Odd Bird

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Okay here’s the deal I had everything set up on disks and a flash drive. An adopted brother of mine offered to transfer everything to a cd as well as printing it out. Not only did he fry my flash drives (grumbling and cussing) he half wiped the disk and corrupted the data with ALL 10 chapters of Odd Bird that we had notes for and the three we needed to spell check (I really screwed up Yachiru’s name as well as several other things) So luckily I kept the notes and stuff Rysh and I worked things out with. But I need to re-order Odd Bird a bit I gave you the shortened second chapter (sigh) that sucked (No just seemed stilted Af it wasn’t as bad as that old x-men story I found) So to make up for it I’m putting this chapter up as well. This is about 3 weeks later she’s fully healed and able to finally train with the squad and you get to see just what she does to that psychotic mime from hell in the courtyard after she settled into the squad. This way I can get chapter 2 of ‘You are not alone’ settled as well. We’re linking the two and will wind our other fanfics thru the whole story-verse it’s kind of how we operate.

I know we said we’d have some of this up by the third, but Af’s mate (who’s computer we are using) had a 20 page paper due Monday, so when we got kicked off this one. On the bright side is that her ‘kaa-san’s machine was able to read the sick disk and came up with the stuff we needed for the double update for this story. The only other suckey thing is the brat changed the password for the account so I couldn’t log in to review and thanks to her darn dial up deamon in Portland she couldn’t either.

“Okay squad we’ve got new meat joining us today” Ikkaku’s voice rang out over the courtyard as Ami stood next to him. Her red hair tightly braided and wrapped with black and white ribbons, and a good natured grin on her face that didn’t quite reach her grey eyes. Those eyes held the glimmers of pure mischief in them.

“Who am I training with Sir?” she said as snickers rang thru the group made up of newer members and seasoned fighters. Murmurs of ‘the cook thinks she can fight eh?’ and ‘wonder if she knows which end of the sword to point at the enemy?’ came thru the crowd.

Just as Ikkaku was about to reply an oily cold reaitsu filled the area and the squad members watched as Ami’s expression turned cold her hand moved to the hilt of her zampakto and her stance altered becoming defensive. The snickers stopped as the recognized the look of a fighter, that she might just be one of them. Her reaitsu altered it almost seemed to be weaker but Ikkaku looked over at his partner Yumichka and they shared a glance realizing it was an act. She was hiding her strength for what reason they didn’t know.

“Ahhh Sazuko there you are, you must have been put in this squad by mistake get your things like a good girl and come with me you belong in the 12th. The chilling oily voice of Kurotsuchi rang thru the courtyard as he appeared and grabbed her by the arm.

“No” she said pulling her arm out of his grasp with a slight wince, “I’m in the 11th squad I have NO desire to join your squad Kurotsuchi” she said deliberately omitting the honorifics, her hand gripping her sword tighter as she felt chills tingling up and down her spine. Yumichka could see her knuckles turning white as she fought for control. She evaded him a second time.

“What are you doing here Kurotsuchi?” Kenpachi said as he stepped from the shadows Yachiru happily clinging to his shoulder.

“I’ve come to reclaim one of the graduates that should have come to my squad I requested her specifically and I was told she was sent here instead.” Kourosuchi’s smooth voice said as he grabbed for her arm again. “I don’t have to explain why I want her to trash like you. Come on Girl” he said reaching for her a third time. Ami sidestepped away from his grasp pivoting a little so her back was to the wall and she had a clear avenue of escape as well as room to draw and swing her sword should it come to that. Ikkaku and Yumichka shared another glance and half smile noticing she had also left them room to fight as well. She definitely knew what she was doing.

“Why don’t we prove she belongs with us” Kenpachi said he had also noticed her shifts in movement he also remembered the drawing Yachiru had handed him the day they had met the girl. He smiled and stepped into the courtyard. “Sazuko into the ring” she bowed and stepped into the hastily cleared ring. “Kurotsuchi if you’re not afraid cross swords with her. Her shikai against your unreleased blade should be fair.” He said with his trademark wolf like grin.

“Just to be fair I’ll start with my blade unreleased ‘sir’” she spat at the 12th squad Taiocho her expression went from her normal warmth to that of a cold killer a small smile reminiscent of that of a certain lavender haired Taiocho that shall come up later in the story. “First Blood?” she asked.

“Agreed,” Kurotsuchi, said grinning again. They bowed to each other and began trading blows. (a/n I’m not going into the whole battle because I’m not familiar with Japanese sword fighting style I know European/western heavy and some swishy-pokey fencing)

“Awaken Sei hogutenshi (1)” she called out her eyes glowing silver, her hair escaping the careful braids and her reaitsu spiking her sword changed from an ordinary katana to something that looked like a cross between a European short sword and a Chinese Tai Chi.

She lowered her left hand that held her sword and her right hand came up and was held out a little lower than shoulder height. A glowing shield of spirit pressure formed around her Kourosuchi came at her again, she pushed her right hand further out, and he went flying backwards into a wall his hand behind him. He regained his feet and green goo started dripping from his hand as he started towards her again.

“First blood” Kenpachi said. “Good job, Sazuko stand down.” When she seemed unwilling he added “NOW!” she bowed to him released her sword. “My Office” he pointed. She bowed again and quickly obeyed. He turned to Kourosuchi “She’s ours leave her alone and get back to your own squad”.

“I won’t forget this Trash.” He said as he left the training area.

“Well enough gawping get your asses back to work” Kenpachi said and turned to go back to his office. He stopped and said, “Whoever doesn’t do well is playing Tag with Yachiru” His small Lieutenant Squealed grabbed her zanpaktou and went to watch the squad members waiting to see who she could wallop next.

(1) Literally means Star Guardian pm me and I’ll give you my reference page it’s an online Japanese dictionary I’ll put a link in my bio if I can figure out how

Okay That’s it for now The Next chapter we find out why Ami gets those weird chills down her spine and how much of a bastard the psychotic mime from hell is there’s also a clue to her connection with the Kuchki family (it’s small and I won’t say anything)

Song List for this chapter

Nobody’s Listening by Linkin Park

Number One Hazel Fernandez (it’s the song you hear whenever Ichi is fighting)

Feel Good Inc. By Gorillaz

And the final fight seen

I Stand Alone by Godsmack