The Espada Make Their Move
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Naruto frowned and said "I sense them." Everyone frowned and Naruto said "We've got four and…" He trailed off and Shikamaru asked "What is it?" Naruto hung his head a little and said "My sister is with them." Kiba frowned and said "Yeah. I do smell a scent that is close to Naruto's." Akamaru barked in agreement and Neji said "Naruto, you do know that we may have to fight her." Naruto raised his head and opened his eyes to reveal that they had the weird eye mark in them and said "Yeah." Naruto then suddenly grabbed Shikamaru and Kiba while Neji and Choji stopped in their tracks. Naruto swung his arm and a piece of paper stuck to a tree was cut in half then burned up.
Naruto frowned and said "I'm guessing Shikamaru can guess what that was." Shikamaru frowned and said "It was an explosive barrier. There are normally four. The moment you enter the perimeter, it sets off a timer that gives you just enough time to get to the center before it blows." Kiba groaned a little and said "Great. Now we have to waste time going around." Naruto's head twitched and said "My Blood Clone just took care of the rest of them. We're good to go ahead."
Kakashi looked down at the grave that belonged to Rin and said "Rin. I promise I will find out who defiled your grave." A girl wearing a white hakama, a white jacket with the hood up, and black shoes walked up to the grave and asked "You come here often?" Kakashi sighed and said "This person was on my team years ago. She died in battle." The girl nodded and said "She must've meant a lot to you if you come here every day." She noticed Kakashi was shaking a little and smiled.
She patted a hand on Kakashi's back and said "It's alright. She would forgive you if you did something wrong." Kakashi took out his book and said "You're right." The girl sighed and walked away as she said "She'd also want you to put that book away, Kakashi." Kakashi went wide eyed and looked in the direction the girl went in to find that she was gone.
Rin walked back to the Hokage Monument when Hanabi, Idate, and Suiren appeared in front of her. Rin sighed and said "I know I wasn't supposed to talk to him." Hanabi frowned and said "You were told the risks last night. If you get too emotional…" Rin nodded and said "I know." Suiren adjusted her glasses and said "Then you should know the risks of doing all of this." Idate looked up and said "Now's not the time. You, me, and Hanabi need to move out." They all looked at him as he said "It's time to make our move." He, Hanabi, and Rin vanished with a burst of Sonído and Suiren sighed. She vanished with a burst of Sonído as well and headed back to the Hokage Monument.
The Sound Ninja Four rested in a clearing and talked amongst themselves while Tayuya was deep in thought. "That boy. He kept saying I was his sister. But I was an orphan all my life." She scrunched her eyes closed and thought "But why do I keep seeing these flashes? What are these images in my mind?" Kidomaru looked over his right shoulder and said "We've got company." Jirobo kept his head down and asked "How many?" Tayuya took a moment and said "Five and one of them is the ANBU brat that managed to get me last night." She placed a hand over her visible eye and thought "But that brat keeps getting into my head and I can't get him out." Sakon quickly threw a kunai with three explosive tags on the end into a bush behind him and they exploded less than a second later.
From a pretty far distance so that Neji wouldn't be able to see them, Rin, Hanabi, and Idate sighed as the Sasuke Retrieval Squad had blown its cover. Hanabi rolled her eyes and asked "Who's got who?" Rin looked at the Sound Ninja Four and said "I've got tubby." Idate smirked at Sakon and said "I've got the guy with two heads." Hanabi frowned and said "That means that I've got the guy with six arms." They all vanished and got into their positions.
The Sound Ninja Four all grunted as they tried to break Shikamaru's Shadow Possession Jutsu and Naruto and Tayuya looked at each other. Naruto gave her a hurt look and Tayuya flinched as that same image popped up in her head. Three Shuriken flew at Shikamaru and barely managed to get scratched as he asked "What was that?" He accidentally released the jutsu and Jirobo said "Earth Style Barrier…" A wave of rocks moved in a line toward the Leaf Ninja and split in two to go around them as Jirobo shouted "Earth Dome Prison!" The moment the two waves met again, it created a large dome of rocks that went over them and sealed them inside.
Everyone but Naruto tried to find a way out when Kiba finally snapped and turned to Naruto and shouted "Shouldn't you be helping?!" Naruto pulled out one of his pistols and said "I was just waiting for my sister and the others to get to a safe distance so they couldn't hear this." He pointed the pistol at one end of the dome and pulled the trigger. A large blue Cero tore through the dome and they walked out the other side. The dome crumbled and they all glared at Jirobo. Shikamaru frowned and said "He's by himself. Looks like the others went on ahead." Before Neji could activate his Byakugan, Naruto said "They're several dozen yards behind tubby and gaining ground." He quickly thought of a plan and went over the specifics in his head.
He looked up and said "If we don't hurry, they'll get away with Sasuke. He's the plan. Choji is the strongest of us physically and none of us is a match for him in an all-out brawl. Choji should stay here and hold him off while the rest of us go ahead." Shikamaru looked at Naruto in surprise and said "That was actually smart for once." Naruto frowned and said "Lilynette tricked me into taking an IQ test like Asuma-sensei did with you. It turns out I have an IQ of 300." Everyone went wide eyed but quickly shook it off and left Choji to deal with Jirobo.
