Hi guys. This is my first Bleach story. I've seen the show till episode 300 and read about it all from Bleach Wikipedia. So if you disagree with things like Zanpakuto spirit forms, new shikai and bankai, then please know that I've taken them from the show itself. The exception being the shikai and bankai of the captains who haven't revealed it yet of course. If you notice any mistake grammatically or in the storyline then please feel free to inform me!
The screams of agony and pain from the 65th district of Rukongai could be heard from even faraway places.
All the way till the Sereitei where the Soul Reapers gazed in awe and wonder at the amount of destruction taking place in the faraway districts of Rukongai.
The sound of Yamamoto banging his cane on the floor echoed within the 1st Division Hall as the Captain-Commander took his place at the Head of the Captain's meeting.
"Listen well, we have received notice from the Soul Reapers posted at the gates that there seems to be some sort of disturbance in some of the faraway districts of Rukongai." Said Yamamoto in his usual clear and loud voice which radiated authority.
"Yeah so what? Not any of our beeswax" scoffed Kenpachi Zaraki, Captain of the 11th Division as some of the other Captains threw him disapproving looks.
"I'm afraid it is some of our beeswax as Captain Zaraki puts it, we do not know whether this disturbances are being caused by Aizen or not, we must not forget the extreme damages we suffered while fighting in the Fake Karakura town" said Yamamoto.
"It's thankful that Urahara, Ichigo and Isshin managed to ward off Aizen so that he had to retreat for sometime or else we'd have been in serious trouble" thought Jushirou Ukitake as he looked around and saw similar expressions of some of his fellow captain's faces.
The reverses had been severe for the Soul Reapers. With Captains Unohana, Zaraki, Kurotsuchi and Kuchiki missing the offensive power had been lessened a great deal.
Early on during the battle Captain Hitsugaya, Soi Fon and Ukitake had been severely injured by the Top Three Espadas while Captain Kyoraku had been knocked out (or pretended to).
Yamamoto had kept fighting Aizen and had managed to injure him to a certain limit before Aizen had used Kyoka Suigetsu's shikai to disable to Captain-Commander.
With the arrival of Kisuke Urahara, Ichigo and Isshin Kurosaki the battle had gone in their favor a bit more but just before almost killing Isshin Aizen had called back his forces and retreated back to Las Noches just as the remaining Captains had arrived tired, but still willing to fight.
Now three months after the Battle of the Fake Karakura Town the Soul Society had faced no more disturbances from the Hollows or from the defected Captains.
Now after three months of peace disturbances had been reported in Rukongai and the Captain-Commander refused to take the matter lightly.
"It happened 110 years ago when some minor disturbances caused the most Historic events in the Soul Society's history to occur, I do not wish for some like that to take place ever again, which is precisely the reason why I am appointing Captain Hitsugaya and Captain Soi Fon along with Lieutenants Hisagi, Kira and Hinamori to look into the matter" said the Captain-Commander.
Hitsugaya gave a slight flinch at the name of his best friend Momo Hinamori who had been receiving organ transplantation from Captain Kurotsuchi and Captain Unohana.
"Don't worry Captain Hitsugaya, I won't let him cut up Lieutenant Hinamori" was what Captain Unohana had softly whispered to him when the decision had been announced.
The senior Captain harbored a soft spot for the youngest Captain and had been rather amused to see his look of horror when his friend's fate had been left up to Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
"The Captain-Commander is a cunning man, I don't know what he hopes to achieve by sending Momo on this mission" thought Hitsugaya as Yamamoto babbled on about things like 'sense of duty' and 'responsibility mixed with reliability' which merely passed over the young Captain's head.
At the end of his speech the Captain Commander opened his eyes and glanced around to see the usual bored faces of Captain Zaraki and Hitsugaya. The snoring of Captain Kyoraku. The stern faces of Captain Kuchiki, Komamura and Soi Fon and the impassive face of Captain Unohana, Ukitake and Kurotsuchi.
"You are to look into the matter for stay there for a week before returning to the Sereitei and turning in your report. The third seats of Squads Three, Five and Nine will be in charge for those seven days. Am I clear?" questioned Yamamoto.
His question earned him a few feeble responses. Yamamoto banged his staff hard on the ground as all the Captains bowed, "Yes sir"
"Humph, works every time" thought Yamamoto turning and returning back to his office as the doors opened.
Toshirou Hitsugaya returned to his office to find his Lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto lying sprawled on the couch with a bottle of sake on the floor and drool falling out of her mouth. She was slumbering ut would occasionally jump up, giggle and fall back to sleep.
Hitsugaya sighed as he sat down behind the mountain of paperwork on his desk. Just then there was a knock from outside.
