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Chapter 5: Murder of a Lieutenant
"Zabimaru!" screamed Renji wildly. "Go! Kill him! Die! Byakuya!"
Byakuya dodged every one of Renji's slashes. He calmly ordered, "Please, don't call me Byakuya."
Renji's zanpaktou extended to the second section. It fiercely tried to cut Byakuya, but continuously missed. The third section of Zabimaru extended. Byakuya just barely managed to dodge the sword. The sword retracted back to one section.
"What the hell are you doing?" asked Byakuya, finally wielding his zanpaktou.
"Tch! Byakuya, I thought you weren't an idiot! I guess I was wrong." Renji prepared himself as he saw Byakuya hold his zanpaktou. "I'm going to kill you!" Renji managed to slice a tiny part of the captain's shirt. "Watch this bitch! Higa Zekkou!" The zanpaktou broke up into a few sections. The segments began to levitate. "Die." The segments of Zabimaru flew at Byakuya. They were coming from all sides.
Byakuya stood there quietly. When the segments reached near Byakuya, he immediately ducked, and murmured, "Chire, Senbonzakura…" The zanpaktou dissolved into tiny pink petals. They scattered at Renji at a quick speed.
It was too quick for Renji to dodge. Unable to dodge the tiny blades, Renji's eyes closed and he fell to the ground. He was pierced by the several petals, almost killing him.
Byakuya stood quietly, but was prepared. "Where are you?"
"Tch!" said a voice. "So you found out huh?"
"I found out when Renji fell unconscious. But this is impossible. Kaien killed you and himself! How could you still be alive?"
"Ku ku ku! You even managed to deduce that much." A hollow appeared. "You are wrong though. The hollow did die. I am part of the Children hollow species. I took the body of this fool. I am a different soul."
"Impossible. A hollow itself is technically a spirit."
"Ha! True that! True that! But you see, we are a different kind of hollows! A new breed! No, the new breed!"
Byakuya stepped back. If it was a new breed of hollows, then how strong would it be? The hollow attacked. Byakuya used shunpo to appear right behind it. With one swipe, Byakuya managed to swipe the tentacles it had off. However, Byakuya noticed something different. The tentacles didn't dissolve! he thought. Byakuya was against a small, yet worthy challenge.
The hollow flew at Byakuya, control his body. Byakuya once again utilized shunpo. He struck the back of the hollow with the bottom of his zanpaktou's hilt and sliced the hollow apart. The hollow didn't dissolve. None of its body did.
Byakuya sighed in relief. He picked up Renji and flung him on to his shoulder. Renji was heavy. Byakuya then picked up the sliced up parts of the hollow and walked off to the fourth division building. Entering the fourth division building, Byakuya saw numerous members of the division running around crazily. Byakuya wondered what was going on, but calmly walked off to Unohana's office. "Unohana?"
Unohana appeared. "Ah, Kuchiki-taichou. Good to see you again." Unohana looked at Renji. "Oh my! Another lieutenant was attacked?"
"What do you mean by that?" asked Byakuya, somewhat surprised.
"Our lieutenant has been killed! We've tried all we could to heal her, but nothing worked!" Unohana took Renji and placed him on a bed. "I'll treat him immediately! Please, if you will, do not disturb him."
Meanwhile, Hanatarou had heard everything. "Abarai-kun!"
Byakuya took off to his next destination: the division twelve building. Byakuya walked off to Mayuri's office, knocked twice, and waited for Mayuri to reply.
"Yes?" replied Mayuri dully.
"Byakuya."
"Oh! Byakuya, please, come in come in." Mayuri took out a remote control, pressed the "open" button, and opened the door for Byakuya. "What the hell do you want?"
Byakuya dropped the remnants of the hollow. "What the hell is going on, Mayuri?"
"The fuck are those?"
"The remnants of a hollow. He referred to himself as a Children breed hollow. It's a new breed of hollow of something. They seemed to have attack my lieutenant and Unohana's. Now answer me, what's going on?"
Already? thought a wide-eyed Mayuri. He could not reveal this to anyone. "I have no idea what your talking about oh dearest Byakuya. Ku, ku, ku."
"Be careful," said Byakuya. "Or you'll find yourself dead." Byakuya slightly flashed his sword and walked out of the office.
Mayuri closed the door and immediately began to furiously type on his computer. "Nemu!" he screamed.
Chad, Orihime, and Ishida all managed to catch the tennis balls several times. Impressed, Yoruichi decided to take it to the next level.
"A battle isn't always long," explained Yoruichi. "In fact, most should be short. If you're stealthy, quick, and can react immediately, you can easily beat down some numerous shinigami in no time. Of course, seeing as how you three have ranged attacks, all you probably need is stealth." Yoruichi walked around the three. "Now then, this will be pretty easy." Yoruichi asked for Jinta and Ururu to come. "Can you two please bring the artificial shinigami? Three of them."
Jinta and Ururu replied "yes" and went to find the artificial shinigami. They came back carrying shinigami dolls in their arms. They placed it right near Yoruichi and walked away.
"These dolls can weakly sense people and see people. All you have to do is make sure the doll's alert signal does not go off and destroy it. That's all there is to-"
Urahara was right by Yoruichi. "Unfortunately, I'm afraid we don't have the time to accomplish that. Ichigo has succeeded, although he'll need practice, and time's up."
"Please send the message to Yamamoto-taichou," said Unohana to Hanatarou.
Hanatarou nodded and sped off to the first division building. Arriving at the division building, Hanatarou asked where the captain was, but the shinigami he asked replied that he was at a meeting with the king and would not be back for a few days. Darn, thought Hanatarou. Hanatarou decided to tell the lieutenant of the division. After fully explaining everything, Hanatarou ran back to his division.
"How'd it go?" asked Unohana, doing the finishing touches to healing Renji.
"The captain was not there, so I told the information to the lieutenant," said Hanatarou.
"Thank you," replied Unohana. "You may leave now, Hanatarou," smiled Unohana. After Hanatarou walked away, Unohana finished wrapping up the bandages on Renji's body. She then pronounced, "Black and white net. Twenty-two bridges, sixty-six crowns and belts. Footprints, distant thunder, sharp peak, engulfing land, hidden in the night, sea of clouds, blue line. Form a circle and fly through the heavens. Bakudou #77: Tenteikura!" Unohana then said, "My lieutenant has been murdered, and Kuchiki-taichou's has been injured badly. Beware, please." The message was transmitted to every captain in Soul Society.
