Spring Time Showers

[Izanami Midorikawa]

Thread Title: Spring Time Showers
Participants: Yetsuna Yishnir vs Izanami Midorikawa
World: Human World
Death Setting: Non Death Enabled
Rating: R
Location: On a somewhat small hill there is a monastery to the god Susanoo. There are a few buildings on the side of the major walk way. One large building that all of the family go to pray in. In the back though there is a small shine It's only around 9 in the morning and it's just starting to rain lightly.






Special Conditions: N/A
Circumstances: The inhabitants of the shine aside from the elder are all away and at the moment there is a Hollow on the move. It seeks the flesh of the elder in the shine. However, a Shinigami is just now dealing with the Hollow without the elder knowing about it. In the following moments though a strange girl arrives and a battle ensues between them.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Yetsuna could feel the softness of the ground beneath her feet as she ran through the forest in pursuit of a hollow, each step leaving behind an imprint of her sandal. The hollow was leaving prints in the ground too; they would be easy to follow if she needed to but she had a visual on it already, it was up ahead a few yards. While she had yet to get a clear view of it seemed small compared to most the hollows she had dealt with in the past, but then again she had never had to deal with on by herself before, not that is concerned her at all, she was fully confident that she could do this solo. As she gave chase she could feel some water falling onto her, the light rain had begun to break through the treetop canopy.

As her pursuit continued she started to close the distance between her and her mark, she was slightly faster than the beast. It pulled a sudden right turn; it knew it was being followed and was trying to lose its pursuer. Yetsuna dug her left foot into the ground, bending her knee and pushing off of it, allowing her to turn keeping her of her momentum and close a chunk of the distance between herself and the target.

Her target was only four feet away now and she could see some of its details on its body now. It was covered in a thin blue fur from the base of its neck down to its feet and seemed to be knuckle-walking, or running as the situation would have it. The beast seemed somewhat lanky, like it hadn’t eaten for an extended period of time, probably why it had come to the world of the living, and why it came to such a remote area; less likely to encounter an enemy, giving it a chance to recover some of its lost power.

Yetsuna went into a full sprit to bring the chase to a close; she shoulder changed the monster causing them both to tumble to the wet ground. She rolled over the hollow, pressing her hands against its torso to adjust herself so that she was facing the opposite direction she was moving, and slid several feet before coming to a stop. As she slid she could feel her feet transition from soft soil to rock, looking to her sides briefly she saw that they had arrived near the entrance of the monastery.

Before she had left the Soul Society she had been given specific orders to try and minimize any property damage, apparently the area had some sort of spiritual significance to the humans. While their fight was unlikely to do much damage even if they got into the monastery she didn’t want to risk it, so she figured she had two good options, push the hollow back into the forest or kill it now; she opted for the latter.

The Shinigami drew her trade mark weapon, but hers was somewhat weird, it was larger than an average katana, yet smaller than nodachi. The beginnings of the Zanpaktous transformation were beginning to show as well the hilt wrap was a dark ash color, and eight tiny rectangular holes could be seen in the guard. Yetsuna took her typical battle stance; turning her side to her opponent she extended her left hand out in front of her and kept her sword arm behind her. Meanwhile the hollow regained its composure and stood back up, slamming its fists into the ground in an obvious taunt and splashing some rainwater in the process.

“Well it would be rude to ignore such a generous invite” she joked to herself with a half-smile before charging. The beast brought its right arm around to swipe at her as attacked, but due to the elongated nature of its arms the attack was heavily telegraph and easy to block. She caught the blow with her left forearm allowing the metal vambrace she wore under her sleeve to take most of the shock. In retaliation she brought her right arm around to cut into the creature’s ribs, striking true, but not very deeply, roughly five inches at most,  casuing the hollow to cry out, whether in annoyance or pain should couldn't tell and didn't really care either. After her attack she leapt back to give herself some room to swing her sword more freely, allowing her to cut deeper. 

The rain was beginning to soak into her outfit and hair, causing both to start to stick to her body. Her hair managed to became dislodged from its normal spot behind her ear causing to fall over the right side over her face, partially blocking her field of vision, but nothing so bad has to provided a handicap. The uniform was clinging to her back, chest and shoulders, providing a minor annoyance as wet clothes tend to be, but nothing anyone would consider unbearable. She retook her fighting stance, but rather then letting the hollow taunt her this time she taunted it, daring it to attack her.

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{Powers}
Strength - [50] (50) Points

Speed - [50] (50) Points

Spiritual Pressure – [50 x 1.25] (63) Points

Reiatsu Strength – [40 x 1.25] (50) Points

Light Aura - [80] Points

Dark Aura - [20] Points

Instinct - [35 x .75] (26) Points

Senses - [35 x .75] (26) Points

Energy sensory - [40 x 0.33] (13) Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points

Total: 300 points

Skills
Pain Tolerance - 1

Martial Arts: Muay Thai - 1

Strength of Will - 1

Weapons: Swords - 1

Damage Recovery - 1

Battle Analysis - 1

[Izanami Midorikawa]

The darkness all around her just as it always was, the only thing that she ever knew was the dark and the cold and it embarrassed her as she slumbered. Izanami went without dreams throughout her entire life not knowing what others meant when she would hear the word. She knew logically what it meant yet the experience of having on was foreign to the young female Fullbringer. However, in her mind as she floated through the vacuum of darkness comparable to space without a single star one single light made itself known and Izanami starred at it for a moment.

