Chapter Sixteen: Honesty & Invasion

*Las Noches sometime later*

it had been sometime since the successful mission in Karakura, the apology to Emilou, not to mention gaining the now former Sexta Luppi as a fraccion and boyfriend on top of still having Emilou as a girlfriend. Yoshiro had calmed down a lot in the aftermath of it all. Thinking it all over it was amazing how fast things had changed, arguably for the better in his opinion.

After the mess with him dealing with Kuchiki was finally handled and talking things out with Emilou. Their relationship was stronger than ever it seemed, while he accepted the inclusion of Luppi into things and wasn't quite sure at first if this three-way relationship would work. Things surprisingly enough had gone incredibly smoothly to date. Luppi managed to work his way into things in such a manner it almost felt like he had been always been around. He was attentive and responsive to everyone and was always polite. Quite the personality shift in all honesty, Luppi had been kind of a loudmouth with a penchant for arrogance, not to mention a little too rude for his own good. Getting nearly killed for real, has funny ways of changing people.

While Luppi of course adored Yoshiro, he quickly warmed up very well to Emilou and the others. He handled all the little things in their wing of las noches, he was to the surprise of all had quite good with management skills. Everything that needed to be handled was, with punctuality and proper care. If anything it showed just how useful having someone with such skills can be. The twins were at first kind of nervous of having a former espada as essentially their boss amongst the Quinta's fraccion. Luppi thankfully was kind enough to quell their worries and even seemingly took them under his wing in a sense. He was always teaching the girls things and became their prime training partner.

Then of course there was the bedroom play. Yoshiro had to admit while he had no problems with sleeping with Luppi, he was certainly nervous none the less the first time it happened. Luppi was perhaps unsurprisingly a very good and attentive lover in the bedroom. He had a knack being able to read his partners flow of things and working along with it. Where Emilou was somewhat wild and perhaps even crazed with her love making. Luppi took a much steady pace and sensual approach to everything. Preferring to let the flow of everything work together and steadily build up to its' finish. Essentially Emilou was rough and wild, while Luppi was gentle and controlled.

That was just with Yoshiro, which Emilou always insisted on being in the room of course when they did it. she would just sit in the chair in the corner of the room watching intently, legs crossed with a look analyzation on her face while smoking a cigarette. 'where the hell did, she even get those?' Yoshiro wondered to himself. Granted Luppi would do the same just minus the smokes when it was just Emilou and Yoshiro. Hell even Yoshiro would sit back and watch when it was just Emilou and Luppi. Plus it probably goes without saying that they all got in on the act together as well at times. As crazy as the whole set up may seem to others, the three were genuinely happy with their arrangement.

Though it didn't always go smoothly at times. One time when it was the middle of the day and the three thought, they were all alone they decided to head off to the bedroom for a quickie. As the, three were in the middle of the act, the door opened up without warning and in walked Halibel. She was in mid-sentence when she noticed what she had just unintentionally walked in on. Her eyes immediately went wide, then they rolled into the back of her and she promptly collapsed from the shock of seeing an unwanted view of her son in such a state. Everyone else started yelling in surprise and horror. Needless to say it was awkward all the way around. Everyone decided to refrain speaking about the incident as much as possible.

There was one thing though that Yoshiro had to deal with. It was his technical prisoner, Orihime Inoue. In truth Yoshiro felt sympathy for her situation, it felt far too close to home in the nature of what had happened to him. He tried to make her as comfortable as he could. She had her own bedroom; he didn't force her to do anything she didn't want to. He even actively tried to include her some of things that happened around the wing, like music practice and playing the occasional board game here and there. He also let her travel around las noches to places she was permitted to be at, under supervision from one his fraccion of course. She had been hesitant at first, she eventually came around, figuring making the best of things was the only thing to do. Plus trying to perhaps actually befriend them all could work well for her if she truly was stuck in las noches for the long haul of things. Though she still had a little bit of hope that she would make it back to her home one way or another.

For what it was worth Orihime, quickly established pretty good terms with everyone in that section of las noches. Everyone was sitting around in the main area of the wing, just doing whatever as they awaited the next stage of things. Orihime was currently sitting in a chair having her hair braided by Luppi. She felt the need to change up her look a bit with all that happened. Luppi had just finished up and held up a mirror for Orihime to see her new look.

"there darling, see for yourself. how does it look?" Luppi chimed in his usual manner.

Orihime looked her new braided hair style, she to admit it was very well done. "it's great Luppi, I have to admit it looks wonderful." She replied.

