Chapter 2: Just slicin' an dicin' and a WHOLE LOTTA BLOOD!

Oh yeah, I don't own bleach. Tch. Mindless infidels…. I mean uh… just start readin.

Ichigo sat dazed, staring out the window. Over the last few days it seemed that hollows had been showing up in growing numbers and far more frequently. It was almost as if a large reiatsu, or two, were attracting them. So instead of sleeping or doing homework Ichigo had been forced to continuously slay hollows with barely even a break. Just being able to stare abjectly out of a window seemed to be an impossible task without his Shinigami representative badge alerting him to yet…bzzzzz… ANOTHER FREAKIN' HOLLOW!

Ichigo slowly, and much too calmly, got out of his seat and excused himself all the while gripping his badge with white knuckles within the secretive confines of his right pocket. Only a few select people in the room were aware for the reasons behind the orange-haired teenager's excessive absences, and they all watched him leave the room knowingly.

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Zaraki Kenpachi was having a bad day. He had foolishly listened to the hapless directions from his pink haired wannabe daughter who seemed to giggle in glee as they repetitively got lost amidst the maze of concrete towers and metal poles. God, this place is more fuckin' confusin' than Seiretei could EVER hope to be, were the large man's aggravated thoughts. First she says 'Left, Ken-chan, left!' then its 'Why did you lead us to this dead end Ken-chan? I told you that right was better.' If only I had the ability to sensefuckin'reiatsu…. Only way I'm gonna run into Ichigo is either if I trip on him, or we both end up fightin' the same hollow.

"Look Ken-chan it's a hollow!" came Yachiru's intruding squeal.

"Well, looks like I can let off a little steam now, eh? Hope it isn't took weak. Otherwise this will be a waste of my time!" Howling with bloodlust the mighty Zaraki Kenpachi charged towards the masked devil, preparing to have a long drawn out battle as he toyed with the poor thing. His howling, screaming, war cry driven charge was brought to a screeching halt as a seemingly ignorant strawberry-headed shinigami shunpo'd right into his path. crash!

"The fuck do ya think your doin' you orange-haired freak! Outta my way!... unless you want to fight?" Added Kenpachi hopefully as he picked himself up off the now-cracked cement sidewalk.

"The hell? What hit me? Felt like I got hit by a semi…." Was Ichigo's dazed and confused response from inside a mailbox. He had apparently been shoved headlong into the side of the mailbox and was now wearing it like a helmet.

"Ichi!" Yachiru hopped off her perch and landed gracefully on top of the metal letter container. "Ichi…. Where did your head go? gasp! Is it lost in this box? Don't worry I can get it out. Hold still for just….a….sec…" said the pink-haired midget, as she carefully lined up a slice with her zanpakuto.

slice! "There he is! I found you!" said she of the pink hair while giggling madly at her success.

Ichigo, now with a "WTF" look on his face and a neat cut across the bridge of his nose, stared up at the shinigami taichou and fukutaichou for what seemed like an eternity. Then, with speed that surprised all attending, he extracted his head from the tattered remains of the mailbox and proceeded to yell.

"THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!? You almost decapitated and nearly maimed my face! Don't you have any common sense?" screamed Ichigo as his face turned beat red in anger.

While Yachiru defended her acts as some sick and twisted version of peek-a-boo the hollow, that had originally started the whole affair, slowly and quietly started to back away from the insane trio. Even hollows who are stupid enough to be attracted to large sources of reiatsu, which is like suicide in the first place, know when to call it quits when faced with an enemy even more psychotic than themselves.

"Oi, get back here you masked bastard. I need to vent!" kenpachi yelled to the retreating back of the terrified hollow. Before any of the 3 could flash step and catch the masked deviant, said hollow quickly opened a garganta portal back to Hueco Mundo and hopped in so that the cycloptic giant wouldn't get the chance to extrapolate on his meaning of the word "vent."

