"Kelly, Time for breakfast!" In the attic of a nondescript white house in Arlington Texas, a girl rolled over out of bed. With a barely audible sigh she grabbed a shirt and put it on. Seeing as she slept in her jeans, there was no need to do anything else except slam her hair up into a ponytail before heading downstairs
"Hey, sleep well?" Kelly grunted noncommittally at the woman who'd asked the question. "Hey Kelly, what time do you need to be at the airport?" "In an hour" "You're packed?" "Please don't fuss over me Mom" the woman smiled slightly, not missing the slight hesitation from Kelly before she said Mom. "Hey Ren" Kelly said looking up as another girl walked into the kitchen. "Hey, so you leave today? For Japan, really Kelly you could always stay and let me hook you up with someone from America you know" the older girl teased Kelly, who grimaced, "No thanks, and I'm not looking to hook up with someone, I just wanted to explore some history and a different culture" "In other words you aren't going to tell us the real reason" Ren replied quietly. The family ate breakfast, and then the lady known as Mom drove Kelly to the airport. There Kelly boarded a plane to Japan, and settled down for a long flight.
"Freeloader, breakfast!" Jinta yelled, as Renji walked into the kitchen. "Good morning Abari-kun" the store owner greeted the red head cheerfully, "What's good about it?" Renji asked annoyed. After eating, Renji walked over to Ichigo's house out of boredom to see if Ichigo wanted to train. After the two hot heads had beaten each other to bits several times over, boredom started to set in. "I'm so fucking bored." Renji exclaimed and Ichigo nodded, then sighed, "What the hell, let's go walking around town, maybe something else will show up and try to kill us" Renji nodded, it couldn't hurt.
Kelly walked out of the airport blinking in the sun. It was mid afternoon and she had no where particular to be. Putting her messenger bag on, it being the only luggage she had, Kelly walked out of the airport and into the town. Deciding to explore before finding a place to stay Kelly walked off. As she turned a corner a few blocks away, her horrible luck decided to rear its ugly head, and Kelly tripped on a stone and went flying into a hard chest, the chest and its owner stumbled back and fell, the end result being Kelly on top of some random guy she'd just fell into. "Ow damn it" Kelly swore, as she picked herself up off the man. "What'd ya do that for?" the man demanded, and Kelly looked at him for the first time.
The guy had bright red hair and tattoos for eyebrows. "Sorry, I'm sure it's my fault that a rock decided to go for blood, I mean it's not like I could have I don't know killed it first" Kelly said letting her sarcasm through. "Renji are you okay?" a short black haired girl asked, and Kelly realized that there were other people around. One orange haired guy, the girl that had just spoken, another girl, and two other guys. "Sorry about that and about my sarcasm" Kelly said, and the man looked at her, "No problem, by the way, I'm Renji this is Ichigo, Rukia, Ishda, Chad and Orihime" Renji pointed everyone out. "Cool, I'm Kelly" "Hey, so where were you headed?" Ichigo asked, glad of the distraction, "No where, though I need to start lookin' for someplace to stay, damn I hate hotels." Kelly muttered. "You don't have a place to stay?" Orihime asked, pity coloring her voice, instantly Kelly became guarded, "Its nothing, I'm used to it, so don't pity me, I hate that" Orihime nodded, and then brightened, "You could stay with me!" Kelly looked at the girl in mild shock "Sure why the hell not" "Alright, why don't we help Kelly-san move in" Ishda suggested, god he must be truly bored. The others nodded, and Orihime led the way to her house. On the way, Kelly was filled in about the others living there, leaving out anything to do with Soul Society, and Orihime started discussing the menu for the night. Thankfully, the gang arrived at her house before Kelly could run screaming. "Hey, do we need to pick up your bags?" Rukia asked suddenly, but Kelly shook her head, "This is all I have with me" She said gesturing to the bag slung over a shoulder. As the group helped Kelly unpack, she explained a bit of her background. "Man there has got to be something to do" Ichigo murmured. "There's plenty to do, we could run in circles, play tag, try to kill each other, yell at random trees, jump of buildings, play kill Ichigo, plot to take over the world, have fights simply for the sake of fighting, or we could all die of boredom" Kelly supplied helpfully. Everyone laughed at the insane things Kelly had just suggested, "You know what's bad though?" Kelly asked and everyone shook there heads, "I was totally serious, I have been bored enough to do every one of those things." "Your kidding" Renji said, "Nope" everyone went back to silence, then Kelly jumped up, "Okay, whenever I'm bored I add to my list of insane dangerous things I've done, and the next thing I'm planning on" here Kelly added a small tension builder, "I don't know" she announced gleefully
That was how they all found themselves wandering aimlessly. Suddenly Kelly saw something down a street that looked intriguing, "Hey I'll be right back" she said, and ran off to look at the thing.
