Sorry, I haven't updated for a few weeks…Just that I got some…er….problems lately and it's driven me mad to the point of suicide. Well, sorry, again. Read on.

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Chapter 4: Soccer Tails

After changing to their PE uniforms, the boys and girls went out of their respective changing rooms and started to form their usual line formation. Tatsuki was at the back section of the line, for many reasons. One was that she was now a bit taller than all the other girls in class. Two was that she didn't want their PE teacher to notice her attire. She had worn her jacket over her PE uniform. Let's not forget about her sunglasses. The brunette apparently noticed the change in her eye color.

"Arisawa!"

"Hai!" Tatsuki answered her PE teacher, who unfortunately started inspecting the back of the line first.

"You've grown taller."

"Huh? O, h-hai." She said as she silently sighed with relief. Just a little too soon.

"Oh, and take off that jacket. You know the dress code. And what's up with the shades?" her sensei said, flinging questions at the student, who was now fidgeting as if she were in the middle of a school assembly with no pants on.

"You see…well…Sensei…I had gotten a little fever yesterday and I'm still not doing too well. My eyes are also a little sensitive so they hurt when I take these sunglasses off…" Tatsuki lied.

"Well, you're fine now, since you can go to school. And since you're not with the nurse, I'm guessin' you're perfectly healthy. Take that jacket off! As for the sunglasses, they can stay. Kapish?"

"Yes…sensei." Tatsuki said, trying to suppress a growl which instinctively had made its way up her throat. She reluctantly took the jacket off, and put it on one of the bars nearby.

The gym teacher was now in front of the class. Grabbing two sacks of balls from the equipment shack, he then pulled out one from each sack. "Alright, listen up! For this week, the boy's will play volleyball while the girls do soccer. Understood?" he said, while juggling the balls with one hand.

"Hai!" Tatsuki said along with the rest of the class. She then shivered as the wind picked up a little but it settled down again. Remembering the reason why she was cold, a low (nearly noticeable) growl escaped her. Half of the brunette wanted to get her jacket back and strangle the coach, yet half of her seemed to be interested in other things.

Other things that were round, have spots or colored stripes, and were being juggled by the man she wanted to suffocate. Tatsuki doesn't know why, but she seemed more concentrated on the balls. Trying to keep herself from stepping right in front and take the ball away, Tatsuki tried to listen in on what the teacher in front was saying. But she was probably waiting for words like 'start' or 'begin'. Every part of the girl kept shouting: 'Get the soccer ball from the teme in front!' . Luckily, Tatsuki got discipline beaten into every part of her body and soul as kid, so she waited until she heard the long (for her, that is) speech of the new PE teacher stop.

"Alright, Arisawa!" the coach said, bringning back the instinct-battling Tatsuki back to reality.

"Hai!" the brunette bolted up straight.

"You'll be midfield for Team B."

"Hai." Yes! Offense and Defense! I get a lot more chances in getting the ball! The girl's mind thought instantly.

The girls rushed up to the playing field. They were now dividing into their specified teams. Tatsuki almost rejoiced when she saw Chisuru was the other team's goal keeper. Glasses girl, I'm gonna get you good for that sneak attack on Orihime….she thought evilly.

As the first pass was made by the opponent team, the two forwards, one of whom was Rukia, clashed and had started a foot fight over the ball. Luckily, Rukia had passed it to Michiru, the other forward, and the said girl has now passed the half-line. Unfortunately though, she had been cornered by three opponents. A tight spot, no one can usually get out of the triangle of defense….

Unless they pass it to someone else.

And that's how it happened, well not yet, anyway. Without any more weights (yes…the coach had made her take those off as well….jerkish, ne?) on, Tatsuki had amazing speed, One second she was beside Orihime, team B's sweeper. Next she was in front of the triangle, which was very near to the goal in which a Chizuru nearly fell in.

"Pass it!" the brunette said, another growl coming out of her throat.

With more adrenaline and fear rushing through her body, the startled Michiru had kicked the ball, hard. Too hard from the looks of it, the ball went up in the sky. Maybe higher than a usual volley kick, and it made its way to the field.

Tatsuki looked up, the ball was now falling down the sky, getting faster. Unable to repel the annoying instincts any longer, Tatsuki used her feet as fast as she could. She could swear that she felt more energy in her, a sort of different, new one. It was excreted out of her feet. She felt it on her back as well. Within a second, a seemingly excited Tatsuki was now on the site where the ball would land.

Rukia saw the kick. She hurried to the place where the ball would land, but she stopped dead as she felt immense pressure for the first 1/5 of a second. The 2/5 involved someone increasing their reiatsu. 3/5 excreting a considerable amount through the feet. 4/5 through the back. Now 5/5, Tatsuki was visible to the eye.

The brunette had trapped the ball with ease, even though she had jumped to do so. She caught herself off-balance for some reason and landed on all fours. She was expecting someone to get the ball, but instead she felt eyes on her. She looked around, and found that every girl on the field had stopped.

A tense silence filled the air. The boys, too caught up in their own game, had continued to play, with the coach observing with interest. Ryo, wide-eyed, was now shaking and was trying to hide it by jogging in place. Michiru, on the other hand, was still shocked and frightened from Tatsuki's past growl. She had fallen because of the last kick, which caught her off balance. Now, she was just staring, as if Tatsuki was the image of death itself. Mahana had started fidgeting, apparently getting the same image as Michiru.

