Chapter Eight-Teen: Meeting Monsters
"Well we might as well head off to see this train wreck playout." Chimed the Quinta.
With that spoken everyone headed out of the room and towards to where the battle between the Sexta and Ichigo was happening. They all stopped on top of a structure a fair distance away where they could watch and feel the fight play out. Yoshiro contemplated the fight playing out and couldn't hide the visible nervousness he had for the situation. Emilou noticing this decided to address it.
"you ok Yoshiro? You seem pretty nervous about this." She said with concern.
Yoshiro just sighed before responding. "I am, even if things have been a bit rough between the two of us lately Grimmjow is still my friend. I don't want to see him get himself killed in some vain attempt to prove how much better he is then Kurosaki. Not to mention Orihime is down there and she shouldn't be near something like this. She's not that big time of a fighter."
"Don't worry too much Yoshiro, things will work out, they have habit of doing with you, one way or another." Chimed Luppi as he walked a placed a hand caringly on the blond arrancars shoulder.
"he makes a good point." Piped Emilou as she piped up and gently took Yoshiro's hand in her own.
As the battle played out Yoshiro picked up something strange about Ichigo. His energy felt a lot stronger from before and it had a hollow like feel to it. it felt like Grimmjow was fighting another espada instead of a soul reaper.
"anyone else feel the weirdness in Kurosaki's spirit energy?" Yoshiro questioned out loud.
"I do" said Halibel "he feels like an espada for some reason and a powerful one at that." Yoshiro simply stayed silent in thought to himself.
'I have a very uneasy feeling about this for some reason.' He thought to himself.
Then suddenly there was a massive burst of Grimmjows spirit energy. Yoshiro knew right away what it was too.
"Son of a bitch! He's using grand rey cero!" he exclaimed.
Then there was a huge blue beam of energy launched out. The shock could be felt all the way pretty clearly where even he and the others were located. Once everything settled, he could still sense Kurosaki and Orihime.
"looks like Ichigo and Inoue survived that somehow. Grimmjow is sure to be pissed about that." As casual as Yoshiro may have been acting, the truth was he was worried, more for Orihime's sake if anything. She must have been fortunate to not get caught in something as nasty as a grand rey cero. That luck would most likely only last so long as the battle was sure to only become more intense. Yoshiro decided to make sure no one would die unnecessarily.
"Yin, Yang, Luppi." He chimed and his fraccion immediately had their attention on him. "we're headed down to ensure no needed deaths occur." He ordered.
"will be moving out to Karakura soon Yoshiro." Spoke Halibel.
"I get that mom but some of the remaining espada will need stay back to deal all the enemy threats. You and the others head out without us. Will catch up once we put things to rest here. If you haven't won by that time that is." He replied.
Emilou felt uncertain about this but ultimately knew he was right. She pulled his head down and gave him kiss before pulling back and speaking. "just don't get yourself killed ok?" she said with a little uneasiness in her voice.
"don't worry emi." Piped Luppi "I'll make sure our man doesn't do anything too stupid in all this."
"Yeah, that's tru- hey what the hell does that mean!?" retorted Yoshiro.
"oh nothing, nothing." Luppi playfully responded.
Yoshiro was about to reply but then a massive burst of spirit energy was felt at the battlefield.
"oh hell, Grimmjow just used his resurreccion. We need to move now!" proclaimed Yoshiro. "good luck and stay safe at Karakura." Was all he said before he and his fraccion quickly sped off to the battle at hand. Yoshiro focused on Orihime, feeling it was best to stay close to her for her own safety being so close to a dangerous battle. As he did though he suddenly felt another presence he didn't pick up before, it felt like an arrancar's and was very faint. Eventually he reached his destination where Orihime was located.
"Yoshiro!" exclaimed Orihime "what are you doing here?"
"We're here to make sure you don't get killed in the crossfire of this fight between grimm and strawberry." He explained, then he noticed what looked to be a child at Orihime's feet. He walked up and took a closer look to make sure what he was looking at.
It was unmistakably an arrancar. Looked to be the size and visage of a small child. Green hair, a red mark across the face, he also noticed a facial scar and the cracked mask. "who is this Orihime?" he asked momentarily caught up with this to pay attention to the battle at hand.
"that's Nel" Orihime said "Ichigo and the others ran into her and her friends when they arrived in hueco mundo. She was knocked unconscious during the blast Grimmjow launched earlier."
