Yoruichi met up with Kisuke right after her little visit with Inuyasha. She saw the shop keeper was waiting outside Ichigo's home probably about to jump in and offer to help at any minute.

"So how is our friend Inuyasha doing?", Kisuke asked the flash goddess.

"He's doing well, his wife Kagome is quite a woman, I can see why he loves her so much"

"Well his love for her was able to last five hundred years and allow him to transcend the natural instincts of a hollow" Urahara commented, well transcend wasn't the right word, Inuyasha basically found a way around eating souls and other hollows to evolve and perhaps that's why he is so strong.

"I looked into Kagome's spirit energy for you too and well…"

"Yes?", Kisuke wondered what could make Yoruichi hesitate.

"I can't make heads or tails of it", she pulled out of her pocket a small vial that glowed with a light pink and tossed it to him, "Here I took a small sample of her power maybe you can figure out what it is".

"Thanks, so Inuyasha and Kagome are doing well, no trouble in paradise?" Kisuke asked about the couple again, but Yoruichi just nodded and began to walk away.

"You seem very interested in their relationship Kisuke, why is that?" She said looking back at him with a smirk, "The last time something like this happened was with Isshin and Masaki, and it seems to me that your hoping another Ichigo gets made" , Kisuke hid behind his fan embarrassed that she was referring to the act of child birth.

"Perhaps I'm just curious of what would come from the union of an arrancar and a human", the shop keeper said before she disappeared. He looked down at the sample of Kagome's spirit energy sensing why Yoruichi was confused over this mysterious power, his mind already coming up with several theories.


"So if these guys aren't soul reapers then what are they?" Inuyasha asked sitting across from Stark.

"I'm not sure I didn't stick around to find out. Harribel didn't want to bring you into this, but I knew we would need your help, we need you to help kick these guys out of our home", Stark said looking at him with that rare seriousness in his eyes. Inuyasha mind went off Las Noches was apparently attacked and conquered which would normally seem impossible, but with only three Espada level arrancars to defend it of course it could happen.

"Does the Soul Society know about this?", Inuyasha thought that if they did then somebody would have been sent to investigate by now, because knowing them they should be all over this, but if they're not them something big is about to happen.

"No, I don't think so"

"Good, we can clean this up quietly without them getting involved", Kagome was listening to their conversation, Inuyasha was really concerned over his fellow arrancars, and she really wanted to help him this time.

"Alright go get Lilynete and we can head back" Stark headed up stairs to retrieve the other half of his soul.

"Kagome I'm sorry, but I have to go help them".

"I understand, but I want to come with you if that's alright", she decided to at least asking though knowing how protective Inuyasha is she already knew his answer.

"Sorry, but this world is nothing like what we experienced in the feudal era Kagome, it will be safer for you to stay here", He said sternly leaving no room for argument. Stark came back down stairs holding on to a struggling Lilynete who kept shouting about not getting to a check point yet. They all headed outside after Inuyasha quickly left his gigai in their bedroom where he knew Kagome would keep it safe.

"Come back safely Inuyasha", she said kissing her arrancar husband goodbye.

"Don't worry I'll be back as soon as this is finished", Inuyasha waved goodbye while following Stark and Lilynete through the garganta.


LATER IN HUECO MUNDO

Ichigo was currently battling the Quincy stern ritter Kirge Opei. The battle seemed to be even, but the substitute soul reaper was quickly gaining the upper hand and in his frustration the stern ritter received a direct hit through his chest by Kisuke Urahara's kido. Ichigo was informed that soul society was under attack by the enemy and he was ushered through a garganta made by the shop keeper. However the Quincy was not yet dead, he used some sort of technique to imprison Ichigo in a cage of spirit energy while sealing off the entrance and exit from soul society to Hueco Mundo.

"He's really going crazy in there, no matter" the quincy remarked referring to the imprisoned boy, he turned to face the rest of the group of humans and arrancar, "Now I should eliminate the rest of you before the power I absorbed from that beast disappears". Before he could attack a hand suddenly grabbed ahold of his face and threw him violently into a sand dune.

"I didn't expect to see any familiar faces here", a voice said from in front of them, they all looked up to see the former zero Espada standing there in his white arrancar uniform.

"Inuyasha!", Orihime was the first to speak.

"You were rescued a couple years ago, so what the hell did you come back for", Inuyasha scolded her like an over protective friend would.

"Glad to see you Inuyasha", Kisuke said from where he sat, he truly didn't expect Inuyasha to get involved in this and was worried that he might have to use the last favor he was owed.

"This is unexpected", the beaten up Quincy said as he crawled out of the hole, "I wasn't aware of any more arrancars with such raw power were still around".

"That's because I'm a former Espada dumb ass!" Inuyasha faced his opponent knowing that at his current level and the injuries on his body he could easily crush him. The stern ritter just chuckled when he said he was an Espada.

