What's up Diamond Dogs!

So...yeah Ichigo and Tatsuki are twins, this will be explained in this chapter. I'd finished the chapter already and thought to myself "I want Tatsuki to actually be needed in this story. Hmm well her and Ichigo do have their birthday's close together and Tatsuki does have Isshin style hair...fuck it why not".

Much to the disappointment of my beta/Cousin, there will be no twincest, don't ask me why she wanted it but I just can't bring myself to write that.

Anyway, let our story continue.

Also, I'd like to point out that I don't own bleach as I seem to have not put a disclaimer in the previous chapter but this one stands for all, I don't own the characters from bleach and I don't own the characters who will be mentioned in this story unless I actually specify the fact they are mine.

With Ichigo, Tatsuki and Yoruichi.

"Alright Yoruichi start talking"

To say that the were-cat, Flash goddess, ex-captain was shocked at the fact her 'apprentice' had caught her would be an understatement. Regardless of if she was paying attention or not, she was still faster than Ichigo with flashstep...wasn't she?

She realised she was now on the floor, struggling for breath as her protégé direct all of his spiritual pressure exclusively onto her.

"Look Yoruichi, for your own sake you better ever say it was a joke or get explaining" Ichigo spoke, his voice laced with venom and anger and...Pain? Of all the things she could feel pain?

It then dawned upon the purple haired ex-captain that she had just told Ichigo and Tatsuki something they were never meant to know. And that as a results of this Tatsuki had inadvertently been informed that her mother had been killed by a hollow, her brother had died twice on his way to becoming what he is, along with battling the constant threat of his inner hollow taking over at any time. And that her father was a complete nutjob but that was less important right now.

"I haven't lied to you Ichigo, Tatsuki is your twin. You were born half an hour before midnight, Tatsuki 10 minutes after. But as you know your father was a soul reaper captain on the run from the soul society and your mother was only just out of school herself and they couldn't afford to keep you both. So they came to me and kisuke for help."

Ichigo had never listened so deeply in his life, even when his father explained how he and his mother met. Tatsuki was in a similar boat to Ichigo, she didn't know whether to cry or not, but with her face still buried in Ichigo's haori she listened intently.

"Myself and Kisuke weren't exactly as you'd say...hmm how do I put this?" Yoruichi pondered, clearly not actually trying to come up with something and just waiting for a reaction in Ichigo's mind after knowing her for so long, Tatsuki on the otherhand...enngghh

"Up to the job of being a parent?" tatsuki spoke showing that she was actually 100% inept at reading yoruichi

Of course Yoruichi took great hurt at this and clung onto the other side of Ichigo chest. "Oh Ichi-bo look how your mean twin treats your sensei" she forced out between false sobs and tears.

At this Ichigo just sweat dropped "You ceased to be my sensei when you didn't attempt to get in contact with me for that year and a half, were it not for Tatsuki and her constant beating me into shape I'd have been sent to the madhouse!" the rage about the fact subtle but evident within his tone.

The sky had fallen calmer now with the dark finally claiming the evening sky and the stars seeming to be the only rebellion against it's overpowering might. Looking up to the stars the thought crossed tatsuki's mind 'strange, it's much like ichigo's battle, with his being the one shining brightest to defeat the evil trying to smother the world, even if the odd's aren't in his favor.' following her momentary lapse of concentration, she tuned back into the conversation taking place about her true lineage.

"Well when Isshin and Masaki came to us they knew that they had the impossible choice of which child to give up, so since I thought it's be safer to trust Isshin with a Boy than a girl I took you tatsuki. But like I was going to say, myself and Isshin aren't exactly the parental type, so we had to find someone to look after little Tatsuki. This is when Kisuke created two new mod souls and gigai and gave them the role of raising and protecting little Tatsuki as their own. And unfortunately, as you are both probably aware, the male mod soul is no longer with us." Yoruichi paused for a second to compose herself.

Tatsuki's desire to know what had happened to her father was driving her insane, could this crazy cat woman just get to the point already.

"Well, a stray Hollow was heading for you Tatsuki as it could sense your dormant spiritual energy slowly growing. Your 'father' attacked the hollow and delayed it enough for Isshin to quickly dispose of it before any other teen's showed up to investigate."

