Chapter 4: Soulmates Perhaps?

Glossary:

Kurimuzon means "crimson". Which is Kagome's zanpakuto's name whenever she's talking about it or when its in its shikai form. Its power in shikai is whenever the blade cuts someone, their blood is obsorbed into the blade, slowly draining them of their blood as well as their life.

Shinku-shoku no Shi means "crimson death". Which is the bankai name for Kagome's zanpakuto. Its power in bankai is whenever the blade cuts someone, only their reiatsu is obsorbed into the blade, making Shinku-shoku no Shi more powerful than it is for a moment and throw the power back to its opponent with 10 times more power of damage. However, since Kagome's bankai is very powerful she tends to loose consciousness over a certain time period of using it for too long. (If you want to know why I chose the name's for Kagome's zanpakuto in it's shikai or bankai form, then please read the authoress's note at the bottom.)

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A couple hours passed of Ichigo and his friends talking about Kagome and the reiatsu thing until Sango finally called it a day and everyone (except Kisuke, Kagome, and Kuri.) left back for their homes.

Before Ichigo had left, Kisuke had the teen subsititute shinigami place the miko/shinigami in a room in the back that wouldallow her to sleep peacefully after Ichigo had left.

However, as Ichigo had begun leaving, Kuri, Kagome's zanpakuto-in-physical form, kept going on and on about that he suspected that another reason Kagome had also relaxed when Ichigo went to stop the girl, who appeared the age of 18, was because their souls had called out to one another as if they were meant to be with one another.

Kisuke thought about it and agreed, also teasing the carrot-top about finally finding a girlfriend without even knowing it.

Ichigo didn't know how to respond or react to Kisuke's teasing words or Kuri's logic, so Ichigo just blushed a deep red and left the candy shop without another word said.

But also thinking of how hot Kagome looked when she was pissed off and when she was sleeping in his lap shortly after.

That caused the blush on his cheeks to remain perminate for the rest of the rest of the evening.

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Soul Society: Captains' Meeting...

Ukitake-taichou's eyes widened when he, the other taichous, and the sotaichouwereplanning on sending Soi-fon-taichou and some of her best division members to go after his fukutaichou who currently resided somewhere in the World of the Living.

Kagome Higurashi, former fukutaichou of division thirteen, was to be found and brought back to the Soul Society for execution for treation (a/n: Sorry if I spelt that wrong.) against theSoul Society.

However, little did they know that Renji Abarai, fukutaichou of the sixth division, was currently in the World of the Living to go find Kagome himself and finish the fight that he had with her when he had tried to prevent her from leaving the Soul Society.

Not to mention some of his friends had laughed at him for getting his ass kicked by a woman.

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World of the Living: Urahara Shop...

Kagome woke up from the most peaceful sleep she had for the first time in 500 years.

So she stretched and looked around the room that she was currently occuping and finally stood up to wonder around Kisuke's shop for something to chow on.

Soon after about two or three minutes, Kagome finally found Kisuke's kitchen and hoped that he wouldn't mind her snagging something out of the fridge to eat.

Not to much longer, Kagome found a large container with salad in it (a/n: I'm eating salad right now so ...yeah.) and went to go find a fork to eat the salad with. Then when Kagome was about to say screw it and just go back to sleep, she finally found the silver-ware drawer and pulled a fork out of it.

When Kagome was finished eating, she put the remainder back in the fridge and washed the fork then went back to the room that she was sleeping in. As she made it back to "her bedroom", Kagome noticed that she openned the wrong door and was about to close it and go back into the room she was in that she was sleeping in, but got curious and popped her head inside of it and noticed that there was a ladder that went straight down.

But before the girl went down there, she moved over to the room she was occuping and layed herself down on the futon before slipping herself out of her gigai, that way it looked like she was still sleeping, and finally went back to the door she looked through and jumped down instead of climbing down.

When Kagome landed on the bottom of the ladder, she looked around to see a HUGE room that had walls that were meant to look like the sky and the ground looked like hard dirt and there were giant rocks and boulders all over.

"I wonder why Kisuke has this room down here." Kagome thought to herself as she looked at the scenery around her.

As Kagome began to wonder around the "room", she felt a familar reiatsu behind her.

One that wasn't too friendly at the moment.

"Hello Renji." Kagome greeted quietly to the redheaded shinigami without turning around.

