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Chapter 6

The day when Shogun Ryuumaru held his celebration has finally arrived in a blink of eye. 3 days have passed since Hitsugaya confessed his love for Momo in his room. Both of them have tried to avoid each other as far as possible, lest Ryuumaru gain the thought that they are planning to go against him.

All the captains in the Gotei 13 came for the welcome party that Ryuumaru himself had organized. It seems rather vain to most of the captains, but nevertheless, they still came to show their respect after all.

Hitsugaya was seen with his vice-captian, Matsumoto Rangiku. Hitsugaya had instructed Matsumoto to stay near Momo and not let anybody suspicious take her away.

Momo, on the other hand, was with her captain, wearing an elegant kinomo instead of her usual Shingami uniform, with a light lime-green colour as a background and a few sakura flowers at the bottom left of the kimono.

"Has Hitsugaya agreed to fight with me?" asked Ryuumaru.

"Yes, Captain. May I know why are you so anxious to fight against Hitsugaya Taichou?" Asked a calm Hinamori.

"From my point of view, that is none of your business." replied Ryuumaru coldly.

Hinamori seems calm and cool on the surface but she is burning to know if Hitsugaya would gain victory against her captain. It was known to her that if Hitsugaya were to lose his match against Ryuumaru, she would have to steal the Kuroi Tsubasa for Ryuumaru, which would galdly take her memories away and turn her into her emotionless robot.

In the midst of the welcome party, a announcement stated that there would be a match between 2 captains. A loud cheer was heard throughout the crowd as it was a really rare occurrence that lower class Shinigamis to get to see 2 captains fight.

Hitsugaya and Ryuumaru made their way where the match was held, which was at the dome where the selections of the new captains were held previously.

'Can I win against him, I still don't know his ultimate skill of his soul cutter, besides, his physical size would be much of a disadvantage to me. His soul cutter can be counted as a twin to my soul cutter. This is obviously not to my advantage, but this does not means that he'll gain the upper hand anyway. I should just let him hit me first. But, will I be able to stand up from his blow?'

Questions of whether he is able to win against Ryuumaru kept ringing in his head.

Soon, Hitsugaya found himself facing Ryuumaru on the battle court.

"Hitsugaya taichou, thank you for sparring with him" said Ryuumaru coldly.

"No problem. I ought to thank you to." repiled Hitsygaya in the same tone.

The atmosphere was filled with a killing intent, although none of them wanted to kill another. But, they sure wanted to beat the crap out of the other.

They walked towards each other as they each shouted,

"Burn your enemies! Hourin!"

"Freeze them to death! Hyourinmaru!"

A blue and red dragon filled the skies and the temperature suddenly became unstable. Lower ranks of the Shinigamis fainted, unable to handle the 'ki' of the Shinigamis of captain ranks, and the 'ki' is strongly filled with anger and killing intent.

The two players of the battlefield stared at each other for a period of time, waiting for their opponent to take action, knowing that even a slightest mistake could take away their life.

"Well, are you going to stay there forever? " asked a curious Ryuumaru, who seems to be shaking.

"Are you shaking? scared? "repiled Hitsugaya in a mocking tone.

"No, I am just excited to fight with you, to see you in a pool of blood, that's it, and to take that mocking expression off your stinking fa-"

Hitsugaya hit him straight up in his face.

'What...is this speed!' thought Ryuumaru, unbelievably.

Ryuumaru fell to the ground, his sword still vertically up, as if it's a tool used to support himself.

"Ah, what did you say?" said Hitsugaya, who stuck a finger into his ear, indicating that he might have hearing difficulty.

Ryuumaru spit out blood as he begin to get up to his previous position, " What did you say. bastard!"

Hitsugaya smirked as he prepared himself for a offensive attack.

"Going to attack? Come on right up!"

Ryuumaru ran towards Hitsugaya, shouting, "Fireballs!"

Hitsugaya eyes widen at the upcoming attack, wasting no effort to take hide his surprise that Ryuumaru actually used elemental attacks in less than 5 minute. Nevertheless, he quickly reagined his composure and shouted back in defense, "Block! Hyourinmaru! "

Vague moments passed before a blue dragon appear in the sky and with god-like speed, flew down and wrap itself around Hitsugaya, acting as a shield.

