-10 sat in the head chair at the end of a long white table in the Las Noches dining hall. At the other end of the table were Tatsuki and Keigo who had plates of food sitting in front of them and -9 behind them with his hand on the hilt of his sword. "Now this is just rude, we offer you food and you just look at it in disgust" -10 said as he snapped his fingers. Hikari's clone smiled and drew his sword, swinging it to the side then sheathing it again. Keigo looked over to see the column on the wall to his right was falling apart into slices. "Eat or else my friend here will have to force feed you, after all, we don't wish any harm on you two" he chuckled.
"Then why did you take us!?" Tatsuki yelled as she slammed her fist on the table.
"You can't lure prey without some bait" he said standing up and leaning over the table.
"So we are being used to lure someone here?" Keigo added as he starting eating out of fear of Hikari's clone.
"The remaining -10 have one goal, and that is to dispose of the original versions of us so we ourselves can become whole" Ichigo's clone said. "We were created from the DNA of 10 soul reapers, one of which was your friend Ichigo Kurosaki except we were created from their hollow DNA, or as you know them, those monster from your world" he said causing the both of them to freeze. "This power made us opposite of the soul reapers but gave us more power. We were going to be used as experiments to help fight against any remaining soul reaper hollow hybrids but those fools failed to take our power into account. We escaped and came here, making our mark on this place and exceeding the Espada's powers" he finished. "And now we have you two, you will be the bait to lure the rest of the originals here to save you since the Soul Society will take responsibility for our actions, we are their creations after all" he said sitting down, resting his feet on the table.
"You may look like Ichigo but you are nothing but a fake! Our friends will be here and they will save us and beat you!" Tatsuki yelled as she stood up from her seat.
"Are you crazy Tatsuki?! These guys could kill us without even trying!" Keigo said trying to calm her down.
"I suggest you sit down, now" -9 said gripping tightly on her left shoulder. She reached around and punched him in the face, sending him staggering back, holding his face as black blood came out of his nose. "You bitch!" he yelled as he back handed her in the face and sent her flying over the table and into the wall, making her cough out blood.
"You honestly need to learn to treat women better, we aren't items for you to do as you see fit with" a female voice said from behind him.
"What the hell do you want…" -9 growled as he held his bleeding nose. Keigo turned to see a short and petite woman with blue glasses and white hair which was pulled back in a long braid. She wore the white and black soul reaper uniform but had it in the form of a skirt that went down to her knees. "-3 you have no place ridiculing my actions" he said stepping over to her and getting in her face.
"And you have no place invading a woman's personal space" She said pushing him aside. She walked over and picked up Tatsuki from the floor and began to carry her out of the room. "We will treat your wounds and apologies for that idiot's actions" she said holding Tatsuki's arm over her shoulder.
"What reason did you come here -3, surely you would bother coming here just to aid one of the prisoners" -10 asked.
"A Garganta has opened several miles outside of Las Noches, several spiritual pressures have been detected entering, none of them of a hollow" she said causing -10 to smile.
"-9, escort the prisoner to his room, wouldn't want his friend finding him too soon would we?" -10 laughed.
Outside of Las Noches, Ichigo and the others touched down on the white sands of Hueco Mundo. All of them faced towards Las Noches and Ichigo led the way towards the palace. "How long until we reach the palace wall?" Byakuya asked.
"From here maybe an hour, we showed up closer to the palace than the last time" Uryu said as he ran over the white dunes.
"Ichigo!" a high voice said to the right of Ichigo who formed a scared and surprised look on his face. He turned to see a cloud of white dust coming towards them.
"What is that?" Ikkaku said a bit confused.
"Not these guys again" Renji groaned as they stopped running and let the dust cloud grow closer and closer.
"Is it an enemy?" Byakuya said as he put his hand on the hilt of his sword.
"Worse…" Ichigo said as something small and green came flying at him, hitting him in the stomach and knocking him to the ground.
"Ichigo! I'm so happy to see you! I told them that you were coming to save us but they didn't believe me!" a voice said from the object that hit him. He sat up to see Nel hugging his stomach while crying tears of joy with snot coming out of her nose and dripping onto his clothes.
"Damn it Nel! Your snot is getting all over me again!" he said trying to get her off to no avail. The rest of the group just stared in disbelief at what was happening, all but Hikari who was lookin over at Pesche and Dondochakka who were frozen as the looked at him.
"Hey bro…do you know who this is?" Dondochakka said shaking.
"H-he looks like the blonde devil that killed all of those hollows" Pesche said as he started to sweat.
"Blonde Devil?" Hikari said confused as he rubbed his hair. "My name is Hikari Okami, and you can address me as such" he said which made the both of them salute.
"You act as if you are part of a noble clan with the way you speak" Byakuya said which caused Hikari to rest his hand on his sword.
"You wanna fight Kuchiki? Because I could kill you right here and right now" he growled which made Dondochakka and Pesche hide behind Renji and Uryu.