As they jumped through the trees, Neji looked at Naruto and asked "Naruto, this sister of yours, what was she like before all this?" Naruto smiled and said "She was great. When I turned three, she got me a puppy." Kiba thought about it for a second and said "I think I remember that. Didn't you name it Akuro?" Naruto chuckled and said "Yeah. We had him for a while before he got lost and hadn't seen him since. I asked your family to try and find them but they never could." Naruto then frowned and said "But enough of that. We need to hurry." They all nodded and quickly continued.
Choji grunted under the force of the pain he was in from the pills he took and Jirobo's Level 2 Curse Mark and Jirobo said "Looks like it's about time to say your goodbyes." A white shape appeared behind Jirobo and punched him in the back. Jirobo went flying forward and landed on his face. Choji looked up at the person who had saved him and a feminine voice said "So, you're Jirobo of the Sound Ninja Four. You have a pretty high bounty on your head." Choji realized the person was a girl, who stepped over him as Jirobo got up and faced the girl. He glared at her and asked "Who are you?" The girl reached up to her hood and said "Quinto Espada." She flipped her hood down and Rin said "Rin Nohara." Choji got onto one knee and asked "Espada?" Jirobo frowned and said "Never heard of you." Rin flipped the two-pronged punch daggers attached to her wrists up by way of the hinges and moved her sunglasses down. She let her arms fall to her sides and said "Pummel, Dragra." Rin was covered in an enormous light that died an instant later and she was now covered by a cloud of dirt.
The dirt settled and revealed that Rin's appearance had changed. Her arms were now a little longer and were covered in small dome-shaped, armor plating that was a little big for her but not as big as the Resurrección's previous holder, just enough to go to the base of her skull. Her punch daggers now came to resemble dragon heads as well. Similar plates extended down her back until they terminated in the form of a tail. Rin smiled and said "This will be over in an instant." She appeared in front of Jirobo with a burst of static and had him on his back. She pulled her left fist back and punched him square in the chest. A large crater formed from the power of Rin's punch and Jirobo moved no more.
Rin stood up and said "Eris liber in funere onera vesta. Requiescat in Pace." She closed Jirobo's eyes while Choji stood up as he panted and said "Thanks a lot." Rin stood up and said "It was the least I could do. It's our duty to serve the Brotherhood." She turned to Choji and said "I'm sorry but I can't allow you to remember my name." She placed her hand over Choji's eyes and he passed out. Rin knelt down and placed a hand over his forehead. She muttered something and her palm glowed white for a moment before it ceased. She then stood up and quickly went and grabbed Jirobo's body. She then vanished and left Choji to be found by a Konoha Medical Team when they arrived.
Naruto frowned at the feeling of Rin leave the area and thought "Here's hoping she doesn't screw up." He didn't even pay attention to what was happening as he just kept his mind on Tayuya. "There has to be some way to get her to remember. There just has to." Naruto felt his eyes burn a little and thought "Are you trying to tell me something, Harribel?"
Neji breathed through the pain of the weird arrow going through his shoulder and panted. A voice he recognized then said "Stand back, Neji." Neji went wide eyed as a familiar Hyūga appeared in front of him and he said "Lady Hanabi." Hanabi held up a whip with a disk-shaped blade and said "I'm going to need you to tell me if he moves." Neji felt a huge buildup of Chakra and Hanabi said "Tear, Golondrina!" She and Neji were covered in a bright pink light and a tunnel of wind and Kidomaru watched in shock. The wind and light died to reveal Hanabi was now different. She now had wings coming out of her back with each having ten crescent-shaped blades on them in place of feathers. Her hairpin became a beak-like headpiece with a large, feathery mane protruding from it, covering most of her body and trailing past her legs. She also gained a long, prehensile tail that emerged from her back. Large pieces of armor that resembled the disk on her whip she had were around her shoulders. In addition, her arms became long and slender, with large claws.
Hanabi frowned and asked "Where is he?" Neji continued to stare at Hanabi and said "Lady Hanabi." Hanabi was beginning to get mad and shouted "Where is he?" Neji snapped out of his shock and said "Twenty meters behind me. In the trees!" Hanabi wheeled around and threw her wings forward. The feathers flew off of her wings and cut clean through the trees. They all then heard the sound of flesh being cut and all the feathers flew back to Hanabi's wings and reattached. Hanabi was then covered in a sphere of pink light and she was now back to normal. She turned back to Neji and said "Please forgive me for this." Hanabi placed a finger on Neji's shoulder and a beam of light tore through him. Neji went wide eyed and fell forward. Hanabi went and collected Kidomaru's remains then vanished.
(That Night)
Naruto sat awake in the makeshift camp he, Kiba, and Shikamaru had set up and tried to get some sleep. He looked up at the moon and removed his pistols. Lilynette spoke up and asked "How are you doing?" Naruto remained silent and Lilynette said "You know you're going to have to fight her." Naruto continued to not say a word and Lilynette said "I know this is hard for you to accept but you're going to have to kill her." Naruto glared at the pistol Lilynette was talking through and looked back at the moon.
