AN: Sequel to Broken Heart, Unbroken Promise. I was watching The Hell Verse, forgive me for including another movie character. Anyway! On to the sequel! Review and enjoy!
"Kuirigue, when she graduates from that wretched academy we will begin, open the gate." The man in the black coat spoke slowly to his subject in the white coat.
"Yes, Lord Kokuto." Kuirigue drew a circle in the air and a black gate with red chains crossed over it opened and they stepped through into Hueco Mundo. The sound of large bells could be heard from the point of the gate appearing until it closed.
"Kuirigue...Let's begin, go to the Menos Forest, I'll take the remains Las Noches and clear it of any unwanted residents. Kemosuke will be waiting for you in the forest." Kokuto removed his hood to reveal his half burnt, scarred face and gave a wicked grin. He turned to Kuirigue and nodded, they both flashed in different directions.
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Back in the soul society Ichigo was instructing his Bakudo class, Masaki was one of his students; Tatsuki and Iruzai were down the hall in their History of Soul Society class. Both twins were in their sixth and final years at the academy, they would be graduating within the next two months. Masaki had earned herself the title of The Noble Hollow; she was feared by most students ever since she blew off Jogare's arm who long since dropped out.
Tatsuki was one of the best Zanjutsu students in the academy, Iruzai…not so much, he could hold on against her, but never could win. She didn't have any special titles like Masaki did, other than being overly violent, which contrasts the rest of her family.
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"Renji, are you still mad at Iruzai, he really likes her."
"I'm not that mad, it just bothered me that he would choose some girl over his parents." Renji spoke quietly. Iruzai asked Rukia if he could go see Tatsuki instead of the plans Renji made with them, Rukia said yes.
"He still hasn't told you who his girlfriend is yet, has he?" Rukia asked as Renji sighed, he shook his head for no. "Tatsuki Kurosaki. Ichigo's daughter."
"Are you messing with me?" Renji gave a small chuckle, but stopped when he saw Rukia's face.
"No, they've been together since Ichigo came out of the coma a few years ago. They really like each other, but don't worry, they don't do anything serious. I can't believe you didn't know." Rukia gave him a light kiss and he pushed her away. "What's wrong?" she asked, confused by his action.
"You knew, why didn't you tell me." Renji sounded disappointed; Rukia sat back down next to him.
"I thought you knew, didn't you think it strange for the past few years he was saying 'Me and Tatsuki are going… I'm going to … with Tatsuki. Tatsuki invited me over.' Just about anywhere he went involved her name." Rukia giggled a little and kissed him on the cheek and put her arms around him.
"I need to talk to Ichigo about it than." Renji stood up and went to the door; Rukia grabbed his arm, pulling him back.
"It's much too early, and he puts a barrier around his class that keeps everyone out after a certain time, but anyone inside can leave. So unless you can break his barrier without blowing up the academy he won't let you interrupt his class for something like that."
"Fine…I'll wait, and I also want to talk to Iruzai about this, make sure he doesn't hurt her by p-Why!?" Renji was speaking and Rukia slapped him on the back of the head.
"He's afraid of Ichigo so you can be sure he won't hurt his daughter. And because you needed someone to slap some sense into you."
"As abusive as you are, I love you." Renji chuckled through his words and kissed her forehead.
"Don't call me abusive! I don't always hit you! And I love you too!"
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"Third seat Oderschvank did you complete your task, did you use your resurreccion? Also did you happen to see where Matsumoto went?" Hitsugaya had finished his paperwork and summoned Nel; he had her go defeat a hollow that defeated twelve seated members of squad seven.
"The hollow is dead; I do not know how it defeated twelve seated members. No it took a few hits and died, there might have been another hollow that was much more powerful with it, but the one that was there is dead." She spoke with her head bowed to him, she had a
"Good work, by the way, you didn't mention whether or not you saw my lieutenant." Hitsugaya seemed to be annoyed that she forgot to say whether or not she saw her.
"Oh, sorry, yes, I saw her heading to a lower district in east Rukongai. She seemed to be being chased, but I saw no one, so I didn't follow her, I didn't want to be rude and bother her."
"I don't know what she could be doing there, never mind, if she doesn't come back in three days, I want you to go find her."
"Yes, Captain. Is there anything else you need me to do for you?" She looked at him with a little smile.
"No, that is fine; enough for today, you did a good job." He dismissed her and she started making her way back to Ichigo's house. He would be done teaching in about an hour, she wanted to get back and find a new book before he got back with the twins.
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"Alright, you are dismissed, Kurosaki, come here for a second." The teacher dismissed the class but held Tatsuki back with him.
"Yes, Geno-sensei?" she asked with a bow.
"Are you aware that you and your sister are graduating in a week, instead of with the rest of your class? I just found out today, I wanted to know if you knew." He was a large muscular man with a black buzz cut, and an 'x' shaped scar on his chin.
"What?" Tatsuki asked with a flare of joy in her voice.
"I take that as a no. If you see Masaki, tell her this, she might not know, that is all, you are dismissed."
"Thank you sensei." Tatsuki bowed and met up with Masaki, Iruzai, and Ichigo outside of her class, she explained to them about the graduation date, and they were making their way home when Renji stopped him outside the academy to confront him about their children's relationship, Renji told Ichigo who just laughed at him for not knowing, they continued going back to the mansion.
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"Masaki! Come on! Let's fight!" Tatsuki prodded at her sleeping sister, Masaki wanted to sleep since she had been up all night studying.
"Not now Tatsuki…spar with mom…" Masaki buried her face in her pillow and turned away from her sister.
"Fine…But I'm waking you up in a few hours."
Tatsuki left Masaki's room and a few minutes later she was asleep having a dream.
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"Masaki…Can you hear me?" A mysterious male voice rang out from the blackness.
"Yes, who are you!? Where am I!?"
"My name is Kokuto, and where you are is not important. You are receiving this message as I will it, but I'll show you my true self." A white mist starts to form from nowhere in front of Masaki, and Kokuto steps out of it, his hood covering his face, she couldn't see him clearly through the mist.
"That's all fine and great…but why am I here…are you, are you my zanpakuto?" Masaki asks with a shaky voice.
"Nothing of the sort…Just remember my name and voice…" He gradually distorted into mist and dissipated. "…Walk…"
Without questioning, she started walking into the nothingness, not ever getting anywhere, when she stopped, Kokuto only told her to keep walking.
"That is enough for now, thank you…Noble Hollow."
Masaki looked down at her hands and they gradually started to fade from view, at the point that she couldn't see anything she started walking in a straight line, or what she felt was a straight line, eventually the white mist from earlier formed in front of her and she could see her hands again and Kokuto reappeared in front of her, his arms crossed and his head shaking. She heard the sound of chains falling to the ground and everything went black.
