AN: First of all I would like to thank sleepingAngeL for their review, I'm so glad you liked the chapter! Alright so this chapter focuses more on the plot development from the day after the mission from the last chapter that failed miserably. Oh yeah! Before I forget I'd like to note that the relationship with Renji and Mizuki isn't really implied to be romantic from this point, it may seem that way but it's not, and I'll no longer be adding the warning RenjixOC because their relationship is more friendship from this point on. This contains mainly the response to the previous chapter, so on with the warnings:

1.) Plot Development

2.) Little to no real fluff (Maybe if you squint)

3.) Fighting/Blood/Violence as always with this story.

Updated for spelling and such on 10/16/13

Chapter 20: The Enemy of My Enemy

Recommended Song: "Gave It All Away" by Red

(Karakura High School, 3rd Person POV)

"Alright, is everyone here for the emergency meeting?" Hitsugaya asked as he glanced over at all the other soul reapers who were sitting in a circle on the roof of their school during lunch. He decided that the school rooftop wasn't quite the best place to have a top-secret meeting but it would have to do since no students were allowed off property and they would probably be caught by teachers if they tried to leave the property. They all glanced around making sure that all seven of them were there before nodding. "Good, so we should discuss the mission from the other night. Ever since I've been thinking and well…is there any proof that Mizuki betrayed us?" The young Captain asked.

The soul reapers thought long and hard, sitting for a few moments in silence before Yumichika spoke up. "Well, no there really isn't anything but Yamamoto's opinion and the fact that she ran at a suspicious time." He said.

Everyone glanced over at him and nodded. "He's right, she's saved us a bunch of times and fought against arrancars and Espada's instead of us." Renji admitted with a sigh, Rukia smiled when she heard it.

"She could've killed us a bunch of times whenever we fight her, and instead Mizuki always helps us out. Even the way she fights us compared to the arrancars is different." Rangiku pointed out.

Ichigo nodded in agreement. "Yeah, and besides the arrancars and Espadas wouldn't try to capture her if she was already on their side. She's been fighting to try to help the Soul Society all along and we haven't believed her."

Hitsugaya sighed and nodded. "So it's settled. We'll stop trying to capture Mizuki and we'll fight with her against the arrancars and stall bringing her back for as long as possible." Ichigo smirked when he heard that but before anyone could say anything else the school bell rang signaling the end of lunch. The short Captain sighed at the noise and stood to his feet with everyone else. "We'll talk more about this after school, we'll all meet at the front gates." He ordered and they all nodded as they walked back to class.

(Karakura High School after School, 3rd Person POV)

Toshiro sighed, glancing down at his cell phone as he leaned back against the front gate of the school. "Where the hell are those two? School ended almost ten minutes ago and there's a disturbance on the other side of town." He asked in frustration. He, Rangiku, Rukia, Ichigo and Renji had met around the same time right after school ended as they had planned during lunch.

Rangiku giggled at her Captain's annoyance. "The last time I saw Ikkaku and Yumichika they were getting bitched at by our teacher. Besides, it's only a few arrancar right? There's seven of us it shouldn't take that long to deal with them."

The white haired man rolled his eyes at his Lieutenant's laziness and was about to scold her when Rukia pressed a few buttons on her phone and raised an eyebrow. "They're running around pretty quick, I wonder what they're looking for." She said as Ichigo glanced over her shoulder to see a bunch of blinking red dots that kept on moving quickly around a grid of the town.

"Hey!" They heard someone call out from behind them and the group looked back and saw Ikkaku and Yumichika running up to them. "Sorry we're late that stupid teacher was so annoying!" The dark haired fourth seat said with a huff of annoyance, flicking back his hair.

The white haired Captain sighed as he glanced over at the two. "It's fine, let's all just hurry up and take care of these arrancars before they start causing trouble." Toshiro recommended and everyone nodded as they took their soul pills and transformed into their soul reaper forms and immediately flash stepped towards the area as quick as they could in mostly silence. They all flash stepped down to the ground once they got to about where the spiritual pressures were coming from, all of them glancing around confused when they saw nothing.

"Are you sure this is the right spot Captain? It seems too quiet around here." Renji asked as he looked around and noticed the odd sense of stillness hanging over the area almost eerily so.

