With a flash, a shingami robe clad Sachiko burst out of her gigai. Turning back around, she realized how weird it was going to be working with someone who looked exactly like her in every detail but the clothes. Oh well, best to get off on the right foot.
Sachiko bowed formally and introduced herself. "I am Katou Sachiko, and we will be working together. Pleased to meet you."
Straightening up, Sachiko noticed a very unfamiliar expression on her face. Well, the mod soul's face, which just happened to be her own. (This was going to get confusing.)
The nose was upturned. The lips were pursed. The eyes were sweeping over everything in the room with a bored, detached gaze.
The mod soul sniffed, honest to god haughtily sniffed, and then sighed.
"Such an annoyance, the way the keep pairing me up with women. And they types of women! I mean, being forced into a female body is bad enough, but then it's one like, well..."
At this, the soul looked down the length of the gigai and the over his shoulder to see the back.
Another sniff followed.
Sachiko's eye twitched. 'What's this bastard saying about women's bodies, about my body?'
"Well, no helping it I suppose." the soul continued on obliviously. "My name is Luvaria Xerenos Hitana Jerebel Yamaki..."
Sachiko's eye gave another, more violent twitch. Her hands curled into fists.
"Judea Kristos Vladimir Arturas Amar-oof." The oof was the air being driven from Mr. long name's lungs as Sachiko punched him in the solar plexus, easily doubling him over.
"What do you thi-yuhyuh..." the mod soul's righteous fury trailed off in fear as he looked up into the eyes of a demon.
"From now on, you're Ren." said Sachiko definitively.
Ren gulped and gathered his courage. This was no demon. This was a fairly average Japanese woman turned shinigami. Certainly no match for the likes of a magnificent Illumina!
"Now see here, if you must shorten my name, I insist on L-urk"
Once again, Ren was cut short, this time by a vicious side kick that drove him backwards so hard that he bounced off a wall. Falling to the floor, he curled up, clutching his stomach which had been struck so forcibly twice in a very short period of time.
"Ren."
"Y-yeah, silly me."
Sachiko stood over Ren for a few seconds, savoring victory before continuing with "introductions."
"Usually I'm not this violent" said Sachiko with complete honesty, even though Ren didn't believe her at all, "but you got off on the wrong foot by being incredibly rude and, well, just pissing me off a lot. Let's try to be better partners in the future."
With that, Sachiko reached down and helped Ren up to his feet.
"Let's get started with that better partner thing by getting to know eachother's strengths and weaknesses, combat wise" Sachiko cheerfully continued, acting as if she had not meted out severe violence but three minutes ago.
"I guess my best area right now is hand to hand, but that's more from serious hard work than any natural talent. I'm more of a kido type naturally, so that will probably become my biggest strength going forward. I have a lot of work in houhou, though. How about you? What do you do?"
Ren wasn't exactly in the best of moods at that moment, but he couldn't help but be cheered up at the prospect of doing what he loved most; talk about how awesome he was.
"I use my spiritual energy to greatly enhance any and all capabilities of whosoever I choose." said Ren as pompously as was possible given that he was still slightly winded from the blows to his solar plexus.
Sachiko scrunched up her nose and chewed her lip in thought. "So a purely support type, huh? Pretty handy, though you're in trouble if you get separated from your partner. Mmm, we need a way to test it out..."
Usually, Ren would jump at the chance to show off, but he felt less than helpful at the moment and so did not volunteer any convenient ways to demonstrate his ability.
Sachiko's face lit up with inspiration. "I got it. Can you enhance spirit detection ability."
"I believe I already mentioned I could improve any power."
"Well, I developed a pretty accurate spirit sense, for kido experiments and stuff, but my range sucks. Sensing too far makes me dizzy. How about you boost my range, and I scan the city? I'll get a spiritual lay of the land, and we can try out working together, all in one go." Sachiko was pretty proud of the idea.
Ren just sniffed. "I suppose so. Prepare yourself. It is easy to be overwhelmed by the rush of pure power I bring on."
Sachiko just rolled her eyes and focused on sensing spiritual pressure. Suddenly, a wave of bizarre reiatsu washed over and through her, and her senses started to rapidly expand outward.
There were a lot of significant spiritual presences. More than she expected. All her fellow shinigami in the inn, minus Yakumo and Komono, though Azer felt really off. The Kurosaki women all registered pretty strong for humans.
And then her senses were extending beyond the park. Yakumo appeared to be wandering aimlessly. Off in totally different direction there was a strange presence. Quincy, maybe? And there was Komono, running as fast as his gigai could carry him. What was he running toward.
Oh. That hollow and two other presences. The hollow was strong, but Sachiko had been totally oblivious to its presence. 'Really need to work on my range' she thought to herself.
The hollow's presence abruptly ceased, leaving Sachiko to wonder at the strangeness of the other two. One felt familiar in an odd way, like she had sensed something like it before. Recently even. She couldn't place it, though, and the second one was completely foreign.
Oh crap. Komono just showed up. Without a gigai. The two felt pretty low, like maybe they were tired from fighting the hollow? But what if they weren't? What if they were hostile?
'If you could flashstep worth a damn, you could get him a gigai, but no, you just had to focus on hakuda above all else, huh?'
Well, nothing to do then but see what happened, and if it turned hostile, run to back up Komono as fast as possible.