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Chapter 33 Welcome

Hinata felt the garganta open again, though it wasn't a hollow that came through this time. It was one of the evil soul reapers. Hinata stumbled as she felt all of her spiritual pressure yanked from her, causing her quincy bow to collapse. She could feel Nikko frantically reeling in all of her spiritual pressure. Hinata hit a knee as her breathing became shallow. Chad yelled and ran over to her. She could feel her vision blurring. She looked up to see the man with pretty dark skin standing in the sky looking over the park with a frown on his face as if he was looking for something or someone.

Chad must have seen him too because he fell quiet and for that one moment all was quiet. Hinata saw the man frown before he shunpoed away as Hinata's collapsed to the groud.

. . .

Tosen walked into the throne room dragging Grimmjow behind him. He couldn't help but allow his disgust for the foul creature he was touching show on his face. The room was full of all the Espada along with Gin who was standing behind Aizen's throne.

Aizen had a smirk on his face that began to turn into a frown when he saw that Tosen only had Grimmjow with him. "Where is she?"

Tosen gave a bow. "I went to the park you told me of. I found the boy, but the girl was not there when I arrived."

Aizen's fist hit the armrest before he began to laugh. "Well she wouldn't be worth having if she had been so easy to catch, now would she?" Aizen shifted and pressed several buttons, causing a screen to pull down. "Now, my Espada, I'm excited to tell you that I have found your sister that up until now has been elusive." The screen moved to show the orange haired girl staring down the camera. Aizen looked around the group and saw curiosity on all their faces except Grimmjow who was swearing up a storm. With a nod towards Tosen, Grimmjow's arm went flying before being burned with Kido. "You are allowed to live because you found her, Grimmjow. Now leave before I change my mind."

. . .

Ulquiorra left the meeting and went straight to his room. He allowed himself to open a small garganta; he could feel her spiritual pressure, but it was so faint he almost didn't notice it. He gave a growl before quickly closing the garganta. He was going to kill Grimmjow. This was entirely his fault! Until Aizen said so the cursed cat would live. Ulquiorra flexed his fist which had gone numb from clenching it tightly at his side to keep from attacking the moment Hinata's face flashed on Aizen's screen. A flash of green caught his eye as he slumped into a chair.

Twisting his wrist so that it caught the light, he admired Hinata's bracelet. Breathing deeply, he slowly relaxed. They hadn't found her; somehow, Hinata had managed to avoid Tosen. Allowing himself a small smile, Ulquiorra rose and left Los Noches for patrol duty. He would check on Nel; seeing her would relieve some of the pain growing around his hollow hole.

. . .

Gin's eyes had widened when the girl had come onto the screen before he had quickly put his face back into his usual grin. How could she be the arrancar Aizen was looking for? He had felt her spiritual pressure when she had been in the soul society and it had clearly been that of a Shinigami! Gin studied the frozen image of the girl's face, her words echoing in his head. How could she be a hollow? He'd spent more than enough time around the creatures and knew that such a sweet and innocent being like her it was impossible that she was a hollow.

Gin frowned as he studied the picture again. Was she holding a quincy bow?

. . .

Kisuke sat beside Ururu as Tessai healed her. She was in a bad condition. He looked up when the sound of thundering footsteps came running up to the shop followed by the sound of his door being kicked off its hinges. He was in the process of standing when Chad appeared in the doorway holding an unconscious Hinata in his arms.

Kisuke's eyes went wide as he jumped back. "Place her here, Chad. What happened?" As soon as she was on the ground, he was by her side checking her vitals.

"Traitor Shinigami."

Kisuke stopped to look at him before looking back down at her. "Which one?" From what he could tell, she had no spiritual pressure.

"Black."

Kisuke froze and looked down at her. Tosen! He shouldn't have gone after Hinata unless. . . Kisuke cursed. "Tessai, put up barriers. Aizen knows about Hinata."

Tessai's eyes went wide as he began to chant several complex Kidos. Several minutes later, an exhausted Tessai leaned against the wall. Thankfully, Ururu had been healed enough that she was not in any danger but had fallen asleep.