The strangest reaction, however, had come from the opponent's goalkeeper, Chizuru. At first, she wasn't sure if she was seeing clearly. Removing her glasses, she polished them hard. Once she put them on though, the image of a tailed, red-eyed brunette had not changed. Realizing that Tatsuki had grown another limb (well…sorta…a tail's a limb right?), she had assumed its 'obvious' purpose: another asset in which Tatsuki will use to beat Chizuru up. At the thought of having five strong parts to bash her with, Chizuru tried to get out of the goal. And, due to her blinded by fear, she had run smack into a goal post, knocking her out.

Rukia, who was just as shocked as the other girls, had calmed down the next second. Apparently, she knew that this would happen soon enough. The morning encounter had made it all clear: Tatsuki had somehow gotten a supernatural ability. Or maybe it had been awakened, since Rukia could recall once that the said girl was complaining about some damn floating person annoying her during Karate practice, but of course, Tatsuki could do nothing to Hollows. Either way, Tatsuki has yet to perfect any supernatural power. And since she doesn't know how to suppress reiatsu (She doesn't even know what the term means, Rukia thought.), a lot of Hollows will be attracted to her fairly large amount. Well, after that, she'll have to inform Urahara about this, since this is similar to the time when Sado and Orihime had discovered their special ability themselves.

Orihime, even though she was one of the farthest, had seen the whole thing. She thought that the moments that she felt extraordinary pressure was caused by the shock from that rabid dog attack last week. Now, she doesn't know what to think. Seeing Tatsuki act so differently, along with the said girl's change of clothes, had puzzled her. She thought that Tatsuki was just emotionally affected by the bite, an irrational fear that would soon go away.

Orihime then noticed one thing. Those moments with immense pressure, moments in which gave her the urge to activate Tsubaki, started happening after last Friday. And in those scenes, Tatsuki was always there, either ticked-off or excited. Once, there was a time when the girl swore that the brunette had been using spirit energy, a part in her mind could tell it was from her best friend's feet.

Looking at her friend, Orhime noticed that the other girl had a strange thing attached to her back, but that was just the tip of the iceberg of change. Tatsuki's eyes were red, and whenever she looked in them (even with Tatsuki's shades on), she saw Tatsuki, the normal one who was always overprotective. But it wasn't that that bothered her. In those eyes, she saw Tatsuki battling with a monster, and it was slowly forcing the brunette to its side. This, she realized, had been the reason for the physical change.

Tatsuki is now a monster. Orihime shuddered at her thought, and tried shaking her head to lose it, only resulting in tears glistening in her eyes. She just can't seem to picture the brunette as an enemy, let alone hurt her. There's nothing you can do about it. You have to kill her. She's a threat to everyone. Call Tsubaki and get this over with… All of her heads pleas she ignored. If Tatsuki was really bad, she would like to catch Tatsuki in the act before anything else…. (oh, weelll…let's get back to the storyline, shall we?)

"Whaat?" Tatsuki asked. The wind blew on her face, and she knew why. Oh, shit. The sunglasses had fallen off, revealing her red eyed. Thinking that her eyes were the only reason to her classmates' shocked faces, she stood up. And then, Tatsuki felt it. Some thing was swishing behind her back. Annoyed at how it moved, she gave whatever it was behind her a thorough YANK.

…Which caused her to jump a hundred feet in the air with pain. The thing was somehow connected to her. Gripping her backside, she looked back, and stared in shock.

HOLY SHIT

'A TAIL?! I got a stinkin' tail on my butt?! WHAT THE HECK?!' Tatsuki thought, thus starting her inner ramblings.

'This must be a prank!'

'Nah, I think it's real.'

'Real?! No way!'

'Well, you did try to pull it off... and guess what it stayed stuck!'

'Hmmm… ah I dunno! This MUST BE A PRANK! OH BOY ONCE I FIND THE ONE WHO DID THIS THEY'D END UP IN THE HAPPY HOTEL AFTER THE BEATING!'

'Oh, so you think a person is responsible for this?! Who?!'

'I didn't sa-'

'Oh! I know!! It's Chizuru! Nah, she see me as a hindrance to getting Orihime but I don't think she's that crazy…well, judging from the craziness of her plots nowadays, maybe she is... Hmmm… Ichigo? Strawberry-head has been acting strange lately… Maybe Kuchiki… Nah, I'm none of her business as she is none of mine! Ah, Ishida! He's the only one I know that can actually knit 'realistic stuff' (Just look at that lion thing now, it's in a frilly dress! … Maybe Ishida doesn't know that the thing talks back…)… But what the hell did I ever do to him?!'

"A-arisawa-san…." Mahana said "Why did-" she paused for a moment, unsure of how to say this "Why is…Why did your hair turn white all of a sudden?"

"Huh?" Tatsuki replied, snapping out of the self-war of thought she had been doing. She looked down at the rain puddle, caused by rain that morning, and saw a different her.

She still looked like her. Well, it would be; If you count out the fact that Tatsuki's hair was dirty white, eyes red and had a drooping white tail stuck to her backside. All in all, she looked like an Albino rat with an extra-fluffy tail.

Just then, she felt a strange pressure engulf her being. It made her tail stand up and stiffen and she felt the hair on her head bristle.

Her nose then twitched. An awful smell entered her nostrils. The smell of rotten eggs. It smelled like everything rotten and spoiled.

She didn't know whether to be excited or scared. Only one word gave her an idea of what would come: Prey.

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Yeah, I'm done…Sorry if it's sorta…um, crappy? I'm still getting over my problems and I think I shouldn't be writing yet… So yeah, thanks for reading all the way and to the others who shared what they think as well as their support. Well, I hope I'm back on my feet by the next chapter… please remember that I may own a few bruises right now, but I don't own this anime.

One final note, don't confuse me for my thirteen year old cousin, who had came up with the idea in the first place. (and if you're asking, yeah she helped me write too.)