"You know what to do kill the girl and bring me the jewel" Grimmjaw bowed and exited, this wasn't going to last long
As Kelly walked down a street, trying to catch up with the rest of the group, a dude with blue hair and part of a white mask walked out of a rip in the sky. "Um, okay that ain't normal" Kelly commented as the man stood in front of her, "Names Grimmjaw, you would be Kelly" It wasn't a question, "Who cares?' Kelly asked defensively, And Grimmjaw laughed. "Just wanted to make sure I didn't kill the wrong person" he replied as he lunged at the girl. Instantly Kelly dodged and started running, "Oh Shit! Why the hell does this shit happen to me?" Kelly asked herself, but alas no answer was forthcoming, as she raced, trying to stay ahead of Grimmjaw.
Ichigo looked up as Grimmjaw's aura appeared very close. "Not good" Renji muttered when it became obvious that Kelly was somewhere near him. Just then said girl came tearing around the corner just as Grimmjaw punched a hole in the side walk. Instant reflex made Kelly turn and try to kick him, surprisingly he caught her foot (NOT), though just barely, yanking her foot back, Kelly continued to run, unknowingly heading for Urahara's shop, and the rest of the gang.
Just when Kelly thought she'd out run the crazy bastard, an animal type thing with a white mask ran at her and bit her in the side, throwing its head back, the thing threw Kelly up in the air. Renji and the others came around the corner in time to see Kelly's graceful arc. Amongst all the blood coming out, there was a gleam of light, and Kelly made out a jewel, "What the fuck?! That's not supposed to be there!" She yelled in shocked surprise, "Okay think, that jewel is what these people are after, and I doubt it would be good to give it to them, so we keep it" Kelly ran over options in her head. As soon as she touched the ground, her hands shot out grabbing the jewel. Grimmjaw had come to stand beside the beast. "Well now, is this jewel what you're after?" Kelly asked. "Grimmjaw you are so dead" Ichigo yelled charging at the man. "Humph, seems you've been saved, it won't happen again" Grimmjaw told Kelly as he and the beast stepped into a rip in the sky. "Bastard" Kelly muttered. "Oh my god, are you okay" Rukia asked as she came up, "Ichigo we have to get her to Urahara's" Rukia said not waiting for an answer, and promptly, Kelly was hustled to the shop.
There they found Urahara, Isshin, and Byakuya. "Oh my Renji what happened, and who is this?" Urahara asked as the group came into view, with a badly bleeding Kelly. "Kelly, Grimmjaw just attacked her and this jewel was ripped out of her side" Instantly Urahara's and Isshin's faces grew grave. "Let me see the jewel,' Isshin commanded, and Kelly released her death grip on it. As soon as the jewel thunked into his palm Isshin drew a breath. "Orihime, why don't you heal Kelly, while we explain" Urahara said, and Orihime dutifully summoned forth her powers.
"Are you sure it's her?" Urahara asked Isshin, who nodded, eyes never leaving Kelly. "How?" "Call it a father's instinct," Isshin replied, and Kelly decided to speak up, "How about instead of talking about me like I'm not here you tell us what's going on." Isshin nodded, "Well, how to say this? Uh, well, Kelly your real name is Sesshomaru Kurosaki, you're my daughter" Instant silence reigned, then Ichigo choked, "You're kidding" Ichigo choked, "We are both perfectly serious" Urahara stated, Kelly just looked at Isshin warily, then stated in a voice rivaling Byakuya's for coldness "Answers now, how is that possible, and what's that got to do with the jewel" "I'll take it from here" Urahara said, and the attention turned toward him.
