Forgotten Memories (sakuradoll)

[Ziyi]

Lately, a huge group of Menos Grandes along with an army of ordinary Hollows had gathered in a small part of Karakura Town for no logical reason. This had inspired the Captain-Commander Yamamoto to send out the 10th Division captain, vice captain and a few others in their squad to go check it out and take care of the problem.

Toshiro Hitsugaya, Rangiku Matsumoto and three others from their division had answered the call and followed orders, heading through the gate portal to discover what was wrong with that particular area. When they had arrived they couldn't find any disturbances but that didn't mean the monsters weren't there, only that they weren't around at the moment.

So they went into their gigai bodies and separated for the time being, Toshiro going to get some food for dinner, Rangiku going to get some sake because a little bit wouldn't hurt even if they were on the job, and the others remaining where they were to be on the lookout for Hollows. As it was the Hollows showed up ten minutes after Matsumoto and Hitsugaya had left and the captain and vice-captain were alerted to the danger moments later.

Rangiku arrived first and quickly took note of the situation. "Growl, Haineko!" She called out and her zanpakuto turned to ash and wrapped itself around a Hollow obliterating it within moments, returning to her blade to reform into a sword-shape again. Matsumoto leaped forward to bring her sword down through another Hollow as the other three did the same while the Menos Grandes looked on almost idly.

Then out of nowhere they suddenly converged and three opened their mouths to shoot three different Zeros at the vice-captain. "Sit upon the frozen heavens Hyōrinmaru!" Toshiro's voice called out and an ice dragon placed itself between the Zero and Rangiku, causing the Zero to obliterate the icy object while Matsumoto got to safety.

"Matsumoto. You should pay more attention to your surroundings." Toshiro's voice sounded somewhat aggravated as it always did.

"Taichou!" Rangiku exclaimed and flash stepped over to Hitsugaya as she looked around at the Menos Grandes and the remaining Hollows. "How are we going to destroy all of them? What do you think they're here for?" She frowned, trying to come up with some sort of explanation.

 

[sakuradoll]

It started out a cool morning the sun was starting to rise in the sky a slight chill held in the air. A girl was out in the courtyard of a shrine sweeping the leaves. Pausing a moment she looked to the sky seeing a large figure flying over head, She didn’t know what the monsters she saw were called, but she saw them, a lot. At times they seemed to be coming for her, searching her out. The girl searched the sky looking up her fiery red eyes peering though her reddened bangs sighing hoping the creatures would just leave her alone, leave the town though she knew that wasn’t going to happen.

She wanted to ignore it but she knew if she did more than likely someone would get hurt. The monks whom took her in always told her she was different, special, had a special gift normal people, even themselves could never really understand. And she used her gift to stop the monsters.

With a heavy sigh she returned to the shrine leaving her broom by the door making her way down the long hallway to her room shutting the door she slipped her temple garments off walking to her mirror looking at herself. She was always disgusted with her appearance. Ever since she’d changed. Her burning red eyes, and fire red bangs, and the mark emblazoned on her skin. She grunted in disapproval pulling her hair into a high ponytail grabbing the bandages she used to hide her markings, wrapping it snuggly around her arm as she walked to her dresser opening it she’d pulled out a pair of baggy cargo Capri’s and a baby tee, getting dressed quickly she’d returned to the entrance of her shrine slipping into her sneakers before running out the door and down the stone path in the direction the monsters were traveling.

She’d been running for a few minutes when she’d felt a strange surge of energy, it was different from those monsters. She’d felt something like it before but by the time she’d arrived to the scene no one was around and the feeling was gone. She ran harder not wanting to miss what was happening running down the street turning into the woods coming to a secluded park.

That’s when she’d seen something she didn’t understand. The monsters, lots of them more than she’s seen at one time were attaching a group dressed in black who were fighting them and killing them. She was a little afraid of the scene playing out before her she nearly ran but one of the monsters was coming up beside her it was large towering into the sky, black with a hole through it and spikes encircling it. Opening it’s mouth a beam shot at her. She jumped just barely missing it still getting tossed aside but regaining her composure.

