Alpha Dog and Omegalomaniac [NDE, R]

[Ryunosuke Hamada]

Thread Title: Alpha Dog and Omegalomaniac
Participants: Kimiko Shihoin, Ryunosuke Hamada
World: Soul Society
Death Setting: Non Death Enabled
Rating: R
Location: Shortly outside the Northern Gates of Soul Society, nearby a stopped caravan full of illicit goods.
Special Conditions: If the fight goes on long enough (will be decided by participants), then Shinigami reinforcements will begin to arrive (starting with high ranking members of the Defense squad). It's also possible that the smuggler in question might call for backup as well.
Circumstances: A group of law enforcement officials, while in the process of confiscating contraband from a caravan, were blown apart by an Arrancar smuggler. Which, obviously, required the Captain of Law Enforcement to be deployed, especially given that she was not particularly far from the scene of the crime.

[Ryunosuke Hamada]

"Papers, please!" The voice of the shinigami barked from outside of the caravan. With his eyes closed, Ryunosuke could easily picture the scene. The reiatsu felt hot, reflecting the man's aggression that was obvious in his voice. He, and his compatriot, would stand flanking the front carriage of the caravan, talking to the spirit that was driving it. A plus, from one of the outside territories surrounding Soul Society, who Ryunosuke hired as the face of the caravan as a whole.

Smuggling was a lucrative business, and Ryunosuke had just gotten in on it. Not entirely on his own accord, of course, but in association with Douma, the crime lord that was starting to influence Soul Societies underground through and through. This caravan was one of many that passed through the South Gates of Soul Society on a weekly basis, bringing in food and luxury goods to be sold in the markets and taverns. Unlike many of those caravans, this caravan was carrying contraband.

The contraband was well hidden, obviously, but once it made it through the gates, it would be quickly unboxed, and given to dealers throughout the city, who would disseminate it, returning a portion of the profits to Douma's contacts. The contraband in question was drugs. And not just any drug, a special, new variant of Spiritual Meth, which the former Xcution Seven Guns Kento Sasaki used to sell. Now that he was dead, and his drug empire crumbling, even as members of Xcution were desperately trying to maintain it, there was a vacuum in the market, which Ryunosuke suggested that Douma should get in on.

Douma accepted his suggestion, but on a simple condition: Ryunosuke had to put his neck out for the sake of the operation, at least in the beginning. Douma had the infrastructure to smuggle drugs, but Spiritual Meth in particular was a tricky one. It was so illegal that there wasn't a single guard you could bribe to look the other way, unlike most other drugs that were smuggled. That meant that even a single slip up could cost you everything.

Ryunosuke was fine with that. He had the paperwork written up carefully, forged flawlessly, added several additional layers of security, and hired the most convincing people he could to front the caravan. He hired a caravan that was known and respected in the city, and only let a few key members of the caravan know two things: what they were smuggling, and his presence on board. That was the other key thing that Ryunosuke was doing to ensure the caravan's safety: he was personally accompanying it.

"Here you go, sirs," came the response of the caravan leader, as he neatly removed the papers from his folder, and handed them to the guards. Ryunosuke couldn't see this, obviously, as he was in a covered car of the caravan, two from the front. But he could hear it, and picture it well in his head. The guard would flip through the papers, then he would inspect the first car, which Ryunosuke hadn't left a single trace of contraband in, and then he would say:

"We need to perform further inspection."

Motherfucker, that was the wrong line!

Ryunosuke opened his eyes, and slowed his breathing, which had started to pick up speed. It was fine. They'd check the second car, which Ryunosuke had also left mostly clean, with the exception of a single crate, in the back of the car, stacked behind four other crates. Not a chance of a problem. The footsteps started, moving towards the second car, and then continued. Onto the third car. Where they stopped. No fucking way. This wasn't happening.

Douma. It had to be. Whether it was a test, or an intentional set up, Ryunosuke had no idea. But there was no one else who could've sold him out. Except for the caravan leader, who had a lot to lose. But no, his second in command, the younger brother, he also knew. And if the caravan leader was implicated in this, his name would be disgraced, and his brother could pick up the pieces. Already, Ryunosuke had a working conspiracy theory here. That little fuck.

He'd make sure that the brother suffered. As the caravan doors opened up, Ryunosuke smiled at the two, as their eyes opened wide, and their hands went to their swords. With a deep sigh, Ryunosuke's reiatsu pooled off him, quicksilver tendrils running along the ground incredibly quickly. The guards stepped towards him, their last mistake, and Ryunosuke's reiatsu wrapped around their heels, suddenly holding them tight in a way that they simply hadn't expected. 

"Hello!" He waved at them, and the 2 marked on his hand made their mistake painfully obvious in a single heartbeat. Before they could run, Ryunosuke flexed his reiatsu, and their bodies imploded, every bone in them cracking noisily. They fell to the ground, totally pulped, and instead of hitting the ground itself, they sunk into Ryunosuke's reiatsu, dissolving slowly. If they were still alive, it would've hurt like hell. "Goodbye."

So, subtlety was out. But hopefully he could at least get the caravan through the gates, and then disperse them, completing the delivery before he was found out. Then, he noticed the cage on the waist of one of the two guards. Fuck, that was a Hell Butterfly carrier. He'd sent for help. Ryunosuke cursed, loudly, and stepped out of the carriage. New plan: First, kill all the backup, then sell the drugs. He still could complete the mission on his terms, it just wouldn't be on the ones he had expected.

[Kimiko Shihoin]

The sky was blue and the air was at the moment at least fresh. Kimiko the Captain of the Police for the time being was out on patrol. While it was now a fact that the seventh division was in better shape than it had been in the last few years. It still went against her nature to leave everything to the hands of those under her. She couldn't help, but leave her office at least for a small fraction of time and do things hands on like a normal Shinigami with only basic status.

She hadn't ever liked being treated higher than other individuals it was one of the rests why for so long she hated other nobles. Most of them simply believed that they were chosen to be better than everyone else from the moment they were born and that was the end of it. That wasn't what she believed though instead all it meant to her was that she had gotten lucky upon birth to be born into a family with status and it was her duty to use that status to help those less fortunate than herself.

Over the small course of her career as a Shinigami which in truth was still fresh compared to the majority she had come to lay her believe upon the laws that govern Soul Society. She felt that so long as everyone obeyed the laws and kept to helping one another there would be nothing that they couldn't do and everything would be utopia. She wasn't naïve though. Such a dream was just that unobtainable. All she was trying to do though was get Soul Society as close as she could to that destination.

The police were strong once again and capable now of obtaining order over the other divisions with the exclusion of division one under most circumstances. At the moment or at least when she had leave the barracks Tsukuyomi and Kaen were there which meant that there was at least a high standing seated officer there or her Vice Captain. So if anything important arrived to the barracks directly one of them would be able to handle it.

Kimiko had a few hundred members of the seventh division out throughout the time span of a day constantly on patrol to make sure that if something illegal or bad was happening the division would be able to take care of it immediately. Right now though she felt like doing things herself so when she had left the barracks she had released Haunzu. The black and grey wolf had appeared and was ready to do his normal part on patrol. It wasn't the first time it was actually quite normal.

Kimiko always kept members of the division on patrol through the Seireitei and Soul Society in general even at night however during the night time she normally chose to send out her zanpakuto as well to make sure everything went smoothly. She didn't like putting the lives of anyone else at risk so it was something that she came to accept. Haunzu liked the freedom as well or at least most of them did and had no problem with running around and making sure things were ok.

He did have to take a small amount of pain right from the start of being released though as was normal. Like Kimiko they were all accustomed by now to dealing with immense pain especially considering their ability. Kimiko though had taken to doing something other than smashing them apart to cause the ability to trigger. Something far less messy, painful and cruel. Instead all it took was to pull out a few teeth which would instantly grow back and then wait a few moments while they grew at an astronomical rate into other wolves.

This time she had removed four fangs from Haunzu which resulted in five of them total plus herself to patrol the Seireitei for the next few hours. They had all split up to cover more ground while all of them were linked they could all gain the information meaning that they were all separate yet together. Now though there was something bad just outside of the gate to the South. The Haunzu that had gone South had gone straight towards the gate to look out over into the Rukongai Districts.

Now he felt the pressure of an immensely powerful entity and cover smell the scent of blood. No it wasn't just blood it was everything. Everything that held a scent he could smell right now yet it was far more potent. "My Queen we have a problem. A possible Ryuoka." Haunzu didn't need to explain anything more though for Kimiko along with all of the other Haunzu could see, smell and feel everything that the one in the South was experiencing.