Tayuya tossed and turned as she tried to catch even a little wink of sleep but eventually gave up. She sat up and went to a nearby stream. She washed her face and thought "Damn. I still can't get that kid out of my head. Maybe he really is my brother." She shook that thought out of her head and thought "What am I thinking. I'm from the Land of Rice Patties and that brat's from Konoha." She suddenly heard what sounded like a flute and looked around for it. She stood up and walked toward the noise. She went wide eyed when she found Naruto playing an old flute while sitting on a large rock. Tayuya took out her flute and began playing the exact same song as she walked toward Naruto, who looked at her but continued to play.
They both stopped a moment later and Tayuya said "That was the first song I learned. Actually, the only song I learned." She put her flute away then looked at Naruto, who brought his flute to his mouth and said "Then you don't know this." He began playing Oración and Tayuya looked like she was struggling to remember something. Images of a blonde female years old than she was playing that exact same song on a leaf whistle swam through her mind and she asked "Where did you learn that?" Naruto stopped playing and said "From the same person who taught it to you. Tier Harribel." Tayuya reached up to Naruto when her neck burned. She grunted then ran back to her camp. She panted then fell unconscious.
(The Next Morning)
Tayuya and Sakon jumped through the trees when a kunai hit the coffin Tayuya was carrying. Tayuya frowned and said "Hold on a minute." She and Sakon stopped on a branch and Sakon looked at Tayuya as he asked "Are we almost there?" Tayuya looked at him and said "No. We still have a ways to go." She looked over her shoulder and said "But take a look." Sakon did and went wide eyed at the sight of Naruto, Kiba, and Shikamaru. The coffin appeared in Naruto's arms and the two remaining members of the Sound Ninja Four went wide eyed with shock. Naruto then pointed one of his pistols at them and pulled the trigger. Tayuya tackled Sakon to the ground and they both managed to dodge the Cero. Naruto, Kiba, and Shikamaru jumped back through the trees and Tayuya and Sakon went after them. Kiba and Akamaru hung back to stall them and Naruto hung his head a little as he and Shikamaru looked back to watch for a second.
Tayuya came at them while Kiba, Akamaru, and Sakon fell into a chasm then went wide eyed. She stopped on a tree branch and looked up as she asked "What are you doing here?" A person jumped onto the coffin and Naruto and Shikamaru looked back at the person just as he kicked the coffin away and went after it. The person grabbed the coffin and landed on the branch behind Naruto and Shikamaru, who were still in shock. The person stood up and Naruto noticed the two marks on his forehead as he turned around.
Naruto frowned and said "You're of the Kaguya Clan." Shikamaru looked at Naruto and asked "Kaguya Clan?" Naruto nodded and said "You probably wouldn't have heard of them because they died out in the last war. They possess a powerful kekkei genkai called the Shikotsumyaku or Dead Bone Pulse. They are able to grow their bones into any shape and use them as weapons." The Kaguya looked at Tayuya and said "You were taking too long, Tayuya." Tayuya went wide eyed as the Kaguya asked "And what of our comrades? This from the former members of the Sound Ninja Five." Naruto went wide eyed as a vision shot through his head.
Harribel walked through a small village and noticed a boy sitting against a house with two red dots on his forehead. She went up to him and held out a piece of bread. The boy looked at it then back up at Harribel, who said "Take it. You need your strength." The boy took the bread and began eating it. Harribel knelt down and asked "What is your name?" The boy looked up at her and said "Kimimaro."
Naruto snapped out of his vision and looked at the Kaguya and said "You're Kimimaro. A woman with blonde hair gave you bread when you were younger." Kimimaro frowned at Naruto and asked "How could you know that?" Naruto frowned back at Kimimaro and said "These eyes are hers. They were her gift to me before she died." Kimimaro was about to leave when he grabbed the coffin and jumped back as a white blur landed on the branch. The white blur stood up and its cocky voice said "I've always wanted to come to this world." Naruto then noticed who the white blur was as it said "Now I can rampage all I want." Naruto frowned and said "Hold your horses, Grimmjow." Grimmjow looked back at Naruto and said "You must be the one that girl told me about." Naruto showed Grimmjow the large black 1 on the back of his left hand and Grimmjow went wide eyed.
Naruto pointed at the coffin and said "The contents of that coffin are vital. You need to retrieve it intact." Grimmjow looked back at Kimimaro and said "Don't worry. I won't destroy it or what's inside." Kimimaro grabbed the coffin and jumped off with Grimmjow right behind him. Naruto turned to Tayuya and said "Please. Don't do this, sister." Tayuya tore off her eye patch and revealed what appeared to be a small mouth above and below her left eye. Naruto pulled out his pistols and said "Shikamaru, let me handle her. You go after Grimmjow and make sure he doesn't overdo it." Shikamaru nodded and jumped off into the forest.
Naruto closed his eyes and activated his Sharingan. Tayuya activated hers as well and she held up her right hand and a gigantic axe-like weapon bearing two crescent moon-shaped blades fused together at the backs, with a large looped chain connected to the shaft at the end of the handle appeared in it. They dashed at each other and everything seemed to freeze as they both suddenly appeared in a desert in the middle of the day. Naruto looked around quickly and thought "Jigoku no Sakkaku." Naruto looked up at Tayuya and said "We don't have to do this." Tayuya dashed at Naruto without a word and swung her axe. Naruto ducked under it and kicked Tayuya in the leg.
