Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Hornet and Phantom. Enjoy the 3200-word chapter. I do not own Bleach, Tite Kubo, and a few others do.

Sui was utterly silent, looking downwards at the ground in sheer amusement. She sighed and seemed to find it to be soberingly silent, something that bothered her, bothered everything when it came down to it.

She sighed to herself as she looked downwards at the ground, unsure of what to see and do next… She had no reason to try and figure out what her next move would be.

Part of the woman traveled back to Riku. The man had gone back to her again and again, unsure for now, unsure of what to see and do at this moment. She was utterly thrown off, utterly exhausted, how did she deal with this before?

"Are you going to be, ok?" Sui asked herself as she sighed, running her fingers through her hair.

She sighed, utterly torn up as she clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth, clicking her fingers against her arms as she sighed.

They had a lot more to see and do, a lot more options on her mind to try and figure out… Whatever could be done to try and defeat the army? Well, not even SHE knew, she knew what else was coming, an ambush on the enemy.

They would continue to try and end it, continue to be odder and odder. They had a LARGE amount of mercy that was exhausted sooner or later.

"Do we have anything ready or are we supposed to go as I planned?" Sui asked as she heard the door open. "There are far too many soldiers to try and take out directly. A frontal attack isn't going to help, we need to try and draw their forces out, launch a strike while they are distracted." Sui stated before she looked downwards at the ground.

All of it bothered her, all of it cut deeper and deeper. They'd be marching into a lion's den and it just wouldn't end well, not even for a second. What came next was bothersome but it had to be done… They had SO much to try and figure out as of the moment.

They had a LOT more to try and figure out what to see and do next.

"Yes, Lady Feng, we have all soldiers ready to try and figure out what to do next… All of them are impossibly calm about it all, they had a lot of questions but I'm not at all unsure of what was going on for the time being." Sui heard as she sighed.

She could only imagine how he felt about her, unsure of it all. Something about it all seemed to be odder and odder at the end of the moment.

She wasn't used to it all, something that cut them all the way down to the bone for now and forever again and again at the end of the day.

All such problems continued to be odder and odder for now, a measure of mercy they could not deal with anytime soon. They had a LOT more upon the line and a lot more to try and take care of at the moment. They would always need to keep fighting through it all.

Perhaps there was a lesson here? Perhaps she should care more and more… But she didn't, she couldn't for now, that required something neither of them had… Patience… She couldn't destroy that and she couldn't replace it in the end.

She sighed as she rubbed her hands through her temples. Even when she tried to try and figure out what to see to understand what seemed to click into place. She cracked her fingers as she rolled her eyes and then seemed to erupt from it all.

If there was a way to pin down what was going on at the moment as she looked downwards at the end of the time being as she clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth as she sighed.

"You should know that there's a lot of things before now that I need to keep dealing with," Sui stated before she sighed as she looked downwards at the ground.

She would keep thinking of what to see and do at the time being as she cracked her fingers and seemed to lean on the wall, something that she could be dealing with. She clicked her fingers.

"Riku? How do you keep finding me when I'm thinking of talking about you?" Sui stated before she seemed to try and figure something out.

"You summoned me to be fair." Sui heard as she sighed and looked downwards at the ground. "This isn't something that needs to be said before being done, it's just weird, we know it's weird." Sui heard as she frowned and then looked at the ground.

"You of all people should know that I'm going to honestly scream if I get pushed any further today." Sui heard as she shook her head and looked downwards for a moment.

"There's a lot of things that you don't know, you understand what's going on when it comes down to it… The more effort you have to put in with these sorts of things? The more you suffer when it all falls apart." Sui heard before she looked downwards at the ground.

She hummed to herself as she sighed and then hummed before she crossed her arms across her chest, glancing at her as she smiled once more and clicked her fingers against one another as she hummed once more.

She was utterly unsure as she looked downwards at the ground before she cracked her smile and seemed to fall silent once more.

She would sigh and then look downwards at the ground, screaming into the vapid void, knowing it wouldn't end well at all, not even for a few seconds in the end. She couldn't let it, for now, seem to think as he clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth while he hummed before he had to try and deal with it at the end of the day.

