: hello viewers I see you're all enjoying the story
Akara: it's starting to get interesting that's for sure
Soifon: quite, where is Yoruichi-sama
: I put her in time out
Soifon: why would you do that?
: I saw her on my computer trying to change the story plot so I put her in time out
Soifon: *sighs* Yoruichi-sama
: well it's time to start Akara, disclaimers please
Akara: Captain Kitty does not own bleach or the characters, just me please enjoy
During the early morning, Soifon had gotten up early and trained as usual, but she had a Captain's meeting later that morning, so she returned to her room, took a quick shower; put on her Captain's uniform and left to go to the meeting. But she had checked on Akara before she left though, she was still sleeping, but the bruise given to her the night before made it slightly hard to Akara to breath. At least that's what it looked like to Soifon.
As she arrived at the meeting room, she had been one of the first to arrive, other than Captains Unohana, Ukitake, Kuchiki, and Hitsuguya and Commander Yamamoto. She greeted them formally and took her place in the usual order, which was on the Commander's left side. Within about ten minutes the rest of the Captains came in, some came in pairs, by either convenice or they were carrying on a conversation on the way there while the rest came in alone. Though, not everyone was a Captain, the Lieutenants of squads three, five and nine had taken the temporary position.
"Welcome to the Captain's meeting" Yamamoto said in his thunderous voice, everyone nodded.
"I would like to take the time to say that we have a new ally among us, those who haven't heard or met her, her name is Akara Kurokiba" a few of the Captains murmured amongst themselves and to each other, but Unohana, Soifon and Byakuya said nothing.
"I believe she will be a great asset to our squads in the oncoming war against that traitor Aizen and his colleagues, wouldn't you agree Captain Fon" everyone shifted their gazes toward Soifon; she had her stoic façade on, but she stepped out and spoke up,
"I do agree with you Commander, her fighting skills would be essential to us" then she stepped back and stared at the wall on the opposite side of the room. Yamamoto nodded and cleared his throat,
"Now that the matter has been passed, let's go through the Squadrons report. If you have seen, felt or noticed anything different than usual please speak up" Soifon's mind immediately noted that she should bring up the incident from the previous night.
"Squad Two, have you anything to report" Yamamoto asked looking at Soifon. Once again she stepped out and spoke out loudly, so that everyone could hear.
"Last night I was preparing for bed then I felt a foreign Reiatsu coming from outside in the courtyard, when I went out to investigate it had disappeared" she stayed put since she figured that Yamamoto would want to talk about the event. But surprisingly Unohana had spoken up first.
"I also felt this strange occurrence, but like Captain Soifon said, it disappeared almost as quickly as it came" Yamamoto hummed in thought, he was thinking of a solution to this mysterious happening, but since there wasn't much to work with only one solution came to mind,
"Very well then, since we do not know much about this, I advise you all and your squads to keep an eye out in case it happens again. And if it does, you will report it immediately" once that was done, the meeting continued.
Back in Soifon's private quarters Akara was lying down and staring at the ceiling. She had been in deep thought about her and Soifon, and strangely she had some thoughts about Yoruichi as well.
"Akara, you seemed troubled" Tsuki no Okami said as he materialized beside Akara. Akara looked at him with an idle gaze before she responded.
"Not really, but you remember when Yoruichi asked me to tell her what happened when she left right" Tsuki no Okami nodded,
"Of course, but I also remember that you couldn't tell her because you got distracted during your sparring session with Captain Soifon" he smirked as Akara began to blush slightly.
"Yeah, but I don't know if she'll want to hear what I have to say, I mean when I met Soi, she was an absolute wreck" she shuddered as a memory surfaced.
"I remember that also" he said and his ears flattened against his skull.
"Well I still want to know, I don't care how bad it is" the previously mentioned woman spoke. Akara struggled as she sat up, but her eyes met up with none other than Yoruichi. She noticed Akara's struggle and she stifled a laugh, she had known about the sparring accident and it made her laugh whenever she pictured Soifon kicking the crap out of Akara.
"Wow, little bee did a number on you didn't she, I taught her well" she smirked; Yoruichi took pride in knowing the fact that she had helped her former bodyguard become stronger. Akara scoffed,
"Oh please, anyway, do you wanna know what happened or are you here to just ruin my quiet time" Yoruichi shrugged,
"They both sound pretty good, but I think Soifon's past is more important than my pleasures in life"
"Well, I can see I am no longer needed, I shall converse with you later Akara" then Tsuki no Okami dematerialized leaving the two Noble children alone.
