Disclaimer
Remember that I own nothing. None of these Characters are originally and even the ones I thought I made myself turn out to be strangely real. Such as the fact that there really was a Lieutenant in Squad 4 with the family name Yamada during the time of Urahara's Captain Period.
(Danny)
We had been running along the roof tops for a few minutes now. A couple of people saw me but only the ones that noticed Gen'ei on my back even bothered to ask questions. And they were usually stupid enough to believe it was bring your little sister to work day. The only one that attacked us was accusing us of making fun of Captain Zaraki who apparently also runs around with a small child on his back.
Not long after crashing we found a supply station and managed to find a uniform that fit Gen'ei. After that we only got yelled at for invading their territory and no one questioned who we were.
Soon I sensed rising spiritual pressures. One of them was Ichigo's, no surprise there. He didn't seem like he would run from the first person to pick a fight with him. And unlike me he did stand out, what with his orange hair and oversized sword. Everyone would have gotten his description from the incident at the gate a little will back. But black hair and blue eyes was not much to go by and with me now in a Soul Reaper uniform I don't think anyone will recognize me. Gen'ei looked to innocent to be compared to someone that would fight a Captain. And with our weak spiritual energy we went unnoticed.
Another was Ganju's also not surprising. Two of the other spiritual pressures I didn't recognize, must be there opponents. 'What the? They are moving away from each other. Don't tell me those idiots split up more.' I thought to Gen'ei.
'Looks like it.' She thought back. 'What do we do now?'
'Ichigo has a better chance in a fight I think. Let's get Ganju first and then we will get back to Ichigo.' I reasoned.
I then started to flash step off in that direction with Gen'ei still holding onto my shoulder. I headed straight for Ganju's spiritual pressure and was glad that he only attracted the attention of one Soul Reaper so far. I arrived on the scene to find Ganju running from a Soul Reaper with a bowl style hair cut and some things attached to his eyebrows. Ganju was using his technique that turns stone into sand to make his way through the walls. An interesting strategy but he ran into one of those giant holes into the ground that acted like garbage dumps.
The Soul Reaper caught up to him and was raising his Zanpakuto above his head. I flash stepped in and grabbed Ganju by the back of his shirt pulling him out of the way of the attack.
The Soul Reaper glared daggers at me. "Who are you? Are you trying to steal my prey?" He asked brandishing his sword.
Ganju coughed for a minute before he managed to look up at me. "Danny… and Gen'ei… how did you guys find me?"
The Soul Reaper looked surprised but then very pleased. "Well then you're with him are you? That is good, that is very good. That means I get to kill you two as well."
I stood on guard Zanpakuto drawn and Gen'ei lowered herself off of my back. "Ganju," I said not looking at him, "where is Ichigo?"
"I don't know. We were attacked by two guys the moment we landed and I ran. This guy followed me. I think Ichigo stayed behind to fight." Ganju replied.
'You abandoned him?' I didn't say that but I thought it. "Ganju, I'll take care of this guy. You go on back and help Ichigo." I instructed him.
"But what about you? This guy has way to much spiritual pressure for you to handle." Ganju shouted.
"You should listen to your ugly friend. I don't think you know what you're getting yourself into." The Soul Reaper said arrogantly.
I flash stepped into his blind spot on his left side and swung with the back of my sword aiming for his ribs. He barely managed to bring his sword into a guarding position before being struck by my attack. "I am more than enough to deal with this. Ganju, you need to go and help Ichigo." Both Ganju and his would be pursuer, were wide eyed. It took him a second but Ganju started to run back the way he came. The Soul Reaper didn't even look to watch him go.
"Thanks for not stopping him." I thanked the man. "Gen'ei can you keep look out and give me warning if anyone comes to interrupt us?" I asked Gen'ei out loud so that the Soul Reaper wouldn't pay attention to her during the fight. I doubted I would need her help since this guy wasn't even a lieutenant but you never know. She nodded and jumped onto a nearby roof.
"You don't have to thank me. He was such an ugly opponent; all he ever did was run. You may not be beautiful like me, but you do have more fight in you." The Soul Reaper said grinning. "I am squad 11 5th seat, Yumichika Ayasegawa." He raised his sword if front of him.
"So squad 11, the combat squid, you really almost exclusively on your Zanjutsu then." I said raising my own sword. "I am Danny Phantom." I added with a smile.
"Well well looks like you did some research before you came here. Good, your team must be better organized than I thought." He replied with a grin.
"Not really, Ichi and his friends didn't really prepare very well. Except for Four-eyes but no one cares about him." Gen'ei said laughing. "My name is Gen'ei by the way."
"It will be a pleasure to fight with you." Yumichika said. He lunged forward and I quickly blocked using my ghostly strength to throw him back. "Very good. Your spirit energy is nothing impressive and your blade is small but you handle it well enough and with unexpected strength." He licked is lips kind of creeping me out. "This might be a good fight after all." He said putting one had on the base of his sword. "Now bloom Fuji Kujaku." He said. The blade glowed and curved before splitting into four separate blades connected to the same hilt.
He grinned and looked over at me. "What is wrong, aren't you going to release your Zanpakuto?" He clearly thought that I couldn't.
I sighed and grabbed my sheath in my left hand. "Hold onto life, Gen'ei." The blade and hilt glowed and shaped themselves into the metal plated groves. I raised my fists in a fighting stance only to find Yumichika laughing at me.
