Chapter 35

OMG I'm updating something besides Hunted!!! LOL as promised. A not completely Inuyasha-character-centric chapter. Not that they don't appear cause they do. But this chapter and the next are going to be mostly Bleach while the one after that should be Fruits Basket, depends on how I make that chapter go.

Anywayyyyyy... Enjoy!!!

Sesshomaru was leading the group through the winding tunnels, up stairs and down twisting hallways when Yoruichi suddenly stopped. "Yoruichi?" Sesshomaru asked pausing to look back at his mate while the others continued ahead.

"Keep going. I need to track down a little weasel." She smiled at him and kissed him lingeringly. "I'll catch up." She promised.

"See that you do." He nodded to her and watched as she darted off down a side hall before turning and continuing on with his group. They were separating bit by bit but in the long run, it was probably best. They were taking down the stronger opponents as they went. When it came time to face Aizen down, all he would have left is fodder.

Yoruichi could feel him…that slit eyed bastard who'd betrayed them at Aizen's side. She could feel the other as well but she held a special hatred for Gin Ichimaru. It was time to kill both of them once and for all end bring this farce of a rebellion to its bloody end. She stepped slowly into a large angular room bisected by four columns. "Come out; come out, wherever you are." She sang out leaning against the first pillar and staring at the shadows behind the third.

A tall thin man with silver hair and narrow eyes stepped from the shadows, his sharp nose quivering as he laughed softly. "Yoruichi…how nice to see you."

"Gin." She settled herself firmly against the column and kept her eyes locked on him though her senses were split between him and the other ex-captain who was hiding.

"No questions as to why? No questions at all?" He asked after a long moment of silence and tilted his head to the side in fake query.

"None." Yoruichi replied flash stepping to the side of him and past. "I don't care why."

She could feel the jump of pressure in him that told her he hadn't seen her move or even felt it until she was past. He frowned trying to pretend he hadn't been startled. "And I so wanted to brag."

"The only think I want to know is why Tōsen actually believes he can hide from me." She felt the dark ex-captain finally come forward into the light. His visor hid the whites of his blind eyes and his hair was back in its usual cornrow ponytail. Yoruichi always thought he looked like the oddest mix of old unfashionable guy and wanna be gangster. Her skin shivered at the thought of being able to have a good fight. After all she wasn't Sesshomaru's mate for no reason. She felt said mate send a wave of encouragement down their link to her and let loose a feral grin before disappearing before their eyes. "If you can't see…" Tōsen began unsheathing his Zanpakutō. "You can't escape me. Enma Kōrogi." Blackness domed around them and Gin's own smile hesitated at the smile that cross Yoruichi's lips just before everything went dark.

When those that had been deemed 'non-fighters' and those who were from Karakura Town and Soul Society had a more extensive discussion about what the former captains capabilities were as well as what more advanced Arrancars and Espada's could do. A few weeks later, Kagome and Miroku had come up with ways to get around or duplicate some of those skills.

When Kagome had created the Darkness sutra, Yoruichi had her activate it often so she could learn how to fight effectively in the senseless space since she had always intended to take out the two ex-captains. (A/N: Senseless as in no senses not as in…silly…just making sure we all were on the same page)

Tōsen's bankai was now useless.

She felt him approach and flash stepped aside, confusing him as he hit only air with his slice, expecting to make a quick decapitation and end it almost instantly. She focused on the feelings she felt, she still had very slight hearing and scent, if they hadn't been enhanced by her feline shape and mating with Sesshomaru they'd also be useless. Gin was also in the dome and she took a moment to do what she did second best in times of war…strategize.

Gin was a sword expert, an flash-step 'expert', and had good spiritual power. However, unless he had been training in Tōsen's bankai as well, he was blind, deaf, and dumb at the moment. So did she want to kill him now, or did she want to kill Tōsen and have fun killing Gin after?

She ruffled Gin's hair as she passed by and smelt fear begin to bleed into his scent. She'd save him for later.

Planting her feet she turned to face where Tōsen was standing and trying to feel her out and pulled out another invention, this one of Miroku's. It was another sutra but it gave off massive spiritual pressure within a confined space. She knelt and pressed it into the floor and pressed a small amount of pressure into it and felt it explode. The room was suddenly full of pressure, as if Yamamoto, all 26 captains and lieutenants, and Ichigo had released all the pressure they carried at once. She heard a small thud as someone sank to the ground under the pressure and felt a bead of sweat make its way down her cheek. It was hard to move under this pressure if you weren't used to it. But it was another of Yoruichi's favorite to experiment on.

She zoned in on where she felt Tōsen and felt a warning flash down her mate mark as Sesshomaru let her know that they were being attacked as well but . Time to end this Tōsen…She thought and took off straight at him.

Kagome held an arrow loosely in her bow and waited for Kimi to signal her. Pedro was bleeding heavily, Kagome could smell his blood thick in the air and under the Darkness sutra that meant a lot of blood. Her own arm bled sluggishly from a random Cero beam he'd managed to fire before Kimi began her assault on him. With the sutra still strong, Kagome was unable to fire her arrow and so she waited.

Kimi crouched on the balls on her feet as she landed beside Kagome and tapped her ankle three times with her first two fingers. After a moment Kagome patted her once on top of the head with her palm. Their plan was established. Simple hand signals with sight and touch had been one of Yuki's demands. As someone who was only used to simple martial arts, large scale battle was unknown to him and Kyo. So they had developed a few hand signs to make things easier. In thirty seconds Kagome was to shoot straight at Pedro's heart. Kimi would press the attack to keep him distracted and get the hell out of the way before she herself got hit.