She fell over and Naruto pointed his pistol at her. He pulled the trigger and Tayuya dodged with a burst of Sonído to avoid the Cero. Naruto stood up and pointed his pistol at Tayuya again and fired multiple times with his left pistol then fired once with the one on his right before he holstered it. Tayuya dodged each one and continued dodging as Naruto repeated the same pattern. She frowned and thought "So, he can fire with the left one multiple times and the one on the right only once before he holsters it. That means that the right must be more powerful." She jumped up into the air and Naruto fired at her with his right pistol. She dodged the Cero and Tayuya appeared on his right. She thrust her axe at Naruto, who went wide eyed then pointed his right pistol right between her eyes.
Tayuya went wide eyed as Naruto pulled the trigger and a Cero shot out of it. The Cero exploded in the distance and Tayuya appeared to Naruto's left with a burnt face as he said "You thought that I needed to charge the right pistol." He turned to her and said "I do that to confuse enemies and when they get close enough, I kill them." Tayuya raised her axe over her head and shouted "Pray, Santa Teresa!" A large wind gathered in the top crescent of her axe and she was covered in a bright yellow light. The light then died down and revealed that a lot of things were different with Tayuya. She two horns on the side of her head that looked like a crescent moon when put together and she now had four arms that were covered in what appeared to be bone and each had a long sickle in them. Naruto even noticed that the burns she got were gone.
Lilynette spoke up and asked "What are you going to do, Naruto?" Naruto's pistols vanished and his bandoleers glowed while he did as well. A single wolf appeared next to Naruto and he said "Stay put, Lilynette." Two glowing swords appeared out of Naruto's bandoleers and he grabbed both of them. He then dashed forward at Tayuya and continued to frown. Naruto blocked one of Tayuya's sickles and broke the blade off. He then spun around and went wide eyed when he was cut across the chest. He skidded back and Lilynette shouted "Naruto!" Naruto panted and said "Damn it." Tayuya smirked and said "You might have broken one of them but you still have three more to go." Naruto stood up and suddenly appeared in front of Tayuya.
Naruto brought one of his swords down and Tayuya blocked it. Naruto looked into Tayuya's eyes and said "Please, Tayuya. I don't want to have to do this." Naruto began crying and said "Just go back to being my sister." Tayuya went wide eyed when her neck began to burn and her Curse Mark moved across her body. A fifth hand went through Naruto's gut and Lilynette shouted "Naruto!" Naruto went wide eyed as Tayuya said "Moron. Just like you outsmarted me. I outsmarted you." She pulled out her bloody third left arm and got into a battle stance and said "I'm going to rip you to shreds with all six of my arms!" Naruto coughed and blood flew out of his mouth.
Tayuya began laughing like a maniac and shouted "Now you die!" She brought down her sickles and a large and strange blue glowing ribcage appeared around him and stopped the sickles. Tayuya and Lilynette looked in shock as Naruto said "I really didn't want to have to use these eyes but you gave me no choice." A glowing large blue sword came right at Tayuya and she quickly used Sonído to get away. The ribcage grew shoulders, arms, hands, a neck, and a skull head as Naruto said "Susanoo. One of the three jutsu blessed upon those who hold the Mangekyō Sharingan." Tayuya looked on in shock and noticed Naruto's golden Sharingan now had three gold triangles in the form of a huge one over a red upside down triangle and his silica were black.
Naruto frowned and said "I guess I have no choice." Naruto looked at both his swords and they were covered in black flames. Susanoo disappeared from around Naruto and he ran at Tayuya. She brought her sickles up and Naruto cut through all of them with a single swing from both swords while the cuts she got were cauterized by the black flames. Naruto willed one of his swords away and placed his hand on Tayuya's stomach. She froze as she glowed brightly and was forced back into her sealed form with her Curse Mark having receded. Naruto looked down at Tayuya and said "Amaterasu. A special technique with the same name as the boss of the Wolf Summons. It creates black flames that can never be put out and burn forever." Naruto turned around and walked away as his other sword vanished.
Tayuya glared up at Naruto and shouted "Get back here! You're supposed to kill me!" Naruto kept his gaze forward and said "I'm not going to kill my family. Not after the last time." Tayuya picked up the broken rod of one of her sickles and ran at Naruto and shouted "Don't turn your back to me." Naruto turned around and held his arms open and allowed Tayuya to stab him through the chest. Tayuya and Lilynette went wide eyed as Naruto remained still for a second before he began coughing up more blood.
He fell into Tayuya's arms and she looked down into his eyes and asked "Why? Why didn't you dodge?" Naruto smiled and said "Because, I knew this was the only way I could get what I truly wanted." He hugged her and said "My one wish was that I could feel your warm embrace one last time." He began losing feeling in his arms and cried up at Tayuya with his normal eyes and said "I'm so happy that I got to see you one last time." A tear fell out of Tayuya's eye and landed on Naruto's forehead. Her Sharingan suddenly a thick black circle with three thick lines reaching out to the edge of her red silica. Naruto's eyes suddenly turned back into his Mangekyō Sharingan and Tayuya went wide eyed as a bunch of images swam across her eyes, all of a younger Naruto saying the same word. "Sister." Tayuya began crying and hugged Naruto.
