Mamko's POV

After me and Kujiro split up, I just ran around. I didn't want to start any trouble. Not here...not to them...

"Hey! Arrancar!" I froze. I recognized that spiritual pressure. I turned around. Ikkaku...Yumichika...Their eyes widened. "Ma...Mamoko...you're alive..." they thought I was dead...?

"What did they do to you Mamoko...?" Yumichika asked.

"They...they..." I looked away. I must remember my punishment if I say anything. "They did nothing." Ikkaku furrowed his eyebrows. He began to walk towards me.

"C'mon Mamoko, lets get you to Squad 4..." I quickly pulled out Loka Luha and held it up protectively.

"Just turn around, and walk away Ikkaku...I'm not the same person anymore."

"Mamoko, your grotesque appearance isn't quite healthy." Yumichika said. "Let us help you." my eyes began to water. I can't let them help me...they'll die... Ikkaku began cautiously walking towards me.

"I don't need your help. Hado #31...Shakkaho." I hit Ikkaku with the hado blast, sending him flying backwards behind the cloud of smoke. Yumichika stared wide-eyed at me.

"What did you do...?"

"Go...Yumichika..." he turned and ran through the smoke, shouting for Ikkaku. I decided to stay here. I was very tired from all my running. The fog began to clear, and I saw someone through the smoke. I stood, Loka Luha unsheathed. My eyes widened. Toshiro...

"M...Mamoko...?" he walked up to me, and I took a step back, lifting my zanpakuto. He seemed sad by my actions. "Mamoko...are you alright?" No...I'm not alright...

"I don't want to do this..."

"Then stop, I'll help you...I've always been here for you Mamoko." I shook my head, crying.

"No...no...you can't..."

"Mamoko, I don't want to see you hurt like this..."

"I thought you didn't care."

"W-what?"

"I thought you didn't love me anymore..." he put on a confused look. "I don't blame you if you don't...I wouldn't either. I'm a monster..."

"Mamoko..."

Momo's POV

I chased the arrancar for quite a distance before finally catching up to him. When he turned around, my eyes widened.

"It's you..." I said. it was that arrancar that captured Mamoko the first time...

"Ya sound disappointed." he said with a smug expression.

"If you're here...then that must mean..." I get it now. That explosion back there was no cero...it was shakkaho. "Then Mamoko is here too." he grinned.

"Ya catch on fast Lieutenant." he lunged at me, and I was barely able to dodge his attack. I pulled out Tobiume.

"Snap Tobiume!" I shouted, firing a ball of fire at the arrancar. He easily dodged.

"Please, spare me." he mocked. I glared at him. He's definitely going to be a tough opponent. All of a sudden, he sonidoed behind me, and I had to flash-step forward to avoid being cut in half. I turned around to block his next attack, and fired another fire ball at him. All of a sudden, I had a cut in my arm. My eyes widened.

"Wha...what?" I turned and blocked his attack, before getting kicked across the way. He's an expert at sonido...while I'm barely a Lieutenant-level flash-step...oh no...I barely managed to avoid his other attacks, not even landing a single hit on him.

"C'mon, Soul Reaper! I'm sure ya can do better than that!" he shouted, kicking me in the gut and slamming me against the wall. He laughed. "Lieutenant? Whadda joke!" I stood up on shaky legs.

"Hado #58 Tenran!" out of nowhere, a blast of wind attacked the arrancar, knocking him roughly to the side. Izuru flash-stepped before me. "Are you alright, Momo?"

"Yea, I'm alright...for now. I'll be even better once this arrancar is disposed of."

Toshiro's POV

Monster...she called herself a monster...

"I'm a horrible person Toshiro! I don't deserve to be loved! I'm a monster! I'm a monster!" she cried. She dropped Loka Luha and fell to her knees. I flash-stepped quickly to her and hugged her tightly.

"No Mamoko, you're not a monster. It's alright..." she cried harder.

"No! It's not alright! He made me kill people! Innocent people! And if I didn't...if I failed to listen..." she trailed off. I lifted her face gently for her to look at me, and my eyes widened. She was cut and bruised.

"Mamoko...what did they do to you...?"

"Yoshidaime would punish me...he would make me cut myself...he has the power to control his enemy's body...and it hurts so much!" I rubbed my thumb along the side of her face, brushing away tears.

"It's alright now, I'm not gonna let him hurt you anymore. Dammit Mamoko...you're so thin and pale..."

"I stopped eating. I was going crazy in the Toshiro. Kujiro would try...try stuffing food down my throat...but I wouldn't let him. So he would cut me too." I began getting very angry. How dare they...? I'll kill them...kill them for what they did to her..."I wanted to die...I thought I was going to...thats how much it hurt..."

"Stop crying now Mamoko...I'm here for you...I'm here..." she looked up at me.

"Kujiro's here...he'll kill everyone...we have to help them." I nodded.

"Alright, lets go."