Thanks for the responses and constructive criticism! Unfortunately, I won't get to the rest till next chapter as things are panning out.

"Talk" Thought


Captain Nickel Shard, Lieutenant Yuki Suzuki, and Third Seat Samanosuke Fuura stepped out of the Hell's Gate in small street with people there. The captain stepped out in front of his two subordinates and spun on his heel to face them.

"Listen up. Five souls are here that isn't suppose to be here. A fourth class citizen, three third class citizens, and a single second class citizen are here that needs to be hunted down and killed. Leave the second class last, ideally both of you will fight him or her together. Samanosuke, remember my warning."

The guy nodded. "Good, both of you may start. Good hunting." Both Yuki and Samanosuke shunpoed off. Well, Samanosuke attempted to shunpo off, but messed up and landed flat on his face. He quickly got up and just ran off.

How did that guy make Third Seat of Squad Five? No matter, I need to get on with my own mission. Nickel shunpoed off himself.


It didn't take Yuki long to find one of the third class citizens. The thing was human shaped, but had a silver-ish right arm with six inch claws, a serpentine left arm, and the rest of him was all green. The thing was arguing with a red headed boy with a little girl behind him.

What was more, a man with a green striped hat and clogs with a cane was watching the demon. Yuki could sense that guy had a lot of spirit power.

Is that guy a normal human? Oh well, I have work to do.

Yuki landed behind the demon and jumped towards him to lob off his head. The demon sensed her and ducked. The short girl continued on, stepping on the red head's head, pushed off it and flipped and twirled to face her opponent.

She used shunpo to grab the boy and throw him out of her way. The demon lunged at her with its six inch claws. She sidestepped left to avoid it, then ducked to avoid the back hand swing. She went for his gut, but he jumped back.

"Bakudo 15: Tsuchi Ito!" A red rope emerged from the ground and restrained the demon's right arm. Yuki went in for the kill, an downward swing. The demon blocked it with his other arm, though the lieutenant did make a small cut.

"You are gonna have to do better than that!" The thing laughed at her.

"All right. Freeze: Suzushouka!" Her entire sword changed color to light blue, even the ribbon it grew. On the ribbon, there were several silver bells on it, and at the end of the ribbon, a silver softball sized bell. The sword hacked off the demon's arm. She then hacked off the demon's head while she was standing in midair at that height.

"Some no Uta: Shirafune." Her sword was encased with ice as she spun around to attack another third class citizen. The demon saw it coming, so it only scratched his abdomen, leaving chunks of ice the size of two cereal bowls on each side of the cut.

"You guys aren't so tough. Now die…" Ironically, the demon died as the chunks of ice exploded into sharpened icicles that went into his flesh and head. Some of the icicles did explode away from him, but none reached anyone else.

Yuki's sword went to normal as she sheathed her sword and shunpoed off, ignoring the sounds below her as the Hell's Gate opened and scooped up the demons' remains.


Samanosuke found the fourth class citizen quickly enough. A turtle with spikes on the shell and a pair of cannons included on the shell. The turtle was also the size of a recliner. The second the demonic turtle saw him, it panicked and started to walk away. To the turtle it was running and apparently thought very highly of its speed.

Samanosuke just walked in front of it after it had traveled twelve feet. The turtle stopped and looked up. And this time, fired its cannons.

"Aha! Oh yeah, who's the man! Who's da man!" The turtle started a premature celebration as the attacks smashed into Samanosuke.

The smoke and dust cleared to show him completely unharmed. Also, now behind him was Uryu and Chad, wondering what was that explosion and who were these two.

Samanosuke just drew his huge zanpakutou with its X shaped hilt and the cut the turtle in two. Farther down the street was a third class citizen with a pair of sword arms and an ogre appearance. He decided not to hold anything back.

"Set their souls on fire: Honoo Oni!" The blade was consumed in purple flames. One swing sent the flames at the target, though they hugged the ground. The flames caught the guy's legs, tripped him up and the rest of him was consumed.

"Oh? So you really are a third seat." Yuki popped out of nowhere and startled him.

"Jeez, Lieutenant Suzuki, don't scare me like that!" Samanosuke withdrew his sword.

"What? You're not going to hit on me?" The four foot three inch tall girl pouted.

"Nope. No sex appeal." That warranted him to get the crap beat out of him. Yuki then just dragged his sorry butt away with her to find and kill the lone second class citizen.

Uryu and Chad just stared blankly at them as they left. A Hell's Gate appeared and took the remains of the two demons. Both of them headed towards Urahara's Shop.


Nickel was wondering the town, trying to find one of the Kurosakis that defeated Aizen. He came to a school where two elementary girls, one with orange hair and the other black, were talking to a high school girl with breasts that rivals some of the female captains' in Hell. As he passed by them, he heard something that interested him.

"Kurosaki-kun should be almost done. Sorry he wasn't able to watch your soccer game, Karin."

"No problem. It was his fault for missing so much school and not completing his homework."

"Bakudo 4: Akai Hainawa! Bakudo 10: Shoushitsu!" Immediately the three girls were bound by a red rope and they were phasing. "Good, you three know where I can find a Kurosaki?" The mostly blue haired boy asked them.

"Yeah, you bound two of us, you idiot." The black haired girl spat at him.

"You better watch it miss, or I may just kill you." Nickel put his hand her head, and red ice started to gather on her head.

