Episode 49: Yachiru Kusajishi
Kenpachi looked down at the chakra rod stabbed into his chest. "Ow." He went to pull it out, but then another one was stabbed into his chest- again from behind. He spun around and he slashed.
Pain jumped back and dodged it. "How can he move like that with such wounds?"
"Take them out." Kenpachi ordered. Yachiru nodded, and did so.
"Kenny, the Pain that hasn't done anything yet is reviving the other Pains. He revived the robot one that you cut apart at the beginning on the battle. And-"
"Then I'm going after him next. Where is he?"
"He's behind you."
Kenpachi spun around and he charged at the healing Path. He started to run away, but Kenpachi started moving faster, and suddenly he was behind Pain.
He swung his sword, while saying something under his breath. "Drink. Nozarashi." Suddenly his blade transformed into it's Shikai state, cutting that Pain in half. The robotic Pain charged him, while a giant bird that the summoning Pain summoned.
Kenpachi grabbed the giant bird out of the air, and he smashed it into the robotic Pain, then he hurled it at the remaining two pains.
"Only two left. The one hasn't revealed his Jutsu, and the other does summoning. But... there's something else..."
"Didn't I tell you to be quiet?"
Kenpachi began taking deep breaths. "Damn. Those damned weapons that he stabbed into my back... They started draining my chakra. I better end this fast."
Ikkaku and Liones charged each other. Liones punched, and Ikkaku slashed.
Both of them were using all of their power.
Ikkaku was thrown backwards against a tree. His Bankai was now broken into several pieces.
"Damn." He mumbled. Blood shot from his chest, and he fell on his face.
"Ikkaku. Ikkaku Madarame." Mumbled Liones. "I'm glad... he gave me this name." He fell on his back. There was a giant hope gaping through his chest.
Rinji had just buried Barragan with Earth Style Jutsus. He gasped as the ground started to rot. Rinji leapt backwards, landing on the side of a building- keeping himself up with his chakra. "How am I going to defeat this guy..."
Barragan climbed out of the whole. "Damn." He growled. "You're annoying me. Now I'm going to destroy you." He made a hand sign, and then the grass started to die, and the bottom of the building Rinji was on was starting to rot away. The rot was working it's way up towards Rinji, who jumped up into the air, landing on the roof. He then leapt over to a different building.
Rinji made some quick hand signs. "Metal Style: Jutsu!" A small pillar of metal formed beneath Rinji's feet and it extended up into the air.
"You're just delaying the inevitable. I will not run out of chakra. You cannot defeat me. You will never escape death."
Rinji's pillar stopped, and that too began to age. He leapt off his pillar, and started to make hand signs. "Metal Style: Jutsu!" Another pillar shot out of the ground and caught him. Quickly that began to age too. Rinji readied to jump off, but then the rotting stopped.
His jutsu turned off! Rinji hurled a handful of Shuriken at the Akatsuki, but they still turned to dust.
Rinji clenched his jaw, and then leapt down to the ground.
"Being as I won't be able to use that Jutsu for several minutes, I'll use this." Barragan drew his axe. "You are worth of death by my axe."
Rinji drew a pair of kunai, and Barragan teleported in front of him and slashed down at him. Rinji blocked with his knives, but then the knives started to age. Rinji jumped backwards, and he tossed his kunai to the ground.
"Where is he?" Asked one of the guards to the Kinkage. "You'd think he'd be here by now."
"I had the gate guardian get Rinji Toichi to hold him off." Yumichika said. "Rinji is strong. He can win."
"We can all hope that he will win." Said another guard.
Kenpachi charged.
"It seems that my jutsu has come back." Said Pain. "Universal Pull." He pulled out another chakra blade.
"Damn." He stabbed at Kenpachi's throat.
But something jumped in his way. It was a person. It was Yachiru. Yachiru had jumped off of Kenpachi's back to take the attack. She had been stabbed right in the chest.
Kenpachi's eyes widened. He slashed at Pain, who jumped backwards, dropping the charka rod that Yachiru had been impaled on. Kenpachi caught her before she fell.
"Yachiru. Yachiru say something!"
She didn't respond.
"YACHIRU! WAKE UP!"
Nothing.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" He set Yachiru down on the ground, and he darted towards Pain.
"Almighty Push!" The air attempted to push Kenpachi backwards, but it wasn't working.
"He resisted the Almighty Push!"
The other Pain summoned a bear, and it charged at Kenpachi. Kenpachi slashed the bear in half. He charged and then he slashed at the Pains with his giant blade.
