Author's Note: Heeeey guys! Well, it's magical me again…Uh, so yeah, I'm glad you guys are enjoying the story! Well, you guys might have been wondering "Whoa, what's with the massacre thing goin' on at Squad 2?" Yeah, well, that'll be explained in this chapter. Don't worry. I'll just say this: It's not a massacre. I sort of over….exaggerated on that. xD So, ignore that past "massacre" thing the previous chapter. :)

Chapter 11: Calling

"Eh?" I asked, my eyes wide. "Someone got killed over at Squad 2?"

"Y-Yes ma'am, er, at least, that's what I've been hearing." A non ranked shinigami replied. I groaned.

"So that's why Captain and Matsumoto went on a meeting." Then I faced the shinigami. "Anything else?"

"Well, we know that it might be…a..well…a hollow."

I gave her a questioned look but the shinigami just shrugged. I pouted.

"A hollow? Killing someone in SQUAD 2? If I'm not mistaken, squad 2 is like….untouchable…almost."

"Well, that's what I've been told. I could be wrong."

"Unfortunatly, you're right." We turned to see Renji leaning on the wall. He shrugged slightly and let himself in. Generally, people who were under lieutenants and captains had to be respectful and blah. Honestly, in my point of view, that was all BS. The shinigami bowed as Renji came in, but I sighed.

"What's up, Renji?" I asked.

"The ceiling." He replied. "Anyways, what you've been hearing is right. Someone got killed in squad 2. But it wasn't exactly a hollow." There was a brief silence before he continued.

"To be more exact, it was an arrancar."

My eyes grew wide. To tell you the truth, only captains and lieutenants are supposed to know what an arrancar are. Well, let's add that to the BS list for me, huh? Lets per say that I was busy going through Toushiro's captain stuff one day and stumbled upon a file that told what arrancars were. My face grew grim and unnaturally serious.

"An arrancar is Seireitei? That's…that's downright impossible!"

"It wasn't a normal arrancar either. It was…" Then he paused and glared at me. "Wait, how the f**k do you know what an arrancar is? I just learned this today but still!"

I averted my eyes. "I have my sources."

"THAT'S NOT A LIABLE ANSWER, HIKARI!"

"WELL SCREW THEN!" I yelled, gritting my teeth and giving Renji a death glare. As Renji and I had a death glare fight, someone had kicked Renji in the face, making him fall on top of me. I kicked Renji off of course and I looked to see who destroyed the glare fight (cause I was practically winning!). I saw a petite girl with raven hair. I smirked and got up.

"How's life, Rukia? Been much too long since I last talked to ya."

Rukia replied with a smirk and gave me a high five. Though noble, she was still a normal shinigami girl.

"It's been great. So you know about the arrancars?"

I nodded but gave her a questioning look. "You know about them?"

"I learned about them a few minutes ago."

"Eh?"

"Oh, so Renji didn't say anything yet. Well, you, me, Renji, Ikkaku, and Yumichika are going on a mission."

"Don't…forget….Rangiku…and Hitsugaya-taicho!" Renji stuttered as he tried to get up, covering his bloody nose. I grunted.

"A mission? Just when someone got killed in squad 2?"

"Well, apparently, there was another sighting of them yesterday and such." Rukia replied. I sighed.

"Well, we can't just stand here all day." I said.

XxXxX

That afternoon, I was already packing my stuff when YasuSuzume slapped her forehead suddenly.

"What's wrong, Yasu?" I asked.

"You said we would finally finish our bankai training!" Yasu complained but I smirked.

"But we did."

Yasu looked at me like I was insane. I sighed, and in a few minutes, we were in the forest again. I held YasuSuzume tightly as I closed my eyes. After weeks to what felt like months of training, it was all worth it to this one thing:

"Bankai." I murmured. A sudden rush of adrenaline flowed through my veins. Fire swirled my zanpakuto. The chain extended until a similar sword appeared. Once the sword appeared, the chain disappeared. Flames swirled endlessly around both the blades. Yeah, it wasn't as fancy and bada** as Toushiro's but it was better than Ichigo's.

