Kuroihonoo
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Kuroihonoo (Black Flame) is Shogure Daiguren Kasuke's Zanpakutō.
Shogure's unreleased sword has a dragon decorating the handle of the sword, which is completely black. It's eyes glow red from time to time, and sometimes the sword's handle is engulfed in black flames, harming everyone who holds it except the user himself. It is completely a fail-safe feature.
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Spirit Description
Kuroihonoo is a swordsman whose death was too untimely. He was stuck in a war which seemed to have no end, faced with a rival he failed to kill and who failed to kill him. His death came suddenly as the war ended abruptly, thus leaving his fight unfinished. His spirit resided within Shogure's sword. He has a scar on the left eye, with eyes that resembled Shogure's own. He has a dark and serious personality, and he seldom smiles, akin to that of a very cruel sensei.
Shikai
Release Command: Burn my soul black, Kuroihonoo!
Shikai Abilities
Furamenko (Flamenco, dance of blades)
When this command is used, Kuroihonoo unleashes black flame slices with each wave of the sword, either to be used as a long range weapon, or a close range supplement to add more damage.
Da-Ku Kaenhoushaki (Dark Flamethrower)
Kuroihonoo is aimed at an enemy. The blade's end glows darkly at first, then a few seconds later unleashes a dark flame towards it's target. The flame burns for a long time causing considerable after-damage, and burns anything it comes into contact with.
Kuromeruyougan (Black Lava)
A skill in which high temperature surrounds Shogure, seemingly like a second skin, protecting him from most attacks. Extends up to 4 inches from his skin. Almost similar to Hierro, since the high temperature forms something like a solid barrier of heat aura around him, blocking most attacks from a sword, though not completely stable.
Strengths
Shogure gains 3 additional abilities
Heightened awareness
Weaknesses
Attacks wear out Shogure quicker
Cannot aim as perfect as when he does not use shikai
Shogure passes out at times from too much use of his shikai.
Cannot dodge as quick as he can when he does not use shikai.
Bankai
Shinsei Kuroihonoo (True Black Flame)
This Bankai makes Sho look about five or six years older, as a kind of heat aura envelops him, like heat is escaping from his skin.
Sho recites the phrase 'A flame is in my blood, burning dry life, to the bone. Bankai, Shinsei Kuroihonoo' which activates his bankai. Upon activation, Sho gains a kind of fiery ribbon extending from one elbow to the other. This time Kuroihonoo splits into two separate swords, both Chinese style broad swords. Black burning wings (like a bat's) also sprouts from his back, giving him the appearance of a 'bat out of hell'. Sho gains access to brute, insane strength, slows down by 10%, and his eyes burn black.
Whenever he speaks, smoke comes out of his mouth. Those near him may feel an intense aura, and may have hallucinations of being burned to death or dying. This is due to an intense aura of heat.
Bankai Abilities
Da-ku Kaentatsumaki (Dark Blaze Tornado)
A different technique yet familiarly similar to Dark Flamethrower. This comes from the combined edges of the twin swords, or effectively from one tip as well, therefore it can also be cast simultaneously side by side, yet a bit smaller than the one coming from the combined tips.
The difference of this is that it actually forms into a tornado, encasing it's target within a 15 to 20 feet funnel. The funnel also almost immediately grows small, around 5-7feet, enough to burn the target. How large or how small it actually grows into is entirely up to Sho.
The flames are, like Dark Flamethrower, black, and it is also 20 to 25% stronger than it's predecessor.
The technique, being a tornado, sucks in people, object, anything on its path, and anyone short of the weight and size of the Kenpachi, or the reiatsu level of the Captain-commander, gets sucked right in, suffering the damages mentioned above.
Kuroi Hi Arashi (Black Firestorm)
The penultimate technique of Kuroihonoo and Sho Kasuke. This is a fully synchronized attack, using the strength of the host as well as the strength of the zanpaktou.
It is released with the phrase 'As the world burns, my soul burns with hate. Glorify the destruction of creation, Destruction rains upon high. Let terror rule, let life tremble, Kuroi Hi Arashi', and Sho stands still as black flames erupt simultaneously around a radius of 75–100 feet around him. It erupts into a sphere around him, burning anything and everything around its radius, friend or foe, and actually does a sizeable harm to its host.