"You were only two at the time, and your memory was erased, so that you wouldn't remember your sister. As soon as she was born, both Isshin and I detected power in her, power that was strangely compatible to an experiment of mine. Unfortunately that put her in grave danger. The experiment is the jewel you see there, it's like the thing Aizen stole, only several times more powerful. That Sesshomaru's spirit power was like the jewel's was puzzling so we tried to do some tests, however, as soon as she was exposed to the jewel it melded with her. We had no choice, but to give her to a family and hope that she never was drawn into Soul Society." At the end of Urahara's tale everyone was silent for about five minutes, "What is it with you and making dangerous shit?" Ichigo growled out. "Um sorry to digress, but there is the issue of Aizen wanting me dead" Kelly put in. "About that, we also sealed your shinigami powers, put they should be easy enough to activate." Isshin told her. "Okay, how?"
"Well, we thought having Ichigo, Renji, and captain Kuchiki around might have sparked them, but obviously not, so there is only one option left." "Why do I have a feeling it's going to involve something shiny and sharp being imbedded into my chest?" Kelly asked the wall, and Urahara laughed. "It does" and he drew the sword out of his cane, "If you would be so kind as to put this threw your heart" Kelly looked at it, "Explain why I should stab myself one of the few times I'm not being suicidal?" Kelly asked. "Because I'm going to use a bit of my power to tip yours into existence" Urahara replied. Kelly shrugged and gingerly put her hands next to his on the hilt, "You know normal people consider stabbing yourself with a sword a bad thing." she remarked, and put the sword through her chest.
Instantly there was a ripple of extreme power, and when the dust cleared up, Even Byakuya had a hard time keeping his jaw hinged. Kelly stood there in normal shinigami dress; in fact everything about her was normal for a shinigami, accept her zanpakto. It was at least twice as big as Ichigo's was originally and had no sheathe. "Um, this is kinda heavy, is there a way to control its size?" Kelly asked. "Yes" Byakuya replied. "Well, why don't we all go to the basement? Sesshomaru we're going to need to start training you." Isshin said cheerfully.
Down in the basement, Byakuya turned toward Kelly, "First thing you are going to learn is to seal the size of your sword to a manageable width." Kelly nodded. "No arguments" She said as she pulled the thing off her back. "Sit down," Byakuya instructed, and Kelly did so. Byakuya coached her through the process until her sword was down to the regular size. Putting it in the sheath at her waist Kelly smiled, "Well one thing down." "Hey doesn't it usually take having achieved shikai before you can seal a swords size?" Renji asked helpfully. "Well obviously Sesshomaru is an exception" Isshin replied. "Now, why don't you and I spar, to see how much you now about swordsmanship?" Urahara said, and Kelly pulled her sword back out.
Minutes later after sparing slightly Kelly suddenly cursed, "Urahara, we've got a problem" "What is it?" the man asked, "My blade is reversed" "Oh dear." Urahara replied to this frowning slightly. "Um, what does she mean?" Orihime asked, "I mean that the part of the blade that's supposed to be sharp is dull and the dull part is sharp" Kelly explained. Urahara frowned, "A reversed blade, few could kill with something like that." "I can teach her how to fight with a reversed blade" Renji suddenly put in. "How?" "I learned once" Renji said, it was obvious he didn't want to talk about it. "Very well, I suppose that you and your captain should teach her swordsmanship. I think that if Rukia taught her demon magic, and Yorichi taught her shunpo and hand combat she'd be all set." Isshin supplied, "Um, Kelly, I mean Sesshomaru, I guess you won't be staying with me" Orihime suddenly said. "Oh yeah, I guess she'll be living with us" Ichigo replied and looked at his dad. "But of course, Karin and Yuzu will be overjoyed to have another person in the house" Kelly looked as if she wanted to run.
