Akane started her trek through the Soul Society on the way to see the man that she fell in love with so hard and so quickly. She became lost in thought.
It was crazy , she had never believed in love at first sight, she just thought it was some stupid joke. She also thought she would never be in love with anyone. Akane thought that no man would fall for such a shrimp like her. It made her so mad at times because this one man, that barely knew she existed. Being just 4'4 men would almost over look her with ease or sometimes even step on her. She had never meet someone that was around her height and that wasn't younger than her. She knew that the Soul Reapers lived for a long time and doing her homework she soon discovered Taichou to be a couple hundred; the youngest Captain to ever be.
It made her so mad at times because this one man, that barely knew she existed, caused her heart to beat so franticly even by the mere thought of his face...
Akane was deep in thought and not paying much attention to her surroundings , because last time she checked the Reapers were tucked away in their beds, most asleep. To say in the least she wasn't very wary of the spiritual presences at the moment, so as she stepped out of the shadows to bolt to the next building across the street, she didn't notice that a lone Soul Reaper caught her in the corner of his eye.
"HEYY! You get over here!" The unknown reaper yelled in her direction.
'Shit his loud voice is gunna wake up the whole Society! I have to act fast before he notifies someone i won't be able to take on. But what the fuck am i supposed to do!' Akane thought franticly to herself.
His footsteps thudded loudly against the pavement. She was determining the moment to strike when they stopped all together. She froze. Her breath caught in her throat, she very cautiously poked her head around the side of the building to where the man was stomping her way just a few second prior. Now he had vanished. Jumping out from her side of the building onto what was his she looked around for him.
'Shit, maybe he already went and told the others! Oh my fucking gosh! what do I do? Do I chase after him or wai-'
Her thought was cut off as she heard the man faintly say something that sounded like "shake a hoe,"as her souroundings glowed a bloody colour, a rather large red ball came rocketing toward her face. She snapped into battle mode and tried to swiftly dodge the weird object. As it passed by it grazed her fur and managed to burn her skin. The burning sensation on her pelt where the orb made contact stung slightly as the smell of burnt fur rose to her nose. Her body shifted from defense to offense in a instant. This was her first real battle with anything else besides a mer-hollow and the thrill of that pushed her to keep batteling through the pain of the blast.
She lunged at the man, trying to swipe a paw at his face. Defending himself he stroke the back of her outstretched paw with his elbow. Pulling her injured paw back toward herself while hissing in pain, she barely had time to react when he flicked his wrist toward where his sword was resting against his waist. His sword flashed out of his sheath as moonlight glimmered off of the blade and shone into her frightened eyes. Turning the sharpened side toward her; the unknown man lifted his arm and swung the blade with a scary force toward her trembling body, she dashed to the left side fast by digging her claws into the cobblestone as much as she could. She put a safe distance between them and every time she got to close for comfort she would put the space back between them.
'Shit I'm so screwed. I knew one day i would have to battle someone if I kept going to this place. I wonder what rank he is... ' Akane's mind wandered off as the man sprang up beside her and swung the blade toward her head. Panicking she ducked with her paws tucked under her body. The motion of the sword hadn't stopped yet, it continued over her head with a weird swooshing sound. A split second later it made contact with the tip of her right ear causing her to jump backwards away from the man. In her peripheral vision she saw a bloodied chunk of her ear fall to the ground beside her. The soul reaper jumped back a few meters and stood there watching her, most likely planning his next form of attack. Crimson seeped into her fur on the side of her face that ear hear was cut.
She looked up, glaring daggers at the mother fucker who dared do this to her, she rushed toward him and jumped to the left. Right as she got close enough to strike she shifted all of her weight onto her front paws she struck him with her back paws. She had made contact with his body, sending him scrabbling backwards and into the dirt. He swiftly grabbed his fallen sword and jumped back up in a fighting stance. Akane started to slowly stalk circles around the man ;he not letting his back be turned on her for a minute let his chest face her every movement. They were both waiting for the other to make a move first and then act off of that.
The man lunged forward and she leaped up attempting to crash down on the man with all her weight, but he was faster. Not a second went by before her was right there, with his blade slicing through her thick fur and penetrating her flesh causing red droplets to cascade from her upper body. He jumped back just in time for her body to crash onto the ground with a thud.
Her body hurt so bad and it was practically begging for her to stop but she couldn't, she couldn't just give up.
He stood there looking pleased with himself. She hated that look.
'He thinks he's better than me! I'll show his dumb ass that he's sadly mistaken' she thought to herself as she shakily pushed herself off the ground one paw after another.
Once she was steadily on all four paws she studied the man, he still had that stupid grin on his face... Right when she was about to make another move, the man lifted both hands up into a somewhat triangle while keeping the sword in his hands. Akane stopped and watched him with slight curiosity and hatred, this time she heard him clearly.
"Shakkahō!" the man shouted, as a red glare produced itself from the middle of his palms and formed a red ball similar to the one that had stricken her previously, except for the size in this one was greater.
