NaruHina: Soul Society Tales
-chapter 6-
"Speech"
'Thought'
Before team Shinogami left to face Orochimaru again, Naruto got summoned to the captain-commander's office.
"You're saying that my team is getting three new members?"
"That's what I'm saying."
"Where do I meet them?"
"The three will meet you outside the Shinigami academy, and you don't need to issue them a hakama. We have already issued three with their village symbol on it."
"Nani? They are not from Konoha?"
"No they are not."
Naruto decided to first pick up his new members, battle Orochimaru, then do introductions, but there was no need for it.
"I can't believe it!"
"Neither can we!"
The three new members were three people that the Konoha Shonogami knew quite well. One was a master of sand, another was an expert in puppets, and one was a master of wind.
"Gaara, Kankuro, Temari?" Asked Narutp.
"..Good to see you, Naruto." Said the ever stoic Gaara.
"Shika-kun!" Temari said as she glomped Shikamru.
"How troublesome." Mumbled Shikamaru.
"Hey make-up boy." Said Sasuke.
"If we weren't already dead, I would so kill you for that comment!" Replied Kankuro.
Team Shinogami, with the addition of three new members, had entered the elemental countries, specifically Konoha, where they once again encountered Orochimaru, who was…doing nothing.
"Hey teme! Why aren't you doing anything?"
"I've been waiting for you, that's all."
"Well, we're tired of waiting. Shinogami, unsheathe your zanpakuto!"
Sixteen blades were drawn out.
"I'm going to enjoy this…" Said Orochimaru, licking his lips, and drawing the sealed Kusanagi from his mouth.
"So will we!" Said 5 mysterious voices.
"Show yourselves!"
"With pleasure…we are the arrancar formally known as the sound 5."
"Ah, excellent timing, Jirobo, Kidomaru, Sakon and Ukon, Tayuya, Kimimaro." The sound 5 presented themselves, but unfortunately for the Shinogami, all of them were in the second form of the curse seal.
"Now we have 6 opponents?! OK, split into groups of two or three, one group per arrancar…Sasuke, Hinata, you're with me." Shouted Naruto.
"Chouji and I will be a team!"
"OK, split up!"
Ten-ten, Neji, and Shino went to the four armed freak, Kidomaru. Kiba, Sakura, and Kankuro went to face the two faced freak. Shikamaru and Temari went to face Tayuya. Rock Lee, Haku, and Gaara went to face Kimimaru. Ino and Chouji went to face Jirobo. Finally, Sasuke, Naruto, and Hinata went to face Orochimaru.
-The following battles happen simultaneously-
-Use your imagination-
The team of Neji, Ten-ten, and Shino had their arms full, literally. Kidomaru had four arms, and when he used his shikai, it split off into 4 blades. Each onne of the three faced one arm, but the fourth arm attacked them all, so they were forced to fend off two zanpakuto at once. Unluckily for Kidomaru, Neji used his shikai.
"Shock with Force, Nami no Raikou!" His zanpakuto melted into two gauntlets on his two arms, and granted him a raiton[ style ofJuken.
Jirobo was facing down Ino and Chouji, scratch that. The super massive Jirobo with an oversized zanpakuto was facing down two puny little Shinigami, Ino and Chouji. Luckily, both Ino and Chouji used their shikai.
"Bloom With Beauty, Kaboku!" Ino's zanpakuto became a rose whip
"Harden like diaamond, Shigai no Ishi!" Chouji's zanpakuto became a large war hammer, which he held with both hands.
Even though the match was three on two, by no means was the match an advantage of the trio of Kiba, Kankuro, and Sakura. For one thing, the duo of Sakon and Ukon had unsealed their zanpakuto, creating two vile-looking blades of death. Neither Kankuro, Sakura, nor Kiba had discovered the names of their zanpakuto, so were unable to use shikai.
The trio of Rock Lee, Gaara, and Haku faced Kimimaro. Kimimaro used his shikai, which allowed him to use his bones as weapons. Haku smirked, then also activated her shikai, which made Kimimaro pale.
"Chill to the Bone, Hyorinkaisou! Haku's zanpakuto became two blades. Kimimaro started to sweat.
Tayuya faced two people that killed her when she was alive, Shikamaru and Temari. Armed with a zanpakuo that doubled as a flute, Tayuya was ready. Shikamaru thought it too troublesome to use shikai, so Temari would have used hers, but ahe didn't know the name of her zanpakuto.
The reunited team 7 faced down Orochimaru, who had unsealed his zanpakuto.
"Mow my foes down, Kusanagi!"
Luckily, teaam 7 was all prepared with their shikai.
"Shine True, Hitenshi!"
"Blossom, Tenshibara"
"Ignite, Ryuenjin!"
Some of the Shinogami clearly had the advantage, the ones that unlocked shikai. The ones that didn't were losing…badly. Orochimaru discovered that his three foes were more powerful then before.
"Enough! Time to go serious…bankai!"
"Nani? He can use bankai! Careful everyone!"
When the smoke cleared, Kusanagi did not exist anymore. Instad, what replaced Orochimaru was a monstrosity made of snakes. This granted him to power to extend limbs and even poison on touch. He could also weave in an out of attacks, and avoid attacks completely by separating.
"That's one nasty creature you have become, Orochimaru."
"Agreed, Naruto-kun."
"Hmph, impressive, but you don't stand a chance."
"Oh?" Orochimaru extended an arm made of snakes.
"Bankai!"
"Bankai!"
Orochimaru was halted in his tracks and glared at Sasuke, effectively paralyzing him.
"Shinso Hitenshi…"
"Rakka Tenshibara."
