Akihiko Oda

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*"Can you believe this man is keeping a Hollow in the Seireitei? Unbelievable-"*

*"Yes, my son is an as shinigami disguised arrancar.."* - Akihiko Oda
**Akihiko Oda** (小田明彦, *Oda Akihiko*) is the Lieutenant of the 5th Division in the Gotei 13 and the former 3th seat of the 5th Division aswell as the Captain of the 5th Division during the time after Aizen's betrayal. He's working alongside lieutenant Momo Hinamori, helping her as much as he can. He can often be seen with Shinji Hirako, Reila Isanagi, Kenpachi Zaraki and the young Arrancar Yoona Oda.

## Appearance

Akihiko is a tall dark skinned man with messy dark green hair. He has light grey eyes and wears red eyeliner under his eyes. He got a big horizontally scar over his face and he wears bandages under his clothes over his entire upper body, since his time back then in the 80th District and his first meeting with Kenpachi Zaraki.

When he still lived in the 80th District of Rukongai, he wore a long ponytail and a normal kimono, which he only had over the half of his upperbody. He cut off the rest of the top part.

Later on when he became a Shinigami and joined the 5th Division, he started to braid his hair a lot, having a braid on both sides of is hair, aswell as a very long braid on the back.

As captain during the Hueco Mundo Arc, Akihiko wears a typical white captain haori, He has cut his backhair shorter, now wearing a short backbraid no longer wears the side braids. Then he kept it that way.

## Personality

Akihiko is a very calm, caring and loyal man. He lovingly takes care of his adopted son Yoona Oda and often took care of Shoji Kyōraku and Yachiru Kusajishi, spending a lot of time with them despite all of his duties. He thinks highly of Head-Captain Shunsui Kyōraku and Captain Shinji Hirako respects them deeply.

The well of the 5th Division and his son come first before his own. He appreciates the hard work of Momo Hinamori and loves supporting her everywhere he can, he even trusts her to keep an eye on Yoona. He loves green tea and often goes on a walk at night with Yoona and Yachiru. He likes taking work off his Captain's and Co-Lieutenant backs so they can have more time focusing on themselves and their loved ones.

Despite coming from the District 80 of the North Alley of Rukongai, Akihiko barely fights. Since his first meeting with Zaraki, ending rather unfortunate for him, he stopped fighting on a daily basis and rather chose to live calm and peacefull. Only using his Zanpakuto if it's the last option. But if someone dares to hurt his son, his personality switches like someone turning on a lightswitch. Making him go back to his cruel and violent roots.

## History

Since Akihiko grew up in the 80th District of Rukongai, he learned fighting and defending himself very early in life, back then he used to lead a group of young thieves known as the "Merciless death", stealing and killing in order to survive in this district, he wielded a stolen Zanpakuto as his weapon of choice. They one day encountered the young Zaraki, after he had killed one of their group, but since Zaraki was all on his own thought they could take him out, taking revenge for their fallen comrade. But they got beat and killed one after the other, with only Akihiko remaining, him and Zaraki started quite the battle. A little lone fox against the true merciless death, Akihiko got beat and heavily injured, the stolen Zanpakuto was cut into four parts. He was surprised when Zaraki let him live, telling Akihiko that he rather wants him to live and come back stronger to fight, giving him a second chance. Then Zaraki left, leaving behind Akihiko and the corpses of his group. After dragging himself back to his groups hideout and treating his horrible wounds, he went back to his fallen comrades and brought them back home, making a grave for each one of them. After the fatefull encounter, he left the hideout and went on his way to leave his past life behind and starting new, without fights, with the new goal to live a peaceful life and with the goal to leave the 80th district as soon as possible.

On his way of leaving the 80th District he suddenly encountered some Hollows intruding Rukongai. Him being alone against a group of Hollows, while still being heavily injured, it was to dangerous for him so he quickly fled, getting trapped with nowhere to flee soon after. Due to the difficult situation he had no choice but to try to fight them, his injuries and the loss of the stolen Zanpakuto making the fight almost impossible, before it was too late he got saved by Shunsui Kyōraku, who brought him into the 4th Divisions Barracks to recover. After these terms of events he decided on the goal to become a Shinigami, to fight alongside Shunsui Kyōraku.

