Kazui Kurosaki, a 17 year old in Karakura High, is not as normal as a regular high school student. Like his father Ichigo, he is a Substitute Soul Reaper who possesses incredible power. During his days casually purifying Hollows with the new Soul Re...
Now there was no possible way that I'm going to lose against him. Ha, I bet he isn't even gonna keep up with me because of all my training.
My dad was training me since I was young, whereas the first time I saw Kazui, he looked inexperienced. He probably lacks half the skill that I have. But then there were the stories that my mom said.
She told me about her fights along with Ichigo Kurosaki and how powerful he was that he surpassed even the Gotei 13. Well, when I first showed up to their home at that Kurosaki Clinic, I could sense such immense Spiritual Pressure from Kazui's dad. Kazui might carry that same potential.
Kazui winked at me and then disappeared. Huh? How did he already learn how to use Flash Step?
"You're not gonna get ahead of me, Kazui!", I also Flash stepped towards the direction of the Hollow.
We were neck-in-neck as we hopped over buildings and other places. Kazui was smiling at me as he kept up with my speed. Damn it, I underestimated that brat. But I will beat him.
To add some salt to the wound, he started hopping over buildings backwards and started chatting with me.
"Hey, if you lose, you have to buy me some food for school lunch"
"There is no way that I'm doing that for a person like you"
"Then don't lose"
"I swear I will slice you up with my sword if you don't shut up"
Kazui let out an exaggerated gasp before jumping ahead of me, grinning as I fell behind.
I then felt a sudden change in Spiritual Pressure, sensing that its travelling into a different direction. It was travelling.....here?
"ICHIKA!"
As soon as the Hollow popped out from one of the buildings, Kazui jumped in front of me and blocked its attack. Sparks flew out of the sword as the Hollow's white claw pushed against his Zanpakuto. He then kicked the Hollow backwards and then stayed next to me. The Hollow disappeared into the distance
"Ichika, you okay?"
"Yeah, nice save Kazui"
I then drew my own Zanpakuto, and we both stood back-to-back as we tried to locate the Hollow.
I finally located the Hollow, its grotesque body stomping towards us, its claws scraping the sides of buildings, and roaring at the top of its lungs, if it even has any.
"Kazui, we need to defeat this Hollow quickly so we can minimise the number of deaths and destruction"
"No need to tell me twice"
Both of us Flash stepped to the Hollow, raised our swords but as soon as we slashed downwards, the Hollow disappeared and reappeared behind us. It swatted us away into another building. The impact of that hit caused me to cough up blood, and it looked like Kazui was not holding up well either.
He then held up a hand towards me and murmured, "Sotenkisshun"
Three small flying objects flew out of his wristwatch and formed a triangle. A bright orange wall formed inside the triangle and something weird happened. My previous injuries and blood suddenly started to fade away, leaving no trace of it anywhere.
Kazui just smiled and placed a finger on his lips.
"What about you're injuries, Kazui?"
"I'll be fine, let's just get this over with"
I nodded quickly and stood back up, picking up my Zanpakuto and positioned it pointing to the sky.
"Blitz, Inazumatori!"
A bolt of lightning crashed into my sword. After the smoke blew away from the massive Spiritual Pressure that erupted from my body, my Zanpakuto blade transformed into the shape similar to a lightning bolt, just like my sword guard. Small lightning bolts emitted out of the sword as I held it.
"Nice Shikai you got there", Kazui noted.
"Heh, I know. But let's see what you got"
Kazui smiled at me and then pointed his Zanpakuto towards the enemy. He then placed his left hand on his right bicep where his sword arm is.
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"Conquer, Mugetsu"
Black and red energy surrounded Kazui's sword, then erupted into a bigger explosion of energy. The Spiritual Energy was almost enough to knock me over. My eyes widened as I saw his Zanpakuto. It was just a bigger blade, but it was no doubt that it looked the same as Ichigo Kurosaki's Zanpakuto form which he uses sometimes. The large sleek black blade shone in the sunlight, with no guard and the handle made of bandages. My mom told me once that the reason that Ichigo's Zanpakuto looked like that was because his uncontrollable Spiritual Energy wouldn't go to normal, making it stuck in Shikai form. I guess genetics ran in Kazui's family.
"Let's go"
We both rushed to the Hollow with our newly introduced blades.