This got a genuine eyebrow raise out of Yoshiro and his fraccion. They only knew of one arrancar by that name, it was the former Trecera espada that disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Yoshiro thought briefly in deep thought about this, he decided to test something out.
"Orihime" he spoke up grabbing the girls' attention. "I'd like you to use your powers to heal her mask." Orihime stood for a moment before complying with the request. She summoned her powers over the green haired arrancar. Nothing happened at first but then after a few moments the mask began to heal, and the scar started to disappear until it no longer remained, and the mask was fully complete. Orihime deactivated her powers and everyone watched for moment to see if anything would happen.
Nothing seemed to happen at first but then a pink energy began to swirl around Nel. There was a brief poof of pink energy that completely covered her form. Once it cleared, Yoshiro's jaw practically hit the ground. Now Nel was full grown and quite curvy and busty woman with long wavy green hair. He noticed the mark of a large gothic three tattoo on her back sticking out from underneath her shirt. There was no doubting now, it was truly indeed Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck.
"well this is something I certainly wasn't expecting." Muttered Yoshiro.
"you know who she really is?" questioned Orihime
"yeah" he retorted "her true name is Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, she was the Trecera espada before my mother, she suddenly disappeared one day, and no one knew why. This certainly is an unexpected development."
Orihime was even more shocked then before upon hearing this. Yoshiro contemplated what to do next.
"Luppi, grab Nel and take her somewhere safe from the fighting and stay with her until she comes too. She'll need someone with her when she awakes to explain things." Yoshiro asked.
Luppi, was hesitant at first but realized he couldn't argue a direct order. Before he grabbed Nel he walked over to Yoshiro gave him a brief kiss. "don't do anything insane while I'm gone. Emi will have my ass otherwise." He chimed
"no promises, but I will do my best on that front." Yoshiro replied
With that, Luppi went over and picked up the still unconscious Nel and used sonido to quickly leave to somewhere safe. Then as if on que, Grimmjows and Ichigo's energies spiked.
"looks like this fight is about to end. Yin, Yang, Orihime, get behind me now!" he commanded not leaving any room for argument. All three women quickly complied and got behind him awaiting, for whatever was about to happen. Yoshiro drew his naginata and waited to react as needed.
Then it happened, Yoshiro saw from a distance Ichigo and Grimmjow unleashing their full strength attacks at each other. Yoshiro quickly used his powers to form a protective dome around him and the three women behind him. As the shockwave of the two attacks colliding past and subsided after a few moments. Yoshiro reached out with pesquisa to gauge who was left standing.
Both were still up but it was obvious that Ichigo had come out as the victor from what the Quinta was feeling.
"Yin, Yang let's go, you too Orihime." He spoke as he grabbed Orihime and before she could say anything, he was off with a burst of sonido. After a few moments of travel they all arrived at ground zero of the battle. Grimmjow was barely standing, making a vain attempt to keep fighting. Ichigo was standing not too far from him, worn out but not in too bad of shape. Yoshiro used a burst of sonido to get in front of Grimmjow.
"Grimm enough already, this round goes to Kurosaki. If you try to push this, you're gonna get killed for real. This isn't worth it." Yoshiro spoke in a calm manner to his friend.
"shut it Yoshiro" the Sexta weakly replied "this isn't over yet, I'm still standing, so move and let me fight dammit." He coughed a bit violently with some blood coming out of his mouth as he did. Yoshiro just sighed and put a hand on the back of his friends' head and pulled him in so their heads where over one another's shoulder's.
"Grimm" Yoshiro spoke softly "there's nothing left to prove here. You gave it your all and got bested this time. Now's the time to accept your loss, recover and then work on becoming stronger for next time."
"I can't stop" Grimmjow weakly growled out "not until I prove I'm the strongest, not until I prove I am the one worthy of being king. Not just for myself but for those that believed in me to be there king."
"It's alright grimm, you proved yourself worthy of that to them back when it was just us traveling around hueco mundo. You don't need to keep pushing like this."
"it's not so simple Yoshiro."
Yoshiro was quiet for a moment before he spoke. "I forgive you for what happened."
This got raised eyebrows from the Sexta. "what do you me-" he started but was cut off.
"I forgive you for what happened back then. If I'm being honest, I forgave you some time ago, but I couldn't bring myself to say it for some reason. So please Grimmjow, enough of this for now. I don't want to see anymore, people I care about die pointlessly." He said softly as he pulled his friend right up against him. "please stop this, atleast for now."
