The four Soul Reapers, Rangiku, Toshiro, Ikkaku and Yumichika were at the outskirts of Karakura, each of them doing something different from each other. While Captain Hitsugaya was 'seemingly' meditating, the others weren't as cooperative. Their bickering was distracting him greatly, and he groaned. Of all the people they could've chosen for this mission, is had to be them. But right then, Toshiro felt as if the sky was tearing.
Their eyes widened to see a Garganta appear. The Soul Reapers blood went cold, and eyes big enough to pop out. The sky appeared as if it were sneering, and what appeared were four Arrancars. It hadn't been long since their previous encounter with Arrancars and the Soul Reapers were confused. "Arrancars? But how could it-No matter what, isn't it too quick for them?" Yumichika asked, shock dripping in his voice. Toshiro sighed, "It's certainly too fast, but it doesn't seem like we have the time to think of a reason." The Captain said. "Ok! We came out at a fun place, didn't we?" The bigger looking Arrancar said. After a brief conversation amongst themselves, a blue haired Arrancar sped off, and the others didn't stop him. Just then, the bigger Arrancar readied his Zanpakuto, and attacked Toshiro. "I'm squad ten Captain, Toshiro Hitsugaya." The Arrancar snickered. "Well, isn't this a coincidence, even I'm a number ten. Arrancar no. 10. Yammy." The Arrancar introduced himself.
Toshiro's eyes grew wide, he had heard of them. Espada. "Number ten? Espada?" "You know your stuff, seems like you were fighting against someone with a big mouth." Yammy said. Yumichika and Ikkaku glared at the Arrancar in front of them. Ikkaku personally thought that the Arrancar looked like a girl, but it was a male. "You're also an Espada?" Yumichika questioned. "That's right. I'm Luppi. Espada No. 6" Luppi said. Rangiku was frustrated. The Arrancar in front of her, was clearly…weird. He was just sitting in midair, looking at something extremely trivial with maximum interest. "I'm not sure if it's okay to kill this guy." Rangiku told herself, and grimaced.
Misaki's training with Hachi was going well. She was happy Ichigo didn't have any idea about her training, but her brother suspected something was up. He didn't question her, as she didn't seem approachable to him anymore. She ignored him, even if it pained her to ignore someone she loved so much, but right now, considering the situations, and her brother's protectiveness, she had no other choice. Hachi and Misaki had found a place within the Vizard hideout to train, but thankfully, it was far away from where Ichigo was, and he wouldn't be able to notice her being there. Misaki could feel herself growing stronger, and her abilities in life logging and procreation was the hardest to perform. Hachi stood by her side, and she was thankful. One evening, Misaki could feel an immense spiritual pressure enter Karakura. After a week's training, Misaki could identify spiritual pressures, and she knew that the spiritual pressure she was feeling right now, belonged to Arrancars. "Hachi, we have to go!" Misaki said, but Hachi didn't move. "Hachi?" Misaki was shocked at his response to the situation. "We are not engaging in this battle, Misaki." Misaki's eyes widened. 'No way…' she thought to herself. 'I have to go…' she could feel Toshiro's spiritual pressure flare. She shut her eyes and ran toward the staircase encasing herself with an invisibility charm. "I'm sorry Hachi, but this is what I was waiting for." And Hachi couldn't even stop her.
It took both Love and Kensei to hold back Ichigo from running to the Arrancars. "Let me go!" Ichigo yelled, squirming and trying to get free. "It's for these times that your friends from the Soul Society are there to help! Let them handle it!" Love yelled back. "Well, it's for these times that I'm training too! If I don't go now, then what's the point?" Ichigo said, looking at Love in the eye. Shinji held Kensei's shoulder and muttered, "Let him go." That was all it took for Ichigo to run off. "What the hell Shinji? What're you thinking?" Kensei yelled at his friend, and Shinji just stood there. "Shinji!" It was Hachi. Shinji frowned. "Where's Misa-""She left to fight the Arrancars! I tried as much as I could to stop her, but her magic has increased tenfold, she ran past you using an invisibility charm that even I could not detect!" Shinji groaned. "She's gonna die if she-""Not if I can help it." Shinji walked out. 'Misaki, what were you thinking? If anything happens to you I'll-'Shinji didn't even want to think of the outcomes. "Man he's in deep." Love said, Kensei nodded. "What love can do to a man…?" Kensei muttered.
