Notice: I did not think of making this a crossover until ch 7, so unfortuanatly you'll hav to live for awhile not seeing Lady Bernkastel and Satan (I delibertly gave you a spoiler). Since people rading crossovers (especialy one of bleach of Higurashi/Umineko) is considerrably rare in this case...(I cant believe i'm asking you my dear reader to this...) it would be appreatiated if you somehow got the word around to other Bleach/Umineko fans that I am creating a long story that is somewhat entertaning. Or even told other bleach fans of this in order to encourage them to watch a new series. I am not saying that u hav to, i'm just saying it would be apreatiated...

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or Umineko no naku Koro ni. I am only doing this to ensure the safety of my story. Especialy since Youtube is deleting many many vidios...again...


What she seeks, is comfort...

What he did is betray...

What happens, is that her path becomes dark...

-Frederica Bernkastel

Story:


Ever since the fight with Aizen and the arrancar ended, everyone and everything was silent, everything was shocked to hear the outcome of, possibly, the most decisive battle in soul society's history.

After Icihigo performed the "final getsuga tensho" and defeated the newly empowered Aizen, and lost his shinigami powers, it was not to long after that the soul reapers of the thirteen court guard squads, stealth force and the kiddou corps noticed the disappearance of the spiritual pressure of the person that endangered everyone in every world. However they also noticed the disappearances of their captain's spiritual pressure, as a result the 3rd seats of every squad decided to gather at squad one's barracks for a meeting trying to decide what to do next, since the head captain himself put them in charge while all the other lieutenants and captains were sent off to battle. This meeting decided that they were to send the stealth force to investigate the outcome of the battle and absolutely nothing more.

The stealth force did as their superiors commanded, however even they couldn't help but bring back the bodies of their fallen commander, as well as the other fallen captains and lieutenants that fell at the hands of Aizen at the fake Karakura town battle ground.

These nearly dead bodies were brought back to the Siereite and nursed back to health by the 4th squad, in which every squad member had a duty to complete, whether it be checking their bandages or just simply making sure their rooms were clean. The 12th squad opened a garganta to Hueco Mundo to retrieve the other officers, and they too were nursed back to health, much sooner than those who fought in the world of the living. Only one body was never found…..It was on a Tuesday when everyone in the battle against Aizen woke up from their wounds.

All of them woke up with mixed expression of grief, anger, disbelief, and other forms of doubt and helplessness. It was their stories as well as the reports from the stealth force that they answered all questions in mind….ALMOST all questions. Only one question remained…..where was the body of Hinamori, the only body that was never found, the lieutenant who was killed by Aizen's clever strategy by using his Kyokya Suigetsu to make everyone believe they were fighting him while they were really fighting Hinamori. It was in this manner that he manipulated Hitsugaya to lethally stab Hinamori…Whenever Hitsugaya is asked about Hinamori, he only replies only by breaking eye contact.

