Diabolik Lovers: The Soul of a Protector 13
Ichiru emerged from the trap door and walked into the dining room to see Chad and Kon, who is in Ichigo's body, burst through the door with Yuzu and Karin in each arm and Camelot on his shoulder, "We got a problem!"
"You were attacked and Ichigo is fighting the assailant at this very moment." Ichiru guessed as she grabbed her Soul Reaper badge that hung at her side and slammed the badge into her chest as Yui, Orihime and Rukia came into the room to see Ichiru come out of her body and into her Soul Reaper form.
"Rukia, let's go." Ichiru said as Camelot hopped onto her shoulder while she turned to Chad, "Chad, I need you to stay here, protect them." she ordered and Chad nodded.
"Right." Rukia said before swallowing a soul pill and going into her Soul Reaper form.
Yui knew why she was having that bad feeling, "The Sakamaki brothers are the cause of this, aren't they?" she asked as Kon carried the younger twins into another room to recover.
"It would appear so." Ichiru said.
"I'm going with you." Yui said stepping forward.
"No Yui, I need you to stay here and keep my sisters safe." Ichiru said to Yui, refusing her assistance.
"But it's me that they are after, I'm the reason your sisters got hurt." Yui said, trying to convince her senpai and best friend.
Ichiru placed a hand on her shoulder, "None of this is your fault, if the vampires seek to destroy the last of the what remains of the clan, I need you to be the last line of defence against them." she said before pulling out another Soul Reaper badge that looked just like hers. "I know that this is personal for you, but you have to understand, this isn't about you anymore, this is about all of us. We look out for each other as a family, that is what you are a part of, a family." Ichiru said presenting Yui with the badge.
Yui felt her heart flutter, "Family?" she said as she stared at the badge.
Ichiru nodded, "Yes, and as a part of our family, I ask you to stay here and protect everyone in this house. As personal as this battle is to you, I ask of you to protect those that can't defend themselves, for that is your duty as a Soul Reaper." She said before tapping the badge to Yui's chest, turning her into a Soul Reaper.
Ichiru dropped the badge in Yui's hand, "I'm counting on you, Soul Reaper Komori." she said smiling at Yui.
Yui smiled at her new title, "Just come back, please." she pleaded.
Ichiru patted Yui's head, "Count on it." she smiled before disappearing with Rukia.
Orihime placed a hand on Yui's shoulder, making Yui look beside her, "They will be alright, they'll always come back." Orihime reassured her.
Yui nodded before the two of them made their way to Karin and Yuzu's room to heal them.
"Rukia, I need you to go help Uryu, he's fighting one of the vampires and another is coming towards him. By the scent, it's probably Reiji & Kanato Sakamaki." Ichiru said as they flew across rooftops.
Rukia nodded, "Right. Be careful." she said before turning in the direction where Uryu's spirit energy is located.
Ichiru continued on her way, "Ichigo, please be alright." she said nearing Ichigo's location.
When she got there, she saw Ayato over a bleeding Ichigo, "You let your guard down." she heard Ayato say, making white hot anger and fury fill her to the core at what he did to her brother. With all the anger filled strength that she could muster, she sped up and charged and flipped in the air and kicked with both feet into Ayato, "Yeah, so did you!" she said angrily as she slid Ayato across the pavement like a skateboard before hopping off and going to her brother, healing his injuries with Kido.
"About time...Ichiru." Ichigo grinned as Ichiru healed him.
Ichiru grinned back, "I couldn't let you have all the fun." she said as she finished healing his injury.
Uryu's arrows rained down on Reiji, but a wall of flames destroyed his arrows, "What?" Uryu exclaimed, shocked that his arrows were incinerated.
Once the flames died down, Uryu got a good look at how the flame appeared as he landed on the ground facing the vampire to see that the one who summoned the flames was none other than Kanato Sakamaki who smirked mockingly at Uryu.
Uryu took his stance and fired again, but Kanato summoned the flames again, blocking Uryu's view of them before he was kicked in the side and flew into a random car, denting it in the process.
