"Oh man, I'm going to hurt him so bad!" I was running now. I still couldn't find my brother and I'd been at it for four days. Tomorrow my time in the Soul Society would end, along with Riko.
"He's really tricky to find! Geez, stupid prick." Riko was also using the flash-step beside me, her speed easily able to surpass mine, but she kept pace. "I'll go right."
"And I'll cover left. Meet back at the room by sunset." I disappear from her site, leaping as far left as I could without leaving the gates.
I stop on top of a tall building, staring back over the city. I close my eyes and concentrate. I center my thoughts completely then try and contact my zanpakuto.
"Kurogami, are you there?"
Before I know it, I've delved deep into the world of my mind. It was exactly like Ichigo's realm, for reference.
A woman in a black tattered dress stood there holding a long silver staff. Her hair reached her knees and was silver, flowing with an eerie kind of glittering glow, her blank silver eyes matching that. She had three black wings- one large one on the left and two smaller ones on the right, one of which replaced her right arm. Meaning she had only a left arm. Her skin was a pale grayish hue and she really was the epitome of her name- Dark Goddess.
"You called for me?" Her voice was a very mature, womanly voice, holding a very light echo and a ring in it.
"Yes. I need your help. I have to find my brother." I stand tall, but even so I barely reached her chin. She was tall, gorgeous, and demanded respect and was the embodiment of superiority. She and Zangetsu got along magnificently.
"Yes, I've been watching the predicament as it unfolded. I expected you to call upon me sooner, Misao."
"I was going to find him on my own." Even if I stood ten feet from her, she pierced me with those steely, immobile eyes with flowing silver pupils.
"Even so, I know what you wish of me then." She gives a deep, reverberating chuckle. "I will give you my eyes. Keep concentration or they will disappear. That is all the help I can offer you for now."
"Deal." I nod quickly, hardly thinking over the answer.
Her body flows swiftly to mine, going straight through me at eye level. I cringe in pain, literally being shoved out of my world.
I open my outward eyes, seeing things in a new perspective. I could feel the tingling in my eyes, meaning they were completely void of anything but glowing, moving silver. It sounded like something that looked demonic, and frankly it looked like that with Kurogami.
The world looked brighter, and everything was in variations of gray. The people I could see were all a brilliant light whitish blue with thin colorful mists around them. It was the only real color I saw.
"That's their aura's, their spiritual energy. You know Ichigo's color, so he should be fairly easy to find. Keep up concentration and don't let anyone frighten you. It automatically disengages the effects of your vision. I'm also going to give you some of my speed. Treat it well..." Her ringing voice fades out.
I take a deep breathe, fiddling with the shining silver hilt of my zanpakuto, still in its lowest form and not transformed. I had it on my hip today.
And then I leap from the tall building, landing on the very light gray ground. As soon as I push off the ground and onto another building, a dust cloud swivels around the place I pushed away from. I had my eyes wide as I scanned the area while running, frantically searching for my brother.
I just couldn't find him.
"Damn it. Where are you?"
"Looking for someone?" I avoid whoever tried to block my way, their darker gray form a blur as I sped by. But the person keeps up pace with me, running beside me. "Hmm, your eyes look different. Zanpakuto I assume?"
"Buzz off." I disappear with a faster form of the flash step. I was now squatting on a tree branch, staring around.
"Now that wasn't nice."
I jump, startled. I fall off the tree and crash face first to the silver-gray grass. I don't move for a moment before opening my eyes. I saw a mass of green.
"Oh great!"
I couldn't get that vision back again now.
"Who the hell...?" I push myself up and dust the grass from me, adjusting the fake badge on my arm again.
Gin was leaning against the tree, his arms in his sleeves as he stared at me with those perpetually closed eyes and that fox-like smile. His teeth were slightly showing again.
"Not very graceful or ladylike are we?"
"Are you stalking me?" I was angry. He had made me lose the best chance to finally find my brother. "You stupid jerk, you need to stay out of my business!"
He gives a rather dark chuckle. "Is it really wise to talk to a captain like this?"
I'd forgot he was a captain. I was so used to talking as I pleased to anyone I felt like, but the idea of this silly grinning man being stronger then me was odd.
"I don't care!" I narrow my eyes. "I have something I'm supposed to be doing. Excuse me."
As I turn my back to leave, he appears in front of my face, bending slightly to be at eye level. "Like looking for your brother?"
"What are you talking about?"
Uh oh! Please tell me he hadn't found out!
"Don't try to fool me, Misao." He chuckles as he circles me, the sun getting lower and the sky now orange. "You're a Ryoka."
"I still don't know what you're-"
"Kurosaki Misao."
I stop mid-sentence, hearing those words. "Yeah, what of it? No one else will really figure it out. Besides, if they do I'll be long gone before they can catch me."
"Not if I..."-A hand lightly runs down my spine-"...take you in right now."
I shudder. "Try it!" I leap from him, hand on my sword. "I don't have time for this!" I run past him, but before I can completely run away, he grabs the back of my robes. "Let go!"
It rips and I quickly catch the front of the top so I don't have anything showing. His hold on me had slipped, meaning I had the chance to run away from him, holding my top up the best I could. He had a full view of my tattoo as I ran, reading the words on the bottom of my back.
I finally make it back to the room where a few of the others were. Yachiru, Kenpachi, and Riko were actually the only ones there. They turn to stare at me as I enter, panting and holding my front up.
"Misao?" Yachiru blinks. "What happened?"
"I felt his presence." I had meant Ichigo. "Kurogami lent me her eyes and speed, and then he showed up and broke my concentration."
"Who?"
"Gin!" I growl. "He is so annoying! He ripped my robes. I'm sure he saw my tattoo too. Great, that means he knows my summoning."
Few knew, but I also focused my extra strength in those wings on my back. It was a secret Kurogami had told me about. It was easy to discern if you really knew your stuff.
Ichigo and Urahara were some of the very few who did know, well besides Isshin, my father. It was the true reason he'd let me get it. Not even Riko knew that.
"Well we can't get you new robes, so we'll just have to improvise!" Yachiru pulls me to the cot and yanks out a huge roll of bandages. "Now don't look Kenny!"
"I'm no pervert." He stares out the window as she forces me to put my back to Kenpachi. Yachiru quickly fashions a tube top on me, letting it hug my curves perfectly. It came low on my breasts and was pretty uncomfortable. The tattered tops of my robes hung from my waist around my hips from my belt.
"What's with the weird tattoo?" She immediately asks when she finishes.
"Just a symbol of my freedom that my dad let me get." I yawn. "Tomorrow we have to leave. Probably in the night huh?"
"He said midnight." Riko smiles. "Which means we have all tomorrow to try and find Ichigo!"
"I'm going to kill him." I narrow my eyes.
What was the point of me being here for only five days you ask? I had something I truly had to give my brother, something I wanted to give him before he left. I had planned on giving him a special necklace our father had given me years back, something to store even more extra energy in besides my tattoo. I wanted him to have that extra experience, that extra energy.
"I think we just need to get to sleep. Tomorrow we'll find him or we'll rampage." Riko grins while humming. "It's night anyways."
"I need to change your bandages anyway Kenny!" Yachiru bounces over to him.
I once again leave and get on the roof, spending my spare time staring at the stars.
It was just my way of thinking.