Entering Karakura: Potential Trouble?

A five foot tall kid and his companion walked into a semi-modern area. Atleast, it wasn't as technologically advanced further into the city. On the corner of each eye was a lightning bolt tattoo, one red, the other blue. The boy had blood red hair this time, and wore a lime green sweat-shirt with a black T-shirt underneath. Black jeans and grey tennis shoes rounded his outfit. A little plain for him, but for the moment. Slung over his arm was a black duffle bag, full of clothes, and at the very top, inside of it, his zanpakutou. The vizard and his student turned graduate had just entered a city called Karakura. The weather was cool, skies cloudy. It looked like it could rain any second.

"Man how this place changed. Think if there will be any trouble?" Raiden glanced around, looking at everyone that came into view. They walked in the middle of the street, heading towards the center of Karakura Central. There were most certainly a few people with powers here, but so far none that would pose much threat to the partners. So far at least.

Next to the smaller kid walks a caucasian teenager a good ten inches taller. He bright dusty blonde hair came up just over his eyes, his white hoodie zipped down cutting the black skull design in half. the bottome of his baggy jeans ripped up, and his shoes looking abit worn out. under the hoodie shown a plain old black te-shirt. He also carried a backpack, it was black with a blue trim on the seems. his bright blue eyes not realy gazzed at anything, just in the direction he was going.

"Eh, not sure of any trouble. I heard they got barriers and whatnot to keep the hallow out" He spoke to his master. even thou this kid was smaller than Kano, he still was his master. A rumble in the sky was heard and a drip of rain fell onto Kano's head. "We better get a motel or something, its gonna pour"

The 5 and a half foot girl stood in the rain and concentrated on feeling around to see if any of her companions were nearby. She did indeed find two very close reiatsu signatures that she recognized. She opened her eyes now that she had a lock on them and started to move forward only to stop as she felt a drop of water hit her head.

Rena held out her left hand as it began to rain and only smiled as she kept walking in the direction that she felt two very familiar reiatsu. She hadn't seen them both in quite some time.. who would have thought they would have been in the same place at the same time. As she walked she remembered the last time she saw the two men she was following and wondered how they'd react to seeing her again.

"Time to find out." Rena said to herself as she quickly moved herself towards them, "Hey! Raiden! Kano! how are you both doing." she asked them while making sure not to slow them down since it seemed obvious that neither of them wished to be wet, "I haven't seen either of you in ages."

Rai nearly jumped when heard the voice. It belonged to Rena Lisola, another vizard that both he and Kano had met before. Well, Rena had started Kano's training, beginning with the hollowfication process. That was a while ago, back in New York City. Rai had pretty much stayed on the sidelines, watching with curiosity. Unfortunately, circumstances forced him to take action and help. The end result: Rena safe, Kano safe, other people safe, well, some died, but they were in the way, one person fleeing, and him training the new vizard.

The small kid had put up the hood on his sweatshirt so that the water didn't mess up his hair dye job. The spun mid-step, walking faster to find a decent motel, well, walking backwards. "Rena! Glad to see a familiar face. Know any decent motels we could use? Or have any friends here with a couple of spar rooms and in need of company?" Rai gave her a toothy and childish smile. Unlike the other female vizard he had met before, he actually got along with this one.

Kano just about jumped the saim time Rai did at this voice. Back in New York, Kano was still in search of people of his race, Rena happend to be the first one he found after years of seaching. That day did happen to be a pain, but Rena was the most frimalair friendly face he knew, Her and Rai were the only two people he realy had any close connections with. And after meeting her set off a huge bang, with him being hallowfied, and a super strong vizard attacking them all at once. She was the one who realy set off his powers, and luckly kept them from killing others in the City.

Kanos hair was in his face soaked, he liked the rain. He was just freaked out by the thunder an lighting, he didnt realy make out what she looked like. Just her voice, kinda hard for him to forget. "holy crap" he muttered with joy. "RENA!" he never realy thought he would see a friendly vizard at first, he mostly thought that he would find strangers first.

Rena pat Kano's head and nodded at Raiden with a smile. She was glad she had found them..after all she was basically alone in the world up until recently. The whole world seemed to have left her behind. She had been very worried that everyone she knew was gone forever..now though things had seemed to pick up and she was very happy about it.

"I'm glad to see the both of you..and yes yes Kano I know of a place we can stay.. it's actually two buildings down from where we are." She said as she kept pace with Raiden now..making sure not to lose track of him again for fear of never seeing her good friend ever again. She hoped Kano was fast enough to keep up because she didn't want to have to look for him in the rain.

"but how have you both been? It's been a very long time since we last met in new york!" She said very happily that she was with them again. It felt nice to be around familiar reiatsu and it even calmed her down a bit to know not everyone had vanished like Selkie did. Which made her wonder.

