-As Dark Naruto advanced toward the Visored, Kensei stared down the blond haired Hollow, stepping forward.
"I'll take him on, stay out of my way!" Kensei commanded as he pointed the tip of his zanpakuto at the incoming hollowfied Shinigami. "Blow, Tachikaze!" As Kensei unleashed his shikai, his zanpakuto was shrunken down to the size of a survival knife.
"So weak…" Dark Naruto murmured as he flash stepped to the side of Kensei, Kensei's eyes narrowing as Dark Naruto's zanpakuto went flying at his neck. Kensei dodged, ducking in the nick of time as Naruto's knee came flying up at Kensei's chest to follow up on his previous attack. Kensei stopped the blow with the elbow of his free arm, Naruto pulling his arm back that wielded his zanpakuto, then gripping the blade with both hands. He brought the sword down onto Kensei's back, Kensei flash stepping away from the attack, flash stepping to the other side of Dark Naruto. Dark Naruto looked to his side, the mouthpiece of his mask opening up abruptly, Kensei preparing to go on the offense. As Kensei's hand gripped down on his zanpakuto, preparing to strike, he was quickly interrupted by a large red cero, the cero emerging from Dark Naruto's mouth. Kensei flash stepped backward. He went into a defensive position, using his zanpakuto to repel the cero, but it was to no avail. The cero was too strong, eating away at Kensei's zanpakuto as it prepared to break his defense.
"I can't waste anymore time…" Kensei strategized inside his mind. "If I use the flash step technique, which he is probably expecting, he'll just counter me, simply wearing me down before the kill strike. This guy isn't consumed by rage like all of the other Hollow consumed Shinigami, which is strange…"
"Are you scared, Muguruma Kensei?" Dark Naruto abruptly interrupted Kensei's thoughts, Kensei snickering in response to the statement.
"Scared of a loser like you kid?" Kensei remarked, giving Dark Naruto a wild grin. "Heh, I'll give you credit that you have one heck of a cero. But…" Kensei unleashed a fair amount of spiritual pressure, Shinji's eyes widening from the sidelines.
"Kensei, do you think that's wise?" Shinji asked, Kensei shrugging in response. "You know that the Soul Society is picking up your spiritual pressure…"
"I don't give a damn…" Kensei interrupted angrily, pointing his zanpakuto at Dark Naruto. "This bastard is going to die here, I swear it!" Shinji sighed as Kensei charged at Dark Naruto, Dark Naruto charging at Kensei in response. As their zanpakuto were on the crash course of colliding, Dark Naruto flash stepped to the side of Kensei, watching as Kensei tried to collide with an enemy that disappeared. As Kensei realized that Dark Naruto disappeared, he looked back as Dark Naruto dropped his zanpakuto, the zanpakuto seeming to drop in slow motion as Dark Naruto flash stepped before Kensei. As Kensei turned, he spotted Dark Naruto flash stepping, but at the speed Dark Naruto was going, it seemed like nothing but a blur. Dark Naruto kneed Kensei in the chest, making the former Captain choke up a handful of blood as the blow connected. Dark Naruto followed up with several blows to Kensei's body, via using the flash step technique. Kensei was being attacked at such a fast rate, it almost seemed as if he was standing completely still in the eyes of the other Visored. Blood continued to go down Kensei's chin as Dark Naruto finished the barrage with a powerful uppercut to Kensei's chin, sending the Visored high into the air. Without any warning, Dark Naruto flashed stepped into the air as Kensei was punched up, knocking him back down into the ground with his left foot. Kensei's body bounced twice as it hit the ground, the former Shinigami zanpakuto rolling from his hand onto the ground as his body touched the ground.
"Such a pathetic opponent, allowing rage to be his subsidence," Dark Naruto commented as he flash stepped before Kensei's limp body, looking down at the Visored with disappointment. "Unfortunately for him, what gives me my subsidence is killing worthless creatures like him…"
"What is your problem weirdo?" Mashiro asked angrily, looking at Dark Naruto disapprovingly. "You had no right to treat Kensei like that!"
"Maybe he shouldn't have attacked me as if he had enough power to defeat me…" Dark Naruto answered, picking up his zanpakuto from where he dropped it. "Now, do you want to be my next victim?" Mashiro stepped up without fear, Shinji pulling her back as he looked at Dark Naruto with anger.
