Moving on [closed/Kiriko]

Enojo

199 Posts

Moving on [closed/Kiriko] Nov 20, 2013 12:25:37 GMT -5

Post by Enojo on Nov 20, 2013 12:25:37 GMT -5

The world of the living was always quite a sight…well not particularly a sight, but it was always interesting to come and visit. There were so many people in this world and all of them had their own lives; their own battles against others be they legal, physical or mental. In some ways mortals were more powerful than hollows or shinigami. But there was always a question that plagued his mind: why? Why did he always care so much about what the humans were doing? Why was he constantly coming to the human world when he had other things back in Hueco Mundo that required his attention?

Why? Well the answer was quite simple. Coming to the world of the living reminded him of where he’d come from. The world had changed no doubt, but the mortals still had the same problems as when he was alive. He was so sure of this and yet he knew that they probably had even more problems than when Enojo’d been alive. He’d heard some of their problems before. A man on a small box that he used to talk to others shouted at a man on the other side about how he needed for the other man to get his paperwork in order by four o’ clock when the damn office had to close. Enojo, of course, had no way of knowing what kind of paperwork the man with the box was shouting about, but it sounded interesting.

How much he had missed… Enojo couldn’t remember being a hollow too well. Whenever he tried to go back to those times everything just seemed to be…well black. He couldn’t tell what exactly that meant. Never had been able to. It was almost like there was a block there or a curtain pulled over his eyes whenever he tried to go back that far.

Something disrupted his thoughts. What is that? Something far off and not far off. He suddenly felt disconnected from the world for that a moment. Something had snapped him out of it, though, but what? Out there… It was just on the fringes of his senses. It…was shinigami. But what was a shinigami doing here? Well that was perfectly obvious; shinigami protected the world from hollows but was this one hunting him?

“Hmm… Well this one is a good bit more powerful than I am… While normally it would behoove me to try and run I might as well see what exactly this one wants.” So there he would wait wondering what exactly this shinigami wanted.

Words: 420

GP: 8

Total: 8

Fulfillment

Transcendent It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

2,576 Posts

RankKiriko Chinda Reiatsu415 Defense145 Strength65 Speed40 Spirit165

Moving on [closed/Kiriko] Nov 20, 2013 12:47:57 GMT -5

Post by Fulfillment on Nov 20, 2013 12:47:57 GMT -5

Kiriko was on the hunt. She had been reviewing reports of the war in Hueco Mundo again, straining to read past the blacked out information to catch signs of... well, signs of anything really. She knew that Tsukimiya-taichou had to still be in the Hollow's land, or at least, she hoped he was. She had searched everywhere else for him and the only place she lacked informants was in Hueco Mundo. That was why she was returning to these papers again and again, trying to catch some sort of symbol from her errant Captain. Something to indicate what he might be doing, or where he was. Today she saw nothing of the sort and instead was reading for content. Some new reports had been filed with her Division lately, and she was looking them over closely.

It seemed there had been a short number of people, Shinigami, who had gone to war only to cross over to the other side in rebellion when they had seen the massive death tolls. That was an interesting footnote in history, but Kiriko didn't much care about the lack of faith in the other Divisions. What mattered was that no Second Division member had defected. It was strange then that she heard a familiar name on that list, and even witness reports of the Shinigami switching sides. Tanaka Kashe was a well known name, if not just because of his nobility. For someone like that to have disappeared, and yet nothing had been done about this? It was absurd!

Kiriko felt her blood begin to boil as she imagined that self-righteous noble run off with the Hollow-breeds as his own kind were dying. She couldn't allow this to pass unnoticed, a lot of things hadn't been followed up in the aftermath of the war and the retaliation known as the Massacre. But even Gilgamesh's ineptitude couldn't stop her from following this trail.

She just had to find someone who could infiltrate Hueco Mundo and get her the information she needed. That someone would be an Arrancar, one who was powerful but not so great as to make a ripple when he searched around. She knew where to find someone like that. The Human World.

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Kiriko brushed at the sleeve of her gigai as she raced towards the reiatsu signature she had been following for quite some time. Oddly enough the person had stopped entirely, not even running away. Perhaps they didn't know she was coming, that would make sense as Kiriko was good at cloaking her own reiatsu. At least as good as most advanced parties anyway. She didn't imagine a weak signature like this could feel her out so easily when others could not.

She came upon the man just standing there atop a roof, her own body freezing at his back, sword drawn to engage. “Halt Arrancar-san!” she cried out, even though he was not moving, as Kiriko placed her Zanpakutou's edge ever so gently against the thing's neck. Only his back was visible but the Arrancar didn't appear too worried, he wasn't even tensing up, and that was enough oddities for her that she paused to think before moving forward with her plan. That pause was unusual for Kiriko, who worked like a well oiled machine. It gave the other spirit time to react, something she might very well come to regret.

