Yup, it's true...just one day after the last one :O Let's hope I'm always as inspired as today...
Forgot to mention it on the last chapter, but that one was betareaded by Cloud Link Zero as usual, as was this one.
Chapter 025 - Talk to Me! The Voice of the Twin Zanpakutō
Minutes later…
"Shihōin-taichō was caught in a surprise attack?" The surprised Seigen questioned the girl in front of him, as soon as she mentioned that fact to him.
"That's right, sir! She's injured, but she's still fighting!" Suì-Fēng continued to explain what was happening, after she was first interrupted by the Captain of the 5th Division. "The twins of your Division, Matsuri and Fujimaru, are heading there as we speak, but…"
"What did you say?" Seigen's eyes widened in shock and his heart immediately became filled with worry.
"The twins…Matsuri and Fujimaru…they're from this Division aren't they?" The confused Suì-Fēng asked, as she didn't knew that Seigen was their adoptive father. He continued to walk around his office, while he tried to think on what to do. "The enemy is great in number. They won't be able to hold out for long. We have to send in reinforcements immediately!"
"I know that, girl! Don't try to teach me on how to do my job!" Seigen aggressively reacted, causing her to shake a bit. The Captain then opened the door and readied his lungs. "Aizen! Get here immediately!"
"What's happening, Suzumani-taichō?" Aizen inquired as he entered in the office, where he saw Seigen pacing back and forth around a girl from the Executive Militia.
"I'm going out for a while, so I'll leave everything concerning the 5th Division on your hands…Has Shiba returned yet?" Seigen questioned, to which Aizen answered by shaking his head. "I'll have to take someone else who can keep up with me then…Oh, and see to it that this girl receives some treatment."
"There's no need! I'll go with you too, sir!" Suì-Fēng tried to convince Seigen, but he quickly shook his head.
"You're wounded. You won't be able to move at our pace like that, much less fight." Seigen told her, which made her lower her head in defeat. "I'll be going, Aizen."
"Understood." Aizen nodded.
"Please…please let me be there in time!" Seigen repeated in his head, while he moved throughout the barracks of the 5th Division at high speed.
"Taichō…" Marenoshin called for his Captain as he stood in front of the injured, protecting them from any Hollows that tried to sneak on them in what looked to be a heroic last stand. Close to them were the bodies of three members of the Executive Militia that didn't survive the battle. And some meters in front of them, Yoruichi barely stood because of the deep cut on her right thigh that she received after pushing Suì-Fēng away from an attack. Her right arm also hanged to the side of her body, due to her shoulder being burnt because of a technique that greatly resembled a Gillian's Cero.
"Looks like I'm the only one left…" Yoruichi stated, as she drew three Anken with her still usable left hand, readying herself to fight dozens of monstrous opponents on her own.
"Eheheheh!" Mad Eater laughed loudly, while he watched the scene on top of some boulders. "The only solution for your predicament would be to run, I suppose. The problem is that these Hollows you see in front of you are a bit too hungry to let you go, wild catwoman."
"Run, you say?" Yoruichi asked, before she tried to straighten herself a bit. That idea only made her chuckle. "I wouldn't be able to take you down if I ran, now would I?"
"Those are brave words coming from somebody who's all by herself." Mad Eater remarked, while the Hollow army in front of him drooled in anticipation. "Let us start by wiping that smile off your face! Eheheheh!"
"If I retreat now, not only my men but all the citizens in the surrounding towns would be left unprotected." Yoruichi reminded herself, as she watched the Hollow advance in her direction. She jumped over the first three and twirled in midair, before accurately launching the Anken in their direction. The three blades pierced through the creatures' masks, killing them. The Hakuda master landed on her good leg, to prevent her weight from causing more pain on the injured one, and jumped once more, this time right towards the new batch of Hollows. The airborne Yoruichi started to spin around like a wheel, hitting the creatures with hard heel kicks that knocked them away. However, as her feet touched the ground again, the Hollow that leaded the group attacked from behind, punching a hole through the Shihōin Clan leader. "G-Ggaah!"