She had been floating throughout this darkness for so long without ever once seeing a single bit of light. So what did it mean that she was se4eing one right now? She looked at the light and while she did for some reason she ceased to float. She didn't even realize this though as the light started to become more focused and her eyes adjusted to it. She was for some reason unable to take her eyes off of the light and then she realized that there was something inside of the light. No not something someone! She starred and then her pupils dilated in shock as she saw herself as a child holding her claymore with a grin across her face.

In the next moment Izanami awoke in the metal tube known as her bed. Pushing on the surface she opened it and stepped out onto the white floor. Her legs felt somewhat numb and her whole body felt like it was on high alter. For the first time that Izanami could actually remember she was feeling something. Whatever emotion it was she was foreign to it like all of the rest and didn't like the sensation. Perhaps it was fear . . .no she knew fear Satsujun had been the only one to mark her with an emotion and it had been that singular one which led to her complete obedience. So what was she feeling right now and what did she see?

She had seen herself as a child around the age of eleven. She had her long blonde hair which meant it had to be at least that far back. What it meant though Izanami didn't understand. She had never displaced or felt any emotion other than fear until right now. She lived her life without emotions in order to be the perfect weapon. She didn't even know what it meant to be human so what was it that she just saw. That grin was just staying in the forefront of her mind. How could she have been grinning that was something that only those that were experiencing happiness felt and she had never and would never feel such an emotion.

She had to focus herself though. She sensed the approach of more than likely her instructor coming to wake her up since it was morning and she seemed to have only awoken a few minutes early. Standing up and gathering herself Izanami moved over to the white closet and picked one of the outfits. In all truth it didn't matter every single one of her outfits was a duplicate of the other which meant she never wore anything, but the same exact attire throughout the majority of her life. When she was younger she wore something different, but that didn't matter in the present.

The instructor suddenly opened up the door to her room stepping inside and see that Izanami was already awake and just finishing getting dressed. He was getting far to frightened by her simply because of who she was and what he had seen and heard of her doing. In the short few weeks that he had been overseeing Izanami she had been put through tests that should have led to her death. Fighting against a small pack of chimpanzees with them always having the territory advantage hadn't proven to be effective in the least. That alone had been enough that the instructor didn't like to be the one overseeing her.

Then had come the bear right after she had been dealt the chimpanzees. By all rights she shouldn't have even made it that far and even if she did she should have been tired. Yet she had proven that no such thing was the case and that the bear had little to no chance against her. It hadn't taken her any longer to kill the bear than it had for her to deal with all five of the chimpanzees. All that the instructor had managed to do on that first day was scare himself even more of her and make his job more difficult.

That had been why on the next day of training he had sent in one of the massive drug induced beasts that Xcution had at its disposal. All he had wished for was the bull to wound Izanami enough that he would be removed from training her. That or do even better and just kill her unnatural, soulless ass. However, that to have proven to be ineffective as Izanami had displayed movement by all rights that went against logic and had been able to cut the bulls legs. The instructor had been forced to watch in horror as she simply disposed of another weapon without emotion or care and then asked what was next.

He hadn't even been the one overlooking her lately. It was Yumi as it was going to be today. She was the handler that could look after Izanami without fearing her or letting her get away like she used to when she was a child. This instructor had only heard the reports of how Izanami had handled the other shinigami and hollows that she had fought out in the field. He was getting to the point that he felt simply asking for Yumi to be her instructor and handler was more then acceptable when his logical brain told him differently. All he wanted was to be away from her and that was what he was going to do as fast as he could.

"Alright Izanami once again you're to make your way to the entrance of the compound and there will be Yumi awaiting you for your assignment today." He spoke as fast as he could without messing up the words and then turned away from her and made his way out of her room. Once he actually got out of the room though and the door closed behind him he took off like a rocket running down the hallway in hopes of getting away as fast as he could. Izanami once again her empty self obeyed the order to the letter making her way from her room to the entrance of the compound that held her.

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2 Hours Later . . . . .

Sitting in the black car once again Izanami sat a blank expression across her face that held no properties of a human. She in all honestly was empty without any emotions nor personality. She was nothing more than a walking weapon that could speak when spoken too and think. Nothing else and nothing more and that was all she knew. Or at least it had been until this morning. However, Izanami knew that Yumi was a far superior sensing then herself which meant that she had to remain normal.

"Wait what." Izanami for a brief moment had a confused look on her face that went almost unnoticed. Yumi had caught it though yet didn't speak up instead keeping the information to herself in order to report to Satsujun later. Izanami couldn't believe what was going on why was she thinking like this? Why was this happening she hadn't ever thought like this, like . . . a human? Izanami though composed herself and then the car stopped. Yumi had already told her all about her assignment.

She was sent to this monastery because Yumi had made sure that once again a hollow was being used as bait. That seemed to be something she was good at using hollows to lure shinigami into specific locations in order for Izanami to fight them and test her own power against them. So when the car stopped and Izanami looked out the window seeing that she would have to walk up all the steps she simply opened the door closed it and then began her ascent upwards. She could sense the reiatsu of the hollow and a shinigami in the monastery so they were both there.

It took her a minute or two to get there, but now she was here and she saw that the shinigami this time was actually a female. It was the first female shinigami that she would have to fight so for the moment she looked her over and took in all the details that she could. The girl had long green hair and seemed to be fighting with her zanpakuto. It was raining and that seemed to be holding her back somewhat while she kept trying to deal with the hollow. Izanami's orders were to fight the shingami after the hollow had been eliminated so for the moment she simply stood roughly fifty feet away. She had her cloak around her with the hood up so there would be no way the rain would get her wet and no way for the shinigami to notice anything about her other than that she was there watching.