Most of the captains recovered completely within the month. However the head captain lost most of his arm, captain Soi Fon lost her arm completely, Hitsugaya had a part of his arm and leg severed and captain Komamora had lost a great deal of blood, a great lot more than others. Lethal wounds like this required the captains to be transferred to the 12th squad barracks for body regeneration. In the state the sieriete was in they couldn't afford to lose the anymore captains and, ESPECIALLY not the head captain. Even the normally semi-crazy Kurosuchi could understand this. Which is why he effortlessly monitored their regeneration with such carefulness that many assumed that Hueco Mundo "changed" him. The way he constantly pestered his own subordinates by saying "be careful with what you do with that machine" or "what are you doing? You careless fool! Do you WANT the captains to die!" is what made some come up with that theory. While doing this he also monitored the investigation around lieutenant Hinamori's missing body. He was just coming back from checking his invaluable computer data base when he received the report regarding the information the Kiddou corps, who were trying to find a trace of her spiritual pressure. The report was told to him by a squad 2 member, he was surprisingly large and he looks like he was more suited to brute labor then any kind of stealthy work and he had a face that clearly portrays any expression he may be feeling. "How very unlike a squad 2 member" Kurosuchi thought. The man started speaking in an uneasy tone, "Captain Kurosuchi there has been a breakthrough regarding the missing lieutenant, Momo Hinamori that needs your immediate attention! "The somewhat sly captain merely responded with his usual "I'm interested now" response. "What exactly is this breakthrough, considering your tone it seems that you not only found her spiritual pressure, but something else. Yes?" The man's face was now grim, it became clear that he was not going to enjoy reporting in even further. "That's just it sir…we HAVEN'T found her spiritual pressure. There is no longer any trace of it…..and you of all people should know what that means…." Captain Kurosuchi's face was not one of disbelief or shock, but of calm expectancy, the man now had a surprised look on his face, he thought captain Kurosuchi would at least be a little dazed, and then the captain spoke. "why are you so surprised? You and I both know that Hitsugaya fatally wounded her. It shouldn't be so surprising that we find no trace of her spiritual pressure. Even the lowest of the shinigami wouldn't find it that surprising…..did you honestly believe that everyone would come out of that battle scot free like everyone else? Did you believe that everyone would come back and life would be just like the good old days, when there was no such thing as war and utter suffering…when there was no such thing as death to shinigami…" The lower ranking man was making a face that looked like he couldn't believe what he was hearing, but Kurosuchi ignored this and continued "You say this requires my immediate attention? I think not! As far as I'm concerned there no need to even investigate any longer!...My orders are as follows: call back everyone investigating this case, go tell my lieutenant to update the shinigami directory and make funeral preparations and….make the announcement to everyone that Momo Hinamori is dead!" The man left silently intending carry out those orders, no matter how much he hates doing so. As he was walking toward the hell butterfly holding cell he was wondering how a great many individuals would take this news. He knew there was going to be a lot of commotion with the 5th squad, it was going to be the 1st squad in over many millennia to be without a captain AND a lieutenant. And to top it off Hinamori was the source of all the squad's loyalty ever since the Aizen incident, making them twice as attached to her! At about this time he was envisioning squad members forming angry mobs with zanpoktou unsheathed and released, and he shuddered at the thought. An angry squad aggrieved at a lieutenant's death can be quite menacing. There was even an event when just that happened, the entire Siereitie suffered heavy losses and many were shocked at how far they were willing to go, this event made its way into the textbooks. Then the man stopped dead in his tracks, fear was making his face pale. He had forgotten about captain Hitsugaya. The rage of captain Hitsugaya was well known, even legendary. Many cannot even find the words to describe it well enough. The closest anyone could come up with was "It is like being invited to a fiery, bone-rattling hell". Unlike his normally cold personality, his rage burned with the fires of hell at its core, that is, of course, if Hinamori was involved somehow. If it wasn't Hinamori then his rage would be comparable to an over boiling pot or a regular house fire. The man just stood on the wooden floor, trembling at the rage he expected to come from Hitsugaya. He then remembered Kurosuchi's words "You and I both know that Hitsugaya fatally wounded her…" The man was walking again now, but with an ashamed look on his face. Why was he thinking that way of Hitsugaya, when he most like was going to ashamed of himself for…..killing her. He arrived at a doorway and roughly opened the door, and he saw hell butterflies fluttering about and many of them were in black iron cages with a specific seal on each of them to prevent them from escaping. "hey! What are you doing!Shut the door before a one of these damn butterflies get out!". The bossy voice was spoken by a young red headed lady; she had piercing green eyes and somewhat rosy skin. "hey, are you deaf! I said close the door, Nemu-sama is going to contradict me if a hell butterfly goes missing!" The broad man complied after a few hesitating moments, he now realizes that the lady had over 20 or 30 butterflies crawling all over her uniform, most soul reapers could handle at least 2 hell butterflies with difficulty, captains and other high ranking shinigami can handle up to 8 or 10, but she was handling at least twice the amount with almost no difficulty at all! He realizes he is delaying his duties by thinking about this lady and her butterflies and he felt ashamed for doing so. He drops down on his knees as he "request" to use the division's hell butterflies for captain Kurosuchi's orders.

"By order of captain Kurosuchi I am to use the hell butterflies to relay orders to Lieutenant Nemu Kurosuchi to update the shingami directory and funeral preparations, and to use them to make an announcement to all soul reapers".