Grimmjow stood in midair, greeting Ichigo who looked from below. "Yo. I've been looking for you, Soul Reaper." Ichigo chuckled, for he knew this was going to be one interesting battle. "That's my line." He put his palm in front of his face, and said, "Let me show you in one month, how much I've changed." Ichigo said, activating his Bankai. Grimmjow spat. "It's just a Bankai, what's so great about that?" Ichigo smirked. "Did you forget that you couldn't touch any part of my body with that Bankai of yours?" Grimmjow said. "Did you forget that it was my Bankai that gave you that scar?" Grimmjow frowned. "So tell me something, what happened to that arm of yours?" Ichigo asked the Arrancar. "I threw it away before I came here, it would've been too much of a hassle. I don't need two arms to kill you." Grimmjow said, smirking. "Is that so?" Ichigo placed his hand on his face and said, "In that case, I don't need to go easy on you!" Ichigo conjured the hollow power from within him, and Grimmjow just watched in anticipation.
Misaki could feel Ichigo's hollow's spiritual pressure. It was strong, but she was told that it wasn't strong enough. Ichigo still had training left, but he came here halfway because of the Arrancars. She ran as fast as she could toward Ichigo's direction, hoping she wasn't too late. 'Ichigo…hang in there…' She thought to herself. From the distance, high in the air, she could see a black energy beam, its intensity intimidating. 'Getsuga Tenshou.' Misaki remembered. She watched him train sometimes, and she observed his movements. She loved watching him fight Shinji, she loved it when he got angry. She loved it when he spoke softly, and moreover she loved him for being him. Misaki smiled as she thought of it, but she knew it was true. 'I love you Ichigo. And I'll help you, even if it costs me my life.' The fight between the blue haired Arrancar and Ichigo rolled on, and Misaki then saw something she didn't want to see. Ichigo's mask ruptured. Her eyes widened and she could feel her heart rummage against her chest. The Arrancar smirked and beat Ichigo around, Misaki ran as fast as she could toward the two. Ichigo's hands were held together and his sword was struck between them and he yelled out in pain. Right then, "Aeternus Contego! Grandis!" A gold sphere enveloped Ichigo and the Arrancar flew back. Ichigo's eyes widened and he could see Misaki in front of him. "M-Misaki?"
Minato could tell there were Arrancars in Karakura again. He knew it was too early for them to have appeared prior to their previous appearance. But that didn't mean they didn't have a plan. Aizen was plotting something strange, and Minato definitely did want to find out. He knew his sister was training with someone, but he assumed she was with Shinji, and she was. There wasn't anything he could do now that could stop her. But if she got hurt, then he wouldn't be able to forgive himself. Just then, Minato felt a gush of a new spiritual pressure, much like his own. His eyes widened and he realized it to be Misaki's. He dreaded that something like this would happen, and it did. He ran out of the house toward their direction, but there was a slight problem. There were a lot of spiritual pressures around, and Misaki's seemed to be one of them. He could tell which was hers, but as he walked out, the pressures coincided and it was hard to tell the difference. He grunted and took a blind guess, and ran toward it. Minato wasn't trained like Misaki was, so he couldn't master the technique of reiatsu identifying.
Toshiro and the others found this Arrancar to be really annoying. He had eight limbs, and he was a blabbermouth. A strong blabbermouth. "This is going nowhere." Ikkaku stated. "Are you guys really part of the thirteen court guard squads?" Luppi asked, before yelling out, "Boring!" Yammy just sat in one place, yawning as he watched his fellow blonde companion do nothing. "I'm bored! That bastard Luppi took all of them for himself! Well, it's troublesome to look for some other prey to fight." Then he could feel someone else's presence. Luppi held Rangiku and Yumichika in his arms and squeezed them. "Hey lady! You have quite the scandalous body. You're lucky, it's sexy. Maybe I should prick you full of holes?" Rangiku gasped and unexpectedly, his arm was cut off. "I just made it in time…that was quite dangerous!" Luppi turned to see who it was. "Well, forgive my late intrusion! I'm Kisuke Urahara!" The shopkeeper said. And right behind Kisuke was the blonde Arrancar, and the ex-Soul Reaper struck him with his sword. "Hmm…aren't you strange?" Kisuke said, observing the weird Arrancar. As the strange Arrancar readied himself to use another attack, Kisuke dodged, not sure what he dodged. "That was surely an interesting technique. What was that just now?" Kisuke said, and something struck him from behind, but before it could take a complete blow-"Manus Contego!" Kisuke's eyes widened.
