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So, with the bane of my existence, this damn disclaimer!, out of the way, on with the next chapter of Ichigo Kurosaki-Sparda!
Ichigo Kurosaki felt like screaming at this point.
He had reached Zangetsu and was about to burn the Second Divison to the grounds with Agni and Rudra when that short Captain decided to grab Zangetsu at the same time he spoke the release command.
He was engulfed in a flash of light and was laying on a cold surface an instant later with his head feeling as if a hammer was being banged on his skull over and over again before being replaced by a few sledgehammers before it finally faded away and he could open his eyes without passing out in sheer agony.
He found himself in his Inner World again and Dante and Vergil on either side of him.
"What the hell happened?" Ichigo asked the two only to have to dodge a kick from the Captain of the Second Division.
"What is this?" Sui-Feng demanded as she glared at the teen before a red clad figure appeared in front of her and stopped her from moving any further.
"I wouldn't move any further if I were you." Dante told the Shinigami as Vergil walked over to them.
"You are trespassing, it would be in your best interest to leave." Vergil told the Shinigami and Sui-Feng did the unexpected thing by grinning.
"I'm in the Ryoka's Inner World, aren't I?" Sui-Feng asked and the teen cursed as he rushed forward.
"Stop her!" Ichigo shouted and Sui-Feng grinned before uttering one word.
"Bankai…!"
She was consumed in a massive blast of Reiatsu and Dante rolled back before coming to stop a meter or two away in a crouch with one hand wrapped around Rebellion with the other drawing Luce and throwing it to Vergil who had simply teleported back and snatched the handgun out the air as one hand landed on Yamato as Dante drew Ombra.
"Who the hell is this crazy lady, your girlfriend or something?" Dante asked with a grin as Ichigo drew Ebony and Ivory from their shoulder holsters." Did you dump her and now she wants to kill you or something? Because if it is you are screwed, I won't help you when it comes to that!"
"Shut up and fire at her!" Ichigo snapped as a surge of Reiatsu flooded each bullet and they ripped form the barrel, rocketing towards the vortex of Reiatsu containing the Second Division Captain.
His marksmanship training paid off as he fired shot after shot, tearing away at the entire vortex as his own Reiatsu soon enveloped it from it ripping it off the bullets.
With a thought he had the vortex of Sui-Feng's Reiatsu collapse under his own Reiatsu before he noticed something.
Zangetsu wasn't slung over his shoulder or at his side, well the sheath was at his side but the blade was missing.
"Where the hell is my sword?" Ichigo demanded as he looked around in a panic even as he holstered Ebony and slid the sheath around to be slung over his shoulder.
"…Jakuho Raikoben!" Sui-Feng finished as another surge of Reiatsu pushed away Ichigo's own.
"What the hell is that!" Ichigo called out as the petite Captain now held a gold armor missile launcher base that encircled and covered her entire right arm and passed her shoulder to form a face shield to protect the right side of the face and that still wasn't even the actual Bankai. It was a golden missile with black lines running down it and it was nearly twice as tall as Sui-Feng herself.
"Since we're in your Inner World, I destroy it and you turn into little more than a vegetable." Sui-Feng spoke, her grin becoming more and more like a shark that smelled blood in it's waters." Pretty nice right, I fire once and you're no more."
"You'll actually have to fire the thing." Ichigo spoke up, both guns leveled at Sui-Feng's head." And I think since your packing something that big it's going to take a while to even aim the thing."
"Do you want to test that theory?" Sui-Feng demanded as she raised the missile launcher with no problems and nearly effortlessly." I bet those guns won't stop the blast."
"You are correct, I will be sending it away." Vergil spoke up as he stepped forward, partially drawing Yamato.
"No!" Ichigo snapped, his guns unmoving as his eyes stayed on Sui-Feng." She's mine and mine alone."
"If you insist, we'll leave you two to work this out then." Dante spoke up as he teleported next to Vergil before placing a hand on his shoulder and the two vanished.
"Finally, those two are gone." Ichigo muttered as he sent a surge of Reiatsu to his guns and grinned." Just you and me now and trust me, this isn't going to be a nice fight for you."
