{JWP} Blackout Arc 3rd day(NO COMMENTS PLZ)

[Shdo]

Quincy wars


The 3rd division 8th officer stood on a cliff looking at the burning Quincy village, he did his job, everyone died, the children and the elders are all dead, even the livestock was killed. Suddenly a noise came from the bushes, he turned quickly with his sword at his hand, "Who is there?" he asked, a young shinigami stepped in, "oh, it's you."


"Sir…why did we do that? Why did we killed all those children?" the young soldier asked with tearing eyes.

The officer sighed, "because we were ordered to by the captain and the nobility," the young soldier interrupted his superior.


"But that doesn't make it right!" in a flash the officer draw his sword and pinned the young soldier to the tree with his blade at his throat.


"never question our superiors, they are the reason we live, just deal with it!"


"this is rotten…" the young soldier hissed.


"just keep your mouth shut and you will make it through, why bothering thinking about that? You killed the children, they are but insects," the officer redraw his blade and turned his back to the young soldier, walking to the woods, "this is how the world goes, who are you to judge it?"


"this world is rotten…" the young soldier said again, "give it back to me…"


"huh? What the hell are you talking about?" the officer didn’t even gave the kid a look and just kept going, a mistake.


"GIVE ME BACK MY INNOCENCE!" the young soldier charged at the officer, stabbing him in the back, twisting the metal blade towards the officer guts, ripping flesh and bone and lung, "what kind of world is it where the noble's sit and drink tea while they send kids to kill other kids? Where the angels! The shinigami! Kill humans and send other humans to live in poverty in rukungai! Where hollows exist! This rotten world…I WONT ACCEPT IT!"


The blade was twisted and exited from the right side of the officer, "Akira…what are you doing? Who...the hell do you think...you are?" the officer coughed blood.


"I am following orders…of a much higher calling," the blade went down, decapitating the officer. Akira then continued to hide the body, no one would notice that he had blood all over him; everyone had blood all over them. "who am I? I am but a shadow…"


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Shadow opened his eyes, it was morning, he left the sleeping shinigami and left the basement of the house, he must find Ren.

It’s the third day in this godforsaken town, may it be over soon.

[Grey1x]

Grey woke up and, again, noticed a new roof. He stared at it as he yawned, for a long time, he got to sleep a lot for once, he would stay and witness the feeling of waking up so peacefully like that, until memories start rushing his mind. Remembering Shadow, he quickly roses up and grabs his zanpaktou, but no one was there. The kid was ashamed of himself, he couldn't keep himself awake, leaving his body free to the one he feared. "What is done is done, thank god I was lucky for once in my life".

He started to slowly walk out of the ruined house and move to Raiy's living place. Normally, he would feel embarassed to walk so dirty and smelly like that, actually, somehow, his clothes were no longer dirty, but the stench aswell the wounds and everything else were still there in his body. Grey wasn't much popular but he was undoubtedly more popular than the majority of the other teenagers. But those sad memories rush his mind, however, he doesn't cry. "Why would I feel embarassed? There is no one who I want to impress... They are all...", he couldn't finish the phrase, as the word that missed was so, painful. The shinigami looked around and remembered as he saw humans, they couldn't see him, anyway.

He got to Raiy's living place, where he saw his human body. He wanted to start off his training today, but he didn't wanted to awake his mentor, so he didn't even care to check if he was at the house.

As he got ready to take a bath, he heard several footsteps, followed by several angry shouts. He knew many of those voices, they were... they were the voices of his friends' parents, and by the way they shouted, they weren't happy. They would most likely blame Grey for what had happened. With a sigh, the shinigami looks at his human body and start slashing it. "I won't need this for some time... but I hope they don't destroy it". He then placed the body right in front of the door, so that they would leave as soon as they saw it, as such, not bothering Raiy. Looking a last time for his body, a tear fall down, not from looking at it but from looking at what it resembled, he jumps down the window, using his new high jump abilities.

[Vizard_King]

Quincy Wars
Sean and his partner ran from shadow to shadow. Hiding themselves in black clothes.
"May the God's forgive us..." Said the partner.
She tied her long black hair back into a pony tai. Her eyes were dark green and cold.
She was beautiful.
Sean sighed "I know,Ryoko. I know. Let's just get this overwith."
They ran behind two High Ranking Quincy and they stabbed them in the back and retreated back into the shadows.

It was midnight and the battle was over. The Shinigami won, thanks in a big part by Sean and Ryoko.
Sean was holding Ryoko in his arms as he leaned against the wall of their room.
Silence filled the room.
They said nothing.
Ryoko broke the silence
"I'm getting sick of this. This is no War. This is slaughter..."
"I know..."
They didn't know.
They were Soul Society's Dirty Secret.
And they were expendible.
So they were expended when they had no more use.
Ryoko was stabbed and slashed hundereds of times before she went down.
Sean couldn't get to her in time.
That was the last time Sean saw his Wife.
Sean shot his eyes open. he was drenched in sweat.
He sighed and wiped the sweat off his brow and face as he sat up.
"God damn it...Where the hell did that come from..."
He knew where that nightmare came from.
That Kid..and Luv...Luv reminded him of Ryoko. Of her power. They were both strong.
But enough about the Past. the Present is what he had to worry about. He walked out of the room and sighed again.

[Revan1990]

Raiy was walking down the street towards his apartment, he was using a healing Kido on his shoulder, it did not hurt very much, but still it was better to heal it as fast as possible, unfortunately it took longer then Raiy thought.
Even though he was hurt by Luv, Raiy was smiling, this was a clear victory...this woman was so...narcissistic and yet so weak, she didn't even realize that Raiy was manipulating her, she didn't tell him very much about Shadow, but she gave him so many information about herself, she was strong, physically, but her mind was weak, how easy it was to make her draw her Sword, in general to manipulate her...Raiy had no doubt that this conversation would be very useful.

After a while he reached his apartment, but he did not enter, he had to do something else first, he wanted to talk to her again, so the young Shinigami jumped at the Roof of his house, drew his Zanpaktou, closed his eyes and soon he entered the dark world again and heard a familiar voice: "Raiy...you are here, again? Well that's a surprise..."

[LUV]

Luv could feel Sean’s reiatsu. He was up already? God, did she ever need some rest. She turned around, trying to avoid the rays sun, but she was met with Seraf staring at her. He gave her smile.

“Good morning Luv, did you have a good sleep?”

“ I’ve had better, last night was one of the most horrible by far, I have no idea why I am getting involved with all of this, but once I find that guy you want me to find, I am done..” She lied to him. She had most definitely found Shadow, and now she was also working for him. Today she would find Ren and get that device Shadow wanted, after that, she was done with all this damn drama.

Ren would get quite a big surprise today. It was sure to be one of his worst lived days. Through her life she had been through horrible days herself, some of the worst were during the Quincy war. Those days were the ones she hated the most. It was ironic that she had met Ren during those times. Maybe that should have been a clue that it was not meant to be, and today, she would show him why he should have never kept anything from her.

“Well, once you find him I will have to return to Soul Society once again and bring him to justice, will you be coming with me?”

Luv was shocked. What the hell, why would Seraf ask such a question. No way in hell that she would ever go back to Soul Society. She didn’t know what to say. She sat up on the bed, the rays of the sun hitting her delicate skin as soon as the covers were glided off her body. She looked into his eyes and smiled down at him. She bent down and kissed him. That was the only way she could think of to shut him up. She didn't want to answer such a question.

Seraf kissed back, she wondered why he was being so sweet all of a sudden. He wrapped his hands around her and pulled her down to him. Instead of letting him, she got up from the bed and walked around to his side. Letting him see her in her naked splendor. “How about we get up and take a shower together? I have a lot of things to do today, plus, our guest is already up, we don’t want to be rude now, do we?” Luv pulled him out of bed and dragged him into the bathroom. She was going to show him what she intended to give him the previous night in the shower.

[Vizard_King]

Sean heard the shower running.
Hm, Luv or her friend must be up.
'Having that nightmare again,Sean' His Zanpaku-to asked
"Go to hell,Ramses. We don't have time to worry about the past. Don't even mention Ryoko or the Quincy War,Got that? We have work to do." Sean grabbed his Zanpaku-to and went outside.
The cold morning air rushed to his face but he ignored it.
He pulled the sword out of its sheath and began to swing. Focused swings with pin-point accuracy that seemed to split the wind in half time after time.
His eyes became hard and cold. They became borderline Demonic.
He put some energy into one last thrust. It made a silent BOOM as it split through the air.
'You are angery about something. I can tell '
"I said go to hell,Ramses!" Sean hissed before going inside

[LUV]

She walked out to the hallway wearing only her bathrobe; she didn't know if Sean had heard them or not, most likely he had; after all, she was pretty loud. Seraf was a great lover, and she was not about to feel shy about that. She just hoped that Sean wasn't too shy about the whole situation either.

