The tale of the shinigami lotus maiden
Soul society arc
Chapter 7
Shiba: kukaku and Ganju
note: I am using a bit of the TV series from bleach so I can get a Idea of what to write.
Disclaimer:I don't own bleach kubo does
Thought/Flashback
POV
SHOUTTING/PAINFUL SCREAMS
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Dream
summary: after arriving in soul society and the incident at the gate with Gin Ichimaru which resulted in Raven getting knocked out, they meet ganju a man
who has a huge hatred for soul reapers, he picks a fight with Ichigo which is never finished cause Ganju was almost late for something, the next day they head
to the Shiba clan house and meet Kukaku Shiba.
Note: Raven has good observant skills so she can sense danger really quickly. She also is a quick learner her training is never mentioned cause it was a lot things to explain.
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recap: Ichigo and Ganju faced each other, "it looks like it's your and my destiny to fight."
With that the fight began.
End recap
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Ganju unsheathed his sword, and prepared to charge.
Raven moved aside as the elder came out "stop this Ganju these two are not bad soul reapers."
Ganju snaps "Shut up all soul reaper's are the same, there is nothing good or bad about them"
"Ganju…"
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as she looked closer at Ganju she saw his eyes, there was no hatred in them but a deep sadness, Raven suddenly felt empathy for the guy as she thought 'he must have lost something dear to him.'
"HERE I COME!"
Ganju charged at Ichigo with a cry
"this is bad Ichigo doesn't have his zanpaktou" said Ishida as he watched the fight, Chad remedied the situation by tossing Zangetsu to Ichigo.
"thanks Chad" Ichigo called as he caught it by the handle, as the white cloth spun off Zangetsu Ganju said "so that's your sword its pretty big but you won't be able to beat me with that big blade.
As they're swords clashed together, Ganju did a movement with his foot, with the hand not holding the sword he shove ichigo's sword straight into the ground until the handle
was the only thing sticking out.
"what the?!" was Ichigo's reaction before he got kicked in the face and thrown into the air. "yaro using some weird move" as he somersaulted Ganju came at him with his sword raised and brought it down, Ichigo caught the sword arm and punched him in the face, the force of the punch knocked the sword from his hand.
"URGH!" Ganju grunted in pain as he staggered backwards clutching his nose. "Kuso teme" he spat.
Ichigo was shaking his hand back and forth looking surprised "That didn't take you down, your quiet tough"
the two men exchanged blows back and forth continuously.
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Raven watched the fight for a little bit, as she watched she noticed that Ichigo was doing more of the hitting instead of the one being hit.
"I need to go rest for a bit" she murmured and walked back inside having seen enough.
Once she was back in the bedroom she decided to meditate for a bit.
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Ichigo grabbed his opponent by the neck of his robe and threw him with all his might. Ganju yelled as he sailed thru the air and landed on his back.
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Raven sat down, crossing her legs and closed her eyes. The sound of fighting grew distant around as she went into her mind.
MINDSCAPE
When Raven blinked again she was in a Japanese garden.
Bonsai trees were everywhere except one area, a huge pond was in the middle of the trees, floating on the surface of the water were the most beautiful (1)Hasuhana she had ever seen.
As she reached the pond a voice called out to her. "hello Raven" she turned around to face a man with long silver hair, he was the most beautiful man she had to ever seen he looked like an elf from fantasy books she had read.
"Ryujin…" he chuckled "you seem speechless is there something you wanted to talk about?"
Raven told him about the visions she had been seeing lately. When she finished he looked thoughtful. "all we can do is wait and see but I have a feeling you will meet this boy soon"
he placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled "you should go back now, we will talk about it later"
Raven nodded as the mind realm dissolved.
REALITY
Raven snapped back to reality when she heard a alarm clock ringing,
then shouting "WHAT TIME IS IT!" "ITS NINE ALREADY BOSS THIS IS GONNA BE BAD!"
she heard stampeding noise's and then Ganju yelling "JUST WAIT I WILL BE BACK,YOU BETTER NOT TURN TO FLUFF AND BLOW AWAY IN THE WIND."
