Mamoru yawned and rubbed his eyes. He felt exhausted. Days and days of training and he hadn't been sleeping very well. Most of that came from the fact that every time he tried to sleep he was woken up by Nnoitora throwing something at him. Nnoitora was insistent on training as much as possible. Part of that came from the bragging of Chio and Szayel. Of course Nnoitora was able to sleep as much as he wanted while Mamoru had other jobs he had to do- like helping his captain search the area for hollows.

"MAMORU!"

He rubbed his eyes and looked over as Hikari came walking towards him holding a jug of water. "What's up with you sleepy head?"

"Sorry, life has just been busy." He yawned again and then took the jug from Hikari. "Thanks."

"Maybe you should go sleep."

"Maybe." Mamoru smiled as he sat down on a nearby rock. He sighed. "But if I try Nnoitra keeps me up."

"Lock him into his sword form while you sleep." Hikari chuckled.

Mamoru froze and then laughed. "Actually that's a great idea. Don't know why I didn't think of that before. You know what I'm going to go home and take a nice long nap."

Hikari chuckled. "So what are we doing right now anyways?"

"Looking for hollows." He sighed. "Apparently a lot of hollows have been showing up in the area recently. Each of the squads is taking turns patrolling and I got sent to this area."

"Couldn't you have said no?" Hikari smirked. "You are special."

"I am." Mamoru smiled. "But I am also still just a soul reaper working for my squad."

"I guess." Hikari sighed. "I just don't want you collapsing from exhaustion."

"I'll be fine."

"No. You won't."

Mamoru jumped up at the voice and turned. Tamoshi was walking towards him- with eyes full of rage. "What do you want?" Mamoru drew out Nnoitora, waking the arrancar from his nap.

What's going on? Nnoitora asked.

"Where is she?" Tamoshi growled.

"Who?" Mamoru frowned.

"Don't try talking to him!" Hikari hissed. "He's the enemy."

"I know." Mamoru felt all the exhaustion in his body leave as he charged towards Tamoshi. Right as he felt Tamoshi's powers hold him in place he let Nnoitora out to play. Tamoshi looked shocked to see the full sized arrancar. Nnoitora grinned and swung his blade at Tamoshi. Tamoshi pushed on Nnoitora, releasing Mamoru. Mamoru swung his own blade down. The two continued to tag team against Tamoshi, with Hikari backing them up.

Tamoshi just looked mad. He continued to swing out at them. "WHERE IS SHE?!" A shock wave hit them and all three of them went flying. Tamoshi was breathing heavily.

"I don't-." Mamoru gasped as he felt a pressure on his chest. It was getting hard to breath.

"I don't know why you did it, but I want my sister back!" Tamoshi started walking towards Hikari. "Let's see how you feel when I take your sister away from you."

Hikari's eyes widened as Tamoshi held up his hand. "Say goodbye to your sister."

Hikari! Mamoru struggled and tried to get out of Tamoshi's power. I have to save her! NNOITORA! He yelled out as loud as he could in his mind. And then he felt a warmth. He watched as Nnoitora seemed to glow. And then he changed. He had multiple blades in his hands and four arms. He looked a lot more like his little form.

NNOITORA GO! Mamoru yelled.

Nnoitora swung one of his blades down at Tamoshi, who jerked to the side to avoid being cut in half. Tamoshi looked exhausted and Mamoru felt the weight disappear. He stood up and slowly walked over towards Tamoshi. "You won't hurt my sister!"

Tamoshi glared. "And my sister? Did you kill her?"

"No." Mamoru smiled. He could understand where Tamoshi was coming from. "I didn't touch her."

Tamoshi frowned. "Then where is she? Yoshida said your team took her!"

"No we didn't. We're protecting her." Mamoru looked at Nnoitora. "She rean away trying to get away from the fight. She is safe though."

Tamoshi looked at Mamoru and then sighed. "So she's alive." He rested a hand on his chest. "Thank goodness… Thank you for telling me." He slowly stood up and Mamoru tensed. "As thanks I will leave without anymore fighting now."

"Yeah right." Nnoitora growled. "Like we would let you!"

Tamoshi frowned. "Do you really think you can keep me here?"

"Let him go." Mamoru frowned. "Enough." He held up his hand and looked at Nnoitora, who was frowning as well.

"This isn't the end though." Tamoshi started to walk away. "Be prepared… And you should… Come and join us."

"No." Mamoru frowned.

Tamoshi nodded before running off.

"Mamoru…" Hikari looked at him.

"Are you okay Hikari?"

"I'm fine." She nodded. "But was that a good idea to let him go?"

Mamoru looked after Tamoshi. He really cares about his sister. I can understand that… but I can't accept him fighting and killing…. Next time Tamoshi… You won't be allowed to leave so easily. "Come on, let's go home now." He rested a hand on his sister's' shoulder and then looked at Nnoitora. "Looks like Chio and Szayel can't hold anything over us any more."

Nnoitora smirked. "Yes."