Ichigo felt as if that the last bit, although it branched out to all the spiritually aware teens, was aimed solely at him. Although following what he was now going to remember as Yoruichi's only not nude big reveal he felt as though the blame did mostly lie at his feet, he believed he was this protector, yet he still refused to believe that people could protect themselves, hence why he tried to keep Tatsuki out of the loop, despite being his oldest friend he didn't notice her growing spiritual awareness and should have confronted her about it sooner. But the big clue was when Tatsuki spoke of sensing Orihime, that should have been the clincher and had he not been rushing the way he had been due to Orihime being abducted by Ulquiorra the former Fourth Espada, who thank god was taking a well earned dirt nap, he felt that he would have taken her to Kisuke and got him to see about her power there and maybe some revelations would have been found out sooner rather than in the most chaotic war Ichigo had ever seen.

"Well Yoruichi what do you reckon to Tatsuki potentially getting some form of powers then?" Ichigo spoke up trying to direct his train of thought away from that negative run it was on.

"Hard to say but I think you are aware that Kisuke is out of town at the moment on 'Business' so using the shattered shaft is a no-"

"I wasn't asking for either yours or Kisuke's help Yoruichi" Ichigo interrupted, authority in his voice and the skills of a leader already blossoming on him, although the sharp interruption did get a squeak out of the Flash Goddess.. "I just wanted to know if she could have powers, I can resolve the rest after all, it's about time I started being an older brother to someone eh Tats?" A smile forming on his lips as he finished his sentence

"Pfft only by a few minutes Ichi-nii" Tatsuki returned, with a grin matching his in strength.

Her grin was quickly gone however as Ichigo got up, causing tatsuki to grab on to Haori tightly.

"Well yoruichi, if you want to come along you can but I'm taking Tatsuki somewhere. And it may And it may just help turn the tide in this war." Ichigo spoke, the authority back in his voice.

"Why of course Ichi-bo can't have my favorite student and potentially my new apprentice getting hurt now can I?" The Banished Captain got out between her long, cat like grin returning to her face.

"Keep telling yourself that" the twins both blurted out, before looking at each other and letting out a little chuckle.

All that could be heard at the spot following that were the swoosh of leaves as the trio flash stepped away, leaving the clearing without a soul in sight.

At the river bank

Ichigo arrived first. Even whilst carrying Tatsuki, he was still faster than Yoruichi due to his new found power and accepting his zanpakuto's true nature and using his maximum potential. This, of course, absolutely startled the goddess of flash as her greatest student was now better than her by such a large margin and was quite concerned with her own ability. 'I'm going to have to start training again, can't have the 17 year old student becoming the master of the... well...older master.'

The weather was becoming poorer, adding to Ichigo's haunted memories of that walk home those eight years ago. Barely any traffic was on the roads at this hour, with the only one seeing to be taxi's picking up drunkards from the bars around town. But none of that mattered to Ichigo, all that mattered to him at that moment was believing that he could have done more to help his mother, and that had he been informed of his potential powers as soon as he'd started seeing spirits then maybe his little sisters would still have their mother, and Tatsuki could finally truly meet her true mother as who she was, the woman who loved her so much she sacrificed her own happiness to let her daughter have a relatively normal life.

"So this is where our mother died?" Tatsuki asked aloud.

The question wasn't directed towards either Ichigo nor towards the cat-bitch, she knew the answer. She'd seen Ichigo moping around this spot many times over their long friendship and this was the first time she'd come here with Ichigo feeling the shared grief over the mother that she never knew as her mother.

In all fairness it made sense, the two were naturally drawn towards each other as children and masaki always looked at her with a mothers eyes, often making the Kurosaki matriarch feel like a second mother in many ways in her frequent visits to the dojo with Ichigo. The twins often felt as if they were siblings in the way they behaved with one another and now the fact they spent 9 months in the same womb probably explained the two's close bond.

"Yeah. It's strange." Ichigo spoke, pausing waiting for the right words to come into his head, whilst also making sure the two present females were paying attention to him. "All these years I treated mum's death as my own burden to bare, yet it also hung over the twins heads and that of dad. Especially dad. He would have tried to save her if he knew that Yhwach had ridden mum of her Quincy powers, and now." he brushed tatsuki's hair with his fingers, moving a stray few hairs behind her ears." You have to live with the fact your mother died here as well. I'm sorry Tats."

Que Tatsuki's fist to ichigo's cheek sending him to the ground along with herself, forgetting sh was still in his arms

"You idiot, don't be sorry it wasn't your fault. I already know the story of how it happened so don't give me this 'I'm sorry' crap. It was either you or Masaki and a mother will always protect her son Ichigo, mum wouldn't want you getting worked up over it, especially when we're going after the head of the person who caused her death" tatsuki bellowed into her brothers ear, hoping that the delinquent would let that info sink in and not blame himself for everything that goes wrong.

