All right guys, get ready for major changes to this chapter. When I first started writing this chapter, it was still incomplete due to that I had some characters not have many scenes at all. I hope to change with this chapter. Now this chapter will also have stuff from the past coming back toward the present.
Both Arashi and Hitomi will appear in this chapter along with others as well. This would be important because they are going to play a major role in this series.
The animes such as Naruto, Bleach and Yu Yu Hakusho are owned by their respective owners. In addition, other series are owned by their respective owners as well. The OCs is owned by me and finally the parallel versions of Naruto (Arashi) and Hinata (Hitomi) are owned by DarkSwordMage.
Chapter 12: Hollow hunt part 3 – Rai's arrival
Last time, the hollow hunt began with Uryu and Ichigo in a race to kill as many hollows as possible within the 24 hour limit. Ryu had removed the seals within Chad and Uryu for this hunt. Chad while running from a hollow that was threatening his friends had encounters Karin and saved her life. In a miracle, Chad with realizing his grandfather's words had unlocked his spiritual powers. Combine with his past life's powers he was able to destroy the hollow.
Meanwhile, a hollow has appeared at Karakura High and it set its sights on Orihime, Tatsuki and Ryu. But when all that is happening, a mysterious boy has now arrived in Karakura Town and is setting his sights on Ryu and his family.
(Earlier)
In another area of Karakura Town, another portal has opened and rather with just one person that had exited out of the portal, there was a small group of people. Among the group were Sayuki, Arashi, Hitomi and Halibel.
"It looks like that Ryu needs our assistance." Arashi said while wearing his mask that resemble a fox (the one that Gin wears in Bleach manga chapter 414).
"Yes, I can see that honey." Hitomi said while wearing a mask that resembles a phoenix. Over the course of 150 years that they were recruited by Ryu, a few changes were done on them. Ryu had removed the Kyuubi that still reside on Hitomi after absorbing the Juubi after her battle against Madara in their dimension to her husband that she truly loved due to the fact that they were childhood friends. Then Ryu had restored Hitomi's body so that she can finally give birth to children, though that hasn't quite happen because they don't want children yet. After doing this, Ryu had found out that, after forming his Storm Dragon Espadas and taking everyone to his true hideout, Dragon's Labyrinth, the demonic energies of the demons had transformed them into Vizards.
When the transformation began, as he found out later on in the "Vizard Naruto" parallel universe, he had to fight the two hollowified Vizards until both Arashi and Hitomi were able to put their hollow sides into submission and be able to use their newly hollow powers. For Arashi, he gained the zanpakuto named Molten Cyclone. As for Hitomi, her zanpakuto was called Tsunami Hurricane.
"Well I can see that, but we have to protect Karakura Town like Ryu koi wanted to anyway." Halibel said as she was blushing a bit at the mention of her lover. Over those number of years, Halibel, the Captain of Squad 3 under the Storm Dragon Espadas that Ryu had created, she had from time to time small blushes whenever she said anything about her lover.
"Well, you have heard Halibel chan, we are going to protect Karakura Town like Ryu koi has commanded us to do so." Sayuki chimed. Being the second alpha of Ryu's harem, Sayuki was able to make sure that both Neliel and Halibel loved him whenever Ryu was around before he went on helping him in other parallel universes.
The whole group set off and started to take down any hollows that have entered in Karakura Town.
(Kurosaki house)
To say that the household of the Kurosaki family was peaceful, then they are dead wrong. This household is where the former Soul Reapers from Soul Society live in. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.
Hiei, Kurama, Isshin and Kushina were looking at the sky.
"It seems that Ryuken's idiot of a son had to use that hollow bait." Isshin said while looking at the sky.
"Ryuken?" Kushina asked Isshin.
"Ryuken Ishida was a friend but unfortunately he's thinking I am a bad person. I mean for him to be the last Quincy he has to be so strict on my appearance. Anyway, his son's name is Uryu Ishida and by now he had met both Ichigo and Sasuke but looks to me that it was Sasuke that had introduced himself to him. Probably it was before you came back Kushina chan."
"I forgot for a second that Sasuke is Ryu's nickname. You're right big brother it would make sense that the ripple in the sky was caused by the hollow bait. Though I think about that, that's not the only problem the hollows are coming through the development of specific people." Hiei said.
"That is to be bad why?" Kurama asked.
"When the Grand Fisher attacked me, he was targeting Ichigo's powers since for the hollows it is food to them. Ironically since Minato kun and Sasuke kun and myself were from the Soul Society, it makes sense that hollows would target people with spiritual powers. But we should get involved since Sasuke kun have already done so." Kushina said while giving her husband a kiss on the cheek.
"Guess your right on that Kushina. Very well this should be fun and it has been a long time since both Hiei and I have used our zanpakutos in combat." Kurama said.
So the four Soul Reapers went off in regrouping with Ryu's group all the while they are slaying hollows one by the other. What they were all unaware is that more reinforcements that they have never seen before will help protect Karakura Town.
(Ichigo)
Ichigo was running on the sidewalk.
"Where are the hell are those guys?!" Then Ichigo was stopped by both Kuro and Sophia.
"Hey you were those guys from school, just what the hell are you doing here?!"
"Now calm down Ichigo but we were sent by your brother to help you." Kuro said.
"There were better times in helping our friend but he told us to find you." Sophia said.
"Ryu did?" Ichigo asked.
