"What do you care?" I scoffed never turning to look at Renji.
"What's that supposed to mean? I was just asking how Sayuri was doing," I could here the agitation rise in his voice.
I laughed, "If you were really sooo worried, you wouldn't have let her get shredded to pieces."
He was now completely turned towards me. I never turned to look at him. "I wasn't the one who put her in that room. My blade never left my hip. A certain little hot head, that you are sooooo fond of, was the one who did the slicing and dicing!" I turned towards him now, smirking as he always did, to soak in his aggravation. This was just too good to miss.
"You were fond of her not so long ago yourself, you asshole! And you're telling me that you didn't say one word, ONE WORD, to piss her off?!" I was heated with anger from my eyes to my toes. The rising annoyance in my so called best friend was fueling that fire, and I did nothing to stop it.
"I couldn't let her bad mouth me in front of..."
I instinctually cut him off, "That's what this was about! You couldn't let the girl you cheated on, like a five cent whore, talk bad about you?!" I fumed and stood up storming into the woods. If he didn't follow me, fine, then I would take my aggression out on the forest. If he did follow me, even better, we couldn't fight here. There was a chance that we would destroy buildings. Well, I would destroy something.
As I thought, he got up and followed. I knew he would. He couldn't let me slap his pride like that. "What does this make a damned difference to you?! I didn't do anything to you!" he was boiling and I was eating it up. Oh this is gonna be good, love.
"No! I asked you one thing, one goddamnedthing, don't let Sayuri get killed. And what do you do?! You provoke Akako! You know you hurt her, and you know how she gets! You just can't swallow your damned pride for five seconds!" We were moving deeper into the forest as I screamed over my shoulder. Never letting him have the satisfaction of looking him in the face.
This was making him more and more furious by the second. He had to chase me to win this arguement and I wouldn't even look at him. I could hear the bubbling rage in his voice, "If you were so damned worried, why didn't you make sure Akako wouldn't kill the newbie!?"
"1. I tried! But I couldn't find her! On top of your sluttish ass running around on her, her apartment block was destroyed thanks to Zaraki!" I had paused and turned around to scream into his face for this one. We came to the edge of a clearing as my voice grew louder, "And 2. THAT WASN'T MY FUCKING JOB! IT WAS YOURS! THAT BAND AROUND YOUR ARM ACTUALLY MEANS SOMETHING! IT'S NOT JUST TO PUT PEOPLE IN YOUR BED!!!" .
"Ya, that's right. The band around MY arm. Not yours!! A subordinate shouldn't talk to their superior that way!" there was the pompous attitude again.
That asshole knew how much that pissed me off. He was toying with me now. Okay then, let's play. I marched across the clearing, Hinoeuma screaming to get out. "Ya, and you never would have gotten that thing if it weren't for me! I was the one who got the three of us here! I gave up everything to keep us together and to get you that fucking band! I could've been much better off but I gave it all up. And you keep fucking everything up because you can't keep it in your pants!!" Hinoeuma was cackling menacingly inside my mind.
Renji rocked back on his heels and smirked. He knew he had finally hit a chord. I was never prepared for what he said next, "Ha, you should talk. You never would have gotten to the soul society if you had kept YOUR legs closed."
Hinoeuma became silent instantly. I froze. I was in utter shock. Only my best friend and the captain knew that I had been raped before I was killed. And just because I had called him on his shit, he was using this to hurt me. He knew it still plagued me to this day.
That was it. It was like wildfire. The rage exploded and I unsheathed my blade. Let's kill him. I positioned for attack. Nothing was holding me back anymore, "TAKE. IT. BACK." I screamed through gritted teeth and a clenched jaw. I was so angry I could feel hot tears of rage pooling behind my eyes.
Renji pulled out Zabimaru and held the blade loosely in his hand. I swear I am going to take that smirk off his face. He rocked again and let out a laugh, "As if you could make me if you tried." Oh, we can. And we will.
