Disclaimer: All the espada belong to me – everything else belongs to Tite Kubo… (sadly)
Oh wow, oh wow, two chapters so soon? I realize that I am a pretty big hypocrite cause I often find myself mumbling about people never updating their fanfics and then I realize.. 'you don't update your fanfic either genius' So instead of doing a project due on Monday (which I haven't started) I have decided to write the next chapter. See how much I care?
Chapter 12 – Round Two… FIGHT
"Put me down! Put me down!" Gin's tolerance level for the little girl punching his back was getting lower and lower every second and he honestly started thinking about dropping her on the ground and just telling her to shut up but then he felt the guilt claw at his stomach. Even though this little girl wasn't his Rangiku, she in a way, still was. He could tell she remembered bits of her life in Soul Society, he knew that if he persisted, she would remember. He just had to teach her… first thing first though, Gin had to take this little girl out of Hueco Mundo without killing himself (and her) in the process.
"Sorry, can' do tha' jus' yet," Rangiku glared at the man called Gin, she didn't feel scared of him anymore. Instead she felt incredibly, incredibly angry. She felt like hitting him on the head and telling him what a bit idiot he was, she also wanted to call him more names but she didn't understand some of the words that were appearing in her mind. What the hell was a bass-turd anyways?
"Put me down! I'll yell!" she threatened and then took a huge gulp of air, in the next second she felt herself land on her bottom, hard, and felt tears coming to her eyes. Then she started to cry and Gin swore, forgetting that he was holding a four-year-old human girl and not the same girl he had met in Rukongai hundreds and hundreds of years ago.
"Sorry bou' that, here let me help-" Gin clutched his nose painfully and his eyes watered.
"Stay away from me… you… you… MEANIE!" the young girl shrieked. She had just punched him in the nose.
"Hey now, why'd ya do tha'?" Gin asked lightly, he felt blood dripping out of his nose. How the hell did a three year old girl have so much damn strength? She hadn't broken his nose, but she had hit him hard enough to make him bleed.
"You just dropped me!" her yelling started to sound quite hysterical.
Oh dear…
"Sorry, can't keep talkin' gotta run!" Gin picked up little Rangiku yet again and bolted as soon as he felt a reiatsu coming near. It was powerful, Gin released the grip of his nose and raised his hand out and pointed it at thin air and began muttering under his breath. He spoke extremely fast, he hoped he hadn't stumbled on any words, and then suddenly before him loomed a portal leading out straight to he real world.
"Ah, sorry, can't let you pass on Aizen's orders!" the portal disappeared, and a blade had appeared. Gin immediately parried with Shinso, Rangiku shrieked as she felt the tip of the sword just pass her barefoot.
"Eh… course ya can let me pass… just depen's on if ya want me to is all," Gin replied with a smirk.
"Well guess what fox-face? I don't want you to!" replied the new opponent who had just appeared.
Gin frowned and then sighed, he let Rangiku down and told her to stand back, they were going to fight in a hallway, it was small and there wasn't much space, hopefully he could protect her.
"Aizen had told me you were a sneaky lying bastard, what's with all this… kindness you're showing to this girl huh?"
Rangiku cocked her head, she had been mentioned and even she began to wonder why this man was so nice to her. She immediately grew scared as she remembered tales that her mama had used to tell her about 'little-girl snatchers', was he one of them? Rangiku heard a laughing in her head, she had learned to call this second voice her 'other self'.
Little-girl snatcher indeed, haha, listen lil-girl I think it's just about time you went to sleep, I need a one on one conversation with Gin and you're not helping
Rangiku was often confused by her 'other-self' this time was no exception. How did her other-self know so much about Gin anyways?
Ah you will understand if you just speak to Urahara a bit more, he's coming here anyways, he'll arrive in a few moments, just wait
How did her other-self know Urahara was coming? Her other-self didn't answer, Rangiku sighed and hid in the little inlet in the wall just in time as the battle between Gin and this mysterious new person had just begun.
