wow, an update already! well yeah, i sorta NEED to update fast or else all of my ideas will go down the eternal abyss that is my mind:/

I wanna thank dragonnick711, sain-kookie (i like your penname^^ and sorry again for that PM!), and... whats-your-face (you didnt put nothing, so i hope you dont mind too much about me calling you this for now:P) for revewing. your kind words keep me going:D

i cant really do it in this chapter, but ill try to incoperate putting everyone rank in ths story, but for now, here's Rukia's

Rukia= Lt. of Squad 13

hope this helps:3

Talking
'Thinking'
"Reports"
Flashback
"Zanpactou talking"
'Zanpactou thinking'

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach

*Previously on More Than One Side*

'But Hyorinmaru!' Toshiro mentally yelled to the dragon, 'What she says is true! They left me...everyone is... everyone is leaving me...'

"Master," he giant spirit said sadly and watched as his master, in the privacy of his own quaters, broke down, no shields up to hide the tears falling down the young boy's cheeks. The dragon pulled the boy's mind into their inner world, and wrapped his wings around the small figure.

But, while Toshiro may not have heard it due to his crying, Hyorinmaru, with his sharp ears, heard the sound of ice cracking, then shattering into pieces far into the distance in the icy plain. He knew what this meant.

To himself only, Hyorinmaru thought, 'So your seals have broken at last, Yuki no Neko Ryuu, No Arashi no Doragon? Your timings could not be better."

Present Time~

After letting his emotions cascade down his face for a few peaceful moments, Toshiro left his inner world and made it to his office. He can't waste his time crying over a few words a mentally unstable patient said. He has work to get down and a squad to train. He was about to get started on the paperwork when a Hell Butterfly flew into the room and went towards him. He put his index finger out so that it had a place to land. As it did, the small insect reported the message it had to give.

"Captain Hitsugaya, a group of Menos classed hollows have been reported to have been seen in the eleventh district of West Rukongai. You are to go there and eliminate them. You may bring a total of five shinigami with you to assist you."

After it flew away, its mission completed, Toshiro sighed and got up from his desk. 'Menos, huh?' Even though they had won the war, that did not mean that their weren't any more hollows to deal with, powerful or not. Usually Toshiro would detest fighting hollows, not being very fond of fighting period. But this was an exception. It would allow him a chance to forget what was happening between him and Momo, and his growing suspision of Rangiku's reason of leaving.

When Toshiro finished picking his group of shinigami, which were his brown haire, blue eyed third seat, Daisuke Jun, his orange haired, green eyed forth seat, Akane Asuka, and asked Ikakku, Yumichika, and Rukia to come along, to which they all said yes to, they all set of to the destination at hand.

When they all made it, they saw that there were at the most six hollows at the site, one seeming to almost be an Adjuchas. The higher-ranked hollow seemed like something of a wolf, with fur-like bone covering its body, and having four strong legs ending with razor sharp claws. When it opened its mouth to howl in victory of its meal it got before the shinigami came, its was revealed to be filled with jagged teeth. And finally ending at the the two tails of the beast, which were oozing with a greenish-red liquid that, when it touched the ground, burned through it, letting Toshiro assume that it was most likely an acid of some kind and mentally told himself to avoid them.

It seemd to be the one in control of the other ones, as they were not attacking each other and rather the unforturnate souls that were near them, but whether that really was the case, Toshiro could not tell.

'Damn, how could so many hollows get into Soul Society unnoticed?' Toshiro thought. 'How did they get past the moniters?'

"Ha! One for each of us!" exclaimed Ikkaku as he got ready to fight, "Though it ain't like I'll save any for you guys. These are just small fry!"

"You shouldn't underestimate them, Madarame," Toshiro said as he drew his sword out, "it'll get you killed one day."

"Whatever, let's just get started already!" Ikkaku yelled. He jumped to the hollow nearest to him, which resembled that of a worm, the exception being that it had a spiked tail with many barbs attached to it.

'Might be poisonous,' thought Toshiro when he saw it. 'That fool better be careful. We afford to lose a shinigami as strong as him.' He turned his attention to his two subordinates and said to them, "You two, seperate and attack one hollow at a time. We will be able to defeat them faster that way, but be careful. We don't know how strong these things are. Understood?"