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Masaki woke up from this dream, with a cold sweat, she put her hand to her mask fragment, it was still there, and in the dream it was gone. She looked around and noticed it was only ten minutes later. She slowly got up and left the room, looking for Ichigo, she went to his room and knocked.
"Can I come in?" She asked through the door, she heard some quick shuffling.
"Come in Masaki." Ichigo called as he fell onto his bed.
She didn't say anything but just lay down next to him, her head on his chest.
"Are you okay?" He asked as he ran his hand over her hair.
"Yeah, I just wanted to be here with you…"
She didn't want to tell him about the weird dream, but instead she just let him unknowingly comfort her. She just lied there for another two hours with Ichigo, him rubbing her head soothingly; he could tell she was troubled by something from her silence since she was a usually talkative girl. Sounds of swords clashing could be heard outside from Tatsuki and Orihime. At one point Ichigo fell asleep and this earned a giggle from Masaki, she went and got some calligraphy ink from Nel's room and brought it back. She proceeded to draw on his face with it; once she was finished she took the ink back and fell asleep on him in the same position as before.
"Masaki, wake up." Orihime picked her up off of Ichigo; she could hardly hold her laughs at the sight of her husband.
"Hi mom…" She said with a yawn and got up out of the bed.
"Wake Ichigo and tell him to get ready to leave, we're going to see his sister's for a late dinner." Orihime took her clothes off and went to the shower to wash off the dust and dirt, Tatsuki was doing the same.
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"Karin-chan…Can you get the door, I'm not dressed." Yuzu was getting out of the shower and heard someone knocking at the door so she called to Karin.
"Sure." She opened the door and greeted the twins. Ichigo and Orihime already were in the house somehow.
"Where are they? You two didn't come alone, did you?" Karin asked but got her answer when Ichigo called to her from the couch.
"Yo, Karin, you took too long, so I broke into my house, hope you don't mind!" Ichigo laughed and turned his head to the stairs where footsteps were heard. "Hey Yuzu!"
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"So, where are you taking us Yuzu, please not Denny's, I've had enough of Ikumi." Ichigo said as Karin drove the Royce out on to the street.
"I won't tell you where, but you are going to meet my boyfriend, and Yuzu's girlfriend Sakachi will be there too…Also, where is Koko, I haven't seen her in a long time." Karin spoke as she drove onto the highway.
"Koko was recruited into the Punishment Force and is off on a mission finding some rogue Shinigami, she's been gone about three months, but she sends reports so I know she's okay." Ichigo explained as he looked out the window, wondering where Karin was taking them.
"I don't know what that is…" Yuzu said, sounding confused. "But it sounds like a police force."
"I think that's what it is, I don't know either." Orihime spoke up; they were turning off the highway and into Naruki City.
"Naruki? What's in Naruki?" Ichigo asked, Yuzu turned around and started explaining how Karin met her boyfriend and how he took her to a great restaurant in Naruki, and now she invited him to meet her family, except Isshin, because of how he's so him.
"Oh, okay. Can I scare him a little?" Ichigo asked with a mischevious glint in his eye.
"Please don't scare him away…and before you ask, yes, he is spiritually aware, I found that out a week ago when a hollow appeared and your friend Ishida killed it, he was going on how a man with a bow killed a monster."
"Oh…this will be fun…" Ichigo mumbled under his breath much to Masaki's enjoyment because she started giggling, Tatsuki just sighed.
"Please, don't scare him away." Karin sighed as she parked the car.
"I can't pronounce that…" Ichigo said as he looked at the name of the restaurant. L'R'eiliouseruo. It was an Italian restaurant.
"Nobody can." Karin said as she walked past Ichigo and into the restaurant. The group followed her in and they saw her give a tall man a hug. She introduced them to him, his name was Noshu Kuire. He had short brown hair and green eyes.
"Hello, I assume that you're Karin's brother?" Noshu held out his hand to Ichigo, he seemed to be another person who was afraid of him.
"Yeah, I'm Ichigo; this is Orihime my wife, and my daughters Tatsuki and Masaki." Ichigo introduced the others to him, and they were led to their table. "Yuzu, where's your girlfriend?"
"She said she would meet us after dinner back at the house."
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"Noshu, you seem like a decent person, Karin made a good choice." Ichigo spoke around Karin to her boyfriend then he leaned in to whisper something to Karin. "You gave up on Toshiro?"
"I've been meaning to talk to you about that. In the car…"
"Okay…Masaki, are you okay, you didn't eat anything." Ichigo noticed Masaki was just holding her fork and her plate was full.
"I'm fine…I'm just feeling a bit tired…" She gave a fake yawn and started eating quickly to catch up to the others who were nearly finished.
"So, Ichigo how did you get that burn on your face, if it's alright for me to ask." Noshu asked, the burn was bothering him, not knowing what it's from.
"It's fine…It is from an explosion at a gas station that killed my friend Tatsuki, who I named my daughter after, to honor her memory."
"Sorry I asked…" He turned away and back to Karin who just sighed. Orihime was whispering back and forth with Tatsuki and they were giggling.
Eventually they finished and Ichigo paid the bill. And they went outside to the Royce.
"And you have one of these…Is this Ichigo's too? Are you still refusing to tell me what he does?" Noshu had his arm around Karin and looked over the car.
"The house, this and the Tesla are mine. And she is not legally al-Orihime, can you handle this one…" Ichigo was interrupted by a roar of a hollow, Noshu started panicking.
"That sound! That is what they sound like! I'm not insane Karin; I know you heard that too!"
"Calm down Noshu, you are right now, the safest possible you could be." Ichigo explained and then he felt Orihime grab his hand.
"I can't exit mine; you go…I'll explain to Noshu…"
"Explain what? What is…?" Noshu was silenced when Ichigo separated from the gigai and drew his sword. The sounds of the hollow were getting closer. He looked at Noshu and told him to get behind him, which he did. The hollow jumped over a building and started firing a cero. Ichigo told the others to run, but before the hollow could fire its cero a small heart formed on the hollows mask and it disappeared into a stuffed animal that was thrown at it.
"…Eh?" Ichigo walked up to the roaring little rabbit-bear thing.
"HEY! Don't touch that! It's dangerous!" A female voice called from the other side of the street.
"That voice…" Ichigo turned around and got a kick to the face from the owner of the voice.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!? Going around and picking peoples things up!?" The girl shouted at him. Ichigo stood up and turned to face her.