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{Stats & Skills}
Strength: 75 (94)
Speed: 100
Spiritual Pressure: 25 (19)
Reiatsu Strength: 25 (31)
Instincts: 100 (75)
Senses: 50
Energy Sensory: 50 (75)
Healing Expertise: 0
Light Aura: 0
Dark Aura: 100

Learning: 1
Movement: 1
Calm Mind: 1
Pain Tolerance: 1
Battle Analysis: 1
Weapon*Swords: 1
Martial Art*Taekwondo: 1

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Apparently the gorilla/boar didn’t seem to enjoy be taunted because it charged at her, lowering its head somewhat in a fairly obvious attempt to disembowel her. The tusks were sharp and long enough to fully go through her body if its attack succeeded, but it was of little concern to the Shinigami; her reach was longer than its tusks. She stood her ground unflinching waiting for the beast to get a bit closer so it would give her the advantage she wanted, but didn’t really need either. This hollow wasn’t strong and it wasn’t going to give her a good fight so she wanted to end it and go do something else.


At a distance of three and a half feet she angled her sword down towards the ground, blade facing it victim, and brought her arm forward. The sword bit through the ground and came up under the hollows mask, cleaving through it in one clean stroke. The hollows body crashed to the ground as its ability to support itself failed, causing it to skid a short distance before coming to a stop. Yetsuna stood in-between the hollows natural weapons unharmed and unphased as the body began to fade away, absolved of any sins it had committed in its current form. The fight itself had bored her, but she did find some happiness in saving a soul, she smiled to herself and sheathed her weapon across her back.


She looked around the area, she had kept the area from taking an damage and other than the spots where the hollows hands and feet and made contact with the soil there was no evidence of anything having occurred in the area, and even those traces would be erased by the rain soon enough. She looked around area, mainly focusing on the monastery; it was a nice place, it appeared to be Japanese in nature, they had a fairly trademark style of building, and was covered in white. A fairly wide stone path that lead up to and past the walls that surrounded the monastery, on both sides of the path was soil, darkened by the rain, going up to the tree line about ten feet away. With the hollow gone the area was completely peaceful and the rain only seemed to add onto the serenity of the scene.


She looked behind her to see what lay that way and saw a blonde haired girl clad in black just standing there facing her direction. Yetsuna had a feeling that she wasn’t here to see the monastery, but that didn’t automatically make her a hostile either. She began to walk towards the other girl, as she did she noticed her uniform was now fully clinging to her skin, to rain had finally sunk into all corners of its cloth, her hair was soaked as well causing to remain static where it normally would have flowed.


She raised her right arm up in the air as a gesture of greeting and she got a bit closer to the young woman, she was about her height, but seemed to be a bit younger looking than herself. She didn’t exactly seem like the joyful type to her, and her eyes, both in color and look, gave her the feeling that there likely wasn’t going to be a pleasant conversation about to take place. Yetsuna stopped about ten feet away from her with a friendly smile on her face “Hi there, I’m gonna take a guess and say you’re able to see me,” she said with a chuckle, “What can I do for you?” Yetsuna was truly being friendly to the person before her, but she still had her guard up somewhat, something about this girl just rubbed her the wrong way.

[Izanami Midorikawa]

Izanami stood in the position watching the conflict between this female shinigami and the blue furred hollow. From what Izanami could tell of the hollow it was similar to a boar in appearance and more than likely had no other method of attack then simply ramming into foes with its tusks. It was such a weak method of attacking that relied on luck and speed rather than actual skill and precision. Izanami for some reason was starting to have her own thoughts on something that didn't matter to her assignment and at that moment again she had to close her eyes for a brief moment in order to gather herself again.

Whatever was happening to her she couldn't allow it to could her judgment nor her sense of sense right before a battle. She had to watch the shiniganmi and the manner in which she fought in order to gain some degree of knowledge against her prior to them even beginning the true conflict that take place at this monastery. Izanami knew from the moment that she had seen the hollow that this shinigami would be the one to come out alive. She based her assumption on the fact that the hollow looked to be malnourished meaning it wasn't that strong of a hollow.

Plus there was the fact that Yumi had sent her to do battle against this shinigami in order to test her own abilities further. If Yumi had chosen this shinigami then there would be an extreme unlikelihood that this hollow would have more power then her. The hollow appeared to be weaker than even the bear that Izanami had taken down during her first training session with her new instructor. It was somewhat smaller and slower while possessing less lethal means of attack. So when the shinigami girl managed to cleave the hollow in two killing it.

What Izanami had seen though that would be helpful to the battle that was about to ensue between them was the fact that this female had waited patiently and observed the movements and method of attack that the hollow had used against her and then countered it in an effective manner. While that method could have actually turned around on her if the hollow had any type of adequate intelligence of speed she had still managed to execute the counter. From what she had seen it was safe to say that the shinigami had some degree of analysis during battle and would be able to keep up with the movements that Izanami would be able to execute against her unless she got creative.

As the rain continued to fall down from the grey clouds high in the sky Izanami raised her right hand up and pulled her cloak backwards revealing her face. She knew that if she kept the cloak up over her head she wouldn't be able to fight at her best against this shinigami. The cloak itself might prove to be an annoyance as the battle continued if she didn't take out the shinigami quickly yet Izanami didn't feel it was necessary to remove the entire thing just yet. Instead the moment that the shinigami turned around and noticed her a single stream of rain ran down between her silver eyes which bore into the soul of the shinigami.

