Mind Infiltration (2)

"You want me to?" Rei nodded slightly as Ino's eyes fell on Fuyumi's face once again. Thinking about it, that was a method. Since Fuyumi was unconscious, it would be fairly easy, but it could also be dangerous. "If I mess up, I could end up making things worse." She was saying this to Rei but also to herself.

Rei looked at Fuyumi lying in bed one more time before speaking. "I can't let her stay like this. So can I trust you to help?" Looking into Rei's eyes, Ino took a deep breath and nodded. Standing up, she slowly placed her hand on Fuyumi's forehead. 'I'll have to be careful not to push too hard, or else her mind might break even more.'

Slowly she began releasing Chakra through her hand as she activated the Jutsu. "Psycho Mind Transmission." Ino's consciousness flew into Fuyumi's as Rei watched from the sidelines. Despite how calm he was acting inwardly, he was nervous beyond belief but kept his front up to encourage Ino.

Meanwhile, Ino, having entered Fuyumi's mind, found herself in a situation she had never experienced before. She was standing on top of the water of an ever-expanding ocean. The ocean had a visible end in which the water would simply fall into the night sky. Stars littered the world around her, and the moon was so close it seemed as if you could reach up and touch it.

"Beautiful…" was an unconscious reaction but an accurate one all the same. Slowly her gaze fell onto a strange island in the center of this water realm. The island was almost completely white and barren as if coated in snow and was covered in a crystal-like mist. But in the center, she could see a familiar figure silently floating unconsciously in a curled position.

"Is that Fuyumi? Then this is her consciousness?" Normally there would be some kind of mental block that the user of this Jutsu would have to get by to access the target's subconscious. However, none of the inner minds she had entered ever looked like this. After a moment, Ino snapped out of her admiration for the beautiful world around her.

She began running towards the island in the center of this wide sea, getting closer every second. "Who are you?" However, after taking another step, she suddenly heard a voice that seemed to come from every direction. It was a calm voice and sounded enchanting to the point it could forcefully turn your head in its direction.

Upon hearing it, Ino stopped walking and looked around. 'Where did that voice come from?' This was Fuyumi's mind, so she should have been the only one here. However, her question was soon answered as the water ahead of her began to rise. Slowly took the shape of a person, and Ino's eyes widened.

The lower half of their body was almost entirely made of water and flowed into the ocean below, but their upper half was human covered in silver armor and water-like fabric. Long hair flowed behind them that was translucent and yet blue. Their hands had a strange aura around them but, most importantly, their eyes.

Their eyes reminded Ino of the Reiatsu she saw flowing from Fuyumi's body when she had first arrived and when she activated her Shikai. "What are you?" Ino asked this question while captivated by the beautiful person before her. "My name is Munriba… Who are you? And why are you here?"

Once again, her ethereal voice echoed out in which Ino tried to respond. "Fuyumi, the person whose mind I'm in , I'm trying to reach her and get her to wake up. She's behind you, so please let me through." As she finished speaking Ino, she suddenly felt a horrific amount of pressure fall onto her body.

The woman's eyes in front of her turned cold as Ino found it hard to breathe and took a knee. "No. No one will disturb her rest. Leave." Hearing those words, Ino tried to speak. "I just need to talk to her…" She slowly tried to stand, but the pressure pushing down on her was like nothing she had felt before.

The world around her felt as if it was turning cold and desolate despite its original beauty. "I said… Leave!" Holding out her palm, the ocean seemed to move to her will. An insurmountable amount of water rose into a large wave blocking out the night sky and the large moon. "Aah!" Ino's eyes widened in shock as the wave began to crash down on her.

Closing her eyes, she suddenly felt herself fall back only to be caught by someone. Sweat covered her face as she steadied her breathing and looked up. Standing over her was Rei, who looked down at her, worried. "What happened?" It didn't take Ino long to realize she had come back as Rei lifted her back onto her feet.

"I… I was forced out." Even though she didn't believe it, it had happened. Hearing that, Rei's gaze turned to Fuyumi's Zanapktuo. "What forced you out exactly?" Ino took a deep breath and wiped the sweat off her forehead. "It wasn't a thing. It was a person, I think. A woman, but she didn't seem human. She said her name was Munriba?"