"An Espada is that so, well it doesn't matter what rank you were, because the strongest was already defeated and captured!", the quincy fired a barrage of arrows at him with his weapon. Inuyasha just blew them all away with a low grade cero.

"You seem to be misinformed, Tia Harribel was the former third Espada, the only one left stronger than her was Stark, but he is too lazy to be left in charge", Inuyasha just stared at his opponent wondering how the others could be defeated by this weakling.

"There was an Espada stronger than her, your lying there was nothing about that in the daten his majesty gave me", the Quincy was starting to feel the effects of his wounds and exhaustion.

"You didn't let me finish, Stark was the strongest Espada in Hueco Mundo, but now that I've come back", Inuyasha tore off a chunk of fabric on his right arm revealing the number zero tattooed on his bicep, "Now I'm the strongest one here". Kirge was shocked he was never informed of a zero ranked Espada, he had a vague understanding of how powerful the first Espada could be, but was completely in the dark about a level beyond that.

"Now tell me where is Tia Harribel, tell me honestly and your death won't be so slow and painful", Inuyasha took slow deliberate steps towards his enemy, he was furious that these people had the nerve to attack his former home and step all over the pride of the arrancar.

"I have no reason to tell you hollow scum!", he tried to sound confident when in reality he was terrified of the white haired being approaching.

"What if I cut off your arm would you tell me then", the stern ritter didn't get a chance to respond as his weapon arm was sliced clean off.

'Impossible he sliced clean through my blut vene', he thought while holding the bleeding stump. "You vile creature!", Inuyasha shut him up by shoving his clawed hand that glowed with a yellow energy into the large open wound of his chest and holding it there.

"This is one of my special attacks, I call it soul stealer, I charge up spirit energy into my hand and shove it into an object, and when I release the built up energy it explodes outward destroying whatever my hand is shoved into from the inside out", he explained to the worried quincy, "Now tell me there were two arrancar girls, twins to be exact, their names were Sara and Zana, tell me what happened to them"

"I-I don't know they were p-probably k-killed", the man stuttered out.

"I see, then there's no reason to let you live"

"P-please wait", Inuyasha didn't plan on showing mercy as he suddenly released the energy and the entire upper half of the man's body was destroyed leaving only his legs and a splatter painting of blood across the white sands.

"I'm sorry Sara and Zana, I didn't make it in time", Inuyasha stared at the distance sadly thinking of his fraccion that died without him there to protect them.


FLASH BACK

Lord Aizen had told the Espada that they could recruit fraccion made up of numeros level arrancars to work under them. Grimmjow picked out a small group, Harribel though already had a group of three women who followed her and Barragan had a big cluster of arrancars that he could play king with. Inuyasha though didn't really want nor need any one serving under him, being the strongest ranked Espada already. He decided to go check the training facility for potential fraccion just because he was bored.

Inuyasha arrived on a balcony that overlooked a vast room with plain white walls, high ceiling, and dark blue tile floor. Below him were many arrancars locked in duels with each other, they didn't seem to notice him watching. The dog eared Espada watched them fight and train with a bored expression, none of them were particularly interesting. However two arrancars managed to catch his eye, they were two identical girls, with matching white vests, skirts, and the same halo shaped mask fragment on their heads. They only differences between them were that one had blonde hair and light blue eyes while the other had black hair and light orange eyes.

The girls were fighting to male arrancars and seemed to be holding their own until their opponents activated their sword release and eventually overwhelmed the girls. The twins had to quickly perform their sword release as well and Inuyasha wasn't all that surprised to see they were almost the same angelic form. They only difference was their techniques where the black haired girl used her pitch fork to fight up close while the blonde girl fired shots from her spear from a distance. The major flaw in their strategy was that they didn't swap fighting styles, that weakness was exploited when the two males closed in to attack the blonde arrancar who couldn't defend herself. What surprised and impressed Inuyasha was that the black haired girl quickly moved in between her twin and the two oncoming ceros and tried to block with her pitch fork, but still received several burns. She nearly collapsed and the other stood over her protectively while another cero barrage came at them; however it was suddenly stopped by Inuyasha's bare hand.

"That's enough", he decided to come down from the balcony and put end to this fight, he had seen all he needed to.

"The zero Espada Inuyasha, sir!", the arrancars said, everyone in the room suddenly stopped their duels and bowed towards him in respect. Inuyasha ignored them and focused on the two identical arrancars he just saved.

"You two come with me" he commanded to them as he made his way to the exit.

"Are we in trouble?", the blonde girl asked as she and her injured twin undid their resurreccion.

"No, I need a couple fraccion and you two are it so let's go", Inuyasha looked back at them waiting for them to lose their shocked expression. Both the girls couldn't believe it, to be the fraccion of an Espada was a high honor, but to be the fraccion of the zero was an even greater privilege. The other arrancars watched enviously as the girls followed after him. He brought the two to his palace where he could talk to them in private.