"Hmmm…..what kind of announcement is it? I'll take that task off your hands and do it myself, and the same goes for Nemu-sama's orders, I'll take care of that as well"

"Well, as long as the orders are taken care of I guess it doesn't matter…but the announcement….it must be done by me…"

It was only 5 minutes before the announcement was heard by all of the Siereitie. Hitsugaya lay awake in his bed when he heard it, all he did when he heard it was look down at his lap, a shadow covering his expression. He then clinched his fist so hard, that blood began to bleed through the bandages. Matsumoto, who was in the room 5 doors down was looking at the ceiling wide-eyed, the members of squad 5 is what caught the most of people's attention. Not a single member was with a dry face, every one of them at least shed one tear. Some responded to the news aggressively, confronting stealth force members saying that they were failures, some even tried to set fires. There was a mob forming around squad 5's barracks around a mere day later, they were going to demand that the investigation be put back on, and find the REAL reason as to why she disappeared, and if not that, they at the very least wanted her body to be found. Only a few members were unaccounted for, the rest were about to head out toward the squad 12 barracks. The air itself was full of aggressive intent, some of the nearby soul reapers broke out in a cold sweat should they get to close, the hidden squad 2 members that were assigned to keep watch of the members left immediately, some of them feeling ill. The mob was just about to head out when a voice, full of authority and a strict and disappointed tone, yelled above the angry grunts and murmurings, hushing everyone within earshot. "What on earth do you think you're doing!" there was only a moment of silence before everyone turned to find the source of the voice. Captain Hitsugaya was standing in the middle of the street, with only a few bandages on his hands, he had a disapproving voice that hid his anger. "Your lieutenant would be disappointed if she could see how your all acting! She's dead and the first thing you want to do is disgrace her by going around in a unorganized mob! She led squad five with all that she could give! After Aizen betrayed all of you she didn't resign her position!" Everyone was being depleted of their once unbreakable resolve to put the investigation back on and the more they stayed In his presence the more Hitsugaya would exert his spiritual pressure, crushing them more and more. Within moments all of them dispersed, heading toward their quarters, all them feeling ashamed of their actions. While they were heading in their own directions Hitsugaya was silently heading toward his own barracks. His was no longer standing tall with his shoulders back, his shoulders was slumped and he looked like he was carrying something heavy on him, making him lean toward the ground. A soul reaper who was passing by looked at him, Hitsugaya didn't notice this though, he didn't really care anymore. The soul reaper felt sorry for him, and for the first time saw how young he truly is. Hitsugaya was only two feet away from him, but he still walked on past him, not even glancing his way. The sun was now setting; its rays making the sky seem blood-red in its wake.

While the seireitei was silently mourning Momo's death, there was something awakening in Hueco Mundo , in the forest of hollows an adjucha, was waking up from a deep slumber, it was weak from fatigue earlier. The adjucha was small compared to other adjuchas, it was about the size of a wolf or a cougar, it looked like a fox in many ways, the tail however was thin, quick and lethal. Its eyes were observant and gleamed with a cunning and ruthless mind. Its hollow hole is located at the center of the throat. Its paws were small with razor like claws normally sheathed; the claws are silver, curved slightly, and about 3-6 inches long. It fell asleep after traveling to the soul society, and silently keeping to the shadows as the fight between Aizen and the soul reapers commenced. This was how it achieved its goal when coming there. It wanted to devour any soul reaper that presented itself weak, weak enough to kill and eat without much difficulty. It was about an hour after its arrival that it spotted a lieutenant-class soul reaper being carried down by a man with white hair after lord Aizen tricked him into lethally stabbing her with such hatred and anger it was surprised that she even lasted long enough for it to devour completely. After it had eaten its fill, it realized just how much energy and power it obtained, even though she was almost dead she still had so much spiritual power! It felt content as it felt this power running through its body, coursing through every vain in its body. Before it ate, it felt like it was about to pass out from being exposed to such powerful spiritual pressure from many captains and espada, even though it was still tired, it wasn't as tired as it was then. Now as it remembered its glorious meal, it grinned. The moment the fox-like adjucha returned to the forest of hollows, it was challenged by a great many other adjucha. They all stated "You have no right to even be within the area of lord Aizen's battle, and yet you go there without permission and steal leftovers…..". The now irritated adjucha was merely looking at them now. This adjucha never liked talking, especially to those who challenged it. It took only 5 min, but the adjucha took out every hollow that opposed it. That was how it ended up sleeping for about an hour or so, and went about its life normally up until this point. Now, as it looked upward toward the darkness, it was concerned. True enough, it was pleased it had eaten such a meal, and gained enough power to be in control of most the forest, but its sleep had been very disturbed lately. Every time it did so much as close its eyes it heard a voice murmuring, it couldn't make out the words, but it felt as though it was sad. But as the days progressed it turned from sorrow to anger and resentment, it then made out the word it was hearing, "why….?", and as this was happening it felt a presence-no, existence, within its own self. Then, for whatever reason it had an urge. Except this urge was more like a craving. Other adjucha just wasn't cutting it anymore, it needed something else…..some other existence that gave more of a satisfactory feeling when devoured. In its mind the only thing that was more satisfactory than hollow…was shinigami. It decided right then and there, that when the next 12 hours pass, it would travel to the world of the living and start its hunt for shinigami…

