Chapter 12

By this point, Ichigo and Unohana had entered the gargantua, opened by Kurosutchi, and Nemu, and Kenpachi had had his 'fun' toying and fighting with Yammy, the 0 espada. Lieutenant Isane was healing Renji and Chad's wounds, with Rukia sitting with them. Yukiko and her beloved, and still slightly intimidating captain were standing there watching Captain Zaraki. Kenpachi walked over to Byakuya, and Yukiko who was still petting Shailloh and gently smiling. He had felled the great beast; it neither moved, made noises, nor responded to Kenpachi when he yelled at him. The fact that Yammy was dead excited Mayuri quite a bit, as he was looking forward to dessecting him, and experimenting on him.

"Did you have fun?" Yukiko asked in a slightly mocking and sarcatic tone, and tilted her head to the side a bit.

"I guess. I wish it would've lasted longer though. Things were finally starting to get interesting." he had a huge, face splitting smile plastered on his face until Captain Kuchiki spoke up.

"Are you going to finish him?"

"Figured I'd leave that to you."

"I don't understand what you mean by that." Byakuya started to walk towards Kenpachi.

"What? Are you stupid or something? You looked bored standing there watching, so you can finish him off. You know, be the clean up crew."

"You want me to tidy up after you, and clean up your unfinished business. Is that it? Just who do you think you are?"

"Excuse me? I don't like finishing off things weaker than me. Stop complaining and just do it already."

"I refuse. Clean up your own mess. I think that type of task is more suited to a brute like you." Byakuya narrowed his eyes, glaring at his fourth seats father.

"Huh, is that so?" Kenpachi's also narrowed, and his grin slipped off his face. Yukiko gulped, of course they were fighting. Weren't they always? Just as Yukiko had made her mind up as to wether or not she should break them up, and she was getting up onto her feet to stop the fight before it turned deadly, she saw Yammy's eyes open , and his hand slammed down between the two captains. The two fighting men looked over in Yammy's direction, with not even a note a surprise on their faces, or even glimmering in their eyes. The giant yelled at them, obviously pissed off at the thought that someone as 'tiny' as Kenpachi had rendered him unconscious. Probably also upset about his missing leg and his two missing fingers. His mouth opened wide and he let out a massive red cero in the direction of the two men.

"Brother..." Rukia, who had been silently watching from the sidelines, whispered quietly. Yukiko, on the other hand, who had been in the way of the oncoming cero, had flash stepped over to where Captain Kurosutchi was sitting, He had said something, but Yukiko didn't really care to listen to him. She actually rarely did, as he creeped her out. What with his love of dissecting things and all.

"Guess he wasn't dead after all..." Yukiko muttered to her self.

Luckily, the two men had also flash stepped out of the way of the cero.

"That was an impressive cero.. That damn bastard, guess he still has some power left." Kenpachi said, a very slight hint of surprise, and glee hidden in his voice.

"It seems so. You said he was almost finished, but from over here it certainly doesn't look that way. Your assement of his condition has proven very foolish." Byakuya stated matter-of-factly.

"Ha! I wasn't wrong. I told you all the guy needed was someone to finish him off. The only foolish part of it was thinking that you could pull it off." The two glared daggers at eachother.

"Is that so?" Byakuya asked as he dropped activated his zanpactou, "You doubt my abilities do you? Why don't you judge that for yourself?" his last question was said for as a statement than a question.

"Good idea! I've always wanted to fight you and now's a good a time as any." And with that said, the two flew at eachother, seemingly forgetting about Yammy until he made a loud 'argh' sound, and went towards them. Byakuya and Kenpachi stopped, and looked at him.

"You're in the way!" they yelled simultaniously, and both of them threw an attack his way, "Get lost." Thier attacks hit and nocked Yammy over.

"Now then." Byakuya started.

"Shall we get on with it?" Kenpachi finished. They faced eachother once again, ready to fight. But of course Yammy rose up with another animalistic noise eminatting from his throat, wounds covering his ginormous body, part of his mask cracked and broken; a huge hole in it. A loud, annoyed sigh came from Kenpachi.

"He is persistant. What a nuisance." Byakuya was also getting annoyed with the giant.

Yammy started laughing maniacally, "That hurts. You two are starting to piss me off." he continued to laugh, as one of his eyes started to bulge and his body started to look a little more deformed than it already was.

"What's with him? Has he gone crazy or somethin'?" Kenpachi was getting even more annoyed.