"Is that your Zanpakuto's true form. It is worse than it was before. Heck you might want to seal it just so you can have your reach back." Yumichika laughed until he was hit on the head with a ceiling tile thrown by Gen'ei herself.
"Stop laughing at me you jerk." She shouted at him.
He was a little taken aback until it clicked. "That little girl has the same name as your Zanpakuto… Gen'ei means Apparition or Phantom. You can make physical puppets to help you." He looked back at me. "Not even an ability like that will help you in this fight."
"That is not my Zanpakuto's ability." I informed him. "It heals. No offensive powers at Shikai level."
"That is good to know." He said with a grin before lunging forward again. I brought up my hands and guarded the attack using the metal plates on the back of my left glove.
"Bakudō 8 Repulse!" I shouted. The spell formed around the back of my hand and blasted back his sword leaving him wide open. I struck him twice, once in the stomach with my left hand and once on the side of his left knee with my right. By then he had regained positioning on his sword arm and was taking another swung. I dashed back a few feet getting out of his attack range.
"Kido? That is a dirty trick." Yumichika spat.
"Sorry, but I am use to fighting enemies that are a lot stronger than me. I use every trick in the book." I responded. This was good, he was prepared for the hit to the stomach and guarded with his spiritual pressure, but the hit to the knee was a solid hit and will slow him down.
Or at least that is what I thought. He came at me again and again I guarded. This time before I could cast my spell he throw a kick that I had to dodge and followed it up with another slash. I blocked it again but as soon as it made contacted with my glove he pulled back so I couldn't use the Repulse spell. He pulled his arm back and prepared for a sideways strike that would be harder to block with my groves.
Right as he swung I used another skill I had learned. Utsusemi, it is a more advanced form of the Flash Step where the enemy doesn't notice that you moved out of the way and it appears that you took a direct hit. I moved to a position right behind him and he lowered his guard as he thought he had just scored a killing blow.
Before he could realize his mistake I delivered a sharp kidney shot and other sharp punch to the elbow of his sword arm. Again strong blows to areas that really should slow him down and he continued to move as though it was nothing. He spun around swung at me and managed to land a cut on my left arm.
We both backed away from each other and regained our footing. "You are interesting. I am starting to see the beauty in the way that you move. Your vitals are never in reach and you stay close to my sword arm in order to predict my movements with my weakened leg. Who taught you these tactics?" Yumichika asked.
"No one really. Gen'ei and I fought quite a bit though. I guess you could say that it was from her." I admitted with a shrug. I started to use Gen'ei's ability to heal the injury to my arm. Within five seconds it was gone without a scar.
"Even more beautiful. Here I thought you were just some green horn. But you really are a skilled fighter." He said but then frowned. "But you could have done me in at least twice now. You had me completely off guard with that first Kido spell and with that Utsusemi. Why didn't you finish me?" Yumichika asked. "I don't want you to go easy on me. If I wanted an easy fight and a good feather in my cap then I would have taken that ugly friend of yours. I want a beautiful fight. So give me everything you have got."
I paused a little… it was true that I was holding back… if I used my ghost strength or powers I would have completely overwhelmed him by now. I looked up at him and then decided to give it a shot. I needed to see what I can really do before I meet another Captain. "Alright. I will show you want I can do. Just… promise me one thing." I said calmly.
"What is it?" He asked bringing his sword to the ready.
"Don't die." I said slowly raising my fists. I called on energy from my ghost core and surrounded Gen'ei with it. I could feel my eyes glowing the same vivid green and blue as my fists. Yumichika looked shocked at the sudden change but didn't drop his guard.
I Flash Stepped right in front of him and throw a punch straight for his chest. I reinforced the movement in my arm with my spiritual energy to put more force behind the punch. He blocked it with his Zanpakuto and tried to stop my energy with his own spiritual pressure. The ectoplasm went straight through and shattered his Zanpakuto into a million pieces. My fist connected with his chest and sent him flying. He hit the wall hard leaving an impression were he impacted it and was knocked out instantly, his Zanpakuto returning to its sealed form.
At first I was afraid he was dead with the blood dripping out from the back of his head. But when I went to take a closer look his vitals were still stable. Not to say he wasn't in any danger of dying. After using a probe made out of my spirit energy, a trick that Yamada taught me, I know he was in bad shape. His head was bleeding fast and he had four broken ribs that were in danger of hitting his lungs and a busted arm and leg and a kidney as well as injuries to his muscles. I bit my lip. I couldn't in good conscience leave him to die.
I started to get to work with is life threatening wounds along with Gen'ei's help. I didn't think anyone would attack us while we were helping him. No one would even know we aren't real Soul Reapers. I started to mend his broken ribs will Gen'ei got working on the head injury. Surprisingly the thing that was hardest to mend was his busted kidney. But after around ten minutes we managed to get his inners repaired to the point where he wouldn't die. I was a little surprised when he managed to wake up.
"What is going on? Why aren't I dead?" He asked confused.
"Calm down you need to rest. I managed to patch you up to the point where you won't die but you are still injured." I instructed him.
"But why? I lost… I was supposed to die a beautiful warrior's death. Why did you take that from me?" He asked again.
"Sorry, I don't kill people. I asked you not to die. Don't you remember?" I reminded him.
"Danny he'll live, but we need to go now. Don't you remember? We need to make sure the others are safe and then rescue Yayoi and that other girl." Gen'ei said. I don't know why she said it out loud in front of someone that could report it later.