She raced forward her scythe causing sparks to fly as it dragged along the ground so he'd turn to face her.

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She slammed the staff of the scythe onto his axe as he held it up to guard but the blade was so long it still managed to bite into the top of his shoulder.

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He flung her backwards and bellowed his anger. "Cease your hiding little girls and face me!"

Kimi grinned and slammed a foot into his gut causing him to bend over. "Not afraid of the dark are you?" She whispered just out of his reach.

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He straightened with another roar and swung his axe two handed straight down in front of him.

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Kimi placed one foot below the blades of the axe making it impossible for him to move and raised her aura so Kagome could feel exactly where she was.

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Kagome drew her arrow tight and began to gather her spiritual power within herself unheeding of the burn that started in her arm as it healed the injury on its way to her hands.

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Pedro tugged fruitlessly at his axe and growled unsure as it refused to budge.

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Kimi centered herself matching heart to heart with Pedro and moved her hands down the shaft of her scythe.

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Kimi stepped off the axe and back two steps.

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Pedro felt the freedom of his axe.

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Pedro lifted the axe two handed above his head.

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Kimi took off flying her scythe back behind her as if she was to swing a bat.

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Pedro swung down expecting to hit Kimi whose presence he felt in front of him.

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Kagome released her arrow straight at the center of Pedro's heart.

Kimi swung her scythe true, right at the newest injury she'd given him.

The arrow burned away the darkness as it flew and met Pedro with a solid thunk. Kimi landed lightly behind him, her aura pulling back into her skin.

Kagome smiled at her niece as she turned to walk back to Kagome. "Nice work Kimi."

Kimi paused by Pedro's side and watched the purification spread throughout his large thick body and gently tapped it causing it to fall. The body went backwards while the head fell forward to the ground at it's feet. "Nice shot."

"Let's go meet our men." Kagome sighed feeling a bit drained and running a hand over her stomach. She wanted Inuyasha to hold her.

Kimi nodded and slung scythe back into its holder and wrapped an arm around Kagome. "Maybe rat-boy will let me hug him." She and Kagome laughed as they exited the room leaving behind only ashes and a blood covered room.

Sesshomaru would have sneered at the small green Espada, if he ever did something so undignified, automatically loathing it's similarity to Jaken even if it was a rather pretty girl…until she opened her mouth.

"Quiet bitch!" She screeched at Rukia who was yelling at Ichigo to do something.

Rukia and Orihime were currently held suspended from the ceiling of an egg shaped room by a plant that was slowly tightening around them. The Espada responsible had a 3 tattooed onto her back that she'd flashed when she'd hung upside in her entrance.

"Who are you girl?" Sesshomaru asked his hand on the hilt of his sword.

"Who ya calling 'girl', old man??!" She screeched glaring at Sesshomaru. "I'm the 3rd Espada Yolanda."

"What number you are means nothing to me." Sesshomaru snorted and turned his back on her.

She began to mutter and curse and Ichigo turned to Sesshomaru. "We're getting separated group by group anyway. Why don't you let me and Uryuu handle this?" Uryuu adjusted his glasses and continued to watch the Espada who was stamping round in a childish fashion. "Sango and Miroku should be on their way here by now right? When they get here the six of us will catch up."

Sesshomaru merely turned away and began to walk from the room. "That means we'll follow that plan!" Shippo told them and waved before herding Tohru, Akina, and Kyo out of the room with Amora and Chad close on his heels.

"Good luck boys." Akina called over her shoulder as they disappeared out the next doorway.

Uyruu looked up at the plants that were somehow being controlled by the Espada and tried to see where the point of magical influence was coming from; was it the Espada's sword or something else?

Ichigo swung his sword onto his back and poked a finger into his ear and frowned. "Rukia, Yolanda, could you shut up for a moment?" He ducked as Rukia chucked her shoe at him and the Espada sent a ball of power. "Geeze." He was acting flippant but he was studying the Espada's every movement. Did she favor her left or her right? Did she move her hands quicker than her feet?

"You get the fighter, I'll get the girls?" Uyruu asked narrowing his eyes on Ichigo and noting the way he was studying Yolanda.

"Sounds fine to me." Ichigo nodded and pointed his sword at the still bad mouthing Espada. "Why don't you come down here and fight me?"

A green vine moved from the nest at the top of the room and curled around her hand like a snake. "How about ya come tah me?" She smirked and sent the vine flying down to wrap around his waist and yank him into the air.

Gin's smile widened as the dome shuddered and began to retreat. Tōsen must have already managed to kill Yoruichi. The enormous feeling of spiritual power that had made him sink to his knees earlier still hadn't dissipated but he was unsure where it was coming from.

His smile slowly began to disappear as the last of the room was revealed to him. Tōsen stood in the center of it alone. Yoruichi was nowhere to be seen. "Tōsen?" He called out questioningly. Tōsen sank to his knees and then to the floor blood draining from his nose and mouth.

Gin frowned. Had Yoruichi really managed to kill Tōsen during his bankai??

"Your turn."

Kagome and Kimi had to finish their battle and the next chapter will be Yoruichi vs Gin and Ichigo and Uryuu vs Yolanda.

I tell you I'm dreading the final battle when I'll have to write like 20 people fighting all in the same room at once. But I won't skimp on the details just to make it easier for me! You'll get a good battle out of it, it might even take two chapters lol.

Well I hope you enjoyed this! Please review! Please? I never get reviews anymore (cry)