Bleach: Azashiro

Immediately after the release of zanpacto, I gained an understanding of my ability to shikai. It was strange. It was as if I always knew this, but I only remembered now.

My zanpakto in shikai had only one ability, Kuroi Namida (black tears). My zanpacto releases a black viscous liquid from the tip of its blade, which destroys everything it touches. Including me, this ability is a double-edged sword. It is dangerous for everyone, without distinguishing who to destroy. Strong and at the same time dangerous ability.

Moving the zanpacto blade away from me, I quickly examined it, the blunt part of the blade acquired a dark blue tint, with a black point. The gold grip was wrapped in black cloth. The circular tsub had four straight holes, two above and two below. Black smoke was released from the black part of the blade, giving even me a feeling of danger.

After examining the blade, I turned my attention to black smoke. I expected to see black liquid, but instead smoke comes out of the blade tip. I felt like I could control it as I wanted. But now I don't have time for training and experiments.

Having finished thinking about the powers of my chic, I noticed an empty building emerging from the destroyed building into which he was thrown. He looked furious and like a dog, ready to rush to his prey. Well, don't wait for him to rush at me.

Controlling the smoke, I sent a wave towards the enemy with a wave, breaking into the shumpo, I appeared over Adjucas, who evaded my attack. While bringing the blade, I hit it from top to bottom, he tried to block it with his claws, but my closed compartment 4 fingers on my left hand was empty. Having broken the distance, he began to prepare another gray.

Deciding to try to resist it, I concentrated all the smoke in front of the tip of the sword, directed towards the empty one, and released it in a continuous stream towards the red gray.

The attacks collided, my attack could not cope with the gray empty and I had to dodge, shumpo.

*BOOM*

Looking at the explosion, I noted to myself that the force was much less than the first time, which means my ability still weakened the gray. I think I could fend off the weakened gray.

Without waiting for the next empty attack, I rushed towards him, and a close battle ensued. Blow, shumpo jump, blow. I tried to get it, but he no longer blocked my blows with his blade, but dodged, counterattacked, and I already had to get out of the blow. At one point I managed to catch him and I struck horizontally.

*Din*

I watched as my blade was stopped by the claws of an empty one, without thinking for a long time, I sent smoke in its direction, shumpo. Having broken the distance, I observed whether it was an accident or found a way to neutralize my ability.

The black smoke that hid the empty smoke from me dissipated due to a surge of empty reatsu. And I was finally able to see him. Half of my right hand was destroyed and I could see his bones, some of which were also missing. His entire body, with the exception of his right hand, which suffered the most, seemed to be bathed in acid. A chest plate leaking as if from a high temperature, in many places you can see muscles and a naked skull with a whole mask of a dog on its face.

Quickly examine him, I came to the conclusion that my ability could be resisted, but only by a high concentration of reatsu, as was the case with his claws. Once you're careful with your own smoke, it can apparently be redirected by a strong surge of reatsu, just as it did empty. You need to try concentrating it on the tip of the blade so as not to harm yourself.

Noticing that he jumped away from me and began to gradually regenerate, I pointed my left hand at him and began to cast a spell.

-He who wears a mask of flesh and blood, who commands all things who soar on wings, he who is named man! The double lotus in the blue flame wall is carved. May the abyss of great flame fall on the distant heavens! - with both hands in front of me, still holding the zanpakto in my right hand, I finished the spell. - Hado №73 Soren Sokatsui-

Two blue-black energy clots were released towards the empty side, which tried to move away and recover. Empty, sensing a threat, he turned around and began preparing sulfur. By releasing a weak beam, he tried to resist my kido, but it was completely absorbed by the flow of energy.

*BOOM*

Shumpo, I appeared not far from the explosion and immediately waved the blade, sending black smoke in the shape of a wave, wanting to finish off the wounded empty one. But I didn't have time, formed from the dust by the explosion, a red ray of gray rushed at me. Realizing that I wouldn't have time to dodge, I redirected all the smoke, wanting to weaken the sulfur, and I put my left hand in front of me.

-Bakudo №39 Enkosen-

On the path of gray, a large dense rotating disk formed in front of me, from the spiritual energy of a dull yellow color, blocking the gray of the empty one.

While I was blocking the gray and waiting for it to end, I began to feel very sleepy, I tried with all my might not to close my eyes, but as soon as the gray ended, a blow flew into my chest, empty that appeared in front of me, slashed my chest with its claws and sent me flying with a kick to the stomach.

*bang*

Hitting the ground hard, raising the dust with his landing. I suddenly felt pain and drowsiness subsided, as if it had never happened. Having come to my senses, I, not paying attention to the pain, rose to my feet.

-Bakudo №26 Kyokko-

Hiding my kido, shumpo, I walked away from the crater created by my landing. And I must say in time, a couple of seconds after I left, another red gray hit the crater.