Raven had a sweat drop on her head she heard Ichigo's enraged scream of "I GONNA KILL THAT GUY WHEN I FIND OUT WHO HE IS?"
Raven sweat dropped 'I got a feeling that these two are not going to give up on killing each other.'
As she lay down Raven felt something against her side, reaching in to her robe she pulled out a package with a note tied to it.
"what's this?...." she muttered as she pulled the note of the package and opened it. it read: 'Ray-Chan you should wear this mask when you enter the Serietei,
because your face might cause some commotion from the shinigami there' have a good time!'
signed Urahara :P
a big smiley face was drawn on the corner of the paper.
Raven felt veins throbbing on her forehead "that..is…the…cheesiest smiley face I have seen in my entire life I am going to bed" she put the package back in her
robe pocket, with that she lay down and fell asleep.
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Ichigo was still pissed at the boar man for calling him a dandelion head. "I am going to murder that guy tomorrow."
He saw that Raven was already asleep when he entered, smiling he lay down on a separate floor bed and watched Raven.
ICHIGO
I hope Raven is okay, she has been through a lot. I noticed a crystal lotus flower on a chain that hung around her neck, I remembered what she had told me about it a year ago.
FLASHBACK (Ichigo)
I asked "Raven where did that lotus flower necklace come from?" she pulled out the necklace and looked it, then shrugged "I don't know where or how I got it" she paused then added "but it might have something to do with my lost memories."
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I turned over and fell asleep while thinking how to pulverize Ganju A.K.A pig straddler .
NEXT MORNING
Raven was awake and up before anyone else so she decided to go for a walk and check on Jidanbo
who was still unconscious from Gin's attack, as she walked along the road to the sleeping form of the giant she thought about a lot of things. 'what will happen when we rescue Rukia?, will our lives be normal again?' 'this place might answer my questions about my lost memories but it might be difficult', 'I keep seeing that boy with the white hair and green eyes what does this mean' she pondered all of these as she walked until she stood in front of the sleeping guardian.
Raven watched as the giant's chest rose up and down. "what is my purpose here"
She was interrupted by a screech "IIITAIII!!" she rushed back and saw the cause of the commotion.
Raven sighed and shook her head, that brother of hers, stubborn as a mule, which resulted in him get scratched by Yoruichi.
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"Has so much blood gone to your head that you have forgotten our original purpose for coming to soul society?!"
As Yoruichi scolded him, Ichigo pushed himself of the floor looking a little ashamed of himself as Raven came to the door. "do I want to know what happened?"
everyone save Ichigo shook their heads. It was around mid morning when the group began their walk to the house of Kukaku Shiba.
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Author note: Raven missed some of the action that happened at the elders house while she went for a walk so Inoue is telling her about where
they are going. Now back to the story.
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As they walked along the road to the place where Raven had heard from Inoue that a person named Kukaku Shiba who lived outside of the rukon district would
help them get into the Seireitei. "raven what did you do during those ten days while Ichigo was training" Inoue asked, Raven thought for a moment "I had to find
out the name of my sword and learn a few other tricks" Inoue looked pleadingly "please Ray-Chan tell me more about what you learned_" the two girls were
interrupted by Yourichi who called out "we are here" Raven looked up not realizing that they had come to a stop and were looking at a house with arms holding up
a red banner.
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Ichigo was having trouble finding words to describe what he was seeing, Ishida was stupefied at the sight of the house. This person likes to announce who they are it seems she thought as she walked past her brother and Ishida who had shadowed expressions of disbelief, as the group reached the door they heard "Halt!" was suddenly shouted as two huge men jumped in front of the group, one was wearing blue the other orange; other than that they looked exactly alike. Ichigo gripped Zangetsu's handle, Raven did the same with Ryujin.
"Who are you people?!" The one wearing orange demanded.
"Such strange clothing you wear! And two of you is a Shinigami!" The one in blue said.
