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Warning: Some Bloody Violence included

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25. Crimson and the Murderer's Glare

Their roars were potent. They broke the very air that rocked the tops of the trees and shook the houses in the district 79 as fell light stone dust from their ceilings. Inside people that hid from the uniformed visitors, slide shut their doors as a pack of numerous footsteps ran down the streets shouting orders between their own. From their waistbands sheeted katanas were held by their master's hand as they marched through the misty road. Their black shuhakushos discarded them from normal people.

"It's getting away! Quick! Call officer Madarame!"

"We don't know where he is!" replied a Soul Reaper named Aramaki as he breath heavily behind the running group, "I haven't seen him since we first saw the hollow!"

"Then where's the Lieutenant?"

"He-he! You're too slow, Saky-saky!"

The officer named Yamasaki spun his head to the girl running next to him as her arms were folded behind her nape and a playful smile crossed her face, "Lieutenant!", he gasped.

"You're too slow" she pointed out showing her tongue before disappearing behind a cloud of dirt she lifted with her run, "See ya on the other side!"

Yachiru crossed fast the district with her child-aged feet without any struggle thanks to a breakfast she ate that morning with her Ken-chan, who insisted her to eat double the proportion she usually consumes. He assured her that it will grant her enough energy for her mission without him and that she could kick more hollows asses with it. Yachiru seemed both exited to gain that energy and to please her Ken-chan.

She was in the mission aspiring and thirsty for blood to grant some pride to Kenpachi. She wanted so much to fulfill the Old Yama's decision for her first solo mission without her captain. She was eager to confront her first hollow since god knows when and see its blood jump out of the enemy's wound…just like Ken-chan does to his adversaries.

This was her moment to put her skills to the test and show it to her subordinates. Show them all that she's capable of; show them how much Ken-chan had taught her. A smile grew in her face as she thought this just when she entered a tall wall of dark trees that tried to reach the far and blue sky.

The forest surrounded her in its night and with the district houses behind her a distant roar was heard again, closer. Her grip on her katana hardens as she gave impulse to her feet to climb up branches. Her pink hair bounced on her nape as the forest morning breeze entered her hair and the trees passed by her burly.

In the middle of her travel she catches with her ear distant screams of agony and cries of war way up front. As she ventured deeper to the forest the spiritual pressure of her comrades guided, nonetheless their weakness was frightening. They banished one by one as the seconds past.

Her heart jumped exited inside her chest when the hollows spiritual pressure finally was close. In that moment she stopped on a thick branch just behind the monster's nape of which head was high above the ground, at least thirty feet tall. What were highlighted from the beast's figure were his strong and white skin and his two pointed horns and large forceful claws. Yachiru noticed them already tainted in blood and crude inners definitely from the corpses that were opened in a red grass exposing its insides.

Some scattered officers remained between the bodies, and, by their grimaces and bad gripping of their zanpak-tos, Yachiru saw they were terrified. They trembled from head to toes. The Hollow had another Soul Reaper hooked up on his claw by his mouth and right through his nape. His foot twitched in mid air.

The Hollow let his victim dangle in front of his nose. The Soul Reaper's comrades stared up in horror when the monster took his victim's head and pulled it down tearing his flesh apart down to his neck splashing red blood. His skin opened in threats. Thick drops of blood rained from the Soul Reaper's sandals. His shuhakusho darkened wet with crimson. The Hollow ripped the Soul Reaper in two as if it were a cheap fabric just before taking it to his mouth and chew it as he chuckled to the frightened and petrified Soul Reapers.

"Who's next?" he said to them when he swallowed his food.

At that moment, his forehead cracked. His yellow eyes snapped open. He gasped shocked as more cracks grew and multiplied. He cried breathless when a tip of a sword emerged from the cracks. The sword went down his face abruptly and the hollow let out a scream of agony just before evaporating with the air. The sword lowered to the floor along with his Soul Reaper who landed firmly in on toe. The officers stared in awe.

"HAHAHA! I WON, I WON, I WON!" exclaimed happily Yachiru as hse jump up and down, "Yay! YAAAaaaY!"

