Chapter Eleven: Rebirth

*Two Months Later in Las Noches*

It had been a few months since Yoshiro's and the others arrival in las noches. He had to admit the place was impressive. It was atleast the size of the soul reapers home he had once been taken to, if not larger by chance. Its giant white stone walls and ceilings, tile flooring, it was easily the nicest place he had ever laid his eyes on. He decided to learn his away around the whole fortress, it took him a whole month of traveling around the fortress before he finally had learned his way around the place.

He, Emilou, his mother and the others had been given their own wing within the compound. Each had a room of their own but Yoshiro and Emilou chose to room together. The room had its living room like area complete with furniture, a massive bathroom with a built in the ground tub that could hold up to ten people without issue. The bedroom had a massive walk-in closet and a king sized bed with the softest blankets and pillows he ever felt. It also had a good sized balcony to walk out on to view the outside of las noches. The bedroom was also quite soundproof to, much to the relief of the others.

One of the most striking things about las noches was the fake sun that existed within it. Apparently this Aizen person had created it for whatever reason, not that Yoshiro was complaining. He had missed the sunlight terribly after being in the darkness and moonlight of hueco mundo for so long. When he felt the sunlight hit for the first in so long it had felt almost blissful to him.

Speaking of Aizen he had to meet the guy who was behind all this. Apparently, him and some other associates of his were busy trying to get the piece of what was needed for the perfected arrancar creation process. Whatever the hell it was.

So he spent his time training, with his loved ones or traveling the fortress meeting the other residents. He felt it important to try and get to know the other inhabitants of las noches. In order to gauge everyone more or less and to see who would be worth working with should a time ever rise. Plus, he was had a hope about the possibly making new friends as well.

One the first people he met around las noches during his first week, was a tiger like adjucah by the name of Ggio Vega. He had been traveling near the training grounds, Vega had been coming back from them when they ran into each other. Vega when he had seen, and sensed Yoshiro merely stopped in place, bowed his head and simply greeted him with a simple 'my lord'. perhaps he had done it all on instinct having taken Yoshiro as a hollow much higher standing then himself.

Yoshiro had been taken back by his attitude with him. Honestly, he was too much of a laid back person to care about being called something like 'my lord'. He introduced himself to Vega and merely told to just simply call him by his name. Vega was taken by surprise by his response, he wasn't used to someone of a higher status than him speaking so casually with him. Ultimately, Vega took in stride and Yoshiro struck up a conversation with him.

Vega was a servant of Barragan the one who fancied himself as some king. While Yoshiro had his reservations about the old pile of bones that was Barragan, he didn't hold these against Vega. Vega had told about how he had fought his way through a whole horde of other adjucahs and once emerged as the sole survivor. he was offered a place as one of Barragan's top men. He held Barragan in high esteem for being the old and very powerful hollow he was. He then asked Yoshiro of himself.

He told him that he was the son of Tia Halibel. This caught Vega by surprise and Yoshiro went ahead and explained his story to him. His previous life in the human world what he was, his capture and escape from soul society, his time in hueco mundo and his relationship with his mother and the others. When he was finished Vega seemed to have found a new amount of respect for him. They agreed to meet up at another date to hang out more. He came to learn that Vega was a person who could be describes as calm, loyal, a bit cocky and sarcastic. 'much like myself' Yoshiro thought in his head. They quickly became good friends.

During one of their meet ups vega decided to share what he remembered of his human life. He died around his late teens; he was apparently an acrobat of sorts in a circus. The equipment faulted during a performance and he wound up falling from a good height. As he fell, he landed on some wiring that wound up wrapping around his neck and essentially hung him to death in the middle of the circus tent in front of a full crowd.

"damn that's pretty fucked up Vega, not gonna lie." Said the fox.

"true but somehow I don't think it's nearly as wild as your situation." Replied the tiger.

"don't remind me." Retorted Yoshiro. "I'm still kind of human still, sometimes I feel out of place and wonder if I really belong anywhere. Sometimes I feel like I'm just some kind of freak."

"you shouldn't be so hard about yourself." Replied Vega, "all things considered I think you're doing fine. Presides, you're as much a hollow as anyone else here in my eyes. You fit in more than you think."

