A little appearance (Renko)

The day couldn't have been any better for the Kaiser. Nothing at all was happening and her workload was finally lifting from her shoulders. She had decided to go visit a good friend of hers who was training within the forest area on the outskirts of town. It had been a long while since she had seen him and decided that some quality time would be in order for them. They had known each other since childhood; training would do her some good to get all this stress out. She had dressed in her usual training outfit of black sweatpants and a gray tight sports tank top that allowed for easy movement. She also wore black flats that made moving easier for her. It also allowed her to become barefoot when the need arose. She kept on the locket around her neck of her parents and her teacher. A keepsake that made the days a little bit easier to cope with when she got into a bit of her dark days.

~Time skip to the grove area~

Gasping, she had hit the targets in the air for the hundredth time. Her friend had been training off on the other side of the grove for a short time so the both of them could focus without being distracted by some obvious attractions. Renko knew she had to keep training and be focused, but she couldn't help but entertain the other side of her personality as well. Her arrows were solid in color, but with a snap of her fingers they dissolved into a burst of reishi at her will. She had been training for a solid four hours before she had to stop and take a break. It wasn't until she had taken her usual sensory of the area around her that she noticed a far off spike in reitsu that drew her interest. It wasn't human, with that level it would be almost god-like for them. It wasn't Quincy, she was the strongest among them and she knew it wasn't hers. It wasn't shinigami, the reishi felt chaotic and uneven like a.....hollow. Her blood ran cold as she realized her worst fear was here. One of the Reyes were in the area. Only someone of that level of reishi could be a Reyes.

"Oh hell!" Renko cursed as she moved to hold up her hair in a ponytail so it wouldn't get in the way of her fighting. She knew that her friend couldn't take on the Reyes and her Ritter had taken a leave of absence for a vacation. A fine time for my Ritter to take a leave, Renko grumbled in her head as she put on her sports jacket. The energy signature moved towards them, making her worry spike further as she raced towards her friend to tell him to run or to help her fight as her support. She didn't like to involve others in big things like this, but she wished for at least someone to be there in case things got out of hand so she could call for backup.

Running towards the grove where he was at, she saw him standing there talking to someone. The woman seemed to slink up towards him like a predator going after her prey. Disgust rolled off Renko in waves as she realized just who the Reyes was. Rumors were what she had heard of about this particular Arrancar. It wasn't exactly good news that she ran into the Leader over all of the hollows. It also didn't sit well with Renko that this Reyes was hanging on her Quincy as if she owned him. When she had heard the woman ask where the strongest of the order was, Renko couldn't help but smirk. If she wanted her, she would certainly get her. "Excuse me!" Renko yelled just loud enough for them to hear. Pulling back her bow string, she let loose an arrow towards the pair in between them hoping to split them apart.

Regardless of what her arrow did, she would step out of the forest around them and look as dangerous as she could. Her movements were fluid as water, but she was as tight as a snake. Her brown eyes pin pointed themselves on the woman. "I believe you wanted the strongest? Then here I am. I am the Kaiser of the Quincy, their Queen and strongest among them." She moved closer, looking at her friend to try and mentally get to him and tell him to scram. "My name is Renko Kagurazaki, get your filthy hands off of my Quincy." Renko almost snarled her words towards the Reyes, the threat to her friend made her kick in her Kaiser mode, the not so nice Renko that she rarely brought out due to how it could unnerve those around her. "i'm afraid he also doesn't like women, just not his style. However, i'll take the hit for us both and suffer to be within your presence, Reyes."

It did not surprise the Kaiser one bit that the arrow failed to hit her. She expected nothing else from the Leader of the hollows. Hollows...arrancar. She despised them all with her entire being. While she advocated peaceful dealings with many of the races around them, the hollows were the one race her people could not afford to have risky peaces with. The reitsu from hollows was deadly to the Quincy bodies, corrupting it and killing it from within should they become infected with it. While both of their powers could make souls disappear without a trace, the Quincy were all for bringing peace unlike the rough crowd within Hueco Mundo. Renko's expression darkened to an almost impassive one. Surely there could be something better for Shidare Sun to do than to seek out Renko by threatening one of her subjects. Though to be honest, it was the fastest way to gain Renko's rage. Renko was very protective of her people and as such would not allow any harm to befall them while under her rule. She scoffed softly, watching as her friend ran out of the way of the two powerful women.

