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Chapter 7

The enemy of my enemy is my friend most of the time, but not this time

"You're a shinigami!"

"A shinigami?" asked the Heijin, "I suppose I could still be classified as that, yes."

"What the hell is a shinigami doing here?" demanded Kuroda, his eyes visibly filled with rage.

"I wish you'd stop calling me that, I don't really consider myself one anymore," replied Heijin calmly,

"What are you talking about?" asked Yoruichi,

Heijin smirked, "you two are shinigami as well aren't you?"

"Hardly," spat Kuroda, "I'd cut myself from soul society long ago."

"Hm, then it seems we share something in common," he announced,

"What are you blathering about?" asked Kuroda, that's when he asked the true question on his mind, "Is Soul Society involved with this?"

"Kuroda! Do you really think that-"

"Quiet Yoruichi," he growled, his face full of primal rage, even his hands seemed to shake with anger.

"Calm yourself," replied Heijin, "I said I did not consider myself a shinigami, and that is because I too have cut myself off from Soul Society. I am like you, a rouge."

Kuroda visibly calmed but obviously shocked to find another rouge.

"Are you the one who created that hollow?" asked Yoruichi, in hopes of getting Kuroda back to the task at hand.

"What makes you think it was created?" asked Heijin almost innocently,

"No hollow has ever had that power before," she replied calmly, "it also mentioned that it was highly important to someone. Plus, once we had it beat, those two appear out of nowhere and snatch it from us. I think it's obvious that that hollow is someone's pet project. Besides, experimentation on hollows is not unheard of. When I was still a captain of the Gotei-13, I knew someone, who particularly enjoyed experimenting on hollow."

A long moment of silence hung in the air, before it was finally broken by a low chuckle.

"My, how entertaining," chuckled Heijin, "I was wrong with my initial assessment. You aren't just brawn; you have some amount of brains. Though I'm afraid I can't say the same for your companion. I'm impressed that you managed to deduce that from the little information that was given to you."

Kuroda, who had by now calmed down considerably, visibly flinched at the comment. Though he humbly accepted the fact that he had been a complete hot head a moment ago, it still hurt his pride that he had let himself lose sight of their original task. In addition, he had spoken rather harshly to Yoruichi.

"So," he finally said, "You admit to the fact that the hollow was created."

"Did I? I suppose I did."

"Did you create it?"

"No, I only helped. As smart as I am, I'm no match for the brilliance that created the magnificent specimen that resides at the top of these stairs."

"And who is this brilliance of which you speak of?"

"Sorry, can't say."

"Then it's obvious that this won't end peacefully," decided Kuroda,

"I think we all knew that from the start," said Heijin happily, "but then again, you aren't that smart. So I applaud you for your realization."

Kuroda ignored that last insult, "just one more question"

"Hm?"

"Your two friends, what are they?" he asked,

"I've been wondering myself," said Yoruichi, "I've got a hunch, but I can't be sure."

"Oh? I'd like to hear your idea!"

"Are you two…Arrancar?"

"Well what else c-c-c-could we be?" asked Okoto, "Do we look like shinigami to you?"

"Now, now Okoto, don't be too harsh," said Heijin, "after all, there aren't that many Arrancar in the world."

"Boss man is right Okoto, there are probably only eight of us left," Soniku reminded,

"But, that will soon be remedied," said Heijin as he started walking up the stairs, "Kill them quickly."

"Hey! Get back here!" shouted Kuroda, drawing AnShen he ran forward to chase the rouge shinigami.

"I don't think so!"

Kuroda raised AnShen just in time to block an incoming swing from Okoto. The Arrancar jumped back, only to vanish and reappear behind Kuroda, who again barely blocked an incoming swing from the wild Arrancar.

Okoto began to grin and laugh wildly, he unleashed a flurry of attacks, swinging his sword like a crazed animal and spinning into unorthodox positions. Kuroda managed to block or dodge all of the Arrancar's attacks. He parried another wild swing, as his enemy's sword deflected of his own, he dropped under his enemy's guard and brought AnShen's blade across the Arrancar's chest.

Okoto managed to jump back just as the blade began to make contact, landing a safe distance away from the man. As he stood to savor the thrill of the fight, he noticed something hot and sticky dripping down his stomach. He looked down to see that the shinigami had indeed drawn blood; a thin cut crossed his stomach. It wasn't deep but it was still there.

He couldn't help but smile.

