Chapter 26:

Blood slowly dripped down, constantly falling. Naruto growled. 'What the hell is wrong with this place?'

Hisoka then leapt at him, slamming him down with his blade, Naruto screaming as he fell down through the Negacion realm, not slowing down. He yelled, then, flashed back to where Hisoka was, aiming a well-placed spinning kick to Hisoka's face.

He leaned back, then punched at Naruto's chest, just as he spun to the side, then swung his knuckle blades, yelling, "Akuma Issei!"

A powerful explosion shoved Hisoka back, albeit unharmed, and Hisoka then leapt back into the fray, backhand-slapping Naruto a football field away.

Naruto growled. "Damn...shouldn't have gotten that cut so early..." he muttered, before leaping forwards. "Akuma Issei!" he roared, sending another blast of energy forwards, slamming into Hisoka, who just pushed the wave of reishi aside with his fist, before dashing fowards and horizontally slicing at Naruto, who flipped back, then punched at Hisoka, his knuckle blades bouncing off of Hisoka, barely touching him.

Grinning, Hisoka then slashed vertically, and Naruto howled, as the zanpakuto sliced into his shoulder. Hisoka then grabbed Naruto's head with his free hand, and held up one finger on the hand holding his zanpakuto. "Cero!"

A grey light burst into existance, then shrunk, then grew, then shrunk, then grew, slowly growing darker and darker, before Hisoka pointed it at Naruto.

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"I'll always believe in you."

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"NO!" Naruto yelled, suddenly bursting with vitality, as he viciously flensed Hisoka's torso with a massive, Reiatsu covered blow.

He screamed, as Hisoka flew back in a shower of blood, startled. 'He just focused every drop of his spirit pressure into that blade," Hisoka thought, as his chest very slowly started to stitch itself together. 'Impressive...if that had hit my neck, I would be dead.'

Naruto panted, his skin steaming as his Reiatsu started building up again, and as his Bankai flickered, then turned into his Shikai.

Hisoka grinned. "Perfect...now...lets see it."

Naruto swallowed, pale as a ghost.

"No..." he whispered.

"I'm your only hope, Naruto!" Hollow Naruto teased.

Naruto violently shook his head, but then, choked, coughing up blood. 'Shit...'

"My turn."

The air exploded with reiatsu, as Naruto rose, his wounds cauterizing themselves just as Hisoka finished healing.

Then, white, opaque tears poured from Naruto's eyes yet again, forming a mask. It was white, with a black slash for a smile, and two slits for his black, hollow eyes. They were outlined in red, and two thick black lines, slowly starting to taper near the bottom, intersected them.

Hisoka cracked his neck. 'Can't even handle his own hollow...' he darkly thought.

Then, he instantly appeared in front of Naruto, his sword tucked behind Naruto's neck. "Time to die-"

Then, the Hollow Naruto shoved his right fist through Hisoka's chest.

He blinked. 'What?'

Then, he looked into Naruto's eyes. He gasped.

They weren't hollow, yellow and black eyes.

They were vivid, clear, blue and white.

Then, they flickered black for a moment, and Naruto shuddered, shivering as his reiatsu fluctuated downwards, then back up again.

"STOP FUCKING RESISTING!" Hollow Naruto screamed from Naruto's mouth.

Naruto shook his head.

"No..."

"I don't need you!" he yelled, withdrawing his fist, and backhanding Hisoka back, cracking the thin line of bone on his jaw.

Hisoka yelled violently, steadying himself, and grabbing some blood. "Gran Rey Cero!"

Naruto then ripped off the mask, throwing it at Hisoka.

The white Cero halted, then broke through, then stopped inches in front of Naruto.

Hisoka panted, falling to his knees. "Need to recover...he'll likely also need to-"

Then, he leapt back painfully, as Naruto sliced at him with his Bankai, which he had just re-activated.

Hisoka snarled. "Little shit...just five more seconds..."

Five.

Naruto leapt at Hisoka, angrily charging up Reishi.

Four.

"Akuma Issei!"

Three.

Hisoka growled, the attack just inches from his face.

Two.

The attack suddenly vanished as it hit him, not even moving him. Hisoka blinked. 'What?"

One.

Naruto screamed, his eyes suddenly flooding with white tears of Hollowfication, as he seized violently in a maddening dance.

