"Bankai!" Both Arashi and Kenmaru spoke. Kenmaru's black spiritual pressure raised massivley and spread out far and wide. Arashi's whie and light blue spiritual pressure raised and ripped through the skies along with Kenmaru's energy. Then when all was said and done, they stood.

"Muteki Kyuseishu." Kenmaru stood with his lean body build as two black angelic wings spread out wide from his shirtless body, in his hands he held two black shot guns. His stare had stayed half eyed while they slowly became heavier and heavier.

"Shinto no Fumetsu no Sukaikingu!" In both of Arashi's hands he held two white hilted black bladed kusanagi's swords, around his neck he wore a stone that took the shape of a tomoe like a necklace. From the bottom of the hilts of his swords were prayer beads that circled around his arm, also stone tomoe's hung from his prayer beads as well.

"You guys are my opponets? I'll just put you into my bankai!" Kashi demanded as he lifted his zanpaktuo.

"Don't think so." Kenmaru appeared behind and held his gun to Kashi's head.

"Huh?" Kashi was tempted to turn around, but he could already feel that Kenmaru had pulled the trigger. Quickly Kashi jumped out the way as a blue energy blast landed right in front of where Arashi stood. Though Arashi wasn't there anymore.

"Where'd your friend go? He run?" Kashi mocked.

"Right here!" Arashi came from above as he summoned a bolt of lightning onto his blades and he slashed Kashi's back.

"Guah!" Kashi hit the ground and tried to stand. He felt Kenmaru's gun against his head again, quickly he rolled out the way. Once he came up Kenmaru began to shoot at him. Kashi did what he could to block the energy blast, but they were too strong. Then Arashi appeared and kicked him in the back sending him straight into Kenmaru's shot range. Kashi felt the attacks as they ripped through his body.

"My turn!" Arashi commented as he held both of his blades and went to strike down Kashi. Kashi turned around within an instant and punched Arashi right where his necklace was. Once he did his arm turned into stone and just fell off.

"What that?" Kashi yelled.

"You see that necklace is made from a stone that if you touch it that whatever part of your body you touched it with it that body par will turn to stone and fall off."

"Darn it!" Kashi jumped back, but was blasted by Kenmaru right in the back.

"Gah!" Kashi fell to a knee and used his only arm to use his zanpaktuo as a cane. As for his left arm, which was now gone thanks to Arashi's necklace, it bleed continously.

"Hmph, this is the guy we have to fight?" Kenmaru asked, "I don't know what he did to everyone else, but I say we end it now."

"Agreed." Arashi nodded.

"You'll never beat me!" Kashi jumped into the air as he held his zanpaktuo in his remaining hand. He readied for Kenmaru and Arashi to follow him up there, that didn't happen. He saw Kenmaru raise one gun and shot him dead in his stomach. Kashi fell to the ground after that single shot and struggled to stand using his one arm.

"That's the thing, you can run as fast as you want. I'll just shoot you down." Kenmaru explained.

"I'm...going to kill you all!" Kashi yelled as he pushed himself up.

"Really? Hows that going for ya?" Kenmaru asked with half lid eyes, "You know you...should...you should...I'm going to sleep." Just like that Kenmaru fell asleep.

"Did he just fall asleep?" Kashi yelled.

"Yeah, guess you weren't exciting enough."

"Ya!" Kashi went to stab the sleeping Kenmaru, but right as his blade came with in an inch of his chest Kenmaru held out his gun in Kashi's face.

"Uhh..." Kashi was shocked by this, then Kenmaru's black wings pushed him back away from Kashi. Kenmaru had gained a safe distance from Arashi and Kashi as he slept with one arm up, though that arm slowly went back down and slept standing up.

"Let's fight." Arashi said simply as he raised one of his blades and clashed with Kashi.

"You punks...you'll get what you deserve!" Kashi yelled as he kneed Arashi in the stomach, Arashi stopped it with his own knee. As Arashi used one sword to hold back Kashi's sword he used the other one to attack. Kashi quickly switched from blocking Arashi's right sword to blocking Arashi's left sword. As Arashi began to hammer down hard on Kashi, Kashi continued to block. Then Kashi ducked and swung his zanpaktuo at Arashi's jumped over the blade and drove one of his swords into Kashi's edge first, it ended up going al lthe way through.

"What the?" Kashi was surprised at this.

"You see whatever I stab with the edge of my bankai it goes right through. It's tip goes through anything, including any zanpaktuo." Arashi pulled out his blade and used the other to strike at Kashi. Kashi jumped back to dodge, then lunged forward with his zanpaktuo tip aimed at Arashi's chest. Right below the necklace, Arashi jumped and kneed him in the face.

Kashi stumbled back then ran right back at him. Arashi jumped and used a spin kick to smack Kashi's hand out of his hands, then kick him in the face. Kashi fell on the floor, which is when Arashi drove both blades into Kashi's shoulders.

"I wanna make sure you die so I'm going to touch you with my necklace."

"Won't you turn to stone?" Kashi yelled.

"It's MY bankai necklace, of course not!" Arashi slipped off his necklace and reached down to place it on Kashi's necklace. Though as he was about to lay it on him Kashi's body dissapeared, "What the?"

"Sorry can't let you harm him." A man said holding Kashi over his shoulder. The man looked around average height and was fairly muscular. His whole apperance was obscured. He wore a plain white helemet that covered his face and went over to the back of his head with spikes coming out from all sides, he wore a heavy chain mail underneath a red like knight attire, with big black metal boots, and brown leather gloves. On his waist was a black sheath that carried a red hilted katana, with a guard that took the shape of the North Star.

"Who are you?" Kenmaru asked as he walked up now awake.

"I'm Penance. Simply." The man's voice was deep.

"Are the one who keeps sending these guys out here?" Arashi demanded to know.

"Yes. You probably want to know why, well I won't tell you. By the way your friends should be out of their illusions by now."

"Are you serious? You just think you can do that and walk off?" Kenmaru yelled.

"No, I don't think. I know." Penance looked at Kenmaru, "Hmph, it's being surpressed. How sad, maybe I should wake it a little." With those words said Penance pointed his index finger at Kenmaru and created a small ball of energy. The ball quickly hit Kenmaru and forced it's way through his chest.

"Guah!" Kenmaru screamed out in pain as it burned it's way into his body.

"Kenmaru!" Arashi looked at his friend as he slowly fell to the ground.

"Guah!"

"Hmph, he'll be fine." Penance commented as he turned away.

"Wait!" Arashi rushed at Penance, but he was already gone. As Penance vanished everyone who was under Kashi's illusions were now awake. Injured, fainted, possibly dead, and so on. Arashi looked over at his awaking friends as they first began to circle around Kenmaru who was still in agonizing pain. Arashi turned off his bankai and went over to his friends. Kenmaru had returned to his sealed state as he continued to feel the burning pain wihin his body. They all had just faced their worse fears, and right now they could'nt tell if this was real or not.