Yo everybody! Good news today! I'm posting two chapters instead of just one. For a couple of reasons, first I started writing this chapter and it just grew and grew, so it turned it into two chapters. The second, Hollowfication was receive 20 reviews, added to 10 favorite stories lists, 11 story alerts and over 1800 hits. Far far better then my meager expectations. I wanna say to all the fans of this story, Thank You.
Shrugs: Actually the idea of some of Ichigo's friends that don't currently do not have any powers at the moment in the actual Bleach storyline (though Tatsuki, Mizuiro and Keigo apparently do, they just haven't awaken theirs yet) becoming arrancar isn't an original idea. There's a couple of other, unfinished stories on They inspired me to write this one. If you wanna read, you can find them in my profile.
The only three (Not including the lame stories where Aizen magically turns Ichigo from a vizard into an arrancar. No offense to the authors of those stories, some of them are quite well written. I hate those ones because it doesn't make sense to me. Arrancar and vizards are polar opposites, just as soul reapers and hollows are. So how can you turn a negative into a positive.) I have found is Hollowed, Much like Falling and Aizen's Alternative Arrancar Plan. There may be more but I haven't found them.
I have also have found about the only Ichigo becomes an arrancar story I like and the only one that makes sense to me. It's called Hollow Love and again it's in my favorites. Basically instead of Ichigo becoming a vizard at the end of his training with Urahara, he becomes a hollow, then an arrancar.
If anyone finds another story where a Bleach character(s) become an arrancar, excluding the ones were Aizen turns Ichigo from a vizard into an arrancar, feel free to let me know.
Also I don't know why or where this idea came from, but it's become stuck in my head for a couple days now. A story where Ichigo's sister, Karin becomes an arrancar. There's plenty of stories where she becomes a soul reaper or a vizard, yet there's no arrancar ones. Maybe I'll work that into the next Bleach story I write. If anyone wants to use that idea for a story, go for it.
Ah well. Enough of my rantings, on with the story.
Disclaimer: Don't own Bleach. I'm just a fan who wrote this story.
Chapter Seven
Her mind was plagued with horrible, horrible images. Images of Tatsuki, Keigo and Mizuiro killing Ichigo, Rukia, Rangiku, Chad and the others. But they weren't the only horrible images she saw. Just as horrible, saw scenes of Ichigo and the others killing them.
Ichigo's Tensa Zangetsu met Tatsuki's zanpaku-to. They slashed at each other again and again, sometimes the blades would hit each other, other times they sliced through flesh.
Then Tatsuki punched Ichigo, who raised his sword and blocked the punched but was still pushed back several feet.
The two stood there for a moment, staring at each.
Both raised their swords and ran towards each other.
Then suddenly the scene seemed to split into two separate, yet identical and simultaneous scenes.
In the first scene, Tatsuki managed to hit Ichigo before could attack. She drove her sword into Ichigo's chest, impaling him through the heart, then she twisted the blade. Ichigo gasped and coughed out a lot of blood, a fair amount of it on Tatsuki, who was smiling like she just won a martial art tournament.
Tatsuki pulled the blade out of him. Ichigo fell to the ground, dead.
Tatsuki sheathed her sword and said, "A shame you didn't put up more of a fight." Tatsuki shrugged, "Ah well, that's that."
The second, had Ichigo striking first. The two disappeared for an instant as they clashed. The two reappeared a few feet away for each other, back to back. Ichigo didn't have any new wounds but Tatsuki was a different story. Her sword had been cut in half, while a large, bloody gash spread across her chest. It looked like Ichigo had almost cut her in half.
Tatsuki stood there for moment, the life draining from her eyes, before she collapsed. She was dead before she hit the ground.
Ichigo glanced behind him. He called out, "Tatsuki? Tatsuki?!"
Realizing what he had done, Ichigo fell to his knees and in weak voice that just didn't seem to fit him and said, "No..."
Orihime's eyes shot open. Those last to images of Ichigo dead at Tatsuki's hands and Tatsuki dead at Ichigo's, were burned into her brain.
