Okay everyone, I've finished this chapter, but before we begin, I owe you all an explanation. So, yesterday when I closed the poll, it was because I saw a idea forming in my head as I saw the two pairings in the lead were Ichigo/Byakuya and Ichigo/Renji and at first I thought nothing of it until I remembered that Renji has a rivalry with Byakuya and then the thought of a rivalry over Ichigo came to be and I really want to do this, but this leaves me with a conundrum or two as well. So I have a two questions to ask at the end of the chapter. Thanks for listening to my rant.

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Cosheets - really nice idea. I cant wait to read more.

In the words of Shenron, "Your wish is granted."

Chapter 2

Third Person POV

It was 3 weeks of peace that the defenders of Karakura had until the next problem sprang up. In that time Tatsuki had began her Visored training and officially joined the Visoreds, Rukia Kuchiki and Orihime Inoue left to Soul Society to train, and the group from the Soul Society fought off any hollows that appeared.

But it was on the 29th of October that the next fight began. In Hueco Mundo Ulquiorra, Akemi, and Ichigo were together again as they made their way through Las Noches to a summons from Aizen.

"Ulquiorra, Ichigo, and Akemi requesting entry." Ulquiorra stated.

Once allowed inside the group noticed the Aizen and the other espada were waiting. While Aizen spoke to Ulquiorra Akemi and Ichigo busied themselves.

"Onee-chan, we are to go on the mission Aizen-sama is going to order, yes?" Akemi asked of her sister.

"Yes Imouto, he has requested we go, he believes that we would best be used in this plan, I am to keep Urahara busy and Luppi will be sent after Yoruichi, meanwhile you will fight Captain Hitsugaya." Ichigo replied.

"Are we allowed Shikai?" Akemi asked.

"Yes, we are allowed our full Hollow power as well, but only if dangerous elements appear." Ichigo informed.

"Thank you Onee-chan." Akemi replied,"Please be safe Onee-chan, if something happened..."

Ichigo grabbed Akemi and gave her a stern look,"Akemi, ever since we were children chasing Harribel and her fraccion around, we have always been together, in happiness, in pain, and in unconsciousness, we share everything we can even allowing each other in our inner worlds. We will share death also and it won't be soon, I promise."

With that the two went silent and began speaking with their zanpakuto.

Later

In the world of the living Captain Toshiro Hitsugaya and his team sat with their zanpakuto as they tried to perform jinzen when they were interrupted by the opening of a Garganta.

Out of this Garganta came Effeminate male Arrancar with black hair and lavender eyes. This was Luppi Antenor, he wore a long-sleeve shirt, enough to cover and cloak his hands. Luppi's shirt had an opening on the left side of his body, just below his arm, allowing him to place his Zanpakutō within it. In addition, there were two large square-like holes on the bottom portion of his shirt that reveal his left and right abdomens. Luppi finished his outfit with a white hakama, black sash, black tabi socks and a pair of low-heeled open-toe shoes.

Also among the group was Yammy Llargo with his small amount of black hair lower jaw mask fragment, and a similar variation in his outfit to Grimmjow.

And the last members of the group were Ichigo, Akemi and the familiar blue haired arrancar, Grimmjaow Jaegerjaquez with his variation of the arrancar uniform with an opened jacket revealing his chest for all to see.

Immediately upon opening of the Garganta Grimmjow made quick use of his reiatsu sensing abilities and growled,"The guy I'm looking to kill isn't down there."

With no more explanation he sonidoed off.

"Mou, Grimmjow-kun is in a hurry." Akemi noted, before turning to the Shinigami below, "Yammy-san, would you like to, as the humans say, lead the charge?"

"With pleasure." Yammy said jumping down.

"Be safe Akemi, if you get in trouble, I don't care what Aizen says, go full power and go hide in Menos Forest." Ichigo said.

"Hai Onee-chan, only if you promise the same." Akemi replied.

"We have an accord Imouto." Ichigo said nodding as she went off to find Kisuke Urahara while Luppi went looking for Yoruichi. Akemi found herself faced with three Shinigami. A strawberry blonde woman with blue eyes, a bald man, and a black haired, purple eyed Shinigami who had several additions to his uniform.

