Death isn't all it's cracked up to be, first let me tell you. It hurts like a bitch in heat, and it's cold. Terribly cold. I never expected I'd be the first of the rookie nine to die, but I guess I should've known. I didn't die cause I was weak, far from it. I can destroy a mountain with the flick of a finger; I'm the best damn ninja in the village. No I didn't die because I was weak, I'm dead because of my emotions, Naruto and I were going after sasuke for the last time. We had soared through the ranks, leaped passed chunnin and into jonnin then skipping through anbu until we were both sannin. Naruto took after jiraya becoming a toad sage, I on the other hand was approached by the guardians of the feline's scroll, and ended up becoming the saber tooth kunoichi.
Naruto wanted to fight sasuke alone, so I let him while I fought Madara, from the corner of my vision I saw sasuke about to kill Naruto so I did what I had to do, I leaped into the line of fire and sacrificed myself for my brother. I don't regret it, and I never will.
I saw myself fall and my eyes drained of life, I saw my beloved brother lose control of the kyuubi and killed them both, I watched as my brother broke down and clutched my dead body. And then I saw with horror as Madara rose shakily and with the last of his life kill my baby brother, a fury like no other enveloped me and I saw this odd chain contraption disappear within my chest and an odd liquid form into a mask over my face. I ignored this though and sliced Madara from his soul, then I destroyed his soul. After I just broke down beside my brother as I watched his spirit leave his body, when his eyes met mine I saw horror and pity.
"Sakura, what did you do to yourself?" he asked, I cried and clutched him to myself, "your dead, I'm so sorry, I wasn't thinking, Naruto I think lost my soul" I cried horribly, he held me tight and smiled
"Don't worry then, you can have mine so we'll always be together" he said kissing the mask where my forehead would've been, then he glowed a bright blue and my mask cracked and fell apart. I felt whole again, Death hurts, it's lonely and cold. But with Naruto within me, I feel better. I let the light take me and I smiled.
I woke with a headache in the middle of a forest, I remembered what happened and looked down to see myself dressed in only bandages that only covered the major areas, leaving my stomach, arms, and legs bare of anything. Rising shakily to my feet I looked down surprised to see two katanas, not one to look a gifted horse in the mouth I slipped them through a piece of the bandages on both hips. The katana's were normal except for a charm on the hilt of each, the one on my right hip had the charm of a tiger's claw, the one on my left hip had a orange fox charm which reminded me of Naruto. I smiled and left the clearing deciding to find out where the hell am I.
I was beyond pissed, I had been traveling through that damned forest for three days and have been attacked by these black shadows with masks ten times! Then out of nowhere these guys with weird black and white robe thingies knock me out and I end up waking in a freaking cell.
'Nobody locks Sakura Uzamaki Haruno up!' I growled in my head,
'You got that right! Let's bust out of here, saki-chan!' cheered on my right katana (the one with the tiger claw charm) which ended up being named Tora
'Seriously Sakura-chan, it's creepy here!'cried my left katana (the one with the fox claw) which is named Kaze. Sakura smiled at the voice of her katanas, in a span of three days her katana's became her closest companions and most deadly weapons.
"Oi! Teme's let me out of here before I decide to break out!" I threatened adding an animalistic growl to my not so subtle threat. I waited about ten seconds before I got fed up, hey I've never been the patient type, closing my eyes I concentrated on the feeling of my katanas,
"Shake the Earth, Tora! Shatter the Sky, Kaze!" I roared, the air around me started to swirl and the stone beneath my feet cracked, then my katanas were in their rightful place. In my hands, twirling them a bit I sliced the air with Kaze and Tora in an 'X' formation successfully destroying the wall. I looked out to see I was about a hundred feet in the air,
"Eh, here goes nothing" I said as the alarms blared to life, I leapt from my confinement soaring through the air I flipped a couple times before pointing Kaze towards the ground
"WIND TUNNEL!" I commanded to soften my fall, as soon as I landed I was immediately surrounded, I grinned cheekily
"Alright, let's get this party started baby!" I cheered eager to shed some blood, over the years I kind of grew a bit of a bloodlust. The weird robed spirits all charged at me at once, tch talk about anxious
'Let's tear these suckers a new one!' cheered Tora, I agreed and began slicing my way out of these weird place, I was really getting into it too until they all stopped.
