Keep them safe.~Side-mission 1A.~

shin back to his stable state..

"Thanks altria-san."

he glances at niwa at the tree then turns back altria..


"I'll deal with niwa, be careful fighting that shinigami...I'll back you up as soon as I'm done."

he went to niwa

"Hey! I told you get out of here...it's not of your mission to watch the fight..idiot!"

"Tch,what an idiot.Like she can't take care of.." The words die on her lips as she feels a sudden change in Altria's reiatsu."Damn...that's just like on that night.This is bad.." Uttering another curse she races after Shiro.

Mikiru stares at altria with a cold gaze, then turns to Niwa. he walks over to him and opens a senkaimon that leads back to the soul society and pushes him through it.

"hmph..... damn idiot." seeing the senkaimon close Mikiru turns back to altria. "hmph.... Urame...... my first name doesn't matter..... " His gaze turns cold and menacing. "Your shikai doesn't intimidate me. and neither do you." He twirls Tatsutahime in a circular motion. "I commend your bravery.... but here you'll die.." his zanpaku-to begins to darken the sky, making it as black as night.

Shiro comes out of no where and lands between altria and Mikiru. and whips out okamaru, and knocks Tatsutahime out of Mikiru's hand.

"Don't even..... think about it." Shiro's eyes glint with anger.

Mikiru shnpos and grabs Tatsutahime then shunpos at shiro, tatsutahime poised to strike him.

"Urame..good.I'm Altria.One has to know the name of the person one is
going to kill.That was a very important teaching." Watching the darkening
sky for a few moments she looks back at him."Die?Funny,I thought I was already dead." Preparing to attack she stops in surprise at the sudden appearance of Shiro.Flash stepping,the speed boosted by her shikai,she intercepts Mikiru's attack,clashing blades with his zanpakuto.With a silent command,shadowy hands rise out of the black circle,wielding long completely black swords.'Go.' In a flurry of motion they slash and stab at Mikiru.

shin right after when niwa left shunpoed to a tree where his zanpakuto was thrown. He draws it out and and shunpoed to where everyone is seeing the battle..

(in thought)
"Was she able to do it?"

Mikiru dodges the black blades and shunpos and lunges at shiro again.

Shiro slashes Mikiru away.

"Hmph.... I'll show you what happens to those who harm altria."
His sword vanishes in a flash of light.

Shiro becomes effused with the power of
fire. His hollow mask changes into a phoenix skull that sits on top of
his head. he sprouts wings made completely of fire. (black and blue) he
has a tail that's made of black and blue flames, and has clawed talons
of a bird. (the lower half of his body is more bird-like)

"Shiro Asaka...... #7 espada. Nice to meet you." The air around Shiro soars to an unbearable temperature.

Watching Shiro's change with interest she moves further away as the temperature in the air rises.'Like a phoenix,huh..'

Mikiru steps back a bit, surprise flashes across his face.

"ghh..... an espada huh? this'll be interesting." he twirls tatsutahime black energy starts gathering around the blade. he shunpos at shiro, a trail of black energy flies from the blade.

"Hmph." Shiro extends his flaming blue and black wings to their full length then shouts: "Ichijin no urame!!" (gusting backfire)
He creates a gust of super-heated wind by flapping his flaming wings, the fiery blast hits Mikiru head on and sends his spiraling backwards. Many of the trees turn to ash upon coming in contact with the blazing wind.

Shiro stops and surveys the area. (in thought) 'maybe I over did it'

Upon getting blasted by the blazing wind, Mikiru gets burned severely on his left arm. "gh.... bastard." He lands a little ways from shiro then gets up and shunpos into the air twirling Tatsutahime. The sky grows darker and darker, He smiles molevolently. "Ha Ha!! How pathetic!! now watch as Tatsutahime rips out your life!" The scythe turns black, a silverish flame envelopes the bladed end. "times up espade." Mikiru creates two shadow copies of himself, they all raise their scythes then vanish.

Shiro looks at the three Mikirus and takes flight just before they vanish. He looks back at to see if they reappeared, then senses something in front of him. He turns and one of Mikiru's shadow copies is in front of him. "?!" Shiro backwings and makes a backward dive. He brakes from the dive and accelerates and slams into the shadow copy slending it flying towards the ground.

A shadow appears behind Altria, followed by a long slash across her back.

~in the air~
The Shadow copy rights itself then shunpos at shiro, slashing his right arm. The copy lets out a pleased hiss then attempts to strike again, when the real Mikiru appears. Mikiru slashes Shiro across his chest, while the shadow copy strikes him across the back.

Surprised by the double strike, he knocks them both away and soars higher into the sky. "Sanda-ba-do!!!" (lit. thunderbird)
Shiro soars higher into the sky then spirals back down. a fiery and electrical aura envelopes him making him look like the
legendary thunderbird.

"YAAAAAHHH!!!!!" He drives straight at Mikiru.

Skidding back a bit she quickly turns around to see one of the shadow copies."How annoying.." Gathering reiatsu into the left hand she flash steps closer,"Hadou #54
Haien."

shin then goes to the another copy who's still unstable from being knocked out by shiro...

"Sprinkled on the bones of the beast! Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring. Move and become the wind, stop and become the calm. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle! - Hadou # 63 Raikoho "

yellow lightning strikes the copy vanishing it...

Mikiru turns to see where Shiro had gone. His eyes widen and before he can react, he is hit dead on by Shiro's Sanda-ba-do. He is plowed staight into the ground.. (his spirit energy is completely drained, and is nearly dead.)

Shiro backwings away from Mikiru after hitting him with Sanda-ba-do, and lands a little ways away. Shiro lowers the temperature around him to a normal level.He folds his wings partially sending a shower of blue embers into the air. the embers disappear quickly in puffs of smoke.

"..........."

Shiro looks down at Mikiru with an unreadable expression.

Completely exhausted and wheezing from suffering extreme injuries. Mikiru turns slowly and glares at Shiro. *cough* "that..... really.... hurt..." He uses Tatsutahime to help him stand, and manages to pull himself to his feet. "Heh.... perhaps I underestimated your abilities...... but next time I won't make that mistake." A piece of the false hollow mask breaks off, revealing the left side of his face.

Uriko squints her eyes trying to get a better look at the left side of mikiru's face.
(in thought) 'that face...... he looks so....... familiar......' she tries to remember back when she was in rokongai, but nothing comes to her. "unhg....... I know I've seen him before..." She gets a throbbing headache, part of someone's name echos threw her mind, M....... Urame (in thought) 'Urame? who is this person? why can't i remember??' a pained expression flashes across her face as she tries to figure out who this 'M... Urame' is.

'Tsukiryu... someone please tell me who this person is.'

Mikiru shunpos away from shiro with what little strength he has left, he drops something that looks like a amethyst bracelet. He disappears threw a distorted senkaimon and vanishes without a trace.