Meanwhile with the Vizards Tatsuki was requesting she be allowed to test herself on the Espada hoping that battle experience would help her with her hollow mask and Rukia was requested back to the World of the Living.

When Akemi was met with the three shinigami, she was just able to hear Yammy say,"That's quite a coincidence, I'm also a 10, Espada Diez Yammy Llargo." Yammy introduced.

Seeing introductions were being made Akemi bowed politely to her opponents,"I am Akemi, Espada Hueca, half of it at least."

"Espada." She looked to Yammy's opponent when that was said and saw a young, white haired shinigami with turquoise eyes in a captain's haori, Toshiro Hitsugaya, Aizen mentioned him once or twice before, but now that she was seeing him, she absent-mindedly thought he was kinda cute, before shaking that thought from her head.

"You're half of an Espada? How?" Yumichika asked his confusion shared by his fellow Shinigami.

"My sister and I are a package deal Shinigami-san, we make up Espada Hueca." Akemi answered.

"Okay, what is your last name?" Rangiku asked.

"Like Onee-chan told Kurosaki-san, we have no last name, unlike the other Espada, we had no previous names before we were not with Aizen. we had no living family nor did we know their names. However, we aren't here to talk and we have wasted precious time as is, you see."

At this Akemi's eyes glowed with power as her white reiatsu covered her,"The longer I am away from Onee-chan, the less chance you have of surviving."

'This reiatsu, it's more than my own.' Toshiro noted.

Seeing the chance Ikkaku rushed forward with his Hozukimaru. The young woman lazily drew her zanpakuto,"I see, you wish to fight first. I wouldn't suggest fighting alone, but who am I to order you around."

After reaching Akemi, Ikkaku began a barrage of attacks with his Hozukimaru. After a few moments Akemi ducked under a strike and came back up with a cero in hand.

"Goodbye, Shinigami-san."

Ikkaku barely blocked the brunt of the damage from the cero. When the cero died down Akemi seemed pleased.

"You survived it seems." She noted happily,"Good, I can do this, then."

She ran her hand over her zanpakuto's blade, "Captivate them, Kagamihime!"

With those words her zanpakuto transformed into a Odachi with a circular tsuba, grey wrappings, and a small mirror attached by a silver ribbon to its end.

"Shikai?" Ikkaku asked surprised.

"Oh, you believed me an Arrancar. Sorry for the confusion, I am not. I am what you call a Kaware Reita." Akemi informed.

'Kaware Reita?!' Rangiku shouted internally, then she blinked as she remembered something,'She's mentally unstable and Aizen has taken advantage of her and her neesan's instability.'

This realization fills Rangiku with pure rage toward Aizen and determination. She would help this young girl.

"Growl, Haineko." The blade of her zanpakuto turned into a cloud of metal and she directed it toward the girl.

Before it could hit the young woman she shimmered out of existence.

"I guess Aizen-sama was right. Shinigami are ruthless creatures. It actually scares me to fight know that now, let's fix that shall we, Shinigami-chan?" The girl's voice said from Rangiku's right. Rangiku jumped back, but felt a pain in her side that was revealed to be a cut.

"That bastard! What did he do to you?! This devotion you hold, how can you be so devoted to him?!" Rangiku growled.

"Huh? Devotion to Aizen-sama? I am devoted to only one person. Aizen-sama is my leader, nothing more." She dismissed reappearing a few feet away with her blade at Yumichika's neck,"He is a horrible person, but I must listen to him. When I rebel, he hurts me and that makes Onee-chan sad."

"If he hurts you then come with me and I promise you, we'll do our best to protect you, I will do whatever it takes to protect you and your neesan." Rangiku said softly.

She seemed to hesitate for a moment, pulling her blade back. Then, in a childlike manner she asked,"Pinky Promise?"

Rangiku nodded,"Pinky promise."

Akemi lowered her blade and soon stood in front of her, pinky out. As requested Rangiku interlocked pinkies with Akemi.

"I promise to do whatever it takes to protect you from Aizen." Rangiku said.

Akemi smiled at Rangiku only for her eyes to widen as a cero hit her back and she fell to the ground limp.

Akemi's POV

When I awoke I looked around and I felt fear grip my soul as Ichigo was trapped behind a barrier and in front of her was Aizen.