"This guy is too much for you Mashiro…" Shinji said angrily as he looked at the consumed Shinigami. "He's toying with us; he has more power than he's letting on. Much more, so much that we wouldn't even be a challenge if we attacked all together…"
"T-that isn't possible!" Lisa shouted as Shinji nodded, looking down at the sidewalk.
"We need to lure him from the city…" Shinji muttered as all of the Visored nodded in agreement. "Let's make that our main priority, defeating this fool the second…"
Naruto felt as if he was in limbo. Just floating in his own mind, in utter silence. Looking up at the milky white sky, seeing nothing but his own reflection. The look on his face was of fear, fearing his own power, what he could do to those he cared for. Not wanting to pull away from the place, wanting to be there so none of those he cared about could be hurt again.
"Naruto…"
"Who's there?" Naruto asked skeptically, looking around for the voice. It seemed so confident, so self assured, as if it knew what it wanted in life. The way she said Naruto's name was soothing, as if she knew Naruto his entire lifetime.
"Naruto, I'd hoped you'd never had to see this place…"
"Who and what are you?" Naruto asked, frantically looking around the empty area for this voice. "Please, show yourself!" As Naruto said these words, a female appeared before him, floating in the opposite direction of Naruto. Her bright, sky blue eyes looked into Naruto's own sky blue eyes, Naruto looking at the woman with a blank expression.
"Naruto, I thought I would never see you again," the woman stated, placing her hand on Naruto's chin. "You've grown so much since I last seen you…"
"Are you… who are you?" Naruto asked, the woman smiling broadly as she closed her eyes.
"I am the previous wielder of Kyubiakuma," the woman replied simply, Naruto's eyes widening at this statement. "I once wielded the sword that you possess… but my zanpakuto version of Kyubiakuma wasn't as powerful as your own. Mine was more suppressed, Kyubiakuma not giving me much access to her abilities…"
"But my dad told me the only previous wielder of Kyubiakuma was…" Naruto paused, looking up at the woman with a sad smile. "…Mom, so it is you."
"You don't seem too happy to see me…?" Uzumaki Kushina asked her son, who was looking down into the nothingness. "I know that I wasn't in your life, but it wasn't my own decision… let me tell you what happen the night that your father and I encountered the problem with Kyubiakuma…"
"Namikaze Minato, Captain of Squad 2, you are hear by stripped of your ranking and spiritual power due to your creation of a dangerous weapon which you had full intent of using!"
"You fool…" Minato murmured angrily, looking up at the Central 46 judges with disgust. "You and your hunger for power are going to destroy the Soul Society as we know it! Shinigami should be born with their own power, not having to be forced with the burden of holding a creature not of this world within them! Damn you, this has already created a war in the World of the Living, why bring this to the Soul Society! I want to destroy the tailed beast so that this world and the World of the Living can find peace!"
"It's not your decision, now silence!" one of the judges shouted as Minato growled in response. "You will be stripped of all your spiritual power, and then sent to the world of the living, so you can cause no trouble to us!"
"Do as you wish, but I won't go down so easily!" Minato shouted as he escaped from his chains with a simple burst of his spiritual pressure.
"Capture him!" one of the judges screamed as Minato watched several of the blond haired Shinigami flash stepped out the chamber. Outside, the Soul Society went into a tizzy. All available squad members were sent after the rogue Soul Reaper, who was headed to a certain house…
"Kushina, I'll be there to get you soon…" Minato murmured aloud as he continued to flash step along several buildings. "Please, let me get there in time…"
"Stop right there Captain Namikaze!" a Shinigami shouted from a distance, Minato looking back as he witnessed several Shinigami on his trail. He stopped, all of the Shinigami crowding him as Minato unsheathed his zanpakuto.
"I don't want to hurt any of you, but you need to understand what I'm doing is for the best of the Soul Society," Minato explained as all of the Shinigami remained silent. "I want you all to join me in rebelling against them, don't allow them to make our world a living hell… the newly improved Kido Cannon has enough power to destroy the tailed beast for good… All of them will be able to find true peace and the former holder will be able to live… so why are we fighting this?"
