Authors Notes: Mhmp! The third chapter is out, and seeing that my brothers have all come back, I've gotta get working overtime! So either you might see new chapters frequently, or you might not see chapters at all. It all depends on the computer :3.
-Thanks to my reviewers so far..
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Chapter 3: Briefings and a Game.
As the early morning chirped, a tired Hitsugaya awoke from his short sleep.
"I'm in need of a good nights rest." Hitsugaya yawned, taking his cell out and creating a new message.
To all of my team,
Please come to the house of Orihime Inoue ASAP, for I need to brief you on another mission we've been chosen to do. Further details will apply once you come here for the briefing.
-Hitsugaya.
He sent the message to the other five shinigami who recently came here with him to the Real World. He yawned again, stretching out and laying down, hoping to catch a few Z's before the shinigami came.
BANG BANG. BANG BANG BANG BANG.
Hitsugaya groaned. How could he forget?
"Hitsugaya-taichou? Whats the meaning of this message? Hitsugaya-taichou?!" a mumbled voice spoke on the other side of the door. Hitsugaya stood up, and walked to the door, he opened it, revealing his subordinate, Matsumoto.
"Briefing, it said in the message. Now get out, we'll start the meeting once the others get here." Hitsugaya said, and right on time, a sliding sound was heard behind him. When he turned around, he found Ikkaku and Yumichika in the room.
"Whats all this with a new mission?" Ikkaku asked, obviously annoyed with it already. "I would like to know too. For a beautiful person like me should be able to know everything." Yumichika slurred, sparkling in his own way.
"So do I, and aren't we here to prepare for the Arrancar? Why do we gotta do this mission?" Renji asked, coming in through the door after Matsumoto. Hitsugaya sat down, frustrated.
"Everyone listen up. The message you've gotten has got to do with a new shinigami." Hitsugaya started, grabbing the attention of the team.
"Yamamoto-sama wants us to find out who she--"
"She's a girl?!" Ikkaku interrupted, and soon after was feeling a hot glare from Matsumoto. "Whats so wrong with female shinigami?" she questioned, fire blazing in her eyes.
"Shutup and listen will you?!" Hitsugaya said, aggravation filling his voice.
"Anyways, as I was saying, they think Shinigami Girl has Hollow powers, and are assuming she's a Vaizard. She has a large zanpakuto, yet not as big as Ichigos. They think she may be related to him, but that's still in the dark." Hitsugaya finished, looking at his team.
"How do they know she's Vaizard material?" Yumichika asked, a sudden interest in the girl.
"We'll see. It's recorded from the back, but this is the video that Soul Society sent me." Hitsugaya said, putting in a video into the video-conference device. In a few moments, a shinigami with raven hair was standing in front of a Hollow.
"That," Hitsugaya pointed to the blade, "Is her zanpakuto. Similar to Ichigos zanpakuto, this sword seems to be a large blade, but since we namely use katanas before we release the names of our zanpakuto, this turns out to be an abnormality."
The shinigami nodded, wanting Hitsugaya to explain more.
"Her hair seems to be pulled back into a short ponytail, yet we see that she has bangs on the left side of her head." Hitsugaya said, circling the top part of the body, namely the upper back and the head.
"Turnf fay infu nyth, ahfaken, moogoi zihfsuvo!"
The shinigami stared at the screen.
"She probably released a sudden burst of reiatsu, surprising whoever recorded this video." Hitsugaya said. They all watched as the zanpakuto didn't change, but the color of the blade turned into a darker shade.
"Surprising indeed." Yumichika said, a spark of curiosity of the identity of this shinigami and her zanpakuto. The screen blanked out right after the shinigami jumped and struck the Hollow from up top, destroying the mask.
"She proves to be a decent opponent." Ikkaku shrugged.
"Talk about that later, we still need to check out another video." Hitsugaya said.
"You have another video?" Renji asked.
"Yeah, what's it to you?"
"Where'd you get it from?"
"Urahara."
"You mean you went to the shop?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"You could've at least said something to me while you were there.."
Hitsugaya ignored his comment, taking the previous video out and replacing it with the one he had gotten from Urahara last night. The screen flicked on again, this time showing the shinigami again, yet this time paired with a Menos.
"This kid knows how to defeat a Menos?!" Renji shouted, pointing at the very larger monster compared to the shinigami.
"Apparently yes." Hitsugaya said.
"Ururu! Why are you behind her?! Get out front!" they all heard, but no person was in front of the camera.
"Gomen, ah -- Jinta, what are you doing?" a voice asked, the camera shaking around. "Getting a better picture you dolt!" another voice screamed, the picture fixed on the shinigami, although the angle was being corrected. A large wind was heard as they saw the shinigami yell out something, charging forward against the Menos. The picture moved again, this time getting a side view of the girl.
