The conclusion to their fight, along with a twist at the end. Featuring my first original Bankai as well. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach. I only own my story and my own characters. If I did own Bleach, I wouldn't have time to be writing fanficion.

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13: The 3rd's Bankai

Yuka was drawing closer towards her enemy when she heard him utter those words.

"Bankai!"

Yuka's curiosity got the better of her as she jumped from the ground to see the smoke go around Kira. She smirked behind her mask and said, "Bankai, eh? This should get interesting…"

As the smoke cleared, it revealed Kira with his Bankai. He was now covered from head to toe in protective samurai-like armor, only revealing his face from under his helmet. Instead of having a right hand, it was replaced with the blade of Wabisuke, making it look like he has a hook for a hand. When the last of the smoke cleared he finished, "Kikou Wabisuke (Armored Penitent One)!"

"That's your Bankai?" Yuka asked.

"It is," Kira simply answered.

"It just looks like you're trying to protect yourself from my attacks by wearing all the armor," the arrancar commented. "My metal claws could easily tear that armor to shreds."

"You'll never know until you try," Kira said raising his right arm.

Yuka grinned as she morphed into the ground and rushed at an armored Kira. While getting to him, she yelled at him, "It's almost like an ancient battle between ninjas and samurai! Let's see how this one ends!"

Kira attempted to move, but was slowed by his new armor. "Hah!" she yelled as she quickly jumped up and struck his chest, causing a dent in his armor.

"Almost! Let's try another!" she said with a laugh.

Kira attempted swinging his Wabisuke at her, but she swiftly avoided and thrust her claw at him, causing an ever greater dent, but not penetrating his armor. Kira took a few steps back and kept swinging his Wabisuke, but she kept neatly avoiding all of his swings, each time, scoring several hits on his armor, each hit slowly wearing it down. After several more hits, his armor tore, revealing his body.
"Got you!" Yuka said triumphantly, poising to strike the newly revealed area. "Time to die!"

Before she could strike, she felt a tremendous pressure push down on her, forcing her to her knees. "What the hell?!" she said in a mix of anger and shock. "What's going on?!"

"It shouldn't be that hard to figure out," Kira said, from a few feet away from her. "You simply fell prey to my zanpakuto's weight-changing abilities."

"How's that possible?" she asked, attempting to move. "I never touched your blade."

"While it's true that you never touched Wabisuke," Kira answered, "it is true that you touched the armor protecting me. You see, during my Bankai, Wabisuke's effect appears all over my armor, making it the same as if you actually hit my blade. How many times did you hit my armor in an attempt to destroy it? Too many to count. The weight must be unbearable on you right now."

"Don't get too cocky!" Yuka said, as she started morphing her legs into the ground. "I'll just disappear and aim for your face, killing you in one—"

Before she could finish, Kira was behind her. Without wasting any movements, he swung Wabisuke several times on both her shoulders, forcibly stopping her from morphing when she was at her waist.

"How can you be this fast with armor on?" asked a newly surprised Yuka. "You haven't been this fast since I've been fighting you with your Bankai."

"I was never that slow," Kira said from behind. "I just wanted you to think I was, so you wouldn't know of my Bankai's effect."

"You son of a—"

"Poor planning on your part," Kira said cutting her off. "You said you knew of my shikai's ability, yet you knew nothing of my Bankai's, which made it quite simply to put on a show for you in order to fool you. And now…" He put the blade of Wabisuke across Yuka's throat. "It's time to fulfill my promise…" he finished.

"D-Damn it…" was all a defeated Yuka could mutter.

With a cold look on Kira's face, he pulled his right arm back, finishing the arrancar off. When it was finished, his Bankai disappeared to his normal blade. He sheathed his sword and stood up. While walking away from her body he said with a sigh, "It's gonna be hard getting your body out of the ground…"

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Enzai felt a disturbance as he and Vannan kept moving towards their destination. Vannan sensed something and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Yuka's been defeated," he simply said.

"Ouch!" Vannan replied. "I can't believe she lost to that dude with the weird hairstyle. Well at least we don't have to go back and meet her."

"You should at least feel some sorrow for her," Enzai commented.

Vannan's smile stayed on his face as he replied, "I know it's strange, but I don't feel anything like that right now."

"I don't think I'll ever be able to understand you," Enzai bluntly stated.

"Dully noted," Vannan replied. "Now how much longer until—"

He stopped as they were both cut off by Tia Harribel. "Got you!" she said.

