I'M BACK!!!! FINALLY!! After a long 2 weeks of no laptop, I finally came back. I wrote this during all the times I should have been doing homework (don't worry about the homework. I did it all anyway.)

It was quite funny to see how the reads this story went up on the day I said my laptop broke. It went all the way to a record breaking 593 reads! :D

I am aware that this chapter is very short but I wanted to post it to show everyone that I wasn't dead. I managed to get most of the pictures and stuff I had before so it's not all bad :D

On the topic of the anime filler arc: HOLY FUUUUUUU-!!!! Muramasa! You cheeky bugger! IT WAS ALL HIS PLAN FROM THE BEGINNING!!!!! Since he says the rebellion was just a thing to waste time, HE GOT SODE NO SHIRAYUKI KILLED BECAUSE OF THAT!!!! FFFFFFFFUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAGE!!!!!!!! Also, what's with the lack of Rukia in these episodes?! The opening and ending videos show loads of Rukia scenes so why isnt she in the actual episodes?! In an episode the other week (can't remember what one) she said ONE LINE!!! And in the current episodes, she hasnt done ANYTHING!!!! WHAT THE HELL KUBO? RUKIA IS A MAIN CHARACTER!! SHE CAN'T SIT AROUND AND DO NOTHING!!! MORE RAGE!!!!!!!!

I'll stop now... hehehehe

Enjoy the kinda short chapter

Shinigami again

As Rukia pulled the mask off of her face, everyone watched her in shock. Her hollow had said that if it pulled the mask off, Rukia would be gone forever. After pulling it off, Rukia dropped it and her sword instantly as her arms fell to her side. Her face was expressionless but her eyes were wide open. She closed her eyes and began to fall forwards. Ichigo ran forwards and caught her before she hit the ground. He noticed that there was a small smile on her face. Everything that had appeared when she turned into her hollow form began to crack. The wings crumbled and shattered on the floor while the covering on her arms and legs did the same.

Rukia anxiously waited in her inner world for her body to wake up on the outside. She didn't know what she could do to speed up the process so she just waited there. The air in her inner world seemed much more peaceful. It was back to the way it should have been with only two occupants. Trying to remember what she had done as an arrancar was useless. She wouldn't be able to find out as what had done that to her was now gone forever. All she could remember was sitting on the ground as if she was waiting for something that would never happen. She could always feel Sode no Shirayuki's presence close to her at all times but she couldn't remember seeing anything. Ichigo and Renji were also nearby at one point. She thought she had said something to them but she wasn't entirely sure. The last thing she could remember was when she told Aizen that she accepted his offer. Everything after that was blank until she felt Sode no Shirayuki helping her stand up. That was when she finally woke up from what she thought might have been a deep sleep and when she began to fight against the hollow to regain some control of her body.

On the outside, everyone was now waiting for Rukia to wake up. When she woke up would determine what would happen next. If her hollow was in control, they would be forced to kill it along with Rukia's body. If Rukia was the one who was in control, they could finally move on since Rukia would be back to normal again. Rukia slowly opened her eyes. Her right eye was now its normal violet colour. She steadily sat up and looked down at herself. Her hollow hole was gone and she noticed her mask was gone when she brought her hand up to her face. Almost everything else was the same though. The physical changes that she got when she first became an arrancar were still the same and the number three on her leg was still there. When she had looked down at herself, she felt almost completely naked. Her jacket was almost unrecognizable as only a part of it remained which just about covered her breasts (still no Rukia fan service :D). Her hakama wasn't much better as it now looked almost like a small dress with the majority of her right leg showing.

'Why are you staring at me?' She looked around, confused. 'It's me. I beat my hollow.' They were all staring intently at her, wanting to know who this really was. Not sure of why they were staring at her, Rukia tried to cover herself with her arms to make sure they weren't staring at what she thought they were staring at.

'You are Rukia, aren't you?' Ichigo said. Rukia looked up at him, still confused.

'What? Of course it's me' she said. 'I told you that I beat it. Why don't you believe me?'

'That hollow had all of Kuchiki-san's memories' Ishida said.

'We don't know who you actually are now' Renji said. It pained him to say it but he knew that it was entirely possible.

'I see…' Rukia was disappointed. It didn't matter that she was finally back to normal. She couldn't prove that she had defeated her hollow. 'At least kill me if you don't believe me.' She thought that if she died, she could perhaps make up for the things she did as an arrancar. Maybe this way, she could show how sorry she was to all of them and Sode no Shirayuki.

'Yeah, that's Rukia alright' ichigo concluded. Rukia looked up at them in surprise. Had she just proved it to them without realizing?

'The hollow wouldn't let us kill it' Renji agreed. Rukia smiled. She didn't expect them to have changed their minds so quickly.

'Wait a minute!' Ishida said in surprise. 'What if the hollow knew that Kuchiki-san would have said that?'

'If it was anything like my hollow, it would have stopped us if we tried to kill her' Ichigo assumed. It was then that he remembered something. 'Does this mean that you're a vizard now?' he asked.

'No, I don't think so.' Rukia hoped that she wasn't. 'I can't sense it in my inner world so I think it really is dead now.' Ichigo sighed in relief. He didn't want her to go through the same kind of things that his hollow did to him. The vizards were exiled from the Soul Society so Rukia would have been forced to leave despite being a noble. She actually felt a lot better now that her hollow was gone. When she was in control before, she felt like she was a completely different person. 'Shall we head back?' she asked. She stood up uneasily, almost falling over again. Renji caught her and decided to carry her as Rukia had been through a lot.

'Yeah, we still need to find Aizen and end all this' Ichigo replied. They once again set off to return to where the captains were.

I'm sure everyone is as happy as I am to be back. I expect reviews for this, people!