Holding up her hand hesitantly a familiar chant incoherently passed through her lips the markings on her arm glowing through the bandages. What seemed like merely a shot of fire split the hollow in 2. Returning to her panting she fell to her knees hearing the cries of the people in black who were fighting the other monsters, seeing most of them were gone and only 2 people were standing fighting the last one. Knocking one of them out of her range she watched a young man with snow white hair attack with a dragon made of ice which intrigued her get knocked away injuring the monster but not killing it.

She ran to the scene he was barely standing the monster, “LongweiRyuu!: She called unfamiliarly this time a coiled dragon of fire emerged finishing off the monster before it could hurt the white haired guy. Panting as the dragon returned to her she gathered her strength hurrying to the strangers side. Checking him over she saw that he was a live and still breath but badly injured.

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Mitsuna Haetsu’no
20
Long sunny blonde hair with deep red bangs
Bright red eyes.
5’6
120
She has markings on her right arm she usually covers with a bandage or long glove to hide.
She was lightly trained in hand to hand combat to protect herself. She’s really good with her bow and arrow, she can clean, cook, she pretty much takes care of the residents of the shrine.


Mitsuna was your average girl, born to elderly parents who passed away when she was 3, never meeting her sister who died a long time before she was even born. She lived in a local shrine since she was 11 what family she has fears her thinking she’s cursed, or a pyromaniac. After a bad fire when she was 10 the people from the shrine took her in feeling something special was hidden within her.
-----Before that fire she was your usual blonde haired blue eyed little girl. But trapped in the flames something happened her hair and eyes changing a mark appearing on her arm. She’s not fully aware of her power only that she’s different. She sees things and experiences things others don’t.

Despite her insecurities, she’s a friendly social girl. Can be a little on the serious side but is generally a playful nice girl.

 

[Ziyi]

Before Mitsuna had arrived at the scene Toshiro had gotten unexpectedly hurt quite a bit, along with his fukutaichou and while this was expected during missions, how they had gotten injured was not normal. Hollows did not tend to work together, especially when they were Menos Grande and yet this time they had, almost as though someone had been controlling them and pulling their strings to make them do what they wanted. Hitsugaya had tried to draw one of the Menos Grande's attention to him but as he was doing so a group of Hollows attacked him from behind and when his attention was focused on destroying them, another Menos Grande had sent a Zero shooting at him. Something he had only seen at the last minute.

He didn't have time to turn to bankai because if he paused a split second the Hollows fighting him would converge and take him out. Before he knew it Matsumoto had knocked him aside, trying to make both their escapes possible but she got caught in the after effects of the blast and struck a nearby building, falling unconscious almost immediately inside the building itself. "Matsumoto!" Toshiro yelled as he looked over at the building that his fukutaichou had been driven through and bit his lip as he turned his attention to the Hollow that were remaining. There was no way he could take out a group of Menos Grande along with the Hollows that surrounded it by himself. Why were they working together like this?

It didn't make any sense, Hollows didn't have a mind, not really. They went for people with the most spiritual energy, that was it and yet they were working as a team and lying traps, something was definitely wrong with this picture and Toshiro knew he needed to contact Soul Society. But he didn't have time at the moment. He had to survive. In the next few minutes he constantly flash stepped, using his sword to take out at least ten Hollows before he had to avoid another Zero from a Menos Grande and kept flash stepping until he grew tired, wondering how long he could do this for. There had to be some sort of solution. "Bankai!" Hitsugaya said and when the smoke cleared he had ice wings on his back and an icy dragon at his side.

