^^ Trying playing Crime and Punishment sung by Hatsune Miku as you read this, quite enjoyable and goes with this XD
A real family 4
The chaser tossed Rukia's Zanpukto a few yards from her. It landed into some grass that lay near the park where the fight had begun, making 'shink' noise as it stood up in the grass. After Rukia was disarmed of her zanpukto she began to chant a kidou spell, when she felt a presence behind her, and began to jump to the left, behind her was another big chaser, and it had just tried to grab her with it's hand. She again, began a kidou spell, this time to bind one so she could battle the other, but as she begun the first word a chaser had picked up a van and tossed it at Rukia. She swiftly dodged but then the other tripped her and then she was surrounded. Then one of them picked her up by its hand, as she struggled, another chaser created a garganta of some kind. The whole pack of chasers soon each made their own portals and traveled through them.
As Byakuya and Ichigo used their swift flash step to reach their destination, they noticed that there was no trace of chasers being there. The only trace of Rukia or Hisana was Rukia's zanpakutou, which had returned to its katana form. Ichigo began to worry; he approached Shirayuki, seeing if there was some sense of spiritual pressure. There was a trace of it left; he then tried to see if he could track to the similarity of Rukia and Shirayuki's Spiritual pressure. He then pulled his down across his face vertically to call upon his hollow mask. Using his hollow's ability, he created a portal. "Byakuya," Ichigo called for Byakuya's attention. The two headed through the portal with anger, and a will to save the ones they held dear.
When they finally made it through the portal, they found themselves right outside of a castle that's sky was dark and had purple clouds. Where had they arrived? The two pondered, but decided that time was of the essence. With swift feet and use of the shunpo in hand, they swung the doors opened and rushed in, dodging any guards they could find, making sure not to waste time. But their came times when they could avoid them, and instead the two would take their anger out on the enemies. Without raising their spiritual pressure too much to alert anyone, they finally reached the center of the castle. Or so they thought.
In the room they entered, there was a whole pack of chasers, an odd one who had a mask, and Rukia and Hisana, both unconscious in different cages, on different sides of the room. The cages holding them were over a substance that was bubbling and had unsettling neon green to it.
"Rukia!"
"Hisana!"
The two called out, but they couldn't tell the difference between the two, the one they think was Rukia could be Hisana, and the one they thought was Hisana could be Rukia.
The chaser with the mask finally spoke with a grin, "Welcome to our abode you fools," it seemed he was the leader, "We were just hoping to add more members to our group, but decided we would deal with you first!" As the chaser finished his words, the big pack of chasers approached at a swift speed. They flashed until they surrounded Ichigo and Byakuya in a circle.
"Dammit," Ichigo said, with this kind of set-up he wouldn't be able to save them first and then worry about the enemies later.
"Scatter, Senbonzakura," Byakuya called his Shikai out, as pink clouds went towards the chasers. In a few seconds there was already a gap in the circle. But more chasers quickly filled up the gap. When Byakuya noticed this he called upon a greater power, but first he instructed Ichigo, "Ichigo, I want you to go and save them first, I'll distract them,"
Ichigo nodded and called upon his Bankai to give him speed "Bankai! Tensa Zangetsu!" Ichigo called as his sword and his clothes changed forms. As Ichigo transformed the masked chaser noticed their plan of action.
"If you think you can get to them and defeat us at the same time, they might as well go to no one!" The chaser said as he pressed a button on a switch. Ichigo swiftly noticed that the floors beneath each of the cages had opened, letting both Rukia and Hisana fall towards the neon liquid. Ichigo swiftly jumped above the chasers and went to the left, for this was the first person he noticed. Swiftly from one person he went to the next, but it was too late, by the time he tried to swing to get the other girl, she had already fallen in the liquid. Screams came from her, Ichigo's eyes widened as she sank into the goop.
"R-Rukia-san! No!" The girl in Ichigo's hand said. That meant, the girl in his hand had to be, Hisana. Then… the one who was in the goop, was Rukia. He had failed; someone had died because he wasn't that quick enough. Someone who was precious and never replaceable, all we because of his fault. Ichigo stood like a statue with one girl in his left hand, and fell to his knees.
"So that's the most you could do? Vile human, you are pathetic, lives are meaningless, she meant nothing, a life which was already dead, coming back for another chance," The chaser with the mask mocked Ichigo, grinning with accomplishment. Ichigo gritted his teeth in anger, a life was just lost and all this guy could do was say she was simply air that was unneeded. Ichigo placed Hisana on the floor and gripped Zangetsu tightly with two hands.
"You Bastard!" Ichigo shouted as he sliced the chaser directly in half. The chaser dissipated like a hollow. Tears fell form Ichigo's eyes as he once more fell to the floor and slammed his fist on the ground. "Dammit!"
As Byakuya finished the chasers with his Bankai swiftly, he headed on over to find two crying characters, where was the other one? The girl had tears falling from her eyes as she could take her gaze off of the liquid that had taken a life. "B-Byakuya-sama… she's… gone…" His wife told him, his eyes widened, and he looked to Kurosaki who was beating himself about it. "But don't blame him… Byakuya-sama, there was just, too little time," She said between sobs. Byakuya nodded with understanding, but still couldn't believe that something like that had actually happened.
The three of them headed back to the living world, as Ichigo headed home solemnly, Hisana said she wanted to do something before they left back to soul society to report the news to everyone. Byakuya let her do so and left her in privacy, but made sure she was not to far he couldn't protect her.
Ichigo went by the place his mother died, and looked at the river, and then he went to his mother's grave. Remembering his first battle with grand fisher he kicked a stone, knowing how much Rukia helped him and changed his destiny so he could protect those close to him. She was his everything, how could he go on knowing she was gone? He had nothing, and was trying to realize that she really was gone, thanks to himself.
As Hisana headed inside she went to see Urahara, "I know there's a way to bring Rukia back, but… She has to have a body, one that can go to Soul Society and here, she could use mine," Hisana told Urahara with confidence. She again was no help to her sister, and only led others to bad things. The guilt was killing her, so her and Urahara set it up where Rukia would be back, but Hisana would be gone for good, and no one would remember her or the chaser incident. While Urahara prepared to the soul switch, Hisana found a branch of cherry blossoms and stuck it in her hair.
Later that Day:
"Ichigo!" Rukia called, "Come on hurry! We're gonna be late for Inoue's party! The other shinigami are already there!"
"I'm coming, done rush me midget," Ichigo said, taking his leisurely pace as he walked out the door.
"What'd you just call me Strawberry?" Rukia's teeth gritted.
"Ah, nothing, Rukia, now come on, your gonna make us late," Ichigo said taking her hand and pulling her to pick up the pace.
Rukia was pushing back her hair behind her ear, when she felt a flower in her hair "Ichigo did you put this in my hair?" She asked
"Why would I put a branch in your hair Rukia? Course not," Ichigo replied
"Huh… I wonder how it got here. It's really… quite pretty, like the flowers in the Kuchiki garden,"
A/N: Did you know, people actually notice things to the left first? Or Pay attention to the left before the right? Theatre teaches you these things ^^ it's because we read left to right. Lol, thank you all for keeping with me for this very short story and I hope you check out more of my other stories and I see you all in the future. I've had a blast writing fanfiction, and how it's helping me improve my writing. Thank you~ and for the last time for this story… R&R! 3