Akane nodded her head once without hesitation and left immediantly, but Daisuke waited, before saying, "But, if we don't know the stregth of our enemies, wouldn't it be better to face them together? For better protection?"

"Yes, while that may be true, we can not risk the chance of one of them escaping us. They're already too close to the Seireitei as it is, we can't and won't allow them to get closer," Toshiro explained. "Do you understand now?"

Daisuke nodded but, as Toshiro saw in his eyes before he shupoed to the hollow, he still doubted his orders.

'Danm it, why must he question my way of thinking?' thought Toshiro as he lept towards the Adujuchas, sword drawn and above him.

"Yeah! Your his captain, so why doesn't he trust you?" a voice suddenly said in his head. It almost made Toshiro go off balance, but he managed to recover just before he brought his blade down to the canine-shaped hollow, which it dodged and charged towards him. That voice did not belong to Hyorinmaru, for it sounded far too young and feminine for it to be his.

'Whatever that was, I can't deal with it right at this moment,' Toshiro said in his mind as he jumped to the left to avoid the in-coming hollow.

Toshiro put his free hand out and yelled, "Hado #31, Shakkaho!" as he landed on the ground. The red ball of fire formed in his hand and quickly shot out at the hollow. The hollow, still trying to recover from his charge, wasn't able to doged the kido and was hit on his side. It howled in pain, a high-pitched sound that had Toshiro covering his ears to try to block out the pain in them. Once it stopped, the beast growled and the fur covering its body prickled upwards, before shooting out to Toshiro. He, though still disorientated from the screech the monster gave, managed to shunpo out of the way from most, but one still caught his left sleeve. The section of clothing started to give way before flowing with the wind soon after.

'So, it's not just the tails I have to worry about, but all of the fur,' Toshiro noted as the ring in his ears slowing went away and he was able to stand up straight without swaying. 'I'll have to attack from a distance to be able to stay clear of the poison.' With that he muttered "Reign over the frosted heavens, Hyorinmaru!"

Dark clouds started to roam over the heads of the fighters in the area as Toshiro zanpactou extended a little and gained a chain with a cresent-moon shaped shickle at the end of it. Not wasting any time, Toshiro swung his sword in an sidewards arc, causing a dragon made of pure ice to pour out from the blade to the direction of the hollow. The beast tried to dogde, but was unable to move fast enough to escape the icy wrath of Hyorinmaru's jaws. The dragon took hold of the wolf-like hollow and went far up into the air. When it was high enough, it went rushing down to the ground at break-neck speed, crashing into it. It shattered into many pieces, taking to hollow with it.

'There goes that one,' Toshiro conceived as he saw the beast turn into spirit particles, 'Now to see if anyone needs help.' He turned his head-for he was down on one knee after the attack- to see the process of everyone else there. When he and the Adjuchas was facing off each other, they were fighting in the middle of the area he and the others were, so he managed to get a good view on the battles surrounding him.

To his left, he saw that Ikkaku seemed to have an easy -and fun, by the look Toshiro saw on his face- time the the brown worm like hollow he was fighting, close to defeating it. It, in fact, took one more blow from the bald man's side to eliminate the hollow.

On his right, he was able to see that Yumichika was facing a red orange hollow that seemed to be a cross between a spider and some typ of bird, for it had the eight legs of the arachind, but bone-covered wings on its back that somewhat resembled that of the flying creature. Its mask had something like a pointed beak sticking out of it, and a large bottom with sharp needles lached on it. Though he had taken many hits, the beauty obsessed man managed to defeat the strange looking hollow with one last slash of his sword.

As he looked behind him, he took notice that Rukia was apparently taking quite a beating from the hollow she was fighting, but was otherwise okay. She was facing a hollow that was similar to the one that Toshiro had faced in the human world when he met Ichigo's little sister, Karin. Though she had what appeared to Toshiro as a cut somewhere along her hairline -for the parts of her face Toshiro could see were covered in blood- Rukia was able to yell "Some no Mai, Tsuki Shiro!" and aim the white circle of ice directly underneath the hollow's feet. Afterwards, a pillar of ice shot forwards to the sky, and, after a few seconds, cracked and shattered, taking the hollow's life while doing so. When that was done, she kneeled and put her hand to her forehead and started doing basic healing kido to the wound there.

