Eyes Like Fire

Chapter 1: Kyohaku Tokoyonokuni

Theme Song: Ichirin no Hana - HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR

A young shinigami girl starred at the roster and grinned. Then she turned about to look at her friend as he stood behind him.

"Renji, I got into Eleventh!" The red-haired man smiled down at the younger shinigami.

"Good job, Kyo-chan. Just make sure that you listen to what the Captain, Leutenant, and other seated members tell you. Especially Nokana-okaa-san." Firey colored eyes glanced up at him from under dark golden hair.

"Renji-kun, why do you call Nokana-sempai okaa-san? She's not your mother."

"No, but Nokana, Rukia, and I all lived together in the Rukongai before we came to the Seireitei. We sort of made up a little family of our own and Nokana was the one who acted as the mother-figure to us, keeping us out of trouble and that sort of thing." They turned as a bald shinigami aproached and glanced up at the roster. "Hey, Ikkaku, looking at the new recruits for something good?"

"Yeah." The man answered stoicly until he saw a peculiar name on the list. "Who's this? It's not another girl, I hope."

"What's the name?"

"Kyohaku Tokoyonokuni." Renji smiled at the name.

"Yeah, Kyo-chan is a girl, and, just like Nokana-okaa-san, she's very strong." Kyohaku blushed as she stood beside him. "But she sucks at Kidou."

"Renji! How mean! You're worse than even me!" She glared up at him. "The only thing that you do better than me is hand-to-hand! And that's only becau-"

"Because you're a girl who has no place fighting." Ikkaku glared down at her. "Nokana was a special case, she excells at everything. You are of no use to Eleventh company." Kyohaku did not miss a beat as she drew her sword to block Ikkaku's attack.

"Get over yourself you bald ass-hole." She glared at him as her eyes blazed with angry light. "You just don't want a girl to upstage you. Well I'll get you off of your high horse. Glimmer, Kaenkyohaku!" Her zanpaku-to grew in lenght and became an obsidian pole with a diamond axe and spear-point on one end and a ruby scythe with ruby spikes on the other. Ikkaku was momentarily shoked as she proseeded to use it to shred his face and arms. Her reiatsu blazed like fire around her and actually burned his skin.

"Extend, Hozukimaru!" Ikkaku called upon his own zanpakuto and began to fight Kyohaku with everything he had. Finally he had her where he needed her. "Break, Hozukimaru!"

"Not so fast. Incinerate, Kaenkyohaku!" Fire shot out of her zanpakuto and burned everything within three feet except for her. But Ikkaku would not give up so easily. He stood and began to charge her... but Kenpachi stopped him. And he was grinning at Kyohaku.

"Well... Mind telling me why you're on the verge of killing my 3rd seat? You have some sort of grudge against him?" He waited for her response as she quickly processed the fact that the Captain of Eleventh was indeed standing there asking her such questions.

"Captain Zaraki, sir, I do believe that every and any female shinigami has a grudge against him. He's a sexist bastard." Kenpachi laughed at her response.

"Hassle you about being a shinigami? Don't sound like something that Ikkaku would do."

"No sir, that's not the case. He was demeaning me because he felt that I was too weak to have been placed in your company, sir." Kenpachi's eyes widened as did his grin.

"A girl like you? In my division?" He turned to Ikkaku. "Madarame, didn't you and Nokana have a run in similar to this one? And yet it ends up the same. You should know by now that women only get placed in our division if they're really something. And believe me... Both Kyo-chan here and Nokana-koi are DEFINITELY something." Kenpachi began to walk away and laughed.

"C-Captain! Why did you interfere?"

"Well, I wanted to know why the hell you were having fun without me. But now that I see that you're just making an ass out of yourself, I see no reason to stop you from getting yourself killed at the hands of this girl. That is... if you really want to." With that, Kenpachi shun-po'ed away to find his beloved Nokana.

"Well, Madarame-san... Do you wish to continue to fight or shall we agree to disagree?" He glared at her. "What? I believe that as members of the same squad we should at least try to get along, so I'm willing to drop it. But if you want to continue then I won't hold back."

"Che. I don't care, girl. You can't kill me." Renji spoke up quietly to Ikkaku.

"Ikkaku... be very careful with Kyohaku's anger level." Ikkaku's eyebrow shot up. "When she's pushed past a certain limit, she get's... way out of control. Just becareful and don't say I didn't warn you." Just then, Yumichika appeared and saw Kyohaku, Ikkaku, Renji, and the roster. Instantly in his mind he figured out what was going on.

"Excuse me, miss, but to what do we owe the pleasure of you in our company? I must say... You and Nokana-san are very similar in beauty. What might your name be?" Kyohaku blushed and bowed respectully.

"My name is Kyohaku Tokoyonokuni." The narcissistic man smiled brightly.

"My my... Heaven Star... Your name is as lovely as your face. I am Yumichika Asegawa, pleased to meet you." Yet again, Yumichika's words caused Kyohaku to blush and squirm uncomfortably.

"Ahem... Asegawa-san... uh, thank you for the... compliments... But I'm not really a... oh what is it...?" Renji quickly finished for her, sensing her distress.

"What she means, Yumi, is that she's not a girly-girl and isn't used to guys saying things like that to her... so just go easy on her with the whole beauty thing." Ikkaku tried to rise, but his burns caused him to fall back down in pain. "Ahh... Sorry, Yumi, but it looks like one of us will have to take Ikkaku to fourth division."

"I'll do it. Kyo-chan seems more comfortable with you showing her about anyway. Good bye, miss Tokoyonokuni, I look forward to seeing you again!" With that Yumichika helped his friend to the fouth division hospital.

"Come on, Kyo-chan. I'll show you to the division and all."

"Kay, Renji-kun!"

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Ikkaku snarled in pain as yet again doctors rushed him after he'd been whipped by a girl. Unohana was there and questioned him.

"Who was it this time? Nokana again?"

"Nah, she and I are done with that. This time it was some bitch named Kyohaku Tokoyonokuni." Everyone began to panick. "What? What the hells wrong?"

"Did she attack you with her sword released?"

"Yeah, why?" More panick. "WHAT THE HELLS WRONG WITH YOU ALL!" Unohana looked him dead in the eye.

"She used fire, right? What color was it?"

"What the hell sort of..."

"WHAT COLOR." Her face was enough to make any man piss his pants.

"It looked like fire. Regular fire. Why?" Everyone relaxed.

"If her fire ever turns black... I recomend that you turn the other way and run immediately."

"Why?"

"Because... Kyohaku Tokoyonokuni is a demon."

A/N: Dun dun dun! Cliffy! Okay, so here's the scoop in Eyes Like Fire. This is the story of Kyohaku Tokoyonokuni and how much she hates Ikkaku. Or does she love him? She don't know, so she'll find out. Oh, and this is set during the same time as rainbow eyes, but no pre bleach shit. Sorry. I've decided to have Ikkaku like both Kyohaku and Nokana to strain the love in both stories but in the end everything will work out... I think... So please review and no flames. I purposefully made Kyohaku very powerful and Nokana too because I don't see either Kenpachi or Ikkaku getting with a weak little priss. Nokana was only weak in the beginning, so deal, I made her tough. Flame grilled shrimp anyone? (Yes, my reviewers treats are all themed to the story their in, sorry if you no likey shrimp, I'll grill something else then...)