Okay, well people read the first chapter and liked the direction it was going so now I'm kinda rushing this chapter, hopefully it won't suck because of that. I really hope this chapter lives up to expectations set by the first chapter. I would like to thank everyone who gave reviews they were a great confidence booster. So once again read and review.

Chapter 2

Menos Adjuchas

Kenpachi and Toushiro came out of the Senkai gate in a semi-dark alley, trash cans and a small cat were the only welcoming party. Kenpachi checked himself and his Gigai over. He was dressed in baggy blue cargo pants, a grey tank top and leather jacket. Toushiro was wearing a black polo shirt and a white pants. Both wore a pair of slightly worn converse tennis shoes.

"Let's split up and look-," Toushiro started to say. Both stiffened as a massive wave of spiritual energy hit them.

"Well kid, drop the bodies here and let's get to it. It knows we're here and inviting us to a duel," Kenpachi said. In a flash he was in spirit form and running down the street towards the source of the spirit waves.

"Wait you need to hide these, we should stay together, hold on!" Toushiro cried out in protest while trying to drag kenpachi's body out of sight. Once it was hidden behind a trash can he changed in to spirit form too and chased after his partner.

Kenpachi ran down the street ignoring all the people around him and focused on getting to the fight as quickly as possible. He felt it, around the next corner the menos would be in sight. Kenpachi rounded the corner.

Toushiro jumped from building to building following after Kenpachi. For not having shunpo he could move fast. He closed in on Zaraki and the menos, just over the building. Then he saw it. Toushiro was looking a monstrosity, in the wide boulevard stood the Menos Adjuchas.

The menos was a giant, smaller than a gillian but still large, it was vaguely humanoid but had white branch like attachments all over it they moved around crisscrossing and spinning. It was odd they were not like tentacles but really like tree branches stiff and jointed. Its the branches grew from the black mass of it's body. The only other white was its leaf shaped mask. Kenpachi looked at it and couldn't help but laugh, surely a tree couldn't become a hollow. It pulsated with raw spirit energy and power.

Kenpachi smiled as he unsheathed his sword. "Hey Kid, why don't sit this one out, call squad 12 and ask for the limit release," he shouted to Toushiro who, he noticed, had appeared on a roof nearby. He released a yell as he charged at the tree like hollow. The hollow's black eyes narrowed on Kenpachi as he charged, its branch criss-crossed and spun faster creating a shield around its body. Kenpachi was hardly aware that it had happened as he swung his sword down on the shield. Several branches broke and flew in all directions, Toushiro ducked as one flew over his head, they stuck in the walls all around the boulevard and two planted themselves in Kenpachi himself, one in his left arm and the other in his kidney area. Kenpachi laughed again and stabbed his sword into the spinning shield right at the mask. More branches broke off and flew. Another flew into Kenpachi's right thigh. He jumped back pain flaring through his recent puncture. He stared at the spinning, watching each branch as it spun. There! He caught the pattern and charged forward again. With a roar he slashed his sword left stopping a larger branch that wouldn't break, he spun inside the shield through the gap he made and slashed at it's mask intending to kill it in one fatal blow. Before he could comprehend what was happening Kenpachi found himself flying backwards. He landed on the street and sliding and flipping backwards.

Toushiro was on hold with squad 12 awaiting permission for limit release and saw what had happened. After Kenpachi had blocked one branch, another had also stop and all the sticks on it stiffened and stabbed into Kenpachi as he had spun puncturing and grabbing and hurling him backwards. Toushiro looked back at the hollow as it released an earth shattering roar.

Toushiro decided he had sat around long enough. "Reign over the frosted heavens; Hyorinmaru!" A dragon made of ice burst forth from Toushiro's sword encircling him as his sword froze and a chain with a crescent blade attached fell to the ground. Toushiro yelled and swung down at the hollow, the dragon following the direction of his blade. It hit the shield of spinning branches ice forming all around and over it. Toushiro jumped down aiming for his sword to cut through the hollow in two. The ice shattered sending shards flying through the air, Toushiro was suddenly on the defensive blocking shards flying at him. Then he saw white stakes flying at him. Toushiro eyes widened, instinct took over and he crossed his arms in front of him. Luck then took the place of instinct and the ice dragon flew between Toushiro and the white points flying at him. The dragon took the blow but flew backwards, knocking Toushiro into a nearby store.

The dragon burst and melted away Toushiro struggled to stand. He saw a growing pool of blood around Kenpachi who seemed unconscious. Squad 12 was taking too long and even his bankai wouldn't help him with his limiter still in effect. Toushiro made a decision, his shikai had failed and his partner was unconscious. He took an attack stance, the hollow started to make his branches spin faster its shield becoming stronger. Toushiro eyed the hollow. He dropped his stance and ran towards Kenpachi. Lifting him onto his shoulders Toushiro jumped away retreating to another part of the city to hide and recuperate. The hollow had this fight and there wwas noting toushiro could do.

For now.

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Yeah I know cheesy ending and all that but you have to have more incentive to read the next chapter. Read and Review please. I'll try to have the next chapter out by the end of this month. I might be getting a job so that'll eat up my time in addition to my college classes. So like I said, end of the month.