He used his wings to raise himself up into the air and took out a communication device. "This is Hitsugaya-taichou of the 10th Division requesting backup to our current location. Matsumoto is unconscious and the rest of our team needs medical assistance." He avoided a Hollow that appeared before him and ducked as one behind him tried to slice him in half, making the two Hollows take each other out for the time being but in the process dropped the communication device. "Damn." Toshiro used his wings to transport him around and managed to take out another ten Hollows but more just kept coming and he was growing tired and the Menos Grande were still here. The situation wasn't looking too good.

And then he realized that the Hollows had lured him into a secluded area and he looked around to see that five Menos Grande were surrounding him along with tons of regular Hollow above him to cut off any escape attempts. Hitsugaya's eyes widened as he saw the glowing red balls appear at their mouths and instantly shot downward, hoping to cut the damage in half if he managed to avoid at least some of the Zeros that were bound to come. They came and his wings caught most of the blasts, which destroyed the ice, causing it to shatter but one Zero caught him full in the shoulder and Hitsugaya cried out as he was slammed into the pavement of the ground beneath him.

The after effects of the blast caused him to pass out and he wondered if this was the end for him. He'd never expected to go out like this...the last thing he saw was a girl standing above him and a dragon of fire...

 

[sakuradoll]

Mitsuna watched the scene confused by it all. Usually the monsters she’d seen went after her, not others. And who were the people in black. She sighed her mind trying to figure it wall out till her attention was diverted. She looked to her feet a moment spotting something that looked like a cell phone. Recalling seeing the white haired with it just a moment before. She looked at the screen seeing the red spots but not sure what they were she closed it tucking it into her pocket seeing the white haired kid fighting. As he was being blasted with bursts of energy from the monsters she ran to him reaching him just after a blast made contact casting a worried eye to him before looking back to the towering monster.

“Hey kid…” She called to the white haired young man as she approached him, getting a good look at his features blushing his face was handsome, he had an older look than she would have thought a few wounds and blood marring his features. His eyes were still open appearing to look at him till they’d shut. She stood once more facing the monsters which were coming right for them.

“I hope you are up for this…” She whispered holding her arm above her once again calling the name of the dragon of fire. “LongweiRyuu… “ She called her arm glowing red Slowly a golden red and black burning dragon encircling her. She looked to it with a slight smile turning her attention to the monster. “Uzu nenshou gogyou hasu seme… LongweiRyuu!” She yelled the dragon seeming to nod in understanding glowing blindingly bright, an intense heat emitting from him as he spiraled towards the towering monsters which remained one by one they all evaporated with a piercing cry. She smirked as the last one finally fell grimacing as a few of their attacks reached the dragon and affected her but shook it off as the dragon returned to her fading once more the glow coming from her arm disappeared.
Falling to her knees for a few moments she was breathing hard. Taking a few moment to catch her breath. Looking behind her seeing the white haired young man still unconscious. She moved to his side her reddened eyes running along his features. She debated what to do deciding to bring him back to her shrine and carefully pulled him onto her back glad he wasn’t extremely heavy. She took the woods back to her home as to avoid questions about what happened to them and whom he was questions she couldn’t easily answer. It took her 20 minutes to make it back to the shrine. She felt fortunate the monks weren’t around sneaking into her room carefully placing him on her futon seeing the pained look on his face. She brushed her hand over his forehead her arm glowing. He felt frigid to her but a smile curled her lips as she walked away into her bathroom pulling a glove on her hand she returned to his side debating on removing his shirt seeing blood especially around his shoulder.

With a deep breath she acted carefully removing his top seeing him wince in his sleep as she did so. Carefully she’d cleaned him off and dressed and bandaged the wounds covering him with a clean blanket as he slept. Sitting on the floor beside him she dozed off after a little while still in her dirty clothes.

