Standing in an area between two cliffs, Kenji stood there a few feet away from his brother
Kentaro. He had been searching for him for years, and thanks to the help of some Squad Two Shinigami named Scarlett he was able to put the pieces together of all he had gathered.
"…Kentaro…Why'd you do it man?" Kenji asked with pained expression.
"Why'd I do it?!" Kentaro repeated with a laugh,
"I don't think I really need to explain that one, Kenji!"
"I mean, I know dad was a piece of shit! He wouldn't get help for mom and sis' illness because he didn't want people to get suspicious of my spirit energy! He beat us for hours if we tried to go get help, or even mentioned it! I'm not questioning his death, hell, I was considering doing it myself," Kenji replied,
"But why did you do it? You were so kind, so...so timid! Were you hiding your true self? Or did you just crack?"
Kentaro looked left and right as if checking his surroundings before looking Kenji straight in the face. His own face going dark Kentaro replied,
"Because she told me to."
"She? Who the hell is she?"
"Our baby sister, she's alive you see!" Kentaro replied with a huge grin, poking his head,
"In my mind! She tells me who the bad people are, and I take care of them!"
Kenji's eyes widened at the last statement, soon realizing that his baby brother was fucking loony! His eyes returned to normal before he smiled, arms open as he took a few steps forward.
"Whatever the case, I found you at last baby brother!" Kenji said as he wrapped his brother in his arms, next his blade entered his brother's back as tears dripped down Kenji's cheeks.
"I'm sorry, but I couldn't see you suffe-"boom! Kentaro exploded sending Kenji flying into a tree. After a moment Kenji regained himself, groaning as he lifted up and wiped the dirt off of his face.
"And she told me that you are one of the bad people," Kentaro said from a few meters away
with a staff in hand and a tag in the other with beads floating around him, revealing that the other him was just a clone. Kenji stared at Kentaro, someone completely different than what he remembered. He was mentally ill, and not in the way that could be controlled. Kenji's first thought was killing him, Kentaro had suffered enough. The beatings, and now his own brain was fucking him up! Kenji wasn't sure if it was the right choice, but he was never the type of person to dwell on what was right and wrong.
Kenji reached up and took his earring off, throwing it off into the distance.
"Destroy or Create, Kami!" Kenji called out as his spirit energy began rising, covering a great distance causing the nature around them to suddenly die. Kenji shot towards Kentaro and swung his Zanpakuto down at him in which Kentaro quickly blocked before slapping the tag of Kenji. Kentaro kicked Kenji in the gut sending him fly back before sticking his hand forward with the beads following Kenji. Before Kenji could land the beads surrounded Kenji. The beads began glowing alongside the tag markings, and then they exploded violently.
The dust clearing revealed Kenji crouching on the ground with golden wings surrounding his body which shielded him from the explosion. Kentaro was unbelievably quick Kenji had realized, but it was something he could deal with. Kenji flew into the air, flying in the direction Kentaro was in. Once above him Kenji wrapped the wings around himself then shot down at Kentaro like a drill. Kenji felt beads wrap around him this time, then found himself being hurled. Where? He couldn't see. He tried unwrapping himself but the beads were too tight! Another violent explosion went off that sent Kenji plummeting to the ground and hitting hard. Kenji growled before standing up, his wings were cracked so he couldn't fly anymore.
"I thought brothers didn't hurt each other! That's what you said back then!" Kenji heard Kentaro yell before beads wrapped around his wings, and with ease were ripped from his back,
"You said we'd never hurt each other! Only hurt those who hurt us! That including father!" Kenji screamed in pain as he put his hands on his back, the spot his wings were ripped from.
Kenji opened his eyes gazing left to soon see his wings being swung towards his neck, beads surrounding it. He knew it was the same on his right, aiming to decapitate him and then explode.