"IT'S YOU!?" They both shouted at each other while pointing. Orihime ran up to them and when she saw the girl she wrapped her arms around her tightly.
"Riruka-san! Why are you here? Why did you attack Ichigo? How have you been? You're still alive!" Orihime asked quickly as Riruka pried away from her and picked up the roaring stuffed animal, Ichigo's sisters, daughters and Noshu were just looking on confused. Riruka ripped the head off the animal and dropped it to the ground.
"I work here…I was coming to talk to my boss, and then the hollow appeared, I didn't recognize him, you know…the four foot long hair? And the hollow claw…and the two small swords…I only recognized the face." Riruka explained, Orihime drug her over to the rest of them, and the two talked about food for around twenty minutes, then Riruka insisted on leaving.
"I…so let me see if I understand this…Those monsters are called hollow…and they eat people. What you four are is a Shinigami. Karin's brother is the most powerful of these…Shinigami…and…you are all dead already…?" Noshu was recapping what Orihime told him, and Ichigo and both sets of twins nodded.
"Okay, now it makes more sense. Bye, Karin…I'll call you tomorrow." Noshu walked away and got into his car, which is put to shame by the one they drove up in.
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On the highway they were stuck behind a huge traffic jam. Yuzu turned the radio on and started singing, it was an older sing that Orihime knew and she joined in, half way through their singing Yuzu's phone rang, it was her girlfriend asking where they were, she explained the traffic jam and she hung up. The two of them continued their singing. Once the song ended Yuzu had a great idea.
"Ichi-nii…do you mind if we get a dog?"
"Why would that have anything to do with me?" Ichigo responded while messing with Masaki. He kept poking her and she was trying to stop him but with no success.
"It's your house…" Karin answered for her sister.
"Yeah, fine go ahead."
"Okay…Ichigo; about what you said earlier…I want you to do to me what Rukia did to you, all those years ago." Her voice was shaking and Ichigo could tell, even though she didn't speak strongly, she was serious. His little sister wants to throw her life away. She was always so level headed and clean-cut in her thoughts. Everyone in the car wore a shocked expression.
"I…" Ichigo started his response that would probably ruin his relationship with his family.
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"It's The Noble Hollow…what is she doing here…she graduated already…" Masaki was walking through the girls' dorm at Shino Academy. The academy provided housing for those who didn't have a home, or chose to stay there. She had her sword drawn.
"What is she doing here…?"
"Is she going to hurt someone?"
"No…she's very kind…but theres something about her eyes that is making me worry."
"ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!" Masaki roared at the girls whispering behind her. "I'm looking for someone, my father want's a word with her, I have been authorized to use force to bring her with me, where is, Tsu-Zu Marika?" As she spoke, a door opened and a girl with long dark green hair hanging over her face walked out and confronted Masaki.
"I don't want to hurt you…please leave, for your own sake." Tsu-Zu's threat made everyone go silent.
"My father wants to talk to you about your graduation…please cooperate…he is in his class, he sent me to come find you." Masaki gave her a fake smile. Tsu-Zu just held up her hand and a flash of light sent Masaki back into a wall.
"No." She started turning to go back into her room, but she found herself bound by Horin.
"Sho won't stop me from bringing you to him."
"Is that so…" She raised her arm and snapped the Bakudo; she turned back to Masaki and started an incantation. "Sprinkled on the bones of the beast! Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring. Move and become the wind, stop and become the calm. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle! Hado no 63 Raikoho!" But before the kido could fire, Masaki stabbed her in the foot, making her double over, as she went down, Masaki brought her knee into her chest, knocking her out completely, her Hado dissipated.
"How can she do that…she's only a first year…"
"She is a prodigy, but is very difficult to deal with and doesn't respond to anything but force usually."
"I'm sorry you had to see that, everyone!" Masaki chirped happily before binding Tsu-Zu with Horin and dragging her out and ton Ichigo's classroom. The reason he was there so late, was because he had to deal with a few 'troubled' students.
"Masaki…you seem to be annoyed, was she that much trouble?" Ichigo asked as he knelt down, healed Tsu-Zu's foot and woke her.
"I refuse to submit to you. Hollow."
"Would you shut up…you are graduating in a couple days, and are being given a seated position in squad eleven. Kenpachi has heard about you and is interested. That is it, you are dismissed, and have a nice weekend."
"Dad…couldn't you wait to tell her that?"
"I wanted to see if you could apprehend someone like her. I want to know if my newest squad member is up to the task of capturing some targets for me."
"Of course I would!"
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"Lieutenant Matsumoto is nowhere to be found, captain, I can't locate her anywhere, and I can't even sense her." Nel was standing in her captain's office giving the report of her search for Rangiku.
"Very well…I'll send in the report that either she has gone rogue or is dead. For now you are the new Lieutenant." Hitsugaya sighed and leaned his head back. "Don't feel too bad, I'm sure she will turn up, she can handle herself. It isn't your fault she's gone."
"I know, but she's your lieutenant and I can't replace the bonds you shared with her." Nel sat down and spoke quietly. There was a knock at the door. And then it flew open.
"CAPTAIN THERE IS AN EMERGENCY LIETENENT MATSUMOTO HAS RETURNED WITH FATAL INJURIES!" A frantic squad member ran in and shouted his message. "SHE'S AT SQUAD FOUR NOW! GO!"
Hitsugaya didn't say anything as he got up and went as fast as possible to the fourth's barracks. When he arrived there was shouting from a room, he sprinted to that room and when he turned the corner his eyes went wide with horror and he vomited from the sight. Rangiku was lying on a table, her left arm and leg were gone, half her face was sliced up beyond recognition, her right arm was snapped backwards, her right leg had burns covering it, her right eye was cut and blind. A few teeth had been pulled out. Her shihakusho was torn up and her chest had whip marks, and bruises, her stomach was slashed open.
"Captain Hitsugaya! Please, leave!" Unohana shouted, he could sense the urgency in her voice, she continued ordering the nurses and others to assist, he was frozen from the sight, Ichigo was visiting Unohana and stumbled into the scene.
"What's goi-HOLY FUCK WHAT HAPPENED!?" Ichigo nearly vomited from the sight of her. She even had a smile frozen on her face; she was alive, but delirious from shock and blood loss.
"Ichigo, get him out of here, he doesn't need to see her like this!" Unohana turned and pointed to the door, Ichigo picked up the frozen captain and carried him to Unohana's office.
"Kurosaki…?"
"What the fuck happened to her?"
