I'm back everyone! And I'm not going anywhere any time soon! XD I know, I said 2 months, but it almost became 3. We had to wait for the building inspector to check out the house before moving in, but he took his sweet time! DX Now, we moved in about a week ago, and I'm back with a really long chapter! :D This should be the last chapter before the epilogue. Yeah, I know, I was so close to being done this fanfic, and yet I waited for almost 3 months to get back to it. -_- Anyway, once I'm done this fanfic, I'm just going to focus on 'My Hollow Siblings' for a bit before working on another fanfic. It's a Fairy Tail X Harry Potter fanfic that I adopted. Should be fun to write, but I don't think any fanfic is going to be as long as MHS. I don't think I'll be able to write a fanfic as long as that one again. Anyway, I'm going to shut up now, and GET ON WITH THE STORY ALREADY! XD

12

Recap: Brielle believes that now's a good time to start fighting, so she uses Shadow Travel again to get behind Kokuto since his shadow was behind him and jump out while clamping her jaws on the back of his neck, only to swing him back and slamming him into the ground. "You're dealing with me now," she said with a deathly calm voice.

Kokuto looked up in both surprise and fear. He wasn't expecting to see the Dark Dragon in Hell. It wasn't time for one of her meetings with the King of Hell with the other 3 darklings known as Stone, Wind, and Ocean, AKA Stone Wolf, Wind Horse, and Ocean Deep Serpent. (AN: Changed the last one's name a little.) He heard that every few years Dark Dragon and the other 3 would come to Hell to see for themselves how everything is going. He didn't know where the other meeting places took place besides World of Darkness, but the other places – or rather place - is World of Light, so they can talk to the glows, who are the Light Beings. Besides all that, Kokuto knows that even if Dark Dragon was here for a meeting, she if far from the meeting place.

Kokuto got up from the ground and glared at Brielle, even though he doesn't know it's her yet. "Why would someone like you be in a place like this if it's not for one of your meetings?!" he exclaimed.

Brielle – or to Kokuto, Darkness – just rolled her eyes. "You are attacking someone that is part of my clan, I think that's enough of a reason for me to be here," she replied, she knows that the sinner didn't know that she was the same person that came along with him and Ichigo, but in human form. Since that is the case, she doesn't plan on telling him anytime soon.

"I was attacking someone from your clan? Who, who is it?! Tell me!" Kokuto shouted in both fear and anger. He didn't want to get the Dark Dragon's attention, because he knows that his chances of leaving Hell would be much lower and having his soul completely destroyed, very high. So, attacking one of her clan mates was something he didn't want to do at all, but did it anyway without knowing.

Darkness shrugged her shoulders and used her tail to point at Ichigo, who was slowly getting up. "That would be Ichigo, or for those who don't know that name for him would know him as Black Moon."

"Black Moon?" Kokuto muttered to himself the dark name that belongs to Ichigo. He has heard of that name before, but no one knows anything about him, because he has never joined in on the Day of Darkness before, and hardly ever takes missions from Dark Dragon. Kokuto thought that Black Moon was more like someone that is just an acquaintance of hers, but now he's not so sure if Darkness herself would come to Hell for him if that was the case.

"I see that you've heard of that name before, but that's only because of how much of a mystery he is, correct?" Darkness chuckled darkly. "Well, ever wonder why that is? It's because I don't like him having to get involve with the mistakes that humans have made when he himself is one." Kokuto's eyes almost popped out of his head thanks to them being so wide. Darkness smirks. "You might want to narrow your eyes a bit or else they'll fall out. What, you're surprised that I, someone that hates humans, let one join my clan? I guess I can understand that, but I think I'm not going to tell you the reason. You don't need to know that." Darkness started to stalk over to him. "What I am going to do is get payback for you hurting one of my own…" she growled menacingly.

Kokuto took a step back, but didn't have time to do anything else or react, because Darkness was on him within a heartbeat. She was on her front paws like she was landing from a long jump, and swung her tail at him, hitting him in the face with it and sending him flying. Kokuto crashed into a pillar that was still standing from the previous fight with the other sinners. Before he could get up, or even recover, a column of fire slammed into him; burning his already burn scarred body.

Kokuto realized that the rumors about Darkness being someone that doesn't like to let up on her attacks are true. So, while he tries to recover from the fire attack, he wraps his body with his chains, but this didn't help him all that much; it would have if it was another elemental attack, but if would seem that Darkness wasn't going for another. Darkness grabbed the chains with her jaws and threw him right at the lava pit, but Kokuto was able to use his chains to grab hold of the bones that were right behind/above the pit.

When he caught himself, he heard a whistling sound coming at him, but he didn't see anything…but he did feel it when it cut his arm off. If it weren't for the chains, Kokuto would have fallen into the lava, but it would seem that the attack wasn't a dark element, but a wind one; only dark elements can break the chains that bind him, or a sword wielded by a Devil that comes out of nowhere, cutting the chain and having him fall into the glowing orange and red hot pit, killing him for the time being.

