Disclaimer: I do not own bleach! All credits go to Tite Kubo

Rukon Arena (Interior)

"Inoue?.." Ichigo asked stunned.

"I'm sorry Kurosaki-kun... Ishida-kun, but I really cannot allow you to continue..." Inoue said lowly.

"What? What's the meaning of this Inoue?" Yoruichi asked stunned.

"Inoue?" Rukia asked.

Kyoraku, Ukitake, Byakuya, Kisuke and Yamamoto were all surprised but silent, even the Kurosaki family were stunned, Ichigo realized something was wrong, his instant regeneration wasn't working and he was losing consciousness as things around him became blury, Inoue somehow had managed to reject Ichigo's self healing ability, Ichigo hadn't forseen this since he didn't want to spoil the battle, which now proved to be a crucial mistake on his part.

"Inoue Orihime, what is the meaning of this!?" Bambietta asked furiously as she looked furiously at the girl.

Inoue didn't respond, instead she looked at Bambietta for a brief while before she turned her attention to Uryu, and then Ichigo.

"Tsubaki!" Inoue said as the fairy made a quick dash towards Ichigo.

Ulrik and some K.G guards quickly scrambled to stop the attack in a desperate attempt to protect their emperor, Bambietta and Yoruichi flashed towards Ichigo and Uryu prepared his bow, Byakuya scattered Senbonzakura, however they were to late as Tsubaki slashed through Ichigo like a knife cutting butter.

Ichigo activated his blut vene after the second strike, realizing that Inoue had indeed turned her back on him and Uryu, but why? What could she possibly achieve by doing this? Ichigo's mind started to become numb slowly, and in a desperate last ditch attempt he activated the almighty and a burst of flames roared out from under his feet, incinerating his body.

Everyone was stunned but suddenly visible red and black reishi filled the air and made a circle as Ichigo was shown once more to be uninjured, using the Almighty to rewrite the future to ensure he didn't die, causing a massive relief to the Quincy-Shinigami forces, and Inoue's reject ability had also been annulled as a result, though the fullbringers were stunned as this power was unheard of, all for one that is.

"Ahh yes, the Almighty, the power to see the future and to rewrite it, a terrifying power at that." Gabrin said as he frowned, realizing that Ichigo would be more dangerous then he initially thought, though Ichigo didn't respond.

"Inoue?.. Why?.." Ichigo asked shocked over her betrayal.

Inoue flinched at the sound, even Uryu wanted an answer, her own lover, which she had now turned her own back towards, preparing herself for the answer she would give, she made a blank expression.

"That is none of your concern!" Inoue said sternly, shocking everyone.

"INOUE!" Rangiku yelled out from another part of the stadium.

"She's a traitor! Seize her!" Bambietta yelled out in fury.

Ichigo looked at Ulrik and nodded, setting the K.G on a course to capture Inoue in hopes of having her arrested, Uryu looked at the scene and was in complete shock and denial, completely unable to move, all of his energy draining out from what Inoue had just done, what she had just said, unable to speak, unable to move, unable to think rationally, Uryu stood just stood there with wide eyes.

Just as the K.G approached, a light appeared from the sky, looking up, Ichigo noticed a rip, just like a garganta, however the light and garganta were different, as the Garganta were green in color, not the usual black ones from Hueco Mundo or the red one from hell that Ichigo had experienced from Yuzu's abduction to hell, and the light had a small tint of purple.

This wasn't a normal negacion, Ichigo, afraid to lose any soldiers to chance, ordered the K.G to stand back as Inoue and all the fullbringers except chad who stood there just as shocked as Ichigo was, showing that he had no affiliation with the fullbringers and his loyalty stayed with Ichigo, atleast that was a relief to Ichigo, but now, he felt betrayed, as Inoue was leaving the scene alongside the fullbringers.

"Inoue! Why did you do this!?" Chad asked furiously.

"Don't bother Sado-kun." Inoue said as she turned her back towards them and looked at her new liege.

No one could believe this was happening, how could Inoue of all people, the one person who barely even knew the word betray, turn her back on them so easily? It was the question on everyones minds, but Inoue refused to answer them, as she only told them not to bother, Ichigo looked at Gabrin furiously, how that man would pay dearly for causing this, oh yes he would pay even if hell froze over.

Ichigo was in a state of fury never seen before, everyone could feel the massive anger building up inside of him, he was furious at everyone and anything, but for now other matters had priority, they needed a casualty count and furthermore they needed answers to some very important questions, as the garganta shut and they had all left.

Along with the K.G reinforcements that had just entered the Quincy stand just prior to the closure of the garganta, was Erwig, figuring he could get more answers by seeing their transportation method directly he decided to tag along with his own escort, though he definitely didn't expect this as he was hesitating in even saying a word to his monarch, feeling his fury all the way up there, he figured it was better to let him calm down first.

Rukon Arena (Quincy Grounds)

***Several Hours Later***

The Quincy encampment was mostly in ruins, though Ichigo's tent had been saved the carnage, primarily due to the small group of K.G troops protecting it to ensure no one would enter and poison the food or something of the sort, the Kuchiki tent was a bit damaged but could still be used, though the Shihoin tent was utterly destroyed.

The Quincies had opened a gateway from the Wandenreich to allow the transport of medical crews and military reinforcements, luckily it was only soldiers that was injured and the nobles and royals were safe, Uryu was being treated for his injuries by the medical crew, and Bambietta just needed a new uniform since the one she had prior was damaged and some stitches in her arm to close her wound.

Now, inside the tent, Liltotto, Candice, Meninas and Bambietta along with Ichigo and Ulrik, were sitting at the table, pondering their next move as Erwig analyzed the data he got from the fullbringers alongside Kisuke, of course Mayuri was offered to join in but wanted nothing to do with them and went on his own investigation.

