I'm sad because the first copy I had of this chapter WOULDN'T FREAKIN' OPEN UP ON MY COMPUTER FROM MY FLASHDRIVE!!!
Oh well…it sucked anyway so I have to rewrite it.
Please review and give compliment/critic but no flames because I have low enough self-esteem concerning my writing. Flames will not help me at all.
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This was just ridiculous. How hard can it be to find a single squad's barracks? Well turns out very hard. The whole Seireitei was like a giant maze! Even worse, whenever she asked someone for directions they were glad enough to help, slightly uncomfortable when she told them which squad she was joining, and then totally ran off like cowards when she explained she had to tell the captain she was joining. Worse was that h[the sun was going to be setting…yup, it's taken her all day to NOT find the barracks.
She stomped through the streets, believing that all the looks she got were because of how she wore her kimono. She had her black haori wrapped around going over the hakama so it wasn't tucked it, cause she hated it like that, with the white sash around her hips showing some of the thin, white kimono underneath. Her few friends back in the Academy had been against it saying it, 'It hid her awesome hips and slender waist.' She didn't have much in the breast department, although clearly noticeable under her kimono. Her zanpakto sheath was behind her through the sash and nobody understood how she drew it without cutting herself.
After a few moments she started running again. She was going to find this god damn squad if it killed her. She rounded a corner and ended up slamming into someone causing her to fall back on her butt. With a small groan she looked up at the man with a skin head and red marks on the sides of his eyes. Looking as adorable as she could, she started to get up when he offered her a hand up. Smiling softly she took it along with a murmured thanks.
"Need to watch where you're going," he stated once she was standing.
"Um, right," she said sheepishly. "Oh, do you think you could help me out?" She gazed at him with her large, gray-blue eyes and put on the most pitiful look. She noticed his face turning red.
"Well, uh, sure…what do you need?"
"I'm trying to find the barracks of my new squad but I'm totally and completely lost," she whined, pouting.
"Which squad?" he asked. She sniffled a bit and put a curled finger to her lips.
"Well…I'll tell you as long as you don't run away." At his curious look she continued, "Every person I've asked so far ran away once I told them what squad."
"Alright alright I won't run," he stated, feeling slightly annoyed since it felt like he was talking with his lieutenant.
"Um, I need to find the barracks of Squad 11." His face was blank before he started laughing.
"Whoever you are, you must be mistaking. There's no way you could be in my squad. Captain would never allow it." Geez, insult or what?
"My name is Migoto Mayakashi and I assure you that I am to speak with the captain of Squad 11 on the basis of my joining on the instructions sent by Head Captain Yamamoto," she said, her irritation barely hidden.
"Yeah well I'm Ikkaku Madarame, Third Seat of Squad 11 and I assure you that Captain will never allow it," he said but at her look of pure distress continued on. "But I'll take you to him…if not just to see his reaction." That was how it started. Migoto and Ikkaku started running…in the opposite direction she had been walking. Realizing that seriously pissed her off, but then her thoughts were taken over by other thoughts like about her new squad. Was Squad 11 really so scary that nobody wanted to walk her there. No wait, it wasn't the squad that made them run off, it was the captain! Damn, what kind of guy was he to instill such fear in people? Well she was about to find out.
No matter what, surely he'd letter her join his squad. He had no reason to say no…right?
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"No." Well that was certainly blunt.
Well Ikkaku had taken her to see the captain like he had said…and the captain had rejected her like he had also said. Was she even sure she wanted to be part of this squad? Practically every guy stared at her and when one came up asking if she wanted to visit his room later on Ikkaku grabbed her arm and pulled her along. Although the guy followed and after a moment Migoto looked over her shoulder and sent him a cold glare, freezing him in his tracks. Anyway back to the current situation. She has met Captain Kenpachi Zaraki and he was clearly unimpressed with her.
The captain himself certainly impressed her though. He was a whole foot taller (it's true. Kenpachi Zaraki is actually 6' 6" and just under 200 lbs. Seriously) but was a hell of a lot more toned. Not to mention kind of creepy with an eye patch and his hair in large spikes with, what looked like, tiny bells on the tips.
"Well, um, Captain Zaraki, I would, uh, at least like a chance–" She stood with a fist in front of her mouth (Hinata style from Naruto) and gave off a complete look of sweetness and innocence that nobody could resist.
"Cut that out. That cutesy girl shit won't work on me," Captain Zaraki growled, cutting her off. Well what do you know? He resisted. The corner of Migoto's lip twitched before her shy smile turned into a full blown smirk. Pulling her fist away from her mouth she stood on a cocked hip, hands on her hips, looking up at the captain with a fascinated, and slightly cocky, smirk. Everyone was suddenly caught off guard. Everyone included the captain, Ikkaku, and a guy with weird feather things on his eyebrow….Yumi-something. Yumi-kun was weird because he kept muttering about beauty and how pretty he was. Strange.
