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SUMMARY: Six months after Ichigo becomes a full shinigami, Harribel leads the remaining Arrancars against the seireitei. As various battles wage across the seireitei, can the shinigami hope to stop the Arrancars, especially when the Arrancars make an attempt to reach Aizen? Sequel to Kill for You (which you should read first or some of this won't make sense)
WARNINGS: ByaIchi, RenjixRukia, IkkaYumi, violence, explicit yaoi
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bleach, it is the property of Tite Kubo
A/N - Thanks to everyone who favourited and/or followed this story and/or me! I already have 14 favourites and 17 followers for this story!
Outside the squad 1 barracks, several of the squad members looked on as their lieutenant, Sasakibe, was thrown to the ground. The three arrancars in front of him were clearly powerful, and seemed to be working together, although:
"Don't get carried away, Apacci."
"Shut up, Mila Rose! Besides, we're following Harribel's orders, right?"
"Please stop bickering, it's rather annoying."
"Shut up Sung-Sun", the first two replied. As Sasakibe struggled back to his feet, the other squad members made to move forward, but he stopped them with a look. The three arrancars continued:
"Your low intelligence is not going to help us here."
"We said shut up Sung-Sun. Besides, its Mila Rose who has low intelligence, not me."
"Don't provoke me, Apacci, or I'll kill you."
"Bankai." The three of them turned back towards their opponent as the sky darkened overhead, storm clouds rolling in. "Koko Gonryu Rikyu." A dome of lightning appeared overhead, with several pillars dropping down to surround Sasakibe. One more pillar extended upwards into the sky, into somewhere within the black clouds.
"Do you really think you can stop us?" Mila Rose scoffed.
"Yeah, we're here under Harribel's orders, so we won't lose to you!" Apacci added.
"An important mission depends on our actions", Sung-Sun stated as well.
Sasakibe raised his arm and directed the lightning to strike the three of them, who narrowly missed being hit. After several more close misses, the Tres Bestias realised that they had no choice.
"Damn it! We'll have to use him!" Apacci shouted.
"Yeah, we can't get close this way!" Mila Rose agreed. As one, the three arrancars tore off their left arms, combining their reiatsu to use their Quimera Parca technique. Between them and the squad one barracks, which was being fiercely guarded by its lieutentant, appeared a massive monster, Ayon.
The three arrancars smirked, knowing that their technique could overpower the man in front of them, even with his lightning abilities.
Kenpachi grinned as he dodged another attack from his third seat.
"You know, Ichigo's better than you, and he's only fourth seat", Kenpachi chided, still grinning.
"Yeah, and Ichi will be back soon after all!" Yachiru shouted from the sidelines. Ikkaku and Kenpachi were sparring in the training ground behind the squad 11 barracks, while Yumichika and Yachiru watched.
"Yeah, but Ichigo uses kido as well, it ruins it!" Ikkaku called out.
"Yes, but you can't deny that he has mastered some of the kido techniques to the point that they really are beautiful", Yumichika chimed in. "Even if he does seem to tend towards the ones Captain Kuchiki favours...I suppose he supports his boyfriend..." Ikkaku ignored Yumichika's comment, although he did assume that it was in some way directed at him, and went to attack Kenpachi again. However, a Garganta opened overhead, distracting the four of them.
"Ooh, what's that?" Yachiru asked.
"You'd think a Hollow would know better than to attack here", Yumichika said in reply. "After all, even with handicaps like Captain Zaraki uses, the amount of reishi here should indicate which captain is here..."
The four of them watched as a figure stepped through the Garganta. They noted that at least it was an arrancar, but still not one of the former espada. As he landed on the ground, several more jumped down behind him, the Garganta closing after around fifty had gathered. Kenpachi looked at them.
"Well, you're all weak, but I suppose I'll fight you, you're the leader, right?"
"Yes", the arrancar replied. "I am Rudbornn Chelute, and these are my Exequias."