"Well of course Sasuke kun told us in helping you but we had to separate from Sasuke kun's group to search for the others. As for now your parents and apparently your uncle and Kurama are also splitting up to cover more ground from what Sasuke kun told us anyway. They would probably find your sisters and aid them I guess." Sophia said.
"Why did you call big brother Sasuke?" Ichigo asked.
"Because that's his nickname." Kuro said.
"I had forgotten all about it." Ichigo said before he went back talking. "Anyway, I need to find Ishida so I can kick his ass."
(Karakura high school)
"Sheesh! If I knew they'd make us help clean up, I wouldn't have come to see. Instead of lecturing us, make the ones responsible do this!" Chizuru said while taking a break for a bit.
"It's because you made such a fuss." Tatsuki said.
"What about you?!"
"What!"
"What?"
"But all of them were acting strange."
"Huh? What's hime doing with Ryu? Hime! If you stand there looking so cute and spaced out… I'll kiss you!"
"What the hell are you blurting out all of a sudden?!"
"What?"
"What?!"
"Is there something wrong guys?" Ryu cheerfully asked.
"Shut up! This is none of your business!" Tatsuki and Chizuru yelled at Ryu.
"Eep!" Ryu said as he went at a small distance from them.
"U-Umm… There's a TV show I want to watch, so let's call it a day and go home." Orihime cheerfully said and she pushed Chizuru to the building.
"It disappeared but where are you hollow?" Orihime thought.
"Orihime, Tatsuki, behind you!" Ryu yelled as she, Tatsuki and Ryu have seen the hollow.
"So the three of you can see me, can't you?" The hollow said.
"What's going on here?" Chizuru said before Ryu use his eyes to put Chizuru into a deep sleep.
"Nighty-night Chizuru." Ryu said before he focused on the hollow.
"Your presence is all too familiar. You're that evil whore that tried to destroy the Leaf Village long ago. Isn't that right, Koharu Utatane!" Ryu growling with anger at the hollow scum.
Both Tatsuki and Orihime looked at Ryu confused.
"So who's she?" Tatsuki asked.
"Koharu Utatane was a council member of the Sandaime that was his teammate but she wanted power but in the end she died by the sacrifice of Homura Mitokado." Ryu grimly said.
"What in the nine hells are you here for?!" Ryu yelled at the hollow.
"That fucking name had brought me hell and shame! If the fucking Hokage of a teammate of mine should have given me the Hiraishin jutsu then I would have shown everyone what a Hokage should have done so long ago." The hollow spoke before she looked at Ryu with anger. "It's you! I should have killed the demon brat and YOU when I had the chance but that fool Homura had to take me to hell! I will have my revenge on you and this world for not allowing me to get what I wanted from the beginning." Hollow Koharu said. "But now with this power I will kill everyone to exact my vengeance on this world!" The hollow yelled as she charged at the group.
(Ichigo)
Ichigo was chopping the hollows one by one.
"Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Dammit! Ishida!" Ichigo shouted in anger at the guy who set this whole game up and put everyone in danger (or so he thought).
(Elsewhere)
A group of hollows were charging at a male Soul Reaper in a black cloak covering his face that had arrived earlier to investigate the disturbances. As the hollows charged at the unknown Soul Reaper, they were all destroyed quickly when he used his zanpakuto without even using his Shikai. The only thing that was visible was a zanpakuto that was a long sword that had a silver-gray moon scar in the middle.
"Well, I had hoped that this would have gone on sooner but it looks like these hollows are coming in faster than I had thought. Even my sensei had predicted all of this." The boy had said.
In that same moment, Sayuki's group had arrived at the boy's location.
"I never expect so many Soul Reapers to appear right in front in me. But it does strike me with curiosity that you all somehow have traces of my elder brother Ryu's reiatsu in there. So, who are you really and why have you come here?" The boy asked to the group.
"I could ask you the same question as well." Halibel said.
"Stand down everyone. I know who you are. You're Ryu's younger twin brother Rai." Sayuki said to the boy. When the young boy, now named Rai heard Sayuki said his name, he was surprised at someone he'd never met have found out all about his name.
"This is a surprise. I never expect someone to know of me. But we are getting ahead of ourselves." Rai said.
"So why are you here?" Sayuki asked.
Rai had taken no time in removing his hood and to them, Sayuki knew that Rai resembled like with his father Isshin, except that Rai has short black hair and it isn't grown yet aside from his father. "I knew it there was something familiar with your aura. You're the spirit that reside from big brother's Jagan Eye, am I correct?" Rai asked that shocked Sayuki.
"Yes, but how did you known about that?" Sayuki asked after she calmed down from the aftershock that Ryu's younger brother revealed to her that he known about her status.
"Because I also possess the Jagan Eye. My sensei had told me all about what happened to big brother. For now, I can't tell you who my sensei is because it's not up for discussion." Rai said but before Sayuki could learn more about Rai, the whole group then was alerted by the hollows that are coming out of the portal and they were about to charge at Rai and the others from the group.
(Ishida)
With his eyes activated, Uryu have used his hands in taking out the hollows.
"Seems my powers haven't lost its touch." Uryu was smirking at his achievement. "But combine with my Quincy powers and of course Ryu's pill has given me more of a good control over the reishi around this town. But I have a feeling that I somehow met him before. So let's see that's 20 hollows so far!" "Sensei, this is for you, too…" Uryu thought as he had a small flashback with a younger Uryu.