If she wasn't with Seraf, she would gladly give Sean himself a chance. She wondered what his story was. Where was he from exactly, and why was he here? He seemed so well mannered, but she was sure he was hiding something too, but what? Lately she was meeting so many different type of people, but out of all of them, the most annoying had to be that guy Raiy. Wow.. how can a dumb kid be such a pain in the ass? She wondered why he was bothering with Shadow? After all, you have to be a total idiot to not notice Shadow's true intention, but then again, that wasn't any of her business. As long as Shadow kept his end of the deal, she was okay with him.

Fortuna had liked Raiy's blood, she had liked him a lot, she wanted more of him, but Luv couldn't bring herself to kill him, not in his condition. She had lost her head last night, she could admit that, but then again, who needs a cool head, when someone like her can just chop it off? She was a strong women, and those who messed with her once, always ended up regretting it.

She crossed the living room to go into the kitchen. She wanted to cook this boys some breakfast. Some real good breakfast. She walked to the refrigerator and got out the sausages, and eggs. She decided that some pancakes would be great too. After all, cooking was something she actually enjoyed to do, but with her busy life style, she rarely did it now a days. Then again, she was tired, and cooking all this would probably take some time. Maybe she could.......

“Wow Luv, are you really going to cook breakfast? I thought you wanted to rest today.. isn't that what you said in the bedroom?” Seraf said, while wrapping his arms around her from behind. She hadn't even felt his presence in the room before he spoke, Luv was amazed with his abilities. Either he was real good, or she was a lot more tired than she realized.

She turned around to face him, “Seraf... you can be such a mood killer, here I was trying to make some breakfast for you, but since you just volunteered to go out and buy some, I suppose I should not refuse.” She said smiling at him. She was saved. No cooking for her today. Plus, she could feel Sean reiatsu, and she knew he wanted to talk to her. She knew it was best for Seraf to be somewhere else while Sean and her spoke.

His face faulted, “What? I don't remember volunteering.”

“Oh.. I could have sworn you did, make sure you bring pancakes, eggs, sausages, and maybe some breakfast burritos. I love those.” She needed to get him out of the house. She gave him the puppy eyes, this would definitely make him go.

“Fine....... but you owe me for this.....” he said with a smile. He leaned closer and kissed her.

“Mmm.. I think I have a method to pay you,” she said flirtatiously, “ now go...”

She saw him turn around and walk towards the exit. He quickly grabbed a coat and walked out. Now she had time to speak with Sean....

[Vizard_King]

Sean had finished his morning warm up awhile ago. He walked back into the house just as Seraf had 'Volunteered' to get breakfast.
Sean chuckled silently as he walked into the shadows.
Once again he became invisible to all things.
He walked into the kitchen and waited for them to finish and he walked out of the shadows.
"And get some Soda while your at it,man."
He heard Seraf mummble under his breath as he left, though he didn't catch what he said.
Sean smiled and looked at Luv and offered her a seat at the table.
He sat at the opposite end.
"So...Where should we start? Shadow? The Communication Breakdown between worlds? The object both my Former Client and most likely Shadow wants?"
Sean had done alot of thinking while he was asleep and warming up.
His Client abandoned him in this world, so he has abandoned his Client.

[LUV]

Luv coudn't help but smile. This guy was pretty smart. She walked to the table, swaying her hips as much as possible, although her bathrobe made it a bit difficult to do so. She took the seat he offered. She sat across from him.

"So, tell me, what makes you think that I am going to tell you everything? After all, there is nothing for me to gain from this, or is there?" She knew that was not what he wanted to hear.

She herself wasn't sure if she could tell him, after all, Shadow was still her client and she had never betrayed or gave out a clients name or purpose. This guy better do some great convincing, or just like Raiy, he wouldn't get anything from her.

[Vizard_King]

It wasn't what Sean expected to hear.
But it made things interesting.
She must have thought highly of this Shadow.
Maybe...
Sean grinned
"Ah. Indeed.This Shadow...He hired you,didn't he? I told you before, I am a Blade for Hire, a Mercenary of the Shadows."
He looked into her eyes.
"But unlike me, you trust your current Client. You have no reason to answer my question,because you are breaking the Client-Mercenary Confedentiality."
Sean claped his hands once and pulled a pair of small,thin rectangular shaped eye-glasses and a Cigar out of his Suit pocket. He put the glasses on and lit the Cigar.
He took a long drag and grinned at Luv.
"But you gain much by telling me. The more I know. The more I can help. The more I can Help, the more we can trust each other. And the more we trust, The sooner we can finish this."
Sean rolled the lit Cigar in his fingers and watched Luv, waiting for her reply.

[LUV]

“Trust? Me trust Shadow?” She couldn't stop laughing, did Sean really think she was stupid or something? “ Please, don't insult me, I don't trust him, but he is my client, as long as he pays, I get him what he wants. So, you wanna know more about him, well, what can I say, he hired me to get the MRA, or Mass Reiatsu Absorber. This device was used during the Quincy war, and it seems that now he needs it. I don't know what he is going to do with it, but I surely don't care. Its his business after all. Of one thing I am sure of is that he is up to no good.” She looked into his blue eyes, trying to see his reaction to what he had just heard. There was no doubt in her mind that Sean would be surprised.

Luv was sure that Shadow was planning something big, but as long as he didn't fuck with her, she had no problem with him. She was planning on getting him the MRA and never seeing him again. That was it, no more drama for her. Then there was Seraf, she might have to take him along for the ride. It would be great to have those two fight.

[Vizard_King]

Sean's grin fadded.
He was suprised, but by something else.
The fact that the MRA still existed.
"I thought Ryoko had already delt with...Shit." He said to himself, though he said it louder than he ment to. He leaned forward
"Well nothing good has ever come out of the MRA, but,,,what the hell...I'm in."
Sean grinned again.
"I cannot wait to meet this Shadow..This is going to be fun"

The memories of his now dead Wife came flooding back.
Ryoko had been sent to destroy the MRA because Soul Society knew how deadly it could be in anyone's hands.
Assistant Captain Aizen personally issued the order to her.
Sean had thought that she had done her mission perfectly like she always did,and then Soul Society stabbed her in the back.
They were expended.
But Sean was now wondering something.
"Was Ryoko killed BEFORE she could get to the MRA? Did Aizen have anything to do with it?" He once again asked himself loudly

[LUV]

Luv was sure that he was thinking out loud. Great, who the hell was Ryoko? It seemed that the drama wasn't quite over..

“Who is this Ryoko, and what do you know about this MRA?” she asked him. She wanted the truth from him, and if he knew what was good for him, he would talk. She walked over to him, and crossed her arms over her chest. She meant business and he had better explain himself. If this MRA was so important, then maybe she could just sell it back to Soul Society, that would bring in a lot more money then anything else.

[Vizard_King]

Sean sighed.
"Damn..And here I was hopeing I wouldn't have to talk about this so soon..Ah well....Can't be helped."
Sean looked into her eyes.
They both ment buisness.
"Ryoko was my Wife. The two of us fought in the Quincy War. We killed in the shadows and were Soul Society's Dirty Litte Secret. We were Expendible Assets. And near the end of the War, we were Expended. Ryoko was hired by Assistant Captain Aizen to retreave the MRA. He said that the Quincy ment to use its power and kill many. The last time I saw Ryoko, she was Dead. She was stabbed who knows how many hundreds of times...But I could tell she was alive along time after her killers left. I didn't know if she had completed her Mission or not..but...I didn't care at the time. I almost didn't make it out alive....But...Enough about the past. I left that behind long ago. What we have to think about is the Present and Future."

[LUV]

Luv was actually touched. He had lost his wife, that was so ironic. He lost his wife when she gained her husband. The Quincy war had been one of the most horrible times in Soul Society, but none the less, most had fought for the cause.

“I see, so you don't know who killed her. That is horrible. The MRA is in the hands of my husband, and I am planning to go to his house later, you are more than welcomed to come along for the ride, I am sure he won't say anything, or else I will kill him.” She offered him to go with her because she knew that finding the MRA might give him some type of closure, and maybe Ren could help him figure out something more about Ryoko's death.

Luv stared down at him, poor guy, he had been through a lot. She leaned down closer to his face, she gave him a warm smile, the type she didn't give to just anyone. She got close to his face, so that she could feel his breath on her, “Tell me Sean, is that your purpose, to find her killer?”