She continued hugging him tighter as she said "Naruto, please don't die. Please. I just got you back. I love you." Lilynette walked up to them as the Jigoku no Sakkaku vanished and left them back in the forest. Fū watched from several yards away and watched as Naruto's release form faded away and Lilynette turned back into her Arrancar form. Tayuya went wide eyed as she felt Naruto hug him back and she cried even harder. Lilynette joined in too and they all heard rustling in the bushes. They looked and saw a black wolf come out of the bushes. Naruto looked at the wolf and weakly asked "Akuro?" The wolf walked up to them and jumped on top of them all. They all laughed and Naruto's wounds began to heal.
Naruto stood up and said "I need to go. I still have to get back Sasuke." He looked at Lilynette and said "Get Tayuya to the secret base and let her stay in my room." Tayuya looked at Naruto and asked "But Sasuke now has the Curse Mark Level 2." Naruto looked at his sister and said "Don't worry. I promise I'll come home alive." He jumped off into the trees and Lilynette took Tayuya and Akuro through a Garganta.
Fū frowned and said "But that Genjutsu that Orochimaru placed on her should've kept her from remembering Naruto." "Kotoamatsukami." Fū jumped back and turned around as she got into a battle stance to fight Itachi, who appeared behind her. Itachi held up his hands and said "I'm not here to fight." Fū frowned and said "Like I'd believe that." Itachi lowered his hands and said "Harribel's eyes were rigged to cast a particular jutsu the moment they laid eyes on a Mangekyō Sharingan. The jutsu was Kotoamatsukami. It's the ultimate Genjutsu that allows you to control a person's mind." Fū raised an eyebrow and asked "Wasn't that the jutsu of Shisui of the Shunshin?" Itachi nodded and said "Shisui taught the jutsu to Harribel after she had found Tayuya on a mission and found that Tayuya didn't remember Naruto. She had planned to use it on Tayuya herself but she passed before she could." Itachi turned away and said "Harribel left those eyes to Naruto in hopes that he might be able to do it himself." He looked over his shoulder at Fū and said "I will leave you and Naruto alone for now. But one day, Akatsuki will get their hands on the both of you." He jumped off into the trees and Fū headed through a Garganta.
Naruto soon saw Shikamaru ahead of him and frowned. He used a quick burst of Sonído to catch up to him and hit him in the back of the neck. He fell forward and remained motionless. Naruto caught Shikamaru and laid him against a tree. He looked at Shikamaru's sleeping face and said "I can't let you know about the Espada yet." He then jumped off and quickly went after Grimmjow.
Grimmjow and Kimimaro stopped in a grassy clearing and Grimmjow put his hands in his pockets. He smiled and asked "Finally going to stop running away?" Kimimaro turned to him and said "If I go any farther, I'd lead you to Lord Orochimaru's base." Naruto appeared behind Grimmjow and said "Grimmjow." The Quinto Espada looked back at Naruto and asked "What?" Naruto quickly examined the coffin then looked at Kimimaro and said "Go ahead and release. Just make sure that you don't damage that coffin." Grimmjow smiled like a maniac and turned back to the Kaguya Clan member. He drew his sword and it began to glow blue. He held it next to his left hip and placed his left hand on the glowing blade. He made his hand into a claw and the wind picked up as everyone's clothes flailed in the breeze. Grimmjow smiled at Kimimaro and shouted "Kishire, Pantera!" He brought his hand down alone the blade and it vanished.
A large tornado of leaves and dirt was generated by the amount of power from Grimmjow and Naruto just put his hands in his pockets. The wind died and revealed Grimmjow was now in his Resurrección with his hair longer, two cat ears on his head, and a long tail along with other the white bone-like armor on his body and the claw on his hands and feet. Grimmjow then roared loudly and sent a huge shockwave that cracked the ground and Naruto looked into Kimimaro's eyes with his Mangekyō Sharingan.
Lilynette showed Tayuya to a pure white room and Tayuya looked around. The new Cuatro Espada turned back around to Lilynette, who was still standing outside the room, and asked "What the Hell is this place?" Lilynette shut the door and Tayuya went to open it but caught nothing but air. She then suddenly felt her Curse Mark burn hotter than she could remember. She fell to her knees and yelled in pain. She then threw her head up and yelled even louder.
(Outside the Room)
Lilynette looked at Suiren as they heard Tayuya scream and Lilynette asked "Remind me what you did to that room to remove those damn Marks?" Suiren adjusted her glasses and said "It was something that I got from Szayel's memories. His Teatro de Titere is what I'm using." She held up a doll that looked like Tayuya and said "By using this, I can be more precise with my procedures." She popped off the head and looked at the neck, causing Lilynette to notice a small black mark on the neck. Suiren looked at the mark and said "Right now, her Curse Mark is trying to take over. In order to remove it, you simply need to put into a stronger source of chakra or Reishi in order to erode it. However, hers isn't as potent as Naruto's. I'm currently unable to get his off this way because the removal of his would likely kill him. I'd need far more energy than I have now in order to remove it." Lilynette noticed the mark slowly fading away and heard the screaming from inside the room fade away.