It was about on the fourth hour that Ikkaku, Yumichika, Rukia, Renji and captain Hitsugaya arrived in the world of the living, karakura town. They arrived as the sun was just peeping over the horizion. Head captain yammamoto sent all of them there, to make sure that no remaining arrancar remained, as well to make sure that the area was safe enough for the town. However Hitsugaya wasn't sent for this reason. Both Yammamoto and Unohanna were concerned for his mental health; they've all seen his expression when the news of Hinamori's death reached. It became noticeable that he was more easily irritable, less responsive to what's around him, as a result Unohanna thought that it would be "healthy" for him to release all his feelings of Hinamori out on some other object rather than his lieutenant. Maybe eliminating hollows would bring the old Hitsugaya back. Like the last time, Hitsugaya was staying in Orihime's house, Ikkaku and Yumichika was staying at Kiego's apartment, Renji was, as usual, staying at Urahara's shop. As for Rukia, she was staying at some unknown location; she didn't feel like seeing Ichigo again so soon. Most of the day was quiet, not a single hollow alert. I suppose it's not too much of a surprise, most of Hueco Mundo was completely loyal to Aizen, it's not going to be too hard to imagine how devastated the entire hollow world must me hearing about the fall of their self-proclaimed lord. It was about eight hours later that, for the first time that day, there was a hollow alert. But the alert wasn't for a regular hollow, it was for an adjucha. Originally the soul phones were never able to tell what type of hollows are appearing, but with an update from the bureau of research and development the soul phones are now able to tell an arrancar from hollow, hollow from adjucha, arrancar from vasto lordes and everything in between. The appearance of an adjucha wasn't expected. At the very most they expected a menos grande. But instead they got a full-fledged adjucha that could easily challenge any member of the thirteen court guard squads, and worse, it came in broad daylight, the humans were still up and about. Ikkaku and Yumichika were excited but everyone else was shocked. Hitsugaya was in the area so he was immediately going the site where the adjucha appeared. Everyone else was on standby. If the adjucha was to try to escape they would intercept it almost indefinitely, if it was too much for a captain to handle then help wouldn't be too far away. Captain Hitsugaya was just arriving at the at an alleyway, it was at the far end of town, not too many humans came here, not exactly the best place for a hollow to appear if it wanted food. Not even souls come here! Hitsugaya didn't care why it came here, all that mattered to him was that the adjucha was eliminated. At first, it was hard find, but at about a minute's worth of searching he spotted a glimpse of a thin, lithe shape that disappeared as quickly as it came. Hitsugaya flash stepped after it, and when he reached a clearing in a sand lot he found it perched on what looked like a large, cracked boulder. Apparently it was waiting for him, as for why was unknown. Hitsugaya was about 2-3 yards away from this adjucha, so he saw it clearly. It was covered in the same material that is found in hollow masks, with only a few areas uncovered revealing what looked like black fur on its paws and small, pointed ears. It looked very much like a fox. Its claws were unsheathed, showing just how lethal they were. The claws were about three inches long, silver and slightly curved. The thing that was most noticeable to Hitsugaya was its tail, it was thin and quick, it was moving nimbly through the air near it. Hitsugaya then realized that the adjucha made no attempt to attack him….yet. He now realized that the adjucha was now looking straight at him, its eyes were black and it expressed its anticipation and lust, it was slightly wincing due to the sunlight. It was hissing now, as if to signal the beginning of the fight. In a mere moment the adjucha made its way behind him, clearly showing how quick it is. Hitsugaya drew his sword just as fast and blocked its attempt to scratch his back with its front right paw. The moment he did that however, the adjucha attacked with its free front left paw swinging it much faster than its previous swing. It wasn't too fast for Hitsugaya though, he just merely adjusted his sword to block that attack as well. He then realized, from the force it applied on his sword, that it didn't just have speed, it had power. But it wasn't finished, even quicker than Hitsugaya could see it; its tail scraped his neck, drawing blood. Thankfully he sensed the attack, and reacted to avoid the fatal blow. Had he not done that, then tail would've pierced his jugular. He would've been killed. He then used the flash step to gain some distance, he had underestimated his enemy. The attack lasted only three seconds, but the adjucha was already at an advantage.