"You are trying to rescue the prisoners?" Yumichika asked a little in wonder. "If that is what you want. Then they were moved to the Repentance cells two days ago. It is the tall white tower in the middle of the Seireitei." He informed me.
"Thank you sorry everything turned out like this. But you should be back on your feet in a day or two." I thanked him before turning away Gen'ei clinging to my shoulder.
"Wait, one more thing. Who is the strongest in your party?" Yumichika asked.
"Don't know, I would say it would probably be Ichigo. He has the most spiritual pressure out of all of us. But he is pretty inexperienced at fighting." I answered.
Gen'ei laughed and said. "Ichigo may have more raw power but you are a much better fighter Danny."
"In that case I will leave you with a warning. My Captain is Kenpachi Zaraki and he will be searching for the strongest fighter among your group." Yumichika warned his eye twitching from the pain he was still in.
"I know about the strength of the Captains. I came here thinking that I might have to fight three or more of them at once." I said seriously. "I cannot stop Yumichika and I can't afford to die. So the only option left to me… is to win." I then flash stepped away leaving he by himself.
I ran straight for where I sensed Ichigo's spiritual pressure earlier. But he was nowhere in sight. There were two Squid 4 members performing emergency care on a bald guy. I looked down at them and saw their supply packs. I remembered what Yamada said about the supply packs being the like a symbol of squad 4 and how no one ever paid attention to them. I watched as they tried to take care of the injured bald man with little success. It looked like he had some ointment to stop the bleeding, but his wounds were large. 'Are you thinking what I am thinking?' I hear Gen'ei think to me.
'I will take the one on the left.' I thought to her. We tensed and took aim. In a flash we were on them and knocked them both out in one hit.
"What… what's going on? Who are you two?" The bald man asked.
"Stop asking questions now Mr. Baldy." Gen'ei said earning some harsh words from Mr. Baldy.
I more or less ignored him. Gen'ei got to work making sure that both the squad 4 grunts were stable before swiping their bags. I got to work on the bald mans wounds. I managed to heal them to the point where his life was no longer in danger in a matter of minutes and then stood up. I didn't want to just leave them there and the bald guy was starting to piss me off. So I clapped my hands over my mouth and shouted. "Help, help, it is the Ryoka! Help!" I resealed my sword and then Gen'ei and I just walked off straight past the men that came to check on the commotion. The only comment that we got was "out of the way loser". I smiled, it was just like home. Hiding in plain sight.
(Danny)
We left the bald guy with a complete squid 4 uniform that would make sure that no one gave us a second glance, we kept trying to find Ichigo and Ganju. I was prepared for it to be a difficult task since he would surely try to keep a low profile… man was I wrong. I owed Gen'ei another frozen juice box because they were being chased by what looked like the entirety of squad 11.
I finally caught up to them by jumping from roof to roof. They were completely surrounded. By the look of it they took a hostage. Unfortunately the hostage was from squad 4. He was tiny and didn't look like he would be very good in a fight. Ganju was holding onto him and Ichigo had his Zanpakuto to the poor guy's throat. The guys from squad 11 weren't likely to care. I started to weigh my options. Ichigo and Ganju had no sense of stealth and didn't follow intrusions very well. I was probably better off without them. But I should at least help them out with this group.
I bit my lip. I didn't want to give away the fact that I was pretending to be a squad 4 member. Then as one of the squad 11 members finished his speech about why they all hated squad 4 members and an idea came to me. 'Gen'ei stays out of sight. I am going to have a little fun.' I instructed letting a bluish white ring appear around my stomach and passing over my body turning my hair white and my eyes green.
Right as the first of the first of the Soul Reapers attacked I jumped in I punched him in the face knocking him to the side. "What the hell?" Another one shouted. "What the hell are you doing? You stupid Squad 4 grunt why are you helping those intruders."
I turned to him and started to shout back. "Don't give me that crap, you squad 11 jerks! I heard what you said! I won't let anyone insult Lady Unohana or her squad and get away with it!"
"What the… is that what this is about? You moron can't you see what is going on?" Another one said.
"Yes I can. You guys were picking on one of my fellow squad 4 members and these guys came along and tried to help him. That is what I hate about you squad 11 types. You brought your whole damn squad to pick on just three people." I said back. This was kind of fun. I was clearly miss reading the situation but I didn't care. Everyone had a confused as hell look on their face and I turned back to Ichigo and Ganju. "Please take my friend and get out of here. I will take care of these clowns."
"What? You think you can take all of us yourself? That is pretty stupid even for one of your worthless type." One of the men commented several agreeing loudly.
I smiled and said loudly. "Who in the hell do you think I am. I am Ryū Fantomu of Squad 4. You can call me the 'Berserking Medic'!" I shouted. The name was something I made up on the spot. Ryū meaning Dragon and Fantomu was a Japanese sounding way of saying Phantom. The title 'Berserking Medic' was what Yamada use to be called back when he was in Squad 4. He was called that because he would often beat up large numbers of people from other squads that tried to push their chores onto Squad 4 because they saw them as weaker. The Squad 4 boy's eyes widened with my decoration.
I immediately raised one hand and called out my spell. "Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hadō 33 Blue Fire Crash Down." The large wave of blue light large enough to cover three football fields shot forth and pushed away the entire group that was standing in front of me. The blast didn't have much power behind it since I widened it so much, but it was still enough to knock out the ones that were not prepared. That was more than half of them. I dashed forward and started to knock out the rest one by one. They were too confused to react to the new development. A skinny boy came out of nowhere and cut their numbers in half. On top of that he was a member of the weakest squad. I don't blame them for being confused.