[Shdo]

Shadow walked through the devastated streets of the city looking for something to do until the women would get his precious MRA. As he walked he noticed a deserted building with glowing neon lights, he entered. It was an arcade, and like most of the city it was deserted, most of the people left the city and some organization claimed that it bombed everything; the humans thought it was a terror attack. Shadow didn’t think they were stupid to believe in that; it would be even more insane if it was masked monsters from another dimension…


In the building he found the machines that were used by bored teenagers, one caught his eyes, "Dance Dance revolution? Revolution cannot be won with dances…" he entered one of the coins into the machines and loud electronic music started to play, the screen of the game started to show weird pictures of descending arrows and some weird video. Shadow tried to approach the screen and stepped on platform in front of the screen, he got 1 point. The game ended.


Since the game scores reset every day Shadow was declared number 1 which made him very happy, but a new adversary raised, the game wanted shadow name but only allowed 3 letters, so he wrote SDO and was quite pleased with his accomplishes.


But enough of games! Shadow exited the arcade and continued to roam the empty city knowing he left his mark on this city... the big neon sign, 'arcade', crushed to the ground. golden?

[Vizard_King]

Sean just grinned.
"I Murdered all of the ones who stabbed her. I killed them in a blind rage. It was the last man I killed who told me they were hired by someone. I gave up looking for him awhile ago. But I'm going to join you. If your Husband knows anything about who hired those fools,he well tell me." He leaned up to her ear and whispered
"I thank you for your concern, but I had already said I don't dwell in the past. You shall help me now."
He leaned back and grinned
"So it seems Fate is in motion."

[LUV]

Luv could feel the goosebumps behind her neck as he whispered into her ear. She couldn't help but feel a small tremble go through her body. Who the hell is seducing who here? She quickly recovered and leaned closer to his ear.

“You know, it makes me happy to know that you don't dwell in the past. I would love for you to come along with me, I'm sure it would be worth your time, and mine, I'm sure we could have some fun too,” she whispered into his ear. She made sure that her lips barely touched the ear, to add that shock to his system. She pulled back so that her face was inches away from his.

“Tell me, have you been with any other woman after Ryoko?” She didn't know why she had asked that, it came out of her mouth before she could stop herself. She stared into his eyes. Those blue eyes attracted her. They made him seem even more handsome. She got closer to him. She didn't know why, but it was like his eyes were luring her in. She felt as if she was suppose to kiss him, she wanted something, but she didn't know what. Her body wasn't paying attention to her brain, why was it that she couldn't get away from him? Why was it that her lips were so close to his? Why did this feel so right? Their lips were close now..................

[Vizard_King]

The hair on the back of Sean's neck stood up as she whispered in his ear.
She was good.
Sean smiled "No. No other women has been attracted to me,or vise versa. Untill now."
He brought his lips so very close to hers. their bottem lips were actually touching.
No one has ever made him feel so turned on...Not even Ryoko, though she had come close.
Sean didn't no what else to do but.....

[LUV]

She closed her eyes, she could feel his lips on her, she wanted this so much. Too bad, it looked like she wouldn't get that at this moment. Out of nowhere, she heard as the door open. She quickly pulled away and got a bit further away from him. It was Seraf, he was back with the food. She felt the butterfly's in her tummy go away. That was a close one. True, Seraf wasn't anything serious, but she didn't want to hurt him either. She gave Sean a small smile and walked over to Seraf. She grabbed some of the gags of food and proceeded to the table.

“Sean, how about we go after breakfast?” She asked him. She couldn't even look him in the eyes. She still felt her lips tickling. How was he able to draw her in like that?

[Vizard_King]

Sean let out a sigh as he heard the door open.
Damn.
Sean stood up and helped Seraf with the bags. Smileing as if nothing happend.
He was a good actor.
"Sure" He answered Luv's question.
He noticed she would't look him in the eyes.
Sean sighed again.
After a few minutes of saying nothing he asked, "So what are we having?"
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[Shdo]

Shadow walked through the devastated streets, those were the ones that saw the greatest damage from the hollow attack. A cry was heard from around the corner, he went there.
A little girl was crying her heart off in front of the rubble which most likely was her house. It was nothing new for Shadow who saw the horrors of war, her turned away. "Mister Ghost can you help me find my mother," a small and tearful voice asked from behind.

"You can see me?" shadow asked the little girl and approached her.

"I can see something… will you help me mister ghost?" the little girl asked again.

"is there really a point in searching she is most likely dea…" the little girl started to sob and Shadow words got stuck in his throat, "wait...I…stop crying!" he tried to scream at her but she kept crying. He started to walk away but her cries didn’t stopped. Hollows screams were heard from the distance; Shadow turned back to the girl and grabbed her.

"Mister Ghost! That too rough!" the little girl screamed.

"Such words…how old are you?" he was very annoyed from that last sentence, its just sound bad, he started to Shunpo away.

"I am 8 next month! We are flying!" she screamed with joy and lifted her arms.

"Actually I am using Shunpo, which is a method of con…" she didn’t cared.

"We are flying!!!" Shadow didn’t have a choice; he stopped Shunpo and started to walk, before she will start to drive him mad.

"So how does your mother look like?" he asked, the faster he will find her the faster he can stop babysitting.

"she is pretty and blond like me and she wear a green sweater and jeans," shadow had seen her body a while ago, it seems that he will need to babysit a little longer.

"Do you like games?" she nodded yes, "I'll take you to a nice place I found, do you like dance dance revolution?" she nodded again…he wondered if she will overwrite his record, that made him uneasy. "What is your name little girl?"

"Maria! And what is your name mister ghost?"

"Shadow, but my true name is Akira se…" she interrupted him.

"I prefer mister ghost."

She passed his record. A dark cloud of despair settled over Shadow.

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[Grey1x]

As in the ground, Grey closed his eyes and focused in order to catch some reiatsu, be it of an Hollow or Raiy's, as he would love to start his training today. His focus were interrupted as he started to remember the conversation he had with Shadow. No longer with his mind dizzy, he started to collect the pieces to form a puzzle. "Shinigamis... killed the quincies." he thought, "that justifies why that Quincy guy attacked me... and stopped when he noticed I wasn't from Soul something. Has Raiy participated in such a massacre? Most likely he did, he is a Shinigami, after all." Those thoughts made his anger against him grow even more, but he had to hold is cool if he wanted to get stronger.

He restarted trying to sense reiatsus, and he sensed one at the rooftop, it seemed it was Raiy's, althought he wasn't sure, he decided to check. Grey was proud of himself, he had been able to slash an enemy that seemed much more experienced than him, and as time passed he was distinguishing reiatsus easier, as in the start everyone seemed to have the same reiatsu.

He jumped to the rooftop, but he stopped at mid air "Oh crap" he said, as he stumbled on a balcony. He got up, patting his head, as he saw a little boy staring at him. "Eh, wait, it was a mistake, sorry", but then he remembered he couldn't see him... but, he was staring at him. The kid run inside the house shouting "MOMMY MOMMY!" being answered by a female voice saying "What is it son?". They got to the balcony where the kid pointed at Grey. "There mommy, a cokroach, I'm afraid". Grey let out a sigh. "Phew". He slowly walked to the end of the balcony and hit the cokroach making it fall, not with his hands as he hated them too, but with the hilt of it's sword. Hopefully the humans would just think it fell.

He jumped from the balcony and sucessfully did it to the rooftop, where he saw Raiy, holding his sword and with his eyes closed. "Maybe he is talking with his zanpaktou spirit, like Shadow told me about".

[Revan1990]

“So you want to talk again?“ The red-haired girl asked, “Well I have nothing else to do, right?” Raiy replied and folded his arms.
“Nothing else to do or no one else to talk to?” she asked and made a few steps towards him, Raiy thought about what he should answer, after a while he sighed, “Both, I think…”.
“That is a little pathetic, don’t you think, Raiy? “The girl asked again, Raiy sighed again: “I guess so…” he turned his view to the black sky, it was still so dark here, but at least the moon was shining more brightly. “And what was that ‘I already thought about killing my self’? Don’t tell me you are becoming depressive.” She said giving him a reproachful look. The young Shinigami started to laugh, “Depressive? Me? Never, I thought you knew me, Sarah…”
“I hope so, Raiy…by the way, you should be more careful when leading with someone like this woman.” She was obviously referring to Luv, Raiy knew what he did was very hazardously, but after all it was the best way to get some information. “Well Sarah-“he wanted to justify his actions, but why should he? “Why should I be careful? Look at you! You should be more careful with your motivations, like ‘we can beat this thing, now get up and fight’ that wasn’t your best idea!” he yelled at her. “Oh, if you had done, what I told you, it would have ended differently!” she yelled back, “No, it would not, besides your plan was utterly stupid!” he replied furiously. “At least I had a plan, Raiy!” she made another few steps in his direction. “You call that a plan! I got almost killed!” Raiy somehow knew that this conversation would end like thins, but there was no way she would win this time. “You got a visitor.” Sarah stopped shouting and looked at the sky, “What oh-“The young Shinigami didn’t notice, but know he could feel Grey’s reiatsu. He turned to Sarah again, but, again, she punched him in the face.
Raiy opened his eyes and looked at the roof he was sitting on and then on the blade of his sword, “Sarah! Why can’t you be like a normal Zanpaktou!” he shouted.

