Kazuko was leaning on a street lamppost reading a textbook he had just picked up from the local school. Karakura High's teachers had said it was alright as long as he returned it, and he had been curious what was being taught in schools these days. He was enjoying the history until he noticed a girl standing next to him.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">~Nothing out of the ordinar- wait a second!~</span>He thought as he noticed her soul chain. A frown crept across his face. It would be bad if a hollow attacked her and he was seen, because those Damn Soul Reapers couldn't judge a repentant Hollow from one with a lust for power, least of all an Arrancar with his amount of Spiritual Pressure.<br/><br/>"Hey!" he said, bending down to the girl's height and putting on a fake smile. "You should probably move on with whatever it is you are bothered by. there are bad things that will take your soul if you don't-"<br/><br/>A familiar roar filled the air and Kazuko looked up and away from the girl's soul toward a Hollow that was running toward them. "Damn. someone is going to notice this!" he said under his breath as he exited his Gigai. A mountain of Spiritual Pressure erupted as he did so. Taking his hands in front of him, his left horizontal and his right vertical, two katanas, one growing upward from his left hand, the other growing to the right from his right hand formed as though consuming the Spirit Energy around him. The Hollow attacking the little girl's soul seemed to be the stupid type, and kept charging at the two. the girl screamed and started running, but Kazuko flash stepped and sliced straight through the beast's mask.<br/><br/>Then he noticed a woman who could apparently see him running towards him. "Shit." he mumbled as he flash stepped away as fast as he possibly could. Mach 3 speeds to be exact. landing outside the town, he decided he would have to be more careful about who saw him in the future. "Damn it. well at least she'll be able to perform a Kounso on that child before she was attacked... Wait... I forgot my Gigai Dammit!"<br/><br/>He used flash step to return to a place close to where he had exited his Gigai, but not close enough to be seen by the Soul Reaper, who was talking to the little girl. Another Hollow Roar sounded -Three of them to be specific- and he cursed again. "Okay. Get killed by a soul reaper and help that kid, or wait here and possibly be killed when she's done with them... not many options here that don't involve fighting. I could always try to talk my way out of death..." He winced as the female soul reaper destroyed two of the Hollows with one swipe of her Zanpakuto. the end result? five more hollows appearing to attack her. "No... she looks like she'd be too hungry for battle the way she just killed those hollows... what to do, what to do?"<br/><br/>Then he noticed the soul of the little girl he had spoken with earlier was holding on to his waist. "Mister, you have to help her! Those monsters are going to kill her if you don't!"<br/><br/>He clenched his fist when the word 'Monsters' was spoken. He was an Arrancar, after all. That's all anyone ever saw him as. A monster... then he realized she was asking him to help the enemy kill his own kind and he turned to look at her. "That woman is none of us "monster's" concern. Got that. Why do you think I'm wearing white, and she's wearing black? We. Are. ENEMIES! and no soul reaper has ever let a Hollow live, even if they did help them. What makes you think I would do anything like that. One of us would end up dead even if we helped each other, so why should I help her?"<br/><br/>Unfortunately, every time one Hollow was slain, three more were appearing in the air around them. Also unfortunately, or maybe not so much the soul reaper was<span style="font-style: italic">enjoying</span>herself.<br/><br/>"Maybe I should stop them... then again, she seems to be having fun." A hollow got a little too close for comfort, and he blasted it apart with his Cero. "Whoops..." he whispered as all attention was now on him.