"I'm on my way Haunzu stay out of sight and keep your eyes and nose on the suspect at all times. Everyone to the South pronto." Kimiko and all of the Haunzu were communicating like normal through telepathy with one another so that no one else could hear them and gain information. If there was something bad going on it meant there was the possibility of an invasion. That meant there might be someone else watching Captains and she couldn't risk giving away anything. She wasn't arrogant enough in herself to believe she couldn't be snuck up on it was always possible.

Now though Kimiko who had been jumping across roof tops at a normal pace with only average strength bent downwards and sent herself off into the air causing a shockwave to damage the top of the building she had stopped on. In an instant she was hundreds of feet off the ground soaring through the air towards the South and she would continue to jump until she reached the gate which would only take her at most a couple of minutes. As for the other Haunzu they were running across roof tops to reach their Queen and brother.

The original or at least the one that had gone South originally was now at the top of the gate keeping his body low so that nothing from below could see him. His back was to the sun so that the bright glare gave an additional edge to his stealth which was already like the other Haunzu that of near perfection. He could see now that what he and the others were smelling was the ooze of what remained of some poor Shinigami. There it was though the scent palpable now that he was focused. An Arrancar had entered Soul Society.

Kimiko had seen through the eyes of Haunzu that the Hell Butterfly had escaped which meant other powerful Shinigami would be on their way soon as well. All she had to do a minimum of was keep the Arrancar here so that they could outnumber it and take it prisoner. That was when she saw it though the 2 on it's wrist. Her eyes and the eyes of every Haunzu became stern and filled with stress. It seemed they wouldn't have a choice, but to give it their all or die against the Segunda Espada.

Shikai: 6/7 Haunzu 5/10

[Ryunosuke Hamada]

Honestly, Ryunosuke had half expected that the enemies would just materialize around him, literally as he stepped out of the vehicle. On some level, he was disappointed that they hadn't. Seriously, what kind of fighters didn't react to this type of a situation by just teleporting in? Right, people who couldn't teleport, that's who. Some people had to walk, like chumps. He strode confidently to the front of the caravan, where the driver was clearly trying desperately to keep calm.

"I'm paying you what, ten thousand, twelve thousand fucking ryo to help me make this delivery? And for that, I was guaranteed help bringing this shit through the gates, and some help ensuring that it ended up in the right hands? Yeah, fuck that, I don't pay you enough for that crap. Thirty thousand ryo. Dangerous times call for better wages. You can claim I hijacked you guys, fucked you up back around District 43. I certainly won't mind. I'll just blow these gates way the fuck open, you'll run away from me, and just make sure that the list of dealers get their supply, got it?" Strangely, despite the cursing, and threatening tone, Ryunosuke sounded extraordinarily reasonable. He was increasing the payment, offering a strategy, and an alibi. 

Obviously, the driver accepted. Good. Made things easier. The furious nod from him was all that Ryunosuke needed to take another two steps forward, and activate two techniques. Only a minute had passed since Ryunosuke killed the guards, and although he had expected Shinigami to be deployed by now, they hadn't. Which meant that he probably had another few minutes, since they clearly weren't at this end of the city, and had to travel a far distance. In that time, he'd create a distraction, and ensure that the drugs were distributed throughout Soul Society.

The first technique that he activated was Pesquis, a powerful radar technique that gave Ryunosuke sensory information regarding the surrounding 2 mile radius. He would use that to track the movement of the caravan, once he got it into the city walls. If anyone approached it, he would know in an instant, and be capable of dealing with the situation. Plus, this basically made it impossible for Shinigami to sneak up on him. He could sense reiatsu changes, sudden movements, all of that with ease. Since the area was clear, as far as he could tell, it was unlikely that anyone with energy sensory had sensed him use the technique. His awareness would surprise them. His eyes stung for a moment, upon using the technique, as his body wasn't quite stable. But the pain was irrelevant, and he ignored it with ease.

And then, the second technique. Standing in front of the caravan, staring at the massive gates that lead into Soul Society, Ryunosuke thought back to one of the first people he met in Hueco Mundo. The traitor, Takashi Kuchiki. Renowned for killing the Shiba clan in his escape from Soul Society, as well as one other very crucial thing: his stealing of all the sekki sekki that made up the walls of Serientei. The stuff that had originally made it immune to reiatsu.

Ryunosuke took a deep breath in, and filled his lungs with potent reiatsu. Then, he released it, in a cone in front of him, refined by his mastery of the technique. Halar Gonzui: the famous Internal Gonzui. His reiatsu surged forward, and punched the gates with 1800 force. And with that, the gates were blown straight open, their hinges cracking and the wood almost popping out of the metal frame. Perfect. He stepped slightly to the side, hiding a wince of pain from the technique, and nodded to the driver. "Now fucking drive like your life depended on it."

The caravan needed no further prompting.


Reiatsu: 17,750 (-100 Pesquis, -150 Halar Gonzui)
Pesquis: 1/5

[Kimiko Shihoin]

Kimiko was getting ever closer to the South gate as were all of the other Haunzu as the one that had originally been in the South lay quiet overlooking the caravan and the Espada. This wasn't something that happened very often and now Haunzu all of the Haunzu that were currently out in reality were worried. They weren't worried about the Espada not specifically that no they were worried that Kimiko would get simply to excited. It wouldn't do well if she got so pumped at the idea of fighting a powerful foe that she reverted to how she fought prior to her ascension as a true warrior.

The Espada was now moving to the front of the caravan and judging from the way that he was walking he was either incredibly arrogant or he was going to represent that tattoo correctly. Haunzu for the time being just had to wait for Kimiko and his brothers to arrive that was all he had to do all of them would get the feedback of everything he could gather immediately. It seemed that this Espada had been in the Rukongai districts before as he openly stated to the driver that he was in deed paying him for his service to bring the caravan inside of the Seireitei. Kimiko's eyes narrows as she soared through the air to think that a pulse would work together with an Arrancar it was disgusting.

From what the Espada said it seemed that there was something definitely illegal inside of the caravan and the driver from this point forward was suppose to make sure that the dealers get whatever it is. Kimiko couldn't allow such a thing to happen she was the police and smuggling illegal things into the Seireitei was something she was charged with preventing. This Espada was going to answer for the crimes that were obviously being committed along with being an enemy of war he was going to feel the full force of Kimiko's power. The driver however wouldn't go without being judged.

After that it seemed that the driver accepted the terms and orders from the Espada and the Arrancar then moved to the front of the caravan. He was looking at the gate when suddenly he seemed to be in a small amount of pain. Haunzu was looking directly at him and could see the slight change in his face and eyes while he experienced the pain. He nor Kimiko or any of his brothers knew why the Espada was suddenly experiencing pain though nothing had happened to him. The display of pain though was then gone and with it the Espada seemed to take a deep breathe.

It wasn't until he fired off the massive cero that Haunzu realized what was going on and leaped at full speed from the gate to the left. The sudden blast of the cero against the gate that ruined the fabulous workmanship had also sent Haunzu off course from his intended landing sight of the wall. Instead he fell backwards behind it and landed on his paws after a few moments. He would turn to see that the gate was virtually destroyed and now open for the caravan. He couldn't allow it to enter the Seireitei it wasn't going to happen.

So as the caravan started to move forward through the gate the driver who had been ordered to carry out this mission that they had all been undertaking would find his first and final problem. The Espada wasn't accompanying him and as he past through the ruined gate a blurred movement of grey and black was there and then gone. The driver was a normal pulse so he only had the abilities of an average human. He couldn't even see what had happened when suddenly he wasn't leading the caravan anymore.

He was now on the ground unable to move with his right leg bleeding and pain shooting up through it. He was on the right side of the gate from the inside now with Haunzu starring down directly into his eyes as blood dripped from his fangs. The grey and black wolf had appeared from nowhere and grabbed ahold of him by his leg and pulled him from the caravan. This was one problem solved and now the second was about to be rectified as well. In the next moment the middle of the caravan was crushed as was the ground in front of the gate. Kimiko had landed in the South.

"Get out of Soul Society now Espada. Your plan won't work so safe yourself the trouble and trying to make something that just failed succeed." Kimiko spoke as she stepped from the dust and wreckage of the caravan. She could see the Espada and starred at him angrily for the moment. She had seen the size of his cero and judging from that this Espada's reiatsu was immensely powerful. That along with the number 2 on his palm made him a massive threat for Soul Society. If he didn't heed Kimiko's warning and leave than if nothing else she'd have to at least injury him as best she could and hold him off until either Enma or Sozen arrived to finish the job.

