The Hunt

The black locks of Azure Iramasha flung from side to side, the sun's morning glow shifting through the trees of Karakura Forest. Azure was disgusted, irritated and down right appalled at the actions that he had just seen occur in front of him. They were murderous, filled with malicious intent not just towards the man they were acted upon, but anyone that would be caught in the creature's vicinity. It was a moment that Azure could not relate to, nor allow to continue. The male's slender figure shifted from right to left, a flash of red forming along his pupils as his energy spiked to unmeasurable levels. The grass that had just been stained with morning dew was now pressed flat against the Earth, the male's limiter finally being removed from his spiritual energy. With a simple step forward, the Earth beneath him crushed beneath the weight his pressure gave off, his lips parting only slightly to unleash the words that radiated throughout the entire forest.

"Have you always wanted to die, little one?"

The man's voice boomed to the left of the unknown figure that had just impaled the man in the chest, the wood cracking against the bones within him. The voice radiated with a tone of duality, one syllable after the other began to repeat to give off the sense of two beings speaking in one. Despite this, the man truly was only one being. He stepped forward once more, the ground imploding upon itself, the earth that once sat beneath them began to raise around his entirety.

"Did you truly believe that such things were alright? Even to those that do harm?"

A sense of bluntness formed in Azure's words, his eyes flashing once more as he smirked to himself, his arm swinging to the side as he watched the odd creature before him. The man that he had just impaled was not only impaled, but was also placed into a state of terror. His fingers, one by one seemed to have been twisted in angles that were not natural. With that came a sense of despair for most who would hear such a tone. It was not a normal state for Azure to take things, but with it was reasoning that the being before him had needed to act in such a way.

Before, during that very night, Azure did nothing but mind his own buisness. But with that buisness he had been keeping came a sad existence of constant work, as usual. He had been residing in central karakura, keeping to himself as he watched the ongoings of the world around him. Karakura was moving as usual, his eyes shifting from one thing to the next as he watched the lively nightlife that Karakura central presented him that very night. However, it was not just a simple night. In reality, Azure was focusing all his efforts that late night into catching what seemed to be a repeat serial offender of both assaults and small murders. It was a clean job for most of them and had been done frequently now that the crime rate in Karakura had began to spike again. It was once again, one of the normal duties of a member in the Vanguard, along with being the leader. The job no longer mattered when it came to Azure's actions, what truly mattered was that something was getting done.

The Vanguard had a reputation for doing nothing in the past, before taking up the mantle Azure had known this. And with that reputation, it became apparent to Azure that he needed to get things done just as much as his members would be. So, that being said, here he sat, his eyes tracking hundreds of passer bys in Karakura's central district, his mind dead set on finding the man or woman that had indeed been doing this.

The hours grew longer as Azure lazed in the central district, attempting to find the evil-doer that stepped forth in Karakura. The time had finally come, now that the night was growing to a close. It was abrupt and quick, a man had mugged a woman, and along with that mugged came the stalker of another being, following in pursuit. Minutes of tracking is what brought Azure to this now barren forest, his eyes flashing with anger as he looked down upon the man that had caused such torture to occur in a peaceful place.

Speaking only once more, Azure pressed his hands against his hip bones, the energy that had recently skyrocketed had dimmed, but the presence of the energy seemed to only intensified.

"Do people like you normally like the idea of death? Is the idea of the thrill nice? Or is it for the betterment of the city. Or, the world? Who knows, I surely don't."