Kuro laughed at her reaction. "Hmm... And you were soooo much nicer during our spar." Kuro said playfully. He could feel a menos presence as well, it was making him a bit nervous. Kuro let out a long sigh, What am I getting myself into?

Saroki frowned and blushed, acting like a child she crossed her arms, she started walking further into the forest, towards the ominous reiatsu, "Hurry up and start following!" She said, a bit embaressed.

Kuro stood and began to follow her. "No need for being so demanding, and why are you so flustered?" Kuro said curiously. He stopped for a moment his eyes getting wide. "Are you sure this is a good idea?... I have the strangest feeling it is not as easy as we planned on... This has trap written all over it..."

Saroki sighed a bit, "Well since we are only suppose to confirm that a menos is here, we don't have to fight it, so it doesn't really matter if it is or isn't a trap." It did seem like a trap, but what wher the odds that it was something they couldn't handle. Saroki walked deeper into the forest, she could feel a garganta opening, was it a menos? Or just another hollow.

Kuro began shaking, he was terrified. He knew it they fell into a trap. Its a trap! Its a trap! So? Get up boy... You have this old man here to protect you. "Great... What in the world is going to come out of that thing.... Though... It does not have a good feeling... Not a good feeling at all.." Kuro shook his head slowly. "That new presence that has arrived is too close to us... Whatever comes out will know we are here."

Saroki sighed a bit, "Suck it up kid, you have no courage..." Saroki meant those words, hoping it would motivate Kuro, or maybe it would just make him angry at her. Saroki walked further into the forest, a large garganta in the sky was in sight, right above a huge clearing, nothing but grass for a few miles. A meno's head appeared from the garganta, it slid int's large body through the black cut in the sky, as it's entire body was now revealed the garganta disappeared. The huge meno's noticed the two shinigami and started to charge a cero in it's mouth, Saroki's eyes widened as she grabbed Kuro's hand and started running behind the meno's "Shit!" She yelled out, fearing for their lives.

((OOC: Kidou!!!!!!!! <.< I am addicted to the stuff.)

Kuro yanked his hand away from hers. "No running... We wont make it out in time if we run... It is too late now." Kuro looked at her and stuck out his tongue. "Suck it up kid, you have no courage." Kuro stuck his hand out to the side, "Way of Binding #12 Ambush Flare!" Kuro began running around in crazy directions touching every tree, forming a web of Kidou. As he was running he would reach with his other hand casting Way of binding #4 Oil slick. After the web was complete he sprinted back to where he stopped following Saroki. "Come on beast, your death is waiting for you right here!!!" Kuro smiled at Saroki, "I let you do the honors of lighting it when it is close enough." Kuro looked at the area where he put the end of the thread near him. He reached his hand towards it. "Way of binding #14 Oil Slick." He took a few steps back as oil ran down the tree. He looked at the Menos. "Beast I was talking to you... Come and get me! Oh the crescent moon of the lunar eclipse, where one of the purist of light and the shadows of darkness, show me your holy light! Way of destruction #21 White Lunar Spear Shot!" A large ball of White reiastu shot from Kuro's palm into the sky. The orb resembled the moon itself. Soon a spear made of the reiastu shot down towards the Meno's Mask. It crashed down into its mask. Kuro let out a grin. "This is going to be hard...It's ok though... I am sure we can do this together."

((OOC: Sadly Kuro I can't approve, for one it's too short, for too you can only use kidou that are up to 19, and White lunar spear shot is 21, so you can't use it, sorry. ))

Saroki kept running looking back at Kuro, "Damn you Kuro! Your going to get yourself killed!" Saroki yelled out as she came to a grinding halt, the meno's laughed as it fired it's cero onto all of the nearby trees, completely destroying the ambush flare, and egniteing the fire, but such a weak fire couldn't damage the meno's. The meno's began chargeing another cero as a white reiatsu spear formed above it's head, the reiatsu spear crashed down onto it's mask, although such a weak kidou barely managed to hurt the meno's, a tiny crack formed as the spear disappeared. Saroki sprinted towards Kuro, "Kuro-san!!!" She yelled as she grabbed him by his wrist, the meno's fired it's cero towards the two, but luckily they wher out of the blast radius in time. Saroki panted as she let go of Kuro, "When you fought me...I blocked all of your kidou's, right? Now comprehend this, that meno's is ten times more powerful than me...The soul societey sends out special teams of shinigami to deal with them, this meno's is way out of your league..." She said, gasping for air between sentences.