"Come in" he yelled as Jushirou Ukitake walked into the room.
"Captain Ukitake" said Toshirou rising clearly surprised at his visitor.
"Very sorry to disturb you when you seem a bit busy" said Ukitake glancing at the paperwork and the drunken Matsumoto.
Toshirou followed the senior captain's gaze and sighed.
"I was wondering if I might have a word with you about this new mission you're off to in a few hours" said Ukitake.
"Yes, what is it?" asked Toshirou.
"I have a rather good friend in the 65th Rukongai District whom I placed there when these disturbances first began, as such he has given me some very intriguing news, it appears two Soul Reapers with unknown Zanpakutos are the cause of this mess" said Ukitake.
"Two Soul Reaper?" asked Toshirou as Rangiku gave a audible burp and giggled again.
"Exactly, two Soul Reapers" said Ukitake gravely.
"Then does that mean that Aizen is not involved in this?" questioned Toshirou frowning.
"We can't say for sure, Aizen is a man of a lot of cunning and it wouldn't be difficult for him to persuade or brainwash Soul Reapers into following him, however the chances of that happening are slim because it is virtually impossible to sneak into the Sereitei without someone noticing" said Ukitake still looking very grave.
"Hmm, well I'll see what I can do, thank you for your information Captain Ukitake" said Toshirou falling into deep thought as the Thirteenth Division Captain nodded, got up and left quietly.
"Hinamori-Kun. How are you?" asked Shuuhei Hisagi as Momo Hinamori stood by the North Gate of the Sereitei with her friend Izuru Kira.
"I'm fine now thank you" replied Hinamori politely but the bags under her bloodshot eyes and the pale colour of her skin screamed something else altogether.
"That's good to hear, I was worried about you all alone with Captain Kurotsuchi and Nemu in the Twelfth Division" said Hisagi.
"Oh it wasn't so bad, and I had Captain Unohana and Isane there with me most of the time as well" replied Hinamori giving the Ninth Division Lieutenant a small smile.
Just then Captain Soi Fon arrived with her shunpo and glanced around at them before speaking, "Where is Captain Hitsugaya?"
"He should be here soon Captain Soi Fon" replied Shuuhei seeing that Izuru and Hinamori seemed reluctant to talk.
"Humph, nobody cares about punctuality these days" muttered Soi Fon overlooking the fact that she herself was five minutes late.
Hitsugaya arrived ten minutes later. After giving a brief apology for his late arrival he stepped up and yelled out to the Gatekeeper to open the gate.
Soi Fon moved in front of him and walked out as Jidanbo lifted the Gate.
"I hope you can keep up with me Captain Hitsugaya and you three" said Soi Fon.
While the three Lieutenants looked at each other a little uneasily knowing that Soi Fon was probably one of the fastest shinigami in the entire Sereitei, Hitsugaya merely gave her a grim nod before all five of them shunpoed away through the Rukongai.
As the Soul Reapers passed through various districts of Rukongai ignoring some amazed, hateful, admiring or scared looks from the residents, Hinamori found herself constantly sneaking glances at the Tenth Divison Captain and hurriedly looking back whenever he happened to turn towards her.
Hinamori had heard about how Hitsugaya had spent every moment of his free time in front of her operation room and had even skipped a Captain's meeting to be with her during her operation with Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
"Right now, I get this really light hearted feeling whenever I see Shiro-Kun, I wonder why is that, I never felt like this before even with Captain Aizen": thought Hinamori.
Then her eyes clouded over as she remembered why she had needed organ transplantation.
"Captain Aizen tricked Shiro-Kun into stabbing me, I just wish it hadn't been this way, I wish we could go back to the time when Captain Aizen was still good, when he was still kind" thought Hinamori as she bumped into Toshirou's back.
"Ouch, oh sorry" she said as her eyes widened in shock.
"W-w-what is this?" she stammered in complete shock.
"It was the 60th district of Rukongai" said Soi Fon grimly dropping to her knees and digging her hands and taking a fist full of soil.
Before them lay a complete wasteland. Charred remains of some houses and blackened stumps of trees could be seen here and there.
The ground was completely covered with ashes and clothes of the deceased who had turned into dust and disintegrated. A cloud of smoke could be seen in the distance and a nasty, burnt smell still lingered in the air.
"This…this is horrible, I haven't seen this much destruction in my whole life" said Izuru as Soi Fon got up again.
"This is not the work of a hollow" she stated as there was a gasp of surprise from the Lieutenants.
"Not hollows? Then…who?" asked Hisagi looking at the wasteland before him.