"Well well well. Isn't this a first? I must say you are the first person to not fall for it," she said before noticing the confused looks surrounding her. Understandable. She walked in looking like a purely shy girl…and now she's not. She especially loved Ikkaku's face so she couldn't help but say, "Oh come now, Ikka-kun~, you seemed smarter than this. I was acting. It's a trick I pull all the time that always works…well almost always," she added sparing a look at the captain, "It's a manipulation tactic that only girls can pull off. I mean, you don't really think Head Captain Yamamoto would actually place an innocent girl who can't fight or defend herself–er, I mean an innocent girl in Squad 11…right?" She had finished quickly and laughing nervously. That was one road Migoto didn't really want to go down right now.
And of course what else would the captain asked EXCEPT, "What do you mean who can't fight?" Shit.
Laughing nervously, Migoto knew she couldn't not tell the truth so sucking it up she replied, "Well I'm not much of a fighter…I enjoy fighting but hate hurting others." Blank looks. "I'm just full of contradictions like that."
"So you're weak," Ikkaku stated.
"SHUT UP! I'm not weak, dammit!" Migoto punched him in the arm.
"Definitely not. There is no way some woman who can't fight is joining my squad, girl" he said in a finality tone.
"My name is Migoto Mayakashi and why the fuck not?" Oh crap. Her patience was straining and she just cussed at the freaky pirate captain and they'll probably never fall for her shy girl act ever again!!! Yeah they will.
"Don't you understand? Squad 11 is known for being the best fighting force in the Seireitei. No woman is joining." God! Sexist much?! Migoto would have retorted, yelling of course, when something rammed into her back. The bad part was that it didn't knock her down but instead into the person right in front of her: Captain Zaraki. After pushing herself away from the slightly angry looking captain, Migoto spun around glaring at whoever ran into her until she actually saw the person. A little girl with short, bubblegum pink hair. Literally surprising everyone, her smirk turned to a kind smile and there was something in her eyes that showed she wasn't just acting.
Migoto, unable to stop herself, hugged the adorable girl. "So cute!" She couldn't help it as she picked up the child. "Hi there, my name's Migoto Mayakashi, what's yours?" she asked, earning a small giggle from the little girl.
"Hee hee, I'm Yachiru Kusajishi, also known as the Lieutenant of the 11th Squad." Well who could have seen that coming?
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Kenpachi watched, not showing his surprise as the girl suddenly changed character.
"Hey! What's with this? You say you won't let a woman in your squad and yet your lieutenant is a little girl? What the fuck!" Migoto reprimanded, ignoring Kenpachi's growl. Yachiru grabbed the girl's hair, pulling herself up so that she was sitting on her shoulders with her chin leaning on her head. The girl, whatever the hell her name was, winced a bit but kept smiling. Well she certainly seemed to be able to stand Yachiru, which is a miracle within itself; of course the point is that apparently she can't fight so she was not getting in his squad. There wasn't a power in this force that could change his mind.
"Is Mama-chan joining our squad, Ken-chan?" Oh no. The newer girl's face was turning red.
"Eh…Mama-chan?" she said hesitantly. Yachiru only giggled.
"Yup yup! Mimi-chan sounds like Mama-chan so you're Mama-chan!" Only Yachiru. Kenpachi barely kept himself from shaking his head with a sigh as Yachiru jumped off her shoulders and grabbed the girl's hand and started pulling her off. "Let's go eat some candy, Mama-chan!"
"She's not joining, Yachiru," Kenpachi said bluntly only for said pink haired girl to gaze up at him with large teary eyes. Damn she was good at the puppy dog face, so good that even 'Mama-chan' watched Yachiru, clearly impressed.
"Sh-sh-she's n-not?" she asked sniffling.
"Listen Yachiru, the girl can't fight, can't defend herself and I am not going to waste my time having to protect her."
"Alright listen, dammit! For the last time my name is Migoto Mayakashi and I am not asking anyone to 'protect' me! I can defend myself!" she yelled. At their indignant looks, and Yachiru's curious one, she growled in an amazingly Kenpachi-like style and stomped outside.
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Migoto glanced around, looking for a strong enough shinigami while Captain Zaraki, Lieutenant Kusajishi, Ikka-kun, and Yumi-kun walked after her. Her eyes raked over the few shingami around before running up to one, grabbing the front of his haori, and pulling him back towards them.