When Kokuto fell into the lava pit, Brielle and Ichigo turned to see who cut the sinner's chain and having him fall. It turned out to be Toshihiro, Ichigo and Brielle's uncle. Their uncle turned to face them. "Are you okay?" he asked. They nodded their heads. "Good, then, Brielle, Ichigo, I need your help carrying your friends."

Toshihiro went over to pick up Uryu while Brielle grabbed Renji, and Ichigo took Rukia, but before they left the scene, Ichigo asks worriedly, "Have you seen Yuzu, uncle?"

"Yes, I have. I sent her with Shiori before coming here. She should be back at the palace," Toshihiro explained.

"Is she okay?" Brielle asked, and the Devil nodded his head. With that, they left the area.

They got to the palace and went to the infirmary that was next to a lounge room. Ichigo, Toshihiro, and Brielle put Rukia, Renji, and Uryu on the beds, before going into the lounge room where Yuzu was, but she still wasn't in her human form; she was still a golden phoenix. Ichigo didn't care what his sister looked like at the moment, he just wanted to know if she was okay.

"I'm fine, Onii-chan. Though, I'm still trying to find out how to turn back to my human form," Yuzu said.

Ichigo sighed in relief. "That's good, but how did this happen?" he asked.

"Asa, my inner demon, woke up when I first came here. She said that she wouldn't let anyone hurt me, and so, taught me how to turn into my demon form like you. She also mentioned that you were coming to save me," she explained.

Ichigo was glad that Yuzu was fine, and that her inner demon didn't sound as crazy as his. He guessed it might have been because of how sweet Yuzu can be. He heard footsteps coming up from behind him, so he turned to see that it was his uncle and soul sister.

"Ichigo, we need to talk. I already told Brielle what it is while you were talking to Yuzu, but now you two need to switch," Toshihiro said. Ichigo nodded his head before telling Yuzu he would be back, and went to follow his uncle.

Once they were on the other side of the lounge room, Toshihiro began to speak. "First things first, Yuzu will now be fine staying in Hell with her demon powers being awake. I just wanted you to know that, so you didn't feel like you're on a time limit for the mission I'm about to put you on, okay?" Ichigo nodded head in understanding, and smiled in thanks for telling him that Yuzu would be fine. "Right, so now that that's out of the way, we can talk about the mission that both I and Darkness spoke of for you."

Ichigo was surprised that Toshihiro called Brielle, Darkness, since that would mean that this mission is one passed down from the leaders of darkness and fire. Brielle never gave him a mission before, and during the war with the demons a while back, it was his first time joining the Day of Darkness. Now Ichigo understood why Toshihiro was acting serious. "I understand, but may I ask why you picked me for this mission? Dark Dragon has never given one to me before," he asked.

"You may. The answer is because you are the only one that has the power to do it. I don't mean that you're strong enough, but the power is of a different type."

"Like a certain type of power like Hollow, Shinigami, and demon?" Toshihiro nodded his head yes. "What type of power?"

Toshihiro sighed, "That I cannot tell you. It is something you have to figure out on your own, but Darkness will be going with you to see how your first mission goes, and to tell you if you are doing something wrong." He smirked. "Or to make sure you don't do something stupid to get yourself killed." There was the Toshihiro Ichigo knew.

Ichigo sweat dropped. "Right... So, what is the mission?" he asked.

"I need you to send Kokuto back to the lowest level of Hell."

"Fine, when do I leave?"

"Whenever you're ready, but ASAP," Toshihiro said. Ichigo nodded and left to get Brielle.

When he got over to her, he saw that both she and Yuzu were laughing about something. "What are you two talking about?" he asked.

Brielle turned to him. "I was just telling her that the first time you tried to fly in you demon form you crashed right into the ceiling face first, and got your head stuck in it!" she laughed again. Ichigo remembered that time; Brielle couldn't stop laughing when he tried to get his head unstuck. It didn't help that he couldn't do it alone and needed his uncle's help to get his head out of the clouds – I mean ceiling.

"You're never going to let me live that down, are you?" Ichigo asked his still laughing soul sister.

Brielle looked up with an evil smirk on her face. "Nope, not in a million years would I let you." Ichigo sighed in defeat.

"Whatever, let's just get ready to go." He turned to Yuzu. "We'll be leaving for a little bit. Will you be okay while we're gone?" he asked.

Yuzu bowed her down once and brought it back up. "Yeah, I'm going to use the advice that Brielle gave me to turn back into my human form, and see what I can do to help your friends," she replied.