Kisuke turned to see Minato standing there, his fist in contact with the bigger Arrancar's face. "Hey." He said, and Kisuke smirked. "Didn't think I'd see you here, my friend." Minato grunted. "I'm not your friend. Misaki's here, I'm not able to identify the location. I didn't come here intending to save your ass, I came here by accident." Minato said. Yammy pulled himself back and attacked the Mage with his bare fist. "Aquilus Deflagratio." A black energy beam emitted from Minato's fingers and hit the large Arrancar head on. Kisuke smirked. Yammy fired a Cero at Urahara, and Kisuke dodged with ease. Minato stared at the smaller Arrancar and cringed. He took a glance at the other Soul Reapers entangled in the Arrancar's hands. He turned to Kisuke at last, who had his sword at Yammy's throat. "I've already seen you fire a million of those." Kisuke said. "I won't be hit again." Kisuke turned to Minato. "Back me up-"His gaze was cold. "-Misaki will be fine." Minato grunted, and readied himself.
"What the hell are you?" The blue haired Arrancar yelled at Misaki, who stood in front of the shield placed around Ichigo. "Doesn't matter." Misaki said. "M-Misaki?" Ichigo was shocked. She used magic, she perfected it. But how did she do it? When did she do it? "Ichigo, I want to show you how much I've improved. In one month, you weren't the only one training with the Vizards." So she knew? "What's your name, Arrancar?" Misaki asked, her voice sounding polite. "Are you here to fight me or heal me? You sound a little too timid." Grimmjow smirked. "Acus Morti." Needles of energy flew right at Grimmjow, as he wasn't expecting her to attack. He dodged, and lounged toward her, and, "Victus Contego. Inaedificare Cruciamentum!" A shield appeared in front of the girl, and a deep violet gas dashed toward Grimmjow hitting him. "Adsiduus Cassium." An orange cage appeared around Grimmjow, and caged him in. Misaki panted, as she knew she had reached her limit. The spells she had conjured were all advanced, and Misaki was tired. Right then, Grimmjow grunted. "Gran Ray Cero." Misaki's jaw dropped as she saw the largest energy beam se had ever laid her eyes on. "Victus Contego-"The blast was too strong.
Rukia used her ice power to conceal Grimmjow, but the Espada freed himself easily. "My my…Although I really don't like to butt in during Soul Reaper fights-"Shinji's gaze travelled to Misaki who was on the ground, struggling to get up. "-I guess it can't be helped." Misaki's eyes widened to see Shinji there, and she knew right then that he came over to save her. Misaki felt useless, and she closed her eyes. "Why did you come here?" Ichigo asked. Misaki's ears perked up. "Why?" Misaki repeated. Ichigo looked down. "You could've gotten hurt…or worse." "I know." "Then why?" Ichigo yelled. "Because I love you!" Misaki yelled back, shutting the boy up.
Grimmjow and Shinji's fight rolled on, and Grimmjow was getting restless. Misaki could see that Shinji was clearly stronger than the Arrancar and she secretly hoped Shinji wouldn't have to strain himself too hard. But right then, Grimmjow was stopped by another Arrancar. "The mission is over." The green eyed Arrancar's gaze travelled to Misaki's position. "Grimmjow, make yourself useful and grab the girl over there." Misaki gasped. "What?" Ichigo yelled and Shinji readied his blade. "Feh. Why should I listen to you Ulquiorra?" Grimmjow spat. Ulquiorra sighed. "You want to fight this Soul Reaper don't you?" Grimmjow's eyes glistened and he dashed toward Misaki and threw her over his left shoulder. "You're coming with us, girl." Misaki struggled, and Shinji dashed toward the blue haired Arrancar but Ulquiorra stopped him. They got into the Garganta and left. Misaki stared at the two Soul Reapers and a tear escaped her eye. "Misaki!" Ichigo yelled, and Shinji stood there, his world crushed.