"Your pretty good," he said, "I'll take you on by myself."

"That's great, but you should keep your guard up."

"Huh?"

"He's not the only one here,"

Okoto's eyes widened as he realized he'd forgotten about the woman, his head turned to see the woman ready to deliver a powerful kick to his face.

Then there was the signature sound of sonido. Soniku suddenly appeared just behind Okoto and raised his arm to stop the vicious attack. The dark skinned Arrancar seemed relatively unaffected by the attack.

Yoruichi jumped away as the Arrancar attempted to retaliate with a punch.

"We don't really do two on two battles," said Soniku,

"I will be your opponent," he said to Yoruichi,

"If that's the way you want to play," she smiled,

"Follow me," he said before using sonido to vanish, Yoruichi similarly used shunpo to follow.

"Well, now that we've got no more distractions, lets continue on with the fight."

"Lets." Kuroda made the first move and burst towards his opponent, Their two swords clashed as they slid back together.

Kuroda was the first to break off, he vanished using shunpo and reappeared above Okoto. Raising AnShen he brought down a powerful overhead strike, Okoto raised his own sword in time to block the blow.

The two struggled for dominance as they exerted reiatsu, causing a crater to begin to form in the ground they stood on.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Alright!" shouted Okoto, with lightning speed he used his hand to grab Kuroda by the wrist.

Caught off guard, Kuroda couldn't stop the Arrancar from tossing him over his shoulder. But it did not end there. Okoto raised his hand and fired his blue cero at the still flying shinigami.

Kuroda's hand shot out and grabbed the floor, tugging him back to the ground just in time to catch the cero with his hand and toss it into the ceiling.

"Not bad, you blocked my cero easily," observed Okoto,

Kuroda chose to remain silent.

"S-s-silent warrior huh? Don't pull that t-t-tough guy crap on me," taunted Okoto.

Again, he remained silent.

"Say something already."

Nothing.

Okoto couldn't take this silence. He charged forward at top speed, his sword pulled back and ready to swing. Up ahead he saw that his opponent hadn't even bothered to raise his weapon in defense, that only served to make him even angrier.

"Say something damn it!" he screamed as he swung his sword, he watched as his blade began to slice through the man's stomach, a gleeful smile began to touch his mouth but immediately disappeared when it cut through nothing.

He had but a second to realize that the man was suddenly gone, when an explosion of pain smashed down on his back. He stumbled across the ground, blood seeping from his back.

"That all you got?" he heard Kuroda ask,

He whipped around to face his enemy.

"Damn it, were you just holding back?" he asked,

"If you took time to notice, you'd see that the wound isn't actually that deep."

"Huh?"

"Something negated the strike from my sword," he explained, "so it's not as deep as it actually should be."

"Heh, that would be because of my heirro. All Arrancar have it, it's a layer of reiatsu on our skin that protects us from attacks."

"Sounds useful," he said passively,

"It is," assured Okoto with renewed vigor. The man had been right, the wound was not as deep as he had originally thought.

"Alright, I was just screwing around before, but now I'm serious. I hope you're ready!" he shouted. His reiatsu suddenly spiked, causing even Kuroda to take a small pause to adjust himself.

"This isn't going to be easy," he muttered as he raised his sword.

A moment passed as the two of them stared each other down, waiting for the other to make a move.

The two suddenly clashed in a shower of sparks as their swords smashed into each other again and again. Waves of pressure shot out from them, each time their swords met it caused numerous cracks to form around in the ground beneath them.

Okoto disappeared and reappeared behind Kuroda. The shinigami whipped around to slash the Arrancar across the chest, only to hit thin air.

Okoto had vanished again and reappeared behind Kuroda's back.

"Gotch ya!" he yelled as he brought down his sword.

Kuroda jumped away just in time to dodge the attack, he felt a small sting on his face. Okoto hand managed to land a cut on his cheek, below his right eye.

Okoto gave his enemy no time to rest, he charged forward again, only to vanish just a foot away from Kuroda. The Arrancar reappeared above Kuroda and brought down a flurry of strikes, he landed no hits but managed to push his opponent back.

Using sonido he teleported behind his opponent and performed a powerful horizontal slash. Kuroda once again blocked the attack.

"Block, block and block! Is that all you can do?" he asked as he attacked again. This time, Kuroda blocked by placing his left hand behind his blade while still keeping his right hand on his hilt. The moment their blades made contact, he weakened the strength behind his right and increased the strength behind his left, pushing the tip of his blade forward.

