AN: First I would like to thank violentyetawsome for reviewing! I'm really tired so here are your warnings:

1.) Major fight so therefore blood/violence/ect. (It's the majority of the chapter, hence the length)

2.) Hints of fluff but not a lot.

Updated for spelling and such on 10/16/13

Chapter 24: A Whisper to a Scream

Recommended Song: "Unbreakable" by Fireflight

(Karakura Town, 3rd Person POV)

The soul reapers watched Mizuki in shock, unsure of what to do after what she had just said. Her words seemed truthful and lethal, at least for Aizen. The traitor smirked at the threat and chuckled. "Well then what are you waiting for? Hit me with your best shot, traitor." He challenged her, Mizuki's eyes narrowed at the last word and clenched her jaw in rage before she disappeared from view.

In a flash of movement Mizuki stood in front of Aizen and moved to strike her sword through his chest, malice reflecting in her glaring pools of green. He smirked and flash stepped out of the way at the last moment and flash stepped next to her and tried to cut her but Mizuki's sword easily blocked it. The ground around them cracked and was pushed down under the pressure of their reitsu's clashing with the attack and she glared at him putting more of her retisu into the illusion. Her other sword swung down at him while he tried to push her back and managed to cut his shoulder much to his and the soul reapers shock the entire ground behind him crumbling with an explosion like effect with debris flying up everywhere. Aizen simply raised his hand and a cero like attack flew at her at point blank range and a moment later the area they stood in was just a cloud of dark smoke.

Hitsugaya glanced to the soul reapers sharply. "We shouldn't interfere, there both using close combat so it would be hard to get to Aizen without hurting Mizuki. Besides now that were in this illusion I'm not sure what would happen if we got in the way." He told them all seriously when he saw Ichigo try to reach for his sword, his eyes taking in the changes to the area inside of the illusion before glancing over at the battle taking place in front of them.

"But Captain, are you really going to let her fight Aizen alone?" Matsumoto asked in a fearful and worried voice, glancing up as the smoke started to fade, Mizuki stood five feet away from Aizen who was bleeding.

Toshiro smirked when he saw Mizuki didn't have a scratch on her from the cero and somehow even managed to use his own attack against him. "Why not? It looks like she's doing great, besides she has a point, if she kills Aizen then Yamamoto might be able to see she's not on his side." He commented smartly as they all watched in interest.

Mizuki let one of her swords shatter before she ran towards Aizen, he managed to get to his feet and turned to flash step in the opposite direction but stopped when he saw her shards racing towards him from that way. By the time he glanced back towards Mizuki he saw she wasn't there and instead felt a sword strike through his stomach. Aizen's eyes widened in shock and Mizuki glared at him from behind him. "You should really listen more, so I'll tell you one last time. I control your illusions and I can stop them whenever I want, you're wasting your time trying to get past that." The blonde told him seriously as she withdrew her blade and swung it again to kill him.

However her sword only sliced the air sending a wave of reitsu flying out, missing since Aizen managed to flash step out of the way at the last second. Without glancing behind her she tilted her hilt so the shards of glass would hold back his zanpakuto from behind her, tilting her head to see the annoyed expression on his face. The traitor threw his fist towards her and Mizuki only jumped back to dodge the punch and swung one of her swords at the hilt of his sword.

The sword Aizen held flew out of his hand and fell to the ground a hundred yards away and the ground he stood on was forced down from the pressure of her reitsu, his sword now out of reach. He smirked at the action and dodged Mizuki as she attacked him with a frenzy of swings of her sword, he flash stepped out of the way and flash step to the area his sword had landed in a few moments ago. But when he got there and looked down he found his zanpakuto wasn't there, he raised an eyebrow. "Looking for something?" Mizuki asked in a serious voice, the ex-Captain turned to face her and saw his sword in her hands and one of her swords sheathed before she threw the sword at him, confusing Hitsugaya.

The white haired Captain figured that if Aizen was disarmed then Mizuki would have an easier fight against him, so the move seemed like she was even helping him which raised his suspicions. However he was proved wrong when the sword and hilt all shattered into pieces all firing towards Aizen, he flash stepped out of the way effortlessly and smirked over at Mizuki. "That's pretty impressive for an ex-Lieutenant, the Soul Society must be mad that you won't be fighting alongside them." He commented, emphasizing her lost title with a smirk as he glanced over at the soul reapers standing by. "And yet, you still fight for them even though they're trying to execute you? That seems foolish."