Yoshiro paused at these words. He thought deeply about his friend's words. When he thought about it. He couldn't deny he had a point. How odd it was that he was seemingly being accepted for who he was in hueco mundo by hollows than he had been as his old self in the living world. There seemed to be an irony to that.

"thanks Vega, sometimes I need to be reminded of that." He replied kindly. The tiger adjucah simply nodded in response.

Another thing that happened when was traveling about was meeting an arrancar for the first time. Her name was Cirucci Sanderwicci. What surprised him about her that she looked essentially human. The only things that made it clear was in fact a hollow was her mask fragment on the top of head and the hollow energy she gave off. Apparently, she was what one would call a natural born arrancar.

He noticed she was dressed in gothic Lolita like fashion and she had a somewhat rude, cocky, blunt albeit very honest personality. They chatted up a bit and hit it off rather well. Though her forwardness about how handsome she found Yoshiro and her wanting 'a piece of him' threw him off a bit. Thankfully she politely backed off when he explained he was already in a relationship, though she was somewhat noticeably disappointed. Regardless they became friends none the less.

Then he ran into another arrancar by the name of Dordoni. He was certainly an odd one even for Yoshiro. Though despite the overly goofy personality, he could figure he was a much more serious man then he let on. Dordoni seemed to take a liking to the young hollow like boy. He taught Yoshiro much of the inner workings of las noches, something he was quite thankful for. Once more he had another person, he could call a friend. Though Yoshiro had to admit he was rather annoyed that he kept calling him nino.

During his time roaming around he discovered that Grimmjow and the old crew had made it to las noches as well. Both sides were happy to catch up with each other.

One of the things he noted had to do more with the everything going on between his loved ones. More specifically what had apparently grown between his mother and Sung-sun. he didn't notice at first due to being so busy with everything that had been happening upon his initial return. after they had settled in at las noches a bit later he began to notice certain signs. Sung-sun seemed to speak a little less formal then she had been every now and again to his mother than he could recall. He also noticed she seemed to place herself closer to his mother whenever they sat or stood next to each other. though he couldn't quite confirm anything at the moment. It wasn't until he had entered his mother's section of the wing, they lived in one day to talk to her about some things he had learned about las noches.

He walked into the living area and turned to his right towards the balcony in his mother's quarters and saw something that caught him off guard. His mother and Sung-sun were standing on the balcony facing towards the vastness of las noches. His mother had her non sword arm noticeably wrapped around Sung-sun's waist and had Sung-sun pulled right up against her. Her head resting on sung-sun's shoulder as they gently spoke to one another. They apparently never heard him walk in, so he intentionally coughed to announce his presents.

They immediately whirled around still embraced, Sung-suns eyes went wide and somehow his moms went even wider. They stood there in shock for a few moments like a pair of young teenagers who just got caught having sex by one of their parents. His mother came out of shock first and simply told Sung-sun to go sit on the couch and simply asked Yoshiro to sit in the chair across from it. She then walked and sat on the couch next to Sung-sun. she reached out with her hand and gripped Sung-sun's.

"I imagine you have some questions?" his mother asked.

"certainly so, when and how did this come about exactly?" Yoshiro asked.

"a few months after you disappeared." Spoke Sung-sun. "you see I have always adored lady Halibel for all that she's done for me and the others. One day it was just the two of us and I sort wound up bleeding my heart out. We were all still upset about your kidnapping and emotions were still in a bunch about it. I suppose I was just wanting to just do something to try make things a little better. Honestly, I'm not completely sure myself why I chose to do so only that I did."

"it came as a surprise certainly." Halibel began. "something to know, out of all of the group Sung-sun has been at my side the longest. She was the first I found and rescued in hueco mundo. While I was surprised at her confession, I was still quite touched that she had such trust and faith me. I thought about it myself for a while before coming to a decision. I realized that I did have a certain amount of attraction to Sung-sun. Ultimately, we decide to give it a shot and see where it would take us. We've stayed together ever since."

Yoshiro sat there taking it all in and thinking about it. "do the others know?" he simply asked.

"yes, Mila and Emilou have been aware. We asked them not to say anything to you about it. we were planning to come up with a way to tell you ourselves." Replied his mother. a few moments of silenced passed and Halibel spoke up. "does my relationship with Sung-sun bother you by chance?"

