Seiretei, 60 years after the Phantom revolution

I´m Ririko Shariiya, the sixth division Captian. I became a captain long before the Phantom revolution. But I was an active part of it, since I was one of the main organizers. We revoluted against the former Captain Commander. Nowadays nobody speaks about him and the problems he made in the years of his despotic domination, although he had made terrible things, that we should try to solve. But the other Captains rather buried under some minor issue, because their afraid what dirt it could bring up. I am not and thanks to that ten Captains hate me, but I don´t really care...

„Captain! Captain, hurry up! You don´t want to be late again!" I heard a scream.

„I don´t want to be late where exactly?" I asked sleepily. The doors into my bedroom burst open. The Vice-captain Daisuke Arami is standing in the doorway and is breathing heavily like he was running a long distance run.

„The Thirteen Divisions Council of course. Come on, Captain. Wake up! Stand up! Go!" he talked too fast. It´s morning for God´s sake.

„So what? They would be delighted if I don´t go there. There wolud be no one to interfere their shallow talk. Shin maybe, but that´s it."

Shin Touma is the eleventh division Captain and the best strategist I´ve ever met. We are kind of friends, I´d say. He is truly the only one, who holds some wisdom in the Thirteen Divisions. Other Captains are ignorants and/or idiots.

„As I said, I´m not going anywhere. I´m just too lazy to get up today," I sighed.

„Come on, Captain. It will be worse if you don´t get up. They will cast all that old and new dirt on you again," he reminded me.

I knew the old dirt...

The blood was dripping from my forehead and I was hardly breathing. I was already dead, I knew that. But I managed to get on my feet and gathered last drops of my reiatsu.

„Why did you stand up again, you little piece of nothing?" he asked me. The Captain of the tenth division was pretty tough but I had to win no matter what. „So why did you get up?" He came closer again. I stepped back, I wasn´t even able to to rise my Zanpakutou. Suddenly I felt a big wave of strenght in my body. My reiatsu was at it´s highest peak, though I wasn´t using Bankai. And I stood up properly and looked up into his eyes.

„Don´t worry, you´re already dead," my mouth said with a different voice. Karasu, she´s taken my body again, I realised. She had done that just once before, when she had seen I had been about to die. Just like then.

„What?" he laughed. He laughed so hard that his voiced echoed around with a menacing tone.

Karasu unexpectedly appeared in front of the tenth division Captain. In one armswing she cut his head off and grabbed it by the hair. His laughter was still echoing around and the blood of Captain´s body was pouring like a ten-years body fell to the ground and I was still holding his head. Karasu left and all the other Captains were looking at me. At a girl that has practically risen from the dead and killed ´The Beast´. That´s how they called him.

He got this name after a war in which he had killed all his enemies mercilessly, no mather if they had been kids or women. Every single one died a horrible death.

I wasn´t even a Captain in that time but he dared to try to rape me. I was just a little girl back then. But I was strong enough kill him and it wasn´t just me. Karasu did a lot of work.

I looked at the Captains and streched my arm with the head in their direction. I always thought that in this very moment I had grown up and matured. I wasn´t the little girl anymore.

„´The Beast´ is dead. All of you, who want to try their luck and get killed step forward," I said with a strong voice. No mercy in it.

Everyone stepped back. Cowards.

„Do you, girl, realise what you´ve just done?" one Captain asked me.

„I killed ´The Beast´."

„You killed a Thirteen Divisions Captian. You should be beheaded."

„Then behead me," I told with no fear of death. „If that´s what you really want."

„We need a new Captain now. You are the new sixth division Captain," proclaimed another one.

„Sixth? This was the tenth division Captain."

„Sixth division asked for change and you are going to be the change."

„Yeah, whatever."

I somehow knew this wasn´t the end of this incident. And that the consequences would go along with forever.

And I was right. They still remind me that I killed ´The Beast´. They judge me because of it. If they could, they would kill me and bring him back from the dead. It is one of the things they hate me for.

„Captain, speed up, please," he begged me as we were walking towards the centre of Seiretei, where the first division headquarters and barracks are.

„Naah, I don´t want to. They´ll wait."

„Captain, please don´t be childish."

„I´m not childish, I´m lazy. There´s a difference," I pouted.

Suddenly I heard a great noisy crack coming from the sky. I glanced up. There was a breach in the sky.

„What´s that, Daisuke?" I asked.

„A garanta, probably," he guessed.

„Nah, it doesn´t look like that. I´m going closer," I jumped high.

„Captain, come back," he called at me. „It can be dangerous."

„I like dangerous," I came even closer. Hmm, this thing is weird. Let´s see what´s inside. „I´m going in."

„No, Captain!" he shouted. I was just a step from this something and I knew I really want to go in. So I did. As soon as I put my foot inside it dragged me in. I was standing in a dark place, but behind me there was a breach of electric light.

„Oh, I see. That´s the crack from the other side. But it looks like it´s nothing here, I´ll go back." I made a step towards the crack but it burnt me. I tried again. Same result. „Hmm, seems like I won´t get out. So what I´m going to do? First I have to stop talking to myself," I scolded myself. „I´ll go forward since I can´t go back."

And so I went forward. I walked and walked and walked untill I´ve reached the light, that appeared. And with no way back I stepped into the light.