 

[Ziyi]

"I'm not...a kid..." Toshiro managed to get out before his eyes closed, the sight of Mitsuna being the last thing he saw. He winced in his sleep when she lifted his body to remove his shirt and his head fell to the side, revealing a wound on his head as well but not from the Cero since it wasn't deep. Hitsugaya had probably gotten that when he'd hit the ground, smacking his skull against the pavement. His spiky white hair was mussed up but still retained the style Toshiro always wore it in. Hours later he blinked and his turquoise blue eyes opened. He winced when he tried to sit up and the blanket fell off his form to reveal bandages all over his body. What had happened to him? Had he gotten into a fight or something?

Toshiro looked down to see a young woman with long sunny blond hair and red bangs sleeping on the floor beside the bed. His sister? His girlfriend? A friend? It couldn't be his mother because she didn't look old enough. She probably was his sister, it made the most sense. Why she would care for him, look after him and worry about him. He also didn't feel anything towards her romantically so that made sense too. He wondered why he couldn't remember. Maybe she would know. "Hey! What happened to me?" Toshiro said as he looked over at Mitsuna, waiting for the woman to wake up. Perhaps she would be able to make a few pieces fit into the puzzle and he waited rather impatiently.

 

[sakuradoll]

Mitsuna was lying in a troubled sleep being haunted by the same monsters that have always been in her dreams. This time her mind also replayed the events that took place, with the stranger. The fight she’d helped with. She was confused, the monsters rarely involved anyone else when they came after her. But maybe they weren’t after her.

Abruptly she’d opened her eyes confused as to why she was on her carpeted floor looking around seeing a figure on her futon sitting up quickly rubbing her eyes her fiery eyes taking a minute to adjust seeing the white haired young man on her bed looking around confused before his eyes finally fell onto her. She looked back at him with the same confusion not sure what to say. “Hi…” She said rubbing the back of her head. When he’d asked what happened to him she gave him an unsure look. “I was going to ask you the same thing.“ She said more to herself turning her attention to him once again. “Why were you fighting the monsters?” She asked moving sitting up looking at him as she sat on the floor running a hand through her long duo-toned hair.

 

[Ziyi]

Toshiro's brow furrowed when Mitsuna said she wanted to ask him the same thing and his turquoise eyes narrowed. "What do you mean?" He blinked when she asked him why he had fought the monsters and he wondered if that was a metaphor for something he didn't know about. If it was, he was in the dark about what this woman was talking about and he didn't like the feeling at all. "What are these monsters you speak of? Is that how I got injured?" Toshiro inquired as he glanced down at his body, eyes taking in the bandages for a moment before he looked back up at Mitsuna once more. The spiky white haired male watched as Mitsuna moved to sit up on the floor and he sat up in bed as well.

"You're not going to sit on the bed? The floor looks kind of hard to me." Toshiro remarked and looked around the room once, still not remembering anything about it. "I take it you're my sister, right? What's going on? Why are you asking me about monsters?" He asked, wanting to know what was going on that he didn't know about. Being kept in the dark about certain things was not his idea of fun. But he had to admit she was kind of pretty and he wondered what he looked like.

 

[sakuradoll]

She looked at him trying to think of how to answer his inquires. Though she cocked an eyebrow as she watched him wondering why he didn’t seem to know what she was talking about. And frowned when he didn’t know of the monsters. “I don’t know what they are. They come after me from time to time. I’d found you fighting them. With a few others.” She explained her head leaning forward in thought her bangs falling in her eyes. “You were fighting a lot of them and the number seemed to overwhelm you.” She added.

She shrugged when he’d asked about the floor. “It doesn’t matter to where I sit.” She said idly shifting her position pulling her knees to her chest. Surprised by his next question she gave him a strange look slowly shaking her head as she replied. “I’m not related to you. I don’t even know you. I just happened upon you when I was following the monsters.” She said getting to her feet slowly dusting herself off making her way to her chair which held his clothes still soiled with dirt and blood and holes handing him his clothing when she’d returned to the futon sitting on the end.

“I don’t know what you are... For that matter whom you are. But you’re different like me.” She said with a sad sigh looking out her window across from where she sat on her mat.