"I don't…I don't have any idea…she went missing in Rukongai a week ago…Nel just got back from searching and she couldn't find her…" He seemed incredibly disturbed by the mangled and abused body of his lieutenant. At one point Ichigo heard Orihime shouting orders with Unohana, she was helping with the limb regeneration. The shouting continued for hours, Ichigo sat with Hitsugaya, not talking, just sitting there so he wouldn't be alone. It was nearly three in the morning when Unohana came back to her office.
"Captain Hitsugaya…she will live, but will not be able to resume her duties for a few months at least. That is the good news. She has signs of physical abuse, torture, she also shown signs of severe mental abuse, and massive signs of sexual abuse. But what bothers me is how the wounds on her back were inflicted…They look as if it was from chains, and teeth. She…do you want me to clean up the medical report, or do you want me to say the whole report…?" She explained her horrible situation, and when she asked about the report, both she and Ichigo turned to Hitsugaya.
"I want to know everything."
"Very well…Are you sure, this could mentally break you down…" Unohana wanted to preserve his mind, but thought he had a right to know what happened to his lieutenant.
"Tell me, Captain Unohana. I'm worried for her, yes, I'm worried for my sanity if you say it's that bad…But I need to know…" Hitsugaya looked her in the eyes, she sighed and sat down.
"She was pregnant. She had sand in her wounds that resembled the sand in Hueco Mundo. She had been sexually abused with a large blade, and will probably never have the same mental state, she is in an induced coma, but she keeps mumbling something about the second coming and the son of the king. She also said that she is sorry for causing trouble to you…which she said right after you left."
"Who the hell would do this…and let her live…" Ichigo said quietly, he was shocked that someone could do that to another person. "Wait, Retsu…how did she get here, she was missing for a week…"
"There was a loud ringing like a large bell outside my barracks, only I could hear it, so it seems, because I asked people about it and they couldn't hear it, I went outside and a black gate opened up and she rolled out before it disappeared." Unohana explained this as she eyed Hitsugaya who had his hands on his head, trying to cope with the situation. As annoying and lazy as Rangiku was, she was somewhat like a mother when she wanted to be.
"When can I see her…when will she be awake, I mean." Hitsugaya's voice was shaking.
"I can wake her up anytime…Come with me, both of you."
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"Rangiku, can you hear me?" Unohana asked as she brought her out of her induced coma, Rangiku nodded and looked around, she was still going to be blind in her one eye. She stopped looking around when she saw Hitsugaya's worried face.
"C-Captain…what happened to me…?" She asked softly through the pain still in her face after it was restored to normal. Hitsugaya didn't say anything, but he walked up to her and knelt down, he put his head on the bed next to her. "Captain…"
"Nothing, Rangiku…You're fine now, and alive, that's all that matters."
"You…called me Rangiku…" She formed a smile on her face, despite the pain that the expression brought.
"Yeah…I guess I did…Do you remember anything about the past week?"
"Nothing at all…no…Hi, Ichigo." She turned her head to Ichigo who was sitting in the chair next to the two of them.
"Hey Rangiku, you gave us quite a scare." Ichigo said with a sigh and he held his head down as if thinking. Rangiku slowly lift her arm and put her hand on his cheek.
"You two were worried about me…I can tell, and I thought you hated me Ichigo." She gave him a smile and then she put her hand on Hitsugaya's head.
"Yeah, I accidentally walked in to the room when you arrived, it was horrible. And I don't hate you, why do you think that?"
"You only talk to me when it's either denying me a drink or telling me to get out of your office."
"Well. If you want I'll sit here and talk with you until you can leave, I'll come by after academy hours every day, if that will make you see that I don't hate you." Ichigo gave a little chuckle and then Hitsugaya raised his head.
"And I will too, Nel can handle the squad…you won't be fully able to return to duty for a few months." Hitsugaya grabbed her hand and stood up. He left without saying a word.
"His heart is iced as Hyrorinmaru…Are you going to leave me as well, Strawberry?"
"After that, I'm considering it." Ichigo gave a small chuckle. For the next couple of hours they just talked about things, not really anything. Ichigo found himself leaving at eight in the morning when she fell asleep
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"Hey, Yuze…Have you seen my dad?" Masaki went out into the barracks garden and saw Yuze sitting in her tree, watching the Koi.
"He's with Rangiku in the fourth barracks, she came back destroyed, and he's sitting there with her." She fell backwards and hung by her legs to speak, Masaki sat under her tree and looked up.
"How bad was she? She was gone for a week right?" Masaki asked the upside down girl.
"I'm not going to tell you, it was bad, take my word for it, Yumai told me, and it was…bad…so never mind that! What's up, enjoying the squad so far?" Yuze jumped down and sat next to Masaki.
"Everyone is so nice to me! They talk to me, unlike the people at the academy…'Look! The Noble Hollow is here! Maybe she'll blow off someone else's arm now!' Every damn day! Although…I did enjoy the title of Noble Hollow…" Masaki giggled a little, and Yuze leaned against her.
"You're so cute when you stop running around all the time." Yuze laughed as she jumped back into her tree.
"Thank you…I just want to help out as much as I can around here, I have to live up to every one's expectations of the captain's daughter. Tatsuki is so laid back in squad thirteen, her captain isn't her father." Masaki laughed and jumped to the tree with her.
"Rangiku is with him?" Yuze spoke, she felt Rangiku's spiritual pressure, she jumped out of the tree and looked into Ichigo's office, and after a second, the two of them went in.
"What?"
"Go to them!" Yuze grabbed Masaki from the tree and pushed her to the office, opened the door, pushed her in and shut it.
"Oh, Masaki-chan! How's my favorite hollow?" Rangiku spoke with a soft voice, much to Ichigo's dislike, they were good friends.
"I'm fine…" Masaki couldn't take her eyes off of Rangiku's blinded eye.
"Rangiku, Retsu said it wasn't wise to leave so soon, she wants you to rest for a week at least."
"I can rest when I'm dead…Masaki, don't just stand there, come sit with me." Rangiku motioned for her to come near; Masaki gave her a smile and sat next to her. "Oh, Ichigo, where is Orihime, and Koko-chan?"
"Koko is with the punishment force still chasing down the rogues from squad eleven. Orihime is no doubt talking about me at her SWA meeting." Ichigo sighed and sat next to Masaki.
"Rangiku, are you sure you should be up right now…I can tell, just looking at your eye, that your wounds were serious." Masaki couldn't help but to stare at the eye that had a bright red line through the pupil, it still had the same color, but she couldn't see.
"I can walk, with help, I'm conscious, and I have feeling in my legs, so I'm fine by my standards." Rangiku gave a smile, and Ichigo reached over and poked her face lightly, she screamed and hit him. "Why!?"
"You're not fine, you just don't want to be locked in that room, and I was you're ticket out." Ichigo chuckled and put his arm around Masaki.