Hisoka stood up, transfixed. 'That hollow of his...'

"I'm not done yet!" Hollow Naruto screamed, lunging at Hisoka again. Hisoka grimaced, then leapt back, slashing with his sword at Hollow Naruto.

Barehanded, Naruto caught it, then clenched his fist, shattering the blade.

Hisoka barely had time to breathe in before Hollow Naruto then punched him so hard the air pressure created an explosion.

Hisoka screamed, his ribs shattering. "Shit!"

He flipped back, then threw aside his sword, before rushing back at Hollow Naruto, charging up a cero. As Hollow Naruto slashed, Hisoka disappeared in a Sonido.

Hollow Naruto looked around, then, Hisoka appeared in his blind spot.

"Farewell..." he muttered.

Then, a grey light engulfed Naruto completely.

Hisoka grinned, leaping back, just as the light vanished, to reveal Hollow Naruto, slightly burnt, with his mask cracked on the edges. Blinking, Hisoka then raised his finger again, to create another Cero, just as the Hollow turned to face him, and rushed at him again.

"Cero!"

There was another giant ray of grey light, but this time, Hisoka choked, his neck being grabbed by the now severely burnt Naruto.

His head cocked to the side, and then in an explosion of red Reishi, Hisoka was shoved back, screaming, blood spurting from his mouth, until he gasped, Hollow Naruto behind him again, a crimson sphere in hand.

Hisoka snarled, then slashed at the cero.

Red spirit pressure sprayed everywhere, engulfing both of them. Flying back with Sonido, Hisoka angrily formed a white cero in his hand again. "Gran Rey Cero!"

Then, a white light shot at Naruto, about a kilometer away. He simply put his hands together.

"Koutai-"

Hisoka's eyes flashed open. 'This it it!'

"-, Kamikaze!"

Then, there was an ashen flash of reiatsu, before the cero enclosed over the shinigami.

Hisoka blinked. 'What?'

Then, the cero disappaited to reveal Naruto screaming towards Hisoka, a thin black blade in hand. Hisoka smirked. "Little shit..."

Then, a sword stabbed into his back. He flashed around, to see a Hollow's mask staring at him. He blinked.

'Lets see...Koutai means Shift...Kamikaze is still divine wind...what the hell is this?'

Then, the blade disappeared from his back, and so did the Naruto.

Blinking, He turned back to face front only to get sliced by Hollow Naruto across the chest, followed by a second cut to the neck.

Growling, he kicked at Naruto before slicing with his zanpakuto, only for Hollow Naruto to raise his sword, and vanish. Hisoka snarled. "Enough of this shit."

He slashed directly below him, catching Naruto's blade.

He grinned. "Teleportation? Super-enhanced speed?"

Hollow Naruto blankly looked at him.

Then shook his head. "Dead wrong."

Hisoka blinked, before yelling, being stabbed dozens of times in the back. He turned, only to be sliced across his front again, before Naruto disappeared. "Instead...I shift and change what's real...and what's fake."

Hisoka snarled. "Bullshit." 'That would be on the same level as Aizen...and it doesn't seem like his kind of power at all. What happened to the insophisticated slashing and slicing?'

Then, he grinned. 'But...something like that would take a lot of Reishi...' He smirked. 'Quite a bit...'

Hollow Naruto was panting, one of his eyes flickering to blue.

Then, his mask chipped.

Hisoka laughed. "Pathetic...that powerful of an ability...what is it? You already showed me your bankai."

"I already said..."

"ITS MY SHIKAI!" a different voice yelled, charging at Hisoka, his blade glowing, before he did one swift slash.

Hisoka choked, the blade creating a humoungous gash across his chest. Blood sprayed in all directions, and suddenly, the air shattered, revealing the blue skies of before.

'He shattered my Caja Negacion? Impossible...'

He blinked. 'Completely impossible.'

He swung back, slashing at Naruto, who was right behind him. Hollow Naruto yelled, as the Caja Negacion flashed back, but the wound on Hisoka remained.

Hisoka glared at Hollow Naruto, as the mask chipped again, then cracked down the middle, and shattered, revealing Naruto breathing heavily, his sword changing back to his Shikai. Hisoka blinked, then coughed up blood, the Caja Negacion actually falling apart. 'Fair enough...'

