Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Rukia sighed. She was lamenting about the times she spent in the world of humans, with Ichigo and his friends. She was now locked in a cell and her only companion was the occasionally visiting Renji who uttered a mere few words then left, and ever so unbelievably the cleaner boy, Hantarou, who she knew she could open up to.

However, she felt really alone. Knowing you will be executed in a few days' time was an unimaginably heavy burden. She tried lessening it by telling about it to Hantarou, but it did not help. She felt as closed away from who and what really mattered as ever. She was near collapsing – and she was disappointed in herself that she was being so weak, fragile.

Yoruichi led the way into the house and into the staircase. However she noticed the movement of Arekanderu's energy while teleporting and stopped. The others noticed that Yoruichi stopped unexpectedly.

"What's the matter Yoruichi?"-asked Ichigo.

"Nothing, I just remembered that I have to do something outside. Just go in. I will follow you in minutes."-said Yoruichi and rushed outside leaving everyone in surprise other than Saionji.

"Let's move already!"-said Saionji drawing in the attention of everyone around her. "We will eat our lunch now so we will be able to move into Seireitei."-continued Saionji while moving down the stairs.

"But…"-started Ichigo which immediately drew Saionji's temper out.

"There will not be any buts now!"-she shouted. "I am in charge now so just follow me!"-she continued and ended up in a furious glare and a reddening face which persuaded the others to do as she says.

"I would like to see what happens if someone insults her."-whispered Uryuu.

"I wouldn't want to see that. Would you?"-whispered Ichigo.

"No."-replied Chad and Orihime was shaking her head. They went into the living quarters to prepare the lunch and to avoid Saionji getting mad.

Meanwhile, outside the house:

"Why did you come out so suddenly"-asked Yuroichi.

"We need to talk."-replied Arekanderu.

"About what?"-asked Yoruichi.

"Mainly everything."-said Arekanderu.

"Then start."-said Yuroichi.

"Are you planning to enter through the front gate?"-asked Arekanderu.

"Why yes."-said Yoruichi. Silence fell over Arekanderu.

"That's suicidal. Don't you have a better plan than that?"-said Arekanderu finally.

"That's what they would not expect at any rate."-replied Yoruichi.

"I will trust you on that."-said Sonny.

"Did you use 90 of your full power before?"-asked Yuroichi.

"Yes, but without the amplifier. Increasing my energy is its secondary function after all."-answered Arekanderu.

"So I guessed correctly."-noted Yoruichi.

"Its main function is to increase the pressure exerted onto my limiter, thus making it easier to brake."-said Arekanderu. "But are you sure that there will not be an army of shinigami waiting for us there?"

"I am sure because they are confident about the walls impenetrability."-said Yuroichi and started going towards the house.

"Wait, I haven't finished yet."-said Arekanderu.

"Maybe, but I am finished talking for now. Let's go in and eat. You must be hungry too."-said Yuroichi and went in leaving Arekanderu alone.

"I wanted to tell that cat that my teleportation may be able to transport us into Seireitei."-thought Arekanderu and went after Yuroichi. Yuroichi waited for him at the staircase.

"Why are you coming with us in reality?"-asked Yuroichi from Arekanderu.

"I am going there to kill the ones responsible for my family's death."-said Arekanderu.

"Are you telling the truth?"-asked Yuroichi.

"Yes!"-said Arekanderu with a raised voice.

"In my opinion you are going there to kill the ones responsible for your family's death so a deed like that will never be committed again."-said Yuroichi.

"That's your opinion. I don't care about things until they influence my life so I am not going there in the name of these so called future events."-said Arekanderu and turned away. Yuroichi went down the stairs and Arekanderu followed. Arekanderu realized that Yuroichi might not be able to open the door at the bottom so he teleported in front of Yuroichi and opened the door for her. Yuroichi went in followed by Arekanderu. Inside Ichigo, Chad, Orihime and Uryuu were sitting at the table. Saionji was probably in the kitchen. Ichigo and Arekanderu crossed eyes, but Arekanderu wasn't interested in Ichigo so he went into a corner and stayed there gazing off into nothing. Ichigo turned away his head and started to talk with Orihime. Chad and Uryuu felt the pressure in the atmosphere the two were creating and thought that they shouldn't say a word. Yuroichi behaved like a cat and settled down on the carpet in Saionji's room. After a couple of minutes Saionji came storming out of the kitchen with a cooking pan full of some kind of soup with the smell of burning from the kitchen which Arekanderu immediately realized.

