"Shouldn't we go back to Karakura to save Yoh," Morti yelled at Anna standing up once she told them the news.
"By the time we get there," Anna said in a calm tone and was silent for a moment. "We wouldn't make a difference."
"How do you know," Morti yelled.
"Stop it Morti," Pirka cried. "Anna is probably the one hurting the most by this news."
"Pailong," Jun said to her servant. "Do you think you can reach Karakura in time?"
"I can try," He told her.
"Enough," Yoruichi yelled and got everyone's attention, including the old couple watching the young ones bicker amongst each other. "Pailong and I will return to Karakura to see if they do need help. The rest of you read the book Byakuya gave us. We will return if we are not needed, got it?"
"Fine," Morti groaned as he crossed his arms and sat back down.
"Before you go," the old man said and walked towards Yoruichi with a something wrapped up. "Give this to Yoh. He'll know what to do."
Yoruichi nodded and she and Pailong ran back to Karakura Town. Yoruichi tried to sense Ichigo's spiritual pressure once they got closer to Karakura Town.
"Found him," Yoruichi said as she ran with Pailong beside her. "Follow me," she ordered and dashed off. Pailong was barely able to keep up as they ran though Karakura Town.
"Wait," Yoh yelled then looked up at Jin who looked irritated.
"What is it now," Jin groaned. "I already answered your last request."
"I wanted to know you name because I thought you were going to kill me," Yoh looked up at the Soul Reaper with black hair and narrow yellow eyes. "So what's your name?"
The Soul Reaper just stared at him then at Jin. Jin sighed and then nodded.
"Maki," He muttered.
"Ok," Yoh said and looked back down at the ground. "I'm truly ready now."
Maki raised his zanpakutou and Yoh shut his eyes tight waiting for the moment.
'I'm sorry Anna,' Yoh thought and his life started to flash before him. Yoh heard the zanpakutou getting closer but it seemed to take forever, like time was slowing down. Yoh took a deep breath and waited for a minute. Yoh looked over his shoulder to see Maki frozen from the neck down in ice.
"Lord Yoh," Amidamaru cried flying towards his Shaman.
"Are you alright Yoh," Horohoro asked running to him as he carried his snowboard with Kororo next to him.
"You guys made it," Yoh said surprised.
"Barely," Renji said staring at all the Bounts then staring at Maki. "It seems that the Shaman King Tournament has been tampered with."
Yoh got up and dust himself then looked at Jin. "Well since I'm here might as well get this part of the Tournament over with," Yoh said and reached for Harusame but couldn't find it. "Where's Harusame?"
"You mean this," a woman with tan skin, long, dark teal hair wearing a purple-pink, Chinese-style top with beige pants said as she walked from the shadows holding Harusame in it sheath by the string that tied it to Yoh's waist. "I took is from you while you were sleeping just in case."
"I'll say we run for it," Horohoro whispered to Yoh. "Ren and Ryu might need our help."
"Yes Shamans," Jin said still sitting in his chair. "Run away, it's not like you get any stronger before we find you again."
"I won't leave without Harusame," Yoh growled.
Then an arrow of energy passed them and headed straight towards the woman holding Harusame. The woman dodged the arrow but the arrow was able to cut the string. Yoh ran towards Harusame and caught it.
"Good aiming Uryu," Horohoro yelled. "But I thought we sent you to go get Ichigo?"
"You did," Uryu said and Ichigo entered the building. "And I found him."
"Hey Ichigo," Yoh said.
"I hate to break up this reunion," Renji said as they crowded in the middle. "But do you really think you two can take on all these Bounts?"
"He's got a point," Yoh said and Horohoro knew exactly what Yoh was thinking.
"Let's get to work, Kororo," Horohoro said and Kororo reentered his snowboard then Horohoro strapped the snowboard to his feet. Horohoro grabbed Uryu and Yoh's wrists and yelled, "Avalanche!" Snow filled the mansion and Horohoro snowboarded down the snow hill dragging Uryu and Yoh behind him. Ichigo and Renji use a technique that the Soul Reapers in Soul Society called Flash Step and followed Horohoro back to where Ren and Ryu were.
"Where you guys going," a male voice asked. The gang stopper to see Ren, Bason, Ryu, Tokagero, and Noba with a girl with long orange-brown hair and a tall, buff, brown skin man with shaggy brown hair that covered his left eye.
"Orihime, Chad," Ichigo yelled looking at two people Yoh and Horohoro didn't recognize. "I thought I told you to find me."
