Episode 19: Zaraki's Power
Kenpachi and his squad were on a mission. The mission was to fight a rogue group of ninjas, to show them what the Steel Village was made of.
And there they were. Just standing there next to a tree.
Kenpachi grinned and he gripped his sword. "That was quick! Let's hope this battle's lasts as long as possible!"
Ikkaku smiled, and swung his sword down to his side. He then brought it up chest level, and he took the scabbard off of it.
Yumichika drew his sword from his hip.
The one guy darted towards Yumichika, and grabbed him by the neck and teleported way.
"Yumichika!" Cried Ikkaku.
"Don't worry about him." Kenpachi said. "He'll be fine. Yachiru, go after him."
"Ah, come on, Kenny! I was going to watch you fight!"
"Do as your told."
"Fine..." Yachiru ran off.
Kenpachi's foe punched at him. Kenpachi blocked his punch with his sword.
The ninja jumped backwards, his fist bleeding pretty bad.
Kenpachi grinned, and he slashed at him. He jumped up out of the way.
"You dodged my blade once." Kenpachi grinned. "You won't do it again."
The man jumped up into the air, kicking down at him. Kenpachi slashed, cutting the man's arm completely off. The man cried out, and he gripped his arm stub.
Ikkaku slashed at his foe, and hit him in the face with his scabbard.
The man stumbled back a step. These guys are on a completely different level. He thought. Damn...
"Sensei! We aren't supposed to kill them!" Ikkaku warned.
"I know! I didn't kill him, now did I? And I didn't mean to cut his damned arm off. This pansy's too fragile."
He didn't mean to? Thought the man with the arm cut off. Good God, what would happen if he was really trying to cut my arm off? He stumbled back a step. "I give up! I learned my lesson! We won't bother your village again!"
Yumichika was thrown against a tree. "What are you doing?" He roared. "How dare you lay your disgusting fingers on my beautiful face!" He held his sword towards him. I probably should have figured out what this did before I left the temple. "Bloom, Ruri'iro Kujaku." Suddenly it separated into four different blades, curved, and then they turned green and darted towards his foe. They wrapped around his arms and legs.
"What the hell is this?" He growled.
What is this? Yumichika thought. Suddenly he felt that he was gaining chakra. And the man was losing it. Yumichika was trying to deactivate it, and so he did. The man was just out of chakra, unable to even move.
Yumichika's sword went back in it's normal form. He sheathed it, and then lifted the man by his head.
"Ew..." She mumbled as he lifted him up so that they were eye level. "I wouldn't touch you if I didn't have to. Anyway, if you tell anyone- even your stupid friends- I'm going to come back, and slit your throat. Got it?"
The man gave a slight nod, and then Yumichika dropped him and rubbed his hand on his side.
Yachiru ran up. "Yumi-Yumi!" She cried.
How much did she see? He thought.
"You made me miss Kenny's fight!" She did a flying kick into his stomach.
"Yachiru... that hurt!" Cried Yumichika.
She jumped off of him. "Come on! We might get to see the end of Kenny's fight if we hurry!"
Yachiru ran back, Yumichika jogging, because his stomach hurt from getting kicked.
Ikkaku spun his sheath around, and his sword so the hilt was facing the open side of the sheath. "Extend, Hozukimaru!" He slammed the hilt into the sheath, and suddenly, it turned into a long spear, with red tassels at the back.
Ikkaku examined his weapon for a second. "So this is what it does..." He swung his spear at his foe, who jumped up into the. He ran along side the spear, ready to punch Ikkaku in the face. "Split apart, Hozukimaru!"
Suddenly, it split into three different parts, and hit him in back of the head. He fell forwards, and then ducked under the weapon.
"So it's really a three section staff with a blade..." Ikkaku shrugged. "Cool."
The man punched at Ikkaku while he was admiring his blade. Ikkaku looked up at him, and then hit him in the face with the tasseled end. Then he jumped up into the air, and then the end connected to the spear darted towards him.
He dodged to the side, for the most part, and he got stabbed in the shoulder. Ikkaku yanked his weapon from his shoulder, and then it turned back into a spear, and then back into a three section staff.
Yachiru landed on the ground. "Hey, Kenny!"
"Yachiru. Heal this guy's arm. I cut it off by accident."
