"Are you serious? Ikikaera has even been able to acquire Aizen's zanpakuto?" Orihime said. Shinji just informed all of them of Kyoka Suigetsu. They were speaking about it in Toshiro's office.

"Is Aizen the name of the guy who wanted to destroy Karakura Town? Isn't that what you told me, Ichigo?" Karin said.

"Yeah, that was him." Ichigo said.

"This could be most trouble if Ikikaera has a zanpakuto like Kyoka Suigetsu on his side." Hogohana said.

"Is he really that strong?" Karin said.

"If he's anything like Aizen, deeply." Rangiku said.

"I hate to see what Kyoka Suigetsu can do without Aizen." Haineko said.

"I'm more concerned with the full extent of the power Ikikaera possesses." Hyorinmaru said. "To be able to control a zanpakuto like that, who knows how powerful he truly is."

"That is a concern. By the way, how is Momo doing?" Toshiro said.

"Momo? She'll be okay. Captain Unohana is taking care of her." Shinji said. "She's probably use to taking care of her by now."

"Don't say that so casually when her life could be endangered." Toshiro said.

"What are we going to do about Ikikaera?" Chad said.

"We've got to put an end to this rebellion of his." Ichigo said.

"Yes, I'm aware of that. The fact is, until we can figure out how we can track, we have no way of ending this." Toshiro said. "We're having soul reapers looking around for them, but they could be anywhere in the Soul Society. All we can do is wait and hope this will end soon."

…..

Zanpakuto Hideout

Some of the zanpakuto cut them off from the others so that they could talk in private. Apparently, not all of them are in agreement with each other.

"I'm sick of waiting around." Ikari said. "We should be out there and taking soul reapers down. Why the hell are we sitting around in this place?"

"Yes, I'm tired of waiting myself." Reppu said. "I want to go out there and bring an end to that Izuru's life."

"I feel the same about Rukia." Nejibana said.

"My, you all seem to be growing impatient." Shinso said as he found all of them. "What are all of you talking about?"

"None of your business." Ikari said.

"They're all getting tired of waiting. They want to strike at the soul reapers." Yasashi said. "Ikari, it's not nice to leave people out of this."

"Why do I always have to be stuck with you?" Ikari said.

"Sick of waiting?" Shinso said.

"Indeed." Nijigasumi said. "Ikikaera brought us all back to life and others from our enslavement as tools from zanpakuto. If he wants to destroy them, we should go on the attack. Instead he has us hiding away."

"So you all don't approve of this."

"Who's there?" Reppu said and another one of them stepped out from the shadows. He had long magenta hair. His outfit was a magenta robe with black sleeves and had green stripes running down on the front and side. The collar was also oddly shaped, like a bowl.

"I know who you are. You're Sumitsukigasa, the zanpakuto of Oko Yushima." Nejibana said.

"That is correct. I am with all of you." Sumitsukigasa said. "I am done taking orders from Ikikaera. He gave us the ability to live on our own, but we're still hiding away. I say we take matters into our own hands."

"You mean face the Serireitei head on?" Ikari said.

"I'm with you on that." Reppu said.

"But what if Ikikaera finds out?" Yasashi said. "You know he's not going to like it if you guys go behind his back. He could turn you into swords."

"There's safety in numbers. You can leave everything to me." Sumisakigasa said. "Do you wish to join?" He looked up and they all looked up to see the red princess like zanpakuto. She remained silent and just walked away.

"What's her deal? Does she talk to anyone?" Ikari said.

"She's the very strong and silent type." Nijigasumi said. "I'm not sure if anyone here even knows who she is."

"Shouldn't we do something about her? She'll spill out secrets." Reppu said.

"I don't think we have to worry about her. After all, she doesn't talk to anyone." Shinso said.

"We're all in agreement then? Tonight, we make our move and bring the Seireitei to its knees." Sumitsakigasa said.

…

The Seireitei

Renji and Rukia were out with their zanpakuto with it becoming the beginning of night. Both of them were discussing what has happened recently.

"Crazy stuff has been happening." Renji said.

"Crazy stuff have happened to you before." Snake said.

"It's only going to get worse. Now that Ikikaera has someone like Sosuke Aizen's zanpakuto, things are only going to take a turn for the worse." Rukia said.