Ichimaru Gin vs Fang-Ren (The 6th Espada)
"Fang-Ren? Chinese?" Gin smirked as he dodged and parried every attack Fang had launched.
"I was one of the worst people of Ancient China, I was a berserker in the emperor's army! I loved battle, the yell, the screams… the blood… and I'm about to get SOME MORE!"
Gin thought that Fang-Ren reminded him of someone.
"Don't daze of fool!" Gin swore and ducked next in time, a bit of his hair had been cut.
"Is you're hair naturally red?"
Fang paused for a bit and frowned, then he charged again, "WHAT F-ED UP QUESTION IS THAT?" Gin smirked and then laughed as he dodged much more quickly then the last time.
"Ikorose… Shinso," The sword extended and shot at Fang who dodged by jumping to the side, Gin turned his wrist, Shinso moved, slicing sideways, Fang jumped up attempting to leap to the back of Gin, Shinso followed. "My Shinso doesn't just stay in one direction after extendin' ya know, I can move 'im still."
"Tch, so? You still haven't cut me!" growled the 6th espada.
"Oh really? Check again?" A cut had suddenly appeared on the espada's exposed chest and cheek. His eyes flashed dangerously.
"I will… destroy you!" A sudden burst of reiatsu, Rangiku could barely breath, it was a surprise she hadn't fainted already.
Gin frowned and shook his head, then chuckled. "I hate repeatin' myself… I ain't gonna lose ta no one."
"Yeah, yeah, say that again when you're lying in a bloody pile on the floor!" Fang charged, his boost of reiatsu was suffocating, even for Gin who could take on the worst of Aizen's reiatsu without a sweat. What the hell was Aizen playing at, making such strong creations who were possibly even stronger than himself.
Rangiku could barely keep her eyes open, but with the sudden flare of suffocating power, she realized that Gin's chances of winning were slim, when was that scary hat-man going to come? She could barely see, her senses were dulling and all she wanted to do was sleep but her mind said that she couldn't sleep, sleeping would get her killed, an that fear was what kept the little girl from closing her eyes but in a few moments Rangiku wanted to close her eyes tightly, not from the crushing reiatsu but because of the scene before her.
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"Keep at it Ichigo, I think you're finally doing something!" Isshin called, even at a time like this the man could joke around.
"Shut up and help me you dumb old man!" Ichigo growled angrily.
"Tsk. Tsk. I have to save up strength to save Yoruichi-san!"
"Well what about Toshiro?" Hitsugaya narrowed his eyes.
"That is Hitsugaya TAICHO!" Ichigo shook his head, whatever.
"The wall is going to break soon, just keep going at it… just wait, can't you feel the heat? I honestly wonder what that heat is," Isshin muttered darkly. He could feel Yoruichi's reiatsu and it seemed to be okay, but he could tell that all she had been doing was dodging, that means those heat waves were the attack of her unknown opponent.
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Yoruichi swore yet again, damn it, she still hadn't thought of a plan! She still had lots of energy left, but you should never overestimate your abilities. She had to think of a plan quickly.
"I must admit, I am getting quite disappointed, I thought you'd be able to put up a better fight but I see all you can do is run," Yoruichi, not for the first time, wondered why the esapda never opened up his eyes. She knew he could read her thoughts but he never replied.
She continued dodging, occasionally she had tried breaking his barrier, and she could see that some of her kido attacks had weakened it, also on closer inspection she had noticed that the espada was not as calm as he sounded. When she had leaped at the barrier she saw his face was actually contorted in concentration and what looked a bit like pain, as if he was struggling to keep something up.
In the past half an hour, it seemed that his face was becoming more and more serious and he had grown much more quiet and rarely spoke. When he did, his breathing was laboured but he still managed to launch out such powerful attacks.
