Betrayal

Giselle was pulling Ichigo by grabbing his hands. She was humming a happy tune with the rest of the girls walking beside her.

"Halt! Sternritters!" Ikakku declared with Yumichika standing beside him.

"You shall not pass. Release the Commander now!" Yumichika demanded. Giselle pulled away her cheeks by putting her index fingers in her mouth.

"Bleehh!!! Ichigo is under my control now!! He won't listen to your words!!" Giselle mocked them childishly. Ichigo looked at Ikakku. The bald headed 3rd seat looked at him.

Ichigo raised his index finger and did a shushing motion. Ikakku widened his eyes.

"Oh yeah? Then killing you would do the trick!" Ikakku played along. Giselle and her friends assumed combat stances.

"Deal with these guys, Ichigo!" Giselle ordered him. Ichigo walked towards them. Yumichika and Ikakku assumed their respective combat stances while holding their Zanpakutōs.

Ichigo suddenly turned towards the Sternritter girls. "No." Ichigo answered while his skin was returning to normal. Giselle widened her eyes. She looked at him with a sadistic glare.

"What did you say?" Giselle asked him slowly.

" I said no, Giselle. I'm not hurting my subordinates one bit. " Ichigo replied while his skin was returning to normal. Giselle clenched her fists tightly.

" I have been in control of my actions all this time. The Almighty helped me with the acting and the skin change." Ichigo explained. Giselle's clenched fists started bleeding with how hard she was gripping them.

Ichigo looked at the two Shinigami behind him and tilted his head, signalling to them that he got this under control. Ikakku and Yumichika disappeared immediately using Shunpo.

"AAARGHHH!!!!" Giselle made a blood curdling screech. She took out a sharp knife and charged towards him.

Ichigo looked at her with a blank stare as she stabbed him repeatedly. Ichigo didn't activate Blut Vene and Hierro and just let her keep going.

Giselle was screaming angrily and painfully as she kept stabbing him in the chest. Blood was splashing out of his wounds as she kept pulling out the sharp and now bloodied knife. Her face and uniform were stained in Ichigo's blood.

"You bastard!!!! I hate you!!! I thought you were my best friend!!! Friends don't betray each other!!!!" Giselle screamed as tears started flowing down her eyes. Ichigo didn't answer and just let her keep releasing her anger on him.

"I thought you cared for me!!! I'm just a toy aren't I!? I'm a toy for you to be played with!!!" Giselle screamed as she was fully sobbing. She stopped stabbing and just leaned into him. She cried and cried.

" I hate you!!! Kurosaki Ichigo!!! You make my life truly hell!!!" Giselle screamed as she gripped his shihakushō tightly.

Ichigo frowned upon her words. He started patting her head. "Friends don't control others, Giselle. They don't stab them either." Ichigo whispered while having a knife stuck to his chest.

"War is war, Giselle Gewelle. And I hate using that excuse. After the war, maybe we can become true friends. That goes for all of you too." Ichigo looked at the rest of the Sternritter girls.

"You're lying!!! You're just trying to make me feel better!!" Giselle denied. Ichigo shook his head.

" I'm not. I'm promising you." Ichigo whispered. He pushed her away, surprising her. Ichigo released his immeasurable Reiatsu pressure, shocking them.

The girls can't handle the immense pressure and were knocked out immediately. Ichigo caught them and tied them up with a Sekkiseki chain.

He then took out a piece of paper he kept in his shihakushō and wrote something on it. He stuck the paper on Bambietta's forehead.

'Prisoners Of War. Treat them nicely.- Captain Commander. '

That was what he wrote. Ichigo sighed and rubbed his head. He looked at himself and took out Gisele's knife stuck in him. He regenerated in seconds.

He grabbed his walkie talkie. "Soifon. Are you in position?" Ichigo asked.

"I'm ready to begin, Ichigo." Soifon replied while standing in a dark alleyway.

"Go for it."

Soifon put away the walkie talkie and went out in the streets.

"All Shinigami. This is the Commander here. I advise you to get running and don't stop. You'll know why soon enough." Soifon heard Ichigo's voice coming from the walkie talkie, she ignored it. The order doesn't include her.

One of the Sternritter who saw her stopped her from walking.

"Woah there! Where are ya going?! The battlefield is right there!!" The Sternritter shouted. Soifon gazed at him.

He has long black hair, which is arranged into five fanned-out spiraling spikes, and unusual teeth which alternate between black and white similar to the keys of a piano.

The rest of his upper facial features, including his eyes, are covered by a smooth, red-orange mask with a reflective surface.

His attire is a variation of the usual Sternritter uniform, including the order's signature hooded-cloak with its right side bunched atop his shoulder, revealing a small shirt beneath which leaves his abdomen and thin arms bare.

He wears a pair of white, high-waisted pants and boots, and has a ring on each of his fingers and a bracelet on either wrist.

He is NaNaNa Najahkoop, a member of the Wandenreich's Sternritter with the designation 'U' - 'The Underbelly'.

Soifon decided it was time and threw away the white hood covering her face, shocking NaNaNa.

"What the!!! A captain!!! How did you avoid the fucking battlefield!!" NaNaNa jumped back in surprise. Soifon didn't talk much, but her body had a dangerous red glow slowly covering her.

"Bankai: Jakuhō Raikōben."

Out of nowhere, a giant bright red explosion emerged from the center of the Wandenreich city. Everyone was able to see it lighting up the whole city. Ichigo looked at it. He was waiting for the explosion, he got his wish granted.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!*

A deafening explosion rocked the whole city, erasing more buildings and cracking the roads.

Ichigo felt his hearing being destroyed for being so close to the explosion. His ears were immediately healed after.

The red dome slowly disappeared after advancing and erasing a few more rows of buildings. It revealed Soifon who was in a different form from her usual one when she activated her Bankai.

She was standing in a crater that was so big that it was easily out matching a crater created by a nuke.

This version of Suì-Fēng wears her traditional Keisen Shōzoku underneath several pieces of golden armor; two ear-like pieces with thin black lines on either side of her head, a small and triangular breastplate above her midsection, a fauld comprised of a downward-pointing segment split into two beams on either side that is wrapped around her hips and a stinger-like upward-pointing segment arching away from the backside of the other piece behind her, and large greaves etched with black lines and terminating in sharp points at the top.

In addition to this, Suì-Fēng's neck and wrists are encircled by fluffy white fur, her right arm is covered by an enlarged and curving version of Suzumebachi that is separated into three segments and has a thin chain connecting the bottommost black-gold segment to another part of her body, her left hand controls a golden cross-shaped shield hovering in front of her, and two long braids of hair flow out from the back of her head to slowly turn red as they transition to large versions of the wings of the butterfly markings created by Nigeki Kessatsu.

Soifon had a blank face on her while she was looking at her outfit.

"Fusing with Suzumebachi was not an easy task. But it was well worth it. Now.... I have achieved a level beyond Bankai.... I call this form....Shukai....

To be continued.....

(Shukai means Mastered Release)