'What is this? Wrapping around your master and act as a shield?' Ryuumaru thought anxiously, getting nervous. But before Ryuumaru could get any answer to his questions, he saw Hitsugaya, wrapped by Hyourinmaru spin at top speed, reflecting all of Ryuumaru's fireball attack.

After that attack, Hitsugaya free himself from his beast and found Ryuumaru fighting off his own attack.

'...' Hitsugaya was obviously bored, since he was expecting it to be the match that he was most unconfident of.

"Now," said Hitsugaya in a slow manner, "let me show you the poweress of my beast!"

Hitsugaya then ran at his top speed which seems to be towards Ryuumaru, but 1 meters before he could come into contact with Ryuumaru, he unexpectedly jumped towards the sky and shouted at the top of the lungs, "Hyourinmaru! freeze like never before!"

A blue dragon appeared in the sky for a brief moment before he turned himself into a lightning shape form, and aim itself towards Ryuumaru.

Ryuumaru, on the it the other hand, was vaguely shock and murmured a few words which is unaudible except for himself, formed a a large fire shield and also made Hyourinmaru's attack bounced off.

"What!" said a astonished Hitsugaya.

But Hitsugaya, being a experienced captain despite his age, has seen all sorts of crazy and craizer attacks than this, which seems to be adapted from Hitsugaya's own attack. He quickly used his soul cutter to cut off his own attacks effortlessly and resume his former position.

Nothing verbal was exchanged between them.

This time, it was Ryuumaru's turn to attack Hitsugaya.

"Hourin! Flame in angust! Burn all to nothingness." said a calm Ryuumaru, whose beads of sweat can be seen dripping down from his chin.

A tornado filled with fire appeared in front of Hitsugaya, the objective of the attack is to swollw up it's opponent and burn it to ashes.

Hitsugaya was not called a genius for nothing, he jumped high into the sky and formed a shield around himself and entered into the centre of the tornado. Because he went inside the tornado, the objective of the attack was lost and a minute later, the fire tornado was frozen and broken into fragments of glasses by Hitsugaya's sword.

In the audience seat, Hinamori was sitting between Matsumoto and Renji. Hinamori's face was clouded with a worried expression, which made her seem like she is going to cry any minute. Curiosity was what Renji's expression is and Matsumoto seems to be in the middle of both of them. The audience was filled with cheers, divided into 2 sections, each supporting Ryuumaru or Hitsugaya respectively.

"..."

Hitsugaya was panting as he used up a lot of strength to freeze up the whole of Ryuumaru's fire tornado. But, Ryuumaru, was no better too.

"Tired? Hitsugaya-kun." asked a panting Ryuumaru.

"No, at least not as tired as you think I am, Shogun-kun."

"Please feel free to call me by my name, Hitsugaya, you sound so distant by adding the 'kun' at the back of my surname." said Ryumauru, smirking.

"That's my decision." said a impassive Hitsugaya.

"Now, now, I can't win against you if I continue like this, can I? " repiled Ryuumaru, now getting into an unknown but seems to be an attack stance.

"You bet."

"Even captain Hitsugaya already mentioned that I can't possibly gain victory against him with this kind of power, what should I do? " questioned Ryuumaru.

Hitsugaya was feeling highly irritated and impatient with Ryuumaru now, he was feeling tired and fatigue was catching up with him. If he does not finish the fight as soon as possible, it is possible that he would soon be fighting againist 2 opponents: Ryuumaru and his own fatigue.

"Shut your crap up and fight, Shogun." answered Hitsugaya.

"Well, I would now." repiled Shogun Ryuumaru.

Ryuumaru's hands were on the sword's hilt and his head was facing the ground with his head facing the ground.

"What are you doing!" asked a slightly furious Hitsugaya.

Hitsugaya started to walk towards Ryuumaru, to see what he is doing.

"What are you do-" asked Hitsugaya again, but he was interruppted by Ryuumaru's voice.

"BAN-KAI."

Unfortunately for Hitsugaya, he was less than a meter away from Ryuumaru.

The grounds stasted to divide itself into half, as if there was a earthquake and a red liquid started flowing out.

'What!' thought Hitsugaya, his voice was lost when he saw the red liquid flowing out, towards him.

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