More is explained...and we see Urahara...^_^ lol I love that former captain.....
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As she approached the little shop, there was only one light on, but there were several people out on the front porch where two younger children were sweeping and two men and a woman were talking. It was easy to decipher who Urahara was. His green-striped hat and wooden clogs said it all. However, the woman looked to be a hindrance on her own plans. She felt like a Shinigami, as far as her spirit energy, but she was in a real body. 'A gigai?' thought Livia as she hid herself so that no one could see her. She saw a strange black cat walk by, and look up at her as she sat on a dumpster. It seemed as if the animal was judging her in some way, but Livia knew that that would be impossible. How could a cat judge?
A few moments later, the short woman left and the cat walked up the Urahara. The taller man bent down, as if listening, then said aloud, "Yes, I knew she was there all along. No matter how good the younger generations get, they cannot hide their true self. Isn't that right, Rei Olivia Seishin?"
Livia smiled, and jumped off the dumpster, walking around the building and towards the four people and the cat that were all suddenly looking at her. Urahara stood up, and pulled out his fan and hid his lower face with it. "So, to what do we owe the pleasure of meeting the King's Division Captain?"
The two children and the muscular man all looked at Urahara as if her were a madman. The cat however, was wearing a smirk on its face.
Livia smiled, and did something that only the King's division could do. She willed herself out of her gigai, but the body stayed upright, and followed her every move as her spirit form manifested and showed herself to all of them. She smiled, bowed with one hand on her heart, Kootta in her hand as she said, "Just making the rounds here, seeing as I will be hanging around for at least a year before returning to my original post in the states. I was told that you are stationed here and that you help out Shinigami and others with spirit powers, so I came to make my presence known in case I have need of your assistance." Her eyes went foggy for a moment, and then she smiled and said, "Kootta would very much like to give you her respects as well. She says it would only be right."
A moment later, using a portion of Livia's spirit energy to keep herself visible to all, Kootta showed herself along with the alpha hound. Upon seeing the cat, the dog growled, and the cat ignored the rumbling threat and just started to groom itself. Kootta put one of her long-fingered hands on its forehead, and the creature stopped growling, but didn't stop bearing its teeth. The ice queen looked down her nose at those surrounding her, and said, "Livia may allow it, but I will not, Shinigami. Stop pretending to be a cat, and join in the discussion."
The black cat looked slightly startled, then smiled. "If you really feel that I should, then I will as long as I don't embarrass these poor males. You see, when I transform, it is without the clothing. So I would prefer to stay n this form, if you don't mind."
Kootta smiled at that statement, and commanded the hound to stay in a language that none of those present could recognize. "Fine then. I can understand how the appearance of a suddenly naked female could fluster the boyos." The look Kootta was giving the others was full of mischief.
She then looked directly at Urahara. "I am pleased to make the acquaintance of a former captain of the 13 protection squads. Because I usually like to introduce myself, my name is Kootta Umi no Kootari, wielded by the Captain of the King's Protection squad Rei Olivia Seishin. The hound's name is Yabou*, and is the alpha of my pack of Ice hounds." Kootta looked down at the wolf, and nodded. The wolf stopped bearing his teeth, and sat down, since the introductions had been made. "He is one of the remnants of my former power, before I died and decided to give my soul to belong to another's in the form of their Zanpaku'to. It just so happened that Livia was to be, quite literally, my soul's mate."
The younger boy, upon hearing this, said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Before you died? But I thought that the spirit of the Zanpaku'to was always a part of the person who was to wield them, and had never been a part of another soul. And what do you mean, decided to give your soul to a Zanpaku'to?"
Livia shook her head, and sat down on the air, using her spirit energy to keep herself aloft. "It is just as she says, kid. The soul of my sword has always been a part of me, because she is much, much older than I am. When she gave her soul in some ceremony that I still don't understand, it is the essence of that soul that chooses a new name describing what it is, and merges with a soul newly-born in this plane of existence." Livia looked up at Kootta as she continued. "It has taken me around 40 years just to figure that bit out, from what she has explained to me. Other than the fact that, because she was a real queen, that part of her name stuck, like when I release our Bankai on the first level. Also, that is why she looks now much like the way she did when she was alive."
Yabou's head shot up suddenly, and he pivoted, growling into the night. Kootta's pupils dilated as she focused further than what any human eye could see. "Shit. Someone is coming…they have a restriction placed on their spirit energy, so they are at least a lieutenant." Her form started to fade as Livia started to draw her spirit energy back inside, in order to control her gigai again. Once she had enough control of it to talk and run, she said, "I'll stop by again if I need anything, or need someone to talk to seeing as I am the only King's Division stationed here."
And with that, she forced her gigai to jump to a rooftop, to run away. She turned to look behind her, to see if she was being followed. When she looked, she saw spiky red hair tied back, the face of the person in shadows, but the obvious features of a shihakushou and Zanpaku'to stating the obvious. She had just about been caught by a man that she had met before, who had been the Lieutenant of her former squad.
Renji Abarai was in the real world, and she was not looking forward to meeting him again.