The sternritters Theun, Cappadox, Rodrick and Caldwell had arrived to help with commanding the troops in the field at the arena, while Gina had gone to the Seireitei alongside the sternritters Fifi, Virion, Xander, Illitran to evaluate the damages there since there were reports of an attack inside the Seireitei itself, which caused a massive worry amongst the nobility here.

But they haven't recieved any reports from Gina yet, though Ichigo looked at the table with his usual scowl like nothing was wrong, he felt utterly miserable after Inoue's betrayal, one of his closests friends was now an enemy, the entire tent was quiet, no one saying a word, Bambietta wanted to help her boyfriend but didn't know what to say to make the situation any better.

As a result she was just as miserable, it wasn't jealousy, it was sadness that she couldn't do anything to help him with his emotional state even if he tried to hide it, she knew about the friendship he and Uryu had with Inoue, and to add fuel to the fire, Inoue was Uryu's girlfriend, and now, what were they? Even Liltotto had to reread the reports and camera footage to confirm that Inoue actually tried to kill, since she refused to believe it.

But there was no denying it, luckily the cameras cut the live broadcast just as the evacuation began, though they still recorded, for now the A.N.U soldiers that was part of the reinforcements along with the Onmitsukido were confiscating the footage, which Byakuya, Yushiro, Kyoraku and Ichigo all agreed to, in order to avoid having the footage sent out and the attempted assassination would become publicly known, as it would make Inoue's situation even worse.

The tent opened up, Ichigo just kept looking at the table, not caring about who entered.

"We would like a word with our son, alone!" Isshin said sternly as he looked at the chancellors and Bambietta.

Ichigo finally raised his look and nodded to them, making them stand up and leave the tent as Isshin watched the last of them leave, until both he and Masaki went over to some chairs on Ichigo's side, both sitting opposite of each other at the table as they looked on a miserable Ichigo.

"I assume that this is where the lecture comes?" Ichigo asked as he looked at his parents, causing Isshin to sigh.

"No, I understand why you feel the way you did, I'm also surprised by how this unfolded, no one saw this coming, especially not with her, but it happened, despite everyones belief." Isshin said as he looked at his son, as Ichigo sighed and began to pour some water to himself.

"Belief and reality are two different things, what you think is impossible is quite possible in reality." Ichigo responded as he finished pouring the water into the glass and took a sip.

"Yes it is, but there is probably nothing you could have done to change the outcome, even with that power of yours." Masaki said as she felt sorry for Ichigo, he could hide his sadness as much as he wanted but Masaki read him like a book.

"Maybe, maybe not, perhaps I could have forseen it and stopped it beforehand, maybe I couldn't, it's just so frusterating to think that I could have potentially stopped it by being more vigilant." Ichigo said as he looked at his mother, leaving Masaki only to look at Ichigo sadly.

"That doesn't matter now, that's the past, there might be many reasons for why she did what she did, she didn't share them so we can only speculate, but does that mean it should drag you down?" Isshin asked Ichigo in an unusual serious tone, leaving Ichigo speechless for a brief moment.

"...No... No it shouldn't, it's just... It's just so hard to process it all..." Ichigo said as he looked at his glass.

"Yes it is, but that doesn't matter now, what matters is how you learn from it." Isshin said to Ichigo, leaving Ichigo only to look at the table as he tapped his finger on his glass.

"Yeah... You're right, how is Ishida by the way?" Ichigo asked, causing Masaki to flinch.

"Well... Not good, as you'd expect, he seems to be in denial, furthermore Kanae and Ryuken has arrived to support their son in this time of turmoil for him." Masaki said sadly, causing Ichigo to be quite sad himself.

"I see... I guess he is the most affected after all, though not a wonder considering their relationship... He loved her dearly..." Ichigo said sadly, causing Masaki to nod in understanding as Masaki knew about their relationship.

"He will eventually get over it, though the path will be hard for him." Isshin said lowly as he looked at the roof of the tent.

"I hope so, atleast he has the luxury of being miserable and showing it, but I can't be like that now, not in our current state of war, if I am it will only cause problems." Ichigo said plainly, knowing the importance of his position and how he handles the situation.

Masaki was internally furious at those words, she knew how much of a weight Ichigo's position had, but not being able to be sad, or feeling upset was just to harsh and brutal, normally Ichigo would have screamed, yelled, made a scene, but not this time, this time he just accepted what had happened without causing havoc or a scene.

"But we will learn the truth eventually, whether Inoue wants us to or not, it doesn't matter, we'll know her reason." Ichigo said optimistically, causing Isshin to smile before nodding.

"We were worried about how you might be taking this, I'm happy that you are atleast taking it with moderation." Isshin said as he got up, happy that his son had shown signs of seeing things through more then one perspective in cases like this.

Ichigo nodded to his father as he watched Isshin and Masaki leave, ensuring that Liltotto, Candice, Meninas and Bambietta once more entered the tent, this time with Kyoraku, Ukitake, Byakuya, Ginrei and Yamamoto with them aswell.

"I want to thank you for the help you are providing us in this situation Ichigo-kun." Kyoraku said seriously as he looked at Ichigo.

"We knew they were coming but little were made to prepare for something devastating as this, I take full responsibility for that." Ichigo said sadly.

"Do not feel responsible, you warned us and we were the ones that were responsible for security first and foremost at this event, the fault lies with us." Byakuya said honestly.

"Indeed, the casualties would have been higher and a lot more lethal if we were not warned beforehand, your royal guard played an important role in securing the leadership of the Soul Society atleast, for that we are grateful." Ginrei said with his own stoic expression.

"Have there been any reports from the Seireitei as of yet?" Ichigo asked his chancellors as he looked at them.