"You did," Orihime said. "But we ran into them on our way and the tall one needed to be healed and the short one was having trouble fighting two against one."
"What happen to those twins," Horohoro asked remembering that they ditched Ren and Ryu with them.
"With Chad and Noba's help," Ren explained. "Ryu and I were able to figure out how to defeat them."
"You didn't kill them, did you," Yoh asked.
"Sorry, Yoh," Ryu said. "But those Bounts were going to kill us if we didn't kill them."
"Plus that is the goal of this part of the tournament," Renji reminded them. "In order to continue you must kill a Bount."
Yoh looked down depressed then gasped as a shocked expression appeared on his face. "I almost forgot," Yoh said. "Yoshiro, she's in that mansion, that I why I was there. We got to go save her."
Suddenly the oracle pagers went off and Ren, Ryu, Yoh and Horohoro looked at their message. "What's it say," Amidamaru asked looking over Yoh's shoulder.
"Renji forgot to tell us something important," Ren said glaring at Renji.
"What," Renji shouted. "I did no such thing." Renji ran through his speak he told all the shamans. "Oh, yes I did."
"We're supposed to be in groups of three so we stand a chance against the Bounts," Ren said before Renji could.
"Well that . . . shouldn't . . . be . . . too . . . hard," Yoh said as he realized who was a Shaman. "Wait, there are four of us."
"Looks like one of use has to find two other people," Ren said slightly leaning on his spear.
"Or we could split two and two and each only have to find one," Ryu offered.
"I like Ryu's idea," Yoh stated.
"Me too," Horohoro said and he and Yoh stared at Ren.
"Fine, we'll go with Ryu's idea," Ren gave in. "But I refuse to be teamed up with him or you." Ren pointed to Yoh.
"Then I guess you're teamed with Horohoro," Yoh stated. "Making Ryu and I partners, and now we both better find a third person."
"What happens if we don't," Amidamaru asked.
"You're disqualified if you don't find a third person once the last Bount dies," Renji muttered.
"Then let's hurry," Yoh ordered and he and Ryu with their spirit partners went in the direction towards the mansion.
Ren and Horohoro went in the opposite direction with Kororo and Bason.
"What are we suppose to do," Orihime asked feeling useless.
"We can't do anything," Renji said crossing his arms.
"Isn't their anything we can do," Chad asked.
"No," Renji said closing his eyes. The five of them stood there for a while until Renji's eyes jolted open. "You, Quincy," Renji called out. "Do you remember the person who Horohoro froze?"
"Yea and my name is Uryu," Uryu growled.
"Whatever," Renji groaned. "Was that person a Soul Reaper?"
Uryu thought about it for a moment and nodded. "Why does it matter," Uryu asked.
"Then I was right," Renji growled. "With a Soul Reaper teaming up the Bounts even three Shamans won't be enough."
"What," Ichigo shouted. "Then how were Ren and Ryu able to defeat the double duo?"
"Luck," Orihime thought aloud.
"With a Soul Reaper teamed up the Bounts," Renji explained. "The Bounts may have the upper hand."
"How," Ichigo asked.
"Soul Reapers deal with souls," Renji started to explain. "And Bounts' eat souls to live and if the soul had a high spiritual awareness they become stronger."
"So can that Soul Reaper get the Bounts souls of people with high spiritual awareness," Ichigo asked Renji as he looked over at Uryu, Orihime and Chad.
"I have ever see that Soul Reaper before," Renji admitted. "But to be on the safe side we'll assume he can, meaning that we have the right to interfere with the Shaman King Tournament."
"What do you do now," Orihime asked.
"We will be protecting those living with high spiritual awareness," A male voice said behind everyone.
Everyone looked to see a short boy with turquoise eyes and short, spiked, white hair wearing a black kimono with a white, sleeveless, trench coat with black, large diamonds pattern at the bottom and the number ten on his back and a sash across his chest that held his zanpakutou sheath in place on his back by tying the sheath to it at either end. Along with him were three males and one female all dress in the Soul Reaper uniform.