"Rangiku, are you sure that you want to be up and around…"
"Masaki, I'm fine for the last time." Rangiku pat her head and smiled.
"Fine, b…" Masaki couldn't finish her sentence, her mouth wouldn't move, her vision started to fade, she fell into a familiar blackness.
"Kokuto! What do you want now!?" Masaki had grown too familiar with the darkness, usually it only happened at night when she slept.
"Masaki…Rangiku isn't well, she is weak right now." Kokuto formed in his mist again.
"True…but how do you know about Rangiku?"
"I know everything, child."
"Whatever you say…So what do you want that's so important you drag me in to my mind during the day?"
"Curiosity killed the hollow." As Kokuto spoke, her vision faded again and she woke up, her head in Rangiku's lap, and Ichigo was yelling at her.
"You will not teach Masaki about the exotic sex positions!"
"What." Masaki sat up and was looking at her father who sighed.
"Why did you just fall asleep for two minutes?" Rangiku asked as she cupped her hand over Ichigo's mouth.
"Nothing, I'm just tired…Oh hey Yoruichi!" She looked up to see Yoruichi standing in the door, wearing Sui-Feng's Captain Coat. And what looked like her clothes balled up under her arm.
"Please tell me she isn't tied up naked somewhere." Ichigo stood up and sat at his desk.
"Yes, and I'm not going to tell you that somewhere." She gave him a wink and then sat on the couch wrapping her arm around a nervous Masaki.
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"I'm tired…Dad, I'm going back home, I'll see you get there." Masaki ran out of his office hoping to get home quickly before Kokuto decides to black her out again. She had grown accustomed to his arrival during the night. She hasn't told anyone about him because she figured he actually was her zanpakuto or a dream at least. On her way she felt some one was following her. She stopped and turned around to see if there was anyone behind her, nobody. She continued running home and had the same feeling. She turned around to see Koko had been following her.
"Masaki, you seem uneasy was someone following you?" she spoke mockingly for she was the one following her.
"Koko! You're back!" Masaki was relieved to see her older sister and ran up to her and threw her arms around her. After the long reunion Masaki let go. "Go see dad, he should still be with Rangiku in his office, if not he's taking her home. Ask him to explain what happened to her, she is still in poor condition."
"Okay, I'll do that, see you at home."
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"Mom! Can you help me with something?" Masaki called as she looked into her parent's room. Orihime came down the hall and looked in the room to see what she was looking at.
"Oh…I see Yoruichi was in here." Sui-Feng was tied up on the bed unconscious and naked, a rope tied around her neck and to one of the bed posts. Her arms were bound behind her back and her legs together.
"I guess so…do you need my help to untie her?"
"You called me here so you untie her, I'll find something she can wear." Orihime went back down the hall and Masaki cut the ropes around her and woke her up, a few slaps to her face woke her up.
"Yoruichi-sama…why do you keep doing this to me…" She whispered to herself before opening her eyes and seeing who woke her. she let out a small yelp and fell off the bed.
"Are you okay? Looked like you just hit your head!"
Orihime came back in the room with some of Tatsuki's clothes, Sui-Feng and Tatsuki were basically the same size, and Tatsuki was just a couple inches taller.
"Sui-Feng, here you go! You really should set some boundaries with her…"Orihime gave her the clothes and she changed, she waited for her to get dressed.
"I guess so. The end product is usually worth the trip, but sometimes not so much."
"Wonderful, now I'm going to leave, bye mom, Sui-Feng." Masaki waved as she left and went into Tier's room. She was in the shower and didn't hear the door open, Masaki just got on the bed and fell asleep while waiting. She didn't drift in to the blackness where Kokuto was, instead she was in Hueco Mundo and Ichigo was fighting a thousand Menos and when he killed one, it turned into a kitten. Needless to say it was a weird dream. When she did finally wake up, Tier was asleep next to her, she could see from the window that the sun was coming up. Tier picked the room with a window that pointed to the sun in the morning; she used the sun shining on her face in the morning as a way to wake up. Tier started moving when Masaki sat up. Masaki ran her hand in Tier's hair to wake her fully.
"Oh, good morning…" Tier spoke through a yawn as she sat up.
"You didn't wake me up last night…" Masaki joked as she turned to her.
"I was too tired; I didn't even have a chance to get dressed before falling into the bed and falling asleep." Tier stood up and noticed that Tier actually didn't get dressed.
"Oh, well…do you want to go to the beach if you aren't busy?" Masaki pressed her hands together and lowered her head.
"I guess so, just us?" Tier asked as she got dressed, Masaki shook her head.
"With Rangiku and dad, I figured if Rangiku was in a gigai, she could have fun even through her recovery."
"Sounds like fun, I'll be ready soon."
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"I don't think this is such a good idea…Unohana said she should take a week to rest, seriously…are any of you listening to me…?" Ichigo had Rangiku hanging on to his shoulder; she can't stand on her own. Tier and Masaki laughed and shook their heads for no. Ichigo sighed as the four of them went through the Senkaimon to Urahara's shop. They got their gigai, Ichigo flashed to the house to get Tier's car, he drove it back and let her drive.
"Masaki, thank you for inviting me! I can at least have fun here." Rangiku was sitting next to Masaki behind Ichigo and Tier.
"Well, since you seemed so sad when Ichigo said you needed rest yesterday, so I thought that if you were in a gigai, you could go do whatever." Masaki turned to her and smiled, Rangiku couldn't resist and pulled her into a huge embrace, her large breasts suffocating her.
"Yuzu and Karin are gone for a few days, they left a note inside in case we came by, Masaki, would you like this to be your first time drunk?" Ichigo just fell into the 'bad parent zone' Masaki wasn't sure, but after a second, she nodded.
"Ichigo, are you sure…I don't want what happened last time to repeat itself…" Tier spoke up as she pulled into the driveway of the house.
"The solution to that problem, my dear espada, is too keep your legs closed…" Rangiku mumbled as she got out, Tier's face went bright red as she got out and threw the keys to Ichigo, then ran inside with Rangiku.
"Come sit up here with me Masaki." Ichigo got into the driver's seat, and Masaki switched to the passenger's.
"I don't want to get crazy drunk like you do…"
"Oh…don't worry, I won't let you drink that much." He lied through his teeth.
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"You didn't…please tell me you didn't give her that Absinth." Ichigo was questioning a drunk Rangiku. He was drunk, but sober enough to not do what she did.
"I…yes, hey…do you wanna…maybe go upstairs, and give me a-" Rangiku drunkenly stuttered through her sentence, which she didn't get to finish.