During the time he attended the Shinigami Academy, he didnt't bother to much on becoming friends with anyone, staying mostly by himself. After successfully finishing Shinigami Academy he got assigned to the 5th Division under Captain Shinji Hirako and his Lieutenant Sōsuke Aizen. Rapidly working himself up to the 4th Seat. Becoming incredibly suspicious of Aizen the moment Shinji disappeared and Aizen became a Captain. From this moment he backed up into the background, trying to investigate him further and find out what may have happened to his former Captain Shinji Hirako.

## Plot

### Hueco Mundo Arc

After Aizen's betrayal, Akihiko is getting assigned to the captains seat of the 5th Division in order to keep the Division together and help them overcome their shock about what has happened, finally the disappearance of his former captain Shinji Hirako made sense. Due to the difficult situation of the kidnapping of Orihime Inoue and Ichigo Kurosaki's plan on saving her, he shortly after gets sent into the Hueco Mundo with Kenpachi Zaraki, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, Retsu Unohana, Renji Abarai, Byakuya and Rukia Kuchiki to support Ichigo Kurosaki's plans.

After arriving in the Hueco Mundo, they split up into different directions. Now all on his own Akihiko makes his way through the Hueco Mundo into the direction of Las Noches. On his way he crosses paths with a Menos Grande and an weird Spritual Pressure. The Menos of course started to attack him, shooting a Cero at him over and over again. Dodging each and ever Cero coming from the big hollow, Akihiko was about to leave because it was wasting his time. Suddenly he heard someone screaming at him to get his attention. A little Arrancar was sitting ontop of the Menos Grande, looking down on Akihiko. The little one was introducing himself as Yoona Ruiz. Akihiko used Sókatsui to easiely bring him down on the ground, making him cry.

Akihiko being loving and caring went too him and taking care of him until Yoona stopped crying. Yoona apologized and explained the situation to Akihiko.

## Powers & Abilities

### Zanpakuto

> **Kyūbiko** (キュビコ, *Nine Tailed Fox*) : Akihiko's Zanpakuto is a sword with many abilities. It's sealed form makes the form of a regular katana with a wine red handle and golden bands around the handle. Due to his peaceful personality and calm, it rarely makes an appearance.
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#### Shikai

The Shikai's command is **"Slaughter them"** (彼らを虐殺する, *karera wo gyakusatsu suru).* When it's Shikai is activated, the blade straightens and four holes over the blade appear, he aswell gains a blue fire foxtail on his lower back. Akihiko's Zanpakuto is very fragile in it's Shikai form, making it appear weak and not good for fighting, but it got it's twist. The more this blade breaks the the more abilities can be used by Akihiko, the four holes of his Zanpakuto dividing it's power state in nine Phases. Two Phases for each of the four parts of the blade which can be broken. The first Phase being always accessable even if the blade isn't damaged. His Zanpakuto is a fire-type.

To access it's abilities of each phase, Akihiko has to draw circle in the air and then points on the circle's line, regarding on which technique he'll be using. The ring will stay like a portal to easiely get used again until Akihiko cuts through it with his blade. The amount of points drawn in each circle will summon the same amount of ghostlike foxes made out of light blue fire. He can also draw multiple circles in the air, using more than one attack at once.

For phase he gains a blue firery foxtail, the minimum bein one and maximum being nine.

***Phase 1*** :

* Phase 1 : **Kitsune Ryou** (キツネ梁) : One fox comes out of the drawn circle, charging at a very high speed at the opponement like a flaming beam.

***Phase 2 and 3*** :

* Phase 2 : **Fukuryou** (複梁)  : Two foxes come out of the drawn circle, splitting up into four fireballs, charging at the opponement, following the target for a guranteed hit.
* Phase 3 : **Kagamimo** (加賀茂) : Three foxes come out of the circle, running along the drawn circle, letting a shield appear.

