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Yamoto stared in to space with a blank expression on his face. The clouds were passing by in regular normal shapes, so Yamoto couldn't find any way to amuse himself. "This is really boring." Yamoto picked up a piece of grass and began to play with it. He watched as the tip of the blade of grass twirled back and forth between his index and middle finger. Yamoto could feel the wind blow on his face, it felt good to have the cool refreshing breeze blow by him. Yamoto noticed that the was no breeze hitting him any more. He looked up to see a man looking at him with a glare in his eyes. This slighty angered and confused Yamoto because he had never seen this man in his life, yet something seemed very familiar about him.

"Excuse me sir, but you are blocking the breeze and I rather like it cool touch on my face." The man gave a little smirk, it seemed to be rather smug. "You are Yamoto Shiboo, I'd expected better." Yamoto looked at the man with a glare in his eye. Yamoto could tell he was a noble and usually he had no problems with nobles except the really smug ones. "Obivioulsy you are here to pick a fight and I hate to crush your dreams, but I am to relaxed to fight at the moment." Yamoto could see the man was not dissapointed but rather angry. As if I the head of the Kuchiki family would want to pick a fight with the likes of you." Yamoto's jaw couldn't help but drop. He was in the midst of Captain Byakuya Kuchiki, one of the greastest captains of the soul society. Yamoto stood up and drew his zanpakuto. His opponent disappeared in a flash. Yamoto knew what was coming, as quick as he possible could he turned around to block the oncoming sword. "Senka, your favorite move if I am correct." Yamoto could see what seemed to be pure loathing in Captain Kuchiki's eye as if Yamoto was, but a cockroach to this man.

Yamoto jumped back to avoid any more collisions, plus he couldn't stand to look into those eyes. They made him look so inferior. "I have almost no chance in winning this battle, but by the end I will make you stop looking at me like that." Byakuya just gave that same smirk and said, "We shall see." Yamoto ran toward his opponent, but at the last second disappears. Yamoto appeared twenty feet above Byakuya as if to suprise him, but his opponent was looking straight up. Damn Yamoto thought to himself, but he had already started his move so he had to finish it. Yamoto pointed his right hand to the ground and grabbed his right arm's wrist with his left hand. "Sprinkled on the bones of a beast! Pointy tower, red crystal, steel cartwheels. Move and make wind. Stop and make calm. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle. Hadou 63. Thunder Roar Cannon." A roar could be heard as the kidou flew in all it furiousity to the ground. Once it made contact with the ground, a large cloud of dust and smoke flew up into the air as a shockwave hug to earth. Yamoto looked at the ground examining the area looking for a hint of his opponent. Suddenly he felt something touching his right shoulder blade. Yamoto eyes grew big as he tried to do something to avoid the attack, but it was to late. "Hadou 4. White Lightning."

Yamoto winced in pain as the spell blew a hole in his right shoulder. He lost grip of his sword and if hurtled to the ground. Yamoto soon followed , not being able to control his reiatsu due to the pain made him lose his ability to walk on air. He collided with ground. "Ah...." Yamoto coughed up a little blood. It can't be over. Yamoto tried to move his right arm, but he couldn't withstand the pain.



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Yamoto quickly jumped back to avoid any counter strike. He looked at Byakuya, who faces had gone from sure anger to the calm no emotion look it always had. Yamoto frowns, he entire intent on fighting wasn't to actually win, but to get this legend to acknowledge him. Byuakuya disappears and appears infront of Yamoto with his sword in the air. Yamoto kneels on his right knee and raises his sword horozontially to block the slash. The two blade collide with such force that sparks fly. Yamoto trys to hold back his opponent's blade, but the force of the strike was so intnese that even with his knee reinforcing his hold he couldn't do much as of a counter attack.

Damn Yamoto thought to himself. His right arm had numbed by now, and he could slightly move it, but it was being used to stop Kuchiki's blade from slaming Yamoto's face. Yamoto quickly made his move, he pulled his sword horzontially as if try to cut Byakuya's zanpakuto, but that would never happen. As soon as the blades were disconnected Yamoto pushed with his left foot and his right knee and rolled on his back to the left. He focused reiatsu into his blade and as soon as he finshed the roll, he sliced his blade from left to right at Byukuya's legs sending a wave of reiatsu flying from his zanpakuto.

Yamoto shunpoed away to make here wasn't going to be attacked from behind. As he appeared he heared an explosion, Byakuya had countered his reiatsu wave with a wave of his own."Aw and I thought that might get him." Yamoto charges his opponent, qucikly he uses shunpo to appear right infront of the captain. Yamoto his sword at the captain's heart, but strikes nothing. "Utsusemi." A voice says behind Yamoto.