She didn't look at her friend as he looked at her apologetically. It wasn't his fault that this woman decided to come looking for her and found him instead. Renko's power was still withheld, only a fraction was pouring from her as she stood in front of the Reyes with her bow still drawn, another solid arrow pointed directly at the Reyes' chest. She would take no chances. However, with her friend still there, she couldn't chance him getting crushed by the feel of both of their power levels. "While she is fixated on me, leave this place and inform my second in command of Karakura, the Ritter, of what is going on here." Without waiting for a reply, Renko gripped her bow and slowly let loose her power. It was like letting a rubber band slowly come off of a ball that was holding it so tightly. It was sometimes painful to hold such concentration over her power, but she had to so as not to harm those around her. Her Ritter, one of those who were seconds to her rank, was to be present here, though she doubted her second would get here in time regardless. She didn't want the Reyes thinking she could stay so long in the human world.

 As soon as she was alone with Shidare, Renko's gaze turned full on dark. The level of disgust was present within her emotionless brown eyes. Arrogance was thinking she could take on this Reyes by herself. She hoped that her Ritter would get here so as to prevent such arrogance from the Kaiser, but sometimes it was needed in order to protect those around her. Renko tuned back into what Shidare was saying. She hadn't really been listening, but did note some things. "The 'rabble' you speak of are my precious subjects, so I won't let you insult them without incident." Her tone was a commanding one, one that left no room for argument. However, from one Queen speaking to another Queen, neither one would be 'commanded' to by the other. "You also seem to have a very dire sex life, killing everyone who comes to your bed is no fun. What if they were good in bed? That's such a waste...." Renko's more flirtatious nature was peeking through, though it was dripping with the disgust she felt towards all hollows. "Someone with as luscious a body as yours should at least recycle, otherwise nobody would be left." Part of Renko's mind told her to get it out of the gutter, but she pushed it off to the side as it meshed with her darker mindset. Despite being disgusted by hollows, she couldn't help but think that Shidare did have a rockin' body.

She didn't have much else to think about as Shidare made the first move. A cero came straight for Renko. It was at that moment that she released her hold over her power cap, snapping that rubber band as a rush of reitsu came flowing out of her. Using Hirenkyaku, she moved away so that the Cero just narrowly missed her. She could feel the heat from the blast, making her skip backwards and away from it as it tore apart the trees that were behind her. Renko grimaced as she landed gracefully upon the ground. She watched Shidare for a moment before looking behind her at the destruction. She sighed. She was going to have to do some work later for sure. Renko wasn't ideal with using her bow. Much like her ancestor to whom she looks and acts alot alike, she is a good fighter at hand to hand combat and using reishi techniques. However, still Renko reached for her cross to summon her bow which had disappeared when she moved away from the Cero. However, Renko molded it so that it was smaller and easier to fight with now that she decided to go closer to Shidare. Fear wasn't in Renko vocabulary. 

Moving quickly, Renko used her speed to gain a closer approximation to Shidare, allowing herself to get much closer than she would have liked. Her power level was uncapped and anyone who wasn't either on par with her or stronger than her would have been crushed. She hoped her friend had made it far enough away so that he wasn't affected. Surely now all the quincy in Karakura knew something to be wrong when they could sense their Kaiser's full power appear. Moving quickly, she gathered reishi from around her. Her strength could be amplified by gathering reishi and concentrating it at certain parts of her body like her fists or her feet for added speed. However, what she was going to use was part of her skill set she normally didn't bring out on a regular basis. Misfortune of Beasts. It was an ability she had created a long while ago that either explodes the opponant, or caused internal damage. How it worked was that she built up an almost dangerous amount of reishi in her body, molding it and compressing it till it was almost explosive in nature. Renko then could push the compressed reishi into her opponents body to cause damage. 