"We have recieved a verification that the Seireitei was indeed attacked, the damage is severe, and many wounded, including our own soldiers, Gina has estimated that half of the Seireitei detachment has been wounded or killed in action, furthermore, the A.N.U is searching Inoue Orihime's home as we speak for any clues regarding her change of affiliation, furthermore Pascal has requested to speak with you." Candice said plainly, knowing what this was about, and even Bambietta sweated a little at this.

"Yeah? If he is here then bring him in." Ichigo said as he awaited Pascal, who quickly entered the tent.

If his chancellors and Bambietta sweated, they couldn't even compare to Pascal, who was sweating bullets and was visibly nervous, knowing what he had come here for might invoke Ichigo's wrath fully.

"Your majesty!" Pascal said as he saluted.

"Ahh, Pascal Egger was it? Commander of the A.N.U?" Kyoraku asked with a gentle smile.

"That is correct head-captain." Pascal said respectfully.

"How goes the investigation?" Ichigo asked, causing Pascal to show some files to Ichigo which was confiscated in Inoue's apartment.

Ichigo looked at them and frowned, not only had she betrayed him, she had spied on him, as the documents gave away military information about their army size, their sternritters, the A.N.U, troop movements, everything, though there wasn't anything highly classified in the files they found but they could only guess what Inoue had given away.

"So she spied on us..." Ichigo said disapponted.

"I'm sorry your majesty." Pascal said.

Kyoraku sighed, Yamamoto grunted, Byakuya remained stoic, the chancellors with mixed expressions from angry to sad, Ukitake was visibly sad, Ginrei frowned.

"But there is something else isn't there?" Ichigo asked Pascal as he looked at the man.

"Yes your majesty, it is an improper request but we in the A.N.U see it as a necessary one." Pascal said, making all eyes look on him as he got more nervous.

"Go on!" Ichigo said impatiently, noticing Pascal's nervousness.

"We are fully aware that Inoue Orihime has spritually aware friends in the world of the living, we suspect that they might know something and-" Pascal said before Ichigo interrupted him.

"I will personally dispatch some soldats to bring them in to Silbern, I do not want the A.N.U to deviate more units from their assigned tasks, we will call for you when it is time." Ichigo said, surprising everyone in the room by his approval.

"Yes your majesty!" Pascal said as he saluted and left to do his job.

"Oh boy, I'm surprised you're going to do that, even though they are your friends aswell." Kyoraku said almost stunned.

"Kyoraku... I have an entire empire to look after, personal emotions cannot sway me from my own duties, I don't have that luxury anymore, I just have to accept it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it." Ichigo said almost nonchalantly.

'It's a cruel position indeed.' Kyoraku said inwardly as he felt a bit of sadness at how Ichigo was forced to conduct himself.

"Furthermore we are now in a state of war, which is most troublesome." Ginrei said anxiously.

"They picked one bad time to declare war, atleast we are in a state where we can fight on, but I assume you are still limited?" Ichigo asked Kyoraku, as he got a nod, confirming Ichigo's worry.

"So how will we do this?" Bambietta asked Ichigo as she looked at him.

"First of all, we'll call a press meeting, informing our empire that we are in a state of war, and that a declaration of war has been sent to us, then we mobilise the army and call up every soldier we have, and make attack and defence plans, along with the interrogation for now." Ichigo said.

Just as Ichigo said that, a soldat interrupted them as he requested permission to enter, which was granted by Ichigo, the soldat entered and saluted respectfully as he delievered a document to Ichigo, containing three pages, Ichigo read through them as the soldat left, as Ichigo read the document he frowned.

"It's the report from Gina." Ichigo said as he looked at the report.

"What does it say?" Bambietta asked with a raised eyebrow.

"78 percent of the Seireitei detachment has been killed, the rest is injured, and the first division barracks have been blown up, the underground chamber to central 46 is flooded and anyone presumed to be in the central 46 chambers are presumed dead, almost guaranteed drowning." Ichigo said as he looked at Kyoraku.

Kyoraku sighed, as he looked at the ground, this was a very troublesome issue indeed.

"Luckily the members of central 46 was here, and so were the nobility, if we had packed up to leave then the situation would have been worse, it looks like it was the right call to remain here after all." Ukitake said as he looked at Kyoraku.

"So it seems, but what a troublesome issue, we have just gotten the first division in order and now it's ruined, furthermore the underground chamber is totally ruined, and casualties sounds to be high, can it really get any worse?" Kyoraku asked.

"You got off the easiest in terms of casualties." Ichigo said as he looked at Kyoraku.

"What do you mean?" Kyoraku asked.

"Evidently the forces of the Gotei focused on evacuation at the request of the commanding officer of my forces in the Seireitei, which they did, as a result my forces met with the fullbringers head on, which is why we lost the majority of that unit, the Gotei in terms of soldiers remain mostly unscathed, though there are some wounded and some killed, but that number is low on your end as a result, you should be getting a report on that soon." Ichigo said with a mixed expression.

"I see, you have my condolences and thanks." Kyoraku said, figuring that Ichigo's forces got the axe unlike his.

"But you asked if the situation could get any worse, regretfully it can." Ichigo said with a hint of anger.

"How come?" Yamamoto asked.

"When my forces entered the muken, a certain Aizen Souske was missing after the attack." Ichigo said, causing everyone to widen their eyes on shock.

"Aizen has escaped!?" Ukitake nearly screamed.

"Did he join the fullbringers?" Byakuya asked, which caused Ichigo to laugh.

"Aizen? Joining the fullbringers? Hardly... That guy wouldn't let anyone rule him, if anything, I suspect we might see him soon." Ichigo said amused, causing everyone to look at Ichigo.

"I see, regardless, it's weird, I thought they would have appeared by now?" Liltotto said as she looked at Ichigo.

