Bleach Chapter8

(( I don't own bleach but the OC's are mine ))

Kaydin started to shake me, first thing in the damn morning and this girl was waking me up to go to a damn festival! I hate flowers.. they attracted bees and I was scared to death of bees. "Geeet up!" Kaydin whispered in my ear before jumping back and shouting "GET UP!" as loud as she could. Groaning I rolled over and grabbed for my glasses, my hand brushed my sword and it toppled over onto the floor with a loud crash of metal and sheathing. "I'm up, I'm up." I muttered. Today was the Sakura blossom festival, three days after Kenpachi had asked me and Shuuhei had asked Kaydin to go, Kaydin had announced to both of them that her and I would be going together so it would be a double date either they liked it or not. The two of them had seemed disgruntled at the fact that the other would be there but at the moment I just wanted Kaydin to shut up! The little sprite like blond was bouncing around in her shinigami robes, decorated for the festival with trimmings and amulets her hair was done up in a way she saw sexy. If all women did this for a man they liked.. I think I was gonna stay single for the rest of my life, it was too much hassle. "Take a shower Kayce you can't go looking like that." Kaydin plucked at my sleeping clothes disdainfully as I rubbed my eyes with the back of a hand. "The hell if I can't."

"Well your not."

"You wanna test?"

"No now go change."

"Yes MASTA." I bowed to her and stormed over to the dresser, I had not made any alterations to my normal wear but Kaydin had managed to make me agree to her doing my hair. I'd been in the spirit world for nearly 3 weeks so my hair was actually long enough to do something with but just barely, it was long enough to get in my damn way at practice or when I was trying to do something. "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Kaydin snapped at me like my real mom might do if I had 10mins to catch the bus and she'd just woken me up. Grabbing my clothes I snapped back at her with a middle finger in her face before slamming the door to the bathroom shut. Fucking women. Yeah I might be a girl but I was nearly classified as a guy with how I dressed when I had my normal clothes and with how short my hair was. The bathroom was steamy from Kaydin's early morning shower and smelled of freesia shampoo. I stripped and washed with the warm water of the shower cascading over my body, it felt good. Stepping out I dried off and slid into my clothes. Black top tucked in with the white over thingy hanging loose, and my white pants pulled up to my knees and tied there with lengths of cloth. Kaydin frowned at how I had dressed but then again I didn't really mind, she was getting away with doing my hair and some make up, I could get away with wearing my clothes how I chose. "Your so stubborn Kayce.. You could look really nice in that uniform if you tucked it in and wore it right." she fussed as I rolled my eyes and grabbed my MP3 player. A knock to the door came as Kaydin wielded my worse enemy to my hair and we shouted "COME IN." in unison before giggling. "Hey Kaydin." Shuuhei said with a raised hand as he was followed in by Kenpachi, Kaydin waved for Shuuhei to come over so she could hug him and still attack my poor hair with that damn comb.. at the length it was the cowlicks where more defined at the back and front of my head no matter how she fussed with it. Kenpachi watched a bit from a distance in what seemed like a permanent grimace toward what Kaydin was doing. "I can't do anything with your hair Kayce.. it won't stay." Kaydin licked her palm and pressed it to the back of my head. I shot out of the chair hissing and messing with my cowlick. "Damn it!! It was staying Kayce!" She whined and Shuuhei chuckled as I started to drag my head across the flooring. "Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!! YOU SPIT ON YOUR HAND AND YOU PUT IT TO MY HEAD!" I screeched and ran to the bathroom to dunk my head under the shower head. Whipping my head about, water droplets flew and I heard Kenpachi roar with laughter from the other room. "You are too stubborn to give in during your classes but when your friend tames your hair you freak. Priceless." He grinned and I scowled at him, he raised his hands to me with that grin and I put my hands on my hips, stubborn man. Shuuhei was snickering up behind Kaydin as I shook the last of the water from my head. Hair standing on end over itself I felt the hot water drip down my back. "Lets go!" Kaydin announced and she grabbed my arm and then Shuuhei's collar and dragged us from the room tossing her head for Kenpachi to follow.