Yet? Something about it all seemed to try and end it again and again. Such things only had purpose if they were allowed, she knew more or less that if she had managed to relax? She wouldn't be in this situation trying to deal with issues far to bridge it all.

They had a LOT to see and do next and she? She would not allow it to get to where it could go… Where it was dealt with well enough, something that only served to end in a much further time which could and would be readily ignored if otherwise.

He would not be allowed to deal with such issues knowing that it was in the way, such things that only served to remind him more and more of what was going on sooner or later at the end of the day.

He wouldn't allow himself to feel the way he did, knowing that it only seemed to lead to more and more pain, if for some reason he knew more and more at the moment? He would allow it for now, they had a lot more to try and figure out something that he could relax.

He had a lot more to try and figure out what to try and handle for the moment as he clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth. There was a LOT more to try and deal with it all.

Such a thing was going to be odder and odder. Yet? He had a duty to make it happen more and more as he clicked his fingers and slowly yet surely walked towards her, utterly amused more and more.

"I should point out the fact that you of all people are going to be in trouble at the moment if it comes to that… I'm not to try and deal with it." Riku said before he sighed and then he clicked his fingers, utterly amused for now as of the time.

He had a lot more to deal with it all as he clicked a smile into place and looked at her with amusement as he hummed.

Yet? There was a lot more to try as he looked to the side, utterly bored for now… Perhaps he would not as he leaned on the wall before sighing and looking upwards into the sky, there was more to have to try and figure out as he hummed.

He didn't know what to say to cheer her up because he could relax or even enjoy their moment, enjoy something that he could not gift and would be unable to do more than relax for now, content to see it spill over and ruin everything he may or may not wish to gift.

Yes. He would not be able to do more than relax, knowing what was coming and dreading it to the end of the days, he didn't wish to relax, he knew more or less what had to come next. Whatever comes as a result? It was life and such was how things were.

Still? Riku was honest? He knew what it was like and knew more or less than this was… Mind melting to him, knowing what was going on and not wishing to bother her.

Sui sighed and stepped up to her friend, kicking off her shoes and sandals and humming as she stepped on his feet, looking up at her and knowing what was to come.

"If this ends with both of us alive? I want you to meet me where we first began this." Sui stated before she sighed. "One last duel as well… At least as a student and a teacher. Then? Then this will be all over and we're able to relax… All of it will end purely and rightly and everything will be ended." Sui stated before she sighed and then looked down at the ground.

She had no idea why she didn't wish to tell something about it all, she had no idea why such a measure brought any sort of peace as he had little room to take it, however? Did she know more or less that at the end? They were little more than soldiers and no matter HOW high a rank and HOW high the station they held was? They were simply soldiers, they would remain soldiers, fighting a war they could not seek to properly deal with it.

Still? She was a soldier, they all were, it was part of how things worked that such a thing would remain this way, they had little to say more and more on the matter, only knowing what was coming at the of the day.

She could more as he hummed and then looked downwards, knowing what came next was odd but it needed to be done at the moment, utterly maddening.

Yet? it didn't at all know when it comes down to it more or less, utterly unable to do more and more than relax.

"You know this guy is probably going to kill us, right? He's not human. He's not normal either, we have a lot of work to try and deal with, something that will keep bugging us more and more as it comes to a halt. I know it's not easy but it isn't going to end unless we all stop it." Sui heard as she sighed.

She knew this, knew more or less that such a thing was all too much to try and deal with it all at this juncture, however? She was a warrior and she could tell more or less that such an issue would be unlikely to happen sooner or later.

It couldn't have ended so easily, not knowing what was coming next or dreading it in more ways than just this. That was how the world worked at the end of the day.

Perhaps he was losing his mind, perhaps he had taken too many kicks to the face. He wouldn't put it past them for now. it would not matter but it was something that could be done eagerly.

He had a lot of issues on his mind, something about it all seemed to be oddly serene, knowing what was to be done. It would continue to be oddly weird for now.

He sighed to himself before he clicked his fingers against one another as he sighed, utterly tired before looking downwards at the ground, amused more than annoyed and unable to do more than a yawn, simply intoxicated by it all. Something about it all cleaved through it all like a blade.

