Nobility Gathering [PG13, NDE, Medium]

[Shade Kawada]

Shade didn’t react as he was grabbed from behind and a knife was placed at his throat. The captain glanced at Kenryoku, who was also in the same boat as him. In fact, just the assassin acted, Shade’s hand had already instinctively grabbed the hilt of his zanpakutou. Shade knew that he’d be able to dispatch the assassin even before he was able to slash his neck, but he took this moment to pierce through the entire crowd of rich nobles with a gaze that harbored nothing but bloodlust and hate at Eliza Kusumi’Oji. Even from across the entire room, Shade was able to catch a glimpse of the woman through a space in the crowd, and he glared at her, immediately pinning their current situation on Eliza.

Fortunately for the assassin, a white bullet-sized orb smashed into his head, granting him with a quick and relatively painless death before Shade could relieve him of his arm. The captain stepped away from the assassin’s body and made a beeline towards Eliza, his sword unsheathed and malice etched across his face. It was at this moment that an assassin appeared in a black cloak, complete with a mask that covered his face. In his hand he held what could be identified by Shade as a Bakkuto, the very tools which the Kasumi’Oji family were in charge of. This strengthened his suspicion that the Kasumi’Oji family were behind the events that were unfolding before them.

The squad 13 captain overheard the captain of squad 3 as well as the captain of squad 11 identify the blade that the cloaked figure held as a Bakkuto. Turning away from the assassin for a moment, Shade arrived at Eliza’s side and grabbed her wrist, twisting it behind her body and placing his blade at her throat. He couldn’t kill her. That much he knew, but he wasn’t about to sit around doing nothing. “This is your doing, isn’t it?” muttered the captain as he shoved her arm upwards behind her so that she was lifted her up onto her toes. Kyomei was completely disregarded by the head of the Kawada family. Shade didn’t care about the relationship between the two of them. The only thing that mattered right now was getting to the bottom of this.

If Shade had made a mistake in accusing Eliza, then so be it. He realized that there was a chance he was wrong, but when someone has ordered a hit on you and another member of your family, you don’t really care about wrongly accusing them of stuff, do you? Shade’s eyes now turned to the assassin now. He glared intently as he held her assumed leader hostage. While Shade’s actions may have seemed rash at first, he’d thought them through well enough. Right now was the perfect time to take advantage of the current panic that everyone was in. If he threatened to kill her in this way earlier, he would have been deemed dangerous and thrown out, but now... Now all bets were off and it was every man for himself. The panic that ensued provided the perfect opportunity for Shade to do what he’d felt like doing earlier. Shade didn’t like Eliza. That much was clear.

[Sozen Kuchiki]

OOC: Your turn!

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

OOC: Read all the yellow words with a drunken slur for comical effect

IC: Even as Kyomei tried to help out Eliza, he was shoved aside and she was grabbed by the brute of a Kawada and her arm wrenched back. Had Kyomei not been drunk, he might have just let it go, but he was not going to stand for that, even though he knew he was being completely ignored. He muttered to himself angrily, "Damn nobility... Maybe it's just the Kawada, but I thought Chivalry would be something the upper class even pretended to uphold. That was just plain low, Captain Kawada... Ooof... that guy over there looks really rude... crashing a party and attacking people... Dick..." Kyomei was a bumbling drunk right now, seeing as he had drinks that far outclassed him in strength.

Though his inhibitions may be gone, Kyomei still had a Mastery of Calm Mind, so his actions and movements wouldn't be incredibly shaky. "You know what Mr. Big-Arm-Sword-Dude? Get out of my party, we were having fun you rotten kill joy." Kyomei walked a little bit forward so that there was no one in between the Assassin and him, then stood with his feet approximately shoulder width apart, his arms held at his side. Then he yelled at the top of his lungs "IMMA FIRIN' MAH LAZOR" With that exclamation that wasn't an incantation, Kyomei fired a large Byakurai out of his mouth. It wasn't actually one Byakurai, but ten Byakurai all fused together to be one Byakurai, just much larger.