"Who the hell is that and what is going on?" Ganju said in surprise.
"How cares he just cut the enemies numbers in half." Ichigo shouted, he turned to the other half of the army that was still frozen in shock and started to clear a path that he and Ganju took. Ganju unknowingly carrying the Squad 4 member underneath his arm.
'Hope that doesn't turn out badly.' I thought to Gen'ei who was nearby laughing at the events.
In about a minute I turned invisible and disappeared from the fight going back to Gen'ei and turning my hair back to its usual color. Surprisingly enough, even though I had left and Ichigo and Ganju were long gone the squad 11 grunts didn't stop fighting. They started to knock each other out. And unlike me who was mostly using my fists or the butt end of my sword. They were attacking each other with their blades… I don't even think they remember why they are fighting.
'This… is weird?' I thought.
'One of the squads is self-destructing in front of us… is that a good thing or a bad thing?' Gen'ei thought back.
'It is just the weak members. I don't think any of them even mattered.' I thought back. 'Let's just go before something stupider happens.' Gen'ei grabbed onto my shoulder and we started to jump from roof to roof away from the disaster zone before returning to the ground.
I then started walking towards the white tower that the Yumichika guy told us about. Along the way I found a broom and thought that cleaning duty would be a good excuse for being about. 'They do cleaning duty during emergencies right?' I thought.
'Probably… they don't seem that organized.' Gen'ei thought back.
We turned a corner to find two Soul Reapers standing in our way. One was rather large and stupid looking, he had a bag of rice crackers in one hand and was using the other to pick his nose. His weirdly styled hair cut and muttonchops make it hard to take him seriously.
The other was a small woman with a rather childish figure that had her hair in two ponytails that ended in rings. She carried herself as if she was ready for a fight and was a picture of professionalism. The exact opposite of the man next to her. The thing that made me know who she was in an instant was the captain's coat about her. This was the captain of squad 2 and head of the punishment force, Suì-Fēng.
I bowed my head and showed my respect as I tried to pass. "You're not going anywhere Ryoka." The woman said startling me and the man next to her.
"What are you talking about Captain? These just some losers from Squad 4." The big guy said thinking that his Captain had lost it.
Fast as lightning she jumped forward attempting to strike me on the neck but I brought up my arm in time to stop her attack from knocking me unconscious. I jumped back and took up a battle stance dropping the broom. "Do you know of anyone other than Captain Unohana in Squad 4 that could have done that?" She mocked her lieutenant who was dumbfounded.
"What gave me away?" I asked. It would be nice to know in the future.
She smiled and began to explain. "Several things. Cleaning duty doesn't start for 2 more hours because of the Ryoka invasions." Will I'll be damned. "Also though you're small, you're built like a member of my punishment force and carried yourself a little too prepared. Finally we had a description of some of the intruders in the Captains meeting. One of them being a small boy that didn't seem to have much spiritual pressure and worked with a white haired little girl." And double fuck.
"While shoot, I guess you got me." I said with a shrug. Gen'ei jumped down and assumed a fighting stance. "So we have no choice but to fight do we. Unless I want you to be chasing us all day."
"Are you kidding me?" The fat one asked. "He isn't even worth you fighting Captain. Leave this to me." The big buffoon stepped forward.
"Do be stupid Ōmaeda, this boy supposedly almost took down Captain Ichimaru." His Captain warned.
"Oh please. Captain Ichimaru was just making excuses for his failure. I can't even sense these kids' spiritual pressure. This should only take a second." He said confidently pulling out his Zanpakuto and standing in a way that made we worried that he was some kind of pedophile. His Captain was rubbing the bridge of her nose as if wondering whether or not her lieutenant really was that stupid. "Now crush them, Gegetsuburi!" he shouted realizing his Zanpakuto.
Gen'ei and I broke into laughter. "That is a stealth force's Lieutenant's weapon? There is nothing stealth about it." Gen'ei was practically in tears. His Zanpakuto was a large spiked ball on the end of a long chain. This thing was as big as I am and he was holding it in front of himself with both hands. Sure if he managed to get a hit in it would be devastating. But there was no way in hell that he could ever hit anyone with even a moderate amount of speed with that thing.
He looked really pissed off about all the laughter. His Captain was nodding as if to agree that it was no proper weapon for an assassin. "Shut up. I am going to beat you to a…" That was as far as I let him get. I Flash Stepped right in front of him, and channeling both my Ghostly strength and spirit energy into a punch causing it to have a green and blue shine to it. I hit the oversized ball and sent it and the man holding it flying back and crashing into the wall. He fell to the ground unconscious. In the moments before the Zanpakuto returned to its sealed form you could see an impression of my fist in the metal.
"So useless." Captain Suì-Fēng said. She shook her head in disappointment. "Did even last long enough to let me see a true demonstration of what you can do. All I got to see is that unnatural strength and Hohō that Ichimaru had already told us about."
"Wow that is a little harsh, I mean sure he didn't get me the impression that he is a very good assassin, but he is still your lieutenant isn't he?" Gen'ei asked.
"Only because I can't get rid of him." Suì-Fēng said. "He is a noble whose family has worked in Squad 2 for generations. I can't stand him but I can't fire him."