Yoshiro simply looked at his mother and spoke gently. "not at all in all honesty mom. Your free to love whoever you want as far as I'm concerned regardless if said person is a guy or a girl. As long as your happy that's all that matters, as your son I'll just be here to support you." Things were quiet for a moment then halibel spoke.

"thank you, Yoshiro, it's means a lot to us to hear to say that." Her face showing as much happiness as it could. Then Sung-sun stood up walked over to Yoshiro and gave him a soft hug and gently said. "Thank you for being so understanding. Also, you're a wonderful son and don't let anyone try to tell you otherwise."

"no problem." He replied "so, am I gonna have to start calling you 'mom' now too Sung-sun?" sung-sun merely choked on air a bit from the reply. Halibel and Yoshiro simply let a slight chuckle in response.

All in all life in las noches was turning out a lot better than expected. However, there was one problem Yoshiro dreaded having to deal with whenever he had the unfortunateness of running into it. the problem was an arrancar, who had been around for a while and was also the most contemptable bastard he had ever met. Said bastards name was Nnoitra Gilga.

He was tall at 7'0", thin and lanky body, long black hair, big ass goofy teeth, an eye patch and carried the most stupid ass looking excuse of a sword Yoshiro had ever seen. Seriously, just what the fuck was that thing? All that wasn't the issue though, the problem was he had an attitude that was most revolting thing around. He overly rude even for Yoshiro, not to mention crude and lecherous to the extreme. Not to mention incredibly sexist as well. Not to mention he was far too fight and kill happy even for hollow/arrancar standards. He always annoyed and tried to goad Yoshiro whenever they ran onto each other. Yoshiro thankfully kept himself in check but had admit his nerves with the bastard were starting to reach their limit. Those limits would finally reach their breaking point.

Yoshiro was heading towards the training grounds that existed just outside the north gate closest to his place in the fortress. He was going there for some training on his own. When he reached their he noticed his least favorite person in existence. Seriously, the guy managed to make Yoshiro hate him more than even soul reapers and that's saying something. He just looked and leered at Yoshiro with his stupid ass teeth and sneered out.

"well, well look who it is? What does someone's pet doing away from his master's?"

When Gilga had learned Yoshiro technically served his mother and worked alongside nothing but other women. The jackass took it upon himself to mock him for it.

"I don't answer to you Gilga, so shut up or get the fuck out. I don't care which just don't' annoy me. I have more important things to do than entertain your goofy looking ass."

Eyepatch didn't take to well to that statement. "you think your so much fucking better than me fox boy? You think I don't fucking matter? You think you can just ignore me like I'm nothing?" he growled out in response.

"yeah pretty much." Yoshiro replied as uncaring and sarcastic as he could. Eyepatch just got even more angry. He angrily spoke out.

"you better watch your god damn self-kid. Your just some weird ass looking freak who's not even a true hollow. You're just a mistake of nature."

Yoshiro got angry at this, people judging him by his looks', and such were always a hot button issue of his, but he kept his cool. He knew the jackass was just trying to tempt him. He casually retorted back.

"me, weird looking? You should look at yourself a little more closely Gilga before you say something like that. You look like kami got halfway through making you and he just went 'eh you know what, fuck it that's enough'."

Eyepatch got really pissed at this realizing his goads weren't working. Then suddenly his expression changed, and he got a lecherous look on his face and chimed up.

"fine then if you won't entertain me then maybe the deer woman of yours will? She awful dainty she'd be really easy to handle." He spoke with malicious lust. Yoshiro was silent doing his best to keep his rage in check at this point, Gilga continued.

"Better yet I'll get my hands on the shark woman instead." He then stuck his tongue out and licked his lips in a lecherous and repulsive manner and continued. "she has even curvier body, not to mention bigger tits to play with. She would be all sorts of fun. I'd love to make her my little pet and have on her knees and-"

He didn't get to finish speaking as Yoshiro's knee planted firmly into his face knocking him off his feet and flying back a good ten yards on his ass.

"THAT'S IT NNOITRA, I'M GOING TO DO THE WHOLE WORLD A FAVOR AND FUCKING KILL YOU HERE AND NOW!" Yoshiro yelled in murderous fury. Gilga had finally pushed him over his edge by threatening his mother and Emilou. His inner hollow spoke up equally furious.

"Tear this repulsive beast to shreds kit! Arrancar or not he dies by your hands here and now. Let him serve as an example to those who think to threaten you and your kin!"

