Edit notice: Special thanks to Viashino wizard for pointing out my gross grammatical mistake. Seriously, Ishida sounds like a better first name, ne?


Soul side of things

"Ukitaka-taicho! We have a complication!"

"Hey, shut up, I'm the one who's going to tell Ukitaka-taicho!" Dressed in black kimonos, the two ran down the wooden floorings in their socks. Not only did each of them have to worry about slipping when turning corners, but they had to keep their balance as the other shoved them while running.

Topped in a pointy haircut, the taller man strained as a hand pushed against his face. His white forehead rope was unfortunately more of an aesthetic use, rather than any form of protection. For the smaller girl, she fought against the pressure of the man's hand pressing down on her blonde haired head. Both were so involved in their struggle, that they did not notice the Shinigami approaching in the opposite direction.

"Aiya!!" he screamed, causing both to instinctively push to the side. Having avoided a near collision, the two crashed through a paper door and rolled straight into a seiza position.

"What's the meaning of this, you two?" A tired voice asked. Looking around, the sharply dressed co-third seats of the thirteenth division turned to each other angrily.

"Nice going Kiyone-baka!" the pointy haired man shoved the girl next to him. "With all due respect, we meant no…disrespect." He said to the hidden voice.

"Except for Sentaro-baka…he meant to disrespect…" the girl gingerly placed her hand against her chest as she said it.

"What!?"

"Please…I was having such a nice sleep…" A white haired man groggily sat up in his futon. His white haori was draped over his black kimono and hakama as a makeshift blanket, making him look like a butterfly emerging from his white futon.

"Oh Taicho! You look like a butterfly emerging from his white-"

"Stop sucking up, Kiyone…" the bigger man smacked his fellow co-third seat officer.

"What's the problem?" The white haired man rubbed his eyes. He was just too jaded of their antics to care.

"Well Taicho, there have been a number of instances concerning human deaths in the real world!" Both of them said eerily in synch. They looked at each other strangely, and slowly opened their mouths while watching each other. "People are dying, but no souls correlated with these deaths matches with those entering the Rukon district…"

They paused again, intent on making the other say something different. "Also, there have been a number of Hollow attacks in the close vicinity of Karakura town, where these deaths have been reported…Stop…Hey…pickle!! Stop copying me baka-mono!!"

The two pushed foreheads against each other and growled angrily. Ukitake meanwhile, just flopped back down onto his futon. He rubbed his pale skinned temples amongst the loud yelling.


A large hallway stood, proud and seen only by the most powerful of Sereitei. The Gotei 13, despite haven lost several of their own, continued on in accomplishing their three mission objectives; to perform soul burials and bring souls to find peace in Sereitei, slay those spirits that had fallen into Hollow-dom, and keep balance between the spiritual and real worlds.

Lined up in two rows, the captains had been called for an important meeting, save for Ukitake, who would be briefed later by his second in commands. In the middle, facing the rest of the captains, an older man dressed in an overly large haori stood facing the rest. Merely holding a large stick rather than lean on it as support, his presence was awe inspiring and his power was legendary.

"I do not want to waste any time," the white bearded man started, "so please, Kurotsuchi-taicho, begin with what you've found." Stepping out from the line, a black faced and demonic looking character walked to the opposite end of the line, and faced inwards towards the Sotaicho. By merely hovering his hand in front of him, an orb of light flew into view and began to fly about for everyone to see.

"These are the crime scenes in question, throughout Karakura. It has been reported that five individuals fainted in public, four of them taken to a hospital. Upon inspection, there was no pulse, thus they were dead."

"Hmmm so we're dealing with a serial killer then?" Draped in his own style, the pink wearing Shunsui interrupted. He raised his hat just slightly as he directed his question to the Shinigami Research Institute president.

"When it comes to the destruction of souls, that would be our jurisdiction, Kyoraku-taicho…" the man subtly growled. "These four humans have since disappeared from the hospital. Their whereabouts are still unknown. I scanned as where and what I could, and found the presence of reiatsus similar to that of Shinigami."

"Do we have any Shinigami there?" A tattooed man bearing the ninth division lotus asked.

"I could easily have said Kurosaki, but he's left the area..." Kurotsuchi answered. "…otherwise, no."

"So if you were able to find those reiatsus, where are they now?" the first division captain-general questioned.

"They've…disappeared from available scanning…" the yellow eared captain admitted. "I had the institute increase the range of scanning up to a hundred mile radius, and found some intriguing signatures." Garnering the interest of some of the captains, he continued. "Five miles outside of Karakura, three Shinigami-like reiatsus have been found. One Ichigo Kurosaki, one unknown…" He looked towards Byakuya Kuchiki with a mad smirk.

A large eye patched behemoth of a man smiled equally as mad when he heard Ichigo's name. "And one-"


"Rukia-san?" Ukitake exclaimed.

"Hai, taicho!" the third seat officers said in tandem. The white haired captain strained to get to his feet, and raised his hand to keep his subordinates away when they tried to help them.

"Did they find anything about Chin-san?"

"Gomenesai, Ukitake-taicho." Sentaro immediately exclaimed. He bowed down while in seiza to show his repentance. "We did not learn anything about Chin-fukutaicho's whereabouts. We didn't because-"

"-we ran as fast as we could to find you when we heard about Rukia Kuchiki-san!" Kiyone interrupted.

"It will only be a matter of time before they decide to investigate…" Ukitake said to no one in general. "We need to tell Kurosaki-san…"

"Oi…" A voice said from the broken paper door. His spiky red hair bounced as he walked towards the three. "What was that about Kurosaki?"


"One more thing…" Kurotsuchi added. Despite the surprised looks on everyone's face, the Technology Institute President smiled at what he was about to share. "We've traced Chin-fukutaicho's cellular phone. We'll depart for the real world to apprehend him immediately…"
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Hmmm...

Fun Facts:

-Gotei 13 are the higherups of the Shinigami. Try to guess how many there are...

-Taicho means Captain; they're the division leaders and make up the Gotei 13

-Fukutaicho means Vice-Captain...personally, I like lieutenant more...considering that Taicho is captain.

-Sotaicho has been disputed alot, but I like the translation of Captain-General.

-Does Chin's name sound familiar? I think it does...

...Legalities...

-All of the Gotei 13 created by Tite Kubo

-Actually, everyone in this chapter has been created by Kubo-san