It was an impossible nightmare, something so horrible that it could never happen in real life. Yet she it was real and playing out right now. Or even worst, it could be already over and somebody could be lying dead somewhere.
She pushed that thought out of her head. She couldn't think like that.
Orihime took a quick looked around. She was lying on a bed in Kurosaki Clinic. Someone must have brought her here after she was...
Thinking about how Tatsuki hurt her, verbally and physically, hurt more then any pain she felt before. Yet she saw something. Something that that gave her a flicker of hope.
When Tatsuki had grabbed her and started to insult her, face to face. While calling her weak, pathetic and much worse, Tatsuki left eye started to bit watered. It looked like a single tear was trying to fall.
Orihime pointed it out to Tatsuki, hoping she reach that part of her friend that was still there. Unfortunately, it only enraged Tatsuki, who attacked her.
She couldn't let Ichigo and the others fight this fight while she sat on the sidelines. They were as much her friends as they were Ichigo's and Chad's. She had to help. She didn't want anyone get hurt.
She bolted out of the bed and out of the room. She ran to the door, ignoring Ichigo's father and his protests. She reached the street and looked around to getting her bearings back.
Once she had her bearings back, she ran in the general direction of where she remembered they were before she was knocked out.
She ran through four or five blocks when she heard the sound of metal hitting flesh, followed by the sounds of something hitting the ground and Tatsuki yelling "Home Run!"
Picking up her pace, she reached the intersection and looked to the right.
Tatsuki was standing on top of Ichigo, who swung his sword at her. Tatsuki caught it in one hand and use the other hand to drive her own sword into his arm, causing Ichigo to scream in pain.
Tatsuki stood for a moment. It looked like she was saying something to Ichigo but Orihime was too far away to hear it. Then Tatsuki pointed her hand at Ichigo, preparing to fire a cero.
Images of Ichigo dying at the hands of Tatsuki and the others from her dreams filled her mind. She had to act, she couldn't let either of them die at the other's hands.
Running more on instinct then anything else, she yelled, "Tsubaki! Koten Zanshun! I reject!"
Tsubaki shot out and hit Tatsuki in the chest. Tsubaki didn't actually cause any damage to Tatsuki, he did however catch her off guard. Tatsuki was sent flying backwards, crashing through the side of delivery truck that was driving through an intersection behind the two of them.
Orihime rushed to Ichigo's side. "Ichigio? Ichigo are you alright?"
"Yeah." Ichigo said as he tried to remove Tatsuki's sword from his arm, but failed.
Orihime immediately grabbed the blade and with a few tugs on the sword and groans from Ichigo, pulled it out.
Before Ichigo could thank her, Orihime summoned her fairies and began to heal Ichigo, starting with his arm.
She had just finished healing Ichigo's arm when the truck exploded, revealing a pissed off Tatsuki.
"This is getting very annoying. First Rukia interrupts us, then Ichigo continually holds back against me, and finally we're interrupted again, this time by you, weakling. Here I thought it was someone wroth killing. Instead it's just pathetic little weakling who thinks she can play with the big kids." Tatsuki stepped out of the wreckage of the truck before continuing. "All I wanted was to test my abilities against Ichigo. Instead, I get all this annoying crap. Why don't we finish this Ichigo before someone else interrupts us."
Ichigo rose to his feet, raised Zangetsu and said, "Stay back Orihime."
"No! You two are friends! You shouldn't be figh-"
"Enough of the sentimental crap already!" Tatsuki yelled. "Let's finish this Ichigo, before someone else interrupts us."
Tatsuki charged at Ichigo while he raised Zangetsu. The two were about strike each other, when Tatsuki sonidoed again. She reappeared in front of Orihime and before she or Ichigo could respond, Tatsuki punched Orihime in the face.
Orihime realized that she had completely forgotten that she was holding Tatsuki's zanpaku-to.
"This is belongs to me, weakling." Tatsuki said as she tore the sword from her grasp.
Tatsuki turned to Ichigo and the two charged each other. Orihime looked on in horror. It was just like the last images of her nightmare.