"Suspicious Strangers! I Koganehiko and…" The one in yellow stopped halfway.
"I, Shiroganehiko…" The one in white continued after his brother.
"Can't not let you pass!" They shouted together, Ichigo growled in annoyance.
"Be gone from this place!" Kaganehiko shouted.
"Or you will die where you stand!" Shiroganehiko shouted, Ichigo sighed and let go of Zangetsu's hilt, Raven slowly took her hand away from Ryujins hilt.
"More ugly gate keepers? Soul Society is full of hassles!" Ichigo complained. Yourichi came up from behind Ichigo and pointed to herself.
"Yourichi-Dono!" The twins shouted.
Raven watched as the twins suddenly changed from tough men to respectful apologetic gentlemen as they led the Rukia rescue team into the house.
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"Downstairs as soon as you enter?!" What kind of weird house is this?!" Uryuu demanded as the group walked down the stairs. "I wonder how you get to the other floors?" Inoue wondered.
Raven smiled "try not to think about it too much Inoue" as she patted Inoue on the shoulder. "oh dear we were so rude to you, we had no idea that you were companions of Yourichi-dono" exclaimed Koganehiko as he led everyone to a hallway with a shoji door.
"its okay I am partly to blame for not letting you know beforehand" explained Yourichi "You're great and so thoughtful!" Kaganehiko said, soon the group came to the door. while Ichigo grumbled about being called companions.
Raven looked at the door that Koganeihiko stopped before the shogi screen, turned around and faced them. "please wait a moment"
Kaganehiko said, he knocked on the door. Clapping was answered.
"yes right away master Kukaku" Kaganehiko said as he got onto the floor, he opened the door.
Sitting in the middle of the room was a very revealing women with long black hair.
"Long time no see Yourichi!" The women said, Yourichi smiled and walked in.
"Wait! Kuukaku's a women?" Ichigo and Raven asked at the same time, Yourichi turned around. "I never said she was a man, you just assumed she was." Ichigo sighed while Raven said "you should have told us sooner"
Kukaku eyed the group with a suspious look, when her eyes fell on Raven they widened a bit, however her eyes returned to normal as she turned to Yourichi and whispered "who are the kids?" Yourichi whispered back, Kukaku turned her gaze on Raven as the girl walked up and bowed "where can I put my Zanpakuto Shiba-san?" Kukaku grinned "I like this girl she isn't frightened of me, you can lean it on the wall over there, " Raven placed her sword against the wall and sat down.
After everyone was sitting down Yoruichi explained "I've come today to ask a favor of you my old friend." Kuukaku smirked.
"You usually do that when you come here." Kuukaku said, the two looked at each other in the eye.
"Is it trouble?" Kuukaku asked.
"Probably." Yourichi answered, Kuukaku smirked.
"It's been a while since we talked like this too. Okay, lets hear it. I love trouble." Kuukaku said as she smirked.
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Renji lead the guards across a red bridge and into a white tower. In the centre of the 4 guards was someone wearing a white Kimono with a cloth other their heads. When they were inside the cloth was removed, Rukia Kuchiki was revealed.
"Can you see it Rukia….from that window?" Renji asked, Rukia gazed out of the small window with his hands behind his back.
"Those are the Soukyoku, the two tools that will execute you." Renji stated, Rukia stayed silent.
"Those imprisoned in this tower are meant to repent the crimes they have committed by gazing upon the Soukyoku through the small windows built into the tower." One of the guards said, Renji looked up.
"That is why this place is called the Shrine of Penitence." He finished as he stood up. "Your hands please, realise!" The guard said, his finger glowed purple as he touched the ropes around Rukia's wrists. The rope untied itself and wound itself back into the red collar around Rukia's neck. The four guards then stood up and turned to the door.
"Thank you for leading the transfer procession." The guard said to Renji, he nodded and went to follow them out of the door.
"Vice-Captain Abarai?" The guard asked when he realised Renji wasn't moving. Renji looked back at Rukia before walking up to her.
