The captain of squad 10, Toshirou Hitsugaya is feeling restless. Going for a walk to soothe his unease, he stumbles upon an odd spiritual pressure nearby. Racing towards it, he finds a young girl facing off with a Hollow. Before stepping in, he sees her weapon of choice. A zanpukuto.
Uta Kazume has roamed the Soul Society for many years, staying the same height though, to her annoyance. With nothing but the strange voice in her head, and her ghoulish memories for company, she trains with the sword that had appeared when she was attacked by hollows. Guided by the voice in he head, she fights hollows in honor of the friends she lost that terrible night.
Toshirou knows to take her back to the Seireitei, especially since she isn't a soul reaper, yet possesses a zanpukuto. He soon finds it odd, however, that she hardly shows any skin. Her past is a mystery, one he would like to know the answer to.
What happened in Uta's past that has her waking up screaming? What is the connection with Cherry Blossums, and who is the voice in her head?
(Kenpachi Zaraki x Reader)
"I was born dying. Then I got pissed about it."
Kaida Itsunari wasn't supposed to survive.
One minute she was skipping work to buy strawberry milk. The next? Her soul was ripped halfway out of her body by a dimensional rupture, four Menos Grande decided she looked crunchy, and something inside her snapped so violently, the ground never forgot her name.
She should've died.
Instead, she woke up in a smoking crater with a sword she doesn't remember drawing, a Zanpakutō that whispers in riddles, and enough raw power to terrify Captains.
Now Soul Society wants to know what she is. A weapon? A mistake? A threat?
Captain Kenpachi Zaraki doesn't care.
He just wants to fight her again.
And maybe, just maybe, keep her.
Thrown into Squad 11, Kaida finds herself bleeding for respect, sanity, and the attention of the bloodthirsty man who grins at her like a storm in human skin.
But her power isn't just unstable. It's sentient. And something's watching her from the cracks between worlds.
Love was never part of the plan, but neither was surviving.