Nnoitra's eye widened and then narrowed at the sight of those snakes even though he knew that their fangs wouldn't be able to penetrate his skin. That kind of jutsu wasn't easy to perform -- Summon-based Beastmastery was the upper tier of the art and was so much more advanced than simply exerting power over monsters and animals in order to control them. Summoning and controlling that many at once took a lot of power.

Furthermore, it was just creepy.

He turned his head to the sound of Kadaj's voice and nodded. That would be easy enough. His weapon was big and unwieldy and he could falsify being slower with it than he needed to be. He could more than make up for it in terms of strength, but he didn't need to let Orochimaru know that. He was, after all, a mere minion of Aizen. There was no reason to let him think that most of the Espada could feasibly bring something to Khamja on their own merit.

Kadaj's use of the Quake spell didn't affect him when it hit -- his Chakra was of the Air Element and, as such, he was immune. Unfortunately, so was his uncle.

No matter.

He used Sonido to get in close to Orochimaru, but not so much that he had trouble swinging Santa Teresa. He swung at him, and slashed, keeping him backing up, swerving and otherwise ducking to avoid being hacked in two.