[Grey1x]

"At least you have one" replied Grey to Raiy's whining shout. "I'd like to start our training today, if you don't mind". He tried to act as friendly as possible, even that he was not even close to be Raiy's friend. "By the way, I have something to tell you, but first answer the first question."

[Revan1990]

Raiy tunred around, "You have one yourself, you just don't know him or her jet." he replied, "As for the training..." Raiy wanted to search for this Ren guy, Shadow told him about, it would be the only way to really know what was going on. "Oh well...ok we can start today, if you like. So what do you want to tell me?" Raiy was surprised, Grey wasn't injured, he thought Grey would get half killed by one of the Hollows.

[Grey1x]

"Shadow..." Grey said in a low voice, directly looking at Raiy. He could see the surprise shown on the other Shinigami eyes. However, Grey wouldn't tell him everything, not everything Shadow told him about, not yet, at least. "We've met... I don't know why you feel suspicious about him, he seemed to be a good guy. It was him that told me about zanpaktou's spirits, and probably the one who healed me." He stopped directly looking to Raiy, turning his view to the left. He couldn't predict at all what his reaction would be.

[Revan1990]

Great... this was exactly what Raiy didn't want to happen, "Of course he is nice to you, he is nice to me as well, but I thought I told you enough about him, his story, his behaviour, everything there are to many inconsistencies..." The young Shinigami put his Sword back into the scabbard on his back, "Don't trust him just because his nice or helped you a little...however what did you tell him and more important what did he tell you? I need to know this, Grey."
Raiy folded his arms, maybe Shadow had told him something important...no, why should he? Shadow wasn't that stupid...

[Grey1x]

"If he's such an intelligent bastard like you told me, why would he spoil me his plans?" he told. This was true. He didn't spoke about the Quincies, it wasn't important, at least not for the moment. And if they started to talk about it Grey would probably get angry at Raiy and it would most likely end with the two fighting. "He tells me not to trust Shadow... but why should I trust him?" Grey said in his mind.

"That's all, shall we start?" Grey started to think he shouldn't have mentioned Shadow, it just made them lose time. But he knew it was necessary to do so. He took out his zanpaktou out of the left side of his waist.

[Revan1990]

"I see, it is useless to talk to you right now...maybe I can't trust you at all, but we will talk later about this, for now I promised to train you and I keep my promises..." Raiy was a little disappointed, he thought Grey would tell more...and he didn't even mention the fight he had, Raiy didn't knew what or who he fought, probably just a Hollow, but he could feel his reiatsu when Raiy was fighting this giant Hollow.
"First of all put your sword back into the scabbard, we will start with something else."

[Grey1x]

Grey really didn't expect that answer from Raiy. Indeed he couldn't trust him, but Grey didn't want him to think like that. Anyway, that was careless for now. He did as Raiy told him and put is sword back into the scabbard. "So what will we start off with? I know I'm not in the position to ask something but, I'd like to start with that "lazer beams from hands" thingy".

[Revan1990]

Laser beams? Raiy frowned at him, "What laser be- no..." he shook his head, "I hope you remember something from what I told you about Shinigami, you will need it." The young Shinigami looked around, very good, lots of roofs and enough space to train. "Ok we will start with something easy, you know Reiatsu, I explained that last time, is the energy you need to fight, so you have some of mine right now, which should make it easier for you to use it." Raiy explained and put out his hand, "Try to focus your Reiatsu , this is the basis for everything." and suddenly a big ball of reddish energy appeared. "Don't worry about the colour; this varies from Shinigami to Shinigami"

[Grey1x]

"Hmph, despite everything, he seems to be a good teacher" Grey thought. He focused his reiatsu right in front of his head, where a pitch black ball appeared. Grey stared surprised at the ball, black was the color of darkness. "Well, he told me not to care about the color". The surprise and such thoughts made him lose all the concentration, making the ball explode right in his face. It didn't hurt him much, but he got all his face burned.

He didn't even looked at Raiy and tried again, this time farther than his head, and he sucessfully did it. He concentrated only on it as it started to grow bigger, and Grey started to sweat. "What now?" He asked, making the ball explode again, but that's what he wanted, he wouldn't hold it anymore until he heard the next step as it was exhausting him.

[Revan1990]

“Black, huh? Looks interesting…” Raiy said as he saw Grey’s energy ball, he was quiet surprised that this kid could learn that fast. “So then we can move to the next step, since you can focus your reiatsu, you should be able to focus it in your feet, making you move faster.” The young Shinigami disappeared, using Shunpo, and appeared a few meters behind Grey, “This is called Shunpo or Flash step, moving faster then the eyes can follow, one of the basic techniques…”
Raiy hoped he would learn this as fast as he learned to focus his reiatsu, but again, this should be quiet easy. “As for your ‘Laser Beams’ I assume you mean Kido and you will learn that later…”

[Grey1x]

"The names they are called are, in a certain way, cool." he said. He then proceed to try do this Shunpo, he focused his reiatsu on his feet, which wasn't a hard task and tried to use it. He got very happy with himself noticing that he suddenly was in another place... but then he turned to see Raiy and noticed he had moved no more than a couple of meters. He tried to do it again, but crashed against Raiy. Embarassed, he tried to get out of there the fastest he could, and to his surprise, he got out of there really fast, with shunpo. He did it correctly this time. "So, can we proceed to the kido?" he said. He then thought he shouldn't have said that, Raiy would probably think he was being arrogant or overconfident.

[Revan1990]

“No, Kido is the last thing, first you have to learn to use your Zanpaktou…” Raiy took out his Zanpaktou and so did Grey. “Let’s see how good you can fight…oh and don’t hold back.”
So the two Shinigami started to fight, Grey was stronger then Raiy thought, but still not able to beat him, nevertheless he scratched him a few times and his hits where still a little slow, but precise.
After a while of fighting Raiy stopped, this kid was good enough now, “Ok this shall be enough with simple fighting training, you are already pretty good…but shall we get serious now?” he asked and before the other Shinigami could answer he used shunpo to get close to him and attacked, Grey was quick and block Raiy’s Zanpaktou with his own. “Sorry, kid, not enough.” The young Shinigami used shunpo again and this time appeared behind him, since Raiy relied mostly on his speed, he was very fast, to fast for Grey this time. “You are still to slow.” Raiy said and put the blade of his sword on Grey’s throat, “When I say serious I mean serious, kid” he said with a cold voice, “Looks like it has to end here, I’ll give you 3 seconds, oh and don’t think I’m not able to kill and innocent kid, it wouldn’t be the first time.” Of course he had never killed an innocent kid, but he hoped it would be enough to scare him. He grabbed Grey’s shoulder, so he couldn’t run, the blade remaining on his throat, “3…2…1”

[Grey1x]

Raiy really wasn't aware of what he had just said. It shocked Grey, and it made it so Grey started to trust Shadow more than his mentor. Maybe the Shinigamis aren't, indeed, the good guys. "You don't have the guts" Grey said, hoping to surprise the other Shinigami making it so he would apply less force on his shoulder, using his new achieved techniques, he shunpoed back, but just a bit. He just wanted to no longer have a sword on his throat. Bloodlust took over him, he surely didn't wanted to kill Raiy, he needed him for the time being, but the speech about innocent kids, along with the quincy thing, made him go insane and really focusing on the fight. Raiy wouldn't notice it, though, as he said him not to hold back.

As a response to his bloodlust, he quickly swung his sword down, just holding it with the right hand, while he attempted to punch Raiy in the face with his left hand at the same time.

[Revan1990]

Raiy was surprised by Greys fast reaction and couldn’t dodge his punch, so that he was directly hit, but at least used shunpo to dodge the sword. “To bad…looks like that didn’t work…” Raiy said, referring to his own trick, he thought Grey would unlock his own, true power when confronted with his own death, but maybe that does not work…Grey seemed more furious then afraid.
Once again Raiy used Shunpo, appeared in front of his opponent and raised his sword, Grey would obviously try to block it, so the young Shinigami used Shunpo again, but this time appearing on Grey’s left side. “Binding Arts, Number 9, Strike.” Right after finishing the phrase, Grey was engulfed in red light, of course he didn't use the Spell at full strength, nevertheless it should paralyze him for some seconds. Once again Raiy put the blade of his Zanpaktou on Grey’s throat and started to smile, “Not the guts? How little you know…”

[Grey1x]

Grey struggled to free himself from the red light engulfing him, but he couldn't. Seeing there was no way around, he calmed himself down and tried to hold his bloodlust. "How lame, we were having Zanpaktou training, and you use kidou?" He said. He said "zanpaktou" in a provocating way, like if trying to make fun of Raiy.