"Who?" Ichigo asked with a raised eyebrow.

"The zero division." Liltotto replied as she looked at Ichigo.

"I don't know, maybe they will come, maybe not, we'll see, in the meantime, we should be getting back to the Wandenreich, there is no use for us to be here and prepare for war." Ichigo said as he stood up.

"Alright, I'll prepare the gate." Candice said as she went over to the gate of the sun.

"I'll just be making two phone calls first, and bring me a recording of the assassination attempt on me aswell, I will be needing that." Ichigo said as he took the phone.

Karakura Town (Karakura Park)

***90 minutes later***

Keigo, Mizuiro and Tatsuki walked together as they enjoyed their summer vacation, things weren't as lively without their usual gang around, namely Ichigo, Uryu, Chad and Inoue, the group hasn't Ichigo and Uryu in a while now, though Keigo, Mizuiro and Tatsuki knew that he was busy ruling, and so was Uryu.

"When do you think we'll see them again?" Keigo asked Mizuiro as he continued to walk.

"You're talking about Ichigo? I don't know, he's probably quite busy." Mizuiro responded nonchalantly.

"Still, he could atleast visit once in a while." Tatsuki said annoyed.

"I'm sure he'll be around eventually" Mizuiro said in his usual manner

"It's been a while, Tatsuki-chan." The voice said, revealing no one else but Inoue Orihime in person.

Inoue wore a red dominion uniform, and was accompanied by 4 other people, wearing the same uniform, the difference was that Inoue wore the officers uniform and the four others didn't, the group stopped just before them, Keigo was stopped by Mizuiro, though Tatsuki kept going towards Inoue.

"What's wrong Mizuiro? Can't I go and see-" Keigo asked, before Mizuiro hushed him.

"Don't Keigo, just stay here." Mizuiro said carefully.

Inoue was visibly disturbed by the fact that Mizuiro tried to distance himself from her, she wondered why, but what she didn't know was that the second phone call Ichigo had made prior, was to Mizuiro, where Ichigo had explained the situation, and feared that she might be coming to Karakura town, he even sent the recording to Mizuiro who saw the attempted assassination with his own two eyes.

"I'm sorry but we have something to do Inoue-san, If you would excuse us." Mizuiro said as he took Keigo to leave quickly.

However, several more fullbringers appeared and stopped them from leaving, causing Tatsuki to wonder what was going on.

"We will be taking our leave, I'm sorry but we can't stay here." Mizuiro said as he looked at the fullbringer.

"I think not!" The fullbringer said sternly.

"What's going on?" Tatsuki asked.

"I'm sorry but you all need to come with me." Inoue said sadly.

"What? Where?" Tatsuki asked.

"That is none of your concern, just come with us!" Another fullbringer said.

"No, I will not come with you, Inoue is regretfully untrustworthy." Mizuiro said sternly, trying to find a way out of this situation.

"What?.. I dare you to say that again Mizuiro!" Tatsuki said in Inoue's defence, noticing that Inoue was hurt from those words

"Alright, Inoue Orihime is untrustworthy! She attempted to kill Ichigo and stabbed Uryu in the back when she joined a faction that just declared war on Ichigo's empire!" Mizuiro said sternly to Tatsuki, causing Inoue to be shocked.

"What? There is no way Inoue would do that!" Tatsuki said in Inoue's defence.

"Except she did, I spoke with Ichigo recently, and he showed me a recording of the attempt, she did try to assassinate him, and the Wandenreich has charged her for espionage and attempted regicide!" Mizuiro said, shocking Tatsuki and Keigo.

"What!?" Keigo asked, as he looked at Inoue.

"No... I refuse to believe that!" Tatsuki said.

"Regretfully it is true!" A voice said from the sidelines.

Looking at the voice was no one else but a Quincy, accompanied by a company of soldats, or to be more precise a company from the Jagdarmee, and their commander, Emmerich Opie, the fullbringers prepared their weapons just as the jagdarmee prepared theirs.

"I never would have expected you to show yourself personally, traitor!" Emmerich said with disdain.

"Careful what you say to her!" Tatsuki warned Emmerich.

"Do not be gullible and believe this traitor, all she intends to do is to put you in harms way." Emmerich said, invoking the fury of Tatsuki as she charged at Emmerich.

Suddenly Emmerich vanished from her vision and knocked her to the ground easily, holding her right hand behind her back and his left hand held her left shoulder, which shocked Inoue as she was terrified at what the man might do to Tatsuki as she laid there on the ground forcibly.

For the first time since Aizen, Tatsuki felt fear as she felt the mans gloved hand hold her shoulder firmly towards the ground, she didn't even see him coming, she attacked someone she couldn't even hope to beat in single combat, suddenly Emmerich became brutal as he put pressure on Tatsuki's arm, causing her to scream in pain, she was sure he would break it, but suddenly the pressure let of and he was no longer on top of her.

He now stood right besides Keigo and Mizuiro, much to their surprise as they never saw him coming, the soldats charged at Tatsuki, hoping to apprehend her quickly before the fullbringers could save her but Inoue used Santen Kesshun to stop the Quincy soldats as they moved around Tatsuki as a five point barrier, effectively blocking the soldats as they were unable to approach her.

"Ahh, the Shun Shun rikka, quite the renown ability, this is the first time I'm personally seeing it, quite a spectacular sight." Emmerich said with a smug satisfied face.

Inoue said nothing, just looking at Emmerich with a stern face.

"There is no helping it, I have to use a more violent method to get to her then." Emmerich said with a smug satisfied face as he manifested not just any blade, but one that Inoue recognized, the same blade worn by his father, namely Quilge's saber.

Drawing the blade, Inoue could see the similarities between father and son, as he drew it in an identical manner as his father once did, the fullbringers tried to attack Emmerich but the soldats got in the way, as they drew their own weapons, the soldats in the distance manifested rifles and the ones close manifested swords.

