Episode 30: Defeat
Ice darted towards Kenpachi, and slashed down his shoulder.
Kenpachi and Ice crossed blades several times.
Ice managed to slash Kenpachi across the shoulder. Kenpachi jumped backwards, grinning. He took a deep breath.
"Sorry, but I don't have time to waste here. I'm going to have to end it quickly."
Kenpachi laughed. "You wanna finish it quickly, eh? Oh, there's no way I can allow that. Not now, when we're starting to have so much fun!" Chakra exploded all around him. He then charged at Ice, who slashed at him.
Ice managed to cut across the bridge of his nose, and across his face.
Kenpachi stabbed at him, but Ice dodged with suffering only a cut across the cheek. The two continued to hack and slash at each other, Ice slashing him across the side, Kenpachi slashing him across the arm.
The two crossed blades several more times.
The Captain stabbed at Ice's feet, but he jumped backwards and dodged it.
Ice slashed down at Kenpachi, but Kenpachi blocked it. He still had a wicked grin spread across his face.
"What's wrong with you? Do you really love fighting that much? Aren't you afraid of dying?"
"Afraid of dying? I can't believe that you'd ask such a stupid question! For someone who is so strong... you should enjoy it. To revel in death and pain... isn't that the price that we warriors pay?" He was practically shouting by the end of his small speech.
Ikkaku was sitting on the ground, looking up at the sky.
"What's going on?" Asked Yumichika, his hair looking like an afro.
Ikkaku suddenly burst out laughing, "Whoah! What the hell happened to your hair?"
Yumichika remembered getting bombed in the face by Grime.
"HEY! TAKE THIS!" Yelled Grime.
Yumichika saw a ball flying up towards him, and he realized it was a bomb.
"Those fireworks gave you a new look alright!" Ikkaku laughed, pointing at him.
"Alright, fine! I'll put this on!" He put on a wig that looked like his normal hair. "Happy now?"
"What are you thinking about?" Yumichika asked after Ikkaku calmed down.
"I just sensed that the Sensei was having fun right now."
"You're right. But with who? His opponent has incredible strength..."
"It's Ice. The kid who defeated me. But he's stronger now, almost a completely different person."
"This could be pretty bad. I'm sensing that the Sensei's on the defensive in this fight. Do you think he could lose?"
"Don't be a fool! There's no way that the Sensei's going to lose!"
Kenpachi and Ice continued to cross blades, Ice managing to cut him a bit more.
Kenpachi burst out laughing, and Ice took a step backwards.
"At last... I meant my equal... in fact... you might even be slightly better than me..."
Why's he still so confident? Ice thought.
"Against you, I think I can fight at full strength!" He suddenly took off his eye patch, and there was a massive explosion around the area, sending Ice flying backwards several feet.
Kenpachi laughed.
What the hell? Ice thought. When he took off his eye patch his chakra went through the roof! "It's a little late in the fight to try something new, isn't it? What nasty little secret have you been hiding behind that eye patch?"
"Hiding? As if I'd stoop so low as to use tactics like that!" He held up his eye patch, showing a few small mouths. "I had the Ninja Development Crew make this for me. It absorbs massive amounts of chakra, from the one wearing it. Now that I've taken it off, I'm releasing one hundred percent of my chakra!" He threw it off to the side.
He casually slashed his sword, not even touching the wall beside him, but the wall still crumbled down easily.
"And I'm going to use every bit of it to kill you!" Kenpachi growled. "It's that simple!"
Ice's face twitched. Then chakra glowed around him as well.
"Even now your chakra still increases! Excellent..."
Ice didn't respond.
The two charged each other, and Kenpachi stabbed Ice in the chest. Ice couldn't quite reach him with his blade. Kenpachi was just far to fast to handle alone.*
"That... was a good fight..." Kenpachi said, ripping his blade from Ice's chest. Both Ice and Kenpachi fell backwards, both of them landing on the ground. Kenpachi began to laugh.
Suddenly, a man teleported up to Kenpachi. "We'll take this terrorist and interrogate him now. And we have bad news."
Kenpachi frowned. "What is it?"
"Well... Rinji Toichi's been beaten. He has been kidnapped by some of the terrorists."
"Way to kill my mood." Kenpachi stood up, his frown deepening. "Now get out of here before I cut you in half."
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"I'm going to take out the rest of the terrorists." Kenpachi growled.
"But Zaraki-sensei! You're far to weak in your condition to fight them now! You must get healed!"
"No. I'm going to kill every last one of them. I don't need to be healed. Now get lost." Kenpachi slashed at him, and he grabbed Ice's body and teleported away.
Kenpachi found his eye patch, and put it back on.
Yachiru jumped over and landed on his shoulder. Kenpachi sheathed his sword, and he looked around.
"Alright, Yachiru. You're going to give me serious directions to where they are. Because now I'm angry."
"Alright, Kenny! Go forwards!"
Kenpachi ran forwards, and when he got to a road that split to the left and to the right, he slashed the wall open and he continued to run forwards.
A man was standing in front of Tadashi Fujino.
"Sir, Kenpachi Zaraki-sensei has defeated two of the terrorists. The one was the swordsman that defeated Ikkaku Madarame known as Ice. The other was the Earth Style user who defeated Yumichika Ayasegawa, who goes by Grime."
"Take them to the interrogation office immediately."
"That's not all. When he was told of Rinji Toichi-sensei's abduction he said that he was going to hunt down the rest of the terrorists."
"Then let him. He should be able to take them out. And tell Tatsuzo Tekkan about Toichi. And make sure you tell his clan's people."
Tatsuzo was sitting on a bench, waiting for news.
"Tekkan-sensei." Said the man who was talking to Tadashi.
"Yeah? What is it?"
"Toichi-sensei has been kidnapped by the enemy. It's unknown where he is right now. Zaraki-sensei's tracking the terrorists as we speech, but we have reason to believe that Rinji's no longer in this village."
Tatsuzo thought for a moment. "Then I'm going after him with my squad. And his squad."
He nodded. "Alright, I need to go tell his Clan."
He teleported away.
A few hours later, Tatsuzo, his squad, and Rinji's squad were standing at the gate. They had enough food to last several months. As they were getting ready to leave, the one ninja teleported in front of them.
"Wait, several members of the Toichi Clan are coming with you."
Tatsuzo nodded. "Fine. It doesn't really matter."
Notes: *Now, Ice has been defeated. The only reason why Ichigo beat Kenpachi was because he had Zangetsu. Ice doesn't have a Zanpakuto Spirit, so he couldn't take him out alone. Ichigo even said something about not being able to defeat Kenpachi by himself. And I know I mentioned this before.
Now begins a new arc. This arc is the Terrorist Elimination arc/ Toichi invasion. And I'll tell you the reference of Kiyoshi's name/character at some point later. (Foreshadowing!)
