Redback

"Again" by Yui

Opening rifts and title card: Bleach appears

Kono omoi wo keshite shimau niwa mada jinsei nagai desho?

Yarinokoshi te'ru koto yarinaoshite mitai kara

The screen flashes from El Rey, El Torre, to La Reina, towards Karakura Town where Orihime, Chad, and Uryu as the Triunvirato stands over them in the shadows.

Yume no tsuzuki oikakete ita hazu nano ni

Magarikunetta hosoi michi hito ni tsumazuku

Ano koro mitai ni tte modoritai wakejanai no Nakushite kita sora wo sagashite'ru

wakatte kuremasu you ni Gisei ni natta you na kanashii kao wa yamete yo

Renji stands on top of a electrical pole as Tatsuki stands outside the now abandon Kurosaki clinic as she reaches out a hand towards it and sees what looks like a ghost of her former friend.

Tsumi no saigo wa namida ja nai yo,

zutto kurushiku seotte'ku n da

Deguchi mienai kanjou meiro ni dare wo matte'ru no?

Shiroi nooto ni tsuzutta you ni

motto sunao ni hakidashitai yo

nani kara nogaretai n da...

genjitsu tte yatsu ka?

Kon is seen being stepped on by a few school children, as Tatsuki is seen battling several unnamed Shinigami, while Las Asesinas, and El Monje are watching from a far.

Kanaeru tame ni ikite'ru n datte Sakebitaku naru yo Kikoete imasu ka?

Bunan ni nante yatte'rarenai kara...

kaeru basho mo nai no

Yasashisa niwa itsumo kansha shite'ru Dakara tsuyoku naritai (I'm on the way)

Natsukashiku naru konna itami mo kangei jan

Tatsuki is seen arguing with Uryu, while Renji and Orihime are attempting to calm them down while Chad is watching with a sweatdropped. The ghosts of Yuzu and Karin are watching the night sky as El Rey tries to reach for them and they vanish and his right eye glows bright yellow, as the ending credits start to roll, and the ending rifts start.

Tatsuki was falling asleep in class, history always bored her, her mind drifted back to the events of yesterday. {"W...was it all a dream?"} She thought as her teacher finally clapped his hands and garnered everyone's attention. "Now then we have a new student joining us today." Everyone started chatting amongst themselves as Tatsuki raised a brow {"Why am I getting this feeling….a new student isn't that abnormal...is it?"}. A familiar individual walked in, and Tatsuki blinked and her eyes slowly widened. "Please welcome...ummm what was your name again?" The teacher asked the new students for his name. "Renji Abarai" Spoke Renji with a toothy grin, Tatsuki jaw dropped and she was left stuttering. {"W...w...what the hell is he doing here?!"}.

The teacher looked around "Please take a seat anywhere you like ", Renji nodded and looked around for a minute before landing a glance onto Tatsuki. Tatsuki face turned beat red and she quickly ducked {"Please...Please...don't sit near me!"} She internally pleaded. Orihime noticed this and looked back between Tatsuki and Renji and whispered to Chad. "I think she likes him." Chad looked up and titled his head and shrugged his shoulders in response. "Yoo" Renji whispered to Tatsuki who jumps and whirls around and notices Renji sitting right next to her. "Mrs. Arisawa?" Tatsuki looks up and sees everyone looking at her oddly. She blushes and bows her head "Sorry...I thought I felt something…" She stuttered a response quickly as she sat back down.

Tatsuki went back to the lesson and internally begged Renji wouldn't speak to her. To her credit he didn't but he did keep staring at her oddly. Tatsuki hoped with lunch he would wander off or be picked up by the class representative. But that wasn't the case as with the bell, Tatsuki quickly headed to the roof, "Hey wait up!" Renji called, Tatsuki groaned and slumped down by the wall as Renji joined her. "Why are you here?" she growled as she used her teeth to open a bag of chips. Renji blinked "Whatcha mean." He then struggles with a juice box, Tatsuki takes it and punctures the hole with a straw and hands it back to him. "Neat...They need to have these in the Soul Society." He observes as he drinks it, Tatsuki blinked "Speaking of the "Soul Society" why aren't you there?"

