Author's note: Yeah, another long delay. Sorry. School has been keeping me away from updating. So, without a further ado, please enjoy chapter 13! Sorry if this one is also bad. I'll at one point make a better chapter that's not so dull and horrible as this and chapter 12. Oh, and on an extra note….I HAD HORRIBLE GRAMMAR ON PAST CHAPTERS IF U DIDN'T NOTICE! I mean dang, I was re-reading my own story and holy crap, what a mess it was! So, sorry about that horrible crap. xD
Chapter 13: Surprise part 2
I stared dumbfounded at the results. Arrancar? My sensei? Did I miss something?
"That's…that's not possible. She would never side with Aizen. She hated Aizen since the very beginning. Even if she did die and somehow ended in Hueco Mundo, she would never go with Aizen!" I made a fist, ran into the restroom, and slammed my fist onto the mirror. I felt my knuckles bleed, but I didn't really feel any pain. I took a deep breath and slowly withdrew my fist. Guess I had to pay for that.
I wrapped my hand in a bandage and let out a sigh. Crud, Akemi-sama is a arrancar…at least how the sample reader had said. Maybe something was wrong with the machine.
I stood up, returned the small machine to the bag, and walked out of the room. I had to get some fresh air, to cool my thoughts. Tomorrow I had to go to "school." School is so boring. I mean, I already learned this stuff in the Academy. Now I'm expected to learn it again! There's only one word to describe that: Unfairness.
I sighed and decided to pay a visit to Hitsugaya and Rangiku. They're probably doing something a lot more fun than I am. I knew they were staying at Orihime's house (since Rangiku had yelled it out when we were getting our gigai's that she was going to see Orihime and have some her "delicious" food. I don't think it's delicious.) so, I took a turn and walked down the road that lead to Orihime's house.
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"Sorry, Hikari-san. Toushiro-kun and Rangiku-san had left to meet with Ikkaku-san and Yumichika-san." Orihime said when she finally opened the door. She was wearing an apron and she had mittens on, so she must be cooking something foul, I mean good. Ahem…
"And they didn't tell me about it?!" I asked.
"I thought they already called you."
I quickly dug through my pockets and grabbed out my cell.
"Dang it….it has one missed call." I mumbled. I flipped it open and looked to see who called. I would have thrown the cell behind me.
"Great. Just great. If hitsugaya kills me later, then I won't be surprised. Do you know where exactly they were going to go after they would meet Ikkaku and Yumichika?"
"Yeah..they said they would go to the park or something."
I nodded. "Thanks Orihime. I owe ya one. I better get going before Hitsugaya starts nagging like an angry old lady. Don't tell him I said that though."
"My mouth is sealed!" She smiled and waved goodbye.
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Now, it was bad enough that I have "school" stuff the next AND had to think about what happened to Akemi-sensei…but now I was about to get a lot of nagging from the one and only white haired prodigy: Hitsugaya Toushiro.
"Where the heck have you been, Kaori?" He asked.
"Uh….I was…."
"Being a lazy a** and sleeping in her room all day." Ikkaku said.
"No I wasn't! I was simply taking a walk around town is all."
"Then how come you didn't answer my call?" Hitsugaya asked.
"The phone was on silent. Geez, will you stop naggin' already. You're driving me insane. So, why are we all meeting?"
"I have information about those arrancars we fought last night."
Ikkaku coughed. "Only one of us didn't seem to fight at all."
I shot Ikkaku a glare and he replied with a smirk and looked away.
"Anyways," Hitsugaya began again. "I found out that arrancars that are ranked 10 and above are known as espada. They are the strongest out of all the arrancar."
Our eyes widened.
"So…the arrancars that we fought…" Rangiku started.
"They weren't espada." Hitsugaya finished.
"If you guys were that badly beat up…and that was only normal arrancars, I guess you guys better train, huh?" I thought but Ikkaku, being a butt head, seemed to read my mind and shot me a glare.
"Oi, what did you do during the time when the arrancars came? Nothing! You just sat there and watched!"
"What?! I was doing something important!"
"Like what?!"
"Like figuring out what those arrancars are capable of!"
There was a brief silence.
"So, you've been researching? That's really unlike you, Hikari. You're usually lazy and just sit around and do nothing all day." Yumichika said with a dramatic sigh.
"Well, I have been researching AND training." I countered. Yumichika gave a dramatic shrug.
"Well then," Hitsugaya interfered. "What have you found so far?"
"Nothing. It's not like I was able to get up close and personal with an arrancar and see what their capable of. But since you guys did…" Then I trailed off and suddenly remembered that light blue arrancar that was about to fight me. "Actually, never mind. Besides, you guys fought against arrancars and was able to beat them. But I can probably base off the attacks to estimate what the espadas are made out of."
Everyone nodded, Ikkaku adding a snort with doubt. I ignored it, of course.
"Anyways, I need to go and return to my research." I said.
"Yeah, 'research'…sure. Whatever." Ikkaku responded.
"baldy." I murmured.
"EH? WHAT THE H*** DID YOU CALL ME?!" He was about to tackle me but I shifted my feet to swiftly dodge his attack.
"You're so obvious when you attack me." I taunted. Ikkaku was about to attack again until Rangiku slammed a kick at Ikkaku's head. I laughed and walked off. Guess the meeting if over. But the fact that they were having a hard time fighting these arrancars and there were stronger versions of them…that's a pretty scary thought if you think about it. But nevertheless…we just have to get stronger. Simple as that. But of course, I have to contribute something as well.
I began walking through the park. It was mid afternoon on a breezy Sunday. Tomorrow I had to go to school. Yeah, I'm not going through the whole rant thing again. You're probably ticked off at me for that. Anyways, even though it was mid afternoon, it's supposed to be sunny out (unless it's raining. But it's sunny out right now…Yeah, I'm probably not making any sense anymore so I'm just going to move on). Strangely, it seemed to be getting darker. By the time I reached the area where the first arrancars where first seen, it seemed like the whole city when into a blackout. I took out my cell phone. I can't even see the backlight of the phone. Ok, maybe I'm turning blind….
"Kaori-san…"
I turned around. Nothing.
"Kaori-san."
I turned around again. Still nothing to be seen!
"Ok, who the he** are you?!" I yelled. There was a brief silence. "Ok, don't answer me."
"Stay out of our way."
"Who's way? Why?"
"Stay out of our way."
"Ok, I got you the first time. Will in heaven's sake tell me who you are, why you're telling me this, and why I'm in the dark?!"
A brief silence and this really did tick me off. I popped a mod soul into my mouth and once I was in shinigami form, I unsheathed my zanpakuto.
"Let Them Burn, YasuSuzume." Flames quickly illuminated the darkened area and I had returned to the world of light again. Then, I saw a figure standing a few feet before me. She had dark hair tied into a tight bun and crystal blue eyes. She wore a white blouse with a ruffle in the middle. She had a white skirt with a thick black line running down the side of the skirt. The ruffle was black as well. She had a hollow mask fragment around her neck, making it look like a boney necklace. She had white, hug on boots. I stared at this figure in surprise.
"Hello Kaori-san."
"Akemi-sama…."
