Chasing after her he pulls his sword and knocks her unconsious. "First restraint!" He binds the girl and brings her back. "Training hard and killing yourself are two very different things. You take little care of your body and force pain on yourself. It is irresponsible, reckless and shows a childish search for raw power. If you wish to hone that power and have actual skill it takes more than just increasing your indurance. You are still wet behind the ears. Now lay there and heal. Then you will be free to do as you please. Struggle and you know what will happen." Byakuya left the small shinigami to think.
Miyabi lays there fuming angrily. If he had been a bit nicer she might not be so mad.She lays there refusing to let herself sleep. She wanted to get back at Byakuya even if it hurt her.
'The only way to gain is by pushing yourself to do your best every time. If I don't push myself hard enough I'll never catch on and learn quickly. For the coming war I need to learn and master quickly.' Miyabi gains an idea. She powers up to the point of her Viazard form and stays this way to see how long she can make herself stay this way. Hours begin to pass and she broke into a sweat half an hour in. Her idea was to pass the time and do something about her exess angery energy.
Takashi walked up to Byakuya's house and spoke privately with Byakuya. Miyabi was able to see the two sitting together but couldn't hear the conversation. Byakuya seemed upset but compliant and Takashi made his way for the room. After a moment of awkward silence Takashi dispelled the binding technique and spoke to Miyabi. "You are back under my training. You are ready to learn real skills now, not just gaining raw power. If you keep trying to 'improve' you will only be killing yourself. You dont seem to realize how much stress your body is under when using the Viazard form. you are going to kill yourself if you dont learn skill. keep going and it will mean your death. You have one day to think and decide. If you chose to lear be at the training ground tomorrow morning." Takashi walks away leaving Miyabi to think.
Miyabi let's her self power down and glares after Takashi. "why would you care?" She says aloud without fear or sadness. She had hoped he heard that. Then they could get to the bottom of things and she would be able to understand him and bear triaining with him once again.
'They don't get it. Neither of them.'
Takashi stops in his tracks and tilts his head slightly. "I care because I need your power. It is essential to the protection of soul society. If you want to selfishly and foolishly destroy that, I will not allow it. I am many things, but I remain the comander here." Takashi walked out of the room and went to the department of science to find what he had been ordered created. he was taken to a room and found a young boy wearing what looked like a skull cap made out of an actual skull. the left side had an offshoot that covered the eye and some of his cheek.
'hmn, if they do not understand the power of a week arancer, how could they even phathom the power of one like esparda?' "BOY! do you remember me?" Takashi looked at the young boy and he looked back at takashi. "YOU! YOU TOOK MY PARENTS FROM ME SHINIGAMI! I WILL KILL YOU!" The boy fought his restraints but the room was made to weaken anyone in it. all spiritons were continuously drained out of the room making the person inside powerless. Takashi thought to himself.
'This poor boy still blames me for their death. that is why he became a hollow, that is why he sought power and found the way to become an arancar. Now he is just a training dummy for us here. forgive me son, but it is not a chance i can let slip.'
Miyabi's angery mood was not improved by Takashi. She quicksteps out of Byakuya's family home not caring if he followed and put her under restraints again. She felt as if her heart's cries were not being heard nor understood. She manages to get to the door of soul society with out meeting anyone. She leaves and makes sure the door is closed. "I don't care anymore." She held her chin high and went to town looking for esparda. She walks into the alley where she had last seen him "ESPARDA! I have a proposition for you." Her hardened heart had let her come here.
"Hehehehehehe HAHAHA! Foolish child you have a proposition for me? It seems the fates are being ever so kind to me, I was just on my way to find you. This is no proposition though. You will come with me or you will be killed. Make no mistake about it, you have only 2 choices, you come with me now, or we kill all your friends, make you watch, then kill you." Esparda grabbed the girl and held his katana to her throat. "Any questions?"
