Chapter 1: Scum of Karakura
A/N: This is definitely an AU based story, also I didn't really want to explain what Akainu looked like in story so her description is down yonder at the end. The apartment building is based off of the buildings in Hashima, overly populated and well just downright crowded.
Disclaimer: I don't own shit.
Sui-Feng woke up to the sound of a large truck outside the apartment room she shared with her best friend Akainu Rantan. "Ugh, wake up Akainu the watering hole is here!" She yelled getting out of her dingy futon and throwing on a pair of worn skinny jeans and faded red flannel long sleeve shirt.
Akainu's head shot up in response to her friend, "Fuck! We almost slept in!" The redhead shot up and put on a pair of shabby cutoff jeans that stopped under her knee, a faded black tank top and a jacket that seemed to be a little too small for the tall girl so to alleviate that problem she simply rolled the sleeves up.
"Those ass-holes of the Seireitei changing the watering hole times, I swear they live specifically to make us suffer." Sui-Feng growled as she put on a pair of all black high-top converse.
"I know right, 7 o' clock in the morning really?" Akainu agreed slipping on a pair of checkerboard slip-on vans. "Oh great, now where are my sunglasses?"
"I'm going to go down there to get us a spot in line, meet me down there when you find your glasses all right?" Sui-Feng instructed while she grabbed a katana in an orange sheath.
"You got it!" Akainu agreed searching the tiny apartment for her glasses. You see Akainu's eyes were strange they strongly resembled dog eyes, what should be the whites of her eyes were black instead and her corneas were hetero-chromatic. Her left eye was gold, while the other was sky blue. Because of the strangeness of her eyes she wore sunglasses to protect herself from being thrown into Hueco Mundo and becoming a hollow.
After searching a little bit harder she found a pair of sunglasses with dark red tinted lenses hanging off of her katana. "Oh for fuck's sake." Akainu sighed while putting on the glasses. She then grabbed her katana and ran out of the apartment slamming the door, running through the cramped halls of the prison like apartment building.
Sui-Feng stood silently tapping her foot in annoyance, the man driving the truck or as everyone in Karakura called it the watering hole was an absolute douche. Sui wanted nothing more than to crack his bald-head open with her blade he always pestered the residents and acted as if he was some kind of big deal.
"All right, all right, if you can beat me in a little duel I'll give you an extra drop of water!" The bald-headed man said to a timid orange-haired girl.
"Th-that's n-not necessary, I'll just take t-the n-normal a-amout th-thank you…" The girl whispered as she trembled in terror.
"Oh come on, it wouldn't kill ya to get your hands dirty would it you rat scum? I mean why do we even bother giving you these blades if you aren't even gonna use 'em?!" The man said in an angry tone.
"Hey just give her the fuckin' water, some of us have other things to do today y'know!" Sui-Feng yelled in an attempt to help her friend Orihime out.
"Sui-Feng?" The girl whimpered obviously on the verge of tears.
The bald-headed man scowled deeply, "What'd you say you runt?"
"I said give her the fuckin' water you prick." The Chinese woman repeated but with more malice present in her voice.
"You dare talk to someone of Society like that? You do know that I control who gets water and who doesn't right?" He threatened with a smirk on his face.
"I wouldn't give a damn if you were in control of my got damn heartbeat, just give the girl her water." Sui argued feeling her rage grow stronger.
The man growled inaudible profanities as he filled up a good sized jug with water and roughly threw it into the young woman's arms causing her to stumble and fall. "Stand up rat and get out of line." The man grunted in disgust.
Orihime struggled to stand up with the heavy jug and left the line to go back to her room in the giant apartment building. "Hey Hime, wait for me, Akainu and I will help you to your room all right?" Sui offered with a smile but her eyes still had anger in them.
"Thank you Sui ever since Tatsuki had been taken to confinement I've had to do all the heavy work, my body just isn't built for this." Orihime sighed with a somber smile.
"Hey Sui-Feng, Orihime!" Akainu yelled as she ran towards her two friends.