"I don't care who you are, you're just the most powerful enemy here, although that's not really saying much", Kenpachi retorted. "I'll leave the rest to you two."
"Of course, Captain", Yumichika replied. Ikkaku nodded as well and the three of them separated, as Kenpachi and Chelute moved slightly away to have their fight. Yachiru jumped up to a high vantage point so that she could watch Kenpachi.
"Well, I guess I could use a good workout", Ikkaku grinned.
"Be careful the Captain doesn't here you say that, you were just fighting him after all", Yumichika replied, also smiling. "Shall we?" With that, he and Ikkaku literally jumped into the battle, cutting down the enemy soldiers easily, without even having to use their shikai. Although there were a lot of them, they didn't seem to be surviving against the attacks of the two squad 11 officers – yet their numbers didn't seem to be dwindling either.
Kenpachi very nearly sighed to himself: "You know, it would have been better for you to attack us if you had more power."
"Power is unnecessary, I am merely following orders."
"Really, whose?" Kenpachi asked, boredom evident in his voice. "Wait," he growled, "that means that your leader – whoever it is – decided you would be enough to defeat me! Well, now I'm just offended."
"Yay! Go Kenny!" Yachiru shouted from somewhere nearby.
Chelute looked at his enemy for a moment before transforming, going into his Resurreción form. From his body he created foot-soldiers, who looked the same as the ones fighting Ikkaku and Yumichika, which jumped towards all four members of squad 11. Kenpachi easily cut down the ones which went for him with merely his sword.
The Exequias which emerged from Chelute to attack Ikkaku and Yumichika were keeping the enemy numbers from decreasing, so the two shinigami decided to use their shikai in order to finish things quickly.
"Grow, Hozukimaru."
"Bloom, Fuki Kujaku."
With that, the two of them easily began cutting down the Exequias which remained.
Two of the soldiers from Chelute's body had jumped towards Yachiru. She glared at them before drawing her zanpakuto and slicing both in half, watching as they dropped before her, dissipating into particles.
"Huh! You distracted me from Kenny's fight!" she said in annoyance. She turned back just as a loud noise blared around them, three successive tones. As if in response, a Garganta opened behind Chelute, but Kenpachi split Chelute in half, cutting him straight down the middle of his body from head to foot, preventing his escape. The few Exequias which had survived Ikkaku and Yumichika evaporated as well, clearly having been linked to their creator.
"Well, that was boring!" Kenpachi complained.
"I wonder why someone so weak and ugly attacked us here", Yumichika mused.
"Apparently under orders, which suggests that some idiot thought he was powerful enough to win against me," Kenpachi said.
"Or wanted him to die because he pissed them off", Ikkaku suggested.
"I wonder if anyone else got attacked", Yachiru said.
"Probably", Yumichika replied.
"Whoever's in charge better not have sent someone powerful after the others, I want the more difficult opponent next time", Kenpachi continued.
"Next time?" Yumichika asked.
"Not if they're all this weak", Kenpachi stated, turning to walk into the rest of the seireitei. Yachiru jumped down onto his back. "We'd better go check there are no other invaders still left, and look for a better enemy", Kenpachi said, before running off with Yachiru still gripping onto his back, shouting (presumably incorrect) directions to Kenpachi. Ikkaku and Yumichika shared a look:
"Well, at least you got that workout", Yumichika teased.
"Shut up", Ikkaku said in reply, although his grin proved that it wasn't anything malicious.
"So, shall we join the Captain and the Lieutenant?" Yumichika asked, turning to as if to follow them. He almost jumped when he felt a hand on his ass, although he was used to Ikkaku by now.
"Sure you don't want to stay? Didn't you make some comment about Ichigo supporting his boyfriend?"
"How exactly do you plan to prove me wrong by remaining in the training grounds?" Yumichika asked, smiling slightly.
"Actually, I was just going to give you a mind-blowing orgasm so you forgot all about it", Ikkaku grinned.
