I did it, my head become clear and I got a strange feeling. I was able to sense my surrounding a little better. I can hear the voice of the soul reaper who are crying in pain, I sensed another cero blast coming my way. The one launching it was a hollow with snake like hands and diamond like face and a long and thin body.
But before it could launch another cero, it was attacked by other soul reaper. It was Azuma, he was like a burning iron, but the hollow was superior then him.
Its spiritual pressure is on captains' level, the hollows hand turned into a drill and attacked azuma. Before my eyes azuma zanpakuto clashed with the hollow and the upper hand was hollows.
"hado #31 shakkaho" I fired the kido, somehow I knew that my hado attack will connect.
The hollow was hit right in the face as a crack appeared on its mask.
Azuma had the chance to win and used it, but hollow was really to strong as it used it's another hand to puncher a hole in azuma leg.
"Attack, raizo" "rise Seiryuu"
The 16th seat and 20th seat came to azuma's aid, still they are no match. But they were successful at holding it engaged.
"Kyoko" I thought, I searched for her. It did not matter for me anymore I did not want anything then to find kyoko.
I felt her spiritual energy, there.
I was able to sense her very far away. she was engaged in a dead lock with a hollow, the hollow was giving of a weird feeling like untraceable, this hollow did not have any spiritual energy.
I rushed towards her she was in a grave danger.
When I reached the location, kyoko had torn cloths and large cuts. "Amuse me more, amuse me more" the hollow was torturing her.
Kyoko did not attack instead only defended.
Rage filled me, "Die bast**" I slashed with all my strength, from its blind spot.
My attack was dead set and a perfect aim causing him to fly away, with a deep cut wound on its back.
"Aryan-san" Kyoko asked doubtfully as she collapsed due to exhausting her spiritual energy, but she was alive and needed treatment.
"Watch out, that hollow cannot be detected. And it can hide in shadows" She spoke weakly.
I cannot sense any spiritual signature from it, but at present I can definitely sense a lot more. As if I had awakened observation haki, I could tell the hollow will appear out of my shadow and attack me with its claws.
"Die" I said and used my sword to pierce it through its claw.
The hollow had great momentum, so it was unable to stop itself from getting slashed. And I cut of its hand.
"Bakudo #4 Hainawa" The hollow was shocked; it was caught by a kido.
"How can you sense me" it asked me, "how dare you harm my wife", "I slashed it with my sword" but the hollow used a cero to block my sword.
My sword which had already had cracks broke but the hollow also suffered the backlash of releasing a cero unexpectedly.
"Hado #4 byakurai"
"ARGHHH! Damn you soul reaper. Stalin-sama will kill you" the hollow screamed and slowly disintegrated.
I had huge burns on the right side of my shoulder, I was glad to aid kyoko.
I too was very weak, so I fell on the ground.
Kyoko had a smile as she has fell asleep.
I slowly brought her to the safe side; It was really dangerous for now my sword is broken and there is clash between the giants.
I had somehow managed to bring kyoko back to a safety; I could feel their locations somehow.
I could tell the battle was at a climax and squad 10 captain has fallen, while Isshin shiba has shown a great deal of power, he was filled with rage and sadness. While his spiritual power has increased to a new height, the hollow he was fighting has started to disappear.
On the other hand all the lieutenants had also killed their enemies and the remaining hollows started to run away.
I finally let go entered a deep sleep,
'Where am I, I thought as I was not in a place which looked like a disaster zone. This place seemed like a place which was stuck by a tsunami.
"You finally entered, I thought you would never show up" A person spoke, I can only hear his voice but cannot see him.
"Get up and take your sword out before, this world is fully destroyed" the voice came again, as I saw a huge tsunami wave approaching.
"Sword means zanpakuto" I started to search for it. And then tsunami hit me, crushing me to the ground.
"Hurry" The voice came again. 'Let's see a soul reapers spirit ribbon is red' I thought of it as a red spirit ribbon appeared before me and I took it out to open the sword from a black sheath.
"Very good, now leave". I was forcefully sent out of the water.
"It is not time to learn my name" a figure in the mist appeared, as the water started to return, and the collapsed buildings started to go back to their initial positions.
"I have been so badly injured that I cannot help you now, few more years and I should be able to provide you what belongs to you. Until than you must survive on your own" the figure in the mist said.
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Squad 4 barracks
It been over a month since the battle.
Squad 10 captian, had died in that battle, along with many members of other squad members. The total death toll was close to 500 members, with almost 30 ranked officer deaths. The Seireitei was in a terrible shape.
There were 6 squad 5 seated officers and over 13 other deaths. While 3 seated officers are crippled.
Now I am visiting Azuma who had been crippled, the hollow which he was fighting was able to cut his right leg and an eye. While yumiko is in coma, as she had 8 holes in her body. And the other officer who helped them was a officer from squad 8 11th seat hashirama, he has also lost his left hand.
We husband and wife were the lucky ones, Kyoko was on rest, she had deep wounds. Due to the squad 4 advanced healing techniques, there should not even a scare left on her body after few months.
While my burns were also healed, but the skin will take few months to be healed back to the normal, the healing technique of seireitei is on a different level. As they use reishi to replace the damaged skin and bring it back like nothing happened. (Example zaraki's wounds).
"Yo azuma, how are you feeling" I asked, "I am fine, you don't have to come visit me every day. It is annoying, I would have jumped in to fight that hollow even if you were not there at that camp" he said.
"But I feel responsible for your state. If not for this battle in a few years you would have been one of the lieutenants. I was even thinking of letting you become by lieutenant one day".
"In your dreams" azuma snapped, "anyway, I heard squad 12 is researching on something which would restore limbs. So, I should be back to action in few years" azuma spoke, "really, but can we trust that psycho captain" I asked I shivers while remembering his face.
"Alright, get lost and stop disturbing me" Azuma said, I left his room and went to see yumiko and hashirama once before returning to squad 5.
I had always thought that the battle with hollows was a strange one, normally there are hollow attacks happening every now and then. But one squad was enough to deal with this kind off out breaks.
But this time the scale was too large, it required many soul reapers to handle the situation and even a captain rank soul reaper was killed.
And the strange thing was the hollows had special skills, I was lucky enough to have felt the presence of that hollow fighting if not I would have lost kyoko, and there was also that the people who died are all considerably strong. If I remember correctly, the squad 8th 3rd seat in the soul society arc was very weak.
While I can tell that the squad members of the seireitei very strong, this battle was like purposefully made to reduce the Soul reapers strength, I can just hope that this was not a planned attack by someone. But there is a person here who can make this situation whenever possible.
I will think these details later, at present I want to see how to get my zanpakuto. Even after a decade I was not able to enter my inner world; if I cannot go into my inner world, I cannot restore my zanpakuto.
I had also awakened observation haki, so I can train to master it.
While I feel fearful of facing similar situation in the future, I know that I must face it. This was a very small battle compared to the future battles.
I have to gain strength and stay alive.
"Officer Aryan, please look at the compensation reports" "Officer arya, these are the battle reports" "Officer aryan….."
As soon as I stepped into the squad 5 office, I was cornered by a lot of reports.
But training and stuffs have to wait for a while.
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