Grimmjow didn't say anything for a few moments before he just quietly responded. "ok" with that said he immediately reverted from his release state and collapsed unconscious into his friend, his tiredness and injuries finally catching up with him. Yoshiro simply held him in place for a few moments before calling Yin and Yang over.
"take him somewhere safe for him to recover and watch over him until further notice." He politely asked the twins. Yin and Yang merely bowed their heads in acknowledgement, grabbed Grimmjow and left.
Ichigo wasn't sure how to react having watched the whole display playout in front of him. When he first saw Yoshiro in what must be his release state, he immediately wanted to yell and attack him. But then he saw the Quinta completely ignore him and approach Grimmjow. He heard the exchange of words, the exchange of emotions and gestures. He couldn't help but remark how much it reminded him of himself when he was trying to console someone he cared about. Then he noticed the Sexta revert from his release and collapse. Two arrancar women he didn't know came forward and took away Grimmjow. Just leaving Ichigo, Yoshiro and Orihime in the area for the moment.
Then Ichigo remembered his reasoning for being angry with Yoshiro. "Yoshiro!" he angrily yelled out. Yoshiro simply turned to face Ichigo without a care in the world seemingly, that just served to piss the orange haired Shinigami off more.
"you have a hell of a lot to answer for, after what you did to Rukia" he yelled accusingly. Then came an answer he didn't expect hear.
"I'm sorry for what I did to her" Yoshiro solemnly replied to Ichigo. Ichigo wasn't quite sure what to say at first. He quickly composed himself and asked questioningly.
"what do you mean you're sorry for what you did?"
"exactly what it means strawberry" Yoshiro retorted 'I'm sorry for what I did to her. It was over the top and unnecessary, I was foolish to have ever put the blame on what happened to me on her. I'm trying to figure out a way to make amends for that in some way."
Ichigo ignoring being called by his hated nickname pressed on. "why the change of heart?"
"because someone opened my eyes to my idiotic thinking" the Quinta replied gesturing at Orihime. Ichigo turned to her.
"is it true Orihime?" he asked
"yes Ichigo, it's true" she replied
Ichigo thought for a moment and then spoke his mind. "be that as it may, I still can't forgive you for what you did, not until Rukia is willing to forgive you first."
"that's fair, I am trying to make it up how I can. I didn't kill Byakuya earlier when I had the chance too." He chimed
"what do you mean?" Ichigo demanded
"long story short, I ran into Byakuya. He understandably wanted me dead at his feet even after I told him that I was sorry for what I did. I honestly can't hold that against him, we fought, I beat him down. I took his unconscious butt to Rukia and the healers from soul society that were with her. Handed Byakuya over without a fuss and explained myself before I took off. She was too in shock to give me any kind of straight answer." Yoshiro finished
Ichigo just blinked for few moments trying to process everything he just heard. "I see, in that case. I'm willing to let things be between us for now. I'm going to be taking Orihime and leaving."
"you see I can't allow you to do that I'm afraid." Retorted Yoshiro. "she's been more or less my responsibility since she's been here, and I can't just let you take her away sadly."
Ichigo scowled at this. "fine then I'll just kick your ass and take her with me then!" he exclaimed.
Yoshiro gave an incredulous look at that statement. "hate to break it to you strawberry but you barely got past Grimm and I am a hell of a lot stronger than him. You may be putting on a good face, but I can tell how tired you are at the moment. I already beat Byakuya today and if I remember our data on your fight with him in soul society. You managed to beat him on a fluke more or less. Sit this out Ichigo, you'll only be getting yourself hurt." Yoshiro piped up.
Ichigo gritted his teeth at that remark. "will just see about that dammit!" he yelled out and charged the Quinta. He swung his blade square at Yoshiro's chest, but it was stopped by Yoshiro's hand like it was nothing. Before Ichigo could react, a foot collided with his chin knocking him up then a fist hit square in the chest, and he went flying back hard into the ground.
"you really don't want to do this Ichigo. It won't end well for you." Stated Yoshiro.
"shut the hell up!" roared Ichigo "I will defeat just wait and see!" then Ichigo did something Yoshiro wasn't expecting. He donned a hollow mask. It had demonic tribal like appearance with red swirl like lines. Ichigo's eyes turned black and gold and his energy took a very hollow like feel. Needless to say Yoshiro was shocked by what he was seeing.