Shiaki: 5/7

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{Haunzu Stats}
Strength: 600
Speed: 600
Instincts: 250
Senses: 250

[Ryunosuke Hamada]

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{Fight Music}

Ryunosuke was always prepared. Well, always was an exaggeration. Ryunosuke was typically prepared. He was always thinking several steps ahead of the current state of things, figuring out what he would have to do to end up in a winning position. He didn't design grand strategies that worked on psychology or any of that horeshit, though. Lots of people were chess masters, predicting, anticipating, then with a single clean blow, winning. Ryunosuke didn't fight like that.

Ryunosuke fought like a professional Starcraft player. He knew the tactics that people would use to win, he knew how to take an advantage and leverage it into a broken point, he knew how to improvise, and most importantly, he proactively reacted. When he sent the cart through the open gate, he knew the worst case scenario was someone derailing the cart by taking it out. And so, he mentally prepared to deflect whatever attack came through towards a more appropriate target.

Also, his radar showed him the dog, glowing like a release, before it even moved. Sorry pupper, end of the line. As the wolf leapt, it would find itself in a completely different spot, still mid air, still with all of its momentum. It would find itself traveling full speed at Ryunosuke's outstretched hand, and the sudden relocation would take it by surprise. The dog didn't have any tactical skills, it didn't have any predictive capabilities. It ran on instinct, natural gut decisions. And there was nothing natural about what was about to happen/what had just happened.

In the same instant that the dog appeared, Ryunosuke launched a Bala. At this distance, the Bala was undodgeable without a step technique, and since this was a dog, and it was in mid air, with momentum already in one direction, there was no step technique to be used. The Bala hit it head on. In most cases, this wouldn't be the end of the world. But Ryunosuke's Bala were, even when he was holding back, was about the size of a car, and not a smartcar either. Think more Buick.

The force behind it would splatter the wolf, crushing it's head, destroying the brain, before it had a chance to even realize that it was dead, the last sight it saw was Ryunosuke's face full of a bloodthirsty smile, his eye twitching slightly. What it wouldn't know was that Ryunosuke was suppressing a throb of pain that shot down his arm like a live wire, as he used two techniques in short succession. It would be carried forward, flying off into the distance, propelled by a Bala straight off towards the horizon. "Boom goes the dynamite!" He said, joyfully, before prioritizing a different target. His pesquis had detected the start of the Captain's jump, and now that she was descending, it was easy to predict her movement.

She was aiming for the caravan, trying to stop it. Simple: he wouldn't let her. He burst forward, and although he couldn't match her speed, he just needed to get within range. It was when she was maybe 50 feet above the caravan that Kimiko would suddenly have a problem. And not a small one either. Instead of falling towards the caravan, she was violently jerked in another direction, further towards the south, beyond the walls of Soul Society, where Ryunosuke was currently standing.

Kimiko was strong, but in mid air, 1800 strength was not going to be resisted. Again, Ryunosuke used Halar Gonzui, focusing the gravitational well so that he grabbed Kimiko, neglecting the caravan. The caravan would continue, and Ryunosuke's Pesquis would continue to scout for more wannabe derailers. Situation = dealt with. Back to Kimiko, still flying in the air towards him, at high speeds. Ryunosuke would cock a fist back, and throw a punch at her, screaming two simple words at the top of his lungs:

"BLOODY KNUCKLES!"

Reiatsu: 17,550/18,000 (-150 Halar Gonzui, -50 Bala, -250 Pequeño Garganta)

[Kimiko Shihoin]

This was the time to prevent whatever this Espada was trying to smuggle into the Seiretei. Lady Kimiko was on her way at the moment to confrotn the Espada in combat and hopefully defeat him. It would be a difficult battle for her though all of the Haunzu and even Kimiko herself upon seeing the tattoo number of the palm of the Arrancar realized that her chances of victory were going to be slim. There weren't many in the Seiretei that could hope to defeat an Espada especially not one of the top three most powerful.

That's why Haunzu had to do everything that he could to help out his Queen and tilt the scales in her favor so that at least as a worse case scenario she'd buy enough time for another Captain to arrive and push back the Espada. However, now as he rushed the caravan driver and leapt through the air towards it he was suddenly in the air at a different location looking directly at the Espada. It had happened in an instant and yet it was still not beyond Haunzu's capabilities to realize or at least see what had actually happened to him in that breif moment.

While he had leapt forward towards the caravan there had suddenly opened a black portal of some sort in the air and then it was darkness for less than a moment only for him to now be starring at the Espada. It seemed that while he like all of his brothers and sisters were accomplished at keeping out of sight this Arrancar could pick up on their location. He wasn't sure if it had been because he started to move or if he could have known the entire time. It mattered little as the Espada's reiatsu began to focus in his palm. "I apoligize my Queen I wasn't able to accomplish my duty."

Haunzu sent out the words to Kimiko who was now descending as she saw the Espada smiling through Haunzu's eyes. She like all of the other Haunzu had seen what had happened and right now was seeing the reiatsu of the Espada. Then all they saw was the vision of themselves and those left. There was no more input from the Haunzu of the South and based on the size of the bala there wouldn't be enough left of him to return. Instead his soul would find itself back in her inner world. He served his purpose well enough even if he didn't believe so himself.

Now as Kimiko began to make out everything that was below her she could see the Espada running towards where she was planning on landing. It seemed that he was going to try and prevent her from crushing his caravan. It wasn't illlogical in fact it was to be expected. What wasn't expected was the fact that the Espada's reiatsu signature spiked and then she was pulled violently donwards towards him and not the caravan. All of the Haunzu could feel the suddenly pull that Kimiko was experiencing and didn't like how things seemed to be going they needed to get there faster.

Kimiko was taken slightly off guard by the fact that somehow this Arrancar was able to pull her from what seemed to be at least fifty feet. The speed that she was being pulled at made it impossible for her to get away. Even her brutish strength wasn't enough to get away and now it seemed that the Espada was getting into position to attack based on the position of his legs and shoulders. He was going to pull her in close for a physical attack. Kimiko normally would relish at the prospect of challenging this individual to close combat. The problem was she had to be serious this time around for it was war.

So suddenly all of muscle in her arms tensed up as she pulled her arms close to herself crossing them over her chest. She was now roughly twenty feet away from the Espada and in the next moment she'd be right at him and he'd be able to hit her. Instead though her arms were extended outwards and with them was the massive full circle shockwave that extended outwaqrds from her. The shockwave would move away from Kimiko at a speed of 1000 while carrying her full strength. The ground was torn apart and pushed back. Kimiko had acted just in time as the shockwave would hopefully push back the Espada throwing off his planned attack.

Even if it didn't throw off his attack though Kimiko had flexed her neck muscles in preparation for the attack to her face which is where it looked to be aimed. The Espada though wasn't the only target though as he had been near the caravan in order to pull her away from it. Now the shockwave had a limited area that it traveled being only twenty five feet from Kimiko. The Espada would likely suvive this attack and be pushed backwards to the full range of the shockwave. While the caravan or at least the back of the caravan would be thrown off it's wheels and destroyed preventing it from continuing in to the Seiretei.

Just as the Espada was hiding the pain he experiencing from using his techniques Kimiko did the same as her muscles tightened after executing Kyozetsu. It was a risking choice to unleash the technique at the beginning of this battle. However, Kimiko had little other choice with the time that she had to react to the situation. Now she would stare at the Espada with a stern look to her eyes. "I suggest you remove yourself from this dimension. Go back to Kouhai. Go to the other Espada. Tell them all that if it's war that you all wish to wage once again then Soul Society will emurge the victor every time."

[Ryunosuke Hamada]

The girl was a fighter, that much was obvious. She wore a Captain's Haori, and it didn't take long for Ryunosuke to quickly ruffle through his mental dossiers on the various captains. Wolf, dark skinned. Probably one of the two Shihoin, and given that there was one male, and one woman, this made her the girl. Kimiko, if he remembered her name correctly. A close combat fighter, based on combat reports. He was well suited to dealing with those.

But as he was dragging her with Halar Gonzui, she began to tense up, her muscles coiling, as she brought her body into a ball. It was obvious from her movements that this was some kind of defensive technique, but the specific nature of it wasn't clear. He had to assume worst case scenario, that it was a large scale area of effect technique, one that could easily blow him away from where he was standing. It had to have a fair bit of reach, otherwise she wouldn't bother using it. 

