A/N: CH8 is up
[Edited..5/27/15]
Disclaimer-I dont own bleach
CH8: A Betrayal of Trust
A few days after the encounter
Mitsuomi sits in his office but his mind still was racked by Itsuki's offer of returning to the Rokukage, "this is troublesome" he thought. Mitsuomi was shook from his thoughts by Hinamori, "Taicho...taicho I have the list you wanted" she said handing him the report, "Thank you hinamori" he said, reading the report of seated officers for the squad. Mitsuomi rested his head on his right hand, "This is hopeful...most of the seated officers stayed after aizen defection but the higher ranks namely 3rd and 4th seat transferred...currently at 5th seat is Seiryu Itou and at 6th seat Asuka Sakyo" he thought. Mitsuomi looked up from the report, "Hinamori what kinda man is Seiryu, is he good at leading people" he asked reading another report.
"Well sir he has kept the squad's morale up since the war and he has been doing the paperwork while I was in the hospital" momo said, signing several papers. Mitsuomi nodded, "I see thats good well I've decided starting tommorrow Seiryu will be our new 3rd seat...Saburo Gio will be the new 4th seat and all other officers will be moved up one seat" he said standing.
"I'll be back later Hinamori...inform Seiryu and Asuka of my decision" mitsuomi said leaving and she nodded.
"Yes Captain" momo replied. Mitsuomi walked in silence, "Taicho" spoke Saburo and mitsuomi jerked, "Geez...man you really know how to sneak up on people...walk with me awhile" he smiled. The two walked side by side, "so you getting accustomed to the new squad?" asked mitsuomi.
"Hai" saburo replied. Saburo wore a sleeveless shishakusho like mitsuomi, his blonde hair blew in the wind at his side a short sword, "Saburo starting tommorrow you will this squad's new fourth seat...I expect your best" mitsuomi said.
"Hai" replied Saburo. A few days later a young man was speaking to Seiryu, "Seiryu-sama, its seems the captain has spilttd his time not just here at the barracks but the archives as well" said one of his underlings, "I see good work, continue to follow him also be wary of Saburo Gio" Seiryu coolly said. The underling vanished to continue his trailing of mitsuomi, "once I sway the whole squad to my side I will kill this Kiriyu and become the new Gobantai Taicho" he thought smugly.
In the world of the living the members of the Rokukage excluding Mitsukuni, who is confined to a bed, sit contemplating their goal of bringing mitsuomi back into the fold, "Are you sure he can bring him back to our side Hiro?" said Soichiro sitting at head of the large table.
"Yes he can his zanpakuto will allow him to sway mitsuomi back to our side" answered Hiro. As soichiro and hiro continued the talk, the door opened revealing a young man with short ink colored hair and brown eyes, on his neck the symbol for six, "Ahh you have arrived Karasu please take your seat" said soichiro.
"Hai Yukimura-sama" karasu said sitting down. Soichiro leaned forward, "Now karasu can your zanpakuto bring our wayward comrade home" soichiro asked, his hands under his chin.
"Yes my zanpakuto Akuma Ningyo(Demon puppetry) will allow me to bring him back" karasu said. Soichiro leaned back, "Good...now I'll have you...Reina and Itsuki head to the soul society and retrieve him, you will have three months to prepare" soichiro said.
"Hai Soichiro-sama" anwsered karasu. Meanwhile in the Soul Society mitsuomi sat the roof of the 5th squad barracks staring at stars cigarette in his mouth, when he feels a familiar reiatsu near him, "This where you are hiding" Isane spoke appearing next him, "and your smoking too" she adds. Mitsuomi shifted, "Gomen its calms me down" he said putting the cigarette out, "Is something wrong?" she asked concerned.
"Nah...just a feeling that a storm is coming and I can't stop it" mitsuomi said looking at the half moon, "don't worry I'll be by your side no matter what" she said laying her head on his chest.
"Thanks dear" mitsuomi said kissing the top of her head. Little did they know that in three months their happy lives would be torn apart.
