Hello, back again with another chapter. Thanks for the reviews, special thanks to Kurayami lol!
Chapter 14- The Merciless Fighter and the Loyal Friend. Armored Arm versus Zanpak-to!
Yami stepped forward and hacked at Ichigo but his opponent easily blocked the cut.
"You've gotten a bit stronger," Ichigo grunted, "But now your power's just all over the place!"
He lashed out with his foot and caught Yami in the stomach.
"Which is all I need to beat a worm like you!" Yami spat back as he twirled his gunblade, "Senbonkaze!"
He swung in a wide arc and thousand of needle like projectiles flew towards Ichigo.
"Would be better if you actually aimed with that thing!" Ichigo remarked as he jumped over the rain.
"Shut up!" Yami snarled as he leaped into the air to meet him halfway.
The two clashed in the sky with neither giving up for a second.
"Damn you!" Yami snarled, "Die!"
He pressed forward causing them Ichigo to lean back.
"You know what you're problem is?" Ichigo asked, "You are way too arrogant about your strength!"
He began to push Yami's sword back without effort. Yami tried to push back but found he could barely even keep his blade up, much less actually push back. He could feel Ichigo's spirit pressure increasing dratically.
"So I hope you know that you better get stronger if you want to beat me!" Ichigo shouted as he flung Yami into the ground.
Yami crashed into the pavement leaving a deep crater where he landed.
"Damn...you," Yami spat as blood ran down his mouth.
He propped his blade up and used it to heave himself up.
"I'lll...kill you!" He snarled as his eyes burned with the yearning to kill.
His spirit power sky rocket making Ichigo take a step back in amazement.
"This...power..." Ichigo whispered.
He remembered his battle against Byakuya where some darker presence from the deepest recesses of his mind had taken control of him in the battle. It had been determined to slaughter his opponent without hesitation. It was all Ichigo could do to force his own conciousness back to sureface.
"This power," Yami whispered, "It is as though I'm tapping into a limitless pool of spirit pressure,"
He stood up as though he was perfectly fine.
"I don't even feel any pain!" Yami cried, "This is great!"
He took a step forward then suddenly disappeared only to reappear next to Ichigo.
"Can you keep up with me now?" Yami asked sneering.
Ichigo shoved Yami's blade back with all his strength then somersaulted backards and landed with his blade raised high.
"Moonfang Shock: Ichigo cried slicing downwards unleashing Zangetsu's trademark attack.
Yami leveled his blade and knocked it away with ease.
"W-what..." Ichigo began.
In a flash Yami stood behind Ichigo and a cut formed across the orange haired shinigami's shoulder.
"Tch, faster than I thought," Yami remarked, "You angled youself so that the wound would not be fatal,"
Ichigo stepped away then leveld his sword.
"At this rate he'll cut me down in no time!" Ichigo thought as he winced in pain. "I'll have to turn this up a notch!"
Yami's eyes widened as he sensed the immense level of spirit power gathering around his opponent.
Nanu struggled up as she looked around dazedly. Her eyes widened as she flet the level of spirit pressure around the boy.
"This...power...can barely...sit up!" SHe thought as she propped herself against the wall with eyes wide open.
"Ban..." Ichigo began.
Suddenly a cane flew out and whacked Yami in the back of the head.
"W-what..." Yami gasped as he felt his body go limp.
"Yeesh," A voice sighed as the sound of wooden clogs were heard clacking, "Waking me up with all that noise, no respect!"
"H-hat and clogs?" Ichigo asked dispersing his spirit power as quickly as he had gathered it.
"Hello, Kurosaki-kun!" Urahara replied waving cheerfully.
"Sheesh, why did you have to bring us all here?" Jinta whined.
"Be respectful to the manager!" Tessai ordered.
A short black haired girl with two pigtails knelt down and helped Nanu up.
"Ururu," Urahara called out, "Please be gentle, we don't want to create any real problems with Soul Society!"
"Yes," She replied with a quick nod.
Yami's hair darkened and began to shrink away and the black sears began to retract back into the sword leaving an unconcious Shinn lying limp.
"Hmmm?" Urahara murmured as he regarded the unconcious shinigami, "This is interesting,"
He bent down and knelt right next to Shinn.
"Ukitake...I figured this little dark piece of your past survived," He commented as he prodded Shinn awake.
"What...happened?" Shinn asked as he spat a bit of blood.
"Hmmm, I'd say you picked a fight then got what was coming," Urahara replied.
Suddenly Sakura appeared gasping for breath with Team Yeollow running alongside of her.
"What happened...Ichigo!" Rukia cried both startled and happy at the same time.
"Hello Rukia-san!" Urahara called out waving.
