Disclaimer: The ideas and concepts used in BLEACH belong to Tite Kubo, as well as any regular characters. Most of the characters in this story belong to me. Thank you.


Shin made a sharp spin around as he swung his sword with the collective motion of his whole body. When the metal touched the branches of Kagoya's weapon, they all flew back in the same direction, towards Kagoya. The unfortunate swordsman jumped out of the way, making room for the many steel-strength tentacles to blow a hole in the house behind him. Looking at the damage with mild disdain, he repositioned himself in the air and readied himself to black as Shin came charging quickly across the road.

With only one hand Shin delivered a powerful downstroke that Kagoya managed to block just in time. A small crater was created from the impact under Kagoya, adding to the field's rapidly progressing image of a war-torn battlefield. Kagoya twirled his sword with his wrist, compacting all the wiry rods into one bumpy looking club. He grasped the hilt of his newly formed instrument with both hands and jumped forward. Shin stood with a menacing grin on his face.

Shin sidestepped Kagoya's attack and appeared behind him, dragging his sword through the air on his shoulder. It was faster than a flash, but somewhere Shin managed to cut Kagoya's arms up to the elbow, leaving a multitude of flesh wounds that spurted out drops of blood all at once. The shock of instant pain made Kagoya drop his heavy weapon, but he recovered fast enough to swing it back, only to have Shin deflect it as he was making another approach. Both leaped back from each other panting.

Shin stood with an evil grin on his face and wide-eyed with bloodlust, Kagoya with one eye closed to compensate for the pain in his arms. Disregarding the pain for a moment he tightened the grip on his weapon and took a shuffling step back.

"I need to think. He's been blocking every strike that Tenshiguro makes. I can't surprise him. And his speed, that weird invisible attack of his, I can't anticipate that. He's a bit to much for just my sword." He held a hand half-clenched up to his face and opened his closed eye. "I'll have to try a different tactic."

He pointed his arm and hand at Shin, who was just standing un-amused and waiting for movement. Kagoya was certain of his tactic and didn't anticipate any unnecessary action from Shin at this point.

"Bakudo, Sai!" There was a brief flash of light, and suddenly Shin couldn't move his arms. They folded neatly behind his back and his hands opened to grab both his arms. His sword dropped straight into the ground. Shin's face gave a small smirk.

"What a neat trick," he said to Kagoya with a certain amount of animosity in his voice. Without any forethought or hesitation, Shin started sprinting toward and unmoving Kagoya. Kagoya flexed his hand, making a motion to clench something, and Shin fell over. Now his legs were pressed hard together and wouldn't move. Still not giving in to the obvious hopelessness of his situation, Shin started squirming his way over like a caterpillar.

Kagoya smirked casually and lifted up his weapon then crashed it down to the ground. Shin was able to roll out of the way in time, but fell into a ditch and couldn't move anymore. There was a very feint-cheering coming from the town. No one was particularly happy with the several houses that had been decimated by the fight, but at least now it was over. Shin Kenpachi was already half dead as Kagoya strode over with a dense air of triumph.


Sasori was watching in the distance under a bush. He was still eluding his monstrous pursuer and didn't want to take chances before Kagoya could help him. He was initially worried about his brother's abilities against the so-called 'deadly' rogue, but now that he had broken out the Bakudo and paralyzed him completely, it was only a short matter of time. As Sasori watched he heard something troubling behind him.

Hoji was standing in the street with his sword slung on his shoulder and his palm pointed at Kagoya a fair distance away. Energy was massing into his hand with a foreboding deep red color. Sasori watched warily as the terrifying nearly bald man created a rippling ball of pure spiritual energy. What was more startling to Sasori was not only did he look perfectly calm and collected, Kagoya didn't notice what was about to happen.

"Senkou no…" Hoji ruggedly said as the ball of energy stabilized. He tensed his fingers around the orb and beams of blood-red light shined outwards in every direction. Kagoya's attention was now diverted from delivering a final blow to the aggravated Shin below him to coming to terms with something his mind couldn't grasp.

"SHIKYO!" The beam was gone almost instantly, leaving behind it a roar of terrible thunder and a glimmering trail of spiritual dust in the air. Kagoya received the blast as a whole, visible from the gaping hole where his shoulder used to be. Hoji smiled a wide and evil smile as Kagoya fell to his knees screaming to the heavens.


Shin could feel his fingers and toes moving once again, so he sprung up out of the ditch and jumped over the various craters away from his now shrieking opponent to his sword. Sasori had broken his cover out of desperation and ran at full speed over to the profusely bleeding Kagoya. Shin pulled his sword up and sheathed it. No matter how he wanted to look at this, the fight was over.

Hoji arrived at the scene with his sword already stowed away, looking down at the sight of the pitiless man. Kagoya had stopped screaming in favor of gasping and breathing heavily, clenching at his wound and trying to keep his arm from falling off. Sasori was just staring at him, breathless, with tears in his eyes. The man he had always looked up to for his strength and cunning, his mentor, his big brother, was sobbing like a child in a deepening pool of blood.

"He'll live, right?" Hoji said from behind Sasori. Sasori was completely paralyzed with terror and surprise, but his head bobbed unconsciously to answer the lividly horrific man's question.

"Good! I wanna fight this guy next time! He looked like fun!" Hoji turned to where most of the villagers were hiding. "HEY! GET OVER HERE AND TREAT HIS WOUNDS, DAMMIT!" Several terrified villagers came out with bandages and salves, several others came out and gathered around the unfortunate man. They flipped him on his back and started emitting a green light from their hands while the others wrapped the hole as it slowly closed shut. Sasori was the only one present to watch the two gruesome fighters leave down the road they were traveling along.


"Why couldn't we interrogate him or something? He knew his sword's name, and he could have taught us how to communicate with our swords!" Hoji complained to Shin as they were walking down yet another dark and dusty road.

"Because," Shin replied staring at the moon, "that would defeat the purpose of our training." Hoji blinked and hit his head with an open palm. He had forgotten about the journey they were on and was only concentrating on the results of it. "By the way, you're gonna have to teach me how you did that thing that nearly killed him. What was it called?"

Hoji stared at Shin, remarking about the paradox of a teacher asking for enlightenment from a student. But until one of them knew their sword's name, they were both students of something.

"Sure thing, sensei."


Hiyari-Hou Fire: Spear Cannon
Senkou no Shikyo: Flash of Death

This was all before the academy, so the hakudo and bakudo don't need numbers or verses per say. The traditional bakudo spells that already exist will be named and numbered.