Stupid f**king writer's block, I'm sorry for the short chapter and if it seemed underdone. It wasn't easy for me to do this one because of lack of ideas but hey at least its done! Also this chapter has the last surprise character that I'll be including for a while and I'm sure that you'll be surprised at who it is. And I decided to change the title since the last one didn't seemed to fit very well to me.

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Chapter 14: As The Years Go By(part 2)

Five years after the chapter 12

Second Division Training Grounds

"AH!" Lightning yelled as she flew through the air after Toshiro knocking her into the air and kicking her in the stomach. She then hit the wall and fell to the ground and attempted to get back up but her body refusing to do so.

Its been like this since Toshiro took Lightning and Serah into his home. Serah was learning from the maids on how to do housekeeping and cooking while Lightning was learning how to be a shinigami from Toshiro. She already had Kido down and her Hakuda and Zanjutsu was coming along fine but even with three years of training, she still can't land a hit on him.

Walking up to her, Toshiro used some healing Kido on her that bathed her in a green light. "That will be enough today Lightning-san, you have already reached your limits." Once finished, he help her up and turned to Soifon who just appeared out of a Shunpo

"Yes Lieutenant Soifon?" She was slightly startled that he knew that she had something to tell him but quickly regain herself. "I have a message from Captain Commander Yamamoto."

Toshiro nodded his head and looked at Lightning out of the corner of his eyes. "Get some rest and food for now." He then disappeared in a Shunpo and Soifon's face broke into a slight smile.

"Lieutenant Soifon why are you smiling?" The dark hair woman simply looked at her with her face back in her emotionless look. "Its Captain Soifon now, Lightning-san."

Ten minutes later

Toshiro stepped out of the First Division feeling more relaxed than he went in. Captain Commander Yamamoto had just told him the Second Division would be now under the command of Soifon who recently completed the Captain's Exam in secret with him, Unohana, and Kyoraku watching her. To be honest, he felt like the sky was taken off of his shoulders now that he only had to run one division.

He turned in his duo cloak and gotten a normal one with the Tenth Division on it and shunpo to the Tenth. Entering his office, he saw Matsumoto doing some paperwork on his desk while Toph was taking a nap on the couch.

Looking up, he saw the fifth seat face's turned into one of absolute relief. "Captain! I'm so glad your here, could you please take over this paperwork. It feels like my hands are going to fall off." Seeing half the stack was done, he nodded his head.

"Alright then," He said walking up to the desk. "I think you deserve a break anyways." She smiled gracefully and all but ran out of the division to get a drink of sake and Toshiro sat at the desk and started doing paperwork.

After a couple hours, Toph stirred from her sleep and got up, stretching her arms. "Hello Lieutenant Beifong."

"Hey Toshiro," She said, popping her back. "What are you doing here? I thought that you were going to be in the Second for a couple more hours."

He then explained what Yamamoto told him and Toph grinned before walking up to him and throwing an arm around him. "That's great! Maybe now you can get some decent sleep."

"I still have paperwork to finish and besides I'm not tired." He scowled at her as he continued to sign papers. "Oh you'll be feeling tired in three two one..."

Toshiro fell face first into his desk as Toph revealed a hidden needle in her hand that was around him.

"Now that he's out, where's that fifth seat?" In a bar, Matsumoto felt a shiver go down her spine and almost choked on her sake.

Later

Toshiro, Byakuya, and Hisana were enjoying a peaceful together at Byakuya's home. Finishing his tea, Byakuya said, "This is quite nice don't you think Hisana?"

His wife nodded her head and turned to Toshiro who still kept an emotionless look but looked more relaxed than normal. "Tell me Toshiro-sama, how have you been? Its been a while since you came to visit me and Byakuya-sama."

"Its been well aside from the Elders pressuring me into giving up the title of Clan Head to someone else." Toshiro said as Byakuya gained an angry look for the elders trying make his friend forfeit his title.

"They're still trying to take over the clan? I thought that after saving the clan from exile would get them to stop."

Toshiro sighed and drank his tea before continuing. "They still don't see me as a true Shihoin since I was adopted into the clan instead of being born into it."

The three continued drinking in silence while making small talk in between before they were interrupted by a member from Second Division.

"Captain Byakuya of the Sixth and Third Seat Hisana of Thirteen, the Captain Commander sent this for you." He handle him a folder and disappeared from sight as both Kuchiki read it.

Toshiro let his curious side get the best of him and asked, "What is it?" Byakuya and Hisana stood up. "There was an earthquake in the World of the Living that killed a lot of humans. The Sixth and Thirteen is being called to help out the shinigami there from hollows."

"Sorry about this Toshiro-sama. It was nice while it lasted." Hisana said as the Tenth Division Captain got up. "Its okay, I need to finish the paperwork at my division anyways." The three said there goodbyes and each one disappeared in a Shunpo.