[Revan1990]

"You fool! Do you really expect your opponent to be fair?" Raiy shook his head, "In a real fight there are basically no rules, there is nothing like pride or honour, the only thing that matters is who lives and dies in the end..." he sighed, "But why am I telling you that? You are dead anyway." The young Shinigami raised his sword to deliver the finishing blow, he didn't want to kill Grey, but he knew this was the only option he had...become stronger or die...

[Grey1x]

"He got a point" Grey thought, as Raiy mentioned the fair thing. Raiy was a good teacher, nevertheless, he noticed that he raised his sword high in the hair, like a good teacher would do, forcing Grey to show everything he had. Grey let out a low smile, he was enjoying that fight, as he was enjoying his training. Focusing, he applied reiatsu over all of his body, breaking the light engulfing him. He moved his sword as fast as he could and blocked Raiy's, but it was really close. "I have to disagree there, sadly, you are correct, nowadays people doesn't care about being fair or no, but for me, what matters is not who lives or dies in the end, but who wins, with pride, honor, and fairly". With those words, Grey pushed his sword to the front, pushing Raiy's aswell. When it had a good distance from his face, he jumped back. "Hmph, I'm enjoying this" he said.

[Revan1990]

This time Raiy was not surprised, he knew…or at least hoped Grey would be able to break his spell. Grey’s attitude towards fighting was interesting; he would make a good member of the 11th Squad. “Pride, Honour…they are so useless…the only thing they do is constrain you, but you are still young, you’ll learn about that soon enough.” The young Shinigami replied.
However Raiy was somehow wondering that Grey enjoyed fighting, after everything that happened he enjoyed this, ”I hate fighting…it’s so primitive…” with this words Raiy attacked again, appearing behind Grey and trying to cut through his back this time.

[Grey1x]

Grey turned pretty fast, he may be the new to the Shinigami job, but he wasn't new on fighting and his reaction time was great. He blocked it without much effort, probably the easiest one to block in this fight. He was conscient that Raiy was holding back though. Everything was going great, the fight aswell as the talk. "I can't say I dislike fighting, but I avoid doing it, only when really necessary." He sighed. "I hate to hurt the others, and proceed to fighting when it can be solved in another way is, indeed, primitive. But even you know that there are things that can only be solved by violence, otherwise, you'd not become a Shinigami.

[Revan1990]

Grey was good indeed, he blocked Raiy's hit without difficulties, but there was an opening, the young Shinigami wanted to cut his shoulder, but stopped, Grey's last words...this memories...again


"I think, I'll join the Shinigami Academy...we could do lots of good things as Shinigami, Raiy"
"Oh please, just because this Kyouraku guy said that we have great potential?"
"No, it has nothing to do with this...but we could do so many things...it was you who said that Soul Society has to be changed, so much poverty, so much pain."
"Yes I know...but still-"
"No buts, I will go to the Academy no matter what you say! The only question is: will you go with me, Raiy?"
"Well, I guess so...you know I would follow you everywhere."
"Everywhere? Even into Huerco Mundo?"
"Even into death...and to the gates of hell, if necessary..."
"Oh c’mon, don't talk like that...so…we will become Shinigami."
"You are to optimistic, Shelly..."


Raiy shook his head, this damn memories where very annoying from time to time, he jumped a few meters backwards. "Damn it..."

[Grey1x]

Grey noticed as his opponent stopped when almost slashing his shoulder. He had an opening to strike, but he didn't. He noticed that Raiy was having memories of something, he wouldn't defeat him in such a untrustworthy way. He could see an annoyed look at Raiy's face, and to take it out he is, for the first time in that match, the one to strike, using shunpo to get right to his front, swinging his sword with both hands attempting to hit his right side of the body. As expected, Raiy blocked it easily, but the instant moment metal had struck, Grey shunpoed to Raiy's back and swung his sword again, but Raiy was faster once more and blocked it. "What do you have to say about what I just said, Shinigami?"

[Revan1990]

Raiy used shunpo to get away again, “Everything should be solved with words…I had other reasons to become a Shinigami…” he replied, he couldn't believe this memories where still so…so clear. The young Shinigami closed his eyes, he needed to clear his mind, but he couldn’t…they were coming back, his worst memories, the forest, the Hollow…
He didn’t even notice that Grey was preparing another attack, Raiy didn’t know why this was so strong, he knew he could never forget that day, but why…why do these memories come back in such moments? Grey was ready attack, but Raiy had his eyes still closed, as he heared a voice inside of him: “Concentrate, you moron!”
The young Shinigami opened his eyes, she was right, this was not the time for old memories, “Sorry, Sarah” he said looking at his sword. Then he turned his attention to Grey again.

[Luhy]

Reich rolled over on his cot, stretching and dragging his head across his pillow, trying to get the energy to pull himself out of bed. The sounds of dogs barking had woke him up at an hour he wasn't used to. It was around noon, and he planned to sleep until night had fallen, to help ease the anticipation... But maybe this was a blessing in disguise.

He put some clothes on and looked over at a picture frame he had turned around on his nightstand... Reich turned it back and sat down on the bed, resting his elbows on his knees. It was a black-and-white of him and Aria at their wedding with his wedding band embedded behind the glass of the frame.

After spending some time remembering that day, it made him even more nervous. She must have re-married during all of this apart. She was perfect to him in every way, so imagining her un-married was like imagining a Quincy using a Zanpakutou...

Reich slammed his door and locked it, making his way to his motorcycle as he took off. This was a pain to him. Traffic was much worse in the daytime and he had to ride slower than he had liked to avoid causing an accident. Parking his bike near a tree, not far from the gate, he started to wonder if he was making a mistake, but he had to check. He made his way over the gate and to a window in the back of the house as he peered inside.

Aria was in there. It looked like she was taking a cake out of the refridgerator. He was able to catch a big smile from the side of her face, which made him smile too... But then he noticed another figure. She was chatting with a man, probably in his early 30's. He snuck around to the side window to get a better view as he notices streamers and balloons in the backyard... "It's a birthday party", he whispers to himself, wondering if the children were hers... Wondering if she had married this man.

[couch_kamote]

“The guests have arrived early” Aria said, talking to the man who was with her. The man just smiled while he was busy helping her with preparing the food. He had taken a day-off work so he could be with his children during their birthday. “Dad!” a little boy shouted as he entered the kitchen. He ran to the man and embraced him. “This is the best birthday ever!” he said with a lot of enthusiasm. “Happy Birthday!” the man said giving his son a pat on the shoulder. “I’m glad you liked it.” says Aria, who gave him a smile. The boy launched at her and gave her a hug, screaming “Thank you!”

Reich was a witness on how happy Aria’s life is with her new environment. This people made her life better, made her secure, but most importantly they made her life happy. Seeing this, he have had second thoughts, maybe it was better if he didn’t see her. Maybe she wasn’t ready yet to face her past. Maybe she deserves this kind of life. This thoughts echoed inside Reich’s head the whole afternoon.

It was late in the afternoon, Reich had been staying at the exact place he was for almost 4 hours. He didn’t realize it took him that long. Just then, the guests started to leave one by one until the only ones left were Aria and her new “family”. She was there in the living room picking up left overs, a little while after she went out and took out the trash.

[Luhy]

His thoughts tormented him all afternoon. Reich could see she was happy here... Who was he to walk in and disturb this new life she had made for herself? In his mind, he knew she was married and that the little boy was the product of her new marriage.

If only he had protected her better or made sure she was safe, none of this would have happened... It might have been their child and their home, but it didn't matter now. Now he was just a re-visited memory of a love long ago to her, and her new family could give her a lot more than he could.

When the party died down, he started to contemplate ways to commit suicide, fighting tears and never letting a single one escape. He had given up hope, and as quicky as everything had turned around for the better, it had all vanished once again...

Aria was alone now. The children and their father were upstairs, so Reich was wondering if he should approach her, not wanting to break his promise to see her the next day. He grasped on the corner of the house, watching her as he leaned against it. A ladybug caught his attention on the wall, inches from his fingers. He began to approach her, hearing nothing but the defeaning sound of blades of grass fold under his boots.

[couch_kamote]

Aria sensed that someone was approaching her. She turned her head to face this person, seeing who this person was made her smile. “Hello, there.” she said. “I thought we were supposed to meet later tonight?” Reich did not answer.