"Your right Tat's, now come on." he spoke getting himself up and offering tatsuki his hand "we've got some captain's to find"

"Well you've come to the right place young one's" a new voice spoke up startling the three present, causing them all to drop into battle ready poses. the voice was distinctly feminine and was coming from under the bridge directed to the right of the spot Masaki's life was cut tragically short.

"Using the shadows like a coward come out and show yourself!" Ichigo yelled into the darkness.

"woah easy there hot-head wouldn't want to hurt yourself." The voice spoke again this time, a silhouette of someone could be seen in the dark walking towards them. when the figure broke from the darkness Ichigo was bewildered.

The mysterious person wore a black top hat, with black steampunk goggles on the front of it.
They wore a black shirt with the blue outlining of Totoro's face adorning it coupled with a black leather jacket over the top finishing with a Motorhead pendant. Moving down were black jeans, with braces attached to the legs and wearing black converse trainers. Overall, Ichigo was confused over what gender the person actually was. Luckily for Ichigo, Tatsuki was on hand with her slightly not-as-bad-as-ichigo-but-still-pretty-shit people skills.
"Hello there Miss'?" Tatsuki spoke first not noticing the yoruichi in the background giggling at how alike the twins actually were.
"Rosie, Miss Rosie and I have been sent by my employers to allow you both access to Chuku no Machi o koete shiro for an audience with the Captains." The now named Miss Rosie spoke with the authority of a certain Lieutenant to a Mr Kyoraku if you asked for Yoruichi's opinion.
"How do we know to trust you?" yoruichi spoke up for the first time, her thoughts clearly mirrored by her companions.

"Yeah for all we know you could be one of those kensei's" Tatsuki questioned

"It's quincies tats" ichigo spoke head in hands.

"Shut up alright I'm new to this!" The twin retorted her fist crashing down on her brother's head

"Hehehe you too are funny, but come come if you want to meet the captains" the girl spoke cheerfulness coming out instead of the cold aura she radiated when addressing the issue of her name and of where they were going.

"Okay how do we get there?" Ichigo queried

"Like this" Rosie spoke the more harsh tone in her voice returning, her fist crashing against the floor where masaki had died opening up what appeared to be a garganta.

"IT'S IN HEUCO MUNDO?!" Ichigo yelled over the top of the garganta opening and also getting rid of some of the stress that he was having to go back to that desolate wasteland to find some captains who may or may not still be around with the help of some Bipolar secretary who punched a portal into the floor, with his newly discovered twin and an exhibitionist teacher. "What even is my life anymore?" ichigo questioned to himself before he saw aforementioned twin jump into the portal without a care in the world, swiftly followed by Yoruichi and Lemmy's bastard daughter (Shoutout to the Motorhead frontman). "I fucking hate my life sometimes" he spoke before joining the group in the portal.

Back in soul society, 2 days ahead of Ichigo

The remaining captains and lieutenants stood at attention in front of their new head captain. they had al received word via hell butterfly that Shunsui was in dire need of his captain's advice and hurried to the first division captains hall, a place of so many meetings over the years for the group of lieutenants, captains and special war powers.

"Right everyone" Shunsui spoke, seeming calm and relaxed "At this moment in time we currently have; a fast captain with no Bankai, 3 Vizard's who are useless when fighting Quincy even in pairs, a very romantically confused warrior-healer, a noble without a cause, a wolfman also with no Bankai, an empty captain's slot, a Psychopath with what can only be described as a car on a stick, a 11 year old who can't do anything without resorting to bankai, 2 psychopath scientists, a hospital patient blighted by a career in the Gotei 13, a god-like healer who's scared of her own power, a Mexican who is best described as cannon fodder, and an arrancar who has the hots for the savior of the world. Have i missed anyone of importance to the plot out at all, lieutenants notwithstanding?"

"No thats all of us Kyoraku-soutaicho" Nanao spoke from behind her clipboard embarrassed by both what shunsui said and the fact it was all true.

"Well then everyone, I'm now announcing my retirement from the Gotei 13 and appoint Kenpachi as my replacement. I'm going to go to Nepal and live as a goat for the foreseeable future."

Suddenly Akon burst through the doors to the meeting room, sweat dripping down his face. "Captain's, the Quincies are attacking again."

Kyoraku turned to his general's face deadly serious "Right then everyone I'm not going to ask you to fight but i won't judge you if you choose not to so just so i know who stands with soul society. All in favour of moving to Nepal and living as goats say I" he spoke thrusting his own hand into the air.