"Your certainly welcome" he retorted. Yoshiro spun around and looked for himself.

"it's looks nice Orihime, that style works well with you." Piped Yoshiro "spoken as someone who also has a penchant for the braids." He said as held up his own braided ponytail. "granted I always did it myself growing up in Karakura, wasn't until Emilou that I started having someone else do it for me."

At the mention of Karakura, Orihime felt a twinge of sadness but didn't let it show. Then she suddenly had a thought and decided to voice it.

"Yoshiro I was wondering something just now if you'd be willing to indulge me?" she asked.

Yoshiro shot an eyebrow up but decided to comply. "all right shoot Orihime, what do you want to know?"

"well" she began "I was wondering, just what is the whole story of what happened that led to you being here as you are now?" she said with care

Yoshiro immediately tensed up a little and had solemn look on his face. While everyone else in the room already knew his story, Luppi included. He figured it was only a matter of time before Orihime asked about that subject. He had no issues with telling her, it was more of a matter of how he wanted to share it with her. In all likelihood whatever he told her, she would wind up telling everyone else one way or another at some point down the road. He needed to make sure everything was laid out as clearly as possible to her. So he decided that simply telling her wasn't going to cut it, he was going to show her instead.

"ok I will" he spoke "however I'm not going to tell you my story, I am going to show you instead. By taking you into my inner world to show you my memories directly."

"how will you do that?" Orihime questioned

"simple you'll just need lay a hand on me and then we'll focus our energy together to create the bridge needed between our two minds." He replied.

"Yoshiro, I think that might a little too dangerous" chimed Emilou

"relax emi, you really think Orihime of all people will try to pull a fast one?" he retorted. She couldn't argue that. Yoshiro placed himself on the floor legs crisscrossed and motioned Orihime to come over next to him and do the same. She did so and then they placed a hand on each other's shoulder. They began focusing their spirit energy together and made the connection.

*Yoshiro's inner world*

Orihime found herself in the middle of dense and lush forest, on the edge of field that had blooming flowers in it. The sun shined brightly with some clouds floating around, along with a gentle breeze.

"this is Yoshiro's inner world? it's a lot more peaceful, and woodsy then I would have thought it to be? I have to admit it honestly quite beautiful and relaxing to behold." The orange haired girl proclaimed.

"Indeed it is, I'm quite glad you approve of my kits inner world miss Inoue" a voice suddenly rang out. Orihime whipped around to see who it was, she almost gasped at the sight. It was rather tall woman; she was taller than Yoshiro. She had a perfect figure. Orihime noticed her fox like features and the way her body was colored. This woman must be Yoshiro's inner hollow Orihime concluded.

"umm… hello miss...?" Orihime spoke.

"Zorro's little one. My name is Zorro's" the kitsune hollow woman replied.

"nice to meet you, you must be Yoshiro's inner hollow if I'm correct." Orihime chimed

"quite right little one, my kit will be joining shortly, I know what his intentions are, I just wanted to greet you myself beforehand. Plus I'd like to mention about everything your about to see. You must understand my kit is going to quite a length to show you all this in such an intimate manner. Just a fair warning as well, be ready and harden yourself for some of the things you may see. Some of what you see will not be pleasant to witness for one reason or another. Do you understand little one?" Zorro's finished with a sagely tone.

Orihime thought for a moment, then looked directly into the hollow woman's eyes and nodded.

"very well then little one" was Zorro's reply.

Yoshiro entered his inner world to see Zorro's already engaged in conversation with Orihime. He approached and made himself known. "I see Zorro's has already taken the pleasure of introducing herself and welcoming you to my inner world." he said with mirth.

Both women turned to face him, his hollow was the first to respond. "hello kit, it's nice to see in you in person in a manner speaking for once." She said a bit jokingly. Orihime then spoke. "Yoshiro, your inner is something to behold. I've never seen such a pretty forest before."

Yoshiro not really sure how to take that compliment, just simply shrugged in a shy manner. He then focused himself remembering the whole reason for brining Orihime into his mind to begin with. "alright Orihime, I'm gonna show everything too you. From how it all started to the here and now. You ready?"

She simply nodded her head in response. Yoshiro held up a hand and energy swirled in front of them until took the shape of some kind of large screen and began showing his memories. It started with the night of meeting Emilou and continued on, evading the soul reapers, the beach, reuniting with his mother. awakening his powers, his capture and escape, surviving and changing in hueco mundo. Finding his way back to his loved ones, las noches, his battle with Nnoitra, the realization his body was a ticking time bomb, undergoing the Hogyoku treatment and becoming an arrancar. Returning to Karakura, dealing with the fallout of Grimmjows ill-fated mission and the fall out of it all.

