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A Shifting of Life	By : Strailo Category: Bleach > General Views: 20784 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Title: A Shifting of Life
Fandom: Bleach
Part: 43
Series: A Shifting World
Characters/Pairings: Harribel, Soi-Fon, Ugaki
Warnings: violence
Word count: 1735
AN: Reposted 7-14-20

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“He will not be easy to defeat,” Harribel stated, tapping her fingers again Tiburon’s hilt, the sword resting against her back. Soi-Fon nodded as she crouched down on the wall that they were waiting on, watching for the portal to open and release Ugaki. She adjusted her zanpakuto across her back idly.

“Who would have thought that the twins would end up spilling all that information about this Ugaki person,” Soi-fon said, eyes narrowing. “The plan is to get to him while the Doll is distracted, yes?”

“Correct. You are the most knowledgeable about stealth attacks in the Seireitei currently, yes?” Soi-Fon nodded. “Then yes, the plan is for me to take the Doll on myself while you are to get into position,” Harribel stated, getting a sharp nod as they shifted on their feet. They could feel the power of the portals build before an opening appeared, a dapper looking man appearing.

He had dressed in a white button-up shirt and a pair of pants that had been pressed to perfection. His gray-black hair was carefully combed to the side while his glasses, his tie a splash of red against the pure white.

Looking about where he had landed, Ugaki played with his cards as the portal closed behind him, feeling the way his doll, Gessel, vibrated in anticipation. Soothing his doll mentally, he allowed the connection with the portal to break fully. He started to walk towards a large, unused storage warehouse that the girl had told them about and where his fellow Bounts would be waiting for him.

His progress was stopped by a ribbon of yellow energy shooting out to him, forcing him to slip backwards and out of the way of the destruction.

As the dust settled from the sudden attack, he found himself facing down a beautiful woman who stood on a piece of upturned walkway, holding what he would have assumed with a zanpakuto. But the fact that it was much shorter than a normal zanpakuto, even one in shikai, and missed the middle of the blade told him that it wasn’t. Her outfit was the other thing that told him that he wasn’t facing a shinigami.

Her clothes were nothing more than a long sleeved top that covered her breast to just under her nipples and up over her lower face with the collar. Her hakamas showed more skin where the slits were and sat halfway down her hips, held on by sheerwill power to his thoughts. Her hair...her hair was an almost bleached shade of blond while the teal eyes stared at him.

A hole sat in the middle of her exposed stomach, a sudden transition from smooth, richly colored skin, making Ugaki frown heavily.

“You are not a shinigami, are you?” he asked. He stood straight, feeling as if she was smirking at him from behind her collar.

“You would be correct,” she responded. Her voice was silky smooth as she easily walked over and around the broken rubble. “I am what is known as an Arrancar. To be precise, I am one of Aizen-sama’s top ten warriors, the Third Espada,” she continued, bringing her sword out before her. “My name is Tia Harribel and I am here to stop you and yours from trying to fulfill the psychotic plan of a woman whose mind has seemingly fractured.”

“An...Arrancar,” Ugaki said slowly, once more taking in every detail of Harribel with that in mind, already working out what he could do, calculating. “I have heard of the rumors of hollows who had torn off their masks, giving them abilities much like a shinigami. But I had no idea that you would work with them,” he said, Harribel shrugging one shoulder.

“It has happened due to several factors, I will admit, and you will not find out about them. Though I am obligated to offer you the chance to give up and come along peacefully,” she told him. Ugaki went stiff as he glared at her.

He pulled out a small mat that started to float before him, allowing him to call upon his doll. “Zeige dich, Gesell,” he called out. Harribel smirked behind her mask as the small floating creature that was Ugaki’s Doll appeared before him. Pulling out the first card in his deck, he smirked as he placed it down on the mat with three more, Gesell flashing brightly and forcing Harribel to cover her eyes. He took the moment to pull a fifth card out and lay it down, creating a spear that was sent at her.

Harribel dodged out of the way of the spear, feeling the heat off of him as it came close to her side, squinting at Ugaki as he scowled.

“My but that is an interesting ability of your Doll,” Harribel mused as the spots that danced across her vision finally disappeared. She saw a flash of black amongst the shadows around them in her peripheral vision before it disappeared. She ignored it, knowing that it was just her partner and it seemed as if Ugaki had missed it.

