Ichigo and Rukia managed to get free thanks to Orihime, Renji and Uryū. Meanwhile outside Sanjin was left to stand alone against Tōshirō and Kenpachi. Sanjin was at 3700LP with him having Tenken at 2700atk points. Kenpachi, at 500LP, had his Savage Blade Rang at 1900atk points and his Berserk Savage Warrior at 3100atk points. Tōshirō with 3000LP had Hyōrinmaru at 2900atk points.

"It's my move now." Tōshirō said. "First I activate my spell Ice Dragon Rage. If I have a dragon in my graveyard that is a water attribute than you take damage that equals its attack points. I choose to use Hail Dragon." A snow storm rolled in and Sanjin was brought to 2200LP.

"Not bad. If you take out Tenken then I'll finish him off." Kenpachi said.

"Right." Tōshirō said.

"We failed Kanme. Kaname?" Sanjin said, but Kaname was gone.

"Wait. Where did Kaname go?" Tōshirō said. "Something is wrong."

…

Inside

Ichigo, Renji, and Uryū decided to stay and fight as the three of them got ready to face Byakura Kuchiki together.

"Shouldn't we do something to help?" Gin said.

"I don't there's any need. This is Byakura we're talking about." Aizen said.

"Ichigo please you've got to quit. Even if you and the others work together my brother is too strong." Rukia said.

"Hey Orihime." Ichigo said.

"Yes?" Orihime said.

"Make sure Rukia stays out of the way. Don't let go of her." Ichigo said and stared at Byakura. "Alright Byakura. The three of us are ready if you are."

"I'll still defeat you even if you have some help boy." Byakura said.

"What I don't understand is why you would want to do this to Rukia. You're her older brother. Brothers are suppose to protect their younger brothers and sisters." Ichigo said.

"I'll explain myself, but only if you actually do manage to beat me." Byakura said.

"Hey are we all done chatting?" Renji said.

"Renji's right. Let's just do this already." Uryū said adjusting his glasses.

"Yes. Let's just do this." Byakura said. All four of them activate their duel disks as they got themselves ready.

"Let's duel!" All four of them said.

"Because you three are working together all three of you will share 4000LP and I'll have 4000LP myself." Byakura said. "Also you three will share one field, but fill free to use each other's cards."

"How mighty kind of you." Ichigo said.

"It's the least I can do to try and make this a fair duel because I'll make sure this is the last duel any of you have and this will be over much quicker." Byakura said. "I'll go first. First I activate the Sakura Bloom spell card. This gives me two Sakura Tree tokens." Two cherry blossom trees came up with 0def points. "I unite both my level four fire attribute tree tokens to unite summon Senbonzakura." His warrior came up in a flock of petals with him having 3000atk points. "I will end my turn there."

"Something isn't right." Ichigo said. "I dueled him before and he was never just simple like that."

"What do you know about that monster?" Uryū said.

"Not much. I don't even know what it's special ability is." Ichigo said.

"That's not good for us." Renji said.

"Doesn't matter. We'll still take him down. It's my move now." Ichigo said. "First I summon my Soul Seizer in attack mode." His seizer came up on the field with 1500atk points. "Now I use Twice The Element spell. This allows me to summon a monster that is the same attribute as one I have on the field. I summon Soul Siege." His warrior came up with 1400atk points. "Now I unite both my level four dark attribute Soul Siege and Soul Seizer to unite summon Zangetsu." His Zangetsu came up on the field with 2500atk points.

"I remember that pitiful monster from the last time we dueled." Byakura said.

"I don't think you got the full memo of Zangetsu so why don't I show you." Ichigo said. "I use Zangetsu's ability. By using one unite unit he gains half the attack points of a monster that was used to summon him. Oh and your monster loses that amount. I choose Soul Siege." Zangetsu slashed his unit as he went to 3200atk points and Senbonzakura dropped to 2300. "Now Zangetsu attack with Piercing Heaven." Zangetsu went to attack, but Senbonzakura was able to block it. "What?"

