Kyo faultered.
Never be locked up? It was a dream, far away from happening. That's why he trained. So he could beat Yuki, so he could win with honor.
Because honor was all he had.
Flashback-
Kyo looked at the other children in the yard as he stood, shying behind a tree.
A little girl, a distant cousin of his, was sitting in the shades of the monkee bars with her friends.
Two boys sat next to eachother, playing a game called Go. He'd never played it, his mother had only given him single-person games, and Kazuma had never bought him a board game before.
Frowning, he left the platground and entered the forest.
ten minutes in, a shrill cry came from his left. Whipping his head around, Kyo saw two of Kazuma's other students, Yuri and Goro, punch one of the other girls -Chikako, if he remembered correctly- in the back of the head.
Yuri, despite his female name, was a small boy about ten years old, three years older than Kyo. Goro was a year younger then Yuri, but apperently just as cruel. He was also fat, and the main reason he was in Kazuma's classes was to lose wait.
Minoru, he realised, was one of Kazuma's younger students. He had managed to beat Yuri by a pure fluke in one of their matches against eachother. Yuri had gotten too rough, and had playe dirty, making Kazuma forced to kick Yuri out for a month's time.
It had been emberrising, because Minoru happened to only be five, so very well only half his age. The idea had been so humiliating, especially as the other students laughed.
Minoru cried out as Yuri punched him in the stomach repeatedly.
"How'd ya like that, huh? Kazuma-Sensie's not around to protect you anymore!" Yuri taunted, raising his leg to kick him.
"Hey, you!" Kyo shouted, showing himself. Yuri stopped what he was doing and turned to Kyo. Goro, who was just standing and watching, looked shocked.
"Leave us alone, Cat! This doesn't concern you!" Yuri snarled as Minoru whimpered from the ground.
Kyo snarled. He hated it when people called him that. He hated it so much. He was the cat, yes, but that didn't make it his name.
He lunged at Yuri, punching him square in the jaw. Yuri cried out in pain, shocked. Goro tried to tackle him when he was distracted, but Kyo kicked the large boy in the shin.
Thinking the two would leave him alone, he went over to the bleeding Minoru. The younger boy's eyes widened as a shadow was cast over them. Kyo found himself hit in the back forcefully, making him spit out blood as he fell next to the younger male.
"Pathetic cat!" His attacker, who was apperantly Goro, snarled. Hitting him in the ribs with a pipe that seemed to come from nowhere, Kyo coughed out more blood.
"Freak! I can't believe Yuri was afraid of you! You're nothing but a weak Monster!" Goro yelled, hitting him again and again.
Monster. He hated it, hated it when people called him that. Kyo was no more a monster than this boy was humane. (Being Humane is having or showing compassion or benevolence and Inflicting the minimum of pain, for all you illiterate people out there.)
Kyo let out a heated, animalistic snarl.
He hadn't realised it at the moment, but he hadn't snarled. He'd let out a full-out War-Cry.
Raising up on stiff legs, Kyo sucker-punched his attacker. Goro cried out in pain, dropping the item in his hand; that Kyo now realised he used to him him with.
It was pretty much Kyo against Goro. Yuri was crying over his bleeding nose, and Minoru was to terrified to step in.
Dropping to the ground, Kyo used a lower round-house kick, making Goro to fall down as he jumped back up. Goro hissed, letting the rusted pipe fall to the side.
Grappling his ankle, Goro yanked Kyo in an attempt to make him stumble to the ground, and Kyo did a back-flip, causing Goro to crash onto his back. Goro kept his hand on the cat's leg, however, causing the other to fall down on top of him. Fisting his hand, Goro punched Kyo's left eye.
Kyo forced his hands and feet over Goro's, bashing the older fat boy's head with his own.
Getting up, Kyo looked at the sea-sick boy, spitting out more blood to the side.
"If I'm the monster, what are you?" He hissed.
End Flashback-
Kyo stared long and hard at the two men in front of him.
"What do you want in return?" He asked. "And why would you help me?"
"We want you to join us." The cloaked boy said bluntly. "And as for why? Simple. We've both done things. Horrible things. So we're looking for redemption. But you haven't."
"That's not an answer!" Kyo snarled.
"Yes, it is." The cloaked one said coldly. "You are about to be locked up for the rest of your life. And for what? Existing? You've done nothing wrong. We simply offer you redemption. They offer you a cage, in the most literal of senses."
Kyo blanched. He stared, long and hard into non-existing, non-lying, eyes.
"Who are you?" He finally asked.
"This," The shorter one said, pointing vaguily to his partner, "is Grimmjow Jeagerjaques. and I,"
"Am Toshiro Hitsugaya."
EXPLANATION!
So who thought Toshiro wasn't going to be the masked guy? You? Well, the sickle thing was supposed to confuse you.
Toshiro was supposed to be Cloaked Guy from the start, however; he needed a valid reasoning as to why he was not at Soul Society. One You will soon learn!