43 Interference
"Captain Soifon! Are you alright?" Unohana asked when she knelt down beside the captain. Soifon's answer was a string of violent coughs.
Unohana immediately started healing her. Her palms glowed with green spiritual energy. After a few seconds of being healed, Soifon already felt better. She did a kip up and looked at the current situation of the battlefield.
"So they used their Bankais. Maybe I should as well." Soifon muttered and looked at Suzumebachi on her right hand. She closed her eyes.
'Although It offends my pride as a Covert Ops agent, I think it's the perfect time to use this.' Soifon took a breather and had a serious face on. She grabbed Captain's haori and threw it away, revealing the uniform of the commander-in-chief of the Onmitsukidō.
"Bankai!...." Soifon shouted. Her arm was then covered with a blinding yellow glow. Unohana had to cover her eyes with her right hand to block the blinding light.
The yellow glow dies down, revealing a protective armor that encases Soifon's entire right arm and comes all the way above her shoulder to form a face shield that she uses to cover the right side of her face.
"Jakuhō Raikōben!!" Soifon shouted.
Feeling rejuvenated, Soifon started walking towards the battlefield very slowly because her Bankai is very heavy.
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Meanwhile, Ichigo was grinning madly. He appeared in front of Toshiro and swung down his claymore.
Toshiro dodged the swing. Ichigo's claymore slammed into the ground, cratering it. Ichigo continued his attack by pulling out the claymore and slashing upwards at Toshiro.
Toshiro jumped away and stood beside Byakuya.
"You got faster. Then I guess I have to match your speed. " Ichigo muttered. The ground around him started shaking.
Toshiro and Byakuya widened their eyes in shock, they felt Ichigo's Reiatsu increasing to impossible levels. Ichigo had a dangerous golden aura around him.
Ichigo stared at the two captains and grinned. He appeared in front of Toshiro and slashed down with his claymores.
'Kedamono no kokyū, Fourth Fang: Slice 'n' Dice!'
*Psssh!!!!*
Toshiro widened his eyes as blood splashed everywhere. There were four giant slash wounds on his body.
Ichigo then tried to stab Toshiro in the neck but was stopped by Toshiro's ice wings. His wings were covering Toshiro.
Ichigo stabbed the wings. The wings started cracking and broke within a few seconds. The claymore got closer to Toshiro when suddenly Ichigo stopped to block a beam shot by Byakuya. Ichigo continued to block Byakuya's Sōkatsui beams.
"Senkei, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi." Byakuya muttered. Suddenly, the scattered cherry blossom petals united into complete glowing swords, numbering in the thousands, which form four rows.
These rows float just above each other, and circle around Byakuya and Ichigo in a continuously moving, column-like array. Toshiro had to retreat for a while.
"You are a formidable opponent, Ichigo. But today is the day you will die by the Gotei thirteen's hand." Byakuya told him. Ichigo stayed silent and looked at Byakuya with a calm expression.
" Bring it on. Let's see what Rukia's failure of a big brother can do. " Ichigo muttered while looking at Byakuya. Byakuya narrowed his eyes.
A pink colored blade flew towards Byakuya's hand. Byakuya grabbed it and the blade lost its glow, and took the form of his sealed Zanpakutō.
Ichigo appeared in front of Byakuya and swung the claymore on his right hand. Byakuya blocked it and blocked another strike from Ichigo's second claymore.
Ichigo kept on his relentless attack, giving Byakuya no room to use Senbonzakura Kageyoshi's techniques.
Byakuya barely avoided a strike from Ichigo and jumped away. He assumed a sword stance where he held Senbonzakura with both hands.
All of a sudden, the enormous dome of pink swords surrounding him and Ichigo disappeared.
A shockwave rang around Byakuya as thousands of cherry blossom petals returned to him.
*BOOOOOOOM!!!!*
Suddenly Byakuya was covered by a white light.
When the light disappeared, it revealed Byakuya whose appearance has changed. Pure white wings and a halo-like circle, made of concentrated spiritual energy, were formed on Byakuya's back. The blade appears bright white, and its aura takes the form of a bird,
"Shūkei: Hakuteiken..... Senbonzakura Kageyoshi." Byakuya muttered. Byakuya used Shunpo and appeared in front of Ichigo.
"Heraaa!!!" Ichigo grinned and swung his claymore on his right hand.
*BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!*
A bright red shockwave rippled throughout the area. The bystanders were in awe.
"That's Captain's Bankai?" Renji muttered in awe.
The ground was cracking by the pressure the two warriors were emitting. Byakuya widened his eyes as his blade was being pushed back by Ichigo's claymore.
Suddenly, Byakuya gasped in shock. He looked down to see Ichigo's second claymore stabbing through his stomach.
Byakuya looked at Ichigo in shock. Ichigo widened his eyes a little as he only stabbed Byakuya's captain's haori.
Byakuya was standing far away from him. Toshiro returned to the battlefield and stood beside Byakuya.
Suddenly, they heard violent bangs approaching them. They looked to see Soifon walking towards them with a grumpy face.
