Toushiro's POV
This stupid mission and this stupid group. They seem to never change, even having Abarai for something different, it seemed like her parents were here too. It felt exactly like the mission with the Arancars.
Ever if it has been more than twenty years of that event.
It felt strange, many years had passed and yet so many things in the Human World remained the same. Karakura High School was almost the same for what I saw, the new thing I really noticed was the pool at one side of the principal building, the technology variety were also greater, but the rest remained the same.
I knew that this mission could led to be something really dangerous, it was supposed to be less people, just Matsumoto and myself, but since Madarame was bored in this years of peace and being lieutenant, he came in, Ayasegawa quickly came too and Abarai who wanted to visit Kurosaki, also came in.
Now I was stuck with a bunch of idiots that were easily distracted about the things in the Human World and passed the mission over their heads. I had to be stuck, acting like a teenager, in this school now outside for the gym class. That just went to 'do whatever you want' to the rest of the students.
We were waiting for the women to appear, seemed that Abarai and Matsumoto really got along with the human girls: Furuta, Nomura and Richards. Kurosaki was still uncomfortable with all the situation, he seemed worried about the meeting between them and us, but most importantly to Richards.
It was obvious why. Kurosaki Kazui since he showed his Shinigami powers from a young age it was necessary that he learned how to control his reiatsu, in that way he wouldn't affect other humans with it, the way that it happened with his father. So, Furuta Hana and Nomura Emiko were mere normal humans, their reiatsu wasn't nothing alarming and common in humans, instead Richards Akari did have and it was a great amount.
Matsumoto was more into Kurosaki's stories than me, but I was aware that he had a friend that could also see spirits, I didn't expect when just getting that morning into the classroom I could easily notice it, inspecting the classroom to search whom had that amount of reiatsu, it wasn't difficult to point it to the blonde girl with brown eyes. She avoided my gaze, but it was notorious that she seemed tired, her posture was from someone that hadn't rest well in a few days. However the thing that got my attention was thin line of red reiatsu flowing around her, it was like Kurosaki's controlled reiatsu, which make me wonder if it was all her power or something was helping contain it.
During the class, now that my suspicions were confirmed by Matsumoto's friendly welcoming, I started making theories about how does she had that reiatsu and how nobody in Soul Society didn't seem to bother. What I was more curious, aside of her own reiatsu, was the traces of foreign one around her arm, it seemed more aggressive and dangerous, like wanted to hurt her. It was something that I didn't like and it make me wonder if our times of peace were reaching its end.
The whistle of other male students made me aware that the women where now with us, mostly of them staring at Matsumoto that for once in her life her breast were covered by the white t-shirt, still didn't hide them at all. All five of them were talking while getting to us, all in their sport uniform, white t-shirt and blue sport pants, I found slightly curious that only Richards was wearing a jacket over the uniform, she looked more active than in the morning.
"Are you still cold, Akari-chan? You were without the jacket for lunch" Kazui asked her, making my thought into words.
"Yes! You know I'm always cold! See!" Without waiting for anything, she put her hands over Kazui's cheeks, making him go tense and then screamed something about she been so cold, making her laugh.
I sighed, they were just kids after all. I loud bunch of kids. Even my subordinates.
"You are the complete opposite of Ca-Hitsugaya-san!" Great Matsumoto now put me in the conversation "He has a great resistance to cold temperatures!"
"Hey! That's why your hair is that white, Hitsu-kun?" She was talking directly to me, her dark brown eyes looked amused, while there was a smirk in her lips.
"You can say that" I said in a cold tone "And I told you that it's Hitsugaya, Richards"
"So formal! And loooong!" She extended the word even more, showing that she didn't like it. "It's better like Hitsu!"
"No, it's not" I replied, while she only put a pout face. But change her concentration to throw herself over Kurosaki.
"KAAZUI! Let's do a match!" She sounded enthusiastic about it. I had to say, it wasn't every day that somebody asked that freely for a match against him, like it was nothing. The only people that would do that were the members from the 11th squad.
"Aren't you hurt? You should rest!" He took her off of him.
"What for this?" She pointed at the cut in her head "Please carrot top! This is nothing! Come on! First running then fight, yes?"
Kurosaki seemed quite annoyed, Furuta and Nomura seemed like it was nothing.
"It this normal?" Abarai asked to the other two.
