So Ki can use a Cero. Great! This maybe will not turn out well. For anyone.


When her thumbs finally were fit in neatly behind her palm hidden from view, her Cero was released. The dark purple mass twisted in a spiral towards Tersa who was blinking as if it were some horrible dream before screaming as it hit him. The Cero entrapped him within the power surge, it flowed out through hole in the wall, it charred the edges of Nnoitra where it touched his arm. When the Cero drained away the one she had aimed it at was long gone and burnt to ashes to leave the smell of charred flesh in the air. Nnoitra was gaping slightly at her, then he smiled a sadistically happy smirk. "You're fighting me." Ki listened to the sound the chains of his Zanpakuto made as he got into position. "But your Spiritual Pressure doesn't seem that great, like a little raindrop on the ground." He said in a self-pitying kind of tone. "So you should feel honored I even considered to fight you." The ones around them that were still alive had scrunched up against the wall in order to protect themselves.

Ki moved her right hand over to the handle on her dagger, her middle finger brushed it lightly and the other Zanpakuto she was carrying turned to shadows and lurked around her like dark plumbs of liquid smoke. When the dust started to settle and Nnoitra put one foot in front of the other as he prepared to pounce on her, she grabbed the handle of the dagger fully and drew it from the sheath. A small smile appeared on what was visible of her face and heavy Spiritual Pressure radiated in the area around her. The great walls of stone and rubble that separated each battle were demolished and turned to powder under the great weight, everyone within range stopped their battle in order to stay standing and to look around at where it was coming from, even the three that were leaving with Orihime and out of sight of anyone there stopped and looked back in wonder of who it could be. "One little raindrop can turn into an unwavering downpour." She sang in a happy-go-lucky voice.

Nnoitra started to laugh, "So you are strong!" He pushed himself forward at the girl half his height, he tried to hit her with his Zanpakuto but she sidestepped him and used her own fist to flick him away, he was thrown through different battle fields with anyone on Aizens side looking warily at the large cut on his arm and the burns on his other for a split second. They turned slowly back to the blindfolded girl facing their direction, who could not possibly see through the bandages on her face.

"Find my way through the darkness; guided by a beating heart." She sang softly, her head tilted to the side as it she really was listening to the pulse of his heart. She balanced the tip of her dagger on her finger. "Bankai." She whispered, there was still debris in the air from where she destroyed the piles of rock and the acrid stench of burnt flesh, when her dagger melted over her hand in a black liquid, then it turned to purple smoke as it touched the ground to surround her feet and lift her a few centimeters from the floor. Ki started to walk with this weird smoke following her, her bare feet never fully touching the ground. She glided past Ulquiorra as if she could see him. She was unaffected by Grimmjow slashing at her arm with his Zanpakuto, not even drawing a scratch, as if he had not slashed at her. When she neared Szayelaporro, who was looking greedily at her, the smoke had started to infect the surrounding air, then she vanished. She appeared behind Nnoitra, rising from his shadow.

She held her hand up and her dagger formed from the smoke, she brought it down on his back, shredding through clothes and skin. He shouted silently in pain, then continued to grunt as she carved something in his back patiently. He pushed her away when he felt her stop and stumbled back, holding what he could of his shoulder. "What did you do?"

She smiled and twisted her wrist causing her dagger to disappear, "I carved the Squad 11 symbol onto your shoulder. You would have more fun with Kenpatchi than fighting me. He's just like you, you know. Completely and utterly psychotic in battle." She clicked her fingers and the dagger reappeared, "The symbol is just so he can recognize you. He's not so good with sensing Spiritual Pressure. Or people."

She turned her back to him and sheathed her dagger, her other Zanpakuto reappearing from the empty nothingness. Nnoitra growled, "Use a Cero on me, use a strong one."

Ki turned back, "What an odd request." Nnoitra made a low growling noise, "Alright. Alright. It's not my strongest Cero, because I want to leave you alive for Kenpatchi. But because you requested it, it will be strong." She reached up and held the edges of the bandage between two fingers, "You ready?" She heard the rustle of his clothes as he took a stance. She replied with a small grunt of her own, she tightened her grip on the bandage then ripped it off, both of her eyes were closed, but around her eyelids there was a soft glow. She opened them both, one was white and the other purple: like when Toi and Ruma took control but more luminescent. There was a second when nothing happened where the dust seemed to settle and Nnoitra stared entranced at her possessed eyes, but then a single pillar of lilac coloured Cero shot forth from where Ki was standing, it hit Nnoitra and blasted him back, he was forced to lie down so it did not kill him. Many of the Espada and Arrancar who were in the direct line of the attack tried to block it with their own, or with their bare hands and also had to jump away. "See I told you, you had to be ready." Ki giggled before blinking her eyes back to normal. "I'll go find Orihime, you lot can clean up here." She motioned a wave to her friends before turning her back and jumping up onto the throne platform to start walking after the three former Captains.