Ichigo smiled. "Thank you, Yuzu. You're always so thoughtful." He paused for a moment to look into his sister's eyes. "We'll be back soon, and when we do, we'll all go home." Yuzu nodded in agreement. Ichigo turned to face his soul sister. "I'm ready to go," he said.

Brielle turned to the door and flicked her tail, telling him to follow. "We'll be back as soon as we can, Yuzu, and in one piece," she said.

"Be careful, you two!" Yuzu called out after them before the door closed.

Ichigo was using shunpo to get to where he sensed Kokuto's reiatsu faster. When he got there, he stood in front of a giant skull with Kokuto sitting on it, appearing to have been waiting for him.

"I'm surprised you came back, Ichigo, since you got back your sister and everything, there is no reason for you to no longer be here." He smirked before continuing, "Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you're still here. That just means I still have a chance to get out of Hell. I'm sure if you spoke to your leader, Dark Dragon, she'll allow me to leave here."

Ichigo couldn't help but chuckle at how stupid of a plan that is. It was dumber than his first plan and look where that got him. "That wouldn't work since now she gave me my first mission to send you to the lowest level of Hell. Even if it wasn't a mission from the big boss herself, I'd still send you there," he stated.

Kokuto glared at him. "Then you will die here and suffer. Dark Dragon can't kill me here; the one that makes that decision is the King of Hell himself. And last time I checked, only Dark Dragon gave you this mission." Kokuto pulled out his blade. "Here I come, Ichigo Kurosaki!" He charged at Ichigo at full speed and clashed swords with him.

Ichigo smirked after hearing what Kokuto said. "Who said there wasn't someone else? After all, the one that made you fall into that lava pit back there was Toshihiro, the King of Hell, AKA Hell Fire. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this." Ichigo could see the look of anger on the sinner's face, and realized he made a mistake.

Kokuto used his chains to wrap around Ichigo's leg and threw him toward the skull; he followed it up with a slash down with his sword meeting Ichigo's blades that he was holding it an X shape, but the force of the slash from Kokuto was enough to break the ground and rocks, making lava flow out.

Brielle was sitting up on the tree that grew out of the skull that Kokuto sat on moments ago to watch the fight. She noticed that Kokuto didn't see her or even know that she heard him. 'He really thought that Ichigo was going to help him after what he put him through?' She shook her head. 'What an idiot. Although, he's a strong idiot since he's pushing Ichigo back.' Brielle went back to watching the fight.

Kokuto pinned Ichigo to the ground by standing on him. His right foot was on Ichigo's left wrist, keeping it there so the lava that was flowing down would touch his skin and burn him. When the lava touched Ichigo, he screamed out in pure agony.

Even though Ichigo was in pain, he used his reiatsu to cause an explosion and get away from Kokuto. By doing this though, made the lava flow faster, and catch his shihakusho on fire; burning more of his skin.

Ichigo did the duck, drop, and roll to put out the fire, and got up just in time to block an attack, but was not ready for the force of it since he went flying back. He fell on his back again, but before he could get up, Kokuto pinned him with his foot on his chest.

Kokuto lent down toward Ichigo's face and said, "Aw, what's wrong? I thought you said you were going to send me to the lowest level, but how are you going to do that when you're below me?" Ichigo tried to push him off. "Or do you want me to go and kidnap your other little sister to motivate you?" Kokuto asked mockingly.

After hearing Kokuto, Ichigo snapped. He turned into a phoenix which made the sinner jump away so he didn't get burned farther. Once Ichigo got back up, he started to breathe black fire everywhere including Kokuto and his chains which are now being destroyed.

Ichigo was about to take to the sky to breathe more fire at Kokuto, but Brielle came out of nowhere and hit him of the back of the head with her tail that was cover in ice. It hurt, but it felt like how it does when she hits him when he's in human form – like being hit by a log.

"You're an idiot. You're breaking his chains, not sending him to where he belongs," Brielle said.

Ichigo thought that the power he was now using would be the power his uncle was talking about, but it turned out it wasn't. Brielle seemed to catch Ichigo's train of thought.

"Do you really thing that your demon form would be the power we were talking about? If that was the case, Ichigo, then Hell Fire would have done this himself," she explained. Ichigo seemed to understand this, so Brielle went back to the tree that she was sitting on when this fight started.

Now that Ichigo knew that his demon form wasn't the power he was looking for, he couldn't figure out what it could be then. While he was thinking, he heard the Kushanada moving closer. He wondered when they got there, but at the moment he didn't care. He still needed to find out what the power was the he has that can condemn the souls of sinners, but it would seem that he wouldn't have time to find out, because the Kushanada were on him, and one of them brought down its giant hand, covering him from view.