The move caught Okoto off guard and gave him no time to react as the blade cut across his chest. He growled in pain and stumbled away from his opponent.

"Bastard," he muttered,

"You should have been more careful," said Kuroda, "attacking isn't the only way to strike at your opponent."

"Shut up!" yelled Okoto as he charged back into the fight.

Okoto led off by firing a cero. Kuroda caught the blast easily and redirected it into a wall, as soon as he did he found Okoto waiting behind the attack, sword raised above his head and ready to attack.

Kuroda sidestepped the Arrancar's strike, seeing an oppertunity he pulled back his sword and slashed the Arrancar through the ribs.

Okoto stumbled through and nearly dropped to the floor, blood gushed from the grevious wound in his side.

"Nearly got me that time," commented Kuroda.

He suddenly felt a stab of pain and looked down to see a gash down at his own ribs.

"Got ya" said Okoto,

"You turned your blade at the last minute," deduced Kuroda. In his own mind, he replayed the event that took place. He had moved away from the over head strike but the Arrancar had not swung straight down. Instead he had curved his swing so that it had pushed the tip of the blade through Kuroda's ribs. It was a shallow wound, but it showed that he could be hit.

"yeah," replied Okoto as he struggled to stand up, "it's clear to me that I'm not going to win at this level."

"So," he said, standing up and holding his sword in the air, "I'll just get stronger."

"Excuse me?"

"Denka Suru: Yuu Tori!"

Okoto was suddenly engulfed in a pillar of dark blue reiatsu so bright Kuroda had to cover his own eyes for fear of blindness.

When the light died down, Okoto's reiatsu had greatly increased but that was not the only change. Okoto now stood transformed, white boney spikes shot out of both of his shoulders, his hands had become armed with sharp talons, and from his back sprouted two powerful wings each bearing only ten giant feathers.

"This is my true power, my resurrection, Yuu Tori."

"So you were the one holding back," said Kuroda,

"So w-w-what if I was?" he asked, "doesn't matter now, you're going to fry!"

Small worms of electricity danced around the spikes on Okoto's shoulders,

"I'll show you, how an Arrancar fights, how an Espada fights!" he roared, suddenly taking to flight, "I, Okoto, the Cuatro Espada, will destroy you!"

Kuroda's eyes widened as he felt the amount of reiatsu being exerted by his foe.

The electricity around Okoto's spikes began to increase in intensity.

"DIE!"

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The room shook as Yoruichi and the Arrancar clashed against each other. She launched a powerful punch aimed at the man's face only to be stopped by a punch of equal power.

"Impressive," he said as he jumped back, "it took most of my strength to stop that punch."

Yoruichi remained silent as she analyzed the man in front of her. He had yet to draw his katana and had mostly fought her with his hands for the duration of the fight, which meant he was probably mainly a hand to hand fighter. He was strong and had technique, plus good reflex time.

She aimed to test those reflexes of his.

Using shunpo, she appeared above him, performing a powerful drop kick. The Arrancar just barely raised his arms in defense, though he remained standing the kick caused him to stagger ever so slightly. She vanished as soon as she made contact and reappeared in front of him to deliver a punch to his stomach, once again blocking at the last second.

Again and again, she would vanish and reappear where she found holes in his defense, only to be stopped at the last second. She had to change tactics.

Luck smiled upon her as her opponent lashed out with a punch after just blocking her attack. She managed to duck under and grab his wrist with both hands and toss him over her shoulder, smashing him into the ground.

"Ouch," he stated bluntly,

Yoruichi jumped back in case of a counter attack.

"You got me pretty good," said Soniku as he stood up, relatively unscathed except for a small cut on the top of his head.

His glasses now broken, he took them off and threw them away.

"I can barely keep up with you," he said, "I guess that's what I get for focusing more on power and reaction time then I did speed."

"Though you seem to have both," he observed.

"Flattery won't get you anywhere," she replied,

"Not flattery, but you are an impressive opponent," he said.

"I guess I won't be able to take it easy on you," he muttered,

Within seconds he had used sonido to appear inches from Yoruichi. He threw a powerful punch, but Yoruichi dodged as his fist hit the ground and created a huge crater. She countered with a kick to his face, sending him stumbling back.

Unfazed, he attacked again, once again unable to hit his foe and instead hitting the ground, sending out powerful shockwaves and causing the ground to shatter.