"Harsh. Can you promote him to a position where you don't have to deal with him anymore?" I asked. "Like warden of an obscure prison somewhere that would take all of his time." I suggested.
"I never thought of that. I just keep giving him off time so that he isn't around the office. Or guard duty. But he keeps following me around. It's creepy." Suì-Fēng said thoughtfully. "I will need to try that suggestion of yours."
The next second she was gone from my vision. I could sense her presents to my left and turned in time to see a kick aimed for my face that I dodged. She followed it up with a punch that was aimed for my gut but I managed to block it with my elbow. The punch held a lot of weight and I hadn't had the time to prepare to take the blow. The bone cracked a little but didn't break. I jumped back and righted myself. Before she could attack again Gen'ei, who had drawn her sword, attacked and drove her back.
I draw my sword as well, as Gen'ei came up right next to me. This girl was fast. I need to take it seriously. "Hold onto life, Gen'ei." Both Gen'ei and I said. Our swords and sheaths turning into the gloves. I quickly used the healing effects to mend the minor damage to my arm. 'I'll cover you.' I thought to Gen'ei.
She dashed forward towards the Captain and threw a punch towards the Captains face. Suì-Fēng intercepted the punch with her left hand and started to throw an open palmed with her right. I came around Gen'ei and grabbed the right wrist and throw my own punch which she blocked with her right knee. Gen'ei tried to kick her while I was holding her still, but with a flick of her wrist Suì-Fēng managed to back out of my grip and Flash Stepped away.
'Surround her.' Gen'ei told me and I obeyed. We got onto opposite sides of the Captain. Figuring out what we were doing, she immediately tried to attack me in order to back out. I blocked her assault while Gen'ei Flash Stepped in from behind and tried to attack her. She dodged out of the way at the last second by jumping high.
'Gen'ei, grab my hands.' I instructed her. "Bakudō 4, Crawling Rope." I whispered as mine and Gen'ei's hands meet while Gen'ei was still going full speed at me from her Flash Step. 'Try to wrap the chains around her somewhere.' I said. She grabbed onto the chains and I to her hands. I spun her in a circle and throw her as hard as I could add my own strength to the speed that she had from the Flash Step. Gen'ei flew straight at the Captain who was caught off guard.
She blocked the punch that Gen'ei through but was then tangled in the chains made from my spirit energy. They wouldn't be enough to hold a Captain, but then didn't need to. 'Danny they are on her.' I heard Gen'ei conform in the back of my mind.
"Hadō 11 Bound Lightning!" I shouted the electricity ran straight from my hand into the chain and up towards the bound Captain. Her body started to shack from the electric current and she began to fall.
At least that is what I thought happened. A moment later I received a kick to the stomach and had to fall back. I saw Suì-Fēng standing there complete unharmed, though her captain's coat missing. I glanced back up to where I had last saw her and saw the coat falling towards the ground. 'Damn she's good.' I heard Gen'ei say in admiration. I had to admit she was right. There was no comparison between her and Yumichika or her lieutenant. Hell even the two of them compound didn't match her in speed. Not to mention we haven't even gotten her to draw her sword yet.
"So far you have proven Ichimaru's evaluation to be accurate. I no longer doubt that he truly did have trouble with you at the Hakuda Gate." Suì-Fēng admitted. "You have exceptional skills in Hohō and your strategies are sound. I assume your ability to work so well together stems from the fact that your Zanpakutos have the same name. Not that it is my job to care about such things. It's just curiosity I guess. I just have to kill you." She put a hand on her hilt. I tensed; she had us on the ropes without her sword. With it I will probably be forced to use more of my ghost powers just to survive. "You two have proven that you are worthy of making the Captain of the Punishment Force draw her sword." She drew her sword and her spirit energy sky rocketed. Out of no were hundreds of Soul Reapers dressed in the Punishment Force uniform appeared out of nowhere, drawn to the spirit energy of their leader like moths to a flame.
I looked around wondering if they would attack or just make sure that I don't run away. "Danny." I heard a whimper coming from Gen'ei. "Her spiritual pressure is too strong for me to fight." Gen'ei said sadly.
Shoot, I forget that she can't change to using ectoplasm when the spiritual pressure gets to strong. "It's ok Gen'ei; I will take over from here." I said gently before placing a hand on her head and reabsorbing the spirit energy.
I did feel stronger from doing so. Keeping Gen'ei with her own body does cost me about 80% of my spirit energy, but it is worth the extra pairs of eyes, hands and feet. Now though I had to figure out how to get out of this without her.
I didn't want to just run. Running rarely helped in my experience. Not to mention if I ran she might go after one of the others. I can barely match her speed and skill. The others wouldn't stand a chance. But first I will have to get rid of all of the grunts.
"So, that little girl was a manifestation of your Zanpakuto? I don't know how you managed to keep one up with such a small amount of spiritual pressure. Perhaps I have underestimated you." Suì-Fēng said.
"Nope, I am pretty wimpy." I said with a smile holding out my arm straight out to either side. Then I lifted my palms. "Hadō 33.5 Blue Ice Crash Down!" I shouted. I used the 'Blue Fire Crash Down' spell only adding in my Phantom Phrost to freeze everything that it touched. Launching the waves of cold energy out of my palms in each direction I effectively froze or knocked out the entirety of the punishment force. There Captain however had cut through the attack and diverted it around herself. So ice was formed around her blade. But other than that she was unaffected.