Fuck, he hated having to spam this technique this early in the fight. But it was better than losing his position. As Kimiko tensed, Ryunosuke concentrated, and opened a portal inside of her. This portal, another Pequeno Garganta, was only usable because of Ryunosuke's massive reiatsu strength advantage over Kimiko. Otherwise, she would be able to resist it. He could just teleport her directly up into the sky, and let her fall to her death, but he doubted that would work. Air ground was something she had access to.

Instead, he just teleported her a hundred feet away, towards the South, his back turned towards her so she couldn't see the pain flash across his face. Still suppressible, but not pleasant. The shockwave burst from her, devastating the land in an orb, and Ryunosuke's eyebrows knitted. If that had hit, it would've hurt, quite a bit, not to mention totally derail the caravan completely. He had to put a stop to this nonsense, right now. And that was easy enough to do.

"Look, Captain, let me make something clear." He slowly turned, facing her, his radar still scanning the area. "That caravan is going into the city, unharmed. Do you know why? Because right now, you're going to fight me, one on one, or with whatever backup you want to call, and you aren't going to use your wolves to derail it. We'll have a nice fight, see if Soul Society or Hueco Mundo is stronger. Nice and simple shit. And do you know why?"

Ryunosuke's reiatsu flared up, and it slowly changed colors, shifting from quicksilver to something else. A deep, dark, crimson, the color of pure and simple Rage. It was hot to behold, and even at this distance, simply being in it's presence would strike a deep fear into the heart of Kimiko, just bow the raw power of it. It scraped the ground, as if it was solid, and terminated all around him in harsh spikes. This was his true reiatsu, and Ryunosuke was willing to go all out right this second.

"If you go after that caravan, I'll leave here. But I won't go back to Hueco Mundo. I'll teleport into the city, somewhere random, somewhere high population, and just start fucking massacring people. And when Captains show up to stop me, I'll just teleport somewhere else. You guys can't be everywhere, I can. I'll fill Soul Society with blood and fire, and the screams of every man, woman, and child will fill the air like the most fucked up concert you could every imagine. And I'll make sure that every fucking last one of them knows that all that shit is your fault. This isn't a threat. This isn't an oath, a malediction, or a curse. This is a fucking promise." The light in his eyes, he wasn't lying. Kimiko would know that.

"For every single Ryo you cost me, I'll take the lives of a hundred people. Is that really fucking worth it, Police Chief? Is it worth your reputation, to try and stop my smuggling, if I will kill so many people for it? Stand here. Fight me. Settle this the way Espada and Shinigami always do. I'll punch you, you punch me, one of us nearly kills the other, both of us back off. Call in back up if you want to. I literally do not give a shit. But those drugs are going into your city, or your city is burning." This was a new type of Segunda. Kuroi didn't have that type of an agenda, he just hurt people. But this man, he was twisting typical rules of engagement into something dreadful. He was using them as justification for his actions. As part of his threat.

"So fucking bring it, bitch!" Ryunosuke took up a stance, one without a formal pose, yet with clear purpose in all his motions, mastery evident on every level. "Don't you want to be the first Captain to fight and lose to the new Segunda?" Because, if you don't, the implicit threat ran, then he would be happy to leave. If Kimiko didn't fight him, if she tried to take out the caravan in any way, Ryunosuke would know. And he knew, the fight wouldn't happen. Instead, he would just slaughter untold amounts of people. Kimiko had seen what he did to the gate, what he had done to Haunzu. He wasn't fucking around, and there was no doubt he would be able to massacre thousands, at least, before they even had the chance to stop him.

Reiatsu: 17,000 (-250 Pequeño Garganta, -300 Reiatsu Lie)
Pesquis: 3/5

[Kimiko Shihoin]

Kimiko was being pulled through the air itself by the technique that this Espada had just executed. She had seen it prior to this moment though or at least something that looked to mirror this one. It had been when Haunzu was keeping an eye on him while she made her way over here. This Espada had inhaled and in the next moment a massive amount of force had been expelled from his mouth. It had caused the actual doorway of the wall to be pushed backwards and broken. Now having herself pulled at a force that even she couldn't fight against she understood that there had been no chance of the door holding up.

Preparing to counter the more than visible attempt at finishing her off by means of close combat while she couldn't change her direction Kimiko tensed up her muscles. It seemed though that the Espada was also well versed in picking up signs from foes as she got closer to him and was just nearing the range of her technique she was suddenly facing further down the Rukongai District. Her arms had already been pushed outwards so the shockwave was something that she couldn't prevent. The road itself was blasted cracking beneath her while anything on the room had been sent flying off into the distance.

Kimiko turned a small degree of irritation displaying across her face as she looked at the Espada. She had sensed a quick spike in his reiatsu just prior to arriving in this new location. It was obvious what had happened there were many abilities that could have caused this certain stage of events. The Espada had somehow been able to teleport her away from him just as he had done to Haunzu. It wasn't a good sign that he was able to do something like that to her however it also meant that up close he was more vulnerable or else he wouldn't have to execute such a technique.

The Espada was roughly one hundred feet away from her still standing where he had been and now it seemed he got a bit more pride in himself. So much so that he started to make threats about slaughtering everyone inside of Soul Society only to blame her for it. It seemed that he wanted to make sure that the caravan was going to make it inside of the Seireitei at all costs. Whatever was inside of it meant something bad if an Espada was willing to go to such extremes. It didn't matter though Kimiko and Haunzu had already picked up the scent of the driver and thus would be able to find him wherever he went. If she had to tracking down this problem was something she could make due with in order to keep the Espada her.

As he pressurized his reiatsu Kimiko watched as it turned from a silver to a dark crimson color. It felt hot and heavy much like molten metal while having intense hatred glaring at her. Such a tone to ones reiatsu meant that he meant to do true harm here and Kimiko would have to show no weakness in order to defeat him. This foe had reiatsu stronger than any individual she had ever encountered. While it was a problem she could always make herself stronger. The problem right now would be her worrying about the lives of the citizens in this district. She had to do something that she vowed only to ever do when there was no other choice, but her Bankai.

The Segunda Espada had just finished speaking making all of his threats and assumptions that he would be the one to be victorious in this exchange. Kimiko brought her hands together while starring at him coldly. "You'll be the one left in defeat Espada. Your drugs will be found and the identity of whoever you're working with as well. Your status as the new Segunda will be short lived as this will be the final battle you experience. Kuro No Megami!" Kimiko's hands were positioned like claws opposite one another with her left hand facing the palm of the left one like yin and yang in front of her stomach. As she screamed out the name her hands pulled away from one another causing the air to actual distort from the strength of her muscles.

It looked as if there was some unseen object that she was pulling apart with all her strength and yet as her hands extended backwards in an instant everything changed. There was suddenly a shadow under her that reached up enclosing around her with what looked to be intent to kill. Her entire body was concealed beneath the blanket of darkness for a brief moment only for it to then shatter into what looked like thousands of shards of glass. The stern yet calm reiatsu of the Captain that had been standing down the Espada was no longer present. What stood now before the Espada was a creature that felt only true madness. Her reiatsu was corrupted giving off the sensation of thousands of violent screams.

Her eyes narrowed on the figure of the Espada. The creature was her prey his reiatsu of massive anger gaining no ground against something that felt no negative nor positive emotions. Her pupils had become slanted vertically while thick black rings had appeared around her eyes. Her mouth now played host to massive teeth that could only be called the canines of a wolf. In the moment that followed Kimiko's head started to turn to the left until it stopped at an angle that suggested she had already broken her own neck. Her mouth opened partly revealing her massive sharpened canine teeth as her smile widened into a twisted dark Cheshire. Kimiko had gone insane.

In the next instant her reiatsu would spike slightly as she executed Shunpo closing the distance between herself and the Espada in an instant. Even as a lunatic her grace was flawless taking only a single step to move a hundred feet. "Rahhhh!" Kimiko was tot he left of the Espada moving towards him and then she'd vanish again moving far to fast for the eyes of the Espada to follow. This time though there'd be no warning. She didn't execute Shunpo. She had utilizing Shukuchi-Ho to move at three times her normal speed. Even at her normal maximum there was enough of a gap that she'd appear to blur to the Espada at this speed she'd be virtually invisible.

