Akuma laughed, he constantly jabbed at Izuru, his attacks becoming more and more dangerous, faster with every blow. Izuru dodged, un-amused, and merely blocking away the attacks with his sword, he lunged forward and struck Akuma's blade with Wabisuke… weighing it down twice its original weight. Akuma staggered back.
"You bastard! What did you do to my sword!?" Akuma grunted.
"Wabisuke… it weighs down the opponent's zanpakuto double its original weight, and from there, continues to double with every strike…" Izuru said, glancing to Akuma.
"You… Ngh!" Akuma mumbled angrily, but then smiled, to Izuru's surprise.
"Yes? What about me?"
"Fool…" He held out his zanpakuto, swinging at Izuru again, but for some reason, Izuru felt himself getting slower and slower, and Akuma's sword getting faster and faster, it was getting harder for him to be able to dodge the attacks, and Akuma's sword began tearing through him. Izuru made a feeble attempt to dodge the next blow, and he moved his sword to block the attack, but it took almost eternity to even move the sword, and instead, Akuma's sword pierced into Izuru's arm. Izuru shrieked in pain.
Akuma smiled and began to laugh.
"You see, my zanpakuto has the ability to slow down time for my opponent. Meaning my opponent's movements will be much slower, a movement that will take him a few seconds will be drawn out so that it takes hours for the movement to be complete. In this state… you're finished…"
Izuru furrowed his brow. He stepped back, his foot taking forever to finally reach the ground.
"You are not worthy of being my opponent…." Akuma charged forward to deliver the final blow. Izuru's eyes widened.
Izuru squeezed his eyes shut, his spiritual pressure building up, higher and higher, his movements becoming slightly faster… he was able to free himself from Akuma's deadly grip… Akuma, who was still charging towards Izuru gasped as he realized Izuru had broken free…
"HOW DID YOU-" He was cut off when Izuru's sword struck his left arm, which weighed and tugged Akuma to the grassy floor. He budged it, but it lay limply on the ground, a small cut with blood seeping from it…
Akuma held up is right arm… sword in hand, attempting to block the next blow from Izuru, which did nothing but weigh the sword down more… Akuma panted, stuck to the ground by both of his arms, his sword… useless…
"Impossible! No one should be able to break free from that!" He said.
"You must not understand, wherever you came from, you rely on a different kind of energy, or source. The spiritual energy I rely upon is much stronger and in abundance… your attacks are useless…" Izuru said… "Now, I am sorry, but you are of no longer use here…" Izuru shot a ball of blue fire at Akuma, watching as he fell limply to the ground…


The ash from Haineko surrounded Rose, beginning to make small tears within her skin… Rose darted upward, away from the swirling whirlwind of ash… Rangiku merely followed her, attacking left and right with the wave of ash, as it struck from several different positions…
Rose's zanpakuto chugged as it spewed out a black smoke, which surrounded Rangiku, a heavy blow bashing Rangiku's side…
Rangiku stumbled back, more smoke clouding around her, the air around her draining and draining, and her breathing grew heaver as it became harder for her to breathe…
Rose held her zanpakuto to Rangiku's neck… "My zanpakuto is capable of much more than you think it can, not only is it a cloud of pressure which can easily bash you to death depending on how I position it, but as you get weaker and weaker, I get stronger and stronger. The black smoke my zanpakuto emits is very much capable of completely choking you to death…"
Rangiku dodged and swung, disregarding Rose's lecture, ash smacking against her side and cutting through her flesh…
The black smoke grew thicker… it became harder for Rangiku to see at all, and she began choking and gasping for air… a large burst of pressure beginning to crush Rangiku… She fell to the ground, the smoke around her became too dense, and her ribs began to break from the pressure…
Rangiku screamed in pain… and fell to the ground, drawing her last breath of air, before her eyes grew dull… and became limp, the ash around Rose collecting back into the fallen blade of Rangiku…
"Foolish woman… doesn't even know how to fight properly…" Rose sheathed her zanpakuto, and began to walk away…

