She heard her own voice inside of her head, even as the blast came towards her. She felt a twinge of annoyance at the name, but chose to ignore it. "You gonna let me outta here and teach that lil' bitch a lesson?" The voice asked impatiently. "It'll get you to that Injiki punk real quicker...."

Closing her eyes, she considered it for one moment. Then, she put on a murderous smile, one similar to that of a rabid canine's. She only had to whisper two words in order to release her prisoner...

"Go nuts."

With that, her spiritual energy exploded full force, a killing intent violently overwhelming the area.

Unknown to the battler's there was someone watching all of this in the bushes. A pale-skinned someone

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"That idiot!"

With a simple Flash Step, the Hollow-possessed woman and appeared in front of Gin, gripped her throat tightly with one hand, and slammed her down into the ground. A crater was left behind. The insane grin still gracing her lips, she applied pressure, constricting the airway and slowly crushing the blonde. She chuckled in maddened glee, having completely lost control of herself.

If anything were to be done, it had to be done immediately. Otherwise....

Smirnov could only gaze on. "Kurosaki-san...." He muttered, too surprised to say anything else.

Ryuka finally raised his head to gaze up at his long-time enemy, his arms folded across his chest. "Of course you would happen to be near when your wife is...." He muttered, scowling. Looking over to his 3rd seat, he questioned calmly, "Aace. Gin. How bad're your wounds?"

Ahatake took that as a compliment. "Why thank you. I wouldn't want to be one of you anyway. And Ryuka, of course I'm going to be were my wife is. I'm not going to stand idly by and let her be killed."Ahatake turned to the orange-haired girl and handed her a bean. "Eat it. It's compensation for what the princess did to you."

Gin looked at it as Ahatake handed Tereya one.

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Ryuka, in turn, simply waited until they were healed. Then, he turned his back, looking over his shoulder towards his two companions. "Pull back." He commanded calmly. "We're heading out of here."

"What?!" Tereya burst in outrage, teeth bit together in a snarl. "Bastard, are you just gonna run--"

"Sure." Ahatake said, handing it to her and she ran off to Aace.

Ahatake noticed Tereya about to go after them. He extended a hand. "Cero del encarcelamiento." He muttered and triangular cero's from his and and they wrapped around Tereya forming a revolving cage. "Let them go, Princess."

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"Tereya."

Tereya's eyes immediately widened at the sound of Smirnov's authoritive voice, and she turned towards him incredulously. He put on a slightly narrowed-eyed, but disapproving expression as his Shikai diminished back to its sealed state. "If you were to attack the Lieutenant, you'd be putting yourself in extreme danger. Ahatake and I would have to rush in to your rescue, which would be a big pain in the rear end considering it's....well....you, that was captured."

Tereya looked away indignantly, but Smirnov didn't show any signs of letting up. "Let it go for now." He said softly. "Give yourself time to recover from this."

Smirnov involuntary took a step back, flinching from her angry words.