"What's wrong? Is that all a Captain can do? How disap…huh?" Mad Eater quickly backed away as Yoruichi's image dispersed into many sheets of paper. The real one appeared in the sky, right above Mad Eater, and launched a new trio of Anken. The ancient Hollow thrust his head forward and started to spin it like a wheel, using his mask like a shield that was resistant enough to block the small dark blades. After Mad Eater's head stopped moving, he paralyzed in fear as he felt his Shinigami opponent right behind him. Before Yoruichi could attack him however, a new pair of Hollows tried to reach her, forcing her to back away.
"Tsk, fighting like this is being much harder than I anticipated…" Yoruichi silently admitted, before punching through a Hollow's mask, from one side to the other. She then bit her lower lip as she forced herself to kneel on her injured right leg to perform her next move. With a circular leg sweep, Yoruichi took the other Hollow's legs from under his body, before driving her left elbow into his mask, violently pressing his head against the floor. Two more Hollows advanced, each of them firing his characteristic blast of energy. The Corps Commander of the Onmitsukidō rolled forward to avoid the blasts, with each hitting and killing the Hollow opposite to the one that fired it. As soon as Yoruichi stood, she performed a roundhouse kick to dispose of one more enemy. Unfortunately for the Captain of the 2nd Division, the weight on her injured leg was too much for her to handle and she ended up falling to the ground. Mad Eater tried to capitalize on that and tried to stab her from above with his hardened hair strands, but Yoruichi was able to roll backwards and avoid the attack. "Hurry up, Suì-Fēng…
"Tired, Shinigami?" Mad Eater laughed once more. To his surprise, Yoruichi did so as well.
"Ahahahah…You're really trying to get yourself killed, aren't you?" She asked to the Hollow, who didn't understand the meaning of her words. The leader of the Stealth Forces raised an Anken horizontally in front of her body, before generating an orb of yellow energy in front of it. "Ye Lord! Mask of Bone and Blood, All Creation, Ye Who Bears the Name of Man!"
"A Kidō spell?" The surprised Hollow shouted, as he saw the orb expand into a thin arc of energy, parallel to the Anken.
"Nihility and Infinity, the Rainbow Crossing the Sky, the Cloud Unleashing the Thunder! Hadō #32: Ōkasen!" Yoruichi finished the incantation and fired the yellow energy outward as a horizontal blast, in a wide arc that Mad Eater avoided by jumping. The Hollow knew what that meant, but didn't seemed concerned about that a single bit. The yellow energy advanced and consumed the Hollows that were behind him and too close to avoid the surprise attack. "Amazing! You somehow manage to gather the Hollows under you control, but then you sacrifice them just like that…"
"Don't talk about what you don't know, woman!" Mad Eater furiously interrupted her, causing her to raise an eyebrow. The Hollow carefully and quickly looked over his shoulder and counted the casualties, before looking back to his enemy. "It was a mistake to underestimate a Captain, even if injured. Killing twelve of us with a level 30 Kidō spell is quite something…"
"Oh my, thank you!" The woman mockingly expressed her gratitude for the compliment. "I'm far from being a Kidō master like Kisuke or Unohana, but I still know a thing or two."
"Eheheh, I know a thing or two as well, like how to put you in a dangerous situation…" Mad Eater confidently laughed again, which made Yoruichi frown in worry. The Hollow then turned his back on her and faced the dozens of Hollows that still stood behind him. "Kill them! Feed on them! Don't let any of them escape! And for those who feel that aren't strong enough to kill the woman…" Mad Eater stopped and then looked over his shoulder, not to Yoruichi, but to the group of injured men that Marenoshin was protecting. "Start with the weaker ones!"
"What?" Both Yoruichi and Marenoshin shouted at the same time. The Hollows quickly divided themselves into two groups, a small one composed of gluttonous Hollows that wished to feed on the strongest soul and other much larger, composed of those who just wished to eat as fast as possible.