"Well, pull up a seat this is going to take a while" Yoruichi pulled up one of Soifon's kitchen chairs. She placed it in front of Akara, and Akara grunted in slight pain as she turned to face Yoruichi. When she as comfortable enough she sighed,
"The story I'm about to tell you is a very sad one, so be prepared" Yoruichi nodded, she was afraid as it was, but the tone Akara used frightened her even more.
(Flash back 100 years ago the day after Yoruichi left)
Word had spread like a wild fire about the scandal of the great Yoruichi Shihouin helping Kisuke Urahara escape arrest, who had been exiled for harming and experimenting on Captains and Lieutenants of the Seireitei. Everyone was taking the news differently. But none had taken it as hard as Soifon, Yoruichi's personal bodyguard and protégé. The young Fon had disappeared to her and Yoruichi's cherry blossom grove where Yoruichi had made her hollow promise. But since Soifon was in a disarray of emotions, she had a small hope that all of it was a lie, a cruel and painful joke that everyone was in on to make the bodyguard worry. But when she arrived, she was met with a cruel presence of nothing but the blossom petals falling carelessly to the ground.
"S-she's really gone" Soifon whimpered as she sank to her knees. Tears began to pour into her hands as she cried silently, but soon her whimpers became sobs, and sobs became cries of pain and anguish.
"It's true, she's really gone" Soifon cried to herself as she began to shake.
"I don't understand, why would she leave, she promised we would always be there for each other" she continued to cry into the wind and the cherry blossoms who offered no comfort of any kind.
It had been an hour since she began to cry, but the tears were still hot and flowing like small waterfalls. But at this point Soifon was sitting and leaning against one of the trees she kept her eyes closed to try and calm down. But then a voice broke through the quiet.
"Hey, are you alright" Soifon slowly opened her now red eyes and they met the gaze of dark blue eyes. And those eyes belonged to a small black wolf about the size of any full grown wolf, with blue socks and a blue edged tail. Soifon quickly leapt up and jumped to the other side of the grove. She took a fighting stance, but the wolf just looked at her with confusion.
"What are you doing, I just wanted to know if you were ok is all" it said with an obvious female voice. Soifon glared at the animal, but it quickly faded along with her stance, who was she kidding, she was in no state to fight, but she kept her guard up. The she wolf carefully padded up to her and asked again,
"Are you ok, what are you doing out here" Soifon looked down to it and spoke in an broken voice,
"I don't know honestly, I came here hoping to find my Captain, but she obviously isn't here" then tears began to fall again. The wolf leapt up onto its hind legs and leaned onto the crying girl and wiped away the tears with her nose.
"Hey now, don't cry, we can find her, whats her name" Soifon mumbled something, the wolf's ears twitched,
"I'm sorry I didn't understand, could you say it again" this time as Soifon spoke she began to tremble on the spot,
"Y-Yoru-uichi" then she began cry loudly as she hugged the suddenly angry wolf.
"Yoruichi, as in Yoruichi Shihouin" she asked, Soifon could only nod, her voice was lost at this point.
"Then I guess there's no point in introducing yourself, I know who you are" the wolf said and Soifon looked up, her eyes seemed to say "how do you know me" the wolf chuckled,
"Well all the Noble families know who you are, so and I'm no different" and suddenly in a puff of light black smoke, the wolf disappeared and in her place a girl just about Soifon's height and structure stood. Her hair was short, about to her cheek, and black. Her skin was a very light brown, but her eyes were still the same.
"My name is Akara Kurokiba, and from what everyone says, you are Soifon; you're quite famous right now" Akara smiled, and Soifon blushed, but it was hidden among the blotchiness of her face.
"I've heard of you as well, you were Yoruichi's rival weren't you" Soifon mumbled just loud enough for Akara to hear and she nodded,
"That's right, her and my families have been rivals since the four Noble families became established. But I can assure you I'm very different from her" Akara said.
"That was the first time I met her" the much older Akara said. Yoruichi had become down trodden in the middle of the story. And Akara was starting to become angry, but she was trying to stay calm.
"She didn't quit crying until nightfall, so I offered her to stay with me until the next day so I could go with her and help her explain her disappearance to the temporary Captain at the time" Akara said and Yoruichi grimaced at the thought of Soifon staying Akara.