Gilga merely stood up and drew his blade, a sinister smirk on his face. "show me what you got fox!" he merely replied and flared up his spiritual pressure. Yoshiro flared his up as well in response. The battlefield was set and both sides were set to strike.

Vega was approaching the gate that led to the training grounds by the north gate when he suddenly felt the massive surge of spirit energy coming from the area. He recognized who they belonged to right away. "Oh shit!" he cursed out. He immediately turned around and ran through las noches in order to find one of Yoshiro's pack and inform them what was happening. He just hoped that he would be fast enough.

Yoshiro was in-raged beyond belief, but he tried not let it get the better of him. He knew had just started a massive fight. Even if he was mostly hollow and even at a vasto lord level he was still fighting an uphill battle here. Nnoitra wasn't a vasto lord before he naturally became an arrancar, but he had been a pretty powerful adjucah none the less. Despite that Yoshiro knew he could probably still beat him, as long as he didn't allow him to use his resurrección. He had learned from Cirucci that it was something unique to arrancar. It allowed them to unleash the full extent of their power and abilities. Yoshiro had to beat Gilga before he went and activated his at some point, otherwise he was utterly fucked.

Yoshiro used sonido to get up to glia and strike at his chest with his claws, they landed but only scratched lightly. "the fuck!" he proclaimed. Suddenly a knee collided with his chest sending him flying away and landing on back.

"hahaha!" laughed Gilga. "my hierro is the strongest around! You can't hope to cut through me you brat!" Yoshiro got up coughing up a little blood as he did. 'shit! How am I gonna hurt him?' he thought to himself then an idea suddenly hit him. If he couldn't hurt him by cutting, perhaps he could by using enough blunt force trauma? Remembering how he killed Di Roy, he had nine perfectly suited tails for the job. he focused his energy in his tails preparing to strike.

He used sonido to get next to Gilga, he responded by swinging his sword at Yoshiro's head. Yoshiro ducked and used sonido again to get in front of Gilga, his tails facing the arrancar. He swung full force into the arrancars body. There was an audible crack as Gilga was sent flying away as the sand around where the hit had happened exploded up. Gilga may have more raw strength and more durability by being an arrancar. Yoshiro's sonido was faster if only by a little. He was going to use that advantage to its' fullest.

Unknown to the two fighters, word of their death match had quickly made it around las noches. Hollows and what arrancar there were quickly gathering at the battle ground to see who the victor would be.

Gilga stood up spitting up some blood with a smile on his face. "not too bad fox." He spoke up "looks like you're going to make this fun for me!" he yelled as he threw his weird as sword at Yoshiro. Yoshiro was able to move enough to avoid taking it head on but was grazed on the chest by the weapon. As it flew behind him Gilga used the chain to pull it back. Yoshiro tried to move out of the way but was grazed across the back by it. it sent him sprawling to the ground, as he did the painful burning sensation of the wounds on his chest and back flared up.

As he looked up, Gilga had appeared in front of him weapon raised, before he could bring it down Yoshiro quickly focused his energy in his tails and slammed one into Gilga's face. It caused the arrancar to lose his footing and focus. Yoshiro took full advantage. He quickly brought his tails down and started to pummel Gilga with them. He hit him repeatedly with is empowered tails, in the face, shoulders, chest, arms. He slammed them wherever he could as much as he could. The sound cracking and bone straining from under strikes could be heard.

Despite the barrage Gilga managed to regain enough focus to launch an attack known as bola into Yoshiro's face. It caused him to fly back a bit in a painful daze. Yoshiro's tail barrage had done some good damage, heavy black bruise marks were already showing all over Gilga's body, he was breathing a little hard and it looked like he had a few bone fractures.

While Yoshiro still dazed Gilga moved up grabbed him by the collar and slammed him with a forceful headbutt. Yoshiro dropped to his knees practically concussed. Gilga swung his blade horizontally at him, not having the time to dodge he focused his energy to enhance his heirro as much as possible into his left forearm. Yoshiro brought the arm up to catch the blade, it didn't cut clean through, but it did sink about halfway into the arm. It hurt like all sorts of hell.

