Kaiya never asked for this. She just wanted an easy life. She sighed as she walked the aisles of the Court of Pure Souls. Running a hand along the smooth walls, she began to think. Finally, she came to the end of the wall. Her fingertips were now just slightly resting against it, as a small secretive smile played across her lips. And with a decisive nod to no one in particular, she walked straight ahead.
She calmly approached a small stone structure. Running her hand around it's rough surface, she closed her eyes. A bluish glow emitted from her hands, and transferred to it. The dead end ahead disappeared, revealing a hidden town. In the middle, there was a house standing among other houses. It was larger than the rest, and on it, was painted the word: FOURTEEN.
Chapter 1
She walked up to the building, and slid open the door. She looked up. Garbed in black, with a white sleeveless coat outside, she wore the unmistakable outfit of a captain. "Hitsugaya, is everybody gathered?". Hitsugaya Toushiro, captain of Division 10, lieutenant of Division 14. He nodded his head, and looked up at his leader. Her face bore her signature warm smile, and cheeky expression. "Hai hai! That's good. Now we can start our discussion!" she said enthusiastically.
By now, her squad members were used to her behavior. At first glance, one would mistake Kaiya as a rather low ranking death god. However, her looks belied her true nature. Smart and cunning. Graceful and strong. Her spirit power was unbelievable, so great that even when she turns it off, she still oozed with it. Her skills with her soul slayer is undeniable. She was not one to be reckoned with.
"Ohio, squad! Ok now, we've been summoned again by the big baldies that run this place for a new mission. They say it's big. And I agree with them." Silence all around. They stared grimly, understanding their job, and their purpose, well.
Division 14. Most death gods know that there are 13 squads in the Court of Pure Souls. However, the 14th squad was a more recently formed group, and a heavily guarded secret. They were made by the people who ran Soul Soceity, and their purpose was to take on challenges and trials that were too dangerous for normal squads. Normally, a squad will never be associated with one another. Squad 14 , being unique, consists of members for all 13 squads. More specifically, it consists of leaders and lieutenants from each squad.
As times go by, the leaders realized that the world was getting dangerous, and that something big was going to happen. They didn't know what, but they figured that they can't just lay back and watch And so Division 14 was formed. The only other people who know about it besides the "big people" were they themselves.
Back when the topic of Divison14 arose, and the leader picked, there was an outrage and confusion at the selection choice. Nobody had every heard of Kaiya Itaci. In fact, she was only a common ryouka, and just recently entered Soul Society. Not even a death god to begin with. She had no credentials and no training whatsoever. When the Yamamoto, captain of the 1st division, took her in to meet her team members in her squad leader garb, she was greeted by a cold silence from many of the team, mostly lieutenants. Even back then, she wore her happy face and cheeky smile. " 2 weeks. Give me 2 weeks. And then I'll duel each one of you. If I am beaten, then I am not worthy of this robe. But if I come out if it triumphant, then I don't want to hear another word of complaint.". All of this was said with a non-challant smile.
2 weeks came and went almost immediately. They smugly entered the arena, each expecting an easy victory. As the lieutenant of Squad 2 unsheathed his soul slayer and pointed it at her, she smiled at him, and gave a polite "Hello". One hand reach for her own soul slayer, and unsheathed it too. Her soul slayer looked like a regular katana, if not a little longer.
She just stood there, not moving an inch. Finally, impatience and confidence wore him down, and charged at Kaiya. One step was all she took. His world slowed down as he glided past her, and turned around. He saw the tip of her blade smeared with blood. Then his world went black.
She took down the lieutenants of each Division. The first lieutenant who sat out the match was Matsumoto. "I don't care what they do. If they think it's best for a new person like yourself to lead Gotei 14, then so be it." She said with a smirk, as she stepped behind the line.
As the line progressed, her enemies got tougher. Her first blood was in a fight with Hisagi. A clean cut on her back. "Oops… I guess I was careless…" she said, seemingly without a care in the world, as she did a quick step and tore him up from behind.
"Ia.. I seemed to got myself all bloodied" she said in a worried tone. "It's gonna be hard to get the stain out later…."
Kira raised an eyebrow as he said "I think one little bloody stain on your robe…."
"That's what YOU know! It's really hard to get the stains out you know!" She yelled with childish anger, like that of a brat told that they can't go to McDonalds for dinner because mummy and daddy have to attend a funeral.
"Uh.. ok….."
"AAHHHH! I'm so sorry! I guess I lost control of my anger. Sumi-masen!" she said, and gave a few quick and deep bows. "Now where were we?"
Kira took up a fighting stance. He felt the winds ruffle against his Death God robes, as Kaiya suddenly disappeared. He concentrated on trying to locate her spirit force, and managed to stop her attack to the side on time. The sound of metal upon metal field the arena. "Ah, you spotted me!" she said in a flustered tone. He smirked, and suddenly doubled over in pain. His hand reach instinctively to his shoulder. When he took his hand away, there was blood. "Amazing. She managed to execute an attack before I stopped her" he thought to himself.
"Look up, Kira." He heard her voice out of the blue, as her sword came crashing down upon him. "You really shouldn't let your guard down…" she said. 'Eeg… I wont anymore" he said, flinching in pain as he took up his combat stance once more.