She didn’t wish to draw any attention to Soi-fon if the Bount had missed her. Not yet. She had to continue to distract Ugaki, giving her partner time to get into her own place.

“Though that power will not save you,” she warned him, her sword glowing as she shifted her stance, balancing carefully and waiting.

“I will not be defeated by a wrench like you,” Ugaki snarled, his eyes narrowing as his Dolls eyes flashed again. They created more shadows all around them before the shadows created more speakers to attack her, one barely nicking her side as she dodged out of the way of them.

Pulling her sword back as if she was about to punch him, a glow wrapped itself into the missing middle, making sure to keep dodging out of the attack, Harribel launched her own attack. She was far from surprised when Ugaki and his Doll moved out of the way of her attack.

He did land where she wanted him to, even as she had to jump and dodge out of a large, purple, almost demonic hand grasped at her from the shadows. She rolled her eyes when it appeared in a new shadow and destroyed it with a cero, unfortunately not darting out of the way when a second formed and hit her. It slammed her into the wall, forcing her to bite off the cry of pain as she pushed herself from the crater that she had created.

Shaking her head and trying to ignore the sudden buzz of pain, she stood straight slowly and glared at Ugaki. The man just smirked at her as he played with his cards, looking almost bored beyond the smugness. He laid another card down onto the mat, sending out another barely dodged attack, Gessel laughing brightly next to him.

He shifted and frowned to himself as his body protested suddenly, flaring with a bit of pain before he relaxed again.

Harribel hummed, smirking at the frown, catching Soi-Fon hiding deeply in the shadow of a doorway behind Ugaki. Suzumebachi curled around Soi-Fon’s wrist and down around her finger, looking so innocently deadly. The assassin was smirking as she rolled her shoulders and looking smug at having landed the hits.

Harribel took the moment to fire another Ora Azuru towards him, watching the ribbon form and destroy the ropes of shadows that were rushing towards her. She rolled her eyes when another demonic hand blocked the attack with a hard smack. The Bount twitched again and rolled his head and shoulders in an attempt to calm himself from the blatant disregard for him.

“Are you starting to feel a little uneasy, Ugaki-san?” Horrible asked him, getting a snarl from the Bount as he started to sway back and forth on his feet. “Or perhaps unwell is the better word to use here?” she asked. One finger hooked into the circle on the end of Tiburon, twirling it lazily around her finger. “I did offer you the chance to surrender, but you didn’t take it.”

“What...what the fuck did you do to me?” Ugaki asked. His vision started to blur and clear as Gesell whined next to him, the various parts of it blinking and bobbing heavily.

“It wasn’t me that did something to you,” Harribel chuckled, shrugging with a hidden smile as she once more grasped the hilt of her sword.

“It wasn’t her, it was me,” Soi-Fon stated, coming out of the shadows as Gesell’s parts fell to the ground, flopping about feebly. Ugaki groaned and came to rest on his knees in an attempt at staying upright.

“What is happening to me?” he growled. It was feeling as if his body was starting to disappear on him. The words that came next confirmed his worst fears, making his eyes widen.

Suzemebachi’s special shikai technique is a poison, a venom that is then placed on your skin,” Soi-Fon said. “That poison creates a seal and when it spreads out, it starts to eat away at your power, dissolving your body. I must hit you twice in the same spot on opposite sides, so I was able to lay them on your sides. It happened when you had to dodge those two times from Harribel’s attack. It is called Nigeki Kessatsu.”

“Death in Two Steps,” Ugaki chuckled, translating as he started to slide to his side, his vision going black as the venom did its work. “How appropriate.”

The two stood together as they watched as the Doll and Ugaki slowly went to dust, the wind that started to blow taking the dust away. Harribel slid her sword into it’s sheath as Soi-Fon released the shikai state of her zanpakuto and slipped it into it’s own sheath.

“We need to fill out the reports once you have been cleared by the Fourth,” Soi-Fon told her. Harribel pressed her hands carefully to her ribs and back, checking them and the sluggishly bleeding cuts.

“At the very least, I am going to be a brilliant collection of colors,” Harribel stated. The two left the area, choosing to watch so as to not jar Harribel’s ribs. Once the Espada was with a healer, Soi-Fon headed back to the Second Division to start writing out her report. Harribel would arrive as soon as she had been cleared too.
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