She'd no sooner be gone from his vision that she'd be right in front of him using her speed to change her direction of attack and get inside of his guard. Her chest was pressed against his own now she was so close to him. An incredibly acrobat and master of movement even while insane Kimiko hopped off the ground grabbing ahold of the arms of this Espada. She would have ahold of his arms and her overwhelming strength compared to his own would make it impossible for him to remove her without doing something else. In the next moment her legs were tucked inwards and then thrust outwards more than likely slamming into the Espada's chest. Kimiko wasn't going to bash her way through his Heirro that was far to simple and humane. She was going to pull off his arms in her bloodthirsty insanity.

Remaining Reiatsu: 800/1000
SoulBind: {-150}
Shunpo: {-50}

[Ryunosuke Hamada]

As Kimiko was being yanked about, and teleported around, Ryunouske couldn't help but smirk. Ryunosuke was almost always smiling, and his default smile was pretty close to a smirk, but this was very distinct. He was in total control of this battle, as much as the Captain was prattling on about challenging him, defeating him, all of that. Maybe she knew it to, but at the very least Ryunosuke knew that it was all utter bullshit. She was going to lose. And it would take a miracle for her to hurt him.

This was what it was like to be Kuroi, he realized. This is how you slip into apathy, into only caring about an ideal, like suffering. You run out of worthy foes, and the only foes you have are all foregone conclusions. The only thing you change about them is how much time, how much effort, how much vision you put into each one. You choose which ones become monuments to your sins, and which ones just get casually backhanded in a goddamn instant.

It was exhilarating. Ryunosuke had never felt more alive than now. Maybe this is what his life was missing, maybe this was the place he was trying to find for himself amongst the Espada. Maybe he was just looking to become one of the strongest beings in all the three worlds, and now he was finally able to realize that goal. The captain, wolf chick, was staring him down, and bragging about how she was going to take him down, make this his first and last battle as the Segunda.

"Do you ever have that moment where you realize that you're the fucking warmup enemy in an anime episode?" He asked her, half goading, and half serious. When he killed this captain, a stronger one would show up shortly, and once he killed that one, another after that. That's how the Gotei 13 operated, and it was oddly familiar to comics. Seemed like a bad plan, honestly. For them, of course. Ryunosuke kinda enjoyed this system. He just hoped that the next one would be more respectful, or at least more clever with their the shit-takling.

She did a release of some sort, but it certainly wasn't Bankai, and she had just been in Shikai, based on her energy levels. Some other release? He'd have to  talk to the others back at Hueco Mundo about it. Kuroi probably would know what it was, but it wasn't common enough knowledge for Ryunosuke to know. Whatever it was though, it gave her claws. Battle Analysis worked its magic in an instant, concluding the single most obvious answer based on the entire fight thus far: She was going in close.

And he let her. She was fast enough that stopping her would've been tricky, but not impossible, especially with all the mobility options he had to offer. And he could've negated the attack by moving her away. Hell, he could've just flat out killed her when she engaged with Cero Tormenta. But that wasn't the way that Ryunosuke fought, typically. He liked hurting people. He had a mean streak that was just as long as Kuroi's, probably not as long as Adalo's, but you could hypothetically make that connection. 

Unlike Kuroi, Ryunosuke just wasn't confident enough in his victories to always make use of that mean streak. He took advantages when he saw them, put people down, and then, afterwards, maybe did a bit of torturing and lording his superiority over them. But this time, his victory was obvious enough that he could afford to style on her a little bit. He let Kimiko enter his guard, although he started moving, as if to dodge, giving her the illusion that everything was going according to plan.

Their chests touched, and it was then that her plan was obvious. She was going to hit his chest, force him back. But that wouldn't give her an edge, why bother? Simple: she was going to hurt him in the process. As Kimiko's hands shot out for his arms, Ryunosuke's eyes widened. "FUCK!" She had him here! She would grab ahold of his arms, kick off his chest, and rip them clean out of his sockets, hurting him immensely and giving her a massive edge!

No. What the fuck. What kinda christmas world did she live in? The second that Kimiko grabbed Ryunosuke's arms, even before she jumped. Her muscles would seize up, and she would find that she couldn't jump and she couldn't let go of his arms. Her muscles, all over her body, were spasming, and her high strength would make this attack more dangerous, not less. Her brain, as it desperately tried to send signals throughout her body to let go, to run away, none of that would work.

She was being electrocuted by touching Ryunosuke. And he would let her stay here until her heart was damaged beyond repair. It wasn't easy for him, probably. She wouldn't be able to tell, she'd be too focused on her own pain to do much, but that had hurt Ryunosuke as well. All over his body, his skin was burning. It was light, and most of it was hidden by his clothes, but the drawbacks of Electrica, especially when used in this manner were very real. On top of that, the usage of the technique gave Ryunosuke a sensation of electrocution as well, as if his back was filled with a metal rod connected to a generator. He was bearing it well, but not flawlessly.

Ryunosuke had used a technique, Electrica, which normally manifested a blade of electricity to be wielded. However, Ryunosuke as a master of the technique, had repurposed it. In this instant, he had used it to cover both of his arms, fusing into the Hierro so it was hardly noticeable, and applied on contact. When Kimiko had made contact with him, since she grabbed both arms, her body completed the current, and started the process of total electrocution. With only a Vice Captain level Strength of Will, and no Pain Tolerance whatsoever, and a severely lacking reiatsu strength, Kimiko's ability to resist was almost nonexistent.

This was their difference in strength. This was the might of the Segunda Espada.


Reiatsu: 16,600 (-400  Reiatsu)
Pesquis: 4/5

[Kimiko Shihoin]

Her mind now nothing more than an overflowing shell of personalities, emotions and experiences. All of her zanpakuto spirits had been crushed together and then all of them had fused together with her own sense of self. It was something that Kimiko had learned after experiencing her Soulbind once she had been able to use it properly. The last time that she had used this technique had been the first time. After she had learned what she became after activating it she had placed a rule for herself to follow in regards to using it. This was why she needed that rule.

Kimiko became something entirely different once it was activated. A creature with no humanity nor moral code at all. Something that switched between emotions so fast that it appeared to be a series of entities in control of a single body. The only constant though was that its thrive for battle and drive to kill were retained. Kimiko Shihoin had been raised as a princess one that wasn't suppose to partake in the life of a Shinigami. Treated like a flower however she didn't wish to only sit for one day she would whit. Instead she learned how to fight and more so how to kill.

All of that was released now. The deep seated thrive of battling was one of the most powerful aspects of Kimiko. Now though it was unfiltered through her moral code as a decent individual that sought to help those weaker than herself. She cared not for anything, she sought to destroy all. The Espada was the closest thing to her as her mind cracked apart giving way to the creature that now dwelled within her flesh. Her body charged the Espada with every intention of making him experience death in a grotesque way.

However, it seemed that the Espada was just like a fair amount of the Captains in the Seireitei well versed in the use of his reiatsu. Kimiko's hands enclosed around the forearms of the Espada and began to squeeze. The Espada had powerful Hierro meaning that getting through the skin wouldn't be an option however the whether or not it meant anything the creature was attempting to also crush the flesh and bone beneath the skin. It was going to rip off the arms of the first thing it saw as it prepared to leap off the ground and plant its feet onto the chest and then pull.

The Espada wasn't going to let it go any further than having his arms gripped and squeezed it seemed though as his skin began to get brighter. The creature started to screech out in pain as lightning coursed over the Espada's body onto her breasts and hands. It was savagely painful something that no individual should have to go through. Her hands unable to move now the rest of her body the creature couldn't do anything as it felt the pain coursing through her. Pain gave way to a good deal of other things one of which just happened to be desperation.

While the pain was near unimaginable the creature that now played host to Kimiko's body found that it couldn't move away from the Espada. Neither of Kimiko's hands were responding to the need to get away which meant that she'd be shocked for however long it took for this Espada to let her go or for her to figure out another way. Kimiko would have used her head to get away however this creature while having all of her knowledge and experience fought in a much more ruthless manner.

Much like an animal that seeks out to kill for the sake of enjoyment. It couldn't move the majority of Kimiko's body due to the electricity that was coursing through it however the lower body was the furthest away from the lightning. It would only take a moment of free time that she had to force through the pain. Allowing her legs to give way so that suddenly she'd start to fall backwards while appearing to take the Espada downwards with her.

