As the bar filled with life and the bustle of the city, Aymuharu sat alone in the dark corner. All around, the barkeep and the others talked about their long days of work, family problems, etc etc. Raising a hand for another cup of sake, Aymuharu had long forgotten the sweet taste of the alcoholic beverage. In the Soul Society, he was forbidden to drink such a thing, well due to the fact he was in the Stealth Force. But now he was free, free to do what he wished and whenever he wanted to. As the waitress filled his glass, she looked to him and blushed. Nodding to her before he picked his drink up and saying a word under his breath, he gulped the drink down. Placing the glass on the table, he stood from his seat and started walking for the door.


"Hey, you gonna pay for that?" said the barkeep.

Turning to face the man, Aymuharu was stunned to see three massive bouncers appear before him. These men were boxers Aymuharu thought, since they had the muscle tone and walk. Grinning, Aymuharu shook his head at them.

"Ken, Ichiro, Sasuke. Take him outside and make him give the money..."

As the men stepped towards him, taking Aymuharu's arms in their hands, they tried to move him. Unable to do so, he remained there as if they were trying to move a giant boulder. Stunned, they let him go and stared in amazement. Closing his eyes, letting his grin fade, Aymuharu suddenly sent his fist into the one named Ken's throat. The force of impact hurled the man through the side wall. When Ichiro and Sasuke finally registered what just happened, Aymuharu threw a full roundhouse kick to the side of their heads. This would cause the men to crash into the bar with a loud boom, taking the barkeep out with them. Sighing, Aymuharu turned and headed out the door of the bar, seeing no point in remaining there in the first place. As he made his way to the end of the curb, a gunshot rang out in the urban setting. Stopping, he turn to see he had been shot in the right arm. Shaking his head, he turned to find the barkeep, barely holding his own weight with a double barrel shotgun. Apparently, Aymuharu was just grazed with the pellets of the shotgun shell. Feeling the blood trickle down his arm, he started walking towards the man slowly.

"Feel the wrath of the Fallen Angel." the first time Aymuharu had spoken since the situation blew out of porportion.

In doing so, his nodachi, Murasame, appeared in his right hand. As the barkeep stumbled back in sheer shock of the sword appearing from thin air, he tripped back onto a hood of a Toyota Supra. Coming in range of the man, Aymuharu shook his head and simply sliced towards the man's head. Immediately doing a military about-face, Aymuharu walked away from the scene as blood spray colored the area in its crimson red color. Hearing the head hit the concrete sidewalk, Aymuharu sighed then flash-stepped from the area before the police arrived.

Akir finished his text message and closed his sidekick as the police cruiser pulled up to the ransacked bar. The officer driving him took a drag on his cigar as they came to a stop. Akir pushed the door open and exited the vehicle, walking inside of the bar to examine the scene. As he came closer to the blood ridden floors the officers behind him gave a warning of caution.

"Hey Intern Daemon! Make sure you don't physically touch the scene."

Akir came to a stop and sneered in irritation, turning to face the officers addressing him.

"It's detective Daemon to you!"

Akir had taken on the guise of a college student after escaping to the real world. Since he was around that age when he had died as a human his appearance wasn't too different from that time. However his criminal justice studies had landed him working with the local police. Which wasn't a downside, it allowed him to track any supernatural activities the arrancar or shinigami were performing despite the the scattering that had occured.

Kneeling down he ran his hand above the dead body and blood splatter. The way the head had been severed was a clean cut obviously done with a sword. As his hand passed above the body he felt something reverberate off his palm. He passed over it a second time just to be sure.

"Yeah... No doubt about it... It's reiastsu. But from what?!"

The pulsations from the scene were faint, almost as if whatever pressure belonged had released it swiftly. Akir did a triple take picking up the signature of the left over spiritual pressure. Stretching he turned back exiting the bar and carried on down the alley. Hoping to pick up more on the mysterious bar murderer.

