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Located
Kurai had been searching all night. He had sensed Kenpachi defeat Maki Ichinose and had sensed Ichigo and Byakuya fighting someone, likely Kariya, but by the time he had arrived, the fight was over and the combatants gone. The next day a group of thugs and the Bounts had defeated one of the Gate guardians, Jidanbo, and used a massive wooden creation like a reverse catapult to lift the gate open. Then, Kariya had destroyed it before anyone could follow.
"We need to hurry and get in there before it's too late," Ryuu stated.
"What are you gonna do, break it down?" Ichigo asked.
"Jidanbo, I know you're hurt, but do you think you can lift the gate long enough for me, Ichigo, and Uryu to get through?" Kurai asked.
"Sure thing Kurai," Jidanbo nodded standing and putting his uninjured arm under the gate. "Be quick."
"We will," Kurai promised.
Jidanbo grunted with effort and lifted the gate a few feet off the ground. Kurai ducked under it, Ichigo behind him and Uryu bringing up the rear, and Jidanbo dropped the gate again.
"Now what?" Ichigo asked.
"Now we go find Kariya and the others and kill them," Kurai stated.
"How?" Ichigo asked.
"The captains will know," Kurai stated. "Find them."
Then, he was gone. When he stopped, he was kneeling behind the Head Captain.
"Head Captain Yamamoto," Kurai began. "I need to know, do we now what they are after?"
"No," Yamamoto stated. "You are my most loyal guard. You are the only surviving member of the Captain Guards. If we learn they're motives before you, I will alert you. Now, find the Bounts and kill them."
"Yes Head Captain," Kurai spoke before leaving by Flash Step.
This time, he found Soi-fon who was talking to Squad two and the Stealth Force.
"Yes Kurai?" Soi-fon asked, looking back at him.
"Just here to help Ma'am," Kurai stated.
"I don't need it," Soi-fon stated.
"Your squad looks a little short on bodies," Kurai noted. "Let me guess, they're meeting up with a Bount but they're being beaten at every turn. Then they report in when they wake up."
"How did you know?" Soi-fon asked.
"It's what I would do if I was in your squad and was beaten but spared," Kurai stated. "Wouldn't want to fail you."
"True," Soi-fon nodded. "You wouldn't."
Just then, a Soul Reaper behind Soi-fon stood and hurled one of the same small blue things created from Yoshino's temporary death. Kurai caught it, just short of Soi-fon's shoulder and Soi-fon spun around, the Soul Reapers around that one restraining him as he began to thrash. Then, he fell still.
"What is that?" Soi-Fon asked.
"Fatal to you," Kurai stated crushing it. "They absorb souls. It'd be like poison to you. Controlling a Soul Reaper. Rukia fought him. This will be a problem."
"Why?" Soi-fon asked.
"Anyone that's fought him could be a sleeper agent," Kurai stated as all of the Soul Reapers present turned on Soi-fon. "Just like that."
The Soul Reapers charged and Kurai held out his hand.
"Hado Thirty Three, Sokatsui!" Kurai shouted, blasting a large portion of the Soul Reapers and leaving them out cold.
The rest all charged.
"Things just got a lot more interesting," Soi-fon stated.
"This aught to be fun, at least," Kurai smirked. "Go find the Bount, I'll handle these guys."
"What's he look like?" Soi-fon asked.
"He'll be wearing outsider clothing," Kurai stated. "Probably has a Doll with him."
"True," Soi-fon nodded. "Alright. Good luck."
She left and Kurai readied himself. The Soul Reapers all reached him and he grinned kicking the first into the next and tripping several. He blocked a punch and incapacitated the Soul Reaper with a palm strike before spinning and catching a punch, using the Soul Reaper as a flail to knock out several more before throwing him into the last one, knocking that one out too. He dusted his hands off as he heard chaos in the Seireitei around him and sighed.
"Better go help," Kurai sighed sprinting through the streets.
He quickly found himself being mobbed by controlled Soul Reapers. As he fought, knocking them all out with one strike each, a second Soul Reaper found him and began to help.
"Hello again Kanisawa," Kurai smirked. "I was wondering where you were."
"Sorry," Kanisawa smirked. "I was handling a group around my barracks."
