NaruHina: Soul Society Tales
-Chapter 2-
"Speech"
'Thought'
Jutsu/Kido
"Shine True, Hitenshi!"
Naruto's zanpakuto was evidently, light based, as it now left after images after every swing. Key ridges, not unlike those of Naruto's key blades, appeared on the dull side of the blade. Attached to the light lavender colored hilt was a short chain with a ruby encrusted, four-point star.
"Well done Naruto. You managed to release your zanpakuto. Care to test it out on me against my Hyorinmaru?"
While the two were talking, Hinata started to melt, thanks to a build up of heated reiatsu. She came out panting for breath and shivering slightly. She took a look at Naruto, to see if he was frozen. Instead, she saw his released Zanpakuto. 'He did it.'
"Sit upon the frosted heavens, Hyorinmaru!"
Toshiro's zanpakuto looked the same, but it gained a crescent-shaped blade attached to the hilt by a chain. Naruto discovered that anything captured by the chain was frozen. Hyorinmaru lived up to its name as the most powerful ice type blade in Soul Society, but Naruto lived up to his name as the most unpredictable ninja. When Naruto was frozen, another Naruto came out with Hitenshi and attacked. Hitsugaya-taicho would later discover Naruto's use of a Kage Bunshin during the fight.
'Hmm, I wonder, can he teach me that Kage Bunshin jutsu, or whatever it is?'
"Hey Naruto, can you teach me Kage Bunshin?"
"Perhaps."
Captain Hitsugaya Toshiro was able to beat a majority of the captains in most of the squads, thanks to Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and other jutsu that he learned from Naruto. He was currently meeting one on one with the sotaicho.
"How's Naruto? Has he made progress with his BanKai?"
"He hasn't showed me any progress on his BanKai yet, so I don't know. However, I can tell that Naruto is at least third seat class, especially since he unsealed his shikai amd even taught me Kage Bunshin, among other things…"
"I hate that accursed jutsu. To this day, I only beat Minato a few times, my own fukutaicho! I offered him a promotion, but each time, he refuses to take it. Something about unlimited paperwork…"
"Minato, eh?"
"So Toshiro, you wanted to see if you can beat me? I warn you, with my Ninjutsu, I'm hard to beat."
"We'll see, draw your zanpakuto and get ready."
Hitsugaya unsheathes his zanpakuto and the sheath dissolves into water. Likewise, Minato also draws his sword from behind his waist (A/N like Leomon's blade) and the sheath blew away as leaves. It started out as a simple unsealed zanpakuto battle, but before long, you could hear two cries.
"Sit upon the frosted heavens, Hyorinmaru!"
"Photosynthesize, Konohamaru!"
Konohamaru was a green blade with a leaf as the key part, since it was a key blade originally. The hilt was orange, symbolizing autumn leaves. Attached to the hilt was a short chain with a Konohagakure leaf on a small piece of sharp metal.
"Leaf blade!" Minato shouted as a crescent wave of green colored energy similar to Ichigo's getsuga tenshō swung out of the blade. Toshiro swung his blade to produce an ice dragon that swallowed up the leaf blade. Another ice dragon came at Minato, hitting him directly on the chest. But what should have been a frozen Minato ended up being a frozen piece of wood.
'Another jutsu?' Thought Toshiro, with dread. Toshiro made the seals for the jutsu that Naruto taught him. "Kage Bunshin no jutsu." Toshiro silently whispered as his reiatsu was temporarily converted to chakra to produce a shadow clone. When Minato appeared, both Toshiro's threw their chain at Minato, wrapping it around himself and freezing him. Before Toshiro was able to freeze him completely, Minato muttered. "Bunshin Daibakuha." Minato blew up, sending shards of ice at Toshiro. Both were impaled, but both disappeared, one in a cloud of smoke, and one dissolving into water. 'Mizu Bunshin?! Ah of course…' Thought Minato as he looked around the empty field. A shout from above alerted Minato to Toshiro's presence.
