OMG! For once I actually got more than one review on a chapter that I've posted! Holy shiznit! I'm so happy! It inspired me so much that I'm working on this chapter when I could actually be doing my summer reading like a good high school incoming senior, although it might help if I even knew what I was supposed to be reading…any who! Just FYI, this chapter may get a little confusing because it skips between Azura's nightmarish memories and Vergil explaining how he got his second o-katana and why he suddenly appeared in Japan, along with the introduction of an important character in this story. I'll be doing my darndist to keep it from becoming too confusing by labeling which perspective is being used at the beginning of each change. Sorry if it gets boring but this chapter is vital to understand why Vergil is there and to flesh out my OC, Azura, more, I really don't want her to become a Mary Sue…that's my worst nightmare…Enough of my mindless ramblings and on with the important things, like making sure I don't get sued…

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the changes in the plotline in Bleach …maybe not even that…I do however own each OC contained within this story and I will hunt u down and bash your head in if I can find you –smiles evilly—but other than that I own nothing…oh! I also own Azura's mp3 player Lime Ninja that shows up.

Warnings: mild swearing; violence, and death of some characters; minor innuendos; bad spelling and minor grammar mistakes that I didn't catch while reviewing over my writing. (if any character is OOC let me know otherwise I won't be able to correct my mistakes.)

"Thoughts"

"Speaking aloud"

"Kajikage thinking to Azura/ Vergil's new o-katana speaking to him"

"Kajikage and all Hollows/Demons speaking"

Now on with the fic!

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What happened last time…

She sighed and decided not to think too much about her past as it might bring back darker memories and dreams that she rather were kept in the darkness on her mind. She laid down in her futon and swiftly fell into a deep sleep.

Little did Azura Zigitsuga realize that her nightmares and memories would be returning that very night with a vengeance.

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Chapter 11: Haunt us until our last…

The mistakes of the Past,

Haunt us until our last,

When we feel safe,

The darker memories come out to play…


Azura's dreaming memories…

"Onee-san! Onee-san! Where are you?" a young boy of ten shouted whilst running about excitedly through a grassy walled courtyard area.

The boy had messy shoulder length blood red hair that flew wildly about his face as he ran. His grassy emerald green eyes were vibrant with life and joy as they stood out against his olive tanned skin. The ten year old boy was wearing a grey and crimson hakama pants and a matching sleeveless haori that was tucked into his hakama that were tied with a jet black obi. The boy's feet were naked as he ran across the grass.

A girl that looked identical in appearance with the ten year old boy, with the only exception of her eyes, which they were a warm stormy grey color. The girl was the same age as the boy that was running about the courtyard, yelling out for his older sister. She smiled in amusement from her spot upon one of the lower branches of the ancient live oak (the only tree within the entire walled clan compound). The girl then jumped gracefully down from the tree branch when her twin brother finally arrived at the base of the ancient oak. She was wearing a grey and crimson kimono that went to the top of her knobby knees, she too went without shoes or socks. Her hair was pinned up in a braided bun at the nape of her neck with a dark crimson and jet black lotus flower hair pin.

"Onee-san, Otou-san says that we have to meet him in the shrine room in the Dragon Temple right now. He says that it is important!" the red headed boy stated excitedly.

"Alright, alright Ryuu. Let's not keep father and okaa-san waiting then, come on." Azura said with a smile as she grabbed her younger twin's hand and raced with him off towards the Dragon Temple's shrine room in the center of the large walled compound.


Outside Azura's dreamt memories with Vergil…

"I see that one of your swords is a zanpakutou, how did you acquire it Vergil-san?" Urahara asked nonchalantly as he waved his favorite paper fan about randomly in the air.

Vergil stiffened and glared coldly at the blonde shop keeper as his leather gloved hand went to the black and red o-katana at his hip. He held his tea cup calmly in his other hand. He studied the eccentric shop keeper closely for several silent moments.

"I would prefer to be addressed as 'Vergil-sama' or as 'Vergil-dono'. A shop keeper such as yourself is not qualified to have knowledge of such an event as of this moment in time. Now, how do you plan on passing me off as a reckless teenager?" Vergil stated calmly as he sipped his tea while gently stroking the hilt of the darker o-katana thoughtfully. His eyes never wavered from the face of the slightly insane shop keeper.

