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After exchanging a few blows with that woman Layne soon observed that she was no ordinary foe, to be exact as soon as she leaped at him and parried his initial strike that Layne realized that because she was able to see him, that it was no mentally fucked up cosplayer with a real sword and genocidal intent.
Plus the massive size of her rack, sort of did it in Layne's head. There was no way anyone human had boobs like that, Orihime was close, but the only true rival was that Matsumoto from Soul Society.
"Didn't take you for a boob man Layne" a voice bubbled up in Layne's head, chuckling
Where the hell did that come from?
Unfortunately, while Layne's head was mired in perverted thoughts, and wondering where that came from, Kira had sensed her opponents lack of concentration and moved on the offensive
Layne's right sleeve ripped and nearly fell off as he jumped back from a strike that would have certainly disabled his arm if he had been a little less agile
"It's insulting not to pay full attention to your opponent in a fight" Kira said, grinning, and brushing a few strands of her black hair behind her ears
"What does that matter to you?" Layne retorted, tightening his grip on his Zanpakuto and moving into a ready stance "You'd try and kill me anyway, like you did to all these people"
He leapt forward again, attempting a cross chop which Kira batted away almost lazily
"Heh, weaklings don't deserve my attention, and my massacre had the effect I wanted anyway"
The continued to clash, neither seemingly able to get one up on the other
"Oh?"
"I got you and the carrot-top to show yourselves"
Layne was horrified, so much so that he wrongly anticipated her next move and ended up getting thrown into a tree
"I was just looking for a good fight" she continued cheerfully Excellent, he's also strong enough she thought, finally getting an accurate lock on the level of his reiatsu as he rose it to compensate for her own, slightly bonechilling reiatsu
"Well that was a stupid idea wasn't it?" Layne shot back, slowly rising up "You've guaranteed your defeat"
"Brave words kid"
"Maybe, but I'm going to back them up right now"
Layne sprang forward, but Kira merely dodged him flashstepping behind him and forcing him to do a flip in midair to bring his swords around to block her pitch black Zanpakuto
"Come on" Kira taunted "Hit me"
Layne kicked it up a notch jumping off the ground and using a tree as a springboard to propel himself directly at her
But it seemed to be to no avail as Kira just slashed through him, cutting him in half
Kon, Ichigo and the other Mod Soul looked on in shock
"Dammit" Kira sounded frustrated "I knew I used too much strength in that attack, I've gone and chopped the bastard in half"
"No you didn't" Layne commented, connecting his Zanpakuto with her shoulder leaving a deep scratch
Kira just stared at where she'd chopped him down, and watched at the severed right sleeve of his shihakusho floated to the ground
"Utsusemi" Layne explained for the benefit of those watching on the ground "Yoruichi taught it to me before we left the Soul Society and I've been itching to try it out"
"Stop holding back, come at me full strength"
"But you're holding back too" Layne replied reasonably "If I exhausted myself by blasting away at you, you'd unleash your full strength and I'd lose…and that's not an option"
"Koten Zanshun!"
Layne instinctively moved a sword to block Tsubaki from heading for Kira
"Don't interfere, Orihime" he called, out, glancing to where Chad and Orihime had arrived on the scene, attracted by the Ichigo's monstrous reiatsu surging
Layne would have called the same to Chad, but he had already fired off an energy blast which Kira dodged easily
"Awwww" Kira complained, "Your friends have ruined my fun"
"What are you talking about?"
"It's only natural; those with powerful abilities can't go full out when they worry about injuring their allies… and from looking at those two, they are on a much lower level then you and the carrothead"
"I never planned to go all out from the beginning, so far you've just been wasting my time"
"I'll let you in on a secret kid"
She flashstepped next to him, displaying a much greater speed than before and whispered something in his ear, taking pleasure in the shock that was etched on his face briefly
"Till next time" and she disappeared.
