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~following Yuki~
Yuki easily got to the crystal caves. She was surprised how she could cover an easy two hour hike in two minutes. She was liking this whole shunpo thing.
"Who are you?" Yuki turned and found a tall man standing behind her. He wore a pair of white pants that hung down like a pair of old jeans and no shirt whatsoever. And he was ripped, chiseled and everything else that could have made her drool over him.
"Idiot!" Yuki hadn't caught sight of the small green haired child. She had what looked like a biker helmet with a single horn on her head. "This is the girl Aizen told us to get rid of!"
"What?" Yuki to a defensive step back. She'd been set up, and quite slyly. She had to admit she was impressed by Aizen's planning, but why teach her to control her reiatsu. Sure it may have attracted unwanted attention when she was trying to control it-wait. 'Did he use me as bait? Who for?'
"Look what you've done now idiot. Now it's going to be harder than when she had her guard down, but no you had to talk to her." The small girl continued to yell at her partner. "Let's just get this over with. Aizen needs the zanpakutou as soon as possible."
Yuki caught sight of the sheathed blade in the girl's hand. What did she call it?
"Sorry about this." Yuki hadn't notice him move to right in front of her. He drew his sword.
Yuki was glad her father insisted on them practising hand combat against a sword. Her brothers had Thoth he was crazy and teaching them unnecessary skills. She stepped out of his strike zone and reflexes to a punch connecting with his sternum. She sent him back a few feet.
"What are you doing?! She's just a human girl! Get up Starrk!" Yuki left quickly, she didn't want to give hem another attack.
'Starrk. So he did set me up.' Yuki headed back towards the ruined shrine. She was certain Aizen was still there, his creepy aura was coming from that direction. So was the one she had felt earlier, the being watched feeling. Although, it felt more like being watched over and protected. Yuki smiled as she got closer to the two.
*CRASH*
Yuki didn't know what to make of the sound, but she easily saw that the shrine had collapsed. She couldn't see it's tall roof anymore.
She stopped right in front of Aizen, he didn't seem to notice her. "BASTARD!" She gathered reiatsu on her hand and punched him in the chest as he turned to face her.
When the dust cleared she found her hand against his bare chest, he hadn't moved an inch. He just smiled at her. "Nice try, but that won't work. I assume you found Starrk. Pity he didn't finish you off away from him. You could have saved him another heart break." Aizen brought his hand across her throat, but she was already gone.
Yuki held on tight as she felt the wind whip by her at an alarming rate. One moment she was watching in slow motion as Aizen moved to slit her throat. Next she had her eyes shut tight and hugging someone's muscular arm as they ran at breakneck speed. It all happened so fast.
Suddenly the wind stopped, she didn't know what to do. So she did what most girls did, to her displeasure, she burst into tears.
"It's okay, you're safe now. I got you." Shunsui hugged Yuki tightly, she was alive. His heart had nearly stopped when Aizen stood in front of her once the dust cleared enough. He couldn't lose her, not again. "Are you okay?"
"You seen something similar happen before haven't you?" Yuki had cleared enough of her throat to talk normally. "I caught a glimpse of your face, you looked terrified."
"Yes. I have seen something similar." Shunsui's memories went back to the winter war. To when an Arrancar had impaled Jushiro with his arm through his chest. "It was-"
"With your friend?" Yuki tried not to replay the memory that had gone through her mind as she saw Shunsui's horrified face. She had seen a ghost of him mirroring it. 'Why do I keep having these memories? Are they from his friend's point of view? What am I?'
Shunsui picked her up and carried her through the forest. He had stopped once they were far enough away from Aizen. He couldn't feel them coming closer, they were gone. 'Must have retreated to Hueco Mondo.'
"Shunsui. What happened to your friend?" She felt a pain in her chest as she watched memory after memory of a hand or sleeve being pulled away from her mouth and it being covered in blood. She shuddered as she felt a tear fall from her face as her chest contracted painfully. The memories stopped when she felt a warm hand wipe her tear away.
"Please don't cry. He died. He had been sick for a long time. To think he lasted through dozens of fights and a few wars, and it's his sickness that killed him." Shunsui started using shunpo again, they were out of the woods. He started jumping across roofs once they got into the town.
"You can put me down. I'm not injured." Yuki could feel a few strained muscles beneath her. Shunsui had been injured.
Shunsui let her down once he was back on the street. They were right in front of her house. "You sure you're okay?"