"N-No…Come…on Masaki…" Ichigo dragged a drunken Masaki up the stairs into one of the rooms. He barely got her into one of the beds, he stumbled out and shouted down the stairs. "Bitches…Hurry a-and finish!" he stumbled into his room and before he could even make it to his bed, he was on the floor unconscious.
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Masaki woke up to the feeling of warmth on her right side, the sun didn't shine in to her room, so it wasn't that, she opened her eyes but couldn't see in the dark. After her eyes got used to the darkness, she looked to her right, and Tier was cuddled up against her, curled up in a ball on top of her blanket. She couldn't help but notice that Tier was making weird faces, probably a drunken nightmare she thought. Masaki just smiled, turned over and went back to sleep, since she noticed the clock saying 5 A.M. After about an hour of not being able to go to sleep, she stood up, noticing it odd that she didn't have the hangover that everyone hates so much. She quietly made her way out of her room and down the stairs. She quietly opened the door and stepped outside. She was surprised to see who was out there.
"Rangiku…?" Masaki whispered as she slowly moved to her, she was smiling looking off into the distance, when she heard Masaki, she turned and kept her smile, but Masaki noticed there was a tear streaming from the eye she couldn't see.
"Good morning Masaki…Aren't you having a hangover?" She said softly before looking at the sunrise.
"Never mind that…You were just crying…Are you okay?" Masaki pat Rangiku's back a little. She didn't think it would help, but it wouldn't hurt.
"I'm fine, just remembering someone from my past who took my heart with them; I'll tell you the story one day. Do you think Tier managed to stay out of your father's room this time?" At Rangiku's words a cold shiver ran up her spine.
"She was in my room."
Rangiku giggled before taking Masaki's hand and dragging her down to the beach.
"Why are you dragging me to the beach?"
"A nice morning walk, is that a problem?" Rangiku quickened her pace so they could get to the beach before the sun rose too much.
"Fine, this sounds fun."
The two of them walked along the water for about an hour before turning back, Masaki noticed that Rangiku's strawberry blonde hair had a streak of very heavy bright red.
"When did you dye that streak in?"
"Last night after you were dragged upstairs, I found some red hair dye and used it, not sure why Ichigo's sisters had red dye."
"It was probably Yuzu's girlfriend's, she had red hair of that color…What are those bells?" Masaki stopped and looked around, Rangiku looked at her like she was crazy.
"There are no bells sweetie, you're just going insane." Rangiku chuckled and continued walking.
"No! I hear be-" A big black get with red markings appeared and started opening slowly. Rangiku saw this and grabbed Masaki and started running. She reached in her pocket and pulled out a small green pill Urahara gave her, she gave another to Masaki.
"Don't ask! Swallow! Get your dad!" The two girls were expelled from their gigai, Masaki fired a cero at the gate, before flashing to the house, she heard Rangiku release her Shikai from the distance. She got into the house and ran into Ichigo's room shouting at him and shaking him awake.
"What!? What's wrong…mask fragment, why are you out of your gigai?" Ichigo said slowly, much to her annoyance.
"Shut up, help Rangiku! She's fighting someone!" Masaki's words woke Ichigo, he jumped out of his gigai and followed Masaki to the beach, Ichigo could see Rangiku trying to fight someone in a black robe.
"There! That gate appeared and I guess that's who came out!" when they got closer they could see the man's face, since his hood was ripped from Rangiku.
"Kokuto!?" Masaki and Ichigo shouted at the same time, Ichigo didn't waste time asking how Masaki knew him, instead he charged down the Sinner.
"Oh, Ichigo…Still as hot headed as ever, I see." Kokuto taunted as he dodged Ichigo's attacks.
"Shut the hell up! You killed my sister in hell! She barely survived because of Orihime! How are you out here so freely!?" Ichigo roared before sheathing his left sword. "Moon be black. Heaven's Cry. Zangetsu!" He manifested Houou-Kyu. "Konagona Ni Natta Kaen!" The second large blade formed with its black flames.
"I see you have a few more toys to play with…and as to me being here…I had some help from a friend who hates you for killing someone close to him." Kokuto rushed down Ichigo and started slashing at him, pushing Ichigo back. Rangiku and Masaki were speechless to see Ichigo being pressured so much by this opponent.
"Rangiku, Masaki, get Tier, tell her to come here, you two go back to soul society! Getsuga-Enyoku!" The massive wave wrapped in flame hit Kokuto in the chest, all it did was burn him a little.
"Something like that can't hurt me!" Kokuto taunted but was caught off guard by Ichigo's Gochutekkan which gave Ichigo time to start an incantation.
"Seeping crest of turbidity, arrogant vessel of lunacy. Boil forth and deny, grow numb and flicker, disrupting sleep. Crawling queen of iron, eternally self-destructing doll of mud. Unite, repulse. Fill with soil and know your own powerlessness. Hado no 90, Kurohitsugi!" A giant black box filled around the pillars that pinned Kokuto and cross shaped spears impaled it. After a few seconds the black box disappeared and Kokuto stood up, bloody. With a sadistic grin. Tier had arrived at the beginning of that kido. When she saw that the man stood up after that, she immediately released her resurreccion.
"Destroy, Tiburon!" Tier charged down the man, bringing her arm with the giant sword down in his head. He barely dodged it before Ichigo flashed to him sand kicked him in the back, and released his Bankai, after sealing Houou-Kyu.
"BANKAI! Tensa Zangetsu." Ichigo pointed his left sword at him, and a cero started to gather energy.
"Gran Ray Cero…?" Tier mumbled to herself when she recognized the way the cero was growing. She started charging her own Gran Ray, Ichigo looked to her to see her doing the same, he nodded and they both unleashed this massive power.
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"Captain Kurostuchi! We have a 'Multi-Captain' level fight occurring at Captain Kurosaki's last known location! We granted him and Tier Harribel a Gentei Kaijo, they are fighting an unknown enemy with an undetectable level of power. Maybe we should send some captains?" A member of squad twelve shouted for his captain, when he arrived, he looked at the monitor, and saw the timer at the top that said how long the fight had been going on, forty-five minutes. He had been out doing something and just came back, he didn't say a thing, but instead lifted a finger for a hell butterfly, his message was to Kenpachi Zaraki, Sajin Komamura, and Renji Abarai. 'Get your asses to the world of the living now! Kurosaki and that blonde espada are in a massive fight, go now!'
When each captain who the message was for, heard it, they grinned for a chance of a fight, except Sajin, the large dog captain just sighed.
