No recaps sorry! I was too lazy to put them in... -- Anyway, hope you enjoy chapter 3!
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Cherry Blossoms in the Snow
When Koyumi returned to her quarters in the tenth division, she lay on her bed for awhile thinking
When Koyumi returned to her quarters in the tenth division, she lay on her bed for awhile thinking. 'Kuchiki Byakuya sure is a strange man. His eyes have a lonely and sad kind of expression. But he almost looks like nii-san without the kenseikan…' After about an hour, she got up, preparing for tomorrow's training session with the captains. Seeing as she couldn't sleep, Koyumi decided to do some training in the open area nearby. She changed into her regular shinigami outfit, with the exception of a red ribbon tied in a large bow at the back acting as a belt and tied her hair up into a ponytail. It was dark that night, but luckily she could see pretty well. Her brother had once commented that she had eyes like a cat's.
"Soar across the frozen skies, Touketsu Kagerou," she uttered while pouring out all of her reiatsu. "It's not enough…" she muttered to herself, again, unaware of the presence watching her nearby. The surroundings began to freeze as Koyumi released her zanpaktou.
Suddenly, a menos grande appeared, but strangely enough, neither its presence nor its reiatsu could be felt. 'What's going on? I should have been able to sense it before it got this close. At any rate, this is perfect training material,' thought Koyumi.
"Fudou Hi ken!" she shouted as the blade shattered into masses of ice shards, while the hilt and guard of the sword remained.
The shards were directed at the hollow by Koyumi's free arm. The shards sliced through the menos' body, but not completely destroying it. Koyumi looked up just as it was about to release a Cero, but instead of dodging, she lifted her arm, palm facing towards the sky.
"Kagerou Genkaku!"
A gust of wind swept through the clearing as violet tinted ice shot out of the girl's palm up towards the gray clouds shadowing the moon. Snow began to fall from the sky, but instead of falling to the ground, the millions of flakes formed into the shape of a dragonfly. The creature flew towards the Menos that had just released its Ceros. The dragonfly disappeared the moment it was hit by the Ceros revealing the girl, arm held in front of her with an amethyst coloured orb in her hand. There was an explosion as vibrant streaks of purple slashed through the hollow. 'That was too easy… I only used the tip of my powers…' thought Koyumi. At that moment ten more Menos dropped around her, but these were not Gillian, rather they were of Adjucas class.
"Nani?! What's going on? I wasn't able to sense any of them?"
At that point, Koyumi decided it was time to use her bankai as it would be a better training method.
"Ready, Kagerou? Bankai! Shinku Touketsu Kagerou! She called. Silver cobalt reiatsu now surrounded Koyumi, her hair faded into a snow white while her katana slowly transformed into a translucent blade of ice, a ribbon protruding from the hilt of the sword wrapped itself around her arm. A slight breeze ruffled velvety white feathers on the wings that had emerged from her back.
"Koodori Kagerou" The ice blade changed into a rod with twin blades on the ends.
Koyumi flew into the air, soaring through the skies gracefully as if dancing, while twirling the rod with one hand. Balls of energy began to form at the tips of both blades. The orbs grew larger and larger until they masked the entire clearing. At that moment, Koyumi tossed her rod even higher into the air, where it floated while glowing with power. The orbs of energy condensed into the form of two swords which Koyumi seized from the sky. She flew gracefully, slashing at the hollows with twin blades. But no matter how many she killed, more Menos kept coming; there were at least forty in the clearing now. Koyumi now merged her two blades and pierced the ground beneath her causing it to open up, drowning all the hollows in the ice that she had been forming underground with her rod.
"It's over," sighed Koyumi as she began to walk away.
Suddenly a hollow reached out from below, grabbing her leg with it's sharp claws. Just as Koyumi was about to slice off its arm, an abrupt pain exploded in her left shoulder. She fell on her knees, grasping her shoulder, unable to stop the intense pain.
"No! Don't come out now! Stop!!" she screamed as she fumbled, feeling for the hilt of her sword. Her vision was beginning to dim due to the pain. At last she grasped her sword, but unexpectedly, proceeded to cut her own left shoulder. Soon, everything began to fade away, including the pain as the light in the girl's eyes began to fade.
Footsteps approached the girl who was now surrounded by Menos.
"I thought I sensed your reiatsu," a voice behind Koyumi murmured. "Scatter, Senbonzakura."
Millions of pink blades surrounded the two, cutting down every hollow around them from all directions. When the ones around them had perished, more began to appear. The man to whom the voice belonged stared at the injured shinigami for a moment with the slightest hint of worry in his eyes. At last, he picked her up delicately, not wanting to cause further injury to the frail looking body and disappeared with the wind before the hollows could attack.
At the fourth division…
The man waited as the fourth division captain began to exam and heal the wounds of the young girl.
"Kuchiki-Taichou, you may come in," a voice called. "The wounds on her leg are merely scratches, but the ones on her shoulder were quite serious and seemed to be self inflicted. Were you with Toriku-san when this occurred?"
"No, I was not. I sensed a strong reiatsu coming from her and thus found her lying in this condition," the captain replied coldly.
"Well, it appears that Toriku-san has a rather odd marking on the shoulder that was wounded. The marking resembled a crescent moon with a blade slashing through it. I've never seen this kind of marking on any shinigami before, but I have already informed head captain Yamamoto about it. Unfortunately, Toriku-san's condition is quite bad at the moment. Perhaps you could be so kind as to watch over her for a while Captain Kuchiki?"
"Hn"
Captain Unohana left the room, as the sixth squad captain took his seat beside the bed, looking intently at the sleeping figure before him. 'Why would she cut herself… what in the world happened after she left the fourth squad barracks?' he thought as he remembered watching her from behind the door, surprised that she had a brother who looked similar to himself. He had gone back to the Kuchiki manor after that, not sensing the trouble until it was too late. 'What in the world happened…'
To be continued…
Side notes:
Kagerou...Dragonfly
Touketsu...Frozen
Koodori...Dancing
Genkaku...Illusion
Shinku...Crimson
Fudou...Floating
Hi...Ice
Ken...Blade
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