Chapter 35 – Kenpachi lose?
A light at the end, Kenpachi, Yachiru and Ratiasu came bursting through into seireitei. Kenpachi launched a pre-emptive strike from behind Ratiasu just as they emerged, she flew upwards to dodge being able to see his attacks from a mile away and avoided any damage.
'You're a fool,' said Ratiasu and she blasted a black wave of energy from her wings, it hit Kenpachi and he plummeted down to the ground enveloped in a cloud of smoke.
Ratiasu saw Kenpachi hit the ground hard, and so she turned her back against him and was about to fly the other way when Kenpachi shouted behind him. 'Where do you think you're going?' followed by a big crash accompanied with a cloud of dust arising as he landed his blow.
Both of them jumped out of the cloud. 'You're getting annoying. Are you really this insane?'
'So what if I am, maybe now you'll fight me to the death, and besides, what would I do with something so useless as sanity anyway,' he screamed as he lunged at Ratiasu.
'If you were sane, then you would know it's futile to try and stop me,' she said insultingly as she held up her hand just as Kenpahci was about to land his attack. Crash, and another dust cloud arises, but it was quickly dispelled to reveal that Kenpachi's attack had hit a force field of some sorts just a centimetre away from Ratiasu's hand.
'What's this suppose to be?' asked Kenpachi trying to forcibly break the force field.
'It's a very strong force field, one that not even you can break.' She pointed out two fingers at him, 'Wave of destruction, number one: white thunder.' A bright wave of lightning bashed into Kenpachi in less than a second and he dropped from the air. But, surprisingly he landed on his feet, in blood, but still standing. 'I see, taking off your eye patch and trying to shield yourself using your spiritual energy. That's been done way too many times, but it does work pretty well.'
Kenpachi stopped panting and looked up at her, 'don't get cocky, I'm just warming up,' he shouted as he let out all his spiritual energy and shot upwards at her.
Meanwhile three soul reapers happened to walk past the fight on their patrol. The three being Simon McLovin, Craig Bently and Colin Salters.
'Hey, who's that fighting up there?' asked Simon staring at the huge explosions occurring nearly every second.
'I can see Captain of squad eleven, Kenpachi Zaraki up there, but who's that person with the wings?' asked Craig.
'Hey doesn't that look like, vice-captain Ratiasu from squad thirteen?' said Colin.
'Yeah, it does resemble her, minus the wings,' agreed Simon.
'I think we should report this to the other captains,' said Colin.
'Yeah, let's go, they're all in squad four's headquarters,' said Craig and the three set off immediately.
'A ha ha ha ha,' laughed Kenpachi maniacally as he was slashed in the shoulder, 'this is getting fun.' The clash of both blades rang out throughout soul society, many civilians have got out of their houses just to see what the noise was about. Also many other soul reapers have noticed that it was Kenpachi and Ratiasu fighting and are also reporting it to the captains down in squad four.
'Can't you accept defeat when it's staring you in the face?' asked Ratiasu after she successfully counterattacks and slashed Kenpachi across the arm. 'Give it up, your blade can't even get near me let alone trying to cut me.'
'Sorry but in my squad losing is unacceptable,' said Kenpachi with pride as he attacked with an uppercut.
Ratiasu flipped over and stabbed him in the back, 'there's a first time for everything, isn't there?' She pulled the blade out as Kenpachi loses large amounts of blood.
'If it goes on like this I may actually die, heh, sure is fun though,' he said looking at his blood, 'but I'm still not going to lose.' He turned around, caught Ratiasu by surprise and just managed to scratch her right shoulder.
'I like your fighting spirit, but if you won't stop then I've got no choice but to annihilate you.'
'Ha ha ha, like you can. I may not have wanted to do this but you leave me no choice. Have you noticed everyone uses one hand to hold their sword? Well if you use two hands it's called 'Kendo' and the power of the blade is hugely increased.'