“How long have you been waiting here? I’m just taking out the trash, would you like to come…wait are you sad?”

“No.” was the only reply she got.

Aria heard his reply but refused to believe in it. “I know you’re not ok. Is there something bothering you?”

Reich again did not answer instead he just stared at her. When Aria lifted her head to look at him, he moved his eye to refrain from meeting with hers. Aria upon seeing this, move in closer to him and touched his hand. She held it tight, giving a sign of comfort for him.
“You know, you can tell me whatever it is that’s troubling you. Didn’t you say that I used to be your wife.”

[Luhy]

He felt his heart throb as she took his hand. He thought he would be strong enough to let her go. He even thought about leaving her right then and there so maybe she could hate him and forget all about him.

Reich took her other hand, and while looking down at it, began to stroke the back of her hand with his thumb. "Can you tell me about your new life Aria?" He felt his heart sink again, always doubting himself rather than living in the moment. "Is your new husband the father of those children?..."

He looked up into her eyes, wanting to see them when she spoke. In his mind, that man was her husband and those children belonged to the two of them. He noticed a wave of confusion over her face, and he felt he already might have his answer. As soon as her lips moved it was all he could do, not to kiss them. He lifted her hand and kissed it instead, as she began to speak.

[rvngu]

Sunlight was flooding the bedroom as Ren opened his eyes. He wanted to sleep a bit more and rolled on his back…but ended up on the floor. “What the…” mumbled Ren half-asleep. “Did I sleep on this couch?” He scratched his head for a couple of seconds looking at the bed behind him. The sheets on the bed were messy. “So I did sleep in the bed, I don’t remember switching to the sofa.” Ren’s elbow was bleeding. The carpet in the bedroom was too rough. “Better put a band-aid on that.” He walked towards the bathroom. As he opened the door, a stream of black smoke was shot at his face. He heard a female voice too.

[Shdo]

"Get OUT!" the hollow known as smoker yelled at the buffled shinigami, "I need my bath time you prevert!" even though there was nothing to see, only smoke and a mask, but the instinct was still there.

after couple of minutes she peeped her head from the door, "why wont you make something to eat?" he still looked buffled, "do you preffer ill eat you? again?" he noticed that the marks on his elbow were teeth marks.

[rvngu]

Ren was completely confused. Smoker? The hollow from the previous night was now…in his bathroom. Was it really her? He remembered clearly that Smoker had purple smoke, not black. When she peeped her head at the door, he recognized her mask…and teeths. Now she wanted him to make breakfast? “Smoker, is that you? What the hell are you doing here? What do you mean eating me …” Ren stopped as he looked at his elbow. His bleeding wasn’t from his fall of the couch. It clearly was a cut…and it looked like there were similar marks on his body. Ren reasoned he better listened to her unless she tries to eat him again. “huh nevermind, huh, what do you want to eat?”

[Shdo]

in a instance Smoker color changed into light blue, "eggs, meat, cheese, i dont care...as long as it in big amounts, its straining to be here."

after a couple of minutes she got out of the bathroom she looked diffrent, the mask was shiny and the smoke who came out of her was very light, like incent, with light bluish color. she looked happy.

she stared at Ren, like she was waiting for something.

[rvngu]

As Smoker listed her breakfast preferences, he noticed the smoke changing from black to bleu. Ren went downstairs and started to cook some eggs, mixing it with ham and cheese. He had so many questions for the hollow. After a couple of minutes, he ran back upstairs to check on Smoker. He was about to knock on the bathroom door when she appeared in front of him. She looked different, her mask was more polish and it looked like she was smiling. The color of the smoke changed again to light blue. “Hum, breakfast is almost ready, if you want to come down.”
Ren started walking across the bedroom with Smoker’s mask hovering at the level of his head. “So euh, Miss Smoker, what are you doing in my house if you don’t mind me asking?”

[Shdo]

Smoker was pleased, he called her Miss, she loved respect, her smoke color changed to even more light blue, representing how nice she felt.

"oh, i needed a place i could consider safe for spending the night and, since you are not a threat with your power level, i decided to follow you."
she 'sat at the table and just stared at the food, then she opened her mouth and after a few seconds the food started to turn into small energy particles that got sucked into her mouth, she finished the whole meal in under then 30 seconds.

"that was very pleasing, Ren, for now there wont be any excessive 'hollow behavior' there will be some time till ill need to eat again."

"so are you the guardian shinigami of this city?"

[rvngu]

Ren noticed the color changing again to an even lighter blue. As they walked down the stairs, Ren grinned when she said his power levels were low. He knew he wasn’t a fighter, but to me reminded of his weakness by a hollow somehow crushed his ego. They arrived at the kitchen just as the bread was cooked. “Please have a…a seat.” Ren said instinctively as he pulled a chair. The blue-light smoke took over the chair. The mask hovered above the food for a couple of seconds before being converted to some type of energy and completely disappeared in less than a minute. Ren was stunned.

“Euh, no I’m not the guardian of this city, are you kidding? Like you said, I’m no fighter and pretty weak. Actually, I haven’t been in shinigami form for 20 years before yesterday. Strange things are happening around here. There are way too many shinigami and hollows reiatsu.” Ren wanted to ask her if she knew anything about that, but was more curious about her than about the situation.
“You know, I thought that hollows only feed on souls. You, on the other hand, seem to protect them…and you eat real food? I have to say, I’m really confused.”

[Shdo]

"you shinigamis are so weird, you fight hollows for over 2000 years and you don't know anything about us? that is why you are losing," it was mostly true, fodder hollows are sent to the real world making it seems like the hollows are mindless creatures while the truly strong ones are waiting...for Aizen.


"hollows don't need to eat, we eat for 2 reasons: 1 is that back in our world the amount of reitsu is so much higher then the real world that being here drive us mad, its like you would find yourself underwater. you would do anything for air. this is the same," she sighed, "only its with reitsu which fill the void of the hollow soul. 2 is that the act of feeding is simply a instinct, chewing something just make you feel good."


Smoker really enjoyed being the center of attention, made her fill something empty in her soul, she was still a hollow. "as for saving those kids, as i said hollows are driven by instinct and instinct is beyond just attacking everything that moves, its also to protect something important and to me children are important...i died for children's after all."

[rvngu]

”Interesting”, Ren thought. So hollows are more than just mindless creatures. He started to wonder if the average shinigami knew all that information on hollows. At the sight of hollows, most shinigami would just slaughter them like they were insects. Their life in Hueco Mundo, the pain they go through, nobody was ever curious about hollows. “Instinct, you say. Protecting is your instinct? What were in your previous life, if it’s not too personal to ask?”

[Shdo]

Smoker was VERY pleased with this conversation, "oh, feel free to ask me about things, i like to talk about myself," she released a little laugh, "i was a fire-fighter, i guess its related to my current look and name,"


"so, Ren," she started to hover around the room, looking at the various items he had, "you said that you were not in a shinigami form for over 20 years...so you are not with soul society? what did you do in those 20 years?" it was clear that to her this was a rare opportunity as well.

[rvngu]

A woman firefighter? Well, there’s something you don’t hear about too often, Ren thought. He understood the reason why she protected those kids and fought against him. She must have thought Ren as the shinigami was her enemy and attack on instinct, just like shinigami thinks hollows are their enemy and attack them also on instinct. Her laugh was cute and sweet, she must have been quite a cute girl as a human. Smoker “got up” from the chair and hovered around the living room. Ren followed her.

Smoker saw a picture of Ren and Luv at their wedding as she asked what he did during the last 20 years. “I’m no longer with Soul Society. I followed her to the real world 20 years ago”, Ren said pointing at Luv the picture. “We got married, we both got high-paying job, as you can see…actually, do you want to see the rest of the house?” Contrary to her, Ren didn’t like to talk about himself. “Oh yeah, I noticed something else about you. When I first met yesterday, you were purple. This morning, you were black, then blue, now you’re light blue. How does that work? ask Ren with a smile.

[Shdo]

"you...can see diffrent colors?" the color started to change into pink and became much thicker. the smoke covered the mask so it wasnt visable, "this is so embarresing...and infront of the shinigami..." she thought to herself.

[rvngu]

Her color changed again from light blue to pink. Her mask disappeared under a cloud of pink smoke. It was as if she was embarrassed. “Oh I get it. The smoke color changes depending on how you feel. Let me guess: purple is fighting obviously, black is…feeling threatened, pink is embarrassing, blue is…well you’ve been blue the whole morning, so I guess you feel good or comfortable? Am I right?” Ren was looking through every angle possible in the hope to see her mask. “huh smoker, you in there?”

[Shdo]

"stop staring at me like this!" the color started to change into deep red and a black stream of smoke flew at Ren face covering it with smoke.
she returned to her chair and the mask was visable again, she 'sat' with her 'back to him.