"Concentrate!" Renji snapped at Kelly. "What the heck do you think I'm doing" the girl snapped right back, and before Renji could react, she slammed her blade down on his, following it up with a reverse cut, Kelly continued the pattern, despite it being 7:00 and her having trained for twelve hours straight. "Good" Renji yelled, slightly surprised that the girl was still standing after hours spent training, especially the last hour trying to survive a spar with Byakuya who was trying to get her to learn the name of her zanpakto in record time. She was a natural with the blade, and had mastered almost everything he could teach her, Rukia said that she was doing okay in demon magic, and had mastered shunpo without difficulty. After a few minutes more of furious sparing, Renji called a halt. Sesshomaru's breathing was hard and ragged, as she dug the point of her sword in, trying to stay standing. "I'm impressed," Byakuya said as he came up, and Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, "At what? The fact that I can breathe?" she asked "No, the fact that you haven't dropped from exhaustion, and your quick mastery of skills. Your father says its time for a break." Sesshomaru nodded, and groaning sheathed her sword. Painfully she walked to the ladder. Renji came up behind her, "Ya want help?" he asked and Sesshomaru shook her head, "I can do this, thanks though" and so saying managed to get all the way up the ladder and into the kitchen on her own.
"I'm sure you aren't feeling to good right now" Sesshomaru glared at Urahara who smiled flamboyantly, "So I made a few adjustments to downstairs" Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow but Yorichi had already guessed. "There is a hot spring down there if you would" All that was left was the wind, seeing as Yorichi had grabbed Sesshomaru and used Shunpo to get to the spring in record time. "Yorichi, next time give me warning" Sesshomaru said with a groan, "Oh sorry, I just love hot springs and at least you're a girl so no one will berate me for not having clothes on." Yorichi said sheepishly as she stripped and stepped into the water. Sesshomaru hesitated a minute before removing her shirt, immediately Yorichi drew a breath, black, blue, and red tattoos patterned over Sesshomaru's chest, some curling around to her back. "Oh my" Yorichi whispered, but Sesshomaru's eyes screamed don't ask, and so Yorichi didn't. Sesshomaru slid into the water a moment later and sighed, "This is soooo nice after getting beat into the ground" she murmured. Yorichi nodded. "There's shampoo behind you" she told the younger girl. Sesshomaru nodded, and rising halfway out of the water, she turned to get it. Yorichi's eyes widened at the sight of the girls back, a long scar ran from her right shoulder to her left hip, like someone had tried to cut the girl in two. Yorichi decided not to ask questions. As Sesshomaru took her hair out of its pony tail and brushed it, she waited for the questions, when none were forthcoming she relaxed and proceeded to wash her hair.
After the girls had soaked for sometime, they got out, and changed into night clothes. Coming back up the ladder, Sesshomaru wasn't surprised when her father tried to kill her. "So did you two lady's enjoy the hot spring?" Urahara asked, and they nodded. Everyone sat around the table and discussed plans for Aizen, and how to tell Soul society about the new Kurosaki. Suddenly the communicators went off, and everyone, including Sesshomaru, went off to fight. They found Grimmjaw and Hitsiguya fighting, but as soon as he saw Sesshomaru Grimmjaw's made a beeline for her. Sesshomaru dodged as Hitsiguya landed next to his vice captain, "Who's she?" he asked Renji, "I'll introduce you after the fight."
Sesshomaru knew that she had a very high chance of losing, she had only twelve hours of training total, and Grimmjaw was the sixth most powerful of the arrancars. She could see the immense power gap, and wasn't stupid enough to think this was going to end without lots of her blood hitting the ground. She was right, Grimmjaw moved to fast for her to keep up with, and Sesshomaru soon found herself with a couple of holes in her torso and lots of deep slashes. Grimmjaw threw her back to earth, and looked at the crater, "Guess that's over, you people die too easily" Inside the hole, with her blood pooling around her, Sesshomaru's blood boiled, but she couldn't make her body move. 'Damn it, come on I have to live, I have to win.' She screamed in her mind, as Grimmjaw landed a few feet away. 'You want to win, or you have to win?' a voice asked, 'Have to' Sesshomaru screamed in her mind. 'The call me' the voice faded, and Sesshomaru realized who's it was. "Well now that that girls dead, how about I move on to the rest of you" Grimmjaw turned away, came from the crater, "Don't count me out yet, Shiane." A blast of black spirit energy came from the crater, and Grimmjaw only just managed to block it.