Hitsugaya scoffed at Renji's doubt of him as he flicked open the cell phone and pressed a few of the buttons. "They're running right towards us, I guess they either don't realize we're here or they have and they're looking for a fight." He said, glancing up with calculating turquoise eyes as he drew his zanpakuto the rest of the group following his example and looking forward anxiously.

After a few moments they all heard a loud exasperated sigh. "Holy shit you are so annoying!" They all heard a voice yell out in plain frustration and before of them could even say anything an arrancar was thrown past a few buildings a few hundred feet in front of them by a few shards of glass that faintly glowed with a silver and blue reitsu. Out of nearly nowhere with a flash step a familiar blonde haired Lieutenant that was running towards the group of soul reapers quickly, glancing over her shoulder at the group of arrancars chasing after her stubbornly. Once all the soul reapers saw her they all lowered their swords and were surprised that she hadn't sensed all their reitsu's yet but then again she was running from getting captured and taken to Aizen, she had other things on her mind.

Mizuki flash stepped forward to dodge the cero at the last moment before she continued to sprint forward. The soul reapers were a bit shocked to see that she hadn't noticed them yet and watched as she ran closer towards them. The blonde ex-Lieutenant mentally cursed when she saw how close the arrancar were to catching up to her and sprinted faster before finally looking forward.

Her eyes widened when she realized she was less than fifty feet away and running towards the group of soul reapers before she scowled. "Are you kidding me, you guys too? Jeez I can't catch a break today." Mizuki said, mumbling the last part under her breath as she quickly flash stepped and changed directions but looked up to an arrancar who was already there with his sword drawn and smirking widely. Their swords clashed together as she drew her zanpakuto but she couldn't even unsheathed the entire thing before his sword hit hers, the blonde girl glared and withdrew her sword before pushing him back. Before he could even catch his balance Mizuki's sword cut into his shoulder with a flash step, when she tried to get a second hit on him the arrancar swung his sword towards her.

The blonde ex-Lieutenant jumped back to avoid his sword and raised her swords to prepare to attack when a familiar figure flash stepped between them and swung his own zanpakuto down at her opponent. Mizuki gave the orange haired man a confused look as his sword nearly cut through before the arrancar sonidoed out of the way a few feet back. "Ichigo what the hell do you think that you're doing?" She asked as she ran forward towards them, her swords still drawn as he glanced down at her.

The substitute soul reaper smirked down at her before looking back the arrancar again and raising his sword. "What does it look like we're doing?" Ichigo asked her and she raised her eyebrow when he said 'we' but before she could ask he flash stepped up to the arrancar to block his attack. Mizuki took a moment to glance around to try to figure out what he meant by we and she was shocked with what she saw.

Hitsugaya's group was fighting against the few arrancars and she couldn't help but wonder why they didn't try to fight her. Glancing back at the arrancar she narrowed her eyes as she flash stepped to him and blocked the cero that was shooting towards Ichigo using her sword to cut through it. When she and Ichigo shared a look as the arrancar stood there for a few moments as if to debate who would finish it. However their decision was made for them when a dragon made of ice shot towards the arrancar before either of them could act first. The two glanced over to where the attack had come from to see the short white haired Captain glaring at the arrancar who got to his feet.

The arrancar glanced around and narrowed his eyes when he saw all of the soul reapers facing him with their swords drawn, the arrancars all defeated except for one. "Well? Are you going to run or do you plan to fight all eight of us?" Hitsugaya asked as he took a step forward, but Mizuki gave him a confused look when he said the eight of us since there was only seven legitimate soul reapers with Hitsugaya until I realized he had included me for some reason.

The arrancar clenched his jaw as he narrowed his eyes defeatedly at them as he opened up a garganta behind him before he disappeared. Once the arrancar was gone Hitsugaya sighed and put away his sword as he started to speak to the ex-Lieutenant. "Alright I know you're probably really confused Mizuki but just hear us out-." Toshiro started but cut himself off when he turned his head to look at her and his face went red with anger when he saw the blonde girl barely listening to him as she slowly started to walk away but she stopped once she saw the angry look on his face. "What the hell are you doing?" He yelled at her.

The ex-Lieutenant sighed at his question. "Do you really think I'm that stupid? You're helping me out and trying to trick me again to make me think you're on my side so you can just take me back to the soul society. I don't exactly plan to get captured after how far I've gotten." Mizuki explained taking another step back.

