AN- Sup! I'm back! And let me tell you writing this chapter was torture! Ok for starters I suck at the whole fighting scene. I tried not to draw it out and to give people some room for imagination. Plus anime fight scenes are always really cheezy kinda with the yelling and the BOOM. Any way next update will be two chapters if I get the fifty reviews. I also like to thank everyone who reveiws because I lurve you! Ok got that out of my system no on with the show!

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Chapter 9- A gift from hell Flashback…

Ichigo slept quietly on the mattress, allowing Grimmjaw to look on without complaint. He realized the chain attached to Ichigo was getting shorter and shorter as the days wore on and Grimmjaw wasn't getting any closer to fixing him then he was several days earlier. It was infuriating and it didn't help the Ichigo didn't want Grimmjaw to help him. The shinigami had resigned himself to fate. Grimmjaw knew that Ichigo knew something. Ichigo just no longer had the will to live.

Ichigo began to stir and Grimmjaw watched as he awoke. The shinigami looked much worse then he had in days and it was only getting worse. It had gotten to the point where Grimmjaw was almost sick of looking at him, almost.

It was weird but Grimmjaw had become accustomed to the looming doom that Ichigo's presence supported. Usually, Ichigo would just glare and remain silent when he saw Grimmjaw. There would be times when he would mock and taunt him into quitting. Those times were usually marked by silence as Grimmjaw would end up gagging the orange haired teenager.

Right now, Ichigo was being quiet and silently sulking. Grimmjaw just stared at him, as though a simple move could give the secret away.

Finally Ichigo spoke.

"Why do you care?" Ichigo groaned, causing Grimmjaw to come out of his dazed stare to look the shinigami in the eyes.

"Huh?" He mumbled slightly disorientated.

"Why do you care whether I live or die?" Ichigo repeated almost sadly. "I thought you wanted me dead…"

"I want to be the one who brought ya down," Grimmjaw countered quickly. "I want to be the one who beat ya. Ya dying any other way wouldn't be fun."

"So what, your going to bring me back just so you can kill me?" Ichigo's eyes flared in anger, and Grimmjaw felt a bang of fear grow in him, but effectively ignored it.

"I didn't say I would kill ya did I shinigami? I just said I was going to bring you down…"

"I'm tied to your bed and dying. What part of this isn't a sign I've been brought down?"

Grimmjaw chose to ignore that comment. The shinigami just didn't get it. There was no way he would be able to get this man to understand. He just wanted to know how to fix the brat and then be on his way.

"Ya know what I just don't get ya," Grimmjaw mused. Ichigo's eyes looked at him intensly. "All I could hear about from ya when you were alive was how ya were going to beat me up if I hurt your friends or your family. What the hell happened to that?"

Ichigo didn't even blanch but looked away.

"My friends and family don't remember me. Why the hell should they have to remember me? I haven't done anything that should allow me to be remembered."

"No ya just saved their asses a shit load of times," Grimmjaw murmered sarcastically to which Ichigo raised an eyebrow.

"Are you complimenting me?"

"So what if I am?"

Grimmjaw's eye narrowed and his jaw clenched indignantly. Ichigo smiled, or smirked but considering he hadn't done so in a long while, it had a startling effect on Grimmjaw.

"First you resolve to bring me back to life and then compliment me? Are you sure your not falling for me?" Grimmjaw scowled to which Ichigo laughed. "Don't worry, I would never think that of you. You're a hollow, you could never have someone love you or be in love with someone."

Grimmjaw didn't know why, but those last few words stung.

"Just because I'm a hollow doesn't mean I don't feel things," Grimmjaw replied, glaring at Ichigo. "If I can feel hate why not love?"

Ichigo frowned at Grimmjaw, a little weirded out that Grimmjaw would ask such a question. Recently though, Grimmjaw wasn't seeming to make much sense anyway.

"You're a hollow and all that that name implies." Ichigo sneered earning a glowering look from Grimmjaw. "You think you feel something, but that's only a short lived concept of an emotion. Its only to feel the void, like that hole in your stomach."

Grimmjaw abruptly stood up and stalked over to Ichigo, who fully expect him to hit him or something. Grimmjaw did nothing more then gag Ichigo before deciding to prove to himself that he did really feel things. What better place to do that then Lynn's?