"Bankai!"
Hitsugaya Toshiro was wrapped in ice, producing ice wings, clawed feet, a dragons head for an arm holding the zanpakuto, and his other arm wrapped fully until the wrist, where it then expanded into claws. Three flowers of ice hovered behind him.
"Daiguren Hyorinmaru."
Minato looks on. He knew that he was able to perform BanKai like Toshiro, but he was debating on whether or not to use it. Finally, he decided to perform it, but only when it was necessary.
"Leaf cyclone!" Minato shouted, as a whirlwind of leaves picked up and was headed toward Toshiro. Toshiro dodged it by simply going airborne.
"You won't escape!" Shouted Minato, who, using chakra, jumped into the air. To the shock of Toshiro, Minato was as high in the air as he was! He started molding some chakra into a sphere on his palm. "Rasengan!" Toshiro, recognizing the potential force of the attack, used his ice wings as a shield by wrapping it around himself. To Toshiro's shock, the jutsu actually grinded a hole in his barrier. It quickly regenerated though.
"Looks like I have to take this seriously, no one was able to block my Rasengan as easily as you did." 'With the exception of my son…'
'Kuso! He's going serious now! Was he just playing before?'
Minato's reiatsu exploded. "BanKai!"
When the reiatsu cloud disappeared, Minato looked very different. He was wearing a black undershirt and black pants. But he was also wearing the same cloak he wore when he was Hokage, the white coat with flames on the bottom. "Meet my bankai, the Hirashin no Konohamaru!"
Konohamaru was still a green blade with a key part at the end, but the blade became three pronged. In addition, the key chain attached became a lightning bolt engraved with the Konoha insignia.
In a flash of yellow light, Minato disappeared. 'Fast!' Toshiro wrapped the ice shield around himself just in time before Minato struck. 'He's almost as fast as Ichigo's BanKai Tensa Zangetsu…no! HE'S FASTER!'
Toshiro winced in pain after every stab since his ice wings had many holes in him while he was constantly stabbed. Unknowing to Minato and Toshiro, a certain orange, spiky haired substitute Shinigami was watching. 'Damn he's fast…'
Naruto was training Hinata in how to unseal her zanpakuto. She worked reverently harder after Naruto released his. Currently, the two were sparring, and Hinata saw an opening which she quickly exploited.
"You're in the range of my divination! Hakke Rokujūyon Shō!"
'SHIT!'
Unfortunately for Hinata, her jutsu, once completed, ended up being used on a log, that was completely decimated by her jutsu. Naruto came at her with a familiar jutsu in hand. "Rasengan!"
Hinata countered with one of her clan jutsu. "Hakke Shou Kaiten!"
The force of the explosion summoned the arrival of one Abarai Renji, fukutaicho of squad 6, but it also sent the two crashing into trees directly behind them.
'What destructive power! I hate to face one of them!' Renji thought at first. 'Nah…'
The two emerged from the explosion unscathed. "You gave me no choice but to unseal my zanpakuto…Shine True, Hitenshi!"
-Hinata's mindscape-
Hinata looked around confused. One moment, she was about to compliment the name of her lovers zanpakuto, and the next, she was here, not that she was complaining. The place was beautiful, a field of her favorite flowers. She spotted a man that looked suspiciously familiar, but the man had angel-like wings.
"Naru-tenshi?"
The blond with spiky hair turned around.
"Close, Hinata, but not quite. My name is ."
"What's that?" Asked Hinata.
"Oh, you can't hear my name yet. My powers are symbiotic with your lovers' zanpaktou Hitenshi. Release me, NOW! My name is…"
-Out of Hinata's mindscape-
"Light wave!" Naruto shouted, as a shockwave of light went toward Hinata, who had just snapped her eyes open. Hinata raised her blade. "Blossom, Tenshibara!(1)" In a flash of light, Naruto's light wave was absorbed, and Naruto was blinded for a bit. When he could open his eyes again, he looked at the zanpakuto known as Tenshibara, then compared it to his own zanpakuto, Hitenshi. The two didn't even remotely resemble each other. While Naruto's Hitenshi was a pure light blade. Hinata's Tenshibara was a glove that was able to control nature to an extent, and accented her Juken.
