D-F: Hey again! We're back with chapter 14! I just love writing this fic, and reading all the reviews you guys leave. Thanks for reading this and reviewing and faving as well. Alright then, lets get on to this chapter. Time to find out who the arrancar is and how Kyo knows him.
Chapter 14
Ichigo and Kyo followed the spiritual pressure all the way to an old abandoned lot near a bunch of warehouses. Both teens had hidden their bodies in one of the buildings and were now looking around trying to locate the arrancar. "Remember Ichigo, this guy's powerful and I want to fight him myself. You are not to interfere." Ichigo looked down at the now white/red haired girl and just frowned; he didn't like the idea of her taking on a full arrancar by herself, she wasn't very strong or powerful.
Reluctantly Ichigo nodded saying, "Alright, but if it looks like you're loosing I'm going to step in to help." Kyo nodded, she knew there was no sense in arguing with him. It didn't take them long to find where the arrancar was. When Kyo saw him she nodded, "It is him, it's Akira Airbourne." Ichigo was about to comment on the last name but thought better of it. The arrancar was quite tall, about 5'10" and very thin. He had long dark green hair that fell to his lower back. He wore the traditional clothes the other arrancar wore. The long white pants and black and white boots, his jacket was cropped and closed, the sleeves straight and ending at the wrists. His hollow hole could not be seen. His face was thin and his nose was long, he had wide pink eyes and his broken mask was somewhat of a forehead protector with a long horn jutting out from the left temple and his long bangs fell over the mask, partially concealing it.
Akira looked up, sensing that his old friend Kyo was close, as was a soul reaper. "Kyo Flynn! Befriending our enimies the soul reapers are you?" Kyo stopped dead in her tracks, making Ichigo slam into her. She glanced back at him and he gave her a questioning look. She shook her head and stood up straight walking out from where she and Ichigo were hiding into Akira's line of sight.
"Ah, Kyo my childhood friend. I missed you." The green haired arrancar sneered. Kyo growled at him, "Like hell you did." Akira shook his head, tsking her as he did so. Ichigo stepped out to stand behind Kyo, but not too close to be in the way. "So Akira, I hear you've lowered yourself even below scum of the earth to work for that Aizen baka." Akira frowned at the short girl, "And I see you still wear that idiotic witch's outfit." Kyo growled again, the Dream Walkers had always been proud of their traditional outfits.
Akira drew his zanpaku-to, the sword was almost as tall as he, and it's edges were jagged and saw-like. "Ready to fight my dear old friend?" Akira asked, his voice dripping with venom. Kyo snarled as she began to draw her zanpaku-to. She blinked and Akira was gone, in another blink he was once again standing before her, but he had her sword in his hand. "Sorry kiddo, I can't let you fight with this, you might try to use your ressurrecion and I can't have that now can I? You remember what happened last time you used it."
Kyo shook her head, "Akira, I promised I would never use my release again and I haven't. You can't make me fight you without a weapon." Akira laughed loudly, "Why of course I can, I'm a hollow, I could care less about whether or not it's a fair fight!" Kyo looked back at Ichigo, a deep voice running through her head, 'Use his zanpaku-to.' Ichigo's eyes had widened, what was that supposed to mean? Kyo realized she'd heard that voice before, but where?
'Use Ichigo's weapon.' The voice commanded again. Akira was staring at the teens trying to figure out what was going on. Kyo used sonnido to bring her to stand behind Ichigo, her hand held motionless near the hilt of his zanpaku-to. "Do I have permission?" She asked, her eyes hidden in shadow. Ichigo couldn't see her but he knew the answer, at the same time he and Zangetsu both said, "Yes." She used sonnido again and before Ichigo had even noticed Zangetsu no longer on his back Kyo was standing in front of him again, holding the giant blade.
With the weapon in her hand she looked even shorter and it seemed as though she could harldy hold it up, as was normal since the blade wasn't hers and she was a hollow. Akira smirked at the small arrancar, "You plan on battling me with a blade you can hardly even lift?" He laughed again, but Kyo remained silent. 'Call my name Kyo.' The voice said in her thoughts. 'What is your name?' She asked. 'My name is...'
"Zangetsu!" Kyo called as he said it in her mind. Wisps of lavender energy began to form around her and then she dissapeared in a blinding flash of purple light. When the light subsided Kyo's hat had blown off her head and her hair was flying around. Ichigo called out to her, "Kyo?" The girl turned back and he gasped. Her eyes had turned black with purple irises in the center and no pupils. Of course that was not the biggest surprise, her non-existing broken mask had suddenly become existing.
It covered half of her face, ending on the bridge of her nose and on her cheekbones. The bottom edges were jagged while the rest was smooth. The jagged edge on the right side was longer than on the left and it curled a bit under her cheek. Two long horns jutted from the mask on either side on the top and two smaller horns sat near the middle of the mask between the two longer ones. The mark that was on Kyo's forehead was also in the same spot on her mask. Kyo grinned, and that grin sent shivers down Ichigo's spine. That grin and those eyes reminded him all too well of his own inner hollow and the expressions he had.
Kyo turned back to Akira, the grin still plastered on her face. "Ready Akira?" The tall arrancar snarled, obviously unimpressed at this turn of events. Arrancar should not be able to use a soul reaper's zanpaku-to. Akira charged, his weapon raised. Kyo set one foot behind her and pushed foreward to meet Akira's attack. The two blades clashed together, sending sparks flying.
