Hey guys, chapter 3 is up! This is actually going faster that I thought it would. I thought I would have writers block, but thank Shiranui I don't...
Here you go! Early chapter (by 12 hours), so please read and review!
Oh yeah, and I'll be doing the chapters in the POV's of Amaterasu, Himiko, Byakuya, and Toshirou. I'll also possibly do third person. This will make the story more interesting! I hope.
I apologize if I made any spelling/grammer mistakes. Sorry if Byakuya seems OOC, I tried my best.
Disclaimer: For the love of Shiranui in a Digging Mini-game, I do NOT own Bleach. What, do you think I'm Tite Kubo or something? Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not.
Now on with the story!
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—Byakuya—
I looked at the clock again. She was late by half and hour, already. I had originally expected better from her, after all, she was Yoruichi-san's daughter. Thinking back to the days when Yoruichi-san used to wake me up at ridiculous times in the morning, closed my eyes and sighed. Thinking about the past will not bring it back. Moving across the room, I grabbed a thick pile of paperwork. I might as well finish these while I'm waiting.
Signing one paper after another, the clock ticked by another twenty minutes. One paper was about sending someone to help kill a hollow in Rukongai. Maybe i would send Amaterasu there, just to let her fight. After all, if she had the same change in personality when initiating combat mode just like the old days, then this would be fun to see. I was just on my last sheet when there was some sort of commotion outside. Quickly, i looked outside my window. It went on something like this.
"If you're gonna go in, then you have to fight me first! I don't let strange people with purple hair in my Captain's office anytime, you know!" That was obviously Renji, my lieutenant. That was Renji for you. To this day, I wonder why he was made my lieutenant. Of course, out of all the thirteen divisions, I just had to get the stupidest. The girl he was facing off was Amaterasu, and she looked ticked off.
"Fine then!" She pulled out both of her two zanpakuto. One zanpakuto had a golden yellow hilt, and the other had a fiery red hilt. The first zanpakuto's guard* was in the shape of a thunderbolt while the second one was an infinity symbol.
"Growl, Gekigami! Burn down the enemy, Moegami!"
The sword with the golden yellow hilt started blasting off electricity, while the zanpakuto with the fiery red hilt started blasting off intense heat that I could feel even inside the building. Soon, flames licked the blade. To say I was surprised is an understatement. For the first time in my whole career as a captain, I had never seen a student straight from the academy being able to have their zanpakuto in Shikai** form.
Renji however, looked like this only proved his point.
"Aha! Captain said that the person visiting him would be an student straight out of the Academy. Since you can get your sword into its Shikai form, then that means you're not that Academy student!" Not having witnessed the scene before what happened, I had barely any idea what was going on.
"But I am the newly graduated Academy student!" She looked seriously pissed off now. Considering what happened about a hundred and ten years ago when she was seriously pissed off, things were going to go downhill for my lieutenant. All I am going to tell you is that some men in Seireitei are still very scared from that incident. Not to mention that Yoruichi was also angry. Seriously not good.
"Look, you said all I have to do is beat you, then I'll be able to see the Captain, right?" Renji nodded nervously, as if just realizing that when any type of female looks at you like that, you run for your life. And with me backing that statement up, it is very true.
"...You do realize you're going to be dead meat in a few seconds, right? There is no way you'll win this fight. You are, after all, fighting against a lieutenant," Renji managed to get some of his pride back with that statement, though not for long, as he was soon blasted with a beam of fire mixed with electricity. Jumping to the side quickly, the beam hit the wall behind him.
"Crap! Howl, Zabimaru!" His sword quickly transformed into the all-too familiar six-part segmented blade with each segment wider than the one preceding it from the hilt. I think I better go out there and stop them before my division is destroyed.
As I hurried through the hallways, I could feel the rising reiatsu growing around me, enveloping the entire compound. Then, almost as quickly as it had risen, Renji's reiatsu dimmed suddenly. The scene that I saw left me stunned (without showing any outside emotion, of course) when I opened the door. I was met with an innocent look from Amaterasu and a painful one from Renji, who was lying on the ground and clutching between his legs.
"Captain, she kicked me... That absolute bit-" Whatever he was going to say, he was cut off by Amaterasu glaring daggers at him and stomping her foot on his head.
"Mind your manners. No cursing in front of the lady," she warned. "Or... I will personally see to your funeral."
I really couldn't blame Renji for nodding quickly as if his life depended on it. One side of my mouth twitched upward as I thought of the fact that his life probably did depend on it. Now, I think I had better call a member of the Fourth Division, and quickly, too...