Rei immediately lowered his gaze, hearing that. 'So it was her Zanpakuto Spirit. It must be trying to protect her Mind after sensing what Itachi had done. But it's also stopping us from fixing the issue.' Hearing Rei going silent, Ino thought he was disappointed as she spoke. "I can try again. I'm sure I can get past her if I-"

She felt Rei put his hand on her shoulder as he asked her a question. "Is it possible for you to bring me in there with you?" Ino glanced at him and thought to herself for a moment. "It shouldn't be impossible, but we would still have to get past the woman." Hearing that was all Rei needed. "It's fine, I'll deal with her, and while I do, you get to Fuyumi."

She wasn't sure how Rei was so confident, but she still felt worried. That pressure she had felt from that woman wasn't unfamiliar. She had felt it from Rei when he released his Ryujin Jakka and Fuyumi when she used her Shikai. But the thing was that even those two were weak compared to what she had felt from that single woman's gaze.

Sighing to herself, Ino prepared to go back. "Ok, give me your hand." Grabbing onto Rei's hand, she began to establish a connection while placing her free hand on Fuyumi's forehead once again. Diverting Chakra like before, it was harder to get through the first barrier compared to last time. This was because the more one failed, the more the Mind would resist.

Fighting through it, Ino and Rei's consciousness flowed into Fuyumi's mind. The sound of water gently moving entered their ears as they both opened their eyes. Once again, Ino found herself in that magical world, and to her side was Rei. Even though he had readied himself even, he was briefly shocked by this Inner World.

'Compared to Ryujin Jakka's, this place is paradise.' It was then that he heard a voice as the water in front of them began to take the shape of a woman. "Why have you returned?" Unlike the calm and passive voice from before, this held a hint of anger. Rei put his hand out and gestured for Ino to retreat behind him.

"You know who I am, don't you?" As Munriba fully formed her body, she looked at Rei, and her gaze shifted slightly. "I do," Zanapktuo observed their master's world occasionally, and with Rei being around Fuyumi so much, there was no way Munriba didn't know who he was. "Then you should know I'm not here to hurt her. Let us through so we can help."

Without hesitation, Munriba answered coldly. "No. Even if you are here to help, the risk of you two even being here is too great. If you ruin her mind anymore, then she may never recover. I already told that girl, and I will tell you the same. Leave." Munriba Spiritual Pressure fell down on them like tidal waves.

Ino immediately was reduced to a near kneeling position as her breath was cut short. At the same time, even Rei slightly faltered when he felt it. 'She's insanely strong.' He had never fought another Zanpakuto Spirit other than Ryujin Jakka. And even then, Ryujin Jakka held back to an extremity. Otherwise, he would have been destroyed in their training.

At the same time, he also acknowledged when it came to power Ryujin Jakka was at the top and practically unrivaled. But now, he was feeling what happened when a Zanpakuto Spirit was willing to use a large majority of its power without holding back. Rei whispered to Ino behind him as he drew Ryujin Jakka from its sheath.

"When you see a chance, run towards Fuyumi at top speed until then stay far away." Ino panted and slowly nodded as she turned and began to run from the two of them. Munriba glanced at Ino before turning to Rei. "You plan to fight me?" Rei stayed silent for a moment before speaking. "If it's the only way."

Raising her hand slowly, Munriba lifted her finger in a swiping motion. Immediately water rose in front of him, forming a blade that cuts through the air and rushed towards Rei. Bracing himself, Rei took the attack head-on. As the blade of water and Ryujin Jakka clashed, an intense amount of pressure ruptured in every direction, causing the calm water to turn violent.

Despite blocking the blade, Rei was being pushed back at an incredible pace as his face turned dark. 'What the hell!' As he continued to release more and more power, he was still being pushed back despite beginning to slow down. Watching this, Munriba flicked her finger again, causing another blade of water to shoot towards Rei, even bigger than the last.

Seeing this, Rei immediately abandoned the struggle and turned his body, breaking from the clash and jumping into the air. As the two blades of water flew at full force without Rei blocking them, they cut into the ocean as if it was solid despite both being made of water. Floating in the air, Rei looked at that and then back at Munriba, who was staring at him in the sky.