"Wait!" Two other voices shouted from behind the Hollows. Matsuri and Fujimaru landed on the battlefield, following their last Shunpo jump. While the brother drew his Zanpakutō and readied himself to fight the Hollows, the sister took a step forward to address the Onmitsukidō leader. "Are you Yoruichi Shihōin? Matsuri and Fujimaru Kudō of the 5th Division, here to back you up, ma'am!"
"Suzunami's kids?" The surprised Yoruichi thought.
"Hey, sis…" Fujimaru called for his sister's attention. As she looked over her shoulder, she saw that he had an upset look on his face. "How come you always introduce yourself first?"
"What?" Matsuri's eyes widened in disbelief. She couldn't believe he was sulking because of that. Her temper quickly flared up and she ended up grabbing him by the collar of his kosode. "Hey, Fujimaru! We're about to get into battle! Do you really think this is the time to discuss that?"
"Well, on the interest of fairness…" Fujimaru tried to argue, but Matsuri smacked him for his insolence.
"In the interest of fairness, let's stop this and help Shihōin-taichō fight the Hollows. Letting her battle them all by herself is what isn't fair." Matsuri told him, before she turned towards the Hollows with a fierce look on her face. "So shut up and get your ass up!"
"Hey, sis…" Fujimaru called for his sister again. She slowly looked over her shoulder, revealing her right eyebrow which was twitching in slow-motion. Fujimaru still seemed upset. "How come you always tell me to get up after you knock me down?"
"Do you really thing this is the time to argue?" Matsuri countered, nearly in the same way as before. On the other side of the battlefield, a drop of sweat slowly slided down the back of Marenoshin's head.
"If this is our backup…" He suddenly interrupted himself by slamming his own right palm into his face, slowly bringing it down afterwards. "…we're so screwed!"
"Well well, who do we have here?" The argument of the twins was suddenly interrupted by Mad Eater's deep and rough voice. "If it isn't the little twins! It looks like I'll have quite a catch today! Eheheheh!"
"Him again?" Fujimaru questioned, more to himself than to anyone else. "We won't be your catch!"
"Have you forgotten about our last meeting?" Mad Eater inquired, with his voice being a bit more high-pitched than usual. Fujimaru instinctively brought his hand to his shoulder and Matsuri did the same to hold her belly. "What can two little fledglings like you hope to do on your own?"
"We know we still have a lot to learn, but…" Matsuri then drew her Zanpakutō and pointed it in the direction of the Hollow crowd. "...that doesn't mean we can't accomplish anything!"
"The only thing you can accomplish is helping me fill my stomach!" Mad Eater countered.
"Don't be so sure about that!" Yoruichi interjected herself in the middle of the conversation, getting everyone's attention. "There are many things three of us can do together!"
"The three of us?" Fujimaru quickly pondered on what he had just heard, while he finally focused his eyes on the Corps Commander of the Onmitsukidō. Those same eyes widened greatly, as only now did Fujimaru realize how Yoruichi looked like. "She's gorge…by the three of us, did she meant…?"
"PERVERT!" Matsuri angrily punched her brother, causing even the Hollows to sweatdrop.
"Why can't you just accept your defeat gracefully, woman?" Mad Eater demanded an answer from Yoruichi.
"Because that honor will belong to you!" Yoruichi answered, before turning in the direction of the siblings. "Hey, Kudōs! Have faith in yourselves! Find your strength within!"
"H-Hai!" The twins clumsily answered, from the other side of the battlefield.
"Grrrr…That's it!" Mad Eater finally had enough of being mocked by an injured woman. He let out a furious roar, that made all the Hollows advance towards their respective targets. That wasn't the only thing it caused however. Small portals of interdimensional matter started to open everywhere in the battlefield, letting out a Hollow from each one. "KILL THEM ALL!"
"What the-?" To Fujimaru's surprise, the first Hollow he faced, one slightly smaller than him, was able to block his sword slash with just his arm. The creature then forced Fujimaru back, with a couple of claw strikes that Fujimaru had some difficulty to block. "So tough!"