The summoning path went to jump backwards, but was still slashed across the chest.
Kenpachi roared, and he then stabbed at the last Pain. "Almighty Push!"
The air forced Kenpachi backwards enough to where he couldn't stab Pain.
Kenpachi stabbed the blade into the ground so he wouldn't go back as far. He then yanked it from the ground and he stabbed at the final Pain- who was fast enough to dodge it.
Kenpachi jumped up into the air, and he slashed down at Pain, who drew a chakra pole and blocked it. He tried to push Kenpachi off, but Kenpachi was too strong. So Pain drew another chakra pole and he stabbed Kenpachi in the chest with it.
Kenpachi pressed down harder on his giant blade, and he snapped Pain's chakra pole.
"Almighty Push!" Cried Pain, and he pushed himself backwards.
Kenpachi growled, and he was suddenly right in front of Pain.
I still need five seconds! Thought Pain.
Kenpachi then slashed him across the chest. He fell to his knees, and yanked the pole from his chest. Leaf Ninja ran into the area. A medic ran over to Kenpachi.
"Don't heal me, you stupid ass! Heal Yachiru!"
Rinji was beginning to get tired.
"You're stamina is impressive." Barragan complimented. "Most people would be completely exhausted by now. But you're just breathing heavy. Where is Naruto Uzumaki."
"He's not here. They had him leave the village because they heard you were coming."
"You're lying."
"Am I?"
"I'll rot away all of your fingers. Then I'll take your toes. After that I'll take your entire arm. Then the other. And I'm going to slow the entire process."
"Spooky."
Barragan made a hand sign.
Rinji leapt ran backwards, leaping over the metal wall. He made a hand sign, and then he opened up a bunch of door way looking things for him to go though. He jetted in, to avoid the attack.
"That sneaky rat. He's trying to keep me from getting further into the Village." Barragan looked around. "If he continues running then he won't be a threat to me and he'll just be a waste of time."
Barragan received a shuriken to the back.
He groaned and turned around. There stood Rinji, on the roof of a building. Now I know that he needs to be concentrating on me for his jutsu to take effect. He thought.
The shuriken aged into nothing-ness. "You rat." He drew his axe again. He hurled it at Rinji. Rinji leapt to the side. Barragan made a hand sign, and the decaying earth shot towards the direction Rinji was going to fall to. Rinji pulled out a kunai and he tied a wire to it. He threw it at a building, and right before he hit the ground he yanked himself over towards that building.
That was too close. He thought. Hurry up!
"How is she?" Asked Kenpachi. He still had his giant blade leaned up on his shoulder.
The Leaf Ninja was kneeling next to Yachiru, with Medical Ninjutsu gathered around her hands. She looked up at Kenpachi. "I'm sorry."
"Don't say that." Kenpachi growled. "Try everything!"
"She has been stabbed in the heart. She is dead, Kenpachi."
All of the Leaf Ninja took a step backwards. They were all intimidated by Kenpachi, and terrified that he would lash out and attack them with this bad news.
Kenpachi clenched his jaw. He dropped his sword. Why do I do this? He thought. Why do I fight? He clenched his fists. It only hurts people. It never hurts me, it just hurts the people that are around me. He looked up at the sky.
"YYYYYYYYYAAAAAACCCCHIIIIRRRRUUUUUU!" It's meaningless to have some senseless enjoyment if it just leads to the pain of others
"Kenny." Said a voice. Kenpachi looked around. Yachiru was getting carried away on a stretcher. She was too far for Kenpachi to hear her. "Kenny, I've been trying to tell you something your entire fight. I don't have much time to tell you this, but there is another Pain. He was the one who was controlling the ones who you were fighting."
Kenpachi clenched his teeth. "Don't go."
"I'm sorry, but I have to. My time is limited here. Take out that last Pain. You have to."
Kenpachi swallowed. "Okay. I'll do it."
"Take care of baldy and Yumi for me." Her voice was beginning to fade.
"Yachiru."
There was no response.
"DAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMNNNNNN!"
Notes: I know I de-powered Barragan a little bit. If I didn't, it'd be completely impossible to defeat him. I also know that I did a kind of pansy way to kill Tosen. But I needed Yumichika to do something, and I knew he wouldn't just straight up attack them. And I had plans for Barragan, so I couldn't kill him off. And yes. Yachiru is dead. Sorry Yachiru fans. I'll explain why next chapter.
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