"Koten Zanshun!" Something shot out of the high school girl's hair pins. Nickel sidestepped out of the way. The thing redirected and headed straight for him. Nickel caught it easily.

"This thing is interesting. Too bad your kind nature doesn't allow you to use it properly." Nickel snapped off the wings of it and put it in his pocket. He also took the girl's hair pins out and put them in his pockets as well. "Now, where is the elder Kurosaki? One of the ones that defeated Aizen?"


Ichigo was alone in the classroom with his teacher, doing homework he missed out on due to everything that has happened. Suddenly, the intercom told everyone to turn on the TV. Ichigo looked at it too. His eyes widened at what he saw.

Four red and black pillars emitting some sort of green barrier that seemed to have allowed all spiritual beings to be seen by normal people. Souls with chains on their chests were being interviewed.

A megaphone broke his thoughts. "Kurosaki, substitute soul reaper, one of the two people that defeated Aizen, come out and humor me or your younger siblings and girlfriend may pay a price."

Ichigo and his teacher, as did any clubs still in session, looked on to see a blue haired boy, with a red snowflake pattern in his hair, wearing a red shihakusho and haori, standing on a lamp post with Yuzu, Karin, and Orihime tied up on it.


"You coward! Let them go!" Both a carrot top boy in a window and a black haired girl on the ground yelled at Nickel. He just threw the megaphone he had barrowed at the black haired girl and looked at the carrot top.

"You must be Ichigo. Come out of that body and have a friendly little spar with me." As Nickel said it, he brought up a pillar of ice resembling a cross and put his haori on it. The carrot head stood on even ground, in a typical Soul Society soul reaper garb and a zanpakutou resembling an overly large butcher knife.

"You let them go now." Ichigo's voice was threatening, though with the amount of spiritual pressure he was letting out, he was ready to back it up.

"Since you came down, absolutely." Nickel snapped his fingers and drew his sword on his back. The binding kido let all three of them go.

Nickel charged Ichigo with a simple one handed strike. Ichigo blocked it easily, but received a fist to the jaw, sending him into the building, though not through it. Nickel went in for a downward swing, which was blocked and pushed away.

Ichigo leapt towards him with his own downward strike. He easily overpowered Nickel and sent him slamming into the ground. Nickel still landed on his feet, though the force of his landing still caused him to make a crater.

What strength! But then again it doesn't take much to overpower me physically. No matter, his control is terrible.

Nickel charged at Ichigo again, this time glowing red as he surged his spirit energy throughout his body. This time when they clashed, they were even. Red ice shards formed behind the carrot top and tried to impale him. Ichigo used shunpo to get away. He reappeared at forty-five degree angle below Nickel.

"Getsuga Tensho!" A blue crescent wave soared towards the boy.

"Freeze to death: Akai Kousetsu!" The energy wave hit solid ice, but nothing else.

Nickel appeared in front of Ichigo, now wielding a double-edged sword with a chain coming out from the bottom of the hilt. At the end of the chain was half snowflake blade. "You know, I never intended on using my shikai. But now that you've used your shikai's ability…Well, you get the picture. Nokogiri." A pair of snowflake patterned ice formed between the two, then they started to spin like a saw blade.

The two saw blade snowflakes went after Ichigo from the sides. The carrot top used shunpo to again dodge. But Nickel was right there and clashed with him. The chain close to the taller boy's neck, Nickel's sword was in his left hand instead of his right, which was holding onto the chain. Nickel tugged on the chain.

Ichigo followed the chain's other end to see the blade portion closing in. He ducked in time to avoid getting his head chopped off, but not a couple of centimeters off his hair. Nickel then swung the chain upward, making the blade on the other end do the same thing.

Once again Ichigo blocked it, but it did force him back. He sensed one of the saw blades coming at him from behind. The teen turned around to block the attack, which kept spinning on him. The second saw blade came from his left side to cut off his legs. He just retracted his legs towards his body, but got a sword going through his shoulder instead. Both saw blades shattered.

"Pathetic, Kurosaki. I would have thought you would do better than this. Granted you don't bankai active, and even with that other power you seem to be holding back…You don't fit your reputa…" Nickel ducked and jumped away from another blade.

Ichigo looked back to see his father. "Dad! What are you doing here?!"

"What does it look like I'm doing? Saving your ass and my daughters lives!"

"I'd hate to interrupt, but those three were never in any danger. I bluffed. I'll never just hurt those far weaker than myself just to lure my targets out. Some of my cohorts on the other hand...Well, let's just say they would enjoy every scream."

"That doesn't matter. You still threatened my sisters and Orihime. And she isn't my girlfriend."

"Oh, I get it. You two are 'just friends.'" Nickel used air quotes on the just friends part, though it looked awkward with one hand holding onto his sword. "Either way, I'm done here. One captain class, yes, but two coming at me? Hell no. I may be strong, but not that strong. Besides, my two subordinates are done with their mission."

Nickel's sword went back to normal and he put it away. He got his haori, emptied out his pockets of Orihime's hairpins and thing she used to attack, then shunpoed off.


Most of this will be from Hell's point of view. But yeah, comments, thoughts, constructive criticism are all appreciated. That bakudo 10 made them invisible to normal people, that was the whole phasing business was.

I more or less got this chapter and the previous one done in one day. Don't be expecting another update till next weekend or the one after that. I know this is a little early, but what seems to be your favorite part of the story so far?