Urahara chuckled behind his fan as he said, "This lowly and humble shop keeper proposes that you simply dress in the school uniform and attend class with Zigitsuga-sama. I have reason to believe that she shall be attracting the attention of a potentially dangerous Hollow, not to mention the attention of Aizen Sosuke, a traitor of the Gotei Thirteen. If she does, she'll be in immense danger that I fear the courageous and powerful substitute shinigami, Ichigo Kurasaki, may not be able to handle all on his own. In exchange for free housing, you'll become Zigitsuga-sama's bodyguard while she is at school."

The white haired half devil glared at the shop keeper for the mere thought of being reduced to the level of becoming a tool of another's. The prospect of being a pawn of another brought back memories that he had rather remained forgotten…He then deemed the shop keeper worthy of knowing a part of himself so he spoke:

Flash Back…(six years ago)

"You were used Verg, why couldn't you have not seen that? What happened to you all those years ago when you were close friends with Kajikage? It's been close to three hundred years since you went insane after he went missing. You were used by that glasses wearing shinigami bastard and now look at what he did to you! You are no longer the proud man that had been my older twin brother!" Dante shouted at the bent and bloody form of his mirror image on the ground in front of him.

"You know nothing of what I have had to do foolish little brother. The day Kajikage disappeared was the day I lost something that you take for granted. I no longer have the other part of me, I lost my humanity! Your unintelligent little brain would not be able to comprehend just what I have come to realize, without my humanity I am little more than a lowly demon that you so often kill! That shinigami told me that he knew how to give me my humanity back, I foolishly believed him, your easily trusting personality must have rubbed off on me for I went along with him until this happened!" Vergil growled out from between his teeth in rage.

"I knew that you were missing something Verg, so I took the liberty of finding it for you. Here," Dante said as he tossed a long cloth wrapped bundle at his brother, "find the name of that sword and you'll find what you've been searching for. Once you've done that, go to Japan. You may find there something that you have never known you were searching for."

End Flash Back…

"Jinrui no shōkan, that is the name of the sword he gave me. 'Redemption of Humanity', the name meant. The sword turned out to actually be my lost humanity and Jinrui no shōkan told me that I had to master him completely before it was possible for me to regain what I had lost. It has been six years since that happened, it took me six years to completely master him. So now I am here to find what I never knew and still do not know, that I had been searching for." Vergil said as he finished the last of his tea.

The eccentric shop keeper was stunned into silent thought. While Urahara was silent, Vergil took the opportunity to leave and rest for the night before the shop keeper asked him any more questions.


Back in Azura's mind…

"Azura, it is time for you and your brother to awaken your devil guardians. Stand before the statue of the Dragon Devil and recite the song of the founding matron, Satori." A man in his late thirties spoke in a deep rumbling voice that looked like the red haired twins.

"Hai, Otou-san." Azura and her brother, Ryuu said in unison.

The large man nodded as he went and sat down on a floor cushion among the other clan members that were present inside of the shrine room of the Dragon Temple. The twins approached the statue of the Dragon Devil confidently while holding onto each other's hand.

They shared a brief look at each other before they took a deep, steadying breath and spoke in perfect unison,

"Kage wa junsuina kokoro yūwaku, nyūryoku shite kurai kage no hebi ga hitotsu no kokoro no junsui o omachi shite orimasu ukeiremasu. Shite, hogo suru tame ni sensei zutsu nomi osen sa reru denryoku o, kage no tsuyo-sa wa, fuyo sa reru."

The dragon statue began to glow with a faint white-gold light, the scythe and the spiked chain that were held in its claws faintly also began to pulse in two different colored auras. The scythe glowed with a midnight black aura whilst the spiked chain glowed with a crimson colored aura. The twins took no notice of the changes that were accuring with the statue in front of them as they continued to sing the song of the clan's founding matron.

"Kokoro no junsui ga chikaku ni iru kagiri, kyōfu no naka de hakken sa reta tsuini mitsuke yami no hebi wa, sekai o nomi komu shimasu. ,Kesshite me o samashi suru tame no mono no kage de, kyūshi shite iru subete no sore to ga kakari, kamo shirenaidesu, -kō ni mukatte hassei sa semasu."

