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.


Oka leaped into the air with his sword draw fully up in both hands and legs pirouetting, ready to cut Shin in half. He sang out his descending roar with operatic harmony, and finished with a lavishly feminine grunt as his sword came to an abrupt stop on Shin's. Then, Shin flicked his sword and sent Oka's spiraling away. Oka turned desperately to make a grab, but Shin's sword was already at his neck.

"Boo" Shin taunted. Oka didn't move at all, but he looked down with his eyes. Oka's sword didn't clang against the wooden floor, either, as Hoji had made his way into the field and caught it in his free hand. Smiling his eagerly vicious smile, Hoji lightly tossed Oka's sword up and down.

"Nice weight" Hoji said tauntingly. "Great balance, too. This is a pretty good sword." Hoji started pacing, still measuring and judging the sword with his analytical eye. Oka started getting tense about his sword being in another person's hand for that long. Shin kept his eyes locked dangerously on Oka's, waiting for the oppurtunity to lop off his head, so Oka got an idea. He winked at Shin, causing him to recoil momentarily. That moment was enough for Oka to punch Shin right under the ribs and then kick him away while he was down. Hoji looked over in surprise to see the charging Oka coming at him strong. Hoji raised both swords and readied to fight.

First, he tossed Oka's sword back to him, which Oka took as an attack and slapped it away to his left. Then Hoji threw his sword back behind his back and Oka swiped with his left hand to grab his sword and block a tremendous blow at the last second. Hoji picked himself off the ground and did a twisting stomp-kick right on Oka's throat. Oka jumped back and recovered quickly, swinging down as Hoji closed which forced him up into the air again. Oka stabbed at him in mid-air, but Hoji softly pushed the sword away with his hand and landed, facing up to the slightly taller man and readying another offensive.

While Hoji and Oka clashed violently, the receptionist girl rushed over to the still writhing Shin.

"Mr. Kenpachi! Are you alright?" she shouted with concern. Shin shot back up with wide eyes and a stale face. He looked over as the strange man and his teammate fought. "You should go, sir. He'll only overwhelm--" Shin dashed off without letting her finish. Oka blocked and deflected Hoji's rushing slashes in time to watch Shin plant his sword in front of his path and vault on it. While upsidedown in the air, he delivered a hard kick to Oka's face. The force was great enough to send the freak through the door and out into the street. Shin landed and pulled his sword back out, ready to proceed.

"Hey! How dare you attack him!?" one of Oka's security guards yelled.

"We'll kill you!" the other said. Unfortunately, they were both stabbed in the chest from behind by Suichi's shikai. Shin and Hoji dashed out while Oka was still getting up.

"Oh? More fighting?" Oka said haughtily. He stood up and whipped off his robe, revealing his insanely tight six-pack below the tight wrapped shirt he wore around his chest. Shin and Hoji shared a mutual look of disgust as the frighteningly feminine man started posing and running his hands through his hair. "Well, I suppose my body just can't help itself. If your iron-hard wills want to clash swords, than clash we shall!" Oka posed again with one leg running parallel with his entire body and his sword pointed at the two near his hip.

"You're all kinds of weird" Hoji bluntly said. Oka's jaw dropped at the accusation, but he failed to retort in time with Shin's advance. Once in range, Oka kicked his leg down hard, with Shin absorbing the whole of the blow on his free arm. He could feel his arm fracturing slowly, and dashed out again. Now inches from his face, Shin glared his wild, killing glare and froze Oka long enough to deliver a huge sweeping slash from his waist to his shoulder. As Oka riled in pain, he shot his own cut to Shin's throat which Hoji caught with a wild grin.

Hoji pushed his sword down into the ground and took his own sword in a reverse grip. Oka knew what was coming, and he retreated just in time. Hoji had swiped at a nearly full circular path with his sword, which he then switched back to his normal grip. Hoji kicked the grounded sword back out at Oka, who caught it this time and narrowly blocked Hoji's second-part combo. With the straight slash, Hoji had his arm almost straight back and reversed his grip to swing again. Then, his arm was wrapped around his torso and he used the momentum of the blocked slash to switch his grip again. Over and over, Hoji would swing and Oka would block while Shin held his sword overhead with both hands.

