Amaterasu had been in Hueco Mundo for close to a month now. She was fairly certain that Aizen had gotten enough information. What ever he was working on seems to have been pushed aside in favor of what he was currently planning.

Gin had largely kept away from her. He found her piercing gaze to be extremely unsettling. Not to mention that she would appear out of nowhere. Fortunately she had kept away from him when Aizen was close.

Tousen on the other hand was rather unsettled when he reached out to touch what he thought was a young woman, and felt wolf fur instead. He assumed that she was a female from Komamura's clan that happened to be mute and didn't take too well to any implication otherwise. The two of them would occasionally sit side beside and try and communicate.

The arrancar in this establishment had mixed feelings regarding this development. The two-that-were-one did not care much, if anything they were satisfied regardless of what happened, an odd thing amongst hollow.

The elder pseudo god did not take well to being pushed aside. Once he deduced (correctly) that she was the cause, he became devoted to making her time here miserable. Or rather, he boasted and threatened her in his skeletal form for a week then disappeared after realizing that the only thing that he was doing, was getting older. Amaterasu for the most part found the display to be akin to Kazegami flaunting his speed.

Tia Harribel did not care either. She, her troupe and Amaterasu often sat in silence and watched the stars. If anything, they spent more time searching the sky for stars then anything else. Apache was the one who saw the most recent shooting star. Mila rose and Sun Sun were the first ones to make up a constellation. They squabbled over it for quite sometime before their leader silenced them and returned to looking at the sky.

The empty one did not seem to care either. He still had a purpose and he was satisfied with that, even if his current purpose is to follow her around and bring Aizen and his fellow Shinigami food. Amaterasu found that attitude to be a little depressing if not pathetic. That is not to say that he was pathetic, he could be rather unpleasant if you somehow managed to agitate him. She had seen that expression plenty of times during the Orochi era. Waka never did completely lose that sadness even with all the songs he played.

The reaction of the fifth one was… well… Explosive. He spent many hours ranting about being cast aside and losing at the last moment. He then left to go slaughter some hollows. Amaterasu felt rather sorry for him. He was one of the hollows here that had not been able to find some semblance of peace for himself and it seemed that he had a death wish.

She had escaped from her cell a while ago when she felt something shift. It was amusing watching Aizen and that arrancar Szayel Apporo Granz try and grasp her power. She had to commend them for their efforts, but it was like watching a turtle try to fly. Tis a pity they didn't try to understand how her inventory works. That would've been easier and it would've worked out better for them. Granted, they still wouldn't have been able to touch her weapon without risking the destruction of their zanpakuto at best and soul at worst.

She wall trotted through Las Noches. The fraccion more or less ignored her, or maybe they were unaware, she could never be completely sure.

Amaterasu stalked over to another arrancar, the sixth one. This one had bright blue hair and odd markings under his eyes. He looked like he was napping in a corner, various objects strewn about, as if they were marking his territory.

She carefully stalked until she was directly over him. Then she drew a cherry bomb.

The result was instantaneous. It blew through a portion of the wall and knocked the sleeping arrancar across the room. He landed neatly on his feet and fired a bala at Amaterasu after shouting something about fighting.

She leapt to the side and darted out into the hall before he could fire another one.

Had she been able, she would've laughed at his expression.

The two men followed after her. "GET BACK HERE YOU BITCH!" Screamed the blue haired one as he ran, dragging Ulquiorra along with him.

Ulquiorra wasn't sure what to make of the current situation. He had been ordered to keep an eye on the creature and to observe its actions. He had also been told to not damage Las Noches or allow anyone else for that matter. He noticed that as the wolf ran down the halls she avoided windows. It appeared that the false sunlight was not to her taste.

Amaterasu rounded a corner and spied another arrancar. She sped up and as she blazed passed him she drew her reflector and rebounded one of Grimmjow's so that it would hit him.

Well, now she had two angry arrancar after her. The one named Nnoitra was even more angry. He was swearing something about fighting him and the rest of his words were comments on her femininity.

If she could just lure them to that place, then she could-

BOOM

Soifon and Madoka stayed in the tree hollow for a long time. The had roughly two millennia to catch up on or so they thought. Evidently, Kabegami had allowed her conduit to dream about the living world and soul society while her body was repairing itself. "I asked her why she did that." Began the woman "-I won't have an ignorant human and you are not very creative.- she said. Humph. Of course I'm creative, I've created the code that nobody outside of the- "

"You aren't very modest are you." meowed the cat.

"Why, of course I am! I'm the greatest" She answered with mock indignity before resuming working on her pin.

The cat chuckled slightly "Soifon. Really? Are you really going to use that every time someone asks?"

Her eye twitched when she heard her name called."I hate when I am called that." She muttered as she picked up the cat and set it on her shoulder. "You both know that and yet you call me by it anyway"

The cat cocked his head. "Well, whats wrong with being addressed by your name? It's official isn't it? And doesn't it mean clarity or elegance or something like that?"

The woman looked at him for a few minutes. "Sometimes I forget that you were pretty sheltered for someone who worked in theater."

"Hey! I was a soldier too!" The cat protested. He wasn't really, the game of omission was one they had played since the moment they met, he saw no purpose in ending it now.

"That makes it worse."

"Just tell me why?"

