Chapter 7
"Shut up, and just tell me how you did that! I didn't see you do anything with my Sharingan. So how did you escape?" asked Sasuke.
"Sharingan? Is that what you call your red eyes. I see. They have a keen insight that lets you read your opponent's movements, right?" asked an interested Aizen.
Sasuke's eyes momentarily showed surprise. He quickly covered it up, but Aizen had noticed.
"Just answer my question Aizen," spat Sasuke.
"I can see that I'm right. Very well, I shall answer your question, Sasuke-kun" said Aizen, extending his sword out, perpendicular to his body.
"How do you know my name? I never answered you!" said Sasuke again shocked.
"My, my, all these questions. I'll answer this too. Your blonde friend just shouted it out a moment ago, did he not?" questioned Aizen, bringing his right hand back down.
Sasuke's eyes only had confusion in them. Naruto didn't shout out his name just now.
"Oh, dear me I forgot. Your attack was making a rather loud noise wasn't it? With the noise, distance between you two, and your concentration on the fight, you probably didn't hear Naruto say your name, Sasuke-kun. To answer your other question, the reason you didn't hit me was because of my Zanpakutō," said Aizen, who raised it again.
"Nani?" said Sasuke.
Aizen decided that it would be better to show the ninja instead of telling him. Suddenly, Aizen was holding a copy of himself in front of Sasuke.
"What, how did you do that? What are you exactly?" asked Sasuke, eyes in disbelief.
Aizen simply smiled and said, "Kudakero Kyōka Suigetsu (Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu)!"
Sasuke's and every shinobi's face had a look of shock. The Aizen double broke into many tiny pieces and now Aizen was holding onto his sword. Aizen had seemingly pulled a clone of himself out of nowhere and then destroyed, no shattered it into pieces.
"This is the power of my Zanpakutō, Kyōka Suigetsu. I call it the power of kanzen saimin (Absolute Hypnosis)! Anyone who see the release of my Zanpakutō is instantly caught in its hypnotic power and I just released it for you to see Sasuke. Using the power of kanzen saimin I can control all 5 senses and make anyone see what I want. In other words it is possible to make a fly look like a dragon or in this case my Zanpakutō look like me," explained Aizen.
"So your Zanpakutō allows you to create illusions. But I didn't see any illusions and my Sharingan can see right through genjutsu. Explain that," said Sasuke.
"I see. I don't know the specifics about what your Sharingan is capable of, but you say that it can see through illusions. I can only surmise that genjutsu uses a different type of power from the one I use, or it creates the illusin in a different way, or I move too fast for your eyes to see, or there are just some illusions your Sharingan can't see through. However, the most plausible explanation is that your Sharingan can't see through illusions when it is under kanzen saimin," said Aizen, smiling politely.
"So that's it huh? I guess I have to go full force against you, Aizen. Suigetsu, Karin, Jugo, I need your help to take him down. He is too dangerous to fight one on one," said Sasuke.
"Don't worry Sasuke, I'll help you fight the big, bad man. Karin, I'm not to sure about. She might get you killed cause she's too busy hanging onto your arm," replied Suigetsu, who has shark teeth and carries Zabuza's Zanbatō on his back.
Karin bopped Suigetsu on the head saying, "You dumbass! I would never do such a thing to Sasuke. I lo-, I mean respect him too much to get him killed like that," retorted Karin, a red headed girl who wears glasses.
"What was that? You love Sasuke? Oh, I never saw that coming with the way you act around him," said Suigetsu, sarcastically, which earned him another hit on the head. This one was harder and caused his head to become liquid for a moment before solidifying. Aizen was just standing there curious to see what these kids can do. He thought Suigetsu's technique was interesting.
"You know what Karin? One of these days I'm going to get tired of you hitting me. Lucky for you Sasuke won't let me kill you since as he needs you," a smiling Suigetsu said.
"Sasuke what do you want us to do?" spoke up Jugo.