"Interesting." Holding up her hand, she waved slightly as Rei began to see hundreds of meters of the ocean below her begin to glow with light blue dots. As those dots grew brighter and more plentiful, Rei saw one of them shoot from the ocean. The light blue light was coming from Water shaped into a small fish and swam through the air towards Rei. 'Water infused with Reiryoku?'

Despite being water, they flew at a speed that allowed them to cut through a person's body. And there were thousands upon thousands of them. Someone like Kisame could manipulate water through Jutsu and was, in turn, a water style user, but Munriba, on the other hand, was its master. Seeing so many projectiles flying towards him, Rei's speed burst forth.

Flying through the air as the fish-like projectiles flew through the air towards him, he evaded them at every turn, even if only by a hair. Suddenly Rei saw one of the projectiles was flying faster than the rest as it flew past his face, cutting into his cheek. 'She's getting faster!' Seeing that as the thousands of projectiles rose into the realm of tens of thousands, Rei's eyes contracted.

He began to fly into the air at an even faster speed avoiding the projectiles as he went. "Hado #58!" Stopping at his current height far above the ocean below, Rei held out Ryujin Jakka in a vertical position and allowed it to float there. "Tenran!" Tapping the hilt of Ryujin Jakka, it began to spin as he poured large amounts of Reiryoku into the spell.

As Ryujin Jakka spun more violently by the second, it began to cause the wind to take a sudden turn. Forming from the spinning blade, a large tornado began to appear. The fish projectiles flew directly into the tornado but were ripped apart almost instantly. As the Tornado grew, it completely covered the area where the projectiles were shooting from the ocean.

The weather of the entire inner world changed as the sea was upheaved and tossed as if it was nothing. The force from this tornado caused Munriba's hair to flow as she stared at Rei. Taking this opportunity, Rei grabbed Ryujin Jakka mid spin by its hilt and rushed towards Munriba through the slowly dissipating tornado.

'Your offensive ability is incredible, but what about your defense?' As Rei rushed in at full force, he slashed downwards onto Munriba. Without raising a hand, a half-sphere of water appeared ignorant of her as he cut into the sphere, water sprayed in two directions as it was being cut. But for all the water he was cutting, it was immediately being replenished, causing a stalemate.

"Your strong, but you can't win against me. Not here." Munriba's voice was calm as she raised her hand towards Rei, causing him to retreat back into the air immediately. 'This is insane. I knew Fuyumi's Zanapkuto had potential, but this is an entirely different level.' Closing her hand on Rei's figure, Rei saw the water far under him shoot up into pillars.

Dozens of pillars of water flew towards him at a breakneck pace causing Rei to move out of the way. But, even after missing him, they continued to turn and track him down. As they did so, branches of water began shooting from the pillar's tendrils of their own. Seeing that the dozen began to turn into hundred's as Rei began utilizing Flash Step.

"Huh?" Ino felt her eyes were playing tricks on her as she watched from afar. Rei's figure began disappearing and reappearing at a speed she couldn't match with her eyes. His speed continued to increase after images began to be left behind as even Munriba 's attacks began to lose track due to their inability to keep up.

As hundreds of tendrils made of water chased after Rei even more after the image's littered the sky as he began cutting through each one. "Enough." Munriba's voice echoed out as her gaze locked onto Rei's figure. The water around her began to twist and turn and rise into the sky as the tendrils continued to chase after Rei. "Hado #78: Zangerin!"

Rei slashed in every direction with Ryujin Jakka as the blade's made purely of energy covered the sky around him, cutting through every one of Munriba's attacks. Rei swiped his blade through the air as water began to fall from the sky like rain. Having been formed while he was distracted Shen's gaze fell onto a large drill-like water structure beside Munriba.

The drill was three times the size of Kisame's Water Shark Bomb, and it cast a shadow on the ocean below it. It was already to late to destroy it as Munriba had already set her eyes onto Rei's figure. He took a deep breath before speaking. "Alright then." As the drill began to spin, causing the water to sharpen into a point, Rei began releasing fiery Reiatsu from his body. "Reduce All Creation To Ash! Ryujin Jakka!"