Warning: This is a timeline skip made purely out of boredom. The regular story will return after the holidays.
The cliffs high above the Seireitei had all been evacuated with the exception of two. Still, though, there seemed to be nobody there for the faintest moment…
CLASH
The two fighters appeared from nowhere before pushing off each other's lunged blade. Taking a staunchly defensible position toward the edge of a cliff was the calm faced captain of the sixth division. With an analytical glare, he watched as his opponent took the high ground of a sunken boulder. Despite being smaller in stature, the raven haired teen displayed no signs of fatigue whatsoever.
"I see." Byakuya spoke first, "So you've mastered shunpo as well…still…"
"You really are a cool one, aren't you?" She interrupted his speech, "You're analyzing me like I'm no threat, but…It's all a big act." Imitating the apathetic look of her opponent's face, Rukia had found herself picking up some things from her fights like with Renji and the others. Although greatly out of her character, the taunting seemed to have some effect with Byakuya, regardless of how much he tried to hide it. "Weren't you going to kill me?" Moving to a more casual pose, the role she was acting seemed to be slowly mixing in with the adrenaline that flowed through her veins. "Show me…yourBankai…"
His eyes leered at the word, as if it was taboo for an outsider to even know of its existence.
"You said that you were going to kill me…and execute Ichigo yourself." She restated the facts toward him.
"So?"
"You make me sick!" Her own character showed through suddenly, as her emotions flowed through her widened violet eyes toward the emotionless man before her. "I'm going to hit you…with everything I have. I'm going to crush...every last of your powers." Breathing deeply now, Rukia eyed Byakuya with scathing emotion. "Execute your own brother…?" she could not even imagine the logic behind such thought. "Release your Bankai. I'll crush it."
Byakuya had stood silently as Rukia made her pledge, though his face hadn't changed at all throughout all of her threats. "Talk is cheap…girl…" he began as he slowly raised his blade up. "No matter what you say…my mind will never change. Neither will both your fates. Bankai? Don't be absurd. I won't need to use my Bankai against you…for at least a thousand years." Holding up his zanpakuto, the man closed his eyes as his sword disintegrated from view. "Scatter…Senbonzakura…"
Reflecting light to look like harmless pink cherry blossom leaves, the attack sweltered toward an un-intimidated Rukia, who stood her ground before the last second. Slashing her blade with all of her might, a burst of icy cold wind blasted through the deadly swarm of blades, leaving a trail of ice straight toward Byakuya. His left hand guard was made completely useless by being frozen over, and dropped to the unfrozen ground next to him to shatter like glass. His hand itself was covered in a light frost, and a small trickle of red flowed down where a shard had pierced his skin.
"What was that?" A single white wisp of air exited his mouth before the chills began to give way to the higher temperature all around. "Is that your zanpakuto's power…Rukia Kurosaki!?" As the light mist of temperature differences began to rise and clear up, an icy clear path was carved though the rocky surface between the two of them.
"At the moment of attack, it consumes my spirit energy…and fires a super high concentration of spiritual pressure from the tip of my blade. Then the attack is transformed into a massive wave of ice. That's Sode no Shirayuki's power."
Unaffected by the surprise, Byakuya stood at the ready as Rukia answered his question. "Hakuren…" she explained the attack's name.
"White Ripple?" Was all he said in response, "what an exquisite name…" he raised his blade into the air, before turning it over so that the tip was now facing the ground. "Very well…If you want it so badly…feast your eyes upon my Bankai." Loosening his grip, the zanpakuto fell to the ground, but disappeared through the ground as if it were water. Watching with widened eyes, Rukia watched with astonishment as two columns of blades grew from behind him, before all disintegrating into deadly leaves of cherry blossoms. "Bankai…Senbonzakura Kageyoshi."
She had dodged and tried to keep away as much as she could from the swarm of blades that followed to swallow her around the field. Without even lifting an arm, it seemed that Byakuya had somehow taken the upper hand of the battle. Jumping high into the air, she sent a wave of ice to rain upon the captain, but to her dismay, the living cloud had moved to intercept. As she landed, they sought to envelop her as she attempted to flee from their razor sharp grasp. As they crashed with a shattering sound, even the ground itself had been carved from the force of their motion.
"Senbonzakura is an attack by millions of blades coming from all directions. Your zanpakuto is indeed powerful, but…" As the smoke rose, Rukia's trembling form strained to stand up amongst what icy effects to prevent her death she had done around her. Indeed, red had soaked through her bandages that were now revealed from under her shredded black shihakusho. "Despite your speed…you'll never evade it."
"I guess I was wrong…I should've known not to fight a Bankai with a Shikai…"
"Watch what you say, girl." Byakuya angrily said upon hearing this. "You make it sound as though you've achieved Bankai."
"Yeah…" Rukia said with a proud smirk. Even more, she smiled in response to the look of surprise that flashed in his eyes. "That's exactly…what I mean…"
"What?"
"It's just as I told you, or is it that you can't believe what you're hearing…?" Panting, Rukia glanced up once more toward a bewildered Byakuya Kuchiki with defiance in her violet eyes. Lifting her sword arm, a cold air began to settle as those same defiant eyes began to illuminate with an icy bluish-white tint. Aiming her pure white zanpakuto in front of her, the tassel wrapped itself around her arm. Her Raven hair fluttered from the increasing wind around them, before opening her mouth to speak.
"Ban…kai…"
Her shihakusho was no longer black, but pure white. In one hand she tightly gripped the pure white blade of Sode no Shirayuki in all her glory. In the other hand she held a blade completely made of ice, but by the way she held it he could see it didn't have the cold or slickness of ice. Rukia glared back toward the captain in front of her with a sudden confidence, as the very ground under her had become slick from freezing over.
"Tenshi…Shirayuki"
Author's Notes: I definitely needed to do this to stave off the Finals Craziness. That, and there's too many people with limited imaginations in the Bleach RP that I'm a part of online...geez...how many people have to be vizard with fire powers, anyway!? By the way, "I was in a hurry" is not an excuse for deplorable grammar and spelling! Are you on the run from Tommy Lee Jones and his never ending roles as a policeman/government agent or something!?
...legalities...
-"Finals Craziness" is not a real medical condition but an exaggeration of stress created by Fall semester finals.
-Everything is based within Bleach created by Tite Kubo
-Rukia's bankai is fanon made by RadiantBeam, in "Over and Over again" chapter 23
-Tommy Lee Jones is U.S. Government property.