IXIXI
Three months later a Captain's meetings was held to discuss a concern brought up by Mitsuomi, as the Captains stood in two rows listening to the Soutaicho, "Kiriyu Taicho what is the problem you would like to discuss" boomed the Soutaicho. Mitsuomi walked forward but he feels a sharp pain in his head and grabs his head screaming, as he dropped to his knees. The others were in shock, "Mitsuomi what's wrong?" asks unohana rushing to his side, "something attacking me" he screams. Ukitake also rushed to his side, "Where mitsuomi we don't see anything?" he asks looking around. Mitsuomi tries to stand but falls again, "Inside" he screams, clenching his head. Mitsuomi gets to his feet all while screaming in pain and staggering towards the door. The captain's reactions vary from shock to concern and to anticipation by kenpachi to horror by ukitake, unknown to all the reason for this is outside the seireitei in the 5th district of the western rukon. Reina and Itsuki watched as Karasu sat on a hill, his zanpakuto released in the form of a puppets and a pair of gauntlets used to control others, "good mitsuomi...that's it...you belong to us now...don't resist...now let me restore your powers back to before you started resisting your dark nature" he says eyes closed.
At the meeting hall mitsuomi's purple and black reiatsu pulses wildly as his screams get louder. The captains stand ready for anything as the hall shakes and walls start to crack. The others looked in awe, "No way his reiatsu is rising" shouted toshiro. Mitsuomi screams echoed through out the hall several squad one members fainted due the heavy reiatsu. The area shakes with his power, "What a monstrous power its terrible..I can't even approach" said Soifon shielding her eyes, as quickly as it happened it stopped, mitsuomi dropped to knees his head down. Unohana slowly approached him, "Mitsuomi we're here talk to us?" she asked. Laughter is all they hear from him as mitsuomi slowly rises to feet his back to them. Mitsuomi slicks back his hair and cracks his neck, "Hahahahaha...Subarishi...I'm finally free" he laughs. Mitsuomi turns around revealing a maniacal smile and his eyes glazed over, "What do you mean free Kiriyu?" asked Sajin. Mitsuomi coyly smirked, "Simple I'm finally back to who I was before I was tainted by you people" he smirked. Mitsuomi continued laughing with a haughty smirk, "Before joining the Gotei 13?" asked Kensei.
"Soda-ne" mitsuomi smiled, walkng towards them. Mitsuomi disappears in flash reappearing in front of the Soutaicho, "now Soutaicho what will you do" he smirked. Before the Soutaicho could react a jagged blade erupted from mitsuomi's chest spraying blood. Kenpachi chuckles with his shark like smile ever-present, "you owed me a fight kiriyu...Now I claim it" he grinned. Mitsuomi looked back wide-eyed, "Masaka you...Jodan" he smirked, in flash the body vanished leaving just his hoari. Mitsuomi appears in front of the door laughing, "now I will take my leave and rejoin my comrades" he laughed.
"Your comrades you mean the Rokukage...shonen" boomed Yamamoto.
"Exacta...my real family and we will crush you all" mitsuomi laughed sinisterly. Byakuya and Soifon charged at him to no avail they were trapped. Mitsuomi stood waving, "You're inside my Ryu Shoheki in fact your inside ten of them...don't worry though with your combined powers...you will be out in no time but I'll be long gone" he smiled, flash stepping away. After thirty minutes the captains were free and looking for mitsuomi but there was no trace. The official order came out to the squads capture him alive but if he resists secure him any way possible. Some people took it as another captain gone rogue, members of squad 5 thought why them, was this squad cursed but were dissuaded by seiryu and hinamori who believed their captain is being controlled. Isane took the news hardest fainting when she heard, the man she loved a traitor. The seireitei was locked down in the hopes of finding him. Meanwhile karasu told reina and itsuki it was success but mitsuomi was heading not to them but to the 45th district of the western rukon.
"Where could he be going?" reina asked.
"Lets find out...time to go meet up with our little brother" itsuki shouted, the three flashstepped away.
