Ah, feels good to break Writer's Block! I noticed everyone was like 'Oh, shit' when they read that Kurosetunai was waiting for Ichigo, Kamiki, and Nel. I'm skipping the whole Priveron Espada thing because I thought it was all total crap. I don't own Bleach, only Kamiki Tenshi, and my bestest friend evah owns Kurosetunai. Enjoi the story! ^^
Oh, no. Not the psycho-poison-bitch-ninja!
"Well, looky who's helping the enemy. I always knew you were too soft to be an Arrancar, Kamiki." Kurosetunai sneered.
"Allez-vous continuer à s'agiter vos gommes, ou allez-vous scram?" (Are you gonna keep flapping your gums, or are you gonna scram?) I demanded.
"I didn't know you spoke gibberish." Kurosetunai said.
"She's spoken nothing but French the moment we met!" Ichigo shouted. "Has she been lying to us?"
"I'm afraid so." Kurosetunai shrugged in a way that showed she was clearly being sarcastic. "She speaks Japanese as well as you or me."
Ichigo glared at me, and I broke down with a sigh. "It's true." I admitted. "I had to do it. I was there in the park, I stopped Rukia from bleeding to death, and I watched your fight with Grimmjow from yesterday."
"You were the one that tried to heal Rukia…" Ichigo realized. "She said that someone in white wanted to help her."
"But enough of that." Kurosetunai snapped. "Kamiki, I didn't like you the moment I saw you; you helped Soul Reapers," she spat the word like it left a bad taste in her mouth "and you knocked me out in one blow. You're nothing but a royal pain in the ass! I'm going to draw your death out slow and painfully, so the Soul Reaper can see it. Then I'm going to do the same to him and that toddler!" Kurosetunai began to shriek.
"You monster." I said in a low, quiet voice. "Have you no honor? No sense of right and wrong?" I continued, laying a hand on the hilt of my zanpaku-to.
She saw and reacted before I could say anything else. She grabbed her own zanpaku-to and drew it roughly. "Bite, Cobra!"
"Sing, Sinsonte!" I called at the same time.
Two flashes of reiatsu, one maroon and one silver, flared at the same time. When the smoke cleared, we saw each other's release forms. I looked almost the same as my Vasto Lorde self, but my mask was a top part of the skull's dome. Kurosetunai wore a skimpy top and a short skirt; a bone 'M' shaped mask curved around her face and between her eyes, and a barbed skeletal tail stretched from her back, which had sprouted a pair of bone wings.
There was no mistaking it. "You're a..?" I was so shocked I couldn't even finish my sentence.
"Yeah, I'm a Vasto Lorde!" Kurosetunai bragged. "I was offered a place as an Espada, but I don't want to be a mindless killing drone. I like torture! I enjoy the sounds of pain, the look of utter helplessness on my victim's faces!"
I suppressed a shudder of horror and glanced at the others. Ichigo could barely keep his eyes open, and Nel was just plain out cold. "Kurosetunai, I swear on the sun, moon, and stars of shining silver, that your life will end right here!" With the last word, I launched myself into battle. I slashed downwards with my claws, aiming for her face, but she blocked and shoved me off.
"Little pest! Cero!" A maroon colored blast, augmented by the power from being in release form, exploded by the side of my face. I barely managed to dodge it by a paper's width.
I sonidoed to her left side and slashed upwards. I just barely clipped her, drawing three thin strips of blood.
"Is that the best you got, featherweight?" Kurosetunai yelled. She clawed me across the face, leaving deep furrows in my cheek.
An excruciating pain exploded through my face. "AAAUGH!" I shrieked, falling away and clutching my face.
"Was that for the pain? Or the fact that you got your pretty little mug scarred?" Kurosetunai hissed. Then, like a snake, her tail wrapped around me and constricted, lifting me off the ground.
"..!" I broke out into a cold sweat and my face contorted into a grimace. I couldn't breathe! The poison from her claws was spreading down my neck and into my arms, my body, everywhere! My instant regeneration wasn't working; it must be the poison…
"Getsuga Tensho!" A shockwave of sky blue reishi crashed into Kurosetunai's tail. Her grip on me eased up just enough for me to push it off of me, my hands digging into microscopic poison barbs. I fell in a slump to the ground.
"What the fuck?" Kurosetunai turned.
Ichigo had managed to pull himself up and used an attack to distract her. "Kamiki!" He called "stand aside." His eyes narrowed with determination.
I managed to drag myself away towards Nel, who had woken up. "Kamiki, you're hurt!" Nel cried. "What are we gonna do?" she bawled.
I pulled myself up to a sitting position. "This." I grunted. "Starbolt." A silver aura surrounded me, and the poison began to dissipate, the gashes began to close up. Before long, I was better but I was drained of a good bit of energy.
Ichigo was having a hard time against Kurosetunai. She was attaching like a berserker, and he was barely blocking her attacks.
"This is bad." I said. "He needs help." I stood up shakily and made a strange humming noise.
Suddenly, in mid-attack, Kurosetunai froze. The only thing she could move was her eyes. Ichigo lowered his zanpaku-to and stared.
"Whaa..?"
"Voice hypnosis." I explained. "One of my special abilities. I froze her. Ichigo," He turned to look at me. "When a hollow is defeated by a Soul Reaper, what happens to them?"
"They're purified for anything they did wrong while they were a Hollow and sent to wherever they're supposed to go." Ichigo explained.