WC: 562 | GP: 11 | Total GP: 11

Enojo

199 Posts

Moving on [closed/Kiriko] Dec 8, 2013 21:05:35 GMT -5

Post by Enojo on Dec 8, 2013 21:05:35 GMT -5

As he stood there atop the building he felt something rushing at him. Shinigami, by the feel of it but not amazing…or was it? While deep in thought and contemplation he suddenly felt the cold sensation of a blade behind him. There was no feeling behind it, as the shinigami muttered out his name, revealing how strong she partially was. That was the danger of utilizing one’s power and he’d been taught this once before.

“Arrancar-san was my father,” Enojo replied in a cold joke. “But something seems to have thrown you off your game. Understandable. I wonder, though, what has surprised you? I’m here only as a visitor to this…beautiful, lively world. I’ve not harmed a human being,” he stopped thinking of Ranth. “I haven’t willfully harmed a human being since becoming an arrancar, and probably since before then. As my days have been spent in quiet meditation, bettering myself each and every day as you shinigami do. I come here because it reminds me of what I once was and what I hope to one day be able to return to. Humans have their own problems. I don’t believe that we hollows should add to their troubles.” He didn’t turn around but instead said, “Often it is that we hollows plague human kind…but can shinigami say any better of hollow kind? We are monsters, true, but we do only as nature intended us to do as do you. Often I have wondered if it is impossible for at least our two peoples to get along arrancar and shinigami. We would control our lesser brethren occasionally bringing more up when our numbers began to dwindle, while you would purify those that escape from our watchful gaze. I no doubt sounds foolish to one such as yourself, you who purify our bretheren, does it not?”

He could feel every inch of her, as well as the world around him. She was more shocked than anything else that he hadn’t moved, hadn’t even budged. “I am terrified of you,” he declared in a loud voice. “But that is what is keeping me so calm. The strength that you possess is undoubtedly too much for me and thus I know that challenging you would be folly. I was hoping, however, that we could merely have a friendly chat.” He turned to her, slowly so as not to startle her. “You came to me with a purpose. What can a humble hollow do for you?” Now she would be able to see that he was blind and that there was nothing to fear from him.

Words: 422

GP: 8

Total: 16

Fulfillment

Transcendent It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

2,576 Posts

RankKiriko Chinda Reiatsu415 Defense145 Strength65 Speed40 Spirit165

Moving on [closed/Kiriko] Dec 15, 2013 18:50:11 GMT -5

Post by Fulfillment on Dec 15, 2013 18:50:11 GMT -5

Kiriko listened to the Arrancar talk, her own internal dialogue growing more and more incredulous as he spoke of inter-race faith and even an insane plan of working together. Did he really think she believed him when he claimed not to have touched a human? What else did Arrancar do but kill? It was in his nature, in his blood, he could not survive without eating humans. Whatever this creature was trying to fool her with, it was too ludicrous to even contemplate. Why he thought this story would be swallowed easily was something she couldn't understand. Was he just an idiot then? Trying to bluff his way out when he felt her reiatsu so much higher then his own?

Whatever it was, she felt relieved despite those feelings when the man turned to face her slowly and declared himself unfit for fighting her. Was this honestly an Arrancar? A Hollow-breed? She had never come across one so cowardly. Or smart. It was tactical awareness that allowed a Shinigami to admit when their opponent was too powerful for them. But most Hollows were far too blood thirsty and one-minded to gauge their attacker. They just leapt at her blade like slavering beasts. This was an incredibly strange meeting, something that served to put her on her guard as Kiriko stepped back carefully, dodging around the metal scraps that someone had left on this roof.

It was so odd, but the only thing she could do was play along. If this creature was being so obliging... She might as well see where this conversation took the two of them. All she had to do was pretend that she agreed with him, and then? Well, who knew. He was displaying an odd ability to read her, something she did not like one bit. But perhaps she could learn why he was able to do this. Kiriko had done information trades before with Hollow-breeds, or at least, partially with that bitch before. This would be totally different, since this Arrancar was willing to talk amicably instead of first needing to be beaten into the ground.

“You are right, I have come to talk to a Hollow-breed. I too think that our races have some common ground, an area that we can grow to work together on perhaps. I want to learn more about the Hollow-breeds. There is not much information you can gain within Soul Society, locked as my people are in their hatred for your kind,” those words felt tacky on her tongue, but she kept talking nonetheless. What he had said was no less gaudy.

“Is it some special power of your people that you could sense me like that? And tell my power so clearly?” Kiriko pushed slightly with those starting questions, wondering if indeed he was using mere reiatsu perception to gain this information or if it was something greater. She had pushed as far as her own knowledge could go with her study of her ability to sense reiatsu. Kiriko had thought herself at the limit any normal person could get to. But here was a soul far weaker then her who sense so much more... Was this something she could attain as well? And if so, could she possibly convince him to help her with this endeavor? Or, if this was all a ploy like she thought, force him?

WC: 562 | GP: 11 | Total GP: 22

Bleach Gotei

Moving on [closed/Kiriko]

Post by Enojo on Nov 20, 2013 12:25:37 GMT -5

Post by Fulfillment on Nov 20, 2013 12:47:57 GMT -5

Post by Enojo on Dec 8, 2013 21:05:35 GMT -5

Post by Fulfillment on Dec 15, 2013 18:50:11 GMT -5

Welcome!