The two disappeared right before they reached each other. They reappeared with their swords clashing for a second before they disappeared again. A second later, they reappeared in different location, again their swords stuck each. Again disappeared and again they reappeared a second later, in a different location. Their battle continued like this for many more times. Sometimes blade hit blade, other times the blades cut flesh. A number of cuts opened up all across their bodies as they fought but they gave no notice to their wounds.
The blades met one final time, striking each other and locking Ichigo and Tatsuki in contest of strength. At first it seemed like they were even, but it was slowly turning in Tatsuki's favor. But Ichigo wasn't about to go down without a fight. He kicked Tatsuki's left shin, throwing her off balance. Ichigo brought his sword down on her right shoulder in an attempt to disable her right arm. But Tatsuki sonidoed several feet back before he could.
The two of them stood for a moment, breathing heavily as blood dripped from their wounds. Without saying anything the Ichigo and Tatsuki charged once again. The two disappeared for an instant as they clashed and reappeared a few feet apart, their backs facing each other, their breathing heavier then before.
Tatsuki, who was now facing Orihime, stood there for a split-second before a large gash opened up across her chest. She let out a groan as she fell to one knee, using her sword to prop herself up.
Ichigo stood there for a moment longer then Tatsuki did when a gash formed on his chest. As Ichigo's back was to her, Orihime couldn't tell how bad it was. Ichigo struggled to stand for a moment, before he fell to his knees a second before collapsing all together.
A grin spread across Tatsuki's face as she slowly rose to her feet. She turned and limped over to Ichigo's fallen form.
"Not bad Ichigo. Almost beat me. But you held back again." As Tatsuki started to walk away from him, she added, "If you survive and wanna fight me again, lose that hesitation. Otherwise, I will kill you."
Tatsuki tilted her head up and said, "Now let's how the others are fairing."
She closed her eyes then opened them a moment later, a shocked look in her eyes. "Impossible! How..." Tatsuki's expression changed from shock to anger.
"Urahara..." she said the name like a curse. "Damn. Gotta get the others and get out before it's too late."
Tatsuki started to walk away. Orihime had to do something to stop Tatsuki and she had to do it now. Orihime summoned her shield in front of Tatsuki's path. By pure chance, it appeared at the same second Tatsuki sonidoed. Causing her to crash into the shield and fall on her butt. If the circumstances had been different, it would have been funny.
Tatsuki got back up to her feet. Anger and annoyance were etched into her face. "That was a mistake. Even with the wounds Ichigo inflicted on me, I'm still more than able to kick your ass."
Tatsuki sonidoed right in front of her and punched her in the stomach. Orihime fell to her knees, but refused to stay down. She stood up and received another punch to her face, followed by another and another and another. It turned into a barrage of punches, hitting her all over. Tatsuki then drove her knee into her stomach and pushed down to the ground while grabbing her hair. Orihime heard the sound of a sword being drawn. "I think it's time for a haircut Orihime."
Orihime's eyes went wide. Her hair was the symbol of her friendship and dependence on Tatsuki. She never had it cut since meeting Tatsuki. Tatsuki cutting her hair was the ultimate act of betrayal. It was the same as cutting their bonds of friendship. The faint hope that there something of the Tatsuki she knew still in there, shattered.
She closed her eyes as tears began to pour down her eyes, waiting for the inevitable sound of the sword slicing through the air. It never came.
Instead, she felt the grip on her hair disappear and heard the sound of something hitting the pavement in front of her. Orihime opened her eyes. Tatsuki was lying on the ground a few feet in front of her.
"Are you alright Orihime?" a voice beside her said.
Orihime turned her head to the left and looked up. There was Yoruichi, looking down at her, concern in her eyes. She nodded her head as Urahara appeared at her right side, his zanpaku-to drawn and unsealed, said, "Sorry we're late Orihime. We didn't think Ichigo would lose so quickly. We'll take it from here."
Tatsuki looked up and upon seeing the two ex-captains, swore and got back up to her feet. There was a new gash on her left forearm. "Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihouin. I assume you two are responsible for us being unable to return to Hueco Mundo."