However, Toshiro didn't go to the Tenth and instead went out of the Seireitei and into the forest that surrounded the walls and kept going until he reached a forest clearing. Looking up at the sky, he fought back the tears that threat to escape.

'Today would be the day she left.'

It was a common routine for him to do this on the day she left him behind, train till he drops. He drew his Zanpakuto from his back and, in a second, he was gone as several nearby trees fell with clean cuts.

Several Hours Later With Matsumoto

The busty blond was panting as she walked from the Seireitei, finally escaping the tiny terror known as Toph. 'That girl is insane! Three hundred chin ups while ten feet above the ground.'

She walked toward no where in peculiar, looking over her shoulder in case Toph came running to her, and froze when she felt a blast of ice Reiatsu hit her. However, she recognized it as her captain's own Reiatsu from one of the few times he got mad and made her way to him. Once she found him, she let out a gasp of surprise.

Dozens of trees were either frozen solid, sliced down, or broken into pieces as Toshiro stood in the middle of the clearing, panting heavily as his Zanpakuto was held in his hands. Yelling, he swung his sword that created a dragon made of ice which impacted a tree that froze it solid. His zanpakuto then dropped to the ground as he fell to his hands and knees in exhaustion and only then Matsumoto decided to speak.

"Captain?" If Toshiro was surprise, he didn't show it but only growled at her. "Leave Fifth Seat Matsumoto." The woman shook her head and stepped closer to him.

"With all due respect Captain but no. I want to help you." Toshiro responded by grabbing his sword, turning around, and creating an ice dragon that sent at her, missing only by an inch and hit several trees behind her.

"I SAID LEAVE!" He yelled at her as several tears escape his eyes that Matsumoto saw as she got closer to him. She didn't know why but something inside her, something that stirred as she looked at Toshiro fighting hard to keep his tears back and suddenly just embrace the boy in a hug. The sudden move caught Toshiro so offguard that he dropped his Zanpakuto and barely felt Matsumoto's hug as she held him tightly, almost like his Kaa-chan did...

"Its okay Captain," Matsumoto whispered, just loud enough for him to hear. "Just let it all out now."

Finally the floodgates broke as tears fell freely from Toshiro's eyes and he cried to the blond woman's shoulder who held him tightly.

Much Later

After a few hours, Toshiro managed to cry himself to sleep and Matsumoto carried him all the way to back to the Tenth under the cover of night. Once placing the boy in bed, she made her way back to her house but just as she stepped out of her captain's room a voice said.

"Hello Matsumoto-san." Jumping, she turned to the source only to see Soifon standing behind her with a captain's cloak around her. "H-hello Captain Soifon."

The woman then simply stared at Matsumoto for a minute before speaking again. "Thank you for what you did." That caught her off guard and she asked what she meant.

"What I mean is that Toshiro would always do this on the day his," She paused, as if she shouldn't continue but kept going. "his Kaa-chan left. I assume your aware of the Urahara Incident." Matsumoto nodded her head. The incident, while some details were kept hidden, was known to Seireitei that Kisuke Urahara had done experiments to several Lieutenants and Captains before fleeing the Seireitei.

"Some details were kept a secret but I will let you in on one of them. Shihoin Yoruichi, Toshiro's Kaa-chan, had assisted in there escape and left him heartbroken." Soifon stared at Toshiro's door while Matsumoto absorbed what she had heard, fists forming at the fact that Yoruichi did that to Toshiro. "He wasn't always like this you know cold and emotionless. He used to be so happy and bright and could be rarely be seen without a smile on his face but now."

She sighed and looked Matsumoto directly in the eyes. "If you need a favor Matsumoto, any favor at all. Just tell me and I'll do it as thanks for helping Toshiro."

"Okay Captain Soifon and good night." The Second Division Captain nodded her head before disappearing in a shunpo while Matsumoto went to her room to sleep.

World of the Living

'It wasn't suppose to be like this. This was suppose to be a simple mission.' Byakuya thought as his Shikai killed what he thought was the hundredth hollow for this night. Sure he expected some hollows to come, not a damn army being led by a Vasto Lord to come!

Half of the original shinigami who came here are dead or dying while he rally the surviving ones into a tight group, surrounding what souls remained from the attack. He was tired and hurt from several injuries he sustain but he had to keep fighting to protect his men and Hisana.

Suddenly he heard her scream and turned to her in time to see her fall, the Vasto Lord know as Morbus cutting her down with his disease filled blade arm.

*SNAP*

That was the sound of something within Byakuya's mind snapping as he watched his wife fall to the ground. He reformed his blade, dropped it into the ground where it sank and yelled with all his might.

