Prologue

The Forgotten Crisis

AN: I don't own bleach , any of the character from the show/manga nor any of the places etc. I do own my OC's. Other then my own characters, everything is owned by Noriaki "Tite" Kubo, the genius that created Bleach.

It wasn't everyday that so many of the thirteen squad captains were called to an emergency on the human world. Hitsugaya, Sajin, Mayuri, Shunsui, Retsu, Jyuushiro, and Kenpachi slowly walked around the ruins of what once used to be a small town within the USA. Nothing but ruins and corpses remained. Blood oozed freely down the cracked roads where half-buried bodies were crushed under stone, houses and tipped cars.

"No survivors can be found. No souls either." Soi Fong whispered as she joined the res t of the group. "This is something I have never seen before." she kicked away rubble to pick up a white mask sticking out of the wet dirt. "A hollow mask, this makes no sense."

"They must have been ambushed. There are no traces of the shinigami that were sent to analyze the disturbances and high spikes of spiritual pressure. It was a trap! Mayuri cried teeth bared. "If I get my hands on my squad members that were sent, I will personally rip them to bits for falling for such a ridiculous trap."

"Quit bitching! Your the one that sent them to their deaths alone with a few of my squad members."

Mayuri sputtered. "YOUR squad members were not invited barbarian. I needed no protection from the 11th squad!"

They sat quietly, glancing around once more. All were shocked at such a violent and gruesome outcome where there wasn't much strong spiritual pressure. Maybe in the human country Japan, where high spiritual pressures were becoming more and more common, but not here.

'Well there isn't much we can do right now other than to get what information we have back to Captain Yamamoto. We will have to further investigate but right now, instead of fighting, we should see if we can find where the lost shinigamis are. We only have six of the twelve laid out before us, that means six have either escaped or have been captured. We need to find out quickly. They may need to be rescued."

All the captains nodded with agreement at Jyuushiro. This was no time to panic. They needed more information before they got too carried away.

They left silently, not noticing the lone shadow hiding behind the ruins of what once was a school. His game was started. He had the information and mixture of human and shinigami souls he needed to begin to carry out his plan...