IXIXI
In the 45th district of the western rukon near the mountains sat a japanese style castle, the owner is Jinbei Tarukane, he looks about 45yrs old grayish hair brown eyes. He is greedy man who was the cause of the rokukage destruction. He's into many iilegal things including thanks a hollow, he opened a doorway to Hueco Mundo and used hollows for fights against humans but he was protected by a member of the old central 46. Unknown to tarukane his death is coming for him, because sitting on a ridge overlooking the castle is mitsuomi kiriyu, "Finally after nearly 200 yrs I will have revenge" he smiles.
Flashback...200yrs ago
The members of the Rokukage arrived at castle of Jinbei Tarukane, "Sugoi" shouted reina and itsuki. Hiro and soichiro were impressed but didn't show it. Mitsukuni walked ahead of them beside him an unimpressed young boy who looked about 15yrs old on his back a large double sided battle axe with one side chipped a keepsake from a past battle. (A/N: this axe and girl about to be mentioned will be explained in a coming chapter)
"Mitsuomi what's wrong?" mitsukuni asked his young friend.
"Nanimonai" mistuomi anwsered sighing.
"I know you miss Saya but she wouldn't like you moping around seeking battle after battle...its no way to live..she taught you that" mitsukuni said patting mitsuomi's head. Mitsuomi blushed softly but kept a straight face, "I know...she taught me to better express myself instead of hiding behind my smile but thats not whats bothering me" he said looking ahead. As they arrived at the gates they are greeted by tarukane, "Welcome Rokukage i'm happy you accepted my offer" he greeted.
"Not a problem Mr. Tarukane...now what will have us doing?" mistukuni asked.
"Simply put...you will be my escort" jinbei said.
"Escort to where?" asked soichiro. Jinbei waved his fan, "Hueco Mundo...I have found a way in and I need strong escorts to explore it" he proudly said. Mitsuomi silently scoffed, "Impossible only hollows can do that" he said. Jinbei turned to him, "Well aren't you smart but i have found a way" jinbei said patting mitsuomi head.
"You wanna keep that hand...Better let go" mitsuomi glared.
"Enough...Mr tarukane we accept your offer" anwsered mitsukuni. Jinbei continued to explain his plan over a splendid banquet, after eating the rokukage prepared for their mission. Mitsuomi decided to leave his axe behind and the group was led to an underground room, in the room were four people in black clothes. The four performed several hand signs, it was then that the space before them fractured and spilt appeared opening into a black void.
"This is a garganta the doorway to Hueco Mundo" one them spoke.
"Alrite lets head out mitsuomi you take point and I'll bring up the rear" mitsukuni shouted.
"Yes sir" they replied. After what seem like hours of running the group arrived at their destination the desolate expanse of hueco mundo. "What a dreary place!" shouted itsuki. The a vast desert was around them a perpetual night, no lakes, buildings or even trees, a true wasteland. The group headed to a rocky outcropping to get a lay of the land, after seeing a mountain the group made the trek towards it. After an hour of walking, hollows started to appear but rokukage made short work of them but all of a sudden more and more gathered. "What the hell going on they keep coming!" shouted soichiro ,burning them with his zanpakuto.
"I don't know but keep fighting!" shouted mitsukuni with his sword released also. Mitsuomi was in thick of the fight, hacking and slashing his way through the hollows, he and reina were back to back her zanpakuto Benigumo released as well. The six did their best to kill the hollows but the numbers kept growing. Hiro grabbed tarukane by the throat, "why the hell did you bring us here" he glared.
"I'm sorry but I needed to find a vasto lorde for my work" jinbei pleaded. Mitsukuni heard this and punched tarukane breaking his nose, "Get us out of here you bastard!" he shouted. The four summoners started to open the garganta when two were killed by a large hollow, Mitsuomi charged the hollow lodging his sword in its head, "Go on get outta here I'll hold em off!" he shouted.
"We won't leave you!" screamed reina clenching her bleeding arm.
"She's right don't be stupid we all go together!" the others shouted.
"No he is right mitsuomi is better suited for this than we are" sighed mitsukuni.
"You expect us to abandon him!" reina screamed on verge of tears.
