Ken, Heading West

*Ken had been heading for the Tower for no longer than 5 minutes before he had managed to make it to its feet, only to find a single individual standing guard. Ken, being a ninja, specialized in assassination and stealthy combat. He had made a single handsign attempting to raise his chakra secretly, but with the chakra suppressants active, charging chakra became a task on it's own. He prepared to engage.*

_-HINAMORI, was atap the tower looking down at Ken. To Ken she would be a seemingly useless little girl but Hinamori was a lieutenant to Aizen as such she had to bear to be the leader of her division when Aizen 'died'. She looked at ken walking towards her from within the tower, she would emerge sooner or later. The towers were designed to locate where the person is who the chakra drain is being drained by.-_

(-As ken made his way towards the chakra tower his initial judgment of one person would be wrong. The person in front of him would be in fact Renji. Despite the chakra towers suppressing there towers this guy gave Captain Kyōraku a run for his money so the court guards sent two lieutenants to guard which tower he was sent two. It was luck that they sent him to the tower Hinamori was at. He stood there watching as ken came closer and closer to the tower, His hand on his zanpakuto as he waited.-)

_-Hinamori turned to her left smiling sweetly at Renji-kun... she knew that the only reason why this guy gave kyoraku a challenge is because Kyoraku was lazy. But she still was cautious.-_

"He uses plants Abarai-kun... But I'm sure your Zabimaru can cut them to ribbons"

_-Hinamori said with a smile... she then returned her gaze to the front, Ken was nearing.-_

(Thanks for coming I acutally wanted 2 people to fight Ken)

(No prob, I just went to the one that would give the most trouble.)

"Plant's......no wonder why Captain Kyoraku had a hard time. He probably kept talking about flowers then actually fighting."

(-His grip tightened on his blade as he got closer. A smirk came on his face wondering what his plants could actually do.-)

"I'll cut them down to the roots if need be."

*Ken continued on until he has about 10 feet from the opposition. The individual was apparently supressing his energy, seeing how Ken couldn't sense it at all. Regardless of the fact however, Ken learned to not take a single opponent lightly, let alone one he knew nothing about.

*"Let's cut to the chase" Ken said as he held his right hand out to the side. It pulsated before his scythe was summoned in a small gust that caused his hair and shirt to slightly flair upward. Ken intended to waste no time in attempts of getting rid of the pest before him, but his power was limited at the time. He couldn't allow them knowledge however that he was affected. He had to hold steady. He had to bluff.*

"Move.."

"Or else what?"

(-He fully unsheathed his zanpakuto as he got into a stance. he toke note of the scythe and knew that it had to have something special. What that was he had no idea but he would take note any changes it would make.-)

"I'll move you."

*Ken said pointing his scythe toward him. He held the handle tightly as he starred down the red haired soul reaper. From his past experiences, he learned that soul reapers intiate techniques similar to jutsu by citing incantations. Ken would be weary of this once the fight intiated. He awaited the reaper to make his first move. He knew he wouldn't take kindly to ken's words.*

"How about I'll just mow you down then."

(-With that Renji took off with his blade at his side and with the help of shunpo he would appear on both sides of Ken aiming to slice him both horizontally and vertically at the same time. Ken may be surprised from this sudden burst of speed but if he retaliated he'd be on his guard encase he had to parry his scythe if need be.-)

"Speed.."

*Ken said softly as he held his scythe on an angle. He would parry the two horizontal slashes with the hilt and the verticle slash from above with the blade itself. The strength of the shinigami was indeed intense, but Ken expected as much. He would parry the blade of the soul reaper upward, using the speed of which he blocked to catch the opponent of guard. After which Ken intended to follow up with a punch of ground shaking potential. Ken may be chakra strifled, but his super strength was still present. Although Ken's strike was both point blank and relatively quick, he expected the shingami to dodge the attack and follow up with a counter. He was ready to move and act accordingly.*

(Next time... post ONCE then wait for me I had something planned for Ken but now I'll have to wait until later.)

_-Hinamori while Renji was distracting Ken had HIGH kido prowess as she was the lieutenant of Aizen herself as such she had high intelligence in that aspect while Ken was hopefully being busy with Renji's physical assualt Hinamori would be reciting an extremely lengthy incantation that wound bind him where he stood so Renji can sever him limb from limb and the would be done with it, the ground shook and Hinamori murmured...-_

"Gochūtekkan "

_-when she finished instantly (people dont take that word seriously) several iron pillars would erupt from the ground connected by chains that would hopefully trap ken in the middle while this was going on hinamori recited another incantaiton.-_

(-Using the momentum that caused for his slashes to be parried Renji would use that to push himself higher into the air avoiding his punch. He felt the force that he had behind it and could tell that he was a strong opponent. Suddenly Hinamori's kido triggered, and hopefully he distracted ken long enough for the kido to take place. If so then renji would use his speed again this time going into three different renji's aiming to chop him up to pieces. And for a dead check...-)

"Shakkahō!"