However, this was an ability that needed time to do. So she simply gathered reishi while fighting in close combat. While many have called her foolish for being a close combat Quincy, she didn't mind in the slightest. She used her speed to gain a closer vantage point to where she could unleash a barrage of blows upon the snake woman. Renko raised her fist and made a huge blow to the ground in front of her causing a dirt cloud to pop up. She used that for cover and to hide her intentions of coming up from behind Shidare. If the dirt cloud was successful, she would have appeared behind Shidare using her speed to use her other ability 'reishi scalpel' to try and cut through the tough layers of the arrancars skin. She assumed they all had tough skin and as such needed a precision instrument ability to try and cut them. She wasn't skilled with a sword, nor did she try to use one, but she had to make a cut somehow and deal some damage. If she could only get an opening, she could force the compressed reishi into the cut for better access as well as fit more into the blow. 

Renko was almost silent as she fought, almost weirdly so. She wanted an opening and she was trying to make herself one. However, at the last minute, Renko flashed away, whether her blow did damage or not, using hirenkyaku and skipped and flipped back till she was away. Renko used some of the already compressed reishi and formed an arrow upon the bow that now came back out with ease. She aimed at Shidare and took her shot. Should the arrow find its target or at least a target to land on, it would explode upon impact due to the explosive nature she formed from the compressed reishi. Renko knew that Shidare and her were almost on par with each other in terms of power; so she didn't expect to be victorious after just those few blows she tried to land. Renko was breathing slightly hard as she landed back down away from Shidare. She would try one last rush at her before she gathered all of the reishi she needed. Moving fast, she flashed forward towards Shidare and came bearing down upon her with a well aimed fist meant to find Shidare as it's target. She concentrated a little of her reishi into her arm to give her added strength. Renko hoped her blow would land, but she wouldn't hold her breath. 

Fanservice was the keyword for this fight it seems. Renko felt some of her attacks connect, but others didn't. This was a fight between equal powers. Kaiser verses Reyes. However, just because they both were matched in power didn't mean that Renko could let her guard down and fight in arrogance. Arrogance would be to think she could fight Shidare on her own and win without a second thought. Foolish. However much Renko showed her emotions in battle, shew as every bit like her ancestor from a little over 500 years ago. She kept her cool in battle and used her wits to keep her alive. Renko wasn't the Kaiser for nothing. Dust flew around the scarlet woman as she held her arms up to cover her face. When the dust settled, one brown eye opened, then the other slowly. In front of her was a somewhat shocking sight, but to the Kaiser it only meant a worse fate was before her. Yes both women were matched, but with the Reyes new form it would make it tricky for Renko to beat her back to the sands of Hueco Mundo. one such sight caught Renko's eye, the Reyes was almost completely naked. Biting back her own flirtatious remark, Renko could only gasp and hide her face with her arms as the Reyes began her attack.



She felt the slice of the claws as they dug into her and shredded her clothes. Her tank top was in tatters upon her, covering her up just barely over her chest as her pants were now more akin to short short cut offs. She bled from the marks now covering her skin from the Reyes metal blades. Renko especially felt a deeper cut within her arm. Looking down, Renko looked as if she had seen worse (and she had). Moving one of her hands up, she pulsed the reitsu within her body to give her a boost within the air to push herself back. Skidding back with her feet slightly spread to help her from falling over, she moved her hand over the worse of the cuts and began to flow reitsu into the wounds to heal them. She could only heal herself slowly, but it was something. She was better at healing others rather than herself. The Kaiser was breathing slightly heavily as she withdrew her bow once more. The beautiful but simplistic bow seemed to be sharper with how much power the Kaiser restrained within it. 

Ever so silently, she began to draw in the reitsu around her. She wanted to use her Beast Shroud but knew that this wasn't the point to use it. She just needed to push Shidare back to the sands and she could save her power for another day. She didn't need to lose her people or the humans to the Reyes today. Renko pulled back the string as she formed another solid arrow in her bow. Her arrows were black now, the combusting reitsu from before kept within them began to corrupt their color. You can only compress and restrain reitsu for so long before it becomes dangerous to hold on to. She moved forward now, fast on her feet as she concentrated some of the reitsu she collected in them to boost her speed. She let loose the arrow upon Shidare. However, the arrow then split into three dozen smaller arrows and rained down upon the Reyes should she not move from the area Renko was attacking. 