"So what are your names?"

"I'm Sara Valon", the blonde girl said.

"And I'm Zana Valon", the black haired girl answered.

"I see, so your sisters then", the two nodded in agreement.

"Master Inuyasha, if I may be so bold, why did you pick us to be your fraccion", Sara asked curious to know why they we're chosen.

"To be honest you girls are not that skilled or very powerful", he said kind of harshly, "there are a lot of openings in your fighting style too".

"Then why did you pick us!", Zana yelled at him angry that he was criticizing them.

"You two have the potential to be strong, I didn't see it at first, but I saw it immediately when you both tried to protect the other". They both looked at each other then back at him not entirely sure what that had to do with power.

"True power is achieved when you have something to protect, very few arrancars possess that, and as long as you both have it you will always get stronger", the girls looked at Inuyasha with admiration as he started to explain to them how he planned on training them to swap fighting styles and cover all their openings.

"One more thing, since you are now my fraccion that means you're both under my protection, so if anyone tries to harm you just call me and I'll always come to your aid".


END FLASH BACK

"Forgive me girls", he turned around to head back to the humans and shop keeper. Before he could talk to them there was an explosive crash next to him. Peering through the dust he saw the familiar face of the former sixth Espada Grimmjow.

"Hey you took my kill Inuyasha!" the blue haired arrancar growled.

"Well Grimmjow if you didn't take your sweat time to get here" Inuyasha threw back.

"Not my fault that damn Stark slowed me down", just as he said that the very same man appeared via sonido with Lilynete by his side.

"Don't complain Grimmjow I told you we had to eliminate all the enemy soldiers before we take down the boss", Stark said rubbing the back of his head.

"So now what?", Lilynete asked.

"We find the enemy base and wipe them all the hell out!" was Grimmjow's suggestion.

"We don't know where their base is and plus we need to get Harribel back first" Inuyasha explained.

"If I may interrupt", Kisuke Urahara walked up to the group of arrancars, "From the information I've gathered these guy's real target is the soul society, and since there are only a few of you, perhaps you should join forces with the thirteen court guard squads to defeat them". A long silence paused until Grimmjow burst out laughing.

"Yeah right join up with soul reapers, that's rich!" Grimmjow sneered.

"I have to agree with him, they were once our enemy they wouldn't want our help even if we tried to form an alliance", was Stark's logical conclusion.

"And Inuyasha do you agree with them?", Kisuke asked him.

"They're right unfortunately; we'll take care of our own problems and you soul reapers will have to fight them yourselves", As much as he thought making an alliance with them would be beneficial, he seriously doubted the soul society would even accept arrancars like them.

"Actually things have changed in the past few years, for example at least three captains are part hollow", Kisuke said trying to change their minds; however they still looked unsure so he continued. "Consider this the last favor you owe me Inuyasha".

"Really?"

"Yes if you and your friends help us defeat this new enemy then consider our business with each other done", Inuyasha decided that ending his involvement with Kisuke so he could keep his gigai was too good a chance to pass up.

"Fine, we'll help", Inuyasha said.

"If Inuyasha agrees I guess I might as well join you too", Stark replied.

"As if I would ever agree to fight alongside a soul reaper!" Grimmjow was about to storm off when Inuyasha stopped him.

"You know Grimmjow if you helped then Ichigo Kurosaki would be obligated to fight you when this is all over, whenever you want", the blue haired Espada stopped in his track and Inuyasha knew he had him, "And you might as well practice on the enemies for that fight".

"Fine I'm in", he grinned imagining the fight with Ichigo he would get.

"Excellent, now come with me so we can discuss our plan of action", Kisuke said as they followed behind him.

"I can't believe I'm missing my date for this", Inuyasha said to himself.


KRAKURA TOWN, URAHARA'S SHOP

A knock on the front door got Yoruichi's attention. Heading upstairs from the training area she felt a familiar spiritual presence, and opening the front door she was greeted with the sight of Inuyasha's wife Kagome standing there with a determined look on her face.

"Kagome what are you doing here?", she asked there was a short pause before the girl replied.

"I've come to help"


Inu took Grimkitty's kill from him. Yes I do think it was Grimmjow in the manga that finished that quincy off. Sorry to anyone who liked my OCs Sara and Zana may they RIP. Kagome's power will be explained later, it is pretty much the same as it was in the series, at least in the world of the living, hint hint.

I really need all the stern ritters and their powers revealed, the problem I'm facing is giving Inuyasha someone interesting to fight. I already have someone he is going to fight towards the end, but I need someone for him to fight before that.

If any of you readers have an idea about who Inuyasha could go up against leave me a review, I would really like to hear your opinions on it.

Peace.