Shinigami Tournament of Power Stadium

When Shisui made footfall, the flames around him began to fade. The full form of his Bankai would remain unseen, as the disappearing fire was joined by the resealing and sheathing of his Zanpakutou. He went on to leave the ring, having obtained his first victory of the tournament the way he intended. As he walked away, his gaze traveled to the location of his Captain in the 6th Division's designated section of the arena seats.

Some time later, another crushing blow-out in the tournament - this one from the first official fight of the Captains' bracket - saw the 4th Division's Captain fall to the likes of the 10th's Captain. This led them to the next battle, in which a green-haired male with a hooded yellow cape emblazoned with the mark of the 6th Division, stood ready to battle.

As Shisui walked off the 6th Division Captain was calmly sitting in the first row of that section. She looked to the young man with similar impassive eyes and gave a singular nod of approval to him, knowing he would understand the message behind it. After this she went on to watch the crushing defeat of the 4th Division Captain by the 10th Division Captain, which went about as well as anyone expected it to.

The next match up, was one between the 3rd Division's Captain the currently cloaked Yuuki Terumi and the 12th Division's Captain a young pink haired woman who soon enough made her way to the stage and pushed tiny spectacles up onto her nose. Though she'd been the one to make these brackets, she would have chosen a different challenger for herself. "Yuuki-taichou, long time no see~" said the young woman as she stood at her end of the arena. After she spoke the host gave the last of the announcement. "You two know the rules! BATTLE!" and just like that the pair was left to fight each other.

"Hai, hai~!" the man named Terumi replied with a wide grin. It had indeed been some time since his last encounter with this particular Captain. Moving right along, though, the battle was called rather quickly. When it was, the man spoke again. "O-ne-gai-shi-maaa-suu~♪" he sang nonchalantly. Strangely, even though the fight was now on, Yuuki made no efforts to attack the woman before him.

"Doesn't move... you're still weird, Yuuki-taichou~" said the Twelfth Division's Captain. Still she wasn't one to let such an obvious opportunity pass her by. Instead she reached into the sleeves held to her arms by giant gold rings and pulled out a small item which looked a bit like a double sided shuriken with deep blades and held it in her right hand. Several others appeared from it, and began to take off aiming to but not to attack Terumi. These small blades had an interesting property, as they moved forward they seemed to create their own gravity, increasing the pressure around the arena by a variable amount presently about twenty times what was normal. She was developing a plan and it was necessary to keep speed variables to a minimum as she lost out on that battle.

"You're a cat," was his response to being called weird by this particular Captain. Since Akiko took the first move, Terumi was able to watch what she chose to do. Her choice involved reaching into her sleeves to retrieve her already-released Shikai. "Hoh? Are we skipping the petting then? Your loss," he said. As these shuriken moved closer to him, Terumi suddenly began to feel weighted, until such a time as he felt like he weighed nearly 3,000 pounds. As much as he exerted his Reiatsu to fight against this effect, he could not keep himself from crumbling to at least his right knee. He would have used at least one of his hands to support himself, but instead, he used both to draw the twin wakizashi that were his Zanpakutou. "Kamikorosu," he said as he spun the pair of blades. The wakizashi shrank in unison, each taking the form of a curved butterfly knife with a double-edged blade. After releasing, Terumi continued spinning the knives. "Jasou. Kousou." As he spun the knives about, Terumi performed tricks which continuously opened and closed the weapons. These movements caused slicing waves of pure force to emerge each time, and at an incredible velocity that trumped even the speed of his Shunpo. Since he could not easily reach Akiko in this state, he aimed to send numerous waves of different angles her way, while also aiming a few at the pieces of her Zanpakutou.

"Am I? Hadn't noticed~" the 12th Division Captain said with obvious sarcasm. Still it seemed that Yuuki was at least effected by her Zanpakuto enough to feel the exceptional weight being created by it. He went on to comment about the apparent skip of petting which made the pink haired woman's eyes widen and her ears twitch only slightly. "Don't say that like that... you'll get my hopes up, Yuuki-taichou," the woman said as he seemed to recover enough from the constant pressure to be able to release his Zanpakuto. "Predictable," she managed to say holding up her right hand in front of her immediately after... "Danku," this would immediately cause a large barrier to erect itself directly in front of the young woman as the 3rd Division Captain began using his Zanpakuto to try and harm her from a distance. Her unoccupied hand on her hip she stood just watching putting together a strategy while fragments of her Zanpakuto were batted away by Terumi's attacks, likely allowing him a bit more freedom of movement as the woman didn't immediately try to put them back.