"I see," Kurai nodded. "How soon do you think we'll be done with this fight?"
"Not very," Kanisawa smirked as two dozen or more Squad Eleven members arrived, charging into the fray with the intent to attack Kurai and Kanisawa, shoving the others out of the way as they did.
"No different than any other time," Kurai smirked. "Squad Eleven still wants to be the biggest and the baddest."
He jumped, kicking two Soul Reapers into the rest and knocking them out then held out two fingers.
"Sai!" he shouted and all of the controlled Soul Reapers felt their arms be locked behind them as they tried to fight.
Kanisawa and Kurai made short work of them then continued on their way, taking down any and every controlled Soul Reaper they met. Finally, after nearly an hour, they reached a square where Hisagi was fighting a very large group of Squad Eleven members who were wielding swords, unlike the other groups Kanisawa and Kurai had met.
"Kurai, control your men!" Hisagi demanded, blocking three swords at once.
"Gladly," Kurai grinned, sprinting forward and dropping a good dozen before holding out two fingers. "Sai!"
The remaining Soul Reapers staggered away from Kurai and Hisagi and the three that were under control sprinted into their ranks, dropping them rapidly. Just as they dropped the number to about twenty, the last of them dropped and Kurai sighed.
"Soi-fon has dealt with the Bount controlling them," Kurai guessed. "Shame. I was having fun."
"What a shame," Hisagi growled holding a hand over a shallow cut on his arm.
"You okay?" Kanisawa asked.
"Just a scratch," Hisagi grunted.
"Anyone sense Mayuri's Spiritual Pressure?" Kurai asked.
"And that Quincy's power," Kanisawa stated.
"Right," Kurai nodded. "Where's the most likely place to secretly keep something extremely powerful and deadly?"
"Research and Development," Hisagi stated. "Why?"
"That's where Kariya's heading," Kurai stated before heading that way with Flash Step.
When he arrived, the door opened and a hand ushered him inside. He stepped through and the door closed again, leaving him in darkness, lit only by the screens of a few computers. One of those lit up Nemu, who was looking over another Soul Reaper's shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Kurai asked.
"It's nothing major," Nemu stated standing up just as a red light on the ceiling began to flash. "Someone's coming."
"Another Soul Reaper?" the Soul Reaper Nemu was standing beside asked.
Just as he did, the door, and a good portion of the wall, exploded inward, destroying the room. One of the doors broke apart and the rubble slammed into Kurai and Nemu. Kurai wasn't hurt badly but the rubble landed on top of Nemu, stopped from completely crushing her only by the flattened wreckage of a computer holding it a few inches off the floor.
"Nemu!" Kurai shouted before turning back to the newly destroyed entryway where Kariya was walking into the building.
"So I did sense you," Kariya observed. "Shame I missed. I suppose it doesn't matter though."
Kurai stood, sprinting forward and slashed at Kariya who caught the zanpakuto and spun, smashing him into the wall. Kurai slid to the ground, seeing the ruble over Nemu slowly crushing the computer further, slowly descending. Kurai stood again, sprinting at Kariya but Kariya avoided the slash then slammed his knee into Kurai's gut, launching him backward into the wall again. Before Kurai could collapse, Kariya's hand buried itself in Kurai's stomach. He pulled it back out, turning and walking away as Kurai fell to his hands and knees.
"Hado...Sixty Three...Raikoho," Kurai breathed, raising his hand as lightning formed in his palm.
The blast flew at Kariya but just as it reached him, Kariya spun, batting it upward with the back of his hand. It exploded on the ceiling, bringing down more rubble. Kurai scrambled forward, barely on his feet, and grabbed Nemu, dragging her out from under the rubble just before the ceiling came down, crushing everything except around them, thanks to a Shakkaho blast destroying the rubble above them. Kurai pulled out his second syringe, but it was broken, not having barely any left. He injected what was left into himself, feeling the only change being the pain being blocked and a small portion of his energy being restored. He stood, picking up Nemu carefully then hurried out as Ichigo and Chad hurried past.
"Kill him Ichigo," Kurai growled as they passed each other.
Then, he used Flash Step, probably a bad idea in and of itself, to go to the Squad Four barracks.
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