"Attack Aizen while I prepare my most powerful jutsu," replied Sasuke as he formed hand seals.
"Gotcha. Don't worry about us Sasuke, he won't be able to get past us," said Suigetsu.
Suigetsu, Karin, and Jugo rushed at Aizen, who looked on in amusement. Suigetsu drew his Zanbatō, Karin took out some kunai and shuriken, and Jugo transformed his right arm into a blade. They attacked Aizen at the same time.
"All these kids seem to have interesting abilities. It's a pity I'll have to kill them. They would have made wonderful subordinates."
Aizen's group and Ichigo's and Naruto's group watched the battle intently. Naruto turned to Urahara.
"Hey old man. About your back-up? When are they going to get here?" asked Naruto.
"They'll be here soon. Don't worry about it," was the answer Naruto received.
Aizen used Shunpo and quickly dodged the attacks aimed at him. While he dodged Aizen also slashed Karin's right side, leaving a deep wound running from her shoulder to her hips. The kunoichi gasped in pain and fell face down onto the ground. The leader of the Arrancar then attacked Jugo in the same fashion and he too fell.
"Damn, this guy's good," thought Suigetsu as he swung at Aizen, who blocked it with his Zanpakutō.
"Suigetsu! Make Aizen jump into the air. Then, grab Karin and Jugo and get out of the way for a moment," yelled Sasuke, who had finished preparing his attack.
"Right," shouted Suigetsu as he ran at Aizen, but to his surprise the Shinigami just jumped into the air and stayed there. Aizen wanted to know exactly what Sasuke was going to do, so he purposefully jumped up getting into the position Sasuke wanted. Suigetsu quickly sheathed his sword and grabbed the two unconscious members of Team Hebi (Snake).
Aizen looked at Suigetsu get out of the way, letting it all happen of his own will. He knows that he can take care of Sasuke's group with no problem. It was the Uchiha that is more dangerous.
"Show me what you can do Sasuke-kun," said Aizen.
"Katon: Gouryūka no Jutsu (Great Dragon Fire Jutsu)!" shouted Sasuke. Several large, dragon shaped fireballs erupted from Sasuke's mouth heading towards Aizen. Aizen simply used Shunpo to get out of the way. He reappeared on the ground.
"That's it? Your attacks are very easy to dodge. They are too slow," said Aizen, disappointed at Sasuke.
"Hmph! Just you wait Aizen," replied Sasuke, who raised his left hand. A lightning sword came out of his hand and headed directly at Aizen's heart.
He jumped out of the way and as soon as he landed Aizen had to jump again as Suigetsu tried to behead him.
"You are in the way Suigetsu-kun. Please stand down. It takes a lot of control to step on a gnat without killing it," said Aizen.
"In your dreams, bastard!" yelled Suigetsu as he charged at Aizen again.
The former taicho of the 5th Squad disappeared and reappeared behind Suigetsu. The young man turned to liquid and fell to the ground in a puddle. However, Suigetsu quickly reformed himself and picked his sword back up, grinning.
"You'll never kill me that way."
"You are getting quite annoying. I see that asking you to stand down will not work," said Aizen as he raised his left hand. "Hado no 90: kurohitsugi (Black Coffin)."
A black box surrounded a bewildered Suigetsu. Then a large number of black spears pierced the box. When the box disappeared Suigetsu was just a puddle again. He again reformed and smirked at Aizen. Thunderclouds began to gather in the sky. Everyone saw flashes of lightning and heard rumbles of thunder signaling an oncoming storm.
"What the? The weather was just fine a few minutes ago. What the hell happened? Does the weather in this dimension change in the blink of an eye?" asked Ichigo.
"No it doesn't. I believe that Sasuke's last attack heated up the atmosphere, creating the perfect conditions for a storm," answered Kakashi.
"Why would he do that, Kakashi-sensei?" asked Sakura.
