One Bite, Thousand Bladed Flower

The Painful Past

My name is Akira Ikehara I have one blue eye and one green eye, my face is heart shaped with full high arched eyebrows, full fallen lips, a skinny hourglass figure, pale blemish free skin, and now my hair my beautiful hair is royal cobalt blue. My hair is usually down to my breasts with two french braids formed in the back, my Shihakusho I typically wear is black and white but at most times youll catch me wearing is pure black with Chrysanthemum haori sitting on my shoulders. I wear a deep purple sash that covers my midsection and wears one Kenseikan on the right side of my head stating my blood may be of noble blood in some line. I wear the usual shoes but I have them slightly heeled for a taller advantage.

    I wear a purple laced choker with Chrysanthemum hanging off the front, I always have long black fingernails formed in shapes of coffins. I am only 56 in height and weigh 110 pounds. I am left handed, my right arm is covered in scars from my human life, which I can barely remember and another scar on my right eyebrow and a few random scars on my back and thigh. The only jewelry I wear is a purple lace choker with a Chrysanthemum dangling off, as well as one silver ring with my name engraved even though its the wrong name it says Akira Ukitake not Akira Ikehara it is very curious to me.

  As I said before my name is Akira Ikehara, my birthplace is District 80 Rukongai. My whole family is deceased which consists of my father Dante Ikehara, my mother Lillian Ikehara, and my brother Dillan Ikehara. Lets just say my life has not been the easiest. District 80 is one of the most hardscrabble, violent and crime infested eras in any of the Rukongai districts, Rukongai district 80 more depicts Heian-era Kyoto my family Dante, Lillian and Dillan had all perished around the name time. I was not very old, I had only been eight at the time my father had died from Zanpakuto wounds even though he had been in no battles prior, my mother and brother had died from illness leaving me left alone in a world that I didnt fully understand yet.

  I had carried their bodies to the only green and only hill we had in District 80. The view was over some other district but it looked a hell of a lot better than my own. I knew burying them meant that they were truly gone but I already knew in my heart they had been gone. There was no longer anything I could do, I was sure death would come my way soon enough. I placed crosses over their graves writing their names in Calligraphy to each one as I sighed, I always visited them every day for a long time it gave me someone to talk to even though I looked crazy. I remember the day my father died laying on the ground still trying to breath as my mother held the wounds, he had motioned me to come over to him but I was scared and crying I knew I was going to lose him.

Akira, baby...girl dont lose hope, dont stop fighting you are strong...you will be okay...I love you, he had said before he took his last breath.

  Coming back to those crosses for some reason made me feel better, I wasnt sure maybe it was because by visiting them I was still keeping my hope up staying strong for them. My life did not have much meaning to it after that but I had to keep going even though the days were getting longer, but things had been getting worse in the Ryokan district as the days turned to months, and the months turned to years,  I could no longer say this district was my home it had only turned into a bit of hell saw it was burning to the ground.

  Everything was getting bad for some time and no matter how many requests I put in for someone to do something, it seemed they were always being ignored. I wasnt sure why but it was like we had been rats to them. Over the years I was losing hope slowly that my life was never going to go anywhere, I knew somehow my life was going to end here. I would die a nothing as long as the Soul Society was doing nothing. I was stuck in peril times and now I was alone with no one to help me or protect me, losing hope of ever becoming more but it came to me, I knew now what I had to do. I was going to make the Soul Society notice me I was going to be a Soul Reaper even if it killed me!

  My father had told me a long time ago before he had died, that he had a half-brother which would be my half-uncle, his name was Kagekiyo Kira. He had told me I may have been of Noble blood if I could find him and make him understand, my family had never come from money or anything like that but there was always this trickle of hope. If I could dare find the man by the name of Kagekiyo Kira to my father's knowledge at the time, he had still been alive but by now who would know if it was even true but now I had to try.

  To others in the Soul Society such as the Head Captain Yamamoto, he had known exactly how her family had died, they had known about the girl but chose to do nothing. When the time was right and I showed true power for the Soul Society, Yamamoto knew he would do something exactly what he was not sure at this point but he knew he would know later. The day Akira Ikeharas  father had died it was no ordinary being that had made it possible, it was the Arrancar known as Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, the sixth Espada. Grimmjow had later returned to finish off her mother Lillian and brother Dillan, with no remembrance due to the shock of everything Yamamoto is able to keep everything secret until the time is right.

  Yamamoto never told the Kira Clan about their whole family the Ikeharas because it wasnt of importance at the time, Yamamoto had better things to do with his time then to inform the Kiras about a family that only had one member left. It was his decision and he was sure he was going to pay for it once Izuru Kira and Akira Ikehara had figured all this out later on, but he did what he thought was best for his Society even if it was wrong of him. There was more to that girl that he had known but it wasnt his place to begin speaking of such things, he had been more worried about what was to come and why Grimmjow had just left the girl to either die on her own or maybe for an enemy one day but he was not completely sure, he knew the girl was intelligent but she was no longer of his concern anymore.

  Grimmjow was a strong Arrancar he never told anyone why he went after that family, he sat in Hueco Mundo the day that he decided to slaughter the man named Dante Ikehara. It was never for revenge or anything else Grimmjow had decided it was from a bad district no one was really going to care if anyone had died from that District but even to himself he never knew why he couldnt kill the child with cobalt blue hair. It was an annoyance to him really he had gone back every year since he killed the three, but it was never able to be done he couldnt seem to come to it to slice the girl in half. He left that day and didnt return sitting in Hueco Mundo watching a few of the other Arrancar Ulquiorra Cifer, Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, Menoly Mallia, Tesra Lindocruz and Tier Harribel. It always bugged him every day as he sat waiting with the others as they made foolish arguments, they were all children half the time and they were making him very annoyed that day.

  Akira knew now she was on her own from here on out, she wasnt sure exactly what she was going to do to become a soul reaper but she knew she had to start. She was sure that starting out how to learn Shunpo was a good idea Shunpo is Hohō meaning Fast Movement or Step Method, Shunpo is one of the four combat skills of the Shinigami which relates directly to footwork. Hohō is an important skill for most Shinigami and is one of their four basic fighting styles. The agility and speed of Hohō can be enhanced and improved through simple mastery, concentration, or training. The foremost practitioners of this technique are those assigned to the Onmitsukidō, though certain individuals may surpass even them, examples being Captain-class combatants. I had learned about this through some of the books my father had left me before he had died, showing me the three other combat skills such as; Zanjutsu: Sword fighting techniques for the Zanpakutō. The most basic fighting technique. Second Hakuda: An unarmed fighting technique that makes use of one's own body in a fight. Thirdly Hohō: The name for all high-speed fighting movements based on the art of Shunpo. Which I will begin to train myself in and lastly Kidō: Advanced spells that require strong spiritual power: Hadō and Bakudō.

I knew I had a long road ahead and I wasnt sure exactly sure how long it would take, but I was ready for a long ready road but I knew with determination I was going to be okay. I thought now I finally knew what it meant to be strong to stand up for myself, I was ready for the battle between death and soul reaper I knew I was going to rise above this. I looked was ready for a new life and that meant to finally become a soul reaper no matter how long it took, this was going to be the end of dwelling in the past I now was ready for the new life that was waiting for me.