'well holy shit, he's like how I used to be before I turned atleast in a sense' he thought to himself. 'Zorro's any clue as to why he would have a hollow of his own?' he asked his inner hollow.
"I'm afraid not kit but be warned. Something about his particular hollow power feels off to me. I recommend defeating him as quickly as possible. I cannot say for sure but there is something about him that gives me a great deal of grave concern." The hollow kitsune spoke with concern.
'roger that, kick his ass on the double. I can do that.' He replied to his hollow.
"let do this!" Ichigo roared in a hollowfied voice. Ichigo began building his energy as high as it would go then unleashed it. "GETSUGA TENSHOU!" he screamed as the whirl of black energy cam towards Yoshiro.
Yoshiro readied his naginata and exclaimed. "Fuerza De Blindaje!" a shield of energy surrounded Yoshiro as Ichigos' attack prepared to strike. Then black stream of energy collided with his shield of energy. It pushed Yoshiro back a little but ultimately, he stopped it with some increase of power. The shield burst forward pushing back and destroying the getsuga tenshou in the process.
"what!?" was all Ichigo could say before Yoshiro suddenly appeared next to him and slammed him a bala clean to his chest. He was thrown back but wasn't given a chance to recover when appeared behind him as he flew back and delivered a spin kick to the back of head. Ichigo flew forward and crashed into the ground hard, in too much of a daze from the strike to act right away, he never noticed Yoshiro had moved a fair distance away facing the shinigamis' right side. Yoshiro had his hand raised and uttered one word.
"cero"
A beam of white energy blasted toward Ichigo who managed to come out of his daze just in time to see the beam coming his way and then his whole world went white. When the attack ended, Ichigo was not doing well. His top was slightly torn up he had multiple burns and cuts, plus his hollow mask partially destroyed. Sadly for him the Quinta never gave him a chance to grab his bearings. Yoshiro used sonido to get in front of him and gave a hard knee directly to Ichigo's face. The rest of his hollow mask instantly shattered from the impact as he went flying back and crashed into the ground. He simply laid there with the fight having literally been beat out of him for time being.
Yoshiro strode over to Ichigo to look him over, upon inspection he could tell Ichigo was out for the moment. Then he noticed Orihime running over to where they were.
"Orihime" he said while holding a hand up, she immediately stopped in her tracks. I know what you're planning, I can't let you heal him so he can get back up and fight again. Don't worry he's not dying or anything like that so he's fine." The look of struggle was clear on her face but ultimately, she relented knowing she couldn't disobey at the moment. "now then, what to do now?" he wondered out loud.
"How about you fight me!" a mysterious voice rang out. Yoshiro looked behind to see who it was. It was a tall Shinigami captain he noticed from the clothing. He carried a rough looking sword, long spiky black hair with bells on the tips an eye patch. Plus he had numerous scars on his body from what he could tell and was sporting a rather battle hungry grin.
"who the hell are you by chance?" Yoshiro questioned
"the names Kenpachi Zaraki, captain of the 11th division." He retorted. "I was hoping to run into you, you managed to beat down Kuchiki and now Kurosaki." He suddenly displayed a maniacal grin. "you're going to be fun for me to fight alright."
'I have the weirdest case of déjà vu right now.' Yoshiro thought to himself. He drew out his naginata and moved to safe distance away from Orihime, wanting to keep her away from the fight about to go down.
"ah so you're ready to go at it are you? Good, I like an opponent who's eager." Spoke Zaraki. "Yachiru, go someplace a safe distance away." Then suddenly a tiny pink haired girl sprung up from behind Zaraki's shoulder.
"Ok Kenny!" she exclaimed with excitement before jumping off and made her way to Orihime.
"is that an eight year old?" Yoshiro muttered caught by surprise by the sight of such a small child.
"focus on me!" Zaraki roared as he charged Yoshiro and brought his sword down. Yoshiro quickly brought his naginata around and caught his blade with his. The force of the blades clashing caused the sand around shoot up a good distance. Yoshiro wanting to hopefully end this quickly pushed Zaraki back and swung his blade around at the soul reaper. It connected and left a deep cut in his opponents' right shoulder. Sadly it didn't seem to do a damn thing to slow him down.
"that's right, show me you can do! give me all that you can!" Zaraki practically screamed back.
'ok it official, this guy is more fucking insane then even Nnoitra was.' Yoshiro thought to himself.