They noticed that Sasuke was stunned into paralysis. On top of that, his face was stuck, and a surprised expression was on his face. He couldn't move a muscle.
'Sasuke….' Thought Hinata.
'Looks…stupid.' Thought Naruto, who had to cover his mouth to keep himself from laughing.
"Dear Sasuke-kun won't recover until someone strikes a critical blow on him…" Said Orochimaru.
"Whatever, you're still going down…1000 spears of light!"
Naruto reversed his grip on his zanpakuto, and stabbed it into the ground. Bringing it up, his blade scattered into 1000 light shards, which elongated into spears that focused and attacked Orochimaru, who sidestepped the attack.
"My turn…"
Orochimaru brought his Kusanagi blade and held it in a reverse grip.
'Wait a minute, when did Orochimaru get his zanpakuto back?'
Swinging it forward, a crescant ark of purple energy shot out of his zanpakuto.
"Cursed slash of the heavens!"
Orochimaru followed up on that attack with a vertical slash.
"Cursed slash of earth!"
While Naruto and Hinaa leapt away, Sasuke was hit with both attacks.
"Ow!"
The blow managed to knock him out of his daze. Gripping Ryuenjin, he swung it forward. "Dragon flame wave!"
Orochimaru stabbed his zanpakuto into the ground. A purple flame barrier rose up, shielding Orochimaru.
"Cursed flame seal!"
Naruto used shuppo to get in close to Orochimaru once he let his barrier down. "Light slash!" At point blank range, Orochimaru got hit with Shinso Hitenshi and its special ability at the same time.
"Nature attack! Pin missile!" Cacti sprung up from the ground and fired pin missiles.
Naruto jumped vertically and allowed the pin missiles to strike Orochimaru. Upon descent, Naruto spiraled some chakra into his hand.
"Rasengan!"
Sasuke shupoo'd to the tree directly behind Orochimaru, and performed three hand seals, somehow still holding Ryuenjin.
"Chidori!"
Sensing Hinata from above, Sasuke thrusted his Chidori through Orochimaru's gut, then ducked, as Hinata fired off a solar beam at point blank range.
"Enough of this!"
With everyone from sound 5 except Sakon and Ukon defeated, Orochimaru prepared his desperation move.
-With Sakon and Ukon-
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Kiba clutched his zanpakuto, having learned the name.
"Roar, Akamaru!"
Akamaru split into two black and white blades, one wielded by Kiba, and one wielded by Akamaru in beast human form.
"Gatsuga!"
Sakon and Ukon leapt to either side to dodge it, but Sakon meet Kankuro, swinging his blade. Sakon couldn't avoid it in time, and was beheaded.
"Doubled headed wolf!" Kiba and Akamaru merged together to become a monstrous doubled headed white wolf.
"Garuga!"
The gigantic spinning wolf drilled Ukon right in half. When Kiba's battle was finished, Akamaru remained, since Akamaru was a permanent shikai type like Ichigo's zangetsu. Of course, Kiba didn't mind at all, since he missed Akamaru greatly. However, when Akamaru reverted back into dog form, Akamaru was as big as when Kiba was a Genin, not very big at all. Akamaru easiily fit in Kiba's hakama.
"Let's see how much power you have to STOP THIS!
Each one of the snakes made up of Orochiiimaru raised its jaw open, and an immense amount of cursed energy emmited from them, and merged into one colossal energy ball. Naruto told everyone to gather behind him while he made a half ram seal. Emerging as a Kitsune Shinigami, Shinso Hitenshi drew in energy like a beacon. When Orochimaru's death ball fired, it was stopped by Hitenshi's mirror like powers, which had scattered around Naruto's palm, which was creating a quickly spinning orb of chakra.
"Light style! Rasengan force wave!"
An energy beam shot out of Naruto's palm, bringing the Rasenganforward. The Rasengan force wave met Orochimaru's death ball, resulting in a stalemate. Both exploded, blowing everyone back. Naruto reverted back to normal, while Orochimaru's bankai faded.
Until another time…" Hissed Orochimaru, who melted into the ground.
"Damn it! He got away."
"Calm down Naruto. At least we defeated him."
"Yeah, thanks to everyone here. By the way, who unlocked their sshikai yet?"
Naruto looked around, and found that 5 members of the Shinogami squad, in addition to Sasuke, Hinata, and herself, had unlocked their shikai. Akimichi Chouji, Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuuga Neji, Yamanaka Ino, and Uchiha Haku had all unlocked their shhikai.
"Oy Kiba, what's up with you and your shikai?"
"Akamaru is just like Zangetsu. Once used, it will not go away."
"OK…move out!"
"Hai."
One by one, the Shinogami squad went back to [iSereitei[/b.
'Hientshi…Hitenshi…' These were the thoughts of one Kuchiki Byakuya.
'Let's see who is superior…'
Naruto and his squad of Shinogami had got back over an hour ago, and Byakuya wanted to challenge Naruto. Finding him, Byakuya waited until Naruto turned around,
"Byakuya, I've wanted to fight you for some time now…"
"Likewise, Naruto…"
"Shine True, Hitenshi!"
To be continued next chapter, because I have to look up his shikai, which I can't do because I am currently typing this at a bowling alley, in place of bowling. Why am I not bowling? I can't bowl, so I choose to type this instead. Updates will hopefully come once a week, most likely on Tuesday, but don't hold me to that. Updates with shikai will be posted on my forum momentarily. I give credit to NeoKenshin and his story for everyone's shikai ideas, except Kiba's. The story can be found on NeoKenshin's profile. The name escapes me at the moment, but I'd advise you to read his stories. Read and review please. Laterz.