'What are you ranting on about now? I haven't got time to here this crap, I've got soul society to destroy,' she said slashing at Kenpachi sideways.
'You should have listened,' said Kenpachi quietly as he grabbed his sword with both hands and swung it to block the attack. There was a huge impact and both of them were thrown backwards in the air.
'Impressive, very impressive. To increase the power of your sword by using both hands' strength, very clever. But it's not enough to beat me,' smiled Ratiasu and they both charged at each other again.
Kenpachi used both his hands and slashes his blade downwards, Ratiasu, still only one hand raised her sword above her and blocked. Another explosion, but Ratiasu held her ground and resulted in a weapon deadlock.
'Let me tell you something. A disadvantage of using two hands is that both your hands are occupied so when you're in a deadlock you've got no other hand to help break out of it. But I on the other hand, do.' Ratiasu pointed her fingers at Kenpachi again, his eyes lit up in shock. 'In the end, it's the person who can most effectively use both his hands who wins. Wave of destruction, number one: white thunder.' A flash of blue light followed by another huge explosion and both of them were covered completely by dust.
A few minutes before this the trio from before had just arrived at squad four headquarters. There was surprisingly no one guarding the front gates.
'Shall we go in?' asked Simon nervously.
'Well, I don't see any guards, so yeah, sure,' confirmed Colin. They walked through the front gates and still they saw no guards, but they saw no one around either.
'Are you sure they're here?' asked Craig.
'Yes I'm sure, there are only a few people here anyway. Only the people who went to the human world and that wasn't many, the rest of squad four must be doing other things,' explained Colin.
They walked into the main building via the unguarded front doors and wandered around the corridors looking for anyone. They heard voice down one corridor and decided to cautiously approach it just to make sure they weren't interrupting anything. But before they could get close footsteps approached from behind them.
'Who are you? There better be a good reason for you three being here or I may have to arrest you lot on suspicion of eavesdropping on a captains meeting,' said Toshiro advancing on the three with his sword out looking fierce with Rangiku quite far behind him.
'Oh, looks like you found some troublemakers captain,' joked Rangiku.
'No, no, it's not like that, we weren't here to eavesdrop on anything, we just came to report something,' said Simon trickles of sweat dripped from his forehead.
'Go on then, let's hear it,' said Toshiro forcefully not lowering his sword.
'We just saw Captain Zaraki and Vice-captain Ratiasu fighting in the sky and thought we'd better report this that's all. Oh and this Ratiasu wasn't herself, she had huge dragon wings and her spiritual pressure was weird,' said Simon explaining the report.
'I see, so I was right, that was Kenpachi's spiritual pressure that was slowly fading,' said Toshiro to himself.
'What should we do captain?' asked Rangiku.
'I'll go and see what's going on. Matsumoto, you go to report this to the other captains, and take those three with you. I'd rather not having them wandering around here disturbing the people resting. And if what they say is true then especially not Captain Zakura or Captain Kuchiki Rukia,' suggest Toshiro and he set off down the corridor and out an open window.
'Come with me you three,' said Rangiku, and they obeyed and followed her to the other captains that were fully fit and had completely healed.
Rangiku lead those three to a main room where the captains and vice-captains were and explained to everyone what had happened.
'Those who disturb the peace in soul society should not be allowed to live,' said Byakuya simply. He had been healed pretty well by Unohana and could easily go out in battle again.
'Shouldn't we wait to see how Kenpachi fares before acting? This winged Ratiasu does intrigue me however, maybe we should find out who she is first before doing anything rash,' said Shunsui sitting in a corner with Crystal asleep on his lap.
'I think that's a good idea, one of us should go and act as a scout there and once we're sure of what's happening then we move in,' agreed Hikari. 'Question is, who's the best for this job, someone who can hide their spiritual pressure, and someone who won't be tempted to join in the fight.'
'I'll go, seems like I fit your description perfectly,' said Raven.