Yachiru walked over, and made a hand sign. Her hand glowed green, and she had her hand over over the man's arm. It stopped the bleeding, but it didn't bring his arm back.
"Sorry!" Yachiru didn't sound very apologetic. "See ya!"
They went back to the Kinkage after the mission was over.
"Kinkage, I need something to bring my power down. My fights aren't lasting long enough, and I can't enjoy them any more."
"So you need something to keep your chakra from going over nine thousand?" Asked the Kinkage's assistant.
"What?"
"Never mind. I'll go over the research and development division. I'll get him to create something for you by the end of the day!" He darted out the window.
"He's always so eager to do even the simplest things. This is a good thing, and a bad thing."
"Do you know if they'll actually be able to do it?" Asked the Jonin.
"Yes, he should. Yumichika Ayasegawa. I need you to go on a solo mission."
"What?" Asked Ikkaku.
"You'll get a different solo mission, I'm just testing out your skills by yourself. Along with you, Yachiru Kusajishi."
This'll be the perfect time to figure out how to make a melee version of my Shikai. Yumichika thought.
Each of them had to fight a small group of bandits. They weren't ninjas, just regular bandits. They were all working for the same operation, and a different squad had already taken out their roots but they were still going to be a problem.
Yumichika held his sword out. "Melee version of what happened last time." He called. Nothing happened. "Damn." He jumped backwards and avoided an attack. "Blossom. Ruri'iro Kujaku." Nothing happened. "Damn." He slashed a bandit across the chest.
"Stop screwing around!" Cried one of them.
"Shut up!" Yumichika waved his hand over it. "Bloom, Fuji Kujaku." The blade suddenly separated into four different blades, and curved quite a bit. He expected it to turn green again, but it didn't. He smiled, finally figuring it out.
Ikkaku ran through the bandits, his Zanpakuto in it's sealed form, slashing all about.
Yachiru ran through, hitting people with her sheathed sword, and kicking anyone who she missed the first time.
Ikkaku finished first, and then Yachiru. And Yumichika went about an hour after.
Kenpachi was taking a nap when Yachiru got back to their house, so she didn't bother him.
Ikkaku went back to his house, and started taking a nap.
Yumichika and Ikkaku were housemates, splitting the bills like Kenpachi and Yachiru did.
Yumichika started watching TV, not really paying all that much attention to whatever was on.
Right after Kenpachi woke up from his nap, there was a knock on the door. He walked over, and opened the door.
A young woman was standing there, with a small box in her hands. "Here's your box, Kenpachi-Sensei." She held up the box to him.
"Thanks." Kenpachi closed the door, and opened the box. There was an eye patch, with golden lines on the sides. He put it on, over his right eye, the eye that didn't have the scar from when he fought against Unohana.
Kenpachi also found several bells in the box. It took him several hours, but he managed to attach each of the bells to one of his strands of hair.* The one bell was just out of his reach, and that one took the longest to attach.
He didn't ask for anyone's help to do so, because he felt it would be weird for someone else to style his hair. And he could eventually get it, so there was no need for help.
Kenpachi sat down on his bed, and sighed.
Yachiru looked over. "Hey, Kenny! How come you attached those weird bells in to your hair?"
Kenpachi scowled at her. "They're to give the edge to my foes in a fight. They're extremely quiet, so if they're good enough it'll give them an edge."
"Wow, you're really nice, Kenny!"
"I'm practically a bag of generosity, I know." Kenpachi smiled.
Tatsuzo and Rinji had their squads fill out their papers for the Chunin Exams. The next day, they would go around the Leaf. And the exams were beginning in a month.
"Awesome! I'mma gunna become a Chunin!" Cried Yoichi.
"There's nothing wrong with self confidence," His Sensei told him. "But don't be overly confident, Yoichi."
"Right." Yoichi grinned, and stuck his tongue out. Ryu stuck his tongue out too. "Then we're going to try our hardest! And if we don't make Chunin, then it's our own fault! We'll just have to start training harder!"
"That's the spirit." Tatsuzo smiled at them. "But the exams are in a month. So you still have time to train."
Daichi nodded, along with Kiyomi. Yoichi cracked his knuckles, and so did Ryu.
"I'll train after I see the Hidden Leaf." Said Tatsuzo.
Notes: *Now he looks like what he did in his first appearance, when he fought Ichigo Kurosaki.