"What the hell should I do…" Yoruichi muttered, she needed help. She launched a spell of kido straight at the barrier, it flickered dully for a moment as the spell had multiple layers of attacking power. Another dodge, another spell, it was like a never ending pattern.
Then, the pattern changed, a yell was heard, Yoruichi froze for an instant and then leaped away.
"DIE!" Ichigo yelled as he charged, already in bankai, straight at Saiten, the espada's eyes were open in shock, then he raise up his hand, muttered something and Ichigo flew back and slammed straight through the wall. Isshin frowned.
"I don't forgive people for attacking my son," the man growled as he gripped his zanpakuto. "Hitsugaya, go check on Ichigo… get him out of here to. Find the portal to get out of here quick, looks like the residents in Hueco Mundo have become a lot stronger than before. The white-haired taicho nodded and left immediately through the hole which Ichigo had created.
"Running away? Hmm… trash like him still hasn't changed," Isshin raised his eyebrow.
"The guy has a bit of Ulquiorra in him," Yoruichi explained, it wasn't much of an explanation but Isshin was a lot smarter then he tended to put on.
"We'd better finish this quick, my kids won't forgive me if I don't make it out alive and Urahara would probably kill me if he found out I left you to die." He charged, Isshin in many ways was like his son, except Isshin always had a plan in mind.
Quickly Isshin released and his sword changed into a extremely large sword at least a meter and a half long, single edged with only what looked like a wooden hilt that was only attached to the sword by a rope binding that tied through a large hole near the end of the sword. Honestly the thing looked like it could break any second, but it managed to destroy Saiten's barrier, although Isshin received many injuries in the process.
"Ah… that felt fun, haven't had to release this baby in ages," Isshin muttered weakly, coughing up blood.
"Dummy," Yoruichi muttered as he picked up the man, Saiten was currently immobile, the aftershock of the destruction of his broken barrier and alternate dimension was affecting him greatly. "We have to get out while we can, there is no way we're going to survive if this keeps up, it's garunteed someone is going to die getting out," the dark-skinned woman whispered to one of her greatest friends as she slung the man across her shoulder and shunpo'd out of the room via the hole which Ichigo made.
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"Looks like one battle has just ended, my, my, Isshin was always a berserker at heart," Urahara murmured with a laugh as he walked, extremely calmly through the walls of Heuco Mundo. Kira walked slowly behind him, how could the guy stay so calm, wasn't he afraid of an attack. "But I think another has just begun," Kira looked up startled as he felt a familiar flare of reiatsu.
"Taicho!" he yelled speeding forward, Urahara sighed and frowned at the boy.Honestly…
"Ah… Yoruichi is fine, that's good… looks like it's time to save dear little Rangiku-san, wouldn't want Aizen getting his hands on my most prize possession," a cold glint had appeared in Urahara's eyes and it would've been a perfect time to laugh maniacally, except Kisuke had never bothered making an evil laugh and so just laughed hysterically like he always did.
Slowly he followed after Kira who had by then, sped far ahead. Urahara walked along the walls, feeling the stone and occasionally started humming to himself, all the while, extremely aware of shadow trailing behind him. Demons, such marvellous creatures, and extremely wonderful allies to have. Who said Yoruichi had completely managed to dissuade Urahara from the path of evil? Well whoever had said that was wrong.
Oh, oh… who is Urahara really:o
Two chapters for your pleasure, Saiten lost round two, Ichimaru won round two… round three beginning, who's going to win Ichimaru or Fang Ren?
Oh and no, Fang Ren was not merged with Grimmjow, only Ulquiorra and Stark of the old espada remained after the war.
Oh and we're going to leave Hueco Mundo next chapter, well not completely leave HM, but we're gonna go back to the real world as well as go to Soul Society to, I know this is turning into a weird, evil… 'behind the scenes evil mastermind' kind of thing, and it sort of is, but the main point was to show Gins love for Rangiku and I will.
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