"I'll tell you one unconfirmed report." Renji stated as he gripped Byakuya's shoulder.
"You know some Ryoka entered Soul Society yesterday right?" Renji asked, Rukia stayed silent.
"They were 6 of them. They say two of them was Shinigami, one with bright orange hair and the other one had dark red hair with Lotus flowers decorating the sides of her head. it is also said their Zanpakuto was as tall as they was." Rukia gasped and turned to face Renji. 'could it be Ichigo…Raven'
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"I see, I think I understand the situation." She was silent for a moment as she smoked her pipe. "Alright I accept," "really Yoruichi leaned forward with a eager
expression. "yes cause if Urahara is involved in this, I couldn't refuse even if I wanted to…however" Kukaku stood up "While I trust you Yoruichi…it doesn't mean
that I trust these kids , so as reassurance I am sending one of my underlings with you" Raven felt a vein on her forehead.
She really disliked being treated like a kid but listened as the Shiba woman went to another door while explaining "I call him a underling but he is my younger
brother." She stood in front of the door and called out "hey are you ready?" a voice that sounded familiar to Raven answered "u-uh huh one moment" "I am
opening it, so be on your best behavior!"
"understood" Kukaku opened the door to reveal the man they had run into at the Rukon elder's house. " a pleasure to meet you my name is Ganju Shiba, please think of me if you need anything" he looked up smiling.
Everyone's reactions was shock and in Ichigo cause rage, Ganju then noticed who the guest were. Silence filled the room for a moment in which Raven thought 'I
knew it' she counted the seconds '3…2…1' then "AHHHH!" both Ganju and Ichigo yelled and pointed at each other at the same time.
Kukaku looked surprised "you two know each other?" Raven muttered "unfortunately it was not a friendly first meeting" then everything turned to chaos. Raven
watched as her brother grabbed Ganju by the head and bellowed
"TEME TAKE A FLYING LEAP!!" he threw his opponent toward the door. Raven turned her back as Ganju began to..uh grab ichigo by ankles and stomp on his
important treasure. 'Ow that sounds painful' , then Ichigo punched Ganju out of the room. Everything was happening real fast, Raven could only catch snatches
of "HOW ABOUT I REARRANGE YOUR FACE!" or "take that dandelion". She stood up and walked past the fighting duo and upstairs to the outside of the house.
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once outside Raven let her breath out and sat down near the river.
"just as I thought they're bent on mutilating each other." She closed her eyes and meditated for a moment, suddenly her head throbbed as she saw another
vision. 'how much longer will these visions be cause me pain'
soundtrack Bleach: torn apart
Vision
The ruins of a strange house a stone slab was placed near it, strange symbols written on it Raven heard a voice "only those of the Hasu can decode this" she
blinked 'those of the Hasu?' she was interrupted by a loud explosion.
Vision end
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Raven blinked as she heard a explosion behind her, she turned around just in time to see Chad, Inoue(with Yoruichi sitting on her head), and Ishida charging out the door just in time to avoid a explosive blast of yellow energy that left the ground scorched.
"did she have to be so drastic to stop them"
Raven got up and walked to the door, "apparently she had to stop them I will go see" she walked down the stairs of the scortched house. 'she really angry for
some reason' as she approached the sitting room she heard Kukaku yelling "WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU FOOLS I OUTTA RIP YOU A NEW ONE FOR BEING SO
STUPID IF YOU TWO TRY TO KILL EACH OTHER THE MOMENT YOU SEE EACH ONE ANOTHER THAT WILL SCREW UP THE ENTIRE MISSION NOT TO MENTION THAT
YOU TWO HAVE ALREADY WRECKED MY HOUSE!".
'you finished wrecking it, those two started wrecking the place' Raven had a huge sweat drop on the side on her head as the others joined her.
"but sis I-" she began beating him up. "I DON"T WANT TO HEAR ANY EXCUSES!" she looked up at the others with a ferocious expression and snapped "YOU GOT
SOMETHING TO SAY?!" everyone shook their heads. "alright shut up and follow me."