Mizuki glared at him, drawing her sword. "I'd still be fighting with them if weren't for you, I took an oath to join the Soul Society after the Academy and protect everyone in it. I choose my own sides I don't need your two cents." She told him venomously and ran towards him with rage flaring in her eyes as she brought the blade down on him, Aizen reached up to try to hold her blade still but to his shock the reitsu was greater than his and the blade sliced his hand. While he was preoccupied the blonde girl swung her other sword at him but he merely flash step back and raised his hand towards her with a smirk.

"Hado #63 Raikoho." Aizen said and a large beam of lightning shot towards the ex-Lieutenant fast, Rukia's eyes widened when she saw Mizuki stand here without trying to dodge the huge attack. She opened her mouth to yell at the blonde girl but the attack already hit her, however when the attack touched her she disappeared with a group of shards like her zanpakuto in her place. The attack fired into the shards all pieced together to be flat that absorbed the attack without shattering the glass and a moment later it shot right back at Aizen. The traitor fell back to the ground and looked up to find Mizuki standing in front of him, her sword pointed at his neck.

"What's wrong with you, huh? Mad that someone else can use the same dirty tricks you've been using?" She asked him in a mocking voice.

Aizen smirked and Mizuki had to flash step a few feet away to dodge a cero from him, everyone glanced over at the ex-Captain as he chuckled and got to his feet. He looked over at Mizuki who wasn't looking at him and instead clutched her swords tighter. "You put up a good fight, and I'm a little surprised to say in my current form I'm in no shape to win this." The soul reapers eyes all widened at the statement and watched as Aizen took out the Hogyuko and smirked. "You may not want to have your back to me, you'll need to see my moves if you have any hope of winning." He said as the Hogyuko fused into his chest and his wounds all disappeared.

With a scoff Mizuki narrowed her eyes but kept her back to him, raising her blade as she spun on her heel to face him and managed to cut through cero he blasted at her. "Let me give you some advice, trusting people and depending on them are the same thing. I would have thought you'd be smart enough to realize that and yet here you are, trusting the very people who would execute you if given the chance." Aizen scoffed at her. "It's pathetic."

Mizuki rolled her eyes. "Do you want to know what's really pathetic? You're pathetic! You use everyone as little pawns in your game to be "King", here's some advice, you'll never be King of anything but the ground you stand on. The only reason you think you have power over anyone is that damn Hogyuko, by the end of this I'll rip the damn thing out of you and make you choke on it!" She yelled at him, flash stepping behind him and tried to cut him when Aizen kicked her stomach to make her hit a tree and the force nearly snapped the tree into two.

The ex-Lieutenant was quick to jump back to her feet and swing her swords at him to make them both shatter down to the hilt and darted towards him. Aizen dodged most of them with flash step and saw the opportunity to attack her while her swords had no blade. His cero charged up once more but Mizuki simply jabbed the bladeless hilt against his stomach. "Shatter Everything Garasu!" She called and a moment later her sword had regenerated itself into the hilt that was pressed against Aizen's stomach, cutting him without moving her arm at all.

On the sidelines the Soul Reaper's jaws nearly dropped when they watched Mizuki slice his stomach as she pulled back the sword. A smirk made its way to her face before Aizen sent another cero at her that almost hit her. Tilting up the hilt of her sword the shards flew towards her opponent and most hated enemy, slicing his cero in half to cancel it out with a bright clash of violet and silver blue reitsu. However she didn't see the second cero that flew towards her and pushed her back off of her feet.

Mizuki was quick to get back up to her feet and snapped her head to look over at Aizen. However the space he stood moments ago was now empty, when she heard a faint laugh she turned around to see the traitor. She clutched her zanpakuto tighter and took a step forward, about to flash step over to him when his voice began. "You know, I'm not sure why you continue to evade me, maybe you're still trying to protect someone. I don't see the point in that since you've never been able to protect anyone." Aizen told her, smirking when he saw her clutch her swords tighter as she tilted her head down. "You couldn't even save your parents, your friends or even your own Lieutenant and do you want to know why? Because you're not strong enough to even save yourself."

