Shirogane asked me nervously, "Shall we go?"

I nodded, and she took on in a northerly direction.

After about five minutes of walking in what I thought was random circles, I asked the girl impatiently "Are we there yet?"

She didn't turn around, but instead answered, "No, My Lady. We will be there soon."

I snorted, "This place is bigger than I thought." I muttered. It was true, I had thought that the place where the shinigami's lived was going to be a rather small place, like a small town or something. But that was waaay past the right assumption.

I shook my head and looked around, a bit bored. Walls, walls, walls, doors, windows, paths.... anything interesting? I mean, no birds? Wait, theres a bird! A huge, big, black one that had a human body, arms that weilded a shiny sword and was jumping from roof to roof, as if following me... Wait a minute!

I stopped short, and drew my zanpakutou. Shirogane unsheathed her blade, spun around and instantly had me at her mercy by putting her weapon at my throat.

Whoops, I phrased that wrong. She didn't have me at her mercy, I had jumped back out of her reach. But I could have saved my breath. Dozens of shinigamis, coming out of nowhere, already had me trapped within a tight circle.

I sighed. "Ahhh, this Division is as crafty as their Captain." I began to sheath my zanpakutou, but her voice halted me.

'OI! At least try to fight them!'

'Ehhh? You expect me to take all of them on?!'

'Well, duh!'

'What would you have done in my place?'

'I would have fought without giving up!'

'No, seriously.'

'... I would have ran as fast as I could...'

'See? Is it not so hard to tell the truth?'

'Is it so hard to not do what I would have done?'

'True, true...'

'Chop, chop!'

I jolted into action, and kicked a shinigami behind me in the shins. He cried out in pain, and hopped on the spot.

'That guy should have more discipline than that...'

I jumped onto the wounded person's back, then from there leaped onto the roof, and began running.

'What do you expect: it's Byakuya's Division!'

After around ten minutes of sprinting back the way I had come, I paused in my stride and glanced behind me. Good, no one was following me.

I dragged a few deep breaths into my lungs until my heartbeat slowed down a little. I coughed, and Chaos asked, 'Why are you so puffed out?'

'I thought zanapkutou's were supposed to know everything about their weilder?'

'I don't know about this...'

'Hn.'

'So what is it?'

'It's something called Athsma...

'What does that do?'

'It's a lung problem. I only had it when I was younger. I couldn't breath at all, and I had to have machines help me do it.'

'It effects you even in shinigami form? That's impossible.'

'I had thought that as well. I thought that I could run for hours while undead. I guess I had it wrong, since the athsma has been mild after a few years.'

'So you can't...'

I cut her off, 'We have to hurry up.'

I began to walk briskly again, and my zanpakutou's voice sounded in mind once again, but weirldy quiet, 'I thought so.'

I didn't answer, but she continued anyways, 'You can't use shunpo.'

Ahh, is this chapter too short? Sorry if it is, I just don't know how to continue on. Any ideas?

Uhm, I don't know much about athsma, but I have put a major flaw in Akira's character. She can't use shunpo, and it's because of the athsma she had when she was younger, and it also somehow affects her shinigami form ;). PLEASE don't ask me how, I don't know how to explain it.

Sorry for the long wait as well, I had a LARGE writer's block =)

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