Layne flashstepped down to Chad and Orihime
"I'd go after her…but I have a bad feeling I wouldn't survive" Layne remarked apathetically
If they had known Layne as well as Joel and Moll did, they would have realized then and there that something was wrong with him, but at the moment they were more worried about Ichigo's state of mind, it was his sisters that had nearly been killed after all
The three approached Ichigo and Kon, relieved to see that neither moved frantically, and they took that as a sign that neither Karin or Yuzu were critically injured, Two survivors out of the seventy people in the park during Kira's slaughter
The sun was going down in the distance, and Ichigo turned towards Layne, Chad and Orihime
"…Sorry, Ichigo I couldn't get her" Layne apologized, staring at the ground unable to meet Ichigo's eyes
"Why are you apologizing?" Ichigo asked "You did nothing wrong"
"I'm fairly sure everyone apart from your sisters, is dead" Layne said neutrally, Now that the fight with Kira was over, and the adrenaline faded away, the smell of blood and death filled Layne's nostrils and made him want to puke "And their only alive because of that idiot"
He pointed at the mod soul, staring at them from a little way away
"Um…Kurosaki-kun," Orihime interrupted timidly "We should get out of here before people come and see what happened here"
"Yeah"
Ichigo picked up both of his sisters and piggybacked them
"We should take them to the Urahara's for a memory wipe" Layne suggested
"I'm not wiping my sister's memories" Ichigo replied predictably, "They shouldn't have anything to do with the Soul Society"
"But how will they react, when they wake up, having seen nearly a hundred people murdered and not being able to see who did it?" Layne pointed out flatly "I'm having trouble dealing with It myself, and I saw it, and have an inkling why she did it"
Ichigo ground his teeth and started walking in the direction of the shop
Chad, Kon and Orihime walked after him and Layne turned to the Mod Soul
"Satisfied?"
"With what?" The Mod soul snarled "All I saw was some more Shinigami bullshit and innocent people getting torn apart because of it"
"When you look at it rationally, this is your partially your fault" Layne shot back, sheathing both his katana "Because that madwoman was after me, she naturally assumed it was me in the body and so initiated mass murder as a way of attracting you, who she thought was me, out of the body"
"How is that my fault, it's not like I'm the one that killed all those people"
"But if you hadn't run off at the store, then she could of found me at a less populated area and if you hadn't tried to use the crowd of people to camouflage yourself then it wouldn't of been necessary for her to thin the ranks of people to find you, and there wouldn't of been ranks of people to thin in the first place"
The mod soul was aghast, his shoulders slumped and he sat down on the blood slicked grass
"Your actions, unwittingly have aided in the deaths of these people" Layne concluded Harsh, but it seems his perspective on the world was still a little one sided, despite his past as a mod soul
"My god…"
Layne walked over to him and crouched down, putting his hand on the Mod Soul's shoulder
"Don't hold it against yourself" he said lightly "I'm not going to hold it against you and you can be sure that none of the others will either, anyway, you couldn't have known that I was being pursued by some crazy bitch with a sword"
"I…never wanted to hurt anything…I even avoided stepping on all the ants I could on my way here"
"That's dedication" Layne smirked
"Layne… I'm really sorry for all the trouble I caused"
"Heh" Layne stood up and offered the Mod Soul a hand, pulling him to his feet "Just come back and do that Gikon thing for me, it'll settle it for me"
The turned and headed to Urahara's shop, running to catch up with Ichigo, Chad, Kon and Orihime
Kira was elated, First time she had found anyone worthy of being shown the extent of her powers when sealed.
Admittedly neither of them had gone into Shikai, but it was still impressive that Kira marked him down as the first entry in her Fighting Call list for over a century. The fighting call list was like a Booty Call list, except for fights.
She continued flashstepping from building to building, reflecting, as she had on many occasions before, on her exile.
As the Captain of Squad Zero, the elite Soul Reaper squad composed only of Captains and assigned to guard the Royal family, Kira had more than enough power. But being sealed in a separate dimension with the same fifty or so odd people could do strange things to people's heads and Kira had gone berserk, targeting the Royal Family.
