Akagi Urahara

**Akagi Urahara** (浦原 赤木, *Urahara Akagi*) is a wandering Soul who is said to live at the very outskirts of the Rukongai. Formerly a Shinigami of the Gotei 13, employed by the Third Division, Akagi was considered unremarkable during his military service. A surviving footsoldier of the Great Soul King Protection War, Akagi was injured critically at the start of the invasion, and sat out the remainder of the war. However, after end of the war, he went missing - fleeing the Seireitei in the wake of the uproar and confusion.

## Appearance

Akagi's appearance is that of a young man with short, blonde hair, accented with red-streaks, and worn in a ponytail, as well as red eyes. His attire is a kimono befitting a wanderer; it consists of a grey short sleeved kimono and a black *haori* coat, all decorated in maple leaf patterns. He normally wears only half the coat on his left arm, draping the other half over his waist and tying it with an *obi*.

In the past, during his time as a Shinigami, Akagi wore the standard Shinigami shihakushō.

## Powers & Abilities

### Zanpakutō

**Nuedori** (鵺鳥, *Golden Mountain Thrush*): While sealed, **Nuedori** takes the appearance of a standard katana, with a red hilt, and round *tsuba*. It is otherwise unremarkable in appearance. Akagi wears it at his side. His Zanpakutō's manifestation is known to be female, as Akagi refers to **Nuedori** as as such.

* **Partial Shikai:** **Nuedori** can be released by only citing half of its release command: **Enter The Void.** (虚空に入り。 *Kokū ni hairi.*) When released this way, **Nuedori's** Shikai release is accompanied by a massive surge of wind, centralizing over the Zanpakutō, causing the blade to emit a jade-like glow: the same as Akagi and Nuedori's reiatsu. Similarly to Ryūjin Jakka when it was wielded by Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, and Tōshirō Hitsugaya's Hyōrinmaru, the Asauchi form of **Nuedori** does not change, and merely produces an effect.

**Partial Shikai Special Ability:** Akagi can use this half-released Shikai to perform basic wind and air manipulation techniques. Unleashes gusts and whirlwinds by slashing his blade around. The wind that emanates from **Nuedori's** blade is intense enough that it can erode most things the blade touches, wearing down even Zanpakutō blades that clash with **Nuedori** in this state for an extended period of time.
* **True Shikai:** **Nuedori'**s full release command is **Enter The Void. Empty. And Become Wind** (虚空に入り。空り。そして風になる。 *Kokū ni hairi. Sorari. Soshite kaze ni naru*). The Zanpakutō itself completely disappears, leaving Akagi seemingly without a weapon in hand. In actuality, all of wind has now become his blade. The air itself is now Akagi's Zanpakuto, as **Nuedori** has quite literally blended itself with the air within its reiatsu.

**True Shikai Special Ability:** **Nuedori's** true Shikai release grants it complete and total control of the wind. Merely with a gaze, opponents can get slashed by invisible blades of wind from afar. Akagi can "grasp" the air and use the wind itself in hand as an invisible sword, which is just as powerful as his half-released Shikai sword, which visibly resembles a transparent mass of swirling air gripped by his hand. He can create a second one for dual-wielding as well. **Nuedori** in this state can surround Akagi and carry him, allowing him to fly freely through the air, while also giving others the power to do so. He can completely pause the flow of air in the space around him, creating powerful shields to repel physical and spiritual attacks.
* **Yokaze** (夜風, *Night Wind*): Within a specific radius of Akagi's body, all of the air in that vicinity is pushed out, leaving everybody within that area without any air to breathe. To avoid suffocating himself, Nuedori creates a tiny safe zone around Akagi, an isolated pocket of air, so as to allow him to breathe.
* **Tsuarashi** (掴嵐, *Grasping Storm*): Akagi can use Nuedori's freeform wind state in Shikai to collect remnants of reiatsu from the attacks of his opponents that have scattered in the atmosphere and draw them closer to him, allowing Akagi to make use of those reiatsu remnants and employ the powers of his own opponents for a limited time. He can form a sword of wind that is blended together with those reiatsu fragments.

* **Bankai:** *Unknown*.

## Trivia

* Akagi is referred to only by his first name. His family name, while known to the public records of Central 46 as well as the Shinōreijutsuin, is otherwise kept undisclosed by the man himself.