"You are my special." The Ryoka was singing to himself as he kept walking with his hands behind his head, unaware of her presence and how close to death he was.
Soifon, the captain of the second squad and the leader of Onmitsukidō(Stealth Force), really wanted to just unsheathe her sword and cut off the arrogant boy's head off for daring to invade Seireitei and then just walk around with such a goofy tone as if what he had done wasn't anything serious. The sight made her remember another arrogant fool that did not understand the severity of situations and made the urge to kill the Ryoka even harder to resist.
But in the end she had to resist as they needed the information on why this invasion was happening along with prisoners in order to pacify Central 46 about this embarrassing situation and that was always easier when there was a victim to throw in front of them. The Ryoka before her was perfect for it, she just needed to wait for a little more longer in order to make absolutely sure that he had his guard down so that there would be no need for her to actually...
"How long do you intend to hide like that?" What?! Had he... No, that wasn't likely. He must be talking about one of the other members of the Onmitsukidō with her, whom she would be punishing severely for their failure.
"I'm talking to you, the short one with long braids in cloth wearing the captain haori." He called out once more, this time looking directly at her with a raised eyebrow.
"I am impressed Ryoka, I hadn't thought you could detect me." She said as she jumped out of her hiding spot with the rest of her subordinates.
"Detect you? I think it would have been rather hard not to with how loud you were." He said with his pinky in his ear and his eyes half-lidded, making her want to just ram her sword into his forehead and twist it for a while for good measure.
"You should have tried some sort of surprise attack when you had the chance." The captain of the second squad said coldly as her hand grasped her sword. "At least then you would have made some sort of move before being detained."
"Detained?" He asked with a smirk as a sword suddenly materialized in his hand with a flash of light. "The fight has just begun." Then he disappeared and reappeared in from of her with his sword piercing through her haori, which she had left behind using Utsusemi.
Using a technique taught by her (beloved)traitorous former master but she would never deny that the afterimage technique was useful, especially when it left the opponent confused and open for a pincer attack with her from behind and her subordinates from front.
"Cute." Only for him to avoid the slash to his back while slashing the black-clad Shinigamis with his sword, turning their battle into a one-on-one with a single slash. "And can I just say that I love the sleeveless and backless outfit!" And then he ran towards her with another slash that destrıyed the wall behind her as she dodged.
"Disrespectful!" She yelled as she shunpo'd towards him before their blades started to clash.
She did not want to admit it but after the few clashes she had with the Ryoka, he was good. He was emitting reiatsu at a level beyond a lieutenant and he had the physical capabilities above that. The way he also seemed uncaring about the smaller cuts on his arms and chest she had left while rushing at her with such a huge smile made her unwillingly compare the man before her to Zaraki Kenpachi, the current captain of the eleventh squad and the battle maniac of Soul Society.
"Come on! Come on!" He kept yelling as he slashed at her, or sometimes slashing at the ground which made debris fly out towards her with a screeching sound of metal hitting stone.
"Sting all enemies to death, Suzumebachi." She commanded as she ran her hand over her sword and transformed it into a black and golden gauntlet with a stinger blade on her middle finger connected to it with a golden chain. And then she was once more upon her enemy, this time using hand to hand combat she was more comfortable with, leading to her stabbing his shoulder with her weapon; leaving behind a butterfly-like marking on where she had pierced.
"You might want to surrender now while you still can." She called out with a scowl, disappointed in herself for letting the fight take this long in the first place. "The power of my Suzumebachi is Nigeki Kessatsu(Death in two steps), allowing me to kill anyone by stabbing them in the same place twice." She said as she held her hand out with her opponent's blood dripping from the stinger. "You won't be getting back up."
"So you can kill people with two stabs, big whoop." Yet her opponent simply mocked her with his sword resting on his shoulder. "I can kill people with one stab, you just have to know where to stab and to stab with a proper weapon instead of a toothpick like what you have on your finger."
...yeah, screw taking him alive.
She immediately lunged at the mark she had left before and stabbed it with all of her might... only for the tip of the stinger to stop on top of the skin, unable to properly pierce through the flesh that now had blue markings on it.
"Sucker." And then she felt a hit connect with her stomach and her eyes nearly popped out, as she hadn't felt a hit that hard connect since before she became a captain, and flew back to the wall; leaving spider cracks and likely a Soifon shaped dent on it.
"Heh, all that talk and you just fell for the oldest trick in the book; baiting." She could vaguely hear the Ryoka talking as he walked towards her. "Not gonna lie though, that was disappointing. I heard that the standards of this place had kind of dropped in the last hundred years but this is just sad." She didn't know if the man had actually heard such a thing or was just mocking her.
"Is this what they call suffering from success." And she didn't care, she was going to punch a hole through the Ryoka's face anyway!
"Shunko!"
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