Captain-kitty: *Blasts confetti gun* HELLO MY LOYAL READERS!
Akara: whats the gun for?
Yoruichi: our story has just made over a hundred reviews
Soifon: congratulations, I guess your story plot wasn't a waste of time after all
Captain-Kitty: *ignores insult and begins to do victory dance* we did it!
Yoruichi: and you know what that means
Captain-Kitty: Congratz to Collie-Loves-Yuri! You are our 100th reviewer! By now you should've gotten the PM. Anywho, Soifon would you please do the disclaimers?
Soifon: I suppose, Captain-Kitty does not own Bleach or Yoruichi-sama and I
Captain-Kitty: just the oc's and the plot
Yoruichi: enjoy
Yoruichi looked at the white wolf currently covered in blood. Her fur was raised to its highest point and she clearly looking for Yoruichi.
"A-Akara" Yoruichi questioned hesitantly but the white wolf just howled with laughter.
"Stupid feline, Akara is gone, if you can remember correctly I am Maiko and we met at the rivers" Maiko said as she slowly made her way towards Yoruichi and Soifon. Yoruichi knelt down and put Soifon, as carefully as possible, onto the ground before stepping forward in front of her.
"Yoruichi-sama" Soifon said, but Yoruichi simply smiled before stroking Soifon's hair and turning to face Maiko.
"I remember you, so I'm going to take an educated guess and say that this is your true form, though I must say, you look a lot like Akara's zanpakuto" Yoruichi said observing the wolf who was closing in on her and the injured Captain.
"Well I'm glad you're not a complete idiot, I was afraid your pining would make you forget" Maiko said cruelly as she stopped a good ten feet away from Yoruichi, the blood still dripping down from various parts of Maiko's body and mouth.
"I'm getting bored, master can I please go fight" Hiroka suddenly called out. She and everyone else who had been witnessing the scene had been sitting patiently, but Hiroka had lost her patience.
"In a moment Hiroka, I would like to have a word with the Wolf spirit" the hooded man said. Maiko and Yoruichi both turned to face the four seated people sitting like they ran the world.
"What do you want hooded man, I was getting ready to start a new hunt" Maiko growled. Yoruichi shifted her gaze to Soifon who had been giving her and Maiko a worried look. Though Yoruichi was sure the look for Maiko was actually for Akara.
"Maiko, I have done a lot of research about you, and I must applaud you, never have I seen a spirit take possession of a noble family member, but I want to know why you chose to break one of your own rules to posses the third heir of the Kurokiba" the man asked very much intrigued. Maiko whipped her tail and flung a little blood onto the floor before she answered.
"Well, how often does the Kurokiba family have a daughter enter their family, I mean out of all the Kurokibas I've seen over the years, only ten of them were girls. And I found Akara's passion for any given subject or person to be very interesting, so when I heard she was coming to the world, I waited for her" Maiko said as if it was the easiest thing in the world. The man hummed in thought,
"That explains a lot, I heard the eldest son had been cheated from his birthright for some unknown reason, now it makes sense" the man said before he snapped his fingers. Suddenly the ground began to shake around Maiko, Yoruichi and Soifon. Little bits of the ceiling began to fall all around them. Yoruichi easily dodged a massive part of the ceiling, by lightly jumping a few feet to the right.
"That was easy enough" Yoruichi chuckled to herself, suddenly she heard a crash coming from where Soifon was currently residing. Quickly turning her head, Yoruichi saw a huge cloud of dust fading away.
"SOIFON" Yoruichi screamed in fear, her heartbeat had doubled as she ran and broke the large piece of the rock that had fallen onto Soifon with a massive kick. But once the rock was obliterated she saw nothing but a little blood and a tattered Captain's Haori.
"Soifon, no" Yoruichi whispered as she fell onto her knees on the rapidly shaking ground. She was truly gone this time, and once again Yoruichi didn't and couldn't do anything to stop it. Yoruichi picked up the Captain's Haori and held up to herself.
"I'm sorry Soifon, I couldn't save you" Yoruichi whispered into the Haori. Suddenly a shaking hand rested on her shoulder,
"What are you doing on the ground Yoruichi-sama, if you haven't noticed, its shaking, and it's dangerous" a beautifully familiar voice said. Yoruichi immediately turned around and saw Soifon, very much alive and in her Omnitsukaido Commander uniform, which had been shredded mostly in the pant legs. There were maybe a few medium sized holes on the bottom and the back of her pants. And her left arm guard was gone.
"Soi" Yoruichi said in relief as she hugged the surprised woman.