While Tessai had been casting Kido, Kisuke had been running around the shop grabbing everything he could think of that could be used to block Aizen from finding her. When he finally came back to the room, Tessai had fallen asleep and Jinta had curled up alongside Ururu and was asleep with her. Chad was sitting by Hinata's side holding her hand. Kisuke slowly sank to the ground beside him.

"What?"

"Tosen, the captain you saw, is blind. My guess is that he came to take Hinata and in order to hide herself from him she cut off all of her spiritual pressure. Her body wasn't able to handle the change and went into hibernation." He was quiet for a moment before reaching out his hand and touching Hinata. He allowed a smile to cross his face. "Can you feel that?"

Chad gave a small nod.

"Her spiritual pressure is coming back, just slowly so as to not hurt her body. Go sleep, Chad. She will be fine."

. . .

Hinata blinked in confusion as she looked around her inner world. The sun was so bright today that she couldn't even see any of the trees. She reached out her hand and it collide with a tree, so she knew they were there but she couldn't see them.

She heard giggling followed by someone grabbing her hand. The hand was smaller than her own. It was the hand of a child. "Mama's this way!" came a singsong voice. Hinata allowed the little hand to guide her through the trees. When the hand finally let go it gave another giggle before saying, "Bye bye."

Hinata felt a fear come over her. "Wait, don't leave me!" She reached out to try and grab the child but found that she was already gone.

All of a sudden she found herself being hugged from behind. "Hinata!"

"Nikko!" The light flared, hurting Hinata's eyes.

Nikko gave an embarrassed giggle. "Sorry about that, but you probably shouldn't say my name for a while."

"Why?"

"In order to protect you from the bad man I had to pull in all your spiritual pressure into your inner world which made it very bright. Sorry, but by morning it will be stabilized again."

Hinata gave a nod. "Oh! Who was that just now?"

"Oh, you mean. . ." Hinata didn't hear the rest of what she said because she found that someone had placed their hands over her ears.

She turned to where she thought the owner was. "Mama?" The hands gently shook her head in a yes. Hinata smiled as she tried to reach out towards her mom, but she found that her mind was becoming blurry. She found herself free falling through space.

. . .

Hinata awoke in Kisuke's shop. She could hear Ururu and Jinta playing in the other room and smiled. She turned to see Chad was asleep leaning against the wall. As she stood on her feet, she found that they were a little shaky but not too bad. She looked at her watch; she had missed the start of school. She reached out to find that Tatsuki and Orihime, along with most of the Shinigami, were at school. Uryu was with his dad, and Rukia was running around town. Ichigo was walking towards where Daffodil, jumpsuit, and several other people who felt like them were sending off a lot of spiritual pressure.

Hinata climbed out the window and headed off towards them.

Kisuke entered the room a moment later and cursed. Grabbing his coat, he jumped out the window after her. He needed to tell her about how Aizen was after her, and she needed to be more careful!
. . .

Hinata crept quietly behind Ichigo; she could sense Daffodil and the others waiting for Ichigo. Behind her, she could also sense Uncle Kisuke drawing closer. She knew he wasn't happy that she had left, but she had been curious about what Ichigo was doing. After a while, they approached what appeared to be an old, run down warehouse. Hinata smiled as Ichigo studied it from the outside for a moment before marching in. Hinata glanced behind her, blew a kiss at Uncle Kisuke, and then dashed in after Ichigo.

. . .

"Hinata!" Kisuke called, skidding to a halt outside the warehouse. "Dammit, her spirit energy is still depleted!"

Kisuke paced back and forth in front of the door for a moment. If they didn't want him to come in, they would definitely have Hachi make it impossible for him to enter. Halfheartedly he tried the door, but it was no use. Hinata was beyond his reach. With a sigh, he turned away; she would be safe enough with the Vizards.

Instead of going back to the shop, he made his way towards the Kurosaki residence. Isshin had already freaked out when Kisuke had called to let him know Hinata was with him last night. He might as well let her father know now where she was now rather than later. He dreaded the coming conversation, but it was better to just get it over with.

. . .

"Welcome!" Shinji said as Ichigo entered the warehouse. "I see you managed to make it as well, Hinata."

Ichigo spun on his heel and found Hinata standing close behind him, smiling at Shinji.