"Yes. I'm fine-"
*BANG*
Yuki hoped she was wrong as she felt a hot liquid run down her stomach. Shunsui's horrified face denied her that hope.
"YUKI!" Shunsui caught her and began putting pressure on the wound. He looked over her shoulder, he saw white cloth and knew who it was. "Starrk."
"Missed. I was aiming for her heart. Too bad. Now she has to wait to die." Starrk spun a gun on his finger. "Should we wait for her to die, or kill him now. What do you think, Lilynette?"
"Let's just get this over with. I'm getting dizzy with you spinning me like this. SO STOP IT ALREADY!" Lilynette yelled at her partner.
"Shun?" Yuki could feel the blood continue to run through her fingers. It wasn't going to stop, it must have nicked an artery. "Shun?"
"I'm right here Yuki." Shunsui was happy to here his old nickname. No one used it, only Jushiro had.
"Can you pull me out? I want to check something." Yuki felt her hand turn cold as his felt like they were burning hers as she began to lose feeling in them.
Shunsui frowned, but knew what she was asking. He pulled out a pendant that Was used as the basis for the combat pass. He had planned to give it to her once she learned to control her reiatsu. He knew she could be another potential substitute shinigami. He pressed the pendant to her back.
Yuki was surprised by the force at which she was propelled forward. She spun around and landed hard on her ass. "Ouch. Did you have to do it so forcefully?" She looked towards Shunsui and was surprised. He held her body in his hands, and a chain connected her to her body. She examined herself as she stood. "Okay. So I'm still a female."
"What else would you be?" Shunsui asked while laying her body down gently. He knew it wasn't going to stay alive for much longer. It was loosing too much blood.
"Well. Don't call me crazy, but I have sort of been having strange images popping into my head. Most of the time it's when I look in the mirror, and I look like a man for a few seconds." Yuki didn't want to see his face. She was worried he would think of her as crazy.
"Anything-" Shunsui stopped as he reacted to another Cero. "Won't be a gentleman and let us finish our conversation?" Shunsui set Yuki back down on her feet. She collapsed to her knees. "Yuki!" He noticed the chain beginning to break.
"This hurts almost as much as the gun shot." Yuki gasped as another wave of pain washed over her.
*CRACK CRACK SNAP*
Yuki watched as the broken chain in front of her fell to the ground. 'That can't be good.' She sat still as the wind around her picked up and pushed Shunsui away. She couldn't see anything as it picked up dust.
Shunsui stared at the cyclone that had enveloped Yuki. He turn just in time to block Starrk's blades. He was still in his release form, so he wasn't surprised to see wolves around him. "Thought you used her up in our last fight?"
"I had, but a piece of her soul was still attached to mine. So she came back." Starrk wasn't pleased with how things were going. His job was to kill the girl. And if she stayed around, then kill her again. "You won't win this time. I know all of your tricks."
Shunsui backed up as a burst of air came from the cyclone as it dispersed. The dust enveloped the small area. He felt a hand pulled him back, a soft feminine hand.
"You can't hide." Shunsui could see a blue sphere begin to form, a cero.
He went to pull Yuki away, but she stopped him. "Don't worry. I got this, Shun." He wondered if she was going to keep on calling him that. He didn't mint it, but it hurt to not hear it in Jushiro's voice.
The cero came towards them, disappeared, then shot back at Starrk.
Shunsui looked in surprise as the dust cleared with the cero exchange. Yuki stood in a shinigami uniform. It had a pink belt wrapping around the waist that he could have sworn it was the same pattern as his old pink kimono. In her hands, she held Sogyo no Kotowari.
"What was that?" Starrk looked towards the girl he had been told to kill. She was a shinigami. "Who are you? And how can you copy that white haired Taichou's ability?"
"Because it's Sogyo no Kotowari's ability. And it's my zanpakutou, Starrk-san." Yuki smiled as the memories clicked into place. She was Ukitake Jushiro reincarnated. She laughed at how she had kept her family name the same. "Glad to see you still remember that fight. It was quite rudely interrupted." She rubbed her chest remembering the Arrancar's hand going through it. "But it looks like there won't be any interruptions this time."
"You think you are a match for me? You are mistaken. You only just got your powers." Starrk didn't understand how she could already release her zanpakutou. He was under the impression that took a long time.
"You're mistaken. I just woke up from a long sleep. I've had this zanpakutou for over 2000 years. I just learned a few tricks." Yuki smiled as she held up her right sword. "Hikikaesu." Another cero shot out of her sword. "And it doesn't stop there."
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