"I bet you just sliced me to get a look at me under my clothes! At least get me dinner first!" Renko snarled as her eyes burned with the fire within her belly. She was angry, but her anger was a raging wildfire just waiting for someone to pull it all out into the open. Shidare wasn't going to pull it fully out of her today, but she was getting close. Renko could keep her head cool when she needed to. Quick as a flash, Renko used her speed to draw close to Shidare and pull back her fist to aim a punch at the Reyes. However, Renko had a trick up her sleeve. She had pulsed reitsu into her fists and arms to give her punch an added boost. Should Shidare get away from the punch, Renko would then perform a roundhouse kick with added boost of reitsu in her legs upon Shidare. "Leave here at once! There is nothing for you here but my wrath!" 

It was true, Renko was holding herself back so that she did not damage her home around her. As much as she didn't want to cause damage, she was actually creating more by not fighting at full strength. Grimacing, Renko landed back upon the ground as she began to heal her injuries once more. The Kaiser was trying to keep her body from failing her since she was holding back. A thrashing wasn't going to be what it takes to push Shidare back to Hueco Mundo. She looked down at her body to see the blood and clothes sticky against her body. Her toned legs felt like they were burning from the attack from the Reyes' claws. Her shirt just barely now hung on her upper body as it stretched over her chest tightly in shreds. Her shoes had fallen off in her fast movements and she now went barefoot within the fight. Her hair, which was still in a ponytail, had blown within the breeze as she listened to Shidare talk. Renko hadn't answered Shidare when she talked about whether Renko was tired already or not. Holding back took alot of control for Renko. 

The mention of being dinner for Shidare didn't sit too well with the Kaiser, but she had to admit that the thought of having some other times with the Reyes did cross her mind before the more logical and reality grounded side took over. She had to admit, the Reyes had a very rockin' body and she was intrigued as to how she handled herself in the bedroom. Renko then decided to go about in true Kagurazaki fashion; seduce and destroy. Her bloodline from her father, the Kagurazaki bloodline, was strong within her. They were always healers and doctors within the human world, but they were also very capable fighters. The seducing part of that comes about in all of their shared personality traits. They liked the dirty minded parts of every day society. "I would offer myself up for some dinner, but i'm afraid hollows just don't do it for me. I need someone with a bit more....soul....." Renko smirked darkly as her mood plateaued at mildly irritated with a side of dark amusement. Renko slowly made her way towards Shidare after her onslaught of physical attacks combined with her bow. 

Shidare responded to her words about leaving with what she found to be a slight rant about how she had threatened her friend and then Renko just wants to let her go. It was true that what Renko proposed was not what she desired, but she knew it would take more than just her to take down the Reyes. After this battle, should she not sustain anymore injuries that are life threatening, Renko would have to go to Soul Society to have a talk with the Captain Commander that was not in charge of the current Gotei 13. He had to be notified of the Reyes' return to the world of the living and hopefully she could plan out something that would possibly work to take down the woman. At the mention of Shidare wanting to get her hands upon Renko's body to see what she held close to her, Renko laughed. She laughed, but it was masked to appear carefree. A lie to hold herself farther away from her subjects or even her personal life. "Me? Hold anything close? I am not the sort to become so sentimental. I am far too busy holding court over my subjects." Lies. Renko cared deeply for her subjects, but she had to appear carefree and cold towards anyone who might be used against her. 

"I won't repeat myself after this....leave here at once and i'll spare your life." Once more a lie. At most their fight would end in a draw as they are very close in power levels. She just needed the Reyes gone. She moved into her fighting stance as she waiting for Shidare to make the next move. Renko was most notible for using her opponents power against them by letting them attack first. "You and I are just going to be hitting our heads against the wall so to speak, why draw this out any longer?"