Uryu groaned as he tried to stand up, "Gugh!" he cried in pain as a sword pierced his shoulder. He looked above him to see Reiji was the one who stabbed his shoulder with Kanato who stood not too far behind him with a sadistic grin on his face.
Reiji dug the sword deeper into Uryu's shoulder, making Uryu cry out, "It's over, Quincy." Reiji said as he added more pressure to the blade.
"Wanna bet?!" a voice shouted from the side to see Rukia with her sword drawn and coming at them with a battle cry, as Reiji retched his sword out of Uryu's shoulder and locked swords with Rukia.
"Well now, a Soul Reaper." Reiji said before leaping away from them with Kanato by his side as they landed and stared at the new comer.
Rukia stood in front of Uryu protectively, "Uryu, are you alright?" she asked as Uryu staggered away from the damaged vehicle, "I'm fine." he said as he grasped his bleeding shoulder.
Reiji narrowed his eyes at Rukia, "What name do you go by?" he asked as he took his stance.
Rukia glared at Reiji, "Rukia Kuchiki of the Soul Society." she said as raised her sword.
Uryu took out some bandages and wrapped it around his injured shoulder as he stood to the left of Rukia, "Rukia, how are the others?" he asked as he sent his spirit energy into his wound, to heal it faster.
"Ichiru is with Ichigo, Yui and Orihime are at Kisuke's tending to Karin and Yuzu's injuries." Rukia informed Uryu as she glared at the vampire duo.
"Rukia," she turned to Uryu who said her name, "I'm still fighting the one holding the sword, but the other one can control fire, his flames incinerated my arrows no matter how many I fire at them." Uryu said glaring at the vampires who fought dishonorably.
Rukia nodded, "Very well, leave the pyro to me." she said turning to face Kanato who looked at her intriguely.
Rukia holds her Zanpakutō out in front of her, "Dance, Sode no Shirayuki." she called out her Zanpakuto as she turns it in a circle counter-clockwise. While she is turning it, the blade, hilt, and tsuba turn completely white. The tsuba becomes a hollow snowflake-like circle, and a white ribbon forms from the pommel.
The two brothers stared in astonishment at the beauty of her Zanpakuto, "Some no Mai, Tsukishiro." Rukia calls out the first dance while holding her Zanpakuto upside down then makes a slashing motion through the air, creating a circle of ice with Reiji & Kanato in it. The two vampires looked down at the icy ground and jumped away before a pillar of light that extended to the heavens and froze in a tower of ice.
Kanato's eye's widened at the dangerous power that Rukia demonstrated before turning to glare at her for trying to kill him.
Rukia charged at Kanato as he produced a dagger from his sleeve and blocked her icy sword.
Uryu glared openly at Reiji as the wind blew his hair, "That was a dirty trick you pulled." Uryu said.
Reiji smirked sadistically, "I'm a vampire, what do you expect?" he said rhetorically.
Uryu scoffed, "A real fighter should battle his opponent one on one without assistance. What you did just now was disgusting and dishonorable." he said readying his bow.
Reiji scoffed at his speech and glared at Uryu, "Your point being, Quincy?"
Uryu pulled his arrow back, "My point being, is that no man should ever stoop to your level in order to win. That would just be cowardly and disgraceful to their race."
Reiji glared at Uryu for calling him a disgraceful coward, "Spare me your nonsense and die." he charged at Uryu.
Ichiru looked up to see Rukia's icy pillar her Zanpakuto created, "Rukia has begun her battle," she sniffed the air and listened with her spirit enhanced senses, "she fights Kanato Sakamaki, for he holds power over fire." she paused as she smelled blood, "Uryu was injured, yet he has healed himself, I can feel his anger towards Reiji for almost killing him in a dishonorable manner." she turned off her senses, "Their battle has been evened out, now they fight without any interference...for the moment." Ichiru said as Ichigo stood up and glared at the two redheads for trying to kill him.
"Now ours is evened out." Ichiru said as she turned her stone cold gaze on Ayato and Laito.