XxXxX

Hitsugaya Toushiro was watching his Kaori Hikari activating bankai for the first time. He could only let out a smirk. She looked, well, bada** in bankai. Not the scary bada** like Kenpachi. More like cool bada** like, well, him. He didn't want to interrupt her new achievement but it was time to go to the transient world and there was no way he and the others were going to wait for her.

Hikari looked a little different in bankai. Her sleeves in her shinigami uniform burned off and showed she had red strips formed on her arms. Her face and even her hair had red strips. The fire swirling around her zanpakuto looked like two pairs of wings, strangely. Hikari didn't seem to act like an angel in Hitsugaya's point of view. He shrugged it off and jumped out from the tree.

XxXxX

"I'm so bad! So bad! So bad!" I yelled, feeling ecstatic about the whole bankai feeling. Maybe the troublesome training isn't that bad after all. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. The adrenaline slowed down and quickly as it came, my zanpakuto slowly returned back to its unreleased state. I smiled down at my zanpakuto.

"Thank you, YasuSuzume." I murmured and suddenly, I heard clapping. I turned around to see Toushiro, clapping.

"So you finally reached bankai, huh?" Toushiro asked.

"Yup! I'm so glad!" I said with a smile. Toushiro gave a quick nod but suddenly went back to his serious-ness.

"That's all great to know, but it's time to go the transient world and honestly, I don't give a s**t if you're left here."

I sarcastically gasped. "But Shiro-kun wouldn't leave his new girlfriend all alone would he."

Toushiro's face had a faint tint of pink but it disappeared quickly.

"Do you think I care?"

"Yes~!" I said. Toushiro twitched. I laughed and shook my head. "I'm kidding, Hitsugaya."

Toushiro sighed, knowing that it was a futile attempt to correct me.

XxXxX

We arrived at the senkai gate a few minutes after that little chat. Everyone was already there, waiting.

"What took you so long, Hikari?" Ikkaku asked impatiently. "If you want to do some makeout session, do it later!"

My eyes widened and my face grew red with anger. "What the F**k, Ikkaku? At least I attract people! Look at you! Your bald head is so bright, it blinds every person that walks by it! No wonder you have no chance with the ladies!"

Ikkaku twitched. "Bald? Did you f**king call me bald?"

"Yes, I did call you bald. The truth hurts, doesn't it?"

He was about to attack me but Yumichika stopped him.

"Come now, Ikkaku. Why don't you unleash your rage on someone else." Ikkaku grunted and averted his eyes. I gave a small smirk.

We were about to head off when a person from squad 2 came over. How did I know he was from squad 2? He wore that ninja outfit that every squad person wore.

"Excuse me, Hitsugaya-taicho but where is Kaori Hikari?" The man asked. I turned and walked over to the squad 2 ninja.

"I'm Kaori Hikari. What's wrong?"

The ninja gave me an envelope and suddenly, disappeared. I stared at it and wanted to open it. I turned to face my companions for my next mission.

"I'll meet you guys at the transient world." I said. They all gave curt nods and walked through the gate. When they were gone, I opened the envelope.

Remember your purpose, Kaori

You are meant to fight

You are to kill those who oppose you

That is your calling

Your calling is to kill

My eyes widened when I looked at the handwriting. No, it wasn't true. I know it wasn't true. She died a long time ago. I looked at the envelope. I suddenly noticed that there was blood stains on the corners and the kanji characters said: Hikari Kaori. I also noticed that it was already opened. Probably Soifon-taicho used it for evidence of some sort.

The thing that got to me was the handwriting. It was so familiar and yet the same time alien. I stared at the sheet until I quickly burned it the ground. She's not alive. I know she isn't.

Akemi Usagi might be alive. But if she was alive..then was she the one who killed someone from her own squad? If so, why? And a better question…

Was she an arrancar?