My Captain's Profile :D! Ruka Kusabana!

(Thank you Dawning Dream for sending in your profile :D!)
Name: Ruka Kusabana

Age: None of your business! (appears 19)

Gender: Female

Height: 5'

Appearance: Ruka has mid-back length, brunette hair pulled back into a ponytail, and gray- green eyes. Her ears are pierced and she wears a pair of small gold earrings. She stands at an average height, her skin is slightly tanned and her small frame belies a wicked strength. She wears her captain's haori over her shinigami roves, sandals, and her sword is sheathed at her right hip.

Division: 9th; Squad Captain

Personality: Ruka is cheerful, loyal, fierce, sharp-tongued, mischievous, and a tad bit on the violent side. She dislikes formal titles and therefore addresses her fellow shinigami with either their first or last name. She's not much of talker unless the topic is one she enjoys, and she mostly keeps to herself around people she doesn't know. When in battle she has a very unnervingly focused look that sometimes frightens her sparring partners (though she herself never seems to notice it). Her Lieutenant, Raine, often finds himself facing her temper when he pranks her, and she enjoys sneaking up on him. Despite her gruff exterior Ruka is very sensitive and easily hurt by sharp comments; betrayal strikes her deeply. There is a rumor running around that she has a crush on Hitsugaya.

Items: She carries a small composition notebook with a pencil. Rarely, if ever, is she seen without it. No one knows what exactly it is she writes in there. She also carries around her katana.

History: Born in the human world, Ruka remember little to nothing before her death. Her last memory is that of two voices calling out to her, voices that she believes to have belonged to her parents. After her death and consequential Soul Burial, she was sent to Rukongai in an area of the South District. Sometime after her arrival, she encountered Jushiro Ukitake when she attempted to steal some of the food he had bought. He caught her, and when he asked her why she had stolen she said she was hungry; so he took her to The Academy and she began her training. It was there in the Academy that she learned, to get anywhere she had to work for it. Through her effort she was able to excel most notably, perhaps, in her ability for Hakuda. Her difficulty in mastering defensive Kido kept her a bit longer than she liked though. When she graduated she finally met the spirit of one who had watched over her since her parents death; her Zanpakuto, Suzaku. She joined the 9th Division, achieving her Bankai at a later time. She took the Captain Proficiency Test, passed, and was being considered for a different division when lieutenant Shuhei Hisagi, mysteriously disappeared. Consequentially, she was assigned as Captain of the 9th Division. At this very moment she works together with her Lieutenant, Raine Shiba, to find Shuhei Hisagi and to stop the threat of war looming on the horizon. A threat better known as Sōsuke Aizen.

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Zanpakuto Information
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Name of Zanpakuto: Suzaku

Type: Fire

Zanpakuto Appearance: The sealed form is a regular katana. It has a golden hilt and it's guard is in the shape of a small flame. When the blade catches the light of the sunset or sunrise, flickering flames begin to reflect off the blade, and the edges begin to shimmer with heat.

Release Command: Burn

Shikai Appearance:The one katana turns into two, connected by a long golden chain. The hilts turns red and the guard is now far more ornate, in the shape of a flaming sun. The blades themselves are now the color of the sky during sunset and -despite their glasslike appearance- are strong enough to cut through almost anything.

Bankai Name: Hisaye Suzaku

Bankai Appearance: Her katana returns to it's sealed state. Eight katanas, the same as those she has in shikai, form hovering on her back in the shape of wings and enable her to fly. Behind her, Suzaku lets out a cry of greeting as she emerges from the flames as a phoenix. From here the attacks that may come vary.
Zanpakuto spirit appearance: Suzaku appears as a large red phoenix with orange eyes. During Muramasa's brainwashing of the Zanpakuto she takes on a human form. She has curly shoulder-length red hair and the same orange eyes.