(Karakura High School)
"Die foolish humans!" The hollow yelled as she attacked Ryu. Both Tatsuki and Orihime gasped in fear that their friend/sensei had taken the attack at full force.
"Ryu (kun)!?" The two girls shouted when the hollow laughed evilly.
"Ah-ha-ha-ha! Now do you see the full power of my vengeance on this world?! I will kill everyone who stands in my way!" The hollow laughed at the sight of a dead person.
But everyone was in shock when Ryu mockingly laughed at the hollow.
"What's so funny fool?! Huh?! Stop mocking me!" The hollow screamed.
"It is you that I have trapped now bastard!" Ryu said as he disappered when the real Ryu along with Neliel have appeared before Tatsuki and Orihime.
(Flashback)
Earlier on, Ryu and the group were running together when Ryu spoke to the group.
"This is what we are going to do. Haku, take a different path using your Soul Pager to track the hollows." Ryu said.
"Pesche and Dondo go with Haku for support in dealing with the hollows." Neliel said.
"Hai, lady Nel!" Pesche and Dondo said. The three ran off to track the hollows.
"Now Kuro and Sophia chan, I need you to go and find my brother Ichigo. He should not be too far since we all can sense his powers already." Ryu said to his childhood friends.
"Kay, Sasuke. Let's go Sophia chan." Kuro said to his girlfriend.
"Right behind you Kuro kun!" Sophia said as the two shunpo off towards Ichigo's location.
"Best that we get going to the high school since I send a shadow clone to keep an eye on the school, especially both Orihime and Tatsuki chan."
"Yay! I get to see Sasuke kun's fifth girlfriend besides Halibel chan, Yoruichi chan and Sayuki chan!" Neliel happily giggled as she and Ryu shunpo to the high school.
(End flashback)
(Haku)
Haku, along with Pesche and Dondochakka were running along a path.
"What's going on anyway?!"
"These hollows are off the scale in appearing at the town." Pesche said.
"There are too many hollows, don't ya know?" Dondo said.
Then both Pesche and Dondo had sensed Sayuki's presence.
"What is it guys?" Haku asked.
"We have company and it looks like that they are here to slay down the hollows." Dondo said.
"No way." Haku said.
"Oh, yes way and it's reinforcements from our organization, but since Ryu is the leader, he will fill you all in soon enough." Pesche said.
(Rai)
"So, these hollows want to play with all of us. Fat chance I would allow them to harm big brothers' allies." Rai said as the group was surprised that he knew more about them from the very beginning. Halibel was about to say something when Rai interrupted them.
"Save it, I have no grudges on what big brother was doing for 500 years. He was trying to protect everyone; at least he was still good after all this time. I want you all to sit back while I deal with these annoyances." Rai said as he shunpo to the incoming hollows that were about to attack the group.
Rai drawn his zanpakuto out of its sheath. "Now, let us begin. Scream loudly! Genzō Kizu (Phantom Scar)!" Rai shouted. In reaction of that command, his zanpakuto transformed from its sealed katana-like form into katana with a dark purple hilt and has a moon-shaped symbol in the middle of the blade.
Rai got into a stance with his Genzō Kizu. "Let's see if all of you can withstand this!" Rai shouted. He suddenly moved extremely quickly at the hollows until the blade of his Genzō Kizu surged with electrical energy. "Heh, too easy!" Rai said. He swiped it straight at every hollow that were in his way, which unleashed a series of electrical sparks off of it's blade at each and every one of them.
"You have all gathered so kindly for me to give you a true execution!" Rai said as now each one felt pain beyond their existence when they now felt the electric sparks from the area that they received his cuts. "Though I will credit all of you for surviving thus far, your execution hasn't been carried out yet." Rai smirked as the hollows now screamed as they were now trying to kill one Soul Reaper.
"Jikoku Dageki (Instant Shock)!" Rai shouted. All the hollows were suddenly now engulfed in a sphere of electrical energy, which burnt it into a pile of ashes as Rai smirked.
(Karakura High School)
"What the hell! I had killed you unless-!" The hollow said before she realized on the problem and cursed at Ryu. "Curse that shadow clone jutsu!"
"What's the matter it seems that you lost all Ninjutsu after you turned into a hollow. Good because that will make things easier for my friends to kill you." Ryu said.
"Take this!" The hollow shouted as she uses her spores to attack the group which they all use shunpo and dodge the attacks but the spore had infected Chizuru. The school girl woken up but was controlled by the hollow's force.
"What's happening to me?!" Chizuru said as she fighting off the spore's effect.
"What the hell did you do?!" Ryu shouted at the hollow.
"Hmm…I just used a little of my power."
"Power?" Orihime asked.
"I attack from a distance. That's why I use these seeds from my forehead to take control of others. And make you pathetic humans fight amongst yourselves." The hollow cackled evilly at her remarks.
"That's…!" Orihime said.
"Now, everyone let us start!"
"What?!" Orihime said as the school students were walking zombie like at the group.
"What the hell is going on?!" Tatsuki said.
"Orihime and Tatsuki chan, you deal with the hollow while emerald hime and I will deal with the students. We have to knock them down." Ryu said as he grabbed Chizuru and thrown her to the side of where the school kids were and both Ryu and Neliel charged at the school kids.