Urahara replied in a rare serious tone, "You assume correctly. I created a handy little device that when activated, releases invisible particles that attaches to any nearby people and temporarily disables their ability to travel between the worlds. Effecting anyone caught in the activation radius of the device."
Yoruichi added, "Surrender. You don't stand chance against us."
"I know I can't beat the two of you, but I wasn't made to be a prisoner. I prefer to go down swinging." Tatsuki suddenly put both hands on her sword and pointed it at her own chest. "Impale Ver-"
Before she could finish, her sword disappeared and new gashes appeared on both her arms. Yoruichi appeared behind Tatsuki, holding her sword.
Yoruichi waved the sword around and said, "We're not about to let you use your resurreccion. Surrender."
Tatsuki stood there for a moment, her breathing was growing heavier, her wounds seemed to be catching up with her. Tatsuki looked back and forth between Urhara and Yoruichi.
"Never."
She charged at Urahara and herself.
"Sing Benihime." Urahara said, summoning a red energy shield.
Tatsuki's right fist slammed into shield. Orihime heard the sound of something breaking. Yoruichi flash stepped behind her and axe kicked the back of Tatsuki's head.
Tatsuki fell to the ground, unconscious but alive.
Elsewhere
Outside the main entrance of an apartment complex, another soul reaper and arrancar fought.
Keigo was quiet pleased with himself. He was owning tattoo face. Course it was mainly because he had prevented the soul reaper from calling the Soul Society to remove the limit on his power. It would have been a different story if he had.
As it stood, Renji had inflicted only a few minor injuries, while he had inflicted a number of wounds, the worst being the wounds that disabled his left arm. In addition, the soul reaper was starting to wear out. It wouldn't be long now.
Zabimaru once again flew at him. Keigo responded by throwing his kamas at the released zanpaku-to, imbeded them in the fifth segment from the head and wrapping the chains around it. As Keigo started to drive the snake-like weapon into the ground, the soul reaper did something unexpected. He spun his zanpaku-to. The sudden spinning motion caught him off guard and caused him to lose his grip on the chains of his kamas. As soon as he did, the chains immediately shrank back to their original length.
Keigo silently cursed. Now his kamas were stuck in tattoo face's bankai.
'This is gonna be a pain. Fighting with one's bare hands is Tatsuki thing, not mine.'
It wasn't entirely true. He did learn hand to hand combat, he just preferred to have a weapon in his hand over using his hands as a weapon.
"Ha!" Renji said in a cocky tone. "Let's see how tough you are without your kamas."
'Ha ha ha ha... I was gonna play with him some more, but now I want wipe that cocky smirk off his tattooed face.'
Keigo laughed. "Good work on getting my kamas away from me. I would continue to play with you but I think it's time to end this."
"Ha! Like a punk like you could beat me!"
Keigo smirked. "I've been playing with you the moment I blew up your cellphone, when you stopped being a threat."
"Oh yeah! Well then try this on for size! Higa zekko!"
All of the segments of Zabimaru separated and came at him, leaving tattoo face completely defenseless.
'Fool.'
Keigo used a series of sonidos to dodge the flying segments while getting to what he was after, the segment with his kamas in it.
His last sonido landed him on top of the segment in question and grabbed the handles of his kamas, pulled them out and sonidoed off the segment.
Using another series of sonidos to dodged the remain flying segments and reached the now defenseless soul reaper. The instant he was in front of Renji, he repeatedly slashed him across the chest with his kamas. A number of cuts opened up on his chest.
His bankai resealed as Renji collapsed to his hands and knees. "Dammit. I won't lose to you!"
Renji slowly climbed to his feet and raised his sword. Keigo chuckled and drove one of his kamas into the soul reapers right shoulder and stabbed his chest with the other one. Tattoo face screamed in pain. Keigo pulled them out and watched the soul reaper fall to the ground. He was alive but he wasn't going to be able to do anything for awhile.
Keigo knelt down and cleaned the blood off his kamas using a sleeve of Renji's kimono. He tucked his kamas back into his belt, causing the chains to reattach themselves.