Renji looks up and then responds after finishing the juice box, "Can't...my powers are still inside you I have to recover thank god I have this Gigi." Tatsuki blinked again "A what?" Renji sighs "A gigi, a temporary body used by Shinigami during extended missions within the Soul Society." Tatsuki nodded pretending to understand though she didn't in actuality, "Tatsuki-chan!" Called a voice and Tatsuki looked beyond Renji to see Orihime and Chad approaching them. Renji sat back down and Orihime looked from Tatsuki to Renji and blinked. "Are you...two...ya know together?" Tatsuki spits out her drink and blushes heavily and stutters "Wha...wha...wha...What would make you think that?!"

Renji blinked and was also wondering the same thing, Orihime stuttered and Chad spoke for her. "Well you were acting weird when he showed up in class today." He jerked his thumb at Renji, "Eh? Well I was always told I was a ladies man." Renji started laughing at his own terrible joke. Orihime joined in slightly while Chad and Tatsuki just sweatdropped {"Yea...these cosplayer Gods of Death are truly...lunar…."} Tatsuki sighed and looked up at the sky.

{"Can you believe it Ichigo...You probably are laughing your ass off at me right now."}

The winds blew over the vast never-ending desert as the massive castle sat on the mesa like a lone watchman at a frontier outpost. El Rey leaned over the battlement of the western wall as he heard the roars of hollows in the distance. He heard the door opening and La Reina stepped out wearing nothing but her tattered kimono she wrapped around herself and wrapped herself around El Rey's arm. He took a sniff of her and licked his lips as she smelt of mating. "Looks like we can't have an offspring...but I did have fun.." La Reina purred as she nuzzled her head into his arms.

"So did I my love...and soon Aizen will be dead" replied El Rey, and La Reina nodded her head. "Aizen hurt all of us...especially what he did to your family is unforgivable." La Reina buried herself into his chest. El Rey felt pain in his head as memories flashing of him as Ichigo Kurosaki and as a child, his siblings, twin sisters Yuzu, and Karin his mother and his father and then rain. He hates the rain if he had his way he would find a way to make it stop raining. He felt a smooth silky hand on his own clawed hand and spotted La Reina holding his hand and smiling at him as she kissed him softly.

Next day

Tatsuki was walking home from class and groaned with slight annoyance as she sensed somebody following her. She stopped and whirled around and nobody was there. She blinked and picked up some food and went home. She went through her laundry and noticed some of her sleeping wear and outerwear were missing. She raised a brow and shook it as she went to go do her homework. Tatsuki occasionally looked around as she heard a strange noise {"Is that...a cell phone?"} Tatsuki blinked as she checked her phone but saw there were no messages at least not recently.

She heard it again, "What the hell is that noise?" She said to herself, as her closet door banged open causing her to jump onto her bed. "WHAT THE HELL?!" She shrieked, and then blinked as Renji popped out wearing her pajamas. "Are those my new pajamas…." She trailed off as she felt the anger within her boiling as several tick marks appeared on her head. Renji blinked and looked down and back up at her. He started to sweat "W...w...well I didn't have my nightgown….so I decided to borrow yours…" Tatsuki felt more and more angrier by the second when a thought came to her head. "Wait...why are you in my closet?! I have a spare room down the hall." Renji blinked as his soul phone blinked again, "We gotta go." Tatsuki raised a brow "Go?...Hold it Pineapple Punk...I have homework and a Test next week!" Renji ignored her and pulled out a strange glove.

"Are you some kind of biker or something?" Tatsuki then asked when Renji slammed his gloved hand into her chest, knocking her soul out of her chest. Tatsuki looked at herself and her body laying on the bed and then looked back at Renji and blushed hard. "Pretty cool eh?" Renji asked with a toothy grin until Tatsuki kicked him in the head. "You fucking Perv!" Tatsuki shouted as she covered herself.

Sametime

Yoruichi landed next to Valentina De León who was kneeling on top of a nearby skyscraper alongside some Conquistadors . "Hey there!" Yoruichi shouts cheerfully, Valentina ignores her as she watches over the city. "You're no fun…" Yoruichi pouted as she sat on the ledge and looked out over Karakura Town. "Have you seen that shinigami ?" Valentina askes to a nearby Conquistador "No Ma'am he hasn't been seen all day." The Conquistador reported, Valentina scowls at this and shakes her head "Keep searching! Please update me if any more shinigami appear."

Yoruichi looks up and notices her fellow Omega's tense stance, "Why don't you, me, and Yin and Yang go out and look for him. Your soldiers can hold the fort in case some rogue Hollow shows up or the Shinigami." Valentina finally turns to face her fellow arrancar, and sighed "Very well." She then turns to her soldiers "Hold this ground report if anything unusually happens." She barks the Conquistadors salute in response, and Yoruichi locks her arms with Valentinas and Sonído's away.