Akuro ran up to the door and pawed at it. Lilynette looked at the Suiren and asked "Can we get her out now?" Suiren nodded and Lilynette opened the door. Akuro ran inside and ran up to the barely conscious Tayuya. He nudged her with his muzzle and the half Arrancar smiled as she said "It's okay, boy." Lilynette walked up to her and said "Good. As soon as you wake up, we'll quickly begin your training." Tayuya passed out and Lilynette said "You're just like Naruto." She picked up Tayuya and threw her over her shoulder. She then walked out with Akuro and headed to another room with Suiren following as Rin watched them from behind a corner and narrowed her eyes.
Naruto noticed a black smoke coming from the coffin and it then exploded. Grimmjow shielded his eyes while Naruto and Kimimaro did nothing. The smoke dispersed and revealed Sasuke now had longer hair that was a lighter shade of blue and his skin was also darker. Naruto frowned and said "So, you actually went there." Sasuke's hair receded and returned to its normal color while his skin regained its normal color. Sasuke jumped off into the trees after a moment and Kimimaro ran at Naruto. A green blur suddenly came flying by and kicked Kimimaro away.
Naruto looked at Lee and said "About time you get here." Lee kept his eyes on Kimimaro and said "Sorry. I had to make sure I could walk without that crutch. Go get Sasuke." Naruto looked over at Grimmjow and said "As soon as you get rid of that bone guy, follow the orders Suiren told you." Grimmjow scoffed and said "Fine." Naruto vanished with a burst of Sonído and Lee looked at Grimmjow out of the corner of his eye. He then focused his gaze on Kimimaro again and said "It is an honor to be fighting at your side." Grimmjow scoffed and said "Just shut up. We need to get rid of this guy quickly." Lee nodded and they both rushed forward.
Ukon went to stab Kiba with a kunai when a person wearing robes with a hood over his head took the blow and the kunai seemed to shatter on impact. Kiba looked up at the person and asked "What's going on?" Ukon jumped back and asked "Who are you?" The boy looked at Ukon with a frown and said "Espada #10: Idate Morino." He unsheathed his sword a little and Ukon jumped back, expecting a strike. When it didn't come, he stopped and asked "What are you doing? Why didn't you cut me?" Idate continued to frown and said "Maware, Giralda!" A large tunnel of wind spun around Idate and obscured him from view. Ukon braced himself while Kiba continued to shield Akamaru and closed his eyes.
A small cyclone of wind grazed Ukon's shoulder and the Sound Ninja finally saw Idate's new form. He now had two large horns on his shoulders and armor that started at his feet, wrapped around his calves, and jutted out at his waist with two more spikes. He then appeared in front of Sakon and pinned him onto his back. He then held up his left hand to reveal a brown gauntlet with a blade suddenly shooting out of it. He then stabbed Ukon in the chest and the Sound Ninja remained motionless. Idate laid the shared body of Ukon and Sakon then closed Ukon's eyes as he said "Docebit vos amplexu solatus mors. Requiescat in pace." He stood up and went over to Kiba. He placed his right hand over Kiba's eyes and Kiba passed out.
Akamaru looked up at Idate, whose hand began to glow as he said "Don't worry. He's alive. I just can't have him knowing about me and the other Espada yet." His hand stopped glowing and he removed it. He looked at Akamaru with a smile and said "I really need you to keep this a secret. If he learns of us before the time is right, I'll have to killed a lot of people." He scratched Akamaru's head and vanished with a burst of Sonído along with Ukon and Sakon.
A small burst of sand stopped Kimimaro's hand that had a sharp piece of bone coming out of it and sent Lee flying back onto a floating pile of sand that landed in front of a newcomer. He had dirty red hair and greed eyes with teal lines that descended from lower part of his eyes. He was wearing a white jacket with long coattails and a higher collar, a black sash, and a hakama. On his head was a broken horned helmet with what appeared to be three segments on the front left side. The sand flew into a large gourd on his back and then it fell to the ground.
Grimmjow looked at Gaara and asked "What are you doing here?" Gaara glanced at him and said "You were taking too long. Suiren sent me out to fetch you." He then looked back at Kimimaro and said "But it would appear that that won't happen until he's taken care of." The sand in front of Gaara suddenly flew up to shield him as Kimimaro sent several bone shards at him. The bones slowly made their way through the sand then fell to the ground. The sand moved out of the way of Gaara's face and he asked "Impulsive, aren't you." The sand fell to the ground and said "I guess I'll just have to tell you my name. Segunda Espada, Gaara." Gaara let his gourd fall to the ground and reached for his sword.