"I know what you two can do, my little twin appetizers…" Mad Eater chuckled, as he watched Fujimaru finally being able to get rid of his first opponent and then facing his two next ones. "And you have no hope of winning against this army I personally assembled! Eheh…EHEHEHEH!"
"This isn't working!" Matsuri said to her brother, as soon as their backs touched. "We need some kind of plan!"
"I know, sis! But…" Fujimaru stopped talking, as he was forced to raise his sword horizontally above his head, to block an incoming new attack. He parried the Hollow's hand and then stabbed him through his abdominal region. "I can't think of one right now!"
"Where is your faith?"
"Huh?" The twins looked in every direction, as they tried to find the source of the voice they had just heard. The distraction almost cost them, as three new Hollows aimed at them.
"If only you knew…"
"Again?" Matsuri thought, before finishing the fat Hollow that tried to swallow her. "Who's there? Where are you?"
"Hadō #33: Sōkatsui!" Fujimaru blasted the pair of serpentine Hollows that targeted him with a burst of blue flames. It didn't take much for the twins to have their backs against eachother once again. "You heard it, too?"
"Hyaaah!" Yoruichi shouted, as she decapitated her opponent with a powerful knife-edge chop. While she was glad to have some help, Yoruichi knew that she would now have to be more careful, since now she had to take care of the twins as well. Therefore, it wasn't at all unnatural that she searched them with their eyes immediately after finishing each of her opponents. And because of that, she also realized the weird way they were acting. "What's going on with those two?"
"Break, Kōburitsuchi!" Marenoshin shouted, causing his Zanpakutō to glow and lose its katana shape, being replaced by a five-flanged mace. The head and handle of the weapon were golden, while the shaft was black. Marenoshin swung the club-like weapon, aiming it towards the head of the closest Hollow, which was easily crushed by the weight of Kōburitsuchi. Some more swings followed and, in a few seconds, Marenoshin had defeated half a dozen more Hollows.
"Can you handle things here, Marenoshin?" Yoruichi shouted to her Vice-Captain, before using her elbow to break the mask of a Hollow that tried to attack her from behind.
"Of course I can! Watch me, taichō! Jōshōdogeki!" The Corps Commander of Patrol Corps yelled, before smashing the ground with his mace. The immensely strong impact made large amounts of rock to rise from the ground, striking pretty much every Hollow that was near him. "And that's why no one should mess with the great MARENOSHIN-KAZUSANOSUKE-KIRISHIKAEMON-ŌMAEADA-SAMAAAAA!"
"Aaargh!" Fujimaru shouted in pain, as he was sent flying by a Hollow's punch. Luckily to him, Matsuri intercepted and grabbed him, preventing him from being swallowed by a Hollow with a huge mouth that was waiting for him.
"Let's pull back, Fujimaru!" Matsuri suggested, as she fired a Shakkahō spell into the mouth of that last Hollow. The creature swallowed the sphere of red flames, which exploded and destroyed him from the inside. "We can't die here in vain!"
"Do you not believe?"
"There's that voice again!" The twins shouted at the same time, before jumping away from each other to avoid the Hollow that attacked them from above. The winged Hollow was purple-colored and had a shape between that of a bird and a bat. Probably the best way to describe it was pterodactyl-like. The Hollow was, as called by Mad Eater earlier, known as Screamer. Fujimaru and Matsuri both landed in a favorable position, so they were immediately able to dart towards the creature.
"You two are not fighting alone." The voice sounded in their minds again, causing them to lose their focus for a moment. That gave enough time for Screamer to start spinning around like a top, releasing supersonic waves that expanded in a circle, with him as the central point. The twins screamed and held their heads in pain, as the high-pitched sound echoed in their ears. "Can you not feel my presence?"
"N-Now's not… the time…" Fujimaru complained, between all the pain and discomfort he was feeling. "This must be…"
"This voice…is it our Zanpakutō?" Matsuri thought, before raising the weapon in front of her face. Nothing seemed to be happening with it. "Isn't it? No…it has to be!"