Well, it did show a girl. Well .. the appearance of a girl.
The shinigamis were quite shocked of what they saw.
At the left side view, the face wasn't seen, because of the bangs that were covering the left side of her face. What did surprise them is that they saw a cracked horn on top of her head.
"Hollow mask?" Matsumoto wondered.
"Probably so. This proves she's somewhat a Vaizard." Hitsugaya said, observing the fight between the Menos and the shinigami. After she spoke something, her sword darkened again.
Before, while she was running, she stopped in front of the monster and jumped up to as high as the Menos head. But because of that, the video showed no face, but only the sword clashing down the Menos, slashing the whole body in one strike. The Menos screamed, yet it didn't disappear.
"Seems she's not Captain-level in my point of view." Yumichika sighed, losing that spark he once had. The shinigami repeated what she did, finishing off the Menos.
"HOY! YOU! WHO THE HECK ARE YOU? WAIT A MINUTE .. IT'S YO--" the screen went black, resulting the finished video. The team appeared a bit confused, but shook it off.
"So even if you think she's not of your level, you still need to find her. We don't know how she got her powers, or where. We don't even know where she'll strike next! So on your duties, keep an eye out for her. Okay?" Hitsugaya said, receiving affirmative nods from the shinigami.
"Good. You are dismissed." Hitsugaya stated, the shinigami leaving the room in a blink of an eye. He stood up and jumped out the window.
"I wonder if theres anything to do today."
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"GOOD MORNING KARIN!" Isshin exclaimed, running to his daughter with great speed, in hopes for a Father-Daughter hug.
THUD.
"I'm not in the mood fer your hugs ol' beardo!" Karin retaliated, leaving him to sulk in front of the poster of her mom, Kurosaki Masaki.
"Ohayo nee-chan, I've prepared breakfast." Yuzu smiled, handing a plate over to Karin. Karin thanked her as she sat down, finding two eggs and a toast on her plate. She took her fork and took a bite out of the eggs. It didn't take her too long to finish, so she ate the two eggs and was left to munch on her toast.
"How is it?" Yuzu asked. Karin gave her a thumbs up, making her smile. "It's one of the best foods you've cooked all month." Karin complimented, eating the last bite of her toast.
"Aa! May I have a meal as well?" Isshin asked, watching Yuzu making the breakfast and setting it on the plates. She nodded as the grateful father took a plate, sitting down and munching down on the food.
"Well, I'm out for the day. I'm gonna hang out with my friends." Karin lied, taking a sweater from the closet before going out the door.
"When will you be back?" Yuzu called out before she left, "Somewhere around evening?" Karin shrugged, waving to the two Kurosaki members.
She closed the door before looking out into the early morning. She took the soccer ball and water bottle she'd placed at the step earlier this morning, knowing she'd go to the soccer field again.
"Practice makes perfect."
Karin walked down the street towards the soccer field.
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"Aaand GOOOOAL!" Karin shouted, kicking the ball very hard towards the net. The speed was unbelievable you could swear you've seen a spark in that kick. She watched as the ball flew towards the net. Flying .. flying ..
CLINK.
"GAH! THE POLE AGAIN?! WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST ME YOU WRETCHED OLD NET?!"
Karin glared at the net as she watched the ball rebound to the side, only to be stopped by a foot of a very familar person.
"Soccer this early in the morning?" the white-haired Captain asked, looking slightly bored.
"Yeah, whats it to you Toushiro?" Karin huffed, walking towards him with an annoyed face.
"Why are you being so rash all of a sudden?"
"How am I being 'so rash'?"
"Well lets see, according to my data from yesterday, you wished to speak to me before I had to cut down a Hollow, and when I come back you suddenly change and start being a .. a .. how do I say this? Oh yeah, bitch."
A vein popped out of Karins head, probably meaning she was getting too pissed off.
"I'm no bitch you freaky-haired short man!" Karin yelled, stealing the ball from under Hitsugayas foot. She diribbled it around, feeling a sense of victory over the unusually short shinigami.
"You're getting faster, compared to my gigai. But if you versed me in my shinigami form, you'd be begging for forgiveness." she heard.
Distracted, Hitsugaya came up behind the girl and stole the ball, dribbling it back to the other net.
"You .." Karin growled, turning back around and running at an easy pace, increasing in speed at each step. Soon, she was up to Hitsugayas speed, watching his movement and waiting for a time to steal it back.
"You've no chance when I have the ball, I'm too skilled in this kind of thing." Hitsugaya bragged, running faster and leaving behind Karin.