The only response Kagome got was,

"Roar Zabimaru!"

Followed by Renji's reiatsu approaching Kagome very quickly.

Kagome with-drew her zanpakuto from its sheath and whispered,

"Drain them of their life, Kurimuzon."

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Kisuke's bedroom...

Kisuke openned his eyes in horror when he felt Kagome's shikai being released below his shop, he also felt Renji's reiatsu in the same place as Kagome with his shikai also released.

"Shit." Kisuke cursed as he flipped his blanket away from him and ran to the where Kagome and Renji were currently about to fight.

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With Kagome and Renji...

Kagome stood in front of Renji with Kurimuzon now in its shikai form and preventing Renji from injuring her.

The girl's zanpakuto was now in the shape of a jet-black scythe, that had a crimson outline of a dragon, with a black blade with a strip of crimson color where the sharp part of the blade was. At the end of the scythe was a black chain that was about a foot long.

Renji swallowed when he saw Kagome's zanpakuto in its shikai form, the girl rarely called Kurimuzon to its shikai.

And when she did...no one but a taichou rank could defeat Kagome.

"Do you really want to come after me when the Soul Society just fucked me over, Renji?" Kagome asked in a deadly tone which caused a shiver to run down Renji's spine.

Renji managed to shove Kagome back about 30 feet and into a big boulder with a crashing sound.

"The Soul Society didn't "fuck you over". You betrayed the Soul Society by stealing the seal that Aizen is in." Renji told Kagome as she removed herself from the rubble with her right hand grabbing her left shoulder as if it were in some slight pain.

Kagome chuckled darkly.

"So you're tellin' me that you're here to kill me and take back the seal Aizen is in, which I don't have, or try and kick my ass and drag me back to the Soul Society for execution?" She interrogated Renji before she extended the chain at the end of her shikai formed zanpakuto and threw it at Renji who hadn't had enough time to move and was caught in the chain.

When the chain was wrapped around Renji's body, Kagome pulled on the chain, having Renji fly towards Kagome's Kurimuzon.

He knew what would happen if he were to get struck by her zanpakuto.

So before Kagome had him close to her, Renji called his zanpakuto's final form.

"Bankai!" Renji yelled before the chain of Kagome's zanpakuto unwrapped itself from around him and retracted back into itself.

A cloud erupted around Renji as his bankai formed around his body. (a/n: I'm like really tired and too lazily to describe what Renji's bankai looks like...so if you've seen it in the manga or on the episodes, then you know what it looks like.)

The fukutaichou of the sixth division smirked, happy that he was the only one out of the two who had discovered their bankai.

His thought was interrupted by Kagome's laughter.

"What?" The red-head was confused as to what was so funny.

"You are so pathetic." Kagome shook her head. "Barely into the fight and you already called on bankai." She paused, still laughing. "You really are a coward."

Then Kagome held out her Kurimuzon, as if showing it to Renji.

"However." She said as her reiatsu began to spiral around her body. "You aren't the only one with bankai."

Renji's eyes widened, shocked that Kagome had discovered her bankai without him knowing.

"Although." Kagome looked at her zanpakuto's shikai form. "I think I'll just kick your ass with shikai."

With that said, Kagome disappeared and reappeared in front of Renji and cut him from his right shoulder all the way down to the lower part of his left torso.

His blood being obsorbed by Kurimuzon.

Renji hissed and flash-stepped away from Kagome with his Hihio Zabimaru closely behind him.

Kagome landed on the ground and looked above her when she noticed that the ground around her was a reddish color.

"He really is determined to drag my ass back to the Soul Society." Kagome whispered to herself.

"That." Kagome heard her zanpakuto in her head. "And he wants to get back at you for kicking his ass before we left the Soul Society." The voice explained.

Kagome shrugged and flash-stepped out of the way before Renji's attack could hit the miko/shinigami.

As the two were fighting, neither seemed to notice that Kisuke, Ichigo, Rukia, Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku were standing in front of the ladder, and just as Inuyasha was about to join in the fight to help Kagome, dispite the fact that she wanted to murder him, but was stopped by Kisuke who shook his head at the hanyou-appeared-human.

"No. This fight is between Kagome and Renji." Kisuke looked to the two shinigami fukutaichous fighting. "Plus, there is a rule in the Soul Society saying that all battles are to be one-on-one."

