Author's note: I know, I know, I'm really late when it comes to updating. But my grades had just slipped so I had to heave it back to normal. Have you guys read my Soul Eater story yet? I'm still working on my FMA stuff, so bear with me. Until then, I have my Soul Eater story! So I hope you guys read that too (btw, I only have 1 chapter).

But anyhow, as updates are coming in like a snail…..I HOPE YOU ENJOY! *bows really low*

Chapter 15 Trickery:

"So….? You and Hitsugaya-taicho are a couple, right?" Rangiku chirped on the phone. I groaned.

"I already told you, YES. Every time you call me, that's the first thing you ask."

"Because it's so adorable and unbelievable that you and Hitsugaya-taicho are a 'thing', ya know?"

"Is it that hard to believe?" I asked. There was a brief silence. I rolled my eyes. "Ok then…"

Rangiku let out a small laugh.

"Well, I have to go. Orihime wants me to help her."

"Help her with what?"

"Oh…stuff."

"Stuff , eh?"

Another giggle and then she hung up. I put the phone on the desk as I thought of various scenarios of what Rangiku and Orihime was up to. Dear god, it better not be deadly….I laughed nervously. Hitsugaya would probably stop them before they do anything to me or anyone else. It's amazing how I'm speaking about Rangiku and Orihime in a criminal fashion. How horrible.

I looked at the ceiling. I was, once again, bored out of my mind so I let out a sigh. Since I had nothing else to do, I decided to use some of my extra money to do a tiny bit of shopping.

I put on my shoes and walked out of the hotel.

The streets were FILLED with people. I started to feel bad for those who are nostalgic. As hours past, I felt like someone was behind me. By the time I had finished my shopping, it was night fall. The amount of people slowed, so it wasn't very crowded. Whatever I was feeling, it wasn't a good feeling. I gripped on the bag handle and took a quick turn to one of the alley ways. Stupid, I know. But would it be right to fight this person who I thought was behind me in front of everyone and look like I have a mental disorder and is hallucinating? Uh…no way.

As I walked through the alley way, I started to hear footsteps and that's when I sensed a strange spiritual pressure. Akemi-sama? No…that's not her spiritual pressure. It was someone else….but who? I stopped in my tracks and when I did, the footsteps stopped.

"Who are you?" I asked, my back probably facing the person. There was a silence. "I can sense your spiritual pressure."

The person behind me stepped up. "Prepare to die."

I quickly spun around and dodged a dagger that would have hit my back. I grabbed the person's back collar and spun the person at the wall. Wow, my gigai got some strength! I quickly searched through my pockets for soul candy. Then, something struck me.

"I LEFT MY SOUL CANDY AT HOME!" I yelled mentally, though I bet my face showed it. After realizing that, I looked up and saw the attacker stand up. My eyes widened. It was an arrancar! Ok, first, don't you all think that I'm the stupidest person in the universe now? I'm guessing so…I'M FIGHTING AN ARRANCAR AND I DON'T HAVE ANY SOUL CANDY!

The arrancar stood up and I could finally see a better image of her. She wore a white sleeveless dress, ending up to her thighs. She wore white boots with black outlines on the sides. Her hollow mask fragment was formed as a beaded necklace. Her hollow hole was on her upper left arm. The girl glared at me.

"Impressive, a gigai actually threw me." She responded coolly, but her voice would say otherwise. "Time to die, shinigami."

She took out her zanpakuto, which was securely kept on her left hip, and swung towards me. I quickly dodged the swings.

"Bakudo number 4 hainawa!" I yelled and a light rope lashed towards her. As she struggled to break free, I quickly ran off. I had to call Hitsugaya. I dug through my pocket and took out my phone and dialed his number.

"Hitsugaya!" I yelled through the phone.

"Hikari? Why the h*ll are you calling me at this time?" Hitsugaya asked, obviously annoyed.

"First of all, let me ask, HOW THE H*LL DO YOU NOT FEEL ANY SPIRTUAL PRESSURE?!"

"What the heck are you talking about, Hikari?"

I stopped running. "An arrancar just attacked me."

There was a sudden silence….a very uncomfortable silence.

"Are you alright?" He asked, but I could tell that there was worry in his voice. I let out a sigh.

"Yeah….just barely though."

"Wait, did you bring your soul candy with you?" When I said nothing, Hitsugaya groaned.

"You're stupid."

"I know. But I manage."

"Go to Inoue's house. We need to talk."

"So serious now?"

"Now."

XxXxXxX

I knocked on Orihime's door. Rangiku opened the door. She held a sake bottle

"Hey, Hikari." She said, her voice completely slurred.

"Rangiku-san…are you ok? Actually…should you be drinking sake? Especially when Hitsugaya is, well, around."

She burst out laughing. "Taicho aint here. He's on the roof."

"Um…."

"Hahahahahaha! Maybe he'll grow wings and fly back to Seireitei! Hahahahahahaha!"

I quickly walked back and jumped onto the roof. Rangiku was right. He was sitting on the roof, staring at the dark abyss. I walked towards him.

"Good evening, Hitsugaya." I replied and sat next to him. He sighed.

"You're an idiot. You fought an ARRANCAR with only a GIGAI. That's IMPOSSIBLE."

"Soooo? Maybe I was just lucky."

"Even so. You could have died."

"But I'm still alive, aren't I?"

Hitsugaya sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Just be careful next time…idiot."

I laughed and shook Hitsugaya's hair. "I will, Shiro-chan."

