I'm Stronger [Kenpachi]

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The spiritual pressure was suffocating. Ichigo, Ganju, Hanatarou, and Darcy ran through the area, trying to push against the weight in the air. "This is insane!" Ichigo yelled. "How can one person have this much spiritual pressure?"

"It mush be a Captain!" Darcy yelled. "What do you think, Hanatarou?"

The Seventh Seat collapsed before he could answer. "Come on!" Ganju yelled, picking him up. "We have to keep moving!"

"Go, go, go!" Darcy yelled, pushing Ichigo forward when he hesitated.

"We keep running, but we're not getting any distance from it!" Ichigo stated.

"Doesn't matter, keep moving!"

Which one of you are the strongest? Eyes landed on Hanatarou. Not him. The eyes switched to Ganju. Not him either.They drew to Darcy. Feh, definitely not the woman. Ichigo was the last one. Is it you? Are you the strongest?

Ichigo's eyes widened as he whirled around. Ganju followed his gaze, while Darcy skidded to a halt. "Keep moving!" she yelled, pulling on the Soul Reaper's arm. The teen's eyes landed on a figure standing on top of one of the buildings in the distance.

Darcy's head whirled around to see their opponent was now in front of them. "Ichi-!" The man's spiritual pressure forced Darcy into the ground.

"How long are you going to look over there?" the man asked, making Ichigo turn around to notice Darcy had fallen.

"Darcy!" Ichigo yelled, running to her side.

"Feh, pathetic."

"T-T-T-That's C-Captain K-Kenpachi Zaraki!" Hanatarou stammered in horror. "H-He controls t-t-the r-ruthless, b-bloodthirsty Eleventh Squad!" The young boy then passed out from the pressure once more.

"Ganju, get out of here," Ichigo ordered. "And take Darcy with you."

"But-!"

"Go! Find Rukia!"

Ganju grumbled, grabbing the young woman. He ran away from the area, leaving Ichigo to his fight. A few minutes later Darcy stopped the man. "What are you doing?" he yelled. "You were the one who kept telling us we had to keep moving!"

"You've done enough, Ganju," Darcy said. Taking off the black backpack she pulled out equipment. She stepped into a waist gun holster, switching the position of the sword sheath, strapping it over her back.

"Where did you get that?" Ganju asked.

"My world," she answered.

"What are those?"

"Guns." She pulled on the straps to tighten the holster. "Good thing my dad's a cop and that I know how to handle weapons. It feeds off my pressure and forms it into bullets."

"Wait, you're not thinking about going back there?" Ganju yelled. "That's crazy!"

"Exactly, but I'm not a sharp shooter for nothing, Ganju. Remember, I'm not Ichigo. I'm twenty-five, a hired sharp shooter for the Japanese Military, and a crazy bitch when put to a mission. On top of that I have spiritual pressure."

"You didn't even stand a chance against Zaraki's!"

"Ever heard of bluffing? I needed to strap on my guns. Kenpachi's pressure felt like nothing." Darcy reached over a shoulder, unsheathing the sword. "Time to help my cousin."

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"You think that just because you can cut me that you can win?" Kenpachi asked with a sadistic laugh. "You're dead wrong!" he yelled, lunging forward. A blur shot between the two, pushing Ichigo back, blade locking with Kenpachi's zanpakuto.

"Darcy! What the hell?" Ichigo yelled, sitting up.

"Ichigo, get out of here," Darcy ordered, pushing back the man.

"Darcy, no! He's too strong-!"

Darcy released her spiritual pressure, making the ground shake with force. It even made Kenpachi's eyes widen in surprise. "Where the hell did this come from?" the teen asked.

"Sorry, Ichigo, had to keep it under lock and key," Darcy answered, looking over a shoulder at her cousin. "Didn't wanna upstage you," she continued.

Kenpachi rushed forward, but Darcy threw up the sword to block him. The man didn't even make her move an inch, making the bloodthirsty Captain grin. "You're strong," he stated. "You were faking before, weren't you?"

Darcy smirked up at him. "Well, I wanted to look my best before fighting you." Her attention went back to Ichigo. "Go find Rukia. That's an order from your cousin." She gave him a wink before throwing Kenpachi backwards. Pulling out the gun from the right holster, Darcy flipped it around before opening fire on the Captain.

