Post by Izumi Kunpuu on Dec 8, 2013 18:17:47 GMT -5
Izumi hated winter. She always avoided the northern rukongai districts because of the cold, but she couldn’t avoid her duty. The Mortal Realm’s four seasons had once been of great interest to her, but old age had made the Spring Rain picky of what seasons she still liked. Spring and summer were fine and dandy, but autumn pushed things, and winter might as well be synonymous with hell. The white fog of her breath and the goosebumps that made up her skin were annoyances that the loose-fitting shinigami uniform didn’t account for.
Not wanting to stay in the freezing sky, Izumi hopped from the edge of the senkaimon as it closed behind her and landed on the edge of one of Tokyo’s many skyscrapers. It was covered in a crust of snow that seeped through her sandals, and with a curse Izumi quickly slid down the side of the building and landed atop a traffic light. The heat meant that no snow could cling to the metal, and she was glad to have her sandals dried.
Izumi looked around the city, ignoring the bustling humans while absentmindedly stroking her chin. Seireitei isn’t nearly as confusing, she mused. Humans liked to make their settlements so complicated even thoughts could get lost within. With a click of her teeth, Izumi pulled out the phone given to her and quickly scanned the area for the spiritual pressure she was searching for. A blue ping popped up on the screen and she was off in a flash, jumping from pole to pole.
The construction ahead was desolate and blanketed in white. Izumi made a shrewd note of how the humans had enough common sense to get out of the weather, and how her superiors lacked enough to send her into it. Landing on top of a bulldozer, she pulled out the phone again to scan for the source. The blue light pinged for a moment...before turning black in the next second.
“Wha--”
“GRAAAAAH!”
The scream cut Izumi off, who in the next heartbeat blasted through the scene. She landed in a flashy skid, and waves of snow were kicked up into high drifts by her landing. A shed had been broken into, the roof a smoking hole and the door a torn ruin. Outside a bloody arm was dying the snow red, and the remains of a young body was impaled on a steel beam.
Already Izumi’s senses were being honed. Instead of reaching for the tanto on her left hip, her hands were curling into tight fists. She could sense a spiritual power inside the shed, one that she was sure had killed what she assumed to be the quincy she was coming to meet.
Izumi’s spiritual pressure flashed out as she took a single step towards the shed. The snow soaking her sandals was forgotten, as was the biting chill in the air. “Whoever is inside, come out now. I’m too old for this.”