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3 hours later
"What the hell is that?" Ichigo asked, the group stared at what looked like a giant chimney.
"I'll use this to shoot you guys into Seireitei….through the sky!" Kuukaku said as she pointed upwards.
"The sky?!" Uryuu shouted in surprise, Ichigo looked shocked Raven had a interested expression on her face.
"or my name isn't Kukaku Shiba number one fireworks maker of west Rukon"
"wow" Raven said.
"Fireworks maker?" Chad asked, Kuukaku smirked.
"That's right. Kaganehiko, Shiroganehiko! Bring it up!" Kuukaku shouted, everyone looked up.
"Bring what up?" Orihime asked, suddenly the floor shook.
"what the!" Ichigo shouted as he stopped Raven from falling over.
"What's going on?" Orihime asked.
"The floor is….rising." Uryuu said, Chad grunted.
The ceiling suddenly opened as the floor kept going up.
"The ceiling opened up!" Uryuu said in astonishment.
"Are you kidding me?" Ichigo asked as he looked up. "Are you brats surprised?" Kuukaku asked, Raven let go of Ichigo. "next time warn us please" she said while getting her heart rate back to normal.
Kukakau stepped up on the platform ans smirked "this is Shiba Kukaku's own personal fireworks plateform" Ganju lept in front of his sister and announce "The Kukaku cannon!" Kuukaku suddenly kicked him in the back of the head.
"Don't say it before I do!" Kuukaku hissed, Ganju mumbled something into the floor.
"are you speechless?" she grinned at the stunnded group.
"how can you joke at a time like this? It is insane!" Ishida complained but was silenced by a glass ball that whacked him in the face and bounced off to land in Ichigo's hand. "What's this?" Ichigo asked.
"Reishukaku. Put your palms against the surface and concentrate your Spiritual Energy." Kuukaku explained, Ichigo looked down at the ball then up at her.
"What will happen?" Ichigo asked. Kukaku turned to Yoruichi "why don't we let the lotus girl show us what happens. The latter looked surprised but took the ball from Ichigo's hand. "everyone, Onisama back away a little please" everyone did as she asked. "here we go" Raven focused half of her energy
on the glass sphere. She heard crys of surprise as she opened her eyes them, to find herself in a giant see through ball.
"whoa …Nice!" she Kuukaku smirked and tapped the front of the ball.
"This is the cannonball. Now listen really carefully!" Kuukaku said, the other 4 teenagers sat down as Raven sat down in the glass ball.
"You guys might think that the wall is the only thing that's guarding Seireitei, but that's a mistake." Kuukaku said.
"That wall is made from a very rare mineral called Sekki Seki. This is a piece of it." Kuukaku said as she placed a small rock on the floor. She then hit the rock with her Spiritual Energy.
"As you can see, it completely blocks of Spiritual Energy. That's why it's impossible to open a hole in the wall with Spiritual Energy." Kuukaku said, the small rock had a moat around it where her attack had bounced off.
"Plus it emit's a wave that destructs and decomposes Spiritual Energy from it's cross section." Kuukaku said as she held up the stone, Raven slowly stopped putting her Spiritual Energy in. The glass ball slowly disappeared.
"Wait that means that Seireitei has a barrier around it, most likely like the Cannon ball." Ichigo said, Kuukaku smirked.
"Right, they basically have a giant Cannonball surrounding Seireitei from above and underneath." Kuukaku said.
"I invented the Cannonball, it's called the Special Strengthened Reisi Partition Producing Device. In other words if you all concentrate your Spiritual Energy into this then a temporary cannonball can be made which is capable of breaking through the barrier. Then I'll shoot that cannonball with this Kakaku Cannon and it should pass right through the barrier." Kuukaku said as she smirked.
"Oh that sounds awesome!" Ichigo said, Orihime nodded next to him.
"What?!" Uryuu asked, Ichigo smirked.
"Oh come on Ishida, you got to admit it sounds cool?" Ichigo asked, Uryuu shook his head.