((OOC: O.o.... Yeah... I just recently found out hat the kidou thing at the kidou training site was old, and there was a replacement thing. ^^ I am sorry...))

Kuro snarled angrily. "Could you get me to its mouth? I wanna get into it..." Kuro looked at her seriously. "I need to get as close to its brain as I can...I know I can't hurt it, though... I have a technique that might make it to where we can escape. I know it sounds crazy....But you need to trust me... Even if I fail.. It will stay there eating me... Giving you enough time to escape. You can then report in telling them there are menos grande here... You are stronger, it is better if you live at all costs." Kuro let out a sigh. "I am scared, but there will always be fear. You need to understand there is fear so you can work with it to succeed. Do you want to give my plan a chance? Or would you like to come up with a different plan?"

Try and keep the post length up, i know how hard it can be when you really don't feel like it and in response to an issue you guys picked up on i've actually just gotten rid of ZE entirely as it didn't really do anything

Saroki:
+1.5 intel
+.5 Kidou
Nerdy-chan:
+1.5 Kidou

Saroki sighed, the plan was insane, going inside of a menos...It just didn't seem possible, "You know...Going inside the menos is probally suicide, and if you die here then I want here the end of it with Ryouta...And if you expect to get out alive i'm going to have to kep the meno's mouth open...It isn't a very reasonable plan, but I don't think we got any other choice." Saroki grinned as she seathed her zanpakuto, she grabbed Kuro's right hand and charged forward towards the meno's, a trail of reiatsu was left as she ran. In a few seconds she was infront of the meno's, she ran up the meno's using reishi to fuse the bottom of her sandals to the meno's black cloak-like-skin. Saroki was soon as the meno's mask, Saroki waited untill the meno's wasn't chargeing a cero, she then climbed near the meno's mouth and used force to open it. Saroki let go of Kuro hopeing he would be able to do the rest by himself, "Don't get yourself killed..." She said with a smirk on her face, she held the mouth open as the meno's tryed to chomp down on Saroki, the weight was enormous, but she knew if she didn't keep the mouth open Kuro's soul would be eaten, and that was enough to motivate Saroki.

Kuro nodded with a small grin as she let him go. Kuro raised his hand to the side forming a rope of kidou. "Way of Binding #12 Ambush Flare!" Kuro swung the rope up, it wrapped around the Menos's nose. Kuro held on the the rope running around the Menos's head, the rope wrapping around it. As Kuro got to the mouth he pulled out his sword with his free hand stabbing it into the Menos's gums. Kuro forced himself into the mouth, going past Saroki. Kuro yanked his sword out of the gums and jabbed it into the top of the mouth holding himself in place. Kuro looked at Saroki with a grin, "Thank you for ensuring me this far... If it works, great.. And if it doesn't... Goodbye my friend..." Kuro sighed and raised his hand, aiming it at her. "Way of Destruction #1.... Thrust." A wave of force knocked her from the Menos's mouth.

As the Menos's mouth chomped down, Kuro looked at the kidou rope that he was holding with the hand he was holding the sword with. Kuro used his free hand to tie the rope around his waist. Kuro gave a small smile and began saying under his breath. "I am sorry.. I knew that if it didn't work and the technique knocked you out... The menos would have chomped down on you... Killing you." Kuro knew she could not hear him, though he wanted to say it as if he was getting it off of his chest before he died. Kuro prepared to cast the kidou, he took a deep breath and began chanting as he exhaled. "Destruction! Surround my body! Send any around me to the realm of the the unconscious, where dreams do not reach! Way of Destruction #20! White Crawl!" White energy began to surround him and channeling out. Kuro smirked as he thought he had won. Though the energy was not reaching, fear struck Kuro's face for he knew that this could mean the end of his life.