"We were so distracted by Yuka's death that we didn't even notice her coming," Vannan said to his companion. "Well, I guess this one's up to me."

He quickly drew his sword and used sonido to attack Harribel, who quickly drew her zanpakuto and parried. Vannan turned to Enzai and finished, "You go on ahead and let me know when you're done."

Enzai simply nodded and used sonido to disappear from the battle.

Vannan jumped back and innocently said to the former Tercera, "My name's Vannan Skype, but you can call me Van if you want." His request was met with an icy glare from Harribel. "Okay, okay, take it easy," Vannan continued. "Clearly you don't wanna break the ice. Could you at least tell me your name?"

"9th Division Lieutenant Tia Harribel."

"Harribel, eh? Sounds familiar." Truth dawned upon Vannan as he finished, "You're one of the arrancar we were trying to recruit. So I guess you refused our generous offer."

Harribel struck up a fighting stance. "Not much a talker are ya'? Very well, if it's a fight you want, I'll happily give you one."

They both rushed at each other and clashed with blades. Not a second after their blades met, they both used sonido to appear in the air and clashed blades again. Vannan aimed a kick at her stomach, sending her to the ground. She took it full force and landed on her feet. Vannan landed a few feet away from her and commented, "You're pretty good. Guess I can't waste any time with this."

He quickly activate his power, setting his sword alight with flames. Harribel saw this and immediately knew it was deadly. Focusing her energy, she filled the hollow version of her sword with energy. She aimed it at him and said, "Projectile Azul!"

As the energy barreled towards Vannan he held out his sword and said, "La llama que se funde!"

A funnel of fire shot out from his sword, hitting the Projectile Azul dead on. The power of both caused a massive explosion between them. When the smoke cleared, Vannan stared at Harribel with a smile saying, "Not bad at all. To be able to counter one of my attacks like that, I'd say we're evenly matched."

"Then allow me to turn the tables," Harribel replied, opening her shinigami uniform, revealing her hollow mask and her Espada tattoo.

"That's your hollow mask," Vannan asked looking at it. "Damn. I like how it's got perfect censorship, even though you're showing your entire chest right now. The guys must hate it when they see that." He noticed her tattoo and finished, "And you were the Tercera Espada? No wonder you're so tough."

Not bother to reply to his comments, she pointed her sword down at the ground and thought, "Have to be careful. I don't want to cause too much destruction in Soul Society."

Without wasting anymore time, she said, "Attack Tiburon!"

As the water swirled around Harribel, Vannan could feel the power that was radiating from it. He simply said quietly to himself, "This is gonna get tough…"

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Enzai had just arrived at the Maggots Nest. He looked back and saw silhouettes of gillian fighting. He smiled inwardly to himself, knowing they served the perfect distraction. Before the two guards could even notice him, he was in front of them and quickly killed them both.

He entered the Maggots Nest and all of the prisoners realizing Enzai's power, backed off. When he arrived at the right door, he used his sword to cut down the door. When the dust settled, it revealed Gin coughing. "Hey, watch what you're doing!" he said. "Recklessness like that never pays off."

"Hello Gin," greeted Enzai.

"Well look who finally decided to show up," Gin commented. "I was under the impression that this wouldn't take too long."

Enzai walked closer to Gin and used his sword to cut his binds. He then produced another sword and handed it to Gin. After several seconds of Gin marveling the sword, Enzai asked, "How does it feel to have your zanpakuto back?"

"Feels pretty good," Gin replied while standing up. While stretching, he asked, "Why did it take so long for this to happen? Not that I'm complaining of course."

"Let's just say there were a few problems," Enzai replied. "No matter, everything is worked out now and Grimmjow-sama is making the necessary preparations."

"Why do you call him Grimmjow-sama?" Gin asked with curiosity. "You know damn well that he works for you."

"I guess it's a habit," Enzai said. "I call him that whenever I'm by the other arrancar to keep up this charade. At long last though, I can show my true face." Enzai looked at the exit and ripped off his hollow mask. Without turning around he asked, "Shall we go then Gin?"

With the same smile on his face, Gin replied, "Of course Captain Aizen."

Aizen kept looking at the exit of the Maggots Nest, but Gin knew full well that a mischievous smile was on the shinigami traitor's face.

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He finally reveals who he really is. Now how will Soul Society deal with this threat?

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