"Oh...It's too bad there's an invasion going on then, isn't it?" Yumichika asked, smirking. He turned to run into the rest of the seireitei, although he did hear Ikkaku's growl of annoyance before he relented. I suppose I can always trust him to want a fight, Yumichika mused to himself. I hope that noise wasn't some sort of retreat order though, or I'll pay for it later.
"You are ryoka."
"I'm Asguiaro Ebern, a Privaron Espada." [A/N – I know he isn't Privaron Espada in the manga, but I'm making him one here]
"I am Byakuya Kuchiki, Captain of squad 6, and you are still ryoka, therefore I must defeat you."
"Do you really think you can?" Ebern mocked him. Byakuya narrowed his eyes slightly, as Ebern continued: "I'm Privaron Espada number 102."
"Hm. Does that mean that you were once the 2nd Espada?"
"Like it matters to you", Ebern growled before summoning his reishi cannon, which took Byakuya off guard as it released multiple shots. Even with Byakuya's speed, the cannon blast still managed to damage his right arm, the one Byakuya normally held his zanpakuto with. Byakuya used his shunpo to move behind Ebern.
"Hado number four, Byakurai." Ebern barely managed to avoid being struck with the lightning which emerged from the shinigami's hand, jumping aside just in time, as Byakuya had been immediately behind him, with the kido spell being focussed on the arrancar's chest.
"Did you really think you get get me with kido?" Ebern scoffed.
"Hado number thirty-three, Sokatsui." Ebern attempted to dodge again, but this time Byakuya was faster, managing to damage Ebern's left arm, taking a chunk out of it as the arrancar attempted to avoid the spell. Ebern whirled around to face Byakuya again, glaring at him.
"You –"
"Hado number seventy-three, Soren Sokatsui." This time Ebern predicted the kido attack and fired a blast from his cannon, which struck Byakuya's spell, the two types of reishi cancelling each other out – for the most part, as there was still a shockwave, which threw both of them backwards away from each other. Ebern managed to right himself fairly quickly, but Byakuya hit the ground, staying there for the slightest amount of time before pulling himself back to his feet, noting that his right leg was now injured as well. This will not be an easy enemy to defeat, Byakuya thought to himself, as he prepared to raise the level of his attacks.
It was a seemingly random street in the seireitei, with no-one around except for a sole figure, who jumped aside as a pillar of ice flew in his direction, although it soon dissipated, likely as it hadn't trapped anything.
"Who are you and why are you here?"
"I am Gantenbainne Mosqueda, Privaron Espada number 107."
"I am Rukia Kuchiki, lieutenant of squad 13. Who ordered you here?"
"I'm afraid I can't give you information like that." Rukia narrowed her eyes at him in response, becoming even more annoyed as Mosqueda continued: "Don't worry, I can tell that you are much inferior to me in skill, so I'll lower my abilities to your level."
"What makes you think that I'm weaker?" Rukia asked, annoyance evident in her voice and her glare. He didn't respond, but revealed his zanpakuto, which was in the form of a two-pronged dagger gripped in the middle. Before she could do anything else, he had used sonido to appear behind her, discharging energy from between the blade tips. However, she moved out of the way, using shunpo and evading the attack, which Mosqueda had expected to result in her falling to the ground in defeat. As he looked around, wondering where she would attack from, he heard:
"Hado number 33, Sokatsui!" A blast of energy struck Mosqueda in the chest, throwing him back into the wall of a nearby building, which cracked under the pressure of the reiatsu Rukia had put into her kido spell.
"Unfortunately for you," Mosqueda began, brushing off the pieces of the wall from his clothes, "that attack did not take me down."
"I wouldn't have expected a single spell, even one which I'm good at, to take down a former espada", Rukia retorted, redrawing her zanpakuto. "Dance, Sode no Shorayuki." She turned her blade in a counter-clockwise circle, releasing her sealed zanpakuto, before continuing: "Some no mai, Tsukishiro!" Rukia made a slashing motion, and a column of ice appeared. However, Mosqueda again avoided her attack with sonido, and appeared behind her. She turned around.