Rangiku gasped, the air returning to her, her chest heaving with every breath… she looked around, her mind a fuzzy haze, but she could make out the silhouette of Rose, who as walking away…
With determination, Rangiku grabbed her zanpakuto… stood back up, panting, and in extreme pain… She held out her zanpakuto and muttered… "Haineko…"
The sword melted back into ash, leaving the hilt in Rangiku's hand, and with a swift movement… the ash circled around Rose, one cloud struck across her, another pierced eight through her… the ash delivered the final blow of slowly surrounding Rose and then striking inward, trapping her and cutting her…
Rose screamed… "YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!" The black smoke burst from Rose's zanpakuto… charged towards Rangiku, but the ash around Rose collided against her, slicing her in several places, and causing her to fall to the ground, just before the black smoke could reach Rangiku, it spun effortlessly away and disappeared into a tiny wisp…
Rangiku panted, the ash returning to the hilt, returning the sword to its normal form… She had defeated Rose, and only hoped this would be the last time she would ever see her again…

The swift movements of everyone's blades clashed together, loud ringing noises sounding through the open fields. Their soldiers watched, astounded, and unsure of what to do, but they kept their hands tightly gripped on the hilts of their swords.
I slammed my blade against Daiki's, he grunted as he counter-attacked the blow. As I stumbled back a little, he darted straight up into the air, completing an aerial flip and burst towards me, and they seemed to follow me as I dodged the oncoming onslaught of bullets. I held my sword out, the last bullet striking my blade. I grinned as it split in half, but then gasped as I noticed both halves hurtling towards me, crashing into me and slamming me into the ground…
I panted, helping myself up from the ground, another onslaught of bullets racing towards me. My eyes widened, I needed to stop those bullets before they hit me, or I would possibly die… An idea came to me. I muttered "Domu Raito", watching as giant dome expanded in the middle of us, the bullets harmlessly smashing into its side. I breathed a sight of relief…
I held out my zanpakuto, a firm grip and raced towards Daiki, he smiled and dodged behind me.
"Gotchya!" I said, I had anticipated he would appear behind me to attack. In midair, I flipped backwards, plunging my sword into his chest, and forcing Daiki down to the ground. He held his gun out to my head, the barrel lit up as a bullet charged, I rolled out of the way, the bullet whizzing past me by inches… He tugged my sword from his chest, tossing it away. As he stood up, he spat out blood, wiping his mouth and looking around him, seeing Akuma and Rose laying on the ground defeated.
He had no other option. Glaring angrily at me, he called. "All soldiers, attack them!" Daiki, helped up Akuma and Rose as I ran for my sword, blocking the attacks of the soldiers and knocking them aside, some of them highly trained experts. All of their zanpakutos were made of this bronze material, and the hand guard was the shape of a gear. Each seemed to hum with a mechanic sound and this gurgling churning, as each sword let out gusts of steam into the air. One sword struck my bare arm. I hissed in pain, the heat from the steam promoting the pain of the blow.
Rangiku struck several at once with Haineko, the ash smashing against them and cutting them as she brought waves of them to the ground. She smiled triumphantly, though scarred and still coughing form her previous opponent, she knew this would be a piece of cake. Izuru struck each of the unsuspecting soldiers, not realizing they were being weighed down from his attacks. Over time, each of them had fallen to the ground, some defeated, some so heavy, they could not lift themselves, and others who were struggling to pick up their million pound zanpakutos. He smiled, holding out his hand, a blue ball of energy forming. He was using kido. He was able to finish them off within minutes.
I struck outward, calling "Domu Raito" and watching as the giant dome of pure green energy expanded, striking several of the soldiers, the energy draining their power and replenishing mine. I smiled, we had won this battle, but we would have to prevent this form happening again. I decided I would speak to Ruka about this.
As the soldiers fell to the ground, dead and defeated. Each of us sealed our zanpakutos and sheathed it. I made my way over to Rangiku and Izuru.
"Thank you for your help, I probably would have been dead had you not arrived when you did."
Izuru nodded. Rangiku smiled and said "Anytime Raine, this is a problem though, we do not know why the attack even happened, and we do not know who these people are…"
"Apparently they're from this place called the Hidden Valley, and their intention is to destroy the shinigami… From what the leader said." I replied, recalling the information Daiki had given me before.
"There must be more of a reason then just that." Izuru said. "And how are we so sure that he is their leader, what if he is only a subordinate. I don't think he would have been as easy to defeat…"
I agreed, and glanced around. "Speaking of that, where did Daiki, the woman, and that other guy go?"
"They escaped, they used the soldiers as a distraction…" Rangiku said.
"Yes, but for now, lets concentrate on warning all members of Sereitei about this new threat." Izuru said. "Lets go…"
He began to walk forward, followed by Rangiku, and I walked behind them. Izuru flash stepped away, disappearing in a blur, Rangiku mimicking him. I glanced behind me before disappearing from the fields…