It was obvious that the fullbringers were intimidated by the soldats due to their barets, gas masks and goggles, as they briefly hesitated, but quickly regained themselves as the two forces clashed at eachother.

The riflemen fired a barrage of reishi bullets, severly injuring or killing many of the fullbringers in the first barrage, though some managed to avoid getting hit, looking at the scene Emmerich frowned, were they really intending on attacking both the Wandenreich and the Soul Society with such a weak force? If so how did they even manage to take out the majority of the Seireitei detachment? It was embarrassing!

But there was still one major problem for Emmerich, Inoue herself possessed troublesome abilities, and if anything taking her down now would be the best course of action, he didn't need to kill her, just make her get into a world of pain, or he could use another tactic, one that Inoue probably didn't know about, while she did know about the Sternritter, she shouldn't know what their ephitets did.

Smirking, Emmerich put his blade on the ground, and let reishi flow out of blade into the ground, his Ephitet, was probably closest to his fathers, while he did possess some of the same abilities as his father did, he also had a new set of abilities, that was the power of the J, or the Justice.

Inoue noticed Emmerich's smirk, she didn't know why he smirked, but she didn't care right now, he tried to harm Tatsuki and for that he would pay, preparing to fire off Tsubaki to end the man once and for all, she was shocked as she was unable to do so, he Shun Shun Rikka also stopped functioning as the barrier shattered.

"Wh... What's going on?" Inoue asked, before she felt something.

Looking to her foot, she noticed a reishi wire, that had gone underground and attached itself to her foot, she tried to move but was unable to do so.

"If you spied on us I would have atleast suspected that you would know about our powers?" Emmerich said with a grin.

"What?" Inoue asked.

"What's going on? Is she unable to use her own powers?" Keigo asked, Mizuiro tried to analyze the situation but didn't know what was happening, so they both listened to Emmerich, hoping to find out.

"As you are aware, all Quincies possess the same set of abilities, however, there is an exception to that rule, namely, those who have been blessed by the Quincy king himself, namely his majesty, Emperor Ichigo Kurosaki, those few have been blessed with a piece of his majesty's soul, by writing a letter in the soul of the person who has been granted his blessing, those people gain power through that letter, also known as ephitet, the people who has been blessed by his majesty also gain a special rank, namely sternritter, as you are aware, I am one of those people, and my ephitet is J, as you can imagine, it has something to do with the letter J." Emmerich replied with a smug face.

"I'm aware, the ephitet represent a word, and that word is the source of your special powers, like the former sternritter, the explode had the ability to make bombs, the power was enhanced strength, and the Thunderbolt was electricity, so what does the J stand for?" Inoue asked curiously as she looked at Emmerich.

Emmerich just smiled, happy that she didn't know the new ephitets, if anything, this would mean that they had that very advantage, and as a result Emmerich couldn't risk having her know what the ephitets stood for, he took his finger to his mouth in a hush like manner before speaking.

"Speech is silver... Silence is golden." Emmerich said with a smile, indicating he had no intention of sharing that information just as he went behind Keigo and Mizuiro and touched their shoulders.

"Inoue!" A voice said as five more figures appeared.

Looking at the voice, Inoue saw Yoruichi, Kisuke, Rukia, Rangiku and Toshiro, all wanting answers as they looked at the girl, noticing that Yoruichi had called her out, she looked at Yoruichi, not even breaking eye contact..

"Why are you doing this? Why are you joining them?" Rangiku asked.

"Ohh? Shinigami in Quincy territory? Isn't that a territorial violation?" A young fullbring soldier asked as the fighting died down.

"Don't misunderstand boy, as our diplomatic situations have improved, his majesty has granted them military access to our territories in the world of the living, we have no quarrel with having the Shinigami here as they are free to enter and leave at their own wishes, just as we can be in their territory, you can rather say that the world has become more shared between our two glorious empires, that is after all the will of his majesty!" Emmerich said scoldingly to the young soldier.

"Yoruichi-san... Rangiku-san..." Inoue said as she looked at the two.

"Yes it's them, you saying their name doesn't answer their question!" Emmerich said with a frown.

"They have nothing to do with this! And they don't need to know!" Inoue said sternly.

"That's what you say now, if you refuse to open up... Well... I'm sure his majesty has a special re-education program just for you." Emmerich said with a smirk.

Inoue realized she was in a bad position, completely surrounded and and unable to use her abilities, she made a last desperate attempt to break free, reaching into her pocket she reached a controller, with a single button, Emmerich who quickly realized it was an emergency button as she pushed it, quickly ordered the soldats to get away from her and Tatsuki, knowing he would be unable to reach her.

A garganta opened up and special negacions flew down and engulfed Inoue and Tatsuki, two more aimed at Keigo and Mizuiro, though Emmerich, using his radio and knowing that the schatten was on a timer, pressed his own emergency button on his radio, which caused the schatten to appear, knowing that when he touched Keigo and Mizuiro, he placed a schatten seal on them to ensure that the shadows engulfed them rather then a negacion.

Keigo and Mizuiro were shocked to see their own shadows now engulfing them, and the schatten defence had been initiated, causing the schatten and the negacion to battle each other in a battle for dominance, though since the schatten was a different world, it followed different rules, ensuring that the schatten was stronger, which caused Emmerich to grin in victory.

Inoue, knowing that two out of three of her own friends, wouldn't join her in the Dominion was sad because the Quincy schatten had bested the negacion and engulfed Keigo and Mizuiro totally until they were gone, but she had her own best friend with her, though she knew that they would need a long talk now, one that she really wanted to avoid, but that was an issue she would take then.