Those Guard who had been there since before Kira's Captaincy had opposed her, and Kira had welcomed the opportunity to test her skills, killing at least 5 of the Squad Zero by herself, and her subordinates, both within Squad Zero and those who had remained loyal among the Gotei 13, had accounted for an additional sixty-nine Soul Reaper lives
This was all history though, roughly one hundred and seventy five years ago and none of the current captains aside from Yamamoto, Unohana, Ukitake and Kyoraku would have ever heard the name Kira Reiton
Sadly for Kira though, she hadn't even faced the most powerful of Shinigami. Yamamoto, and a much younger Kyoraku and Ukitake had travelled to the King's Dimension to stop her.
Kira was one of the true witnesses that could attest to the fact that Kyoraku and Ukitake were the strongest captains when they fought together
And having lost to them, she awaited execution in a cell with her subordinates for years that she didn't bother to count, when orders came down for exile, rather than execution, and power limiters were placed on her, and her followers and they were kicked out into the living world
It was a strange order, especially exiling them to the living world, rather than the Dangai Precipe World, but Kira hadn't particularly cared, viewing it as a chance to get stronger and take revenge on those captains who had exiled her in the first place
She reached her building and once again kicked down the door to enter it
"Your back early Kira" One of her subordinates commented, surprised at the time of the entry, but not the method
"His friends showed up" she said shortly "It would have been boring because he would have had to hold back the entire time"
"Lucky then, Jankz is here with his report, and it's gone and got Maikeru excited too, Daisuke and Tsubaki are down in the basement with them"
"No Ren?"
"Still in Soul Society, apparently one of the gates they'd been using was under surveillance and Ren remained behind to clear it of suspicion"
"I see, cheers Emi"
Emi Etsuko and Daisuke Hayato were Kira's last Ex-Royal Guard. They had been in the Guard after Kira was promoted to its captaincy and so had felt completely loyal to Kira during the rebellion, and still did so now
Tsubaki Tomaharu was a strange case, once Kira's Lieutenant when she had been in the Gotei 13, when Kira was promoted and Tsubaki was introduced to her replacement, one Shinji Hirako. She had served adequately until Kira put her rebellion into motion. Seemingly psychically Tsubaki had lost it, and went out on a rampage, singlehandedly taking out fifteen seated officers of the various divisions, and another forty unseated Shinigami. It had been concluded that she had been aiding Kira was thrown in with that lot.
Ren and Jankz were two relatively young Shinigami who had joined Kira's group very recently, Jankz twenty years ago, and Ren fifteen
Jankz had been the Soul Reaper assigned to an area of Okinawa, during the period that Kira's group had their hideout there. A man with a thirst for power, he had seen Kira's instantly, despite its limited state and been mesmerized by it. He acted as Kira's main spy for the Soul Society, and received favors for it, both sexual, and special training sessions which had allowed to him to hide the fact that he could fight at a lieutenant's level from his captain, Kenpachi Zaraki for twenty years.
Tsubaki had saved Ren from a Menos during Kira's group's stint in Tokyo and brought him to the hideout. Ren was loyal to Tsubaki, and shit scared of Kira. His services were the same as Jankz.
Maikeru Takeda was the strangest of them all. He was the only one who was not Shinigami, but a special form of human known as Bount. Kira had found him as he lay on the brink of death in some alley. Saving him had been a huge benefit to her, as his reiatsu sense was more accurate than the most powerful shinigami's, and his gate was currently the best way to get back to Soul Society for her, Emi, Daisuke and Tsubaki.
Kira strode into the basement, looking around at Daisuke, Maikeru, Jankz and Tsubaki as Emi trailed in after her.