"Urahara Amaterasu, why are you late?" I did get really bored from the paperwork, not that I was going to tell her. She would probably laugh.
"Hm? Oh, I got lost, since no one told me where the Sixth Division was. Thankfully, I met this really nice woman, I think her name was Nanao or something... Anyway, she showed me here, and then your lieutenant wouldn't let me in. That's about it."
"I see. As a punishment for being late-" I was cut off by her complaining.
"But Captain!" I held up a finger to stop her from whatever she was going to say. She held her tongue, looking flustered at being punished at the first few minutes of being in a division.
"As I was saying, as a punishment for being late, you will go to the outskirts of the 37th district of Rukongai and kill a hollow there," I finished. Amaterasu's face quickly changed from pouting to as if her dreams came true.
"Really? Sweet! They never let us kill any hollows in the Academy! Bye!" With that, she dashed off. I sighed and called for my Hell Moth, and messages the Fourth Division about the fact that my lieutenant will be needing of a room soon.
A couple minutes later, a groaning Renji was carted off onto an ambulance. Well, not really, but it might as well have been, considering it was Captain Unohana that was coming. Everyone pretty much stayed out of her way as she flew into the large compound on her zanpakuto's Shikai form.
"Hello, Captain Unohana. Thank you for coming."
"Oh, it was no problem at all. How did this happen, anyway?" She gestured to the spasming form of Renji, who was still groaning in pain.
"Arabai was very foolish and decided to challenge someone who was very much like you in the art of having people fear you. He said the other person would lose to him. That was a mistake on his part. I'm sure he regrets it." I said grimly in my usual monotone. Unohana smiled her sweet evil smile.
"I would like to meet this person one day. I'm sure we will make the best of friends."
"There is no doubt about that, Captain Unohana. She is very much like you." Not that we need more people like her. She was scary with her sweet smile and evil ways to get people obey her. This was one of the reasons why I was very happy that she was on our side.
"I'll be seeing you, Unohana."
"See you."
After Unohana left, I went back and thought over wheat she said. Amaterasu certainly was very sweet when she wanted to be, especially in front of her captains and people higher ranked than her in general. Amaterasu was also very kind toward others in general, and very willing to help others in need. But, if you we ever to see her fight, you would know that she changes into something fierce and evil, having no mercy on her enemies. Very much like Unohana with her patients. Usually sweet, but if you got on her bad side... I closed my eyes. That face she made was like the devil itself.
I went back over to my desk and picked up the pile of just finished paper work. Usually, I would have Renji send it over, but... It's not like he can do that right now, in his condition. Walking over to the door, a piece of paper fell out. Apparently, it was more information about that hollow. Maybe I should've given this to Amaterasu before she left. After picking it up, I quickly scanned the piece of paper, and dropped it again in shock. The hollow was Grand Fisher. He had evaded us Shinigami for 53 years up to now. He probably had more experience on his side than Amaterasu, though a person of third-seat rand could easily dispose of him. What happened in the past was that whenever he felt someone with high reiatsu come, he would retreat, and then go feed on another soul somewhere else. We had lost track of him in the past month or so, but now here he was, living in the outskirts of Soul Society and we never noticed him.
I gave the paper work to a lower ranked seat and told him to bring it to the First Division office. After he left, I started using Shunpo toward the outskirts of the 37th district of Rukongai. I will not have her die on her first day here. That has never happened before and never will.
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Before I even got there, I could see flashes of electricity and fire, meaning Amaterasu was still alive. When I did get there, I saw Amaterasu cleave down with her lightning zanpakuto, aiming for the head, but only cutting the arm as Grand Fisher leapt to the side. Then, the hollow regenerated quickly, having another arm sprout out as Amaterasu watched in surprise. She quickly Shunpoed to the side when he started extending his fur and limbs to try and capture her. Amaterasu managed to get behind him and burn the tendons on this legs, managing to stop him from moving for the moment. Then the instant regeneration kicked in.
However, when she was about to deliver the final blow, Grand Fisher's body migrated into the lure on his head.
"What!? That's not fair! I was just about to kill you!"
"Are you surprised, little Shinigami? Both the lure and myself are my real body, and when one is injured, I can jump into the other body."
Amaterasu did not look happy.
"You are a cheap idiot, you know that, right?"
With that, they flew at each other again. However, this time, as Amaterasu blocked the hollow's strike, Grand Fisher managed to extend his claws and pierce her arms a second before she quickly Shunpoed out. Meanwhile, the hollow used his other hand and transformed his lure into her little sister. Amaterau's face turned white with shock and fear.