"I'll show you what my zanpakto does and then we'll see if I can't protect myself!" There was nothing she hated more than people thinking she was weak…wait isn't it against some rule to release a zanpakto? Oh well, too late now. She faced the strange shinigami, who called himself Aramaki, and unsheathed her sword. Holding it high above her head, eyes closed, she said, "Mesmerize, Mizukaru." Migoto made a large circle in the air, it moving slowly with a faded trail behind it (basically like Tousen when he uses his shikai, not sure how else to describe it) and the guy's eyes went blank as he simply stared ahead.
Now she saw what he saw, only she was still aware of how their surroundings truly were. Now Aramaki only saw himself, alone, in the streets of the Seireitei. She was like a spirit in his world now, able to fade through solid objects, but was invisible to him. This was a world she controlled. Circling behind him she wrapped her arms around his neck, which he'd feel only as coldness, and whispered in his ear, "What is your fear?" He said nothing, but he also he didn't need to. The moment he thought of it, it appeared. Honestly it made her almost laugh. Well he was through, depressingly.
As Aramaki stayed frozen Migoto felt herself leave and enter back into her own body.
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Migoto picked herself up from the ground, rubbing her sore shoulder, and saw everyone's unimpressed looks. They clearly had no idea what had just happened. Well as nobody helped her up she noticed that Aramaki was actually still frozen in fear. Seriously? It wasn't that scary.
"What just happened? You released your zanpakto and then collapsed to the ground," Ikkaku said.
"If you're trying to impress me it isn't working," Kenpachi said afterward. She stretched her arms a bit, getting used to not being a spirit, and rolled her eyes.
"Fine. Since you people are too stupid to understand I'll explain it. My sword is Mizukaru. When I release it I basically become a spirit inside of my enemies mind. When inside I manipulated them to imagine the world as it isn't. Take them down from the inside." It was like talking to a bunch of little kids! Since she still felt weak, an unfortunate side effect of using her shikai, Yumi-chan was at least kind enough to allow her to lean on him as they walked back inside.
"So it's like an illusion?" Ikkaku asked.
"No," she said, annoyingly. "Illusions can only trick the eyes and are seen by everyone. Mizukaru allows me to create a mass hypnosis that will only affect my chosen subject. My hypnosis actually works through their mind to confuse their sense of sight, sense of hearing, and even their sense of touch. My 'illusions' are, more-or-less, real to them."
Kenpachi snorted. "What's the use of that? Taking down your enemy with a sword is much faster and a lot more fun." Migoto rolled her eyes and managed to stand up on her own after she got her strength back. Why is this guy so stupid?
"Firstly: it depends on your definition of fun. Secondly: true enemies should be punished, not killed, so physical pain means nothing," she stated, ignoring the shocked looks she got…possibly from talking back to the captain.
"Pain is everything."
"Wrong! Physical pain will fade with time while with mental pain, no matter what you do or who decides to help you, will always be with you no matter. A small part in your mind that will subconsciously hold you back for all eternity," she said, her tone and grin completely evil.
The stares she got almost made her laugh. These guys just didn't know how expect the unexpected. So what exactly was supposed to happen now? Captain Zaraki had a thoughtful look on his face.
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Interesting idea. Sure it wasn't his style but maybe there'd be a spot for her in Squad 11, although he'd definitely have to make sure someone trained her in true combat. Besides Yachiru seemed to like her well enough.
"Alright." She stared up at him with wide eyes that held a glimmer of hope in them. "You can join."
"You really mean it?" she asked, smiling. Kenpachi grinned.
"Yeah, but you'd better be training your ass off every day and if you don't show any promise as a real fighter than you're out," he said, then added, "Also you have to hang out with Yachiru whenever she decides." The girl's eyes literally shined as she hastily nodded her head in agreement. Good for her, because Kenpachi wasn't going to go easy on her.
"Yay! Mama-chan gets to stay!" Yachiru cheered, hopping up and down. "Let's go play now, Mama-chan!" She grabbed Migoto's hand and started dragging her off when Yumichika stopped them.
"I'm wonder something, though. Why exactly do you enjoy tricking people? What does it get you?" he asked thoughtfully, although no one else seemed to think it really mattered. Migoto, though, only grinned at him. Picking Yachiru up she stated, "So you didn't understand just from my name? Migoto Mayakashi: Beautiful Deception. It's what I do, Yumi-chan." She emphasized her statement with a peace sign before running out the door with Yachiru now on her shoulders.
After they had left, leaving Kenpachi, Ikkaku, and Yumichika alone, Ikkaku commented, "That is one strange girl." Kenpachi shook his head but was grinning.
"Indeed she is."
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Sorry. I ran out of ideas about halfway through this chapter so I pretty much bullshitted most of it.
I've had a lot on my mind since I just took a big test, during my Fall Break I might add, so I hope this was still okay anyway.
Anyway, please review and tell me what I can do to make it a bit more fun to read but NO FLAMES!
My fragile self-esteem can't handle that.