I'm REALLY SERIOUSLY SORRY!!!!!!!!! for this delay!!!

The Must just hasn't been visiting me lately and I coudn't get any ideas!!! I'm really sorry!!!

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DISCLAINER: I DO NOT OWN BLEACH

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It was pitch black all around her, no matter where she looked, it was the impenetrable darkness that she detested from her very soul. The ink blackness was suddenly swept away like paint being washed away with clear water, the woman blinked in surprise as the shimmering, strangely beautiful yet blinding light engulfed her.

Dark, dense lashes fluttered slowly before opening, revealing unfocused onyx grey eyes that stared blankly at the plain ceiling before wandering around aimlessly. A groan escaped from dry lips as the woman pushed herself up from the bed with an arm. The clean white sheet that covered her slid down into a crumpled heap on her lap as she straightened.

Suddenly clear onyx grey eyes widened a little before a hand flashed up and fumbled around for the crystal that she always kept on her. It wasn't around her neck, panic rose in her at the thought of having a complete stranger taking it or having lost it during her fight. A shimmer caught her eyes, she turned her head and saw a crystal hanging from a delicate and seemingly fragile silver chain sitting on the chair beside her.

Her sudden wave of panic subdued as she clasped the chain around her neck once again, the crystal glowed its rainbow of soothing colours as Rayne peered around. Taking in the blank walls, closed door, the single chair beside her bed and finally falling onto herself.

Realization dawned on her gradually as Rayne stared a little too intensely at her heavily bandages arms, chest and legs. Especially at the cast around her right leg, she glared at that with vengeance before she sighed heavily and fell back against the soft pillows.

'I guess I ended up being taken here when I was out cold…' Rayne sighed yet again as she reached out in her mind, searching for her partner.

'This is absolutely fantastic.' Rayne thought sarcastically as she heard no reply to her call. Although a faint ripple from her partner reached her, it was far too weak for her to tell where he was.

'I'm here, in Seireitei and Arashiei has been taken somewhere by someone…' Rayne pushed herself up again before swinging her legs out to the side of the bed.

The hem of the white yukata, which she had been changed into while she was unconscious, fluttered around her ankles and she set her feet down slowly. Deft fingers swiftly unwrapped all of the bandages, white trails led to the floor into a growing pile. Rayne's eyebrows rose slightly in surprise as she finished unravelling herself.

The wounds she had received from her battle had all been healed expertly, not leaving a single scar behind. She traced the spot where a supposedly gash was supposed to be, even though there was no trace of its existence.

'I guess I should thank the person that healed me…' Rayne stretched her muscles testily, when she felt no pain whatsoever as she continued to pull her muscles, feeling the tension that has been building up in her shoulders fade.

The young woman slowly added weight onto her left leg, testing it warily before leaning her full weight onto it. She breathed out a held breath of relief as she only felt a slight twinge of discomfort at the weight.

'I'm lucky I heal fast…' Rayne hobbled around in the room for a while, experimenting with her plaster encased leg as thoughts ran through her mind rapidly.

'I wonder how long I've been out for?' She frowned and continued to pace a circle in the room.

'What should I do now?' Rayne paused in her tracks, spun the other way and begun walking the other way.

'I know I can't escape here even if I tried, I would get caught immediately in my condition…' Rayne gnawed her bottom lip as she continued her unbroken stepping.

'and I can't leave without Arashiei…' Calculation grey eyes slid to the closed door.

'Waiting here for a person to come does now seem like a good idea…all they would do is put a seal or something like that on me and drag me off to interrogation…' Rayne sighed for the third time in the short amount of time since she had woken.

'No…maybe I might be able to find Arashiei and escape…' Rayne paused and then scoffed at her own naïve thoughts about her imaginary 'Great Escape from Seireitei'.

Anyone watching the scene inside the room would have thought that Rayne was mentally unstable, pacing the room constantly, muttering incoherent words to herself and then scoffing at them. Rayne stopped yet again and stared at the door, it seemed like it was beckoning her, urging her to open it and venture outside.

"I guess it's better than sitting here and waiting for a shinigami to come…" Rayne finally decided and walked towards the door, hand reaching out and grasping the knob before turning it softly and pushing the door open ever so slowly.

She peered outside carefully, checking that there was no one near before stepping out soundlessly and closing to door with a faint click. Rayne's light footsteps made no sound against the floorboards as she kept to the wall and walked cautiously down the corridor, towards the flow of voices.

'Why do I feel like a thief sneaking around…?' Rayne thought as she peered around, trying to map out the building's location in her mind.

'I should try and track the respond I got from Arashiei…' The ink black haired woman stepped around the corner and proceeded down the hallways, she paused when she heard several voices and the gentle thudding of footsteps approach her around a corner.

Rayne glanced around desperately, there was nowhere to hide! The shinigamis were about to see her, Rayne gritted her teeth and jumped just as they turned around the corner. They continued to chat idly to each other and walk down the hallway without a suspicion.