Flights of stairs, long hallways and lots of corridors later we where outside in the festival air, I could hear fire works going off in the distance and laughing all around. Kenpachi came up behind me silently and just stood there looking at nothing really as Kaydin and Shuuhei dragged each other every which way toward stands and the like. Tilting my head back I looked at Kenpachi, intimidating, scared, lean and wicked looking he made a few people choose another way to walk but my head rested easily just about mid sternum on him and he looked down at me with a curios look to his eye. "What you wanna do?" I asked and he shrugged slightly. "You still haven't said yes or no to my fight." His voice was soft and it held a playful tone to it if a voice like his had a playful tone. "But you'd own me, I'm not a very good fighter."

"Given time to make you mad, you'd keep my eyes open during a fight."

"Oh joy, I'd keep you awake while you pound me into the ground.. " Kenpachi leaned forward, his form bending and shielding mine in a easy manner of sensiable support of a comrade. "You are far stronger then you let on.. Break the barrier you have built and you'll be far stronger." his arms where wrapped around my body in what could of been a hug or embrace if he hadn't been resting his chin on my head like I was a bit of a kickstand. "Here, let me show you something." He stood up and walked a few feet to one side before turning to see if I followed, I hung back a moment before looking around and tagging after him. His large form hiding me nicely as he advanced threw the crowds that split for him like he was Moses in the red sea. Eventually he lead me to a clearing that was devoid of people and he sat down cross legged his sword in his lap, gleaming eye watching me sorta like a wild but bored wolf might. "Sit." He commanded and I stepped closer and sat with my sword laying next to me. "You putting your sword at your side shows you don't expect an attack, that you feel safe." He said and I tilted my head a bit. Well.. How else was I suppose to have it? Unsheathed and laying across my shoulder like I'd just gotten done killing a few wanksters who wanted to step up to me? "Well.. I sorta do feel safe.. I mean your skill is way better then mine and I don't think a hollow or enemy would attack during a festival." He chuckled and leaned forward his nose less then an inch from mine. "Enemies attack when you least expect it." He picked up my sword and laid it in my lap with a firmness that told me he'd not like it if I put it back at my side. I looked at the black sheathed sword with a bit of a frown. I'd always wanted a sword back home but my mom had never had the money to get me one as I got older.. My younger brother always got things before me since he was around mom more and would wear her down till he got what he wanted. For some odd reason I just couldn't see me killing anything with it. Even if I was a wrestler.. I was a crappy one back home cause I couldn't force myself to hurt someone and two hours of practice didn't make me strong enough to take on a guy of weight ranging from over 215 to 285 either all muscle or fat.. I wasn't fast either.. It showed in my classes with how I lagged behind the other students, even if the teachers told me in time I'd get faster once I shed the pudgy fat. Kenpachi was looking at me with that intense golden eye and I shivered from it, it told of a long history of fights. "Hit me." Kenpachi commanded, I blinked at him with a confused look. "Hit you?"

"Yes. hit me." He stood up and tossed his sword to one side and took mine doing the same to it. "Hit me." He said again and I stared up at him, I didn't like hurting people. Kenpachi let out a sort of growl before reaching down and pulling me to my feet with the front of my clothes. He let me go with my feet just a foot or so from the ground but I stumbled and took a step back. "I told you, hit me." he pushed my shoulder making me stumble back into a tree. "Kenpachi I can't fight, I don't know how.."

"Your classes aren't for you to pick your nose in Kayce," he pushed me again and made sure it put a weight in it so I felt it against my collar bone. "Stop it Kenpachi." I dodged the next push by ducking under the arm but he used his other one to force my head down toward the dirt. A move my brother used, anger sparked just a bit in my chest as he let up just enough for him to push me back. Stumbling back my foot hooked on the ground and I tripped into a backwards somersault where I ended up on my back staring at the sky. "Get up and hit me." He said and came to loom over me, quick as a striking hawk his fingers found the fabric of my top and yanked me to my feet, this time he tossed me up a bit into the air and let me fall. I screamed as I landed hard on the ground. I had a bit of a fear of not having things below my feet without my own free will. "Fight me Kayce!" He shouted at me and ran at me to swing a fist toward me, the most I did was cringe and hold my hand up to catch it, his weight and momentum sent me skidding across the ground with his fist in my hand. "I don't wanna fight, I don't like it!" I replied in a stressed tone but he growled and shoved me back. "Your strong, don't waste your untapped talent with foolish ideas of 'can't' or 'won't." He picked up that wickedly long sword and pointed the tip of it at the center of my chest. "Do it, or I'll kill you."

