Your kung fu is not strong. (solo)

Kuro was back in Karakura town on hollow detail. The number of the things seemed to be higher for some reason these days. In only a half an hour, he had come across four of them and dealt with them accordingly. He finished off the fourth one, which had looked like a large black spider, and watched it slowly fade out of existance. His focus was suddenly interrupted by a bright blue arrow of spirit energy flying at him from behind. Using a quick shunpo, he side stepped the projectile and turned to face his opponent.

Glaring at Kuro from the other side of the park was a young quincy. This identity was unquestionable after seeing the opponent's white outfit displaying the proud quincy cross, and his blue and white bow that was aiming another spirit arrow at Kuro's chest. The bow took a physical appearance, making Kuro glance closer at the quincy's hand. Sure enough, there was one of those quincy items called a sanrei glove on his bow hand. The quincy only looked about 16 or 17 years old. Kuro had been sure that such a young quincy could not possibly be at the level of strength and experience yet to produce a physical bow on his own talent yet. But such youth also carried a level of stubbornness as Kuro was soon to find out.

"You damn shinigami. Always coming into our territory as if it's your right. I'll teach you to feel like you can do as you please."

Kuro sighed in disappointment. Why were quincies always like this? The shinigami didn't usually go looking for a fight, but the quincies always challenged them. Remaining silent, Kuro watched as the quincy released his spirit arrow at him. He decided not to dodge this time.

"Concentrate Seishou Sejin!" Kuro spoke quickly while whipping up his arm in an upward slashing motion. His short zanpakuto transformed into his shikai ninja gauntlet in the course of the swing and Kuro extended a blade of golden spirit energy from its palm to parry the spirit arrow as it reached him. He dissolved the blade on his gauntlet and stared with an uninterested gaze at the quincy who only seemed to be falling into a further fit of rage. "Leave me alone young man. I'm the wrong shinigami for you to be picking a fight with."

The quincy didn't give him an answer, but only roared in outrage before releasing a barrage of about 20 arrows at Kuro. Shunpoing around them, Kuro appeared behind the quincy and grabbed the back of his outfit. Guiding spirit energy into his gauntlet, he released it to increase his physical strength for a split second in which he tossed the quincy roughly to the side with one arm. The quincy rolled violently on the ground and ended up face down with a mouthful of grass. He picked himself up, revealing large grass stains smeared across his white outfit, and began charging another arrow aimed at Kuro.

"It seems that you are not interested in talking much." Kuro spoke in a quiet voice almost inaudible. "So I'll just have to show you that you can not hope to win in this battle." He shunpoed again as the arrow was sent flying at him and sighed again slightly regretting the move he was about to make. "Bankai"

A pillar of gold energy shot up into the sky with Kuro standing in the center of it on the ground. It faded in an instant to reveal Kuro clad in a black and gold ninja outfit with an additional gauntlet and two ninja boots that carried the same properties as his shikai. A handsome sash hung down the center of his torso decorated with seven hollow rings. He inhaled and exhaled slowly to bring his concentration to a higher level.

The quincy paused in surprise for a moment. It appeared that he was unaware of a zanpakuto's full power. It surprised Kuro that quincies were so quick to attack the shinigami when they didn't know all of their abilities. Kuro thought back to his earlier comment about being the wrong choice of attack target. In actuality, he was probably the best choice. Any other shinigami would probably just kill this quincy for his foolish attack. Kuro stopped thinking about the details and took the chance the quincy's shock had given him. Concentrating hard, he began to fill up the rings on his sash with bright golden color. Each complete ring brought an increase to the strength of Kuro's spirit power, compressing it into a concentrated force. By the time Kuro had filled up six rings, the quincy finally seemed to be ready to fight again. But he had no chance at this point.

As the quincy pulled back on his bow string, Kuro gathered a small amount of his spirit power into his boots and used it to fuel a shunpo that was much faster than he had previously moved. Crossing the distance between them in an instant, Kuro lightly pushed the quincy off balance and made him fall to the ground. Kuro stood over him with a sterner look than before and gave him another warning.

"As you can probably tell, I am not fighting you at my best. With my speed, I could easily strike you at anytime that I wanted. But I am not interested in killing someone so weaker than myself. Leave and don't try to continue this pointless struggle."

The quincy gave an ugly look of defiance and smirked with a look of unexplained confidance. Kuro was puzzled until the quincy quickly reached over with his left hand and snapped a piece of his sanrei glove off. A tower of blue spirit power came crashing down on the quincy as Kuro shunpoed backwards to avoid the spirit power. The quincy's outfit had changed, presenting a metal breastplate and a mass of spirit power on his shoulder that resembled a quiver. Kuro had read about this, but had never seen it before today. This was the quincy final form. An ability used at the sacrifice of a quincy's powers.

"You fool!" Kuro shouted as he quickly lit up the final ring on his sash. His energy surged and shot out of him in the form of a blooming gold lotus flower. This image shot back into him with a rush and Kuro prepared to fight. He had to act quickly if he wanted to help this quincy now. Glancing around, he saw little specks of spirit particles beginning to gather in the air and drift towards the quincy. Taking a deep breath, Kuro concentrated his hardest and drew the particles towards himself instead. The energy began to fill him to the brim with power. The quincy seemed shocked with surprise again. Kuro gave him a look like a master lecturing a student.

"I have worked with spirit power much longer than you. Your glove may have given you the edge against anyone else, but I am the one opponent that is the worst possible matchup for you."

The quincy still refused to give in and concentrated all of the power in his "quiver" into one concentrated arrow. He fired this thin bolt of energy at Kuro in a final attempt to beat him. Kuro gathered the accumulated power he'd absorbed into his left gauntlet and fired a concentrated stream of energy in the arrows path. The arrow was completely overpowered and destroyed, but Kuro's blast didn't stop there. His energy attack continued until it screamed past the quincy, breaking his bow in half. The quincy fell to his knees in defeat, mentally crushed by this dominance that Kuro had shown. Kuro spoke to him one last time as he resealed his zanpakuto.

"Your habit of letting hatred control you almost cost you something irreplacable today. You were going to let yourself lose your powers all for the sake of a grudge match against an unknown foe. Since I prevented any additional energy from reaching you after the initial release of the final form, your powers shouldn't be completely locked away. But you will most likely have to start from the beginning again. Remember this day and the mercy I showed you. If you foolishly attack shinigami again, you may not be treated so nicely."

Kuro turned and walked out of the park, leaving the shocked quincy on his knees crying in shame and humiliation.