This fic already has ten chapters. They grow up so fast! As of typing this, have 309 views! Hot damn.
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Chapter 10:
As Toshiro laid flat on his face, right on top the very ice he created he couldn't help but feel as though he failed. Failed Leo. Failed Akio. Failed Ash and worst of all he failed Rangiku. Just the very thought of upsetting to woman caused him feel an immense burning feeling inside of him and made him feel like the worst hollow in Hueco Mundo. Not that he would ever publicly admit it but he cared for the woman greatly and would fight the Head Captain twice than to make Matsumoto cry. He really didn't know what made him care about her so much, but whatever it was...it was stronger than his will. Most days he would force himself not to stare at her radiant smile or her beautiful eyes but now the thought of him dying and never seeing her again was hurting worst than any pain he had ever felt. Just the thought of her smiling face was enough to force him to not pass out. In the midst of him standing up he sensed two familiar reiatsu near the entrance.
"I thought my senses were deceiving me. But no you are here Captain Aizen, or should I say perpetrator of high treason Sosuke Aizen." Unohana's ever graceful voice chimed in from the front of her tall lieutenant, Isane Kotetsu.
"How do you do Captain Unohana? I figured that if you came it would be soon, did you know I was here right away?" Aizen asked with his smug look back on his face.
"In Soul Society, the Purewood Towers residence is the one area where no one is allowed no matter what reason. If you went to the trouble of creating such an elaborate corpse figure as to hide yourself, your obvious destination would be the one place in the Seireitei most difficult to be found in, nowhere else but here." she said in her normal tone, but it held some noticeable venom in it.
Aizen merely smiled,"Close, you've deduced well, but made a couple of mistakes; first of all, I didn't come here to hide myself; and secondly, this isn't a corpse figure." he said as a dead ' body' suddenly appeared in his hand.
"Wh-when did he...?" Isane questioned with wide eyes.
"When did I? I've been holding this nearly the entire time; I just haven't decided to show you until this very moment." Aizen said simply.
"What does that...?" Isane began but didn't finish.
"You'll know soon enough." he said already knowing her question. "Here I'll move it, Shatter Kyoka Suigetsu." he said and the ' corpse' suddenly shattered and only his sword remained in his hand. "My zanpaktou, Kyoka Suigetsu's ability is what I like to call absolute hypnosis." he finished with another cocky smirk.
" Hypnosis...? But you said Kyoka Suigetsu is a water type zanpaktou and it uses reflections of fog and water streams to confuse the enemy into attacking each other! Captain Aizen, that's what you said! You even gathered the lieutenants and actually demonstrated it right before our eyes!" Isane yelled, still trying to convince herself that it was true.
"I see, so that was the hypnosis ceremony." Unohana said calmly, but anyone with eyes could see that she was getting angry.
"Precisely, why do you think Kita did not attend?" he asked as he looked over to aforementioned man's brother, whom was struggling to breathe and now glaring fire at Aizen.
"Complete Hypnosis controls all five senses and can make the enemy mistake the appearance, shape, mass, texture, and even scent of an object. In other words, it's possible to make a fly look like a dragon, or a swamp look and smell like a flower garden; and the condition for its use is to show the enemy the moment of its release. Anyone who sees that even once falls completely into hypnosis from that moment and thereafter, everytime I release Kyoka Suigetsu, they become a prisoner of its effect." he continued.
"See it even once...?" Unohana questioned in disbelief.
"It looks like you've realized it; that's right, if you see it even once, you will fall under the spell. Which means those who cannot see it cannot fall under the spell, in other words, from the beginning, Kaname Tosen had been my subordinate." he said as Gin suddenly whipped out a long scroll that began to surround the two.
"Lastly, let me compliment you, although you touched it the longest for your examination, you were superb to sense even the slightest incongruity about my corpse while under complete hypnosis, Retsu Unohana, farewell." he said smiling at said captain.
But before he completely disappeared he glanced over to Toshiro and his eyes went wide when he saw him holding a glowing hand over his chest, "You won't go down easy will you, Hitsugaya?" he asked with one last smile.