"Damn it! I have to get rid of this noise before the other Hollows attack us!" Fujimaru realized what he had to do a bit too late, as a minotaur-like Hollow appeared behind him and tried to skewer the Shinigami with his horns. Out of instinct more than anything, Fujimaru pointed two fingers towards the creature and shouted. "Bakudō #1: Sai!" The Hollow's claws were forced to move behind his back while he was charging, causing him to lose his balance, stumble and fall forward. Fujimaru quickly used that chance to cut his throat and kill him. While he painfully watched that Hollow dissolve into dust, Fujimaru realized how he could stop Screamer's awful technique. He turned towards the Hollow and pointed the same two fingers in his direction. "Bakudō #1: Sai!"
"Nice job, Fujimaru!" Matsuri shouted to compliment her brother. While the Hollow didn't have hands or claws, he had wings. Those wings were pulled back by Fujimaru's spiritual pressure, causing the Hollow to stop spinning and to fall into the ground. Matsuri rushed towards him as fast as she could and slashed him in two with her Zanpakutō. As soon as the screeching Hollow started to dissolve, Matsuri looked back to her katana.
"Why are we hearing the same voice? Aren't Zanpakutō unique to each Shinigami?" Fujimaru questioned as he quickly put his back against his sister's. From the place he was in, he saw a Hollow curl into a sphere and strike Yoruichi in the gut, sending her flying. "Yoruichi-sama!"
"Don't worry about me!" She shouted, as she quickly got up. As the curled Hollow came back, she delivered a downward chop that was powerful enough to cut him in two. "Just focus on the enemy in front of you!"
"R-Right!" The boy answered, before focusing back on the evil beings that surrounded them.
"What are you afraid of?" The voice ringed in their ears once more. "Answer me. Is there any need to fear? Discard that which you do not need, and find that which is necessary. You who hear my voice! Put your minds together and look forward!"
"Put your minds together and look forward?" Fujimaru repeated the words in a questioning way, while he fended off one more Hollow. "What does that mean? How are we supposed to do that?"
"Start will the latter! Look!" Matsuri told him, as she pointed to the sky.
"What?" Fujimaru shouted in shock, as even more portals opened around them, bringing more Hollows into the battlefield as if the ones that were still in it weren't enough. "More?"
"I'm very cautious, you see? Eheheh!" Mad Eater revealed that he was the responsible for the continuous arrival of Hollows.
"Being cautious is a good thing…" Someone else agreed with Mad Eater's tactics, surprising the Hollow and all the Shinigami. As they stared in the voice's direction, they all saw Seigen Suzunami walking in their direction, while he pulled his Zanpakutō from its sheath. Following him closely was another member of the 5th Division, the Suzumushi holder, Kaname Tōsen.
"Taichō!" The twins shouted at the same time, in a way that greatly resembled Marenoshin's calls for Yoruichi.
"Suzumushi Nishiki: Benihikō!" Kaname's Zanpakutō started to vibrate, while he swung it around him in a semi-circle. Hundreds of blades appeared out of nowhere, following the trail of the sword. A new swing of Suzumushi made those blades advance, striking down the Hollows that surrounded the twins.
"Good for you for hanging in there for so long!" Seigen complimented his children, before cutting through three Hollows in a very fast motion.
"I wish we could have done more, but we're still too weak!" Fujimaru couldn't look to his Captain, as he felt ashamed because of his weaknesses.
"Don't lament lack of power, Fujimaru." Seigen told him. "Each individual's strength is limited and that strength is nothing compared to the combined strength of trusted allies."
"That's right." Yoruichi agreed with the Captain of the 5th Division, while she finally landed by their side. "What we're trying to defend here is too big for one person alone. And I don't mean that the strong should use the weak as a shield. The strong must be the shield for the weak, protecting them and giving them time to grow. That is what separates us Shinigami from Hollows."
"Yoruichi-sama…" Both twins mumbled, as they stared in awe to her.
Flashback
"Rescue?" The surprised twins asked in unison.
"I'm Suì-Fēng of the Executive Militia, first branch of the Onmitsukidō, under the direct control of its Chief Commander." The girl hurriedly introduced herself. "While our unit was on a patrol mission, we met with a surprise Hollow attack. Our unit was surrounded and at this moment Yoruichi-sama is still trying to hold them off."
