Sour taste.

"Huh? I gasped as he appeared behind me. I was still on the verge of completing my 360 degree turn, when I heard the sound of metal greasing the ground and wheeling up to my face.

"Stop! A voice snapped and Rin's Kagune paused at a close proximity with my eye. I pulled myself backward in fear, falling over and breathing heavily. Yumeko emerged in between us and announced Rin as the victor.

The ghoul crowd cheered on and muttered as expected of him to him. I sat down there, a side of me was glad and sad on the other. I felt the pain of defeat and a scrubbing taste of humiliation.

"Hey Ichigo". Rin called out and I looked at him. "Not a bad fight". He mumbled and I raised my shoulders as I felt a little proud from his words. "But…Why try, accept that your weak". He snapped and I felt my heart bundle over. I raised my head from my sitting position as he smirked his lips.

"it will take you a thousand years to defeat me". He scoffed and turned to leave, with the words "pathetic". Sounding in my head and heart, I gnashed my teeth again and tightened my grip.

"Ichigo? A voice card in a low tone. I looked up and saw a glaring Yumeko. Her eyes were cold and her lip biting against each other. I gasped as I felt a beating down or an snarky word was coming but it didn't, instead she assisted me up and dusted my chin, face and cloth.

"Am sorry, I lost". I mumbled like a lost puppy to it's owner. She kept silent and seemed focus on my dress and body health.

"Are you even listening to me? I asked and she finally looked at me.

"What do you want me to say? That am proud of you, I hate loser but in life everyone loses. You lost to Rin and now you know how it feels to be a loser. How does other basketball kids you win in the sport class feel like, If you don't win, Ichigo". She muttered and turned her back, leaving me to my unconscious thoughts.

"You keep feeling this way, until you lose me". She snapped and walked out. I felt sore and fell over on my knees.

She was damn right, so this is how it felt to lose and be a failure. So this is how those players felt that day in class. She probably said that because I was a winner, I never lost a game or at anything.

I was a winner and a born conqueror but underneath the ghoul world, I was nothing but a sore loser. I lost my home, family, relationship and seems like I would lose my place in the eyes of Yumeko. I gnashed my teeth and snapped my fingers. I didn't want to lose again, especially not to him.

The arena was quite empty now and I didn't seem to see anyone but myself. I muttered words of encouragement to myself and got up, wandering where I should start from to gain fighting experience or skill.

"Hey…clown face". A voice snapped and I turned, my chin got brushed by the shoe of another ghoul and I pushed myself backward.

"Not bad, your dodge skills aren't that half bad". The ghouls said and from the voice I could tell she was female.

She looked real familiar as her mask was that of a fox. I itched my head as I wondered where I had seen her before.

"Who are you? I decided to go straight up and ask. The ghoul in the fox mask, lifted her palm to show me that they were empty and pulled it closer to her face.

She unhooked her mask and showed me her face, she was an epitome of beauty. Red braided hair that was packed, black eyes, small curvy lips, figure of a goddess and had a straight nose. I couldn't believe that I was caught staring at her beauty as she arranged her bangs go the side of her hair.

"So…So beautiful". I muttered and she let out a soft chuckle. She smiled and had her cheeks lit up with a red blush and covered her lips with her hands.

"Nice to meet you, Ichigo. My name is Glenn and I'm Rin's twin sister". She muttered with a striaght face and I knew this wasn't a good sign. I pulled a step back as a felt, a sense of hatred despite the nice attitude.

"Rin has a twin sister? I gasped and imagined how she was like. They were perhaps pool opposite- Rin was bad and she was nice.

"Yeah he does, but he doesn't like to go into detail and let people know that so…". She muttered and looked at me in a seductive manner. Was she interested in me, having me or eating me? I couldn't tell but I didn't lke the way things were looking.

"You want to defeat Rin? She mumbled and I gasped in surprise.

"I can help you…". She said and walked a bit far from me.

"My brother is very strong, perhaps too strong but every ghoul or human have a weakness. He is a Rashumon user, so he has a strong body and mind. Because of that, he doesn't quite have much of the upper hand against other Rashumon users. So he uses a psychological technique". She paused and glared at me with all manner of seriousness. I could feel it, the seriousness in her voice as she snapped out the words.

"He makes you think you can win, he gives you false hope and gives you unsolicited praise. False confidence leases to over confidence and underestimation then your grand downfall". She scoffed and looked at me. I was left jar dropped as I couldn't believe my own ears.

I reflected backward in our fight and he made me feel like I could win, until he stepped up out of nowhere.

"What a monster! A muttered in disbelief and looked at her. "So far it had worked on his opponent, well some of them". She scoffed out a chuckle and I felt a bit of insult in that. "so how can I defeat him? I asked and she glared at me in awe.

"I want to get stronger, I want to be a figure no one insults or messes with. I want to- "you want to be by her side, Prince Ichigo? Glenn snapped in and looked at me.

"Yes! Teach me". I snapped back at her and pulled a step forward. Wrapping my fist for a punch and pulling on my best serious face. Glenn scoffed and faced me, throwing one of her fingers in the air to signal "one". I gasped as I misunderstood what that meant. "if you can lay one hit on me, then you win. Just one hit". She muttered and I thought to myself. I thought she said, her brother was stronger than her. She…she said one hit, while her brother said three hits. I was abacked for a moment but daily wvaed that aside. This was surely the path back to Yumeko and to being strong.

"Let's do this". I snapped and my Kagune popped out of my spine. She smirked and had her own Kagune out.

"Oh yeah, one more thing…Ichigo". She card for my attention and I responded with an spooked face. She grinned and licked her lower lip. "Hope you can keep up".