"No offense Captain Namikaze, but we all think you lost your mind," a Shinigami commented as Minato closed his eyes. "You sit here and rant about all of this foolishness, but it doesn't hide the fact that you are openly committing treason! So give up yourself, then we can end all of this…"
"I'm sorry…" Minato murmured as he unleashed his shikai. "Show them our speed, Sukudo!" Minato's zanpakuto shrunk down to a small kunai like weapon, Minato tossing the zanpakuto past all of the Shinigami. As this occurred, all of the men barely blinked before each of the men were pierced with a zanpakuto, each of the Shinigami going down to their knees. Minato stood behind them, holding his zanpakuto with his blond hair covering his eyes. He flash stepped in the opposite direction as he continued on his way to find Kushina.
"That is far enough Minato!" a voice shouted as three familiar captains flash stepped before the rogue Shinigami.
"Retsu, Jūshirō, and Shunsui," Minato said, looking at the three captains. "It would be fitting that they would send you three to capture me…"
"…We weren't sent to retrieve you Minato," Jūshirō stated as Minato looked at who Shunsui held in his arms. It was Kushina, who seemed as if she had fainted from exhaustion.
"Minato… please don't cause any more trouble," Retsu pleaded as Minato looked down, looking at his zanpakuto in his palm. "Don't make us have to fight you too…" Minato wasted no time, sending his zanpakuto at the three captains, Shunsui unsheathing his zanpakuto in almost an instant, deflecting the zanpakuto. Minato teleported to his zanpakuto, catching it before it hit the ground. As his hand touched his zanpakuto, he teleported once again, going behind Shunsui without any warning.
"Hey Minato, why are you doing this for?" Shunsui asked as Minato held his zanpakuto at his neck. "This isn't you, you know that as well as I do. So why bother making a mess for?"
"Shunsui, I had nothing but respect for the three of you for my whole Shinigami career, yet you do this to me?" Minato asked angrily, Kushina's eyes fluttering open as she heard his voice. "I see that this will be just as it was back in the ninja days, a blood soaked battle just to further amass the ego of cynical men. But I refuse to allow this anymore, so if I have to fight my friends and comrades just to bring about peace…" Minato gripped onto his zanpakuto, his eyes shifting to the house not too far away.
"…I'll defeat you all!" Minato finished as he teleported before Shunsui, his entire body covered in a yellow aura.
"Ban-kai!" Minato shouted as his zanpakuto transformed once more, the tip of the blade increasing in size, but the zanpakuto decreasing in size slightly. "Shunji Sukudo!" (Instantaneous Speed)
"So, it's become that type of battle huh?" Shunsui asked as he shook his head. "Minato, you can't change the world by acting rash. But I can't stop you if you are truly willing to do this… but I will not allow you to pass willingly!"
"Minato… don't…" Kushina stammered as Minato's eyes widened in surprise. "Please… don't do this. It was the destiny of the Uzumaki clan to wield the zanpakuto known as Kyubiakuma… I accepted that destiny with all of my heart… I didn't fret anything, not even now. They are going to execute me, but that doesn't matter anymore. What matters is that you protect our son Minato, that is what is truly important. Don't allow him to fade in this as we did Minato…" Minato's eyes watered as tears streamed down his cheek, knowing the meaning of Kushina's words.
"Kushina, don't let them take you from me!" Minato shouted as he fell to his knees. "Don't accept your fate! We can be together, as a family! Me, you, and Naruto! We can't just allow ourselves to be persuaded to give in so easily…"
"I love you Namikaze Minato, don't you ever forget that," Kushina muttered as she looked down. "But we can't do anything in the path we have taken. All we have done is make a scene, we changed nothing…"
"So this is it then huh?" Minato asked as he looked down with a smile. "I hope that I can at least see my son one more time before I die…"
"What does any of this mean?" Naruto asked his mother sharply, not understanding why Kushina told him this.
"Naruto, we didn't want to leave you," Kushina replied as Naruto looked away, his mind still trying to register all of this. "Before your father was exiled to the World of the Living and I was executed, I sealed away some of my spiritual energy inside of your body, just in case you ever lost control of Kyubiakuma. I had prophesized that you would be one of the strongest of the Uzumaki clan, so I did this as a precautionary measure. Never would I have expected that you would be a partial Hollow at this point with the power of a jinchuriki…"
"I don't care about that anymore…" Naruto murmured as Kushina placed her hand on her son's back.
"Well then, I guess you don't want to hear about how to seal that Hollow personality back up then huh?" Kushina asked with a wink, Naruto looking up at her with a surprised look. "It's time to fight back Naruto."
Will Naruto be able to return to his normal self? Will he be able to control his Bankai? And will Ichigo be able to increase his strength in order to be on par with the upcoming invaders!
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