"Yoruichi-sama?" Fujimaru questioned her, since he sensed her sorrow as she said that name.
"Our Chief Commander…" Suì-Fēng stared down sadly. "Due to my shameful lack of experience, I'm afraid Yoruichi-sama was injured trying to shield me…Please help her!"
End of Flashback
"I guess I can understand now why Suì-Fēng felt so bad about leaving Yoruichi-sama behind…" Fujimaru thought with a smile, while he raised his sword with new found confidence. As he stared to his sister, she nodded to him, letting him know she was feeling the same as him.
"What long-winded speeches you have." Mad Eater suddenly landed near them, causing the ground to shake a bit. "Think you have all the time in the world, do you?"
"Oh, but we do!" Seigen answered, before smirking to Yoruichi. "Think you can handle a little run, Shihōin-taichō?"
"I guess I'll have to! I have a title to defend after all!" Yoruichi answered, referring to her Goddess of Flash moniker. Both Captains disappeared out of sight and, shortly after, the many Hollows started to fall one by one and at a fast pace. As they reappeared, all the Hollows had been killed, with the exception of Mad Eater.
"Im-Impossible!" Mad Eater mumbled. Before he could have any other reaction, Fujimaru appeared right in front of him, with his right palm pointed in the direction of the Hollow's face.
"Hadō #33: Sōkatsui!" The boy unleashed the torrent of blue flames that quickly advanced in Mad Eater's direction.
"Gonzui!" Mad Eater inhaled deeply, pulling the flames made of Fujimaru's spiritual power into his mouth, before swallowing them. As he digested the flames, Matsuri made use of Shunpo, in a much faster away than anyone expected her to do. Appearing by the Hollow's side, she didn't give him any time to react. The sword nailed his left arm, near the shoulder area, with Matsuri being able to draw blood from it. "Ggrraagh!"
"That's for what you did to my brother's arm!" Matsuri claimed, before slashing again. This time the Hollow was able to back away in time but, while he was in midair, he saw Fujimaru appearing near him with two fingers pointed in his direction.
"Hadō #4: Byakurai!" The beam of lighting only grazed the Hollow, but was able to make a deep enough gash on his abdominal region to draw blood as well. "And that's for what you did to my sister's belly!"
"Their Spiritual Pressure suddenly had a peak! For that girl to even be able to cut me with that blunt stick of hers…This is outrageous!" The furious Mad Eater thought, while he pondered his options. "Time for my retreat... Enjoy your little short-lived victory while you can!"
"You're running away?" Fujimaru furiously shouted.
"Oh, don't you worry…" Mad Eater chuckled, while he made use of his High-Speed Regeneration to heal his wounds. "Arturo will take care of you all soon enough!"
"Arturo?" The confused twins asked in unison. The other Shinigami also didn't seem to be understanding the meaning of that name.
"Who is Arturo?" Seigen eventually questioned.
"An Arrancar!" Mad Eater shouted in a hysterical way. "He will destroy all of you Shinigami! That I can guarantee! Eheheheh!"
"Hey, come back here!" Matsuri shouted, as she ran towards the portal that was sucking Mad Eater back to Hueco Mundo. Unfortunately, she was too late. "Damn it! He ran away again!"
"Let it be." Seigen told her, while he laid a hand on her shoulder. She looked to him and saw him pointing to the people behind them. Yoruichi let out a sigh, before letting herself fall on her bottom. Marenoshin, who was covered in sweat, finally had the chance to revert his Zanpakutō back to its sealed state and rest a bit. Behind him, some of the Executive Militia members finally started to stand up and help the others who were in bigger difficulties. The ones in best condition went on to pick the corpses of the three comrades that had died in battle. "There's much to deal with here for us to go out in a hunting game."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Matsuri agreed with her adoptive father, while she walked back in the group's direction by his side.
"I've got to hand it to the 5th Division. You got reinforcements here faster than I could've hoped for." Yoruichi complimented her fellow Captain.