*BOOM*

I sat down on the roof of a dilapidated three-story building, healed the wounds on the chest of the weak Kaido, looking as if empty, thinking that he had killed me, went into a dark alley nearby and leaned on the wall and began to recover. I still saw him from the roof I was sitting on.

While waiting for the spell to stop the bleeding, I thought. Someone intervened in the battle, now I'm sure of it. And this someone is very skillful, he guessed the moment well, for his ability. This means that he is nearby, apparently he has a non-combat-type contract, something like control of emotions or feelings, I'm not sure yet. Perhaps he hides himself with the illusion of his zanpakto or prevents me from seeing him by deceiving my feelings.

A detachment should already be sent here to destroy empty ones. This means that it is worth first dealing with the empty one and it is advisable to do this as quickly as possible, leaving the strength to fight the Shinigami, which is hidden. Of course, perhaps he will not attack, but somehow I don't want to surrender myself to the mercy of another. If he decides to attack, I will just need to stall for time until reinforcements arrive, which will probably include a detachment of covert operations known for their speed.

Deciding to examine myself, I realized that I would have enough strength for a maximum of 15 minutes of battle. Given the circumstances, I need to end with this empty, one bunch. Stopping the bleeding from the wound, I thought. Whether to use multiple kidos or one but powerful.

Examining the empty one, which is gradually being restored, I decided that I would make do with one bakudo of level 61, but in full force. I only needed a second to attack, and therefore it should be enough.

-Zipper cart, spinning wheel spokes. Let the light be divided into six parts! - pointing to the sitting empty one with my index finger, I ended the spell and squeezed the zanpakto tightly in my right hand. - Bakudo №61 Rikujokoro! -

A stream of yellow energy escaped from the index finger, six thin but wide rays appeared, which crashed into the body of the empty one in a circle, stopping the hand in the middle of the movement and paralyzing it.

Without wasting any time, I use shumpo to appear to his left and swing from bottom to top, putting a third of the remaining reatsu into the zanpakto ability. Having escaped from the tip of my blade, a wave of black smoke absorbed the adjukas, destroying the surrounding buildings. Holding the blade with both hands in front of me, I tried to control the black smoke by twisting it and creating a black sphere out of it.

At the same time, in a black cloud, Adjukas tried to survive, smoke destroying his body at high speed. On the left side, where the attack took place, he had already lost his arm and leg, but less than a second had passed. Not wanting to die empty like that, he jumped with all his might, trying to get out of the sphere.

Adjukas fell in front of me, or whatever was left of him. A masked head, neck and part of the right shoulder, that's all that's left of a pretty strong empty one.

By some miracle, there were only a couple of cracks on the left side of the mask. Looking at the remnants of my opponent lying in front of me, I felt satisfaction. Having cut down his mask, I sat down on the ground along the destroyed wall, without scattering the chic, and pretended to relax. Covering his eyes, he monitored the surrounding area with his spiritual feeling, trying to find the hidden pest.

In the meantime, I sat throughout the 15th district, ordinary empty and few shinigami fought. I heard the sounds of fighting coming to me, but I had no time for that. I don't have much strength left to run and kill empty ones. At any moment, I could have been attacked by an enemy worse than empty ones, and therefore I sat and waited, while simultaneously trying to restore more strength, for a battle, if there was one of course.

And the empty ones can be left on Yasuko, the only strong empty one in the person of Adjukas, I have already killed. She shouldn't have any problems with the rest, given her strength. I shouldn't relax.

Who would have thought that on my first exit from Seireitei to Rukongai, I would meet an enemy capable of hypnosis or suggestion. Worse, I have never been able to come up with a way to resist this ability. All my thoughts boil down to inflicting wounds on myself, or throwing out the reatsu, in an attempt to throw off the obsession.

-Hado №73 Soren Sokatsui-

I felt a surge of reatsu to my right and at maximum speed I tried to get away from the line of attack of the spell, which rushed towards me in a blue stream, shumpo.

*Boom*

Ignoring the explosion, I looked away from where the kido was launched at me and saw nothing. I tensed up trying to feel at least something, at least a hint of his presence and I found him. I felt a tiny increase in the level of spiritual power on one of the roofs. At the same time, I noticed a shinigami squad running here, quite strong.

Throwing away unnecessary thoughts, I attacked, shumpo, swing and from my zanpakto, a wave of black smoke flies towards the invisible one.

-Hado №63 Raikoho-

Yellow lightning was flying at my back, it was already too close, I didn't have time to dodge, and therefore I put all my remaining forces into the blow and released black smoke towards the lightning, but it was not possible to completely neutralize the kido and I was struck by lightning, throwing it back.