They raced through the buildings after each other, exchanging blows to their bodies. During that time, Kenpachi's Lieutenant, Yachiru, had been cheering for him the whole way. Darcy was startled to find that the voice came from a child.

"You're not half bad, woman!" Kenpachi called over from where he was behind a building wall.

Darcy was fifteen feet away in a different alleyway, back pressed against a wall. "You too, Captain!" she called over, grinning. "So how bout it?"

"How bout what?" Kenpachi asked.

"A show down right here and now. No running away, no dodging. Just a straight on run towards each other with an all out brawl."

Kenpachi grinned sadistically. "You're crazy, you know that?"

Darcy looked over at her sword, which was resting against the wall then down at her gun. "Maybe..." she answered. "But that's how I was raised." She cocked the weapon. "Ready?"

"You're on, woman!"

"One..." Darcy gripped the hilt of her blade.

"Two..." Kenpachi cocked his zanpakuto.

"Three!"

They rushed from their spots towards each other. Darcy threw her blade through the air, the weapon flipping three-hundred and sixty degrees like a weapon axe. It buried deep into Kenpachi's gut, but the Captain continued to run forward. Darcy fired her pistol, embedding four bullets in Kenpachi's zanpakuto arm, two in his left leg. Still the Captain continued to move forward.

"You're finished, woman!" Kenpachi yelled, switching hands with his zanpakuto. He then threw it forward, embedding it into the bottom of Darcy's ribcage and out her back. He grinned; however, during his approach Darcy reached for her other pistol, pulling it out. Now she had the barrel of that gun resting against Kenpachi's forehead.

"Game over, Captain," Darcy spoke in a cold voice.

However, at the last second, the young woman changed the position of the barrel, firing off three bullets into Kenpachi's chest. The large man fell backwards from the force, passing out cold from the wounds and blood loss.

A smirk tugged at the corner of Darcy's lip. However, her expression grew sour before throwing up blood. Darcy collapsed to one knee, dropping her guns. While one hand was pressed against the cool ground the other was clasped over her mouth to try and stop the blood from flowing out.

"You didn't kill, Kenny." Darcy looked over to find Yachiru standing beside her fallen Captain.

"I didn't hit any of his vitals," the human answered, pushing to shaky legs. "He'll be out for a while, but will live." She grabbed her guns, putting them back in the holster. Darcy then turned her attention to Kenpachi's blade, which was still running through her body. She grabbed the hilt, slowly moving it around to see where it was positioned inside.

"Please stop!" Yachiru begged. Darcy ripped the zanpakuto out, crying out in pain. She threw up more blood as she dropped to her other knee. Yachiru ran quickly to her side. "Please don't move or you'll die!"

"I'll be alright," Darcy answered with a forced grin. "I need... to find my cousin..."

"You mean Ichi?"

"Yeah," the young woman grunted out, trying to get to her feet again.

"Sparrow! Please don't move!"

"I'll be okay-"

Darcy dropped to the ground. "Sparrow!" Yachiru rolled Darcy onto her side, incase she threw up again.

"Why do you call me Sparrow?" Darcy whispered through squinted eyes. Everything was starting to spin.

"Because of your tattoo. I saw it on your shoulder before."

"It's... a dove... It symbolizes... freedom... peace..."

"Do you bring that, Dove?" Yachiru asked in a whisper.

A smile tugged at the corner of Darcy's lips. "I try..." She then passed out.

Yachiru looked over Darcy's body, lightly pushing her hair from her face. "Don't worry. I'm going to help you."

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A gruff voice awoke Darcy from her deep slumber. She groaned once realizing how bright the room was to her eyes. "Yeahy! Dove's awake!" Yachiru yelled.

"Lieutenant, not so loud," Ikkaku grumbled.

"How are you feeling, Darcy?" Orihime asked.

"Like hell," she answered, trying to sit up.

"Careful, you're still weak from blood loss."

Someone laughed loudly in the room. "She'll be fine," Kenpachi said. "That woman's a fighter." Darcy's eyes landed on Kenpachi's smirking face.

"You don't look too bad yourself, Captain," Darcy mumbled, rolling her eyes once noticing the bandages. "Any news on Ichigo's where abouts?"

"No," Orihime answered sadly.