He then swiped his finger in the sky. "You'll need to try harder next time, I'm afraid..." he muttered, opening up a Negacion to go back.

He turned. "But...I did get what I needed. I suppose I will let you live."

He stepped through, then vanished.

Naruto laid there on the ground, not breathing, unmoving.

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"Naruto!" Sasuke yelled, running to where Naruto was. He gritted his teeth. 'Damn it...can't feel a pulse!' Angrily, Sasuke picked him up.

'What the hell could have done this to him?'

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Ichigo yelled, slashing violently at Shinji, who simply grinned, before lacerating him across his chest.

"Aw, come on, Ichigo, you can do better than that!"

"SHUT UP!" Ichigo screamed. Then, one if his eyes turned black. Shinji's lips pursed together. "Now for the tricky part..."

He donned his own hollow mask, as Ichigo screamed, a white mask enveloping his face.

Shinji groaned. 'Man, that spirit pressure is a pain in the ass...might have to use my Shikai...'

Then, Hichigo rushed at him, laughing, and Shinji raised his sword, blocking Ichigo's bankai.

'...Nah. Not yet.'

Then, with one slash, Hichigo flew ten feet back, followed by Shinji, who attacked again, only to be blocked barehandedly by the hollow.

Shinji sweatdropped. 'Troublesome...'

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Hisoka walked towards Hueco Mundo slowly, only to be stopped in his path by a very large, arrogant looking Adjuchas.

"Where are you going, arrancar?" it hissed, its snake tongue twitching. Hisoka cracked his neck.

"Out of my way, you insect."

The hollow's eyes widened. "What did you just call me, you vermin?"

Hisoka dryly unbuttoned the first button on his coat. "Do you see this, hollow?"

It snickered, looking at the small 10 engraved on Hisoka's neck. "Please...I've fought people of your level before. And now, I'll eat you as well!" it screamed, rushing at Hisoka.

Hisoka sneered, blood still dripping from his lips.

"Bala."

The entire cobra-like hollow exploded in one grey flash, spraying blood around for two hundred yards.

The nearby tiger Adjuchas shuddered. 'What?'

Then, Hisoka looked at it, motioning towards it with one finger. The tiger swallowed. 'If i leave, he'll kill me. If I don't...'

The tiger stepped forwards, and Hisoka wordlessly grabbed it, then shattered its neck with one shake, absorbing it's reishi. Wiping the blood from his now partially healed wounds, he muttered, "Decent enough snack."

Then, he vanished, and grabbed an Asura shaped Adjuchas, taking its lifeblood also, healing almost completely.

"Sir!"

He turned, to see a weak looking Arrancar running towards him.

"Lord Aizen wants to see you!"

Hisoka grinned. "Number 84, huh?"

Said number nodded weakly, obviously trembling in his presence. "Y-yes?"

Hisoka's grin grew even wider and darker.

"Yeah...you'll do nicely."

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Aizen calmly sat upon his throne, staring at Hisoka as he walked in, seemingly completely unharmed. "Where is the Arrancar I sent with you?"

Hisoka shrugged. "Eaten or something."

Aizen's eyes narrowed. "You can't just be so selfish. You must have eaten five of my soldiers."

"Six if you can count that one Gillian," the arrancar replied. "Barely enough for one of my Balas in that one."

Aizen growled, raising his spirit pressure. Hisoka remained grinning.

The ex-captain looked puzzled, still raising the spirit pressure. Hisoka laughed. "Is that all you've got? Honestly, the Naruto kid had more Reiatsu."

Aizen's eyes flashed open. "And when did you last see him?"

Hisoka smiled. "Just about five minutes ago, actually."

Aizen sat back down. "I see..."

He cocked his neck. "Prepare yourself."

Hisoka blinked. "What-"

Then, a giant slash appeared across his side, with Aizen right behind him, swiftly swiveling to cut him across the back also. Hisoka screamed, and then Aizen kicked him into a pillar, before raising one of his fingers to the sky.

"Hado 90-Kurohitsugi."

A large black box enveloped Hisoka just as he stood up, then all of the spears on the outside slammed in, blood spurting out. Aizen walked away slowly, the box still there.

"And, Hisoka?"

He turned, still walking towards the exit.

"Don't test me."

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