"It's time for lunch!"-said Saionji with a smile.

"I'd rather call it dieing time."-said Arekanderu to piss of Saionji.

"What was that?!"-shouted Saionji.

"I was just referring to your cooking abilities."-said Arekanderu.

"I have more developed cooking abilities than you do!"-said Saionji.

"That is expected from a woman."-said Arekanderu. "After all you are the ones who were sitting at home for a dozens of years before you were allowed to work."

"I really hate you at times like this!"-shouted Saionji.

"I hate you too!"-said Ichigo.

"I don't give a damn about your opinion pineapple-head!"-said Arekanderu to Ichigo. "Neither do I care about your opinion, woman!"-said Arekanderu to Saionji which crossed the line with her and threw the bailer at him. Arekanderu did not dodge and the bailer hit his forehead. The bailer fell to the floor without having a remarkable impact on Arekanderu. Everyone was looking at him.

"Ouch, that hurt."-he said finally.

"Is that all you can say?"-shouted Saionji and went closer to him and continued to shout at him while hitting him sometimes.

"I don't know about their family, but if I look at them now it seems like Arekanderu is the water and Saionji is the fire."-whispered Chad.

"What makes you say that?"-asked Ichigo.

"Arekanderu is the calm one and Saionji is like a wildfire now which is the complete opposite of their elements."-answered Chad.

"Huh?"-said Ichigo.

"You see Kurosaki, Saionji is the water which should be calm, but she is very short tempered. In the meantime Arekanderu who should be the fire which consumes everything in its path behaves like a slacker who doesn't get worked up by anything."-explained Uryuu.

"That is exactly the reason why I think that from those two Saionji is much more human-like than her brother."-said Ichigo.

"We know that you hate him."-said Uryuu. "But in my opinion he is a bit like you and the two of you may work like magnets."

"What?"-asked Ichigo.

"You are like magnets because when two similar poles meet they repel each other in case of magnets and it might be the same with you."-said Uryuu.

"We are not similar!"-shouted Ichigo which drew the attention of Arekanderu too. Ichigo realized that he said that he shouted those words, but it was all too late for that.

"Similar to who?"-asked Arekanderu while jumping away from Saionji.

"No, no. You don't know who we were talking about."-said Ichigo.

"It seemed like you don't like that person."-noted Arekanderu with a surprised face while Saionji was still trying to hit him and Uryuu laughing silently in the background.

"You are right about that."-said Ichigo and turned his attention to Uryuu.

"Why didn't you stop me?"-whispered Ichigo to Uryuu.

"I was as surprised as you were."-said Uryuu.

"Yes, sure you were."-said Ichigo. In the mean time Saionji stopped chasing after Arekanderu and started to breath in the air around her heavily.

"Can we start to eat already?"-asked Arekanderu.

"What is the magic word, moron?"-said Saionji.

"Shut up retard!"-said Arekanderu.

"That's three words! The magic word is "please" you immature, antisocial, psychopathic, animal-hater, emo, brainless, dorky -"-said Saionji.

"OK, Saionji, I think we get the picture."-said Yoruichi.

"Thanks for the compliments."-said Arekanderu.

Saionji looked ready to kill but the next moment she took a deep inhale then let it out. As calm as the surface of the still water, she inquired, "Could somebody just hit him already? He's not worth me hitting him,"

"Gladly," Ichigo ignored the last sentence and hit Arekanderu with full force. Before Arekanderu could even think of hitting back Yoruichi jumped in between them and begun lecturing them as if she was a pro at it.

"Just what are you thinking?"-shouted Yoruichi while Arekanderu was standing up with a bleeding mouth. Arekanderu stood up, looked at Ichigo with hate in his eyes and rubbed his mouth on the right side where it was bleeding. He spat the blood on the floor and gave his full attention to Ichigo.

"Dragons…"-started Arekanderu while Ichigo took out Zangetsu. "…of the Twilight…"

"No, he will attempt to use that attack?"-asked Uryuu. No one answered and Saionji watched, raising an eyebrow inquiringly.

"Shado…"-said Arekanderu preparing to wrap things up, but Yuroichi extended her claws and pierced them into Arekanderu's left leg. Arekanderu stopped his attack and his energy build-up diminished.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh, that friggin' hurt!!"-shouted Arekanderu and grabbed his left leg. "What was that for? I didn't want to release it."-said Arekanderu while everyone looked at him with a surprised and disappointed face. "By the way, did you clean those claws? I don't wanna die because of blood poisoning."

