Tulips and Raindrops [Red || Inv]

It was 10 minutes past the deadline for the daily report. Suì-Fēng's cruel eyes narrowed, moving her face to a scowl. They were never late. Never. With force she slammed open her office's sliding door. Such insolence."

As she pushed out into the halls of her Division, something felt... Wrong. Her senses heightened by a feeling in the air. her eyes twitched down the hallway, as her right hand grasped her blade's hilt instinctively. The blade lightly sang as a few inches were exposed, shining even in the dim evening light.

Feeling the imminent danger, Suì-Fēng uses her Utsusemi skill, leaving a temporary vision of herself in that still, battle-ready stance, as she shoots at a master's speed behind high up in the ceiling area of the hall, swinging her leg into a windmill kick, making purchase on the black figure who was seemingly preparing to dart down and make a move on where she once was. Her foot making contact with the stomach of the silent assassin, shooting the form into the hallway wall, up just below the ceiling. A cough of surprise and pain passing through the mouth covering mask that the unknown person was wearing. They slide down to the floor with a slump, eyes closed, like the force of the kick, and the added impact of their head slamming into the wooden wall had temporarily knocked them unconscious.

Suì-Fēng Has disappeared back into a burst of extreme shunpo speed after the attack was landed reappeared by the unconscious foe, looking down at what looked to be one of her own operatives. Focus twisted to anger on the woman's face as her foot lifted from to the ground onto the throat of the enemy. she surveyed him for a moment when her eyes hit a corner of white against the black of the uniform of the Stealth ops member in front of her.

She released her foot's grip on the subordinates throat as she called for her Hell Butterfly to call in all of her units to take the person into custody, while dropping to a crouch, using her middle and pointer fingers to slide into the pocket and snatching the note out. pulling it closer the paper fell open and read of what had gone on briefly with the thread of two more members now missing.

Her expressed jolted to shock as she shot back up to a stand, whipping around to find, as she expected, all of her force members standing in a row silently behind her. Her eyes shot down the line quickly counting over the bodies ready in the row. It was true. Her mouth shut to a tight line, her eyes large with focus, not showing a sign of worry to her other subordinates. "Seems this one was drinking on the job. Because of his behavior you all will be on double duty. The two not present are on a special mission upon my personal request and will not be reporting in tonight. I too must now leave for this matter. Do not concern yourselves with it's implements. You won't have time too. Thanks to this man here you will all be too busy doing intense surveys of the Division. No rest of leaving your newly assigned mission until I return and release you. Pair up and stay in contact with the rest of the Division on duty. I want this treated like a real scenario. Like because this one was drunk someone got in and we were on high alert. Take him into holding and begin the simulation. Dismissed!" Her voice stayed even and as commanding as ever.

The forms shimmered out as dismissal was called. No one batted an eye of whimpered out a complaint as she spoke. They knew better than that by now, working in the lethal Stealth ops behind the Captain before them. Such foolishness was weeded out long ago. Some may think this solitary choice to step into danger alone, as the note had asked. To keep those captured members of her Division alive. This was not so. No. She would go alone to silence the insolent fool who dared challenge her in such a way, her self. To her those men were already dead. Fine. If you aren't strong enough to survive, death was the outcome. This was the way of the world. It always had been.

A cruel grin crossed the Captain's lips as she too shimmered out. Her form reappeared above the Division, running across the rooftops towards the Portal back to the Human World town of Karakura. Here I come. She thought as she shot into the blackness of the gate.

~Skip to when she is approaching for time's sake~

Suì-Fēng Shot over the human homes, starting to sense the familiar reiatsu of her subordinates. It would seem the were alive still after all. She shimmered out and back in a few roofs away from the figure standing over the bound forms of the Stealth ops members. A taller long blonde hair's male figure, with his hand on one of her men. She currently had her own reiatsu suppressed, but she knew her arrival was out and the open as well as it being expected, she did not imagine she would be exactly a surprise.

Her face was calm. Like the calm before the storm. Her arms crossed tightly in front of her chest, feet shoulder- width apart. The rain beat against her, dampening her wardrobe. "You couldn't pick a nicer night to do this?" Suì-Fēng called out, her eyebrow slightly raised, voice firm.

Suì-Fēng's eyes filled with surprise as her face fell into shock. Her stiff stature seemed to drop her confident composer as the man disappeared at a speed that almost matched her own. He's fast! She thought as she felt the ever so slight pause in the light wind and rain behind her. Her naturally reacting head turned, eyes following saw a glimpse of the blurring vision of the man returning behind and slightly above her, leg shooting down  to make contact.

She herself used her Shunpo to disappear from the inbound strike, using her Utsusemi after image to hopefully pause him enough from noticing her own disappearing act, and instead follow through if he had the speed to stop midstrike and respond to her move. Suì-Fēng then reappearing to his left side, making a side-stepping kick, pulling up and in her left leg, shooting it out with great force aiming for the mid of his torso. She didn't dare make the same mistake and appear at an area where the wind would suddenly be blocked from or to pause the constant that was the rain's falling on each person. First to three, huh? Fine. I'll teach you for the insult to my pride in that much time.