"Unforgivable. Unforgivable!" Yammy's voice became more demonic, and his body started to glow red. His muscles started bulging, and his body almost looked like it contained boiling water on the inside with the way his skin seemed to bubble. "Unforgivable!" He yelled even louder. All of a sudden a large collumn of smoke, turned red by the glow surrounding the beast, rose, and got even bigger.

When the smoke cleared, Yukiko's big blue eyes got even bigger as she saw Yammy's new form. He was massive, his mask that once only covered his jaw, now covered the top part of his head too. Both top and bottom had horn type things on them. The bottom part of his body was covered in a kind of fur, and his feet looked almost like hands.

"What is he...!?" Yukiko gasped in surprise, her hand threw itself to her mouth.

"Very good you two. By all means, keep annoying me." he laughed and told them that the name of his resurrección was Ira, and how he was a beast of rage. "Anger fuels me. It becomes my strength. Come on, keep at it, make me angrier." he laughed again, "It will only make your deaths that much more... pathetic." He had a spine of black spikes that ran down from the top of his head, to the tip of his tail.

"Those two are making things difficult." Mayuri complained, "I wish they'd just hurry up and kill eachother already. I mean, if he gets any larger, it'll be harder to disect his body." Yukiko shivered at his words. She hated it when he mentioned dissecting something; there was a type of tone in his voice that scared the living crap out of her.

"You know Kenny likes to take his time." Yukiko said quietly, her hand had moved from her mouth to absent mindedly stroking Shailloh's soft fur atop his head.

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Yukiko and Mayuri both let a long sigh escape thier lips. The battle was finally over, and Mayuri would be able to dissect Yammy now. But Yukiko's troubles weren't quite over, because while the fight between the captains and the giant were over, the fight between the captains themselves had only just started. They were yelling at eachother, glaring at one another, each killing the other in their mind.

"Would you two please stop?" Yukiko flash stepped in-between the two just as they were about to strike eachother, causing them both to freeze in place, their swords just few centimeters away from cutting the small girl.

"What are you, stupid!?" Kenpachi yelled, his eyes wide with shock and some fear (from the thought that he almost hit his own daughter and could've very well killed her).

"Yukiko! You could've been hit! Or worse yet killed." Byakuya scolded his fourth seat. He also had his eyes wide with the same emotions for the same reason. Yukiko simply looked between the two men and glared ice daggers with her pale blue eyes.

"What about you two!? I don't want either of you two dead; and I hate seeing you guys fight," Yukiko shook her head a sad but determined look in her eyes, " Why do you two always fight..?"

"Because we're..." Kenpachi's voice lowered into silence as he thought of some way to explain it.

"We are polar opposites, Yukiko. There is no helping that we fight with one another." Byakuya explained it for him.

"..Well, do you have to fight with your swords..?" her voice softened a little bit as did her facial expression.

"That's just how our relationship works, I guess. He's right about the fact that we can't help it." It pained Kenny to agree with the stuck up noble.

"..." Yukiko stayed silent. They were right, and she couldn't do anything about it.

"I suppose we could save you the pain of seeing it by not fighting in front of you..." Byakuya stated. It was really supposed to be a thought, but it slipped out before he could stop it; there was something about the twinkle of sorrow in her eyes that bothered him.

Both Yukiko and Kenpachi's heads snapped in his direction. "What..?" Yukiko's voice was quiet and soft, so much so that he almost didn't hear it.

Pain spread through Kenpachi's body as he agreed yet again with his daughter's captain. "Wouldn't be that hard... probably."

Yukiko's mouth opened a little as she was about to say something, but nothing came out. She smiled a small, fragile smile and a few small happy droplets of water fell from her big blue eyes. She opened her mouth again, and this time something did come out.

"Promise."

Both men nodded.

"One more thing..?" She added.

"What?" again it came from both simultaneously.

Yukiko smiled wider, "Promise me you won't kill eachother?" Her eyes wandering between the two.

"As long as I can maime him." Kenpachi said, another grin splitting his face in two.

"If you can manage that." Byakuya scoffed. Yukiko laughed and hugged her father, and, barely managing to stop herself from wrapping her arms around his neck, bowed to her captain, words of thanks completely obscured by her laughter. To her, the only way this could get better, would be if she didn't have to worry about what was going on in the World of the Living. The only way it could be better for Byakuya would be if he could understand what he felt for his fourth seat, and if Kenpachi wasn't there. No matter what he would ever feel for his fourth seat, he would always hate that brutish man.