"oh.. Have you by any chance seen or heard anything about Selkie..?" she asked quietly as she stopped by the door to a nice motel. She walked in..telling the man she needed 3 rooms and proceeded to pay for the rooms before anyone could object She then turned her attention to Raiden and Kano as they had probably moved into the building by this time, "I can't find him.. I can't find any traces of him at all."

"That's good to hear. We've been good. I've been training Kano in Egypt for a while. We thought it was time to leave, so we did. Kano here has made strides in power. Though controlling and using his hollow powers he still sucks at. But at least he can fire a cero without messing it up and turning it into several dozen balas." Rai giggled as he followed Rena into a motel, putting down his hood. She paid for their rooms. The smaller vizard stuck out his bottom lip, pouting at her. "Oi! We have money, we can pay for our own rooms. We're just gracious that you got us out of the rain with this nice place." Apparantly, Rena was going to have none of that, and paid for their rooms anyway.

Then she mentioned about Selkie, a vizard he had fought alongside with twice, and a person he personally admired considering the major jump in power between those times. Rai turned serious, compared to the childish attitude just moments earlier. "I'm afraid I haven't. We haven't exactly kept tabs on anyone. I've been busy training this guy. Actually, I've stopped training him because he's at that point where he needs to train on his own. He can actually hurt me now with his shikai. Besides, I need to start training for my bankai so that I can beat the crap out of Nika again when we meet." Rai had pointed at Kano when he mentioned training him.

Rai gave a devious grin to no one in particular as he mentioned his personal rival, and the only other female vizard he knew.

Kano walked alittle bit behind while his master conversed.His mind wandered around as it rained. it realy kept things peacefull and clear. He wondered how strong he'll be when he can finaly master his shikia. And what else he will be able to do. Unlike most vizards, he hasnt run into his inner hallow that often, yet his Zanpaktou has been guiding him instead. when they got to the motel, Kano wasnt paying attention and figured that Rena payed. He was abit upset cause he feels like he has been mooching off of Rai back in Cairo.
"Hmmmm" after he got his key he snuck back down when the two other vizards whent to their room. "uhh, yea. Room service dinner for me, and the two others who came in with me" he said with a graciouse smile as he payed and walked off.

He whent almost straight to his room and jumped on his bed. it wasnt the best, but alot better than the bar in Cairo. he stared at the ceiling looking at his wolf ring. a knock on the door thumped knocking him out of his train of thought. "ugh" he muttered as he opend the door, it was room service."Thank you" he smiled a convincing fake smile. He took in his food and got to eating.

Rena's eye twitched as Kano rushed to his room without saying much to her. She sighed and shrugged it off as him being tired and turned her attention back to Raiden.

"Your still trying to beat Nika? I never understood her.. she was always switching ideas and sides." She said offhandedly as she noticed Raiden's little grin. Rena looked up with a sigh though. She still hadn't found any sign of Selkie and it had been a very long time.

"Well..if you hear anything about Selkie..PLEASE let me know somehow.." She said to him as she started to look slightly more cheery. She ordered some food for room service since Kano had been so nice to pay for it already and continued to talk, "It seems Kano was a little anxious to get some sleep. Poor kid's already gone to his room." She laughed a little at it and took on a more serious tone afterwards, "So he is stronger.. but how is he handling his hollow Raiden.. you know as well as I do he could be as strong as ichigo and still be useless if he can't control himself."

"Don't worry, you'll be the first person I tell if I hear anything about him. Or anything about our mutual friends. Well, I wouldn't consider Nika a friend." Rai noticed Kano going into his room, and paying for food service. The kid did the same thing as Rena. Kano had mooched on Rai for a long time, so the small vizard ordered one of the more expensive meals. Beer and energy drinks may have been cheap, but after so long the cost adds up. "What room should we continue this? I'll answer your question there." No matter if it was his or her room, he would plop down on the bed, cross legged. He also put his duffle bag on the floor next to the bed, taking out his sword and laying it in front of him. It was really pouring now, and it was quite the light show with all the lightning and thundering.

"Isn't that the same for either one of us? Any one of us could reach that kind of power. Ichigo was just a super genius I guess you can say. I honestly don't know. As I've said, he still needs a lot of practice keeping his mask on for more than a few minutes. He's still inexperienced with his shikai, but he can use it. And with deadly effect, as I've said, he can touch me." He showed her his left hand, still bandaged up from Kano's claws stabbing through it. For more emphasis, he took off his shoes and socks and showed her his right foot, bandaged up in the same way. The shoes went on the floor. "When he masters it, I honestly can't wait to fight him for real. Still, I can't figure out why every vizard was so hostile to their inner hollow. I wasn't, though my zanpakutou spirit more than makes up for it, and here I am able to keep the mask on during battle for the longest of times. With or without my shikai."

The kid looked outside, mesmorized by the lightning and thundering outside. His name literally meant lightning/thunder storm. As such, his zanpakutou was lightning based, and his inner world itself is a power station with a lightning storm overhead, striking at the lightning rods that generated the station's power. The scene made him very calm and quiet. He loved these types of scenes, and kept his eyes on it, smirking a little.