"Now, I understand your mental state is not in good shape, so I will ease punishment this time." He informed, but Akemi noticed a look in his eyes, he was concerned, by her defection. He was scared of them. Then Akemi remembered the Shinigami woman's promise and determination filled her.

'Kagami-chan, Reina-chan, will you offer me your aid?' She asked her spirits as pain drove her from her body and into her inner world.

'We will Akemi-chan/sama' Two voices replied.

Some time later

Ichigo's POV

I growled at Aizen as I sat in the designated chair for me and Akemi. While Akemi seemed fine now, I could never forget Akemi writhing in pure agony the shrieks belonging to a Hollow, the only thing escaping her throat. It grated on me and Shiro, our instincts telling us both to protect her but another part of our instincts recognized the power Aizen held, that small part of me that we both hate, the part that held back our instinct to protect. Noticing Aizen was getting ready to speak, I took a sip of the offered tea.

"There are 3 intruders trying to break in. Uryu Ishida, Yasutora Sado, and Tatsuki Kurosaki." Aizen explained. I was one of the few who noticed Grimmjow's eyes widen slightly.

This brought comments from the other Espada, however the interest in the pink haired Szayel Aporro Granz cause me to shudder, remembering his annual study sessions of Akemi and me.

"Don't underestimate them, Quincy are resourceful creatures, they evolved from normal humans to destroy our kind. According to Grimmjow the Shinigami has a interesting power that caused him problems, and the final one, he is similar to us, who are we to say he can't absorb Hollow souls." I stated.

"Very right Ichigo-chan." Aizen went on to explain that a group of four including the three went up against the Gotei 13, that prompted the question of the fourth member. Aizen then informed us all that the woman Ulquiorra captured is the fourth member.

Grimmjow, in a hurry to fight, stood and readied to leave, but was soon back in his seat when Aizen informed us he wasn't done speaking. He explained that we needn't worry nor be hasty to fight. We were requested to go to our quarters and wait it out, act as normal.

It wasn't long before we were allowed to leave, however Akemi stood and bowed to Aizen,"Aizen-sama, may Onee-sama and I go to the menos forest, I wish to feed." Akemi requested.

Aizen seemed to pause,"Why?"

"I wish to patrol the menos forest and learn the situation down there and possibly spread the word while feeding." She explained.

"Very well you both may go." He said putting his warm and benevolent smile on his face.

With that we left and as we exited Las Noches I watched as Akemi formed a Garganta to the Menos Forest.

Later

We'd gone and fed on a few Gillians and informed the Adjuchas of intruders, Akemi led me to a rarely ventured part of Menos Forest.

"He's around here somewhere." Akemi stated to herself.

"Who?" I asked.

"A Shinigami who has been trapped here. I met him when we used to play here. When we were separated, back then." Akemi said.

I remembered the time in question. When we first awoke, among Hollows at the young age of 6 we immediately began to fight our way up as Hollows and one day when we were 9, we were separated and I ate my way to find her, however when I did find her she was safe and held a hollow mask that obviously wasn't hers.

"He gave you that mask?" I asked.

"Yes, he gave it to me. I am thankful for its presence when I needed it." She said and I couldn't help but thank the heavens she had the mask when the incident she mentioned happened.

"So why are we here?" I asked when I calmed once more.

"He is here as a Shinigami, Shinigami are coming to save Inoue-san. This is a chance to save him from eventual death by hollow and this will allow us to rebel." Akemi informed.

"Rebel?!" I asked in surprise.

"Yes, Onee-chan. I will no longer work under someone who causes us to fear him when he himself fears us. We are horses who will not carry a King who fears our strength. We evolve and adapt to become more powerful than our enemies. Besides, we have someone waiting for us among the Shinigami. She promised." Akemi said determination brimming in her eyes.

'Heh, looks like she's quoting me Queen.' Shiro informed.

"Let's do this!" I nodded.

And here's the end, so I won't waste any more of your time with these author's notes besides the questions I mentioned earlier.

Firstly, Who should get Ichigo in the end Byakuya or Renji

Secondly, who should Akemi be paired with? The two left in the options were Uryu and Toshiro, I'll set up some stuff, but I'll wait for you guys' thoughts, maybe you can suggest some ideas.

Thanks for reading.

P. S. Don't worry about Chad or Tatsuki, I have plans for pairings with them.

~Nox