"i am not a speciman, you know."

[rvngu]

A stream of red smoke was shot at Ren’s face. Ren coughed as Smoker turned her mask away from him. “Okay, so red is angry.” A specimen? Was he instinctively trying to study her for his own research? No, that’s preposterous he hasn’t done any soul-related research in 20 years. Ren sighed. For a hollow, smoker retained a lot of a typical woman’s personality. And he hasn’t been around many women. Actually, Luv was the only one. “Look, I’m sorry, I didn’t…” Ren tried to see her mask, but everytime he tried to be in front her her, she would turn away. “I am a bit awkward around woman, I certainly didn’t mean to make you angry.”

[Shdo]

"i guess i can forgive you..." the color changed to purple, "if you will do something for me, it might actually be good for you," she turned for him and got very close to him.


"we are looking for a person, a shinigami, the hollows attacks will continue till we find him." she wispered to his ear, "i shouldnt do that but...if you find that person know we are looking for him, if you will find him that info might save your life because its more important then feeding on a shinigami."

[rvngu]

Smoker turned to purple. Ren was scared, was she going to attack him? She got near his ear. The hollows were looking for someone? It probably had something to do with all these incidents in the past two days. This seems very strange, hollows looking for a person. What was he? Ren turned to the mask and calmly thank her for the information and frantically got up. “Well I don’t know what you have plan for today, but I have to go to work. You want me to accompagny you back to the hospital?”

[Shdo]

"no, in the aspect of power level i am the second most powerful creature in the city right now," the color changed back to light blue, "ill be around,"
she hovered to the window and opened it with her mouth, "if you meet any of those guys, shadow or suffrage, run."

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[Grey1x]

Grey didn't attack the first time Raiy was distracted, he found it lame to do so, but he wouldn't do the same a second time, if he was distracted, it was his fault. He started to run towards him, he didn't shunpo, he was exhausted by doing it so repeteadly. His opponent blocked it without dificulties, but Grey pulled his sword back and swung again, and again, making metal clash several times. After a while, Raiy gets the upper hand, Grey's sword was almost hitting his own face. He didn't got nervous, though. "That's something we do agree, everything should be solved by worlds, but it's known that nowadays there are many retards out there, and there is no other way for them to learn". Grey sighed an shunpoed back, starting to sweat even harder, it was exhausting him too much. It's not like his reiatsu was being too consumed, but his physical resistance was. He then held his sword high in the hair and concentrated on it, engulfing it with reiatsu. He was ready for the final blow

[Revan1990]

Raiy noticed that Grey was exhausted, that was good, if he was physically exhausted he would use more of his reiatsu and when he had no more of Raiy’s reiatsu left, he had to use his own…at least that was his plan.
Grey was now raising his Sword, this hit would be stronger then the others, Raiy was not able to dodge, so he blocked it, but it was to powerful, the young Shinigami was thrown back a few meters and hit the floor, it did hurt, “There is always another way.” He said while still lying in the roof, pointed with his finger on Grey’s shoulder, after that strike he had many openings, but Raiy didn’t want to hurt him to much, “Destructive Art, Number 4, White Lightning.” And as expected a white bolt of lightning flew towards Grey’s shoulder, even with only 50% of his original power, Raiy's Kido attacks were still strong.

[Grey1x]

Blood comes out of Grey's shoulder as that white lightning hit it. He screamed in pain, he was used to the feeling of pain, but not such blows. "Scream won't help" he said to himself. He puts his hand on the shoulder to stop blood from escaping, as he calmly says. "If there is always another way, why you became a Shinigami? You can solve things by talking without a sword and lazer beams" He used the fact that his opponent was still lying on the floor to shunpo once more, but he is caught in surprise as in front of Raiy he couldn't pull his sword down, he was too exhausted. He lost the focus of his reiatsu and stumbled with his knees. He looked at his opponent, hopelessly.

[Revan1990]

Raiy stood up and picked up his Sword, which was still lying next to him, this fight was over, Grey was too exhausted, of course Raiy was exhausted as well, but he could continue fighting, after all he didn't even release his Zanpaktou. "Why did I become a Shinigami? Well you can call it a promise...and I regret it, I...we...should never have taken that path. However, this fight is over, you lost, now c'mon, we will begin with step 3." He said and put his Sword back into the scabbard on his back.
"By the way, you didn't really believe I killed innocent children, did you? oh and one more thing: how often do I have to repeat myself, this laser beams are called Kido." The young Shinigami explained and gave Grey a clout, "Learn that!"

[Grey1x]

Grey slowly got up with a slight smile on his face. "This guy is coo... What the, what am I thinkin'? What am I doing? He slaughtered the quincies... Well, now he had told he didn't slaughter the children, though". He wondered about the promise thing, he wanted to ask him, but that was another issue for another time. Despite all odds, Grey was happy with such a train, Raiy was a great teacher. "I see, about the children, I said that you didn't had the guts so, yeah, I didn't believe on it" Grey's smile widen. "Alright, let's learn lazer beams, rawr!" Grey said, expecting to get another clout.


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[Revan1990]

"It has nothing to do with having the guts, I mean I could kill them if I wanted to, but why should I?...As if I would ever kill innocent people...unlike many other Shinigami I still have my morals" Raiy said and gave Grey another clout, "and yes that's for the Laser Beams, it is called Kido and one of the basic fighting techniques of a Shinigami...but Kido takes a long time to learn, the only thing I can teach you is the basis and maybe one or two weaker spells, so don't be disappointed."
Raiy didn't knew why, but he started to like this kid, even tough it seemed that Grey didn't trust him jet, of course not he barely knew Raiy, but he hoped that this would change in the future.

[couch_kamote]

“Him? My husband?” Aria said with a hint of confusion. “I think you got it all wrong, they were the ones who adopted me when I lost my memory. They gave me shelter, food, and everything that I needed, in exchange I help them in their chores and act as a nanny to the kids. There’s nothing going on between us.” She explained.

Her words, her explanations, gave a sign of relief and hope to Reich. At least he was assured that she hasn’t married another man yet, and that her heart did not belong to another man.

“Hmm…at least not yet.” She joked. Her joke made Reich smile, something he hasn’t done for a long while. “See, you look cute when you smile” Aria said as she put her hand on his face to caress it. She asked him if he wanted to come in and meet them, but he declined saying that maybe it would be better to meet them some other time.

After standing there and talking a bit more Reich asked Aria if she could allow him to take her to some place.

“Where will we go?” Aria asked.

“Some place you need to go….”

[Luhy]

He held her hand and walked in pace with Aria. He had started remembering how he had to slow down his pace so many years ago whenever they walked arm-in-arm or hand-in-hand... The only sounds that could be heard was the grass folding under their feet and sound of each others breath. They started to small-talk on the walk to the gate about Aria's new life. She opened the gate for them and while she locked it, it was all Reich could do but watch her from behind and smile at her.

Reich unchained his bike and got in, looking back at a perplexed Aria. "You don't really remember the bike too well yet, huh?", he grinned, as he took out her helmet and handed it to her, not even having one for himself. "Hold onto me, I'll go nice and slow while you get used to it okay?"

[couch_kamote]

Aria held on to Reich tightly. She embraced him as they rode down in the busy streets.

Shortly after, they arrived in front of an apartment. “Here we are.” Reich said as he stepped on the brakes and turned off the motor. “Where are we?” Aria asked while looking up at the very high building. “This is my home. I stay here” Reich chained his bike and opened the door to let Aria enter. “You own this place?” she mused. “No, this is an apartment. I pay for one room.” Reich replied.

Reich reached for the elevator button. The elevator door opened and Reich gave a weak smile, “You first”. They went in and stared at each other as the elevator started to rise. They stayed that way for a while until Aria broke the silence. “What’s in your room?” she asked. The elevator door opened once again as they reach the floor where Reich’s room was.

“It’s something important.” Reich said as he ushered her to where his room is.

[Grey1x]

Grey was lost in thoughts and too tired so he barely heard what Raiy said. The clout he received wasn't at all a surprise, and he got amused as he heard Raiy mentioning kidou. He slowly got up and tried to surprise him. "Hmm, reiatsu concentrating is the base of everything". He thought, he then started to remember when Raiy used kidou. He looked to his front, gave a deep breath, and pointed his finger to nothing. He started to concentrate his reiatsu on it, he thought that Raiy was already surprised, he still hadn't taught him about kidou but he was trying to do it on his own. "Destructive Art, Number 4, White Light!" He shouted, but to his disappointment nothing happened. He then looked to Raiy with a stupid face. "I guess I got overconfident."