"Thankfully, the Captain understood Soifon's situation, so Soifon didn't get in trouble." Yoruichi could only nod not trusting her voice at the moment. Then Akara continued,
The next day Akara had come back to the second Division to check up on the still depressed Fon. It had been raining terribly that day, so she had to run; but when she had gotten there, Soifon was not in her room. When she asked around, no one had seen her, this had made Akara angry. Soifon was in an unpredictable state and no one had been watching her. So, she ran back into Soifon's room changed into her wolf form and sniffed one of Soifon's dirty uniforms. Once she had picked up the scent she took off back into the rain.
"I've heard this part already" Yoruichi interrupted, Akara looked at her incredulously,
"How, do you know" she asked and Yoruichi explained to her about Kuukaku finding Soifon nearly dead at her front door. Akara scoffed,
"Ok fine, but how do you think she got there" she asked gesturing to herself. Yoruichi's eyes widened and Akara nodded with pride,
"That's right, I found Soifon out in the woods she had been training and she slipped into a rushing river while she was practicing a kick in motion. I freaked out and went in after her; we were swept down that river. A girl in her animal transformation with an unconscious person on her back can really tire you out" Yoruichi pictured Akara as a younger wolf trying to fight the current. But what scared her was the fact that Akara could've lost Soifon in the river.
"It must've been quite a challenge" Yoruichi muttered and Akara nodded
"It was, but I managed it; but was still pouring and we were soaked. I was lost too, but thankfully I found a house, which I guess belonged to your friend. So I beat on the door and his guy answered, I told him what had happened, but not to mention I was here. Then I left" Akara explained. Yoruichi stood in outrage,
"What, you left her, why would you leave her if you knew she was in trouble" this time Akara, despite the pain, shot up and yelled,
"I WAS SCARED, I DID'NT KNOW WHAT DO AT THAT POINT, YEAH I WAS A COWARD AND LEFT, BUT ATLEAST I SAVED HER AND SHE WAS SAFE, AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE YOU WEREN'T THERE SO I DON'T WANNA HEAR YOU LECTURE ME ABOUT LEAVING HER, THAT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF YOU" Akara was panting at that point, then out of nowhere Yoruichi punched her right in the face, Akara glared at her and threw a punch before tackling the ex-princess onto the ground. She and Yoruichi rolled around throwing punches and head butts before Yoruichi used her legs to get Akara right in her stomach and threw her off of her body and out of the room. Akara flew all the way into the courtyard and she did a aerial somersault before her feet planted onto the back wall and she launched herself back at the now fast approaching were cat. Akara, not wanting to fight in her human form, changed into her massive wolf form and tracted her claws and bared her fangs. But before she could touch the woman, Yoruichi disappeared. Akara landed and skid around just in front of the hole she came out of. She quickly shifted her gaze all around her, but did not see or sense her opponent. She cautiously walked towards the middle of the battle ground, but still she sensed nothing.
But suddenly Yoruichi's reiatsu blasted, it was so much, that the entire Seireitei felt it, but before Akara could pinpoint where it came from she was kicked up into the air, and there she was hit with a barrage of kicks and punches. Akara tried to dodge them but she couldn't she could only block two out of every dozen kicks or punches she was receiving but other than that, she was stuck.
But she kept looking for an opening. After what seemed like hours, she finally found one as Yoruichi sent her leg in for another kick, only this time it was stopped by Akara's massive jaws clamping down into it. Yoruichi screamed and they both started to fall. The impact was hard and it caused Akara to loosen her grip just enough for Yoruichi to get out of the hold.
"AKARA, YORUICHI WHAT ARE YOU DOING" Soifon shrieked. She had witnessed most of the battle, but she was too shocked to do something. But once Akara had bitten Yoruichi's leg and they had fallen Soifon had yelled at them.
Akara had stopped at that point and she bowed her wolfen head in shame. Her body was aching and trembling and she was bleeding from various places and to top it off her stomach was clenching and burning insanely. Yoruichi wasn't as badly hurt, but her leg was bleeding badly from Akara's last attack.
"What is wrong with the both of you" Soifon yelled as she stormed up to the both of them. Akara was about to say something but she was punched by a now teary eyed Soifon which caused Akara to stumble and fall over,
"You're injured; you were in no condition to fight and yet you did" then she looked at Yoruichi was awaiting the same fate. But what all Soifon said was
"I expected better from you" which to Yoruichi was worse than the punch Akara had received. Yoruichi flinched when she saw the look of pain, disappointment and something else; but she couldn't place it.