"Well maybe if you open your eyes and stop being so cocky, you'd realize I have the ball!" Karin cackled. Hitsugaya stopped for a second to look down. He realized the ball was still there, only to be kicked away by a certain girl.
"Jokes on you!" Karin smirked, kicking the ball back to her net as fast as she could before Hitsugaya could get to her.
"Too slow." Hitsugaya said, jogging in large steps beside her.
"WHAT THE--"
The ball was stolen from her yet again, none other by Hitsugaya, who stopped before she could.
"Hey, that ball was mine!" Karin shouted, running back to him. But he didn't run, he just stood there.
"Why're you just standing there like a duck? I thought -- oh never mind." Karin rolled her eyes, watching Hitsugaya as he did nothing.
For a bit.
"Aw crap, don't tell me!" Karin cursed, watching Hitsugaya lift his leg behind him, making it look so casual since his hands was in his pockets. Karin ran past him, but it did nothing.
dug.
The ball arched above Karin, aiming for the goal. As hard as she could, she tried to run faster than the ball, but Hitsugayas kick made it quite unlikely. If she was to catch up with that ball, she would need to achieve shunpo.
No matter. She still tried.
Karin was running, running as fast as she could. She didn't mind losing, but losing to that, that freaky soccer dude made her feel like she lost a part of her dignity. She kept on running, tried to reach her net before the ball came, and suddenly --
dugthudshh.
'I guess I lost that part of my dignity.' Karin thought, sliding across the grass covered field after she tripped over that bloody rock. She closed her eyes as she glided across, feeling the burn of the grass.
"Hey, are you alright?" Hitsugaya asked, running up to her after Karin sat up. He kneeled down and observed her.
"Yeah, Im fine." Karin said, but soon winced as she covered her left knee. She inhaled a lengthy breath before letting her hands go, showing a blood-covered knee. "Or not." Karin grunted, taking her sweater off and placing it beside her.
"Toushiro .. can you get be that water over there, by the net?" Karin asked, Hitsugaya nodded, before noticing the ball didn't make it to the net, but stopped inches back before it.
"Stupid ball .."
"What?"
"Nothing." Hitsugaya said, walking over to the net and taking the bottle back to Karin. "Here." He said, handing the bottle to her. Karin thanked him as she took off the cap, placing it over the cuff of the sweater. She dropped the water down her knee and she held back a yell, using her finger to wipe off the blood surrounding her cut. She sighed as she took the bottle and started to spill the water on the sweater.
"Don't tell me you're gonna use your sweater." Hitsugaya said, looking at Karin as she looked back at him. "Why, whats so wrong about that?" she asked, watching Hitsugaya tear off a piece of the sleeve of his navy shirt, taking the bottle from Karin and soaking the middle of the piece.
"You didn't have to do that.." Karin grumbled. "Oh, but I did. Now be quiet and don't move." Hitsugaya ordered, placing the soaked cloth on her knee, trying it at the back.
".. Thanks." Karin said, standing up with a bit of stuggle. She inhaled again, taking in the pain that occured each time she took a limping step.
"Are you .. better at least?" Hitsugaya said, watching Karin sit back down, panting from the sudden effort.
"Yeah, but I guess I'll have to stay here for awhile." Karin sighed.
beepbeepbeep
"Hollow?" Karin asked, looking up at now-taller boy.
"Yeah. This time it's at Karakura park." Hitsugaya said, looking down at her. "It's fine, go. Just leave your .. whatever you call it person here." Karin said.
"His names Raichu." Hitsugaya smirked, popping out a pill and swallowing it, his shinigami form appearing in front of both Karin and his gigai. He ran off, wanting to cut down the Hollow immediately.
"Oh, it's you again. Might I as--"
"No questions right now Raichu, and for what you're about to see .. keep it a secret from Hitsugaya, or else I will personally kill you." Karin said roughly, struggling to get up from her sitting position.
"It's Raiken." the artificial soul corrected, trying to keep as calm as possible. He lent a hand to Karin, who took the hand and stood up.
"Well Raiken, still, no matter what, this is between you and me." Karin said. She took out a PEZ-like dispenser, and once she pressed on the top of the puppy-like head, a pill popped out, and quickly Karin swallowed it.
"You mean you're a --"
"Not exactly .. but yeah." Karin interrupted, a figure emerging from the body.
'Who knew?'
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Yaay, the third chapter is complete! Hm .. not really a cliffy, if you can determine the obvious. (; SEE?! I am soo generous, not leaving you these cliffys. But who knows? Maybe one chapter I will! Chapter 4 will surely reveal the Shinigami Girls powers as well as her identity, but Im pretty sure you all know that right? As usual, review stuff, blah blah blah K BYE!