The soul reapers standing off to the side stared at Aizen with wide eyes. Rukia's eyes widened in horror at his words, she wanted to yell at him and tell him that he was wrong but fear petrified her. Ichigo narrowed his eyes with anger at the statement before he looked over at Mizuki. Her face and expression were hidden behind her bangs but even from a distance he could see her hands shaking. The light from the moon reflected off of her glasses in a way that made her eyes unseen as a silver and blue reitsu flared around her that nearly screamed with rage.

Mizuki lifted her head to show her stoic expression as her silver blue reitsu built up around her to almost lethal levels. Lifting her head her dark green eyes glared at Aizen. "You want to know why I keep on fighting? That's a stupid question." The blonde girl asked with a scoff as she raised her sword to point it at him. Her reitsu continued to grow around her, cracking the ground within fifty feet of her. "I don't answer questions that already have obvious answers."

All of the soul reapers watched in shock at how powerful her reitsu was getting, the air around the area tensed up until it was nearly suffocating. The next moment she was out of sight, Aizen raised his hand and managed to block her sword as she swung it down at him with two hands. Mizuki clenched her jaw and pushed down on her swords to push him back. As he tried to regain his balance he didn't notice Mizuki pull back her sword. In the next instant Aizen managed to glance up at her expression full of rage, his eyes widening when he felt her reitsu spike.

The attack sent Aizen flying backwards, he glanced back and tried to use a tree to stop himself from falling. However the blonde ex-Lieutenant used flash step to beat him there and raised her sword to stab his shoulder and pin him to the tree. Mizuki ignored the soul reapers who were staring at her and glared at Aizen as she pulled back her fist that glowed with reitsu before she threw it at him.

All the shinigami watched speechless as the reitsu in her hand forced open Aizen's chest exposing the Hogyuko. Mizuki smirked and reached forward to grasp the glowing stone, clenching it inside her hand as tight as she could. Cuts formed on her arm as she tugged on the stone as hard as she could, a pained look forming on Aizen's face.

Aizen pushed away the look of agony and glared at her as she continued to pull at the stone. He pulled back his hand before punching clean through her stomach. The soul reapers saw her lift her head to smirk up at Aizen, blood spilling from the wound to be ignored as it splattered to the ground. "Is that the best you've got?" Mizuki asked with a wide smirk as if she had never been hit.

Mizuki's reitsu surrounding her hand expanded as her knuckles turned white from clutching the Hogyuko so tightly. A loud crack resonated throughout the area and the soul reapers watched in shock, Renji's eyes widened as he watched the scene, nearly shaking from the power of his best friend's reitsu. "Impossible…there's no way…she broke it." He whispered mostly to himself.

The blonde ex-Lieutenant jumped back from Aizen to dodge his cero, looking up at the traitor with a smirk. He was clutching his chest as the opening started to heal over, the Hogyuko cracked on the outside of the stone. "So what you've cracked the Hogyuko, you haven't won yet." Aizen warned her with a glare as the Hogyuko shot out a cero at her.

Mizuki dodged the fast cero and tilted the hilt of her sword to make the shards of her sword change direction. One shard managed to pierce his shoulder and she tilted her sword forward so it pushed him back off balance. With a wide smirk Mizuki raised her blade to give him the finishing blow when suddenly a sword extended out and stabbed her through her side. "Mizuki!" Rukia yelled out in a worried tone, before looking over at who stabbed her Lieutenant with a glare of hate as she was about to draw her sword.

Everyone looked to where the sword came from and saw none other than Gin standing above the tree line with a sly grin. "Before you start celebrating, you should check who you really hit." Mizuki's voice said and to the soul reapers and Gin's shock she appeared next to him with her sword against his neck without a scratch from his attack.

Nearly a dozen pairs of eyes followed his blade and they all widened when they found that Aizen was the one Gin had stabbed, not Mizuki. The traitor glared at the white haired ex-Captain, "Damn it Gin." He said under his breath as he pulled out the sword from his chest. Gin swung his sword towards the blonde girl.

She dodged the hit and placed her foot against his sword to push it down towards the ground as she tilted the hilt of her sword towards him. "You're in my way." Mizuki told him coldly and cut the air in front of her to cause him to freeze from the illusion and a moment later fell to the ground unconscious. With a quick flash step she stood next to Aizen and tried to cut him but his hand reached out and grasped her sword. She glared at him and tried to pull back her sword from his grip but he only smirked since he was now in a strong enough form to not get too much damage while blocking her attack, holding out his hand in front of him.