"Now I don't know who started this fight , and I will ask you when your condition is better; but I am highly disappointed in the both of you, now I want you both to go to Unohana and get yourself fixed up" she ordered harshly.
"Soi, I'm. . . .I'm" Yoruichi started but she was cruelly cut off,
"I don't want to hear it, I gave you an order now follow it or else" she stated coldly.
"Well, I guess I blew it" Yoruichi thought sadly as Soifon helped the fallen wolf to her paws. But Akara fell again and started to cough up a little blood. Yoruichi winced knowing she was the one who caused Akara to be in her current state.
"Change back and I'll carry you" Soifon hissed, and Akara quickly obeyed. Then the trio made their way to the Fourth Division.
"Well I must say, you two did quite a number on each other, I never expected the children of two of the most important families to behave like members of the Eleventh Division" Unohana scolded not as kindly as she usually did.
"And I believe I told you to stay away from fights Miss Kurokiba" Unohana said looking at the barely conscious wolf child.
"I. . . .I'm s-sorry, it . . . was . . . my. . F-fault" Akara said with a staggered breath. Yoruichi who was in the bed next to her, looked at Akara with quiet surprise. Yoruichi had obviously started the fight, so why was she taking the heat?
"Well I believe you are both to blame, but that does not matter at the moment, Akara you have minor internal bleeding from your stomach, half you ribs are broken and your right leg is fractured, so you will have to stay a few days to heal everything" Unohana said before turning to Yoruichi,
"As for you, Miss Shihouin your leg needs several stitches and you'll have a few bruises here and there, but you may leave soon after your stitches are done" Unohana said gazing deep into Yoruichi's eyes. Soifon had long since disappeared; she was furious with them both and she couldn't bear to look at them at that moment. And at the moment she was fixing up the gaping hole in the wall.
"I can't believe they did that, what made those idiots start fighting" Soifon grumbled as she swept up a large bit of dust and wood chips then suddenly Tsuki no Okami materialized close by,
"I think I can shed some light on that" he said, though it came more as a whisper to Soifon's ears. She turned around and saw the wolf sitting near Akara's sword. He bowed his head then raised it again,
"It's nice to see you again Soifon, or should I say Captain Soifon" he grinned and Soifon rolled her eyes.
"Soifon is fine, but if you know how this started I would love to hear it" she said pitching the swept up debris into a massive trashcan. Tsuki no Okami sighed a bit, his tail thumped a bit before he spoke out.
"Well you see, while Akara was comin home the other day she ran into Yoruichi, of course Akara wasn't happy about it" Soifon chuckled at that bit of information. Akara would always go off whenever Yoruichi's name was mentioned.
"Well then, she could've been the one who started that ridiculous fight" but Tsuki no Okami shook his head.
"No, she didn't it was Yoruichi who started the fight, but in her defense, Akara had pulled some rather personal strings which caused her to snap" Soifon groaned in frustration,
"Great I can't be mad at just one of them, it was on them both" she growled in frustration but immediately let it go.
"Well, they only did it because they both care about you" Tsuki no Okami said grinning knowingly. Soifon glared,
"Well I highly doubt Yoruichi cares and even if she did I stopped years ago" she ended her sentence slightly unconvinced.
"Now I think we both know that's not true, and I believe that you have a visitor" then he disappeared. And as soon as he disappeared Yoruichi appeared in the door,
"Uh, hi Soifon" she said rather nervously, Soifon looked up in surprise,
"Yoruichi-sama, what are you doing here" Yoruichi smiled,
"Well I figured that since I kinda helped make this mess I should help clean it up" Soifon blushed suddenly when she saw Yoruichi smile
"What's that feeling I'm getting" Soifon thought. Then suddenly Suzumebachi spoke up
"It's like I told you before, you still have feelings for her" then Soifon's eyes widened briefly before going back to normal.
"How can you be so sure" she continued. But before Suzumebachi spoke again, Yoruichi spoke again,
"Hello, Soul Society to Little Bee, can you hear me" as she said this Yoruichi waved her hand in front of Soifon's face
"W-what?" Soifon said snapping out her thoughts, and Yoruichi laughed,
"I said I should help you clean up since I kinda helped make the mess"
"Oh, of course . . . . . thank you" Soifon said as Yoruichi grinned at her thinking,
"Maybe, there might be hope yet" then the two got to work. And after a good half an hour's work everything had been swept up, picked up and patched. Yoruichi looked around proudly; everything had exactly the same, except the wall. It was boarded up to keep the wind and rain out, but Soifon said that it would do until she could get someone to get it done properly.
