54 Rukia (1/2)

- A few minutes earlier -

- Unknown POV -

”Barrier Squad, what's your status?”

A youthful voice rang out into a mic. He had dark grey eyes and spiky black hair that reached his shoulders. He was wearing the standard academy uniform with his sword mounted on the back. A '69' was tattooed on his left cheek and was wearing a choker.

This youth was Hisagi Shuuhei, a relatively well-known senior, who had failed the examinations twice but due to his efforts was known as a future seated officer. He was the one in charge and was leading the freshmen for their training.

They were just finishing up when he decided to contact the barrier team

”Hey, Respond!”

He started to get a bad feeling due to the lack of response.

”What's wrong, barrier team?! Can you hear me?!”

”Hey, answer me!”

”Hey!”

Getting no response, his classmate next to him questioned,

”What's wrong”

”Something's not right, no one from the barrier team is responding”

Just as he finished speaking, the same teammate felt something and turned around,

”Hisagi-kun!”

Hearing this, he also turned around and what he saw shocked him.

A gigantic hollow stood there and swept his claw towards his teammate stabbing right through her body.

”Kyaaaaaa!!!”

A freshmen's scream bought him out of his daze as he unsheathed his sword.

His classmate next to him screamed as he ran forward to attack.

”How dare you kill Kanisawa!”

The hollow, seeing this swept his claw and threw the girl's body to the side and once again swept its claw at its attacker. Hisagi just saw another friend die right in front of him.

'Damn, how could a high-class hollow reach here'

”Freshmen, run away!”

Saying this he took out a receiver and started contacting soul society

”Soul Society, requesting assistance. This is sixth year student, Hisagi Shuuhei. Under attack by a high-level hollow at living world point no.1026 northwest, mark 2128…”

As soon as he said this, he saw the hollow charge up a ball of reiatsu and shot it towards him. Luckily, he was able to just about dodge it. However, it was just the true beginning of despair.

No matter how he attacked, he couldn't do any damage on to the hollow. Before he knew it, the hollow had swiped its claws and scratched just over his right eyes, leaving three long scratch marks. He was now blinded with one eye.

The hollow this time increased the number of claws in one hand and directly attacked him. Realising that he couldn't block it, he prepared to fight to death.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, three figures appeared blocking the claws from three different directions.

”You guys…”

The one who replied was a youth to his left. He had blue eyes and short, shaggy blonde hair that's bang just rested above his left eye. He wore the standard academy clothes for males.

”Our deepest apologies, we are disobeying orders”

To the right was a youth with a hair full of red hair pulled into a ponytail and brown eyes. He also wore the standard academy uniform for males. He continued,

”We came to save you, so overlook it, alright senpai?”

Lastly, to his left, covering claws coming from the bottom was a petite girl with brown eyes and black hair tied into pig tails at the base of her neck. She wore the standard academy uniform for girls.

After the three pushed away the claws, they brought out both their hand and chanted

”””Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south!”””

”””Hakudo #31, Shakkaho”””

The strength of the three combined was able to push the hollow back, enough for them to make their escape.

Running away they questioned why a high-level hollow was able to get here unnoticed and the only answer was that it was able to hide its reiatsu. Turning a corner, they knew that they wouldn't be able to defeat such a hollow and could only wait for assistance from Soul Society.

However, this time they felt true utter despair.

A distortion occurred in front of them where dozens of high-level hollows appeared. One by one they appeared and slowly surrounded them as the students were slowly losing hope.

”This many huge hollow…”

”Impossible”

”It's not real…this…no…I don't want to die, I don't wanna die”

The blonde one seemed to have snapped while the girl had a hopeless look in her eyes and despair written in bold letters on her face. Only Hisagi and the red hair had some sort of fighting intent as they looked around.

The hollows slowly crept forward but suddenly all shook at once as an intruder flew above them. An eagle's cry was heard attracting the attention of the four students. The students and the hollow all looked up at the white eagle circling around them.

Hisagi looked shocked at the new intruder,

”That's…”

He had a faint idea of who arrived and started to look around.

Suddenly, footsteps were heard as another intruder walked up behind them. The intruder didn't say anything and just looked at the four students.

'The red one should be Abarai Renji, the blonde one is Kira Izuru, the girl should be Hinamori Momo and the one-eyed guy should Hisagi Shuuhei'

Itsuki had just arrived and started walking towards them as he slowly sheathed his sword. The hollows also saw this and jumped towards him

””””Watch out””””

Itsuki gave a fleeting glance at the hollows when he got a sudden impulse. Upon fully sheathing his sword he spoke out