"It's Senbonzakura's ability. I didn't use it last time because you were not worthy to see it, but now you have become a nuisance that must be terminated." Byakura said. "By using one unite unit Senbonzakura avoids destruction and you take all the damage." One unite went into its sword and cherry petals came out from its sword and pushed Zangetsu back and Ichigo got hit as he was brought to 3100LP.

"So if we attack we'll be the ones taking damage." Uryū said.

"Yeah, but he can only use that ability one other time." Renji said.

"I'll just place one face down and end my turn." Ichigo said as their monsters' points return to normal.

"It's my move." Byakura said. "You might think your safe that I can only use Senbonzakura's one other time, but you would be wrong. I activate Sakura Sword Dome." The entire field had glowing pink swords form around them in a dome shape.

"What is this? A field spell?" Ichigo said.

"This is no field spell. It's a card that only works for two monsters and Senbonzakura is one of them." Byakura said. "Once a turn it allows him to gain one unite unit." One of the swords came down and turned into a unit circling around Senbonzakura. "Now Senbonzakura attack with Scattering Petal Blade."

"Hold it. If I send my Arrow Junior to the graveyard I can keep Ichigo's monster from being destroyed." Uryū said. Senbonzakura created many cherry blossoms, but Zangetsu was able to block it. However their life points dropped to 2600.

"Thanks Uryū." Ichigo said.

"We may have had our differences, but the fact is we're on the same side now. We're going to have to work together to beat him." Uryū said.

"Even if you did it still won't save you. I place a face down and end my turn." Byakura said.

"Mind if I take it away?" Renji said.

"Be my guess." Uryū said.

"Then here I go. First I summon my Burning Gorilla in attack mode." Renji said. His gorilla came up with 1800atk points. "I use the spell Fire Summoning. This allows me to summon another fire monster and I summon Ember Monkey." His monkey came on the field with 1000atk points. "Now I unite my level four Burning Gorilla with level three Ember Monkey to unite summon Zabimaru." Zabimaru came up with 2400atk points. "Ichigo I'm going to need Zangetsu's unite unit."

"What? I need that." Ichigo said.

"I need it more." Renji said. "I activate the spell Unite Absorption. This takes all unite units and gives them to Zabimaru as I'll be using it for his ability to gain 500atk points for each one." Zabimaru's snake tail ate all unite units and his points went to 4900.

"Excellent. Without any unite units Senbonzakura can't use its ability." Uryū said.

"I'll finish this right now. Zabimaru attack his Senbonzakura with Baboon Snake Fury." Renji said.

"A smart tactic taking away Senbonzakura's unite units, but did you think I would not take precautions." Byakura said. "I activate my trap Scattering Surround. This will make our monsters have similar attack points and neither one will be destroyed." Senbonzakura's points went to 4900 and blocked Senbonzakura.

"So much for that plan. I'll end my turn for now." Renji said and their monsters points returned to normal.

"It's my turn again." Byakura said. "Since it's my turn again a unite unit comes to Senbonzakura." Another sword came down and became another unit. "Now I use the spell known as Sphere Of Petals." More petals came around and formed a sphere around their entire field.

"What is it with you and all these flower petals?" Ichigo said.

"Senbonzakura's name means a thousand petals. He's the only swordsman that controls blades that take the form of these petals because they reflect off the light." Byakura said. "Now as I was saying is that the monster I attack will be chosen randomly, but the damage will be double. Now Senbonzakura attack with Scattering Petal Blade." Senbonzakura created more petals and the one revealed getting attack was Zabimaru. He was attack and destroyed Zabimaru as their points dropped to 1400.

"No Zabimaru." Renji said.

"Don't worry Renji. I activate my trap, Spirit Resurrect." Ichigo said. "When a monster is destroyed and our points are less than 2000 we can bring Zabimaru back." Zabimaru rose back to the field.

"Thanks Ichigo." Renji said.

"You might be covering each other, but as I said. The three of you working together can't beat me." Byakura said.

"We'll see about that because it's my turn now." Uryū said.

To Be Continued….