When he turned his head to look in front of him, he witnessed Akane being thrown to the ground as the hollow knocked her down. He also noted that Daisuke was facing the hollow as well, seeing how he had probrably managed to defeat the hollow he was facing before this one earlier than Toshiro had eliminated the Adjuchas. He turned his gaze to the beast the two seated officers were facing now.

The creature was black in color, with two strong looking hind legs and two more legs on its sides, which were ending in scythe-like blades. Many tentacles were pretruding from its back, blueish-purple in color. Its mask was white like many others, shaped like a praying mantis' head.

He looked back at Akane, who was just starting to get back on her feet. When she did, he observed that her left arm was hanging by her side 'It could've broke from that fall she took,' Toshiro regarded. If that was the case, then she would have to hold and fight with her sword with her right, and that might cause her to fumble while fighting since, if he remembered right, she was left handed. It would be unfamiliar for her than with her usual way of fighting, seeing how Akane would have to pretty much reverse her techinques to get the job done, a difficult task for even the most skilled swordfighter.

He turned his attention to Daisuke, and saw, since the man had his back tunred to him, that he had obtained a rather harsh, bleeding slash mark on his back, that went diagonally from his left shoulder to his right hip. 'It must be a world of pain to even move with a wound like that, let alone fight.'

He decided that they might need help, so he got up to do so. But, when he stood up straight, he started swaying. 'What?' His vision was getting blurry, and he was once again on the ground, panting and gasping for air that wasn't coming in enough.

Upon seeing that Toshiro was on the ground and breathing hard, Rukia ran up to him. "Hitsugaya Taicho!" she yelled as she got closer. "Hitsugaya Taicho, what's the matter?"

"Hollow...arm... poison..." the young shinigami chocked out.

Rukia laid Toshiro down as she checked his right arm first. When eyeing no injury on it, she went to the left one. And her violet eyes widened at the sight of it.

It seems that the spike that caught Toshiro sleeve had hit his arm as well, for in the area in which the sleeve was cut, there was a small scratch mark on the skin. The place around the wound was eaten away by the acid, and the rest of his arm, and some of his shoulder, was begining to turn a light purple and blue color. How did he not feel this?'She was snapped out of her observations when a quiet sound eminated from Toshiro.

"G... o... -elp others," was what was said from him before he began to cough hard.

'It's blocking off his airways!' Rukia concluded. She put her left arm around his unaffected shoulder and lifted his top half from the ground. She then put her right hand on his chest to help steady him as they got up.

She turned to Ikkaku. "Ikkaku, go help those two out!" He didn't hesitate to go. Why decline a chance to fight? She then turned to Yumichika, "Yumichika, help me escort Hitsugaya Taicho to the Forth! He needs medical assitance fast!"

The dark violet* haired man nodded and shunpoed to the two smaller officers and carefully helped Toshiro keep balance by grasping onto his other side. "What happened to him?" he asked, "If this arm is anything to go by, then I would say he was poisoned by someting. Am I correct?"

"Yes, you are," she answered, "It appears that the hollow he was facing did in fact have poison somewhere on him."

He nodded, and together they shunpoed the bad-in-health captain towards the Seireitei without further conversation.

Sometime during all of this, Toshiro had passed out, due to the exhaustion that had crashed down upon him.

"Hey,"a voice said.

Toshiro's eye twiched

"Hey!" the voice said louder.

He turned to his side.

"HEY!" the voice shouted.

Toshiro shot up from where he was, which, upon looking around some, was his inner world. But something seemed off about it. The usually nothing but ice plain was coated in white snow. But what was stranger was that it wasn't snowing. The dark-clouded sky was raining hail down onto the icy ground, some of which hit Toshiro, to which he didn't respond to, as he was beholding a most unfamiliar sight.

In front of him was the mighty form of Hyorinmaru, his icy wings spread wide, as if readying himself to fly, but his head was lowered to see the small form of his master. Toshiro was not surprised to see this. He had seen this dragon for many years, since even before he was a shinigami.

What did surprise him, however, were the other dragons on the left and right of the mighty beast.