"Akai, we're helping Orihime take the water back to her room after we get ours." Sui-Feng informed her friend.
"No problem!" Akainu chirped her voice cracking a little because she had a scratchy voice.
"Oh, and also Ikkaku and I have already butted heads get ready to get a water reduction." Sui deadpanned.
"You say that so calmly, we have laundry to do, we need to wash ourselves, and let's not forget we need to drink too! How are we supposed to ration what we don't have?" Akainu explained her mood visibly dampening.
"Please don't be mad at her Akainu, it was my fault Ikkaku was being mean and Sui-Feng stood up for me. I'll share my water with you guys as thanks."
"Heads up it's our turn." Sui-Feng alerted Akainu as they made their way up to Ikkaku.
"Can I help you?" the bald-headed man asked scornfully.
"Yeah, you can give us our water baldie." Sui-Feng mocked with a smirk.
"I swear if kicking rat scum ass was a part of my job description you'd be on your knees, kissing my feet right now." Ikkaku said while filling the two's jug.
"You probably don't even know how to fight you Seireitei ass kisser." Sui-Feng said continuing to mock the man.
Ikkaku dropped the jug on the ground allowing water to burst from the open top, "Drink up you sewer rats," He began, putting his dirty bare foot on the jug's opening.
"Hey! Back off ass-hole!" Akainu yelled tensing herself so that she didn't harm the bald man and get put into confinement.
"Your kind is accustomed to dirt right? I'm just trying to make it taste better." He scoffed pushing the jug down allowing a good amount of water to pour from it.
"Shit!" Sui-Feng hissed picking the jug up as quickly as she could.
"That isn't fair Ikkaku!" Orihime yelled in defense of her two friends.
"Well when you are Karakura scum you are entitled to nothing more than unfair treatment."
Ikkaku laughed as he hopped into his truck and drove off.
"What a tittyfuck!" Akainu yelled as she stared sadly at the half full jug.
Sui-Feng felt bad that her friend had to suffer because of her attitude but for some reason the sleepy-eyed dog never blamed her for anything. "Well is your offer still open Orihime?"
"Of course it is Sui, come on lets go to my room I'll treat you guys to a glass of water." Orihime answered sweetly.
"Geez we owe you one Hime." Akainu said picking up Orihime's jug and slinging it over her shoulder.
"No, I owe you guys, you've been such a help since my fiancé has been in confinement I've missed her so much, I didn't truly understand how much Tatsuki did until now." Orihime sighed.
"I miss the girl too," Akainu began, "But at least she comes back in two days right?"
"True but do you really think 2 weeks in confinement was fair when all she did was ask if Orihime could be given authorization to go to a Society hospital. I mean honestly, the girl's had this strange cough for a month now and I think that giant corpse pit behind this fuckin' prison is to blame." Sui-Feng said with a tinge of annoyance in her voice.
"The smell has become stronger these past few days since it's been so hot, they really thought those body bags would fix that problem." Akainu scoffed in response.
"If I wasn't so weak, Tatsuki wouldn't have to constantly worry about my health and she wouldn't have felt like she needed to ask someone from Society for help." Orihime sniffled tears trickling down her cheeks.
"Don't you dare blame yourself, if Tatsuki didn't ask Akainu and myself would have taken this issue to Society. Us Karakura "scum" need to stick together no?" Sui-Feng reassured the orange-haired girl.
"Thank you guys so much, I'll do my best!" Orihime said with new life, wiping her ears away.
The three walked into the packed apartment building and proceeded to walk up the infinite amount of stairs. Finally reaching their floor they followed behind Orihime to room 1214 which she unlocked revealing a small apartment much like Sui's and Akai's but only it was decorated light-heartedly. Akainu entered the room after Orihime and placed the jug on the tiny counter inside the half-kitchen.
Sui-Feng placed their jug by the door and took a seat on a giant white and pink rug that was placed in the middle of the living room/bedroom/only room. "This is a comfy rug Hime, where'd you get it?"
"Oh that? I got it at one of the stalls they wanted my hairpins for it and as you can tell I went for it." Orihime answered without a hint of sadness.