"You have your fleet-footed subordinate to thank for that." Seigen answered with a smile.
"Before I praise Suì-Fēng, I would like to thank your two subordinates." Yoruichi said, before turning her head in their direction, revealing a huge grin to them. "Fujimaru and Matsuri Kudō, you did well! Thank you!"
"P-Please! No need to thank us!" Fujimaru quickly answered, causing Yoruichi to stare at him in a weird way that didn't pass unnoticed to the siblings. Suddenly, she winked to Fujimaru, causing him to blush tremendously. "W-What…was that, Yoruichi-sama?"
"Damn it, Fujimaru!" Matsuri quickly smacked him in the back of his head. "Can't you realize she's making fun of you? Teasing! It's called teasing! How can you be so gullible with women?"
"AHAHAHAH!" Yoruichi started to roll on the floor laughing, in her loud and most characteristic way, causing Seigen and Kaname to sweatdrop. She only stopped when she felt a bit of pain in her right arm. "You're so easy! You're just like…"
"Yoruichi-sama!" Suì-Fēng appeared out of nowhere and knelt by the side of her superior. "Oh my! You're hurt! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"
"What are you doing here, Suì-Fēng?" Yoruichi questioned her.
"Yeah, you were injured after…" Fujimaru tried to speak, but he was quickly cut off.
"I am a guard! Standing at your side is my duty, Yoruichi-sama!" She promptly answered to Yoruichi's question, completely ignoring everyone else. "Now please come with me for some treatment."
"Never mind that now. More importantly, I'd like to thank you." Yoruichi told her, before patting her in the head. "You saved me with your quick action.,,"
"Please! The last thing I deserve is gratitude! Because of my deplorable lack of skill, I put you in danger!" Suì-Fēng interrupted her idol, before shifting her position slightly and hanging her head. "Please punish me, Yoruichi-sama."
"Punish you? Ahahah!" Suì-Fēng's reaction made Yoruichi laugh once again. "I'm not going to punish you, silly thing!"
"Thank you, Suì-Fēng!" Fujimaru tried to speak to the girl once again. "We couldn't have won without the backup you sent so quickly."
"What did you just say?" Suì-Fēng finally looked towards him, but the look in her eyes was far from being friendly. "I can't let that pass!"
"Huh?" Everyone's eyes widened as Suì-Fēng quickly stood and aggressively grabbed Fujimaru by the collar of his kosode.
"If Yoruichi-sama hadn't been injured because of me, she could have taken care of those Hollows in an instant!" She claimed.
"Oh boy, here we go again…" Marenoshin groaned, as he knew very well what was about to happen.
"Don't you know of Yoruichi-sama's greatness?" Suì-Fēng shouted, as she continuously shook him by his collar. That made everyone else sweatdrop. The shocked Matsuri nodded in appreciation. Seeing someone else besides her do that to her brother felt like poetry in motion. "She can run faster than the wind! She can slip from shadow to shadow in the blink of an eye! She's so fast that they call her the Goddest of Flash! Her beauty and strength are unsurpassed!"
"Come on now, Suì-Fēng! We're supposed to be in an undercover operation." Yoruichi reminded her personal guard. "Aren't you giving a little too much away?"
"Oh!" She suddenly released Fujimaru and her face turned into a crimson red. The reaction made Yoruichi laugh once more and, shortly after, everyone was laughing. Everyone except Suì-Fēng, who was the one being laughed at, and Fujimaru who laid on the ground with his eyes whirling and foaming from the mouth.
"Women…" He mumbled incoherently. "Most…dangerous…being…ever…"
Author's Note: "Hadō #32: Ōkasen"s incantation is of my creation. That spell's true incantation was never revealed by Kubo...Also entirely of my creation is Marenoshin Ōmaeda's Shikai: Kōburitsuchi (鋼頭槌, meaning Steel Head Hammer) and its technique Jōshōdogeki (上昇土撃, meaning Rising Earth Strike). I'll try to draw it someday and post it on DeviantArt