Ryuu may have thought that exerting his pressure on the room would have caused everyone in the room to be intimidated and bogged down by it. However, Kyomei had a marginally higher Spiritual Pressure than Ryuu, a Captain, did, and he outclassed everyone in the room in Reiatsu Strength, due to his lack of a Zanpakutou. Where the others in the room might be more versatile, Kyomei was massive raw power in a little package, and he was sending a large electrical beam at the intruder. This was, however, no ordinary beam of Byakurai. Laced within the Byakurai was a strain of reiatsu that was linked to Kyomei's right hand At will Kyomei could move his hand and this Kidou would move. If the assassin tried to dodge the Kidou, he'd find that Kyomei would simply redirect it to follow him. Kyomei had made the first move, thus the ballroom fight would begin.

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Strength – [50] Points

Speed - [250] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [245 (x3)] 735 Points

Reiatsu Strength - [255 (x3)] 765 Points

Light Aura - 75 Points

Dark Aura - 25 Points

Instinct - [175] Points

Senses [100] Points

Energy sensory - [75] Points

Healing Expertise - 0 Points

Total SP: 1150 Points

Remaining Reiatsu: 6950/7350 (-250 x10 Byakurai -150 Kei)

[Xerxes Alejandro Sykes]

OOC: I’m sorry it took me so long to get this my computers been messing up for a while now.

IC: Xerxes was sickened by Kyomei’s reaction, it was so human of him to act that way. Not only did he let his ego, and anger get the best of him, but he also let his drunken anger get the best of him. If Kyomei would have thought rationally about this, they might have been able to find out what the assassin wants and avoid conflict all together.

It is always better to let the opponent strike first, for a reaction is always deadlier then a action. The opponent is more likely to respond to a action compared to a reaction, and it also gives you the ability to scout out the opponents attacks and abilities.

But, seeing how no one else had a good idea, Xerxes had to act. Xerxes decided to Shunpo behind the assassin and stab him in the back with his Zanpakuto, and Shunpo away all before the Byakurai hit the assassin. Xerxes was confident that his amazing speed would get the job done, or at least distract the assassin long enough for the Byakurai to kill him

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Strength - [100, 50 due to type] Points

Speed - [350, 1050 due to type] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [400, 240 due to type] Points

Reiatsu Strength - [200, 400 due to type] Points

Light Aura - [70] Points

Dark Aura - [30] Points

Instinct - [100, 150 due to type] Points

Senses [25, 19 rounded due to type] Points

Energy sensory - [25, 19 rounded due to type] Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points

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2400-50=2350

[Sozen Kuchiki]

OOC: Dock reiatsu for Shunpo, Xerxes.

IC:

Eliza didn't move because she was nobility. Nobles operated on a complex political plane, and she had been trained for such a situation as being threatened, or even held like that. She was able, like all of the most important nobles, to keep a calm head while being put under that pressure. It was no wonder people respected her in the world of nobility. The Kasumi'Oji family had been involved in numerous lurid scandals, and though it tarnished some of their outward reputation, this did not stop them from being one of the top houses of the nobility. She did not have reason to move, or perhaps she possessed greater sagacity than that.

The efficacy of Eliza's calm mind showed when she spoke without any quiver in her voice. "You of all people should know better than this, Shade-Kun. If it had been a lesser of your family, or even your own brother, this would have had less impact on your family. You could have apologized for it, and this would have been diffused. But look at yourself now. You've taken hold of me to threaten me, but you've no evidence that the assassin even comes from my family, which he does not. You are operating on a hunch, my dear, and this is why you are so mistaken. You also know that you have no choice but to release me. You can't harm me. If you do, your family and home will be in jeopardy. And look! As you hold me, dozens of others are watching us...Watching you hold me hostage while an assassin attacks all of us. Almost like you are part of this scheme. As if you hired the assassin..."