"Your hairpins really? I would've said no deal." Akainu chimed in, walking over to Sui-Feng and taking a seat next to her.
"Well this rug doubles as our bed since a futon hasn't found its way to any of the stalls in such a long time. So in a way it was a necessary buy." Orihime explained as she walked over to the water jug and pulled out 3 small glass cups from a tiny cupboard. "Tatsuki yelled at me about trading my hairpins for it and she's been finding anything valuable trying to trade the man for them back ever since."
Sui-Feng thought about the rings she wore at the end of her braids, "I'd never get rid of these not even if Akainu and I had to sleep on that nasty molded wooden floor of ours."
"Geez that Tatsuki would go to the ends of the earth if it meant to see you smile, I just wish we lived in a world that rewarded that kind of behavior." Akainu mused.
"Exactly, I mean they force us to fight in Hueco Mundo to get rewards such as water, food, extra T.V time, a trip to the hospital even, I feel as if these are things we shouldn't have to work this hard for." Sui ranted.
"Word 'em up!" Akainu agreed thrusting her fist in the air.
"Well if anyone can change the way things are done around here, it's you two." Orihime confided as she brought the two their water. She then sat next to them and turned on an old 15 inch T.V, "Well since you guys are here how about we watch our T.V time together?"
"Sounds good." They answered in unison sipping at their water trying to savor it for as long as possible.
A catchy tune began to play on the T.V as a stuffed lion cartoon appeared with a police hat on his head, "Hey Karakura scum, it's me Kon your favorite lion!"
"I fucking hate that lion." Sui-Feng muttered under her breath.
"To start off today's one hour of programming, I'll show you a series of tournaments you can enter at Hueco Mundo cause remember that's the only place you have authorized entry into!" The lion chuckled. A series of tournaments appeared on the screen showing the viewer's when the tournaments would be held, the amount of hollows you will fight, and the reward you will be given if you win the tournament.
Sui-Feng paid extra careful attention looking for a tournament where the reward was a hospital visit because Akainu had an infection in her leg that bothered her the most when she moved too much. She had gotten a terrible wound on it while fighting in Hueco Mundo and because she isn't authorized to go to a hospital all they had to care for the wound was a simple at home med-kit.
"We should do the Blue Drop tournament." Akainu said pointing at the description at the far left. "Two whole barrels of Seireitei's water will be rewarded to the winner or in our case winners."
"Look, it's on the day Tatsuki comes back, if we win we'll definitely share our water with you guys." Sui-Feng pointed out realizing that the Blue Drop tournament was the only one with a worthy reward.
"Then it's settled in two days we'll fight in that tournament." Akainu said with a certain resolve in her voice.
"Oh you guys don't have to share a drop of your winnings with us." Orihime reassured.
"It'd be wrong if we didn't Orihime let us spoil you two all right, think of it as a welcome home gift."Akainu said with a big smile on her face.
Orihime looked at the two with a shocked face that slowly began to crumple into a tearful expression, "Thank you so much!" The young girl yelled with profound gratitude.
"Don't mention it, like I said us Karakura "scum" have to stick together." Sui said with determination shining through her cloudy gray eyes.
Okay, Akainu Rantan has spikey hair that straightens out in the back and falls a little past her shoulders. She has nose length spikey bangs that go out to the right covering all of her forehead except for a tiny sliver where her part is. She has one side lock that goes down to her breast which has a black ring tied at the bottom like Sui-fengs, her other side lock caresses her right cheek. Her hair color is a red orange that fades into yellow making her hair resemble fire. Under her right eye she has a tattoo that says dog in kanji. She has tan skin that compliments her hair making seem as if it were glowing. She is 5, 7", and has overgrown canines. Lastly she always wears a black helmet hat that has long Pikachu like ears but instead of rounded they're flat with red on the inside of the ear. They seemingly move at Akainu's command but no one knows for sure what's going on. Okay I lied one more thing she is sleepy eyed, her eyes contradict her personality.
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