To the left of him was a gray, almost white, scaled dragon with a strong body that was almost the same size of Hyorinmaru. The legs of it, along with its darker colored gray underside, had pure white markings, and each ended in fine, sharp claws made of ice. Its wings were the same light gray as its body, and the membrane that held each flad of the fabric-like skin ended in a sharp point. The tail had marking similar to the legs and underside, spiraling towards the tip, wichi also ended with an icy spike. The head of the dragon had large, strong jaws, its eyes were slitted and crimson in color, like Hyorinmaru's. On the top of the head were horns that curved and then came back upwards, like that of a bull's. Next to them were its pointed, laid-backs ears. Running down the back of the head, spine, and tail were a row of spikes made of ice.

To the right of Hyorinmaru was a smaller, but still large, dragoness, that had a long, slender body, but not serpetine like the dragon next to it. It, strangly, did not have showing scales on its body, but rather white fur that seemed to glow with its purity. The legs of it were quite skinny, but still had much defined muscle to them, and each of them ending in pitch black claws, the only things that weren't white on it besides the eyes, which were saphire blue in color, and the pupils were in a sideways slit. It had a long snout with powerful looking jaws. Its head was like that of a cat's- a little triangular in shape, and also had two big, fluffy looking pointed ears, unlike most dragons. Its spike-ending tail flicked back and forth, giving it the look of impatience of something. It was oddly small compared to the other two- almost half their size, though Toshiro was sure it would be much bigger if it stood on its hind legs.

"Well," the dragoness said, and Toshiro reconised it as the voice that spoke before he first attacked the Adjuchas, "it took awhile for you to come here, neh?"

"Who are you two?" he said with a tone filled with alert from the two new creatures.

"Do not be so tense, Master," Hyorinmaru said calmly, "These two are of no threat to you."

"What do you mean?" Toshiro asked, curious as to why his acting the way he was.

"That is not important right now," the one to the left spoke for the first time. Its voice was loud and resounding, much like Hyorinmaru's.

"Yeah," the childish voice of the right dragoness said, "what's important is that you heal. That poison did alotta damage to ya."

"Yes, but I need to know who the hell you two-" and he looked at both of the new beings with a tense glance- "are."

"You will know in due time, Master, but right now you must rest. You will need as much energy as you can recieve."

Toshiro wanted to argue with that, but felt that his zanpactou was right, so he laid back down and closed his eyes, sleeping in the safety of his inner world.

"So, Hyori-chan," the right one said, "we are gonna tell him as soon as he recovers, right?"

"Yes,"Hyorinmaru answered, ignoring the nickname given to him, "He will have to know if he wants to weild you two."

"Great! Sleeping for so long's got me wanting to fight some hollows super bad!" she exclaimed as she streched herself and, soon after, took off into the icy sky.

"She hasn't lost any of her energy, even after so long," Hyorinmaru said loud enough for the remaining dragon to hear.

"Of course not," the dragon said, "Yuki no Neko Ryuu could be flying for one thousand miles with no sleep and still have the energy to do one thousand more."

"I see your sense of humor hasn't gone either, No Arashi no Doragon," Hyorinmaru said with a chuckle, "And to think I thought you would still be a crabby little lump on a boulder."

"Shall we join her?"No Arashi asked, ignoring the comment on his past personality.

"You go," Hyorinmaru replied, "Someone has to watch and see when Master wakes from his slumber."

"So be it," and with that he was off.

Hyorinmaru watched as the two dragons flew threw the hail filled sky, and thought, 'This shall be a sight to see indeed.'

still no 4,000;n; but hey, this was longer than the first chapter, and to me thats an achievement worth throwing confetti for ','\^v^/','

*Is it me, or does Yumichika's hair change from violet to blackO.o

so, we get to know what Yuki no Neko Ryuu and No Arashi no Doragon look like, but what are they you ask? well, I pormise to reveal that next chapter! and hopefully that will be soon like this was:D

and sorry if the fight scences wernt good (or scence, since we only REALLY got to see one). those are NOT my forte:/

now for those translations I pormised last time~

Yuki no Neko Ryuu, as you may or may not have guessed means-Cat Dragon of the Snow. i thought of this when my sister read a book that had all the zodiac animals as dragons, except for the cat (stupid rat-.-), so heres my way of guessing what it might look like!

No Arashi no Doragon means-Dragon of the Hail storm. and yes, there IS a space in between Hail and Storm. It's something else ENTIRELY if there's no spaceO.O

Please review! Please? Come on, what did I ever do to you (except give crappy fight scences)?