She knew it was a partial victory for her, even though Rukia tried to frantically call out to Inoue, hoping to get her back, for the first time, she turned her back to Rukia, not caring about what she said, which shocked the Shinigami greatly, Emmerich looked at the scene, and frowned, but inside he had a deep sense of pride, he had completed his mission fully.

Wait what?

***Flashback (Prior to Emmerich's departure)***

Silbern Throne Room

"So this is a bug?" Emmerich asked as he looked at a small syringe, given to him by Erwig.

"That is correct, it is the same spy bacteria that Mayuri Kurotsuchi uses, Kisuke and I made this just recently, anyone injected will give us information about their current location, environment, reiatsu levels, everything, we will even be able to see and hear through their own eyes and ears, all you need to do is to inject it into the victim using this syringe, it functions best if you insert it directly into a blood vein however, so try to aim for that somehow, since it will spread faster, otherwise it will be hours before we can successfully get information." Erwig said.

"I see, and who is the target your majesty?" Emmerich asked Ichigo as he sat upon his throne.

"Your mission is to get Keigo Asano and Mizuiro Kojima into our custody, I have already spoken with Mizuiro and have a location set in the Karakura Park, they are a rescue objective, however, Tatsuki Arisawa is the target for that bacteria, I have it on good authority that Inoue will try to get all three of them, which is why you have to ensure that Keigo and Mizuiro have schatten seals placed on them, as much as I'm reluctant to do so, considering that Tatsuki is a dear childhood friend, I have no choice in the matter, I will let Inoue take her, we need the information, but Keigo and Mizuiro are to be brought here no matter what! Do you understand? Commander of the Jagdarmee and sternritter J, Emmerich Opie?" Ichigo said sternly.

"I understand your majesty, it will be done!" Emmerich said.

"You will leave immediately, take as many men as you can but be quick about it, you don't have much time." Ichigo said as he looked at Emmerich.

"I understand your majesty, I have a company ready to move out immediately." Emmerich said.

"Very well, take them with you, your arrival point is Fort Karakura, the schatten is on a 45 minute timer, so you have limited time to complete the mission, in emergency, use the emergency recall button on your radio, all your soldiers and yourself will be automatically marked when you leave to Karakura town, the system is set to automatic so no need to worry about adjustments, the timer will activate once the gate closes and you have arrived at the Fort, Dismissed!" Ichigo said.

"Understood you majesty!" Emmerich said as he saluted and left.

***Flashback***

Karakura Town (Karakura Park)

Holding Tatsuki's hand, he noticed a nice blood vessel under her wrist on her arm, taking the small syring, he put more pressure on which caused Tatsuki a lot of pain, in hopes that she wouldn't feel the syringe, when he was done, his actions had been unnoticed, ensuring that one objective had been completed successfully.

***Flashback End***

Content with the fact that Inoue or the idiots she was with was unaware of the fact that this had been a complete Quincy victory, and that all of this had been planned beforehand, he watched them leave, as the schatten engulfed him and his soldiers, and just a second later, he was gone, leaving only the Shinigami present, who stood there shocked, as no one knew what had just happened.

Silbern Main Gate

The schatten was programmed to send them to the main gate of the castle, as they emerged, Keigo noticed the city, before he turned around and noticed the massive tower, even Mizuiro was surprised by it, as the tower was almost a city in itself.

"Welcome to Silbern, Capital of the Quincy empire, the Wandenreich, the tower you see behind you is the heart of our empire, that is where his majesty and all the sternritter live, and it is the place where the entire Wandenreich is ruled from, by orders of his majesty I will bring you to him now." Emmerich said as he gestured for the two to follow him into the massive tower.

"This tower is quite big." Keigo noted.

"It is, the tower was built using a city slightly smaller then Silbern City, which is just outside the walls there, you will see it better as you get higher." Emmerich said without turning around.

"So this is where Ichigo lives?" Mizuiro asked.

"That is correct, he lives at the top part of the tower alongside the grand mistress and the chancellors and the royal family, though we sternritters have quarters up there aswell." Emmerich replied.

"The top? Do we have to walk all those stairs!?" Keigo asked shocked.

"...Have you ever heard of elevators?..." Emmerich asked dumbfounded.

Silbern Throne Room

***Several Moment Later***

After having the elevator taken to the top, they were stunned by the view of the city, it was pretty high up, and the extravagant interior always stunned the people who had never been there before, now standing in the massive throne room, they looked around, Ichigo wasn't present yet, but it was being reported to him as they waited.

It only took a few minutes for Ichigo to arrive, accompanied, by Bambietta and the chancellors, except Uryu who was still in the infirmary, Ichigo manifested his throne and sat down on it, as he looked at his two closest friends.

"I presume you know of the problem with Inoue?" Ichigo asked as he started the conversation.

"We know now, what happened?" Mizuiro asked.

"We do not know how Inoue got in contact with the fullbringers, or how long she has had contact with them, all we know is that her allegiance lies with them." Bambietta said for Ichigo.

"And what about Chad?" Keigo asked.

"He's here, thankfully, he didn't know about Inoue himself and was just as shocked, I'm sorry to have you two involved in this." Ichigo said as he looked at his friends.

"Don't worry about it, I'm just happy you told me beforehand, otherwise things might have gotten ugly." Mizuiro concluded.

"But they got Tatsuki!" Keigo said frantically.

"I'm aware, do not worry about that part, despite her actions Inoue would never let any harm come to her, so she's in safe hands." Ichigo said as he looked at the roof.

"That is true, there is no use to worry about that." Mizuiro concluded.

"Anyways, good job Emmerich, you successfully completed your mission." Ichigo said as he praised Emmerich.

"It was just as you predicted your majesty, the bug was planted successfully aswell." Emmerich said.

"I know, Erwig has a good signal, good job on that too, I know you had to be a little rough with Tatsuki, but I am also aware that it was necessary." Ichigo responded.