Yammy seemed to have an energy like transporting system around him all of a sudden, and Minato could feel something wrong. "I don't feel her." Kisuke stared. "Misaki's gone!" Minato jumped on top of the Espada and they vanished. "Minato you idiot!" Kisuke yelled, but it was too late.
When Toshiro and the others were informed about Misaki's kidnapping, the young Captain was devastated. Why did they want her? Was it because she was a Mage? What was Aizen planning? After Head Captain Yamamoto briefed them about Orihime Inoue's status, the Soul Reapers were sure something strange was going on. Ichigo woke up the next day, feeling completely let down. 'I love you!' Misaki's words echoed in his mind. He was weak, and he let them take her away from him. And now, Orihime was gone too. And here he was, talking to the Head Captain, about their kidnapping, and the response wasn't what he wanted. "That's crazy!" Ichigo yelled at Head Captain's theory about Orihime betraying them. Renji stopped the boy. "Then I, Renji Abarai, lieutenant of squad six, and member of Captain Hitsugaya's forces, as a response to this treason will head to Hueco Mundo to bring Orihime Inoue to her senses!" Ichigo was shocked. "Unacceptable."
"But what about Misaki? She was kidnapped! I saw it with my own eyes!" Ichigo yelled. "Misaki Otonashi is a Mage. Roughly two hundred years ago, Magi were believed to be extinct. They, like the Quincy's are enemies to the Soul Society." Ichigo's eyes widened. So did everyone else's. 'Misaki? An e-enemy?' Toshiro couldn't imagine it. He didn't want to believe someone as soft and kind hearted like her would be an enemy. Renji was upset, but he could tell Ichigo was breaking on the inside.
And there was nothing they could do.
"Orihime is my friend. Misaki is-"Ichigo glowered deeply and said, "-a part of my being. I will save them myself." Rukia's eyes widened with what Ichigo had said. Did it mean that Ichigo loved Misaki? After Byakuya and Kenpachi's arrival, the Soul Reapers were forced to leave and before Toshiro thought to himself, 'Bring her back Ichigo.'
Misaki grunted in pain, as Grimmjow pulled her by her hair. She was thrown forward and she fell down on the ground, and winced. "Grimmjow that is not how you treat a guest." A voice said, sending shivers down Misaki's spine. "Ulquiorra, is this the human you were spying at in the human world from long ago?" Misaki looked up to see a man sitting on something similar to a throne. "Yes." The green eyed Espada said. 'Spying?' Misaki gasped. Of all those feelings she had of someone staring at her at her house, it was this Arrancar? Misaki wanted to cry. She looked to her left and saw Orihime. Misaki's eyes watered. Just then, "Let her go." It was a voice familiar to Misaki. She turned back and saw-'Minato?'
"Who is this?" The man on the throne said. "I'm Minato Otonashi. A Mage. Misaki's elder brother. I'm a better Mage than she is. So, take me, and let her go." Minato said. "No!" Misaki yelled. Minato ignored her. "What a noble sacrifice!" A white haired man said. He didn't look like an Arrancar. "Whatever. Let her go. I'm ready." Minato said. "Minato please! Don't!" Minato turned to look at his sister one last time, before the dark skinned man took him away. "Be safe." He murmured for no one to hear, and walked off.
Misaki was escorted to a room by the white haired man, and she didn't say a word. She couldn't. She didn't know what was happening. "Szayel hasn't bugged this place, so I can talk to ya." The man said. Misaki didn't bother looking at him. "I'm gonna let ya go now ya know." Misaki frowned. "I'm not leaving without my brother." "That's real cute. But we can't crowd this place ya know. There're a lotta people here already. We don't need ya." The man said, opening a Garganta. Misaki gasped and back away when he caught hold of her wrists. "Bring your friends here if ya can." The man said, he smile scaring Misaki. Then all she could feel was falling. From a great height.
Gin frowned. He wasn't supposed to let her go yet, but that girl…reminded him so much of her. They looked nothing alike, but yet, there were similarities. 'I'll deal with Aizen later…' He thought to himself and walked off, thinking of persimmons.
