Chaptet 34:
"You know, I was missing out on a lot during my time staying in a lab all day doing nothing but building and experimenting." Nero commented a whiskey cup in his hand and a pleased smile on his face. He felt a little jovial. Right now he sat on a comfortable looking couch inside an aircraft that would drop him off at a coast where Kiri's forces were waiting for Konoha's forces.
"You weren't really missing out on much, it's not like you're going out to experience the culture kf the other villages." Ichigo spoke with an amused tone, and hinted at Nero's true motivation to leave Inferno's HQ.
"Hmm... I haven't had a good fight in years, besides battling a few practice drones, you or Ayaka nobody else can really keep me on my toes." Nero justified.
"If you used one of your armors during our spars maybe then I could be flattered." Ichigo rolled her eyes and responded.
"It's not like you're going full out either. That new breathing technique you came up with is particularly nasty." Nero shot back. He vaguely remembered seeing a similar breathing technique in the show, but Nero wouldn't undermine Ichigo's efforts.
"Then we both really need a good life and death battle don't we?" Ichigo asked with a smirk.
"Yeah, but remember we still have an objective." Nero reminded with a light tone.
"Yeah yeah, the kiba blades and the Kaguye clansmen. I also want to see what she'snot capable of." Ichigo shrugged and pointed her gaxe towards Ayaka. The girl in question was sound asleep not bothering to entertain the blood thirsty duo.
"Heh! I personally oversaw her training and even enhanced her genetic abilities. She's practically a monster at this point. Too bad she lost her fiesty tempermant." Nero shook his had in mock sadness. The Ayaka of a few years ago and the Ayaka now were two different people. If before she was violant and brash. Now she was kinda docile and gentle, a huge contrast.
"Yeah, thank God for my 'open minded' view of you." Ichigo shuddered as she starer at Ayaka with some pity. Her personality had done a complete 180 over the years.
"Hehehe! I'm glad too, I like you more the way you are." Nero commented offhandadly and took a sip of whiskey.
Ichigo blushed a little, the poor girl suffered a heavy case of Stockholm syndrome. Although he did kidnap and place her in all sorts of life and death situations. He was always there whe she woke up from her nightmares. His eyes didn't gleam with lust or any malice, simply viewed her like one would an friend? Maybe a pet, or whatever his naturally belittling gaze inplied, but it was posetive emotion.
Ichigo had been raped, assaulted, and used enough in her life to know when someone had ill intent for her, and Nero held nothing of the sort.
"Y-yeah." Ichigo meekly replied. A comfortable silence descended between the duo. They were tipically people who didn't speak much, but rather enjoyed observing snd feeding their curiousity or just taking time to relax.
A trait they both acquired after coming close to death one too many times. Death was a constant factor in their lives, they fought against it and tried to make it to the next day, but similarly they enjoyed each day they could.
[Destination imminent, ETA 5 minutes preparing to open hatch.] A masculine robotic voice resounded in the cabin.
"Ah!" Ayaka woke up with a startled yelp as alarms blared and red fleshed. Ichigo chuckled in amusement as she watched the girl gather her wits.
"Stay calm kitten, we're just arriving at our stop.Get ready we'llbe jumping in 15 minutes." Ichigo calmed the panicked girl.
Ayaka's panicked face turned into a cute scowl, she took a deep breath and a resolute gleam shined in her eyes.
Nero just shook his head at this, he stood up and focused his eyes on his occular interface.
Double checking everything, he was satisfied once everything was finctional. Ichigo with similar experienced movements checked herself. She ran a diagnosis of her suit.
It was a black tight full body suit. It had a utility belt with space folding seals to increase it's volume and a few other straps and holsters.
She carried a modified gun with a similar build to a chipper rhino revolver. Each of the 4 slots inside of the chamber had a complex removable storage structure intergrated into it.(A/N imagine a bullet with a ton of bullets inside sai bullets.)
It carried 200 bullets of varying effects.The first one carried explosive bullets, the second slot had bullets laced with a lethal poison.
The third slot carried bullets that had binding seals into them, they didn't pirece skin but instead imprinted a seal that would stop the target on contact.
The third slot carried a stim shot to revitalize the body while healing any scrapes and cauterize larger wounds until treatment was available.
The fourth slot carried the worst type of bullet, the bullet would split into radioactive fragments upon contact with the skin and would then cause untreatable injuries to the victim.
She had access to any of these bullets with a spin of the chamber and her occular hud always displayed which slot was in line with the muzzle.
Besides that she carried a mounted retractable shield that could reflect attacks from C-rank and below. But techniques that caused blunt force would shake Ichigo's bones quite a bit.
Besides that she carried tactical flashbangs, gas grenades, hand grenades, food rations and vails of extra nanites ready to repair any machenic aspect of hers that might break. She also carried extra ammo, a trench knife and a map with real time satalite imaging of her position and immidiate surroundings.
Ichigo herself could be said to be the bane of any typical shinobi at this stage, her occular enhancements offered heat vision, projectile detection, light filtration and night vision. Her bones were harder than steel and coated in an even harder thin membrane for extra protection. Most pirecing and cutting weapons wouldn't work against her reinforced titanium polymer clothing.
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