Artemis: HIYA! So, recap for today: Ava Miura, the main character and POV source.
Vervada: Can you really have a source for a POV?
Artemis:... I don't know how else to put it... SO. Ava is a Shinigami from the... which one includes Byakuya Kuchiki?
Aletta: That's the sixth Division. Oh, and I apologize for my titling dificulties. I'll just stick to the numbers...
Artemis: RIGHT! So, she's a member of that, and she's been assigned to Karakura town, and she's met up briefly with Kurosaki, Ishida and last time she met her Zanpakuto, like Renji and Ichigo did before. Well, it told her not to deny her past, and that is where we come back to.
Vervada: Well, If you have a brain, you would read it, so why recap?
Aletta: BECAUSE! DEAL WITH IT
DISCLAIMER: You know I don't own it.
The only thing I clearly remember of my past life was the water and the bridge. How the sky was blindingly white, I couldn't see anything. The stones on the bridge were sticky on my bare feet, and my clothes stuck to me. It was really hot out, and I was sweating. There didn't seem to be any car passing on the bridge, and the water was calm, almost as flat as glass.
I was looking for something, but what, I don't know. I was following it, and the water reflected into my face. When I squinted into the water, something pushed me off the bridge. I might have heard a car run past, someone yelling as I fell, but I don't remember. What I do remember was the cool water, then the rocks at the bottom smashing my head and body.
After that, it got much clearer, because it's like being reborn. I remember how people crowded around my dead body and carried it off to the ambulence, and I remember being buried. I had a pretty small family, and I don't remember any of their names, what relation they had to me, nothing. How can I deny a past I don't remember? I'd like to bash that bird's head in.
Maybe I should try and find the city I used to live in.
"You're already there." Someone said from behind me. Honestly, people can't just talk to my face anymore?
It was my Zanpakuto. It shuffled its feathers anxiously, waiting for me to say something, I'm sure. What do I say?
"Did Captain Kuchiki plan that?" I asked
"I can only guess." It seemed irritated now, stretching out its wings and shifting from one foot to another.
"So, what are you doing here?"
"You don't seem to remember your life, so I'm going to remind you." It said, and the flowerbud grew and took over the entire bird shape. The petals formed a Hollow mask, and suddenly my Zanpakuto looked like a Hollow. It leaped at me. I reached for my Zanpakuto, but there was nothing there.
"How is this helping? What am I supposed to fight you with?" I yelled, jumping to avoid the Zanpakuto's thorny vines, "Lord, Mask of Blood and Flesh and all creation, flutter of wings, who bears the name of Man. Inferno and Pandemonium. The sea barrier surges, march on to the south. Destructive Art number 31. Red Flame Cannon!" I yelled, and a red flame shot out of my hand at it. It brushed the blow away like it was simply wind.
"Pitiful!" It yelled at me, moving to attack again. I cursed and dodged the attack and tried my Kidou again, no luck. It's not that I'm bad at it, I got top class for Kidou and can use Shunpo. Maybe I should start using that Shunpo now, and ran away. I sprinted across the bridge and stopped. I was suddenly surrounded by water, flat as the water I died in. The Hollow/Zanpakuto was right behind me, shaking its head. I opened my mouth to speak, and fell through the water. I kicked to stay afloat, tilting my head above the surface. The Hollow/Zanpakuto fell through the water, but it seemed the water was only about a centimeter high. It kept shaking its head.
"Do you have no pride?"
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"You still don't get it?"
"Can't you just tell me!?" I yelled. Something fell out from behind the Hollow/Zanpakuto's mask.
"Do you recognize it?" It dangled in view, a silver cross on a chain with a circle in it.
"You want me to take up religion?" I asked
"Stupid!" It yelled, pulling the chain out from behind its mask.
"Then what?!" I yelled. The Hollow/Zanpakuto tucked the cross into its feathers and shook its head.
It left, of course. Doesn't surprise me at all, really. This seems to be its way of working, give me something to think about then leave. Annoyingly cryptic and prone to desertion. They say people's Zanpakuto's reflect their Soul Reaper, but I think they're wrong this time. It is completely unlike me. I think I'll go check in on my gigai, and find out how many cookies I owe since I last seen her.
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Four, it turns out. Well, she needs a break, so I took over school time now. Who knows, there may be a Miura somewhere here who knows something about me.
Class stinks. Of course, there is nobody who knows about a girl with my name that died here over a century ago. Stupid me, getting my hopes up. All I got were guys hitting on me, and one of them apparently thought I was their girlfriend. I'll have to talk to that Soul-Mod about this. After breaking a few noses, and knocking the wind out of someone, I found Kurosaki.
"What are you doing, beating up all these people?" He asked me during lunch, where I ate my lunch with a group of girls. One of them seemed to be eying me. I wonder if I'll have to start fending off girls as well.
"How else am I supposed to deal with them?" I returned, and glared at the girl eying me.
"Well, you don't have to break their noses!" He yelled. I wonder if he's defending on of his friends. Probably is, I don't remember having to attack Kurosaki, or Ishida. Does Ishida even go to this school? I don't see him here, but he doesn't look old enough to be out of high school.
"Miura-san?" One of the girls said, reaching over to touch my arm. I jerked my arm away, returning to the present.
"I'm here." I said.
"I can see that. Now stop terrorizing my friends."
"I will when they do." I said, getting up to return to my class, "Hey, being a Soul Reaper, do you know anything about silver crosses?"
"What?"
"Like this." I drew the cross and circle in the dirt.
"Hey, Ishida's got something like that. Some kind of Quincy jewelry." Kurosaki scratched his head, "That help?"
"I don't know." I answered, and left. I should go find him, find out what that means.
I managed to find him sitting in the classroom. This didn't surprise me, he struck me as the type. Feeling oddly bold, I walked up to him and sat on his desk, leaning forward to face him.
"Yo."
"Miura-san, what are you doing here?" He pushed his glasses up to the bridge of his nose.
"I go to this school." I crossed my legs and smoothed out my uniform.
"I can see that. Why are you sitting on my desk?"
"Kurosaki-kun said something about you having a silver cross."
"Yes."
"What is it for?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"My Zanpakuto showed me a trinket kinda like this." I pulled the cross I noticed at his sleeve. Ishida jerked his hand back.
"What are you doing?" He ground his teeth and pushed his glasses up. I guess that's some kind of indication of annoyance, he seems to be doing that in front of me alot. He looked over me, but at least his eyes didn't just settle in one place. They spent alot of time looking at my face.
"Ishida-kun, can you tell me what you're thinking of?" I said as sweetly as I could, considering.
"Just trying to understand how it's possible."
Aletta: THAT'S IT FOR NOW!
Artemis: Aletta...
Aletta: I know. Well, I'm sure many Bleach-lovers know what'll happen anyways. DON'T RUIN IT. I'm trying to build suspense.
Artemis: Well, see ya next time waves goodbye