"Is that.... Captain Soifon? What is that on her right hand?" Nanao muttered to herself. Shunsui chuckled.
"That's her Bankai, Nanao." Shunsui answered her question. Nanao widened her eyes in surprise.
'It's so big. And she can barely walk with it. No wonder she doesn't use it.' Toshiro thought to himself.
"I have a plan. But things would get bloody." Byakuya muttered.
"I'm all ears." Toshiro whispered back. Ichigo stood there and looked at the three captains who aren't making a move on him at all.
Suddenly Byakuya appeared in front of him and slashed down his blade. Ichigo saw it coming from a mile away and moved slightly to avoid it.
Toshiro then appeared and grabbed Ichigo's shihakusho and flew up. Ichigo stabbed Toshiro's through the stomach. Toshiro had blood flowing down his mouth but he kept going.
With the claymore on his right hand stuck in Toshiro's stomach. Ichigo started punching Toshiro in the face.
Toshiro was feeling buckets of pain but he wouldn't allow himself to give up.
Toshiro and Ichigo were high up in the air.
"Now!!" Soifon shouted.
Byakuya appeared beside Toshiro. He tried to punch Ichigo but Ichigo blocked it. That brought Byakuya enough time to remove the blade from Toshiro's stomach and return back to the ground in a flash.
The casing of Soifon's protective armor came off and reveals a weapon with the similar make of a missile attached to a base.
Soifon already raised the missile and aimed it at Ichigo who was falling down from the sky. Small fins extended from numerous points along the missile.
Soifon fired the missile.
*FEEEEEEEEWWWW!!!*
The missile flew towards Ichigo in blinding speeds. Byakuya and Toshiro arrived beside her. Byakuya grabbed her shoulders and used Shunpo to get out of the area quickly.
Ichigo could only look at the bright yellow missile flying towards him.
The missile exploded once it hit Ichigo. It was like seeing the sun in front of you.
"Where's the explosion—
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!*
"Ahh!!" Nanao screamed as she was blasted back by the explosions shockwave. She was caught by Shunsui who was also having a hard time standing still.
The rest of the captains and lieutenants, except for Aizen but they didn't notice that, were stabbing their own Zanpakutōs on the ground to keep themselves from flying away.
The three captains who in the brunt of the explosion were blasted back violently. They all crashed into the walls.
They grunted feelings the pain on their backs. Soifon looked at the bright explosion while she was breathing heavily.
That one missile exhausted her. 'Is he dead? ' She thought to herself while looking at the explosion with a hopeful face. Suzumebachi had already returned back to it's Shikai form.
'That's her Bankai? Why am I not surprised.' Toshiro thought to himself while he was staring at Soifon.
It took a few minutes for the explosion to finish. But when it did there was a giant cloud of smoke in the air.
"Shit. My Bankai's at it's limit. I have to exit it." Toshiro muttered. The wings and claws on his body slowly disappeared.
Hyōrinmaru returned back to it's Shikai form. Byakuya was still using his Bankai.
They saw someone tearing through the smoke cloud. It was Ichigo, he was falling rapidly to the ground.
*BOOOOOOOM!!!!*
Ichigo crashed into the ground in front of the three captains, cratering it. The trio quickly walked towards Ichigo.
They stood over him. Ichigo's eyes were closed and his blades were lying on both sides of his body.
He was bloody to say the least. His chest was fucked up and there were chunks of his body and face that was missing.
But one thing the captains noticed was that Ichigo was still breathing, albeit very slowly.
"He's still alive?" Soifon muttered in shock. Toshiro raised his katana.
"Then we better finish the job." Toshiro muttered and looked at Byakuya who nodded.
Toshiro and Byakuya stood beside Ichigo. They raised their respective Zanpakutōs and aimed it at Ichigo's neck and heart.
They raised their blades and thrusted straight at Ichigo's neck and heart.
Out of nowhere, Ichigo opened his eyes and grabbed their blades.
"Nani!" Byakuya muttered in surprise. Ichigo grabbed his blades and did a kip up.
' Kedamono no Kokyū, First Fang: Pierce! '
He immediately thrusted his claymores forward and stabbed Byakuya in the stomach and chest.
Byakuya widened his eyes. Ichigo pulled his blades out of him. Byakuya clutched his stomach and jumped back.
Soifon tried to stab him with her stinger blade. Ichigo dodged the attempt and kicked Soifon in the head. Soifon flew away and slammed into a wall.
Toshiro who was standing behind Ichigo tried to stab through his skull with his blade. Ichigo crouched down and tripped him with a swipe of his right foot.
Toshiro tripped and fell on the ground. Ichigo stood over him with his claymores in hand. He stared at Toshiro.
"Sorry, kid. But the games the game." Ichigo muttered and raised his claymores. He thrust his blades downwards to Toshiro's heart when suddenly Ichigo was hit in the solar plexus by a wooden cane.
"Guk!!" Ichigo spat out some saliva and flew away. He tumbled on the ground before stopping.
Toshiro looked at the person who saved him. He was surprised to see who that person was.
"C-captain Commander!?
To be continued....