"What was that?" She asked menacingly. "I have never heard of that Kido."
"I made it myself. Looks like it did a number of your squad. Let's just assign that number to be two." I joked.
She rubbed the area on the back of her neck. "Why must it be so hard to find good help these days." She sighed. "I was supposed to give a little speech about the significance of the leader of the Punishment Squad drawling her sword. But I don't see the point in doing it now." She looked at me. "Before I kill you. Tell me your name Ryoka. You are an interesting opponent. I would remember it well."
"My name is Danny Phantom. But if it is all the same to you. I don't feel like dying today." I said raising my fists.
"Phantom is it? If you were a legal Soul Reaper right now would be the time I would offer you the Lieutenant's seat and promise to support your climb to Captain when a seat becomes evaluable." Suì-Fēng said and raised her left hand and placed it on her sword. "It is too bad you are an enemy of the 13 Court Guards. Sting all enemies to death, Suzumebachi!" she released her Zanpakuto. It was a golden armguard and what looked like a stinger on her middle finger.
'I wonder what its ability is.' I heard Gen'ei think.
Suì-Fēng disappeared from my sight and a moment later I saw her on my left aiming for my stomach. I only had enough time to react in order to make it a glancing blow. I quickly used my Zanpakuto's ability to mend the open wound. But something was not right. I felt a foreign spiritual pressure in my body were the hit was. I glanced down and saw a white butterfly patter on my uniform over the injury.
"I see you noticed my Nigeki Kessatsu. The first strike makes a target for my second attack. Two hits in the same spot and you will die." Suì-Fēng said with a grin. "It will soon all be over for you."
"Thanks for telling me how it works. That will come in handy." I joked to her, she gave me a slit glare. But what I said was true. Now that I know she will be gunning for the target I can plan around that.
I could sense the spiritual pressure that marked my flesh. I couldn't sweep it away with my own spirit energy no matter how much I tried. 'What about ectoplasm?' I heard Gen'ei think.
I know I can't get rid of spirit pressure with ectoplasmic energy. It would just go right through it… But what if I turn the flesh into ectoplasm. If I contented on the area that I wanted to go ghost in, then the spiritual pressure can't stick.
I gave it a shoot. I concentrated my ghost energy into the normal form to turn myself into a ghost, only this time focused into the small area on my stomach underneath the target.
It worked, I could feel the spiritual pressure in my skin disappear. But the target on my clothing still remained, the ideal bait. I grinned at Suì-Fēng but then stopped and acted as if I had gotten dust in my eye. She took the opening, she lunged forward and drove her finger into the target on my stomach.
Before a moment went by I grabbed her arm. The grin that had been on her face as she was sure she had won disappears in a flash. She started to gather her spiritual pressure to guard herself from my next attack. My eyes glowed a bright green as I prepared to finish the fight. "Ghost Stinger!" I called out the attack and the ecto electricity poured straight through her defense and shook her body. A moment later she was unconscious with the tell tale sign of her Zanpakuto returning to its sealed form.
'For our first real fight against a Captain, that went pretty well don't you think?' I thought to Gen'ei as I slowly lowered Suì-Fēng to the ground. The target on my top disappearing.
'Don't be so happy about it Danny. If we couldn't counter act her Zanpakuto's ability like that then she would have killed us for sure. Not to mention she didn't use her Bankai.' Gen'ei reasoned.
'Don't be such a kill joy. I'm going to get out of here before more people come to investigate the Kido I used, or Suì-Fēng's spiritual pressure. I then Flash Stepped away. Not bothering to look back.
(Yumichika)
I can't believe my rotten luck. Why with all my beauty can't the universe look out for me a little more? After my fight with that strange Ryoka boy, Danny Phantom, I end up in a hospital room with Ikkaku which is a good thing really. I still can't believe that the orange haired Ryoka managed to defeat Ikkaku… then again I was taken down by someone with much less spiritual pressure.
The bad part is that we are both currently being interrogated by that ugly piece of filth, Captain Kurotsuchi. He is trying to gain our knowledge about the Ryoka's objectives and fighting style so that he can take them for his completely ugly and disgusting experiment. No, the lives of the Ryokas if they must be lost, then it will be at the hands of our glorious Captain Zaraki.
"Why do you refuse to cooperate?" Kurotsuchi asked with his ugly grin.
"Please sir, interrogation of peasants is strictly prohibited." A nurse said until Kurotsuchi made is willingness to kill her plain by destroying the wall next to her. That is what I hate the most about the thing, for I dare not call him a man, he has no sense of honor.
"Master?" His lieutenant started to object.
"You be quiet to Nemu unless you want me to pull you apart again." I wish I had the power necessary to kill this monster. That girl looks to him like a father but he treats her like filth.
"It is not that I don't want to cooperate, it is that I really don't know anything." Ikkaku said taking his attention away from the innocent girls. He is brave to purposefully gain the wraith of a Captain like this.
"So you're telling me that you fought the Ryoka and were defeated in battle and then retreated with your tail between your legs without gaining one scrape of useful information." Kurotsuchi was mad.
"I am afraid so, sir. Battle is funny like that. I have neither seen the enemies face nor heard his voice. So I can't really help you." Ikkaku said calmly. Kurotsuchi's eyes drifted to me.
"What about you. Do you also remember nothing?" Kurotsuchi asked me with venom clear in his voice.
"I can remember a little about my opponent." I told him.
"And?" he asked.