'What power' she thought to herself,

Again and again he missed his mark, but something was off. To Yoruichi, he seemed to be getting faster and faster, in addition, it was getting harder for her to maneuver with so much rock sticking up to block her path.

"You getting slower or something?" he asked,

He struck at her again, this time almost hitting her. She grabbed his arm and diverted the punch away from herself and into the ground, while at the same time moving closer to her opponent and kneeing him in the stomach.

The man flew back, but still managed to land on his feet. The Arrancar stretched out his hand and fired a purple cero. Yoruichi flipped to the side, dodging the attack and vanishing, reappearing and delivering a kick to the Arrancar's face.

The Arrancar skidded back into a wall, creating a man shaped crater in it.

"Ow," he said,

He pushed himself out of the wall, despite the beating he had taken; all he had to show for it were a dozen or so minor cuts and bruises.

Drawing back his arm, his hand began to glow with the same purple that his cero had been, though it seemed to be to a different concentration. He pumped his arm forward and fired a ball of compressed reiatsu.

Yoruichi noted that it was much faster, but she still managed to dodge the attack, only to be greeted with another.

Soniku pumped his arms vigorously, sending an unending stream of bala towards the purple haired woman.

The room began to become filled with smoke and dust from the constant explosions.

Soniku waited to see what had been the result. Yoruichi suddenly appeared inches from him, a punch ready and primed.

Just as he had planned.

Like always, he canceled her attack with his own punch. The two clashed, but with a new twist. A bala suddenly struck Yoruichi in the abdomen, throwing her across the room and causing her to crash in the rubble.

"You should have been watching my other hand," he stated,

As he suspected, the woman was still alive. She stood without too much trouble; the blast had torn her clothes, leaving her mid drift exposed.

"Not dead yet?" he asked "you're pretty tough."

"Same to you," she replied, "I've landed dozens of hits on you and you've got almost nothing to show for it."

"Tell me," she said, "which of you is stronger, you or your friend?"

"That would be me," he replied immediately, "You see we are no ordinary Arrancar. We are Espada, the strongest of our kind, the elite of the elite, the best of the best. Each Espada is given an number to signify its rank in Hueco Mundo. My friend Okoto is the Cuatro Espada, the fourth most powerful. Whereas I…"

Raising his right palm and showing it to her "am the Segunda, the second most powerful."

"Yet for all my power, it seems I am unable to defeat you like this," he said, "You are a powerful opponent. As such, I will fight you with my full power."

He reach down to his zanpaktou and drew it from the sheath. He flipped it so that he held it in a reverse grip, and then stretched out his arm towards her.

"Ganaru: Raio Ou"

There was a flash of purple light that nearly blinded Yoruichi. When it faded, Soniku stood transformed.

His head was covered in long strips of sharp white bone like material that circled his entire head and followed down his back, much like a lion's mane. His fists were now covered with layers of circular plates that reached all the way to his elbow.

"This is my resurrection, Raio Ou; you will find me, much harder to dodge this time."

Soniku suddenly vanished, before even Yoruichi could react, he was inches from her, his fist cocked back. She quickly pushed off her foot, just barely managing to avoid being crushed by his devastating punch.

The force from the blow sent rock and dust flying everywhere, she thought herself safe when suddenly a sonic boom shot out from his attack and hit her dead on.

She was sent flying back into a wall, feeling wobbly and disoriented.

"Now you see my true power. You can no longer dodge me, no matter how fast you are, you cannot out run sound."

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Kuroda dodged another bold of lightning as it lashed out at him and hit the ground.

"Run little piggy run!" cackled Okoto,

Kuroda dodged again and again as bolts of lightning continuously attacked him, scorching the ground and leaving small fires burning in their wake.

The fight was considerably harder now, not only was he dealing with ranged attacks, his opponent was flying and out of his reach.

"Take this!" he yelled, firing a cero at Kuroda,

Kuroda stopped his running and caught the cero but found it considerably stronger than last time, it took much of his strength to throw it back at the Arrancar, only to miss.

"Ha! Nice try!" taunted Okoto.

Despite his current situation, Kuroda was not worried, he knew he could win.

"Let's see you try this one." Okoto held out his hands so that his palms were facing each other, lighting cracked between them until a giant ball of it formed between his hands.