"Hado #90 Kurohitsugi." He said as he flash stepped back out of the way and a moment later a black box closed around Mizuki. Rukia's eyes widened, remembering how much damage the kido had done when she saw Aizen use it against Captain Komamura at her execution and wanted to rush forward and help her Lieutenant but her body wouldn't move. As the spears of black reitsu appeared the box began to tremble a little, causing everyone to look confused towards it. Before the spears could impale into the box it began to shatter in a few places as a blue and silver reitsu tore it open from the inside out before the reitsu suddenly enveloped the entire area before a small explosion was heard and the reitsu faded and revealed a smokey area with little visability.

The smoke was quick to fade away with a small gust of wind and the blonde ex-Lieutenant flash stepped towards Aizen and pulled back her zanpakuto to cut across his chest easily. Taking a step forward she managed to slash into his shoulder before jumping back to dodge his attack. A moment later a cero flew into her stomach before she could make an illusion to stop it sending her flying in the other direction and land face down on the ground however she was careful to make sure her zanpakuto wouldn't hit the ground. If her swords touched the ground then the illusion they were trapped in would break and Aizen could flee and she refused to let go of her advantage. She lifted her head to try to get back up but noticed his sword swinging down at her and raised her sword to block his attack. With a wince she managed to hold back his sword and placed her elbow on the ground to get some leverage, pushing back Aizen's sword.

His foot shot forward and kicked her just below her chin, catching her off guard and managing to make her fly backwards but before she was out of arms reach he grasped the front of her soul reaper uniform. Mizuki glared at him and flicked her wrist to try to cut him but he grasped her throat and squeezed to cut off her oxygen supply, smirking at the pained look on her face as he squeezed her neck tighter. However his grip on her throat didn't stop her sword from swinging up towards him, causing him to jump back to dodge and let her fall to the ground on her butt. Looking up at him she narrowed her eyes at him once she watched him smirk, holding her sword in front of her without getting to her feet and let her blue and silver reitsu swirl around her. "Mira sakushi." She said lowly, swinging her sword towards him.

Aizen froze when her sword sliced through the air, his eyes widening as she got to her feet but he was engulfed into the darkness of her illusion and couldn't be seen by anyone else. To his eyes only as her sword cut through the air it shattered into hundreds of pieces that kept on increasing in number racing at him too fast to dodge. He fell to his knees to the ground holding his head with both hands and closing his eyes tight as Aizen screamed out at the top of his lungs in pain. The soul reapers eyes widened as they watched Aizen thrash around in pain to try to shake off the illusion but couldn't. She took a step forward before jumping towards him, swinging her sword down towards him as he fell forward towards the ground and regained consciousness. Her zanpakuto cut deeply into his shoulder to send him flying back to the ground, she swung her sword at him again to finish him off when the reitsu around Aizen spiked.

In a flash of movement Mizuki was thrown back, sliding against the ground after a swift kick to the stomach. When she finally hit the ground she jumped to her feet, glancing around for the traitor but froze when she felt a hit to the back of the head. Her eyes widened and wondered how she didn't notice him as her zanpakuto fell from her hands. Turning her head she glared hatefully at Aizen and tried to roundhouse kick him but he was quick to dodge. A moment later Mizuki saw him move in front of her to grab her swords, she narrowed her eyes at him and placed her foot on top of the swords to pin them to the ground.

As the entire area began to crack and shatter into the previous scene in the light of the sunset, Mizuki ignored it and charged her reitsu up before she kicked Aizen in the face so hard he flew above the tree line. She watched as he managed to hit the ground and pick himself up after what should have been deadly hit. Aizen smirked and raised his head to show the bleeding bruises caused by her attack that began to heal themselves. "You bastard, you broke my concentration." Mizuki growled, picking up her zanpakuto and pointing it at Aizen.

The ex-Captain smirked. "So I broke your illusion, it doesn't look like you have the advantage anymore." He pulled out his zanpakuto and smirked. "So even that trick with my sword was just an illusion, but I guess it doesn't matter I've wasted too much time here." He added with a chuckle as Gin got to his feet next to Aizen. "Don't worry, we'll be back next time with an army and when that time comes the human world and the Soul Society will be bowing down to me."