"He had the most beautiful green eyes." I responded thinking back to our fight. I knew that it was nothing real to go on and that I was only teasing Kurotsuchi. Not to mention it was not true until that last moment when his eyes showed his true power and beauty to me.
"I don't care about his eye color. What were his abilities or objectives? Tell me something useful." Kurotsuchi said angrily
"I don't know. The last thing I saw was those beautiful green eyes. And then I was waking up on the ground my whole body in pain." I said. It was technically the truth. But I know it sounded like a lie.
"You both lie." He ground his already ugly teeth. "And know you will receive punishment equivalent to your failures." He raised his arm and prepared to end my life. I never thought that it would end like this. I always imagined a more beautiful death awaiting me. His hand with that single ugly black nail was about to stick my beautiful face when it was suddenly stopped.
My Captain, my dear beautiful Captain Zaraki was there to save me. I could have cried for joy. "Tell me Kurotsuchi, since when are you aloud to discipline officers from squads other than your own?" Captain Zaraki asked the threat of murder clear in his voice. It was enough to give me shivers.
"Zaraki." Kurotsuchi sneered in his ugly voice, but he knows that he can't touch us with our Captain so close. Our Captain released the things hand and Kurotsuchi made his way to go. "Now that their Captain is here there is no more need for me to interrogate them. Good luck getting anything out of them. Come on Nemu." He said before sulking away… how did he put it? 'With is tail between his legs without getting one scrape of useful information', or thank you universe for looking out for beautiful me and providing me with this beautiful irony.
"Captain, how nice for you to visit." Ikkaku said. I could hear the sham in his voice.
"Oh, we weren't planning to." Oh god no, the lieutenant was with him. Yachiru is a little hyperactive pink haired girl with a terrifying destructive power, but worst of all, she gives us all stupid nicknames and we are forced to play along. She also tries to lead the Captain around but has no sense of direction. "Kenny just was having a hard time following directions. So Eyebrows, Baldy, how have you two been."
"I asked you not to call me that!" Ikkaku growled.
"So you two lost to these Ryoka did you?" Captain asked us. It was not really a question.
"Yes, we lot in battle and then were forced into the ultimate dishonor by being allowed to escape with our lives." Ikkaku said sadly.
"So tell me, are they strong?" He asked with his scary grin.
"The one I fought was indeed very strong, though inexperienced. And from what I saw of him he will get even stronger still. His name was Ichigo Korusaki, he appeared to be a Soul Reaper with orange hair and he wielded a sword the size of his body. When I told him about you, he didn't seem that concerned. If you face him it should be a good fight. He is on his way to the repentance cell right now." Ikkaku reported. Captain Zaraki smile broadened.
"What about you, Yumichika?" he asked me.
"I don't know how to describe it. He is the opposite of Ikkaku's opponent in every way. He seemed so weak, but his speed and ability to think in battle were far beyond what I expected. He is a very experienced fighter and I think he has reached his peak. But he has a reluctance to kill his opponent. Even after catching me completely of guard twice he still seemed more interested in wearing me out rather than in killing me." I said but then remembered the last moment. "He didn't even take me seriously though out the entirety of the fight. When I tried to goat him into making a mistake by pointing this out, then he… he… I don't even know. He managed to break my Zanpakuto and bring me to my knees in a single punch. But during the moment before he attacked, his eyes changed from an ice blue color to the most beautiful green I had ever seen and he told me… not to die. His punch was strong, far stronger than it should have been with his spiritual pressure." I paused. "I also gave the description of you and told him to watch himself. And he told that he could not stop and that he could not die, not as long as he still had to save his friend. He said that he was willing to fight even three or more Captains at once if he had to."
I looked at my Captain. He had literally started to drool. "What are his skills like?" He asked me
"He was skilled with Kido and Hohō. And his Zanpakuto released into a pair of gloves that had metal plates on them." I paused and remembered the little girl. "He was also with a little girl, that I am pretty sure was the manifestation of his Zanpakuto's spirit." I told my Captain, to which he eye that wasn't under the eye patch opened even wider. "He said that it was not his Zanpakuto's power, and that its only power was healing at its Shikai level. I think that means he might have his Bankai as well. During his last attack his hands glowed with a green energy, but I don't think that it was his Zanpakuto."
"And his name?" Captain Zaraki asked.
"It was Danny Phantom, he also appeared to be a Soul Reaper, he had black hair and blue eyes and in its sealed state his Zanpakuto was much shorter than usual. All around, he looked kind of wimpy. When I asked him who was the strongest in there group, he said that Ichigo was the strongest, but his sword disagreed with him saying that he was the best fighter." I told my Captain.
"Hey that is the guy that started healing my wounds. Him and that little white haired girl that wouldn't stop calling me Mr. Baldy." Ikkaku said causing Yachiru to start laughing. "He stole some supply packs from some of the Squad 4 members."
"WHAT!" Our Captain shouted. "Half the people in this hospital fit that description. How am I supposed to find him?" He asked.
"This Zanpakuto spirit that he kept manifested was a small girl with white hair. And she was riding around on his back. I don't think you will find many Squad 4 members with one of those." Ikkaku responded.
"So he has a person riding on his back who makes funny nicknames for people?" Yachiru asked now she was also excited. "Let's go Kenny; we got to find Phanty and Ichi."
Right as they were about to leave we here a shout from the hall. "It is Captain Suì-Fēng she was beaten by the Ryoka as well as the entirety Squad 2." The voice said.