As all of that happened though the Kimiko's right leg was brought upwards aimed to strike the Espada just under his chin. A technique that Kimiko had crafted during her early days as a Shinigami in case she was attacked from above. It seemed that the creature sought to use it against this foe now to overpower him in order to get him off of her. The strength of the kick would be augmented by the spring like maneuver of her body just as she started to fall only to raise her leg.

Carrying with it a force equivalent of 1750 this kick was strong enough to bring down some of the tallest buildings in the human world. Even if it wasn't enough to get through the Arrancar damaging him enough that he'd have to release her there was something else. A spiral of reiatsu was located at the base of Kimiko's foot. Another Hakudo this one by the name of Rasengeki would force the Espada backwards spiraling through the air away from Kimiko if it managed to so much as touch him.

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{Stats & Skills}
Strength: 400 {1000}
Speed: 400 {700}
Spiritual Pressure: 200 {100}
Reiatsu Strength: 100 {50]Instincts: 300
Senses: 150
Energy Sensory: 50
Healing Expertise: 0
Light Aura: 60
Dark Aura: 40

•[Martial Art: Hakudo] {3}
•[Martial Art: Pressure Points] {2}
•[Strength of Will] {2}
•[Battle Analysis] {2}
•[Acrobatics] {3}
•[Stealth] {2}
•[Hoho] {3}

[Ryunosuke Hamada]

He was fighting against a true monster, and Ryunosuke felt happy for this opportunity. At his core, despite his position of power, despite his threats to massacre hundreds and thousands of innocents, Ryunosuke still felt human. Or at least human enough. He was beyond that point, obviously, and he was dealing with forces much more powerful than any human could possibly throw around, but in his heart, he felt like it was still wrong of Xcution to turn him down on the grounds that he was an Arrancar. He was more human than Satsujun.

This Captain fighting like a monster, behaving like one, validated this. Ryunosuke wasn't a sick, twisted, freak who was murdering some civilized, well adjusted person who was genuinely only fighting to defend others. He was putting down a mad dog, who was clearly fighting for personal glory. She wasn't fighting defensively, or even speaking in a manner that suggested that her first and primary interests were about the lives of others, Kimiko was doing her job. And she was trying to move up in this world as a result.

Ryunosuke would not be an example for her success. He would not be a justification for her promotion. He was going to be another mark in the column that told the story of Soul Society losing the war with Las Noches. He would be the new Segunda, and she would be the first of many, many captains to get her ass handed to her by Ryunosuke in person. The fight was in his control so far, and her desperate attempts to fight back were just icing on the cake.

The electricity that Ryunosuke had run through his arms had certainly worked wonders on her. Her hands were clearly blackened, and the muscles in her arm would probably be damaged badly from the spasming. Not to mention the catastrophic damage that would have been dealt to many of her internal organs by completing the circuit, and allowing the electricity to flow back and forth through her body until she let go. That, and the tremendous amount of heat generated throughout this would probably burn her arms and cook some of her organs. She was fucked, more or less.

But she kept fighting, and Ryunosuke honestly couldn't blame her. When you define your life based on your ability to fight, on your ability to win, what on earth do you do when someone shows up and outclasses you? Your life is proved worthless in an instant, and the only way you can regain that value, the only way you can regain your honor, is by fighting until the end, even if it means you die. At least your tenacity will be worthy of praise, even if your skills aren't.

Unfortunately, with her spasming muscles and fucked up circulatory system, every action she was going to take was going to take longer than she anticipated. Between that and Ryunosuke's battle analysis, he realized her plan while she was still trying to do it. It was a good plan, she had more strength than him, and so he couldn't break out of her grip without first removing her arms, which would instantly free her from the continuous shock. So she still had him mostly on lockdown.

But as she dropped back, and Ryunosuke was pulled forward, downward with her, she wouldn't have the easy shot she wanted. Her leg would fly up, but unfortunately, Ryunosuke, even while airborne, even while moving like this, was still mobile beyond her capabilities. The second she started moving, Ryunosuke tilted his feet, so that they were parallel to the ground, and the soles were angled just the way he wanted them to be. Reiatsu blasted forth from them, causing Ryunosuke to move, propelled by his rocket booster feet.

He controlled the blast, careful not to move him suddenly, and risk damaging his arms, but rather just nudge him in mid air. He aligned himself, ending up perpendicular to the ground, as if Kimiko was holding him straight up into the air as she was lying down. Her kick, which had been aimed to strike him in the chin as he fell, would hit nothing but air. And now, aligned directly above Kimiko, with his hands pointed downwards at her, locked in her arms, he would end this fight.

Kimiko was still spasming and suffering from the electrical shocks coursing through her body, and her desperation attack had missed, so in the instant of vulnerability he had created, Ryunosuke spat downwards at her, his spit turning mid flight into a highly condensed ball of reiatsu, its size a deliberate instance of Ryunosuke holding back. The Arrancar King's Bala, a trick that Ryunosuke had picked up from Adalo, would fly at twice the speed of a normal bala, which at this distance was next to undodgeable.

When it hit, Kimiko's already struggling muscles would spasm again, this time, in a specific area. An overwhelming nausea would permanente her being, and her mediocre will wouldn't be enough to stop her from vomiting, repeatedly. So far, Ryunosuke had been barely injured by his own techniques, other than minor muscle strains in his back as a result of the instability, so he was willing to put a little bit more force into it now. Once again, Ryunosuke drew reiatsu into his chest, and let it loose, this time focusing the blast with his mastery to only come off of his arms, pushing outwards from his core. Halar Gonzui, once more. The technique caused him to feel like he'd been punched in the chest by a man wearing spiked gauntlets, but it was worth it.

Ryunosuke attacked Kimiko in the same way that the captain had attacked him. She was strong, and she had a good grip, but her joints were still vulnerable. As her arms continued to stay locked grabbing his, they were popped out of their sockets, and then ripped off of her. Even though they were locked onto Ryu's arms, he was controlling the strength of the blast, such that his own arms wouldn't be ripped off in the process. Instead, her arms hung, just barely detached from her body, still gripping Ryu's arms, as the Espada hovered above her, suspended for just one more moment. Then, reiatsu blasted forth from his feet once more, sending him rocketing forward, parallel to the ground, landing on his feet thirteen or so feet away.

Kimiko was armless, the arms still grabbing onto him, vomiting, still fried from electrocution, and worst of all, Ryu had managed to implant a bit of his soul in her, the consequences of that manifesting later. The fight wasn't over yet, but Kimiko getting up right now would take herculean effort, and willpower that she simply didn't have. Ryunosuke was crushing her, soundly. And he hadn't even busted out the big guns yet. He cracked his neck from side to side, giving a moment to see if she was going to get up. If she wasn't, he would just go and execute her.


Reiatsu: 16,300/18,000 (-50 Arrancar King's Bala, -100 Moon Step Cero x2, -150 Halar Gonzui)

[Kimiko Shihoin]

Kimiko's body whether or not she was actually in control of it or not was sustaining an immense amount of damage. She had willingly gone into this state in order to make sure that she would keep the attention of the Espada. However, it seemed that such a choice was backfiring on her. This creature that she became after becoming one with all of her zanpakuto spirits wasn't able to strategies nearly as well as herself. It was a monster that sought out only the pain that others would have to deal with from her hands.

Only through the sheer insanity that this creature consisted of allowed it to stare angrily into the eyes of the Espada as the flesh of Kimiko's hands and arms began to burn from the lightning that coursed through them. Her body suddenly dropping in order to engage an attack against the Espada didn't take the capable monster off guard. It seemed that the Espada was more than capable of thinking quickly. Angling his feet slightly from how they had been and then causing reiatsu to burst from the bottoms of his feet to propel not only himself, but Kimiko as well.

The long leg that belonged to Kimiko shot upwards aimed to strike the chin of the Espada however somehow he managed to evade the strike. This left her leg up above her head and next to his head. The monster was getting more and more angry to the point that the pain in it's arms was virtually ignored. The feeling of both was virtually gone already anyway all it felt now was the pain through the rest of its body. It was being dominated something that no beast could allow. So as the Espada's cheeks moved inwards slightly collecting the spit that it was preparing to fire at Kimiko the monster made it's own move.

The left leg was up above the Espada and both arms were at the moment useless for they couldn't be moved away from the Espada's own arms. Not to mention that moving them would require flexing all of the muscles in each arm. That left this monster with only the right leg which as the spit was spat from the Espada was raised upwards in a kneeing manner. However, the knee stopped short just a few inches from the Espada's stomach causing the force of the strike that would have been to propel a shockwave at virtually point blank range right into the stomach of the Espada.