[Revan1990]

Raiy shook his head “It is not that easy, as I told you, Kido is complicated…the first thing you have to learn is always theory. Ok now listen, there are two types of Kido spells, the Destructive and the Binding spells.” He explained, Raiy was not sure how to teach him Kido, after all it takes some time to learn it and not everyone is able to use it.
“Well we will start with the binding spells, you have to channel your Reiatsu into your Hand or finger, depending on the spell, then you have to…throw it out, towards your opponent, but at the same time you have to say the 4 steps, so that it is focused into a specific effect.”
Raiy didn’t know if and how he should explain it better, so after some seconds he came to the conclusion that practise is better then theory, “Alright, so the 4 steps…First say the incarnation, it’s usually a long phrase, it can be skipped with some training, but it’s to early for you know, second step, say the category, then the number and finally it’s name. I will teach you one binding spell, the number 9, called ‘strike’ ” the Shinigami pointed his hand on Grey, “Disintegrate, Black Dog of Rondanini. Look upon yourself and burn. Tear away your own throat! Binding Arts, Number 9, Strike.”
Then Grey was again engulfed in a red light and paralyzed, but it should be much easier to break it this time.

[Grey1x]

Grey was already familiar to this spell so it wasn't hard for him to break it, and he did it easily while mumbling what Raiy had said, if he took too long to say it after his mentor had told it, he'd forget. "... Tear away your own throat! Binding Arts, Number 9, Strike!" He said, after following all the steps with controling reiatsu. To his surprise, the spell went perfectly towards Raiy, but broke slightly before it hit him. He didn't ask for an explanation, he understood what happened, he got happy and surprised with himself that he broke the concentration. Without even looking at Raiy, he did the same thing, but this time even more determinated, it was a simple mistake to correct, he surely would do it. “Disintegrate, Black Dog of Rondanini. Look upon yourself and burn. Tear away your own throat! Binding Arts, Number 9, Strike." The red light went towards Raiy, but Grey didn't sigh, cheer, or anything else, he concentrated till the end, and finally Raiy was engulfed by the red light. That was when Grey cheered. "Yes!" he said lowly to himself. He couldn't believe he was getting so strong in so few time. "Raiy, thanks a lot, but it's still not enough, I want to learn more, more!" This didn't exhaust him not nearly as much as the zanpaktou training, he could go on and don't get tired. His breathing hard was almost over.

[Revan1990]

"Calm down a little." Raiy was a little surprised he didn’t think Grey would master this so fast, but it was good, very good, the spell was still a bit weak, so Raiy broke it easily. “Very good. With a little practise this will become better…so the next step will be a little more difficult.”
The young Shinigami was thinking which spell he should teach Grey…”well since you mastered the 9th weakest spell of the binding arts so easily, I will show you the number 4 of the Destructive Arts…but without the incarnation.” Raiy explained, he knew this would be more difficult, but it was an experiment, maybe Grey would be able to skip step one at the first time.
“So it’s the same as before, Channel your reiatsu into your finger and throw it at the opponent, but with the intention to harm, and then you just have to say, what you said before, Destructive Arts, Number 4, White Lightning.”
Since Grey had already seen this spell once it would be much easier to use it.

[Vizard_King]

Sean let out a sigh as he finished his breakfast.
"Ah! That was good! Thank you." He gave them both a smile before standing up and streaching his arm and legs.
"So..." He grunted as he streached his left arm across his chest.
"Where to now?" He looked at Luv, his Blue eyes scanning hers.
"We go see your Husband, correct?"

[LUV]

"Oh.. yeah.. we need to go to his house, we have a lot to talk about." Luv answered. She hoped Seraf wouldn't ask her about Ren, after all, Seraf didn't know about Shado yet. She looked Sean in the eyes, she gave him the "don't say anything else" look.

"How about you let me get into some actual clothing, I can't go in this bath robe, even though I am tempted to," she told Sean while getting up from the table. She gave him a wink before heading to her bedroom. Today was going to be the day where she was going to see Ren after two years... she wondered what his reaction would be.

[Vizard_King]

Sean nodded at Luv's look.
He got the messege loud and clear.
He smiled. "Indeed I shall go and change aswell."
He needed something a bit more presentable than a Zoot Suit.
He turned and went into his room.

When he came out he was wearing a Buisness Suit. A White Dress Shirt under a Black coat with Black pants and a black tie. He has slicked back his blonde hair and tied the back in a small pony tail.
He needed a hair cut.

[LUV]

Luv was wearing the tightest pair of pants she owned. She wanted to look good, after all, it had been a long time since she had seen her ex-husband. She looked herselft over in the mirror, she looked damn good. She felt as a pair of arms wrapped around her waist from behind, it was Seraf. She leaned her body on him, she knew he was feeling a bit jealous of Sean.

“Seraf,” she said softly, “I want you to stay here. I am going to visit my dear ex-husband, so I need to do this by myself.” She didn't want him to feel hurt, but she must rather see Ren by herself, then with her lover there. She turned around and gave him a kiss.

He kissed back, then looked deep into her golden eyes. “If thats what you want, then I have no problem with that.” She could only smile at him.

She pushed him back playfully, until he was seating on the bed. She kissed him passionately. She loved messing with him. She felt things were getting heated, so she stoped the contact. “I have to go,” she told him, “I'll be back later and we can play,” she told him.

Now that Luv had taken care of Seraf, it was time to go. She gave him a goodbye kiss and made her way out of the room. She walked towards the living room, hopefully Sean would be ready to go.

[Shdo]

"Do you have all you need?" the tall gloomy person yelled at the little girl who ran in her wrecked house, looking for cloths and personal items.


"Wait a second, I still looking for my cute dress," the little girl peeped her head from one of the destroyed walls.


"Why do you need a cute dress? Find jeans and something warm for the night, canned food will also be a wise…" she threw a rock at his head, he dodged it "decision."


"Mr. Ghost is boring," she showed her tongue and went back inside looking for more stuff.


Without anything to do shadow entered the house and looked at the place. It was a nice place, great to raise a child; a warm house that was most likely was full with love. Used to…
His fears were confirmed when he saw the picture of the family, he did saw the mother corpse earlier, "Maria, where is your father?"


"He is gone, never seen him in my life," the voice came from the other room; it was an answer with no hesitation, a brave kid indeed. She came back with her school back bag, which was full to explosion with trivial items. "it seems my mother didn’t came here, why won't we go to the city center? Or the police station?" she started to walk outside.


"Maria, are there any other relatives you can stay at?" shadow asked with a monotone voice, she stopped at her place.


"You just want to get rid of me…you don’t want to help me because I am a burden," she said with a weak voice, keeping her back to him.


"Your mother will look for you in your relatives house, that the best place to keep you at so that when she would…" she interrupted him with a shout.


"STOP THIS GAME!" she was shaking, "I know…but why can't we pretend? Why do you want to go? Aren’t you lonely as well? I can see it in your eyes…" she turned to him and ran to him, grabbing his Hakama, "I don’t want my imaginary friend to leave me as well."


"I have things to do," he pushed her away and Shunpo away. He didn’t gave her enough credit, she was strong, she knew all along and played him so well. Innocence is such a powerful weapon. Shadow thought about how is it to be a lone child in a devastated world, he remembered his past, another piece in the puzzle.


Quincy wars.

"Through here," the young shinigami walked the young quincies through the forest, the few survivors he found after he killed his direct officer, he took them deep into the forest.

"Why do you help us?" the older Quincy child asked, an eleven year old brat in white cloths.

"If you live the Quincy race will live, it’s the least I can do to wake in the morning and have a glimpse at the mirror," Akira paused, "but I want you to take off your cloths and burn them, you must look like normal children."


"We can't do that! Our Quincy pride…" Akira grabbed the child in the neck.


"Pride is meaningless, respect and honor as well, life alone important. What you speak off is luxury you can have only when the shinigami would die, bow your head and pray for god to see another morning."


"What kind of life are those? The life of a maggot?" the kid hissed from his teeth.


"Those are the life of a mortal, you are a maggot, crawl into the ground," he threw the kid at the ground, "and burn your damn cloths."


Something has changed in akira, he became a cruel messenger of the harsh world, he became a shadow of himself.


Present.

A scream shook Shadow of his daydreaming, he turned to the direction of the scream, "this damn brat," he dashed to that direction.
The little girl was pinned down by a hollow, cowering at the corner, it was about to eat her.
The rage and bloodlust filled Shadow, he remembered a incident that happened long time ago and his instincts drove him. An explosion of green aura filled the area as Shadow anger swelled, he charged forward.

"It's you…" the hollow said before the blade sank into his mask killing him.


"Give it back to me, give me back my innocence…" shadow mumbled to himself over the dead hollow corpse. Suddenly a little hand grabbed his.


"I am staying with you." She didn’t asked, she stated a fact.