"Slice through the winds, Messer!"
It is amazing how one release phrase can change the entire situation. The forearm of the remaining arm of Grimmjow was severed from the rest of his body.
Now, one would assume that was a good thing, Right? The bad guy that had a hostage is now defenseless (Grimmjow) and the good guy (Ichigo) gets a new power. One would expect this to be followed by a kick ass scene with the hero (Ichigo) either annihilating the bad guy (Grimmjow) or another stronger bad guy coming to save the sorry ass of the first bad (I.E another Espada).
Well not this time, Buddy.
The scene that follows Ichigo's power up is probably a nightmare for anyone that was either expecting a bit of Ichi/ Rukia action or even Rukia being a major part of the storyline.
When Ichigo severed the arm of Grimmjow, the cero that was charging up was already at full power held back by Grimmjow's control…
So when Ichigo severed that arm, the control holding the cero at bay was released…
And that power had nowhere to go but be released in the attack it had already formed…
And the original target was literally to close to miss…
So our dearest Rukia caught a cero from an Espada level opponent to the head at close range…
The this is the scene that the late-arriving Shinji stumbled across. Rukia figuratively and literally losing her head in the middle of a high-profile battle. Her cranium exploded from the first impact as the cero obliterated everything from the top of her head to the top of her minimally developed breasts… thus the end of the life of Rukia.
Ichigo could only stare in horror as he inversely ended the life of the female he took on the soul society for. The same woman that got into this fight to help him against an opponent she had no chance of defeating. The same woman that was trying to help him against his inner hollow, whom was surprisingly silent right now. His reason he got involved with this Aizen mess in the first place. The woman who showed him a world that just barely hidden from him. And while all this was going through Ichigo's head, he never saw the newly regrown fist of Grimmjow smashing into the back of Ichigo's head knocking him out into blissful unconsciousness…
Shinji's point of view
'Well, that's all fucked up' was the thought was went through the Leader of the Vizards mind as he took up Ichigo's battle against the now two armed Arrancar as the blue-hair man regrown both his arms sensing he had a new opponent.
I quickly donned his mummy like hollow mask and set to work against Grimmjow. Ceros, blade attacks and blocks were being thrown around everywhere.
'The blue haired Arrancar definitely had more raw power than me, truth be told because I let my power waver over the last couple hundred years of hiding from the Soul Society when compared to this Grimmjow Arrancar who, according to the reports, was an Adhuchas in Hueco Mundo, death was in a moment's time of weakness. But I have something I'm certain no hollow has. I have two releases to my sword.'
In the seikimon the fourth Espada, Ulquiorra Schiffer sneezed, alerting his target, Orihime, and her two bodyguards to his presents. They caught sight of the Arrancar and quickly returned to the side of the gate they came form before he could even react. The espade was able to quickly cut down the two guardians, but was unable to secure his target as the seikimon closed on his face. The fourth Espada sighed in defeat. 'Aizen isn't going to like this one bit.'
With Grimmjow and Shinji, above Karukura town. Grimmjow's point of view.
Shinji was ripping Grimmjow a new hole. Grimmjow was being toyed with really. Every attack Grimmjow launched at the annoying Visard in front of him somehow missed every single time. And all along, the blonde had this infuriating smirk on his face. Ceros, Balas, Resurrection, nothing seemed to hit the pain in his ass in front of him. He was low on power, be was bleeding from several slashes along his arms and torso, and he has yet to even touch his opponent. As an Adhuchas in Hueco Mundo, he learned that running is okay to live to fight another day, but every time he ran, he got slashed he needed help and soon.
Suddenly a Garganta opened up revealing former Squad 9 captain Kaname Tōsen, Who called back all the Arrancar. Grimmjow was saved and boy did he have a report to give to Aizen…
Shinji looked on as the Arrancar retreated. He looked down at the corpse of Rukia Kuchiki, knowing the fallout of her death would bring the might of the soul Society on the head of Ichigo. He sighed, before examining Ichigo. The weapon that cut the arm of Grimmjow was slowly disappearing. His normally orange hair had streaks of silver in it, which was also returning to his original color. His Zanpukto is what really caused Shinji to take a double take. His normally Shikai- released Zanpukto was missing and in it's place was an over-sized heavy black zanbato with a dull white edge. His unreleased Zanpukto.
"Ichigo, what have you done?" he whispered to himself as he picked up the still unconscience substitute Soul Reaper. He grabbed Rukia's corpse as well, and left the battle field with out a second glance. Meanwhile Ichigo was have a certain meeting in his mind with a few very odd pieces of his soul…
AN. Yep im back. I took about an hour and got this little piece out just to show I haven't abandoned this fic. If anyone haven't noticed I gave Grimmjow the high speed regeneration ability to make up for losing his arms. And Orihime never gets captured. And the death of Rukia… I kinda needed a legitimate reason for Ichigo to be against both sides of the war and she was just too good of a target to pass up… So much change just from a single attack…crazy right? Ichigo's new powers will be fully explained in the next chapter which will be out before the end of spring break. And expect some plots of revenge on Ichigo.
O-knight out.