Sure enough as soon as he showed up, the girl would not stop talking.

"Grimmjaw I found something that might help you!" She said excitedly. For some odd reason this girl had gotten attached to Grimmjaw. Grimmjaw didn't know why but for some reason, he felt the same thing to her… or did he?

"Ok so I found out something interesting from that book. Apparantly this soul society did an experiment a while back that striped a person of their existance layer by layer. They had to stop though because it was considered bad… well of course. Anyway, I looked up the technique in the book. It said that there is some kind of kanji on the victims body along with the slicing of a chain of destiny, or in a soul reapers case, their zanpakuto."

Grimmjaw frowned slightly at the girl, who almost took no notice in him farther but continued talking.

"In the case of a soul reaper though, there was something strange going on. The reports said a persons abilities would solidify and become some kind of object…"

"Did it say how to help the potential person back to their original form?" Grimmjaw interrupted the girls ramblings. She looked at him and shook her head.

"The test were never completely successful," Lynn reported sadly. "As a matter of fact the tests went horribly wrong, turning soul reapers into hollows. Strangely enough the person who came up with the test thought that if soul reapers could be turned into hollows then it could happen vice versa."

For some reason that caught Grimmjaw's attention.

"What about an arrancar?" He asked and Lynn frowned at him.

"I think it could, but I'm not sure what would they turn out to be. Arrancar are hollows with shinigami power so you would end up being…"

"A shinigami with hollows powers," Grimmjaw finished, hiding a strange and curious gleam in his eye away from Lynn.

End flashback… There was a moment in which everything was absolutely still and then… BANG!

Lynn's fist smashed into Renji's face, not even giving him a moment to realize what happened, Lynn attacked again. Renji was ready for it this time and held his sword up, catching the brass knuckles. He threw her off without much effort and she halted to a stop, sliding dust all up into the air.

"I won't fall for that again," Renji growled holding his zapakuto up, ready to strike. A smirk graced Lynn's face.

"Good," was all she said before coming at Renji again. He held his sword in defence blocking the shot to his face. Lynn recovered and spun around the blades guard, elbowing Renji in the back. Renji hissed in pain but came at her again. Lynn barely had enough time to use a barrier and even then, her own barrier was brought to smash up against her, slamming her into a building. Not letting up, Renji fully attacked again ready to slice her in half. Lynn almost didn't have enough time to pull up the barrier.

Renji pushed ruthlessly at the barriers border, slightly slicing it up with his sword. Lynn grimaced under his force, unable to keep her barrier up.

"This was a lot quicker then I thought it would be," Renji said, noticing his zanpakuto was almost slicing the barrier. "Give up now."

"No!" Lynn said without hesitating. With a strange burst of adrenaline she smashed the barrier back, forcing Renji along with it. Renji wiped blood off of his face allowing his opponent to get back up.

Lynn flinched as she got up. The blow that knocked her against the building hurt, and she had even destroyed the wall. Renji could obviously match her speed and he was a vice captain, meaning he had twice the strength she had now. She needed someway to over power him and knew exactly how.

"You just going to stand there or are we gonna dance?" Renji asked annoyed. Lynn felt a rush of pride at the bruises on Renji but ignored it. She needed to do this.

"Yeah yeah, hold your pants on," Lynn snapped. There was a rush of reiatsu from her and suddenly, dark red flames formed a dark out line around her body. Renji watched in astonishment. She was using demon magic.

There was another tangle of fighting but Lynn powered up like this was no match for Renji. Renji dodged and blocked blow after blow but that was all he could do. Finally Lynn landed a smash across Renji's back nearly incapacitating him. He was stunned to find that when Lynn had the demon fire around her, her punches have the same effect of a sword, slashing a wound across his back.

Renji looked at her nonplussed.

Lynn fixed him with a determined stare and raised her hands defencively. "Don't underestimate me." She slammed into him cutting a deep gash from his shoulder to his upper torso. Renji fell watching the blood fall to the ground and Lynn pulled back.

"Where's the twelve company headquarters?" She instantly asked. Ulquiorra watched on in fascination. He had only once seen Lynn so dedicated and precise and she wasn't this scary at the time.

"What do you have against the twelve company?" Renji asked, fighting to keep himself sitting up.

"Its none of your business."