Ichigo really didn't need to be dealing with the guards as well as Kokuto at the moment, but he realized that the hand wasn't pressing down hard. It felt like how a father would put his hand on his son's back who was either sick or really upset. Then Ichigo got blinded by a golden light that came from the Kushanada that had its hand on him. When the light downed down, Ichigo opened his eyes and saw that he was no longer under the guard's hand, but instead wearing some kind of armor that looked to be glowing the same gold color, and it looked to have some skulls on it.

He was impressed with the armor. He thought it looked cool on him while in phoenix form. He turned to see that Kokuto finally got back up from the flames that attacked him and was now looking at him and his new form.

"What is that form? All of a sudden you turn into a demon, and now that Kushanada turned into that armor. What the heck it going on here?!" Kokuto growled in anger.

Ichigo looked right into Kokuto's eyes, which made the sinner freeze up in fear, now understanding what power his uncle was talking about. "Kokuto, Hell is asking me for my help to send you to its depths by granting me this power. With it, I'll do what it asks of me." Ichigo got ready to breathe fire again.

"You mean to tell me that Hell is asking help from someone of the likes of you?! That's impossible! We're no different, we're the same! Why do I have to be condemned to the lowest level, while you get to do whatever you want?" Kokuto charged at him. "So what makes you so much different than me?!"

Ichigo closed his eyes, seeing nothing, but black, and said quietly, "Because…I haven't sinned." He released a huge wave of golden fire at the sinner. Breaking the rest of the old chains, and then summoned new ones from the depths that dragged Kokuto down with them from where they came.

When Ichigo no longer could see or hear Kokuto, he bowed his head in respect for a strong opponent. He then turned to the Kushanada. "Thank you for your help."

They bowed down to him and turned to leave. Ichigo watched them go, not hearing his soul sister hovering next to his head till she said, "I'd say that your first mission was a success." He jumped and turned his head to look at her.

"You need to stop doing that," he said.

Brielle tilted her head questioningly. "Stop doing what?"

"Stop sneaking up on people!"

"It's not my fault you didn't hear me – as well as those other people. I wasn't trying to sneak up you or them."

Ichigo sighed; he knows that Brielle is telling the truth. She's just quiet by nature. "Let's just go back to the palace and get everyone," he said while taking flight, and also taking off the armor.

"Yeah, I'm starting to get homesick myself," Brielle said while following.

When they got back, Uryu, Renji, and Rukia were fully healed, and Yuzu learned how to turn back into a human.

"Hey, everyone, we're back!" Ichigo announced. His friends greeted him and Brielle, and Toshihiro came walking up.

"I see you were given the power I told you about," he said.

Ichigo looked confused. "I thought you said I already had it?"

"You did, it's just that it was asleep, and only the Kushanada can awake it. You now have full control of them."

"But I thought you had control of them?" Now, Ichigo was really confused.

"It wasn't my job. My job is to keep the demons in check, someone else had to keep the sinners in check, and lead the Kushanada. Since Satan has been dead, the Kushanada have been waiting for someone else to lead them, and they chosen you," Toshihiro explained.

Ichigo understood what his uncle meant now. "I see."

"Good, I'm glad. Now that you are a leader in your own rights, you'll have to come to Hell once a month like how Brielle goes to the Dark Forest. The Kushanada will update you about the sinners and what they did in their life to be sent here, so you can send them to the right level. Good thing I already taught you about the levels, huh?" he said the last part with a smirk. "You'll also have to send sinners that you run into to Hell, like a Hollow that sinned while alive. Do you understand?" Ichigo nodded his head. "Alright, I believe that's all. You guys can all go home now," Toshihiro said with a smile.

Ichigo, Brielle, Yuzu, Rukia, Renji, and Uryu thanked Toshihiro and started walking to the gates, so they can go home.

Okay, I planned on making this chapter 2,000+ words, but as you can see, I went way over that. This chapter is the longest I have ever made. This baby is 3,708 words! HOLY SHOOT, NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A COMEBACK! XD

Ichi: I'd say! O.o

Shiro: She even had 2 fight senses in this chapter! :D

Enj/Dark: Alright, Shiro, calm down. -_-

Ichi: I can tell that you've been wanting to get back into writing again.

Shiro: I think everyone thinks that now too, since this chapter is her longest. :)

Enj/Dark: I'll admit, I had wanted to write for some time now, but I just never had the time. Not only that, but I also changed that way I've been writing my chapters. I used to write a chapter in one day, but I changed that to writing this in 3 days. I was going to write 500 works for 4 days to make 2,000 words for the chapter, but as you can see, that didn't happen.

Ichi: Yeah, on day 1: you wrote 600+ words, day 2: 1,300+ words, and then day 3: another 1,700+ words. You were having so much fun you couldn't stop your fingers from tapping away on that keyboard, could you?

Enj/Dark: …Can't deny that, even if I wanted to. But hey, I think the readers will be happy about this. :)

Ichi: True that. :)

Shiro: Please review! XD