***Phase 4 and 5*** :

* Phase 4 : **Crazy Cube** (クレイジーキューブ) : Four foxes appear out of the circle, forming an unbreakable box around it's target, trapping them inside. The target wont be able to use any abilities to shoot outside this box but every outside attack will be able to get into the box, giving any attack a guranteed chance to hit.
* Phase 5 : **Hikaru Odoroki** (光る驚き) : Five invisible foxes run unseemingly up to the enemy, cling onto the target and start glowing, resulting in explosions.

***Phase 6 and 7*** :

* Phase 6 : **Fukkatsu** (復活) : Six foxes appear out of the circle, merging into an identical clone of Akihiko, having its own mind and consciousness, able to perform and use the same attacks as Akihiko with the same set of skills and the same Shunpo speed, the same attack strength and speed and the same strength of Reiatsu, the downside being the clone dies one hit.
* Phase 7 : **Moesaikoro** (モエサイコロ) : Seven foxes appear out of the circle, merging together and comprimising in Akihiko Oda's hand, forming a dice. The number he rolls will double that Phases power. This dice roll effect is stackable.
	+ For example : 1x rolling a 1 makes Kitsune Ryou two times stronger, 2x rolling a 1 makes Kitsune Ryou four times stronger, 3x rolling a 1 makes Kitsune Ryou eight times stronger.

***Phase 8 and 9*** :

* Phase 8 : **Mo Na Kizuna** (燃な絆) : A group of eight foxes come out of the drawn circle, spitting into two group of four each. One group intruding Akihiko's soul and one group intruding the target's soul. Linking the two souls with eachother. Now every damage Akihiko would recieve directly goes to the target, damaging them. Akihiko will remain unharmed.
* Phase 9 : ***"Bankai, Kyūbinokitsune Ni Yorushi.."*** (キュビのキツネによる死, *Death by the Nine Tailed Fox*) : Bankai activation.

Once Phase 8 and 9 is reached Kyūbiko will slowly generate it's blade making it after a certain time unaccessable to use the Phases of already regenerated parts of the blade. Like once the blade recovered back to original Shikai state, Akihiko will no longer be able to use Phase 2-9 unless the blade gets broken again. He can also auto-regenerate his blade by deactivating it's Shikai.

#### Bankai

***Kyūbinokitsune Ni Yorushi*** (キュビのキツネによる死, *Death by the Nine Tailed Fox*): The environment around Akihiko and his target and other people in range changes into a on a little hill standing shrine, surrounded by a deep endless seemingly bamboo forrest and a stone pathway with multiple Torii alongside the pathway leading all the way up to the shrine. The target will feel like a mere mortal, not able to use ony of his abilities, standing on the bottom of the hill, while Akihiko is standing on top of the hill, the blue blazing nine foxtails behind him and fox ears on his head. Multiple of red glowing eyes staring at his target out of the bamboo forest, having nine blue blazing foxes attack Akihiko's target, tearing them to shreads, while the target can't even defend themselves, due to their sudden loss of abilities.

## Trivia

* His parents moved into the 49th District of Rukongai and still live there till this day, they're very happy he changed his way of life to the better.
* Akihiko's name means "bright boy".
* His last name comes from the legendary samurai Oda Nobunaga.
* As leader of the "Merciless Death", he was known as the "silent fox"
* His Zanpakuto having 4 main phases are based on the stolen Zanpakuto's blade getting cut in 4 pieces during the fight with Kenpachi Zaraki.
* Akihiko loves the rain and will often just walk through the rain to enjoy it, it reminds him that he is alive.
* He fears going into war and not to come back to his son waiting for him.
* His captain got him an electric kettle from the WOTL, his life hasn't been the same since.
* Kenpachi and Akihiko supported eachother a lot after Yachiru and Yoona leaving.

## Quotes

* *"If you wish to achieve true power you gotta find your true self, unleash the silent fox who's name you were once wearing."-Kyúbiko to Akihiko*
* *"I dislike using my Zanpakuto, it wants me to be something, i left behind."-Akihiko*
* *"People change, Memories dont." -Akihiko to Kenpachi Zaraki during their second fight.*