Inuyasha snorted at that ridiculous rule.

"That's stupid."

"May that be a stupid rule Inuyasha. As you can plainly see, Kagome doesn't need your help. She is not that weak and timid girl you knew 500 years ago, she is a dangerous and lethal woman."

"She's not even using her full strength right now anyway." Kisuke continued with a nonchalant shrug, acting as if Kagome wasn't in danger.

Which she wasn't.

Renji looked down to see that Kagome wasn't on the ground but then realized that Kagome was behind him with Kurimuzon's curved scythe blade placed against his neck.

"Do you yeld yet Renji?" Kagome said in a bored tone.

Renji snorted before disappearing and soon yelled, "Hikotsu taiho!" before another another blast flew towards Kagome before she could even react and she was thrusted into the ground, causing everyone by the ladder to flinch.

Nothing happened for about five minutes, before everyone finally heard Kagome speak.

"Fine. Have it your way and say hello to my Shinku-shoku no Shi." Kagome said out loud. "Bankai."

A large cloud of blood red erupted around Kagome, having everyone cover their eyes to prevent dirt from getting in their eyes.

When the cloud cleared, Kagome's zanpakuto looked slightly different but Kagome herself looked completely different.

She was dressed in a loose black long-sleeved black top, a black pair of pants that resembled a hakama but it was tighter to the body, and she had no shoes on.

Her hair was now the same shade of crimson as her Kurimuzon was whenever it was in its physical form, her brown eyes were now a crimson and the white parts of her eyes were black and her scythe's handle had a curve to it, looking like the handle was made of black colored wood, and the blade looked more jagged.

Lethal.

Said woman looked annoyed and pissed.

Neither of the people in the room could believe that they were looking at Kagome.

Within a blink of an eye, Kagome leapt into the air, slashed at Renji, blood being splattered onto the ground below them and Renji gasping as Kagome's zanpakuto had stolen some of his reiatsu.

This time, Renji didn't have enough time to react when Kagome jumped about twenty feet higher then released the reiatsu that she had stolen from Renji, combining her own, and swung the scythe towards the red-headed shinigami, causing him to crash down to the ground at a hard and fast speed.

CRASH!

Renji was laying on the ground with multiple cuts all over his body and his zanpakuto back to its normal sword form.

Kagome was breathing heavily as she landed softly on the ground before she collapsed from exaustion but was still conscious for the moment.

"Kagome!" Kisuke cried out the girl's name as he and the others ran over to the girl.

Before Kagome lost consciousness she whispered to Kisuke,

"Make sure that dumbass lives so I can kick his ass for accusing me of shit that I didn't do." With that said, Kagome's bankai disappeared and her zanpakuto returned to its sword form and she had her brown eyes and black hair and was dressed in her shinigami kimono and the girl finally lost consciousness as Kisuke and the others gathered Kagome and Renji while someone called Orihime.

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After the two shinigami were in two separate rooms, Orihime was called to come over and heal both Kagome and Renji.

Orihime didn't ask what had happened, so she just came over and decided that she'd ask when she'd get there.

Sure enough, Orihime had asked what had happened to Kagome and Renji.

No one knew but Kisuke simply explained that he had felt Kagome and Renji's reiatsus and had a hunch about what they were doing.

Orihime nodded and got to work on Renji first, considering all Kagome really needed was to sleep from exaustion.

"Hey, Kisuke." Ichigo asked the shopman who "hmm?"ed. "Kagome's zanpakuto's physical form is a dragon, and yet when she released her shikai and her bankai, I didn't see anything that resembled anything dragon-like."

Kisuke chuckled at Ichigo.

"You know that zanpakutos have their own will? Well, Kurimuzon has a thing about dragons and since his name means "crimson". He appears as a crimson colored dragon."

Sango nodded her head.

"Makes sense."

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a/n: Okay the reason I chose the name Shinku-shoku no Shi is because whenever Kagome uses her bankai, her opponents tend to get well...bloody kinda like how Renji did, but I made it so Kagome was holding back on Renji because he's one of her best friends from the Soul Society and I didn't want her to kill a friend of hers.

Anyway...I hope you guys liked this chapter and if not...then I'm sorry and if you want I can try and change it to be more gorey.

Also, in the next chapter, Kagome starts her first day of school and there's plenty of textbook and backpack violence.

Thanks and Plz R&R!