"You fools you might have gotten lucky after that attack but see if you can dodge this!" The hollow shouted as she her spores on Tatsuki and Orihime.
Both Tatsuki and Orihime use their speed to dodge the attacks and they were able to land a hit on the hollows' tentacles.
"Well Tatsuki chan, it seems that we will have to use our full powers to even the playing field."
"I agree Orihime chan." Tatsuki said as both Orihime and Tatsuki then transformed into their spirit forms.
Orihime had taken out her zanpakuto which the blade was brightly orange with a five point star on the bottom of the blade. A 20 inch sword is what Orihime had in her possession. The hilt was an ocean blue color with ruby encrusted on the hilt.
Tatsuki on the other hand also drew her zanpakuto which the blade was shaped like with any regular zanpakuto blade. The difference is that the hilt was coated blue with a red crystal in the middle of the hilt.
"Impossible, you humans were Soul Reaper scum?!" The hollow cackled in fear from the killer intent radiating from the girls.
"There is a saying that those who harm people are the worse kind of trash. And that is what you are hollow, trash. But we will destroy you and you will be sent to the netherworld for all eternity!" Tatsuki shouted at the hollow.
"You will be defeated for harming our friends." Orihime said as the two called out their Shikai forms.
"Don't you dare try to insult me by lecturing me from Kakashi Hatake. Especially, when he's already dead, you stupid bitches!" Koharu angrily yelled at both Tatsuki and Orihime.
One thing that the hollow hasn't noticed that they were truly insulted by being called bitches and therefore, has sealed her fate in this battle forever.
(Rai)
With the hollows destroyed, Rai looked back at the group.
"In case you were all wondering, what you see before you is my zanpakuto Genzō Kizu. When I attack, the ability of Genzō Kizu is activated. It allows me to release an electric current at the enemy's body. It does paralyze them, giving me the opening to destroy them with an electrical attack. Although, it's similar to Ryu's zanpakuto, Raikazerinmaru, my zanpakuto is more suitable to an Assassin class, making my attacks a one hit kill." Rai said as he grinned at that information.
"Now, shall we get going so that we don't miss the reunion."
"What reunion?" Hitomi asked.
"Why the reunion of our family, and besides, big brother has a lot of explaining to do on you guys." Rai said. The group had no other choice but to obey him for now.
To be continued
I hate to say it but I had to leave you hanging with this cliffhanger. Now those two elder ninja were odd in a way that if the Hokage died then why not we ever saw them at all since they were underused in the series, although both the Naruto and Naruto Shippuden animes might have done a few more scenes/episodes versus with the manga, they were characters that didn't have a lot of screentime. Besides that bomb diffusing arc in the Naruto series that we had seen those two, they never had a proper introduction in the manga besides the later chapters when they talked to Tsunade and then when they had Danzo's flashback with him and the other elders, including Hiruzen in their pre-teens.
So I had an idea in my head that Koharu is an evil monster and that Homura sacrificed his life to save Hiruzen to atone for his crimes. Would we ever see Homura again, anything is possible. Now I had read some fiction with Orihime and Tatsuki becoming Soul Reapers and that would be cool that this was the result of their training with Ryu. This makes sense on why Ryu had to train with the girls as to make up for his mistakes as their friend.
Now you are probably asking yourself, isn't this OOC for the two. You're right about that but I assure you that Orihime will still have her Shunshun Rikka spirits with her. As for Hiei and Kurama having zanpakutos, they will be revealed during this story but not in this arc. Same goes for Pesche and Dondochakka. Finally during this story, you will soon find out the names of Kuro and Sophias' zanpakutos. This explains why I had not put up lately more information on my characters yet.
I recommend for stories that have Tatsuki and Orihime as Soul Reapers: "Princess of Death" by JamJackEvo; "The True King" by NeonZangetsu; "Returning the Favor" by Yonda.
Finally this chapter introduces Rai, Ryu's younger twin brother. Rai is a little concern about his brother because he and his sensei had kept a close eye on Ryus' actions he had done in 500 years since their supposed mother's "death". To clear things up, when Kushina died from her disease, she was revived by the Soul King. At the time, Rai was trained by his sensei, which his sensei was a student of the Soul King. Kushina had met up with the SK's student and of course Rai, and all this time, Kushina was crying so much because in a way, she abandoned her own son Ryu. Though the student and Rai had tried to make her feel better, she still feels guilt for doing something she had never done willingly.
Rai was something I had thought of when I discussed with Slash12 after he had issues with his computer. The story he is doing, Demon Chronicles, was how Rai was created. I had discussed with him that since Ryu, my first OC character for this story, wasn't going to be in there, I had to come up with a different character. Since I had Isshin in this story was actually Minato after Ryu released the Byakuringan Suppression Seal on him, this gave me the chance to create a new character. As you have already read this chapter, Rai looks like Isshin but with shorter hair but with the same hairstyle that Isshin from the anime has. The only thing I will say that does belong to Slash12 is the release for Genzō Kizu. I had actually submitted the zanpakuto design for Rai's zanpakuto in its Shikai form along with the soon to be revealed in the future of Demon Chronicles, the Bankai form.