The shinigami like the first one didn't seem to immediately think her hostile yet didn't accept her as friendly either. Just like that first encounter the shinigami started to move towards her yet this time Izanami remained in her position simply staring at the shinigami with her emotionless eyes. The green hair of the shinigami looked almost black now as it clung to the sides of her face and her clothing. Her red eyes were of stark contrast to her hair and pale skin which even Izanami noticed as the distance between the two of them was eaten up over a few moments.

Izanami watched as the girl made her way over towards her even raising up her right arm in some sort of way that acknowledged Izanami. The only piece of information that Izanami got from it was that the shinigami without a doubt was right handed due not only to the fact that it had been the arm chosen more for a default choice, but also that she had been wielding her zanpakuto dominantly in that hand. It was then that the distance between the both of them was pretty small only about five feet meaning that with a single step and extending ones arm either of them would be able to get to the other one.

When she spoke Izanami got the impression that for whatever reason this shinigami was the type that overflowed with emotion and personality like regular people. She seemed to be in such a happy state after doing battle. Yet Izanami didn't know what she could be smiling about for happiness was something she herself hadn't ever experienced. In that moment that she saw her smile though the image of her younger self grinning entered her mind. Izanami pushed it away calming while she stared at the shinigami her silver eyes piercing into the depths of the happy soul. "By the order of X. Izanami Midorikawa has been deployed. Her target . . Yetsuna Yishnir." In the next moment Izanami lunged forwards her left hand extending and grabbing hold of zanpakuto's hilt. In less than half a second afterwards her right hand would reach upwards attempting to grab hold of the wet green hair and pull downwards while her right knee was raised up in order to collide with the face of the girl.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

The blonde girls's continued emotionless stare only served to heighten Yetsuna's caution. The young girl spoke, oddly enough in third person, and declared her target. Between the fact that she had been standing there and watching her hollow battle and that she was the only other person around with combat ability it wasn't to hard for her to guess that she was the target before the girl even said her name. Next thing she knew she found the girls hand going by her head and grabbing the hilt of the Zanpaktou, and quickly after that she found the girls other hand in her hair and pulling it downward.

The girl was faster than her without a doubt, and, surprisingly, a bit stronger than she would have guessed. Yetsuna was unable block the attack, partially due to the spontaneity partially due to the girls speed, making  her to take the blow to her right cheek. Between the hard hair jerk and the shot to the cheek her head was definitely smarting, at least for that moment, but she had a brief time to mentally prepare for the attack when the girl had declared her her enemy. The pain would dull fairly rapidly after a few seconds.

Immediately after the hit came into contact with her face Yetsuna pulled back against the blonde, and bit of pain shot through her skull has she felt the strain of her hair against her scalp once more. She was trying to pull the girl towards her somewhat as well as make her lose her balance to some extent, but both of those were not the main focus of her retaliation.

As she pulled she curled her right hand into a fist and bent her arm, hugging it close to her body as she went for a gut punch, doing her best to keep the attack telegraph down to a minimum. At same time she brought her arm to the inside of Izannami's and attempted to catch the blonde's arm under her own and break the grip she had on her hair.  "You seem like you enjoy some cheap tactics. Well I can fight just as dirty." the shinigami said in a half annoyed tone. "Care to explain why you would attack a stranger?"  After her attack if she was able to break the grapple Yetsuna will attempt to put some breathing room between the two of them, ready to draw her sword if needed.

[Izanami Midorikawa]

Izanami watched the body of the girl as she rushed towards her and extended her hands in preparation for her first assault against the Shinigami. From what she saw she had in fact taken the girl off guard by this sudden direct assault. The distance between them was erased to next to nothing as her hand made contact with the Shinigami's zanpakuto and her hand gripped the soaked green hair. As her right knee moved upwards and clashed with the face of the girl Izanami noticed that the Shinigami wasn't thinking proper defense.

While she had been taken off guard and thus unable to actually get away from Izanami's set up the fact that she was able to perceive what was going to happen meant hat the Shinigami might be able to take Izanami down if she wasn't careful. She didn't know enough about the Shinigami to be completely sure that she could win yet at the same time such thoughts weren't inside her mind. There was nothing flowing throughout that empty shell other than the goal of completely her assignment.

Izanami was able to catch the brief glimpse of the Shinigami turning her face and was only altered of this developed due to the feeling of hair pulling to the side in her hand. In that next fraction of a moment Izanami felt her knee make contact with the face of the Shinigami yet not in the position that she had planned. She had been planning to finish off the Shinigami as fast as possible by breaking her nose or damaging her eyes to the point that she would gain a significant combat advantage. However, that didn't seem to be the case now.

The Shinigami girl had been able to move the angle of her face just enough that Izanami's knee had made contact with one of her cheeks. While the girl must have still felt the full force of her knee it was in a location that wouldn't deliver anything knock out worthy. At best Izanami would have caused a few of her teeth to become dislodged inside of her mouth causing incredible pain. However, the girl didn't' scream in pain and seemed to be able to deal with the fact so tat more than likely didn't occur either.

Izanami's clothing and body was starting to get wet just as this Shinigami's. It didn't matter in the least to Izanami for such a distraction didn't have place in her mind. However, Yumi was back in the car and sensing everything that was happening. Knowing that Izanami had just failed to deliver a knock out in a single blow meant that she would get more damp and possibly soaking wet. She in all honestly didn't like the idea of the nice seats in the car getting soaked, but conceded that there was nothing to do about it.

In that next moment though the Shinigami began to pull back away from Izanami and the young emotionless girl played into her game. As the Shinigami pulled back and bent downwards preparing to deliver a gut punch to Izanami he would feel something at her side. At the same time that Shinigami was getting ready for her punch and moving her arm upwards in order to try and get Izanami off of her hair the zanpakuto that marked her as a Shinigami more than anything else was drawn from it's sheath.