Her nostrils flare and her mouth grows tight. "No sir. I'll go anywhere right now just remove the damned blade from my throat." She sets her jaw and growls to her self.
Cutting the skin on her throat he removed his blade "Think of it as a reminder, now you will remember who is in charge." Esparda ripped the fabric between the real world and Hueco Mundo. "Follow me girl!"
Miyabi touches her neck gently and see the blood. "Thanks. I needed another scar." She rolls her eyes and gestures for him the lead the way as she wraps a loose sash around her neck to stop the bleeding.
Shinji Takashi is approached by Byakuya. "Sir, my men have reported reatsu pulses matching those of Esparda coming from the real world. They also sensed a reatsu matching that of Miyabi's. Also they both disapeared into a portal to Hueco Mundo. I request permission to follow and retrieve her." Byakuya looked at Takashi. Takashi replyed, "No she is a big girl, she wants to know better and can't get it through her head that this is a military opperation then it is something that she has to deal with onb her own. put a report out that Miyabi is now an enemy to everyone in soul society. If she is seen she is to be captured and returned for trial." Takashi walked out of his office and went searching for Shiro. Byakuya looked enraged but stood silent.
'I guess I will have to get permission from the inner chamber. I hope my appeal will be heard.'
Miyabi takes care not to get to far from Esparda. She did not want to be eaten at this point. though she knew she would be able to take them on... just not all at once.
'Where is this creep leading me?'
"You, this is as far as we go, first I want information. What has that bastard Takashi got planned for me? What does he know, and how prepaired is he? Don't misunderstand this as me being worried, I just want a good laugh at his febel preparations for the inevitable." Esparda stood totally confident. "One way or another he will die by my hands the way everyone of importance to him has."
Byakuya was quickly gaining support for his appeal and was given the okay by the inner court. The only reason for the support was the fact that they didnt want the power of the viazard to be discovered before they were ready for battle. Byakuya on the other hand wanted to get Miyabi back for other reasons. He felt for her in a way he felt for his former wife and wanted to see her returned safely. He wouldnt admit it as it would show a sign of weekness to his men, and he didnt want his emotions showing so he masked it under the pretext of her gaining power. Takshi was unhappy about the undermining of his decision and wouldnt give byakuya any men to follow. Byakuya left for Hueco mundo in a hurry armed only with Senbonzakura.
Miyabi sits back upon her heels. "First off what's my garuntee that I'll live at least getting into the human world from where I am now?" She crosses her arms across her cheast.
"Child there are no garuntees, yes I could gut you open right now if i desired and you could do nothing to prevent it, but you are more useful to me alive. How better to get the most fun out of killing takashi then having the woman he loves standing by my side?" Esparda continued laughing while he spoke.
Miyabi stares at him "He no longer knows what love is Esparda. I no longer love him either." She nods her head and turns to walk away. "though you are right. I am more useful to you alive then dead. You are panicking because you don't know what his powers are anymore. you may sense a little bit of what he has but trust me. you have no idea." She begins to walk back to where he had led her through.
"Is that so?" Esparda drew his sword and pierced her shoulder. "Fucking child, do you understand where you are and who I am? Takashi is the one who is panicing. You think that power of his is new? how do you think he originally obtained Leviathan? It was because he embraced the darkenss and became a Viazard. He hasn't gained anything other than a second hollow within himself. If it is the power of 2 hollows I am up against well guess what sweetheart, I posess the entire power of Hueco Mundo. I have the power of 100 Gillian in my right hand alone. Not only could I crush your body but i can crush every single spiriton that you are made of. DO you understand what kind of power that is? I AM GOD!" Esparda pulled the sword out of the girls shoulder and left her bleeding on the floor. "Remember who you are dealing with. I am not concerned with his power, I just want to know exactly what he has in mind to try and suprise me. My goal is the full enjoyment of torturing that soul, then devouring it and adding it to my own power." Esparda walked away.
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