Ichigo started pointing about at everyone in a panicked manner, "So you're just going to leave us here with them!?"

Ki turned back and put her hands on her hips, "That was my initial intention." Her head tilted to the side with her eyebrows drawn together in confusion, "Why?" Her arms slipped from her hips to a resting place holding each other. "Are you displeased with my decision?"

Renji stood beside Ichigo and they both turned around in circles until they were too dizzy to stand up. "I'm displeased with the decision." Uryu crossed one arm over his torso and used the other to nudge his glasses farther up his nose. "It would make more sense for you to stay here with us. Probably safer too." He was glancing towards a few of the more battle hungry humanoids who were glaring at each other around the room.

Mazaki threw the chainsaw like Zanpakuto at Ki who caught it between her hands. "She can handle herself." Ki held the handle of her friends chainsaw and spun in a few tight circles before sending it flying back to him. "Other than me she's the only one of us that can open up a portal to the Soul Society or the human world." He was pushed back by the force of the Zanpakuto hitting him in the stomach. "So if she gets Orihime then we can just leave."

Ki was looking down at the Arrancar and few Espada who were climbing to their feet. "So is it alright if I go get her...?" Ulquiorra waved her on. "Thanks Ulqi!" He glared at her back as she ran off to find Orihime who had been dragged quite far from the original place where she had been laying, Ki did in fact notice his scowl but dismissed it and resolved herself to finding him a new nickname.

She found herself walking along the whitewashed corridors of a building where she had traced Orihimes Spiritual Pressure, there were faint parts of other people dotted around the building and a faint trace of the past Captains remained. After a few minutes of walking about with no idea as to where she was to go she opened a door and found Orihime kneeling on the ground inside. "I remember you; you're Ki! The little boys mother!" Orihime declared when she looked up to see the girl who was standing above her.

"Oh? You have a child?" Ki turned her head to find the unsettling features of Gin in the doorway, there was a slightly disappointed tone to his voice. "I never would have guessed." That was the point Ki realised it was a fake disappointment, and who he was.

"First off, Tsuji is older than me." The purple haired girl pointed at the pouting red head. "Second, you're really gonna listen to her, Ichimaru?"

The pale haired man stepped into the room with his hands in his opposite sleeves, "I suppose your name is Ki then? I'm Gin Ichimaru." He lifted out his hands from their sleeves and extended his hand towards her.

"Ki Kohaku." She took a few long strides until she was in front of him then took his hand and shook it. "Pleasure to meet the manipulative mind of Gin Ichimaru."

His grin widened and his pale sky blue eyes opened slightly from their slits to fulling take in her appearance and judge her in the ways of fight ability and Spiritual Pressure as their hands dropped to the sides. "Can I assume the mass amount of Spiritual Pressure from before was you?" Ki donned a wide mocking smile like the one he wore and nodded her head. "Curious." His eyes closed to slits again and he chuckled as hers did the same. "How do you hide it so well? I can barely sense it."

Her head fell to the side in thought, "Years of practice." She twisted her neck to look back at Orihime who was sitting wide eyed with her hands in her lap and lips pressed tightly together because she was trying to figure out just what was happening. Gin leaned to the side to see what she was looking at, even though he could just about see over Ki's head, then they both chuckled as they faced each other again. "It would appear, we may have to duel. See, I had to abandon the others to come get Little Miss Orihime." Ki went onto her toes in exaggeration to pet his head although she was maybe half a foot shorter than he, "Don't worry, I'm sure we can talk once this is all over."

He took her wrist carefully as she descended to the base of her feet, then he sharply pulled her arm up and in so she was closer to him then shoved the length of Shinso into her stomach. "Oh?" His smile parted slightly as hers grew. Then his eyes opened fully as she melted to the ground as a shadow, then reformed as herself slightly out of his reach. "Now that is an interesting skill." He mumbled as his eyes closed.

She lifted the dagger from its sheath. "Kage no Ruma looks exactly the same in sheathed, Shikai and Bankai forms, but converts anything I wish to shadows or smoke. Even my own body is included in this." Her smile fell at the edges at the edges a little, "I usually have him in Bankai as I like it in this form." She started to skip forward. "It's the most useful." Her eyes opened. "Because my nature makes me the most dangerous fighter of all," She melted again and appeared behind Orihime, "The one who waits for their opponent to make a mistake."


Kage no Ruma ~ Shadow Loomer
Shinso ~ Sacred Spear/God Spear