Izanami's left hand was preoccupied with the fact that she now held the zanpakuto in her hand while her other hand had a tight grip on the Shinigami's hair. Just as her right foot touched the ground again she felt the impact of the Shinigami's fist on her stomach. She felt the pain rush from the point of impact yet at the same time she felt the hand of the Shinigami touch her arm and begin to push away. In that next moment Izanami pulled as hard as she could on the hair and raised her knee again attempting to knee the Shinigami in the face again.

Whether or not she was successful or not she would then release her grip on the Shinigami's hair and leap backwards. She would get about five feet away from the Shinigami and stare at her again holding her zanpakuto in her left hand. Izanami had heard what the Shinigami had said and for some reason was having difficulty understanding what she meant by the first part. She had said that she fought dirty. Yet Izanami had showered this morning so there was no was that she was already filthy. She didn't get what the girl meant.

In the next moment though Izanami raised the zanpakuto of the Shinigami sideways and grabbed the end of the blade with her right hand placing it in the right position that no part was on the edge. "You are my target nothing else." In the next moment without hesitation Izanami raised her knee while pulling her hands downwards and kneed the flat of he zanpakuto. Her strength wasn't enough to break it in one shot, but right away the metal of the blade bent severely and then Izanami followed through once again causing the zanpakuto of the Shinigami to break in half.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Yetsuna’s punch managed to make full contact like she had hoped and it seemed like it caused a half decent amount of pain to her enemy too. She had also managed to grab the girl’s right arm under her own so when she pulled down against her hair once more she couldn’t get the same force, or surprise, she had had the first time. Between that and her more solid footing postion she was able to resist the attempt to bring her face down to her knee for a second time. As far as the Shinigami could tell this girl seemed to enjoy using her legs to attack, and if she stuck to that attack pattern there was a chance she could exploit it.


After the leather clad girls attempted attack they both pulled away from each other, but as they did Yetsuna could feel her Zanpaktou slide out from its home as the girl took it with her. She suppressed the instinct to grab the sword to stop the attempt; while she could have stopped it it would have resulted in her hand getting sliced open.

The girl seem to stop for a short moment as she thought about what Yetsuna had said to her, seeming slightly puzzled by what she had said. Yetsuna watched as the girl positioned the sword perpendicular to her body, being careful not to cut herself on the blade. She could tell the girl was getting in a position to try and snap her sword in two, the position was eerily familiar to how someone looks when they’re going to snap a stick over their knee and Yetsuna could also see someone the signs that she was going to attack with her knee again. The Shinigami waited, she had an idea.


The girl responded to the question Yetsuna had asked and raised her leg, getting into position to snap the blade. The Shinigami channeled Reaitsu to her feet and executed Shunpo, disappearing from in front of the blonde girl and reappearing behind her. Before she could bring her sword down over her knee Yetsuna did a leg sweep, knocking away the sole foot connecting her to the ground. Yetsuna followed up her leg sweep with hand chop, but it wasn’t aimed at the blonde, the target was her sword. She hit the back end of the blade knocking it away from its captor , sending it flying about 60 feet.

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{Reiatsu}
Techs used: 1 shunpo cost 50 R

total R reduced from 630 to 580

[Izanami Midorikawa]

The hold on the Shinigami girls hair was one thing along with the fact that Izanami still had her grip on the hilt of her zanpakuto and one would figure that everything so far was leading in her favor. That was when the Shinigami started to even the playing fields though. The first punch had held decent force and while it wasn't enough to get Izanami off of her the way that she managed to position her body after that first blow was enough that the follow up assault didn't work out the same way.

The way that the Shinigami had her arm under Izanami's now which held her hair was enough that while Izanami still managed to be able to pull on her hair and without a doubt that would have been at least somewhat annoying it wasn't enough to bring her down far enough a second time. As she raised her knee this time she didn't feel the impact against the face of the Shinigami and knew that if she still had a chance to hit her she would have to disengage her upper body.

It had been a possibility and one that without a doubt would have left the human with another brief if not longer moment of surprise or pain. Izanami was fully capable of disengaging her upper body stepping backwards and raising her leg completely to deliver a high kick to the Shinigami. However, her grip was on the hilt of her zanpakuto and that was a much better opportunity. There was some resistance as Izanami jumped backwards and pulled on the hilt in order to draw the zanpakuto yet her strength was enough that such a thing was barely in her power.

As she stood roughly five feet away from the Shinigami now though she saw that the girl was questioning whether or not to simply charge at her rather then let her use her zanpakuto against her. The Shinigami wasn't stupid for the entire reason Izanami had just taken the zanpakuto was in order to prevent the Shinigami herself from using a blade against her when she herself only had her body. In the moment that Izanami positioned herself and answered the girls question Izanami sensed something though.

She had her right knee raised and was just about to bring the zanpakuto down onto it in order to start smashing it until the blade broke and it would be ineffective in this battle. In that moment though Izanami sensed the reiatsu of the Shinigami spike and had an idea of what was going to happen. She knew that the Shinigami had many forms of combat. She knew of the magic spells by the name of kido yet the girl wasn't speaking an incantation so the possibility of that was low.

At the same time they had their own unique style of physical combat which the girl seemed to be at least trained moderately in or else this battle would have been finished already. Direct hand to hand combat though didn't raise or lower the reiatsu of the individual normally though and Izanami knew this which meant that there was only one likely thing that was going to happen in the next moment. The Shinigami was going to utilize her step technique in order to close the distance and try to get a blow in on Izanami.