"Well Yoruichi-sama I appreciate your help, I didn't take as the type to clean" Soifon said as she put away the broom, and Yoruichi shrugged,
"Hey if it's you I'd do anything" this made Soifon blush, but before she returned she made sure the blush had disappeared.
"Well that's very kind of you" Soifon said. It became silent between the two of them and it wasn't a comfortable silence. But before either of them spoke; another Hell butterfly came in and slowly but surely made its way to Soifon. She sighed as she put her index finger out so it could land,
"Who needs me now" then the butterfly began its message. As the messenger sat there Soifon's eye brow furrowed in irritation, and when the message was done she dismissed the black and red insect and sighed.
"Whats going on" Yoruichi asked as she sat down on a kitchen chair to rest.
"Oh there's a report of a disturbance in the western part of Rukongai and the Commander wanted me to go take care of it" Soifon shrugged.
"Do you want me to go with you" Yoruichi asked but Soifon shook her head.
"I think I can handle it on my own, I should be back shortly" by the time she had finished her sentence she had Suzumebachi in hand and was about to Shunpo off, but Yoruichi stopped her,
"What is it; I must be on my way" Soifon asked as she put on her "Captain attitude" Yoruichi grinned,
"Please be careful and come back in one piece" Soifon blushed lightly,
"I always do, so there is no need to worry" then she left for the western Rukongai.
"But I always do" Yoruichi whispered at the spot where Soifon just disappeared from.
It wasn't long until Soifon made it to the coordinates of her order. She was in a somewhat abandoned part of the area, but you could tell there was some residence living there. Seeing as maybe four people were walking to some destination, but other than that nothing,
"How odd, surely this is the right place" then suddenly, feeling a presence behind her, Soifon spun around only to be greeted by a woman. This woman was probably around Yoruichi's height, with skin as pale as the moon. Her hair was an odd red orange color that reached her back and her eyes just the same. Her facial features were somewhat like a panthers. Her body was not that thin, but not large either. You couldn't see the muscle but it was there. Her outfit was strange. She wore red harem pants that matched the rest of her and her top was similar to that of the top half of a long sleeved kimono. But it was black with Chinese flower print. And at the moment she was smiling,
"Oh thank goodness you're here, I was so worried you wouldn't come" Soifon hummed,
"It would shame me if I didn't, now please tell me what the disturbance is" the woman nodded and gestured for her to follow. Soifon sighed and did so. They walked for a good five minutes until they reached a hut that was possibly the best looking one as far as Soifon could see. And when they entered and settled in the fiery haired woman offered Soifon some tea, not wanting to be rude she took the tea and sipped it.
"So what was this disturbance you needed help with" Soifon said, she started to feel strange, but she took as apprehension. The woman sighed,
"Well I was on my way home from my daily walk, everything was fine, but then I saw something out of the corner of my eye, then out of nowhere it jumped out in front me and tried to attack " she said in slightly frightened tone. Soifon furrowed her brows,
"What did it look like" she asked, the feeling was starting grow more and she sort of became dizzy.
"I'm sorry, but what kind of tea is this" Soifon said, her vision began to blur slightly. The woman grinned insanely,
"Well Soifon it's a special recipe I whipped up before you arrived"
"Ho-how do you know my n-name" Soifon said dangerously woozy.
"I've been watching you for quite some time dear, and I must say I learned a lot" Soifon quickly stood up but started to sway heavily. The woman got up slowly and followed the drugged Captain as she tried to get away. But poor Soifon fell just before she reached the door. The woman caught her just before she hit the ground.
"Oh you poor thing" the woman purred as Soifon blacked out.
"Well, no point staying here, master has been dying to see you" she said as she kissed the top of her head.
"And with you, we can finally get the wolf spirit" the woman said as she stroked Soifon's pale cheek and disappeared. All that was left was Soifon's sword and an empty hut.
.Kitty: HAHAHA Soifon is gone, for now
Soifon: I would never be that careless
.Kitty: I know but in my story you are so deal with it
Akara: just fabulous *rolls eyes*
Yoruichi *from time out in chains* I'LL KILL YOU!
.Kitty: oh empty threats, well that's all for this chapter I hope you enjoyed it. Please review and I'll see you next time!