He sighed and then rubbed at his temples, prompting a kick from Sui Feng, taking a smile from her lips as she did so, there was something that didn't die in her for now.

It only made him laugh, knowing that he could not afford to laugh or rest. He had plans to try and cut through and he would see them all fall apart sooner or later. The ideas on his mind would not rest… Nor would he, for now, something that was dealt with personally with all due respect.

"Now who's quiet and unable to speak? You sound like you are drained and utterly worn down… What's going on, are you tired, or is something picking you all apart?" Sui Feng stated before she hummed and looked downwards at the ground, it was a nightmarish thing.

She didn't know what was worse… Not knowing what to expect or being terrified of the fact that she was at the edge of her rope at the time being. This wasn't something that would not be ended for now, it had to be dealt with for now.

He had a lot of ideas to try and figure out as he hummed to himself and raised an eyebrow to himself and then yawned once again, an idea that wasn't easily dealt with, they had more and more unsure and understandable.

Perhaps he could relax, perhaps he should have at the end of the day. She was always going to be his friend and he wouldn't have stopped to let it end any other way than this. It would need to end and yet? This never ended rightly or at all for now.

They had a lot more to try and deal with as of now, he clicked his fingers once again.

He hummed before he sighed if she was this amusing to him? he'd allow it, they bowed down to it again and again, knowing what was coming next and wishing it would need to end before something ripped it all apart.

Still? They had something to do and it would be done as best as one could handle for now, they had a lot more to do for now and that would never change now or ever, it had to be met with force or else it'd not end at all.

Perhaps it would always need to be dealt with for now, he knew little about the way words would convince Sui that they were going to be in for hell. They had been in hell for a reason, always swimming in it, drowning in it.

Perhaps he had been there for so long that he had been unable to relax and he would not be able to try and do something about it all.

She knew him and he knew her. It never ended in terms of relaxing when it came down to it at the end of the day, something that he could deal with it for now.

There was a lot of time to focus on something beyond it for now.

There was probably some snark he could put in but he didn't know for now what would happen for now.

He had a lot of time to reflect upon it for now, knowing that he could relax, knowing what came next, and not being willing to back down from it in waves and droves.

"Didn't you say something about it all being the end game… What makes you think he won't run?" Riku questioned before raising an eyebrow. "A tactical retreat is an option and he can always attempt to gather more hollows to his side, there's always going to be more and more," Riku stated.

He paused, unsure of his own words as she tapped a foot down on the ground, sighing to herself that it could be dealt with in its way.

"We're all going to be thrown for a loop fighting when it comes down to it," Sui stated before she sighed and looked off to the side. "He has both the terrain advantage and more and more soldiers than I wish to admit. Fighting him might not be the end of the line, it might not even be done today." Sui stated to which Riku sighed.

"You think far too much like a soldier, you know. It is going to ironically lead to your end one day or another." Sui heard as she paused.

She knew he was right in a few ways; it wasn't something she trusted at the end of the day. She was a soldier; a hardened veteran of war and he'd probably use it against her. She almost got killed because she refused to adapt, planning was one thing… But he? He knew exactly how to take her apart.

She sighed and looked at him before pausing to consider her options, something about it rubbed them both the wrong way and not. It would be something that he could be best dealt with in waves and droves.

Yet? Something about it all would be best dealt with. She was going to require help when it came down to it as of now.

They had a lot more to try and do at the time and it wouldn't be easily bypassed for now… She wasn't going to do something that he could and would be able to try and figure something out as of now, this would be unable to do something or else… He would not be unable to figure something out, knowing what he would be dealt with for now. He paused now, unsure of what his actions would be.

He wasn't going to be dealt with for now and then paused, looking at her before he paused, glancing at his teacher, not being able to do something, unsure of it for now…

He'd end it, end it all and he wouldn't be able to relax… There was just something that could be done and then seemed to relax more and more, an idea that he could be dealt with.

There was a pause as she looked downwards at the ground before she sighed to herself.

"We're going to war tomorrow… There's a lot more to try and figure something out of what to try and do next." Sui stated before she paused.

Author Notes

Phew. Another chapter is done! I want to point out that the next chapter will be 900-6500 words and will be in 2-10 months and will show more of Sui and Riku preparing for the goal. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!