"Denkousekka no bakudan"

Okoto tossed the ball of reiatsu and lightning at his opponent. The attack had some considerable speed behind it as Kuroda was barely able to dodge the attack.

"You're not getting away!"

The ball suddenly detonated right under Kuroda's feet, creating a massive explosion that threw up rubble and smoke through the entire room.

"HAHA! Still alive?"

"Yeah."

Okoto turned to see his foe somehow above him, completely untouched by the attack, with his sword raised above his head.

"Die." Kuroda brought his sword down, heavily smiting the Arrancar down the back, then easily landing on his feet.

Amazingly enough, the Arrancar stayed airborne, though heavily injured now.

"Damn you," he spat, his voice full of venom.

"I'm afraid, you're not much of a match for me," said Kuroda,

"I'm not done yet," said Okoto,

The Arrancar charged another of his Denkousekka, firing at his foe the minute it was ready. Kuroda again managed to dodge the attack and the after explosion.

As he reappeared, he barely managed to avoid another lightning bolt. Then another Denkousekka, followed by more lightning bolts.

'He's trying to overwhelm me,' he realized, 'more of this and I'll eventually slip up. I guess I'll just have to speed up a little.'

This time when the lightning bolt came, it missed by at least three feet.

"What the-"

Already, Okoto began to notice the increase in speed that Kuroda was displaying, but stubborn as he was, he continued his barrage.

The attacks now seemed to stand no chance of hitting Kuroda, so fast were his movements that there seemed to be clones of him running around the room.

Okoto began to feel confusion muddle his mind as he struggled to keep up with the shinigami, he would fire at one only to find that it was an after image left behind by his opponent.

"I'm not going to lose!" he screamed,

Flapping his wings, he brought himself to the top of the room. The gigantic feathers across his wings began to glow a bright blue, he gave a giant flap and sent feather like shots of reiatsu flying into the ground.

Each missed their shot at Kuroda, most not even coming close.

"Was that supposed to be a special attack?" he asked,

"Just wait for it," grinned Okoto, "this is my ultimate technique, denki no arashi"

The reiatsu feathers suddenly began to emit electricity, small amounts at first, then larger and larger.

"DIE!"

The feathers suddenly discharged their electricity into massive barrages of lightning. Kuroda barely had time to react as he dodged the numerous bolts of lightning, this fight had just become harder, for though the lightning bolts struck at random, they were many and each carried large amounts of destructive potential.

"HAHAHA!" laughed Okoto wildly, "I'll fry your body into ashes, no one can escape from this attack."

Kuroda's feet never stopped as he tried to jump out of the way of lightning bolt after lightning bolt, in addition Okoto was still hurling attacks at him from above, this was starting to become an annoying fight.

He started formulating a plan in his mind as he danced through the storm of danger; he had begun to create something that could work when his mind suddenly blanked.

The reason? He had felt Yoruichi's reiatsu suddenly fluctuate, she was in trouble.

No more plans

In a fraction of his second, his brain collected every speck of information around him that could be used to his advantage. Nearest feather, ten feet away. Current speed, 30 miles an hour. Okoto, behind me, current speed 35 miles an hour. Current health, critical.

Kuroda's eyes narrowed as he delved into the depths of his mind and dragged out his inner killer, readying himself for the final blow.

Okoto laughed madly behind him as he fired more lightning bolts. Kuroda sidestepped his most recent attack and spun on his heel, effectively turning him around a full 360 degrees.

The Arrancar quickly caught on and began wildly firing lightning bolts at his incoming foe.

Kuroda picks up his speed as he charged towards his target, he swiftly jumped to the right as a lightning bolt strikes out at him, he dodges again to the left as yet another attempts to kill him. Up ahead one of the feathers released a storm of electricity, Kuroda acts quickly and jumps into the air above the attack.

He's eyes focus on the Arrancar and sees him charging another Denkousekka. Steeling himself, he firmly grips his sword.

"EAT THIS!" screams the Arrancar as he tosses the super charged ball of electricity at the incoming shinigami.

Kuroda watches the orb race closer and closer, as it does he brings his sword above his head. Finally the orb is within range, he brings his sword down in a powerful overhead strike. The two collide in a fierce struggle to dominate over the other.

"HAHAHA! You'll die here shinigami!" howled Okoto as he watched his attack collide with his foe,

But his sense of victory was not to last. A single moment later and Kuroda's blade carved through the ball of lightning, dashing through at Okoto.

