Nothing made sense to her anymore. Captains were fighting captain...comrades were either dead or close to it...and now from what she could see, the ryoka have managed to botch the entire execution. She couldn't sense Kuromi anywhere, though. Suiren was looking around for her mostly. She knew her taichou was capable and could take care of himself, but Kuromi was the one she was scared for. After seeing all those notes and feeling, maybe, some of the pain that she had felt, she was scared of what could have happened to her. She was hoping so bad that she didn't do something stupid, that she didn't do something she was going to regret. She kept hoping and hoping that her friend didn't do anything like that. She didn't think she could do anything like that. She was innocent, naïve to the world...there was no way she could do something so devastating.

As the woman kept thinking about this, she didn't even think of where she was going or who she was running into. She was fully set on finding Kuromi. So as she bumped into someone and caused them all to fall, she was angry with them, not herself. "What the hell!? Watch where you're going!" "You watch where you're going!" The two stared at each other for a moment before getting up immediately. Suiren reached for her zanpakutou as the bespectacled boy readied his bow. "What are you doing here?! Don't ask me, I asked you first!" They yelled in unison at each other. The only thing different about these ryoka were their clothes! They disguised themselves as shinigami so they could roam freely about in the seireitei. The orange haired one came running and cut them off from each other. "U-Uryu, we can't fight now! We have to get to that hill before anything bad happens!" She spoke up sternly as she looked from both of them. Uryu huffed and lowered his bow, making it disappear. "The hill? Sokuyoku Hill?" Suiren looked at her before lowering her zanpakutou. "Yeah. Our friend, Rukia, is going to get executed. But Ichigo is up there now, making sure she doesn't." The girl smiled at her in a friendly and very happy manner.

Suiren was a little comforted by that smile of hers. It was kind and gentle, but sad too. Like she had been through just as much as her friends had. She glanced off to the side to see if she could sense Kuromi again. But there was still nothing. She frowned a little before sighing. If anything, she was probably unconscious on Sokuyoku Hill. She couldn't handle too much reiatsu in one place. She must have passed out. She decided to follow the small group, introducing herself to them while also glaring at the Quincy. Seriously, that guy was too damn annoying! Always giving her the finger and passing it off by pushing up his glasses. Making comments about her deflecting that arrow into her stomach. God, she just wanted to punch him in his pretty boy face.

As they got up onto the hill, the reiatsu lowered considerably. The fighting must have been over by now. And indeed, when they came to the peak of the hill, the orange haired ryoka was standing there triumphantly. But soon fell back and hit his friend on his head, making him fall in pain. Suiren giggled at that before looking around for her own friend. But there was no sign of her. She frowned at this and tried looking everywhere for her. If she isn't here, then where is she? "Hey, who's that?" Ichigo looked over at the silver haired girl who was looking around frantically. She looked up before blinking and standing up straight. "I'm Suiren Aozora. It's nice to meet you finally, ryoka." She walked over and looked at him. He was pretty much beat to a pulp by this point, but he was so happy. He won against a taichou, she'd be happy to. "My name's Ichigo Kurosaki!" "Ichigo?...Cute name for a grown man." She teased him making him growl and glare at her. "It's not cute!" He went onto saying how his name meant 'young warrior' or something and not 'strawberry' like most thought. She laughed at him either way, though and kept snickering. Now she was the one being a mean jerk. But she tried to make it clear it was all in good spirits. To think she wanted these people arrested because they intruded on the seireitei. But they were just here to save Rukia and they weren't bad at all. She blinked, though and looked around. "Where is Rukia, anyway?" She asked as she looked around. "Renji has her...he's escaping with her in tow." Ichigo explained to her as well as the rest of them. She recognized that name, Renji. He was the fukutaichou of the 6th Division. But where could he be right now?

"Excuse me...but have you seen a white haired girl running around here? She has fox ears and a tail, but other than that, she looks normal. She's a shinigami like me. I was wondering if she came here." Suiren spoke up, pushing the other curiosities aside. Ichigo and the others seemed confused. "Uhm...No. We haven't seen her at all. Why, is she missing?" Orihime was the one to apologize. The woman sighed and looked down. "I guess you could say that...She's never been missing this long before. I don't know where she is or what's going on. But I thought she'd be up here saving Rukia. They were friends, too, you know? I just...I don't know where else to look." She looked truly upset, unlike all the other emotions she had shown them before. "I'm sure she's around somewhere. You just have to keep looking. Maybe she's looking for you, too?" The orangette tilted her head as she smiled kindly at the woman. She wasn't sure how much of that was a lie or if it was comforting, but she really didn't know where this girl could be. She just hoped it comforted the girl for now.

Suiren stood up and placed her hand under the hilt of her zanpakutou. "I'm gonna go look for her, then. She's around here somewhere and she's alone. I need to find her." She smiled at them before hopping off the edge of the cliff, immediately flash-stepping down to one of the buildings, then doing the same the rest of the way. Uryu sighed a bit as he watched. "Hope she finds her in one piece...no doubt those shinigami down there are killing each other because of all of this." He pushed up his glasses again before concentrating on his friend.

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