Renji laughed. "Your right it isn't and it doesn't really matter anyway. There's no way your getting there!" Renji stood up, fighting the weakness his injury caused him. "howl!(1) Zabimaru!" Renji shouted and instantly his sword stretched and fought to attack Lynn. Lynn jumped away from it, and barely managed to escape the second blow, but the third one ripped through her shoulder and arm. Renji retracted the blade and held it over his shoulder, a triumphant grin on his face.

"Face it! If you couldn't escape that which barely had any speed to it, there's no way you could win this!" Renji said and snapped the blade back in her direction. Now Lynn had trouble dodging and got scraped here and there. She jumped back away from the blade, spiralling in her direction, ready for a deathly blow, when Renji flicked his wrist. The blade slammed right into her stomach. Lynn gave a cough in surprise and fell to her feet and Renji brought back the blade.

"Lynn!" Ulquiorra yelled already drawing his zanpakuto. Lynn fell on her hands and coughed a serious amount of blood. Ulquiorra was fast approaching her when she put a hand up, stopping him. Ulquiorra looked on concerned (2). "Lynn…"

"No! Stop! I won't lose!" Lynn coughed.

"Give it up already! You were stabbed in the gut. Most people don't survive that." Renji berated but she sat up on her haunches, bangs covering her eyes. All that could be seen was a small smirk.

"Survival means nothing. I'm going to win!" Lynn stated loudly. Her reiatsu exploded and was so powerful it held down Renji. The ground started to ripple and burn like it was the ocean on fire. Lynn leaned down on the ground trying to hold her own against the incredible pressure.

"Arg!" Lynn screamed as she pushed down against the floor. Her hands and arm were swallowed by the ground and her sleeves burned from the dark red flames. Then she pulled up a black jagged blade steaming and burning with the red demon flame. She flashed the sword threateningly at Renji who noticed her eyes were the same color of the flames.

"Renji, meet Kurogetzu(3), my zanpakuto." Lynn smiled sadistically. Renji looked on calculatingly and knew he would need bankai if he wanted to overpower her. Lynn's smile only increased.

"That's it! Show me your bankai so I can crush it!" Lynn exclaimed.

Yammy bent down to Ulquiorra, looking slightly terrified of his companion.

"Is she evil when she unleashes her zanpakuto?" Yammy asked.

"No, she's just on a rush right now," Ulquiorra sighed. "She'll come down when she starts bleeding again."

Yammy noticed that Lynn's wounds, though still there refused to bleed. It was probably from the terrible reiatsu that pored out of her.

There was a severe bout of chaos that insued. Attacks swiftly executed and planned within a moments hesitation. Renji had managed to get his bankai to attack Lynn but none of her wounds would bleed. He was beginning to think she was evil with the fact that even though he was obviously winning, she just kept smiling that horrible smirk. After a particularly rough wound Renji looked on at her like she was insane.

"Why are you fighting like this? What do you have to gain?" Renji called out, brandishing Zabimaru to make a deadly attack. Lynn dodged under it running close to Renji, and there was no way he could move Zabimaru in time…

"This time, I'm going to save Ichigo!" She exclaimed and did a uppercut with her sword. Renji's eyes widened as he was thrown back from the sheer reiatsu of the sword. There was a red explosion and Ulquiorra had to stumble back not to be thrown off. Slowly the dust cleared and Zabimaru was broken off to the side while Lynn was holding Renji by his throat and holding her sword to him as well, with her bangs covering her eyes. Renji, hurt and in pain, could only look at her in bewilderment.

"You know something about Ichigo don't you!?" Renji managed to sputter out. Blood trickled down his mouth and abdomin where Renji had been hit. "Why are you here? What have you done to him?!"

"Please…" Lynn choked out as blood began to rush from her wounds. "Let me save…" Lynn choked and let go of Renji. She fell to the floor clutching his shinigami robes. Renji was about to fall next to her but managed to look down at her. She smiled wearily and looked up at him. "…Ichigo." Was all she said before she slumped off.

1- I think thats the thing he says but I could be wrong... I'm to lazy to check as well. Forgive me!

2- Ulquiorra looking concerned. Frightening really.

3- I don't know where the hell that name came from.

Yeah this chapter was a bitch to write. I got new manga to read and my hands are just iching to open it. So anyways, reveiw do your thing and I'll see you soon with a new chapter! Ciao!