DISCLAIMER:
The fanfic writer ellithea is just a fangirl, not the authentic owner of BLEACH whose name is Kubo Tite-sama.
She is Demoted
by:
ellithea
8th ACT: Revelation of a black cat
-90 years ago-
"Shihoiun- fukutaichou" said a masked ninja.
The girl just looked up and nodded.
"The captain had assigned you a mission on the 78th district, you are to depart immediately"
"I'll be there. Tell the troops we shall head out." The vice captain of the SMC said.
"Kashikomarimashita (Yes, ma'am)" then the masked figure shunpoed away.
Harusame picked up her silver zanpakutou and secured it behind her waist.
(NOTE: Harusame's uniform here is the same uniform she is wearing on the present time, the only difference is that in here she is wearing her hair on a pony tail.)
The 78th district of Rukongai, Inuzuri.
"Give me the details," said Harusame as she is surveying the area.
"Hai, a high level Hollow is seen around here, targeting women with high spiritual pressure, the fatality had reached 189" the masked man of the SMC reported.
Harusame gave him a surprised look upon hearing this "189?" she asked
"Hai, it is what the report of the 3rd said, the Hollow is highly dangerous so the mission is passed onto us" he paused "Also, the Hollow has a fast regenerating ability and you and your zanpakutou is the best for the job, ma'am"
Harusame just smiled causing the men in her team to blush a little, good thing they are wearing masks,
"I see, we shall camp here and wait for the bastard"
"Understood"
Harusame climbed a tree and sat on a branch, the place is rather deserted, the houses abandoned and the empty lot giving off eerie silence.
"It is here, secure the area,"
Harusame said, and then a masked figure emerged from the shadows.
"And also, no one approaches me within a half mile radius, Ginryuu here needs some workout" said Harusame as she jumped down.
"Ha--i" the guard stuttered. He had seen that smile. The smile when the Shihouin princess goes hunting.
'Hunter of the silver crucifix, Harusame'
The title associated to the one who kills with certainty.
Harusame landed on the vast space and eyed the surrounding; suddenly the creature to be liquidated arrived
"Oh a tasty lady has come" it growled. It stands over 10 feet tall, with black and white tribal marks all over its body.
"You are disgusting," said she
The hollow broke into a howl,
"Ah, I'll take that as a compliment"
The Hollow's claws grew and started clawing it's way to Harusame's throat. She dodged and blocks it with her katana. Then, shunpoed 5 feet from the disgusting creature, who started to bleed in the midsection.
Harusame looked down to see her robes slashed baring some of her skin, the fabric clinging into her body.
"What the-?"
"You look lovely with torn clothes," the creature said with malicious tone.
Harusame's temper rose, and everybody knows better then to provoke the Shihouin princess, she touched her silver crucifix pendant, her ritual before the fighting,
"That's it punk"
Harusame swung Ginryuu upward its blade pointing in the heavens, and then she reversed her hold in his hilt and brought it downward plunging it on the ground.
"Torisaru, Ginryuu!! (Eliminate them, Ginryuu!!)"
She pulled Ginryuu out in the ground, revealing a much longer sword, with ragged edges (the same one you can find on steak knives), a long silver chain dangling on his hilt, connected on a cuff attached to Harusame's right wrist.
"Ah, a skinny sword" the hollow humored "Scary"
Harusame just narrowed her eyes and a grin appeared in her lips.
She then shunpoed in front of the Hollow and slashed, but the Hollow blocked, blood streaming from where Ginryuu's blade had stricken.
"Ichi no udemae, Enkou (1st skill, fire)" Harusame said. Ginryuu's blade morphed in a blade of flame, the flame crawled to where the hollow was cut.
"What the--" the Hollow gasped as it pulled away, but the flame continued to eat away his body.
"Bitch!!!!!" then the hollow dissolved.
"Pervert," Harusame said clutching the robes around her.
"Ma'am are you hurt?" her men said as she sealed Ginryuu back.
"No, how about you guys?"
"Shihouin- fukutaichou!" a man said while running towards their direction.
Harusame turned her head towards the man,
"Yes?"
"We found her in the woods" he said, with a petite girl lying in his arms.
Harusame touched the girl's forehead,
"She is still alive, let's bring her back"
"But ma'am she--" others protested
"I sense some reiatsu in her, she has the potential" Harusame said then shunpoed away.
"Understood ma'am" they said while bowing to where their vice- captain had vanished.
You picked up a stray kitten…
A voice said
"I'll teach her to be a cat" Harusame smiled and touched Ginryuu's hilt.
