Chapter 4
It had been six months since Yuki's first day at the Academy. She, Rin and Genji had become best friends, they spent every free moment they had together.
Yuki and Genji sat in their homeroom class,
"Uuuuugh…why're we in class..? This is supposed to be our free daaaaay…" Genji complained. he sait with his head laying on the desk, his arms hanging down toward the floor. Yuki leaned back in her chair, her feet on the desk,
"Must be important."
"It better be!"
Just then the instructor walked in,
"Good morning class, I appologize for calling you in like this, but we've just received an important announcement. Once a year, we get a visit from a Taichou from Seireitei. Our Taichou for this year will be arriving this evening sometime."
A girl in the front row raised her hand as high as she possibly could,
"Yes?"
"Which Taichou is it?"
"We won't know until they get here."
She slowly lowered her hand, looking very disappointed.
"Anyway, everyone should just be ready to greet the Taichou and possibly meet them. Class is dismissed, have a nice day off."
Everyone got up and filed out of the room. Genji was taking his sweet time getting up,
"C'mon Genji! I told Rin we'd meet her!"
"Alright alright, I'm commin'."
He slowly got up and they followed the other students out, last to exit the room.
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They walked across the vast field to a small cluster of trees, where they found Rin waiting for them,
"Hi guys! Aren't you just so excited?!"
"Sure." Yuki said, "We get to meet a Taichou." She sat down under a nearby tree. Suddenly a bright flash filled the air,
"Wha?" Yuki looked up to see Genji holding a camera, "What're you doing Genji?"
"I thought today would be a good day to take pictures. It's so perfect out here."
"Ooh! I know what we should do!" Rin exclaimed, jumping up and grabbing the camera,
"What?" Genji and Yuki asked in uison.
Rin waved over a passing student,
"Hey! Would you mind taking a photo of us?!"
He walked up to them. He seemed a little shy. He had medium length black hair and green eyes,
"Sure…I guess…"
He took the camera from Rin and then she pulled the three of them together,
"Ok…One…Two…Three…" -Click-
Rin giggled, "Yay!"
The guy handed the camera back to Genji and continued on his way.
Yuki went back to sitting down and the other two joined her,
"Remember Genji, we all get a copy of that picture."
"Yeah yeah, I know."He leaned back agains the tree trunk, "Anyone else hungry?"
"A little…" Yuki said.
"You're in luck!"Rin said, pulling out a huge bento box, "I made lunch today!"
Yuki and Genji's eyes lit up, she was the best cook either of them had ever known. And neither of them could cook at all. She handed out 3 separate 2 tiered lunches to each of them,
"I hope you like it!"
They both looked back up at her a few seconds later,
"Huh?" Genji said.
"Did you say something, Rin?" Yuki asked.
She glanced over to find they'd already both finished their food,
"Ah! You ate it so fast!" She pouted a little, "You didn't even take the time to enjoy it…"
"Of course we did." Genji said reassuringly.
She looked back up, "Really..?"
"Of course! It was delicious!" Yuki chimed in.
"Aw, thanks."
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Rin finished her lunch and gathered up the dishes. Yuki had fallen asleep under the tree she was leaning against before.
Rin smiled, "Aw, She's so cute…"
"Yeah." Genji agreed.
"Should we take her back to her room? We wouldn't want her to catch a cold sleeping out here."
"Yeah probably, let's go."
He picked her up and they made their way back to the dorms.
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They got to her room a few minutes later and tucked her into her bed,
"Should we stick around for awhile?" Genji asked.
"Sure, why not. Then we can all go meet the Taichou together as soon as she wakes up."
Genji flopped down on the couch and flipped on the tv. Rin sat down next to him,
"I hope there's something good on…"
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After a few hours it was beginning to get dark outside. Rin had fallen asleep and had slumped over onto Genji, her head resting on his shoulder. Genji was getting tired of sitting and watching tv, but didn't want to get up and disturb Rin.
Yuki slowly awoke and sat up, rubbing her eyes,
"What was that…?"
Genji turned around, "Huh? What was what?"
Suddenly the entire room began to shake. Rin sat straight up very suddenly. It startled Genji so much he fell onto the floor. Rin looked around,
"What's happening…?"
"I dunno. We should go and find out." Genji said, jumping up.