With this story, I have made things much differently on the characters like with Kushina. The reason I have made Kushina very emotional because she died from childbirth. Though the canon Naruto is different, I will still acknowledge that but not for this story. Anyway, the emotional part I had thought of because think about it, Kushina had to abandoned not only Ryu but also Ichigo, Karin and Yuzu. I actually decided against having an emotional scene with Ichigo and his younger sisters because they have their mother back and there's nothing to say any further on that. In a way that they acted like with Naruto after hearing about what happened to his mother before she died.
But, as for Ryu, in a later chapter, he will finally break down because he was the one that had truly suffered because of it. But what he also had done to Naruto is something he won't open up to because to him, it was his ultimate regret he has done to his family. What I will do is have a scene where Rai and Kushina tells everyone the truth, about the whole Soul King reviving her and was trained by him story, but won't actually be explained until far later on. Another thing to say about it is that everyone from the whole group would be asked by Rai and Kushina to not tell Ryu about it for now, though Ichigo, after they are at the training grounds in Soul Society, would talk to Ryu about it. By then, Yoruichi, Kuro, Sophia, Rai and the others will have a talk with Ryu. Reason why I'm doing it because if I reveal it now, it ruins the surprise I have with that back story.
Now, many of you are wondering with the situation with Orochimaru in this story. I actually have read recently the latest chapter of Bleach online at Manga Stream. Well, I was surprised that after having Aizen in those forms that are human like, I was truly satisfied when Aizen had fully used the Hogyoku and became a Cerebus like hollow. It will be something along the lines when Orochimaru will used the Hogyoku on himself and
Name: Genzō Kizu (Phantom Scar)
Appearance – A regular zanpakuto blade.
"Scream loudly, Genzō Kizu!" Transforms into a katana with a dark purple hilt and has a moon-shaped symbol in the middle of the blade.
Abilities - Generates electricity for every time the sword inflicts damage to an opponent.
Jikoku Dageki (Instant Shock) – It will trap an opponent into a sphere of electrical energy, and then destroy an opponent with electricity, making the attack a one hit kill.
All right, so now here we are in the next chapter of the side story series. Over the course of this arc, there will be major events that will plunge the Espada and Arrancar order into chaos. As you can see already, the power of Las Noches has fallen bit by bit. With this chapter, the power will truly fall greatly.
By now as you can see, each chapter has an Espada (or the high ranking Arrancars that are from canon) that will be recruited by Ryu so that he can gain Captains for his organization, the Storm Dragon Espadas. Once he gains each one, he will transform their powers into Kazeryuzards, the hollow version of his power as a Raikazezard.
You were wondering on how some Arrancars such as Stark and Neliel would be like after the transformation. Well, the Arrancars would become Kazeryuzards, which would give them the power of both Soul Reaper and their Espada form. To do this, Ryu first transforms them into Soul Reapers. Once that is done, then Ryu tells them to touch their mask, and once they touch their mask that was hollow, then the mask will transform into their original zanpakuto that have their resurreccion form before the transformation.
So when Ryu restored Neliel's mask, he had to do a little more work because he restored a damaged Arrancar's mask. On the other hand, the fracciones will become Soul Reapers and their Arrancar zanpakutos will be transformed into a human version of it, without them going into their resurreccion forms. So unfortunately, though they will have the same command once they release their zanpakutos, they will only get a different ability since they will become Soul Reapers. Which by the way, I will come up with new appearances of their zanpakutos. So for example, Sun-Sun's zanpakuto Anaconda will be something I will enjoy thinking of their new effects. Anyway, Anaconda will allow Sun-Sun to once she hits an opponent, will inject them with a toxin that rather the opponent would die, the effect will make their power concentration hazy and will be permanent.
This will take a while to come up with new abilities. At the least, I will post up the info on my profile, but not until I have all of them on one post rather than go with several updates that may take forever to get done. I do this so that I can give people a good amount of information on how this story will play out. Even though it may not be shown on every chapter, it is important that people will love this story will a ton of information.
Side story Chapter 3: Storm Dragon Espada Arc part 3: The fall of Las Noches
Ryu Yamamoto Kurosaki, a former Third Seat of Squad 10, also known as the Dragon God of Flash, had set his plans into motion. After discussing with Neliel, Pesche and Dondochakka about his new organization, the Storm Dragon Espadas, he told Neliel that he had transformed her into a new class that is a true hybrid of both Espada and Soul Reaper called a Kazeryuzard. The Kazeryuzards, as Ryu had created the name, are beings that were once Espada, but with Ryus' powers as a Raikazezard, he had accelerated the powers and had bestowed upon them another zanpakuto that have the powers of a Soul Reaper while retaining their zanpakutos when they were once Espadas.
After that, Neliel truly doubted herself when she cried to Ryu and told him all about her pain of betrayal. Ryu had comforted her and she was relieved that someone had cared for her, thus she fallen in love with a stranger that although they never met, Ryu had feelings of love not only to her but also another woman, that like Neliel was also betrayed and was killed for that.
The next morning however, Neliel, Pesche and Dondochakka had met a couple that, like with them, was recruited by Ryu for this organization. Arashi and Hitomi were once called by different names due to them being in a dimension parallel to Ryu's world. After they met, Ryu also introduced to them Sayuki, a woman that is a spirit that resides in Ryu's Jagan Eye.
With Arashi and Hitomi staying back at the hideout, the others followed Ryu to start collecting the other comrades for his organization. Their first destination was in a valley where two beings had slaughtered all the hollows there. Ryu was surprised that someone had done all of this, though he already guessed on whom it was. In the end, the two beings revealed to Ryu as Coyote Stark and Lilinette Gingerback. In no time, Stark had accepted Ryu's offer to join him in forming his organization.