The ignominy of the situation was conjoined with Shade being surrounded from afar by different noble guards. Around eight surrounded him, and all of them had drawn some kind of weapon. Some had Zanpakuto, and others simply had some kind of golden staff of some preternatural origin. All it would take was releasing Eliza, but this was also a political incident that would take a long time to diffuse. Kenryoku was surrounded as well on the other side of the room, by just as many attackers as Shade. He too would be attacked if Shade did not release Eliza. This did look like a Kawada plot at the time.

The assassin was more dangerous, though. He wasted no time at all in dodging both the stab and the byakurai. Xerxes was fast, but his aim was incredibly off. Though he had great speed, he had lesser senses. He had the senses of an infant, if not worse, and so in battle when he was moving so quickly it would prove a challenge to overcome. His world was dull and blurred, and with those senses that were so far beneath even an average human's, he'd find missing all too easy. As soon as he disappeared, and as soon as the huge Byakurai was launched, a Shunpo took the assassin away.

The decision to not hone his senses had not been a congenial act by Xerxes, and when he used Shunpo once to attack and fail, a second time to escape, that left the Byakurai with no target. Neither Xerxes nor the assassin were in the way of the Kido. This meant that it would hit the wall of the room, except that one of Kyomei's fellow Kuchiki with high level Kido mastery appeared, and his hand swept across the Kido in an arc of yellow reiatsu, which devoured the lightning. All that was left in the air was steam after that, so no damage was done to the room. Everything was perfectly safe.

The assassin's Shunpo brought him into the air, where he pulled out what looked like some kind of Kunai, and then threw it at Xerxes. It flew with great speed and accuracy at the Squad 11 Captain's face. This might be a problem!

Assassin's Remaining Reiatsu: 1975/2000 Reiatsu

Exhaustion Count: 1/6

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He's class 2! With 1200 SP, and he's also a shadow type, rank level 2.

Strength: 100

Speed: 400 (800)

Reiatsu Strength: 300 (600)

Spiritual Pressure: 200

Instinct: 100

Senses: 100 (150)

Energy Sensory: 0

Healing Expertise: 0

Light/Dark Aura: 10/90

Total SP: 1200

[Ryuu Usagi]

Ryuu sighed heavily. Why did it always have to end with fighting? Was there some unspoken law that said disagreements always had to devolve into violence? So far, only a brief exchange had occurred, but Ryuu knew things would escalate into a full blown brawl...a very noisy one at that. Here he was, cramped, crowded space, full of gibbering idiots, and it was about to get noisy, to?

"So.That's the way the piece will be played, is it? With a tempo that slow, it'll take all day for us to get through one stanza." He lifted his hand, pointing at the assassin and wordlessly casting Geki to entrap the man in a paralyzing red light. The man's Reiatsu Strength was higher than Ryuu's, but just barely. It would take some effort to break the Kido...assuming, of course, it hit. He had already proven himself very fast, and easily able to dodge an attack, if given enough time. Which is why Ryuu used chose not to speak the Kido's incantation...and why he had a secondary plan of attack.

Using his superior energy sensory ability, he was able to track even as weak a spiritual pressure as the assassin's. Whether the assassin dodged or not, Ryuu's plan was the same: Attack.

Keeping his opponent's position in mind, Ryuu reached behind his back, slowly drawing his sword, letting the clear music of bells break through the clamor of the crowd. Both his sleeves and the sheath of his Zanpakutou were lined with small bells, small but deceptively loud. They would cut through the noise with ease.

"So. I'll help out. A maestro like me should be of some use...though I wouldn't expect much." All the while, Ryuu had been walking toward the assassin, resting his Nodachi like blade on his shoulder. He didn't charge him screaming. He didn't hurl flashy blasts attacks or insults. He merely walked toward him, his blank eyes and pleasant expression looking through the man. As he approached, he seemed to prepare to attack with his sword, hefting it off his shoulder in preparation for an attack...