"I'm already dead.."

"You'll die again then Kayce. FIGHT BACK!" He pushed the sword forward making the point dig into my chest point drawing blood. "I'm not a fighter Kenpachi.. I'm not.."

"Are you weak?"

"No! I'm not weak.."

"Then fight back!" He jerked his arm back and lifted the sword high into the air as if to cut me from left shoulder to right hip but as it swung down I brought my arms up. just thinking the names of the shields I blocked his zanpackto. "I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT YOU KENPACHI!" I shouted and swung my arm wide to leave him open to an attack but I didn't take it. I wasn't a fighter. I could play the fighter cause some part of me wanted to be strong but at heart.. I was just a scared little girl who wanted to go back to school and just worry about if my grades are up enough. He laughed and stabbed the sword into the ground to grab my chin and pull me forward to him. "Look at me." He demanded and I looked at him threw my glasses, emerald eyes full of stubbornness. "You are a fighter, it's why your alive Kayce, now either pick up that sword and fight or give up on life and die by my sword." He pulled his sword out of the ground and jumped back to land on the ground feet if not yards away from me. I saw my sword, laying on a bed of Sakura flowers at the bottom of a gnarled old tree. "Fine.. I'll fight." I growled and he gave a smile that would of made the devil proud. Striding over toward my sword I yanked it up and pulled the sheath off. "Bring it old man."

Kenpachi's movements where feirce, presise and totally intent on the kill, somehow I kept up with unconscious controls over my spells, my white top with most of the emrobrodered symbols fell off from the slashes of Kenpachi's sword. Sword to sword I could see that look of sheer joy painted across his face, I stumbled threw the next set of attacks somehow avoiding being killed though I did not come out unscathed. For what seemed forever he kept the barrage on, little by little I grew tired of it, my arms aches, my chest burned for more air as I panted, and my head was splitting from pulling up spells I wasn't suppose to be able to do with these clothes on. "Come Kayce," he taunted when she got in close with his sword. "hit me." Slowly exhaustion felt like it was taking over and something felt like it was breaking, just a bit. Kenpachi threw his sword the side and started to attack me with his fists, knowing KNOWING I wouldn't slash him or retaliate with anything other then a sheild. "BASTARD!" I shouted and dropped the sword to tackled him clean off his feet and perch on his chest, my knees didn't even really touch the ground with how big he was but he was pissing me off! "Hit me." He cooed and my fist connected with his lips as they started to peel back in a smile. I'd break his fucking face in! "KAYCE!" Came a shout and suddenly a form was tackling me to the ground, pinning me harshly onto the forest floor. "Fuck him!! Fuck you Kenpachi! In the eye with a fucking pitchfork!" my chest heaved, shirt exposing my cloth bound breast to Shuuhei who was perched rather precariously on my hips. "GET OFF OF ME NOW!" I seethed and he looked at me as if I'd lost my damn mind. With very little effort I bridged him off of me. Feet digging into the ground and head going into the ground my back arched making a bridge of my body and Shuuhei promptly fell off. "Kayce why where you fighting Kenpachi!? I thought you liked him!" Kaydin protested as I fidgeted with my top, it wasn't going to go back to looking decent unless I undid my pants and belt.. I wasn't going to do that. "He told me to fucking hit! For damn near the whole day he was egging me on! Telling me to hit him, taunting me!" I flung my arms wide and Kenpachi laughed at the look of stark anger, I'd never been this mad before.. distressed but never mad enough to tackle and bust someone in the damn mouth. "No need to worry Kaydin.. I was breaking Kayce's barrier.. It's still there but a few more days like this and It'll be gone." He snickered and I snarled like a rabid dog at him. It just made him laugh harder but Shuuhei and Kaydin looked at each other worriedly. Kaydin had never seen me with a temper.. I shouted and raged only in play to normally end up in a laughing fit but not to the point of tears. "You did well Kayce.. I honstly didn't think you'd hit me." Kenpachi walked forward and bent to kiss my forehead but I head butted him square in his damn nose. He laughed hard and held my head still and kissed my forehead that way. Asshole.. I'd bite his fucking throat out..