Not expecting his blade to be stopped by the block Gilga left himself open and Yoshiro made him pay by focusing as much energy as he could into a single tail and swung it as hard as he could into Gilga's jaw. The sound of the arrancars jaw shattering from the impact could be visibly heard. Gilga went stumbling back and feel to his knees from the intense pain of his bloody and broken jaw. This seemed to be enough for Gilga, suddenly he had a look of 'I'm done with this shit' as he began to stand up.

Yoshiro noticed this look as the arrancar made his move to stand up. He was going to use his resurrección. Acting quickly he put himself on all fours, brought his tails out in a fan like formation. Angled the tips to focus on a single point and put all the energy he could muster into a cero blast. A beach ball sized sphere of white energy built up and launched directly at the arrancar.

Gilga had only just stood up and was halfway to raising his blade when he noticed the massive white cero coming his way, he couldn't hope to dodge it. The massive beam of white hollow energy engulfed the arrancar completely, when the blast ended the dust cleared, Gilga was on his knees as a bloody wreck. His entire clothing from the waist up gone, with only tatters left from the waist down. He had severe burn and cut marks across his body, his arm that been holding his sword had been mostly blown off, the blade he had been holding was in the ground a good 50 yards behind him.

Yoshiro used sonido to get right in front of Gilga, he grabbed the arrancar by his throat knowing he now had him completely at his mercy. It was then he noticed all the different hollows and some arrancar who had gathered to watch the fight. They all had looks of awe, shock and a lot had looks of utter fear as well. Then Yoshiro turned his head to address them and practically yelling.

"you see this!? You see who I have here on their knees under my fucking claws!? You see what becomes of those who think to threaten what I hold precious!? Any who think of threatening what I hold dear to me shall suffer the same fate as this one here!"

With that said Yoshiro focused a cero into his palm, he wretched Nnoitra's mouth open as wide as could go and jammed his palm over it and released the cero. There was a blast of white energy, when it ended nothing of Nnoitra's head was left. Yoshiro simply let the now dead arrancar slump to the ground.

He looked to the crowd and saw Grimmjow and his crew staring at him. Grimmjow merely gave a smirk of satisfaction, Yoshiro gave a small smirk back. He then noticed Vega who had the look of utter disbelief on his face. He was standing near a skeletal looking hollow with a crown. That had to be Barragan. Yoshiro locked eyes with the ancient vasto lord. Barragan merely nodded his head in approval and some respect of the boys' actions. Yoshiro gave a slight bow in return to the ancient vasto. He noticed Cirucci and Dordoni in the crowd too standing next to each other. He met eyes with both of them, they had looks of shock but those then changed into looks of approval. Yoshiro nodded to them in reply.

Suddenly the exhaustion and pain of everything slammed into Yoshiro as he fell to the ground. 'man I am all sorts of fucked up right now.' He thought to himself.

"you need to feed to regain your strength and heal your self faster kit." Spoke his inner hollow. "you have a perfectly good meal right in front of you too." She said with a suggestive tone.

Knowing his inner hollow was right, he didn't hesitate when he grabbed Gilga's corpse and began tearing into it with his fangs. This brought about some gasp from the crowd, but he didn't care. he was too fully engrossed into his feeding as he tore, ripped and crunched the arrancars flesh and bone. He could feel his energy return, his injuries heal much faster and his overall power grow as well. When he was finished nothing, but scraps of cloth and bloodstains remained on the sands.

He looked up and noticed, Grimmjow, Emilou, his mother, Mila, Sung-sun, Dordoni and Cirucci where standing around him.

"quite the show you put on there." Spoke the panther. "you sent a message no ones ever gonna forget."

Yoshiro looked up to his mother and Emilou and the others. "Sorry you had to see me like that." He piped up "Nnoitra struck my last nerve I had with him and well you saw."

"Don't be sorry about it." chimed Cirucci "he was an utter bastard of the first degree, no one is going to feel sorry about him being dead."

"indeed" spoke Halibel "as for your feeding, we understand you were so beat up and exhausted from fighting someone like Gilga. You needed to recharge yourself with whatever you could as soon as possible."

Yoshiro nodded in understanding as he was about to stand up. A sudden wave of intense pain flooded his body, he fell to the ground screaming in pain and shaking from it all without control. It felt like when his body physically changed in the past, but this was different. This was more like his body was being shredded by barbed wire from the inside out. Like his was being torn apart from his own energy. All he saw before blacking out was the others around him freaking out.