They then land next to Yin and Yang who were set up outside Tatsuki's apartment. Yang turns around and hugs Yoruichi "Lady Yoruichi.." She says softly, Yin also joins in the hug. Valentina clears her throat and the three break apart, Yoruichi turns to her adoptive daughters and places a hand on their shoulders. "Report." She finally says after a minute Yang goes first "She just been sitting in there all day." Yin was able to add on when a scream was heard and everyone looked up. "What the hell was that?" Yin looked around, and they heard indiscernible shouting. "I think I heard something along the lines of 'Pervert'." Yang spoke up.

Yoruichi, Valentina, Yin and Yang just sweatdropped at that, and watched as Tatsuki in her Shinigami form jumped out the window with Renji piggybacking on her. The two were shouting back and forth loud enough for the entire world to hear. Yin and Yang looked at each other, "Is she…" Yin began, "Really a shinigami?" Yang finished. Yoruichi managed to recover and Sonído after them followed by Valentina and finally Yin and Yang.

Back with Tatsuki and Renji

Tatsuki was scowling as she jumped from building to building with Renji on her back. "You damn pervert...If u grope me! I will chop ya!" She threatened while waving her blade around like a madwoman. Renji gulped and nodded quickly but then muttered under his breath "Too flat to grope anyway…" Tatsuki skidded to a stop and Renji flew off and crashed into a wall head first. "What did you fucking say?!" Tatsuki roared as she slammed both her swords together. Renji backed up and waved his hands defensively "N..N..N..N.. !" He stammered in fear as Tatsuki slowly crept towards him.

The two were unaware of them being watched as Yoruichi, Valentina, Yin and Yang watched with a sweat drop and bewilderment of what was occurring before their eyes. "...I don't think we have to worry about that Shinigami anymore.." Yin said with everyone else agreeing with her.

Meanwhile in another location

El Rey turns in the bed he shared with La Reina, and notices her sleeping naked form, he brushes her lavender hair as she stirs and purrs. He chuckles internally noting she acted like a cat. He then sits up and checks his hollow hole and looks at his hand as it becomes blurry, and the world flashes towards a raining scene and a younger Ichigo clutching the husks of his two sisters and back to the present. He presses clenches his clawed hand against his hollow chest as the memories of that day flash through his mind.

Flashback

Ichigo had gotten beaten by Tatsuki in Karate, and was picked up by his parents and his sisters. They had planned a nice getaway to the beach that same day, Ichigo rubbed his sore head as Yuzu and Karin hugged him and he hugged them back. The scene then flashes to them walking through the boardwalk trying to get out of the rain and a strange roar is heard. Ichigo and his sisters cuddle together, with his parents assuring them everything will be fine. Then the scene flashes again and blood splashes everywhere Ichigo blinks and looks around and finds the husk of his sisters in his arms.

He looks around confused and finds the husk of his parents and several people with blood and gore splattered everywhere. He then sees a massive shadow and the last thing he sees is what appears to be a human girl. He gasps and his eyes widened in fear.

Flashbacks end

El Rey sits back up and pants and sweats coat his body. He feels a smooth hand on his clawed hand and looks to see La Reina looking at him concernedly "You alright my love? Shall I summon a Priest?" Her lavender cat-like eyes illuminate the darkened room. El Rey shook his head "I..I'm fine." He tried to convince her that he was okay, but she wasn't too convinced as she raised a brow. She sighed and got out of the bed and found her tattered Kimono. "These nightmares are getting out of hand...a King needs to be thinking straight..you're not your brother." El Rey just nodded at that as La Reina placed a hand on his chest and kissed him passionately.

La Reina pulled away, "I'm getting a priest…" She finally said, and El Rey could only sigh at his mate. Her bare feet echoed off the stone floor as she opened the door and closed it. El Rey laid back onto the bed and looked at his clawed hand as the wind blew in through the opened window. {"Yuzu...Karin...I hope you're safe, and have not become Hollows as traumatic as your death has been...as ironic as it may be I hoped a shinigami discovered you're souls and sent you two to the Soul Society."} His head perked up when he heard footsteps and the lights came on as the door creaked and La Reina flanked by two Conquistadors, and behind her slightly was a hooded figure who bowed.

El Rey sighed, as La Reina sat down on the bed and crawled onto his lap, and purred "It's for the best." She says softly, and he nods.