Orihime watched intently as the memories played out before her. She only known bits and pieces of Yoshiro's story and those had been secondhand accounts. Now seeing everything clearly directly from the source gave a whole new perspective on things. She realized just how much Yoshiro had gone through, how much he he's had to fight and struggle especially in the time since his escape and capture from soul society. Orihime couldn't even begin to imagine having gone through the things he had, let alone surviving it all.

Plus it put a much more understanding light in his relationship with his girlfriend. When Orihime first heard that Yoshiro wound up going on the path he was on because he had fallen in love with a hollow woman. She couldn't begin to fathom how that could be a thing. Her only experience with hollows for the longest time were the more bestial low class ones. Now though seeing his memories with Emilou back when she was still a vasto lord made Orihime realize why it could possibly happen. Outside of her obvious hollow traits she looked and acted more like an actual person then some kind of monster. Adding in her own experiences with the others in las noches with them all being arrancar. Orihime realized that deep down, that while they were different certainly, they were still people none the less.

Yoshiro watched Orihime's reactions as his memories played out before her, watching her reactions to them all. There were obviously looks of shock and so forth, but also genuine sadness and perhaps even pity. Displayed by the orange haired woman as she looked at everything. As they began to reach the end of things, he wondered if he should shoe her that memory, ultimately, he figured since he had been this honest so far. No need to hold back, he began showing the last mission to Karakura when he confronted Rukia.

"what I'm about to show you is what happened while you were being taken by Ulquiorra." He calmly spoke. Orihime looked at him with a questioning look and then turned back to the memory as played out.

Orihime watched intently as the memory played. She saw him find Ichigo and then Grimmjow beginning to fight Ichigo. Then Rukia showed up and everything took a turn that made her stomach begin to lurch around. He saw as Yoshiro's expression and tone take a dark and hateful mood. Then he suddenly grabbed Rukia and took off with her. Bringing her to some park and then explaining his reasons for hating her. Orihime felt sicker as she realized where it was most likely going.

Then Yoshiro's beating of Rukia began, she couldn't help but gasp in horror at the sight of it all. He was merciless, uncaring and brutal beyond measure. The worst was though was when he slashed his blade across her friend's face, scaring her and destroying her eye in the process. She almost couldn't believe it, she suddenly found herself terrified beyond reason. The memory ended and thus was the end of it all.

She looked to Yoshiro now no longer knowing what to think of him. She had been under the impression that despite all that had happened to him he was still more or less the person he had been before. Now she wasn't so sure of that at all. She was scared of him, but a new emotion rose as well. One she rarely felt, true anger. She simply marched up to Yoshiro and before anything could be done or said gave him the most vicious slap she could muster and yelled.

"HOW COULD YOU!?"

Yoshiro did nothing for a few moments. He looked away sadly from Orihime, he knew ahead of time she wouldn't take kindly to his treatment of Rukia. He looked back to her and spoke quietly.

"it was because of her the life I had was ruined. I never would have had to become what I am now, if she had never reported me."

"you're a fool Yoshiro. Do you honestly think that's enough of a reason to act as you did? She was only doing her job Yoshiro. Do you really think you could have kept your secret from soul society secret forever in Karakura? Ichigo couldn't have kept his powers secret, I couldn't have kept mine secret, nor any of the others back home. It would have been found out sooner or later. While I can agree their method of handling the situation could have been better. For you to act as you did too Rukia is still inexcusable." She finished with a calm fury.

Yoshiro eyes widened a little at her outburst and then thought about what she had just said. He had honestly never thought about it from that perspective before, far to wrapped up in his own anger about it to see it. after a few moments he realized that Orihime was right, then new feeling hit him about it all. He felt actual regret. Regret towards his reactions to Rukia, if he was to blame anyone it should be the heads of the Gotei 13 and not just some rank and file troop. He felt ashamed of himself about it all now. How he allowed himself to be overtaken by his emotions in such a manner. Not to mention the joy he had felt as he was hurting the woman had now turned into a wretched taste of disgust. He suddenly felt weak in his legs and sat on the ground his knees bent, looking at the ground.

Orihime simply watched as she saw a wave of emotion fly across Yoshiro's face. She realized that her words had reached him and now his was coming to grips with things. She looked at him as he sat on the ground looking away. This continued for a few minutes before Orihime decided to speak. "Yoshiro" she said quietly. When he looked up to face her, she saw the grief and confliction on his face.