(-From his hand shot a mid scale blast of destructive reiatsu traveling towards ken at a point blank range. UNLIKE Hinamori renji sucked at kido and only knew the basic but this spell was the one he ad the best control over. he aimed to not only chop up Ken but also incinerate him as well.-)

*The well set up team attack would no doubt catch a shinobi of guard, thus marking his swift end. However, Ken was not just any shinobi. The attack erupting from the ground as swiftly as it did prevented Ken from escaping by most means, but not all. The kido spell-bounded Ken, en-locking him in between the pillars chains. The following slashes from the red haired shinigami would also connect, slicing to ribbons what stood before him.

Luckily however, Ken managed to initiate a clone primitive substitution technique, performing handsigns invisible to the untrained shinobi eye. He knew he could not move his body out of the way of the attack, but he could move his fingers. The clone substitute, once it was slashed, would explode the instant ken uttered the words "Katsu.." in frenzy of epic proportions. The entrials of the explosion being fierce chakra, great force, and pollen, all of which would hopefully catch the sparatic, unsuspecting shinigami. Ken would normally never reduce himself to such tactics, but at the time, he had little options.*

"..Huff..Huff.."

*Ken would relocate amoungst the buildings and houses that are constructed around the tower, apparently oblivious that he was being double teamed. HE was used to soul reapers and their impressive spells, and planned to match them with one of his own. He performed several lightning fast one handed signs, being forever attentive, with his scythe in his right hand.*

-No doubt Renji's untrained Shakaho would disentegrate all the harmful chemicals that would be released by Ken's clone explosion but the pollen that was released did go unnoticed by Hinamori after all she was a good ways away. After the smoke cleared she realized this guy was gone, she gasped and flash stepped towards Renji-

"Be careful renji-kun... he can fight from long distances."

-Hinamori knew that Ken used plants but using THESE plants from soul society that were made out of spiritual energy would greatly tap kens chakra even more so she didn't have that to worry about, after she finished her incantation she pressed her hands to the ground and symbols began to get etched on to the ground and trees around her hopefully unknown to ken-

"Long distances... well that just made it interesting."

(-Renji would flash step to the skies as he looked around trying to search for any sudden movements he may make. The fact that he had to use such tactics made him despise these ninjas even more. They almost functioned how the stealth squad do but with more tricks. He stood there in the open hopefully drawing him out into the open.-)

*Ken continued his handsigns, this caused the pollen to propagate at an intense rate. In an instant, the pollen would have covered over 100 miles and still continued to multiply. Ken's point in this was at his present condition, it would prove far to trouble some to grow the plants from the soil in the soul society. He learned this while he was trying to get use to the soil before. WHile this continued, Ken lit his rain flame. This would cause the pollen to be set ablaze accordingly, forcing the shinigami to suffer.

The downside being that Ken could not set ablaze all of the pollen in the area in fear that his chakra pool would be quickly depleated, and thus left defenseless. He decided to focus on "spots" in which the pollen would become "rain flame pollen", thus retaining chakra and honing the proficiency of the rain flame's effects. He decided to focused it around the REd haired shinigami. THe insignificant size of the pollen would make it almost impossible for them to be noticed, but their countless numbers would make them equally as difficult to escape. Their calming effects would begin to take their chances at calming and crippling him, while eating away at his reiatsu so precisely and delicately, that it would hopefully be barely noticeable. Ken tried these tactics on Kyoraku himself, but to little avail.*

"..He's not alone.."

*Ken would think to himself, becoming even more troubled but retaining his calm and confident demeanor. The pollen in the air worked as "bugs" amoung other things, informing Ken of everything within the range of the pollen storm, that is, if they were allowed to spread, and were not stopped by some unfortunate force. Ken formed another handsign, causing his eyes to glow silver, his scythe, gripped and at the ready.*

((Ken Aburame! WOOO! lol... I guess Kham can speak to earth chunks too))

-*Hinamori was worried firstly because Renji's super explosive Shakaho having the power to incinerate most things real and not real that it couldn't destroy what she didn't know was in the air, it was a surprise to her because flaming specks were lighting up everywhere maybe they may form some field?! Well this caused Hinamori's trap kido to be activated prematurely causing a crimson web to tie the trees and everything within catching everything in its webs (including renji) so the pollen number would greatly diminish but it would still be about hopefully renji could exert some reiatsu to defend. This what she did just in case. Hinamori began to recite an incantation again for what she was afraid of came true*-

(-Renji looked as the web was indeed making its way towards him as he exerted his own spiritual pressure that caused the web to bounce off it heading another direction. He would look up into the air as the pollens was majority around him. Not knowing what they did he assumed that he may have died if it wasn't for her quick thinking.-)

"I owe you one, Hinamori."

(-Renji tool to the sky as he held his hand outward as he fired several blast of Shakkahō in various directions making sure not to aim towards the web just encase he was attached and got trapped. if he were to re surface again Renji would flash step to where he felt the energy source ready to strike-)

-Walter appeared next to Ken, he was called forth by 'the silver one' to aid one of his friends of course his whereabouts unknown at the time he stood next to ken with his arms at his sides and his face rather bland...-

"The Silver One told me to aid you..."

-Walter held his hands out in front of him, but then hesitated... his chakras were on the fritz no matter all he needed was one barrier. A blue wall of spiritual energy was manifested in front of him this was his custom kido called-

"5th Reflect..."