"Suit yourself, all I need to do is fire once and your dead anywhere." Sui-Feng shot back and Ichigo grinned before squeezing down the triggers as he rushed to the side.
"Bakudo #81: Danku!" Sui-Feng called out and the powerful shield appeared at her side, the many bullets bouncing off of it harmlessly.
But Ichigo's real intention was to create a smokescreen and he accomplished that before rushing forward from the front, the Danku spell only covering Sui-Feng's right.
Sui-Feng cursed before using her free hand to cast another Kido.
"Hado #33: Sokatsuki!" Sui-Feng called out as her hand followed the running Ichigo and the blue flames fired in short burst.
Sui-Feng stopped the Kido after a few moments, seeing Ichigo was outrunning and dodging the energy no matter where she fired it.
"That seems kind of handy, mind if I give it a go?" Ichigo asked and Sui-Feng actually laughed.
"Kido takes years to master to my level, you'll never accomplish it." Sui-Feng answered back and Ichigo grinned.
"I don't need to learn it, these guns are special." Ichigo spoke up as the remnants of the Kido spell seemed to be drawn to the smoking barrels." One of their special abilities is to absorb Reishi in the air and you just flooded it with the energy of that Kido and I just send my Reiatsu in to charge it up, the guns do the rest of the work. Pretty handy, right?"
"What!?" Sui-Feng exclaimed in a mixture of shock and, dare she say it, amazement.
"So try this one, Hado #33: Sokatsuki!" Ichigo called out and with his Reiatsu flooding the barrels of both guns and bullets made entirely of blue fire rained down on Sui-Feng as he launched into the air.
"Check out my newest move, Ricoshot!" Ichigo called out as he spun the guns in his hands and fired round after round all around Sui-Feng and they began bouncing around, Ichigo's hands a blur as he continued to fire.
Soon enough the bullets formed a bouncing cage around Sui-Feng and it was drawing itself tighter and tighter around the Captain as Ichigo continued to fire more and more, not even slowing down and to Sui-Feng he was speeding up.
'Dammit, I can't even move anymore!' Sui-Feng thought in annoyance, any attempt at Shunpo resulting in narrowly dodging a bullet.
"Bakudo #81: Danku!" Ichigo called out next as Ichigo fired dozens of bullets down that burst into miniature version of the Kido spell, slowly forming a real cage around Sui-Feng.
"That's it!" Sui-Feng roared as she brought Jakuho Raikoben up and aimed at Ichigo." I don't care if I don't wipe this place out but I'll make damn sure I kill you with this!"
'Dammit!' Ichigo cursed as he began running, firing behind him blindly.
"Now, FIRE!" Sui-Feng roared and the missile roared to life, almost like a volcanic eruption as it shot towards Ichigo.
"Run as much as you want Ryoka boy, that missile will follow after you until it hits you and destroys you and everything else here!" Sui-Feng shouted after the now truly panicked teen." Nothing is going to save you! You won't even have the mercy of death, only oblivion!"
'Where the hell is Zangetsu?' Ichigo asked himself even as he let out a pulse of Reiatsu.' How the hell does an entire sword even vanish in the first place?'
'You never were very smart, were you King?' a voice tinged with madness asked.' You really still can't figure it out? Man, you must be really on the dull side not to get this.'
'What do you want Crazy Zangetsu?' Ichigo demanded as he increased his speed.
'I believe he is trying to tell you something Ichigo.' a different voice answered him.' And here I was believing your detective skills had actually grown, how truly wrong of me.'
'Don't insult me Old Man!' Ichigo snapped as he leapt to the side and cursed when the missile was still following him.
He holstered his guns, finding them pointless at this point, as the words from the spirits in his sword finally clicked.
He did the only thing he could.
He face palmed as he stopped running.
Ichigo turned to face the incoming missile and stopped it with a single hand.
"Sorry about this." Ichigo spoke with a grin as his other hand reached up and knocked on the side of the missile.
It shattered and Ichigo reached into the ball of light it created.
"Now, come on out…!" Ichigo called out as something seemed to try and drag him into the ball of light but he seemed to plant his feet and pull with all of his strength."…ZANGETSU!"