"Rin ran Rin ro rar..." Shin chanted over and over. Oka noticed this and caught Hoji's next swipe with the guard of his sword. Hoji looked shocked as Oka reeled back and headbutted him across the way and into the inn wall. Oka began to rush into Shin, but Shin was already done.

"Boko no..." Oka could feel the massive pressure building. Stones broke, roofs nearly collapsed, the wells all around town shot geysers of water, and every single window broke. "TAIYOU!!" Shin swung down...


After the battle, the villagers had started planning reconstruction for the obliterated block that Shin had inadvertently destroyed with a single swing. Of course, because Shin had destroyed it, they had no intention of asking him to help with the project. The receptionist girl was the only one who saw the attack besides Suichi and Hoji, and she was sworn to secrecy by them both. Why, no one dared to ask. As for Oka, or what was left of him, he was given to his barely living guards to return to the Kyuuhiouto with a warning from Shin:

'In fighting me, there is no hope for you people. Surrender'

So, all in all, the day had been saved by Shin and Hoji, and partly Suichi. After a few more days of decent rest, however, a reply to their warning came back in a message arrow.

"Oi, Shin!" Hoji shouted from across the inn. Shin turned from his spot at the bar where he was eating and flashed over to him.

"Yeah?" Shin replied with food in his mouth. Hoji, with a very angry face and twitching brow, turned around to show the message arrow lodged in his back. Shin looked at it for a second before saying "it's nice, but why not get a piercing where people can see it?"

"READ THE GODDAMN MESSAGE, SHIN!!" Hoji screamed. Shin pulled out the arrow and Hoji stretched out his shoulders, ignoring the pain and warm trickle of blood as he went over for medical attention. Shin opened the scroll on the arrow and read quietly back at the bar, which he flashed over to as well.

Dear Shin Kenpachi the message read. We have received your little "message" that you etched into the broken husk of our Financial Enforcer. It is unfortunate that we have to cross our swords at such an inopportune time, isn't it? While my organization would greatly like to aid with the current war, in between all the business and chances really gives us no time to do so. Therefore, I am offering you a way out of this predicament. If you will travel southwest of your current position to the little town of Riev (pronounced Reev), we will have our properties manager waiting for you to discuss business. If you still refuse to cooperate with us, however, he has been given orders to take you out. Sincerely, but with no comitment to the matter,

General-at-Arms Ken Yaburashiji

The remainder of the letter now burned to cinders in the fireplace as Shin gathered his men. Outside the inn, a huge fence had been constructed around the still-being repaired hole that shin had made. Everyone watched them as the trio left silently down to the river.

"The inn girl said that the river flows straight into the next town, Riev" Hoji explained.

"Good" Suichi replied. "Now hopefully we can straighten this mess out without anymore conflict."

"Tch" Hoji dejected. "You really don'y know either of us very well. This ain't a peace mission."

"We're going to kill this man" Shin lowed. "Kill him as another reminder to who these people are messing with..." Suichi looked in horror at the seriousness of this man and the ecstatically wild grin of the other. These men, in all seriousness, were dangerous to have in any region. Their presence was enough to ignite an entirely new kind of Hell, and in all luck, Suichi would be caught up in that hell.


"Thank god they're leaving" one of the townsfolk said to the bar. "Those hooligans have caused us enough trouble, even if they did get rid of that freaking perv..."

"Be nicer to them!" the receptionist girl scolded. "They're just...excited about their work is all." She took up the dishes as the man huffed and wandered off into her dreamy little memory. Shin's attack was like a sparkling blast from heaven, with all the bright light of his swinging sword reflecting off the drops of water and the shards of glass. It had taken her breath away the first time, and even now the image of the scene made her stumble her way into the kitchen...


The chant is a reference to the nonsensical chant from GaoGaiGar. It has no real meaning beyond that.

Boko no Taiyou: Hollow Sun.