"Yoruichi-sama, this is no time for hugs, we need to find a safe place to stand" Soifon said as she grabbed Yoruichi's hand and pulled her up before moving to where Soifon had escaped to. Meanwhile Maiko had suddenly had been surrounded by a transparent bubble. Not wanting to be in the bubble Maiko leapt up to the top of the bubble, but once she touched it, a surge of electricity wove through her body and caused her to fall back to the bottom. The floor stopped shaking, much to Yoruichi and Soifon's relief. So they could come out of their spot.
"Let me out" Maiko demanded as she stood back up and glared at the man and his colored followers. Jubei let out a high pitched laugh and rolled all over her chair.
"S-She thinks she can leave" Jubei squealed before falling out of her chair and rolling around. Kuto, who had been quiet throughout the entire ordeal decided to speak.
"Maiko you truly are foolish, but I suppose you got that from Akara she and that Shihouin woman blindly ran in here just to save a captain who could probably be easily replaced" Kuto said placing in Yoruichi and Soifon's direction. Soifon glared at Kuto as did Yoruichi. She had remembered a score she wanted to settle with him.
"But regardless, you are stuck here until the master gets what he needs from you" Kuto said before shifting back into silence. Hiroka sighed loudly with obvious impatience.
"So bored, can I please fight someone" Hiroka begged. The hooded master spoke again.
"Very well, Hiroka if you would like, you can fight Shihouin or Maiko, then Jubei can take whoever you didn't choose" the man said and Jubei groaned.
"I don't wanna fight, can't I just watch" Jubei whined. The hooded man sighed,
"Alright" he said but before Jubei could say anything else a blade had suddenly found its way into Jubei's chest. And she stopped moving.
"Oh master, you didn't have to kill her, although she has broken a lot of your rules lately" Hiroka said as she carelessly moved Jubei's now lifeless body away from her with her currently crossed left foot.
"Hmm, she is no longer important, now go have your fun, but don't kill the Captain or Shihouin, I want them to witness me extract this wild spirit and use her power to take over all of Soul Society" Yoruichi and Soifon's eyes widened in shock, they couldn't believe what they were hearing; but Kuto and Hiroka simply smiled. Then kuto spoke up.
"What about Akara, surely we could find use for her" he said but the hooded man scoffed.
"She is useless to me; once Maiko is extracted I will dispose of her myself, but for now, go" and at go, Hiroka disappeared in a flash of orange and Kuto was engulfed in a sapphire flame. Yoruichi knew almost immediately who was coming for her and Soifon, so as quickly as possible she told Soifon to go find a safe place to rest and hide.
"I am not going to let you fight alone Yoruichi-sama, you don't know what these people are capable of" Soifon said in a non arguable tone. But Yoruichi argued anyway.
"You are in no condition to fight, and I will not allow you to be injured anymore than you already" Yoruichi said as she began to push Soifon into a secluded area, but Soifon immediately got out of Yoruichi's hold and turned around.
"Why" she asked enraged. Yoruichi mumbled something incoherent.
"What, speak up Yoruichi-sama I didn't hear you" Soifon said. But before Yoruichi could speak an orange blur appeared in front of them.
"Hello Shihouin, care to dance" Hiroka purred before disappearing to a nearby window and slipping to the roof. Before chasing after her Yoruichi turned around and put a firm grip on the younger woman's shoulders and said,
"What I said before was, I don't want to lose you again, and it was hard enough the first time" then she quickly disappeared after Hiroka, leaving a speechless Soifon behind to register Yoruichi's words. After a moment Soifon shook her head, Yoruichi's sweet words would have to be thought about later.
"Akara needs my help, I'm sorry Yoruichi-sama but I cannot do what you told to this time" Soifon said herself before making her way to the glass orb Maiko was being held in.
"I will get out, and once I do, my tradition will continue and you will be the first to go" Maiko howled as Kuto flawlessly entered the bubble without attracting any of the static electricity. Kuto simply chuckled as he pulled out a leather studded whip that quickly became engulfed into a blue flame.
"If you can defeat me, though I doubt you can, you can go ahead" Kuto said before flicking his wrist and shooting the fiery whip at Maiko. But Maiko easily dodged it before running at Kuto and extending her claws and lunging at him. But just before she could dig her claws into his arm, Kuto shifted his position so he could kick Maiko in the side of her face, he managed to make her fly a few feet away, but Maiko quickly regained herself and landed on her paws before charging him again. Only this time she disappeared into nothing. Kuto, not losing his cool or concentration, patiently waited for Maiko to show herself again.