"Well I guess I should see how the others are doing." he started to walk away, whistling a random tune that came to him.
He had only gotten a few steps when he saw a familiar face walking towards him. His sister, Mizuho Asano.
'Now I just can't pass up an opportunity like this.'
Still whistling, he grabbed her by the throat with one hand and lifted her off her feet. His other hand grabbed one of his kamas. He was about to strike when a voice called out "An arrancar picking on a defenseless human instead of fighting someone who can actually fight back? Wow, and here I thought you arrancar were warriors."
Keigo turned his head to speaker, Ikkaku Madarame with his pretty boy friend, Yumichika.
"Well this is a surprise. I don't know how you two escaped nor do I care. But could you and the girly pretty boy first let me finish up here before we start fighting?"
"Nope. Can't do that." Ikkaku replied while a vein in Yumichika's forehead throbbed.
"Aw come on. You hate her as much as I do. If your worried about getting in trouble, just say that you arrived too late. Hell, I'll even let you send her to the Soul Society after I'm done."
"Sorry. As much as I hate her, I have also sworn to protect the living from hollows and arrancar."
Keigo sighed and tossed Mizuho to the ground. "Fine then. So who's first you or the girly boy?"
Yumichika drew his sword and was about to attack when Ikkaku stopped him. "I got this one Yumichika."
Annoyed, he nodded and sheathed his sword. Ikkaku drew his zanpaku-to and said, "I'm the third seat of squad eleven, Ikkaku Madarame."
Keigo raised an eyebrow. "Ah...I know who you are. We have been living in same building for a week, we're in the same class and I have read the report on you. I know that you have achieved bankai yet hide the fact."
"Then you must also know it's proper thing for a warrior to give his name to his opponent."
"Very well. I'm Keigo Asano, arrancar number eighty-three."
"Extend Hozukimaru!"
Ikkaku slammed the butt of sword into his sheath, merging the two into a spear. He lunged at Keigo with his spear. Keigo blocked the blade with his hand and threw his kama at him, slashing his chest, only to be hit in the side of the head with the spear's pommel.
"Not bad. Definitely more interesting then tattoo face was." Keigo said as he pulled back his kama.
He fired a cero at him. Ikkaku dodged it and threw the bladed section of zanpaku-to at him. Keigo defected it with his kama.
"You're not that bad either."
The two stared at each for moment. Keigo pulled out his other kama. Ikkaku said, "Normally, I wouldn't do this but we're under orders to finish this as quickly as we can. BANKAI! Ryumon Hozukimaru!"
A ball of energy surrounded enveloped Ikkaku for a moment. The ball disappeared, revealing Ikkaku and his bankai.
The two charged and attacked. Ikkaku brought the sword section down on Keigo, who sidestepped it and stabbed his chest with a kama. Ikkaku in turn slashed him across the chest with his monk spade.
Keigo leap back and threw both kamas at him. As soon as they were almost at him, Ikkaku grabbed the handle of middle section of his bankai and spun it. His kamas' chains became entangled in the chains of Ikkaku's bankai.
Keigo was thrown from his feet and found himself spinning along with the bankai. After a few rotations, the g-forces and the fact that he was getting dizzy, caused him to lose his grip on the chains and skidded across the pavement on his chest. Once his head stopped spinning, he got up to his feet and looked down at his jacket. It torn up and and dirty. It annoyed him, he liked that jacket.
He looked up and saw Yumichika in front of him, his zanpaku-to unsealed. "What? Two against one? I thought you eleventh division guys loved to fight one on one."
"True." Yumichika said. "We normally will only fight one on one, even if one of our own is on the verge of dying, we won't interfere. But captain Hitsugaya, Urahara and Yoruichi told us to bring you in alive as quickly as possible, even if we had to double-team you."
Yumichika then waved his hand in front of his blade. The blade transformed into a bunch of peacock feathers. He swung the blade and struck Keigo across the chest. It didn't hurt but rather started to feel tired and weak.
'Dammit. His blade is draining my spiritual energy. Gotta get away from him.'