Meanwhile back in Karakura Town

Tatsuki was battling a spider-like Hollow who kept jumping out of range of Tatsuki's duel-Zanpakutōs. Tatsuki scowled in annoyance, and the Hollows tauts were helping neither was Renji's stupidity. "What's the matter with you Shinigami? Too Flat to move?!" The Hollow mocked. Tatsuki's left eye twitched dangerously {"What's with people commenting on my chest size?!"} She raved mentally, "Keep it up, you're doing great!" Renji half-heartedly cheered as he munched on a taco. "Mmm they don't have this in the Soul Society." Tatsuki growled in complete irritation "Will you quit it! Its a stupid taco not the food of the Gods!" Her head grew comically large and her eyes became purely white as she shouted in pure rage.

Renji however ignored her to drink a soda. Tatsuki grew more and more angry and shouted an insanely angry battle cry and took out her rage on the Hollow, and started swinging madly. The Hollow sweatdropped and avoided the swings as Tatsuki sliced everything in her path from trees, bicycles, to a parked car. Renji finally finished eating and looked up and blinked with a sweatdropped "W...wh...what the hell are you doing?". He dodged a piece of a van almost hitting him in response to his question. Tatsuki finally managed to slash off two of the Hollow's spider-like legs. "GAHHH YOU BITCHHHH!" Roared the Hollow enraged, as Tatsuki ducked his enraged swings and stabbed him in his belly with both her blades.

Renji gets back up and dust himself off and then sees a shadow above him. He sweatdrops as the hollow lands on the spot he was standing and as a result on top of him. "HELL YEA!" Tatsuki cheered as she placed her Zanpakutōs over her shoulder. She then looked around for Renji "Eh? Where the hell are you, pervert?" She then blushed slightly and perked up when a thought hit her. "You better not be trying to sneak up on me!?" She shouts slightly annoyed as Renji crawls out from under the disintegrating Hollow. Tatsuki blinked "The hell were you doing under there?" She asks with a raised brow.

Renji just dust himself off and coughs "Uhhh...sightseeing…" He finally says, after a few minutes. Tatsuki blinks unconvinced "Sightseeing….under a dead Hollow?" She tries hard to not snicker. Renji's right twitches violently "Don't judge me..It was a nice view." He says with a huff as he crosses his arms out of annoyance. Tatsuki bursts out laughing as loud as she could. "Y...yea…" she starts crying as she doubles over laughing. Renji twitches violently as tick marks appear on his head. "Well yeah!...uhh….uhh...give me a second…" He stammers as he tries to think of a clever comeback. Tatsuki just howls with laughter at that "You can't even think of a come back with that stupid pinapple head of yours!"

Uso by SID

Ano hi mita sora, akaneiro no sora wo

Nee~ kimi wa oboeteimasuka

Yakusoku chigiri shoka no kaze ga tsutsumu

Futari yorisotta

Tatsuki is eating lunch with her friends, as she looks behind her and spots a orange haired boy and two girls waving from across the river.

Muri na egao no ura nobita kage o kakumau

Dakara kizukanu furi saisei o erabu

La Reina is standing by a wall, behind said wall is Renji as both look up at the same time

Teeburu no ue no furuenai shirase machi tsuzukete

Kuuhaku no yoru mo kuru hazu no nai asa mo zenbu wakattetanda

El Rey and El Torre are both standing in front of a grave as the rain starts to pour down.

Ano hi mita sora akane iro no sora o nee kimi wa wasureta no deshou

Yakusoku chigiri shoka no kaze ni kieta futari modorenai

It begins to rain in the Soul Society as Renji gets annoyed as he is know soaking wet.

Oto mo iro mo ondo mo hanbun ni natta kono heya

Kyou mo chirakashite wa yure tsukare nemuru

Renji is trying to get out of the rain and bumps head first into Tatsuki and the two started arguing.

Jouzu ni damashite ne uso wa kirai de suki kimi no kotoba

Ima goro ni natte kimochi wa itai hodo dakara bokura sayonara

Renji and Tatsuki are seen fighting back to back against Hollows as the rain keeps pouring down

Itsuka mata ne to te o furiatta kedo mou au koto wa nai no deshou

Saigo no uso wa yasashii uso deshita wasurenai

El Rey is watching the two fight as he sees two twin girls sitting on the edge of a building and he reaches for them

Ano hi mita sora akane iro no sora o nee itsuka omoidasu deshou

Hatase nakatta yakusoku o idaite futari arukidasu

The sun starts to shine and the rain finally ends as both Tatsuki and Renji look up at the sky