Well here is chapter 21, I'm a bit tired and hungry since some pretzels and yogurt didn't fill me up quite. But I will try and make this fight as good as I possibly can!
The hour before the fight was the most painful thing for Naruto, it seemed like the boy said it subconsciously. Now with every shinigami talking about the Naruto Byakuya fight it got Naruto really uneasy. He spent the hour in his room and Yoroichi leaped up from the window and tapped a paw on the glass. Naruto opened it then looked to see Sakura standing a bit behind Yoroichi.
"May we come in?" Yoroichi asked as Naruto nodded and Yoroichi leaped onto the ground beside Naruto's bed and Sakura worked her way into the window.
"I heard about the upcoming fight with you and Byakuya." Sakura said to try and start a conversation
Naruto looked off into the distance and grunted.
"Seems like the nerves have gotten to you." Yoroichi said leaping onto his shoulder.
"Ya…I don't think I'm ready to fight a captain, especially Byakuya for that matter…but with making such a scene at the meeting, pulling back will be the cowards way I can't back out now…" Naruto said
"You'll do fine, we'll be rooting for you, and I'm sure Kyōraku and Nanao will be as well." Sakura said and smiled making Naruto slightly grin. She then lightly hugged the blonde haired shinigami which made Yoroichi have to leap back to the floor, she also kissed him on the cheek involuntary which made both of them blush and slide away from each other. Yoroichi laughed which made Naruto and Sakura blush more but get mad at the same time. They continued to talk until it was five minutes before the hour was up. Naruto said goodbye then began to walk, heading towards the intense sparring area in the 6th division that was on the outskirts of the soul society where it was very rocky and it was below the cliff that Ginrei and Minato fought. It was a wide stretch of land between the two cliffs, soon captains and lieutenants and some shinigami including Sakura all looked over at a safe viewing distance for the fight.
Naruto saw that Byakuya was already there and his sword out of his sheathe. Naruto slowly unsheathed his sword and looked straight at Byakuya.
"See this Naruto; we are directly below the very cliff Ginrei; my grandfather and Minato; your wretched father fought on." Byakuya said looking up at the cliff.
"Seeing as history repeats itself this should be a short match." Naruto said and pointed his sword at Byakuya seeing that he was angered at the comment.
The two dashed towards each other and clashed blades, dragging their zanpakuto until they couldn't touch each other anymore. The two spun around and began to lash out at each other; Naruto was on the offense trying to see a way through Byakuya's defense which he was mainly on. He then saw Byakuya attempt to blitz him to make him go off guard; Naruto ducked behind a stalagmite s part of it got chopped off. Naruto back flipped from the position he was in and began to slash at him while he was upside down. Naruto landed on the other side and slashed again seeing all his attacks were blocked. Byakuya's captains haori got a minor scratch on it which didn't do much concerning Byakuya's health.
The two stood still and then Byakuya slowly began to walk around Naruto, slashing his sword at the ground having the dirt fly up into the air. Naruto looked carefully each time the Kuchiki slashed at the ground it tensed him up.
"Your father was a good swordsman, I watched him fight…maybe those gene's were passed onto you, lets step it up a notch…shall we?" Byakuya said as he reiatsu increased which made Naruto almost fall to his knee's from the pressure.
"And he hasn't reached his shikai yet…and his reiatsu is already this high!" Naruto said to himself in utter shock.
Byakuya flash stepped towards Naruto and attempted to slash at him, Naruto blocked but he saw that the middle of his tunic got ripped and blood began to pour out. Naruto was shocked since he knew for a fact that he dodged it, the sword didn't even come near him when it slashed down. Byakuya slashed diagonally and once again although he dodged it completely his tunic got ripped diagonally and blood poured out.
"This doesn't make sense! Unless…if his reiatsu boosted his speed…maybe I need to do the same." Naruto said to himself as he raised his reiatsu and dashed towards Byakuya as they clashed blades. He looked down to see the area where his sternum was getting slashed and Byakuya appeared behind him. Naruto's eyes widened as he felt some darkness creeping up to him.
"What's this…wait I remember this! He's coming out again…!!" Naruto said as the white substance formed around Naruto's right shoulder and half of his face as his eyes turned yellow and the whites of his eyes turned black.