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"Ichigo! Use that cero again!" Tier shouted at Ichigo who kicked away Kokuto's latest attack. Ichigo did as she said, seeing as she had a plan, Ichigo fired the massive cero and Tier raised her arm. "Cascada." A giant wave of water slammed into Kokuto who was stumbled from the cero, since they were on a beach with an unlimited source of water, she was as deadly as she could possibly be. Kokuto erupted from the water and flash stepped to Tier, slashing her across the face, she barely managed to dodge it and had a gash on her cheek. A large Senkaimon opened up behind the two. Renji, Komamura and Kenpachi stepped out. Renji and Komamura immediately released their Bankai and began a combined assault, Kenpachi just lazily walked to the battle. Kokuto was taking hits from everyone, he turned to Kenpachi and smirked at the tired looking captain. He rushed him down and his sword ran his shoulder through. Kenpachi grinned.
"Oh, good choice!" Kenpachi grabbed his arm with one hand, and used the sword in his other hand to remove his eye patch. Kokuto was bound by three different Rikujokoro from the remaining captains, Kenpachi took this advantage, he released his arm seeing as this was not an opponent to hold back on, he took his sword with both hands, raised it over his head slowly and slammed in down on Kokuto, breaking all the kido binding him, and sending Kokuto flying for about a thousand feet, every one flashed to where they saw him land, and the saw him just standing there, panting, blood dripping from a huge gash along his chest. He suddenly started melting into the ground, bells started chiming, and all of them could hear it. The giant black gate with red chains appeared and opened; Kokuto emerged from the sand and jumped into it. The gate shut, the bells stopped and he was gone.
"ICHIGO, WHY WAS HE HERE!?" Renji grabbed Ichigo.
"This is not your fight, I have to do this." Ichigo broke free from Renji, opened a garganta and left the other captains there.
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"Lord Kokuto, I see you failed to achieve your goal…" A short man who looked to be in his late twenties was standing over the nearly dead Kokuto, he looked exactly like Aizen but with longer hair and a short beard.
"Be quiet, keep your comments to yourself, Kemosuke. Now, stop your gawking and heal me…"
"Yes, my lord."
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"Masaki!" Ichigo ran into her room shouting, she was sitting on her bed reading a book, Ichigo's sudden action made her jump a little.
"What!?"
"HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO KOKUTO IS!?" Ichigo shouted at her, his eyes wide with anger, he then realized himself and calmed down when he saw how he frightened Masaki. "I'm so sorry for yelling at you like that, but tell me."
"I've been seeing him in my dreams for a while, I had no clue who he was, or even that he was real."
"Right…I'm going to put a kido barrier on you, illusions are going to be blocked from affecting you, and you will not dream for a few weeks. No arguing, this is to keep him from talking to you at all." Ichigo put his hand on her head and exhaled, his hand gave off a purple glow and then stopped, after his barrier, he went on to explain what Kokuto was, and what he did, Ichigo left out his multiple transformations, just to keep her from thinking that she will transition into a Vasto Lorde if she gets angry.
"I…What does this have to do with me?" Masaki was worried that she was the target of this massively powerful enemy, who just held his own against four captains, and an espada. Two of them being Ichigo and Kenpachi.
"I don't know, as far as I know, he just appeared on the beach with you and Rangiku." Ichigo sat down next to her and pulled her into his arms, she was shaking.
"Is Rangiku okay, now that we're here, she's back to her poor condition and blinded again…" She couldn't stop her shaking.
"Yeah, Toshiro is visiting her, that short fight she had, even though she didn't get hit, it took a toll on her and reopened some wounds, would you like to come visit her with me?" Ichigo didn't get a response but she nodded.
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"Rangiku, do you have to be so reckless…?" Hitsugaya was sitting next to her new bed at the fourth's barracks. She smiled before answering.
"Aww, my captain is worried about me." She said in a childish voice.
"I am, and I don't want to lose my lazy lieutenant." Hitsugaya chuckled and turned to see the door opening, Masaki came in followed by Ichigo.
"Rangiku…I'm sorry for making you fight him…" Masaki walked around the bed and threw her arms around her neck.
"It's not your fault, plus if I didn't, who knows what he would have done to that pretty face of yours." Rangiku spoke like a responsible person, which surprised Ichigo, Masaki and Toshiro sighed.
"Kurosaki, was it really him? Didn't you seal him in the depths of Hell?" Hitsugaya pulled Ichigo out of the room to talk about it.
"I think so, but when he escaped, it wasn't the Gates of Hell. And he broke out with the help of someone who wants revenge on me, no idea who though, there are many people who my actions have hurt in the past." Ichigo walked back in and saw the two talking about boys, and he silently cursed Rangiku.
"So…Masaki, there must be a boy that you like! Tell me, I'll be sure to make Ichigo stay away from him." Rangiku giggled and Masaki leaned in and whispered something to her.
"Ooh, he joined my squad you know…" Rangiku glanced at Ichigo when she said that, he sat up straight and looked at Masaki.
"Who is it, Masaki?"
"Keran Shiro…Tall, black shoulder-length hair, dark gold eyes…" She would have continued on but Ichigo started laughing.
"He was in my class you know! He was so timid, never spoke to anyone, but hell, he was the best fighter, I don't know anything about him other than that, so I approve if you want to confess to him, let's see where this goes." Ichigo gave her a smile and then looked at Rangiku.
"Don't scare him away Ichigo." Rangiku scolded.
"I'll try…"
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"Yo, Byakuya." Ichigo called from under one of the trees in Byakuya's garden, he saw Byakuya come out to tend to his flowers.
"How did you get in here, Kurosaki." Byakuya gave him a cold glare before turning away from him.
"Is that any way to treat a fellow noble?" Ichigo saw Byakuya shudder when he said the word noble.
"No, but it is the way to treat an intruder." Byakuya raised a hand and made a signal for his guards to escort Ichigo out. A group of five guards surrounded Ichigo, who just stood up and flash stepped around them to another tree, which he sat under.
"You're not going to get me out that easily, you know." Ichigo taunted as the guards surrounded him again. Ichigo sighed as he closed his eyes, he opened them a second later and an orange box appeared around him, he stood up and pressed it to the box, his hand started to burn.
"But I can keep you there for a little so you don't bother me." Byakuya said, with almost a smirk.
"Is that so?" Ichigo spoke from behind him with a chuckle, Byakuya had a confused face as he and the guards looked to the barrier to see he wasn't in there anymore, Byakuya looked down to see Ichigo holding his Kyoka Suigetsu.
"That was a dirty trick." Byakuya actually chuckled at being fooled by someone like him.
