The Unpredicted Friendship ~ [PRIVATE: Raijin and Utena]

Ulquiorra was immobilized! His legs were were frozen and the petals from the rose technique grew and entrapped him. What an impressive combination of attacks from them two.

"I see."

Rukia flash stepped forward, moving alongside the whip lash, and slashed his arm clean off. The rose ship lashed his chest again, creating a gash. Blood splattered onto the floor. Looks like his skin was able to be penetrated.

"Yeah!!!"

I panted, catching my breath from what was going on. The attacks had to be rapid fire. If they weren't, they wouldn't do us any good. But it did seem we now had the advantage. His skin was able to be pierced after all and now he was losing a lot of bloodshed. Plus, he was immobile. It was definitely working out in our favor. I was beginning to feel the effects of sustaining this power for a little longer than my body would have hoped for. I was beginning to feel the least bit tired from pushing myself. But I had to keep fighting, I had to keep going. I had to defeat Ulquiorra! I had something to prove!

"Ngh......"

I groaned and cringed, commanding my rose whip to try and strike at him from all different angles. If he was able to fight them off without harm to his skin, well, I'd just have to try from different angles and a little harder. At least Rukia's element could come in handy with holding him in place. I just hoped he didn't know a fire technique, if he did, we'd both be doomed. I kept sending in my rose whip for attack and then drew it back when it was missing. During this time, I was learning. I decided it was a better idea to know more things about my opponent when he's in the midst of battle, and so while Rukia was attacking, I took a good look at him, studying his open and weak spots at the moments where Rukia struck. Some of them were in the clear and did every time, some were just that time around. I had to pay close attention and soon I was rushing back into battle with him. Charging my rose at his form aggressively. If he deflected it even once more, I had a plan, with the petals and the thorns, now, alike.

"Looks like we will after al-"

I got halfway through the word all before I witnessed Ulquiorra do something totally and completely uncalled for. Though from him, I should have expected it. But I didn't and to see my best friend go down like that, it shocked my eyes and my body both. My eyes widened and I watched as Rukia was stabbed straight through her chest by Ulquiorra's arm and then kicked to the side like she was nothing. No doubt, he was reaching to grab at and rip her heart out. I don't think he did, but still, to see the hole in her chest like that, and the thought that he had quite literally and physically touched her like that, touched her heart, touched her at all, got me angry. I eventually, slowly, as time would have it, turned my head and readjusted it back at the bastard who had hurt Rukia. I stood in front of her protectively and that was when a whole new event occurred.

My eyes closed and then there was a gigantic roar of power from even the depths of my soul I didn't know I had. They resounded far for miles on end, the spiritual pressure being released from me, lifting rocks in the process from the ground and making them float, the winds picked up drastically and my whole form began to glow again. But this time, instead of a heavenly white, I was encased in almost a demonic black with little surges of white in between. My soul reaper uniform once more transformed.

This time, the uniform began to become closer to that of a rose demon. My skin became tanner and more bulky, yet silky smooth. My form became more slender and more perfected, since I was in fact, a girl. My hair grew out even longer and then proceeded to tie its long pink strands back with a red ribbon holding it together, the strands coming out in the ponytail in back were extremely spiky, the sharpness at the ends of my hair were much like thorns themselves. My face became more slender and the tattoo of a white rose appeared on my forehead, it glowed more a moment and then faded, pulsating only when the power surged. My eyes still remained closed and all the rocks that were floating in the air, were then obliterated by the power of my spiritual pressure alone. For the most part, they were anyway. Some of them just fell to the floor, slightly destroyed. And once I was completely done powering up, my eyes began to gradually open.

[color=blue"How dare you.... you bastard..."[/color]

The tone of my voice had dropped and become more womanly and raspy all the same. It had a demonic undertone to the words and as my eyes opened, they revealed to have no pupil in them, just a very white-gray color. My hair had darkened a shade too, and the thorns on my zanpakuto had sharpened and grown. There was an extra feature added to the whip and its thorns as well, but that I would have kept secret from Ulqui. I watched as he stood there smugly. I was going to save Rukia, and protect her with my life and...

"I'm not going to let a scumbag like you take away my friend's life. I won't let you continue to release this terror upon us, upon anyone who enters here and of course the entire spirit realm! I won't do it! You're going to be defeated and so be it if I have to kill you with my own hands, god damnit, then I will do just that! Your existence will cease!"

I screamed out to him, my voice breaking on a couple of words, showing it had yet to mature a bit, despite the state I was in. And my powers continued to surge around me. He shouldn't have gotten me angry. The white petals continued to form their little barrier around him slowly. Soon, soon they would become quite useless.

OOC: I hope you don't mind me throwing a little twist in the story again. I thought it was kinda getting a little bland with just them screaming back and forth at one another. ^^ Hope you don't mind.

"Damnit, you bastard!"

I watched as the javelins all converged upon me, and they were coming in fast. Then he pointed the blade to Rukia's neck, threatening her life. Was he really doing this right now? I closed my eyes and braced for the worst, placing my sword out in front of my to protect me from the hit. Not that it would do much, and even though there was no sound, the only thing I could hear was the attack converging on me, there seemed to be a force who had blocked it from ever hitting me. There seemed to be a figure generating kido standing in front of me strongly. It was a female and I slowly opened my eyes to look at who it was who was protecting me from the blast. She seemed to struggle a little bit with holding the attack off, but she was able to do it and protect me. She was slim, wore a black style of dress and had a sleek body. Her golden eyes watched the enemy with much fire in them. The first time they'd ever really been that way. Then she lightly smirked when she was sure Ulquiorra was looking her square in the eyes. Then the strong and yet feminine timbre of her voice spoke...

"Now!"

And then there was another presence in the area. Another girl and she was able to flash in and behind Ulquiorra. She held an extended form of her finger as a weapon to his neck, and stayed there with a large smirk, and her eyes making sure the target didn't move or get away or she'd get him. And out of her mouth came the whisper...

"Sting all enemies to death... Suzumebachi...."

My eyes looked relieved to see my friends. But how did they find us and why were they here? Did they somehow sense we were in trouble? But... how could they have tracked us? Either way, the only thing I could manage to say was...

"It's.... you... Yoru...ichi.. and Soi Fon."

Yoruichi cracked a smile and turned her head around to face me, the gleam in her eyes different when she met my gaze. A more friendly look was present now.

"Of course. You didn't think you'd be going against the fourth espada alone did ya?"

OOC: Also could you do me the favor of playing Yoruichi? Pwease? If you want, you can add another character in there for me to play to make it fair. Because then I will have Soi Fon and Utena and someone else. And you'll have Yoruichi, Ulquiorra and Rukia.