Ayato glared at Ichiru as he wiped his face that was bruised up and his clothes were torn and dirty from being used as Ichiru's entrance by being a skateboard. "So you're sensitive to your surroundings." Ayato clarified, still glaring at Ichiru for what she did to him earlier.
Ichiru narrowed her eyes at Ayato, "What of it?" she asked, not really caring if he's pissed.
Ayato then grinned sadistically at the twins, making them tense up, "Well you better hope that you are sensitive enough, because by the end of this battle, you'll die a horrifying and painful death." he said laughing menacingly.
Ichiru placed a hand on the hilt of her sword, "The only thing that is going to happen by the end of this battle..." she grinned, "...is you and your brothers running away with your tails between your legs like last time, if you can recall." she said making fun of him.
Ayato glared and they charged at each other, Ichiru unsheathed her Zanpakuto and locked swords with Ayato, pushing against other.
"Dead bitch." Ayato insulted, glaring at her with their faces close to each other.
"Vampire dropout." Ichiru shot back, grinning as she removed her left hand from her hilt put it in front of Ayato's face before pulling a middle finger back against her thumb and flicks her middle finger at him. The force of the blow carries enough physical force to send the Ayato flying a considerable distance away through a wall.
Ichiru stood there confidently with her hand and sword in front of her, "Like I said, 'Dropout.'" she said before running at Ayato at high speed and drop kicking him as he was getting out of the wall, leaving Ichigo & Laito alone.
Laito sighed in disappointment, "Such a shame, I was looking forward to fighting that little vixen, I would have shown her such a wonderful time." he said as lustful thoughts flew threw his head.
Laito barely dodged the blade that almost sliced him in half as he moved away from Ichigo who looked angrier than usual. Laito felt blood running from the vertical cut Ichigo inflicted on him as he made eye contact with Ichigo, "You will not talk about my sister like that you disgusting freak." Ichigo growled as he leapt at Laito with the vengeance.
Rukia dodged another one of Kanato's fireballs as she flash stepped away from him with Sode no Shirayuki drawn, "Tsugi no Mai, Hakuren." she called out the second dance as she punctures the ground in front of her four times in a semi circle. As ice particles begin to flow up from the punctures she made in the ground, she takes a battle stance. The particles, building up at the tip of Sode no Shirayuki, are released as a large, powerful avalanche of cold air. It flash freezes whatever it comes into contact with, encasing it in ice.
Kanato teleported again to avoid being hit with the ice once more, "You're wasting time, Rukia. You won't last much longer." Kanato said sadistically as he dodged Rukia's attack.
"That's what you think!" Rukia charged at Kanato who clashed swords with her, "You look angry, that angry look doesn't suit your face. How about a terrified expression filled with pain & anguish as you beg me to stop? So please, won't you make that face?" Kanato said, widening his sadistic grin as he moved his face closer to Rukia while their sword are still pushing against each other.
Disgusted, Rukia brought her leg up and kicked Kanato in the stomach, sending him flying into a tree. Rukia panted, glaring at the mentally disabled blood sucker, "It's gonna take more than that to scare me you fool." she said, getting into her fighting stance.
Uryu fired more arrows as Reiji dodged each one with ease as he teleported behind Uryu ready to strike, but Uryu blocked his attack with his Seele Schneider, "What do you want with Miss Komori?" Uryu asked as he struggled to push Reiji back with as much strength he could muster.
"That is not your concern." Reiji said pushing Uryu away.
Uryu found his footing then attacked Reiji who parried and deflected his attacks, "It is my concern when my home town is under attack by the likes of you." Uryu growled out before disappearing and reappearing above Reiji with his arrow notched and fired a volley of a thousand arrows down on him.
Before the arrows could reach Reiji, he teleported out of range. However, three arrows pierced his wrist, elbow and shoulder on his right side, making him drop his sword and teleport away from the attack.
Once he was a good distance away, he growled in pain as he stared at the arrows in his arm then turned back to glare at Uryu, "Didn't expect that from a Quincy, did you?" Uryu said stepping on Reiji's sword with so much strength that it shattered into pieces.