When both Stark and Lilinette were with Ryu, they were curious on the young man.
"So, what do we do now Ryu?" Stark asked.
"Ah, with you guys joining me, we have a lot of work to do before we get back to my hideout. But first, I have a surprise for you two." Ryu said as he started their transformation by pouring in his reiatsu and into their hollow holes. It had taken a few minutes but when it was done, both Stark and Lilinette were slightly different. With Stark, his outfit was changed to an outfit similar to what the Espadas were wearing (the outfit that Stark is wearing in canon). The big difference is that on the back of his haori, were silver wolves standing opposite of each other and in the middle, the kanji sign of 1. As for Lilinette, she no longer had her mask on, but instead was a regular Soul Reaper, except that the outfit is white and her zanpakuto is located on her left side of her waist.
"Wow, this is incredible, I still have my powers but it's been controlled. Just what did you do to me?" Stark asked as he was curious.
"Well, right now, I just given you guys more power. I know on how you two were created. A long time ago, you two were one but in your desperate time for someone that can fill in the void, you separate your powers, thus creating Coyote Stark and Lilinette Gingerback. Because of this, you are forced in case to return to your true form, are required to fuse to return back. This had stumped me for a long time, if a two pieces of a puzzle cannot compete with the other, you are going have to overflow the balance and create a duplicate of the powers to truly fit in the puzzle.
So that's what I did, I duplicate your souls and merge it with both of you. In the end, it was right that I made you two into separate souls, but with the complete powers of your original forms. Actually, that's not right. Due to my powers of doing about anything, I had gone to a parallel world and gave the fallen souls, which consisted of both of you, a chance of salvation. They would help and merge with their parallel selves and therefore, I would send them into the afterlife." Ryu said.
"No way, you had done all this for us?" Lilinette asked as Ryu nodded.
"Of course, you were good people that didn't deserve to die. So I rescue those two and gave them a choice that if they want to have a second chance, then they would be sacrificed in merging with you two. After their duty was done, their souls would pass on and you two would become stronger for that." Ryu said.
"Thank you for all of this." Stark said.
"Don't mention it. Oh, that reminds me, Pesche and Dondochakka, could you come over here. Ryu said as the two came right next to him.
"Are you going to transform us into Soul Reapers as well?" Dondochakka asked.
Ryu nodded at his question. "Yes, like with Neliel I also will transform you into Soul Reapers as well. The difference is that since you are friends with her or to put plainly you were created to protect her, it would be fitting that I make all the soldiers that serve the general less powerful than the general."
"Huh?" Neliel asked as she was confused.
Ryu sighed over the confusion, though in his mind, he just loved Neliel when she had gotten confused over a simple thing because it was so cute that way. "All right, since we probably will have to get some fracciones for some of our new captain ranked spirits, I transform all the fracciones into Soul Reapers but I convert their zanpakutos they have gained when they became an Arrancar and into that of a Soul Reaper's zanpakuto. So, under this new power, there would be essence of their former power of an Arrancar but instead they can use both Shikai and if they are strong enough, then Bankai."
"What do you mean Shikai and Bankai?" Lilinette asked.
"Soul Reapers such as myself we have two releases of our zanpakutos. The first is Shikai, it allows a Soul Reaper to attack their opponents if they want to take down them quickly. But we in case of avoiding the battle, we use Bankai. Normally it takes thousands of years to even achieve it. In short, Bankai is the final release and it's more powerful than Shikai. The downside is that using Bankai can drain you if your opponent forces you to cut him down, especially when the opponent could be more powerful than you. I do have methods of allowing you guys to obtain Bankai. Now that we have gone through the basis, Pesche and Dondochakka, it's time I fulfill my promise earlier." Ryu said as both of them nodded and Ryu started their transformation by pouring in his reiatsu and into their hollow holes.
When the transformations was complete, it had taken a few minutes but when it was done, a young man that was skinny and had light yellow hair that can be easily noticeable as the hair color was fading. The man also was wearing blue shirt and black pants with a glove that had the Hollow symbol on there (not the spirit glove that Rukia has). The man also had a zanpakuto strapped to the left side of his waist. The second one, Dondo, short for Dondochakka, was a tall man that was heavy due to having muscles all over his body (kind of like Bane on Batman). His hands were very strong and he was carrying a zanpakuto that was tied to the right side of his back.
"I take it that you love the new look." Ryu said to the two of them.
"I'm a Soul Reaper now? This is so cool!" Pesche said as he was happy with his new look.
"I agree with you also Pesche." Dondochakka said happily.
"Now with that out of the way, we have to act fast because I have a bad feeling that the Hollow king is about to be powerless against a coupe et ta." Ryu said gravely.
"What do you mean? Unless, they wouldn't be that foolish to attack Lord Ruizenban." Neliel said with concern of her voice. Though she was still feeling better from her ordeal, she was a former hollow, so she knows when to immediately drop her kindness and get serious. In a way Ryu was reminded of his hime, Yoruichi. Though their personalities are reversed, when it comes battling against any opponent, they are both serious.