Yamoto showed no pain as the blade slice his back. He just wanted to get this captain aproval, but now it was different. Yamoto rotated around ignoring all the pain of movement. Yamoto didn't want approval now, he could less about being a captain. All he wanted was blood. Yamoto slammed his blade into his opponent's blade. He kept repeating this process and with swing there was more power and furiosity. He was putting so much eefort into these swings were pushing Byakuya back inch by inch. Yamoto crashed his blade into Byakuya's one last time. He looed to see that the captain was holding his grip with both hands. Yamoto smiles as he let go of his blade with his left hand. Yamoto quickly builds reiatsu in his left hand, he focused it and hones the reiatsu making it as sharp as a blade. Yamoto swipeed his hand towards Byakuya's right arm and made contact. Yamoto jumped back ad watched it unfold. Byakuya's uniform's right sleeve ripps open alond with the skin under the sleeve.

"So you know hand to hand. Very well." Yamoto looks at Byakuya to see what was going to happen. His eye widen as he heard, "Scatter."

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Yamoto laughed as the fight moves on. Each little blade became easier to see by the second. Soon he was able to dodge almost all the blades and only recieve one or two slices. He would weave his way through becoming more perceptive and agile by the minute, and every time there was an opening he would take a shot, but the captain was still on another level. Every move Yamoto made was easily countered or dodge by this man. It was begining to piss Yamoto off. If only he knew a weakness or an angle he could take, but sadly there were none, he was years behind this man when it came to combat.

Yamoto jumped to avoid the wave of pink flying at him. How can I hit this man Yamoto had calculated every move in his arsenal, but nothing came to mind. "Eh why couldn't I have fought Ichigo or someone else. Yamoto smirked as an idea came to him. He used shunpo to get above Byakuya, he stopped and looked at the man below him and smiled. He waited for the petals to catch up with him, then he made his move. Yamoto was covered by a sphere of pink petals, or so Byakuya thought.

"Utsusmei, you called it right." Yamoto right hand was inches away from the back of Byakuya's head. "How did you pull of that move." Byakuya asked with some intrest. Yamoto smiled, "I am a vey good learner when it comes to fighting abilities." Just then the wave of petals shot down completly blocking Yamoto's view of Byakuya. The blades also surronded the lower half of his arm. "s**t one chance, Hadou 54. Abloshing Flames." Yamoto used the momentum of the kidou the push his arm out of the blades. He knew he had made contact because he heard a grunt from the other side of the pink wall. Yamoto looked at his lower right arm, it was completly destroyed. He could almost see the bone. He tried to move his fingers, but he had no reponse. He guessed the adrenaline was the reason he wasn't feeling that much pain. "Well this sucks." Yamoto guessed the reason he wasn't being attack right now was that his kidou had done some damage seeing as he was looking at a pinkish colored dome. "Well I guess it is a recovery minute. Yamoto looked at his arm, he watched as the blood flowed out. Yamoto concentrates for a moment, and the blood stopped gushing out. In fact the blood actually had turned black and was no surrounding Yamoto lower right arm. "An improvastion of shadow healing, but it will have to do. I just wish squad 4 can fix this mess."

Yamoto waited to see what would happen next. He didn't think he had gotten Captain Kuchiki that bad, but maybe he was wrong. Suddenly Yamoto couldn't move, he looked down to see that he was trapped in Bakudo 61. Six Rods Prision of Light. "How did I not see this." Yamoto tries to move but fails.

"Do you really think I would actually have to heal myself from such a pathetic attack." Yamoto did notice that the was a large hole of Byakuya's back and what looked like a third degree burn. Yamoto's eyes widen as the two fingers point between his eyes. Yamoto smiled a little as the lightning pierced his skull.