"What are you saying? Have you gone mad?"-asked Ichigo while Yuroichi was shouting at Arekanderu.

"No, he was always this hygiene freak."-said Saionji, rolling her eyes in annoyance, then went into the kitchen for the plates to kick away her boredom.

"Just what were you thinking, fool?"-shouted Yuroichi to Arekanderu. "Do you want to kill your own comrades?"

"If that comrade is Ichigo then I assure you that I will kill the comrade."-answered Arekanderu which made Yuroichi to pierce her claws into Arekanderu's left leg again.

"What's your answer now?"-asked Yuroichi in a diabolic tone.

"I wo…would never do something like that!"-said Arekanderu in pain.

"Much better."-said Yuroichi and went back into Saionji's room.

"This is why I hate cats."-whispered Arekanderu to himself and stood up with his left leg bleeding. Orihime recognized that he cannot stand well on that leg immediately. She also realized that Arekanderu would probably just ignore her help so she decided to act without his approval.

"Shun'ou, Ayame! Sontenkisshun, I reject!"-said Orihime and Arekanderu's leg started to heal. Arekanderu didn't say a word and he was healed within seconds.

"Thank you."-said Arekanderu, but that 'thank you' had no life in it.

"You are welcome."-said Orihime and Arekanderu turned towards her direction with an angry face.

"Don't do that again without my approval."-said Arekanderu while Ichigo was sitting down again. Ichigo wanted to say something Arekanderu went into his room and shut the door. Saionji came out with the plates and put them on the table, one for each person. She also put one on the floor for Yuroichi who came out of Saionji's room. Saionji realized that Arekanderu is missing so she went to his room and knocked, but there was no answer.

"HEY! OPEN THE DOOR NOW!"-shouted Saionji, but there was no answer which pissed her off again. "If you don't open it I will flood your room so you can drown and die in there like a stray dog!"-she continued while Arekanderu teleported out of his room and sat on one chair without anybody noticing. After knocking for half a minute Saionji turned around to ask something from the group.

"If you won't come out then die in there."-said Saionji and walked towards the table.

"She really is a psychopathic person."-whispered Uryuu.

"You didn't tell me any knew information."-said Arekanderu.

"Arekanderu?"-asked Uryuu.

"Hi."-said Arekanderu.

"When did you come out?"-asked Saionji.

"When you were shouting with the door."-said Arekanderu.

"Whatever, I don't care about you. Let's eat and get going."-said Saionji and set down. Arekanderu waited for everyone to take a dip from the soup before he took his own share. He tasted it and the expression of disgust appeared on his face.

"What's your problem now?"-asked Saionji.

"I hate when I am right."-replied Arekanderu and disappeared.

"For the first time, I have to agree with that bastard."-said Ichigo which caused Saionji to hit him.

"It's NOT horrible!"-she said and continued to eat. Arekanderu reappeared in the meantime with a half watermelon and an apple in his mouth.

"You're gross."-said Saionji.

"Shuuh ut."-said Arekanderu with the apple still in his mouth.

"Say that again without the apple in yer mouth."-said Saionji. Arekanderu put his palm under the apple and concentrated his black flame to work like a Bunsen burner to incinerate the apple.

"I said 'shut up'. People eat using their mouth."-said Arekanderu.

"Still it is gross and you're an idiot."-objected Saionji while Ichigo was nodding in the background.

"Oh, this is such a drag. Let us eat so we can move out."-said Arekanderu and teleported again and reappeared on his chair with a knife to eat the watermelon.

"Would you stop this disappearing?"-asked Saionji.

"It's been forty years since I used this technique. Until now my control was bad due to the lack of energy, but now it's good again."-said Arekanderu and started to eat the watermelon.

"So you admit that you are weak?"-asked Ichigo to tease Arekanderu, but without result.

"You shouldn't be talking. If you were nearly beaten by the energy I had back then you should dig a hole for yourself and bury yourself."-said Arekanderu.

"You…"-started Ichigo, but Arekanderu was lost in his thoughts and was still eating. Ichigo decided to sit quietly and eat because he would only find closed ears. The lunch went quietly and when they finished Arekanderu went into his room for seconds while the others got ready to depart.

"All set?"-asked Yuroichi.

"Yes sir!"-said everyone except Arekanderu who was gazing into space. "Arekanderu?"

"I am here."-replied Arekanderu.

"You ready?"-asked Yuroichi.

"Yep, sure."-answered Arekanderu in a bored tone.