He awoke sometime later he noticed he was in some sort of hospital or lab room. He was laid in a bed, he noticed that he had some odd choker on his neck.

"what the actual fuck happened?" he chimed

"ah you're awake. How fortunate." spoke a male if somewhat flamboyant voice. Yoshiro looked to the source of the voice and noticed a somewhat tall and thin pink haired arrancar. He knew who he was from talk around las noches, it was Szayelaporro Granz.

"let me inform the others of your awakening, they've refused to leave the lab until you had" he spoke and walked out. A minute later his Emilou and everyone else who had been there when he collapsed were in the room. Emilou immediately walked up and embraced him in a tight hug. This lasted a few moments before separating.

"so what going on with me?" he asked.

"Well you see" spoke Granz "after you defeated and devouring Nnoitra. You body received a good power increase from it. As hollow beings tend to after feeding. The thing is your not fully hollow, you're still a partial human. That part being your mortal shell. From what I gathered from my testing, upon that final power boost your mortal shell can no longer handle all the energy within you. Hence your little episode. I fit you with a power limiter for time being, sadly it's only temporary fix I'm afraid. It will only work for so long."

"What are the options for a permanent fix?" asked Yoshiro

"none at the moment I'm afraid to say." Said Granz "the simple solution would be too simply kill your mortal shell then stabilize your soul upon separation. However, your mortal body acts like a container for all your power, for some reason your hollow powers manifest physically on your mortal shell. Normally such a thing shouldn't happen or atleast to the degree it has with you. For some reason your physical body is capable of taking on these traits, thus is why your body has gone through changes as mean to accommodate for the growing power. Now you've reached essentially the limit of what your mortal shell can handle. The side effect being it in essence turns your mortal shell into ticking time bomb of sorts. If your physical body dies as you are your energy will explode out like nuke and destroy you in your entirety, soul included."

Granz continued.

"the other idea would be too create a fake soul that we could stick into your body to keep it stable and allow your soul-self to safely separate but there's in issue to that as well."

"That being?" Yoshiro questioned

"that being" chimed Granz. "for whatever reason your body's soul chain is different in a way that prevents anything like that from working. How and why I don't know but that's the situation."

"so what you're basically saying is, I'm completely fucked?" Retorted Yoshiro.

"More or less I'm afraid" said Granz

Everyone gave varying levels of concern but before anything could be said. A message came out on the intercom system.

"Attention Lord Aizen has returned, all non arrancar are to report to the main chamber at once!"

No one spoke a word and merely left to head to the main chamber except for Granz, Cirucci and Dordoni. Even though the current situation on hand was worrying him, Yoshiro was still very keen on seeing this Aizen for himself. Emilou knew he had a lot on his mind, she put a hand in his as they walked. He relaxed a little from her touch.

They entered a massive chamber room, that had huge white throne of sorts in it. they were apparently one of the first to arrive. Another 20 minutes later all the others finally appeared. Then the man of the hour finally made himself known.

"welcome my dear comrades." He spoke out as he made himself known. Yoshiro looked at the man in charge. He had brown hair slicked back except for some a few strands that hung n front of his face. Brown eyes with a decent height and build. He wore a white outfit, with a white coat of sorts overtop with a large red sash wrapped around the waist. He couldn't help but notice he had very polite disposition yet had a look to him the gave an aura of 'I'm better and smarter than all of you and that's a simple fact'. Yoshiro wanted to kick him in the face almost instantly. Then he kept talking.

"I have at last acquired the main key to our plans and with it to make you all arrancar that are better and stronger than practically all natural born ones. I shall do this" he then held up some black orb "with this item right here the Hogyoku. Let us begin the process, shall we?"

At that moment a bunch minor level low level arrancar helpers showed up with massive carts of cloth wrapping and cloths. "who wishes to be the first?" Aizen politely asked. There was a brief pause, then Grimmjow stepped forward.

"very well" said Aizen "you will simply need to be wrapped in the cloth and then I shall do the rest with the Hogyoku."

Grimmjow was wrapped up and then Aizen held out the orb and suddenly a glass like coffin of sorts encased Grimmjow. The orb glowed and an energy filled up the box, this lasted a few minutes. Then the container cracked and exploded, when the smoke cleared Grimmjow stood there, not as an adjucah hollow but as human looking arrancar. With what looked just like a soul reaper zanpakuto with a blue handle and jagged guard.