"Aw, don't worry, Orihime. If I know my cousin he's out there somewhere doing something idiotic."

"That guy is your cousin?" Ikkaku asked with a cocked eyebrow.

"Yeah, I'm his older cousin." She then looked around the room. "So are you going to stop us?" Darcy asked, looking at the Soul Reapers.

Kenpachi scoffed. "He's alive alright," he pointed out. "And I want a rematch with him since it got interrupted before. I'll help you find him, woman."

"Thanks. And the name is Darcy Kurosaki."

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"Damn it that son of a bitch!" Darcy yelled as Unohana tended to one of her wounds.

"Miss. Kurosaki, will you please refrain from that language while I am here," Unohana spoke in a serious tone.

"Sorry... but this seriously ticks me off! How the heck did Aizen get away with all of that? How are we not able to find him?"

"Aizen's zanpakuto creates illusions and we underestimated it. That's where we went wrong."

"Shit..." she muttered. "How are the others?"

"Renji and Ichigo will live. Captain Kuchiki and Komamura are still healing. Rukia is up and walking around as well."

"That's good to hear..."

"Dove!" the two women heard off in the distance.

"I'm done for today," Unohana said, gathering her things and left.

Yachiru and Kenpachi came in soon after. "Dove!" Yachiru exclaimed happily, jumping up on the bed. "What did Braids say?"

Darcy chuckled at Unohana's nickname. "That I'm responding well to treatment," the young woman answered, tucking a piece of Yachiru's hair behind an ear.

"Does it hurt?"

Darcy looked down at her newly reconstructed lower arm. "At first when they were installing it. I owe the Shiba Clan a lot."

During the battle on Sokyoku Hill, Darcy confronted Aizen. Ichigo and Renji had been rendered useless so she rushed in to help. However, the human did not expect Aizen's zanpakuto power to be illusions. Darcy thought she was going in to land a hit on the traitor when he suddenly disappeared before she got close enough. A few seconds later Darcy found herself flying through the air; her right arm from the upper-mid section and down missing. She would've bled out if Kenpachi had not rushed in soon after with the other Captains and Lieutenants, stanching the blood.

Kukaku Shiba was called to the Fourth Division when Unohana realized there was no hope in reattaching the limb. So the woman constructed a prosthetic ones much like her own. Then Unohana and Orihime worked together to merge the new limb with Darcy's muscles and bones so she had full control and use of it.

"When can you leave?" Yachiru asked.

"Tomorrow," Darcy answered. "But that's because I have to head home."

"No!" Yachiru exclaimed, an instant frown coming to her face. "You can't leave yet!"

"And why is that?" Darcy asked with a smile.

"Because you have yet to go on a date with Kenny!"

Darcy's eyes widened, staring at the child in her lap, as her cheeks turned pink. Her eyes traveled over to Kenpachi who was leaning against the far wall, eyes closed. The young woman smiled sweetly, looking back at Yachiru. "Maybe the next time you two come to Karakura Town or vice versa I'll look you up on that... That is... if your Captain still wants to..."

Darcy swore she saw Kenpachi smirk.

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"I swear I'm gonna kill him," Darcy growled angrily, pulling out the heavy artillery.

"Now, Darcy, just calm down and breathe," Urahara spoke from his end of the receiver.

She pulled out the stand for her sniper rifle. Clipping it to the device, Darcy laid on her stomach, looking through the scope. Off in the distance she could see Ichigo getting beaten to a pulp by Nnoitra's Fracción, Tesla. "Shit, that Espada has Orihime, but I can't get a good shot on the moving Arrancar."

"Then hit the Espada," Urahara answered.

"Ichigo's going to be dead if I don't help him first! But with all the fancy footwork I might accidentally hit him!"

Ichigo was thrown to the ground, Tesla raising his hoof to stomp Ichigo to death. Darcy didn't hesitate at the opportunity, firing. The bullet hit Tesla in the side of the head, making the Arrancar stumble backwards. "What was that?" Nnoitra growled, looking over the desert.

Tesla regained his footing, touching his head where blood was pouring out of the hole. "Master?" Tesla asked.

Ichigo lay on the ground in shock, unable to move.

Darcy cocked the gun, looking through the scope again. "I heard gunfire," Urahara said. "What's going on over there, Darcy?"

"I just fired on the Arrancar that was attacking Ichigo," she answered.