Zaraki rushed forward again and the clashed blades, the swung connected with one another. One push one and back before the other would gain footing and counter. While not suffering any serious wounds, by the time they separated again. Yoshiro had a collection of shallow cuts around his body. Granted Zaraki was looking the same way minus the deep shoulder wound from earlier. Granted he was loving it, Yoshiro on the other hand was just plain fucking annoyed.
"let's change this up a bit." He muttered to himself, deciding to pull an old move out of his play book since he was in his release state. He rushed Zaraki and twirled Zorro's swinging from the bottom and going up. Zaraki blocked it with some noticeable effort using his blade.
"you are making this fun boy." The battle crazy soul reaper spoke. Then he noticed his arrancar opponent had a rather good shit eating grin on his face as there blades were still locked together. "I see your enjoying this too! Glad to se-" his sentence was cut off when a large fluffy fox tail swung around and connected square in his face like a sledgehammer launching him back a bit.
Yoshiro couldn't help but smirk to himself. That old trick of his was coming in handy once more. As he saw the clearly busted and bleeding nose on his opponent, he couldn't help but think to himself.
'damn I love being a kitsune.' He swore he heard his inner hollow giggle at the statement.
"so you can energize those tails of yours and use them like giant sledgehammers?" piped Zaraki with a smile on his face. "your full of surprises it seems, I like that a lot in a fight."
Then suddenly both fighters felt a familiar presence. Both turned to see Kurosaki getting back up looking good as new. 'fuck' Yoshiro cursed to himself mentally. 'Orihime healed him up while I was busy with Zaraki.'
"there you are!" yelled Ichigo, looking at Yoshiro. Strawberry never got the chance to even take a step forward when he was yelled at.
"don't interfere Ichigo!" yelled Zaraki. "this is my fight and I won't have anyone get in the way of it!"
Ichigo simply growled a bit but knew not to get in the way of Zaraki for the moment.
"fine then, I'm getting Orihime out of here." He spoke.
"Sorry I can't let that happen." A new voice rang out. Everyone looked to where the voice came from and there stood Coyote Starkk, the Primera espada.
"Starkk you have no idea how glad I am to see you right now." Chimed the Quinta.
"Yeah, yeah" the Primera lazily responded. "I'm here to take Orihime somewhere per lord Aizen's orders." With that said Starkk used sonido to appear right next to Orihime and picked her, carrying her under his arm like a sack of potatoes.
"catch you later Quinta." He casually responded.
"you're not taking Orihime anywhere!" yelled Ichigo as he charged the Primera. Starkk simply raised a fist and fired a bala at such speed and force. Ichigo couldn't track hit, it hit him square in the chest and launched him far away and before he even landed. Starkk took off with Orihime. A few moments passed before Ichigo was able to pull himself back up all sorts of pissed. "God dammit!" he roared and took off in some vain attempt to try and find where Starkk and Orihime went.
"Well ok, that all just happened then." Quipped Yoshiro. "now then, I do believe I need to get back to kicking your ass Zaraki."
Zaraki just laughed like a mad man. "then come over here and try fox-boy!"
For some reason the way he put that comment pissed Yoshiro off a little bit. He charged forward, him and Zaraki clashed blades in a series of moves giving each other a new set of minor cuts. Then when Zaraki made a swing at Yoshiro head, Yoshiro ducked and twisted bringing his empowered tails swinging full force at Zaraki. They connected with thunderous force and launched the soul reaper captain through all sorts of debris before he stopped. Then somehow Aizen began projecting his voice all over los noches and announced he was moving to attack Karakura and where Orihime was being kept. Yoshiro couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at this. 'I really wonder sometimes just what the fuck he's thinking.' He thought.
Then there was a burst of sand and out came walking Zaraki his top was torn up and he was bleeding more but he still had a maniac grin going for him. "lets' continue!" he screamed and rushed Yoshiro. The clashed blades again, Yoshiro brought a tail around to smack him in the face. Sadly Zaraki saw it coming this time and promptly stopped it in place and grabbed it with a gleeful grin on face.
'Oh shit' Yoshiro thought to himself. Then before he could do anything else, Zaraki pulled on his tail causing Yoshiro to yelp as he was swung around and was thrown full force into the ruins of building.