"Soul Reapers" said Toshirou calmly as Soi Fon turned to face him.
"Are you quite sure about that? There could be some other reason for the whole thing you know" said Soi Fon watching the young Captain intently.
Toshirou shook his head, "I received a heads up from Captain Ukitake before I left. He said that a source he had put in the Rukongai claimed that the cause of this destruction is two Soul Reapers who frequently appeared and blew up everything in sight"
"Blew up, you say?" asked Soi Fon raising an eyebrow and turning away to rub her hands over a charred tree stump.
"That's terrible, why would a pair of Soul Reapers do such a thing" cried Hinamori.
"They must be pretty powerful if they managed to cause such massive destruction in such less time" said Izuru glancing at his surroundings.
"I doubt this pair you are referring to is to blame for the annihilation for the 60th district at least" said Soi Fon turning back to the group again.
"They're not?" inquired Hitsugaya.
"You say they blow up everything around them, but if you notice everything here is burnt, you'll see that all of the houses that are still standing are completely intact, just brunt, if there had been explosions then wouldn't everything have been broken into pieces and ruts should have been torn on the ground" said Soi Fon.
As Toshirou and the Lieutenants looked around they observed that Soi Fon was correct. There were no small pieces of rocks scattered here and there, no broken buildings, no craters to be seen anywhere as it should have been seen should there have been any explosions.
Suddenly there was a huge explosion some distance away and this was accompanied by great roars and yells.
"Quick, something's happening in the 66th District, lets go" cried Hitsugaya as they all shunpoed towards the noise.
As the five of them arrived at the 66th district they met with a scene of utter chaos.
Souls were running helter skelter, building exploded without any apparent reason, some people began running in the wrong direction and colliding with the other people which either resulted in them getting killed in the stampede or being brutally thrown.
Out of all this suddenly huge metal spikes emerged out of the ground piercing any people who might have survived.
"We've got to stop this" cried Izuru as Soi Fon suddenly released her zanpakuto.
"Sting all enemies to death, Suzumebachi" she cried suddenly streaking forward and attacking what seemed like air.
Suddenly there was a loud cry of pain and the metal spikes shattered into pieces.
A woman wearing soul reaper clothes fell out from behind a house with Suzumebachi's mark etched over her face.
As Soi Fon streaked in for her second and fatal attack the ground beneath her and the woman exploded, causing her to fall back.
As the smoke cleared a young man could be seen standing before the woman holding what looked like an ordinary sword with a curved end and two red tassels hanging from the hilt.
"Are you all right?" he asked sounding very worried as the woman ignored him and got up.
"Shut up you fool and concentrate on our foes, we have two Captain's and three Lieutenants on our hands" said the woman picking up her zanpakuto which had fallen to the ground after Soi Fon had attacked her.
"Yeah, yeah, I don't need you to point it out for me" retaliated the man.
"Sometimes you're so stupid, blind, idiotic, foolish, dumb to notice" cried the woman.
"Umm, stupid, idiotic, foolish and dumb have literally the same meaning you know" replied the man as the woman threw a small stone at him.
"Enough of this nonsense" cried Soi Fon, "Are you two aware of the intensity of the crimes you have caused, you are under arrest for annihilation and destruction of all the districts between 60 and 66"
"Don't annihilation and destruction mean the same thing?" asked the man as Soi Fon suddenly appeared behind him with her Suzumebachi drawn at his throat.
As the woman raised her Zanpakuto she found herself surrounded by the three Lieutenants who had each released their own Zanpakutos and stood there glaring at her.
"Give it up, you two are surrounded, there is no way you can escape from here, you both are just at a Lieutenant's level, you're no match for two Captains together" ordered Toshirou commandingly as the man gave him a glare.
The woman began laughing, "Look at the little kid gives speeches, can you hear him? That big mouth of his will lead to his destruction someday"
At first Toshirou thought she was speaking to the man when he realized that there was a third presence present somewhere.
"Who's there?" he yelled when suddenly the ground beneath him cracked and water gushed out of it making all of the Soul Reapers loose their concentration for a moment.
"Reign over the frosted heavens, Hyourinmaru" cried Toshirou as the water froze and then shattered.
By the time they had regained their compusure, there was no sign of anybody else in the area. The sound of a light bell could be heard as Hitsugaya looked up sharply just in time to see a shadow ducking away behind a chimney.
His eyes narrowed when he heard a cry from Hinamori.
"What';s wrong" he cried running up to her.
But as soon as he got there he realized he didn't need an answer for before them were practically half an army of Menos Grande. All roaring and charging up their Cero.
That's all for this chappie. Lemme know what you think of it. Please review!
