Chapter 2: Unlimited reiatsu?
''Damn it, damn it, damn it'' Ichigo cursed as he inspected the gash delivered to him by Yammamoto.
Suddenly he started to smirk. ''I guess you leave me with no choice old man'' He said while gathering his reiatsu and pulling down his hollow mask calling forth his vaizard power.
''That's more like it'' Yammamoto said. ''I was starting to get bored fighting with kiddy gloves on''
''Don't worry the gloves are of'' Ichigo said ''Let see you block this'' He shot out a balla at incredible speed at Yammamoto.
Yammamoto quickly blocked the balla with his zanpaktou but instantly realized that it was a diversion and turned to see Ichigo launching a cero that he had charged while Yammamoto was busy blocking the balla.
He instantly raised his reiatsu and sends out an orange/red like beam from his zanpaktou to counter the cero. Meanwhile Ichigo was already moving to his left side while launching a Getsuga Tenshou which Yammamoto was just barely able to block and which caused quite some damage to the old man.
''Is this more to your liking old man?'' Ichigo taunted.
''Much better, I think I can actually turn on the heat'' Yammamoto said.
''Turn on the heat? You don't mean…'' Ichigo was saying but was interrupted by the enormous increase of Yammamoto's reiatsu which succeeded in not only surprising Ichigo but also scaring him. This wasn't a miracle because the reiatsu of the old man was at the very least one third higher than that of Ichigo.
''How much reiatsu do you actually have, is this your real limit or are you still holding back?'' Ichigo asked.
''This is my maximum reiatsu and I know your not as afraid as you claim to be seeing the fact that you still holding a quarter of your reiatsu in reserve'' Yammamoto startled Ichigo by that comment.
'' How did you not only know that I was holding back but also how much? That's just impossible I've just recently gained most of this strength there is no way you could have heard of it''
'' Just because I'm 2000 years old doesn't mean my senses have become any less, on the contrary I've improved my sense these last 2 Milena enabling me to almost instantly detect what someone's maximum reiatsu is as soon as it has surpassed a third of his or hers maximum.''
''So shall we really get started then?'' Ichigo asked as he raised his reiatsu to a level that nearly matched that of Yammamoto.
''Come at me whenever you're ready.'' Yammamoto said while once again taking a fighting pose.
What then happened even some of the captains could not follow because of the extreme speed.
They kept on attacking each other and parrying the other one's attacks like they were nothing. Even though Ichigo had the advantage of being able to shoot bala's and cero's without any kind of spell like it is for kidou he still wasn't able to break through the old man's defense. All he managed to do was create a few small cut's and burn on the arms of the old man while he himself got some serious cut's and had a quite large and painful burn on his left arm. That burn was created by the heat that Yammamoto's zanpaktou was emitting because even when blocked it could still do damage to Ichigo by the sheer temperature it was at. All Ichigo was able to do in those situations was or back off or let loose a Getsuga Tenshou which cost a lot of energy and at that low range was like a two sided sword which also damaged himself.
Slowly but certain it was starting to become obvious that Ichigo wouldn't win this even though he was starting to break through the old man's defenses it just wasn't enough. The difference in experience and sheer reiatsu was just too much for Ichigo after a little while he had a strange smirk on his face.
''Ah what the heck I've already got less reiatsu than the old man anyway way not spend some more with the change I will actually reduce the difference or even tip the balance in my favor'' Ichigo thought and then he took some blood from one of his cuts as he started to charge a Gran Ray cero and launched it from almost pointblank range as he shunpoed behind the old man.
Yammamoto was surprised by the sheer power that attack had, he quickly tried to block it with his zanpaktou but her realized that it was too powerful and too close to fully block.
Ichigo's gave a sigh of relieve when he saw the old man being blow several feet back be the blast.
''At least I know it had some effect'' Ichigo thought while taking advantage of the time to catch his breath. ''That attack had better left some marks on his body or els I'm toast''
Ichigo's little break was cut short as the beam from Yammamoto's zanpaktou nearly pierced him if he hadn't quickly shunpoed out of its path.
''You didn't think you could get rid of me that easily do you Kurrosaki Ichigo?'' Yammamoto said
''It cant hurt to hope, can it?'' Icigo asked.
That comment caused a small smile on Yammamoto's face: ''Your right I guess it cant hurt to hope, but dropping your guard can.'' He said while swinging his zanpaktou at Ichigo which the latter was barely able to block.
''I know that's why I didn't drop it''
''Is that so than why did you had such a hard time blocking my attack?''
''You know why old man your just too darn fast, don't you ever get tired? I just threw enough reiatsu at you in that attack to finish of one of the weaker Espada's and you look like I only threw a small firecracker''
''You still have a lot to learn about fighting someone who is stronger than you Ichigo.'' Yammamoto said while he started attacking again with his zanpaktou.
''Are you able to block this after waisting all that reiatsu you've just used?'' Yammamoto said while concentrating his reiatus in his zanpaktou.
'' Fuck, he isn't going too...''
I hope you've enjoyed it so far.
And special thanks to ichkak who pointed me to some serious mistake that I made in the first version of chapter one.