...with Kido. From his left hand, again with no warning, Ryuu fired a Byakurai at the man. Though weaker than Kyomei's attack, it did have the advantage of not being so...colorfully announced, and would most likely catch the man off guard, given he would expect a physical attack. Or at least, that was the idea. It probably wouldn't work. But maybe someone else could use the opportunity to do something more useful?

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Strength - [190/2=85] Points

Speed - [200] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [340*2=720] Points

Reiatsu Strength - [295*2=590] Points

Light Aura - [50] Points

Dark Aura - [50] Points

Instinct - [75] Points

Senses [50] Points

Energy sensory - [50*3=150] Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points

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7200-50-50=7100

[Ryuu Usagi]

(I know I've been gone a while...is this thread dead? I hope not.)

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

I don't want it to be over, so I'll stay in it no matter how long it takes to be posted in

[Sozen Kuchiki]

OOC: Oh! I was just waiting for another post! Okay, how's this. One more person post, ANYONE that wants to.

After that, we'll take on Zou's system for -99. Anyone can post at any time they want as long as I post before them!

[Xerxes Alejandro Sykes]

Xerxes was startled, but mostly annoyed, that he had missed. He’d gotten caught up in the moment, and forgotten to properly calculate the targets position and likely courses of action before launching his attack. It was a mistake he would not make again. While thinking that, he watched as the assassin used Shunpo to dodge the attacks aimed at him, noting his great speed. Great, but not great enough to save him.

Xerxes started doing what he did best, trigonometry. Every angle in the house was quickly recorded, the wind direction was quickly accounted for, and so was the direction the assassin was aiming. He then did basic percentage mathematics based on what the assassins most likely actions would be. He then took into account his own speed, and mass. Finally he was done; in the amount of time it took for the assassin to reach for his Kunai, Xerxes had figured out everything he needed to know to get a perfectly aimed shot on him.

He used the information he had to Shunpo a few inches behind the assassin’s trigonometrically locked on position with great speed before he threw the Kunai. He then attempted to stab the assassin in the back with the same great speed, launching no less than ten sword strikes faster than the human eye could perceive. At that distance even a child could hit him, and Xerxes was most likely to quick for the assassin to dodge but to make sure. He then used Shunpo to escape Ryuu's Byakuri, appearing behind the drunk kid, already calculating his next move.

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2350-100=2250

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[Shade Kawada]

Shade looked around as his blade touched Eliza’s neck. Oh how he wanted to kill her right now. He just knew she was behind these events somehow. Shade knew that he could not touch her though, as a captain and the Head of the Kawada family, he could not take the law into his own hands or risk making his entire family suffer. Shade gritted his teeth in anger as the woman spoke to him, “You of all people should know better than this, Shade-Kun. If it had been a lesser of your family, or even your own brother, this would have had less impact on your family. You could have apologized for it, and this would have been diffused. But look at yourself now. You've taken hold of me to threaten me, but you've no evidence that the assassin even comes from my family, which he does not. You are operating on a hunch, my dear, and this is why you are so mistaken. You also know that you have no choice but to release me. You can't harm me. If you do, your family and home will be in jeopardy. And look! As you hold me, dozens of others are watching us...Watching you hold me hostage while an assassin attacks all of us. Almost like you are part of this scheme. As if you hired the assassin...” Eliza’s words sat with the Kawada family head as he contemplated the situation. He looked around and saw that he was being watched. The next few moments would be crucial in determining not only their opinions of him, but the entire Kawada family as well.

“You’ve heard of my zanpakutou, correct?” asked Shade as his grip tightened, “Its name is Buraindo Kira, the Blind Killer. Its only desire is to completely consume everything in the world until nothing is left. This is a manifestation of my very soul in physical form and right now, it wants nothing but to taste your blood. All it would take is one... little... slice...” Shade whispered into the woman’s ear as she would feel the cold metal of Buraindo Kira pressing on her neck, “But you are right about one thing, I cannot harm you here. If my actions only effected me and not my family, then I would have no qualms with bringing the curtains down on the despicable series of events you call your life. If this is indeed your doing, you have planned it well, I will give you that. I won’t make any pointless demands that you recall the bounty that you placed on both my head and my brother’s, since I know they wouldn’t be honored. Instead I will leave you with a promise. For every attempt made at a Kawada’s life as a result of your bounty, I will have one of your family members butchered and left in your bed to find when you awaken.”