When the smoke cleared Sesshomaru came into focus, instead of her reversed blade, there was a double edged sword which was insanely long in her hand, the blade was inscribed with strange symbols, and to everyone's surprise, no hilt or guard. Instead there was a strip of black linen wrapped around it that continued out about a foot from the edge of the hilt. "Well, this just got interesting" Grimmjaw remarked, as he drew his own sword. The power rolling of Sesshomaru was insane, and Rukia was starting to crumple under the weight of it. Noticing this, Sesshomaru reigned in the spirit power around her. 'Alright I got this far Shiane, now would be a good time for a little help' Sesshomaru asked silently, 'we are supposed to fight together' She felt knowledge settle into her mind, and a smirk made its way onto her face. Sesshomaru pointed Shiane at Grimmjaw, and said, "First song, letisre" A tornado burst from the edge of her sword, and went for Grimmjaw. As he blocked it, he felt blades slicing into him. "Shit," he growled out. "This isn't over bitch" he hissed as he returned to Hueco Mundo. Sesshomaru looked at her sword, and then sighed, Shiane returned to its original form.
"This is Captain Toshirou Hitsiguya, and his vice-captain Matsumoto." Renji introduce the two to Sesshomaru who nodded to them, "Kurosaki Sesshomaru" she replied tersely. Instant surprise registered on the two's face. "We'll explain later, for now we need to get Sesshomaru back to Urahara's so that she can be patched up" Byakuya interceded as Rukia muttered "again"
That night as Sesshomaru slept back at the Kurosaki house hold everyone met at Urahara's to explain everything and discuss the newest set of problems by Sesshomaru's shikai. "Aizen seems bent on killing her, so we should put someone to guard her." Byakuya mussed, "Yeah but who?" Ichigo asked. "Why not Renji?" Isshin suggested. "What, why me?" Renji asked, "Because you have nothing better to do, besides you'll be the one spending the most time with her besides Captain Kuchiki for her training" Urahara explained. "Oh" Renji muttered, and the talk turned to other components of this messed up deal.
The next morning, Sesshomaru reported to the basement and was met with Byakuya and Renji waiting for her. "Since you've gained the name of your soul slayer we are going to start trying to get you a bankai, I'll mostly be the one training you" Renji explained, and Sesshomaru nodded.
"At this rate you'll never get a bankai you lazy ass!" Renji yelled at his pupil, "You aren't trying" "The fuck I'm not" Sesshomaru yelled right back. Renji sheathed his sword and snorted, "We're done for today." He stated and left. That night alone in her bedroom, Sesshomaru punched the pillow, remembering those words. "Damn bastard, I mean seriously this isn't exactly my fault" Sesshomaru muttered rebelliously, but in her heart she knew that she hadn't been trying. "Fine, I'll get my bankai, and show him" she muttered fiercely. Deciding to use a different method, one she had yet to tell anyone about, Sesshomaru brought herself to her inner world.
There, Shiane waited for her. "Hey man you around?" Sesshomaru called, and Shiane appeared as he always did, straight and upright his long auburn hair flowing behind him. "Shiane, would you train me, and tell me about yourself, I mean, if we're going to survive we need to know about each other. " Sesshomaru asked the austere man. "Of course." And the training began.