Mizuki glared at him as he began to open the garganta, picking up her swords in a rage as she flash stepped over to him. "I don't think you heard me right!" Mizuki yelled as she tried to cut Aizen. "You're not leaving here alive!" She yelled as she attacked him and swung her swords at him.

The former Captain smirked at the attack and used his own sword to hold back her zanpakuto's. "Don't worry, I've already stand above the sun. Once I capture you I'll have the moon and everything else I need to overthrow the Soul Society." He said with a chuckle as Gin attacked her with his zanpakuto to make her fall back down to the ground as the garganta closed shut and the traitors disappeared.

Mizuki fell to the ground and merely sat up and stared at the traitors with a glare as they disappeared inside of the garganta with a smirk. In a quick flash step Ichigo flash stepped over to her and was about to scold her for being so reckless when he got a good look at her he froze. The blonde tilted down her head to try to hide how upset she was. But the substitute could still see the faint tears that gathered in her eyes before he kneeled down to make her eye to eye with him. "Are you okay?" He asked almost hesitantly.

The ex-Lieutenant clenched her hands that were still grasping her swords that were on the ground at her sides. Unknowingly she let out some of her reitsu and he could tell it was even more powerful than usual. "Can you believe the nerve of that asshole? He ran away in the middle of a fight when I was just about to kick his ass!" Mizuki yelled out angrily, Ichigo's eyes widened a little, he had never seen her so mad before.

After a moment she noticed how silent he was and glanced over to see the look on his face and her expression softened a little before she glanced away as she controlled her reitsu. "I'm sorry, that guy just gets under my skin for some reason."

Ichigo waited until she looked up at him to respond. "Its fine, I understand. I don't give a shit about Aizen though, so answer my question. Are you okay?" He asked again.

A calm expression came over her and she nodded. "Thanks. And yeah, I'm fine." Mizuki told him as she moved to get to her feet and sheathed her swords as the substitute soul reaper stood up. The other soul reapers walked up to them and Hitsugaya glanced around the area once.

"We should all go to discuss the fight, let's go to your place Kurosaki." Toshiro said to the group who all nodded except for Ichigo and Mizuki. Ichigo opened his mouth to ask why they had to go to his house when he heard Mizuki sigh.

"You guys have fun with that, I'm going to try to find a hollow or something." Mizuki said before flash stepping out of sight. Ichigo wondered why she wouldn't want to come but glanced back at the soul reapers.

Toshiro watched her as she disappeared and scoffed before glancing at everyone else. "Let her go, she's still mad I guess. Let's get going." He ordered and with that they all managed to retrieve their Gigai's before assembling in Ichigo's bedroom. He sincerely hoped that at least his dad wouldn't walk in and see so many people in his room so late at night.

They were all silent for a few moments until Rangiku finally spoke up. "What Aizen said about Mizuki's zanpakuto… do you really think her sword is capable of controlling all other illusions from a zanpakuto?"

Rukia nodded immediately. "It's true, Lieutenant Yasuko might not flaunt how strong her sword is but it's clearly stronger than Aizen's sword." The dark haired girl explained calmly, glancing down at the ground when everyone looked at her.

"You knew about her sword the whole time?" Renji asked her confused, wondering why Mizuki hadn't told him about what her sword could do.

With a sigh she nodded. "Of course I do, she's my Lieutenant. I just couldn't tell all of you before since I knew we'd only use it against her to capture her." Rukia explained.

Everyone glanced over to the window above Ichigo's bed where Hitsugaya was sitting on the window pane as he spoke. He glanced up at all the other soul reapers, catching all of their attention. "For now let's not worry about whatever abilities her zanpakuto has. Let's focus on how she almost broke the Hogyuko, that's more important now." Toshiro reminded them all before glancing out the window again. "It doesn't make sense, Urahara said that he tried everything to destroy it and yet she cracked it with her spiritual pressure alone."

Everyone thought back to the fight and remembered the cracks in the Hogyuko. "Wait, didn't Urahara say something about the Hogyuko true power?" Renji asked mostly to himself but glanced up to find everyone staring at him waiting to go on, he glanced over at Ikkaku and Yumichika. "Don't you guys remember him telling us the other night?"

