Bleach: New Generation

Chapter 44: I Completely had it Under Control

Ichika's POV:

"Heh. What's wrong with ya? Feeling tired already?"

I grinned as the scared hooded figure breathed heavily in front of me, exhausted from our fight. I felt the reiatsu from behind me disappear. That meant that Kazui defeated that hooded figure. We are gonna win this one! But along with that, there was another ugly feeling that appeared. It was something familiar though I couldn't put my finger on it. Not that I had to worry about that now, this guy toward me needed to be taken down.

Rushing once again towards the cloaked guy, I landed a couple of more hits on its cloak. I could see some red liquid streaming down from it as I continued to relentlessly slash my enemy. My Zanpakuto wasn't even in shikai form, but somehow, I was beating this stranger like a training dummy. My silver steel glided through the fabric like butter, cutting the inside like flesh. My movements were swift, precise, and easy. There was no time to waste, yet I felt kinda bored since this enemy was too easy. It was either I was really really strong, or this enemy was really really weak. I would like to think that I was too strong for this opponent. This was almost too easy.

A sudden burst of wind blew both of us apart. Within this wind I sense some sinister Spiritual Pressure and energy influencing its movements. I had a sneaky suspicion that it was coming from this guy, not that I was complaining.

"Oh? So you finally started to try harder? Finally, I was getting bored her-"

Before I could finish my sentence, a purple bolt of energy was sent toward my chest. Luckily, my fighting instincts immediately forced my body to flash step out of the way. The electricity crackled when it passed my body, some of the cloth of my fabric disintegrated along with burning my skin.

Damn it. If I didn't dodge that, I would've disintegrated, I thought to myself, Gonna have to play this one safe...or not hehe

I immediately rushed towards the enemy. It fired even more purple lightning bolts toward me, though I naturally dodged them like it was nothing. My blade clashed against his cloak. Grinning in amusement, I delivered many more slashes while trying to disarm whatever makes his attacks, and I had the perfect solution for that.

According to my senses, the electricity he makes is extremely powerful, but it comes with one downside. It doesn't have any reinforcements built in it. The energy is unstable, meaning that I can bypass the energy by simply countering it with an attack as powerful or an even better one. And guess who's gonna do it? Me.

"You think you're the only one who can do some stuff with electricity? Well nah. Because I can do it better", I pressed my sword against his face and shouted, "Blitz, Inazumatori!"

A swift bolt of lightning struck my sword and with a single explosion, we were blown backwards. My Zanpakuto changed into the lightning bolt shaped Shikai that it was meant to be. I glanced towards the enemy to examine the damage I'd done. The cloak was singed, with smoke gradually rising from it. The place of the mask where I had placed the edge of my sword was shattered in pieces. I felt satisfied with the result. This guy was gonna be beaten easily. I just realized that my entertainment with fighting this cloaked guy didn't help with our situation since we still needed to fight more of them. Our time has ended.

I flash stepped on top of the enemy and sliced downward. Surprisingly, this time the guy just dodged my attack, counterattacking with an extra bolt of lightning. It was pulsating with extreme spiritual energy that I felt was burning into my body. The attack pierced straight through the left side of my stomach. I screamed in agony as the stinging sensation shocked me from the inside out. With no time to defend myself, another bolt of lightning was sent toward me. It hit me once again but this time in my left arm. Black liquid started to spread from my wound just like veins. My arm looked like it was decaying slowly. Luckily this didn't instantly kill me, or else I wouldn't be of any help to my team.

What did they say at Kazui's school? Two negatives make a positive? My attacks plus his are an offensive type, so they both count as negatives, which leads to one thing. This might be able to stop the process or at least delay it a little bit longer.

I raised my sword into the air. Dark clouds gathered over the top of me as it thundered loudly.

"Raigeki!"

A massive bolt of lightning crashed down toward my direction. My skin was tingling, with my red hair standing up to the direction of the electricity. Because this lightning was part of my own power, I didn't feel a thing as the lightning struck my body. The black veins stopped spreading throughout my body. It stayed still in its process, and I could even see some of it disappearing back into the wound. This was really good news. It meant that I could continue fighting again.

I dashed once again towards the enemy and instead of using the same move, I delivered an elbow to the mask. The crack already embedded from my earlier attack shattered even further so it made it easier for me to see the green eyes. I needed to be unpredictable with my attacks so I could win. I didn't have to always follow the rules or a specific way of fighting. This job requires getting your hands dirty, and I didn't mind going deeper.

The cloaked figure was stunned as it didn't expect my attack. I suppose that it was used to being attacked by my blade, so it wouldn't suspect being physically abused as well. It covered the mask with one of its hands and sent another bolt of lightning towards me. I was finally able to dodge the attack this time and deliver another blow to its body. With a backhand attack from my blade and one tornado kick, I finally had the opportunity to use my best moves onto it.

I charged up my lightning through striking his body a few times more. It seemed that my zanpakuto was not able to control the electricity from the weather, but also other sources of lightning as well. My opponent was becoming more exhausted by the minute. Its movements were becoming slower and the strikes of lightning towards me were weaker. I had the upper hand here.

Using the flat of my Zanpakuto, I hit the side of its face as hard as I could. It was dazed and stood there while trying to regain its senses. I pointed my blade toward the cloaked man. During and before the training period, I had already tried to push myself. I had even gone into my Zanpakuto's inner world just to search for the power I needed. It was fun at times, but it was a hard path to walk through. But I wanted to become stronger. I wanted to serve the Gotei 13. I wanted to protect everyone. And right now, this is what I achieved. Working side by side with my friends, and Kazui.

Electricity sparked at the tip of my blade. Inazumatori taught me the importance of names as she revealed an important move. The quick burst of lightning that incinerated any opponent who stood in our way. It delivers a swift death to them and before they know it, they'll either be living their lives in the generous hands of the Soul Society or suffer punishment wherever they end up.

I took a deep breath before releasing the final attack.

"Rakurai-hō"

It only took under a second to release Rakurai-hō. A bright flash of yellow appeared as fast as it disappeared. My eyes widened as I saw the figure still remain, though something was different about it. The cloak was gone and revealed a light figure with half a body. Its eyes darted around its sockets, and brown hair stuck out like a porcupine. Chains started to wrap around its severed body, pulling it to that strange feeling I felt earlier. I looked towards the origin of the chains where I found large doors.

A humungous sword appeared as my enemy was pulled toward the blade. It instantly disintegrated into ash on contact, taking the remains inside of the doors. I sighed in relief. It was finally over, but I knew that I had another to fight. As I was about to follow Kaito's Spiritual Pressure, I heard somebody breathing heavily behind me.

"Ichika...you have to kill it by...taking off the hoo-...wait huh?", Kazui glanced upward at me while taking deep breaths, "You've already killed it?"

"Uh, yeah. And also, I kinda figured that out when I killed it"

"Oh! Uh...are you okay? You look really bad right now since you're covered in injuries...", Kazui examined me, fussing over my injuries while I tried to slap him away.

"Hey! Chill out Kazui. Don't worry about my injuries because they're nothing", I gave him a thumbs up and a smile, "I completely...completely had i-it under c-control..."

My eyes began to droop, and that's when I realised that I was about to pass out. My body gave away and I ended up fainting, falling from the sky.