Chapter Four

Kirria

She looked up at the moon that shed light over the darken grounds and then to the blue-hilted sword that lay a metre away from her. Tears welled up in her eyes as she pulled her legs up to her chest and wrapped her hands around them. She had seen enough to know that she would never want to work with it ever. She buried her head in her knees, closing her eyes so that her sight was shut away in darkness. As she silently cried on, she slowly fell asleep.

"ONEE-SAN!"

The monster threw her sister against the wall with he's long, clawed hand. She could see her sister slump on the floor, blood flowing from her head. Her tear filled eyes looked towards the laughing monster who slowly approached her, taunting her as he did.

"You're not going to escape now little girl. A year ago, you escaped the clutches of one of my comrades, but I'm glad you did because now I can have you! Your parents have gone on, and so has your sister. There's no one who's going to protect you now."

She held her pink rabbit closer to her and closed her eyes, burying her head in its soft pink material. He was right. Her heart screamed for help. But it didn't matter. She just wanted her sister.

"KIRRIA!"

"ARGH!" She looked up to find the monstrous creature bleeding from his gums, where a sword pierced into. Her eyes widened in fear as she looked around and realized that her 16 year old sister was crouched down on top of her, sword held on tight with her hands. There was something different about her sister though. Then she saw a chain hanging from the middle of her sister's chest. A chain that she had seen many times before.

"Kirria! I don't know where this sword came from but we're lucky it did. The next time he comes forward, we'll do it together. In it with me?" Kirria looked at her determined sister. She was always the one who was there for her; not her mother, not her father, but her sister. She watched as the monster raised his head and lunged at the pair. Her hands trembled as she reached towards the green hilt of the sword.

"Kirria!" The monster reached out to swipe at them as they scurried away from it. She couldn't will herself to touch the sword in time. She had accidentally let go of her rabbit and it landed at the monster's feet. He laughed and stepped on it, ripping it apart with he's sharp claws.

"SORA!" She screamed as the monster tore apart her rabbit, her best friend. Anger and sadness tore at her as she looked at Sora, who was now just a pile of cloth and wool. The monster lunged at them once more and this time she held the sword tightly and poured all her anger and grief into it. Her sister gasped as a beam of energy took the form of a blade and shot out of the sword, piercing through the mask of the monster. He screamed in pain and slowly disappeared on the spot.

"Hey. Don't just sit on some random roof next time. It's pretty hard to find you especially since you don't have any reiatsu." Kirria woke up at the sudden voice and dried her tears on her sleeve before looking up. She was almost blinded when her eyes met bright white spikes that reflected the moonlight so brightly.

"TOUSHIROU! Wear a cap! You'll endanger everyone with that 'mirror' of yours!"

"It's Hitsugaya Tai-chou. And my hair is not a mirror. The last person who insulted my hair is still lying unconscious in the squad 4 barracks."

"Oh well it sure is if you're gonna keep standing in direct moonlight. And you can tell me what to call you, but that doesn't mean I will, Toushirou. Anyway, how come you woke up so soon? I thought you were in a coma!"

"A semi-coma. It's not like a guy would just lie still in bed when a friend he had missed a lot comes to visit him; but instead of getting a hug he ends up almost dying from her shaking and strangling and almost deaf from all her shouting. Even if I were dead, I would have jumped out of my grave to strangle you back."

"Now that's such a pleasant thing to say to someone you haven't seen for about five years!" Hitsugaya gave her the evil eye.

"Now now Kirria," Kya whispered as she embraced her sister in a tight hug. "Don't cry. The big bad monster is gone. We're safe. Shush… Don't cry."

"And what you did to the neck of a helpless patient you haven't seen in about five years was a pleasant greeting huh." Kirria burst out laughing at his comment, desperately fighting back the scenes from her past. She couldn't let him see her cry. She was known as the one who made others smile, and she wasn't going to let her own stupid emotions ruin her reputation. Don't cry.

"By the way," she pointed to the sword that was a metre away from her, "you can have your sword back. Just wanted to scare you a little when you woke up." She smiled brightly up at him.

"Well you sure did." He smiled as he thought of how the nurse in-charge had turned over the whole squad 4 barracks the moment the words 'where is my sword?' escaped from Hitsugaya's mouth. He slung his sword back over his shoulder and looked at Kirria.

"So now that I'm awake, do you want to unseal your room?"

"Not now…" Kirria buried her head back down into darkness. "I'm tired but I told myself I'm going to stay up and out tonight. Why don't you go back first? I'll see you tomorrow, Toush." She closed her eyes, wondering if he had left, hoping, silently hoping, that he didn't realize she had started to cry herself to sleep.


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