*Boom*

Landing near a lonely wall, I leaned on it and waited. The situation is crap, I have no spiritual strength left, the shikai has dissipated. I thought I could resist him, but I couldn't even feel him. Worse, he's good at the kido, after the first spell I had to dodge, I didn't pay attention, but it was worth it. It was at least twice as strong as it should be.

I sat and fought not to lose consciousness, I had to make every effort, but darkness gradually came. The last thing I saw was black shinigami silhouettes in front of me and fell on my side and lost consciousness.

***

While Akihiko pretended to be exhausted and waited for an unknown person to attack. At this time, Yasuko, having finished clearing the empty ones on the outskirts, went to the center, where she had previously felt bursts of Akihiko-sama's reatsu.

Moving along the roofs, she had the appearance of destroyed buildings and people running in panic. Occasionally, shinigami could be seen covered in blood hurrying to the side, the few survivors empty. Closer to the center, more and more torn body parts were found, the upper half of the shinigami's torso hung from one of the roofs, and his torn legs lay five meters ahead. And a picture like this was everywhere you looked.

Trying not to pay attention to the corpses and those torn to pieces, Yasuko hurried to her master. Jumping onto the roof of a three-story building, she saw a field in the city center. She was horrified, imagining what kind of battle there should be so that not a single intact house remained within a radius of 300 meters, here and there, one could see rare buildings whose roof was not damaged, the rest of the buildings were a pitiful sight. In some places there were lonely walls hinting that there used to be a house here. And this is not to mention a pair of craters with a diameter of about 10 meters.

Under one of these walls, she noticed three people, one of them kneeling and moving his glowing green light hand over Akihiko's unconscious body. Approaching them, Yasuko wanted to ask something when she heard a voice behind her back.

-Who are you? - she shuddered towards her voice. There stood a woman dressed like the other three in all black, with a mask on her face.

-Yasuko Ito, from the noble Ito family, a subordinate of the Azashiro family. - Deciding not to hide anything from the members of the covert operations squad, she said.

"Clear, tit, how is he?" the woman asked as she walked past her.

-Not really, a through wound in the shoulder, three deep cuts in the chest, a few shallow scratches, bruises to the abdomen, back, burns to the right arm, chest and exhaustion. I closed my wounds, but he won't come to his senses in the next hour. - standing at attention, the tit answered.

"That's great, I still missed the death of Azashiro's heir here". - the leader of the detachment grumbled with a sigh of relief. - Yasuko, take him to the estate, there you will tell me what's going on here.

One of the fighters lifted Akihiko into his arms, and they all went for Yasuko towards the estate. The situation in the city is gradually returning to normal, members of the covert operations detachment are clearing out the last remaining empty ones.

***

*mmm*

When I regained consciousness, I groaned from pain throughout my body, only my hair did not hurt. Rising on my elbows, I examined myself. And not in vain, I now looked like a mummy, my whole body was bandaged up to my neck. Well, my cute face didn't hurt and thanks for that. I wouldn't want to have scars on my face.

A sad Yasuka entered the room without knocking, and a girl dressed like a ninja sat behind her. Seeing me, Yasuko rushed to hug me, but my whole body hurt without her.

*mmm*

"Oh, forgive Akihiko-sama, I didn't want to", she bounced off me after hearing my groan.

-Hello, Azashiro-san, I'm the leader of the squad sent by Chika-sama to escort a member of the Nakamura clan for questioning. - I chose this moment so that this ninja would introduce herself.

-He's in the basement, you can pick him up. If he hasn't left yet. - I don't know how long I spent in the blackout, if it's more than a day, then the kidos should have already been dispelled. - By the way, how long I slept.

-Four hours since we arrived. - they answered me. - your ward refused to speak without you. And I would like to hear why most of the 15th district was destroyed.

-Let's start with the neighborhood already in a deplorable state by the time we arrived. Then Nakamura attacked, and buildings on several streets were damaged in the process. After some time, somehow empty ones appeared here. And this was not a breakthrough from Hueko Mundo, they came from the forest from the 16th district. Among them was 1 adjucas with whom I fought in the center. - after pausing, I took a breath and drank a glass of water, Yasuko kindly handed me.

"Nothing strange was noticed?" asked the head of the squad for show.

-No, nothing. - I lied.

-Get well, Deichi-sama sent an escort squad for you, wait for him before you come back. - this lady told me as she left the room.

-Akihiko-sama, you should rest, I'll let you know as soon as the clan squad arrives. - After waiting for my nod, Yasuko left the room. And I had something to think about.

Living in this world, I trained all the time to become stronger. I wanted to fight the strong and enjoy it. Well, I really liked the battle. All that remains is to gain strength for a new battle.

-Thank you, Dakukuin. - getting out of bed and not paying attention to the pain in my whole body, I sat down on the floor and put the zanpakto on my lap. - today, I could have lost myself if it weren't for you. Thanks.