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The battle raged on. Yamoto was throwing attack after attack, but nothing seemed to work. Yamoto threw his hands up to signal another attack, but as soon as he did he would have to switch from offense to defense becasue of the blades attacking from almost every angle. Yamoto quickly made the dome to shieled himself, but it began to break almost instantly. Soon Yamoto just forgot about that technique seeing as it didn't work anymore. Yamoto focused on find a weak point in this man shikai. "Hikari Fureyaa." The sky above the began to glow as a giant pillar of light collides with the ground. The light soon spreads it diameter consuming everything in it path. As the light disappeared Yamoto scanned the area in search of his opponent. When he found him he looked towards the black ground. Large black spike began to shoot up from the groud below their feet. Yamoto weaved through his own attack as he watched Byakuya do the same. Each one ran towards each other at icredible speed dodging a weaving his way to make his strike. When they way closes enough to attack a large spike appeared in the middle of them. Both knowing this would not stop them they both ran up their respective sides racing towards the top. Yamoto got there about a fraction of a second faster. He pushed off the tip of the spike and flys into the air. Byakuya's shikai isn't far behind him. Yamoto hits the white sky with full force. The sky shatters into 1000 pieces. Yamoto claps his hands together as the light pieces fly towards the blades. Each piece makes contact with the blades masking both item deflect in various directions. Each fighter quickly regained control of his weapons. Yamoto lands back on the ground which was still covered in darkness, his light pieces quickly following. Yamoto notices that Byakuya was doing the same thing he was. Yamoto gathers reiatsu in right hand and forms a fist makeing the reiatsu swell around his hand. As he as inches away from Byakuya he noticed that his idea was the exact samething Byakuya was doing. Both men threw their punches and both men hit dead on. As the punch connected the light pieces and the blades meet forming a white and pink dome around the men. The reiatsu is released from both fist and both Byakuya and Yamoto are sent flying through their side of the dome. Yamoto hit the ground and rolled for a coulple of yards. As he did he noticed that the dome was collasping on itself and the ground had changed back to it's normal color. He was amazed when he saw that both zanpakutos had sealed themselves with out any wielders say so. The swords were now stabbed into the ground both side by side.

"So it a race." Yamoto glared at Byakuya and he glared at Yamoto. Both men were the exact same distances from their swords. Yamototwitched his fingers in excitement. As he did this he watched Byakuya fbrush his hair from out of his eyes. Both men pushed off at exactly the same time each one racing to see who would reach their sword fist. When both men were in range they disappeared both reappeared with their swords in hand each one slices at the other. As soon as the swords collided a shockwave of reiatsu fired out. The reiastu was so intense around these men that any unseated shinigami would have started chocking about 500 yards away from the battle. Neither Yamoto nor Byakuya was going to let up in this fight.

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Yamoto could feel that he was begining to weaken. The fight had been going on for about an hour and 30 minutes. Most people couldn't last in a fight like this for 20 minutes. Both men rushed each other again the sword made twanging sounds when they clashed. Yamoto could tell he was not going to be victorious in this fight, but he would last untill the end. Yamoto jumps back and holds up hs hand. "Hadou 73 Twin Lotus Blue Fire, Crash Down." Two blue fire balls shot out of Yamoto right hand. They begin to circle each other as he fly towards Byakuya. Yamoto waits to see wait happens. He sees a retangular wall form infront of Byakuya. As the two fire ball's hit the wall to completely disappear. Yamoto chuckles a little. "Bakudo 81. ehh I should have known that was coming." Again both man charge each other and again their swords collide. Yamoto rotated his right foot. He pushed off with left and spun swinging his sword for Byakuya's mid section. The attack was easily blocked. Yamoto appeared 20 feet away to catch his breath. How am I going to last anymore. Yamoto thought about releasing Bankai, but it was to soon in the fight. Yamoto looked around to find something he could use. He notice that there was still some bllod on the ground that hadn't dried up yet. Perfect. Yamoto held out his hand. The blood began to bubble as it slowly rose it the air. Yamoto looked at Byakuya who seemed to be confused.

"How are you doing is without releasing your shikai again?" Yamoto smiles a little. "A few days after I found out my zanpakuto's name, I created a technique that fused dark reiatsu with my all the cells that make up blood. Many the red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cell. It was orginally developed to simply stop sever bleeding when ever I wanted, but a side effect came about when I had come to master my shikai. I could control my blood whether it was outside or inside my body." Yamoto waved his hands, as he did this the the bubble of blood floating in mid air seperated in to hundreds of small bubbles. "Not only can I control my blood, I can take drops of blood and make them gallons. As you see infront of you. Granted the techniqued is weakned without having my shiaki released, but it seems that seing as neither of us is able to at the moment, this sword do fine. Blood swords." Yamoto snaped his fingers, the tiny spheres of blood suddenly began to morph into swords. The blood began to harden as the it took the final shape. The were now 100 hundred red swords floating infront of Yamoto.

Yamoto pointed at Byakuya signaling the release of his technique. The sword flew towards their target. Yamoto watched as Byakuya weaved and dodge each red sword that came his way. Each time a sword missed it would splatter back into a pool of blood. Yamoto watched as his attack kept missing and missing and more blood was being spaltered on the ground. Yamoto watch Byakuya uses his sword to destroy the last sword. Yamoto thought he plan was going to work but he frowned when he saw Byakuya use shunpo to get away from the blood. Yamoto panted as he had used a lot of energy in that last attack.

"I'd suggest that you retreat now if you wan to live." Byakuya's face was extrmely serious. The tip of his blade was pointing to the ground. Yamoto eyes squink a little. "So it is finally that time ehh." Yamoto held his zanpakuto to the side. He watched as his opponent's sword dropped to the grounds. Then at the same time both men said, "Bankai."

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