The moment that the spit turned into a bala however the monster lost sight of it as it had increased in speed and managed to hit the right side of Kimiko's jaw. In that moment Kimiko's body reacted badly immediately starting to vomit up what little had been in her stomach. Her green potent smelling liquid covered a good portion of Kimiko's chin and chest alike. However, while that happened the monster made another move pulling down with all it's strength on Kimiko's left leg. The leg that was above this Eapada's right shoulder.

Kimiko's strength was vastly superior to the Espada's so as this happened the Espada would be unable to change fast enough while dealing with the undoubtable pain that would come from the shockwave. His body wouldn't suffer any real damage as the only thing to change from this sudden pull of force was a flop of positions. The Espada was focusing his reiatsu again to execute some technique as both of them flew above the ground. The Espada would find that channeling all his reiatsu into his arms from his chest wouldn't be as easy as normal.

The monster was using everything it had as an advantage against this beast that was trying to prove itself the dominant one between them. Kimiko's body was unable to stop vomiting and yet now she was the one of top which meant that the Espada was having to deal with the downpour of green vomit. Positioned to cover his face and chest with the foul smelling substance which would more than likely block some if not all of his view and render his ability to smell at least for the moment limited only to the stench from within the stomach of the Captain.

In the next instant though the technique that the Espada had been preparing went off and the monster roared out in pain as even it couldn't block out the pain of having the sockets of both arms pulled out. The arms themselves especially the forearms were burnt and damaged to the point that feeling much in them wasn't possible, but like most of her body the shoulders and joints by extension were still very much susceptible to pain. The monster retaliated the best that it could by pulling once again downwards with Kimiko's right leg which had been leaning on the right shoulder of the Espada since switching their positions a moment earlier.

This would cause the disengage that the Espada had planned to take a turn as he would be sent off course as the reiatsu burst from his feet once more. He increased his own force while the monster pulled downwards on one side with all her might. This would cause the Espada to begin spinning as he rocked past Kimiko. He'd spin above the ground and with his lack of sight from the vomit that had been expunged onto his face he'd have a difficult time not slamming into the ground.

In the moments to follow though this Espada would see what type of release the Captain had activated at the beginning of the battle. The cost of this release had been her mortality, code of honor and sanity so for such costs what were the gains. The monster had bounced across the ground for a few paced until coming to a stop. Both arms had been torn from Kimiko's body only a few moments ago just prior to the both of them disengaging from one another. Yet as the monster stood back on both of Kimiko's feet flesh seemed to burst outwards from the shoulder sockets. She wasn't so armless as the Espada might have planned.

The Espada without a doubt in the few moment that took place after this disengage would have managed to get back onto his own two feet as well. He didn't seem like the type to leave himself open to obvious attacks so it stood to reason that he'd be watching as the new fresh arms exploded from the sockets that he had just a moment ago tore her arms from. Kimiko was still vomiting though and as a result the monster took action grabbing ahold of it's jaw and ripping it off in one simple action then tossing the lower section of her face to the side. Vomit now along with blood just seemed to pour out from her skull at a far more rapid pace.

Covering the ground around her as the Espada would see this monster wouldn't stop until it was dead. Although it'd be disgusting as much as it is eye catching this wasn't the only thing that was happening. This Espada had removed Kimiko's arms. That didn't just mean that her body would rapid replace her missing sections with new ones, but that her old ones would become new monsters. It only took a handful of seconds for it to happen which more than likely would be taken up getting as much of the vomit off of his face as possible. Along with witnessing the power that this release held the Espada if he somehow in the midst of all this would notice that there was a slight ever so slight change in weight on both his arms.

"Hehehe"
"Ahhhh!"

His sense of smell was clouded most definitely and his sight would be effected regardless of how much vomit he had managed to get off his face. They'd be burning and blurred from the stomach acid that had been splashed across them. Which along with everything else gave time for the new monsters to make themselves virtually whole. The psychotic giggling of one of his left and a loud roar of one of his right directly angled at his ears. If he turned his head to look in either direction he'd see a new Kimiko well not a whole one. Both were still forming the bodies virtually complete as the inner flesh and skin were manifesting from out of nowhere. He'd be looking at the skull of Kimiko covered in flesh as the deranged eyes starred into his own with hate.

These new monsters were effected just as much as the original had been though. They had come from the left and right arms that had been removed from Kimiko. Each still had one of these arms attached to them for that was their origin point. The lightning was still causing the arms to be locked to the Arrancar's forearms and even if it wasn't neither of these monsters were letting go of him. Flexing the muscles in each arm causing the grip to tighten ever so slightly yet enough that the Espada wouldn't be able to pull himself away. Both proceeded to make things even more difficult as the effects of the bala that the Espada had fired at the original started to effect the clones.

Vomit expunging itself from both of them simultaneously onto each side of the Espada's head covering his face once more in the disgusting green. His entire upper body at this point would be marked in what he had caused. His clothing would have to be burnt after this encounter for there was little chance of ever getting the smell out of them. Just as it was the first time though the stomach acid that came with the vomit would cause the Espada to have blurred eyes at the least and his sense of smell would continue to be clogged by the pungent odor.

While they continued to vomit covering him they'd begin to pull away from him while keeping their grip on his arms. Placing each of their free hands around a side of his neck. The vomit would move between their fingers and then cover them linking them to the Espada. While Kimiko had become a monster this thing wasn't without thought. If the Espada tried to use the lightning once again to harm it he'd harm himself more than he had last time. The vomit was liquid and covering a space between the hands and his neck if he shocked them he'd fry his own throat. It didn't matter what he did though for their grips were getting tighter and within a few moments he'd have a crushed throat.

The clones would likely be destroyed or repulsed in some way while they kept the Espada busy. It didn't take long, but the original was prepared again. Bone and flesh together seemingly growing instantly at once from the gaping section of her lower face. The original had nothing left in its stomach to vomit. The ground around it green and red. It had sped up the process by removing the barrier that was its lower jaw. No more vomit and a new jaw clean from blood and vomit. It starred angrily and while it looked as if it was going to charge it leaped into the air crushing the ground beneath its feet and rising up hundreds of feet into the air where it couldn't be seen. What was the purpose of the jump and more importantly was it coming down or was it going somewhere else? What was this monster thinking?

Soulbind: 3/10

[Ryunosuke Hamada]

(OOC Clarification: I've been fighting assuming that Kimiko was on the ground, and Ryu was hovering above her, and Asmo has been fighting assuming that Kimiko was being held aloft by Ryu. That's why our posts are a little difficult to grok. I'm gonna switch to using his understanding, just for simplicity)

Ryunosuke's fighting style had surpassed the simple street fighting that it had started at. There was no one else in the world who was as good at generic hand to hand fighting as he was, even if he had obvious holes in his knowledge due to a lack of formal training. Ryu's style had evolved to the point where calling it street fighting, or brawling, just simply didn't do it justice, and so he had created a new name for the new style that he was pioneering, and which he was brutally honing, one spirit at a time.

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The name of Ryunosuke's style was Break/Kill Mode, and it did just that. Whenever someone was in close quarters with Ryunosuke, they would be hurt. Badly, and brutally. Most people didn't survive close combat with Ryu, which made it strange that he rarely engaged in it. Truth be told, it felt like cheating, with unbreakable skin, and the ability to punch like a bulldozer, staying at range and exchanging blats of reiatsu just felt more sporting. After all, every time he tried to engage in a simple game of Bloody Knuckles, everyone ran.

So, when Kimiko actually tried to tangle with him in close quarters, Ryunosuke couldn't help but roll his eyes a little. The girl had no idea what she was getting into. She thought she was getting into an advantageous position, but in reality? She was getting into a fucking coffin. He evaded the first kick, simply because it would have made his attacks harder to utilize, rather than anything else. He wasn't at risk of being seriously injured by Kimiko's attacks, although she didn't realize that yet. But she would, soon.

She reacted to his Bala, largely because he had gotten overly showy, which had always been his undoing. As he launched the Bala, she brought up a knee which felt like it connected with his gut. It hadn't, it had stopped just short, releasing a high power shock wave, but he couldn't see that, or know that. Ryunosuke reacted as she expected, stunned for a moment in pain! This was her opening, her chance to land a series of combo attacks on him. Kimiko was back in this fight!