"Wolves are stealthy creatures but since she has no pack, I wonder how she will" but Kuto didn't get to finish his sentence, a flash of whitish blue flew past him and left a thin red line on his forearm before it splashed red all over his arm and some of the floor.
"Hmm, I suppose that's what I get for letting my guard down for a moment" Kuto said to himself before taking his whip and cracking it around him. It made no sound, but after a few rounds a pained yelp was heard from not too far. Suddenly Maiko fell to the ground. Kuto had hit her back leg, and now it was burnt and bleeding.
"Lucky hit" Maiko said before quickly, but not as quickly as before, getting up and getting into her battle stance again.
"You won't last much longer in your form Maiko, everyone knows an injured wolf is not a good one in battles" Kuto said as he cracked his flamed whip again and purposely missing the place he just hit on Maiko causing her to jump and move; but she landed on her bag leg and fell onto the ground.
"What a pity" Kuto said sarcastically and Maiko growled at him,
"Silence yourself; you don't know what I am capable of" Maiko shouted before jumping up and exploding into a white cloud. But once the cloud was gone the wolf was gone, but in her place stood Akara. Well almost, Akara's midnight hair had been replaced with bluish white hair, her eyes were golden brown and she had Tsuki no Okami's markings. But other than that, Akara still looked the same.
"Alright, now that I'm more comfortable, let's stop playing around" Maiko smirked before using Akara's Shunpo ability to disappear into thin air and strike Kuto in the back of his head and disappearing again, Kuto adjusted himself before going after Maiko. And soon you could only see flashes of the two fighting in random spots of the bubble.
Watching from outside the bubble was Soifon who was trying to figure out a way inside the bubble without harming her already damaged body. She didn't dare touch it, after trying to escape her cell the day before she was a bit skeptical on touching unknown things.
"How can I enter without being harmed" Soifon thought to herself. She tried to think of logical tactics, but nothing came to mind. Finally she sighed in defeat, she couldn't think of an idea. And what was worse, she didn't have her Zanpakuto.
"This situation couldn't get any worse" Soifon mumbled bitterly. Suddenly she saw a body fly in her direction. Not needing to shield herself, Soifon watched who hit the wall. And when she saw who hit the base of the bubble, close to where she was standing, her eyes became the size of dinner plates.
"AKARA" Soifon immediately yelled, but when she took a closer look, she that it was Akara, but it also wasn't. So who was she then?
"Soifon help me" a familiar voice said in Soifon's head.
"Akara" Soifon said in a relieved surprise. Akara chuckled in her mind.
"Yeah, listen I don't have much time, but I know a way for you to get in the orb" Akara said hurriedly. Soifon waited in anticipation.
"Just think about your goal and the orb will let you in, but don't get distracted or you will die" Akara said before her voice faded away.
"Thank you" Soifon said before her usual stoic and now determined facial expression returned. Then after a moment of thought, she had her goal in mind and she charged straight into the electrical orb. Once contact was made she was not harmed and Soifon had successfully penetrated the hazardous prison.
"Right, now maybe I can help Akara" Soifon before running over to Maiko.
"Maiko, get up" Soifon said in uncertainty. She didn't know whether or not she had called the Akara look alike by the right name or not, but she took a gamble and called her Maiko. And much to her surprise Maiko looked up at her.
"Soifon, how did you get in here" Maiko asked more in curiosity than anything.
"I came to help Akara not you, I know who you are, but since you are using Akara's body, I cannot allow you to die" Soifon said glaring at her for a moment, but she softened her eyes before yanking the wolf possessed woman up.
"Alright Kuto show yourself" Soifon called viciously to the seemingly empty orb. A creepy chuckle quietly echoed through the orb before the all too familiar blue flame appeared a fair distance away.
"Well well, if it isn't my torture victim, good to see you alive" kuto purred wickedly causing Soifon to involuntary shudder at the awful memory which was suddenly brought back to the surface.
"Well I am standing here, and I'm going to fight" Soifon stated with a fiery determination as she took a battle stance. Kuto laughed,
"You are a fool, you're severally injured and you don't have your weapon, how can you fight" he asked before he received a swift kick to the head. Once recovered he saw that neither Soifon nor Maiko had moved. But Soifon was smirking,
"I don't always need my sword to fight, I specialize in hand to hand combat" Soifon bragged before winking out of existence and managing to sweep her feet under Kuto before returning back to her place.