A quick exchange of sword blades went on for a few moments, and at an opening, Kira took the chance to strike. As he got closer, she turned around, and blocked it with one hand. She pushed back, and he went flying through the air. With a leap, she meet him in
Mid-air, and brought her sword down onto his chest. He came crashing down onto earth, and created a mini crater as he landed.
She made her way to every other lieutenant left, until it was Renji's turn. He smirked at her. "Hmph. The lieutenants have gone soft. Don't worry, I'll make sure you wont be able to hold that position." He said with an air of confidence. "Oh? Is that so? Well, ok." She said lightly. "Oi…! don't take me lightly with that silly airhead smile of yours!" he yelled angrily at her, raising his fist and shaking it in the air. "Oh, ah, sorry, sorry." She said bowing repeatedly, as she did with Kira.
Pointing her blade forward, she smiled her characteristic cute smile. Renji smirked back, as he charged forward, his sword held out to his right. Kaiya jumped up, as he brought his blade crashing down to where she was standing. Surprised that all he hit was air and concrete, he looked up. Above him was her flying figure, her sword raised above her head, as she brought it down on him. He managed to dodge most of the attack, but the edge of the blade made a superficial cut against his skin.
"Hah, not good enough. Zabemaru, lets show her what we're all about. Howl, Zabemaru!" As Zabemaru's shikai took place, and all Kaiya did was watch in indifference. "You brought him up fast." "Hmph, scared?" This was meet with a silent grin. "Maybe." She charged forward, and Zabemaru de-tached himself, slithering to a circle around her. Graceful leaping to the air, Zabemaru crushed at nothing. She flashed forward, and Zabemaru came up from behind to attack her. Still in mid-air, she moved to the right, avoiding his attack again. Without a beat, Zabemaru got up and slithered up to her. Her eyes glinted, as she brought her soul slayer down, crashing it to the floor, then used it as a leverage to burst forward. She was now face to face with Renji, and brought her soul slayer down. A cloud of dust blew into the air, and everyone stared in anticipation.
While the cloud settled, everyone could sense that she did not directly hit her target. Renji was in mid air, but his face bore an expression of pain, and his left arm was limp on his side.
"Hmm… Not bad Renji." "Hmph, you know it… Erk.."
She followed him up, and threw an attack in mid air. Blocking it, he pushed her back down, and managed to deliver a blow to her shoulder. "Ouch! Renji-san, that'd hurt!"
A flustered Renji started apologizing profusely. "AAAHHH! Sumi-masen! C'mon don't cry now, don't…" and then he realized they were in combat, and he was SUPPOSED to hurt her.
"Hmm… Renji… I guess it's time to get a little more serious…" she said mysteriously. Renji was a little startled she said that, but didn't move from his combat stance. And suddenly, she disappeared from his sight. No matter how hard he concentrated, he could not sense her spirit force. Then he fell on his knees. He didn't feel any pain. Only a strong force that knocked him down. He looked up, and saw her standing in front, her back facing him, as her shape began to blur, and finally, faded into nothingness.
"Aha! Maybe I struck him a bit too hard…" She said worriedly. "Oh well."
After she placed her soul slayer back into its sheath, she gave a deep bow to the row of Captains on her right. Before she could say another word, Tousen Kaname voiced out "I don't like pointless and meaningless fights." Kaiya was taken aback, but despite her shock, she managed to thank him with another bow. One by one, the captains of each division turned down combat. Even Zaraki Kenpachi turned it down, although he did mutter something like "Don't worry. I'll kill you one day.". He gave a sinister smile.
After the last captain turned her down, she just clenched her fist. With a soft voice, she said "You don't have to turn down combat, just because Yamamoto-taicho told you to. I don't want my squad members to talk behind my back, whispering about me. If you think I'm unfit, then speak now. Fight me now. Because you wont be able to regret after this" in one of her rare shows of anger, albeit, a more subtle version of it.
There was a silence. "If your so un-confident of your position, maybe your not worthy to be a captain then" Hitsugaya voiced out. "I want my men to trust me. To respect me. I can't do that if every last one of you doubt in my abilities. Hitsugaya sighed. "Very well. I'll battle you."
"Kaiya? Kaiya? KAIYA!" Hitsugaya's annoyed voice snapped her out of her day dream "Ahhh? Was I dreaming again? Ah ah, so sorry!" she said flustered. "Anyway, like I said, something big is coming up. I've spoken with Yamamoto-taicho, and has granted me permission to carry out something perhaps slightly, unorthodox to complete our new mission"
"Kaiya, what is this "New Mission" thing? What's so big, until even Yamaji would give permission to carry out something unorthodox? For crying out loud, what's this unorthodox thing?" Hitsugaya questioned.
"Well… I don't know if I was supposed to tell you yet. But… Eventually you will know anyway." Looking a little reluctant, she began to explain the situation. "We have reasons to believe Aizen and the rest are going to act, much sooner than expected."
"How do you know that?" "Just a hunch." She said, rolling her eyes in scarcasm, but not bothering to tell him the reason.
"So what is this "unorthodox" thing your going to do, Kaiya-taichou?" questioned her curious lieutenant.
With a smile, she said, "We'll request for the assistance of Kurosaki Ichigo."