An important thing to note, is that Yoshiro's tails were very sensitive to being yanked on, not to mention back during his time traveling hueco mundo in his vasto form taught him. That maintaining the tails to keep their pristine look and fluffiness was a bit of a chore. Though Yoshiro didn't mind the work it took to keep his tails looking nice. Now Zaraki with one move had completely ruined that on atleast one of his tails.
In essence, Yoshiro was now extremely fucking pissed about this. He flared his spiritual pressure as high as it would go in his fury. Causing a massive blast to occur where the Quinta was standing, with a look pure murderous fury and rage like the world had never seen before practically.
"You Fucking Asshole!" he screamed out with all the hatred and venom in the world. "do you have any idea how hard it is to keep my tails looking as nice as they do!? it can take literal god damn hours you son of bitch!"
Zaraki for his part may have been one who enjoyed battle to its fullest, but he wasn't an idiot like some would think of him. When he felt the sheer overwhelming magnitude of the spiritual pressure coming from the arrancar, as well as his angry fury over the tail being ruined. While he was certainly excited, he also still had the decency to break out into a bit of a cold sweat and think he may have fucked up, just a tiny bit.
Both fighters were so caught up in the current moment they failed to notice the release of energy from inside los noches from the Cuatra or subsequent hole that was soon blasted into the roof of los noches.
Yoshiro charged forward and started swinging Zorro's at Zaraki with more force and speed than ever before. The soul reaper was immediately on the defense and being pushed back. despite his best efforts, Zaraki was starting to take few too many deep slashes on his body even for him. They now adorned the top and bottom of his chest, both shoulders and even a few on his back. when he saw a chance, he immediately ripped off his eyepatch, allowing the full force of his energy to spike. He took a swing that connected with the Quinta's blade and using all his force, pushed and forced the espada to jump back a fair distance. Both fighters took a moment to stare down the other.
Zaraki decided he needed to pull something new out of his playbook in order to survive this fight. He took his sword in both hands and put himself in a kendo stance.
Yoshiro watched Zaraki closely, analyzing what he was doing. The soul reaper had made quite the change of pace from how he was earlier. Yoshiro recognized what the stance and technique he was now doing was. Yoshiro felt while he would need to attack with more caution, he felt he still had the edge in the fight.
If only he knew just how much danger he was about throw himself into.
He launched forward twirling Zorro's about as he did for his attack. Zaraki just watched and waited for the strike to come. He did something Yoshiro didn't expect, instead of blocking his strike with his own blade like he had done the entire fight to date. Zaraki made a swift motion and avoided the attack instantly putting himself in perfect place to counterattack the Quinta. Yoshiro couldn't dodge or block the attack in time.
Zaraki swung the blade up starting at Yoshiro's waist and running straight up and deep on his left side with thunderous force.
"GAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Yoshiro yelled out as wound from the strike seemingly exploded with a spray of blood and intense pain as he was launched in the air and crashed roughly on the ground. He took a moment to try and push himself up from the ground as quickly as he could muster and steadied himself on his feet. The blood pooled at his feet from the massive wound as his regeneration worked as fast as it could to heal the wound.
"still able to stand after that eh?" chimed Zaraki "good to see you still have plenty of fight in you."
"yeah I do" Yoshiro choked out "if you think this is going to be enough to stop me, you dead wrong." He finished with a smirk. 'it's time to end this.' He mused internally. 'I underestimated his skill with kendo, and it bit me hard in return for it. I'm putting an end to this here and now.' Yoshiro readied himself as did Zaraki, then they charged each other.
Now knowing his skills in kendo Yoshiro engaged Zaraki with more caution then before. Both fighters dodged and weaved, collided steel and more. Each trying to get the final strike to end the fight once and for all. Zaraki took a horizontal slash at the Quinta with his kendo. Yoshiro ducked and Zaraki realized too late his error, using his sword with both hands and missing had left wide open to the arrancars tail strike, he had no time to dodge or use one his hands to stop it like last time.
Yoshiro used all three of his tails and swung them full force into Zaraki. Sand exploded all around and knocked the wind clean out of Zaraki, before the soul reaper could regain his bearing a searing hot pain shot through his gut and out his back. one of Yoshiro's naginata blades had been run clean through his gut. Yoshiro then spoke as coldly as possible when he said.
"Choque De Temblor"
Zaraki suddenly felt intense pressure build inside gut and intense pain beyond what he had ever felt as a shockwave ripped through his body.