The female had long, wavy, ginger hair, icy blue eyes and a beauty mark located below her lips she wore a necklace and a pink scarf over her shoulders along with badge with the number ten worn on her uniform's sash and her carried her zanpakutou on her back as well. One of the males had narrow blue eyes and shoulder-length blond hair with part of it covering his left eye and he also had a badge with the number three strapped on his upper left arm. The second male wore an orange piece of clothing sits on top of his uniform around the neck, covering his chest exposed by the kimono connected to an orange sleeve on his right arm under the looser sleeve of the uniform. On this male's face were colorful feathers on his right eyelashes and eyebrow and he had blue-tint, jaw-length hair with purple eyes. The last male had short black hair and narrow black eyes along with three, straight scars over his eye that lead down to his right cheek and on the other check he has number "69" tattooed as well as a blue-striped tattoo running across his left cheek and over the bridge of his nose. This man's Soul Reaper uniform is also wore a choker around his throat and a matching armband on his right arm a badge with the number nine strapped on his upper left arm.
"Captain Toushiro Hitsugaya," Renji said surprised looking at the short boy then at the woman and the three other males. "Lieutenants Rangiku Matsumoto, Izuru Kira, Yumichika Ayasegawa, and Shuuhei Hisagi, what are you all doing here?"
"I just explained that," Hitsugaya growled. "Were here to protect living people like you four," he said pointing at Ichigo, Uryu, Orihime, and Chad.
"So you found out about the Soul Reaper," Renji asked crossing his arms and Hitsugaya just nodded.
"Captain Byakuya Kuchiki told us about him," Hisagi said.
"That's not all he said," Pailong's voice was heard. He and Yoruichi approached the group. "He told us that Yoh was in trouble."
"That is why we're here," Yoruichi said holding something wrapped up. "To give Yoh this and we thought he would be with you, Ichigo."
"You just missed him," Ichigo said then pointed in the direction Yoh and Ryu headed. "He headed that way with Ryu."
"How the hell are we going to find him now," Yoruichi groaned.
"Can't you sense his spiritual pressure," Renji asked her.
Yoruichi frown as she scratched the back of her head. "No," she groaned. "It wasn't enforced to be learned when I was in Soul Society."
"I'll take you then," Renji groaned and headed the same way Yoh and Ryu left with Yoruichi and Pailong following.
"You four better not let your guard down," Hitsugaya warned Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, and Uryu. "This part Shaman King Tournament is become way out of hand and we don't need it to get anymore wacked. Many Shamans have dropped out and their reasons being that either the Bounts are too strong or one of their teammate was killed by a Bount."
"We have been officially authorized by the Patch Tribe to interfere with the Tournament," Hisagi announced. "And we are also given authorization to be allowed around Shamans but we are not allowed to send their partners to Soul Society."
"Seeing how you know who and where Yoh and Ryu, two registered Shamans," Kira said looking at Ichigo. "I guess you've broken the rule of staying away from Shamans and I'm surprised you're still alive. Usually when a Soul Reaper first breaks that rule they are sense to death."
"You haven't met Yoh's girlfriend," Ichigo muttered under his breath.
"What'd you say about Anna," Rukia's voice spoke as she pushed herself through the Soul Reapers. She was dressed in the black kimono and her zanpakutou strapped around his waist.
"Rukia," Ichigo stuttered. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to help," Rukia stated. "Now what did you say about Anna?"
"The way she treats people is worse than death," Ichigo complained. "I'm surprised Yoh's still alive."
Then there were seven different screams coming from seven different directions.
"We better check those screams out," Hitsugaya announced. "Ichigo, Rukia, can you check on those two other screams?"
"Will do, Captain Hitsugaya," Rukia answered
"Sure," Ichigo responded with little interest.
"What about us," Orihime asked for her, Uryu, Chad and Noba.
"Go home," Hitsugaya ordered.
"But . . ." Orihime tried protesting but Noba but his and on her shoulder and shook his head.
"Noba," Ichigo said to get the silent ones attention. "Make sure they all make it home safely, and once you get back to Kon, Ririn, and Cloud make sure they haven't messed up anything."
Noba nodded and pulled the shield from his back and motioned Uryu, Chad and Orihime to go inside and eventually the four disappeared.
"Now let's go find out who was screaming," Hitsugaya ordered and the seven Soul Reapers split up.
Renji stopped causing Yoruichi and Pailong to stop as well.
"Why'd we stop," Yoruichi demanded to know.
"This is where the Bounts hang out," Renji said as he pointed to the mansion. "And this is where I lose track of Yoh and Ryu spiritual pressure."
"What now," Pailong asked.
"Maybe I can be of some assistance," A man said behind the three.
The turned around to see a man in a wheelchair with a hat, which hid his face, and over coat over him with a tall, blond woman wearing a nurse's uniform standing behind him.
"How can you help us," Renji asked.
"I saw what happened," The man said. "And I, too, am looking for Yoh." The man lifted his head to reveal that he had blond hair and pale skin.