Midnight walked around town,passing people who stared at her odd features. Midnight sighed and continued walking. Well atleast im in a gigai... Midnight though. She sniffed the air and smelled blood. "Whats this...blood?" Midnight followed the scent and bumbed into a police officer. "Watch where you are going.." Midnight looked past him and saw crime scene tape. Midnight drew her attention back at the police officer. "Hey what happened here?" The officer sighed. "Some bartender got killed by some arrancar or shinigami..." Midnight nodded. "Can i get closer or no?" The officer gruffly said no. "Why not?" Midnight wiggled past the officer who tried to block her and bumped into another guy and fell on her ass. "Hey jerk..watch it..."

Akir stopped and sighed before turning around to face the person that had ran into him. He wasn't angry, simply irritated by the way things had been so slow. He turned around slowly to address the persons comment of "hey jerk". Looking down he came across an odd looking woman on the ground. Her skin tone was extremely pale and her eyes were as slits, as well as a pair of miscolored lips. Akir mused with the thought that it may be a town clown or jester.

"Hey I'm sorry let me help you up..."

He knelt down and held out his gloved hand to help the strange woman up.

Midnight grabbed the guys gloved hand and pulled herself up very fast...too fast for a human. Shit went a little too fast just then. Midnight thought. She eyed the scene and took a wiff of the air...it was just like the officer had said. She looked at the guy who had brown skin and dark yellow eyes. "Thanks for helping me up and mind explaining the death of the bartender here pal'?" Midnight eyed the guy waiting for an answer.

Akir chuckled as he helped the strange looking woman up.

"He was beheaded by someone with a weapon that's all I can really say."

He frowned at the woman, expecting some sort of sentimental trash to be lingering at the murder scene. But the more he thought about it, the more he understood his time was being wasted. Sucking in his breath Akir looked up at the stars and stared for a few moments before deciding to continue on with his search.

"You should go on home while the cops clean this shit up, I'm going to follow the trail they can't detect..."

After he finished his statement Akir began to walk pass the strange woman.

Midnight smirked. "Oh...?" Midnight knew this might be interesting and followed the guy. "And what may i ask is that trail that you follow?" Midnight already knew the answer but she wanted to hear it from the guy in front of her.

Akir didn't stop. He kept walking while answering her question.

"A trail left over by a sort of supernatural entity if that makes any sense to you."

He reached into his pocket and flipped open his sidekick punching in a message to send to all the shinigami hiding within his region.

"It's best that I alert them that something other than our own has made it's way into these borders. Even after the Karkura destruction..."

Akir came to a stop when he realized their were still footsteps following him.

"I don't need any help so... It's late go watch the news I'm sure they'll have more."

Midnight frowned. "But if i stay with you i can get more information and i think it would be entertaining..." If this guy doesnt let me hang out with him i swear to god i will eat his soul. Midnight though.

Akir turned around quickly to face the woman, now somewhat alarmed. The way the words rolled off her tongue told him she knew more than she was saying, and that she might be more than what she appeared. He attuned his outer senses however nothing but the faint night air seemed to be lingering. Either she was a normal clown looking human, or something else hiding its reiatsu. Akir mused with this idea and questioned her.

"More information...? You speak like your familiar with what I'm looking for. Give me a reason to believe your statement..."

Akir reached into his pocket grasping the emblem attached to his belt, prepared to switch out if this woman was anything but human.

Midnight grinned. "I am familiar with what you are looking for..." Her grin increased and was about to say something when her cell phone rang. She answered it and spoke rapidly so that the man could not hear a word she was saying. Midnight hummed a okay and closed the phone. "Well apparantly i cant give you a reason to belive me because if i did you would use your emblem and attack..." "All i can say is that this person is someone who needs to be stopped and will kill anyone...from arrancars to humans and shinigami alike..." Midnight hummed to herself and then quickly stopped. "So you chose...work with someone like me or work alone and get yourself killed...because you sir are most likley over your head right now..."

((i just made this up...hopefully it works >_>))

Akir didnt smile. He gripped the item in his belt harder trying to suppress his reiatsu from seeping out into the open. Her words told him she was something, and he was determined to find out.