"It's like every gym class when the teacher doesn't want to give classes" Nomura said, getting more attention to her braid than the insistence of Richard for a match.
"Kurosaki-kun and Minagawa-chan always do this match, it their way of competing" Furuta continued.
"Minagawa? I thought Akari's last name was Richards" Matsumoto seemed curious about everything was going on, that made the petite girl with glasses turn slightly red.
"Oh! It is, Minagawa it's her mother's last name, it just when we meet we didn't know how to pronounce Akari's last name, so we started calling her by her mother's last name" The other girl responded "It got stuck that way"
"I see, but isn't dangerous?" Matsumoto continued asking.
"What?" The both humans responded.
"Kazui fighting Akari? I mean, she might get hurt!" Abarai continued the trail of the conversation. Now even Madarame and Ayasegawa seemed interest.
Both girls started laughing like it was the most hilarious thing in the world. The rest of us stared at them without believing their action. Sure, Kurosaki wasn't the type to pick up a fight, but with all the training he had, he was a great combatant when he wanted to. Furuta was the first in compose herself.
"Oh! You are serious? Don't worry it's usually a friendly match and most of the time, in the fighting, Minagawa-chan always wins" She waved her hand, making sure that it was nothing.
"Ok sure! First running, three laps! Then match!" I heard from afar Kurosaki agreeing with Richards. This could be interesting.
"The best two of three! Deal!" They both shake hands and went to the track. Now all of us followed behind, if what the girls said it was true, then there were two options: Kurosaki in the fighting let her win or Richards had more reiatsu that I could see. I was hoping that was the first.
They took their position in the empty track, the rest of the students went to do other team things like baseball or soccer, or went inside the gym. We were the only spectators of their match. Nomura looked like she took the place of referee, she was close to the track and watch they were right.
"Ready?" She asked and both of them nodded, looking only at the track "Set…Go!"
And there they went, with a surprisingly speed from both parties. I knew that Kurosaki's speed overpower his father's, which is still hard to believe, but did not expect Richard speed at all. The first lap, she was a little ahead of Kurosaki, which keep us a little worried, however the second lap he regain speed and was at the same pace of her, she couldn't keep it any longer, it was notorious that was difficult for her to keep the same rhythm, by the end, Richards lost with a huge difference. Richards was gasping for air, looked totally drained, while Kurosaki was sure that didn't break a sweat.
"I thought you said that she always win at this?" Ikkaku had a smirk in his face, sure that a human couldn't win.
"I said in fight" Furuta confirmed "In this, well Kurosaki-kun is in the track field club, he always win at this"
"Why do matches in things they are good at? If they always win at that!" Abarai said without understanding the competition.
"Well, there are a few times that things change, and help them practice" Nomura change her attention to us "they shared almost the same level in running and fighting, if Akari was in the track field club probably could match Kazui's" She was confident about it, we just could get along with it "If Kazui went more to the karate classes, he could beat more Akari" That was the one we all wanted to know if it was true.
"Give me a track through the city and I win!" Richards shouted, now recomposed.
"That's because you know all the shortcuts of it" Kurosaki replied "That's cheating"
"Cheating! I have to climb walls and run on the roofs and things like that! It's not cheat!"
"You sound like a thief talking like that so lightly"
"I'm not thief! You carrot top!" It was obvious that Richards had a fiery attitude.
"There's no need to call names! You kiwi!" That didn't seem like the worst thing to say, but Richards gasped overdramatic over it.
"I'm AUSSIE not a fucking kiwi!" Seemed like he did touch a nerve on it "You are on, mate! Now to the tatami so I can kick your ass!"
After the weird exchange of words, we all headed inside the gym. There were more students in there, doing different activities. They headed to an empty spot that could work for their match close to the spectator steps, we seated in there, while Kurosaki, Nomura and Richards stayed in the tatami. The blonde was now fixing her hair up in a really messy bun, probably so it didn't bother during the fight and looked like the running worked like a warm up for her, because she took off her jacket a leave it to Furuta.
Now that she was only with the gym uniform it was more clearly to notice her figure, specially her arms. I did notice before that her hands even if they seemed delicate, were with a lot of scars, like someone who likes to works a lot with them, what I wasn't prepare it how her arms looked toned and ever more scarred. I'm not sure if Kurosaki even said in what she worked but she seemed to have a lot of accidents of it or previous. It kind of make me concern about her. Aside from that in her left arm there was some kind of tattoo that I couldn't notice well the design and finally under the right sleeve there was some bandages covering a wound, the strange reiatsu was still present in there.