"Something is wrong" Maiko thought as she examined the seemingly well Captain. Maiko closed her eyes for a moment, but when she reopened them they had changed to a light green. Maiko over the years used this vision called "scanning" to see how her prey's stamina and health were before attacking, but when she saw Soifon's her brows furrowed in confusion and slight worry. Soifon's body was only maybe two or three and half hours away from giving out on her, yet she was starting to move like she wasn't harmed. Maiko didn't understand, but she knew one thing for sure.
"She not going to last much longer" Maiko thought. Now normally a person in Soifon's state was a great target to play with, but since Soifon was a special case, they had to win and leave soon.
Maiko closed her eyes and after a quick moment reopened then to have them back to a golden brown.
"Well Soifon, since you have come to help, how about a tag team" Maiko offered. Grinning slightly Soifon nodded in agreement.
"Very well, let's go then" Maiko smirked before vanishing with Soifon close behind her. Kuto chuckled,
"This should be interesting" then he waited for the two women to strike. Carefully listening to his surroundings Kuto raised his whip and waited. The orb was extremely quiet, so quiet that breathing could be considered a high pitched shriek. Suddenly a flash of black and white crossed each other and hit both sides of Kuto's ribcage. But Kuto grasped Maiko's leg and swung her at Soifon causing them to fly at the wall; luckily Soifon adjusted herself and used her reiatsu to stop in mid air, and once that was done she caught Maiko and helped her adjust herself.
"This is going to be difficult, I need to find a weakness or something" Soifon said quietly to Maiko. Maiko glowered at Kuto, looking for some kind of edge, a blind spot. But so far nothing was showing up.
"I'm not seeing any blind spots, so we'll have to find one when we fight him again" Maiko said to Soifon before disappearing to attack Kuto from behind. Soifon stayed and saw that Maiko was able to use all of Akara's attacks, which gave her an idea. So when she saw Maiko strike Kuto in the center of his chest Soifon had remembered a move Akara showed her whenever Akara used that kick, the three hit combo. So Soifon flashed behind Maiko just as she made contact with Kuto, and once she had, Soifon gripped Maiko's shoulders and flipped backwards and slammed her heel into Kuto's head, and then she used that footing to do an aerial somersault and quickly shifting her body so she could jab the base of Kuto's spine.
This action caused Kuto to quietly gasp. But he retaliated by pulling his whip out and snapping it onto Soifon's waist. She yelled as the flames wrapped around her. Kuto picked her up and slammed her into the top center of the orb causing her to be not only electrocuted but burned as well.
"NO" Maiko shouted as she leapt for the whip. She pulled out a small knife, which she had forgotten had been there, and sliced the rope in two. Maiko leapt up and caught Soifon. She was smoking slightly, but thankfully still conscious.
"Well that hurt" Soifon joked weakly as Maiko landed onto the ground.
"Soifon you should not be fighting, if you take one more hit like that, I don't know when your body will give out on you" Maiko said before setting the newly injured Captain down onto shaky legs. Soifon rolled her eyes.
"Che, you sound like Yoruichi-sama, she told me not to fight either, but a friend needs my help" Soifon said. A semi transparent image of Akara suddenly appeared beside Maiko and smiled at Soifon,
"You're the best friend a girl could ask for, just be careful" Akara whispered before fading away. Then Soifon growled in frustration,
"I wish I had Suzumebachi, with her, this fight could've been over long ago" Soifon huffed. Maiko placed a clawed hand onto Soifon's shoulder.
"We can win this, we just" but Maiko was immediately whipped straight in her right eye with surprisingly two whips. She howled as the flame cooked the delicate flesh.
"You thought you could easily break my whip with a simple knife, you truly are a fool" Kuto cackled before reeling back his now dual whip. Soifon switched shocked looks between Kuto and the injured and most certainly now partially blinded wolf woman.
"Tell me Captain, have you ever heard of the Greek monster called Hydra" Kuto asked in an insulting and mocking tone. And when he got no answer he continued,
"Well, the Hydra was a vicious monster, and whenever you cut off his head, more would grow, so I used that myth to create my Hydra whip. Now it's more of a threat" Kuto smirked before raising his now doubled flamed whip.
Captain-Kitty: Neh, sorry I had to leave the chapter this way, but there is a purpose behind it.
Soifon: it seems legit
Yoruichi: I wasn't in it that much *starts to pout*
Captain-Kitty: No worry the next chapter is all about you and Hiroka, and that ladies and gentlemen was your spoiler for the next chapter.
Yoruichi: tell us what you think, and we'll see you next time ;3