He unsheathed it and said "Grimmjow, take the Leaf Ninja and erase his memory." Grimmjow sighed and used Sonído to grab Lee then took him away from the battlefield. Kimimaro continued to frown and asked "Why did you send them away?" Gaara let his sword arm rest at his side and said "It is forbidden for Espada of the rank cuatro and above to release their swords when in the presence of normal humans unless circumstances permit it." He pointed his sword at Kimimaro and said "Tozase, Murciélago." The sky suddenly turned black and a giant image of a crescent moon appeared in the sky as Gaara was covered in black flames that were lined green.
Sakura felt a huge amount of power being weighed down on her and looked up into the sky. The blue sky suddenly turned black and she saw a giant moon in the sky.
Naruto noticed Gaara's sudden Reiatsu increase and closed his eyes as he thought "Gaara."
Inside the Hokage Monument Base, all the Arrancar and Espada except for Tayuya, who was resting in a separate room, were eating when they suddenly felt a dense pressure upon them. Suiren sighed and snapped her fingers. The pressure suddenly lessened and Loly looked at her then asked "What was that?" Hanabi and Lilynette entered the room and the Octavia Espada said "It looks like Gaara just used his Resurrección." Idate crossed his arms and gazed at the ceiling as he said "Come to think of it, I've never seen Gaara use it." Lilynette sat down next to Fū and said "Naruto and I haven't even used our full power yet." Fū looked at Lilynette and said "But I thought that you and Naruto had already gotten to the peak of your powers." Lilynette shook her head and took some pebbles in her hands.
She crushed the pebbles in her left hand and let the pieces fall to the table. She looked at the pieces and said "As you all know, Ulquiorra was the Cuatro Espada. When Gaara joined our ranks and took Ulquiorra's power, he, Naruto, and I went deep into Hueco Mundo to train. Gaara was the only one who could keep up with Naruto's power. As a result, Gaara was promoted above Ulquiorra and given the rank Segunda as his mastery of his powers far surpassed that of Ulquiorra's." She crushed the pebbles in her right hand and said "The pieces of rock on the table represent both of their powers before they began training." She then opened her right hand less than a faction of a centimeter and a small trickle of powder fell out as she said "The powder represents the results of their training."
The black flames shot into the sky and seemed to come down as rain and hit Kimimaro but it didn't burn. He then watched at the flames were extinguished and revealed that Gaara was now completely different. He had gained large bat wings on his back and his hair became black, longer, and wider. His Hollow Mask was centered at the top of his head with two large horns extending outward to the sides toward the front. The lines on his face became black, broader, and more triangular while his fingernails lengthened. His uniform became more form fitting and closed at the top, becoming more like a robe toward the bottom.
Sand flew out of the gourd behind Gaara as his wings folded and he took several steps toward Kimimaro, who frowned and thought "Since he wields sand, it would be a bad idea to go in close. However, even at this distance, the power he's giving off is affecting my breathing." The bones retracted into his body as he thought "That sand is both his attack and defense. He's definitely not the close combat type." Gaara just folded his hands and let his sand protect him then go after Kimimaro. He watched as his sand held Kimimaro to the ground and more sand on him and encased him in a pillar of sand. Gaara then nodded and the sand compressed with a mountain of pressure.
He continued to watch the pillar of sand and thought "When I release my Resurrección, my Sand Coffin compresses with over 100 times more pressure." He then saw a hand reach out from the sand pillar and froze. Kimimaro stepped out of the sand and revealed that his entire body was now covered in black lines. Gaara regained composure and said "Interesting. You're the first person to ever survive." Kimimaro stared at Gaara and said "Rest assured that will be the last time I get caught in your sand." Kimimaro went wide eyed as a huge wave of sand rose between him and Gaara and rose several dozen feet into the sky. It fell forward and Kimimaro tried to dodge but was covered by about ten feet of sand. The trees behind him were uprooted as Gaara knelt down and placed his hand in the calm sand in front of him.
A large pulse spread out through the sand and compressed with thousands of pounds of pressure. Gaara stood up and said "This variation compresses over 100,000 pounds of pressure. There's no possible way you could've survived this." A dark tail shot out of the sand and Gaara sighed as he said "I knew this was too easy." Kimimaro pulled himself out of the sand and Gaara raised an eyebrow at Kimimaro's new form. He had dark gray skin, six large bone spines protruding from his back, and a long bone-spiked tail.
Gaara looked at Kimimaro with pity and said "You foolish boy." Gaara held up his right hand and pointed his index and middle finger at Kimimaro. A black Cero that was lined green charged at Gaara's fingertips and said "Each of the Espada have a certain skill that defines their powers. Once an Espada has mastered that power to its zenith, they are forbidden to use it as it could cost countless lives to use. There are only two times when we're permitted to use it. One is when we are training with other Espada and even then it's dangerous to use as it could kill our comrades." Kimimaro frowned and asked "And the other?" Gaara's Cero grew beyond the diameter of his fist as he said "When no living being is within two miles of us." The Cero stopped charging and Gaara said "Cero Oscuras." A giant black Cero flew at Kimimaro and hit him.
Inside the Espada Base, the ground shook and everyone held onto something while dirt fell from the ceiling and parts of the roof collapsed a little. Meanwhile, outside in the village, buildings fell to the ground and part of the wall surrounding the village was blown down.