Apparently this one was also a lot faster. As she was turning to dodge this one , it hit her full force into the side and blew up into a cloud of smoke. She lay there in the dirt winded by the force of the sphere. As she moved to get up she could feel the smoke stinging her rather large but not deep fresh wound. She pushed herself up of the ground in a hurry, thinking of a strategy lighting fast, while he was blinded by the smoke as well she had the advantage of sound. Closing her eyes she concentrated on the sounds, she could hear his heavy breathing not too far away, the attack probably took a lot out of him. She guessed he was far enough away from the smoke that he would see her coming if she tried a frontal attack, so she was going to have to play sneaky...
Keeping her eyes closed she laid back down in the dirt and put herself back into the position she was in once she first got struck with the large red orb, Keeping her ears at attention she listened for his footsteps. They slowly came closer and closer, every now and then scraping against the ground from tiredness. Once he was standing over her body he brought his foot back and kicked her hard in the belly. She could feel more of her ribs crack from his kick , on top of the ones that broke when the blast of the "Shakkahō" hit her side.
'I have to speed things up, the blasts must have woken somebody up and i need to get out of this area before reinforcements arrive to his aide.' Akane planned out to herself as she laid lifelessly in the dust.
He figured she was dead, or at least didn't have the energy to fight any longer so he turned his back on her, ignoring the urge to make the final strike. It went against the code of his squad; He shouldn't kill an enemy that is unable to battle any longer. He threw one last glance over his shoulder as he was going around the corner towards the fourth squad to get his wounds checked up. But something was wrong with what he saw.
He stopped dead in his tracks. She vanished. All that was left of the scene was pools of blood from the battle. His pulse rose and he looked around franticly for the beast he thought was dead.
There. in the shadows right in front of him he saw the golden eyes of the monster he was fighting a few minutes ago. He saw her eyes darken and she jumped up into the air, as he though she was about to strike she didn't. She ended up maneuvering to the side in mid-air and pushed of the wall beside her causing her to sail in front of him. The window opened as her started at her in confusion, lunging toward his hand with her outstretched claws she knocked the weapon out of his grasp, wounding his appendage in the process.
He let his focus break off of her and turned it toward his heavily bleeding hand. She trotted toward him at a fast pace and reached her open claws out toward his chest. Digging them into his chest she scrapped them across his body horizontally causing blood to spew from his torn up body. He barely had the time to scream before she was on him with his head in her mouth. Her powerful jaws clamped down on their pray. She could feel her canines pierce his skull and sink into his brain, withdrawing her teeth from the now dead man's skull she backed up and looked at the bloody scene.
'I shouldn't just leave the body there...'
Painfully walking back to the new dead she grabbed him by her mouth and dragged him into the alley between two close built buildings, leaving a bloody path from where he died and his new resting place.
That was the best it was going to get she decided as she ran off toward her destination.
She started off with a slow run but then soon came to a fast trot. Not knowing a small blood trail fell from her wounds and seeped into the earth. She was tired and her broken bones were screaming. Her whole body aced of the torment she received from the battle. Her first battle with a skilled being and she had won! She rejoiced in her head even more as she saw the 10th division building a block away. She pushed herself the rest of the way working toward the cover of the thick foliage that surrounded the Taichou's quarters.
She could faintly hear the boom of the lighting that occasionally struck over head, on the invisible wall. Rain started trickling down from the heavens and dripped off onto her from the waxy leaves of the trees above her head. She lied on the soft green grass half shielded from the moon and the rain and looked into the Taichou's darkened study.
She didn't see him.
'Oh my gosh... I missed him! He's probably already asleep... I want to be sleeping in my own bed... but I'm here trying to catch a glimpse of this man in the cold wet rain...' Akane thought to herself as she lowered her head down to her side and started licking the open wound the Shakkahō had left on her.
'Hahahah you're a pretty pathetic sight right now... But honestly we really need to work on our battling skills against these fucks. We were absolutely pathetic ! Well, you more than me. I mean look at you, bloody and injured from one little fight, and now you crawled off to stalk your "love" and lick your wounds like a dog.' The demon chuckled darkly as he knew he hit one of her weaknesses. Being called a "dog".
'Shut up. I don't have time to hear you criticize me, and EXCUSE ME! You're on the same level as I am, you little prick! We are the same! Why don't you fucking get that? These wounds effect you just as much as me. And if I love him then that would mean you would love him to so shut the fuck up alright? Go ahead call me a dog one more time, see what happens.' Akane screamed mentally at the beast.
'Fine. But just to let you know, I think someone has stumbled across your little battle scene.'
Ignoring the bastard she perked her ears up, causing the wound on her ear to re-opened a little. She heard faint shouting around the place where she and the man had battled. In no condition to fight she needed to hide better. She stood shakily and dragged her paws tiredly against the ground. As the stucco of the building brushed her whiskers she let herself drop. Falling heavily against the wall too tired to lower herself properly to the ground.
Her whole body was stiff and she was completely drained of energy. Deciding this was a safe enough place to rest until she could move, her eyes started to close. The shot open again as the shouts got closer. She listened, as they were getting closer to the front of the barracks and not her. The division was most likely going to inform the captain what they had found in his jurisdiction. Her eyes started to close slowly, she dug her claws into her other paw in order to keep herself from drifting off. If she slept, she was sure to be a goner, so she fought to keep awake but the tiredness was overpowering her.
Right as everything was going black, the light flashed on in the window right above her head, casting a pasty yellow square to cascade across the ground, putting the backdrop of trees and bushes into more shadow than before. That was the last thing she saw before she drifted off to sleep.