"And?"

"The damned bastard didn't die."

Darcy waited, watching as the enemy moved around. Tesla raised his leg again, and went to stomp Ichigo. She fired, hitting Tesla in the neck. "There!" Nnoitra yelled, firing a cero from his mouth.

Darcy's eyes widened, seeing the oncoming attack of yellow light. "Shit!" she yelled, rolling out of the way, taking the weapon with her. There was a huge explosion that rocked the desert.

"Darcy! Come in, Darcy!" Urahara yelled into the microphone on his end.

"Darcy!" Ichigo cried out.

"Kill him, now!" Nnoitra ordered the dazed Tesla.

The Fracción brought down his hoof over the teen's body.

However, the attack was stopped halfway. "What now?" Nnoitra yelled in frustration.

Darcy broke through the wave of sand that had trapped her, gasping for air. She coughed up some swallowed sand, pulling her sniper rifle from its prison.

"What's wrong, Ichigo, you look half dead," a voice said from overhead the teen. Darcy also heard the voice over the headset. She grinned wildly, looking over in the direction of the fight.

"Is that you, Kenpachi?" Darcy laughed in delight, pulling the rest of her body out.

"Kenpachi!" Ichigo exclaimed.

"Feh, you still alive over there, woman?" Kenpachi asked into his microphone, looking over in the direction of the human.

Darcy laughed again, sitting back on her butt. "It's going to take more than a cero to kill my sorry ass." Kenpachi threw his head back in laughter, pushing away the Fracción with ease. "So what's the plan, Captain?" Darcy asked, setting up the weapon in front of her. "Want me to blow off his head?"

Kenpachi looked up at the Arrancar before him, seeing the damage the bullets before had inflicted. Knowing Kenpachi's thoughts, Darcy added, "Third time's the charm."

"Knock yourself out," he answered.

"Are you just crazy?" Nnoitra asked, thinking the man was talking to himself. The Espada laughed before another bullet embedded in Tesla's forehead, killing the Arrancar instantly.

Nnoitra growled, pushing Orihime to the side, and turning on the direction of the shot. "Don't you ever die!" he yelled at Darcy's position, forming another cero.

Kenpachi rushed forward, locking blades with the enemy. "Big mistake," Kenpachi growled, engaging.

"You still alive on your end, Darcy?" Urahara asked.

"Sorry to disappoint you, Urahara, but I am," she answered, a grin on her face.

The man chuckled. "It's time to come home, Darcy. You're needed over here." A garganta opened to Darcy's right side.

"Hey, Kenpachi," she spoke.

"What is it? I'm busy, woman," he answered.

Darcy chuckled. "Tell my idiotic cousin that I'm going back, alright?"

"Yeah, whatever," Kenpachi answered, the clashing of metal ringing in the background. "Just get going."

Rolling her eyes, Darcy packed up and headed back to Karakura Town.

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"Dove!" Yachiru yelled, popping up between two Soul Reapers in gigais. She quickly disappeared again. "Dove?" the child asked, popping up again.

The child continued to look through the large crowd of gathered Soul Reapers. Since Aizen had been defeated the Soul Society was hanging around Karakura Town a little bit longer to tie up a few things. After Ichigo lost his powers, Darcy's cousin could no longer help the Society out. Orihime, Chad, and Uryuu just wanted to go back to being normal high school students and Yamamoto allowed them to do so. Instead, Darcy decided to do everything she could to help the Soul Reapers out.

Once Yachiru found out that the young woman was in the area helping she was quick to rush off without telling Kenpachi. "Dove!" Yachiru called out again, startling Nanao.

"Lieutenant, please!" she exclaimed in surprise.

"Sorry, I'm looking for Dove." The child then disappeared again.

"A few trees need to be replanted here," a voice said from the park group. "When the pillar went down a section got destroyed. Then when Aizen went to the Soul Society Ichigo and him destroyed it further..." the voice then grumbled. "Okay! We need a playground rebuilt and trees replanted! Let's get this show on the road people!"

"Dove!" Yachiru exclaimed, tackling the young woman to the ground. "I'd know your voice anywhere!"

Darcy's hair had grown longer, now reaching the middle of her back. She had it pulled into a tight ponytail since she was working outside. Darcy wore a dark green tank

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