"For that I apologize, I know about your friendship and I never wanted to cause problems or harm her personally." Emmerich said.

"I know, take a break, you have earned it." Ichigo said, causing Emmerich to salute as he left.

"You bugged Tatsuki?" Mizuiro asked as Emmerich left the room.

"That is correct, for now she is our little spy, though she doesn't know it yet, Emmerich inserted a spy bacteria when he had her pinned to the ground, that's why he added more pressure to her arm, so she couldn't feel the syringe, even though it was brutal, it was necessary." Ichigo responded honestly.

"I see, and as a result she doesn't know... Clever." Mizuiro said amazed.

"There is no better spy then the ones that doesn't know they are spies." Ichigo responded.

"True, but they would probably come for us again, which is why you brought us here?" Mizuiro asked, surprising Keigo.

"Correct, we will fix you some quarters here so you can be here in the meantime until it is safe, feel free to tour the city and do what you like, the servants will bring you what you need, back there is Samund Abesse, the royal attendant and the chief of the servants, he will help you get acquainted." Ichigo said with a smile, showing his best hospitality as Samund introduced himself.

"But my sister will kill me if I don't make it home tonight, let alone god knows how long this will take." Keigo said scared.

"Don't worry, we will handle the situation, let me introduce you to the commander of the A.N.U and Sternritter T, Pascal Egger." Ichigo said as the doors opened and Pascal entered.

"A.N.U?" Keigo asked.

"The Wandenreich secret police, you can think of them as the Quincy C.I.A if you like, only they work both internally and external of our empire." Ichigo said.

"I see, almost like the K.G.B and Gestapo then?" Mizuiro asked, shocking Keigo.

"Like that... Yes..." Ichigo said, not thinking about those two.

"Regardless, the situation about your sister is already being solved." Pascal said with a smile.

"Eh?.." Keigo said surprised as he noticed a screen moving down from the roof.

Karakura Town (Keigo's residence)

"So why are we here? AND WHY DO I HAVE THIS BLINDFOLD!?" Ikkaku yelled out annoyed, he had been ordered by Kyoraku to go to Karakura town in a Gigai to help the A.N.U at Ichigo's request.

"Don't worry about it, it's all in good hands." An A.N.U soldat said as he reassured Ikkaku.

*Ding Dong... Ding Dong, Ding Dong*

"I'm coming!" the voice said behind the door.

The A.N.U quickly removed the blindfold on Ikkaku and vanished using Hirenkyaku, leaving Ikkaku to stare at the door, not knowing where he was, since he didn't recognize the place... yet... Then the door opened, and Ikkaku instantly realized where he was, and he didn't like it one bit, as he looked straight at Mizuho Asano, Keigo's sister, suddenly she looked at Ikkaku's chest, for a while, causing Ikkaku to look at his own chest where he noticed a note taped to his chest.

I'll Be away for some time, so for the time being I've sent this man to be with you while I'm gone, have fun! Sincerily, Keigo!

"DAAAAARLIIIIIIIING! Keigo can stay away forever for all I care, nothing can seperate us! not even him, he isn't welcome here anymore!" Mizuho yelled as she hugged and kissed Ikkaku.

"Gotten yourself a sense of humor haven't you?... ICHIIIIGOOOOOO!" Ikkaku yelled out into the air, not noticing the A.N.U a fair distance away, who had recorded the entire ordeal.

Silbern Throne Room

"So that's the essence of it, problem solved!" Pascal said proudly.

"I told you the plan would work." Ichigo said as Bambietta, and the chancellors sweatdropped and deadpanned at the screen.

"No... You just made me homeless..." Keigo said as he sulked in a corner.

"Anyways, we'll be staying here then." Mizuiro said as he looked at Ichigo.

"Yes, anyways, we have some questions for you regarding Inoue, Pascal will speak with you on that regard, so if you'd please follow him?" Ichigo asked, getting a nod from Keigo and Mizuiro as they left with Pascal.

After they left, Ichigo sat there, pondering what the recordings from Tatsuki would show over time, though he had ordered Erwig to tell him when something of interest happened, furthermore, Erwig would recieve more data on the place the fullbringers were hiding, so until then, it was only a question about who would make the first assault in the war, but Ichigo knew he had some good cards on the table now.

"Anyways, I'll go meet my family, I haven't seen them yet!" Bambietta said in a hostile manner as she turned to leave, not even looking at Ichigo.

"Alright, see you later." Ichigo said as he noticed Bambietta's sudden reaction, he noticed that she was in a fairly bad mood, to say it nicely, but he had to focus on work for now.

Basterbine Residence

Bambietta entered her family home, knowing that they all had the time off, this would probably be the only logical place for them to be, unless they were out shopping, but if that was the case Bambietta would just wait for them.

"I'm back." Bambietta said as she had taken off her boots.

"Ahh, welcome back." Ernst said as he peeked into the hallway from the living room.

"Where's mommy?" Bambietta asked.

"She's out getting the groceries, she'll be back soon." Ernst said.

Bambietta looked around, and from the corner of a wall, she noticed her sister, looking at her, not making any attempts to greet her, though Bambietta knew that it was because of her anxiety problems, so it wasn't much of a surprise, Bambietta knew that Sabrina considered herself a burden to the family and a disappointment, even though no one agreed with her on that.

Deciding to get her into a better mood, Bambietta suddenly vanished with a flash of Hirenkyaku, leaving Sabrina baffled and surprised as her sister was nowhere to be seen, she looked around the hallway but couldn't see her, believing that Bambietta left, she once more felt disappointed with herself, regretting not to greet her.

"You don't really think you'd be able to hide from me did you?" Bambietta said behind Sabrina with a grin as she looked down at her sister.