Naruto discovered that Hitenshi and Tenshibara were symbiotic. Neither shikai was more powerful then the other, but the two seemed to make each other stronger. 5 minutes after they succumbed to exhaustion, they both woke up, and after Naruto regained his strength, he was challenged by Renji.
Toshiro laid, defeated by the hands of Minato, who was sweating quite a bit.
"That was one of the most challenging fights that I have ever had."
It was then that Ichigo decided to make himself known.
"Hey Minato, you're kind of fast. Want to pit your BanKai, Hirashin no Konohamaru, against my BanKai, Tensa Zangetsu?"
"Maybe tomorrow. I have an idea, why don't you fight my son?"
"Naruto? I think that Renji is fighting him…"
"Howl, Zabimaru!"
Zabimaru was a segmented blade with a pick like protrusion on each segment, connected by a stretchable thread.
"Shine True, Hitenshi!"
Renji, the fukutaicho of squad 6, was fighting Naruto, an undetermined rank in squad ten, but easily a seated level. Hinata was both watching, and having a mental conversation with Tenshibara.
'Why do you look like Naruto-kun?' Asked Hinata in her mind.
'I look like him…because he is your role model, the one who you look up to most…'
"Hey Hinata was it? What are you doing?"
Startled, Hinata immediately came to attention, and looked at the raven haired girl in front of her.
"Who are you?"
"Oh gomen, my name is Kuchiki Rukia. Want to spar?" Rukia asked.
"Sure, Naruto-kun is sparring with Renji-san."
"Dance, Sode no Shirayuki."
Hinata could easily say that her blade was one of, if not the most beautiful in Soul Society. It was pure white, including the crossguard, hilt, and the blade. A white ribbon is attached to the hilt of the blade.
"Blossom, Tenshibara!"
After Tenshibara's flash faded, the battle between Rukia and Hinata started. Since Hitenshi and Tenshibara were symbiotic, having them both unsealed at such a sshort distance increased their power, as was quickly discovered by both Renji and Rukia. Naruto's shikai acquired a new ability in the presence of Hinata's Tenshibara. It was remarkably similar to Kuchiki Byakuya's own shikai, since Hitenshi dissolved into sharp light fragments and attacked Renji, his current opponent. The match became 2 on 2, as Renji and Rukia joined forces to wipe out Naruto, who was joined by Hinata.
"Higa Zekko!"
Renji's Zabimaru separated and surrounded both Naruto and Hinata for an omnidirectional attack. Unfortunately, Renji forgot one thing, as the broken baboon fang attempted to impale the two, Hinata grabbed Naruto.
"Brace yourself, Naruto-kun. Kaiten!" The Kaiten managed to destroy all the sements of Zabimaru/
"MY ZABIMARU!"
While Renji was coping with the loss of his Zabimaru, Rukia attacked.
"Some no mai, tsukishiro." A white circle appeared under Naruto and Hinata. They leapt away, but in the process, got their feet frozen.
"That's it! No one breaks Zabimaru! BanKai!"
'Shit!'
Renji's Hihio Zabimaru was a giant, skeletal snake. It was two fast for the two to dodge, and they were knocked out with one hit.
"Isn't that a bit too much for Shinigami who barely unlocked their shikai?"
"Maybe your right. Oops."
Rukia shook her head, and stalked off, after seeing her nii-sama watching, who mumbled "Copycat," fter seeing Naruto's shikai attack like his own Senbonzakura. Renji mutters something under his breath, and walks off in the reverse direction that Rukia went.
What a fine chapter, and just in time for the new year! R and R! Laterz.
(1) Angel's Rose