With that, Shade shoved Eliza, withdrawing his sword from her neck. The captain waved off the noble guards that had surrounded him and instead focused his attention on the assassin as he easily dealt with Xerxes. It seemed that Squad 11 had only been in decline since Saix had left it. It was a shame really, to see such a powerful division fall to such a lowly state. “Pathetic...” muttered Shade in response to Xerxes as he motioned for Kenryoku to come by his side. Both had their Meiunatsuin seals active, for the Kawada brothers never went anywhere without them. There was no point in simply remaining at full strength all the time, so after every release they were almost immediately reapplied.

Post 5
Remaining Reiatsu: 1,100

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Strength - [150 (x2)] = 300 Points

Speed - [400] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [150] Points

Reiatsu Strength - [400 (-30%)] 280 Points

Light Aura - [0] Points

Dark Aura - [100] Points

Instinct - [125] Points

Senses [125] Points

Energy sensory - [50 (x3)] = 150 Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points


Total SP: [1,400] Points

[Sozen Kuchiki]

"My seal is almost ready for release..." a voice muttered next to Shade's ear. He was like Batman. He had arrived from the ubiquitous chaos, unnoticed, unnoticeable. The only thing to tip Shade off to the arrival of his brother was familiarity. It was a presence that almost always stalked Shade through these noble events. Whenever Shade had to go into a meeting or some kind of deal, Kenryoku stalked him. He was hidden. No one except Shade ever knew of Kenryoku's presence until they were dead. He had even been ready to kill the Kasumi'Oji woman if it had been commanded of him.

"The assassin is not strong enough to survive the present attackers...He is bait." Kenryoku told Shade. He had investigated a little while he was in the shadows. He had some of his men positioned in secret to tell him these things. "No one here is the target." The assassin threw the kunai and missed. It was seen when Xerxes disappeared before the throw. The throw was still completed before the actual attack. Instead, it went toward Ryuu, who was walking forwards. He would have to block it. The assassin was fast enough to Shunpo away. Xerxes was fast, but lost time to calculate. Visualizing was hard.

The assassin left in Shunpo, and didn't reappear anywhere. He'd escaped. His reiatsu was still present though, just a ways outside of the room. So this meant that he had to be pursued. If they had to chase him, it was going to become a very lifeless scene. Some of them would have to restart the party and calm everyone, others would have to organize those who could fight to chase the assassin and all of his escaped allies. Ah, c'est la vie. So much to do. So little time.

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

The assassin left, moving quickly, escaping the room. The initial shock of the sudden attack slowly subsided, and the slightly inebriated adopted Kuchiki calmed down and decided to get a drink. He opted for some water. That was a terrible idea, and he didn't know just how awful it was until he had downed the entire glass of water. It was quite possible that Eliza would look on in amusement as Kyomei's face grew extremely red and he clutched at his stomach. "What manner... of drink..." Kyomei moved to the nearest waste receptacle and spewed a mixture of water, stomach acid, bile, champagne, and ice vodka into the bucket. However, the alcohol had done its work. The Shinigami was now hopelessly drunk, and through nothing more than the above-human fortitude of Soul Reapers was he standing. upright. Another glass of water seemed to calm his stomach, and by nature of the alcohol in his blood, he quickly moved out of the room going towards the assassin. Anyone else was perfectly fine to join him if they wished.

[Sozen Kuchiki]

OOC: Due to a loss of participants and my ego demanding it since this thread is kinda lame, I would very much like to restart this thread and add more flare to it. It will be a Social/Quest in the reimagining, and will have a very different and new plotline. All in favor?

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

AYE!