"We are all injured but he is not, he will give a chance to escape!" mitsukuni shouted, after some more shouting the garganta open and the others escaped, that was the end of the rokukage. Mitsuomi kept fighting dodging cero after cero, a scythe now in hand stained with blood but the battle was taking its toll. As the the hollow surrounded him he screamed "ZETSUEI!" his reiatsu exploded, his scythe changed into a giant halberd weapon, slamming it to ground the blast killed the remaining hollows, panting heavily he spots one of the summoners still alive but mortally wounded. The man teaches mitsuomi the hand signs to open garganta before he dies, mitsuomi buries him in the sand near the rocks. Mitsuomi arrives back at tarukane castle to be surronded by his men, "ahh...you survived simply amazing boy"he praised.
"Where are my friends you bastard" mitsuomi spat.
"Why they are dead..I alone live that was a month ago" jinbei said fanning himself.
"Uso-tsuki my friends are alive...tell me where they or you're dead" mitsuomi glared. Jinbei laughed, "their dead you little brat...Kill him" he shouted. The men charged mitsuomi but he dodged landing on the roof of the gate, "Know this Jinbei my face will be the last you see before you die" he shouted, before vanishing. Jinbei simply laughed, "send word i'll offer any man his weight in gold for the head of that boy"he said. Mitsuomi would spend the next half century fending off bounty hunters.
End Flashback
Mitsuomi cracked a wicked grin, "Now my revenge will have no bounds...today you die Jinbei" he smirked.
"Oi mitsu-nii there you!" shouted Itsuki.
"Yo..." mitsuomi replied waving. The three arrived in front of mitsuomi, "who's he?" mitsuomi said, pointing to Karasu.
"He is the person who brought you back to us" smiled Reina. Mitsuomi simply smiled, "why are you here?" asked Itsuki.
"One reason...to kill Jinbei Tarukane" mitsuomi smirked, pointing to the castle. The four ventured to the castle, mitsuomi went ahead of them reaching the gate first.
"Halt who are you?!" shouted a guard, pointing his spear at mitsuomi. Mitsuomi kept walking forward smiling, the guard charges him only to be killed by mitsuomi quicksword, also slashing the gate to pieces. Several guards attacked only to killed by whiplike blade, "arigato reina" smiled mitsuomi. Reina's Benigumo looked like a scimitar but blade acted like whip, "Thanks mitsu-nii" she replied. Itsuki and Karasu simply watched the fight as one of the guards rushed into jinbei's main chamber shouting, "My lord...My lord someone is attacking the castle they claim to be the rokukage!" he pants.
"Rest easy...this axe is prove enough that the rokukage are gone but if that boy was alive...we would simply kill him" Jinbei smirked, suddenly the chamber was rocked by an explosion.
"My lord they're coming!" shouted the guard.
"Just stay calm they will never reach here" said Jinbei. At that moment the door opened revealing mitsuomi, "hey there been awhile" he smirked.
"Its you" shouted the guard.
"But what about my guards?" asked Jinbei. Mitsuomi grinned and pointed, "Huh...oh your guards, their on a permenant timeout" he smirked.
"But how did you?" asked the guard seeing the bodies behind mitsuomi.
"Ok then...who's next" mitsuomi smiled cracking his knuckles.
"Wait...just listen you've come to reclaim the great axe" Jinbei said, pointing at the axe behind him.
"Hey...so you kept it huh..." mitsuomi smiled.
"its yours...take it" whispered Jinbei. Mitsuomi walked past Jinbei picking up the huge axe with one hand, "Huh...that huge axe reqiured three men to carry it...yet he picked up easily" thought Jinbei staring.
"You know now that I think about it...I dont need this lousy thing" he said, crushing the handle of the axe. The blade fell the ground clanging, "now let me show a real weapon...Bankai" he shouted. Zetsuei turned not into a scythe but a large halberd broadsword weapon, he rested it on his shoulder staring at Jinbei.
(A/n its looks like Bankotsu's Banryuu).
Jinbei looked like a ghost staring at mitsuomi, "wait please...will you serve me again...be my new general and no one will stop us" jinbei pleads.
"Hey...come on now don't you remember what i told you all those years ago?" mitsuomi asked puzzled.
"What are you talking about" Jinbei half shouted. Mitsuomi cracked a grin, "I told you...my face would be the last one you before you die" he smirked. Jinbei shook in fear, "No please...have mercy" he pleaded.