Naruto turned around after his hollow form took place, he then spun around lazingly and slashed diagonally which made blood cover the bottom half of Byakuya's haori, from the back of course. Naruto cackled insanely as he drifted up towards Byakuya and punched him directly in the chin as the Kuchiki slammed into the wall. Naruto had appeared there and attempted to stab him in the stomach, but Byakuya rolled out of the way and flash stepped back.
"You've pushed me this far eh? Scatter, Senbonzakura." Byakuya said as his blade scattered into petals as pink petals swarmed around Naruto.
"Wow…pink petals and your long black hair…no wonder people think you're gay." Naruto said in his distorted voice as he began to dodge each flower petal pillar with no effort whatsoever. Naruto appeared in front of Byakuya and attempted to stab at him but the pillar automatically blocked the attack he then scoffed and said "Figures these fruity petals would do something like that." Naruto then paused and flash stepped away from the three oncoming pillars that were supposed to hit Naruto in the back.
Naruto grinned as he was high in the sky he watched as millions of skinny pink petal pillars came charging at his way, he simply sheathed his sword and cackled once more. Naruto cancelled his hovering as he started to quickly fly towards Byakuya with his right palm open which was hollowfied. Naruto simply spun around dodging each pillar in a very stylish way; a dark crimson orb appeared in Naruto's hand as it then glowed with a blue tint. It was in fact a cero that had suppressed the energy of a cero.
Byakuya blinked as he strengthen his petal pillar defense to his greatest which used up a lot of reiatsu, the cero/rasengan hit and a huge blast was erupted. It shook the cliffs and shattered one of the barriers the shinigami put around the rest of the shinigami spectators, it was a 3 barrier defense that now only had 2 barriers. Naruto's hollow mask cracked and broke as did his hand after the cero/rasengan had ended. He flash stepped back and un-sheathed his sword once more. Byakuya was resting on his knee seeing that the attack made his shikai go away. He was amazed at the power but knew that it was not Naruto's true power. Byakuya stood up and looked directly at Naruto as the two looked at each other for a long moment.
"The reason I had challenged you was because I wanted to test your bankai…and obvious reasons that only you and a selected few would understand. Now I had been waiting patiently and if you don't show it I'll actually have to try…now show me your bankai Naruto." Byakuya said brushing off the dust from his captain's haori.
"Your gonna regret those words Byakuya…" Naruto said as he stretched his arms opposite from each other, holding his hands out, curling his thumb around the hilt with the hand that had his sword in. He lowered his head and prayed for this to work as he reiatsu sky rocketed and a bright red' ish light swarmed the area.
After a few minutes the area exploded as Naruto's reiatsu was so intense that it broke the second barrier on the three barrier protection. Naruto had two chakrams in his hand which had heavy chains wrapped around his arms and up his sleeve all the way up to his shoulder. (The chakrams look like Axels' chakrams) the chakrams were black with a red trim around it and a hint of silver somewhere in there. Naruto had orange shoulder pads that stretched to his sternum which had a flaming like design on them which had some spikes on the shoulder pads which resembled fire.
His reiatsu was now exactly like the demon foxes chakra, it actually was the demon foxes chakra but with reiatsu fused with it. The reiatsu/chakra outlined Naruto's body (Just like in the Naruto Sasuke fight in the real series and all) and showed two chakra/reiatsu tails waving around. Naruto's black cloth headband flew from his forehead as he slowly lifted up his head. The right side of his face from the top section of his eye to the bottom of his cheek, had its skin ripped and was showing fierce red eyes and muscle…sort of (Think of when Naruto turned for tails and how his skin turned into that red stuff that looked cool…I can't describe it but picture it like that and what not.) Byakuya twitched and stepped back his eyes widened at Naruto's new appearance.
"It seems that my reiatsu was so powerful it had to be compressed into two weapons which are chakrams apparently. Get ready to regret you ever made me unleash my bankai Byakuya…" Naruto said in a deep half demonic voice.
Well that's chapter 21, hope you all liked it, now that I've gotten some food in my stomach I was thinking more clearly around the end so I'm glad I didn't screw up the appearance for the bankai…and all _.