Hitsugaya opened his mouth to retort back at her when Renji loudly sighed in annoyance and everyone glanced over at him, Mizuki froze when she heard it and glanced over at him to find him giving her a serious look. "Stop being so damn stubborn, we wouldn't have gone through the trouble of helping you if we were just going to fight you." It wasn't anything sweet or heartfelt but she was surprised that he hadn't tried to attack her and actually was trying to reassure her or something. Renji's serious expression melted away when he noticed her actually listen and stopped walking away from them and they exchanged a look of understanding before Mizuki looked over at Hitsugaya waiting for him to continue.

The white haired man glanced over at her and went on explaining himself calmly. "We've been talking about it for a long time now and well we've decided not to fight you anymore and to take care of Aizen first. If you'd want to you could help us, if not I think we'd all understand after what we've done to you this past month or so." Toshiro explained and everyone glanced over at her waiting to see her answer.

Mizuki shrugged. "Alright." She said calmly and Hitsugaya's proposition and his eyebrow twitched in annoyance at her one word answer.

"Really? That's all you have to say about it? We've been fighting you for moths and you're not even happy that we're not anymore?" The white haired Captain asked in irritation, crossing his arms over his chest.

The blonde girl smirked at the question. "You really think that this changes everything? You guys might not be fighting me anymore, which is a good thing but still Aizen's not going to stop sending as many arrancars as he wants. And besides, when the soul society finally decides to stop playing around and really start trying to capture me it's not like this will even matter." Mizuki pointed out and Hitsugaya sighed, knowing that she was pretty much spot on with what she said.

(Heuco Mondo, 3rd Person POV)

As Gin walked into Aizen's throne room he had to duck to dodge getting hit by the arrancar that was thrown at the wall. The white haired man saw the arrancar hit the wall before looking over at Aizen with a cowardly expression filled with terror. "I'm sorry Lord Aizen, it won't happen again!" The arrancar cried out in hope for some sort of forgiveness.

Gin glanced up at the throne to see Aizen standing at his feet glaring at the arrancar with hate in his eyes. "You're right it won't happen again, if it does I'll have no choice but to eliminate you for being useless to me." The arrancar nodded frantically before Aizen scoffed. "Get out." He ordered as he sat down in his throne chair and looked out of the window in the room to look at the crescent moon in the Heuco Mondo sky.

The arrancar bowed to Aizen before scurrying out of the room as quick as he could, Gin chuckled at the sight as the door closed behind the arrancar. He turned his head to Aizen as he walked up to the throne. "What cha so mad about Lord Aizen?" He asked curiously with a sly smile as always.

The dark haired traitor looked down at Gin and sighed. "These incompetent arrancar are useless in trying to capture the moon. They should have brought Mizuki back to Las Noches months ago." Aizen explained angrily to the white haired man.

Gin smirked wider as he chuckled and glanced up at the one he called a Lord. "You shouldn't get yourself worked up about these things Aizen, you'll capture her soon enough. Besides, you really don't need her for a few months still and by that time you'll be strong enough to bring her back yourself if you wanted to." He explained with a laugh.

Aizen smirked at the explanation and chuckled a little too. "I suppose you're right Gin." He said before looking out the window and smirked as he laughed a little to himself as he looked out to the moon. "Little Mizuki, foolish enough to try to keep the moon from me. Soon you and the moon will fall to me and I'll be able to destroy you're precious soul society and everyone in it."

AN: Wow that chapter was so short, sorry I hope it was worth the wait! The next chapter has more of the emotional effects of the soul reapers deciding to help Mizuki a little and will ensure fluff.

Chapter 21:

Four eyes what do you think you're doing? You've been fighting way too hard and you're tired even if you won't admit it so you've got two options. One, you can run and wait and hope some soul reaper will help you or two you can throw them all into an illusion and get the hell out. It was obvious by her tone that she thought the soul reapers weren't going to help but I refused to accept that even if she was my zanpakuto spirit, I had more hope in them than that.

I gritted my teeth at the ultimatum and dodged a cero from behind me as I responded back to Garasu. I make my own options. I told her and continued to run, knowing that the soul reapers had made a promise that they would keep.