"Yeah, it was. Is Rukia around?" Ichigo asked as he made his way back to the tree, the guards surrounded him once again. "Really, are you still going to try to catch me? I know you're all terrified of me, so leave, go ahead." Ichigo gave a laugh as he shooed them away. This made Byakuya actually laugh, a rare sight.
"Yes, I'm right here, Strawberry, hello Nii-Sama." Rukia appeared behind the tree he was sitting under. Byakuya nodded at her and she sat down next to Ichigo. "You wanted to see me?"
"Yeah, let's go." Ichigo grabbed her arm and flashed away, leaving Byakuya to tend to his garden in peace.
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"You damn...fool, I don't even...think that's a flash step, what the hell is that!? Much too fast…" Rukia was breathing heavily after he released her arm, it felt like she was being crushed between two concrete slabs.
"Something akin to teleporting…The Hogyoku decided to give me a boost, and now I can teleport…It does get annoying…not knowing what this thing is doing to me until Zangetsu figures it out." Ichigo explained as she caught her breath.
"Is that why I'm having trouble breathing…"
"Yes, probably. What I dragged you out here for is…look over there, on the edge of the cliff." They were on Sokyoku Hill, what was left of it. Ichigo pointed to the edge of the cliff, Tatsuki and Iruzai were having an argument about something.
"What are they fighting about…wait, won't they sense me?"
"I put up a barrier for you when we got here, so no, and I don't know, but they've been going at it for an hour now."
"About what?" Rukia asked silently from behind the trees they were hiding in.
"Don't know…they drew their swords…"
What the two spectators didn't know was that they were arguing about what days to do what.
"I'll do everything you say, whenever you say it, if you beat me, that is. If I win, you do the same for me."
"Fine, I'm going to win this time! I can't wait to have full control over you!" Iruzai laughed as he spoke. Within thirty seconds he was flat on his back, and she as sitting on his stomach and had her zanpakuto at his throat.
Back in the tree lines, Rukia sighed at the inability of her son to fight his girlfriend.
"That's my girl!" Ichigo silently cheered.
"What do you think it was about, she beat hi…" Rukia was cut silent by what she saw, Tatsuki was straddling Iruzai's waist and she was kissing him, after a few seconds she got up and kicked him in the side before helping him up.
"She's more abusive than you…the hell?" Ichigo spoke quietly, Rukia gasped at his words and gave him a massive smack to the face, and he didn't dodge, or flinch.
"Shut up…I think…Where did you go!?" Rukia spoke, and noticed Ichigo was gone, she looked up and saw him behind Tatsuki, Iruzai was frozen.
"Iruzai, are you okay? You're not moving?"
"Y-y…"
"What?"
"Your dad is behind you…" Iruzai managed to point at Ichigo, who smirked and teleported away before Tatsuki could turn around.
"There's no one there…whatever, now I get to make the plans and order you around! Kiss me and then walk me home." He did exactly that.
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"I'm going to do that to him every time I see them having a moment." He told Rukia before he grabbed her arm and teleported them back to Byakuya's garden, she fell to her knees to catch her breath.
"Whatever…"
"So n…" Ichigo was interrupted by a hell butterfly landing on his finger.
'Captain Hollowfuck, report to my labs, I need you for something.' The words of Mayuri's message rang in Ichigo's head, he chuckled at the latest insult thrown at him.
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"Masaki, you look really tired, why don't you go rest, Unohana said I can leave tomorrow, so you don't have to stay here with me." Rangiku tried to convince her to go get some sleep.
"I'm the reason that you're back in this position, plus, you're happy when I'm here."
"What if I said you were annoying?"
"Well than I would continue to annoy you, seeing as you aren't, I'm staying here." Masaki spoke quickly and crossed her arms. After a little, Rangiku was watching Masaki sleep in the chair. She sighed, and just looked at how similar to Ichigo she looked.
"Yo, Rangiku, feeling better?" Ichigo was standing in the doorway with a small smile. Orihime came in behind him and ran over to her and hugged her.
"Rangiku-san! I was so worried when Ichigo told me about you're injuries! Are you okay? Does your eye hurt?"
"Everything hurts Orihime-chan, I was nearly ripped in half, so yes, it hurts, and I'm blind in that eye."
"Oh, Masaki is asleep, how long?"
"About ten minutes. Hi Captain Unohana." Rangiku looked at Ichigo who was confused until he felt a hand on his shoulder as if to move him, which he quickly did.
"You are always smiling, despite the pain I know your face is causing you. You must enjoy the constant visits from your captain and the Kurosaki family, correct?" Unohana started to change Rangiku's bandages, Ichigo turned away, not wanting to give her a reason to call him out.
"Yes, Masaki was keeping me company but fell asleep, Ichigo is usually here, Orihime-chan just shown up, and my captain has been by a few times." Rangiku eyed Ichigo to see if he peeked, his stoic stance at looking to the door, made her chuckle.
"Retsu, I need to talk to you, when you finish with her."
"Certainly, just go wait in my office." Ichigo nodded and went to her office, Isane was in there.
"Isane, you look troubled."
"I do? I was just spaced out!" She laughed a little and sat next to him. The two talked about things for a few minutes until Unohana came back in.
"Well Ichigo, what did you need to tell me?" Unohana sat behind her desk and put her hands together.
"I think Rangiku's injuries were a warning, she is just the beginning." Ichigo's voice had a dark tone to it.
"He wouldn't come here, would he?" Unohana sounded worried.
"Let's put it this way…you will have to fight." Ichigo looked her dead in the face. She seemed to be ecstatic that she would get to fight, but the worry in her eyes kept the two in the room from knowing.
"Wait, Captain, who are you talking about? What does he mean that she was a warning?" Isane shouted, not knowing the situation.
"An escaped Sinner, Kokuto. He was the one who did that to her, Retsu said she heard the bells and saw the black gate, I saw the same and heard them when he escaped." Ichigo explained at the confused lieutenant.
"Why can't the people you defeat leave you alone?" Isane joked out, earning a worried chuckle from Ichigo.
"I don't know, and it's not like hell will lend…me it's…" Ichigo didn't finish his sentence before he ran out the door and out of the barracks. He teleported his way to the twelfth squad labs. And knocked heavily on the door. Nemu opened the door.
"Captain Ku-" She was silenced by Ichigo who put his hand on her shoulder, he knew she wouldn't say anything to him.
"Move." Ichigo pushed her aside and began searching for Mayuri.
"Captain Kurosaki, need something?" Akon asked, looked annoyed.
"Yes, Captain Hollowfuck…What do you want?" Mayuri appeared behind him with his arms crossed.
"Send me to Hell." Ichigo gave a small smirk.
"With Pleasure!" He grinned the most twisted grin Ichigo had ever seen.