"I'm sorry Orihime" he started. "your right my actions towards Kuchiki were inexcusable. I never should have put my blame on her. The ones I should hate are the leaders of soul society, the captains, central 46 and more. There the leaders of that place, they're the ones who call the shots. As weird as it may sound, I must thank you for helping see the truth of this Orihime. I know that you probably hate me now and you probably won't forgive for what I did to Rukia. Now I know what I must do."

"what's that?" she asked.

"simple, bring down the leadership of soul society of course." He piped standing back up. "I won't being doing it for Aizen either I honestly don't care for him at all. I will be doing this for the sake of my loved ones and helping ensure anyone who might exist out there, who's like how I was once. Won't have to worry about having to go through the same things I did."

"You still intend to fight soul society?"

"of course, if not for the reasons I stated. Then for the reason because me and all the people I care about and love are all arrancar. Even without my rap sheet on the soul reaper's records they would still kill me and the others just for simply being what we are. I can't just sit by and allow such a thing to happen." He retorted

"I see"

"Orihime, I really am sorry and your welcome to hate me all you like now for what I did. I won't hold it against you."

Orihime thought for a moment and then spoke up. "I don't hate you Yoshiro, but I can't forgive you for what you did to Rukia, atleast not yet anyways."

"I understand, Orihime I'm gonna let you out of here. I'm going to stay in here and think on a few things should the others ask."

She simply nodded her head and then her image faded away inside the inner world. Yoshiro remained quiet for a few moments before pulling his head back and yelled into the sky.

"GOD DAMMIT! WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SO GOD DAMN CONFLICTED ABOUT THINGS!? I SOLVE ONE THING JUST FOR ANOTHER TO APPEAR OR AN ISSUE I THOUGHT TO BE HANDLE TO REAR ITS' HEAD BACK UP! FUCK!"

Zorro's who had remained silent the entire time since introducing herself to Orihime decided to speak up.

"Kit, nothing in life is so easy to put behind oneself or completely resolve. Especially when walks on the path you find yourself on. I understand how difficult it must be. To be constantly hounded by your inner demons even more so when you think to have conquered them to only have them reappear. You cannot run from this though, you must face this head on. If you truly feel as you do about this situation, then you must a find a way to, in your view to atone for your actions."

Yoshiro wasn't sure what to say at this point he just stood in silence. Zorro's simply walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him.

"now, now kit, do not be discouraged, all will be well in due time. Now it's time for you to return to the others." She said in a motherly like tone.

Yoshiro in understanding, left his inner world and returned to the physical world. as he awoke and got up on his feet, he noticed everyone looking at him a bit. Before a word could be spoken an alert went out across all of las noches calling for an emergency meeting for all espada. Yoshiro and Halibel took off for the meeting leaving everyone else behind.

"Is everything ok?" Halibel asked as they walked together towards the meeting room.

"well enough mom. I just have somethings fresh on my mind. Don't worry I'm not going to go off like I did in the past. I'm not really angry at anything per say. I just need to set somethings straight so to speak when the opportunity arises. I know you probably don't like the vagueness of that I just ask that you have faith with me on this.' He replied calmly.

Halibel just nodded her head at her son's response. They then arrived at the meeting hall, most of the other espada had already arrived. They both took their seats and awaited a start to the meeting. Once everyone arrived and took their seats, Aizen and his lackeys showed up to start the meeting. After having everyone have some tea for some odd reason. Aizen got to the point of the meeting.

"welcome my dear espada." He spoke in his usual manner that made Yoshiro want to kick him in the face. "we are under attack it would seem, being invaded in a manner of speaking. Tosen if you would please." Tosen nodded his head and pulled a lever, a screen popped up showing live footage of the supposed invaders. The screen showed Sado, Ichigo and someone Yoshiro recognized as Uryu Ishida. Running on the outskirts of las noches towards the main complex.

"they appear to be on a rescue mission to save Orihime Inoue." Spoke Aizen "there is no need to worry about, all espada are return to their quarters to await further orders. Though I will say this." He spoke turning to Yoshiro. "Quinta, I want miss Inoue moved to a proper holding cell. I'll put my arrancar assistants in charge of watching her. You and your fraccion will be better served for the coming attack on the soul reaper forces. the final stages of the plan of defeating the soul reapers shall commence very soon. Prepare yourselves to mobilize soon." He finished and dismissed everyone.