"Nanu-san, Shinn-san!" Sakura called out worriedly.
The shy shinigami hurried over and helped Nanu to her feet.
"What happened here?" Rei asked as she knelt down and helped Shinn up.
"I apparently picked a fight," Shinn replied tiredly.
"What's going on here?" Rukia asked as she walked up to the crooked dealer.
"Oh, well you see I was takiing an evening strolll when I happened upon your friend Ichigo against that fellow," Urahara explained, "It was afierce battle with plenty of cool battle scenes, very climactic towrds the end too!"
"Idiot," Rukia muttered wacking Urahara across the head, "Next time stop the fight!"
Elsewhere Team Blue were speeding through a quiet street when they sensed two high levels of spirit pressure.
"We've got two," Koji called out to his teammates, "Cho, contact Rukia-san and have her hurry over!"
Cho nodded then stopped running and pulled out his cell phone.
"I'll catch up!" Cho called out as he dialed Rukia number.
Zanza felt the spirit preessure as well. More acutely than the other two. He noticed this spirit energy to be different, different from a shnigami's spirit pressure.
"I see them," Koji called out.
Indeed two figures could be seen running down the street.
Inoue Orihime and Sado (Chad) Yatsutora raced down the street.
"You sensed it too Orihime?" Chad asked.
"Yes, several large spirit pressure sources," She answered, "They don't seem too be as strong as those in Soul Society but I can't tell yet,"
The two had met up along the wa when they had detected sources of large spirit pressure.
"In a hurry?" Koji asked arrogantly as he landed in front of them.
"What?' Chad began but Koji stepped forward and sliced downwards intending to cleave Chad's head in half.
Chad sidestepped it then punched Koji in the gut sending him flying into a wall.
"Idiot," Zanza muttered from his position atop a lantern post, "This was supposed to be recon!"
He drew his own blade and jumped down from the post and blocked Chad's path between the to his teammate.
"Stay back," He ordered as he leveled his sword, "I apologize for my teammate's rash actions but you are to surrender regardless,"
"I don't think so," Chad replied as he raised his fists again.
"Very well," Zanza sighed irratated.
He stepped forward then disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"Where is he?" Chad thought as his eyes widened in shock.
"That was shuunpo," Koji thought, "How does someone like Zanza learn that? I mean even many captains don't know how to do it!"
Zanza reappeared behind Chad.
"You should have surrendered," Zanza remarked as he sliced a gash across Chad's back.
"Sado-kun!" Orihime cried.
A shield suddenly materialized knocking Zanza's second strike away.
"Annoying," Zanza muttered.
He disappeared again then reappeared next to Orihime.
He raised his hand to attack her but suddenly a blast of power knocked him flying into a wall.
"You shouldn't hit women," Chad advised as he raised his armored right arm, "It's undignified,"
He reared back to punch again but suddenly a jet of fire shot out blocking his path to the shinigami.
"And you should also watch your back!" Koji called out as he held up his flaming blade.
Chad spun around and unleashed another punch that sent Koji crashing back.
"You chose to attack the weaker half than finish off the stronger one," Zanza remarked as he stood up and leveled his blade, "You'll regret that error,"
Chad spun around again anticipating another attack.
"Strike, Shintoken," Zanza recited.
Suddenly Chad saw multiple faded images of Zanza slicing at him spring forth from Zanza like ghosts seeping out of his body at his command.
Each one cut at him but the apparation's blade slip through his body harmlessly.
"Not very impressive," Chad remarked as he reared back.
"Split," Zanza murmured.
Suddenly Chad felt hundreds of cuts split open with blood gushing out of them all across his body.
"I come from the Chobito nobles," Zanza explained, "I am the sole heir and in order to fufill it to the fullest I must become stronger, therefore I trained under Kuchiki Byakuya himself and learned the art of shuunpo and his fighting style as well,"
Chad collapsed in apool of blood.
"Sado-kun!" Orihime cried.
Zanza stepped in front of her with his sword outstretched.
"Hey! We can't hurt a women!" Koji called out.
"This is not the bastard's true form," Zanza replied, "Remember, these are merely gigai,"
Orihime tried to push past him but he sliced down and nicked her shoulder causing her to collapse in pain.
"Let's end this," Zanza declared lifting his blade.
Suddenly in a flash Zanza's sword disappeared from his hand along with Koji's.
"What..." Koji began.
"Boys should learn to play with their toys more carefully," A voice chuckled.
A dark skinned women with purple hair garbed in stealth like attire stood atop the same lampost Zanza himself was once perched on holding both zanpak-tos in their original state in each hand.
"So now how about you tell me what you boys are doing in these parts," Yoruichi Shihoin asked as she casually twirled both swords in her hands.