"BANKAI!"

The surviving shinigami would later report that the hollows were destroyed in a way that was "Terrifying Beautiful" and some of theme even develop a fear of the color pink.

The Next Morning in Seireitei

The Fourth Division was packed with injured shinigami from the last mission to the World of the Living which was a disaster. Over fifty shinigami dead, twenty souls eaten by hollows and the rest of the shinigami sent there hurt with injuries ranging to infected cuts to fatal wounds.

Although those problems were ignored as Byakuya sat outside the ER with Toshiro sitting near him. Ever since Toshiro had heard the news of his friend's wife being badly injured, he rushed to his side and neither of them said a word since he arrived. Finally Unohana came out of the ER, looking tired, and Byakuya stood up.

"Captain Unohana, is Hisana alright?" The look in her eyes told him all he needed to know and he almost broke down right there. "I'm sorry Byakuya but the diseases from Morbus' strike had badly infected her body. I'm sorry to say that she'll most likely survive until the end of year or until spring if she fights it." The two saw a tear escape from his eyes and she went on. "I'm sorry I couldn't do more for her."

"No no Captain Unohana," He shook his head and stood up. "Thank you for giving me some time left with her, its more than I could ask for. May I see her?" She nodded her head and left, leaving the two standing there. Toshiro looked at his friend as he stared where Hisana was. "I'm sorry Byakuya."

"Don't be Toshiro, in fact I should be thanking you." The white hair boy looked at him in surprise. "Thank me? For what?" The Kuchiki noble looked Toshiro directly in his eyes and managed a sad smile.

"Your the reason why me and Hisana met although it was a painful way of meeting her," The two shared a short laugh. "She made me happier than I felt before I met her and I will remember every moment I had with her was because of you so thank you Toshiro." The Shihoin found himself blinking back tears and speechless as Byakuya stared at where his wife was.

Toshiro finally found his voice again and said, "I'm sure that you made her happy as well Byakuya and that she would love to see you as the first thing she would see when she wakes up." Byakuya nodded his head and walked to where his wife was as Toshiro went back to his division.

Spring

It was a dark night in the Kuchiki Manor as all servants were dismissed for the night as Byakuya sat by his wife's side for her final hours. Even with the illness that plague her body, Byakuya still thought that she was the most beautiful woman that ever existed.

"Byakuya-sama," Hisana said despite Byakuya saying that she didn't need to call him that. "Can I ask from you one last favor?" Her voice was so weak but she was still holding on to the last threads of her life so he nodded.

"Please find my sister and then after you do, please don't tell her I'm her sister. I abandon her so I have no right to call her my sister but please find and protect her Byakuya-sama." The topic of Hisana's sister Rukia was a sensitive one that she rarely talked about. Before she became ill, she would spend any chance she get to try and find her but to no success.

Byakuya nodded his head, knowing that he'll be breaking several rules if he does protect her like Hisana asked him to. The woman managed a small smile and then turned to the room's only other occupation. Toshiro was nervous to say the least and sad. "I shouldn't even be here, this is you two's moment together."

"No Toshiro, you should be here because you helped me and Byakuya-sama meet each other. If it wasn't for you, these last five years together with him would have never happen. These last five years has been like a dream to me and its one I'll regret waking up from." She gripped her husband's left hand and he gladly returned it.

"Thank you, Byakuya-sama for making these last five years like a dream and you Toshiro-sama for making it all possible. Thank you both so much." A tear escape from her eyes and Byakuya wiped it away.

The trio then spent the next couple hours in silence and finally, when the sun rose over the Seireitei, Byakuya felt his wife's grip slack and her eyes slowly closed for the last time.

The two openly cried over Hisana's body who still had a sad smile on her face, even after death took her.

In the Rukongai 25 years later

"This isn't fair! I wanna go to the Academy with you." A young brown hair and eyes girl pouted as her older sister laughed and patted her head. "Sorry but your too young to go, maybe in a few years."

"But I wanna go now!" The girl stomped her foot but was stopped by her granny who came up holding a lunchbox. "Now Tenten, your sister is right. You can't go to the Academy until your a little older." The girl pouted and cross her arms so Hinamori decided to offer her something.

"How about this, everytime I get to come back home I'll teach you something I learnt from the Academy." That got her attention as Tenten looked up at her sister with stars in her eyes. "Really? You really mean it?"

"Yes but you have to be good to granny and help her around the house if she needs it okay?" Tenten nodded her head and Hinamori said her farewells to her family.

Yup its none other than Tenten from Naruto! I thought that she didn't get enough air time on Naruto so I decided to include her in here! And like I stated at the way top, she WILL be the last character I include into this story for a long time. Also its almost here! The beginning of the Soul Society Arc, just one last chapter to go!