Chapter 55: Ice Princess


Hi! Sorry, I haven't updated in, like, forever x.x Anyways, I'm back! I've been busy and had other things on my mind but I'll try to update as frequently as possible from now on! I'll miss this fan fiction when it's finished T-T Anyway, as you all know, I own neither Bleach nor it's wonderful characters, but my OCs are a whole different case. If you've reviewed, added to Story alert, or favourited my work, then I love you! 3


"This investigation isn't getting us anywhere." Kikyo sighed, feeling quite crestfallen by now as the investigation dragged on with no further useful information,

"We haven't explored the whole district yet. Or any of the other ones. I'm sure we'll get somewhere." Kira tried to encourage her, although in vain, she didn't cheer up at all, she had been so sure that they would find something,

Suddenly, they widened their eyes as they felt some reiatsu flare up not far from where they were, Is it a discovery or a battle? She narrowed her eyes, concentrating harder until she felt an unfamiliar reiatsu,

"Kira, hurry! One of our division members is in battle!" she exclaimed, springing into action, using shunpo as fast as she could to reach the destination, soon, multiple other members of her division were by her and Kira's side,

"Ready your zanpakutos, everyone!" Kira ordered them, everyone obediently doing so in response.

"Everyone, stop!" Kikyo ordered, chaos soon following. A short girl behind her had stopped and the tall man had not seen her, therefore resulting in the two on the ground and most of the other division members tripping over them and landing in a heap on the floor,

"Er, well…Can you feel that?" she asked awkwardly, staring down at the pile of groaning shinigami at her feet, "The enemy reiatsu disappeared."

The shinigami stopped complaining, narrowing their eyes in concentration before they started standing up in turn, dusting themselves up,

"Shall we go question them, Taichou? I think that was Ume and Yuriko's reiatsu." The short girl who had caused it all asked seriously, flicking her navy blue hair out of her eyes, which were a beautiful mint green,

"Yes. I would like us to stay together for a while in case this is something important." Kikyo agreed before pouncing into shunpo again, the cold wind stinging her cheeks, wait…It wasn't cold earlier. Not this cold, at least. Kikyo widened her eyes as she started to see her breath, even more so as she got closer to Ume and Yuriko. What…? She thought to herself as the cold rapidly dropped, sending fierce shivers through her body and goose bumps appearing on her arms.

"I-It's cold!" A male, blond male shinigami complained, his teeth chattering. Before long, Kikyo was being bombarded with dozens of complaints and questions. She clenched her teeth, couldn't they see she was doing all she could? She was cold too, no, cold is an understatement, she was freezing.

"Everyone, calm down! I can see them ahead!" Kikyo called in a frustrated tone before narrowing her eyes, They look…Strange…She thought before gasping when they came properly into sight.

She sped up, she had to reach them to make sure what she was seeing was true…Suddenly, with a cry of surprise, she slipped over, her subordinates abruptly coming to a stop behind her and Kira hurriedly helping her up. Kikyo stared at her feet, her eyes wide, the stone ground was coated with a thick layer of ice, This couldn't have occurred naturally…And…There's so much of it...This is a serious matter, the person behind all of this is extremely powerful…

After getting over her shock, her eyes wandered up to Ume and Yuriko again. She was…Right. She steadily and slowly skidded across the ice, grabbing onto a wall beside them to get a closer look. They were still, still as the dead, as statues, but they were standing. Their faces were permanently frozen into an expression of pure fear, their mouths wide open as if they were screaming and their eyes blood shot. They were frozen, literally.

"Everyone, stay over there, apart from you, Kira. Come over here." Kikyo gestured with her hand for him to come, and with some slipping and difficulty, he finally reached her, frowning at the sight of the two girls,

"Are they…Alive?" he asked worriedly, reaching his hand out and poking the ice gently with his finger, flinching when he realised just how cold it was,

"Yes, I can still sense their reiatsu, although weak. They won't last long, they'll freeze to death." Kikyo said quietly, her words aimed only at Kira before she called, "Does anyone here have an ice type zanpakuto, if so, please step up!"

The short girl from earlier stepped forward nervously, holding up her zanpakuto,

"Good. Is it possible to remove the ice from these two without harming them?" Kikyo asked,

"Yes, it isn't impossible. It might be difficult though, I'll need concentration. If I get distracted, something might go on and the ice might shatter, with them in it." The girl explained with a frown, reluctantly skating across the ice and coming to a perfect stop beside them,

"Shall I?" she asked her Taichou, the latter nodding, her eyebrows burrowed and her fists clenched, she was worried, how could she not be? She didn't know the two very well but they were her subordinates at the least, and elite ones at that.

"Show us the beauty of Ice and frost, Fuyuzora!" The short girl exclaimed, her sword suddenly transforming completely. It was now some kind of staff with an aqua coloured gem at the end, Kikyo watched with an interested expression on her face as the girl seemed to transform along with it. Not in looks, but in personality. The tense nervous atmosphere surrounding her had disappeared and she now seemed elegant, relaxed and determined,

Her movements were similar to that of a ballerina as she controlled her zanpakuto, twirling it around with some swift and elegant body movements including twirls and swaying, before long a long trail of ice was pursuing the gem on her staff, which was now glowing. She closed her eyes in calmness before opening them abruptly, suddenly shooting her zanpakuto in a direction with no shinigami, the ice fiercely turning into icicles with edges as sharp as needles, which soared through the air, colliding with the wall of a deserted building and staying there.

"I'm all warmed up now. I will begin." She warned, silence sweeping over the crowd. The girl closed her eyes, breathing in slowly. Kikyo watched, a smile appearing on her face as the ice on Ume seemed to peel away, her body falling forward when it was free, her eyes closing along with her mouth, her hair drooping over her face.

"Don't panic, everyone. It's expected that she is unconscious." Kikyo comforted her subordinates, who had gasped.

Once Ume was free, now a limp heap on the floor, the ice on Yuriko started to fade and she too was free.

"Somebody take them to fourth division." Kikyo ordered, some male shinigami voluntarily stepping forward and proceeding to pick up the two collapsed girls.

Once they were safe and sound in the fourth division, Kikyo swept her eyes over the remaining shinigami, not including Kira, who had left to supervise the shinigami going to the fourth division.

"Everyone, we're-" Kikyo started before a strong reiatsu suddenly swept over them, she gasped, clenching her teeth as some of her shinigami collapsed in the pressure. Before long, she, as a Taichou, was the only one remaining, staring wide-eyed and trembling at her unconscious subordinates. The girl who had rescued Ume and Yuriko lay at her feet, still seeming to twitch while not awake.

Kikyo scowled angrily as a figure walked out of the shadows in a creepy manner. The way she was walking…Was that even physically possible? It looked like she had no bones. Kikyo's attention soon moved from her fashion of movement to her arm, which, to her shock, was coated in ice.


And, that's the end of that chapter. Did you enjoy it? :D Reviews will always be appreciated. Tell me, do you want the next chapter to be a Christmas special or do you want to know what happens next? Tell me in your reviews ^^


Omake: A continuation of the previous omake:

Yuriko: Wait…She can't rape us properly, I mean, really properly, she's a girl!

Ume: wait…That's not Toshiro being a transvestite? I thought he looked a bit…OOC

Yuriko: Oh…Wow…It does look like it…Actually, I don't know anymore…And what do you mean a bit OOC? That's an insult to Hitsugaya!

Snow woman: *Hiss*

Ume and Yuriko: O.O