The Arrancar's eyes widened, for the first time since he had been born as a simple hollow, he felt fear swell up in his heart. The fear told him to move, to run, to live, but for some reason, it made him freeze. This shinigami, was stronger than him, he had been beaten.

He felt a burst of pain explode from his chest. He began to shake uncontrollably, something wet and sticky dripped down his leg.

He looked down to see Kuroda's blade sticking out of his chest, the man himself stood right in front of him, a face of steel and eyes of ice were his image.

"Well," said Okoto before letting out a violent cough, "I g-g-guess I lose."

"Looks like it," agreed Kuroda,

"You could have killed me earlier, but you didn't. Why?"

"I needed to know who we were dealing with," explained Kuroda, "I now understand what an Arrancar truly is."

"Humph, well I can't complain. It was a good fight, the kind I always wanted to have" said Okoto, a grin on his face.

"I hate losing, but if it's someone like you, I'm alright with it," he assured, "but before I die, what's your name?"

A long pause hung in the air, and Okoto began to think that perhaps he might not give it to him.

"I am Kuroda Ryou, former commander of Seireitei's black ops,"

"That so? Than you must've been holding back a bit" concluded the Arrancar,

"Yeah."

"Well," Okoto started as he begun to feel the darkness closing in on him, "you'd best go save your friend."

"I don't think I need to."

Okoto let out one last chuckle; finally he closed his eyes and never opened them again.

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"You say that I can no longer dodge you?" she asked,

The black man nodded.

"Okay," she conceded.

Soniku was about to ask what she meant by that when she suddenly vanished. He prepared himself for the attack, but was too slow; the woman landed a powerful kick right on his face.

He stumbled backwards, holding his now bloody nose. Not too soon after he felt another strike on his back, sending him tumbling forward. He struggled to stand up, only to have a flurry of punches slam into the top of his head, practically driving him into the ground.

Pain lanced through his body but it was nothing he couldn't handle. Still, it hurt like hell.

After the powerful rain of attacks subsided, he quickly pushed himself up. He looked up just in time to block an incoming drop kick, the woman immediately jumped back after her unsuccessful attack.

"Your power is derived from your attacks," she concluded, "which means if you don't try to hit me, I you can't bring up that power of yours."

"Interesting observation," he replied as he finally stood up, "and you would be correct."

"But I do not need to strike in order to unleash my power," he said.

He pulled his fist back as though he were preparing to punch, Yoruichi readied herself to dodge his attack, he suddenly pumped his fist forward though he was nowhere near her.

At first she was confused but suddenly understood when a massive shockwave exploded from his fist, caught completely off guard she had no time to react and was hit head on by the powerful attack.

The wave rattled her bones and sent her flying into the wall, crashing into it and creating a sizeable hole. She quickly pushed herself out only to be confronted by another; she quickly rolled out of the way.

Though she managed to dodge the wave itself, she still felt it rattle the inside of her head and leave her disoriented.

She barely dodged the man's next attack as he appeared above her, only for her to roll out of the way. She jumped back up only to be attacked by another volley of shockwaves.

"Damn!" she muttered, she had to get back on the offensive that was his only weakness.

Using shunpo she vanished before his next attack and reappeared behind the Arrancar. She locked her hands together and brought down a double hammer fist down onto the man's head.

The Arrancar let out a grunt of pain as he fell to the ground; she followed up with kick to his ribs, sending him sprawling across the floor.

Keeping with the momentum she had built she jumped up above him, ready to stomp him into the ground.

But the Arrancar was ready, rolled onto his back and slammed his fists together. A huge shockwave exploded from him, Yoruichi just barely managed to push herself out of the way.

The Arrancar pushed himself up, bruised and more beat up then before but still going strong.

"You're a tough one aren't you" she asked,

"My heirro is pretty strong," he admitted,

"heirro?"

"Not something I need to tell you, let's just say it protects me well," he replied "you've seen most of my techniques. I suppose it's time to end this."

"Oh? How?"

"With this." The Arrancar took in a deep breath, Yoruichi's eyes widened; Soniku released his breath and let out a supersonic roar that shook the very foundations of the room.

The wave was massive and there was no escaping it.

She had no choice, there was no other option.

"SHUNKO!"

A sudden rush of kido tore through Yoruichi's clothing as it built up on her back and arms. No matter how many times she'd used it, she'd never quite gotten used to the feeling of Shunko; it was almost like having a lightning storm on your back, it made her back feel electrified and raw.