Boom! They had collided and exploded, though Kenji was fine. Kenji had gone into his Hades shadow mode so the attacks went through him. Fully standing Kenji turned around towards Kentaro then shot towards him. Kentaro prepared a block but instead of hitting Kentaro Kenji went through him. Kenji quickly deactivated the ability and spun around, a bow in hand with seven arrows arched back which he let fly forward before Kentaro could react. Both were caught in the explosion radius, though Kentaro took most of it. The dust cleared revealing the two bleeding with tattered clothing.
"Brothers don't, and I'm sorry for not following through with that. But I'm not going to sit around and watch as my brother is being hurt either," Kenji replied between heavy breaths. Kentaro narrowed his eyes before standing up straight and holding his arms out with at
least a million beads forming behind him. They then began sticking to each other soon forming a giant man in armor.
"Then let's end it here." With that the giant then punched down at Kenji, resulting in a larger explosion than before.
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"Fuck! This thing is heavy!" Kenji yelled out. As the dust from the explosion cleared it revealed Kenji being covered by two large black hands. They had protected him from the explosion, and if he hadn't had this then he probably would have been done for. His portals weren't wide enough to catch the fist inside, and he couldn't use his shadow ability again yet. Kenji jumped back with the floating crossed leg Mahakali statue floating backwards, mimicking his movements in a way.
"But I agree, baby brother, let's end it."
Kentaro continued to glare at Kenji while Kenji held a face of determination. Kentaro jumped back as well, with his bead giant mimicking his movements as well.
"No point in dragging it out with small attacks if we both aim to kill each other." After Kentaro finished speaking the two then thrust their palms forward. The giant's exploding fist colliding with the Mahakali's hands, though instead of two hands all of them shot towards the giant rapidly. The fist mixed with the explosions caused the battlefield to start crumbling and become destroyed. Kenji decided to stop with the back and forth, therefore he shot forward quickly and chopped down with all the hands splitting the giant in two causing a massive explosion. In his line of sight Kenji saw Kentaro jumped high upwards, possibly trying to get onto the cliffs. Kenji deactivated Mahakali before following Kentaro upwards, trying to run out the massive explosion as well.
Landing on the cliff Kenji grunted as his leg had got caught in the explosion, it was covered in burns but for the most part it'd stay intact, at the worse it'd be unusable for a month or two. He looked forward as Kentaro turned around, his arms gone from the Mahakali taking them off with the chop.
"I'm sorry Kenny!" Kenji called out with tears streaming from his cheeks. Kenji got up on his leg and shot forward,
"I love you!" Kenji appeared behind Kentaro by using his doors, his Zanpakuto then struck Kentaro through the chest. Kentaro slid off the blade before Kenji fell to his knees sobbing. He dropped his Zanpakuto then pulled Kentaro into his arms,
"Forgive me in the next world, please!" Kenji cried out with his head in Kentaro's chest. Finding his brother at last, just to kill him…
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Kenji sighed as he stopped thinking about three months ago. It was over, and it was done. He never really came to the conclusion if his choice was right or not but he was fine with not knowing. He told no one about the situation but Aya, but whom else was he supposed to tell? Shit for dicks? Hell no! Not that he'd care, not that Kenji had any reason for telling him or anyone else for that matter. He remembered returning to the Gotei 13 not knowing what else to do. His overall plan was to just ride along with his brother no matter what once he found him, but he guessed he gained a sense of morality while being in the Gotei 13. Especially since he decided to stop being that one guy who had allot of sex a few days after the fight. He decided to stay with the Gotei 13, not that he had any attachment to the place, but because Aya stayed. And he wanted to see if he could become something more.
"So far? Nothing," Kenji mumbled as his hand dangled from the top of the barracks. He hardly did shit so there was no wonder why he was still unseated after over three months. But hey, the deal was that the Gotei 13 helps him and he'd return the favor. But after that entire time only one guy, girl thing had accepted to help. And all they asked for in return was to torture him, and he liked that sort of stuff so it was ok. But he figured he'd do something atleast…well, after his nap of course.