Funny…
-Present time-
"Harusame- sama, your marriage with Byakuya-sama will be held this September 23"
The words vibrated on Harusame's brain, this is not happening.
"What?" she exclaimed
"Don't act surprised, after what the two of you did the other night"
Harusame turned her gaze at the shouji door, she thought she heard a familiar voice, and there it was, a familiar face, the person she hated the most.
"Hisashiburi ja no, watashi no imoutou (It's been a while, my sister)" a woman with skin of olive and purple hair said.
"Yoruichi" she hissed "I wonder what brings the traitor home"
"Harusame- sama!" one elder said in horror.
Yoruichi just grinned, but her eyes stated otherwise, "Come Haru, let's have a little chat"
Harusame stood up, picking Ginryuu and exiting the hall, "There is nothing to talk about"
"Sure there is, we are siblings" Yoruichi said as their shoulders meet.
"My sister died a century ago"
The elders gasped. "Harusame- sama!!"
"Let her" Yoruichi said as she let her sister walk away.
The 6th division captain is walking toward his manor, when he saw a familiar face on the Kuchiki manor's gate,
"Were- cat, what are you doing here?"
"Not a nice greeting Byakuya- bo" Yoruichi grinned
"What do you want?" said Byakuya while fighting the urge to roll his eyes.
"Well, I need your help on something"
Harusame was surprised to receive a hell butterfly from Byakuya requesting her presence by the river, but everything made sense when the ex- corps commander of the SMC flashed in the scene.
"What do you want?" she said in an icily tone.
"A little chat" Yoruichi said sitting on the grass.
"Fine" she said, then set herself by the riverbank, after all she can't outrun the 'Goddess of flash Yoruichi'
"Harusame, I know you hated me" Yoruichi began.
"Get to the point"
Yoruichi gave a small chuckle, "I'm taking the post as the head of the clan, back"
"Good, it is yours after all" she said as she threw a pebble in the water.
"You can now marry Byakuya, as it should have been 80 years ago."
"What?" she exclaimed.
"You loved him and you know it," said Yoruichi
"That is none of your business"
"The clan has already arranged for it, and I helped"
Harusame cast her a disapproving look, "So you had stick your paws again on my life it seems."
"I did it for you"
"Yeah right!!" she yelled while standing up and turning to leave.
"I will tell you what happened on the night of you engagement" Yoruichi said, betting everything on it.
Her words stopped Harusame in her tracks.
Thank God.
"That is better be good, or else," Harusame said while sitting.
Yoruichi just smiled, this is the only thing she can do in her plan to make up with her and most important to start being a real sister to her,
"Harusame, what is the last thing you remembered about that night?" she asked
Harusame thought for a while, "I was removing Byakuya's kenseikan"
"Okay I'll tell you what happened"
"I'am listening" she then gulped, praying that what is about to be revealed will not cause her a heart attack.
"Nothing happened that night" she said
"Really?" she said in disbelief.
"Yes, I was the one who removed your clothes and erased the memories" said Yoruichi "And placed you in that position."
Harusame blushed at the past images,
"You? But why? How?"
"The real plan is for the both of you to have s--…uh a baby" Yoruichi said stumbling to find the right word
Harusame stared at her sister with horror, "Oh boy…" She gulped "Is Byakuya part of this plan?"
"Course not" Yoruichi exclaimed, "He had been drugged"
"Drugged?" she asked in confusion
"Yes, a drug that can drive a person wild…if you know what I mean…" she said while nudging Harusame's ribs.
"That is---" Harusame's reply while flustered
"But of course I can't let something like that happen" Yoruichi said "I interfered, the elders didn't know anything about this, coz if they do, they might try to do it again" she stopped, remembering the rage she felt when she heard of this. Her little sister to be sentenced to that kind of thing and with a guy she had seen as her little brother
"I had to stage it, that whole scene"
"So you're the one who ripped my clothes," said Harusame in relief.
Yoruichi hesitated for a moment "Actually no, I'm the one off took them off, but your clothes is already torn"
"What? I thought…" he eyes wide
"When I found you, you are already bind-ed by a kidou spell on the couch…" Yoruichi said
"I' AM WHAT???" she practically screamed, good thing she doesn't remember anything, or he might never look at Byakuya the same way again.
Master…I didn't know you had such fantasies…
Senbonzakura teased.
Byakuya's face turned white, he shouldn't have eavesdropped.
(A/N: Cliff hanger…heheheheh….- ellithea)