"Tch. Ran like a loser bitch. Well, since I found you Ichigo, we might as well fight it out!" improvised the bloodthirsty taichou, as he launched himself towards the stunned shinigami representative with a large burst of golden reiatsu. Ichigo barely had time to block the over-head swing, with his overly large zanpakuto Zangetsu, the force from the blow created yet another crater under Ichigo's feet. Ichigo's teeth rattled in his mouth and his bones seemed to creak under the pure pressure and strength of the attack and knew that he couldn't avoid any slip ups. His first thought was of escape, and with hardly any hesitation he fluidly shifted his sword to allow the power house strike to slip off to the side and uselessly destroy the ground to his right. While the dust cloud was still obscuring the insane captain's sight Ichigo decided to shunpo his ass home, and since he had never seen Kenpachi flash step so much as 3 feet before he assumed that the man was incapable. Hah, try to keep up with this ya tank! Thought Ichigo as he landed on the roof of a nearby building. Smirking, he glanced over his shoulder hoping to see the confused look on Zaraki Kenpachi's face as he realized that Ichigo had escaped, but instead of seeing Kenpachi there was nothing but the craters on the street. With a sense of foreboding the orange-haired shinigami turned to flash step away again, only to run face-first into the rock hard body of the 11th squad captain.

"What? Assumed I don't know how to shunpo? While it may be a cheap ass trick I use it to keep people from runnin' from me. With the amount of physical conditioning that I do I'm probably one of the faster captains. No runnin'. In a fight between real warriors there should never be any chasing. Just slicin' an dicin' and a WHOLE LOTTA BLOOD! MAHAHAHA." Was the only warning Ichigo got before he was defending against a slew of Kenpachi-strength attacks that seemed to come from everywhere at once. Block left, dodge right, duck low, backwards roll. Ichigo was sorely pressed to keep the saw-like blade from finding purchase on his flesh.

Thankfully, a distraction arrived in the form of a spirit arrow aimed at Kenpachi's heart. Momentarily stopping his ruthless offensive on Ichigo the enraged captain effortlessly defeated the attack with a flick of his zanpakuto. Small as it was, the momentary skip in attacks allowed Ichigo to jump back, gather his reiatsu, and yell: "BAN KAI!" The immediate area was suddenly and inexplicably assaulted by a fierce dust storm which seemed to revolve around the orange-haired shinigami representative like a whirl-pool of power. The dust storm was dispelled with a pulse of reiatsu. Ichigo now stood dressed in a set of tattered and all-black clothes, while holding a seemingly normal black zanpakuto complete with a manji-shaped cross guard and a short chain coming from the end of the hilt.

"Hooo? A Ban Kai, eh? Just what I've been waitin' for. Now show me your full powers! Show me your Ban Kai and I'll take off the eyepatch!" crowed the bloodthirsty monster in glee.

"Show you my Ban Kai?"said Ichigo with a slight smirk on his face, "Here's the first lesson on my Ban Kai: it gives me speed that surpasses the flash step by leaps and bounds. Care for a demonstration?"

"Yes! Koi(come in Japanese.)! I will enjoy defeating your Ban Kai and exploiting its weakness!" the captain's eye was wide with ecstasy now.

"Fine then, just keep your eyes wide open and hope you don't miss a thing," replied Ichigo as the smirk turned into a full-fledged grin of amusement. One second Kenpachi saw Ichigo standing there, and then suddenly he just wasn't there. Fast! Was Kenpachi's only tangible thought before the expected attack should have landed on him. But, nothing happened. The eye patch wearing psychopath stood there for a full five seconds before he realized the truth.

"The fucker ran…"

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Hah. I think I need to work on my dialogue. Idk it seems slightly off to me. Oh and I can't believe I actually got reviews so fast. I was bored today in math so I wrote that short little chapter today in my notebook, and decided: "Hey, I read a lot of fanfics so why not post some of the shit that I come up with." Well I posted the chapter and come home from watching a movie with my gf only to find that I have two reviews already. Heh. So now here I am thanking you guys who reviewed.

Zetsuki: Thanks for the compliment! And yes that is an awesome scene thanks for the idea… watch for it in the upcoming few chapters or so. I'll be sure to work it in ;D

my renji-kun: haha glad to see you want me to update just knowing that you want more makes me want to write more.

Not to be greedy. Ok. Fine. I'll admit to being a little greedy. But, seriously I love the reviews and any hints or criticism is welcome. Even flames to a certain point… I said to a certain point DAMNIT!