In an explosion of his blue Reiatsu, tinted red and black, he was consumed by it but even then he grinned as Sui-Feng paled.
'What was that, how did he destroy my Bankai just by knocking on it, more importantly how did he even manage to stop it?' Sui-Feng asked herself even as she dropped to a knee in exhaustion, her Bankai still tiring and bringing her to the verge of utter exhaustion.' Dammit, if I make it out of this I'm training with that damn thing. I refuse to be weakened like this from simply firing it a single time! I am a Captain, I can't be this exhausted from using my own Bankai, especially only once!'
"I know you're thinking about something since you're so quiet after all that shouting you just did but for the life of me I just can't bring myself to care."
Sui-Feng was terrified at the sound, and more importantly the pure intent to kill laced within the words, and only sheer force of will allowed her to slowly turn her body around to the source of the voice.
"I don't really even care if I kill you without knowing your name because really your just an obstacle in my way."
Sui-Feng then allowed herself, certainly the moment of her death, to do something she had never done since she was a very young little girl.
She let out a scream of sheer terror at whatever was in front of her.
Ichigo grinned beneath the Devil Trigger of Ifrit as hellfire continued to surge around him as he pointed Zangetsu at the Captain.
"Prepare to die."
He lunged forward only to freeze.
His Devil Trigger shattered as he stumbled forward before coughing up a mouthful of blood.
'What is this, what is happening to me?' Ichigo asked even as he dropped to his knees as his Inner World seemed to shatter before both Souls fell into the void it created as it vanished.
They exited with a blade through Ichigo's stomach and he screamed as it was pulled out, collapsing to his knees as he coughed out another mouthful of blood.
"You should have none better than to attempt to evade capture within the Seireitei, Ryoka." the unmistakable voice of Byakuya Kuchiki spoke as Ichigo struggled to even raise his head.
"I'm not going to die." Ichigo spoke as one hand gripped Zangetsu in a death grip as the other slowly pushed him up." I'm not going to leave here until I kick your ass!"
"Then you'll die here." Byakuya spoke as Sui-Feng watched from her position on the ground as the Sixth Division Captain flicked the blood off of his sword, it splattering over the teen's shirt and his face.
Sui-Feng felt something in her, seeing the sight of a figure like Ichigo Kurosaki forced to his knees by the cold Byakuya Kuchiki and on the verge of being executed by the man, something she swore should have never existed in her very dark heart.
Pity, pity for the boy who wished to destroy Soul Society to save a single Shinigami condemned to death, a death they found unjust.
'Why am I feeling this, why am I feeling anything for someone, especially a Ryoka!' Sui-Feng thought in utter shock as unknown to her a small figure watched from the bushes.
'Why, why did you have to do something like this Ichigo, why did you have to do something so stupidly noble, something so like you!?' Yoruichi asked, nearly pleaded, silently to herself and hoping for an answer that wouldn't come.' What the hell am I even supposed to do, if I go out there then they'll know it's me and know where to find all of us, but if I don't then Ichigo is killed and Isshin storms Soul Society with Kisuke and the others. How the hell am I supposed to even make a choice like this?'
She didn't get to make a choice through.
"Die, Ryoka." Byakuya spoke, his voice like ice as Senbonzakura came down, the blade nearly singing a song of death as it cut through the air.
"No!" two voices shouted as Ichigo seemed to accept his death, his body going limp and his head bowed as the sword cut across his chest, going diagonally from his left shoulder to his right hip.
'I…guess…'
'Dammit Ichigo!' Yoruichi snapped as she rushed from her hiding place.
'…this…is…'
'Why, why didn't he dodge it?' Sui-Feng thought as she moved to her feet.
'…it.'
'Foolish child, he held no power against me.' Byakuya thought as he flicked the blood covering his blade onto Ichigo.
'I…fai…led.'
Ichigo felt the blood pouring down his chest, the warmth slowly leaving his body.
'No.' Sui-Feng thought in shock.' How can he die?'
'No, please no!' Yoruichi thought in sheer terror.
'It's…so…cold…why…is..it so cold?'
AN: Whoa, did I just kill Ichigo?
Peace.