Unlike most of the time went Yoshiro used this technique, since his blade was planted firmly inside Zaraki he was able to launched the attack from the inside of the soul reaper and have it rip through him from the inside out instead of the usual outside and in. the damage increase from doing it such a way was undeniable.
Zaraki body like it was being violently ripped apart from the inside out as the shock blast tore through him and sent him flying in a gushing blast of blood from the stab wounds and slashes already on his body from blast being let off from inside him. Zaraki had felt extreme pain in a fight before but this was a whole new kind of hell that he was feeling. He landed harshly on his back and slid a good way away before finally stopping.
He laid there broken and near dead but still alive somehow none the less. Despite being unable to move his limbs and feeling in pain like none he had ever felt before, he still had grin on his face. He had been able to have one the best fights ever against an amazing warrior by the name of Yoshiro Abe. Then he passed out.
Yoshiro watched Zaraki closely to see if was going to get back up. After a few moments and the soul reaper remained still he knew the fight was over. He reached out with pesquisa towards Zaraki to see if he could feel any of the soul reapers energy, stunningly he did. It was very faint, but it was there. Before he could decide what to do next the pink haired child showed up and picked up Zaraki.
"Thanks a lot fluffy tails!" exclaimed the child "Kenny had a lot of fun, see you around!" and with that they disappeared in move of flash step. Yoshiro just stood there for a moment. "what?" was all he could manage to say. Then he felt massive explosion of incredibly powerful reiatsu come from the roof of los noches.
"nope, I am not going anywhere near that one, no way in hell." He exclaimed, then out of curiosity he reached out with pesquisa to see if he could figure who was giving off that energy. He felt the massive power of a hollow he didn't recognize, Ulquiorra who felt a lot more powerful than usual even for his release state. He felt a human like signature he couldn't put a finger on and then he felt…. Orihime.
"God fucking dammit the universe must really have it out for me today?" he growled out. As much as Yoshiro didn't want to go the source of that power. Orihime was up there with it for some god forsaken reason. he still felt responsible for her safety while she was in the hollow world and he was going to keep to that responsibility no matter what. So with great reluctance and kicking his regeneration into overdrive. He made his way to through the hole in the rooftop of los noches, into the vastness of hueco mundo. He immediately spotted Orihime, who was next to who he recognized as Uryu.
"Orihime, what the hell is going up here and why are you here?" Yoshiro asked.
"Yoshiro!" she squeaked out in surprise "you're ok for the most part but where's captain Zaraki?"
"kicked his ass, he's still alive I think? Someone pink haired loli picked him up and took of somewhere with him after I won. He was still breathing at the time." He explained.
"not another move arrancar." Spoke Uryu, who had his Quincy bow pointed firmly at Yoshiro.
Yoshiro gave him a deadpanned look. "listen Ishida, I already beat down Byakuya and now Zaraki and I can feel how tired you are currently. I can still beat your sorry ass down ok, so I suggest you calm your tits before I-" he was cut off when a mass of white and black slammed into him and both flew a bit before crashing together into the ground.
Yoshiro looked at who crashed into him and noticed it looked like a more demonic version of Ulquiorra. He knew right away it wasn't his usual release state. They locked eyes as they began to stand up.
"Quinta good to see you, perhaps you can be of assistance" Ulquiorra said in his usual manner.
"just what the hell is that form Cuatra? what the hell are you doing up here? And what the hell is exactly going on here?" Yoshiro questioned. Ulquiorra said nothing and just simply pointed his finger. Yoshiro looked to see what he was pointing at and he almost fell over from shock. In the distance he saw most menacing looking and powerful hollow he had ever laid eyes on.
"Who the fuck is that!?" asked Yoshiro
"that would be Ichigo Kurosaki." Ulquiorra simply stated.
"oooohhhhh…. We are completely fucked"
A/N
'Choque de temblor' means Tremor Shock
'Fuerza de Blindaje' means Shielding Force
Author: Another chapter down, sorry for the delay on this one. When I first sat down to start this one my energy for writing was non-existent. So took some time off to get my energy for writing back.
Yoshiro: I think people can understand that.
Ulquiorra: I dare say we have some bigger concerns at the moment.
Author: Like what?
Hollow Ichigo: *Growls menacingly*
Yoshiro: Oh right that. next chapter is not going to be pleasant for me.
Ulquiorra: I'll be right there with you, sharing in the misery I imagine.
Yoshiro: Just be sure to have someone clear my browser history if I die.
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