"Aww c'mon I was just warming up!" I complained whilst searching for an exit, looking out into the distance I saw a wall, 'perfect!' I thought, twirling Tora I stabbed the earth
"bye bye" I said cheerily enough before doing some hand signs and slamming my palm beside Tora, the earth beneath me rumbled and rose above everthing, I looked around to determine the fastest way, east. Grabbing Tora I crouched low concentrating chakra into my legs, then I whispered "shatter" just as I leapt, the earth wall crumbled as I soar into the air, pointing Kaze towards the west I yelled "WIND TUNNEL" creating a vast whirl wind that propelled me over the eastern wall, landing confidently on my feet I cockily walked my way into the forest.
-back at seiriti—
"So-Taicho! The prisoner has escaped" called out an unseated officer of the sixth division, Yamamoto glanced up at the out of breath child and nodded,
"Get me the captains of the sixth, tenth, and eleventh division." He ordered, the shinigami nodded and shunpoed out of there, minutes later arrived the asked captains, "sit" ordered Yamamoto, "It seems our prisoner has managed to escape out of seiriti, she is extremely dangerous. I wish for you to capture her and return her here, for as dangerous as she is, she'll make and excellent addition to the gotai 13" finished the old man,
"Oi c'mon how dangerous can a puny brat be?" chuckled a big man with hair spiked up everywhere with tiny bells attached, on his robes was a circle with the number 11 on it.
"Aa but you mustn't underestimate her, she wields two zanpaktos. Which she was able to call from within her cell" informed Yamamoto, the white haired captain of the tenth division nodded, as did the sixth division captain, the eleventh captain just crossed his arms
"Can I bring Yachiru?" he asked
"ie, Zaraki-Taicho, Kichiki-Taicho, Hitsuguya-Taicho, do you accept this mission?" he asked, the captains nodded, "very well, you leave now" and leave they did.
-back with Sakura—
'Oh yea we showed them whose boss!' cheered Tora, I chuckled at her enthusiasm
'For real Sakura-chan, we were awesome! Dattebayo!' agreed Kaze,
"Of course, I mean seriously even when were dead we can still kick some major ass!" I said aloud not at all concerned if anybody heard me, I heard a horrid screech and then I groaned I just can't get any rest! I swiftly followed the noise and saw it was another of those masked creatures, and that it was attacking villagers. I growled low in my throat, my protective instincts taking over; I sprinted over and knocked the kid out of the way just as the beast was going to devour its soul, taking out Kaze I sliced downward
"WIND SCAR" the wind created sliced the beast in half its mask shattering as it disintegrated, I looked at the kid who looked at me with awe, and I grinned and gave him a two fingered wave
"Yo" I said, the boy ran up to me and hugged me around the waist
"Arigatho shinigami-sama!" he cheered, I patted his head
"No problem kiddo, demo, what's a shingami?" I asked, his eyes changed unto disbelief
"Shinigami's are what usually purify the hollows and protect us, they wear black and white robes" informed the boy smartly, I grimaced
"Eh? So they're the good guys?" I asked warily, 'so it seems were outlaws now, wonderful' I though as the boy nodded,
"Cool, so um you wouldn't happen to know where I can get food do you?" I asked the boy, he nodded happily and dragged me through town; whilst I glared at the men who leered at me. Feeling him stop I looked up and sweat dropped,
'AHAHA, the freaking kid took you to a candy shop!' laughed Tora; I inwardly glared at her while Kaze was snickering in the background.