"If they can take down a higher ranked Espada, then it could mean that they aren't taking any chances. We might have to battle against other Arrancars that have been either fooled by those two or they have sided with them because they might hate and despise the Hollow King. We will have no choice but to make an assault on the palace and rescue all survivors, but all else, we have to rescue the king. A leader has to know when to salvage the palace of its remaining strong fighters and join forces with another group that shares the same goals. One day, we will all defeat them and so that we can rightfully reclaim the throne." Ryu said as Neliel was relieved that her new boyfriend has the heart that unlike her former comrade had.
"So, are you ready koi?" Sayuki asked.
Ryu nodded as he first shunpo back to the mountain of hollows and use his hands and formed symbols at a rate faster than anyones' eyes could even see what their friend has done. When it was all done, the mountain of hollows was transformed into two large circular energy pills. Ryu had taken no time in putting them in his pocket.
"All right, now we can go." Ryu said as the whole group disappeared.
The whole group was using their high speed and was traveling to Las Noches. But when the group arrived there, Ryu and the gang can already feel that something has gone horribly wrong.
"I-Impossible, where is Runuganga?!" Neliel yelled out as somehow, she couldn't feel anymore his presence.
"Who is this person Neliel san speaks of?" Stark asked.
"Runuganga is the guardian of Las Noches. He was created as to protect Las Noches. I have a hunch that should he be destroyed, then it'll weaken the other guardians that are stationed within Las Noches and therefore they are then vulnerable to be destroyed. He is similar to a defensive mechanism. If anyone have the power to take down the support, then the area is protected by the defensive mechanism will crumble like so, making any invaders gain the upper hand. This now explains things; they are truly serious in killing Lord Ruizenban and everyone else that have sided with him." Ryu said as he thought for a moment before speaking to the group on his plan.
"All right, this is what we're going to do. Stark and Lilinette, I need you to search for any survivors one the left side of the palace. If there anyone that fights for the enemy and attack you, then subdue them, but do not kill them. We are here to rescue a lot of people and killing any enemies would be a problem since I do not want any of you killed. Take this while you are searching them." Ryu said as he summoned shadow clones. There were two groups of shadow clones that Ryu summoned. "These are shadow clones; they can hold out on their own and help you out with finding survivors. Team A, aid those two with my orders already given out."
"Yes sir!" The team of Ryus said to their leader.
"Be careful out there sir." Stark said as he and Lilinette went with the team of Ryus and started to carry out their orders.
"Pesche, Dondochakka and Sayuki, take the right side along with the same orders that I have given to Stark's group. Team B, do the same thing as well." Ryu said.
"You got it sir!" The second team said as they also obeyed to Ryu's command.
"Are you sure about this Ryu?" Pesche asked.
"Sayuki hime will protect you guys since she is close to my strength." Ryu said.
"He's correct. Although I don't have his Soul Reaper powers, my fighting skills and powers have more than compensate for it." Sayuki said. "So what are we waiting for guys, are we here to rescue people or what!" Sayuki roared as everyone then left on the right side of the palace.
"Well, that leaves with the two of us. I can still feel his powers right now, but we must act quickly or he will die." Ryu said as the two of them went forward in rescuing the soon to be former king of Las Noches.
(Barragan)
Within the fortress of Las Noches, there were standing three people. The first two were the ones who caused the whole rebellion over Barragan Ruizenban, the emperor of the hollows and ruler over Las Noches, Szayel Aporro Grantz and Nnoitra Jiruga.
The person that was standing right in front of the traitors was Barragan Ruizenban, the emperor of the hollows. Barragan was for up until now was bored with his lower hollows since they did nothing but fight for his pleasure, like a King in Greece that would order his fighters to entertain him, the same concept applied to this man.
"Why in the hellfires are you doing this? Isn't your rankings as Espadas was enough to satisfy you?" Barragan said as he was disgusted and disappointed with the two traitors that appeared right before him and started this whole rebellion to claim his throne as the most powerful Espada in all of Hueco Mundo.
"You senile fool; this is all your fault old man. I was the strongest fighter of all of Las Noches, but yet you had to award the number three ranking to that ungrateful whore. She made no actions when she became your number three." Nnoitra said.
"My partner is correct. She had no malice as an Espada, just kindness. Because you went soft on this place, you are truly weak. So that's why we're the ones responsible for Neliel's mysterious disappearance. By using my mind, we had teamed up and taken her down. But, imagine our surprise that when we taken her out, she reverted into a weaker form, thus starting our plans to overthrown you. I believe they called this plan a coupe et ta. Which is disappointing for you Barragan Ruizenban because this plan has given us the advantage so it looks like you'll die after all." Szayel said with a smile that was truly evil.
Barragan then realize that everything makes sense. It was the two had caused Neliel's disappearance and in a way he realizes that they were right. By the time he tried to devise up a plan, it was already too late. All his subjects were either destroyed by Nnoitra and Syazel or they have sided with them all because he was truly bored in this world, Hueco Mundo, that his own kind the hollows live in.
This problem could have been avoided if he would have taken action a few days back when Neliel started to disappear but he hadn't thought of it, until a few moments before the attack started which was a few hours ago that he started to thought about it.
(Flashback)
It has been a few days ever since he mysteriously lost his number three Espada, Neliel tu Oderschvank along with her fracciones as well. At first that this made the emperor curious as to why one of his strongest fighters, not to mention the strongest female Espada had disappeared after so many years that she served him after she was transformed into an Espada. But that was going to change for not only his kingdom but also to all of Hueco Mundo when there was an explosion that had happened within his gates to his throne room.