The next day, instead of training, Sesshomaru got a battle, "Tousen has led a few espada into Soul Society, we're going to help out" Ichigo told her. Sesshomaru smirked, and walked through the gateway behind her brother. Upon entering Soul Society, Ichigo and Renji turned to her, "Stick close to one of us, apparently Byakuya doesn't trust you to be fighting alone yet, 'kay" Sesshomaru growled curses under her breath, then nodded. "Let's go kick some ass" Renji smiled to himself, 'Just like her brother'
The three ran towards the area where the fighting was happening. There was Tousen, Grimmjaw and other espada trying to get into Soul Society. Every captain and vice-captain was there trying to keep them out. When Sesshomaru arrived, Renji and Ichigo automatically went into the fray, while she began fighting a few of the weakest arrancars, ones she didn't need to go to shikai on. Alas it was not to last "So you're the one Aizen wants dead" Tousen remarked from behind her, Sesshomaru swung around in time to block his sword. 'Shit, not good!' Sesshomaru started fighting with Tousen, who steadily pushed her back, until Sesshomaru realized that they were alone. "Now you die" Tousen told her, "Sure 'bout that?" Sesshomaru asked with a smirk as she upped her aura.
Suddenly everyone looked up as a huge spike of reitsu filled the area, "Fuck that Sesshomaru's and Tousen's" Ichigo yelled and Renji swore, the two set off towards the area leaving behind lots of puzzled people and a very worried, Ishda, Chad, Orihime, Hitsiguya, Matsumoto, Rukia and Byakuya.
Sesshomaru watched as Tousen's body fell back to earth, shock still implanted on his face. Slowly her sword went back to normal, and she started to fall. 'Shit I used up to much energy'. Renji came up the hill to see Tousen's body, and Sesshomaru about to crumple. He ran and caught the girl before she hit the ground. When the reitsu registered his eyes widened, "You used a bankai?" He whispered, "Yeah" Sesshomaru replied, voice slightly slurred. Well that answered to what was wrong, "When did you get a bankai?" "You called me a lazy ass", Sesshomaru fell asleep before any more could be said. Ichigo came up moments later. "Is she?" he asked and Renji nodded, "She's fine just tired, Ichigo she used a bankai to kill Tousen!" Ichigo's eyes widened, "What do you think we should tell the others?" He asked, "As little as possible, it took you months to get bankai, she got it in a week, captains gonna be pissed." Renji and Ichigo smiled at that one. Renji picked Sesshomaru and started back down to the battle sight. When they got back, they found the battle over.
Dodging the three million questions, the little group found a place for Sesshomaru to continue sleeping undisturbed. "What happened?" Byakuya asked, and Renji and Ichigo looked at each other, "We just saw the end of the fight, but we know that Tousen's dead, and there was a large amount of Sesshomaru's reitsu around the area." Renji reported. "Hmm, for now I think that we should wait until Sesshomaru wakes up before telling anything" The group nodded, and waited for Sesshomaru to wake.
The next morning Sesshomaru came to with a groan. "Fuck my head hurts." "Well you're awake obviously" Ichigo observed from her bedside, "No I'm sleepwalking" Sesshomaru replied cuttingly. "Well, looks like we're gonna have to introduce you now that you're up" Rukia told her. "This is gonna be weird" Sesshomaru murmured as she swung out of bed. The group walked out of the room to be met with Unohoha. "Hello, I'm the captain of the fourth division," Sesshomaru nodded, "Kurosaki Sesshomaru, thanks for lending me the room" Unohoha smiled softly. "Is there somewhere we need to be?" Sesshomaru asked as they wandered through an endless maze of corridors. "Yes, we're going to see the commander general" Byakuya ignored Rukia's gasp of disbelief. "Is that a good idea captain?" Renji asked, "It is nessecary."
