through to the other side of the wall and it was just big enough to fit the young woman through if she slid through it sideways.
Soifon looked at the crack and then back at Seritie she could see the sokukuyu hill bathed in the silver moon light as well as the first division building standing proudly next to it, as she stared at the sight a light breeze blew into her knocking her out of her daze "hum huhhhh I suppose this is it" turning back to look at the crack "good thing I never reported this or I probably would have had to bust through the west or east gate" she said with slight humour as she pictured jidanbo's face at seeing her lift up the gate, after all, all lieutenant soul reapers are at least capable of holding the gate long enough to get through to the other side but it is still a struggle give its size and weight.
"yeah that would be funny to see, well looks like the treatment is working already seems your getting some sense of humour back, good job!" Said the sword spirit doing a double thumbs up with a smile and her tongue stuck out and beaming sparkle in her masters inner world. At that Soi mumbled something about still having a sense of humour and still having pans at disposal.
With nothing left to say Soifon started making her way through the wall being careful not to touch the wall as she did so, she didn't want to have any of her spirit energy absorbed by the powerful stone wall. Within a few minutes of careful treading she made it to the other side, when she did she found she was pretty close to the start of the west Rukon district.
As the young black blueish haired girl look around she found there was nothing really of interest around so she just decided she would follow the wall until she found comfortable spot to set off.
"hey Soi why follow the wall? are you nervous or something" asked Suzumebachi in concern, she was hoping her master wasn't having any second thoughts.
Soifon sighed at the swords question "yeah I guess I am for the first time in a long time am scared I don't know what I am going to do now, all my life was planned out by them and now that plan is gone there was no plan B or C so now I'm…...um"
"free" said Suzumebachi with a comforting tone to her master, Soi couldn't help but smile at Suzumebachi for finishing her sentence with the exact word she was looking for.
"yeah free, I'm free all my life I have been in a prison" Soi to a moment to pause thinking of the irony of that given she was not just a memeber but the vice-captain of the punishment force the one that focus on justice and the ones who send people to jail if they break the laws, ironic how a person like her could be a prisoner.
"yeah sure is funny how things seem when you take a moment to look around and soak it all in, to tell you the truth my queen bee I truly hated watching you" said the with slight anger which surprised Soifon giver her sword near constant joyful nature.
"what do you mean Suzumebachi?" said Soi confused at what her zanpaktou meant.
The sword just sighed hard at the question "well for year I have watched you do harm to yourself you know not eat,sleep you train way too hard for your or anyone own good and it has cost you so much look at yourself! so small! so weak! so, so tired! and yet still you kept going because of what they did to you! turned you into a meat shield like your life was worth nothing and worst of all it was your own parents! who did this to you! it just makes me so angry seeing their eyes when they looked at you no love,concern or doubt at what they were doing just cold,empty stares when they sent you to train" she paused for a moment to let what she said sink into Soifon before she continued "and when you came back home tired and most often bloody, nothing waited for you no food or hug nothing and thats why you became so used to eating little it amazes me you're even this tall! and am even more amazed that you don't look like a skeleton!, years of seeing that happen to you m-made me fe-feel so helpless because I couldn't do anything to save that little girl from years ago, who was still happy" Soi was surprised to hear the last bit she didn't know that Suzumebachi had been around for that long in Soifon's life she thought that a zanpakuto spirit only started to exist once a soul reaper had acquired an asauchi.
"Suzumebachi its okay stop feeling so bad about yourself and me okay? right now am glad you care about me so much it makes feel happy that you hold my well being so dearly" Soifon smiled as she said this then her small smile faded and her eyes hardened at the next "and parents I wouldn't call them that, their nothing to me but a bad memory if I never see them again then I will truly be happy" after Soi said that she could feel her sword calming down from her little outburst of emotion.
After seeing her swords spirit energy calm down Soifon decided to flash step to speed thing up after a few minutes Soi found herself near the west gate but was keeping out of sight of any soul reapers who may be patrolling around.
Soifon decided it didn't matter if she was spotted at this point no one might recognize her without her lieutenant badge on. Soi made her way to the main road gripping her bag back bye the straps to keep it secure on her back.
When she began her walk down the road she did notice some of the patrolling soul reapers looking at her with a surprised looks which quickly turned to fear and some to looks curiosity. She noticed one smug looking guy look at her with a cheeky grin and prepared to make his way over to her until her mate stepped in and whispered something into his ear, after that his look turned shocked and his skin turned pale and he began sweating and shortly after that everyone soul reaper that seem to recognize her seem to run off of in a panic.
Soi seeing this raised a curious brow to this "Ok it would seem I have made a clearly scary reputation for myself while as a lieutenant" thought Soifon.
Suzumebachi snickered at this "yeah you did after all the unfortunate victims you put in the 4th division for being too close to Yoruichi at any given time am not surprised and your luck you never got a face to face scolding from Unohana heard that woman has smile that could freeze lava "said Suzumebachi as she shuddered along with her mast at the thought of coming face to face with the infamous will crushing smile of Retsu Unohana
Few days later captains meeting
It had been a few days since the Kisuke incident and now we find all the remaining captains and vice captains gathered for a meeting.
Up in the front of the captains was the old unmoving pillar and the head captain for over a thousand years and still going Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, their he sits on his chair, his long white beard reaching past his waist, eyes closed to mere slits and his captain's haori draped over his shoulders. Next to the old captain is his trusty vice-captain Chojiro Sasakibe standing tall and stoic as ever.