My eyes narrowed and my body tensed into a cat like hunch as I ripped over the earth at a startling speed. I swung my blade and it came crashing down on steel as I ran renji into the ground. He flew backwards in the dust, just barely balanced on the balls of his feet. I stood there, hip cocked, grinning that same wolf tooth snarl I had seen on Kasai earlier, "You have one chance to take it back, or I will rip the tongue from your skull and strangle you with it."
He stood straight and gained a proper fighting stance. He was no longer smirking, "Why would I when it is true?" A pure fiery rage erupted in my eyes and Zabimaru appeared coiling around his coward of a master.
We must intimidate him, love. He had to pull out his beloved snake so soon. Hinoeuma cackled again as he appeared next to me, his mane and tail fire were engulfed in raging flames. Keep the dinosaur preoccupied, I said mentally as I pulled off the outer shirt of my shihakusho and laid it on the ground, I want to rip him to pieces. Understood.
Zabimaru hissed as the fiery black steed multiplied and formed a straight line of his copies on either side of me. I held my blade in my left hand now, parallel to my chest. Gripping the blade with my right, the steel began to melt. I could see Renji squint, haha a sign of fear. The melting metal wrapped around my right hand as it took proper form. My blade had become the familiar steel whip, some twenty feet in length, but that changed when it was needed. The glove of metal that was now my right arm felt almot sensual as I tensed and relaxed my muscles. Soon there was a herd of twenty fire engulfed horses, ten flanking either side of me. I never attacked first, but today was the exception. The blood thirst was eating at me. I closed the large gap between us with frightening speed. The herd matching my every step leaving trails of blue fire in our wake. Zabimaru roared and arched as he aimed directly for me with the whip of Renji's blade. Five horses sped before me and galloped directly for the snake's head. The collided with a sonic boom and the five horses exploded entirely into flames. The bony demon roared in agony as he became singed. God, the release of spiritual pressure was amazing.
I cracked the whip in the air in front of me with extreme force, knocking Renji's blow away with ease. I planted a foot in the ground and threw the weight into my right shoulder as I swung my clenched fist towards the coward's face. He barely pulled his linked blade in time to block my attack. We both flung backwards landing on our toes and hands to stay up, sliding back in dirt. I caught a glance of Hinoeuma charging in circles around me keeping the tail and body of the dinosaur from touching me, inflicting damage with every strike. He flew through the sky on streaks of fire, blinding Zabimaru and having too much fun in the process. God, this was almost too much fun.
I snarled again, taking off, fire and spiritual pressure flying out behind me cracking trees down in it's wake, "Take it back, whore!" Renji jumped into the air to evade the slicing of my whip and flung himself back down with all of his might. I grabbed the blade in my hand and clenched on to it above my head as I sunk into the ground. I heard something like my ribs or shoulder crack under the brute force, but there was too much adrenaline and blood thirst pumping through my veins to feel it. I knelt as the end of the linked blade wrapped around me and slit into my back. I crouched and launched myself into the air, hauling the blade with me, and Renji along with it. I swung and Renji flew into a cluster of trees that collapsed under the force of his body. I touched lightly to the ground as he pulled himself out of the rubble.
His shirt was ripped halfway off his body and blood dripped down his head and chest. He stood and discarded the remainder of his shirt, wiping a pool of blood away from his eyebrow. Our respective creatures had paused to come to our sides. Renji glades at me, "Or is this about the fact that you seem to be the only one who hasn't been in my bed?"
Hinoeuma's flames burst into angry life. Zabimaru roared in disdain, which seemed oddly like fear to me. I shook my head and laughed in disgust, "It's about the fact that you aren't man enough to admit your faults and flaws. You will never be a man. And you don't even have at chance, on a cold day in hell to, ever be half the man your beloved captain is."