Where she would appear though was going to be a different thing to theorize. Izanami knew of two logical places that would make the best place to try and either hit her or attempt to stop her from breaking the zanpakuto. The first was to her right which would give the Shinigami the position to attempt to grab the hilt of the zanpakuto and try to rip it from Izanami's grasp. The other though was the most open ended that many individuals believed to be the opportune location to strike from . . behind.

Izanami suddenly would turn towards the right pulling the zanpakuto with her and slashing as she spun. While she did this the Shinigami would suddenly appear behind her and move her leg downwards in order to kick out Izanami's left foot. While the outcome wouldn't be what the girl was expecting nor would it be what Izanami was expecting to occur. The Shinigami managed to knock Izanami's foot off the ground causing her to start to fall to the ground lopsided however that wasn't all that good for her either since Izanami was holding her zanpakuto and swinging it towards her.

As Izanami fell tot he ground in front of the Shinigami girl the swing would meet the girl and with more than half of Izanami's strength would cut across her chest starting from the right shoulder down to the left hip. In the following moment Izanami would hit the ground with relative force to her weight only to ignore it and reach out with her left hand. She would attempt to grab hold of the Shinigami's right ankle and pull with all her strength in order to bring the girl to the ground.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Yetsuna made her move executing her shunpo to get behind her target, but things seemed to fall apart for both of them quickly. Yetsuna’s leg sweep managed to knock the girl over somewhat, but not to the way that she would have liked or had planned. At the same time as the shinigami was kicking the blonde’s leg she spun around sword in her hand to try and slice at the green haired girl and she began to fall mid-swing.


Yetsuna was caught off-guard by the attack, her enemy was surprisingly quick. Yetsuna felt the base of the blade bite into her shoulder a few inches before coming to a stop; their close proximity reduced the effectiveness of the blade a great deal. The shinigami could feel the pain in her shoulder spread through her entire arm as she got ready to counter, she gritted her teeth and shoved it aside mentally; there were more important things to worry about than pain.

As the blade contacted her shoulder the shinigami brought her right arm upwards in an attempt to hit the other girls hand with the metal plate strapped to her arm and making her to release her sword and knock it away. The blade would dig and shift slightly, causing Yetsuna to visibly bare her teeth as she toughed through the pain, before dislodging and flying to the ground behind her several feet away. She’d shunpo again just before the girl would hit the ground, reappearing next to her blade and grabbing it in one swift motion.


She would take a moment to quickly catch her breath and mentally deal with the pain in her shoulder. Yetsuna was still ready to go and far from out of the fight, but she knew that she was at a disadvantage, blow of blow she felt she could keep up with her, but the leather wearing blonde was faster in almost every way. She knew she had to end it soon or face a retreat, she didn’t know if the girl was fighting to the death or not and she didn’t want to find out in the most permanent way possible.

[Izanami Midorikawa]

Falling to the ground was something that Izanami didn't normally have the sensation of actually experiencing in fact this was one of the only times that such a sensation was passing through her stomach. It was rather odd it wasn't like any of sensation that she could think of. It didn't feel like anything she could control more like her body was simply making her feel the sensation based on the fact that she was falling. Whether or not that was true though she didn't know and she didn't all that much care for her attack was on its path.

In the following moment Izanami felt the tongue of the zanpakuto that she had in her hand right now bite into the flesh of its master. She had been successful in her attempt to slash the Shinigami while she was falling to the side towards the ground. However, it seemed that due to the angle she wouldn't be able to actually bring the blade down across the Shinigami chest dealing a significant amount of damage to her. The most that she had done was inflict some decent damage to one specific location of the Shinigami's body and that wasn't good enough.

Izanami then saw the movement of the girl's arm start to rising as she fell and knew that the Shinigami was more than likely going to try and get her grasp back on her zanpakuto. Izanami still falling to the ground lessened her grip on the hilt of the zanpakuto moving her hand backwards as if she was to let go completely as the Shinigami's hand was raised up in an attempt to smack her own hand. When Izanami's hand got right behind the hilt though she extended it as much as she could in an attempt to shove the zanpakuto deeper into her shoulder.

If successful in the next moment as the Shinigami struck the zanpakuto with her own hand in order to send it flying to the side she would cause more damage to her shoulder tiring up some flesh and causing more blood to flow from the wound. Whether or not it was successful though didn't really matter to Izanami she could already sense the build up of the Shinigami's reiatsu and knew from before that the Shinigami was going to execute another shunpo to get some distance.

As the zanpakuto was send flying Izanami picked up by the sound of it as she was nearing the ground. She also just barely managed to see the direction in which it was sent and knew now where the Shinigami was planning to arrive after using her step technique. In a moment the girl in front of her was gone and Izanami fell to the ground feeling her weight upon impact. It wasn't all that hard being how light her body actually is compared to others of her age, but none the less the air in her lungs seemed to leave.

It took a moment, but almost immediately Izanami was back on her feet ignoring the slight pain on her side and in her lungs. She didn't like the strange feeling in her lungs yet didn't understand why she was getting the sensation. From everything that happened so far it seemed that Izanami was the more powerful when it came to basic strength and speed yet she was now at the disadvantage once again. She didn't have a weapon and the Shinigami had just regained her zanpakuto.