The head captain gave a slight cough to signal everyone attention and when he saw so very few faces he could not help but sigh "so very few captains remain and now we have lost another possible candidate for squad 2, shame she had such potential to make a fine leader but I guess I should have not been surprised when I heard of her missing she was a Fon and probably went through that horrid conditioning as a young girl like all the others before her". The old captain had been told that their has been no sighting of vice-captain Soifon for a few days and squad 2 was quickly becoming more disorganized as time went by. The head captain had ordered a search of the seritier for her and no one had found her, later some of the searchers came across a couple shinigami talking about soifon, the soul reapers said they spotted her with a backpack walking in to the west Rukon a few days ago, they also said they assumed she must have been on a mission or something for her to be out.
After the report was delivered to the head captain he had soul reaper sweep the west Rukon for any clues of her where about but all turned up with nothing and this frustrated the old captain because it meant they where down another future captain when they had already lost so many "I cannot help but curse the Fon name for this, through their methods, they create such broken children who don't know how to stand on their own two feet, but Soi was always different, I could see clearly in her eyes that she was lonely, and their someone in their who wanted out and it seems she is getting out but at a bad time for us thou" thought the old man he hated seeing fon children always so void of emotion and self worth alway ready to throw their lives away for the shihouin they guard it was a sad sight to see so many highly potential soul reaper wasted to such twisted duty.
When the old man first saw Soifon he thought she would be like all the rest gone in a year or so but no she stayed she started showing signs of regaining her humanity and emotions and that made the old man happy to see that maybe one Fon might reach their full potential and not die as some random meat shield or live their lives as just a guard dog.
But now it seems he will never know because she has run away like her former mentor and captain but if he is lucky maybe she will return and only given a slight slap on the wrists for her sudden departure "I can only hope" he though with a heavy heart.
As Yamamoto looked over all the captains he sighed again at the so very few face "how did this happen" after that thought the old man straightened himself and prepared to deliver the news "captains…" and with that Yamamoto goes on to fill them in on the now missing of Soifon.
Few months later edge of the 80th Rukon district
Soifon stands at the edge of the 80th district and what stood before her, a huge forest that looks to go on for eternity, lush green leaves, thick woodlands and the day is warms but their air is cool.
Soifons appearance is little changed only her skin is a bit more tanned dues to being out is the sun a lot more than normal, her hair is a bit messy and her old punishment force uniform is very dusty and a bit torn in places.
Over the months that Soifon has been going through the Rukon she has helped some people in need like killing hollows that popped up and tried to eat locals, helping new souls find a family or their actual family from the word of the living stuff like that. she would sometime work for some food given her appetite has grown a little.
Now Soifon stands at the edge of the last district and beyond that nothing but trees.
"Soi are you sure about this I know I said get a fresh start and all that but don't you think this a little crazy we don't know what's out there or if there's anything out there, if we go out there we may never be able to find our way back again" Said Suzambahi from with in Soifon's inn world with a worried and slightly scared voice.
"Yes I am, there's nothing else for me here, sure I could spend my centuries waiting for Yoruichi to return but what good would that do and if I train in the Rukon soul reapers will notice, this is the best way and beside am curious there are no records about what is beyond the Rukon's and I must say am interested to see if there's anything out there" said Soi with an excited grin and hard, determined look in her eyes.
Over the few months Soi's found out she is a pretty stubborn person sometimes but an also slightly playful person if she meets the right person maybe she got this from being around Yoruichi too much. She noticed she has a strong love for cats maybe because of Yoruich's influence again with her feature pointing to a cat like spirit, and Soi also has a love for flowers because of her own spirit and she also come notice she has a slight scent of honey about her maybe it because of her spirit energy like the head captains give of heat when he releases his, she gives of a honey scent because of hers. But other than that she is still figuring herself out she like to joke and talk with people, she is no longer hostile to every person she meets. At one point she went out and had a drink some of the locals and got drunk and found herself under random tree and wearing someone elses clothes and wearing half a watermelon as a helmet and by some miracle she didn't have a hangover, Suzumebachi had a great time telling Soi all about her masters misadventure during that night, and man was Soi's face a shade of red that would make a tomato jealous after that story.
But while she was out here she wasn't just slacking off she was training but only to maining her strength not to surpass it, if she tried to do that she could attract to much attention. Along side her training sue spark an idea during one of her training sessions, she started forming and idea of a way to mix kido and hand to hand combat together better than ever, she knows kidos need a name so the soul can recognize it and kidos are spirit energy being constructed and given a task like binding or attacking , in Soifon's case it would be body enhancement so mixture of both defence and offence. That is also soifon has so far but Suzumebachi likes the idea and has told her to maybe come into her inner world to try it out, when Suzumebachi made that suggestion soifon almost face palmed herself for not thinking of that sue she may not get stronger but she can practice with her spirit energy in their and she could figure out the steps of this new kido technique. She can pretty much treat it like simulator to see how it would turn out but her body it self would still have to get use to using it, this new idea has been making Soifon regain a more healthy sleeping pattern.
"huh there's no talking you out this is their queen bee?" asked the nervous sword.
Soifon just grind and shouted "nope!" and ran off into the forest with such speed and broke the ground and created dust cloud where she stud just a seconded ago.
Little did she know that she would find something out there something that would change her forever.
chapter one end