Another AU. This time we've got another beloved pairing; Izuru x Soi Fon.


Flooding streets. The undead wandering around everywhere. Formerly clean walls splattered with blood. Izuru Kira didn't know if he could take anymore of this apocalypse thing.

He was alone. It was dangerous being alone, he knew that. But every person he paired himself up with turned into a zombie at one point or another. Shuhei Hisagi. Ikkaku Madarame. Yumichika Ayasegawa. Renji Abarai. They were all dead now. He had killed them, he had killed them all with a neat little sword he had found.

His shelter for the night was a box inside a crate inside a building with the roof half fallen down. His knees were curled to his chest, and he'd shut the flaps of the box, trying to get a little sleep before he had to get on the move again.

Something bumped the crate, and Izuru involuntarily flinched. They were coming, they were going to get him, they were going to eat them and he'd become one of them oh lord don't let them get him.

But when the front flap of his box was opened, it wasn't one of the undead. It was a short, dark-haired girl. She looked at him, then looked back where she came from. "Sorry," she muttered. "I didn't know this place was taken."

He needed company. "No, that's okay!" Izuru said, perhaps a little too loudly. Shuffling sounds could be heard. He dropped his voice to a whisper. "Sorry."

She rolled her eyes and took up a stance in front of the box, waiting for the zombies that were sure to pop out any minute now. Once the first monster padded into view, she dispatched it with such an amazing display of martial arts that Izuru was left speechless.

She killed the other zombies that came their way as well, killing them with a kick to the brain each and every time. After a few minutes, she got into the box with him, pulling the flaps closed.

"Alliance?" Izuru offered, holding out his hand. She looked at it for what seemed like forever.

"Sure. Alliance," she muttered, taking it and pumping it up and down once, twice, three times. "I'm Soi Fon."

"Izuru Kira."

The alliance kept for months. They traveled through the cities and countryside, finding a few safe houses, fighting off zombies. It was a hard, bloody time, especially when you were Izuru Kira.

Soi Fon, however, couldn't stop thinking of her Miss Yoruichi. She and her good-for-nothing boyfriend had been some of the first to go, and she had left Soi Fon all by herself. In a moment of weakness, she let a tear slide down her face.

Izuru noticed immediately. He touched the trail of the tear cautiously, not wanting to startle her. "What's wrong?" he asked. She looked at him, slate-gray eyes narrowing once more.

"Nothing. I am completely fine," she said, reverting back to her cold tone. "It's morning. We should be getting somewhere."

That day was the worst battle they had faced in a long time. It wasn't against zombies, that they could all deal with. No, it was a gang of survivors that chased after them, waving various weaponry. Eventually, they were cornered.

"Make a run for it, Kira," Soi Fon snapped, getting in her stance. Izuru looked at her, shocked.

"Wh-what? Soi Fon, I can't do that!" he said, eyes wide. She glared at him.

"The wall is weak," she said, proving her point by kicking it. It tumbled down almost immediately.

"Then come with me!" Izuru said frantically, blue eyes wide. She shook her head.

"They will catch us. If I stay here and hold them off, you might just get away. Izuru. Do this. For me," she said, looking at him. It was the sudden emotion in her eyes that made him take a step toward escape.

"Do it!" she shouted. "Just get away from here!"

"I-I can't leave you," he said, biting his lip. She narrowed her eyes.

"So we're both dying them," she said bluntly. "Instead of you going on and living."

"You go on and live!"

"You won't be able to hold them off as long as I would!" Soi Fon said.

"Why are you doing this?" Izuru said, all too aware of the pounding footsteps of the survivors coming toward them.

Soi Fon narrowed her eyes. "Do you want to know why? Do you really? Well, I'll tell you why. From the moment we met I've admired you, and somewhere along the line I've fallen in love with you. So get the hell out of here before it's too late!" With that, she kissed him. It lasted mere seconds, but it was there.

It probably wasn't the most reasonable thing for Soi Fon to do, seeing as he got away just before their enemies turned the corner.

Izuru didn't go far, however. He circled up, so he was seeing everything from an aerial view. The men that were down there weren't... they weren't being very nice to Soi Fon. After about ten or so minutes of them beating on her like she was a punching bag, the tallest one dropped her and they ran off, looking for more victims.

Izuru prepared to drop down from his hiding spot, but he was too slow. A zombie got there before him, and before he could do anything, Soi Fon had been bitten.

"No!" he screamed, jumping down and killing the zombie with a slash to the head. He dropped on his knees by Soi Fon. "No, no, oh lord no, don't let it have spread to her..." he whimpered.

But it had. It had spread to her, and now she was laying there, dead, on the ground. She was dead, and there was nothing he could do about it. Hot tears slid down his face.

She was stirring, her eyes opening. But they were empty, the eyes of a zombie. He dropped her and backed away slowly. "Oh lord no..." he breathed.