'Please, please, please…' Rayne pleased mentally as she held herself up in the corner with her arms and legs pushed against the walls.

'Don't look up…don't look up…' Rayne held her breath and suppressed her spiritual energy to its minimum as they walked underneath her. Suddenly a strand of her still ruffled hair chose to fall down onto her face and brush against her nose lightly with its ends.

A tickling and uncomfortable sensation began in her nose, Rayne gagged silently as the sneeze threatened to force its way out. Her arms shook as she bit her bottom lip, barely holding on as they turned another corner and disappeared from her sight. Rayne let herself fall, landing as silently as a lithe cat before clapping a hand over her mouth and sneezing as quietly as she could. She stared angrily at the strand of disobedient hair that nearly blew her cover before tugging it back and pushing it behind her ear.

After several minutes of sneaking through the seemingly maze like corridors, Rayne finally sighted the exit. Onyx grey eyes peered around, checking that the coast was clear before stepping out into the open and into the sunlight.

'I'm out! I'm finally out!' Rayne cheered mentally and gave herself a mental pat on the back before heading towards the trees for some cover.

Her left foot was beginning to ache slightly after the incident of hanging precariously from the ceiling to avoid detection. Rayne stumbled slightly as she looked around once again, this time dismayed by the fact that Seireitei did seem like a gigantic maze with white walkways weaving through one another endlessly.

Her eyes caught sight of a wisp of green not too far away, a smile tugged her lips up as she headed towards the swaying trees. She halted in front of the trees, looking up at the countless shimmering leaves of very shade of green before pushing off from her right foot and landing onto a branch.

'I think people won't go looking into trees randomly…' Her eyes closed as she concentrated on expanding her senses.

'Arashiei…Where are you…?' Her brows furrowed slightly when there was not a single movement in her mind's radar.

'Arashiei…Arashiei…!' She called a little louder and waited for a response, but received none.

Rayne sighed and slumped against the cool trunk of the tree, as the warm draft breezed through the trees, making their great boughs wave like graceful dancers to music.

"This is pathetic…" Rayne mumbled to herself as she slapped a hand over her eyes in irritation.

A sudden, abrupt shout nearly made her fall from her seat in the crook of the trunk and branch. Her eyes shot open before travelling to the shinigami that was pointing at her while the others stared at her, their mouths open at the random sight of a unknown woman in a sleeping yukata sitting in a tree.

"Crap…" Rayne froze to the spot, a muscle under her eyes twitched as she silently cursing herself for her own carelessness and stupidity at letting them spot her so easily.

"You! Who are you and what are you doing up there?!" A man demanded, while his friends placed their hands onto the hilts of their zanpakutou.

"I-I'm not anyone suspicions!" Rayne stammered out as she waved her hands in front of her, the corner of her mouth twitched as she laughed nervously.

The shinigami below her stared at her, sweat drops forming on their heads as they watched the laughing woman.

'You're way too suspicious…'

'Well, I'm not waiting for you guys to attack me…' Rayne suddenly leapt up, making the branch shudder.

'I'm making a run for it!' She used the branch as a spring board, launching herself from to gain speed, she soared through the air for quite a distance before she regained footing and sped away.

The shinigamis gaped at the empty spot she had been mere seconds ago, their head snapping to where she was taking great leaps and bounds away from them on the roof. Her ink black hair whipping out behind her and her yukata fluttering wildly as she flew through the air with her jumps.

"Oi! Come back!!!" They started to give chase after Rayne, who had now leapt down and was running along the clean walkways, her feet patting against the cold tiles.

"As if I'm gonna come back!!" She yelled back before turning a corner only to come face to face with another group of shinigami.

Rayne swore as she swerved around them, skidding slightly before sprinting off directionless as the shinigamis chasing grew in number at each turn she made.

'Arashiei! Arashiei! Answer me!' Rayne practically screamed in her mind, this time earning a soft reply.

'Mistress…what are you…' His whisper faded into silence, Rayne let out a frustrated growl and looked back at the shinigamis behind her.

"Get her!! Don't let her run away!!!" The crowd behind her was roaring, making the ground shake at their heavy footfalls, a cloud of dusk rose as they stampeded through the pathways with Rayne in lead.

"Why are you all chasing me?!" Rayne demanded angrily at them before she turned a corner only to meet a dead end.

"Dammit!" Rayne winced slightly from a sudden burst of pain from her left leg as she pushed off from the ground and landed a little unsteadily on the roof.

'I must have injured it again…' Rayne ignored the pain and sprinted along the roof, adding some distance between herself and the shinigami.

"Hey!!! Stop right there missy!!!!" A shinigami yelled as he clambered onto the roof as well and continued to follow her, he was soon drowned out by another.

"Yeah!!! Stop right there!!!" The whole lot of men were pushing and shoving each other to get to her for reasons she did not want to consider.

"STOP FOLLOWING ME!!!!!" Rayne shouted as she continued to run from the horde of shinigami.


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