"Holy fucking shit!" Yoshiro couldn't help but exclaim.

Grimmjow was given a stock arrancar uniform for the time being and went to where he had been before.

"now then" piped up Aizen "let us continue."

One by one everyone in the room took there turn. Yoshiro didn't pay much attention though even when his loved ones went to take there turn. He was far too freaked and shocked by what happened to focus on it all. Eventually everyone else had gone, then Aizen looked at Yoshiro and spoke directly to him.

"would you please kindly step forward Yoshiro Abe." He stated

Yoshiro broke out of his daze and decided to comply and strode over directly to Aizen.

"you're a very interesting person young man. I understand your in a bit a rough situation with the nature of your powers and self. I can help you with this with the power of the Hogyoku."

"In precisely what manner?" Yoshiro retorted

Aizen simply smiled and spoke "its quite simple, with the Hogyoku's power I can safely turn you into a full-fledged arrancar. Your already mostly hollow as it is. It would be a simple process in all honesty. You will have to access to even greater power and abilities, and it will save you from your rather difficult spot your currently in with your mortal shell starting to fail you. It would simply cost you the remainder of your humanity and the mortality that comes with it."

Yoshiro thought about it but realized this was his only real chance of dealing with his problem. "Alright let's do it, it's my only option at this point." He spoke with certainty.

Aizen merely nodded his head in understanding. As the helpers began wrapping up Yoshiro, a small smile graced Aizen's face as he thought to himself. 'To think that the little experiment of mine I did nearly a little over 17 years ago, would find it's way to me and with such progress too. After I thought it had been a failure too no less, how interesting.'

Once Yoshiro was fully wrapped up, Aizen began the process. A massive pain shot through Yoshiro, but he couldn't yell and then he was pulled into his inner world. On his hands and knees in his inner world, his body straining, burning, and so many other things he couldn't describe with the pain they gave him was. His inner hollow merely walked over to him and tried to comfort him.

"relax kit" she caringly spoke "I know this agony is practically unbearable, by having the last vestiges of your humanness and mortality of it stripped from you and changing so rapidly so fast. It shall all be worth it I promise kit. This for whatever reason is the path you are meant to take."

Yoshiro could say nothing as the pain from it all kept him from replying.

"with this kit you are finally ready to know something you have always wanted from me, my name. My name kit is Zorro's."

At that moment a bright light seemed to engulf the inner world blinding everything in it.

Emilou watched with concern as her boyfriend underwent the treatment. While it had worked on her and everyone else, she wondered would it really work on Yoshiro? He was mostly hollow like true but he there was still a portion of him that was human. so would it really work? She had to have faith she decided, she had to have hope that this right here. Yoshiro's only real hope would work.

Suddenly, the box began to crack and then exploded. Everyone watched in earnest as to what they would see. Emilou nearly fell over from shock from what she saw.

Yoshiro stood there looking almost exactly like he did as a human, the only differences being that while his eyes had returned to their natural cerulean blue, the pupils still looked like vertical slits. His hollow mask fragment existed on the upper right of his face. From the top of his forehead down to just above his jaw, with some stretching about halfway around the top and bottom of his eye. The same black swirl like wave patterns existed to some degree still on the fragment. His teeth kept the sharp predator like shape from before. The most noticeable difference though was a hollow hole the size of baseball that existed over where roughly the liver would be.

In his left hand was his zanpakuto, it was roughly 24 inches in length looking more akin to a wakizashi than a katana. It's handle had all white wrapping with spots of black going down the middle and the guard was shaped like a nine pointed star.

There was no denying it now Emilou knew looking at him. The human Yoshiro once was, was now gone for good and forever. Now what stood before them all was a Yoshiro who had been reborn, a rebirth into a hollow, an Arrancar.

A/N

Author: This was a long chapter for me, I think it went well though.

Yoshiro: and just like that, I'm no longer human.

Author: Oh come on you had to know this was coming?

Yoshiro: True, still it's all so weird.

Nnoitra: Atleast your still alive.

Yoshiro: What the fuck are you doing here? I killed you and then ate your corpse!

Nnoitra: Author used special author powers to bring me back for this bit.

Yoshiro: *Glares*

Author: Don't look at me like that. I'm the author I can do what I want dammit!

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