"Lieutenant!"

Yachiru turned to the running officers that ran to her from her back, "HAHA! I won! We were you Baldy? I already killed the hollow!

"Lieutenant, don't run all by yourself like that." Ikkaku said, stopping in front of her with his zanpak-to over his shoulders, "I promised the Captain I'll keep my eye on you and I'm pretending to keep my promises."

"Oh cheer up Baldy!"Yachiru said, "You'll catch a hollow next time"

Ikkaku frowned at the girl, "That wasn't what I was talking abo-!"

"Lieutenant! Lieutenant! Look at here!"Everybody spun their faces at the officer Yamasaki who was peeking his head into a short bush. Yachiru went to him and imitated his lookout.

What she spotted was like a little animal with his knees drawn up to his chest as he trembled from head to toe, cornered in shadow. She smiled amused, "Oh, lookie! It's a little boy!"

The kid reacted at the hearing of a perky girl's voice and lifted his stare to her, "What?...W-who are you?"

Yachiru giggled, "You silly, I should be asking that!" she pointed out, "What's your name?"

The boy lifted more securely his face, "…Sora. Sora Ayasawa."

"Sora? Cool! I'm Yachiru Kusajishi, Lieutenant of Squad Eleven! Nice to meet you! Wanna come out?"

The kid gasped, "A Soul Reaper? How? But you're a girl!"

"I know you stupid. Come out you little chicken"

"No! No. I-I can't!" Sora replied in panic, 'There's a monster outside!"

"Huh? The Hollow? I already killed it. It's gone, so come out"

The kid hesitated a lot before grabbing Yachiru's hand and exposing himself out of his hideout. When he stood Yachiru noticed he was her height but his skin was darker than her and his poor cloths were smaller than her shuhakusho.

"Where do you live?"Yachiru asked him, "Should I take you to your house?"

The boy frowned at the Soul Reaper, "And why is that?"

"Cause there more Hollows, of course! My friends are gonna take care of 'em while I take you to your mommy!" she smiled at him.

"Whoa, that's very kind of you Lieutenant" officer Yamasaki pointed out.

She wants to take him to his house to see if he has any candy?, thought Ikkaku on the other hand, Wow she's clever…

"You guy's keep going," she turned to the others surrounding her, "I'll go catch up later, 'kay?"

Ikkaku was about to opened his mouth in protest when everybody over spoke in chorus, "Aye, Miss!"

"Let's go Soru!"she exclaimed grabbing his hand before she ran in a flash step.

"It's Sora!"the kid replied.

...

Where they landed Sora wasn't the only one to recognize the street. The rotten houses. The filthy corners. Trash cans everywhere. The ghostly atmosphere. The nostalgic sensation.

It was Zaraki District.

"My house is way down the street" he said, "It alright from here"

At that moment a dense Spiritual Pressure went down at them both abruptly. Yachiru gasped. This familiar prescience panicked her. It was all too familiar and all too horrible at the same time. A big knot was stuck on her throat when a shrieking scream of a woman set her senses on alert. Sora by her side gasped shocked.

"What?...T-Th-T-That's my mother!"

Yachiru lifted her stare to the end of the street. A woman had been pushed to the floor by a tall man of whom spiritual pressure engulfed them. He grabbed the woman's hair and pulled it for her to stand up. She cried of pain and sobbed in horror.

Yachiru hadn't reacted when Sora passed by her running to the man, "MOM! MOM!"

The woman quickly noticed the kid running towards her and shouted, "NO! RUNAWAY, SORA! NOW! RUN!"

The man turned his head over his shoulder. The kid froze in place under his glare. Yachiru's heart stopped. Fear engulfed her, but she couldn't believe her eyes.

"Who are you! WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH MY MOM!" replied Sora to the man.

"Stand back, Sora"

Sora instantly was blocked by Yachiru's arm, "…What? You know him?"

Her answer was unexpected, "Yes…His name is Kiyoshi." she said "Kiyoshi from Zaraki"

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On the next chapter: comfrontation between Yachiru and Kiyoshi! Can a tragical event save her?