"What, that isn't possible. How many of them did it?" Another asked.
"I don't know, but some of the men that had regained consciousness said that it was just two fights; a skinny boy with black hair and a small girl with white." The first voice said.
I looked at the wall leading to the outside where there was now a hole in the shape of wondrous Captain with a little girl on the back with her fist in the air. I can't believe that Danny already managed to defeat one of the Soul Society's Captains, its strongest fighters. But even so, our Captain is something else entirely.
(Hanatarō Yamada)
"Hello, my name is Hanatarō Yamada." I introduced myself to the man that basically kidnapped me.
"Dude that name is lame." They said together.
"What? But I like my name and it is definitely not lame." I tried to defend myself.
"Yes it is, were I come from Hanatarō means flower. Really you might as well call yourself Daisy." The one with the orange hair said mockingly. That alright though, I am pretty use to getting mocked. My brother Daichi always used to tell me that I need to stand up for myself more, but I just never could. I sigh a little inside.
"Why are you introducing yourself to the enemy anyways?" the gorilla looking one with the bandanna said.
"That is a good question, I don't really know." I admitted.
"Here is another good question. Why did you bring him with us in the first place?" The orange haired one said.
"I can't help it I panicked and just grabbed him, I didn't mean to." The other said.
"Didn't mean to? What are you a garbage man or something, you just pick stuff up out of habit?" The first said back. This was getting out of hand.
"Shut up you didn't notice him until now so what is the big deal?" The second said.
I tried to break up the fight. "Come on guys you need to stop fighting over me." I said.
"We are not fighting over you!" they shouted at me causing me to cover my ears.
"Ok, but if you don't keep your voices down the guards will come." I reasoned causing them both to shut up.
They checked to see if anyone was around outside the storage room we were seeking shelter in before continuing to talk. "This sucks, even if that bald guy I was fighting was telling the truth about Rukia and Yayoi being held in that white tower we still don't know how to get there." For the second time today I felt like I had lost my breath out of shock.
"Maybe we can use this map to help us find our way." Bandanna said pulling a piece of paper out of nowhere.
"This is a map? But there are no streets labeled on it. That's just stupid." Orange said before he looked more closely at the map. "What a second, you draw this yourself didn't you?"
"Well it's better than nothing, where's your map genius?" Bandanna said.
"Um you guys." I tried to get their attention.
"Just buzz off kid we are doing so serious strategizing over here." Orange said before turning his back on me.
"It is Rukia Kuchiki and Yayoi Minamoto you are talking about isn't it?" I asked though I knew the answer. "It all makes sense now. The two that are being held as capital offenders for giving their powers to humans. Then that white tower you mentioned is the Repentance Cell." I said and then looked down. I had been in charge of cleaning both of their cells will they were being held in the Squad 6 prison cells, since Squad 12 had no cells for prisoners, just for experimental subjects. They were really nice to me. Rukia told me stories about her experiences in the world of the live everyday when I asked. Yayoi told me different kinds of stories. Ones about a white hair boy named Phantom that fought against the ghost monsters and always saved the day.
My eyes widened as I remembered the man from the alley were I meet the Ryoka. He had white hair and green eyes, just like the boy in the stories. And his name was close to Phantom. Maybe he was the one from Yayoi's stories.
I looked at the Ryoka that were looking expectantly at me. I remember what the white haired boy had called himself. 'The Berserking Medic', the name that my brother had when he was in Squad 4. My brother, who gave up everything in order to save the lives of his friends… even though it was a crime. I… I never understood why he did it… but now… "If you will let me. I will show you a way to get there without having to worry about the guards." I told them.
'I suppose in the end, I always wanted to me like you bro. I hope I can still see you someday so I can tell you that I am proud to call you my brother.' I thought to myself before leading the Ryoka, Ichigo and Ganju, towards the underground passageways.
(Where was Danny in all this?)
'Come on Danny it is only a little farther.' Gen'ei thought into my head. She was currently holding onto my shoulder again. I was surprised to find that the clothes we stole disappear and reappeared with her.
'That is what you said four hours ago.' I thought back as I turned another corner.
'Hey I know exactly where we are. Did you read that map that Yamada gave us before we left?' She thought to me angrily.
'You know I was busy with the ghost attacks at the time.' I thought back defensively. I stopped and looked down. 'Gen'ei isn't this where we last saw Ichigo and Ganju?'
Gen'ei turned red. 'Well I never said that I read the map either.' Gen'ei thought to me.
'… Why… just why?' I thought to her.
I always thought it was weird that no one from the Stealth Force ran into Ichigo and his friends. Given the fact that they could be expert trackers and move at a faster pass then other Soul Reapers you would think that they could have had to deal with them a lot more. So I said that Danny whipped them all out.
I know that a lot of this stuff will not make sense if you didn't watch Bleach since I will not be explaining the others movements. This is because they are boring and they jump from person to person in such a way that makes it hard to tell what is going on. But I am assuming that everyone has a grasp about the main story.
I have given Danny a 'best way to protect someone is to do it from a distance' kind of deal. Something that I think suits his character. Gen'ei is kind of like an older more hands-on version of Yachiru. And incase you were wondering, Danny is not going to be fighting Kenpachi.
I think I did an ok job characterizing Yumichika and Hanatarō. I made Daichi Hanatarō's older brother I don't know if that was a good or bad thing for his character. His character is a lot harder to work with given the way he is portrayed in the show.