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Chapter 29:
This Is It

Once Ichigo, Renji, Toshiro, and Kisuke return with a lifeless me, no one was cheering for the successful return and the defeat of Aizen. Squad Four quickly takes me away, but allows Ichigo to keep the sword. Szayel and Mayuri rush to keep up with Squad Four to see if they can be of help. Everyone is unsure what to say, except to cuss about Aizen and all the pain he's caused throughout the years. Nel aproaches Ichigo, returning to her Arrancar Form, and hugs Ichigo. He holds onto her and can't help but cry. Kisuke reveals that Aizen was sealed and they were able to gain the Hogyoku. Yamamoto quickly tells Kisuke to destroy it so no one else would take control of it and have a repeat, but Arturo steps up and argues against it, theorizing it might have another use before it gets destroyed: reviving me. Kisuke says it's near impossible since he could see I was shot in the heart. The only thing it can do is turn Hollows into Arrancars, and Shinigami into Vizords, that's it. Not even the Fake Hogyoku has enough energy to bring me back as it is not as strong as the real thing.

Once back in the World of the Living hours later, everyone sticks around at Karakura Place until nightfall, recounting all the adventures they went through while I was around. By then, it was time for all the Shinigami to return to Soul Society, with Szayel staying there for the while. Everyone else returned to their homes, unable to do anything else. Tosen decides to take the gifts I had received with him for now, but Ichigo quickly calls for the giant Lapras plushie pillow. Nel returns home with Ichigo as everyone starts to leave, and Pesche offers to drive them back.

Time starts to pass. It has been almost a week since Aizen's defeat. He has been sealed for 20,000 or so years by the Central 46. Kisuke still questions the true power of his Hogyoku and decides to travel to the Soul Society to ask Yamamoto about the possibility of using it to revive me. He has left the shop under Tessai's watch for the time being.

Using the Fake Hogyoku, Unohana was able to turn Tsubasa into an Arrancar after he had become a Vasto Lord after fully devouring the Lemur Arrancar, and a few hundred other Adjuchases. He was no taller than 5'06", had pale skin with a slim build, green eyes, a feminine-looking face, short dark green hair that was slicked back, and had a katana-like Zanpakuto with a cyan sheath. His Hollow Bone ended up as a bracelet on his right wrist. He decided to remain within the Seireitei in order to help fight off other Hollows who dared to attack.

Unohana had also brought back a few other fallen Arrancar: Findor Carias, Avirama Redder, Nirgge Parduoc, Iceringer, Shawlong Kufang, Edrad Liones, Apacci, Mila-Rose, and Sun-Sun. She did try to bring back Rudobon, but he decided to attack rather than talk, so he was sealed away as a result. Iceringer decided to stay in Soul Society, staying within the Squad 12 Barracks. Findor, Redder, and Parduoc decided to head into the World of the Living and locate Ggio Vega. Little did they know he moved into Soul Society to stay closer to Soifon; that was a part of his plan. Shawlong wanted to stay with Squad 6 as he and Byakuya somehow got along, much to everyone's surprise. However, he eventually found Byakuya to be more strict than he thought and asked to join Squad 1, having many ideas to help increase security. Although reluctant, Yamamoto allowed him to stay within the barracks so long as he tried nothing funny. Edrad disappeared to the World of the Living to find D-Roy and Grimmjow. And the girls - Apacci, Mila-Rose, Sun-Sun - followed suit in order to find Hallibel. Kaien was able to return to Squad 13 to help aid Jushiro once more, soon regaining the respect from everyone he had before he died. Tosen and Gin became the captains of their squads again but with one condition: locating a captain for Squad 5. Both had done major research, Gin fooling around in between, but couldn't find anyone good enough. Rukia then remembered a Shinigami she met within the Forest of Menos named Ashido, and brought him up.

Both Gin and Tosen traveled with Tsubasa to the Forest of Menos, and found that the exit into Hueco Mundo was blocked. Gin uses his Bankai to pierce through most of the rubble, and when it went to retract, it stopped in place. Tosen uses a few Kido spells to blow away the rubble, and found Ashido, alive; he was grabbing onto Gin's Zanpakuto. They eventually dig him out and bring him back to the Soul Society after arguing with him about his broken arm. Once he was all tended to, he was offered by Yamamoto the position of being the Squad 5 Captain, since no one else would really take up the offer. Ashido would only do so on one condition: the graves of his friends were to be moved to the Soul Society. Gin, Tosen, and Tsubasa returned to the Forest of Menos, retrieved the graves, and brought them to the Soul Society. Ashido became the second captain in the Seireitei who couldn't perform Shikai or Bankai.

The Soul Society was slowly rerturning to normal. And so was the World of the Living. Hueco Mundo, Ulquiorra said, can stay leaderless.