"Then do the same to her." I requested. "She's psychotic."
"But I don't know what happens when I do the same to an Arrancar!" Ichigo wigged out.
"Would it hurt to try?"
Ichigo stared at me for a moment like I was the crazy one, then relented. "Fine." He walked over to Kurosetunai's paralyzed form, and sliced her down the middle of her face; splitting her mask.
Her eyes were wide with shock for a moment, then a huge demonic gate appeared behind her.
"Aaah! What's that?" I hid behind Ichigo.
"That's…the gate to Hell." He said almost disbelievingly. "I've only ever seen it once!"
It opened up slowly, revealing a black hole behind the massive doors. It began pulling Kurosetunai in slowly, then it picked up speed and sucked her in. They slammed shut behind her, and quickly disappeared.
I let go of my release form and shivered. "You never said why you and your friends invaded Hueco Mundo."
Ichigo turned to look at me. "We're here to rescue our friend."
"Oh, I know who you're talking about!" I nodded.
"Now I have a question for you." Ichigo said.
"What?"
"Why exactly are you helping us?" he demanded.
I froze, and looked at him with a melancholy look on my face. "My boss asked me to make sure no one killed you until he met you."
"I don't like the sound of that." Ichigo narrowed his eyes in suspicion.
"I'm just following orders." I shook my head sadly.
We kept racing down the hallway, which opened up into a large room with a set of stairs on the other side.
"Well look who it is." Someone said as they were coming down the stairs, their face hidden by shadows. "Great job, Kamiki."
My face was pretty melancholy, though I don't know why. "Hello, Grimmjow-sama."
"What? Grimmjow?" Ichigo shouted, rounding on me. "That's who sent you?"
I suddenly found the floor next to my right foot rather interesting.
"Hey, don't forget that I'm still here." Grimmjow called from the bottom of the stairs. "Kamiki, take the kid and get out of the way."
I wordlessly walked over to Nel, earning a glare from Ichigo. "I won't hurt her." I said in a sorrowful tone.
Ichigo refused to acknowledge that and turned back to Grimmjow. "I suppose I should be glad you showed up. We still have a fight to finish." He put his hand over his face and summoned a Hollow mask like he had before.
"That we do." Grimmjow said before launching into battle.
It wasn't long before Grimmjow went into release form himself. "Grind, Pantera!" The flare of sky blue reiatsu was really intense. When it cleared, Grimmjow's fragment changed to looking like a headband, had long hair, a tail, and was covered in 'V' shaped strips of armor. Released, he was much faster and more agile, like, well, a panther.
Grimmjow caught Ichigo by surprise with his speed, and used that to his advantage. But Ichigo managed to keep up most of the fight. Things kept escalating, with Grimmjow using special attack after special attack, Ichigo doing the same, until they were both at the end of their ropes.
"Desgarron!" Grimmjow finally shouted. Giant sky blue claw-like structures of reishi appeared. "This is my ultimate attack." I heard him say.
'Oh, no! If this turns out bad…' I worried. If Ichigo manages to beat him, what's he gonna do to Grimmjow? I started to tear up, afraid for the love of my (after)life. "Grimmjow…" I murmured softly.
Grimmjow must've heard me, because he turned his head to look at me.
That was what led to his defeat.
Taking advantage of Grimmjow's being distracted, Ichigo leapt forward, slicing the Desgarron with his zanpaku-to. A horrible screeching like nails on chalkboards filled the air. Ichigo destroyed the Desgarron and landed a fatal blow to Grimmjow.
"NO! Grimmjow!" I cried, and rushed to his side.
"Kami-CPH!" Grimmjow was interrupted when he started to cough up blood. His release form fell apart.
"No…" The tears started to fall freely from my face. "Grimmjow…" I fell to my knees and tried to help him up into a sitting position, but Grimmjow started coughing up blood again. "Starbolt!" Nothing happened. "Come on, Starbolt!" I heard steps approaching and turned furiously. "You killed him! He can't heal from this! You killed my-" I couldn't finish my sentence because I was trying to choke back sobs. "I LOVED HIM!"
Ichigo looked shocked. "But- You- How-" He was speechless.
"Kamiki…" I turned back to Grimmjow. Those same blue eyes that had captured me just a few short months ago were soft. "'Loved'? I'm still here." He said with a smirk. "I don't plan on going-CPH!" Blood spurted from his mouth and his eyes widened in pain.
"I had no- I mean I didn't-" Ichigo composed himself and said "Do you want to be with him?" I was crying too hard to answer. "Do you remember what I told you about what happens to a Hollow when a Soul Reaper defeats it?"
I looked up at him wig big tearstained eyes.
"They go to Soul Society." He answered himself. "If that other Arrancar went to Hell for what she did as a human, then you and Grimmjow should be able to go wherever it is you need to."
I finally realized what he was saying and looked down at Grimmjow. "Do what you feel you have to, Ichigo." I said quietly.
"Fine."
I closed my eyes as a small breeze and slicing sound went past my side, then straight down upon my own head.
OH NO, ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER! Yeah, I realize I took so long on this chapter that I wasn't getting anymore hits, and I thank you guys GREATLY for your patience. I also skipped the first Ulquiorra fight, mainly because I forgot how it goes and I don't care much for researching that just to get this next chapter out. I already have plans for the next chapter, which also happens to be THE LAST! *GASP!* Remember to REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!