Izanami decided that it was time to do everything she could to eliminate the target. She in all honestly didn't know why she hadn't done that from the beginning it was her mission yet for some reason she had been holding back. So now walking over towards the Shinigami Izanami simply starred at her eyes with her own that bore into the soul. Silver eyes unlike anything else ever created the eyes of a goddess that knows no passion.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Yetsuna didn't have as long to recover as she would have liked. The pain in her arm was too bad to ignore anymore and it was bleeding fairly badly; she didn't know how long she had before she risked bleeding out, this was her first time with a severe wound. Yetsuna tried to move her right arm a bit, causing a decent amount of pain in the attempt. She found that she could still use the arm somewhat, but she knew that it wasn't going to be very combat effective. Despite the pain she was surprised at how much abuse her body had taken and at the fact it was still functioning.

The shinigami felt the blood running down her arm and the side of her chest, oddly warm and comfortable against the coolness of the rain, almost like a blanket. It was a weird feeling having a large quantity of blood run freely down her body, the only thing she could really compare it was a taking a shower accompanied by a fair amount of pain. She took the brief respite she had to mental process the pain, it still hurt like hell but she manged to get a handle on it.

She shifted into a reversed version of her normal combat stance, she was ambidextrous when it came to combat due to some personal training she undertook. Her adversary stood back up, though rather than charging her like she was expecting she seemed to walk over to her. Their eyes locked with each other a silent contest of wills seemed to be taking place and Yetsuna was unwilling to back down, at least for the moment; she wasn't going to leave her first real challenging battle before she felt she had given it her all.

The blondes eyes seemed somewhat vacant to the shinigami, almost like she lacked any form of free will. "Before we continue tell me something, why are you attacking me? What's the point of fighting a stranger?" Yetsuna couldn't have cared too much less about the fact that she had picked a fight, she always enjoyed a good one, but she was curious why the girl had picked the fight in the first place. Was she on a hit list? Maybe the girl was a psychopathy? Hopefully she could get an answer, the girl seemed like someone of few words.

[Izanami Midorikawa]

Time itself seemed to be slowing down as Izanami began to make her way over towards the Shinigami. The silver eyes that held no passion, no understanding and no empathy within them gazed upon the figure of the Shinigami. Blood was flowing from the cut that Izanami had been able to inflict upon her shoulder and she was able to discern from the amount of blood that was sweeping out that the cut had been deep enough.

The Shinigami seemed to be trying to move her right arm now in order to tell whether or not she would be able to use it like normal. Izanami wasn't really all that sure whether or not the Shinigami felt she could or not for there was nothing to base that assumption on. All she knew was that the Shinigami was bleeding in an area that during combat would always be in motion which meant the blood wouldn't cease to leak out of her body. Over time the Shinigami would get slower and grow to tired to continue her desperate attempts at victory.

As Izanami walked slowly over towards the Shinigami though her aura for the first time during this confrontation would make itself present. The moment that the Shinigami actually took the time to gaze upon her black clothing and silver eyes something new would rush throughout her body and mind. In that moment a twinge of fear would be accompanied by the chilly grip of fate would climb up her spine. Izanami's aura was now present and the Shinigami would realize that there was nothing good or pleasant about her. The soul of the silver eyed goddess was bleak and filled with darkness.

Izanami continued to walk towards the Shinigami while she picked up some of the basic things that drove the Shinigami's darkness thoughts. The girl switched her zanpakuto to that of her left hand and based on that Izanami came to the decision that the right arm wasn't combat effective anymore and the Shinigami was going to do all she could to focus on offense. Whether the Shinigami wanted to admit it or even realized it she had just given up more valuable information on the battle and the outcome would soon be upon her.

In the following moment though the Shinigami spoke again this time asking why Izanami was attacking her. The leather bound blonde continued to walk her face void of expression even as her lips began to move in reply. "Yetsuna Yishnir is the target of Izanami Midorikawa. Assignment nearly complete Izanami Midorikawa shall be victories over Shinigami Yetsuna." The distance between the two girls was now little more than five feet and in that moment Izanami starred into Yetsuna's green eyes with her silver. What was barren of emotion only a moment ago seemed to play host to something far more sinister.

"Yetsuna Yishnir is all alone. No reinforcements will be deployed. No other Shinigami in area. Alone, in pain and about to die by herself is the fate of Yetsuna Yishnir." Whether or not Yetsuna allowed Izanami to fullfil everything that she planned on saying didn't matter. If she rushed forward and attacked Izanami would respond accordingly. If she attempted to execute another shunpo Izanami would pick up on the concentrated spike of her reiatsu.

The battle was about to be concluded as Izanami lunged forward as fast as she could move. Getting inside of Yetsuna's blade length wasn't something that was likely to even happen without the Shinigami swinging her zanpakuto in an arc in front of her to hit Izanami before she could get to her so taking preemptive measures Izanami raised her right knee and jumped off the surface of the ground with her left foot. In the next moment her knee would be raised high enough that it would collide with Yetsuna's face while her sword arm would only hit the side of Izanami's hip with her zanpakuto being to long for the blade to actually hit her.

[Yetsuna Yishnir]

Yetsuna watched the blonde approach has she answered her question; she could tell the human was going to rush her again, but her talking gave her a moment to plan. She thought quickly, the girl had predicted her shunpo before (that or was stupid lucky), meaning she knew the shinigami step technique, and as far as she knew the only ways to tell it was coming were from reiatsu build-up or muscle movement. Yetsuna didn't telegraph to heavily that she was going to use a shunpo, at the academy they were trained to use that technique without hinting at it obviously before execution, meaning the leather-clad woman could likely sense her reaitsu.

Time seemed to slow as Yetsuna waited for the woman to close in, the calm before the storm as one might say. The woman got within four feet and the shinigami made her move. Yetsuna swung out her right arm, causing her no small amount of pain, but also sending a large quantity of blood out towards the girls face. In the same instant she built up and released the amount of reiatsu that one would use to execute a shunpo in an attempt to mislead the girl.