Renji tensed and flew into the air, now I had hit a nerve haha, Zabimaru flew through the air at his side. Haha, got ya. Hinoeuma and his copies formed a wide circle around me and increased their speed to the point they were just a blur. Renji came crashing down screaming in anger and the blur of equines burst into a dome of flames holding Zabimaru at bay and leaving me his master. I held my forearm to his blade and knocked it aside simultaneously raising my whip to life. I swung and cut into the idiot's side as sweat and blood fell to the ground inside the dome of fire and flame. Renji rebounded and swung his blade towards my whip. The steel of my whip wrapped around the blade and binded tightly. Our weapons and bankais were of no use to us now and fists and feet flung towards our bodies. I couldn't feel anything as hits landed on my body. All I could sense was the cracking of bones as I kicked and punched with my free hand. I gained footing finally and planted an irony fist to his jaw. I heard the crack of it under the brute force as his knee collided with my spine forcefully. My whip had become loose and I swung it free as I flew over Renji's crumpled body and landed on my back in the dirt.
I sensed incredibly strong spiritual pressure coming towards us from beyond the remains of the forest, but I paid no attention. I stood with a hunched and broken body breathing through the pain of my broken ribs. Even the pain had a feeling of release to me now. I watched as Renji struggled to stand. He used his blade as a crutch to kneel as our zanpacktos seemed to vanish around us. He was bloody and ridden with dirt. I was too, but Renji was ten times worse. At least I was standing. He breathed heavily as he pulled himself to his feet. Swinging his hair out of his face, he looked me in the eye and smirked. I snarled, "Why would you say it, Renji? Just tell me why."
Renji snapped his jaw into place, still leaning on his blade, and chuckled with sarcasm, "Don't be ridiculous, Miku. You know I only speak the truth."
The hot tears let loose from my eyes involuntarily. Even in his weakest point he couldn't let go off that goddamned pride. I snapped as he tensed to attack. I was too quick for him though. My whip raised in the air and found it's landing point around Renji's neck. He fell to his knees again as I choked the breath from him. I was so full of hate and rage as my weapon locked and held tight that I didn't even notice the group of people that had entered our battlefield. "Take it back!!" I yelled.
In the next instant I felt Byakuya's spiritual pressure and my whip was sliced in half. I fell backwards because I had been leaning against the tension in my whip. My weapon recoiled and the iron left my arm. My blade was resting in my left hand again as I positioned myself to pounce on Renji again. Completely ignoring what had just happened. A hand grabbed my wrist and my blade collapsed to the ground as the pressure point was pressed strongly. I looked up to see my captain staring down at me. He held my wrist still as I turned to see both Shuuhei and Akako in front of Renji, blades drawn and faces ready to fight. "Try and touch her again, you asshole, and I will kill you of she doesn't," that was Akako's voice.
"Miku, what happened?" Uta was standing behind the captain. Worry filled her eyes as she looked at me, but she made no move towards me. The captain was probably holding her there with his presence, normally she would have been hauling me to the hospital already. I glanced across the clearing to see Histugaya-Taicho and Rangiku standing there. The captain had brought back up.
Renji stood up, using his blade as a crutch again. He looked at Akako, "This is between me and my friend you bitch. Now get out of my way!" Toshiro-San flew and tackled Renji to the ground. As Shuuhei struggled to hold Akako down, I flung myself at Renji, rage and hot tears blinding me. I managed to get my wrist free, but the captain grabbed me around the waist. I knew it was pointless, it took little effort for Byakuya to hold me back.
"That's enough!" Byakuya bellowed. The scene froze. Everyonestood there, frozen in mid action, for what seemed like an eternity. I was still being held by the waist above the ground when my head began to spin as the pain from my broken ribs finally hit me. I slumped against the captain as everyone gained composure, and he attempted to put me on my feet. "You two," the captain looked at Akako and Uta, "Take her and make sure she sees medical attention. You," this time he turned to Shuuhei, "make sure there is no arguing." Shuuhei nodded. I stood balancing against Uta who had come to my aid, but started to sway to the other direction as Akako filled in the empty space on my other side. The captain turned, seeing that I was safe, "I will take care of you." he glared at his lieutenant who had no strength to stand anymore, but sat in the dirt. Renji bowed his head in defeat as I was shuffled to the fourth division.
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