"Sorry...all outta mercy" grinned mitsuomi slamming the huge blade downward cleaving jinbei in half, blood flew everywhere. The guard dropped to rear, wetting his pants as mitsuomi walked by, joining his friends outside. Mitsuomi felt relief as he finally had his revenge, "What's that weapon?!" Reina shouted pointing and mitsuomi taps the blade, "its the true form of my Zetsuei" he smirked reaching the gate, "The funs all gone most of them ran off" she pouted.
"Hey its about to get fun again!" shouted Itsuki pointing, ahead of them were a dozen men on horseback were charging at them full speed.
"Look the castle" shouted one of the men, "him again" shouted the leader glaring at mitsuomi.
"Hey there...fancy meeting you again" mitsuomi smiled.
"Damn you...what did you do to our lord" the leader spat.
"I ended his sorry excuse of life" mitsuomi laughed. The leader growled, "A curse on you!" shouted the leader pointing his sword a mitsuomi, "are you ready to follow your lord to hell" he smirked. The leader shouted to his men "Kill them" charging forward, "you...Fools!" shouted mitsuomi leaping into the air. The huge blade spun over his head as he slammed it downward killing all twelve men instantly, the ground and his blade stained with their blood. The four returned to ridge overlooking the castle, smoke billowed was coming it, "that was too easy...shall we go mitsu-nii?" asked Itsuki. Mitsuomi stood watching the ruins of the castle, "not yet" he said pointing his left hand at the ruins. A small golf ball sized darkish purple cero appeared, shooting from his finger the cero hit the castle destroying half of it, "now we can go" he laughed. Itsuki opened a senkaimon and the four headed to the world of the living.
IXIXI
Isane sat in her room her eyes red from crying since she found out what happened to mitsuomi, "mitsuomi what happened to you..." she thought.
"Sis you in here" shouted Kiyone opening the door. Kiyone sat next to her sister who looked like a wreck, "Isane you gotta pull yourself together...the captains will get him back" she said softly.
"I know but I can't shake this feeling that something horrible will happen to him and i'll lose him forever" isane whispered, wiping away the tears. Kiyone knew that Isane loved mitsuomi but not this much, mitsuomi had given her sister something she lacked confidence to be her own woman. Kiyone soothed her sister till she fell asleep, as she headed to door, when isane whispered in her sleep, "mitsuomi please come back to me" she mumbled, closing the door Kiyone headed back to the 13th. In the Karakura town a senkaimon opened in front of a huge mansion in the outskirts of town, Reina, Itsuki, Karasu and Mitsuomi exited it.
"Welcome to Eclipse Mansion our home" shouted Itsuki, entering the mansion they were greeted by a butler who led them to a room with a large staircase.
"Welcome back mitsuomi" a voiced echoed, looking up mitsuomi saw Soichiro walking down the steps, he was wearing a white suit with a black shirt and a white tie, "good to be back soichiro" mitsuomi smiled. Soichiro smirked, "finally the Rokukage are back to full strength" he smiled.
"Not all...where's mitsukuni?" asked mitsuomi. Soichiro led him to a bedroom, entering the room mitsuomi saw mitsukuni laying in the bed his body bandaged head to toe except for his face, "what happened" mitsuomi asked.
"Tarukane tried to kill us when arrived back to his keep...mitsukuni used his bankai to help us escape to the living world" soichiro softly said.
"I see" mistuomi whispered. The two left the room bowing to their sleeping leader, soichiro showed mistuomi his new room, "here you go the closets full of clothes pick what you want" soichiro said leaving. Mitsuomi looked around the room it was huge, large windows a huge bed, plopping of the bed mitsuomi layed back thinking, "I'm finally back home...now I can search for that thing and unravel everything" he thought.
To be continued
A/N: ch8 is done next chapter will feature the return of the rokukage and a fight between Rukia Renji Ichigo vs Reina Itsuki and Mitsuomi...now dont hate me but ichigo will lose and orihime will join the rokukage
Stay tuned
P.S. Karasu time is ticking to an end
