Already forgotten, Toshiro raised his eyebrow at Karin, "Picnic?" "Let's go!"
No sooner had they arrived at his office for the picnic blanket, two Hell butterflies glided in and landed on one of each captain's fingertip.
After the message was received, the two of them looked at each other.
"Well looks like we've got to head to 1st division first, sorry Toshiro." "What are you apologizing for already? Let's go."
After sharing one sweet kiss the 2 of them shunpo'ed off to the Head Captain's office for the emergency meeting.
Besides the captains, Orihime and her boyfriend were there, who was also earning some either suspicious or curious stares.
"Well then, since everyone except Captain Zaraki is present, I believe we should-." "Oi, I'm here," grunted an annoyed looking 11TH division captain as he took his place.
With a curt nod the Head Captain spoke, "Today Seireitei was attacked by hollows and Menos followed by one Arrancar. Although we defeated them easily, there is still the possibility that this is the first wave of many others. We need to find out: who this Arrancar is, why it has attacked and whether it has any allies preparing for more attacks. We have also called Ex-Quatro Espada Ulquiorra and Inoue Orihime for any information on this Arrancar. But firstly, Kurosaki Karin and Hitsugaya Toshiro, what did you think of it while battling?"
All heads turned to Karin who simply said, "Durable. Not too shabby on the footwork and lousy cero."
Hitsugaya continued, "During the battle he neither said nor revealed anything. He was skilled with the sword but did not seem to be able to have a…"
"Excuse my interruption, but did this Arrancar have its mask on its right shoulder blade with short blonde hair and walking barefoot?"
"Why yes," said Hitsugaya slowly.
The Espada took a hurried step forward eagerly, "Where is it being held hostage, please hurry!"
"Um, in our cells on the other side of this division but-."
In a flash the Arrancar was gone and the rest followed.
When they found him he stood in front of the jail cell with his finger pointed at the Arrancar.
"Ulquiorra, stop! What are you doing," cried Orihime as she went to his side. He turned sharply to the captains.
"We must kill him now or else he will kill us all. This was one of Aizen's plans, to send an Arrancar to Seireitei, get it captured and then it will explode upon interrogation time, leaving this place open for the second wave of attacks. Hurry, the second wave will be three times as the first wave and we must kill him before he…"
With a cry, Ichigo had suddenly broken into the jail and slashed the Arrancar to two.
There was a scary silence as everyone glared accusingly at the orange-head male who in his defence said, "What, he was glowing."
"Trash," muttered Ulquiorra, "it takes the Arrancar half an hour to build up enough energy. I was about to propose we move it to a safer location because upon realising that the bomb failed, the next Arrancar will make the amount of hollows attacking increase so as to better the chances of succeeding. Aizen cancelled this plan in the end and decided to kidnap Orihime instead."
All Ichigo could say was: Oh.
"How much time do we have until the next wave," asked Soi-Fan.
"With the bomb eliminated, the process will be speed up. If we're lucky we have at least 5 minutes but with the lack of Aizen at the command, I cannot be sure."
Suddenly everyone's heads turned up as outside in the sky, several black holes appeared and hollows began pouring out by the dozen. Then, Menos started appearing in pairs.
Everyone made their way outside, Captains Kenpachi and Ichigo went off to take out the Menos.
The Head Captain began speaking as well, "Based on what Ulquiorra said, I believe the next Arrancar will be much stronger am I right?"
The Arrancar nodded, "The thing is, this Arrancar rivals that if the collected power of the Espada."
"WHAT," shouted Inoue.
Ulquiorra continued, "This Arrancar-or rather this Espada was one who was created by Aizen to be both a worthy sparring opponent and to wipe out at least half the captains. However, it went out of control and was banished from both Hueco Mondo and Aizen's mind."
As if on cue, a huge reistsu appeared in a new hole as the holes closed up. There stood the dreaded Arrancar. He had shoulder-length wavy black hair and was in the Espada white uniform with his hollow mask covering his entire left shoulder.
SKIP: please refer to author's note at the bottom, sorry about this
Mikhail smirked down at the captains lying on the ground before him, "Is this all that the grand Captains and ex-Quatro Espada are made of?"
A shaky Hitsugaya used his sword to help him up, blood streamed down his left arm and stained a circle around his right leg, "Don't *pant* get *pant* so *pant* cocky."
He came at the grinning black-haired Arrancar with a grimace but was knocked away easily.
"My first kill today," he grinned as he raised his sword and brought it down.
There was a flash and Hitsugaya was gone, he lay a few meters away in a raven-haired woman's arms who cradled him gently, "Toshiro," she whispered.
He reached up and stroked her cheek lovingly, "Karin I knew you'd come." Then he passed out.
She stood up slowly and turned to face Mikhail, her untied hair flowing in the wind and her long fringe covering her eyes she unsheathed her katana slowly.
"So you are Karin, the girl who the others kept saying who would put me in my place, hmm. I feel slightly disappointed, you don't look like much."
"Looks…can be DECEIVING! Rise-the ruler of snow, Miyuki!'
Their swords clashed over and over again until breaking away, Karin cried, "Turn those who oppose us to ashes, Ignacia!"
When he dodged her whip, Mikhail's eyes widened. "You have two zanpauktos?"
"HELL YEAH I DO," she cried before realising that her opponent was barely scratched.
She stopped and seeing her stop, so did Mikahil.
"Hey um, Mikhail right. Look, neither of us have a scratch and this is getting boring. So what do you say? Enough feeling each other out?"
Several of the ones lying rendered unable to move around them gasped, this whole time they had only been feeling each other out despite the amount of reistsu being suffocating.
Mikhail chuckled, "I have to thank you, you've finally made me work up a sweat. You are indeed worthy of calling an opponent."
"Why thank you," she bowed slightly with a genuine smile.
They both began to build up their reistsu as they grinned at each other.
Most of the captains had crawled over to a general are and were having a silent conversation.
"How long can she take him," asked Soi-Fan.
"I don't think you understand Karin's power, that Espada doesn't stand a chance," said Toshiro.
"What do you mean Toshiro," asked Ichigo.
"Only the Head Captain and I have seen Karin fully harness her reistsu and not even at full power. With both her Bankais, she will win for sure."
And Toshiro's expression was so sure and full of faith that no one could say otherwise.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry but I'm really bad at this stuff. So just imagine like with Aizen, all the captains and Ulquiorra coming at Mikhail (the Arrancar) who just deflects their attacks.
Also, imagine that Toshiro and Karin are standing above the battle waiting to see if they are needed. Finally, Toshiro charges but the Arrancar quickly cuts him on the arm and leg.