It was a dark and bloody night. The walled village was looking more and more like a battlefield, instead of a relatively peaceful place it used to be only a day or two ago. Name of the village was Konohagakure no sato, "The village hidden among leaves". And for a village it's size, it was pretty well hidden in the forests of the Fire country, but on this night it could easily be seen from miles away. Mostly because of the tall plumes of smoke and of course a giant demonic nine-tailed fox, which was at the time laying waste to the denizens and the protectors of the village.
Only a few hours later it was all over, the leader of the village and his wife, had sacrificed their lives to protect not just their village, but the entire world, since there were few who could oppose such a strong force as was, and is, the demonic nine-tailed fox, known to the people just as Kyuubi no Yoko.
In a different universe, a battle was being fought too, although this battle was a different one. On one side there was a young man, the only one standing of his entire squad. And on the other there was what seemed like a monster, almost three times the size of his opponent, skinny, with long arms and a pure white mask on what should be its face.
Only a few hours earlier, the man was still at home, saying goodbye to his wife and daughter, after he had heard of an emergency mission he and the rest of his team was assinged. It was dangerous and suicidal, but someone had to do it, He was not about to fail captain Zaraki. The mission was to retrieve something that those wretched Hollows took. And to do that, they needed to go into their territory, Hueco Mundo, as it is called, and that hasn't been done in a very long time.
After they have arrived into the eternally moonlit desert, the several scientist that were sent with them, pointed them towards the ruins of castle Las Noches; that was where they needed to go. And they did, at least for a few hours, their advance was stopped by an ambush, and it was not a very successfull ambush, since in the end there were only two left standing. Vice-captain Kurotsuchi Nemu was the leader of the mission, and during the attack, she was knocked unconcious by one of the Hollow. As for the attackers, they were all regular Hollow except for one, which was an Adjuchas, and that was the one that survived.
After a few moments, the man gathered his courage and said the invocation:
"Cut your foe to defend your friend: Wangetsu Hogosha!".
And then, he charged forward, with a strange shield instead of a normal sword that was in its place a few seconds ago. The Hollow got ready and oddly enough, opened it's mouth wide, revealing an already compressed ball of spiritual energy ready to obliterate everything in fron of him. The man didn't stop, instead he charged faster, and in the last moment, before the destructive force of a small ball was to be released, he struck it with the edge of his shield.
Maybe it was because of the shields unique power to deflect attacks, maybe it was because the Hollow has been building up that Cero for at least half a minute making it somehow change from the regular kind, or it could be any other number of things. The important thing is, the ball solidified and started cracking, at first it was barely audible, but it started getting louder and louder, giving both the man and the Hollow an ominous feeling.
Suddenly, it all stopped, the orb dissapeared, but so did everything else, they could still see each other and a few meters of ground they were standing on. That was when they realised what happened, they were now inside the ball. Maybe they were sucked in, or it could be that the orb expanded and enveloped them, sadly they did not have enough time to contemplate the strange effect.
They were enveloped in a bright light, and then they disappeared. All this was seen by Nemu, who woke up in time to see the last man of her team charge with his shikai towards the Hollow.
The man and the Hollow were now unconcious, still enveloped in the bright light, but then things got worse, their limbs started fading away, slowly, the rest of their bodies faded too, and all that was left inside the orb was the shield which only turned into its regular shape.
Deep in the forests of the fire country, not too far from the demolished village, there was a barely visible flash in the sky, and after a few more moments, a simple sword fell from above, embedding itself in the earth, now in a place with no Shinigami or Hollow, the soul of the sword fell into a deep slumber.
It lied there, forgotten, since it won't be picked up by anyone for another several years...