Naruto was suddenly thrown through the cave he was chasing Sasuke through but managed to use his Reishi to gain a foothold on the ground. Naruto looked in the direction the wind came from and said "At least he followed the rules. If it were the Grand Rey Cero, everything within twelve miles would've been destroyed." He turned back around and quickly went to catch up to Sasuke.
Gaara looked at the giant pillar of smoke before him and asked "How?" Kimimaro ran out of the smoke and up to Gaara. He threw him up into the air with the spikes on his back and sent him flying back several yards. Kimimaro stood up and said "By releasing the second stage of my Curse Mark, I am able to create a thin armor of bone over my skin that's harder than diamond. It was easy to deflect that attack of yours." Gaara felt something wet on his face and looked at the ground to see a small puddle of blood. He raised his hand to his cheek and wiped the blood from under his sand armor. He looked at it and thought "He not only broke through my sand armor but also my Hierro." He closed his eyes and felt his high speed regeneration kick in he then turned around to face Kimimaro and said "Behold, true despair." The dust picked up and he glowed green as his own Reishi flew up from his feet.
(Flashback)
Gaara and Naruto panted as they were both covered in spheres of light and turned back to their sealed forms with Lilynette by Naruto. Gaara walked up to Naruto as Naruto said "We'll stop here for today." Gaara and Naruto went up and sat on top of Las Noches and looked at the endless desert as they each ate some sandwiches Lilynette had prepared. While Lilynette kept eating after her tenth sandwich, Naruto and Gaara had stopped and Naruto said "Gaara." The Shukaku Jinchūriki looked at him and asked "Yes?" Naruto looked up at the moon and said "What we finally learned today is now forbidden." Lilynette looked at Naruto in surprise with her mouth stuffed with her twelfth sandwich as Gaara looked up at the moon as well and said "I know." Lilynette swallowed the food in her mouth and swore she could see Starrk in Naruto's place.
Naruto looked at his hands and said "Using that power is so devastating that it might actually kill us as well." Naruto looked at Gaara and said "Yours is complete while I still have a ways to go." He looked back at the sands and said "At the most, we can only stay in that form for about five minutes." He looked into Gaara's eyes and said "Remember Gaara, this is forbidden and only to be used as a last resort."
(End Flashback)
"Allow me to educate you." The Reishi obscured Gaara from view as Kimimaro suddenly found it hard to breath. The Reishi then was blown away as Gaara said "Resurrección: Segunda Etapa." His black wings were still there but his coat was gone, revealing a more defined musculature with his bare chest. A hole that went right through him appeared on his sternum and appeared to be dripping black, blood-like liquid. His waist had become covered in something similar to black fur, which also covered his arms and legs. His fingers grew claw-like extensions and his feet became like talons. The irises of his eyes turned yellow and his sclera became green. The tear marks under his eyes increased in size and turned black. On his head was head now had two bat ears while his rear had a very long and thin tail that seemed powerful.
Kimimaro froze in shock as Gaara said "Of all the Espada, I am one of only two to ever achieve this release." Kimimaro suddenly realized something was around his feet and Gaara was suddenly getting taller. He looked down and struggled to get free of the quicksand pit that suddenly appeared below him. Gaara and Kimimaro met each other's gaze and the Espada said "In my Segunda Etapa, I'm able to burry you two miles below ground. There, you will stay and feel the pressure of the Earth crush you." Kimimaro soon went under and Gaara took a deep breath.
Dance.
Gaara went wide eyed and suddenly felt Kimimaro's Chakra flare.
Bracken Dance.
Pillars of spiked bones flew up through the ground and began covering the area. Gaara flew up into the air and managed to get out of the range of the bones. He went up to one of them and said "It's a good thing that I can fly." He suddenly felt something looming over him and turned around to see Kimimaro with a spiraling bone spike around his right arm. A javelin-like weapon made of green flames appeared in Gaara's right hand and he stabbed it right through Kimimaro's sternum. Kimimaro went wide eyed as the javelin disappeared and the bones around his arm crumbled. His body fell out of the bone pillar it was in and Gaara caught him.
He took Kimimaro to the outside of the bone forest and laid him on the ground. Gaara glowed green and was covered in a sphere of light. The sphere vanished as Gaara, now in his sealed form knelt down next to the dead Kimimaro and said "Non prendo piacere nel fare questo. Recquesact in pace." He closed Kimimaro's eyes and pulled out his sword. He cut off a lock of Kimimaro's hair and looked in the direction Naruto went. He frowned and said "You know what to do now, Naruto." He opened a Garganta and went through it.
I meant to upload this yesterday as a Christmas present to all of you but I got caught up in playing the Assassin's Creed III and COD: BO2 that I got.
I'm going to skip the Sasuke and Naruto fight at the VotE because that'll be cannon. There are about six chapters left in the story before we get to the sequel. The next chapter will reveal the details of Harribel's death and last day alive.
Stay tuned.
P.S. Here are the final rankings of the Espada.
1 = Naruto/Lilynette (released)
2 = Gaara
3 = Harribel
4 = Fu
5 = Tayuya
6 = Grimmjow
7 = Rin
8 = Suiren
9 = Hanabi
10 = Idate