Souls and Sake (Wanzer/Schitzo)

[Firechild]

The darkness that permeated all of Hueco Mundo was rather pleasant this day. So thought the Tres Espada as he gazed out at the barren landscape from his perch atop a column near the entrance to Las Noches. The windless white desert was calm and serene, a nice place to gaze at during a bad hangover. "Ugh...my head hurts..." Raku groaned and closed his eyes as he leaned back against the white wall behind him. "I definitely had too much to drink last night...Oi vey..." His hand crept to his side, grasping at something that wasn't there. The White Reaper spent the next few seconds feeling around blindly for something before he finally opened his eyes. "Where's my sake..." It was more of a statement than a question. He leaned to the right and gazed down at the white sand forty feet below him. There was a distinct wet patch next to a nearly empty bottle right where Raku was looking. "Brilliant...just brilliant..." He sighed and stood up, stretching and yawning loudly before shoving his hands in his pockets and jumping down, landing with a soft 'whumph' as the sand sprayed around him from his impact. Another sigh escaped his lips as he bent down to retrieve the now empty bottle of sake. "That was one of the better batches too...Oh well...kind of bored anyway...I think I'll go check out Tokyo...could use a night on the town." The Arrancar frowned, pausing for a moment. "Why am I talking to myself? Hey Lilith!" A sound of static and whumph of displaced air sounded off behind him.

"Yes Lord Shirakarite?" A crimson haired girl, almost half Raku's height kneeled behind him. The White Reaper rolled his eyes and indicated her to stand. "You KNOW you don't need to pay that kind of respect to me...Did your time as a Reaper not sink in yet? This is no different. ESPECIALLY when you're my Second." The girl blushed and stood, clearing her throat. "What do you require of me?" Raku grinned and wrapped his arm around her shoulders pulling her into a one-armed hug. "What did I JUST say? Drop the formalities already. Sheesh. Anyway...I'm going to pop out for a drink." Raku laughed at his own jab of humor, waiting awkwardly for Lilith to respond. When she just gave him a cocked eyebrow in response a drop of sweat ran off the side of his forehead. "Anyway...I'm leaving you in charge of the others. Don't take any shit from Aiya, she's just jealous of your good looks and nice chest." Raku poked the valley between here cleavage playfully before ruffling her hair and leaping into a garganta after seeing the clearly angered look on her face from his invasion of her personal bubble.

Raku was still laughing heartily when he appeared on a rooftop after exiting his garganta. Well, here I am! I need some more sake..." Utilizing sonido, the Espada vanished and reappeared on the sidewalk. He glanced around before picking out the direction to his favorite place to get spirits.

Five minutes later he's sighing happily after a long chug from his new bottle. He blinked several times, chuckling drunkenly as he gazed at the lights of Tokyo. "I'm bored again...now what do I do?" A sudden twisted roar sounded off from one direction, making the White Reaper grin. "Right on que! He began dashing towards where the sound was coming from and kept looking down side alleys and dodging people as he made his way downtown. "Well hello there little hollow! Are you going to play with me? Yes? Great! Let's having a boxing match!" Raku slid to a stop in front of what looked like a newly born hollow. It had barely any reishi at all, and was rather small to begin with. "My name is Rakugosha! What's yours?" It roared at him in defiance and began charging. "Rarrrrrgghhhhh, huh? Nice name! Good to meet ya Rargh!" As it neared him, with his right hand, the one that didn't have the bottle, he balled it into a fist and swung widely to clip the Hollow on the side of the head. It flew back around sixty yards, crashing into the side of a building and making a lot of people scream and begin running away. "Don't want to stay and watch? FINE! BE THAT WAY SEE IF I CARE! Party poopers..."

The Arrancar frowned and watched as the Hollow shakily stood on it's two feet. It looked like a cross between a gorilla and a kangaroo...Interesting to look at really..."Come on come on come, round two let's go!" It growled at Raku in frustration and charged again, swinging it's fists wildly. Raku dodged left, than right, than left again. Easily avoiding every blow as it came. "That all you got? Come on! Fight like you mean it! This is for the championship!" Another punch in the square of the Hollow's forehead caused it's mask to crack and it to fly backwards a couple hundred yards. The White Reaper was hardly even trying, it was like flicking a flies out of the air. He sighed and began charging a bala. "This hardly constitutes as a challenge...you bore me...goodbye." As the bala was launched, it rocketed towards the Hollow and made it dissolve with a cry of agony. "Alright! Who's next! Anyone? Anyone? COME AT ME WITH ALL YA GOT!"