The faint white-gold light grew brighter as the twins spoke along with the black pulsing aura of the scythe. The spike chain only seemed to grow dimmer then brighter erratically, as if it was confused or disoriented. Ryuu seemed to become more and more nervous as he and his twin sang the lyrics, while Azura seemed to be perfectly calm.

Then, suddenly before they could even utter the next sound for the song an explosion broke the trance that the clan was in and shook the entire compound. The sounds of alarm from the clan members pierced through the night and startled the twins. The twin's father rushed over to them and stood in front of them as he shouted orders for the rest of the clan. He told them to defend the Dragon Temple no matter what happens.

However, as soon as he says that another explosion shook the compound, shortly followed by several more that were accompanied by the screams of pain, fear and death of those that were caught in the explosions. Despite the father's best efforts he could not keep the clan members that were around him from panicking and running and screaming. He then turned to his frightened children and grabbed both of them and hid them underneath the Dragon Devil statue, with strict orders for them to not make a sound, nor to move a muscle until he returned.

Azura and Ryuu huddled together with their arms wrapped tightly about one another and waited fearfully for their father to return and tell them that there was nothing to be frightened of like all of the other times before.


The dream skips to later that same night…

The father of the twins staggers into the now empty shrine room of the Dragon Temple, covered in blood and baring severe wounds. He frantically searches the Dragon devil statue for his children and finds them. Before he could utter a sound, the roof of the shrine explodes outwards and reveals a gigantic demon. The demon reaches out a single clawed hand and impales the man in front of the now terrified twins, killing him. As the father dies, he says, "The…sacred weapons…take..them and … defend your..selves… I love each.. of you… and am…proud..of you…both…..and… Azura… you're destined… to.."

The father never finishes speaking for he dies before he could finish. Suddenly, Azura's twin brother shoots out of their hiding place under the dragon statue and grabs the spiked chain as he went. Ryuu charges at the demon but a swarm of Hollows intercepted him and attacked him. He screams in agony as the Hollows proceed to disarm him and tear him apart.

Azura screams out in rage at the sight of the Hollows hurting her brother and with a speed that would have terrified her if she had been in a calmer state of mind, grabbed the still glowing scythe and proceeds to kill all of the Hollows and severely wound the gigantic demon in a blind rage. When she comes back to her senses the Hollows lie dead and she's covered from head to toe in blood that was not hers.

The dream begins to slowly fade into darkness as Azura cradles her twin brother's dead body in her arms. As the darkness consumes Azura's dream a strange, unfamiliar yet comforting voice speaks to her.

"So you're the Demonic Angel. Haha, King doesn't know what he has ne? You're as good as mine Demonic Angel. No one but me is allowed to touch what is mine. Well, King can but that is only until I devour him. Then there won't be anything that'll be able to keep me from you my little Demonic Angel…" the strange, comforting, voice said as her sleeping mind was drowned in the darkness of dreamlessness, "… You are mine and no one and nothing shall ever change that…"

Azura's last memory of her dreams that night was a bone chilling, hair raising laughter that she hopes that she will never hear again.

End Chapter

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Well, that certainly took me a while to get done ne? This chapter I have to say was the hardest that I have had to write as of yet. I certainly hope that I have managed to keep all of the Bleach characters and Vergil in character as much as I possibly could so if any of them seem OOC let me know pronto! This chapter may seem a bit rushed cause I had a self imposed deadline of getting it completed before I went to sleep tonight so you, my faithful readers and reviewers, favoriters and alert subscribers, you all have my sincere apologies for that. If it proves to be too much of a problem, as in if I get a lot of reviews complaining about it, I'll go back and redo this chapter. But for now, I am satisfied with how it has turned out. To get Chapter 12 by the 21st of July I am going to need more reviews! But they are not forced.

P.S. If any of you wish to know the translation of the song or to get the whole song (which I wrote and translated myself with the help of google translator) let me know in a review and I'll be sure to give that to you. Oh, and to those who review this chapter, they will get a snippet from the next chapter. I'll be doing that to all of my reviewers from now on.

ciao!