He sonidoed away from the girly looking soul reaper. Unfortunately, due to the sudden loss of a portion of his spiritual energy, he didn't get very far. He ended up a few feet in front of Ikkaku, who had his foot on his kamas.
The second Keigo appeared in front of him, Ikkaku attacked. Slashing him across the chest with the monk spade and sword parts of his bankai.
Two large gashes opened up across his chest. Keigo fell to the ground. But that's what he wanted. He reached for his kamas. All he needed was to grab his kamas and unseal them. His fingers touched the tip of one blade when Ikkaku drove the monk spade into his arms, almost completely severing his arms. Keigo screamed in pain. "My arms! You cut my freaking arms off!"
Ikkaku raised a foot over his head. "Quit being a baby. Limbs can be reattached." Ikkaku said before he brought his foot down on his head.
Elsewhere
Mizuiro grinned as used a sonido to dodge another of Chad's powerful punches and fired off a bala from his left hand. The bala struck him in the chest. Chad stumbled back and clutched his chest.
He found it quite amusing. When he was human, he wouldn't have stood a chance against anyone in a fight. Now he was beating the human juggernaut known as Yasutora 'Chad' Sado with ease. Though he was annoyed that his right arm was completely and painfully disabled. Of course, even after getting medical treatment, he'd probably still be unable to use it for several days, if not a week. Of course, he could unseal his zanpaku-to. That would completely restore his arm. But he just didn't feel like it. There was no point to it. Other then that one attack, Chad had yet to prove that he was strong enough to warrant that. If he started to do that powerful punch attack again then probably would have to.
However, Chad didn't seem to be able to do that attack again. And he also likely feared that if he did use it again, he'd kill him. He wouldn't. The only reason he hit him the first time was that he caught him off guard. Now he knew what to expect.
Chad balled his right hand amd the flanges on his shoulder opened as he focused his reiatsu into his fist. It was the same attack from before...expect it was weaker then the first one.
Chad started running at him. At the last second, Mizuiro sonidoed. He reappeared behind Chad, where he charged and fired a cero.
It hit Chad square in the back and exploded. When the smoke cleared, Chad was on his knees, panting.
"Is this the extent of your abilities Chad? Where is all that power you had in the first attack?"
Chad didn't say anything. Instead, he climbed to his feet and tried to attack him with the same attack again. However, this time it was even weaker than the previous one.
He drew his saber and sidestepped the attacked and countered. Slashing Chad across the chest.
Chad stumbled to one knee, panting even harder.
"I'll take that as a yes." he said as he raised his zanpaku-to. "Time to finish this. Good bye Chad."
He brought his zanpaku-to down...only to stop it in mid air. A chain had wrapped around his saber and arm.
An instant later, his entire left arm and saber were encased in ice.
"AAARGH!" he screamed.
Mizuiro looked behind him. It was captain Toshiro Hitsugaya and his lieutenant, Rangiku Matsumoto.
"Surrender." Hitsugaya said. "And you will not be harmed."
"I don't think so." he replied before sending a pulse of spiritual energy through his arm, shattering the ice and sending the chain to the ground.
Hitsugaya slashed the air with his zanpaku-to, creating flying ice dragon. Mizuiro countered by firing a trio of balas at it, destroying it.
Chad tried to hit him from behind but Mizuiro dive out of the attack. He quickly got to his feet and fired out a toxic cloud at three of them. Hitsugaya waved his zanpaku-to, summoning a wall of ice to block the cloud. Poison and ice met. The ice melted as the cloud dissipated, canceling each other out. Mizuiro was hit by a sudden coughing fit, causing him to cough up a bit of blood.
'Damn. Almost at my limit. I should be able to use it another two or three times before it starts damaging me.'
"It seems you can only use that poison cloud attack a limited number of times before it starts damaging you." Hitsugaya said.
"Poison? No, it's not just simple poisons. As I told Chad, I can do a lot more then simple poisons. Why don't you try this." he said before spitting out a white cloud.