Kuro began feeling a burning sensation that sent pain throughout his body. Kuro looked down to see particles of energy left off of his flesh and flow down the throat of the Menos. Kuro began pouring more energy into the kidou so it would last longer. "Destruction! Surround my body! Send any around me to the realm of the the unconscious, where dreams do not reach!" The spell began to stretch out further, and the collection of energy began to stop. Kuro let out a long sigh of relief. "I did it..." Kuro began to relax as he pulled the sword from the top of the Menos's mouth. He felt the mouth began to tremble and fall backwards. Kuro leaped up and jabbed the sword into the tongue of the Menos. "Let my energy flow and cut my opponent to ribbons. May his remains be scattered by the winds. Way of Destuction # 27 Reshi Blade!" Kuro's right arm had reiastu quickly form around it forming a long chainsaw-like blade. Kuro yanked out the sword from the tongue with his left hand and ran up the tongue jabbing the chainsaw like reiastu blade into the teeth. Kuro forced the rest of his energy into the blade, as it slowly cracked through the Menos's teeth. Kuro burst through the mouth out into the open air, falling down to the ground. He had no energy left, he knew he was out of it. Kuro's fate was left to luck now, it was all up to chance.

(Kidou or Spirit power)

Nerdy-chan:

+ 1 Kidou

Saroki-chan:

+ .5 Intel

Saroki's eyes opened wide as Kuro chanted, "Kuro! No! Don't do it!" She yelled out in sorrow, tears starting to fall from her eyes. A blast of reiatsu hit Saroki's stomach, blasting her straight out of the meno's mouth. The mouth of the meno's clamped shut, "Kuro!!!!!" She screamed out at the top of her lungs; Tears streamed down her cheeks as she fell. The memories of when she was alive came back to her for a brief moment, both of her parents dieing, the lonliness that she was forced to endure, her mental anguish even driveing her to kill someone. And then suicide, 'I promised...That I wouldn't let anyone die...Yes...I remember now......And now....I'm going to-' Her thoughts wher suddenly interupted, "So your going to give up? Just like that? You know...It's not too late, you can still save him..." Akugou Naito said to Saroki, her eyes suddenly lit up with hope. "REALLY?! HOW?!" She said in panic, "That...I cannot tell you..." The voice rang through Saroki's mind. "Damnit! I have to do something! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!!! Think! Think! THINK!" She yelled out.

Saroki's spiritual pressure was riseing rapidly, she unsheathed her zanpakuto. Gripping the handle with both hands as she landed in mid air, focusing reishi at her feet, she closed her eyes and focused on her zanpakuto. She remembered her extensive training, she remembered all of the obstacles she passed, all of the enemies she slayed. 'I won't give up...I can't give up!' She focused harder; All of her memories suddenly flashed through her mind, and then they all disappeared. Leaveing one phrase in her mind. Saroki's eyes opened intensely as she was englufed in a ball of blue fire-like reiatsu. "Tsukuru...Ranmyaku...Akugou...NAITO!!!!!" She exclaimed in valor, her zanpakuto was englufed in light as her Shikai activated. The guard disappearing, and the spikes growing. Saroki grinned as she aimed her zanpakuto at the meno's head; Her hands shaked as reiatsu rushed through her body, Saroki was barely able to contain it. "Kuro...Bakufuu!!!" She screamed out at the top of her lungs, her eyes lighting up as if they wher on fire; Clenching her teeth, hoping to contain the new found power she obtained.

A pitch black orb started to charge at the tip of Saroki's zanpakuto, the orb grew untill it was the size of a basketball, the dense orb of reiatsu growing unstable. "DIE!" She shouted at the hollow, she noticed Kuro falling onto the ground, she thanked God he was safe, the meno's started to tremble slightly, but not enough to avoid Saroki's attack. Saroki released the unstable orb of reiatsu as it grew 10x in size on being released, it engulfed the meno's head in seconds, completely obliterating the meno's head/mask. Saroki sheathed her zanpakuto, nearly every ounce of her reiatsu gone. The hollow disappeared in a black haze, the meno's had been slayed. Saroki made her way down onto the ground near Kuro, kneeling down beside him. "Baka..." She muttered.

Acts cold, but has a heart of gold. +1 spirit power to Saroki