As Yoshiro and Halibel walked back together, he couldn't help but voice his opinions on the matter. "I don't like any of this. Ichigo and friends invade, now we just happen to move for the big attack against the soul reapers and he wants to move Orihime and take her out of my charge. I don't like any of this, something just doesn't smell right in all this. I don't know what, but I have a sudden sinking feeling about this situation." He voiced out in irritation.

"I can see your concern in all this son but have faith in lord Aizen he knows what he's doing." Halibel retorted.

"no offense mom but you put too much trust and faith in him. He rubs me the wrong way always has from the moment I saw him."

Before anything else could be said, they arrived back to their section of las noches. Upon entering the main living they informed everyone, of the current developments. It sent a surprise through everyone to say the least. Yoshiro ordered Luppi and the twins to take Orihime to where she needed to go. Once they returned, no one said much of anything as they simply awaited the orders to come. Out of curiosity Yoshiro reached out with pesquisa to gauge Ichigo and friends and to see where they might be at in las noches.

"now that is interesting." He exclaimed.

"what do you sense?" asked Emilou.

"well" he began "there's now more invaders, four of them appear to be hollows of sorts, and there's two soul reapers with Ichigo and friends as well. They seem to have split some are headed to granz, some to Cirucci, a few to Dordoni and one is headed right for the Novena."

"things are certainly starting to heat up in a big way and it's only going to go up from here I imagine." Chimed Mila. everyone could only nod their heads in agreement. Yoshiro Kept his pesquisa up in order to monitor things. He noticed the ones going towards Cirucci and Dordoni would be the first to engage. He kept focus as he started to feel the fighting play out. Both sides were going full-tilt at one another. The fighting kept up for a while then a change in Cirucci's fight made his heart drop. Cirucci's sprit energy dropped to almost nothing and wasn't changing. She had been defeated, he then noticed that her opponent left the area. Yoshiro immediately moved to go help Cirucci, she was in real bad shape and he wasn't going let a friend die when he could do something about it.

"where are you going off to?" asked Haibel.

"I'm going to help Cirucci. She's down but not dead just yet. I'm going to grab her and get her help before it's too late. Don't try to stop me, I'm not letting a friend die on my watch." He retorted "Luppi, Yin and Yang Lets go." With that he and his fraccion were off as fast as they could move. As they traveled, he suddenly he felt Dordoni's energy begin to drop, he was still fighting but he was losing badly now.

"fuck" Yoshiro cursed out. "Luppi, Yin and Yang. I want you to head off to where Dordoni is, if he's still fighting, help him out. If the fight is over help Dordoni however you can understand. If anyone tries to question you, just say I sent you and if they have an issue with it, they can speak to me personally about it." he finished. They all simply nodded in agreement and took off.

As he was nearing Cirucci's wing he felt another presence begin to near his way there. One he knew and didn't like the implications of. He forced himself to move faster in order to be the first to arrive. Thankfully his speed paid off and he was the first to arrive. He quickly focused on Cirucci's energy to locate her within her sanctum. He located her laying on her stomach looking rough for wear but still alive even it is was barely. He approached her and knelt down, she looked to be passed out. Gently he flipped her over and picked her bridal style. She groaned from the movement.

She woke up and managed to open her eyes wearily to see what was happening. "Yoshiro….. why are…you here?" she weakly choked out straining to talk.

"just take it easy now Cirucci, I came to help you before you wound up in worse shape than you already are. Just focus on resting and healing yourself at this point ok. I have you covered from here." Yoshiro calmly and quietly said. She merely grunted a little in response and fell back asleep. Just as Yoshiro began to move the other presence that been on the way arrived and made itself known.

"Quinta, your presence here is a surprise may I ask what you're doing?" the person spoke. Yoshiro knew who it was right away, he turned to address the new arrival.

"I'm just here to help Cirucci get somewhere safe to recover, Rudbornn." He spoke to the leader of Exequias. Yoshiro knew the only reason he would be here, and he wasn't going let that happen to Cirucci.

"I'm under orders from the Octava to take her to him." Replied Rudbornn

"you mean kill her and bring her corpse to Granz for some twisted experimentation of his. I won't allow to happen to her or Dordoni for that matter. My fraccion are already on the way there to help him as needed, so if you sent your own men there, you might as well call them back. I don't give a damn what your orders from granz are, I outrank him, and this the fact of things understand Rudbornn?" he spoke with authority.

"with all due respect-" Rudbornn began to speak but was cut off when he was hit with a massive release of spiritual pressure from Yoshiro that instantly made him fall to his hands and knees.