The little group was shown into the study where Yamoto waited for them. "Sesshomaru this is the commander general of the Gotie 13" Byakuya introduced her. The old man inclined his head, "Pleased to meet you" "The pleasure is all mine, sir, I'm Kurosaki Sesshomaru" the group held there breath and waited for the hammer stroke to fall. "Another one, well at least you have manners, and I trust you got your powers legally" Yamoto told her sternly, and Sesshomaru nodded. "Very well then, I trust that with two captains around we won't have a repeat of your brother.' Sesshomaru smiled slightly, "Sounds like a plan"
The group stayed on in Soul society introducing Sesshomaru to all the other captains, well accept for Kenpachi, Ichigo wasn't ready to find out how the psychotic captain would react to having another Kurosaki around. For now, Sesshomaru was sitting on top of one of the many random buildings contemplating how to get away from her guard the next time. Yes she had a guard, Ichigo, Renji, Rukia and Matsomoto were responsible for keeping Sesshomaru from pulling any of her insane stunts, however, it wasn't working, she lost them at least once a day. Sighing, Sesshomaru jumped down into the alleyway and started wandering back to sixth squad headquarters when suddenly she felt a massive reitsu coming along. "Who are you?" Sesshomaru looked up at the man who had bells and an eye patch, "Who wants to know?" "Kenpachi" Sesshomaru smirked, "Kurosaki Sesshomaru" Kenpachi's one eye widened, "You related to Ichigo" "Yep, sadly he is my brother, you're the psychotic dude that everyone is trying to keep me from meeting" Kenpachi smiled, "You strong?" "Care to find out"
"Where is Sesshomaru?" Byakuya asked the assembled group, "she gave us the slip' Matsomoto replied. "Nii-sama, please it's not like Sesshomaru can get into much trouble" as soon as the words were out of Rukia's mouth, the group felt two spikes of reitsu, Sesshomaru's and Kenpachi's. "Fuck, that's bad we better go rescue Kenpachi" Renji whispered to Ichigo, not intending that anyone else hear, unfortunately luck was not with them. "Don't you mean rescue Sesshomaru?" Rukia asked.
With a clash accompanied by a burst of reitsu, the two figures came together and pulled back. "I ain't had this much fun in a fight since fighting your brother." Kenpachi smiled at the girl, who was half his size. "Yeah, well its to bad Tousen wasn't this hard, he might have lasted longer than two seconds" Sesshomaru smirked, "Hey wait, you killed Tousen" "Yeah" "How old are you?" "What's it to you, quit talking and start fighting" with that the captain and the girl doubled their ferocity, until they heard, "Sesshomaru, Kenpachi please stop" Sesshomaru looked towards Orihime, who was just in front of Ichigo, Renji and Byakuya. Sesshomaru's eyebrow twitched, "Fuck my guard found me" Kenpachi looked at her, "Well this was fun, but I'm afraid we'll have to continue this at a latter date" Kenpachi nodded, "Just don't die before then" Sesshomaru smirked at him as she walked away.
"Are you trying to get killed?" Byakuya asked Sesshomaru. "Well, no not really, whats the deal, its just a fight with pscho who wants to kill everyone he gets in a fight with, its not like I was in any danger" Renji raised an eyebrow, "Are you really that clueless, or do you just not listen to what comes out of your mouth?" "Neither, I simply enjoy putting myself in harms way" Sesshomaru replied with a smirk. Just then, Rukia burst in, "The espada are attacking again, but they seem to be interested in finding Sesshomaru this time." Instantly, Sesshomaru was out the door, Renji and Ichigo shared a look and then followed her.
Finding the battle scene wasn't hard, and as Sesshomaru came up, she was immediately attacked by Grimmjaw. "Not you again" she groaned, parrying his sword, "What'dya want this time?" "Aizen is very interested in the girl who killed Tousen, and we still want the jewel." Sesshomaru smirked, "I don't have the jewel any more" Grimmjaw sucked in a breath, "really, well I'll find it, but for now, release your soul slayer" "With pleasure. Let none stand against me and live, Shiane!" All eyes turned toward Sesshomaru as her sword came into focus. Instantly Grimmjaw attacked, "second song, wasente!" a shield of earth surrounded Sesshomaru blocking Grimmjaws attack, "Letisre!" the tornado came out again, but this time, Grimmjaw blocked it, "Come now, you must be able to do better than that, you did manage to kill Tousen" Grimmjaw mocked Sesshomaru, Renji and Ichigo looked at each other. 'Fuck, I can't let them see my bankai, soul society will freak' Sesshomaru thought.
