Title: Guardian Angel
Author:
xfuyunoyoCharacters/Pairing: Shihouin Yoruichi / Soi Fong
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Theme: #6: To Protect
No, no, no! She wanted to scream it, but she couldn’t seem to be capable of screaming. She could only sit and stare, mouth open in shock, two unnoticed trails of tears glistening down her cheeks. Why? Nothing like this had ever happened before, so why now? Why her?
It was supposed to be a normal day, and the Special Forces had been assigned patrol duty. Yoruichi had gone off running on her own, bored since nothing exciting ever happened, save for the occasional fight that found its way out of the bad districts. But today, as usual, it was quiet. At least, it was quiet until the sky seemed to rip open in front of her, a large masked beast sliding through the hole. A hollow? Here?
Yoruichi was the closest, so she easily arrived first. The creature didn’t feel too strong, and if she could distract it for long enough the rest of the squad would arrive to capture it. Kisuke had said he wanted to try to find out more about them, and he’d probably like a specimen like this. With a grin, she started to flash in circles around the hollow, pestering it with weak kidou to subdue it. She didn’t expect the hollow to have been following her movements easily, detecting her pattern, and bringing out an arm to clothesline her.
She was quick, so she ducked the arm but lost her balance and tumbled to a stop with her back to a cliff. Great. Cornered. She should have just killed the beast the second it appeared. The hollow seemed to smile, throwing his arm in the air and laughing as it seemed to morph, taking the shape of a long lance. It lowered the point, aiming it straight towards Yoruichi.
She waited, eyes jammed closed, expecting the pain of her own dumb mistake to come shooting through her body, but instead found her face splattered with some warm liquid. She slowly opened them to find a shinigami in a Special Forces uniform standing in front of her, the lance piercing straight through, but the body still standing, resilient. The voice of the familiar tiny shinigami muttered a kidou, arms already pointed at her enemy, and in a flash of light it was completely gone. The strong kidou surprised Yoruichi, but what surprised her even more was when Soi Fong turned back, a bloody hand covering the hole in her body, and weakly asked her, “are you alright, Yoruichi-sama?”
And there she was. Speechless. Unable to do anything but nod to her subordinate. A small smile spread across her little bee’s face. “I’m glad. I’m glad…I could protect you...Yoruichi-sama.” With those words she collapsed to the ground, falling into Yoruichi’s lap. The wound was bleeding, but not fatal. She had not only destroyed a powerful hollow by herself, but avoided taking a fatal wound while still protecting her, all in the split second she had to act. The strength of the tiny girl she now held returned her own strength, and she quickly sprinted towards the 4th division cradling Soi Fong in her arms.