The two from the 11th Division looked at each other and thought for a moment before Ikkaku looked over at him seriously. "Were we drinking?"

Toshiro narrowed his eyes and crossed his arms. "This is serious." He reminded them coldly.

"I think I remember, I was checking my hair I definitely remember that. Urahara was saying something like the Hogyuko isn't just used for hollowfication and such." Yumichika chimed in with a smirk as he leaned back in the chair he was sitting in, flipping his hair back over his shoulder.

"Apparently it has…what did he call it? Desire Materialization I think, but apparently if someone has a really powerful wish or something the Hogyuko will do it. When Urahara made it he really wanted to find a way to experiment with hollowfication and that's what it did." Renji explained.

Rangiku raised an eyebrow and held in a yawn. "What does that have to do with anything?" She asked as she stretched out on Ichigo's bed alongside Rukia.

Toshiro glanced out the window and noticed the moon was half full before he commented. "Maybe she really wanted to kill him." He said, looking back at everyone to see them looking at him as if he was morbid which he rolled his eyes at before he went on. "And she nearly succeeded by the looks of it, maybe that's why Aizen wants to capture her. Because he knows that she might be able to kill him."

(Karakura Town, Mizuki's POV)

I sheathed my swords once more after my eyes scanned over the area again and made sure the hollows were unmoving before I relaxed a little. However it was a hard thing to do, I could still feel my blood boiling with anger that made me wish there was another arrancar or hollow around just so I could fight again. I had come out here to release some of the anger Aizen had caused from our fight earlier on the hollows but still I was left with more rage than was measureable.

My knees buckled from the injuries I received from Aizen that I hadn't treated yet as I started to walk away, I grasped the alley wall next to me to soften the fall but when I hit the ground I didn't immediately get up. I clenched my hands into tight fists and punched the wall next to me hard enough to bruise my knuckles a little. "Damn it!" I cursed out loudly, angry about everything. I was angry how my body was so weak from my fight with Aizen, I was mad at how he accused me of not protecting my friends or Lieutenant and how he had the damned nerve to even mention my parents. I couldn't believe I was stupid enough to not end it with Aizen then and there. I should have kept my promise to make him choke on the Hogyuko.

I was so stupid that I couldn't believe it, I had made it so far and yet I had been so damned emotional today that it bugged the hell out of me. I could have just lost my only shot to kill Aizen and prove to everyone in the soul society that I wasn't a traitor and I had even been close to crying in front of Ichigo when I had first realized the fact. But somehow I knew that Aizen wasn't done with me, he wasn't going to stop sending Espada and arrancar until I was dead or until he got whatever it was he wanted from me.

My fist hit the wall once more as I realized just how fucking close I was to tearing that Hogyuko out of his chest and taking away his advantage, the crown that he believed would grant him the world. But with a deep breathe I suppressed whatever anger I felt and told myself that I just had to run and fight for a little longer. If I played my cards right and didn't rush into anything I might just get a second chance at killing Aizen, just maybe. But then again, after he took my family, friends and anyone and anything else that gave me happiness in one day, I knew I could wait a little longer to get it all back.

Reaching out I pushed myself off of the ground to my unsteady feet and narrowed my eyes down at the ground scolding myself mentally for being so dramatic. I'd get my chance to make Aizen pay and to reclaim my position in the soul society all in due time. I wouldn't mind waiting a little longer because I had never given up yet and now when I'm so close it'd be stupid to lose hope now.

AN: I hope you liked this chapter, please review! Oh yeah and I think that I'm going to stop doing the lyrics in chapters since I am horribly lazy lol and I think they're a little useless anyway. I think the next chapter may take a little longer than usual because I've been really focused on school but I'll try to get it done as soon as possible! Huge Plot Development ahead!

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Hiyori chuckled at the statement as Hitsugaya thought of a solution, she smiled over at the ex-Lieutenant. "If you're going to be such a big problem why are you even going to come with us? You'd probably be safer staying in the human world anyway, if you go you're only going to be fighting against the soul reapers and Aizen." She told Mizuki who only smirked at the suggestion.

"I'm not saying that, believe me I can't wait to get my hands on Aizen." Mizuki answered with a scoff.