'Are you sure about this, Captain Ruhodesu?' asked Hikari to confirm this.
'Yeah, why not, it's been a while since I've seen Kenpachi fight, this may be interesting.' And with that he was gone, flash stepped off in an instant.
'I actually said not hastily,' sighed Hikari.
'Don't worry, I'm sure he'll do what's needed of him,' said Byakuya looking out the window.
The fight still continues, Kenpachi was breathing heavily, blood covered every inch of his body whilst Ratiasu only has a shoulder scratch.
'I'll commend you on surviving a direct hit from white thunder. But your time is up Kenpachi Zaraki, you can not continue, if you wish for me to end your life then come at me again, if not then leave while you still have the chance,' said Ratiasu as she turned away.
Kenpachi gave a weak smile and surprisingly lunged at Ratiasu with all his remaining strength.
'I thought as much,' she said, without turning her back, she aimed a non-verbal hado number four at Kenpachi and it slashed him directly in the face. He was stopped dead in his tracks. Kenpachi one of the strongest warriors of the gotei thirteen, finally defeated. Ratiasu turned around, 'guess you want me to end your life huh? Fine by me,' she said as she too lunged at his chest. CRASH and she was blocked by Toshiro who appeared from nowhere and got in her way.
'What are you doing? This is my fight,' said Kenpachi choking on his own blood.
'Saving you the embarrassment of getting killed. You're in way over your head Kenpachi, back down and let me handle this,' ordered Toshiro.
Kenpachi laughed and unable to sustain himself up in the air dropped to the ground. Yachiru caught him halfway down and brought him to the ground gently.
'Hey Kenny wake up, you're alright aren't you?' asked Yachiru shaking Kanpachi's head. Kenpachi didn't answer, his eyes were closed and his breathing slow. 'You can't die on me Kenny, come on get up now.'
Raven had already arrived on the scene to see Kenpachi fall walked over to him. 'Don't worry. He'll be alright, you should take him to squad four headquarters, Captain Unohana should be able to easily treat his wounds,' said Raven with a comforting voice. Yachiru nodded, hoisted Kenpachi onto her back and ran away like that! 'That Yachiru's got some strength,' thought a shocked Raven having never seen Yachiru do anything apart from sitting on Kenpachi's shoulder. But Raven didn't stall any longer. He released his sword, hid his spiritual pressure and hid below Toshiro and Ratiasu.
Toshiro pointed a threatening sword at Ratiasu with a fierce face. 'What is the meaning of this Ratiasu, aren't we on the same side here? You better have a good explaination or I'll be forced to kill you.'
'The Ratiasu you knew is no more, I have taken control of her body. You say you're going to kill me? How amusing, a mere boy like you could not so much as touch me,' insulted Ratiasu.
Toshiro instantly knew that this wasn't Ratiasu. The new voice was cold, cruel and evil unlike the original Ratiasu who was kind, warm and gentle. 'Who are you, what have you done with Ratiasu and what do you want here?' asked Toshiro in a interrogation manner.
'You ask a lot of questions little boy, and you know what? I can't be arsed answering them. But I will tell you I came here to destroy soul society, so if you get in my way then I'm going to have to cut you down.' Ratiasu poised herself again.
'Don't call me a little boy, I'm far stronger than you think,' warned Toshiro as his spiritual energy surrounded him. 'If you're aiming to destroy soul society then I have no choice but to get in your way. As a captain of the gotei thirteen it is my duty to protect soul society. I'll give you a chance now, turn away, give us back our Ratiasu and nobody gets hurt.'
'Don't make me laugh, Ratiasu is gone, she was too weak and now that she's mine I'm not going to give her back. You're the only that's going to get hurt so don't talk so big, it makes you seem weak,' said Ratiasu with a calm insulting undertone.
'I've heard enough. You're going to wish you never crossed swords with me. BANKAI.'