"I don't know for sure, but he is probably planning on creating a super charged Chidori or something that has to do with a lightning attack," replied the Jounin.
"Aizen, you're finished," said a smug Sasuke.
"How do you plan on backing up your threat Sasuke-kun?" asked an amused Aizen.
"With this," answered Sasuke as he extended his right hand and using chakra drew a bolt of lightning to it. "Kirin!"
"An attack that uses natural lightning? It's impossible to dodge that because lightning strikes in an instant! This is a powerful technique indeed," thought Aizen.
"Sasuke-kun do you really plan on killing me with a technique like that?"
"Of course. Earlier you said my attacks were too slow. Well how about now? This attack will hit you in the blink of an eye. There's no way you can dodge it," answered Sasuke as the lightning took on the form of Kirin (a mythical creature said to ward off evil; highly ranked just below the dragon and phoenix), hence the name of the attack, above Sasuke's head.
Sasuke directed Kirin to strike Aizen, which it did a second later. A bright flash and large explosion engulfed the area Aizen was standing in.
As the flash of light quickly faded, everyone except Tosen, Karin, and Jugo uncovered their eyes to see what had happened. Debris is falling everywhere around a large, smoking crater. Large pieces of earth are crumbling and falling into the hole. Everyone was shocked at the power of Sasuke's jutsu.
"Aizen-sama!" yelled Tosen.
"Kakashi-sensei what the hell just happened?" asked a stunned Naruto.
"Sasuke's attack used natural lightning. Because of that is it more powerful than any lightning jutsu that utilizes chakra. Plus it strikes in the blink of an eye, making it an unavoidable attack, unless of course you're capable of moving at or greater than the speed of lightning," answered Kakashi, who had just copied Kirin with his Sharingan.
After a little while the smoke cleared and everyone could see what had happened. Aizen was no where to be seen. Sasuke, panting heavily from having no chakra left, smirked in victory believing his attack had vaporized Aizen's body to dust. However, all of Sasuke's confidence, arrogance, and smugness left him when he heard Aizen's voice. The lone survivor of the Uchiha Clan is now visibly sweating and his eyes shocked beyond belief as he turned his head to the right. Standing right on the edge of the crater was Aizen!
"Quite an impressive jutsu, Sasuke-kun. If that had hit me I would have been done for. Lucky for me it missed," said Aizen.
"How? It's impossible! You should have been obliterated by that blast! No one can move faster than lightning," said Sasuke, fear creeping into his eyes.
"You didn't actually hit me, even though your attack did hit me," revealed Aizen.
"What do you mean?" asked Sasuke.
"Your Kirin did indeed hit me. However, that wasn't the real me. It was just another illusion of me. Kudakero Kyōka Suigetsu," said Aizen. His Zanpakutō reformed in his hand and Aizen smiled.
"Sasuke-kun will you join me now?" asked Aizen.
"Never! I'll die before that happens," yelled Sasuke.
"I see," said Aizen. "It can't be helped then." Aizen raised his right hand and pointed it at Sasuke.
"Hado no 33: sōkatsui (Blue Fire, Crash Down)," said Aizen.
A large blue burst of reishi (spirit energy) shot from Aizen's hand directly at Sasuke. Sasuke could do nothing, but stare in horror at the oncoming attack. He had no chakra to counter or escape the attack. Just as Aizen's kido was about to hit Sasuke a huge yellow blast hit it from the side and deflected the attack away from Sasuke.
Aizen just turned his head in the direction the blast came from. Everyone else was thinking the exact same thing, "What?"
"Aizen, does your ambition have no end? I see that your trying to take over this dimension too," said a voice.
Everyone turned their heads to the top of the Uchiha hideout. Aizen just smirked at the newcomer or rather newcomers.
"Ah, hello Hirako-taicho, Hiyori-fukutaicho, or rather former taicho and former fukutaicho, and everyone else. Long time no see. How nostalgic this is. I haven't seen any of you in over 100 years," said Aizen.