The sonic scream that Soniku had produced glanced off her new kido armor, leaving her completely untouched.

"what!" Soniku shouted, completely dumbstruck that his attack had no effect.

Yoruichi wasted no time; she vanished like the wind and reappeared behind the Arrancar, with a swift kick she sent him hurling through the air like a cannon ball. She vanished again, reappearing ahead of the flying Arrancar. Bringing back her fist she built up an extra amount of kido before smashing it into the Arrancar via uppercut, causing him to collide with the ceiling.

So battered was the man that he couldn't even recover in time to catch himself from falling.

So Yoruichi did it for him, she jumped up to meet her falling opponent and grabbed him by the arm. Then she started spinning, faster and faster, until finally she released him, sending him cannoning into the ground.

Yoruichi followed right after, both of her feet pounded into his back, pushing him even further into the ground. She brought her right foot back up and smashed it back into him, then her left, then her right again, and her left, until it almost looked like she was doing some sort of dance.

She finally stopped and jumped back from the large crater she had made. Waiting to see if the Arrancar would spring back to life.

Amazingly he did, he pushed himself right up from the hole. His body was covered in bruises and major wounds, but he remained alive.

"Damn," he muttered, "you had that kind of power this whole time and didn't use it?"

"Yeah," she replied, "I honestly hoped I wouldn't need it, but you proved to be a strong opponent."

"Thanks," he muttered as he stumbled forward,

"Don't thank me, truth is you aren't even one of the strongest enemies I've ever faced," she admitted,

"I should have expected as much," he replied, spitting out some blood, "but I can't just stop. Will end this with one last move. Sound good?"

"Sure," she replied, reactivating her shunko

Together they charged, each pouring their power into their last attack. The two were soon within range of each other, both lashed out with their right fist. The room shook, the ground cracked, the very air around them seemed to suddenly split.

"Heh, figures," muttered Soniku as he stared down at the woman, "I guess if I had to die, it could have been worse than this."

Yoruichi's fist had been the only one to hit it's mark, the blow had been so strong it had gone clean through the Arrancar's chest.

She yanked it out, flinching at the blood on her hand. Soniku fell to the ground, still alive, but just barely.

"Before I die; a small piece of wisdom. Those who lead us, are far stronger then we were, the leader is without fear. He has a plan, a plan to raise Hollows to new levels of power. If you continue this fight, you will have a difficult road to walk."

"That's alright, my roads are never easy," she replied,

"If you want more answers, talk, to Heijin," he suggested before coughing up some blood.

"It was, a good fight," he said, "I hope I wasn't too boring."

"No."

"Good," he spoke, then breathed his last breath.

Yoruichi walked away solemnly, she hated killing, no matter who it was. As she walked back towards the first room, she noticed that Kuroda's reiatsu signature was still active, he had won. She had expected no less.

As she approached the door, she felt her mind wander as to how she would tease him when she got back. It was always a good way to lighten the mood a bit.

Suddenly the door exploded into pieces, throwing up dust and pieces of door everywhere.

"Yoruichi!" she heard Kuroda yell as he shot through the door.

Yoruichi where-, oh, you're okay," he said when he noticed her.

"Idiot, of course I'm fine," she scolded,

"Uh, what happened to your shirt?" he asked,

"I had to use Shunko," she explained,

"Oh, okay," he said awkwardly, "so, you're not hurt are you?"

"Ah, you care about me! How sweet!" she teased,

"I-I-I'm just asking if you're alright!" he protested,

"That sounds like care to me!"

"Oh, just shut up," he muttered,

"Oh, that was mean," she said in her best sad voice, "I'm going to cry!"

"You can't fool me! You're just pretending!" he replied coldly,

She gave him her best puppy dog eyes.

"Don't cry damn it! I'm sorry, really really sorry!"

"Ha! Got you!"

"ARGH!"

A/N

WOOOH!

DB: That was a long chapter! Spent a lot of time thinking of how to do the fights, I hope it turned out alright. I think I did an alright job, don't you Kuroda.

Kuroda: Meh,

DB: MEH? MEH! You were in the fight! You're supposed to support it!

Kuroda: Just cause I'm in the fight doesn't mean I like it!

DB: You are lucky that I need you to play the part!

Kuroda: Whatever

DB: ARGH! I GET NO REVIEWS AND NO RESPECT!

Kuroda: Whiner

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