-This kido reflected all the shakaho blasts from that landed near him and ken and aimed to stirke him and ken and reflected them back at renji and explode violently in the air. Using this as an opportunity walter murmured another kido incantation-

"You have my thanks.."

*Ken said, not being one to disreguard a helping hand. He continued to make another set of handsigns. Luckily, his position was still concealed. This allowed him to attempt to gather the natural energy that resided in this plane of existance if any existed.

Once he completed them, the silver glow encompassing his entire eye sockets, would shrink down to only encircle his pupils. The area around the two of them would begin to crumble as Ken began to gather natural energy. Unfortunately, he'd have to remain stationary in order for it to work.*

"Watch my back.."

-Both Walter and Ken did a shitty job of hiding themselves, someone as sensitive to reiatsu as momo could detect someone trying to harness the reiatsu of the area. To ken's surprise even the plants were made out of spirit particles and though it was ineeded nature, and there was natural energy to be gathered it would take him longer than usual execute his jutsu. Hinamori saw these shakaho blasts coming her way she instincitvely turned towards the blasts shouting the release command to her sword-

"SNAP Tobiume!"

-The form of the blade changed it had spike like protrusions on it and it was set a blaze with fire, which manifested into a 6 ft tall fireball on the tip that she flung towards the blasts causing them to clash and explode prematurely. She continued on with her incantation and sensed that the person who sent the Kido back was a kido user...and a skilled one, she needed to fight differently she pressed her hands on the ground and placed renji in an inverted triangle dome that was rather large, the size of a house and was extremely durable... Renji needed time to charge his bankai for momo knew something big was coming. She nodded towards Renji who knew what she wanted him to do his bankai was very useful and a tide turner. She murmured another incantation from the safety of this inverted triangle giant dome-

(-Renji nodded towards Hinamori as he held his blade in front of him as he closed his eyes. His spiritual pressure started booming across the area as it started to rise. An aura of reiatsu also formed around him at it was a burning red. his zanpakuto started turning the same color as well. -)

"BAN...KAI!!"

(-His aura around him expanded around him engulfing the inverted pyramid in the process as his zanpakuto transformed into a a LARGE scale version of his shikai but only in the form of a skeletal like snake as well as gaining a snake like head about the size of a small car. He would also gain a slight change of appearance, gaining a fur cowl around his neck. The cowl appears to be the fur of an ape and thus, the ape's skull could be seen over his left shoulder while the rest of the fur extends to cover his right arm-)

"Hihiō Zabimaru"

(-Renji would be on top of the inverted dome leaving Hinamori to continue her incantation as curled up around him as he griped the handle tightly. This new person who just joined had to be someone powerful if she had to change tactics this last minute as well as telling him to go into bankai troubled him. This guy must be something else. unlike her he cant find the two people so he had no choice but to defend the dome and protect her until she finished. -)

Spoiler:

Bankai... We're in trouble

-Walter froze but surfaced himself realizing that it was up to him to by time for the victory. standing above the forest revealing himself, he turned towards Ken and pointed at him using the kido he was chanting called 'Kyokko' which has the ability to manipulate the light around the target making them invisible taking a VERY skilled sensor or kido user to detect-

"A baboon snake? What a stupid Bankai... Lacerate Kyuuketsuki"

-Walter pulled a mask out of his back pocket and slammed it on his shoulder the mask transformed and turned into a cowl of white energy that resembled lightning, this made it easier for him to use Kido and made him faster and stronger he pointed his hand at the two and shouted...-

"KONGBAKU!"

-A giant black fireball manifested in walter's hand he shot it at the two it was big enough to encompass the both of them and challenge that girls shield... a kido walter knew well-

*Ken would begin to wince. It seemed as if gathering natural energy was more of a task than he had hoped. It was taking all his efforts to gather the energy ans even more to maintain it within himself once he got it, but he indeed succeeded. Ken's body was steaming with silver enegies, his eyes steaming with the same natural energies. This was a pre-mature sage mode.*

"Not sure how long..I can stay like this. I'll have to wrap this up now."

*Ken said as he bit his thumb. He then preceded into a series of lightning fast handsigns. The time for his signiture jutsu was well overdue.*

-Hinamori decided to let Renji deal with the big ass fireball of pwnage Kido she was more concerned as to where the other individual was before it was too late. They had to be planning something. From within the barrier she murmured another incantation, a devastating Kido just as if not more epic as Walters. If he was skilled he knew the incantation well for this was Aizen's signature Kido, one that she learned to use-

"Seeping crest of turbidity, arrogant vessel of lunacy. Boil forth and deny, grow numb and flicker, disrupting sleep. Crawling queen of iron, eternally self-destructing doll of mud. Unite, repulse. Fill with soil and know your own powerlessness... Kurohitsugi"

-A purple box of energy where the only thing that could be seen was the outline covered the area where walter was, and where she estimated Ken to be... she figured he was still and when the construction of the box was complete black blade numbering in the thousands would rain down on the area pwning it over and over and over until the box was filled with the blades turning it completely purple hopefully leveling the playing field.-