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Three On One

Kurai groaned, eyes opening to see a massive ball of Spirit Energy shining brightly in the sky with Aizen inside it. Kurai spotted Isshin and Ichigo below the sphere and Kisuke Urahara a distance away from them. Kisuke landed beside Ichigo just as a silhouette began to appear in then sphere. The first thing to appear was a glowing crystal sphere, likely the Hogyoku. Next, came a Zanpakuto blade. Finally, Aizen stepped out. He now had most of his body covered by a cloak with sleeves that covered his fingers, and the cloak also completely covered his head except for a pair of purple eyes. His legs were also covered by white boots. Kurai quickly surmised that Aizen was turning into a hollow from the Hogyoku.

Suddenly, the sphere of Spirit Energy disappeared. Then, he was in front of Ichigo, no one, Kurai included, having seen him move. He broke a pair of glowing gold bracelets of Spirit Energy off of his wrists. He held them up as they disintegrated. Kisuke drew his Zanpakuto, switching to Shikai and readying himself. Aizen readied his own but before either could attack, Isshin charged from behind Aizen. As he slashed, Aizen leaned forward to a ninety degree angle, blocking the blade with his foot before kicking it upward, forcing Isshin backward before standing and spinning. Before he could slash Isshin, Kisuke slashed at him and Aizen blocked it. Aizen kicked at Isshin instead but Isshin blocked it, barely standing still. Then, both jumped away, glowing blue chains connecting to Aizen's foot and sword arm. Kisuke and Isshin pulled the chains tight, holding Aizen in place. Suddenly, Yoruichi appeared, leaping into the air over Aizen. She had on a pair of gauntlets and boots that Kurai assumed Kisuke had designed. Yoruichi smashed both hands down on Aizen's back, kicking up a massive cloud of dust. Then, she released a shout as she began rapidly smashing her fists into Aizen's back, more and more dust flying up as she did. Finally she stopped, the dust settling and Isshin and Kisuke releasing the tension on the chain.

Just as she seemed to relax, Kisuke shouted something the sound barely making it through Kurai's muddled head. Spirit Energy shot off of Aizen, smashing one of Yoruichi's boots and throwing her back to Kisuke. Then, Aizen stood, turning toward Kisuke. Kurai thought he could see cracks in AIzen's chest around the Hogyoku but couldn't bee sure once Aizen's Spiritual Pressure began to send smoke curling into the air around him.

"Kurai," Hachigen called out, dropping to his knees beside him and beginning to heal him.

"No," Kurai rasped. "N...Nemu."

Hachigen turned to look and nodded, turning and carrying nemu's pieces over, followed by Halibel. Then, he continued healing them. Hitsugaya was being treated by Captain Unohana, who had come with Ichigo.

Kurai looked back to the battle to see Aizen throw Isshin back, Kisuke seeming to have been similarly repelled, as Yoruichi fell toward Aizen, throwing a kick at him, which he dodged. All three attacked at once, Yoruichi moving to use a falling axe kick. Just before impact, a pulse of Spirit Energy flew off of Aizen, throwing all three away, Yoruichi smashing through a window in a nearby destroyed building. Aizen turned toward Ichigo and a moment later, Ichigo turned around toward Gin. Then, Gin sat down.

Yoruichi jumped out of the building at the same time as Kisuke managed to wrap the chain around Aizen's sword arm, keeping him from moving. Aizen used his other hand to catch Yoruichi's fist. Then, Isshin leapt up beside her. Aizen broke his hand free, slashing at the two and launching them back. They all began attacking him all at once, trying again and again but try as they might, they couldn't hit him.

"How long until I'm recovered?" Kurai asked.

"It will probably be a while," Hachigen stated. "I'm sorry. You'll have to sit this battle out. You lost a lot of blood."

Suddenly, Gin's blade extended, then was short again. Kurai watched them carefully, seeing Ichigo had dodged it. A moment later, it extended again, blasting a good portion of the town in front of him before Ichigo shot out of the dust, unharmed and wearing his hollow mask. Ichigo fell toward Gin again and again Gin's Zanpakuto extended. Ichigo rolled out of the way and slashed at Gin but Gin blocked it easily. After a moment, Ichigo leapt away then leapt over Gin's blade, preparing a Getsuga Tensho and charging again. At the last second, Gin extended his blade, and Ichigo blocked it with his. After a moment, however, the blade slipped off Ichigo's breaking a piece of his mask off. Then, Ichigo continued. He fired the Getsuga Tensho at Gin and it raced along the ground before exploding. When the smoke cleared, Gin raised his arm, the blade extending yet again.

Before Kurai could see what happened, he saw Aizen slash one of Yoruichi's gauntlets, destroying it. After a brief conversation that Kurai couldn't hear, Kisuke held his Zanpakuto horizontally. Then, a yellow blast of Spirit Energy shot out of the blade at Aizen. Aizen merely held up his own Zanpakuto, the spell parting just before Aizen. Aizen slashed the spell, ending it to see Yoruichi approaching. She threw a punch that he blocked before she threw a punch with her newly de-weaponized arm. Aizen blocked that punch as well as well as the next dozen or more she through, all with the same arm. Just before her last hit him, she was encased in white lightning-aligned Spirit Energy and her gauntlet blasted Aizen, cracking his body and blasting him into the ground. As she shot downward after him, he slashed, clearing the dust. He caught her gauntlet, stopping her attack. Before he could do anything, Kisuke appeared, sword surrounded by a black net with a purple aura. He slashed and the net expanded, crashing down on Aizen and trapping him, even if only briefly. Then, Kisuke stabbed his sword into it, black spheres appearing along the net and beginning to burn. Then, it reached Aizen and a massive fiery explosion shot into the air.

Aizen stepped out of it and looked back at Kisuke. Just as he did, Isshin appeared and blasted Aizen with a Getsuga Tensho. The massive explosion shot across the false Karakura Town, hitting Aizen almost instantly. Kisuke landed behind Isshin before the explosion had even faded. Aizen walked out of the explosion, face split down the front with glowing purple aura inside. Then, there was an explosion of Spiritual Pressure and Spirit Energy around Aizen. WHen it cleared, all three of the others were unconscious.

Gin was suddenly standing in front of Ichigo, sword pointing at his chest, ready to kill Ichigo. Before he could, Aizen appeared, Spiritual Pressure kicking up too much smoke to see much. Gin lowered his sword as Aizen began to walk away. As they walked, Aizen's body, now seeming more like a shell, began to chip and fall away. When it stopped, the shell had split open like a jacket. His hair was much longer and his eyes were now purple with silver irises. Gin opened the Senkaimon and they both walked through before it closed. Isshin awoke and hurried to Ichigo. At first, he said a few words, no doubt telling Ichigo they would stop Aizen in the Soul Society, before Ichigo began shouting at Isshin. Isshin walked past Ichigo then stopped, waiting for Ichigo to follow.

"Hachigen, faster, please," Kurai pleaded. "I have to go to the Soul Society to help stop Aizen."

"I'm sorry," Hachigen sighed. "I can't heal you any faster. And you can't stand against Aizen. Not anymore."

Ichigo and Isshin both left through a Senkaimon and Kurai groaned, setting his head back.

"I'm sorry Kurai," Hachigen sighed. "It will take at least an hour for me to heal you, maybe two."

Kurai nodded and forced himself to relax, glancing to his left and seeing Nemu and Halibel, both of whom were unconscious.

"Just try to hurry," Kurai resigned.

Then, he closed his eyes and allowed himself to drift off.


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