"Then let's go."-said Yuroichi and started to move towards the staircase followed by everybody else. They went out of the house, Arekanderu locked the door and the group started to move towards Seireitei. The journey was long and Ichigo spent time with pep talk joined by everyone except Arekanderu and Yuroichi. After an hour Ichigo has seen the outskirts of Seireitei and started to run towards it.

"Hey, look! There it is!"-he shouted back at the others.

"No, you fool! Stop!"-shouted Yuroichi, but Ichigo wasn't listening. Arekanderu noticed the wall starting to move downwards in the sky.

"Damn, I didn't want to step in like this."-said Arekanderu and teleported in front of Ichigo and pulled him back.

"What the…?"-said Ichigo while Arekanderu was dragging him backwards. The gate fell down in front of them along with Jidanbou.

"A giant?"-asked Ishida with an amazed face.

"Yes, he is called Jidanbou. He is the gatekeeper and during the time he served at this gate he was never defeated. He is a man of legend."-said Yuroichi.

"I have heard about him. But he will be defeated here."-said Saionji gaining everyone's attention.

"We fight our combats one-on-one here."-said Jidanbou to Arekanderu and Ichigo who were standing up.

"I know the rules."-said Arekanderu.

"I will take you on."-said Ichigo, but Arekanderu put his arm in front of him.

"Please, leave him to me."-said Arekanderu in a calm tone which surprised Ichigo.

"O-ok."-said Ichigo, but I have got your back.

"No need."-said Arekanderu to Ichigo and turned to Jidanbou while putting his right hand into his pocket. "My name is Arekanderu. Use all of your power in one strike."

"My name is Jidanbou and I assure you that I won't need that much energy."-said Jidanbou and took out an enormous axe.

"Let's start then. Take this."-said Jidanbou and swung his axe into the air preparing to strike.

"Your nervous system."-said Arekanderu.

"Huh? What's with my nervous system?"-asked Jidanbou keeping the axe in mid-air.

"It's even slower than your movements are."-said Arekanderu while everyone looked at him with a confused face.

"Look at your wielding left hand."-said Arekanderu and pointed towards it. Jidanbou looked along with everyone else. When he looked he froze. His axe was engulfed in black flames and the handle was the only thing which remained. The axe now resembled a torch instead of an axe.

"When did you…?"-started to ask Jidanbou, but stopped because his opponent was nowhere to be seen.

"Checkmate."-said Arekanderu from behind Jidanbou's head holding a fireball to Jidanbou's head. Jidanbou started to turn towards Arekanderu who was floating in the air.

"I wouldn't move if I were you."-said Arekanderu and Jidanbou froze. "If you even move a muscle I will blow your head off."-continued Arekanderu and licked his lips while having an evil smile on his face. "Just give up."-said Arekanderu while everyone was surprised.

"When did he move?"-asked Uryuu.

"His fighting style is unlike his earlier self."-said Orihime.

"I surrender."-said Jidanbou. "You are the first one to defeat me after…"

"Yeah, yeah. I get the point."-said Arekanderu. "Just open the damn gate so we can move on."

"But as the gatekeeper I shouldn't…"-started Jidanbou.

"Open the gate or say bye-bye to your head."-said Arekanderu pushing the fireball closer to Jidanbou's head so he could feel the heat.

"Ok, you win. I will open it."-said Jidanbou. "But don't kill me."

"I give my word. I hate violence anyway."-said Arekanderu and teleported away from Jidanbou.

"My parents' legacy is this hatred and I will avenge their deaths by killing the ones who killed them."-said Arekanderu and stepped to the side. Jidanbou didn't say a word and went to open the gate. He kneeled down so he could pull it up. Meanwhile the others went to Arekanderu and Ichigo.

"You moron!"-said Saionji and kicked Arekanderu's leg.

"Damn, you are very original when it comes to hitting me."-said Arekanderu.

"I am original at everything else too, not my fault if you didn't realize it," Saionji said, irritated by her brother's stupidness.

"Take that anyway you like."-said Arekanderu and disappeared.

"I will kill you the next time I see you!"-shouted Saionji into the air. Everyone looked at her with a stupefied face.

"Saionji what has gotten into your brother during the fight?"-asked Orihime.

"Does he have a split personality?"-asked Uryuu.

"No, he is just a stupid idiot."-replied Saionji.

"That doesn't answer the question."-noted Uryuu.

"I am just good at acting."-said Arekanderu while looking at the opening gates from behind everyone.