As she vomited, Kimiko managed to hold herself together, just enough to launch another attack. Of course, since she was preoccupied with vomiting, she wouldn't be able to really be too clever with the attack. It was a simple axe kick, her leg coming back down on Ryu's shoulder. It slammed into Ryunosuke full strength, and a horrifying crack and a scream of pain filled the air as Ryunosuke's face filled with emotion. "Holy shit, you fucking idiot!" He said with a laugh.

The scream wasn't his. The crack wasn't his. Kimiko had just broken her own leg, the force of her attack turned against her. With the 800 superior defense that Ryunosuke possessed, it simply wasn't possible for Kimiko to just kick him. It was like a normal human kicking a brick wall at full strength. His pain reaction from the shock wave? No, that had been an act, combined with a pain reaction from his own technique. He had duped her, and Kimiko lacked the battle tactics to perceive it, and react in time.

And, of course, the attempt to shove Ryu off course didn't work out, given the neutralization of Kimiko's leg. Since Ryunosuke had anticipated the attack and the force, he put more force into the Moon Step Cero. And even if Kimiko was stronger than Ryu, she wasn't stronger that Ryu's spirit. The force she applied was stabilized, and more or less rendered pointless. This was the difference between them. Kimiko stayed lying on her back, and as she vomitted, it soaked her Haori, and also some of it would fall back down her throat, choking her.

Her muscles spasming, her throat filling with her own bile, Kimiko still was able to pull on Ryu's arms, giving him a spin that, if she was right, would cause him to crash into the ground. But given that he wasn't blinded like she expected, and he was a master of Cero in general, and Moon Step Cero in particular, as well as having a focus that few others possessed, she failed. He spun, certainly, but kept above the ground, coming close enough to feel it, only a few feet bellow him, at times, but eventually stopping, landing on his feet, with the two arms in hand.

Or, well, they were two arms. They were quickly growing, and laughing, into new Kimikos. What the actual fuck. The main Kimiko, walking towards him, had ripped off her lower jaw to stop the vomitting. What the fuck. Wasn't he the Espada here? She was meant to be the captain, what the actual shit. This was still a man versus monster story, but not the one that anyone had been fucking expecting before now. And Ryunsouke was disgusted.

As they vomitted on him, Ryunosuke closed his eyes, and sighed deeply. "Fuck it. Fine."

And then they were dead. And Kimiko was dead. Piles of ashes around him. In the blink of an eye, the battle was over, and all his foes were dead. He was, after all, the Segunda Espada. What had happened so fast was Ryunosuke had charged a Cero instantly, given his talent in Cero, and released it, traveling as fast as a Bala, and with the total dimensions of a 30 foot cube. In this case, he had formatted it to be about 10 feet wide, 10 feet deep, and about 270 feet long. Easily blanketing the fighting area.

What was this technique? Oh, Cero Lightning. Release from Ryunosuke's back, where none of his foes could see it until it was too late. And, even though the clones were instantly reduced to ash, there might have been a chance for Kimiko to dodge. Except she was also hit in the back, a branch of the lightning piercing her from behind. Ryunosuke had opened up a Garganta behind himself, and channeled the lightning through it, a bala speed attack that had teleported between the two of them with 15,000 speed.

Kimiko didn't have the energy sensory to sense the charge up, the battle analysis to predict it, or the reiatsu strength to tank it. Even with the distance that Ryunosuke had spread it over, the attack still had double her reiatsu strength, which was all it needed to turn her into ash in an instant. She wouldn't have time for last words, time to tank the attack, none of that nonsense. Her ashes were ready to be scattered on the wind, and Ryu was ready to go home and take a goddamn shower.


Reiatsu: 15,650 (-650 (Cero Ligning and Pequeno Garganta)

[Kimiko Shihoin]

Kimiko's madness seemed to be her own undoing against the new Segunda Espada. The naïve Captain had believed that her soulbind would be enough to prevent him from attacking the rest of Soul Society and perhaps even bring him down however above underestimating his power Kimiko overestimated her own reason while in Soulbind. She had banned the use of it for herself simply due to knowing what it caused her to become and now as the true her was lost only this creature that held no sanity continued to crawl in battle against this Espada.

The attempt to blind him had been unsuccessful as had the strike that was meant to bring him downwards and change their positioned. Instead Kimiko's shin bone had been cracked in half and the creature had screamed in pain for a moment only for the scream to shift into laughter. This creature knew pain and the pain was starting to truly bring it down and yet madness shifted through it so fast that even pain didn't stay present mentally for more than a few moments. The pain though couldn't be erased as easily from her body. While her mind was past the stages of anything salvageable her body wasn't and it was reaching it's limitations for pain.

Her throat was starting to bleed from having her bile basically locked in position as she was held upside down her clothing getting disgusting in it all. After those few moments though there was that burst of air and Kimiko's arms had been severed from her body. That while if it had been a grand strategy to bring her down as a physical fighter without arms is next to useless it was actually something the Segunda wouldn't realize would hurt his efforts for victory in the long run. Those arms he had torn off were growing and he displayed the shock on his face at the fact. Kimiko's main body though instantly regenerated new arms that hadn't been harmed by the Espada effecting making them brand new and her body less injured along with feeling far less pain.

Ripping off her lower jaw and throwing it to the side had caused all of the bile that was in her stomach to be unleashed onto the ground. Her jaw was regenerated as well clean from the bile that had been on the previous one. The Espada was getting annoyed as the two new clones began to throw up on his clothing. While that happened the creature flexed it's leg causing the cracked shin bone to be crushed back into place and together with itself. It was usable again as was her body. It was far less damaged than it had been a few moments ago however it seemed that it wouldn't stay that way.

The Espada was tired of dealing with whatever the hell she had turned herself into so he executed a few different techniques. The creature could sense reiatsu and could tell that his was spiking yet it's insanity kept it from acting on what it sensed. It simply was laughing as it got ever closer to the Espada step by step. The two that were clinging onto the Espada though were both starting to reach for his throat when a fairly big black hole appeared behind him. It was the last thing that both of them saw as their giggling and roaring was ceased by the lightning that reduced their bodies to ash.

The main Kimiko had been able to see the black hole appear behind the Espada just prior to the clones being destroyed. In fact the Espada if he had killed them loser would have brought her down to defeat in that very instant. All of the senses even pain were linked together and yet they had been killed so fast that pain wasn't possible. She felt nothing, but a hot tingling sensation all across her body. The lightning was sent through that black hole though right behind the main Kimiko. The black hole was only the size of a normal human so slightly bigger than Kimiko's body and the lightning was going to turn her into ash as well.

At least that's what would have happened had there not been a third clone. The lower jaw that the creature had ripped off and thrown away was already almost a complete clone. It along with the main was madness unpredictable to the point that it would attack it's own kind. It used Shunpo to slam into the actual Kimiko bringing it away from the lightning faster than the lightning could strike her. The Espada would hear the sound of a building collapsing roughly seventy feet away. The both of them had landed there and now the clone was holding the original down by it's arms giggling in madness.

Both of them giggling at the other as they started to bite the facial features of one another off and spit them out onto the ground. A nose or two, upper and lower lips perhaps even a few thin cheeks and some throat as well were all being torn from each other as they continued to live in madness not even thinking about the foe they had just left. Blood covered them both after a moment or two as both of their facial features just kept regenerating giving them more to bite and tear off. That's when they stopped and starred at each other laughing loudly chackling at everything around them as it all started to grow. Then their bodies just seemed to bend together and they became one.

The Espada would react in his own way to how Kimiko had vanished more than likely not caring and unharmed by his own lightning which would have continued towards himself from his black portal. He wouldn't have time to leave the battle field though unless he teleported as the laughter got much louder from the crumbled building. It'd be loud and then it'd be very loud as Kimiko suddenly was right in front of him smiling in her twisted full teeth manner upwards at his face. This didn't seem right though Kimiko hopped off the ground and would grab ahold of the Espada's arms just as she did the first time. It had failed before what made the creature think it'd work now.

Well there was nothing to give it that justification it simply is madness and thus it holds no logic or basis for it's actions. However, this time the Espada would quickly see a difference as an additional set of arms her actual arms grabbed ahold of his head. Her thumbs were small, but not tiny and they were now over his eyes and pushing inwards with all her strength. It would only take an instant and if the Espada didn't react in that instant of time between her being in front of him and then on him he'd lose his eyes as they would be crushed by the creatures immense strength. It was stronger now and faster as it had fused with another and they were going to kill everything.

Soulbind:4/10

Remaining Reiatsu: 750/1000
Shunpo: {-50}