Unohana looked at Toshiro with a slightly amazed look on her face; "Find out where their going." Toshiro said simply with heavily narrowed eyes.
Unohana turned to her lieutenant and nodded, "If you don't mind Isane." she asked.
Isane nodded back and began to draw up the symbols for the incantation, Unohana turned back to Toshiro just as he brought his hand down and she was slightly shocked to see he froze his wounds. She walked up to him and was about to release her sword but To came up and put his hand on hers. "Please don't worry about me Retsu-san, finish healing Hinamori first." he said as he straightened out and began walking away as if truly alright.
Unohana stared at him for a few moments but did what he asked anyway; "Bakudo number 58: Kakushi Tsuijaka!" Isane gasped as she realized where it was.
"It's Sokyoku Hill!" both Toshiro and Isane said in unison.
"Very well, immediately locate all captains and lieutenants and relay the message of everything we've learned about Sosuke Aizen and his destination." Unohana commanded as she walked up to Hinamori.
"Yes ma'am!" Isane replied nodding at the command.
"I'm counting on you, as of now, I will begin life-saving measures for Lieutenant Hinamori... what will you do Captain Hit-." but she cut herself off as she realized that Toshiro was gone.
She looks around for a brief moment and then sighed, 'Just be careful Toshiro-kun.' she silently begged as she released her sword and swallowed Hinamori's body.
-Sokyoku Hill-
"It was over once they entered the light." the Head Captain said opening his eyes slightly.
Everyone's eyes were on the three leaving figures, but they all became wide as they felt two extremely strong and angry reiatsus erupt from behind them. "No it's not!" a voice said very darkly, causing everyone's head turn to the source.
They turned to see Captain Hitsugaya and Lieutenant Kita glaring at Aizen. One glowing pure white, the other pitch black which spread ten feet in every direction around the pair. "Toshiro... Ash... Yoruichi, Kukaku and Soifon whispered at the same time Rangiku whispered "Captain..."
"I knew you were no good Aizen." Ash said as he and his brother began to walk forward. "Toshiro can you still use reiatsu hardening?" he asked with a glance at said man whom simply nodded.
Soifon and Rangiku stared at both men in awe, concern and shock but took on a curious expression as both raised their right arms in unison. The second they clenched their fist a swift but strong burst of reiatsu erupted. It may have only lasted a split second but that was all it took to completely destroyed to land around them in a ten foot radius. When the light finally died down, it revealed both men standing their with both their arms either a cloudy white or a shiny black. No one even blinked in the time it took Ash and Toshiro to be on either side of the three traitors. At first Aizen seemed to calm himself as he remembered he was safe from the outside world, but as he saw Ash draw back a black fist, he narrowed his eyes in anger, anticipation and slight fear. "Rukuogan!" the boys shouted in unison as their fists hit the beam of light surrounding Aizen. A huge flash of light blinded all observers and ceated a huge explosion.
When the light subsided, the beam that had been surrounding Aizen had shattered to pieces and began to evaporate in mid-air, but the boy's colours were gone as well. Everyone, including the Head Captain's eyes had become as wide as plates. "Impossible! T-there's no way...! That technique couldn't have been that powerful...!" Jushrio said he struggled to regain his composure.
Shunsui just took on a shocked smile; "Those are my nephews!" he said looking at both men in pride.
"I believe that monster is the correct term for both of you. Wouldn't you agree, boys?" Aizen questioned with a smile on his face and a glance at the menos in the garganta. "But I'm afraid that you no longer have enough strength to even stand up next to me...you've wasted far too much energy breaking my escape route...which will be back in about a minute."
His smiled quickly disappeared when he saw Toshiro smirk much more evilly than anyone would consider comfortable and he heard Ash chuckle like a deranged serial killer, "If that's what you think...well you thought wrong." Toshiro said darkly as both he and Ash's colors returned just as deadly as the first.
