Bored Intentions [Vaaen]

”What am I even saying,” Katsuki’s head tilted back, and she looked to the side. Her complaints were at an end. There was no point in saying anything else. ”Not like anyone’s here to listen. I must be losing it, or something. I should just shut up now. Not like anything I say would do any..” But she was wrong.

It was her intention to stop right there. The green haired shinigami would have shut her mouth and kept everything she thought in her head for the remainder of the shift. But the universe would not have any of that. May it be some god she knew nothing about, karma or the universe mocking her, in the most unusual and unlikely events, she actually got what she asked for.

It was a case of getting just exactly what you wish for. Katsuki wanted something interesting happened, and that manifested as a sudden shift in the world around her. It was an experience that she had never had before because she had never encountered the type of creature that created such an atmosphere.

There was nothingness at first, with only a strange feeling at the back of her head. Then there was a tug as if the universe was being pushed around, or it was making room for something. Then the visual cues appeared as a black gateway, something like a gateway, showed itself. And then finally something, someone, had appeared through it. Katsuki’s eyes went wide in response to this.

She couldn’t help it. During her time in the gotei 13, she had never experienced a pressure like this. This was obviously no hollow or shinigami. And their entrance, it was obvious they weren’t from the living world either. But wasn’t there something else, another option it could be. She couldn’t remember the name of them, ’Arra.. Arrancar.. Something like that. Is that one of them,’ She thought, but she wasn’t sure.

’Do I stay, or do I leave. I know I wanted something interesting to happen but,’ She really didn’t do anything upon seeing this guy appear. She only remained where she stood, with her mouth open and ready to finish the rant she already started. ’What am I even worried about, I know nothing about these.. Things? Are they things. He doesn’t look like a thing.’

”Uh.. Hiya,” Was all she could say after the guy’s strange introduction. Her hand was now on her neck, while the other one rose to give a half-hearted wave.

She was afraid, but she wasn't as afraid as she was unsure or confused. For a lower seat shinigami like herself, this was one of those events that aren’t expected to ever happen.

Katsuki could not explain it herself. Here was something she was taught to fear. It was; every class she took at the academy and every shinigami that mentioned them only described arrancar as that. They were hollow abominations that have gained some powers of shinigami, and they were to be feared. But the green haired girl could not explain, even to herself, why she wasn’t as afraid of this man as she could be.

Her eyes were lit up. Her body shook. She contemplated moving, but she didn’t. Her balance alternated, and at any moment she could try to run. That was an option, it was always an option. But she could not bring herself to move. Her pulse was racing and her head was no better off, but she would not move. The shinigami remained fixed at her spot and watched the arrancar.

She did eventually yell, but that wasn’t because of the arrancar himself. It was because he had done something so sudden that she couldn’t help but release her feelings of discomfort. When the man grabbed her by the leg and pulled her upside down there was a cute yell, and then pulled her arms into her body defensively. She’d struggle just slightly to see if she could free her leg, but if that did not work she would allow herself to dangle there.

”Loli?” She asked curiously in a whisper. But the arrancar continued with his questions. The next one he would ask made her flinch. She closed her eyes momentarily and thought about what was coming to her ears. The useless type, or the cooking type? Which was she? And what was with that language? Her heart raced more, and she was truly becoming anxious now.

She thought about the question as quickly as she could. She was as quick as someone with blood pooling in their head could be and she responded by saying, ”I.. I’m bad at cooking. And I..” She went silent when she thought about whether she was useless. ”Am I useless?” She asked herself in a whisper. For a moment she seemed to calm down, and became more depressed than worried.

But she pulled herself up from that. She had to because her predicament, being held upside down like this, didn’t give her much room to think about emotional stuff like that. Because her head was beginning to hurt she couldn’t really think much into anything. Proof of that would be her haphazardly pointing at the arrancar’s face and asking, ”What about you? You Arra.. Ran.. Aran.. Arranca. Is this how you normally talk to others?”

This wasn’t going to end well for her, she already knew that.

If Katsuki was confronting another Shinigami, this would have been the point where she quieted down. Her eyes would have hit the floor, and she would have said as little as possible. But the situation she was in now was not the same. And her change of orientation, with the sky at her feet, was not the reason for that. It was different because in her head Arrancar were different from Shinigami. That meant that she didn’t have to worry about what they thought about her. At least that was the theory at first.

There was something else that bolstered her attitude. Katsuki was fully aware that her life could be ended any second now. This was an arrancar. Stronger than a hollow, stronger than any hollow she had ever face. She did not know how much stronger, but she struggled against menos, so there was no fighting this guy herself.

It did not matter how she acted, because her life was already, literally, in this guy’s hands. So she was going to say what was on her mind. But she was going to learn that doing that was not the best plan.

Kat’s leg was hurting. Her head was hurting. Being held upside down was never a fun experience, and she would have loved to stop. But her comment put her in a worse predicament. The man, the arrancar, asked her a simple question, but right after he did something that she did not expect.

It was alarming from the moment he moved his hand. Blood instantly pooled at her face. It became warm, and she would have said something about it, but instead she cried as her body began to move against her will. The guy was doing something with her, but because she was being shaken up, she did not understand for sure what at first. But as she bounced around, she realized, with great embarrassment, that she was being juggled.

The force with which she was moving, she couldn’t get her brain working to think of anything else to say. So she just answered the question. ”Kat-Katsuki,” She declared, almost biting her tongue as she came to the ‘s’ sound.