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!"

I laughed and jumped off the roof. "See ya!"

He gave a small and quick wave and walked off. I pouted. Butt head.

XxXxXx

I arrived at the hotel at around 8. Though it was still early, I was seriously tired. I was just glad that arrancar wasn't around. Well….that's what I thought. When I opened the door, the girl was sitting on my bed. Let's press the pause button for just a minute. Think about what you would feel when some random stranger, boy or girl, was sitting on your bed, looking right at you.

How would you feel? Freaked, invaded, and thinking that this stranger is probably going to do stuff to you or worse, kill you? Well, that's EXCACTLY what I felt in those very few moments. Ok, you can press play.

"We're not done, Kaori." The arrancar said. I took a step back. I shifted my eyes and caught a quick glance of my soul candy on my jacket pocket. Suddenly, the arrancar took out her zanpakuto and ran towards me. I turned in a 180 degree and took out the soul candy in my candy pocket. I popped one in my mouth and went into my shinigami state.

"Would you like me to go?" My gigai asked. I nodded, taking out my zanpakuto and clashed at the arrancar.

"Lets' take this outside." I yelled. The arrancar smirked.

"So be it." She jumped and kicked my stomach. I flew back and was now falling from the 4th story. I landed on the concrete…hard. I stood up and saw the arrancar jump from the balcony.

"Burn, YasuSuzume!" I commanded. We clashed again.

"How do you know my name?" I asked; my grip on the hilt was growing harder.

"I have my ways. The name is Lita. Prepare to die."

She swung her sword downwards, missing me by a millimeter at the least.

"Should I use my bankai now?" I thought. I heard a small laugh.

"Well duh! We need to kill this girl."" Yasusuzume replied. I rolled my eyes and dashed towards Lita again. She dodged and tried to stab my chest. I blocked it quickly. As we repeated this method over and over, I began to wonder why the others weren't coming. Couldn't they sense that this is an arrancar? Can't their hollow phone thing sense that a hollow, aka arrancar, is fighting me?!

"Are you curious on why your little shinigami friends aren't coming?" Lita asked as we clashed again. I tightened my grip and glared.

"You shinigami aren't the only ones who can hide their spiritual pressure." Lita laughed and added more power to her zanpakuto. I kept my stance but I could feel myself going back.

"I can't believe I'm saying this…but I need Hitsugaya-kun here now." I thought bitterly. Suddenly, I heard:

"Sozen Ni Zase, Hyourinmaru!"

I jumped back using shunpo and landed on my butt. I looked up and saw Lita frozen in a block of ice. I stood up and saw Hitsugaya and Rangiku walking towards me, Hitsugaya's hands crossed.

"And why didn't you call us?" Rangiku asked. I brushed some hair off my face and sighed.

"Various reasons…." I mumbled. Rangiku shook her head and helped me up.

"You're such a troublesome person."

"Likewise, Rangiku-san."

Suddenly, a strong spiritual pressure was being felt suddenly. The 3 of us turned around and saw Akemi break the ice with her bare hands.

"Good evening, Hitsugaya-taicho, Lieutenant Matsumoto, Kaori." Akemi said. My grip loosened but I felt Rangiku grab my wrist.

Lita feel onto the ground and gasped for air. Suddenly, Akemi kicked her in the face.

"How dare you make me come here and save you." Akemi said her voice dark and hard. It was the complete opposite of the Akemi I knew many years ago; light and kind. Lita got down on her knees.

"Forgive me, Akemi-sama." Lita murmured. Akemi turned and sighed.

"Aizen-sama will be very upset."

I couldn't listen to this chit-chat anymore. I shunpoed towards Akemi and applied my spiritual pressure onto my blade. Before I could even touch her, Akemi grabbed the blade and stared at me.

"Do you plan to hurt me with this toy?" Akemi asked, her grip onto the blade getting harder. Suddenly, she threw my zanpakuto and me 50+ feet away from her. When I got up, the two were gone. I made a fist and slammed it onto the concrete.

"She got away." I said, more to myself than anyone else. Rangiku helped me up, again.

"Taicho is tracing them." Rangiku said. I frowned.

"They probably returned to Hueco Mundo or something…." I replied. I massaged my temples. "I'm going back to my hotel room…."

"Are you sure you don't want to stay with us?"

"Why?"

"Well, the two might come back."

"….."

"I know you can take care of yourself, that's why taicho made you third seat. But I, we, don't want to take any chances."

"Is it because of the strength difference that was just shown?"

"……of course not."

I glared and turned. "I'm going back to my hotel room. Good night."

I turned to shunpoed back to my room. Apparently, my gigai had cleaned the room. She turned and smiled.

"It's good to see you, ma'am." My gigai replied. I sighed.

"Thanks for helping…" I went into my gigai and plopped into my bed. I began to review the fight that happened only a few minutes ago.

"Do you plan to hurt me with this toy?"

I grabbed a pillow and put it over my head.

"I need to get stronger…." I mumbled. I felt a fiery presence.

"It's because you didn't use your bankai." Yasusuzume stated. I groaned.

"Do you WANT me to be burn the entire town to the ground?"

"Please, you're not like that old Captain Commander."

"Well….either way, I'm not ready to show it."

"Bleh! 'I'm not ready to show it' my *ss. You're just a coward who doesn't want to show it, especially in front of your boyfriend."

"Will quiet taunting me already? I'm not in the mood, YasuSuzume."

She scoffed and her fiery presence disappeared. Thank god it's over.