I followed him into the store and smiled when I spotted some pocky, I dashed towards it and grabbed a handful dumping it onto the counter, but then I remembered I didn't have any money. I glared at the salesman about to yell when a hand plopped down with a couple of coins, I looked up to see a very big person behind me I saw his uniform and inwardly cursed though keeping an ear splitting smile on my face
"Arigatho! I'm not sure what I would've down without my pocky" I thanked; he gave me an intimidating smile which I grinned to. This man had his hair spiked in different directions and had small bells attached to the ends
"It's no problem, you remind me of a friend, and funnily enough she also has pink hair" he said holding a lock of my hair, I chuckled
"Interesting, well I'm sure you're awfully busy, arigatho for the pocky shinigami-san" I said bowing sweetly, he ruffled my hair and grunted as I collected my pocky sticking a couple in my mouth before leaving the store and heading back to the forest. I stopped at the edge of town feeling as if I was being followed; I read their energy and determined that they didn't want to be friendly.
I sighed and stuck another pocky in my mouth discarding the finished ones, before I teleported to my camp site, scattering the ashes of the fire I had going I discarded a couple more pocky and sticking a couple more in my mouth, I looked disappointed that I only had three left. I sighed once again, man today just wasn't my day, and stuck the last three in my mouth along with the other two; I tied my waist length pink hair up in a high ponytail and walked slowly to a clearing more suitable for a fight. Then I sat in the middle and waited for the energy's to come closer, I sensed three high energy signals, two were very controlled while one was quivering with excitement I felt my own energy shudder in anticipation.
I stay seated even when they burst through the clearing, I didn't even flinch and the largest one yelled
"Hey, you're the pocky girl!" I grinned at the burly man, and discarded the finished pocky sticks leaving me with only two left, I gave him a two fingered wave and gave a simple
"Yo" I sensed the other two's confusion and took the time to analyze them, one was calm while the other was just plain icy, he seemed content to glare at me so I just raised an eyebrow at him
"What you glaring at shrimp?" I asked, I noticed his energy level slightly rise at the childish insult, I grinned. This'll be fun, I turned my gaze back to the more placid one, his hair was a deep black and he seemed to have these odd things in his hair. He was truly handsome, very proud, leaves little to none mistakes.
The shortest one had snow white hair and icy green eyes, he too was proud as well as a bit brash. The largest one just seemed to like to fight. Slowly I stood and locked eyes with each of them,
"Well before I kick your asses, I'd like to first thank bell boy for the pocky, then I'd like to at least know the names of whom I'm dueling with, and if it's not too much trouble I'd like to ask why the hell I was captured anyways! And! What the hell do you want!" I yelled the last part, the large man snorted
"Damn, the pixie has some set of lungs there, well then, first I'll say you're welcome. Next my name is Zaraki Kenshi." He finished I nodded to him and looked to snow boy, he just glared
"Well shrimp?" I asked getting irritated, he bristled at my comment
"Hitsuguya Toushiro" he ground out, I nodded and looked to the last
"Kuchiki Byakuya, and we're here to bring you back to seiriti so you may become a shinigami." He informed I raised a delicate pink eyebrow at this
"Seriously? Then why was I locked up?" I asked angrily, Byakuya sighed silently
"Percaution" I thought on this and nodded, it made sense I suppose,
"Well guess we won't be fighting then boys, pity." I said, placing my hands on the hilt of my katanas, then I swiveled around and walked back to where I was imprisoned, I know it's probably not one of my best moves but I just have this gut feeling that this place needs me.
"What! C'mon I want a fight" complained Zaraki, I laughed and turned around my eyes bright with amusement
"I'd love to kick your ass but three against one just aint fair bell boy" was all I said before chakra running my way back leaping threw trees. I felt them run after me and slowed down for their sakes, I ended up running beside Byakuya
"So why do they want me to be a shinigami?" I asked curious as to why, Byakuya seemed determined to not respond which pissed me off
"Oi Teme, I was asking you a question" I growled he rose an eyebrow and pointedly ignored me,
'what a dick' growled Tora