"Being killed isn't an issue for me. I've already died once... Why don't you show me what your hiding so I can determine whether your suited for the job of working with a police officer."

He released his hand from the emblem, however his nerves began to crinkle releasing out small bursts of reiatsu. The air around him began to swirl in a counter clock wise pattern.

"What are you...?"

Midnight sighed and accidentaly breathed out a bit of blue eletricity. "What am i you ask?" Midnight grabbed a thing from inside her coat and started pulling it out. "I will show you what i am but you will not like it and most likely you will try to kill me..." Midnight sighed again and continued to pull it out.

Akir looked in disbelief as the woman reached into her coat pulling out what looked like a sheathed sword. He grabbed the emblem once more prepared to switch out from his gigai. When she sighed he felt a glimmer of reiatsu fluctuate.

"Look like even in another city I can't hide from rogues across the board running into each other."

He held out his hand prepared to cast a kido incase his enemy was extremely hostile, this would give him enough time to make space to switch out without anyone else noticing the change.

Midnight pulled out a emblem that had a hallow mask on it and left her gigai and showed her true form...her arrancar form. Midnight sighed again. "This is what I am...are ya' happy?" Midnight pouted and kicked her gigai. "Also your kido spell wont work on me..." She stopped looking at her gigai and turned towards the guy. "My name is Midnight Wolf. I am the Tercera Esparda in Aizen-shit head's army. Though...I dont respect that fucker one bit..." Midnight sighed and eyed the guy looking at his reactions. "So what do you say Shinigami..?"

Akir didn't respond immediately. He squeezed the emblem inserting his reiatsu into it; this caused his gigai to vanish. His dreadlocks normally pinned up in a bun fell to his shoulders. His shinigami robe fell to the floor as he held his 8 foot long peace pipe still smoking with fresh marijuana, though he did not take a hit.

"Looks like Aizen has his dogs searching outside ground zero for the shinigami that got away. No matter there was a reason I was able to survive this long!"

He grabbed the peace pipe with one hand as it came ablaze and revealed a zanpakuto the same size. He turned to face the woman who named herself Midnight.

Gathering his spiritual pressure he raised his sword and rushed Midnight while at the same time crying out,

"I'm former 9th squad 3rd seat, Akir Daemon, you'll never take me alive!

Midnight sighed. "Did you not hear a word I said...?" She easily sonidoed around the guy called Akir. "I dont want to hurt people unless i have to...I rather find the person who killed one of our people and eat his soul than fight you..." Midnight made sure she did not fight him and tried to get him to stop fighting. "I want to team up...not fight..." Midnight sighed again. "Dont be fucking hating me just because Im an arrancar and I serve Aizen when it only benefits me...Akir Daemon..."

Akir's zanpakutou was caught in the concrete as Midnight avoided his assault. He listened to her words before screaming back his angry reply.

"Thats nice to hear arrancar, but its words like that, words of joining forces that got karkura town laid to waste, and the king overthrown..."

Akir pulled his sword from the ground and sneered at midnight once more. His anger accumulating from memory the attacks that landed him into hiding in the first place. He decided to ignore her words and prove her so called want to truce.

"If you really wish to join forces then prove yourself honorable ARRANCAR!"

Akir grabbed his zanpakuto with both hands and yelled out its shikai.

"Bring the flames... Light the Ganja smoke... Mari Jai!"

A explosion followed that shot stray flames everywhere. Akir took in a large wiff of the smoke that was left over revealing his zanpakuto with smoldering edges and a strange vine growing from it.

Midnight sighed. "Man i dont want to fucking fight and yet you want to...what the fuck seriously..." Midnight contemplated running away but then decided aginst it. "If I even release my reiatsu it might hurt you...I DONT WANT TO FUCKING FIGHT YOU ASSHAT!!" Midnight knew this would turn out bad but knew this guy Akir would not stop. "Fine if you want to make me prove myself...I guess I will..." Midnight drew out her zanpakuto and sonidoed around him and slashed him across the back and grimaced when she did this. I told him i dont want to fight... Midnight though to herself.