It was a bright sunny day in the Gotei 13 and Ika was looking to spar with the son of his fathers most trusted guard. Hagane was a big motherfucker like his father, and Ika was always one to try a new challenge. In truth, there was no one quite like Hagane in the Gotei 13 at the present time. Tanks were such a rare and unique type of fighter, and Ika wanted to see how he would fair against them. At this time, Ika was the Captain of squad two, and Hagane was the captain of squad eleven. Lighting a cigarette as one would, Ika awaited the approach of his challenger.

Of course it didn't take long, and he wasn't hard to hear. Hagane was a loud cunt, and a tink, tink, tink was heard wherever he decided to wander. From the sounds of things, he was wandering over to Ika. It was probably a good time to get ready..

Hands in his pocket and lost in thought, Hagane made his way slowly to a training arena. His friend Ika had discussed the idea of having a sparring session and Hagane wasn't one to turn down a fight. His heavy footsteps made his introduction to just about any location a terrifying sound, or at least that's how he thought he was seen. A meat headed rage machine. Hagane hated being called an idiot, even when his rage left him to lose control in the moment.

Seeing as Ika had already made his way to their meeting location, Hagane waved as he made his approach. Standing a ways from Ika Hagane would prepare himself. "Ready to dance, mate!", Hagane would say cracking his jaw. Readying his fists up, Hagane didn't go to draw his sword at all. Not exactly something usually for a shinigami, but not uncommon. Hagane didn't have a smile on his face, but his intense concentration on the matter was a dead give away of his excited anticipation of what was to come.

Oh joy Hagane was excited, his face was wrought with anticipation and unyielding rage both in equal measure as far as Ika was concerned. It seemed that for the first time in a long time, Hagane was excited for a fight and so knowing that, Ika was hardly in a mood to disappoint. In fact, Ika was feeling particularly ballsy today for some reason and so he decided that he was also going to go out on a limb for this fight. In-fact, Ika was going to fight fist-to-fist, with the strongest man in the Gotei. Ika smirked as the big bastard cracked his jaw, and immediately found his target. "Well if you insist.."

Ika Shunpo'd in with a spinning kick at Shunpo speeds, aimed at kicking the big bastards head off his shoulders. It would probably hit, but he wasn't stupid enough to think that it would do much more than stun the big fucker. If the kick landed, he would use Hagane's head as a step to Shunpo back down to the ground where he could follow up with two straight punches at the bastards ribs, hopefully before he could muster any kind of counter-offense.

They key word there for those of you keeping score, was "hope."

"Well if you insist..", Ika would say giving Hagane little to no time for a reaction. Immeadiately using shunpo Ika would close the distance between them instantly, while also going with a shunpo spinning kick at Hagane's head. Feeling a foot drive into side of his head, Hagane's head turned from the sheer force and his jaw dislocated. However Hagane's body didn't move at all, and he simply moved his Jaw a bit to put it back into place. All the while Ika used the force from his kick to shunpo in front of Hagane and deliver two punches to his ribs.

Feeling a sense of rage, Hagane attempted to retaliate back against Ika's blows. By following up Ika's blows with a wide swing to knock his brain sideways. Hagane moved little to none during their first encounter.

Ika's foot found it's mark, popping Hagane's jaw out of place with a sickening crack yet his body seemed to be impervious to the damage he had just received. It was still there, wholly unmoved and intimidating as all hell. Ika watched as the man relocated his jaw, seemingly ignoring the two hard punches Ika threw at his ribs. It was as though Ika was some kind of bug, He was being more or less swatted away by this point but he knew that if he kept his pace he could wear the big fucker down and so that was his plan. Ika was thinking about staying in close, but he noticed an entire arm being thrown wide and out towards his head. As Ika limbo'd beneath it to duck, he could hear the force of the fist which had been barreling towards his skull just moments prior. Had that shot met it's mark, Ika would be in a bad way to say the very least. Hell the fight might even just be over all-together.

Not wanting to give up his position Ika quickly Shunpo'd forwards with a straight kick at the back of Hagane's knee, hoping he could maybe get lucky and force it to buckle even if it was only slightly. Assuming that Hagane would begin to turn towards him, Ika would Shunpo to his side and launch a straight right hand at his jaw hoping to dislocate it yet again from the other side this time before Shunpoing out of harms away, probably to avoid yet another strike. Ika was getting cocky, and the sly shit-eating grin that was etched across his face told the story beautifully. Ika Shunpo'd in once more, simply to slap the brute in the head, perhaps as an attempt to wake him up before Shunpoing back yet again. "Is that really all you've got? That's pretty sad."

Ika smirked before once again Shunpoing in towards Hagane, hoping to taunt him from in close.

Dodging Hagane's hit, Ika shunpo'd forwards and kicked Hagane behind his knee. Responding in Hagane's knee giving out for a moment and puting him off balance. Hagane could feel his body heating and his brain going fuzzy as he began to become agitated. Hagane immediately twisted in Ika's direction preparing to fire off another swing, yet found himself being struck again. Using shunpo to get to Hagane's side, ika released another punch at the other side of his jaw to yet again dislocate it and then shunpoed away. Hagane was too slow to catch Ika and resorted to doing nothing in response except for regaining his form and cracking his jaw back into place for the second time.  

Ika during all this found the time to shunpo back in and slap Hagane on the head, taunting his with his sly shit-eating grin.  "Is that really all you've got? That's pretty sad.", Ika would say smirking before he noticably was going back in for another hit or taunt Hagane some more. Hagane however had, had enough with being treated like a defenseless child. "Fine then!", Hagane yelled as his eye's became bloodshot and his rage began to manifest. Paying attention to Ika's patterns of attack, Hagane anticipated that his arrogant nature would have him go in again.

Dropping his guard, Hagane would wait for Ika to come in again and meet a lovely surprise. As Ika shunpoed in again, Hagane drew up an earthen plate in front of his feet. If Ika tripped he would find that Hagane had drawn his fist back, and was waiting for his airborne body to fly right towards him. Then with a fast and heavy swing he would connect with Ika's chest  and bury him into the earth.

Ika had caught Hagane off guard briefly, but was now unfortunately going to be caught having been more than a little too cocky. Ika under normal circumstances would've been more apprehensive, more guarded when he noticed Hagane dropping his guard to more or less welcome Ika forwards. With that being said, Ika was feeling himself a little too much and made the brutal mistake of rushing in, and when he did he immediately recognized his mistake as he was launched in the air by a plate of earth that moved upwards beneath him, propelling him upwards into..

Oh fuck.

Ika felt himself drilled into the earth with force unlike anything he had ever experienced. He expected to bounce off of the earth like a ball but instead he plastered deeply into the ground before coming up only slightly. The only thing he could think to do was try to plant his feet and Shunpo backwards but all he did was further his skittering across the ground. Blood erupted from his mouth and he could tell almost immediately that he had broken every rib in his body. The pain was the quickest thing to register for Ika as he let out a murmur of agony and a grimace now replaced his once cocky expression. He slowly pried himself off of the ground with anger and vitriol in his eyes, genuine contempt towards the idea that he had allowed himself to be harmed by such a large cumbersome fool.

"You're going to pay for that one Hagane.." and in that moment he decided to to jump to Shikai. He focused on healing every second rib inside of his body and then popped his shoulder back into place, it had been dislocated on impact almost instantly. He was going to have to be a bit safer about this but for now it was time for payback. Ika launched a ball of acid into the atmosphere in preparation for his next onslaught and waited to see if Hagane would make a move first.