"have I made myself clear on this?" Yoshiro coldly chimed. Rudbornn simply nodded his head in response. With that settled Yoshiro sped back to his wing of las noches. When he walked in carrying Cirucci, he noticed that the others had already arrived back with Dordoni who was passed out the couch recovering, Yoshiro walked over to the loveseat and gently laid Cirucci on it.

"How is she holding up?" Emilou asked

"she's pretty beat up but she's still alive, she just needs to rest and allow her regeneration to do it's work. How's Dordoni?" he replied

"same as her, rough but alive and in need of rest and recovery" chimed Luppi.

Yoshiro nodded silently in response and reached back out with pesquisa to gauge the current state of things. The invaders were still on the move, except for a fight that was going on between one of the invaders and the Novena. Yoshiro focused in on it. suddenly he recognized the soul reaper presence fighting the Novena.

It was Rukia Kuchiki.

*Other side of las noches*

Rukia was engaged with one the espada at the moment. The bastard had the nerve to take the form of one her most beloved friends. As a means to try and fool her. It was a tough fight, being down an eye certainly didn't help. After her beatdown at the hands of Yoshiro, she was rushed to the 4th division for treatment. Thankfully captain Unohana was able to use highly powerful healing kido to save her life and ensure a rather fast recovery, sadly she was still left with a nasty scar and the lose of her eye on the side of her face where she was slashed. Now she looked more like captain Zaraki's younger sister, instead of Byakuya's. She had to admit she hoped to never meet the Quinta ever again, his beating left her with a psychological fear of the arrancar. Not too mention her brother Byakuya had sworn personal vengeance against the Quinta for having harmed her to such a degree.

*Yoshiro's side of los noches*

Yoshiro kept his focus on the reading the energy being tossed around in the fight between the Novena and Rukia. They were both going at it pretty hard then suddenly both energies seemed to drop to nothingness. Yoshiro at first thought they had both killed one another in one final attack at each other. then he realized Rukia's presence as faint as it was, it was still there. The Novena's however was nowhere to be felt, he was dead without a doubt. Everyone else apparently had felt it too as no one said a word. Then Yoshiro felt Zommari the Septima Espada go on the move towards Rukia's location. He knew that Zommari was headed off to finish her. Yoshiro knew he could do nothing about it, he was too far to possibly reach the area in time hold back the Septima's hand.

He kept focus with his pesquisa then noticed Zommari had flared his energy for some reason. That's when Yoshiro felt the presence of new soul reaper who hadn't arrived with the earlier ones. It seems soul society sent more back up. Yoshiro could tell the Septima and his opponent were giving each other a very tough time to each other. Yoshiro thought about the situation and made his decision on what he wanted to do. He made his way to the door and proclaimed as he walked out.

"I'm going to give the Septima back up, Luppi, Yin and Yang stay here and watch Cirucci and Dordoni." Before anyone could say anything to protest, he was gone.

As Yoshiro traveled as fast as he could, he thought about why he was doing this. It was honestly more to make his kind of atonement to Rukia, realizing he had been wrong in blaming her so severely for what had happened to him. As he approached the location of the battle he suddenly felt Zommari's energy disappear completely, whoever he had been fighting, succeeded in killing him outright. As Yoshiro entered where all the fighting had been taken place, he noticed the place was pretty wrecked. He moved quietly, hoping to find what he was looking for before the other soul reaper nearby discovered him. Sadly, that was not meant to be. As he walked about, he suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice ring out behind him.

"if you are looking for your comrades, you are too late for they have been killed and soon you shall join them in death." Spoke the aristocratic like voice

Yoshiro looked behind him and saw the soul reaper in question. He was a little shorter then Yoshiro. He wore the traditional soul reaper uniform but with a white haori overtop of it, along with a long elegent scarf of sorts. he had grey eyes and long black hair with decorative pieces in it. Yoshiro knew who he was from the data on the Gotei 13 they had stored in las noches. It was Byakuya Kuchiki, head of the Kuchiki clan, one of the four great noble families of soul society. Captain of the 6th division and Rukia's older brother.

"Oh Fuckberries." Yoshiro muttered to himself.

A/N

Yoshiro: Well this might end poorly for me.

Author: You'll just have to wait and see.

Yoshiro: That does little to quell my nervousness.

Author: You worry too much.

Yoshiro: I have very good reason to incase, you haven't noticed.

Byakuya: Indeed you do.

Cirucci: Please Review!