"No, you are just an idiot."-said Saionji.

"I agree with her."-said Ichigo.

"Look at the dead man talking."-said Arekanderu directing his words to Ichigo.

"Dead man?"-asked Ichigo.

"Yes, if I wouldn't have jumped in then you would have been crushed by the gate."-said Arekanderu, but before Ichigo replied Jidanbou opened the gate. Ichigo ran towards the gate, but Jidanbou's left shoulder started to bleed heavily which froze him for some seconds.

"A gatekeeper shouldn't open the gate he is keeping closed."-said a voice coming from inside the wall.

"Darn it! I didn't see how he was cut. This new opponent is stronger than what any of us could handle alone in our current state."-thought Arekanderu with a scared look in his eyes. Jidanbou fell to his knees again under the weight of the gate.

"You are Ichimaru Gin. Captain of the third squad."-said Jidanbou and the mysterious figurine stepped in front of the gate. His eyes were closed, had a smile on his face, gray hair and wore a white robe over the black shinigami kimono.

"A gatekeeper who lost is as good as dead."-said Gin and prepared for an attack, but Ichigo stepped between them.

"I am Kurosaki Ichigo and I don't like the way you treat people."-said Ichigo and took out Zangetsu and took on his battle stance.

"Oh, one of the ryoka."-said Gin and started to move back into the midst of Seireitei. He stopped meters away from Ichigo. He took out his dagger-like Zanpaktou and positioned it so it faced Ichigo head-on.

"You won't kill me unless you throw that dagger at me."-said Ichigo with confidence.

"This isn't a dagger."-said Gin. "This is my Zanpaktou. Shoot to kill, Shinsou!" and the sword started to extend towards Ichigo's direction with amazing speed. Ichigo reacted quickly. He turned Zangetsu to its side so Ichimaru only hit the blade. But the power in the strike was too great and pushed Ichigo back who flew into Jidanbou. The attack pushed the two out of Seireitei, back into Rukongai. The gate started to fall down.

"Oh, no! The gate!"-said Yuroichi.

"Bye-bye"-said Gin and the gate crashed down. Ichigo stood up and looked at Jidanbou.

"Are you all right, Ichigo?"-asked Orihime while running towards him with Ishida. The others went to him as well. Only Arekanderu stood in the same place completely frozen. He looked around and realized that no one is around so he followed the others with hands in his pocket. He arrived next to them and looked at Jidanbou.

"This wound is pretty bad."-said Ichigo.

"No problem, I will heal it."-said Orihime.

"Can you do it?"-asked Ichigo.

"Shun'ou, Ayame! Sontenkisshun, I reject!"-said Orihime and Jidanbou's shoulder started to heal. Ichigo got his answer and turned around. He could see Arekanderu looking at Jidanbou with a sad face. He turned to Saionji.

"What's his problem?"-asked Ichigo.

"Who do you think I am? I can't read his mind, and I wouldn't want to."-said Saionji and turned away.

"I'm sorry Jidanbou. If I wouldn't have ordered you to open the gate then you wouldn't have gotten hurt."-thought Arekanderu and closed his eyes. Ichigo was looking at him, but turned away to see the people gathering around them. An old man stepped in front.

"Thank you for saving Jidanbou. He was the only one who was nice to us. How can we repay you?"-said the old man.

"Just who are you?"-asked Yuroichi.

"I am the leader of this village."-said the old man. Orihime finished healing Jidanbou in the mean time.

"Finished, now he only needs to rest a bit."-said Orihime while the villagers looked at her with a surprised face. Arekanderu was still looking depressed.

"Let's talk about this at another place."-said Yuroichi.

"How about my house?"-asked the old man.

"That will be perfect."-said Yuroichi. "Please show us the way."

"Follow me then."-said the old man, but stopped after seeing Saionji. "Is that you Saionji?"

"Oh, hello."-said Saionji. The old man went closer to her.

"How are you doing, my dear?"-asked the old man.

"Fine, thanks. We want to go into Seireitei to rescue someone."-said Saionji.

"Oh, I see. Is your brother going too?"-asked the man.

"Yes, he is standing there."-said Saionji and pointed at Arekanderu. "He is the one wearing the lame dragon heads over his wrist."-continued Saionji more loudly so Arekanderu can hear her, but there was no reaction from him.

"He was the one who fought with Jidanbou, wasn't he? If he could beat Jidanbou so fast then he is really strong."-said the old man.