Just like before Hitsugaya summoned a wall of ice, just like he wanted him to. The cloud hit the ice, melting it and creating a dark blue cloud. Rangiku and Chad leap back but Hitsugaya who was standing right behind the wall of ice stumbled backwards and struggled to stay standing while Mizuiro suffered a coughing fit worse then the last one.
"Captain!" Rangiku shouted as ran to her captain's side and supported his struggling body. "What did you do to him?!"
"Like I said, I can do a lot more then simple poisons. I created a powerful muscle relaxant, that loosens ones muscles to the point that they can not move them. However, it was missing one ingredient, H2O. When the gas came into contact with his wall of ice, the chemical became complete. Oh and don't worry it isn't fatal, he'll just have an increasingly hard time moving around until he can't move anymore. I can't create something that complex and fatal in this form and remain standing."
Hitsugaya waved his lieutenant off, choosing to stand on his own.
"Oh and you should know that all three of you inhaled enough to effect you. Captain Hitsugaya simply breathed in enough to effect him right away. But you should be starting to feel the effects now. Tell me is getting hard to hold onto your zanpak-"
"BANKAI! Daiguren Hyorinmaru!"
Hitsugaya stood there for a moment, examining his arms and moving them with no difficultly what so ever. "It seems that your muscle relaxant isn't as effective in cold temperatures."
'How stupid of me! I'm getting careless. I knew he had an ice-type zanpaku-to yet I didn't make it resistant to the cold.'
There was only one option left to him. He raised his saber and said, "Consume-"
"Not so fast!" Rangiku shouted. "Roar Haineko!"
Before Mizuiro could finish his command, a cloud of ash attacked his left hand, virtually shredding his left hand. His sword fell to the ground as he held his bloody left hand to his chest.
"I don't need to lift my zanpaku-to to fight." Rangiku said before she and Chad both fell to one knee.
Mizuiro was in trouble now. Both his hands were disabled, which meant no ceros or belas, nor could he use his resurreccion. If he kept on using his toxins, he'd end up poisoning himself worse then his opponent. But he wasn't about to surrender either. Surrendering meant being sent to the Soul Society for interrogation, then either imprisonment, execution, or worse, being given to the Squad Twelve for research on arrancar.
Shuddered at the thought. Granz was creepy and, in Mizuiro's mind at least a little crazy, if not completely insane. But he had heard that his soul reaper counterpart was just as bad, possibly even worse Granz. If that Mayuri Kurotsuchi was anything like Granz then imprisonment and execution would be merciful compared to being sent to Squad Twelve Headquarters.
He pushed those thoughts out of his head. Now wasn't the time.
He could use one last powerful toxin to kill or at the very lease defeat the captain. The problem was if he did do that, his body would suffer a massive toxic overdose. Now none of poisons, toxins and diseases could effect him, much less kill him, but a toxic overdose would leave him painfully paralyzed for a good forty minutes to an hour at least, unless received medical treatment for it. But it was about the only thing he could do.
Mizuiro's throat started to swell as he created the desired the toxin, hoping that Tatsuki or Keigo would get to him before one of the soul reapers did. But Hitsugaya wasn't about let him fire off another toxin. Hitsugaya lunged, swinging his sword at him. He dodged the first two swings, but the third, fourth and fifth all hit him. Three gashes spread across his chest, then immediately frozen over. The gas in his throat almost completely dissipated, and the remaining bit of gas harmlessly escaped as he let out a series of hacking coughs.
Mizuiro attempted to stay standing but every second he was standing felt like an eternity. His arms were disabled and barely had the strength to stay standing. He was beaten. He knew that. Hitsugaya knew that. "Well, come on soul reaper. Finish it." he said as he shivered from the iced over wounds.
"No. I'm taking you to Urahara's."
Just before he collapsed and passed out. Mizuiro managed to say, "And you call us evil..."
I imagine some of you are wondering about Orihime and what she did in this chapter. Some people seem to think she's the standard damsel in distress. Personally, I don't think she is. If this actually did happen, I believe she would have initial paralyzed from the shock of seeing Tatsuki and the others as arrancar. Then once she snapped out of it, she would have tried stop before the fighting before anyone was seriously hurt or killed.
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