The three of them ran from the room and outside to the front of the dorms.
From their standing place they could clearly see the cause. A gigantic squid like creature had attached itself to the roof and side of the building. It had a skull like mask, and bladed tentacles,
"What the hell is that?!" Yuki exclaimed.
They could see students running everywhere, several being flung through the air by the massive creature,
"It looks like a Hollow…" Rin said in a low tone.
"Well, we can't just stand here. Let's go try and help." Genji said, sprinting away.
Rin and Yuki looked at eachother for a moment, then dashed off after him.
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They made it to the stone courtyard to find it littered with wounded and dead students and instructors. Rin gasped, "Why? Why is this happening?" She put her hand over her mouth.
Yuki reached up and put her hand on Rin's shoulder,
"Don't panic, you have to stay strong." She held out a sword, "Here. Take this, we'll go and help together."
"Where'd you get these?"
"Umm…I picked them up.." She shook her head, "Don't think about it, lets just go!"
Rin took the blade, her hands shaking,
"You gonna be alright?"
"I-I hope so…"
"Alright, here we go then!" She grabbed Rin by the wrist and dashed toward the building.
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They joined Genji on the front line,
"Watch out for the Tentacles! They're pretty unpredictible!"
Yuki nodded and jumped up onto the roof, leaving Rin to help Genji.
She ran as fast as she possibly could toward the main body, dodging tentacles left and right. One suddenly came from above her, slamming her through the roof and down three stores. She landed on her back on the floor. She opened up her eyes to find a bladed tentacle speeding down toward her,
"Woah!"
She rolled out of the way as it smashed into the ground.
She stood up, "Shit…that was close…"
She looked back up through the hole, "Only one way to go…"
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Genji and Rin tried to keep the monster distracted. They just barely managed to keep it from killing them. Genji tried to push back a tentacle,
"You doing ok, Rin?"
"Yes…I'm doing fine." She forced one back herself,
'You can do this.' She thought.
Genji smiled.
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Yuki made it back up to the roof. She once again ran toward it. She managed to make it to it's main body. She drew back her sword and slammed it into the mask. It cracked all the way up to the top. It let out an ear piercing squeal. It began to flail around widly. It hit her hard with one of it's wild tentacles. She slammed into the stone below, head first, sliding across nearly to the grassy edge.
She stood up, completely disoriented. She groggily noticed her was bleeding. One of the blades had caught her in the shoulder. She took a step forward and fell back down, her head bleeding heavily,
"Ugh…ouch.."
Rin turned around, "Yuki!"
A tentacle snuck up behind her. Genji looked up momentarily and spotted it,
"Rin! Look out!"
He tried to pull her out of the way, but wasn't fast enough. He'd just grabbed her hand when the tentacle struck and impaled her through her chest. Genji stared at her, wide eyed,
"Rin…No…"
She looked down at the blade sticking out of her, blood dripping from it, "Ah…"
It quickly picked her up and flung her across the courtyard,
"!" Yuki screamed.
She jumped to her feet and over to her side, where she dropped to her knees,
"Rin-Chan…"
Rin looked up at her, a slight smile on her face as blood ran out of her mouth,
"Yuki…" Her smile changed to a frown, "You're bleeding Yuki…"
"That doesn't matter…" She replied, tears filling her eyes.
Genji ran over to them, dropping his blade on the way. He knelt down opposite Yuki and grabbed Rin's hand,
"C'mon guys…don't…look so sad…"
"But…" Genji started.
"Please…I'm just greatful that I had frinds like you two…That made me very happy…" She winced, "Don't be sad for me…" She closed her eyes, "I'm just sorry…we couldn't stay friends forever…" Her voice trailed off.
"Rin…" Yuki said, her voice weak, tears streaming down her face.
She leaned down over her. Genji put his hand on her back, trying to hold back tears himself. Yuki suddenly stood up. She had a look of rage on her face that Genji had never seen before,
"What're you gonna do?!"
Her arm twitched, making her sword move a little as well, "I'm not sure…"
"Getting yourself killed won't bring her back."
"Don't tell me that…" She said quietly.
She was only able to take one step forward before the dizziness set in and she fell forward. Genji caught her,
"Woah…You aren't gonna be doing anything…"
"But I…" She started as her head started to throb and everything went black.