"You're the one at fault. Can't pet a cat if it hisses at ya' first." Though Akiko erected a barrier to protect herself, Terumi's extra slashes managed to free him from enough of her Zanpakutou's influence to allow some movement. With this freedom, he stood. Shunpo wasn't worth the effort so long as Akiko could alter gravity so close to him at any moment, so he chose instead to go for raw power. Massive amounts of energy gathered in each blade of his Zanpakutou as he flipped and spun them again. "Hadou no Nanajuuhachi: Zangerin!" The spell Terumi chose was one which normally launched outward from a Zanpakutou with enough power on its own to level buildings, but in the special case of Terumi's Shikai, he simply gained greater advantage. His ranged slashes went out once more at the maximum strength along with the added power of the spell. His aim this time was not to attack Akiko or create space for himself, but instead to slice through the pieces of her Shikai using his ability at maximum velocity.

"Oh please... as if a bit of aggression is any reason not to try," Akiko said, seeming to find this line of banter amusing enough to continue it regardless of the rest of the conditions she was presently facing. And speaking of things she was facing her opponent chose to use a spell which subsequently powered up the blades which he was using. Forcing them to move at fast enough speeds to properly slice through her suspended weapons and not just knock them off course. Akiko's eyes widened just a bit, because she'd expected him to try to do something about that which she used to alter gravity, but she hadn't expected such a novel execution. "Impressive~" she commented not seeming to be worried about the destruction of multiple pieces of her Zanpakuto. In fact, the small shuriken she held in her hand soon began to spin in her palm as she created dozens more which flew off around her specifically before she began spinning just one finger around the center dial. "You know, I thought being a participant in this would just be annoying... but now I think... it might be fun~" she said before stopping the one twirling finger to reverse the gravity around her blades as she sent one directly for the center of Terumi's chest, from this distance she didn't actually intend to hit him, but instead, push him back and she aimed to do this with a simple command. "Juuryoku." the statement she'd aim to toss Terumi clean across the arena, a bit like a rag doll.

"Ain't it?" he asked in response. "I don't really like the idea of my face getting clawed up, though. I'll pass 'til I can come up with a bowl of milk." Terumi watched the result of his most recent attack, taking solace in the fact that the separate blades Akiko unleashed were now in halves. Even though he'd managed this, there were soon even more to deal with. Terumi sighed as one was launched toward him. "That's a really annoyin' sword, ya' know?" was all he had to say. With that, he spun his blades again, sending slashes behind him to dice up the arena when he felt the gravity taking effect again. Since it was now going against him, he kicked up enough rubble to catch himself numerous times as he fell sideways, as if he were simply falling toward the ground at incredible speeds. Halfway along this trip, he looked up from his own perspective, sending slashes through the slabs he'd already passed to target Akiko again.

"Milk?!" the Captain of the 12th Division seemed to be quite amused by the idea. She was way to easily distracted by things she liked to think of anything other than a warm saucer of milk for herself a bit after this. Maybe as a prize for victory, maybe to nurse her defeat, not that either reason really mattered. Beyond this the man seemed to rather easily fall prey to her abilities, going so far as to state that her weapon was annoying. "Is it really? I thought I was a bit lacking compared to everyone else I've seen~" she said. Though she understood her own abilities to a fine point, she also was under the impression that other people might be able to easily get around what she had to offer. But she supposed that would require them having as complete an understanding of her weapon as she did, and that generally did not happen. A large number of her previously created blades seemed to over back towards her person without her having to say so, in doing so they all gathered before her creating a physical barrier for the coming slashes, doing so seemed to offer Terumi a bit more relief, as she kept them hovering her near person thereafter for some unknown reason. But she did so to buffer herself, taking a moment to create even more blades and leave them hovering behind others. Leaving them doubled for whatever reason, but not attacking more.