(End flashback)
"Now, you will die foolish king. Because no one will save you and I will become king of Las Noches." Nnoitra said as he was grinning evilly at his victory.
Nnoitra was about to attack Barragan, when he was stopped by Ryu and Neliel. Ryu grabbed Nnoitra's hand and threw him aside a few feet away from where Ryu and Neliel were at.
"So, it looks like we have finally met face to face you bastards. Did you think so easily that you will harm him? Not even after what you guys have done will stop me from delivering the true wrath of a Soul Reaper onto you two." Ryu said with disgust on his face.
"How interesting you, a lowly Soul Reaper, have decided to be in my presence. It is you that was a fool to even think that you can challenge a god." Nnoitra said with a sickly smile on his face.
"God? Don't make me laugh foolish Espada. Because you are no god, you're just a fool that knows nothing. It had taken me not too long to figure out your sick plans; to assassinate him is high treason even for you." Ryu said with anger in his voice as he was now looking at Syazel with more hatred in his eyes. "But what you two have done by manipulating everyone that was considered allies in Las Noches and even your elder brother makes me truly sick. You are no better than your foolish and selfish partner of yours Syazel. You both planned this from the start and for what, just so that you can become more powerful than you ever wanted." Ryu angrily said at the both of them.
Syazel was laughing evilly at everyone. "So what Soul Reaper, it's not that you can ever do anything about it. My brother was a fool as an Arrancar because that's why I damaged him back then when he was an Espada. He was my first experiment as a way to make hollows obedient to my power. Such a simple task, to catch him off guard and to crack open part of his hollow mask, making his weak and to make him lose his memories from the attack. He has lived to his usefulness once I told Nnoitra san all about my plan, then we both strike at Neliel after our plans were complete to wipe out a spoiled brat like her."
But before Syazel could continue discussing his insult on the woman, his hands were severed for good. When they looked at who did it, it was none other than Neliel that was angry, no furious at both of them that she was used for a sick game. She then reappeared back to Ryu and Barragan.
"YOU BASTARDS! You think I was a spoiled brat for your sick games? No, the only spoiled brat here is the both of you! The only reason why I never have done anything at all because you were my comrades! He has opened my eyes to the truth after what you've done to me! He was the one who restored my life and for that I am in his debt for saving me and my friends!" Neliel roared at both of them.
Ryu was shocked that Neliel had attacked so violently at what they used to be her comrades.
"My god, she really done a total on him. She's even scarier than Sayuki hime, Yoruichi hime and Kukaku hime combined." Ryu thought as he was a little fazed off by the anger that Neliel showed when she cut off Syazels' arms.
Nnoitra heard of Neliel's voice and was quickly gotten up from the attack that was dealt by Ryu earlier. "So, the bitch has returned here to die?!"
At that point, Barragan had seen Neliel's attack and was surprised that she was rescued after hearing from her earlier. He used sonido and appeared next to Ryu. "So Soul Reaper, you saved her life eh? How interesting that you were able to restore her. But, what are you going to do? Even I am weak after trying to stop all the ones who had sided with them and even my own soldiers that have served with me have been knocked out." Barragan asked.
"Ah yes Barragan I have taken care already with the survivors. As we speak my group has located the survivors and have already transported to one of my hideouts, not that the traitors will ever catch up with us. I intend to end this game right now that those two had done to both you and Neliel hime." Ryu said as he disappeared in a thunder flash severed both Nnoitra arms and legs for good before he reappeared back to where both Barrgan and Neliel were at.
Nnoitra screamed in pain as he felt the worst pain in his entire life.
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD! HOW DARE YOU HARM ME! YOU DISGRATEFUL INSECT!" Nnoitra roared as he was losing a lot of blood with each passing second.
"That is for Neliel hime and everyone you have used for your sick games! Though it's tempting that I should destroy you right now scum, I will have mercy on you. But, it will take a long time before even you're able to fight against me. The damage I have done on you is far worse that what anyone have ever felt before by my blade. So now the two of you will stay there like the dogs you are because for this is the consequences of harming your fellow comrades. I do hope by then you cease your evil ways, but that won't be the case because the next time we meet, I will finish you and deliver judgment. Farewell Nnoitra Jiruga and Syazel Aporro Grantz!" Ryu said as he disappeared in a lightning flash along with Neliel and Barragan.
In that moment, Nnoitra screamed all his might.
"THIS ISN'T OVER YET SOUL REAPER! I WILL KILL YOU ONE DAY AND THEN NOTHING WILL STAND IN MY WAY! NOT EVEN THAT WHORE OR ANYONE FOR THE MATTER!"
To be continued
Wow, this was the best way of ending this chapter at a high note. Now, there were reasons why I wanted to end this right here. One is that Ryu was powerful enough to send in shadow clones that are armed with the Hiraishin and use it to teleport everyone from his two teams back to the hideout. Though I couldn't be able to tell you what had happened with the other two teams, which will be explained in the next chapter.
Now, this was the first time that we seen the appearance of Nnoitra and Syazel. I had made them much darker, though you can't think of how much darker they can get, especially when they were former hollows before transformed into Arrancars. The way I had with their personalities is that they abandoned their comrades and family to pursue a pointless goal to get revenge for humans and Soul Reapers. They even despise hollows even, so therefore they won't appear until the Arrancar arc.