A/N: Second Chapter! Yay! So soon too….lol. I am happy to announce that I have officially gotten a beta! Thank you so much hono-chan! XD

sousie: Here's the update… Hope this chappie and I live up to your expectations!

Without further ado… presenting… Chapter Dos!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha or Bleach. I also do not own the lines I used from the Bleach. (They are only used in the beginning) Only this weird fanfic is mine!

Disastrous Meeting

Chapter 2

Enter: Toshiro Hitsugaya

"I'll release…and take you all on," Luppi challenged cockily as he unsheathed his zanpakuto.

Toshiro dashed towards him, face set in a snarl. "I won't let you!" Matsumoto, Ikkaku, and Yumichika looked at him, shock clearly written on their faces as he yelled, "Bankai! Daiguren Hyôrinmaru!" Ice formed around the young taicho, molding into icy blue crystallized wings and a long, curling, whiplike tail.

Luppi watched him speed closer and closer, a mocking look on his face. "Strangle him…Trepadora!" Light shone from where she was standing mid-air.

"Hmph!" Toshiro grunted, positioning his zanpakuto at the ready in front of his chest. Blindingly fast, a wide tentacle burst from the pouring light. Quickly, the small captain folded his icy wings to encircle him just as the white appendage reached him. The white tentacle collided with him, pushing him back several feet as he fought to keep his feet steady on the sky and slowly came to a halt.

"What's wrong? Is that it? That's your release attack?" Toshiro taunted brazenly, looking down his nose at the androgynous arrancar.

"Haha! Good job! I really didn't think you could stop it. You sure surprised me! You captains aren't too shabby. But…" the Sexta Espada murmured amusedly as the misty light started to clear, "What if that attack…were eight times stronger?" The mist cleared finally, revealing Luppi. His toothy hollow mask fragment had wrapped back around his head to form a bony cowl. He also had eight white tentacles coming out of a shell attached to his back.

"Eight…times?" the taicho said with disbelief in his glaring eyes. Before he could react, seven sharp tentacles had descended upon him. Boom! A cloud of dust exploded from where he was last seen as the tentacles slammed into him, shards of his wings shattering from impact.

"Taicho!" screamed Matsumoto, panic stricken at seeing the sight of her captain and friend falling.

"K-kuso…"groaned Toshiro through clenched teeth, rapidly approaching the ground. Pieces of his icy white wings and tail fell off at a faster rate, raining down on the ground below.

"See?" said the feminine arrancar smugly, turning from the scene of the falling captain to face the rest of Toshiro's group, "I told you to fight me four against one! Oh. Sorry. I mean…four against eight." He held a cloth–covered hand in front of his face, barely hiding his smirk.

As Toshiro fell rapidly towards the ground, he peered over the edge of his eroding wings, trying to catch a glimpse of his landing spot. He blinked as a Shinto shrine with a vast forest wrapping snuggly around it came within his line of vision. His eyes widened in horror as he saw a human female running across the grounds, directly below him. 'No…' he thought with dread as he saw her turn her face up in time to see him just about to collide with her. Right as he reached her, Toshiro heard the young woman breathe out,

"What…"

He smashed into her with a sickening squish and thud. He froze there for a while, the horror of what had just transpired sinking in. The only sound reaching his ears were the drips of blood pooling slowly under what remained of his icy wings. Quickly, he jumped off the girl and took a step back to look at the damage he had done. What he saw filled him with tremendous guilt.

Her chest and abdomen were completely caved in, in a bloody mess. Her legs were nowhere to be seen, probably hanging off a tree in the forest surrounding the girl's home. When he saw her face, his breath caught. 'She's beautiful…' he thought in bittersweet amazement as he gazed at her face, miraculously untouched from the impact. She had slightly wavy black hair that shined blue in the sunlight. Her eyes, though dull with death, were an elegant sea blue color. She also had a slightly curved nose and her lips were cutely crooked. Her skin was paling quickly from the lack of blood circulation, but he could see that she originally had slightly peach tan skin. When he was done looking at her, he looked to the side of her and saw her soul slowly peeling herself off the ground after being thrown out of her body. Her chain was detached from her body too, he noted. 'I need to get her to Soul Society before her chain completely encroaches.' Toshiro thought.

"Ngghh…what…happened…?" groaned Kagome, sliding her eyes open painfully. She glanced to the left of her and reeled back in shock at seeing a strangely dressed teenage boy with blood dripping off wings that were sculpted of ice, staring horrified at her. 'Wait…My blood?' she screamed in her mind. She continued to stare at him and began to notice his features. 'Serious teal eyes with eyebrows set in a scowl, bleach white messy yet spiky hair with a bang hanging in his face, and pale skin,' she thought as she scrutinized him, 'he reminds me of winter…'

That's when she looked down and noticed a black linked chain attached to a partially opened hole in her chest. 'What the heck?' she thought in shock, gaze fixed upon the chain in grim fascination. Suddenly, mouths with rows of large, jagged teeth seemed to emerge from the links, gnawing away at her chain. 'What…what's happening to me?' she screamed in her mind, staring until they disappeared once more. The only evidence they had ever been there was the absence of link they had devoured. She then proceeded to look down at her dead body, and what she saw was nothing pleasant. The miko screeched and shut her eyes tightly, trying hard not to stare at her once whole body. Kagome looked back up at the wintery boy, desperately averting her eyes from the carnage and panicking slightly from head rush.