The adjucha was staring at him now, it really wanted to kill him, no, it had to kill him, its hunger was getting so ravenous just from sensing his spiritual pressure, but seeing the white-haired captain face to face was making the hunger become lust. But all of a sudden it was in writhing pain, in a mere moment it was lurching back and forth. Something within its own soul was reacting aggressively to the scenario in front of it. Then it made out some words it was hearing, the voice ominous, the words filled with hatred, resentment and anger, "Why…Hitsugaya!" Hitsugaya saw his chance and charged toward the adjucha with a flash step, his sword pointed at the creature's head as it was moaning in pain. Just before the sword pierced however, it swerved and dodged the blade, it then proceeded to run out of the sandlot, into the city. Hitsugaya pursued, and as he was doing that he was calling the others to let them all know that it was on the run. He didn't understand why it was running though, it didn't have a scratch on it, and yet it was in pain. He lost sight of it many times, but he knew it was heading toward the center of the city though, in which case Ikkaku and Yumichika would intercept it. Then Hitsugaya heard a beep from his phone, he then stopped as he looked at it. The spiritual signature of the adjucha was gone. The others realized this too, but they were still on guard. Hitsugaya's mind was full of questions, "why did it run away?, Why did it appear in the desolate outskirts of town?, What made it be in pain?, Why did it want to fight with me deliberately?". After five minutes of standing around, waiting for an adjucha that wouldn't come, the team met up at Orihime's living room. The equipment from last time was brought over an hour after their arrival. Everything from the monitor to the generator was set up, ready for use. The head captain gave them orders before they came to the world of the living: If nothing was out of the ordinary then carry out the reports normally, if an arrancar or a high level menos appears they were to report to him using the monitor. Yumichika was already at the computer, setting up the connection between the soul society and the world of the living. Within moments the head captain appeared on the screen. He then said "The fact that you contacted me must mean that a hollow above menos grande class has appeared. Did you eliminate it?"

Hitsugaya responded with a low voice "unfortunately, it got away, I wasn't quick enough to pierce it lethally, I must've stood in surprise far too long"

Yammamoto was now speaking in a serious tone "What exactly happened to make you "surprised"…"

"well, I didn't even lay a scratch on it, and yet it was writhing in pain after only three seconds after the fight started, and I can't make out its intentions either….."

"Can you explain to me in detail what was so unusual about this adjucha? I also want you to tell me about its abilities."

"It appeared in the outskirts of town, there are few humans there and even less human souls, so it doesn't look like it was looking for food. The adjucha was practically looking for a fight since it decided to wait for me in a sand lot and the fact that it didn't speak to me also implies this. It was fast, agile and strong, it gave me this scratch too," Hitsugaya was pointing to his scratch, now covered in a band aid. "Its tail is much faster than everything else the body has, there's not much else to report, head captain."

The head captain's face was thoughtful "I see…..are you sure it didn't injure this hollow in any way"

"Yes, I'm sure."

The captain was silent for a few seconds "What about its spiritual pressure, anything unusual?"

Hitsugaya thought for a moment. He then remembered that the spiritual pressure was, in fact, odd. It felt more tame than a regular adjucha, not by much, but some, but that would imply that the adjucha was an arrancar, or something close to it. But he also realized, now that he thought about it, that its spiritual pressure seemed…..familiar, in the slightest way. He decided that it was best to disregard the fact that it was familiar. He responded with "Well the adjucha's spiritual pressure, now that I think about it, was more tame than most, but only by the slightest. Nothing more"

The head captain was silent for a long time before he finally responded with a "Report to me immediately if the same adjucha arrives again, and also, should it arrive again send Ikkaku and Yumichika to finish it off, Hitsugaya you are to be on standby, the only reason that you are to fight this adjucha is that it wants to fight you deliberately or if your comrades are in a serious situation." Before any of them could ask why he was giving such orders, the signal was cut off, and all they were left with was static. It was a few moments before Ikkaku broke the silence "im not complaining or anything, but, why would the head captain order that….."

"Well, if the head captain orders it, then there should be no questions about it" and with that Hitsugaya left the apartment. As the rest of the group was looking out the window lost in thought they saw the sun set yet again, the rays making the sky go from bright orange to blood-red.