"Uno", he said as he struck her in the abdomen. "Dos", he said as he dealt numerous blows with both arms. "Cientos!" he shouted as he made the final strike, causing Rukia to fly back through the wall of a nearby building, which collapsed around her. He noted that she was unable to stand as he approached her.
"I think that this is your end, Lieutenant of squad 13."
"Well now, what are you two little girls doing here?" The two arrancars looked up to see a female shinigami looking down on them from a roof of a nearby building. She jumped down in front of them, drawing her zanpakuto.
"We're here to attack you", one of the arrancars replied.
"Oh really, me personally? Well, that is such an honour", the shinigami began, flipping her hair back.
"We don't even know who you are", the other arrancar pointed out, smirking.
"Rangiku Matsumoto, lietenant of squad 10."
"Loly Aivirrne, Arrancar number 33 in Sosuke Aizen's army."
"Menoly Mallia, Aizen's Arrancar number 34."
"You make it sound like Aizen is still your leader", Rangiku noted.
"That's because he is!" the two arrancars shouted in unison, before rushing towards Rangiku. She easily sidestepped their attack with shunpo.
"Growl, Haineko!" The arrancars were immediately enveloped in a cloud of ash, and, as Rangiku twisted the hilt of the zanpakuto left in her hand, the ash began to cut them up.
"Poison, Escolopendra!" came a shout from inside the ash cloud. Rangiku summoned it back, the blade of her zanpakuto replacing itself, as she looked at the scene in front of her. Although one had been defeated, the other arrancar had managed to use her Ressureción to evade the attack. Rangiku prepared herself to attack again, realising that the fight was far from over.
A lone figure walked through the bookshelves, looking for the information he needed. He was dressed in a long white hooded cloak with a black mask obscuring his facial features. As he wandered through, picking up certain scrolls and texts and putting them inside the large inner pockets of his cloak, he noted that there were very few members of squad 6 around, and their barracks was just in front of the Kuchiki clan libraries. Squad 7 had their barracks and training ground nearby as well – the individual had found this information in one of the texts he was collecting. It didn't take him long to finish his work, and he soon made his way back to the entrance and outside. While it had been sunny when he entered, he now took notice of the new weather – in one direction storm clouds and lightning, in another it seemed to be snowing – and realised this was probably the result of the abilities of certain shinigami who were fighting battles with the arrancers.
Outside the Kuchiki libraries, two others waited for him, handing him the information they had gathered.
"Who are you?" a voice growled at the three of them.
"We could ask you the same thing", the hooded figure replied.
"Sajin Komamura, Captain of squad 7."
"I see", the figure replied, slipping back his hood and removing his mask. "I am Luders Friegen, Arrancar number 18 of Sosuke Aizen's army. However, I'm afraid I have to depart now." Before Komamura could react, Friegen used sonido to leave the area, and the Captain of squad 7 instead turned to the other two arrancar, who were...bouncing up and down.
"Lumina did good!"
"Verona did good!"
Komamura growled at the two of them, deciding to take them as prisoners to be questioned. He wanted to avoid killing them, so he used only his shikai:
"Roar, Tenken!" A long arm was created, and as Komamura moved his own arm, the larger one slashed at the two arrancars. Komamura expected them to fall to the ground, but instead they crumbled into small pieces. He growled at himself for overdoing it against a clearly weak opponent, before he was distracted by a blaring siren, three short horn blasts one after another.
On the other side of the seireitei, Harribel had just come out of her Resurrecion form, her opponent lying defeated on the ground over a mile away, having been thrown through several buildings, when Friegen appeared beside her.
"We have the information", he said.
"Good", she replied. She threw something up into the air, which created the noise which Komamura had heard, a horn blast three times in succession, then opened a Garganta for herself. "Open the Garganta for anyone who cannot do so for themselves", she ordered Friegen. He nodded, leaving to do so while Harribel left, returning to Hueco Mundo and leaving the seireitei in disarray.
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Next Chapter - the conclusions to these battles!