"Captain, if I didn't know you better I said that you are staring too much at Akari-chan~" Matsumoto amused whisper let me back to reality. I send her one of my famous cold stares that I knew that didn't really worked with her, she only giggle about it. "Don't worry Captain, now that you are growing up, it's normal to have those feelings! ~"
"Shut up, Matsumoto!" I growled at her. She continued giggling about it. This damn lieutenant.
I focused my attention back to the tatami, were now Richards and Kurosaki were ready to fight, they stood there waiting for Nomura start the match.
"Is for point make or until it looks like K.O. and/or give up?" She asked.
"K.O. or give up?" Kurosaki now asked to Richards.
"K.O or give up" She replied with an overconfidence smirk in her face. She did seem more determinate in this than before.
Nomura nodded and positioned herself between them. They both put themselves in fighting pose and I could notice a great difference between them. Kurosaki's was rigid, tense waiting for start, his guard way to up, his fists holding too much pressure, Richard instead was relaxed, maybe too much, her hands with a light grip that wasn't even closing her fists, she seemed ready for everything.
"Start!" Nomura shouted and backed herself from the fight. They started.
The first match didn't last much. Without nobody's expecting it, Richards managed to pull one Kurosaki's feet with hers, pull it up so it could grab it with one arm, then push him off balance, making him fall to the floor and without giving him time to react, she lowered herself in a perfect position and throw a punch to his face only to stop it what it looked like millimeters to his face.
"One" she said low, but loud enough for me to hear. Then got up. Inspecting Kurosaki, he did looked surprised and now was gasping for air, probably the hit with the fall let him out of breath, but it was true. Probably if Richards did finished the punch, he would be K.O.
I put my arms over my knees, putting my chin over my hands, now with all my attention in it. I could saw Matsumoto also interested in the fight now that she was quiet, Abarai had her eyes wide open of her surprise, Ayasegawa with an eyebrow raised and Madarame did look like this was fun. I should be careful with him with all this.
The second match was longer, Kurosaki did defend himself better this time. Their hits were more precise and faster, but never really reaching the body. It was interesting how they did went with great force and managed to dodge it or take the hit with their defenses, especially for the blonde she didn't seem hurt or tired about it, this time the orange head did look tired. Not much after, Kurosaki managed to grab one punch that Richards didn't recover on time, twisting her arm at her back.
"Ok ok! Stop!" The blonde shouted with pain in her face, the orange head let her go with a smirk. She stretched her arm so it wouldn't bother her.
"Go Kazui!" Everybody was taking by surprised with the unexpected shout from Abarai, supporting him. She didn't seem to matter the attention.
"Oh right, last round!" Nomura got back the attention to the match, they went back to their positions. "Start!"
They didn't went direct to it this time. They waited for the other to react, some feint to it but nothing else, waiting who would make the first move. Richards did. She knew how to start a fight, her attacks were with more precision than Kurosaki's, even him having the advantage of speed, she managed to dodge punch and kicks, and this time she was faster recovering her attacks. She knew how to use Kurosaki's force against him, completely, probably her best tactic, that's how it ended. The orange head lunged over her and without waiting she lowered herself in his way, that make him fall over her back and she with the momentum throw him off her. He hitting the floor made the tatami to bounce, this time he reacted faster and blocked the punch to his head, grabbing her arm but before he could pull and throw her off balance, with her other hand she grabbed the same arm he was holding her, lower elbow and started to pull back slowly. Kurosaki shouted something from the pain and Nomura finished the match.
"And the winner is… Akari!" Now that Richards was separated from Kurosaki, Nomura pulled her hand up like they do, leaving the man in the floor, looking exhausted. The blonde did seem happy about it, with a big smile showing her teeth.
Madarame was excited, probably thinking that he had someone to fight and match his abilities and no die in the intent. Abarai surprise didn't seem to fit in her petite body, her mouth hanging open in a perfect 'o' and eyes widened. Ayasegawa also was pleasantly surprised. Matsumoto had a little smirk, probably having the same assumptions that I had.
"What does this means, Captain?" She asked in a whisper, kind of amused, kind of serious.
"It means, that we should be careful with her" I said "We could have another Kurosaki Ichigo with this and Soul Society let it pass under its nose"
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