The burns and damages inflicted upon the enemy actually depends on their levels; one has to be around captain-commander level or higher to withstand sizeable damage from this. In turn, the damage done to Sho would be half what the damage inflicted to the most burnt opponent is.
As an added incentive, this storm releases the skills of the two earlier skills combined, Dark Blaze Tornado (the flames spin whirlwind-like along with the storm) and Furamenco from shikai(there are also slashes of black energy mixed in the storm).
The danger of this is, after Sho uses this or if his reiatsu levels get depleted before Kuroi Hi Arashi dies on its own, Sho reverts back to his non-bankai, non-shikai self.
Strengths
Brute Strength-Sho's strength is greatly amplified by the skill, in which it rises up to tenfold. He also gains amplification for his fighting skills. Think of it as when Sho can cut a 300 feet thick tree with 50 swings when he uses shikai, when he uses bankai, he could cut it in just one swing.
This also includes the strength to escape binding kidō or destructive spells from basic to intermediate.
Amplified battle skills-in which Sho's swordplay and fighting skills are amplified to a certain degree or percentage, borrowing from the inherent fighting skill of Kuroihonoo, the spirit of his zanpaktou.
Weaknesses
Reiatsu Depletion-The usage of skills, most notably the final technique, may leave Sho greatly weakened, or may actually budge him out of his bankai stage and revert him back to his non-shikai, non-bankai self.
Bodily Harm-Note that the final technique, as well as some of the techniques, causes bodily wear and tear to Sho, in which it greatly weakens him after usage of the technique. This also deals half the damage dealt to the most burnt target to him.
Sluggish-There is a binding pre-requisite to Sho's bankai, and that is it actually dampen's Sho's hohō to around 10-15% while it amplifies his strength.
Senkai
Kuroihonoo, Seken Hakaisha (Black Flame, World Destroyer)
Shogure Daiguren Kasuke and Kuroihonoo truly becomes one when Sho releases his Senkai. Sho builds up reiatsu slowly but surely while fighting, so that instead of him budging himself out of bankai because of reiatsu usage, he ends up a powerhouse of reiatsu comparable to the Kenpachi. Sho then releases all of these pent-up energies, so that his skin begins to burn. His body begins to burn. In contrast, his hair becomes black...his eyes turn white, and he is turned into a black being(like a negative spectre) with his eyes burning white. The black flames burn all over his body, and he appears black as well.
The aura has intensified. The illusions are gone, replaced by a true feeling of burning, for this is the aura of the Senkai.
Senkai Ability
The ability Sho gains, actually, is an oft-neglected ability of his from Shikai: Kuromeruyougan. But in Senkai, it is called Nekura Karasu(Dark-natured Raven), the name which Sho still hasn't learned of. Only Kuroihonoo knows the name, and he never gave the name to Sho...only if Kuroihonoo truly trusts him, will he know the name. For if the real name is divulged...then the power will far surpass that of its current level.
Sho's Kuromeruyougan becomes an aura, which burns things around a 200 mile radius or upon touch. His strength, speed, and reiatsu level jumps up a few notches up from bankai, as well as the destruction level of the aura...everything just becomes ashes once it comes to just a contact of the aura.
Strengths
Godly
- Sho's strength, speed, and reiatsu levels are at an awesome...and terrifying...level when he is in Senkai.
Kuromeru...what?
- The yet unnamed skill he gains is a beastly skill, annihilating anything and everything within a 200 mile radius save for the user.
Weaknesses
Burn out!
- This is literal. Once he goes in Senkai mode, There is a 1 to 2 hour clock in which Sho can use it. This is fixed. He must end the battle within this time period, or else face a huge disadvantage.
The Senkai eats his reiatsu like a dynamite fuse. Once this is done, the reiatsu explodes out of Sho...he is left with a trickle of reiatsu, a monster fatigue, and is in mortal danger of injuring himself. He actually becomes weaker than the newly recruited shinigami. This persists for a day or two, depending on the hour of usage of the Senkai.
Indiscriminate
- This skill should be watched out not only by foe, but by friend as well...as this skill doesn't discriminate. Everyone caught up in the destructive vortex dies, save for Sho of course. Everyone.
