It was night time. The time where most would be asleep, the perfect timing for her to carry out the mission silently. Sliding the mask on her neck to cover her mouth, she narrowed her eyes looking down at her target that she was sent to kill.

Rai Fukuo.

The former 5th seat of the 1st division. His Zanpakuto's ability is earth. In other words, he can completely manipulate the land and bury his attackers down if he wants to. Making him a dangerous person. From the distance, he actually looks harmless and naive. Too bad he posed a threat. His presence alone led the opposition in Seireitei to grow in each passing day. It's pretty troublesome considering how much the opposition kept attacking different districts these past few days.

Guess who has to clean up if the one responsible gets away?

Luckily, the council full of old bags decided it was time to end this mess. They sent out an order that was passed through Yama-ji 'to silence the rebelling forces' they said. The one who was set to get this mission was actually the head commander, Yoruichi who hid as soon as she saw the scroll in Shinoa's hand.

Bottling up a sigh, Shinoa grabbed her blade from behind and went behind the shadows. She unsheathes her sword before jumping down the tree and appeared in front of him "Let's end this."

'Dodge' Shinoa frowned side stepping as soon as she heard Shuntendoji's voice in her mind. The ground began to shake violently for a few seconds before it calmed down, smoke began to scatter around the area. She whipped her head to take a look, a line was engraved on the ground where she last stood.

Hmph. So I was seen.

'Blame yourself for not taking this seriously.' Her right eye twitched at her Zanpakuto's insult but decided not to retort back.

"Who are you?" Despite being attacked the opposition leader stood still, pointing his Shikai in her direction.

How admirable. Most people who would come to face her would normally run away in fear. Shinoa stayed silent as an answer to his question, watching his every move. He stomped on the ground, Shinoa let out a gasp as she felt her weight being thrown off, sending her flying as the ground she stood on suddenly grew high.

Che. An earth-based sword.

Such luck deserves one damn award.

The rebel prepared for another attack, but Shinoa beat him to it. Using shunpo to appear behind him, she swiftly grabbed the hilt of the tantō tied behind her back, bringing it down. Fukuo barely managed to dodge the last second, bitting down the scream that tempted to come out of his mouth as a diagonal slash ran down from his upper shoulder to his side.

Shinoa looked up, just in time to see Fukuo use his Zanpakuto's ability to create a hundred clones of himself. Che. Shinoa bit her lip, closing her eyes for a few seconds as she made clones of herself that equal the number of the other side. Clones fought clones, or at least that was what it appears to be. The raven-haired female stared at the clones before her, taking in his features, remembering it as one of the many others who have fallen into her hands.

"Focus" Hearing her Zanpakuto's voice, she calmed down. Closing her eyes, she muted every sound on the clearing. Her scarlet eyes slowly opened, switching to every clone who passed through her line of sight. She couldn't hear anything. Not even her partner's voice, but her eyesight was clear, trained on a figure standing behind a tree. There!

She threw her blade to her right, where the original Rai stood, fighting a clone version of her in the midst of confusion. Noticing the blade too late, he stared wide-eyed as the sword went through his chest, pinning him against a nearby tree.

Instantly silencing him.

Huffing, Shinoa folded her arms, staring as the clones from both sides disappeared one by one. She walked over to her target and slowly pulled out her Tantō from Fukuo's body, swinging it in the air, removing the blood from her blade as she places the sword back to its sheath.

"Sorry about that partner," she said inside her head. 'Hmph! We will train more in the future' was all she got as a reply. She snickered, leaving the spirit with his usual tantrum to a halt. "If you say so"


"Yoruichi-san~" she sang the name while walking through the barracks of the second division, ignoring the people she passed by. Turning on the right street, she slid the door open to the captain's room and was met with the sleeping figure of a woman underneath a pile of paperwork. Shinoa walks towards her, contemplating whether to wake up her lazy captain or to just leave her hanging. Frowning down, staring at the tired figure of Yoruichi somehow annoyed the hell out of her.

Fine. I'll leave her business to herself.

She brought her hand down that was itching to just slam the stupid mission scroll down the table and wake this lazy captain of hers. Tapping her foot on the floor, a sign that a shadowed figure took, appearing in front of Shinoa, kneeling in silence. She gave the scroll to the person's hands "Give this scroll to Yoruichi-san when she wakes up." The man merely nodded and went away behind the shadows.

Letting out a sigh, she took a walk to calm her irritated nerves.