[Wanzer]

Makkuro whistled to himself in the pleasant air of Tokyo that day as he was making his rounds through the city. The shinigami in charge of this area had caught a severe sickness and was out with a massive fever and could barely get out of bed that morning, Makkuro of course immediately volunteered to take his place until he felt better and was given the position. Makkuro’s feet danced across the hot stonework of the buildings as he neared the center of Tokyo and stood on top of one of the tallest towers. He crotched on it and took a lookout’s position, extending his arm in front of him and shading his eyes making a telescope as he scanned the area for any disturbances that he might have missed just detecting. He stood in the position for about an hour just looking all around Tokyo, before moving to eat some crackers that his Squad had packed for him to eat that day. “It really was thoughtful of them to do this for me, I could have just popped into a Gigai and bought some food, but this always works. They’re such good men, I’ll have to give them the day off tomorrow.” Makkuro said to himself as he spread a little peanut butter onto the toasted cracker and sat down cross legged enjoying them, just as a newborn hollow went sailing past him and a massive source of spiritual pressure became known. Makkuro knew immediately that the other source was of hollow origin. “Oh good, well at least I was here, no way that officer could handle anything like this!” Makkuro packed up his lunched and strung it around his hip, before using shunpo to move through the city, before a bala whizzed by his face. “WHAT WAS THAT?” He cried out in shock as he heard the explosion and screams erupt from the building near him.

"Alright! Who's next! Anyone? Anyone? COME AT ME WITH ALL YA GOT!" Makkuro heard a voice cry out from all the havoc and looked at what appeared to a very powerful Arrancar. He sighed and realized that it was probably one of the Espada or of Espada level. He approached it cautiously with his hand on the hilt of his blade, that when he smelled the air, it was heavy with alcohol and he coughed and walked up toward the Arrancar.

“Hey you, stop this destruction. This isn’t right, why are you even away from Hueco Mundo in the first place? After all that destruction that was caused in the war, shouldn’t you be aiding in repair not out drunk in Tokyo causing mass destruction? Come now…leave or I will get physical with you as much as I loathe it…I can not stand idlely by while innocents are in juried…so cease and desist immediately!” Makkuro said this flicking the blade out just a bit and moving his hand closer for an Iaido should it be necessary, his body was firm and his conviction building inside him. Should a fight ensue he would have to drag the Arrancar into the air to avoid causalities, then he would have to try to incapacitate the Arrancar as killing him in his current state didn’t seem fair…though neither giving him to Research and Development which was probably much crueler. “Ahh what a dilemma,” He said to himself as he looked forward at Raku not thinking much about anything other than what to do with him If he won. “Well…I could just let him go…I can take flak from Captain commander again…I’m sure nothing bad will happen." Imagines flooded into his mind of being flogged again.

[schitzo7830]

Kaito watched, unammused as the man smashed the hollow in the side of its head and sent it flying away causing havoc and destruction in its path. The usual screams and cries of pain and terror quickly fallowed as the people of tokyo began to flee. Kiato had been enjoying his night out with some sake. Not enought to get him drunk but certaintly enough to impair his vision. The hollow had been mucking around in the area and Kaito believed it deserved what it got. However the man, Raku something had just caused a scene and most deffinatly attracted the soul society.

Kaito rose from his stool slowly and flipped some yen onto the table. He looked at the man now surveying him. His reitsu certaintly didnt match his appearance. Standing about about 5 and a half feet with black unkept hair, his skin pale almost that of a ghost. Kaito could tell the man was an arrancar and given his power either a very powerful espada or one hell of a fraccion.

Kaito, we should leave. Houtai beckoned to him. Kaito began to think he was right and started to turn to be gone but then he saw something he really didnt want to see. A shinigami, yet it wasnt any shinigami, no. It was a captain and given his hiari Kaito was judging Gate Defense. The Captain started speaking to Rakuga-something or other yet Kaito didnt care enough to listen. He was busy preparing an exit strategy.

Quickly he switched off his Gigai and popped his last piece of stride gum into his mouth. The sweet taste of classic bubble gum washed away the taste of sake and sobered Kaito up a bit. 'Well looks like today went to shit huh Houtai... *sigh*, Guess we will just have to deal with it this time friend' Kaito announced to himself as he stepped inbetween the Captain shinigami and the espada arrancar. For most this was suicide. For Kaito... it was fun.

Excuse me... Lets try not to make a scene. I know the shinigami are a bunch of heroic martyr's and all but thats no reason to get carried away. Not to mention the Espada and their Reckless self centered bullshit. Can we all just walk away from this peacefully?

Kaito already knew the awnser to his proposition. he had dealt with the shinigami and arrancar for long enough to know that the simple fact they all where in tokyo at the same time ment some high grade destruction was about to happen... The downside was, this time... Kaito was SOL if he needed help. The upside however, maybe the drunken espada and the captain shinigami would settle their differences without him... Probably not. There really never is a upside when you involve souls and sake...