Following up the first part of her attack Yetuna will sprint to the right (keeping her at a distance of between 4 to 5 feet) and drop down slightly, spinning around to catch the woman in the back of the thigh. The slash was attempt to hamstring her opponent, but either way the blade will bit into her leg full strength, augmented slightly by the speed from the spin. If successful she will once more build up reaistu, but this time she will actually use it.

Yetsuna will execute a shunpo and reappear 8 feet above (and 5 feet out) from the woman. Yetsuna will have her blade in both hands visibly gritting her teeth, both from focusing and pain, as she descends onto the blonde trying to cut into her shoulder. If the strike makes contact the blade will have the full force of her weight and the speed from gravity behind it. After that she will jump back to a distance of 10 feet. "That should level the playing field a bit."

If blood doesn't blind the girl and her attack misses Yetsuna will Shunpo backwards to a distance of 25 feet. 

50 built up and then returned. -50 Reaitsu for shunpo

530 remaining

[Izanami Midorikawa]

Izanami continued to close in on the female shinigami as she spoke to her. Answering the question that the shinigami had actually asked her wasn't something that Izanami would normally do yet the reason why she was answering didn't seem to be working. She could feel what made the female scared and what drove her darkness thoughts to the surface of her mind. Even now as she spoke about one of the most serious things that this shinigami was afraid of it seemed that the girl wasn't going to back down. There was one reason for that though and Izanami picked up on it after not seeing the expression of the shinigami change with her words.

The shinigami wasn't paying her any attention at all at the moment even though she had been the one to ask a question. Any normal individual would more than likely feel angered by this realization as it was actually something very rude. However, Izanami was anything, but normal and her lack of emotions led to her experiencing nothing from the expereince itself. No the only thing that Izanami recieved from understanding what was going on was the information that this shinigami was planning something at this very moment.

Izanami didn't really know what the shinigami was planning to do as there was nothing that she had done so far that she hadn't been able to counter or simply deal more damage in the exchange of. She didn't really know if the shinigami was talented or powerful enough to cast any sort of kido, but leaned more towards the idea that she couldn't simply based off the fact that she hadn't as of yet in this battle. The only technique that this shinigami had actually done so far was the standard step technique for shinigami know as Shunpo and that hadn't helped her significantly either so what she was planning had to be more complex.

Izanami had gone through ample time now that she had picked up on the way that the shinigami moved during battle and what her stance was when she was about to move. Being able to learn things about the opponent was something that would always be necessary in long drawn out confrontations. Being taught that along with her ability to precieve battle accurately had allowed Izanami to put up the details of this shinigami and how she moved through the fabric of space. Now though she could sense the reiatsuj of the shinigami beginning to rise as she neared her and was starting to assume that the female was going to execute another shunpo in hopes of putting more distance away from them.

That was when the right arm of the shinigami twitched slightly at the shoulder as she started to raise the arm in hopes of swinging the blood off her wound and into Izanami's eyes to blind her so that her combination could work. Izanami had seen the movement of the right arm though and at first didn't really understand why the shinigami was going to use the one appendage that had already been wounded against her. She still had her left arm which held her zanpakuto so it made more sense that she would use her none dominate hand to continue this fight. That was when she realized the blood could be used as a distraction and the angle and speed at which the arm was being raised meant a few thinsg that Izanami could preceive.

The arm of the shinigami wouldn't be able to strike her as it would pass by to the left far to early. That meant that the blood that was leaking out over the arm from the wound that Izanami had inflicted on the shinigami would more than likely be sent flying towards her. It wouldn't take a genius to understand after gaining that bit of information to know that the shinigami was going to rely on the blood hitting her as a distraction in order to execute something far more lethal. Izanami had to act swiftly in order to counter whatever this was that the shinigami was planning. Just as the hand was being swung Izanami stopped moving forwards and her head began to swing from right to left.

Izanami suddenly leaned backwards just as the blood was moving through the air towards her face. She could sense the rise in reiatsu from the shinigami yet not the execution of the technique which caused the burst of reiatsu to spike. That didn't mean that she couldn't use Shunpo at any moment though so she continued onwards. Just as the shinigami woiuld continue on her plan to sprint to the right keeping the distance between herself and Izanami at four to five feet. At this time though Izanami was bent backwards to the point that it actually looking like her knees and shins were supporting her entire body which now was horizontal. Izanami kept her eyes on the shinigami as her body moved swinging to the side.

The shinigami swung around and her zanpakuto was in plain sight an obvious attack that would rely on surprise in order for it to be successful. Izanami now knew what had been so important about using the blood against her. She had been planning to blidn her in hopes of this attack working. Izanami could see that the zanpakuto was still going to strike at her shines now though as she was positioned that way towards the shinigami. Yet as the zanapkuto moved towards her Izanami lowered herself even more to the point she was barely a few centimeters off the ground and the zanpakuto's blade passed over her. Izanami was supported by her ankles alone it seemed something that defied all logic.

It was then that Izanami felt the spike in the reiatsu of the shinigami again and then the burst of it while seeing the body of the girl vanish. All of this confirmed that she had this time executed another shunpo. It only took a moment though to see that she had only done so to put distance between herself and Izanami. She was roughly between twenty and thirty feet away and was looking at her. Izanami would suddenly rise back up to her full height standing straight up as she looked towards the shinigami her silver eyes and expression the same as it had been since the shinigami had seen her about two minutes ago.