"I" spoke everyone except Nel

"Ichigo I swear to god if I have to die with these assholes I'm coming back from the dead specifically to kill you" Nel muttered under her breath. It then suddenly dawned on Nel that She'd have to go and find Ichigo to stand any chance in this war, swiftly she envisioned the orange haired soul-reaper and opened a garganta to his location. the room was left in silence before Urahara and Kurotsuchi spoke up.

"shall we set to work on the goat potion immediately then?" they Questioned

"Yes, we'll hold them off then when it;s ready tell us. We'll all rendezvous when the formula is ready and then open a seinkaimon to Nepal. Hopefully Ichigo can save all our asses again though." Shunsui ordered "Now defend the Sereitei until we can run away from our jobs of defending sereitei !"

"Best speech since independence day" chad spoke to nobody, but isane picked up on it letting out a giggle at her crush's joke, she was in some way informed of culture in the living world, as a healer she had had to go the living world before to see new medicine's that in the soul society would have been impossible to create, she'd stumbled upon a magical device called a dvd player and proceeded to buy a bunch of these dvd's in order to broaden her horizon's on human culture one of which being Independence day.

"Chad making jokes who'd have known." she let out another giggle, he looked across the line at her and smiled back 'right Isane this is your chance don't let it slip' "Look chad, im going to need someone to cover me whilst i heal people will you protect me?" she ased looking up into his eyes with her own, using the cutest face she could muster without feeling foolish of herself.

"Of course Isane what else are friends for?" chad retorted with his trademark thumbs up.

'YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER' Isane screamed in her mind before flash stepping to the fourth with chad in tow.

Back to Ichigo

"Where the hell is this place" Ichigo spoke up after being the last to go through the portal.

They were in what appeared to be a lightless cave, before Rosie lit a candle and showed they were now ,Infact, in a lightfilled cave, with one exit...that was locked and above them...great.

"well shit" Rosie spoke up.

"what do you mean 'Well shit'?" the three shinigami all questioned, all fearing they had been led into a trap.

The young girl just panicked and started mumbling to herself, caught in some inner turmoil before she turned to her fellow captor's with a scared look upon her face.
"Im sorry guys but I'm only new around here and I don't know the ins and outs of where everything is yet and i meant to open a portal in front of the palace the white palace and then-" she spoke, her tone becoming panicked towards the end before she began hyperventilating.

"ok, it's ok just calm down alright" tatsuki spoke calmly, softly grabbing the young girls shoulders.

After a short while the girls breathing was back under control and she looked ready to actually explain where they were.

"I tried to open the portal infront of Los Nochas and then take you to the castle but instead I accidently have got us trapped in an oubliet." the Young girl spoke clearly still distressed at her error.

"What's one of those?" Tatsuki spoke up. To be honest today was just full of suprises for her.

"It's a place that the king puts people to forget about them" Rosie finished before hiding her face behind her hat, cowering, fearing the worst. That was of course before Ichigo grabbed her hand and softly pulled her up to her feet.

"Don't worry we'll get out of here right guys?" Ichigo pronounced confidence oozing through him, looking for confirmation form his sister and his tor/mentor, he found determination in Tatsuki's eyes and subtle pride in those of his teacher.

"First off, lets open that door." Ichigo unsheathed his zangetsu's and held them low. "Getsuga Tenshou!" the energy wave rode its way up to the hatch and shattered it letting a decent amount of light in. "hold on tight you two " Ichigo alerted the two young girls to the fact he was going to use flash step to get through the gap.

With a gust of wind hitting them all 4 escaped from the cave, a small sense of victory plastered over their faces.

"Dearie me little Rosie, what have you done now?" a new voice spoke from behind the group.

They turned to see a man, also wearing a top hat, with a black long trenchcoat and black boots, his face was hardened and pale, his eye's were hidden underneath the shadow of his hat, but the most concerning thing was the purple Haori with white offset that shocked the group. "who...who are you?" Tatsuki questioned fear clear in her voice. And her fear was mirrored in the face of her brother and his mentor, but tenfold in the young girl.

"Rosie-chan who is that?" Ichigo asked the young girl, hoping she knew the answer in the likely event that the figure would not reveal his identity. However he did hear Ichigo, and raised his hat allowing the group to see his green, heartless eyes.

"Head captain of squad 3. Jack the Ripper."

Right all will become clear regarding this next chapter, have fun in the meantime though as you question why a Victorian serial killer is a member of the old group of head-captains. I'd planned the captains and their abilities back in the summer and I just don't get around to writing much with college and work, next update should be sooner though fingers crossed