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Sayo merely waited nearby, her weapons out and ready to use if that became necessary. The poor, silly little man. Mastering his Bankai... not quite. It took more than simply using it for awhile to understand it at the deepest level, to know every move of every attack made with it, and to be assured of its exact strength against anything it went against. This man was a little too confident in his abilities, and felt that because he had some small power, it allowed him to be cocky. Ages ago, Rednal had told her about this sort of thing. Many Shinigami around the level where you could be called a Captain now thought that they were great, and they had little problem with proving this to anyone who asked while they did whatever they wanted. The best way to deal with such children was to pummel the lesson into them and make sure that they understood: They weren't half as great as they thought. None of the Captain-levels now were worth anything in comparison to the originals.

About the time Kaigen said 'care', Sayo vanished from sight and a crater formed where she had been, the mostly inevitable result of her using her notably multiplied strength in addition to Shunpo to accelerate herself considerably faster than most Shinigami could go. Even among the speed types, which the target was not. Her dash was for a simple attack, with her blades coming down. Usually, this would have been across his chest to literally cut him into four pieces, but she was trying extremely hard not to kill him, and so her cuts were at his shoulders instead to lop off his arms. They could probably stop the bleeding. Some of the physically enabled Shinigami could probably have blocked her attack if she was using one sword. Two swords meant her Bankai was active, however, and even at only fifty percent of her maximum upgrade possible through cycling her energy, her blades still had more than enough power to crush the masks of Gillian in a single hit. A target incapacitated would have no chance, and even less since there had been so little time from the moment the incapacitation had begun to the point she launched her attack. Now, how to stop the bleeding that would occur? Maybe Kaigen knew... healing was something Sayo didn't know much about, except for the fact that it usually involved bandages and was a good thing after you got hurt. She'd never bothered to learn the details.

Working to block Sayo's attacks directly was not a particularly intelligent idea. Some people could have managed it; the three best of the original Captains, certainly. Perhaps four others, each very strong. But more to the point, when it came to brute strength, there were few who could exceed her force even at this level. Sayo wasn't a ranged fighter at all; her only ranged offensive powers weren't powers at all, but by-products of swinging her swords very hard and very fast, so mundane that anybody with such strength could manage it. This little spirit trying to resist her, though? Just plain silly. The six swords were shattered as Sayo's blades smashed against them and the girl continued to hurtle through the air, bringing a weapon down towards the spirit's body the instant she was in range. The infamous Sayo-doken, as her first Captain had called it. A stunningly fast charge, greater than her shunpo since she added in brute force to get additional speed (hence the craters on the ground when she launched) coupled with a vicious swing from her weapons. His Bankai was interesting, a little sprite to fight for him, but it wasn't designed for heavy offense the way her weapons were. In a head-to-head confrontation like this, it was not a contest.

As Raiden moved past him to try and attack Sayo from behind. Kaigen sheathed Jakenkou and slid something out of the handle. "Bloom, Ibarahime," he muttered as he tossed the knife he drew out to Raiden's sword arm. As it flew, a chain formed behind it. As raiden swung he found his clawed arm caught in the chain, and the small blade of Ibarahime lodged in his arm. Kaigen yanked back, pulling Raiden off balance and spinning him round to face Kaigen. Kaigen swung his leg around, stepping on the chain as he yanked back again with his free hand, pulling Raiden off his feet and towards him. "Raiden, you made a horrible mistake releasing your Bankai against me," Kaigen muttered, though his voice was not his own, but one more feminine and gentle than his own.

Sayo was behind Tsumuro about as soon as his weapon had finished releasing, one blade in front of him at his neck and the other behind, aimed at a kidney. The sword sprite's weapons would probably follow her eventually, but they were nowhere near fast enough to keep up with her, not with her speed boosted the way it was by her weapons. "You wish to ally yourself with the traitor? she asked simply, ready to kill him if he gave the wrong answer. It was fairly hard to accuse Sayo of not being serious; she hadn't smiled in a very long time. Soul Society had a rule about striking at Captains, true, but anyone who would be assisting a target they were working to capture would have to be a traitor, and thus not protected by the law. His rank was about the only thing that had stopped her from just looking to lop off his head.

((1. My sword is being held by my left arm, it's a little hard to grip a sword and grab someone at the same time.
2. I'm not on my feet. twisted ))

With the chain around Raiden's right arm and Kaigen pulling on it, Raiden happily obliged Kaigen's pull and helped close the distance by speeding towards him through the air. As he approached Kaigen, Raiden started becoming surrounded by a puprleish-redish-black reiatsu.

After Tsumuro arrived and attacked Sayo, Konpaku nodded to Tsumuro letting him know that she was off to go help Raiden fight Kaigen. Her swords fully reformed, she withdrew the two homing swords since they had yet to catch up with Sayo. Konpaku then turned and arrived at the fight between Raiden and Kaigen.

The newcomer could think what he wanted about Kaigen . . . he had no reservations of going all out against Raiden, it would just be stupid to throw his cards on the table before the flop. Speaking of Raiden, who was speeding towards Kaigen, giving him slack(that idiot), he was in for a pleasant surprise. He twirled the chain gently as he jumped right over Raiden, smirking as the loop fell around Raiden's neck. Kaigen pulled the slack towards him. If Raiden didn't change direction instantly, he would start to choke. If he tried to use his clawed arm, he would choke himself . . . he was in a pickle. And he wasn't exactly about to break he chain . . . Kaigen's spiritual strength was a little too strong for that. oh yeah, and if Konpaku had any idea of trying to break the chain, Raiden would, as per other scenarios, be choked. "Raiden-kun . . ." he began, addressing him by -kun for some reason . . . he had never done that before, "These chains will be your home, stop fighting."

((lulwhat? XP))

As Kaigen found that Raiden was trying to reel him in, he smirked as he tried a similar tactic as the one Raiden had tried. He used shunpo to get right in close to him as he sealed Ibarahime. Grabbing the blade, he flashed away from Konpaku and slid Ibarahime back into the sheath. He drew Jakenkou once more, "Assert your dominance, Jakenkou," he breathed as his zanpakuto regains it's curved form. He stood at the ready, pulling his sheath from it's wrappings. He would need to use it in order to block some of the extra attacks Konpaku would send his way. "So it's like that? . . . then your new home will be the path you have chosen . . . destruction," Kaigen growled, his voice changing once again. His voice and words seemed to change with his Zanpakuto. "Give me a reason to lend him our powers, Raiden."