Aizen's eyes were about to go wide once more when Toshiro shunpoed in front right in front of him and punched him so hard in the stomach that when it collided with Aizen, it created a miniature glacier off the side of the hill. The punch leaving deep freezer burn that covered his abs entirely and caused him to slide back well over forty feet. But before he could regain his footing, Toshiro shunpoed behind and slashed him across the back with Hyorinmaru, leaving a trail of blood on the floor.
Both Gin and Tosen's eyes were as wide as they could possibly go. "Lord Aizen needs my help." Tosen said as he began unsheathing his sword, but as he got half way he felt something hot on his hand. Ash had grabbed Tosen's arm and snapped his wrist with a loud snapping sound, and threw a powerful punch towards his face. The collision making a powerful shockwave that burned everything in a five foot radius. But before Tosen could recover from the force of the blow, Ash grabbed him by the face and slammed into the ground beneath them.
Gin's eye's were wider than they had ever been and quickly unsheathed Shinso. He pointed at Toshiro just as said man hit Aizen into the hill once more, "Shoot to ki-." he didn't get to finish as Ash had grabbed his shoulder and literally threw him well over fifty feet by just flicking his wrist. Just as Gin regained his footing, something grabbed the back of his head and forced him face first into the ground.
Aizen gasped for as he held his badly burned abs; "How can he be this powerful?! How?! I'm more powerful than any of them. He shouldn't be able to beat me! I'm the most powerful!" he exclaimed angrily.
But his eye's became wide as Toshiro spiked his reiatsu to extreme extents, even he began to cringe from it. Everyone on the ground that was lieutenants level or lower fell to their knees barely able to remain conscious. Kukaku was among this group, and even some captains were very close to one knee as well. Those being Soifon, due to her small frame and the injured Captains, Komamura and Byakuya, even Tosen was shaking as though he was a leaf in the wind.
"I-Imposs...ible!" Tosen said as he finally realized that combined with his injuries, this reiatsu might kill him.
'Seriously... when the hell did he get so powerful. His reiatsu is on a completely different level from the other captain's. I have to stop him before he kills somebody!' Yoruichi thought as she watched the lieutenants fall, excluding Matsumoto, who seemed to have developed some kind of resistance to his icy energy.
"Toshiro!" Yoruichi yelled in desperation, but the only response she got was a heavy snowfall.
"Hmm, I am quite surprised Hitsugaya, you over came your fear." Aizen said as he heard Yoruichi's plea.
"Are you trying to say I was scared of you?" Toshiro said with an angry growl as he deactivated his color power.
"Oh no, not in the slightest, but look at all the people scared of you." he said with a smug sneer down at everyone below.
Toshiro looked down and saw everyone struggling to keep themselves standing or even breathing and instantly stopped raising his reiatsu. He looked around at all the terrified faces and his anger quickly left his body. He turned back to Aizen but before he could fully do it he was slashed deeply across the chest.
"You should never take your eyes off of the opponent... I'm surprised you didn't know that." Aizen said mockingly with a snort.
"Toshiro!" Ash yelled as he prepared to shunpo to his brother but was slashed deeply across the back by Tosen. He gritted his teeth in pain but was immediately slashed deeply across the chest by Gin. He stumble in the air slightly before a blade shot straight through his chest, out of his back and into Toshiro's chest.
Gin's sword retracted from their chests but Aizen gave Toshiro another slash across the chest for good measure. Just then the menos reached down and picked up the three traitors. "Goodbye shinigami, ryoka boy. Ash, Toshiro... I hope you survive, it'll be to easy otherwise." Aizen said with a smirk as they disappeared.
Ash started to puke blood as he began falling right over the Seireitei. Toshiro started to cough up blood as the ice covering his wounds shattered, causing him to bleed more. "Captain!" "Toshiro!" Yoruichi and Rangiku yelled as the rushed over to catch him. "Ash!" Soifon and Kukaku yelled as the began rushing towards him.
Yoruichi and Rangiku were fast enough to catch Toshiro, but Soifon and Kukaku weren't as quick.