"So Jankz…What have you got for me" she said seductively
"You'll love this, Kira" he replied, grinning as he began delivering his report
Once Urahara had modified Ichigo's sister's memories, Layne, Chad, Orihime, Urahara, Yoruichi, Ichigo, Kon, The Mod Soul and Tessai were in Urahara's ubiquitous sitting room talking about today's events
"I've never heard of a red Shinigami uniform before" Urahara mused, chin in his hands "I'm sorry, but I can offer up nothing as to her identity or motives"
"Damn" muttered Layne "She says she's just looking for a good fight… and kills seventy innocent people to get to me"
Layne pounded his fist into the ground "I really, really don't like that woman"
Jankz concluded his report, and Kira was amazed at the happenings
"So, Aizen, Ichimaru and Tousen allied themselves with Menos and fled the Soul Society" Emi whistled "That is some news, but it doesn't explain why you were so excited before, Maikeru"
Maikeru smiled, A weird creepy smile "I was so involved with the politics, of your Soul Society that I couldn't contain my excitement at such a pivotal event happening within my own, admittedly nigh endless lifetime" he spoke sarcastically, and it was obvious to everyone
"Jeez there's no call for sarcasm" Emi shot back, annoyed
"I was more interested in the descriptions of the Ryoka that Jankz-kun detailed for us"
"Say it again?" Daisuke asked, "I wasn't listening for that part"
Jankz looked at Kira, who nodded
"There were a total of seven Ryoka that invaded, apparently with the objective of rescuing Rukia Kuchiki from execution by Sokyoku" Jankz began, passing them 8 hand drawn pictures
"Moll Rone is the dark skinned girl, with black hair, I don't know how she got her Shinigami powers and I didn't personally witness her Zanpakuto in action, but I have heard it is called Sora and carries power over the air. She remained behind in the Soul Society and is the new 3rd seat of the 4th division"
Jankz then pointed to the picture of the cat, and a picture of a dark skinned woman with long purple hair
"That's Yoruichi Shihoin, Ex 2nd Division Captain and leader of the Onmitskido, she can morph into a cat, but I couldn't steal any information about her fighting capabilities other than she is still the fastest Shinigami there ever was, and is a master of hakuda"
The last five pictures were the interesting ones
Kira had seen four of the people they depicted, and Maikeru was practically salivating over the last one
"Yasutora Sado, Orihime Inoue, Ichigo Kurosaki, Layne Trell and Uryuu Ishida"
"Those two are the guys I wanted to fight today" Kira said pointing at the rough sketches of Layne and Ichigo "And those other two interrupted us" she finished, pointing at the sketches of Orihime and Chad
"The 12th division research labs didn't have much information on those four" Jankz apologized "Apart from their names… Kurotsuchi must be getting slack"
As a point in fact, Kurotsuchi hadn't gotten slack, he just didn't want to risk doing his usual style of research on them while the rest of the Soul Society held them in such high regard
"Whats the deal with the last guy?" Emi asked, pointing at Uryuu's sketch
"There was a ton in there on him" Jankz grinned "He's the last Quincy"
There was a sharp intake of breath as Kira, Tsubaki, Daisuke and Emi absorbed the impact of that statement and simultaneously glanced at Maikeru, who really had started salivating.
The key part of the Bount's gate into Soul Society was the energy fired off a Quincies arrow.
If Maikeru didn't have access to that, then there was no point in even starting the gate, so he had been fruitlessly searching for a Quincy for years to power it before he started work on it.
Kira had to restrain her excitement too… The second she, Daisuke, Emi and Tsubaki got into Soul Society, the limiters on their power would become inert and useless…and they would be able to achieve Kira's revenge
"How long will it take for you to set the gate up, before we require this Quincy?" Kira asked Maikeru
"I've got all the materials lying around, so about a month, but I will require sample of the Quincy's reiatsu in about two weeks" Maikeru replied
Kira's grin grew even larger as she realized that she would get to fight Layne again, and possibly Ichigo… and this time, if their friends interfered, they sealed their own fates
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Hope your enjoying it, i liked this chapter personally. and i hope i've done the backstory good enough on the villians
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