"H-Himiko? Is that you?" She managed to stutter out. Grand Fisher only laughed.
"Mwahahahaha! You see, with my right hand, I pierce the opponents flesh and find the memory of who they cannot cut the most. With my other hand, I make that person on my lure. Now, you cannot cut me! Hahahaha!" He laughed with the prospect of going unharmed.
"You... Bastard! What kind of coward does this?" Amaterasu was visibly seething with anger. I knew that if she was cursing, then she was really angry. She leapt up into the air and was going to cut off his lure. Before she could, Grand Fisher held up the fake Himiko. Amaterasu quickly stopped and jumped out of the way in order to not cut the fake Himiko.
"Damn it..." While she kept her eyes on her fake little sister, she didn't notice as the hollow fired a cero at her from behind. I tried to shout a warning.
"Amaterasu! Behind you!"
"Wha-" she started. Then, she was blasted head on with the cero. Her body flew at least ten meters and crashed into a tree. The hollow started blasting another cero. This time, I didn't think. Leaping in front of the cero, I quickly put up a shield.
"Bakudō # 39: Enkōsen." A large spinning disk of condensed reiatsu blocked the hollow's attack. Grand Fisher snarled in surprise and fear at a person of the captain rank being there.
"I do not know why you are acting like a coward a using Amaterasu's younger sister as a shield. However, I do know that you are attacking my subordinate. That is not acceptable," I stated in a cold voice and pulled out my zanpakuto. "Be prepared to fall by the blades of my sword. Scatter, Senbonzakura."
My blade peeled off and seemingly turned into millions of sakura petals. I knew that despite the pretty pink color, each petal was in fact a blade by itself.
"Die."
Grand Fisher ran. He didn't stop when the petals smashed into his arms and cut it into ribbons. He ran until he ripped open the hollow version of a Senkaimon- a rip in space, opening into somewhere that had so much evil reiatsu that even I shivered. Unhappily, I recalled my sword.
Then, I glanced over at Amaterasu. Her arms were burned from trying to block the energy from the cero, and it also looked like her ankle was sprained. Cuts and punctures from her other wounds were hissing as if there was acid, which given the type of hollow she was fighting, wasn't surprising. Most hollows had the acid touch, which affects Shinigami, humans and other souls as well.
Thinking about the distance I would have to carry the unconscious girl, I decided to head toward the Kuchiki Mansion instead of the Fourth Division. Picking her up, I Shunpoed toward my mansion.
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When I got there, I headed toward an empty room and dumped her on the futon there. Then, I called for someone from the Fourth Division. Of course, Rukia just had to show up two minutes later. Don't get me wrong, it's not like i hate her or anything, but we never really talked. She was always nervous around me, despite me being her adopted older brother. Rukia also didn't know that she was the daughter of my late wife, Hisanna.
"Umm, Nii-sama..."
"What is it, Rukia?
"The healers say they will be here shortly. Captain Unohana is coming with Kotetsu-sama." That surprised me. Why would Unohana herself come for Amaterasu, whose injuries weren't even that severe? Then it clicked. She wanted to talk to Amaterasu, probably about how to control that temper. I doubt she wanted to see someone with Renji's condition go in the hospital again.
Thinking of Amaterasu, I looked back at her still form again. I was sure that she could feel the difference of her and Grand Fisher's reiatsu. The hollow clearly had more experience. So why did she attack anyway?
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* guard of a sword: it's the thing that sticks out where the hilt connects to the blade, and it's there so that your hands don't slip onto the blade and so you don't cut yourself.
**Shikai-the first state of release, by uttering a command like, "Scatter, Senbonzakura" (Byakuya's). Read more about it on the Bleach Wiki.
Oh yeah, this is one year before the real storyline. So Grand Fisher is unfortunately still alive and running from the Shinigami.
Also, I said before that Amaterasu is polite to her seniors, but she knew Byakuya from 110 years ago, so she isn't as polite to him a she is to her teachers in the Academy.
Guys, please review! It makes me think that there isn't anyone reading this thing! But, you know, I can see how many people read this thing. That's cool. Now, what is not cool is that I have over 220 views and only seven reviews. Please review, it tells me what I can do better and improve on. Or else I might have to use this method:
REVIEW OR I WILL SET SENBONZAKURA ON YOU! DIE BY THE HAND OF PRETTY PINK SAKURA PETALS OR REVIEW NOW!