"There's nothing to worry about milady." Sode no Shirayuki said. "I will gladly fight by yourside. You won't face these enemies alone."

"Yeah. You two have nothing to worry about since we're around." Monkey said.

"Maybe you're right. We're thinking too much about this." Renji said. "Rukia, why don't the two of us get a nice dinner or something to take our minds off all of this?"

"That does sound nice." Rukia said.

"Ooh, a nice dinner between the two of you?" Snake mocked as he and Monkey nudged up against him.

"We see where this is going. After all, we know what you're really thinking." Monkey said.

"Be quiet. You two don't know what you're talking about." Renji said. Rukia was find this amusing, but she noticed that Sode no Shirayuki had a serious look on her face.

"What's the matter?" Rukia said.

"Someone is watching us." Sode no Shirayuki said. She generated icicles and launched them by a gate and two figures jumped out of the way. They landed in the light and they both saw who they were, Nejibana and Nijigasumi.

"We meet again, Rukia." Nejibana said.

"Nejibana!" Rukia said.

"So that's the one you were telling me about." Renji said.

"You two got a lot of nerve coming here in the middle of the night." Monkey said.

"Nijigasumi, leave the female lieutenant to me. She's the one I want my flowing water to drown." Nejibana said.

"Understood." Nijigasumi said.

"Rukia, are you going to be alright to fight him? I know that he was Lieutenant Shiba's and he has his eyes set on killing you." Renji said.

"I'll be fine. You worry about the other one." Rukia said.

"You heard the little lady. Let's get this party started." Monkey said and formed Renji's shikai in her hand. "Roar!" She thrusted it at the both of them, but they both jumped out of the way to face their opponents. Nejibana pulled out his weapon and swung it around with water flowing out and attacked Rukia.

"Dance, Sode no Shirayuki." Rukia said as she released her shikai. She held it up and blocked his attack. Sode no Shirayuki attacked from his side and blew out an icy wind. He saw it coming and dodged the attack and swung the trident down at her, but she jumped out of the way.

"I'll take the both of you down." Nejibana said.

"Roar, Zabimaru!" Renji said as he unleashed his shikai, but Nijigasumi was able to block it.

"Out of the way, Renji!" Monkey said as she was coming down, but Nijigasumi jumped back. "Now, Snake!" She had the weapon teleport to Snake.

"I've got him!" Snake said as he thrusted the weapon. Nijigasumi tried to block it, but was pushed into a wall. "Have you had enough?"

"Not even close, brat." Nijigasumi said. "Flash and Burst!" He held up his katana and created the bright light.

"I remember, now. This is the same zanpakuto Ikkaku told me about." Renji said. "Be careful, he can create a bright light to blind us."

"Thanks for telling us a little late." Monkey said. Nijigasumi slashed at all three of them and knocked them down.

"Renji!" Rukia shouted.

"Look out!" Sode no Shirayuki said. Nejibana swung the trident and blasted them both with water.

"It's the end of the line for all of you." Nejibana said.

"It is for you." Orihime and Hogohana appeared. They attacked Nejibana, but he blocked them both. Chad and Yasei Senshi appeared and they both swung their maces at Nijigasumi. He tried to block them both, but he was hit back.

"Ready, Zangetsu." Ichigo said.

"Ready." Zangetsu said as they both had their attacks ready.

"Getsuga Tensho!" Both of them said and they blasted each of them. Karin showed up as well.

"Am I glad to see you guys." Renji said.

"So these are the substitute soul reapers." Nejibana said.

"Only two of them? This should be easy." Karin said.

"Actually, you're the ones who are outmatched." All of them looked and saw Sumitsakigasa with Reppu, Shinso, and Ikari to Yasashi.

"It's an ambush." Rukia said.

"So are you all prepared to die? With our combine powers, you don't have a chance of defeating all of us." Sumitsakigasa said.

"I'm afraid not." Orihime said. "When we sensed Rukia and Renji needed a little help, we brought some back up of our own." Other soul reapers surrounded the area led by Toshiro and Rangiku. They were also joined by Izuru, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and their zanpakuto. We're in for a real fight.

To Be Continued…