She fixed him with teary, panicked eyes, "What is this? Are you the one who crashed into me?"

Toshiro didn't answer her, trying to figure out her unfamiliar type of reiatsu. 'What is this feeling? It's definitely not of a normal shinigami's reiatsu… It's almost as powerful as a lieutenant's!' he exclaimed mentally, shocked that a normal human could have this much power.

"Well? Are you going to answer me?" Kagome nearly shrieked, irked that she was being ignored.

"Yes, sorry," He said, snapping out of his awed daze. "To answer your questions, yes I am the one who crashed into you and that chain hanging off of your chest is what is called, Inga no Kusari, or the Chain of Fate. It is a chain that binds souls to their living bodies. However, yours is broken off because your soul is no longer attached to your body due to your death," he continued, despite her appalled expression, "If you stay a couple days longer like this, your chain will completely encroach, the eating of your chain you experienced earlier, and you will turn into a hollow." The white haired taichou explained in a monotone voice, face set back into its default frown.

"What is a…hollow?" Kagome inquired, unfamiliar with the term.

"A hollow is a soul that has lost their heart to despair, or has lingered too long in the human world and the encroachment of their chain has turned them into a dark and hostile creature, a hollow." Toshiro elaborated hurriedly, standing up straight, "I will explain more to you later when I have time, right now I have to go back and fight that damn espada." He muttered menacingly. "Wait right here and do not move. I will return shortly," he ordered firmly as he jumped into the air, wings and tail reforming from thin air.

"Well…might as well watch…" Kagome muttered as she mulled over all that was explained to her. 'Hollows? Chain of Fates? What is all this? Am I really…dead?' the miko pondered, 'I don't want to turn into a hollow…' imagining a gruesome creature with fangs that looked similar to a gargoyle.

She shivered at that image then turned her attention back to the sky. Immediately, she noticed that the white-haired boy had stretched tendrils of ice up to freeze what looked like a shell on the back of a young man with short black hair, wearing an odd, open sided uniform with baggy sleeves. He was holding three other people by long white tentacles. Thick ice pillars suddenly surrounded the oddly dressed person on all sides, as if they were bars to a cage. The pillars slammed together noisily, effectively eliminating his tentacles and letting the captives down.

"Wow…" Kagome breathed, impressed with his display. "That's some power he's got there… I wonder what it is. It's nothing like InuYasha's or Sesshōmaru's power…" she observed. Right after she finished that thought, black slits appeared in the sky and a beam of light emitted from it. "What the heck?" she exclaimed incredulously, staring up at the beam of light. The light eroded the icy prison and the man was pulled away from it, disappearing into the slit in the sky, which closed up seamlessly, leaving not a trace of disturbance. "Well, that was… weird." declared Kagome suddenly, still trying to make sense of what had just happened. T he boy turned from the disappearing beam and promptly disappeared, reappearing in front of her nearly the same second. The miko jumped back in surprise and shrieked.

"What the hell! You scared the pants off me!" she yelled at him in indignation. She turned to the side and stuck her bottom lip out angrily before asking reluctantly, "Ne… What was that beam of light?"

He smirked at her angry face before replying, "Well if you must know, that was what was called a negación. It is what a higher level of hollows called Menos, use to rescue their comrades in an indestructible beam of light." He explained. "Now, I need to take you to Soul Society, the place where souls go after they die," he clarified before she started asking questions again, "before your chain encroaches, and you hollowfy." He said, drawing his sword once more. He thrust it forward into an unseen lock and shoji doors appeared out of nowhere. Elegant and delicate-looking black butterflies fluttered around as the doors slid open. Toshiro's companions appeared on either side of Kagome, shocking her once more. He motioned for her to follow as he stepped through into the darkness that lay beyond the doors. She hesitated, looking back at her house, her body, and the well.

'InuYasha and my family will come and see this! How can just leave them behind to mourn while I help myself?' she thought grimly. She was about to make up her mind and stay, when she remembered just what the boy had said before.

"If you stay in this state for several days, your chain will completely encroach and you will become a hollow."

She turned back around, a tear slipping down her translucent cheek. 'I'll come back when I get back to normal.' "Wait for me," she whispered sorrowfully, following the shinigami through the shoji doors into the awaiting darkness. As she disappeared, the doors slid shut behind her and the gate was gone; as though it was never there.

A/N: …That had to be the longest thing I've ever typed in my life. Ever. Ah, well, *stretches* I'm finally done with chapter two! *Squeal!* Thanks for reading! Danke! Grazie! ¡Gracias! Arigatō! Спасибо! See you next chapter, todos ustedes!

So…I hope you enjoyed editing and reading this hono-chan! Thanks for editing it again after I made some quick changes to Kagome's demeanor!