"It wasn't a big feat. I could have done it much better."-said Saionj just as-a-matter-of-factly-

"It seems like he is in deep thought so I will not disturb him."-said the old man and started moving towards his house.

"Do you know each other?"-asked Yuroichi from the old man. The old man stopped.

"Yes, she spent some time at my house before she reunited with her brother. To be honest this is the first time I have seen her brother."-said the old man. "Shall we get going?"

"Yes."-said Yuroichi and the group started to move, but Arekanderu didn't move a muscle. Saionji looked behind and has seen him standing still. She immediately teleported to him.

"We are going moron. Come!"-said Saionji, but Arekanderu didn't react. "Can't you hear me?"-she continued, but there was still no reaction. She got angry and attempted to punch Arekanderu. Arekanderu caught her hand.

"Leave me alone for a bit."-said Arekanderu and teleported away. Saionji was surprised because she has never seen her brother so down before. She stood there for a short time and moved after the group.

While walking Chad went away from the group with the boy who was a cockatiel when they first met. Saionji rejoined the group and went into the old man's house. They sat down in the house to talk.

"Can we stay here for the night?"-asked Yuroichi because it was already sunset outside.

"That's the least I can do for the saviors of Jidanbou."-said the old man.

"Yuroichi, I want to ask you something."-said Ishida.

"What is it?"-asked Yuroichi.

"How will we get inside Seireitei now?"-asked Ishida.

"Don't worry."-said Yuroichi and turned to the old man. "Do you know where the Shiba clan lives now?"

"You don't mean that you want to try that method?"-asked the old man.

"Yes, I do."-said Yuroichi.

Meanwhile, Arekanderu teleported on top of the house's roof.

"Damn, I am not strong enough."-he thought and lay on his back with closed eyes. He opened them again, but the Sun already set. He rubbed his eyes.

"Darn it! I must have fallen asleep."-thought Arekanderu.

"You think that you can win just by having a bigger sword than I do?"-asked a voice from below. Arekanderu sat up and looked down. He could see Ichigo fighting with an unknown guy. The unknown person drew a circle with his leg on the ground and pushed Ichigo's sword into it. After the sword sunk he punched Ichigo who flew away.

"That's just like quicksand."-said Ishida.

"Damn you for using such weird tricks."-said Ichigo while standing up. He ran to his opponent and delivered a solid punch.

"You're tough."-said Ichigo. They went at each other and punch followed punch. Suddenly a clock rang in the background.

"Oh, oh. Boss it's 9 o'clock already."-shouted another guy on top of a boar.

"9 already?"-asked Ichigo's opponent before Ichigo hit him in the nose.

"I will avenge that, but now I have to go. Come Bonnie-chan!"-said the foe.

"Bonnie chan?"-asked Ichigo and a large boar jumped above him.

"Avenge? That's right! This Jidanbou incident gave me another thing to avenge! My motifs are stronger now along with my power to fight!"-thought Arekanderu and stood up with a smile on his face. "Now I am sure I can get back my full power! And I have a new opponent too whom I will beat!

"I will win!"-said Arekanderu. "Hahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahaahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"-he gave out a loud diabolic laugh with his head twitched back and his arms on each side, stretched out. His energy started to build up and the black flames surrounded him. Ichigo's opponent jumped on top of his boar, but looked up when he heard the laugh along with everyone else.

"This energy…"-said Chad. Arekanderu stopped laughing and leaned forward while his arms faced the ground and his head looking at the ground. His energy was still surrounding him in the form of the flames. He teleported to the ground where everyone could see him. Saionji came out of the house. She came out and could see her brother madly smiling.

"Did he go nuts?"-asked Ichigo and looked at Saionji who was surprised and a bit scared at the same time. Arekanderu's energy build-up stopped and the smile disappeared.

"I can feel that my energy is increasing with every second!"-thought Arekanderu. "Soon, I will be able to use my full power again. And when that time comes I will kill the one who is responsible for my family's death."

"This kid is a real surprise. His energy is greater again. If he keeps this up he will be able to unlock his true power within days."-thought Yuroichi.

"We will finish this tomorrow shinigami!"-said Ganju and went away with his gang.

"You can't leave!"-shouted Ichigo, but Ganju was long gone.

"Who was that oaf?-asked Arekanderu.

"His name is Ganju."-said Yuroichi. "We should get some sleep, tomorrow we are leaving early."-she continued and went inside. Everyone followed her except Arekanderu who stayed outside for half an hour staring at the stars then went inside.

To be continued…