Ichigo was awestruck at the fact that Kyo could use Zangetsu so comfotably, much less lift the sword. Suddenly he felt spiritual presence behind him. Turning he saw Kiskue Urahara and Yoruichi Shihoin standing there. Both were staring wide-eyed at Kyo. "Um Ichigo, is that the little arrancar girl we've been hearing about?" Urahara asked, his eyes huge beneath the shadow of his green and white striped hat. Ichigo nodded. "And is she using Zangetsu?" Yoruichi asked, her yellow eyes almost bulging out of her head. Ichigo nodded again. "How is that even possible?" Urahara shouted, but the only answer he recieved was a shrug from Ichigo.
Kyo and Akira were slicing at each other with heavy blows. Kyo leaped back from an attack and charged a cero, "Cero release!" Akira dodged it just in time, "So I see you still have to call release at the end of your attacks. How pathetic!" Kyo growled again, "Shut up! I'm sure my attacks, as weak as they can be, are more powerful than your puny little attacks." Akira frowned as he charged a cero and let it fly. Kyo used Zangetsu to block the blast, the large blade perfect for shielding her small frame. "Give it up Akira, I don't want to kill you so you might as well go back to Aizen!" The green haired arrancar shouted back at her, "HAH! You don't want to kill me! You sure had no problem when we were kids!"
Kyo's next attack faltered as she recalled what had happened when they were both children and in Hueco Mundo. She came to a hault, standing in front of the other hollow, her face dark and her eyes glowing with anger, "I told you Akira, it wasn't my fault. I couldn't control my ressurrecion but I didn't know that at the time, nor was I aware of what would happen. You knew that! Yet you still betrayed me!" The small girl lifted the huge zanpaku-to above her head and slashed it thorugh the air, screaming, "Getsuga Tensho!" Blinding lavender light blasted towards Akira who just in the nick of time used sonnido to dodge. Kyo's use of this attack brought more open-mouthed stares from Ichigo, Urahara and even Yoruichi.
"This will end with your death!" Akira shouted as he chraged again, dealing blow after blow of his sword. He intended to keep Kyo in defense, not allowing her to fight back. With one devestating blow Kyo was sent flying backwards into the nearest building. When the dust settled Kyo was laying on her stomach half buried by rubble. She coughed slightly as Akira approached. Ichigo was about to go help her when Urahara put a hand on his shoulder, merely shaking his head saying, "Let's see how this turns out first."
Kyo looked at Akira, putting her hand on the hilt of Zangetsu. With difficulty she pulled herself out of the rubble and stood up, Zangetsu was trying to say something to her but she couldn't quite hear it. Akira was charging a powerful cero, and by the looks of it Kyo knew if it hit her she wouldn't have to worry about being taken to Aizen, there would be nothing left to take back to him. As the cero was released the word that Zangetsu had been trying to say came out crystal clear in her mind and she said it in one quiet whisper.
"Bankai."
There was another blinding flash of lavender light and when it cleared the cero Akira had released was gone and Kyo was standing much like Ichigo when he first used his bankia. Her outfit had changed, the cloak had grown and now had arms so that it looked like a brown and red version of Ichigo's coat and Zangetsu was now Tensa Zangetsu.
"Sh-she used my Bankai!" Ichigo cried out pointing at Kyo while glaring at Urahara. The blonde ex-soul reaper and Yoruichi just stared open-mouthed at the arrancar girl. Kyo glanced back at the three and shrugged, "I have no idea what's going on either." She then looked back at Akira, "I'm sorry Akira but this ends now."
Her next attack was faster than normal, she could feel the speed and power rushing through her small frame, her heart beat faster and faster as she hit him with each attack. Akira could do nothing but block each attack. 'How the hell is this possible? How is she using that soul reaper's zanpaku-to?' The green haired arrancar thought to himself. His pink eyes glowed with fury and he gritted his teeth against the constant barrage of attacks.
'Kyo, bring out all the power you have and use it in your attacks, it will make them stronger.' Zangetsu ordered. He was inside her mind finding all the information he could on her fighting techniques and her power limits, trying to piece it all together so he could advise her on what to do to defeat Akira. Kyo leapt back a few feet from Akira, confusion spreading through her. "What do you mean? How do I do that?" She asked out loud. Akira gave her a confused look, "Who the hell are you talking to?" Kyo looked back at him, "None of your business." Akira growled and his blade began to glow.
"Soar Fenix!" Akira growled and he was swallowed by a blinding flash of white light. Kyo's eyes went wide and a shiver of fear swept through her at the immense tidal wave of spiritual pressure. She looked over to Ichigo, Urahara and Yoruichi and saw that they were also stunned by how strong Akira's spiritual pressure had become. "He's using his ressurrecion!" She shouted over to them, "You three should get out of here!"
Ichigo shook his head, "No way Kyo, I'm staying here." Urahara and Yoruichi nodded in agreement that they too were staying. Kyo shook her head, worry plain on her face but she knew she couldn't win this argument so she said nothing else. They turned back to look at Akira and as the smoke cleared they saw his new form.
D-F: So here we have chapter 14! I was gonna put the entire fight scene in this chapter, but I hadn't meant for Akira to use his ressurrecion. So the rest of the fight will be in the next chapter. Also all will be explained about how Kyo can use Zangetsu and why Akira took her Zanpaku-to. So please R&R and I hope you enjoy! Thanks again to all who are still reading this -^.^-