"No it doesn't! It sounds insane, crazy!" Uryuu shouted.
"Lets disband and go practice concentrating Spiritual Energy in the basement. Except the girl with the auburn hair."
The twin duo came from behind the group and lifted them up.
"Hey let go of me!" Uryuu shouted, Orihime squealed as she was lifted up.
"Listen well, if a single person screws up while concentrating, it goes 'Boom' right there." Kuukaku said casually, Ichigo gaped.
"What I didn't sign up for this?!" Ichigo's shouts where heard as the 4 teenagers were dragged into the house. Ganju silently followed them behind.
Kukaku sat down next to Raven "so girl tell me your name"
"Raven Kurosaki" Kukaku nodded "I see so tell me how did you come to live with that orange haired kid?" Raven thought for a moment then said "I was abandoned in the rain I don't know how I got there.
I just woke up laying in the middle of the road, it was raining that day too" she shrugged "I met Ichigo and his family, they decided to let me live with them as long as I needed to , so I became Ichigo's younger sister" raven finished with a strained voice.
She suddenly felt pity for the girl but didn't show it "so you going into the seireitei to rescue this friend of yours?" Raven nodded "yes and the probability that I will find answers to my questions about what happened 6 years ago when I woke up in the rain"
Kukaku stood up "you look a lot like a woman I used to know" Raven stood up as well. "who was she?" she asked but Kukaku said gruffly "you go eat dinner then get some rest" Raven nodded and stood up, "yes I think I will".
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2 hours after a commotion over Ichigo's spiritual energy Raven fell asleep.
The dreams began to come once again.
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Raven's dream
I ran through the hallways of the strange mansion, blood was everywhere a voice was heard in the next room. "you will not take my daughter from me you power hungry madman!" "She will be my queen when I sit on the throne of heaven" a voice answered, sudden flash of blue light lit the next room, a woman came running out, she looked like me but had midnight colored hair with red streaks, she grabbed my hand. "come quickly my daughter" a hand took mine and pulled me out of the room into another.
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the next morning everyone gathered around the flower crane cannon. "alright everyone ready?" Kukaku said, "one moment" raven pulled out the butterfly mask and put it on her face.
"why the mask?" asked Ishida who was thunderstruck at how Raven looked with the mask. "Urahara said that my appearance will cause some interesting commotion." Ishida couldn't say anything else because Kukaku quickly created a hole in the side of the cannon. "come on all of you get inside" everyone got inside as the hole closed up, "dawn will soon be here, that will be the signal to launching of the cannonball." Kukaku drew a dark circle around the base of the cannon, when she finished she threw the brush aside.
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Inside the cannon Yoruichi whispered "listen everyone once we get into the court don't separate from each other no matter what, If we encounter a captain, run away from them without a moments hesitation, our main objective is to rescue Rukia that is all.
You must under no circumstances, take any dangerous risks." Raven listened with others and thought 'I understand that part but what if we can't escape a captain?" Raven decided not to say anything.
The silence was broken as Kukaku unsheathed her dagger and stabbed it into the ground while chanting these words.
"beyond!, bronze-colored greed sixty degrees of of control" Raven felt excitement well in her as Kukaku continued the incantation.
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Yoruichi said "its begun pour in your spirit power now!" everyone concentrated as light issued from the cannon ball and surrounded them in a sphere.
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"Seventy-two pairs of Illusions, thirty pairs of Horn flutes!" as she walked up to the line she had drawn.
Pulling off her bandana, and curled it on her hand, "The right hand of the monkey" her hand suddenly light up in red flames. "…Grasp the stars!" kukaku
slamed her hand on the ground.
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Raven stood focusing on the sphere, she did not hear the final part of the incantation "KAKAKU FIRE METHOD no. 2!, KAGIZAKI BLOSSOM!"
Suddenly Raven felt her heart stop as a giant explosion shot the solidified sphere into the sky. As the sphere vanished from view Kukaku stood up and said a
small prayer. "be careful and come back to me…Ganju"
to be continued………
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