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~4th squad hospital~
Shunsui sat up as he watched the fight on the monitor in front of him. He wound in his chest made it hard to breath while sitting up, but he was managing. He couldn't help himself from watching. The same could be said for the other Taichous in the room. Only four were in an induced coma, and three were in critical condition. The others were bandaged and watching as Yuki wielded the flames of Ryujin Jakka as if they were her own.
"Kyoraku-Soutaichou! I told you not to sit up. It will take longer to heal this way." Orihime walked in and began revealing the stitches Shunsui had pulled while sitting up. She knew he was worried about Yuki, but that didn't mean he had to jeopardize his own health.
"Kyoraku-Soutaichou!" Everyone turned to the Fukutaichou that entered the room. "We've evacuate everyone from the barracks of 13th, 12th, 3rd and 11th squad."
"Good." Shunsui didn't wait to explain to the other Taichous what he had planned. "Contact Ukitake-Taichou."
"Yes Sir!" Nanao turned away from him and concentrated on the kido. "Black and white net. Twenty-two bridges, sixty-six crowns and belts. Footprints, distant thunder, sharp peak, engulf land, hidden in the night, sea of clouds, blue line. Form a circle and fly through the heavens. Bakudo 77: Tenteikura."
Nanao felt the connection attach to the sole Taichou still capable of fighting, and fighting the only opponent left to defeat. "Ukitake-Taichou. This is Ise Nanao..."
Shunsui watched the screen as Yuki continued to fight while receiving the report. She seemed to know what Shunsui had done. He got up and slowly made his way over to Nanao.
"Yuki." He spoke firmly as he worked to keep his balance. He knew she was only using Yamaji's zanpakutou because it was necessary. That was what he had taught them long ago in their Academy days. "Make Yamaji proud."
He didn't need the monitor to see the pillars of fire, they could be seen from the window. All they could do was wait.
Nanao broke the connection and helped Shunsui back to the chair he had been sitting in. "You should really be lying down."
"No. I will stay here, and watch this end, once and for all." He leaned back to take some of the pressure off of his wound.
"So that's why you ordered the evacuations." Orihime had been curious as to why that had been the first thing he had said when Nanao had dragged him into 4th squad.
"Inoue-Taichou. Your needed in Kurosaki-Taichou's room. He woke up and we are having trouble subduing him." Orihime smiled at her Fukutaichou while she walked towards the door.
She turned back one last time. "Please remain here and continue to heal. Wandering around with those wounds, might be painful." She smiled as she walked out of the room.
"I think that was a threat." Nanao was as scared of the new 4th squad Taichou as she was of Unahana-Taichou. "Kyoraku-Soutaichou?" She turned her attention to the screen.
Aizen cried out in pain as his right arm is devoured by flames. He fights desperately to stay alive. The screen is blocked out by flames.
Shunsui sighs, it's over. He looks out the window as the flames fade. He turns back to the screen, nothing is on it as it flips through channels. "Where's Yuki?" He turns to Kurostuchi-Taichou.
Mayuri is flipping through channels, trying to see if any pieces of Aizen's body is left to run tests on. But he can't seem to find any traces of either fighter. "How annoying." He picks up a phone and dials a number. "Move the cameras so that I can look in other areas."
"Sir. There isn't any trace of either reiatsu left." The room went deathly silent. "In the entire area were the flames were, there isn't any reiatsu coming from there. We also can't detect them anywhere else in Seireitei or Soul Society. I also went ahead and checked the human world and Hueco mondo. No trace of either of them."
"What of the Dangai?" Mayuri wasn't pleased with what his third seat had found.
"Nothing." Was all that came through the phone before it was flipped shut.
Shunsui walked out of the room before anyone could stop him. "Kyoraku-Soutaichou!" He didn't stop walking. "Soutaichou! Taichou-" He used shunpo the moment he was out of the hospital.
"Yuki. Please be safe." He repeated it in his mind while he made his way to the battle sight.
~with Yuki~
"Jushiro..."
'Not me anymore. Try again.'
"Ukitake Jushiro."
'Why does this old man sound familiar?'
"WAKE UP YOU BRAT!"
Yuki sat up frantically, the only person that had ever called her brat...was...
Yuki turned towards the door and was shocked to see Yamamoto standing there. "Sen...sei?" She clapped a hand over her mouth, her voice was masculin. She looked down at herself...himself. She was back in her male body. "I'm a man!?"
"Of course. What else would you be?" Yamamoto shook his head at the white haired man. "You seemed to be dreaming. What was it about?"
"It was the strangest Sensei. The Quincy returned, you died, Shunsui was made Soutaichou, the Quincy were defeated, Kurosaki became a Taichou, I died and got reincarnated as a girl, Aizen escaped, I beat him, I...died again?" Yuki stopped and thought about what happened after she attacked Aizen. She was drawing a blank.
"That sounds about right." Yamamoto sat down beside his pupil. He could see the confusion on his face. "You are dead, but not completely."
"So...I...am dead? Again?!" Yuki got up and paced around the room. She leaned against the door and was surprised to find the wood rather solid. "Where are we?"
"No where you need to be concerned about. Unless you want to stay." Yamamoto stood and opened a door.
Nothing was outside the door. Just a pure white landscape. No sign of a horizon or hills. Just pure whiteness.
Yuki stood still as Yamamoto walked towards her and opened a door beside her. She looked down the long hallway it opened up to. She turned towards her sensei. "Where does it lead?"
"The next world. I would have thought you would remember it from the last time you were here." Yamamoto huffed at him as he walked into the hall.
"Wait, sensei. Where do I go?" Yuki wasn't sure where to go.
"Do what ever you want. I am too old to be telling you what to do, Jushiro." Yamamoto continued to walk down the hall.
"It's not Jushiro, sensei." Yuki smiled as she walked towards the white landscape. "It's Yukibana." She smiled as her voice went back to being a female's.
She walked out into the whiteness. She shut her eyes tight, it was too bright too look at.
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