Ichigo ducked as a dart came flying at him, "Looks like I missed, oh well." Laito said as he pulled out more darts and threw them at Ichigo who blocked them with his big sword this time.
They fought all the way near the school as they battled each other with Laito throwing darts that never seem to end and Ichigo slashing at the vampire.
"Are you truly that much of a coward that you can't come at me like a real vampire." Ichigo growled, taunting Laito who continued to smirk smugly as he pulled out more darts and fired them at Ichigo.
"You know, this isn't as fun as I'd hope. We were supposed to capture you." Laito said as Ichigo deflected his darts.
"So that you could have Yui back. Well let me tell you something vampire, as long as there are people that care for Yui, she will always be safe from you." Ichigo said as he readied Zangetsu and shouted, "Getsuga Tensho!" he swung his blade in Laito's direction. At the instant of the slash, Zangetsu, absorbing Ichigo's spiritual energy, releases highly condensed spiritual energy at the tip of the blade, which, magnifying the slash attack, flies forward.
Laito's eyes widened as he teleported away from the attack. "You're wasting your time if you think you can take me down, Kurosaki." Laito said as he charged at Ichigo.
Ayato and Ichiru clashed their swords together again, "You should've surrendered Pancake when you had the chance, and now, your precious family got hurt because you brought her into your life." Ayato said grinning sadistically at the thought of killing the Kurosaki Clan.
Ichiru glared and head-butted Ayato, making him stumble back and clutched his nose in pain, "None of this, was ever Yui's fault, the only one to responsible for causing such pain is your kind. You chose to pursue her for your selfish desires, such arrogance will lead to your downfall." she said as she took her fighting stance against Ayato.
Ayato removed his hand from his nose and grinned, "Just like with your clan." he stated taking his stance as well.
Ichiru glared, "What are you talking about?" she asked angrily.
Ayato continued to grin, "Do you wanna know exactly why they died? They were so arrogant to believe that their holy and spiritual powers could defeat our Father, the Vampire King, in hopes that they would rid the world of his presence and stop the prophecy from ever coming true. Their naivety cost them their life, all for the sake of God that never existed." Ayato laughed as Ichiru's eyes widened.
"What prophecy, what are you talking about?!" Ichiru shouted at Ayato, fearing the answer for some reason.
Ayato laughed, "The reason why your clan existed in the first place, to prevent the Adam and Eve prophecy from ever coming true, to create a new and powerful race of vampires demons & rule this Earth."
Ichiru gasped, "No way." she never before cared about her ancestry, never bothered to learn about their family's origin, but this...this changes everything she ever thought of herself. Many times she and her brother took the burden of holding the world on their shoulders to keep the balance of dead & living world.
Ichiru tightened her grip on her sword as her body and eyes glowed blue spirit energy, "It will not happen, me and all my friends faced countless enemies that wished to destroy these worlds, but we stopped them every time." her spirit energy became more intense than before, making Ayato's eyes widen.
Rukia gasped as she felt Ichiru's spiritual pressure shoot through the roof, "Ichiru." she looked in the direction that Ichiru was in.
Uryu's eyes widened as he looked in Ichiru's direction, "Ichiru."
Ichigo dodged more darts, "Ichiru." he turned his head in the direction his sister was in.
Orihime gasped as she continued to heal Karin & Yuzu, "Ichiru."
Chad sat on the roof, guarding the shop as he felt Ichiru's spirit energy, "Ichiru."
Yui gasped in shock at Ichiru's spiritual pressure spike, "Ichiru." she stood up & looked at the front of the store.
Ichiru held her sword in front of her, "I don't know how me and my family are still alive, but that doesn't matter right now, 'cause I'm still here. My clan may have died to protect this world, but their purpose has passed on to me and my friends and we will never let you & your kind take over this world." she declared as she crushed the ground with her spirit energy.
Ichiru turned her sword and held it horizontally and place her left hand on the smooth blade, "Shine your light, vanquish this evil..." her blade glowed a golden yellow as it shifted and extended its shape to form a spear as she twirled it until the blade was pointing towards the sky, "Sukai no Akaru-sa!"
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