Sabrina flinched, as she quickly looked behind her, leaving Bambietta to wonder how she didn't get a whiplash, it was obvious that Bambietta took her by complete surprise, though Bambietta had counted on that.

"I haven't gotten my morning hug yet have I?" Bambietta pointed out.

With a happy expression, Sabrina jumped right into Bambietta's arms, if it was one thing Bambietta really looked forward to it was this, among other things, but bedtime with Ichigo could wait, letting Sabrina sit in her arms, Bambietta went into the living room with her father, as she went to the couch and sat down.

"She's really missed you." Ernst said with a small smile, as he looked at the two siblings.

"Well I wouldn't be gone forever." Bambietta said as she stroked Sabrina's hair who was now sitting on Bambietta's lap playing with her teddy

"True, I saw Ichigo's fight with that brute, that was one finishing blow." Ernst pointed out.

"Yeah, he caused a damn earth quake." Bambietta said as she deadpanned.

"Haha, so I've heard, how is his opponent holding out?" Ernst asked.

"Kenpachi? That monster took that blow head on like it was the most normal thing in the world, all he did was to lose consciousness." Bambietta said, surprising Ernst.

"Wait what? A normal person would be torn to pieces from something like that?" Ernst asked shocked.

"Yup, but not him, that brute is powerful and scary." Bambietta said with a sigh.

"I also heard about the war declaration." Ernst said, causing Sabrina to stop playing with her teddy as she looked at her sister.

"Yeah, lots of things happened." Bambietta said sadly.

"The camera's cut the moment the fights started and people tried to flee." Ernst said.

"I know, regardless we will be preparing for war, I guess things are going to get busy around here so I can only be here for an hour until I have to get back to work." Bambietta said as she looked at the roof with a sad expression, as the main door opened, Bambietta noticed her mother entering the home, she was happy to see her daughter again, especially after what she saw on the TV.

"Bambi? I see you're okay!" Ausilia said happily and relieved.

"Of course, what you didn't think i'd let people like that beat me did you?" Bambietta said with a smirk.

"Well, guess you were worried over nothing, just like I said." Ernst said with a smirk, earning him Ausilia's ire.

"You're too easy going Ernst! Anyways, will you be staying with us for dinner?" Ausilia asked.

"Yeah." Bambietta said happily.

"Ichigo is he busy today?" Ernst asked.

"He has work to do." Bambietta replied.

"I see, anyways, I'll get dinner ready." Ausilia said as she went for the kitchen.

After a little while as Ausilia was in the middle of dinner and Ernst helping her out, Bambietta decided to keep her sister preoccupied, as they sat on the floor playing with each other, though Bambietta was a bit concerned as Sabrina seemed to have something on her mind.

"Nee-san?" Sabrina said as she looked at her sister.

"Yes?" Bambietta asked.

"I spoke with Candice while you were gone, and I have something I want to ask." Sabrina said as she looked questionably at her sister.

Oh god no, nonononono, what did Candice say to Sabrina? Bambietta became worried, as nothing good could ever come out of that.

"W-w-what?" Bambietta asked nervously as she looked at her little sister with a fake smile, trying to hide her concern.

"Candice said that you and Ichigo do something called sex! What is sex and what is it like?" Sabrina asked curiously.

Bambietta and Sabrina just looked at eachother for a while, no one saying a word until Sabrina noticed that Bambietta was getting red, and it got brighter, until she finally fainted.

Silbern Royal Office

Ichigo was annoyed, he had a lot of unanswered questions, how in the hells name did the Seireitei detachment get nearly annihilated, the casualties was so high the entire unit had been taken out of action and considered combat ineffective, leaving Ichigo with an entire regiment out of commission, he had decided to launch an investigation into the disaster, headed by Gina Haschwalth and the sternritters sent to the Seireitei.

He had already recieved reports from Gina from various eye witnesses that survived the onslaught, with the help of soldats, she was able to take statements very quickly but the reports only gave more questions then answers.

'So they sent the more powerful force to the Seireitei while Gabrin headed into the lion's den? Why?.. Why would he take the weaker force with him to encounter the more powerful opponents? Surely the weaker ones could have done the job just as good if they had the element of surprise?' Ichigo pondered inwardly.

Reading through more reports, he came to only one conclusion.

'It has to be Aizen, the guy escaped the muken during the attack, but I cannot see him working with the fullbringers, if anything Yhwach was a testiment to that, Aizen would never allow anyone to rule or control him...' Ichigo said inwardly as he frowned.

Thinking about a variety of scenarios, he couldn't reach one that would make a lot of sense.

'The damn guy's immortal, so an assassination is out of the question, alliances are out of the question since he would probably refuse them due to their lack of power and abilities, could they actually want to harvest Aizen's power? If they managed to do so then their forces would grow dramatically in strength, but Aizen would never permit that...' Ichigo concluded.

Putting the report down, he leaned into the back of his chair, and looked at the roof.

"I guess there is no use in guessing... I gotta go straight to the source then." Ichigo said loudly.

Looking to his right, Ichigo looked straight into the hallway that was attached to Ichigo's office.

"Or rather... The source seems to have come to me..." Ichigo said nonchalantly.

"I presume so, how long have you known I was here?" A voice said as footsteps could be heard.

"You appeared right after I came back, you hid in my office, waiting for me to come, so it was quite obvious... Aizen!" Ichigo said as he looked at Aizen.

Aizen just looked at Ichigo, before he sent a sly smirk towards him.

To be Continued

A/N: So I hope you are all safe in these troubled times, we have now gotten to the war and smaller skirmished has already occured, for now there are more secrets to be uncovered, more troublesome scenarios not seen, where will the story go from here? What is Inoue's reasoning for betraying Ichigo? What will happen to poor Ikkaku? Stay tuned :D