"third song Wisane" a huge wave crashed down, bearing aloft thousands of blades. Before Grimmjaw could fully recover, "Fristente" fire surged from Sesshomaru's sword, enfulging both him and the wave."Inside the cocoon, Grimmjaw smirked, "Not bad, but not good enough" letting his spirit power rip apart the blaze, Grimmjaw landed mostly unhurt. "That's good, but you must have something left if you beat Tousen." Sesshomaru gritted her teeth, "Damn you" she spat, as she lunged, "wasente" instead of the shield Grimmjaw had expected, the earth under him heaved, sending him flying, and Sesshomaru jumped, the two met with a clash in mid air. Several minutes of fighting followed, with much cursing on Sesshomaru's part. "I can't think how you managed, if this is all the power you have" Grimmjaw remaked, looking at Sesshomaru, who was exhausted. "Now you die" Grimmjaw raised his sword, "Ya know, that's what Tousen said seconds before he died, ya sure you want ta say that?" Sesshomaru asked, with a smirk as her spirit power suddenly shot up around her, Grimmjaw's eyes widened, Sesshomaru brought her sword forward pointing at him. Then the words no ne expected to hear came out of her mouth, "BanKai" Renji and Ichigo looked on with slight apprehension, they were the only ones who knew this wasn't the first time, but still, there was no way she could have a bankai. The dust suddenly cleared and Byakuya's eye twitched.
There was Sesshomaru, only much altered, her sword had gone back to being a reverse blade, white with a black hilt and guard, normal katana sized. Things went down hill from there, the usual shinigami robes had been replaced with tight fitting black pants, and a white cape thing, with ripped sleeves. On Sesshomaru's upper right arm, several black celtic symbols ringed her bicep, and her left forearm seemed to have a multi-colored dragon tattoo. Sesshomaru had her face averted so that half was covered in shadow.
"Well, this is a surprise, that must be a record" Grimmjaw remarked, trying to hide his concern, if Sesshomaru's bankai was on par with her shikai, he was in trouble. The half of her face that was visible smirked, "Oh it goes even farther down hill from there, though I'm surprised you haven't figured it out yet." Grimmjaw frowned, "What" The smirk widened, "You'll see." Suddenly, Sesshomaru moved, and Grimmjaw barely got his sword up in time, "Damn, she's fast" then he looked at her face, and a very audible gasp escaped him. The two fell apart, "Nani you looked surprised" Sesshomaru commented, as Grimmjaw visibly struggled for control, "Of course I'm surprised, you've got a goddamn mask!" Sure enough, half of Sesshomaru's face was covered by a mask, only it was… "Why the heck is it black?!?" Ichigo yelled. Yep, to top everything off, Sesshomaru's mask was black. "Good question, I have some theory's on that, but those are best kept for a later date." Sesshomaru remarked. Suddenly a rift in the sky appeared, "Any more fighting would be pointless, this will be continued later." Grimmjaw remarked as he retreated. "WTF" Sesshomaru shouted, letting her bankai dissolve and sheathing her sword, "Coward" she snorted, then, she sighed and turned to face the wrath of Soul Society.
As she had thought, Soul Society had freaked, but Sesshomaru did know enough of what was going on to reassure almost everyone. "It all makes perfect sense, because of the stupid jewel which was melded with me, my Soul Slayer and shinigami powers have melded slightly with hollow powers. There is no need to worry about having a hollow go out of control because the full blend is complete meaning that the hollow is completely under my control. With more training I can pull the half mask out any time I fight, not just in bankai." Sesshomaru explained to all the captains. "very well, but you told Grimmjaw you no longer had the jewel, what happened to it?" Byakuya asked after a moments silence, "Well, saying I no longer had it might have been a stretch, it sorta melded with my sword." "Very well, as everything seems to be under control, I am going to leave this in your hands. I trust that if anything goes wrong you'll tell someone." Sesshomaru bowed to Yamoto, thanking him. "Also, normally when someone reaches your power we would put a limiter on them while they were in the real world, with your hollow, that would seem to be needed even more, however, putting a limiter on you has two problems. One, the process for taking it off is lengthy and could cost lives, and two I have a bad feeling you'd break it, so I am just going to warn you to be careful about your spirit power" Sesshomaru bowed to the old man again, thus ending the audience.