"The characters in my name mean broken bee. That is my entire existence."

"That changes depending on context. Don't try that on me-" began the cat but was soon interrupted by his irate friend.

"My name is servant! Slave! Meant to be broken! Something with no other purpose then to be used! I am something to be cast away when I am no longer useful! What do you think happens to female servants?" She demanded. Her voice rising with each word. "Before you say anything that is what servants of nobles were called. Soifon." Then she paused for a few moments before adding "I think prostitutes had more things tacked onto the end of that but I do not care to remember. I got away before I could be completely branded as one."

For a moment Madoka feared being struck, but he saw her calm down a few moments later. He was used to this reaction and he knew what to expect, but it still caught him off guard sometimes. "I don't think it has the meaning today. Again it is only context" he replied carefully. Seeing as he had not yet been struck he continued. "Didn't mean to bring up bad memories." He was about to continue when he did get slapped.

"Madoka. I have told you that hundreds of times before." Replied the woman false cheerfulness. "You just keep forgetting."

The scratched his ear awkwardly. "Lets go see whats left of our legacy then?" He suggested.

"I wonder if Hachidori is still in business. I hope it is, we created it together did we not?." Mused the woman.

"Heh yeah, the plays were pretty popular in our time wasn't it." The cat hopped off her shoulder and trotted outside the tree. "I'll go ahead and wait for you."

"Very well." she replied. She polished the pin before carefully pinning sticking it in her hair. She took one last look around to make sure everything else was in order before leaving herself.

Somewhere else in seireitei, a little girl snuck out of her room and carefully left her house. She had pocketed some food from dinner and she was going to go and feed her friend. She made her way to the base of a cliff where her friend was waiting.

"Hi Yori- Nee. I got some fish from dinner." She chirped as she saw the cat waiting there for her. As it started eating she babbled to it about her day. "I heard somebody say that Okashiria -sama was back. Nobody will tell me what that means."

The cat, having finished its meal replied. "Hey there Keiko. They probably mean just that. The leader of the Hachidori clan is back. I bet it had something to do with that explosion earlier."

The girl looked a bit confused for a moment. "I thought that was Kugaku-nee blowing up Ganchu-nii. At least that's what they told me. What's going on Yori -Nee?"

The cat simply chuckled. "I'll tell you later. Off to bed with you."

Keiko sulked "Hmpf Nobody ever tells me anything. The grownups always say that and then never tell me." She sat on the cat and pouted. "I don't want to go to bed"

Yoruichi who was rather used to this sighed in mock defeat for a few moments before rolling out from underneath. "Alright. Alright. Fine I'll tell you. But you have to promise not to tell anyone 'kay?"

The little girl brightened instantly and nodded with enthusiasm.

"I had tea and cookies with a wolf god. She said that one of her friends might pay a visit later." She saw the little girl frown "Were you expecting something else?"

The girl shifted a little. "Kinda. There was a lot of noise in the second squad barracks about someone rude."

Yoruichi blinked for a few moments. "Squad two? How did ya get in there?" She was used to all sorts of mischief from the theater children but this took the cake. She briefly wondered if Yachiru had anything to do with it. But that wasn't likely. Yachiru didn't particularly care for that particular area.

"Oh thats easy. There's these really big tunnels under ground. They smell kind of bad. One of them leads right under the floor. The door won't open though." She looked a bit disappointed when she said the last part of the sentence. Then she shushed the cat. "Don't tell anyone. It's a secret."

Yoruichi shook her head and sighed. The second squad must've really fallen if the only thing stopping a little girl from breaking in was a boarded up trapdoor. At any rate, she had better get the brat to bed. The director, who she knew was perfectly aware of Keiko's escapades, would probably give her an earful for keeping her up this late. "I won't tell if you go back to your room." She watched the girl cross her arms again and pout. "What if I walked you back?" The girl pouted some more so she tried another tactic. "I'll let you carry me back?"

"Fine, but I still don't like it" Replied the girl as she picked up the cat and started back.

Authors note- I have discovered that writing about ammy and the espada is much harder then writing for the captains. They're a pretty predictable bunch and they're all kind of flat. This transition felt a bit weird to write on account of all the OCs. I think the next chapter would be less awkward since I do plan on some action happening. I think I might be taking a page out of Kubos's book. When in doubt, make a new character, arc, or power, etc.

As for the new oc. Keiko is younger a little younger then Yachiru, around four or five years old physically, and gets into just as much trouble. She can pretty much go where ever she want through the waterways. Seriously, I don't think they ever made much use of that in canon so almost no one knows how to navigate it. Hopefully i made her seem childish, bratty, and sharp at the same time. i don't plan on her being the character that is only used for gags then tossed out, thats mean. More on her in the next chapter.

If anyone thinks I'm begin unfair regarding squad 2 I have to say this. I don't see much of them doing stealth work. Wearing black with a mask is not particularly stealthy and Soifon has a really loud and noticeable personality. (She also talks a bit much when she fights but I think everyone in the bleach universe has that flaw.) There's also the thing with the abandoned waterway. I think it would pass by just about every building in seireitei and since no one ever uses it beyond basic cleaning, its a perfectly viable secret passage.

As always, Coments and criticism are welcome.

Edit: Fixed awkward ness regarding the name. Chinese is weird.