How is everyone today? We all good? Ah fantastic.

Now I had a little break to do my history assessments for the year and to do my filming for a music video I filmed and edited a video for a local band so i feel like my creative mojo is back up and running.

I'd also like to thank everyone who is following this story and still enjoying it, the start was piss poor but the fact you all read past that really does make me so happy inside.

So this chapter, I'd left off last time with Nel emerging from the bag she was trapped in and I feel like this story may go on after the 1,000 year blood war but I'm unsure.

Either way lets get on with this bad boy.

Chapter 6

"Nel"

"Nel?" Tatsuki asked her brother looking at him as he stared at the person emerging opposite the eleventh division's Head Captain. "Who is Nel?"

When she still didn't get an answer Tatsuki hopped out of his arms and waved her hand in front of him, snapping the slightly elder twin back to reality.

"Ichigo, who is this Nel?" Tatsuki asked again, taking Ichigo's hand into her own making him look at her.

"Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, Tatsuki-san, was the tres Espada in Aizen's army before she was cast out of las Nochas by the later 5th Espada Nnoitora Gilga. She is amazingly strong but more likely to hug you than hurt you is that not the case young Ichigo?" The king spoke from his throne, smile still visible on his face as Tatsuki turned back to her twin and Yoruichi took on a predatorial grin.

"So my berry's got a new squeeze? That's cute for a while now I feared you were gay, but alas seems as though all of my teasing has brought you round to the right team after all." She smirked, cat-like at the boy who's face had become red both due to his natural response to become flustered when reminded of his former teachers constant teasing and due to the anger of the fact they thought he was gay.

"I was never gay god dammit! I was just waiting for the right person to how up, and the year and a half without powers just made me recline from everyone not just women!" His out burst sent those present into a fit of giggles, even getting a chuckle out of the red haired king before he spoke up.

"Yes Ichigo they are well aware of your true sexuality do not threat. However the object of your desires, as I see fit to put it, is currently staring down the most savage Soul reaper that the world has ever seen. I would suggest that you step in before it's too late."

Ichigo only shook his head at this. "No, that would be truly disrespectful to Nel, she'd hate for me to just but into her fight like this, she may not like violence but she has her honour and i know that she wouldn't want me to interfere unless there was no other choice."

A rush of wind signalled a new arrival in the form of Ichigo's mother alongside the Head captain of the fourth, with the fact it was the twins mother further hit home by the pair of arms that engulfed them, with the warmth that Ichigo had missed for so many years, and that Tatsuki had only truly known as one would hug an aunt not the mother that stood before her.

As Masaki relinquished the twins from her embrace she glanced out over the battle that was waging before them, then turning to her children once more. "What's going on down there?" The answer to the question she asked made Ichigo feel a tad uneasy.

For his mother had been killed by a hollow and if he were to reveal that the person who's love he wanted more than even that of his mother was not only a hollow, but also staring into the very eyes of the true god of death itself made him unsure of how to answer it. Should he be honest with her? And reveal that this hollow who he would die for is his true love, or would he lie and tell her that she's an ally in a time of war like anyone else.

Fortunately that decision was taken out of Ichigo's hands when he felt the reiatsu in the air become slightly denser, as if someone had just released. Following a quick look around the group he coud tell they had all felt it or seen it.

The red haired man, sat atop his throne, waved his hand nonchalantly as he heard the wind rush past him, signalling that Ichigo had finished his waiting for any sign that Leonidas was succeeding in his bid to kill Nel.

Yoruichi was still smirking before shaking her head and looking at the king. "God berry boy just loves rushing into save anyone doesn't he, the boy'd die for anyone even a hollow." Masaki just looked over at the brown skinned woman with slight anger in her eye's, was she really that blind to Ichigo's feelings for the person currently fighting a man who may as well have been death's right hand man. Masaki had already seen the look he was giving the figure in the centre of the arena, she'd seen that look before, over 20 years ago plastered on the face of one Isshin Shiba when he had first laid eyes on her.

David turned to the goddess of flash, face as emotionless as the man who had risen from the dead not long ago. "Actually, that isn't just any hollow Yoruichi-san, I have seen Ichigo's future and she is the only person, aside from the boy's mother that he will ever truly love." he turned back to the scene before him as Leonidas was closing in on the green haired arrancar who was now at his mercy, and unfortunately Leonidas wasn't known for his compassion.

"Wait a minute." Masaki spoke up looking at the king as he rolled his head towards her, smile still o his face despite the panicked tone in her voice. "You mean to tell me that my boy, is destined to spend the remainder of his days in love with a hollow? And not just any hollow. The hollow who is currently staring death in the eyes and Ichigo is trying to get there and stop the finishing blow?"

The words had come out too fast for Tatsuki or Yoruichi to fully grasp. Although from what she managed to understand Tatsuki was shocked to say the least Tatsuki felt awful as her own mother clearly was against the idea of the two being together, I mean who was she to get in their way. Yet the king fully understood her.

"You're worried he will die here aren't you?" When he received a nod from the red haired mother he smiled again before continuing "Masaki I promise you that Ichigo will not die this day" the last words were said with the most holy of promises, the king of all creation himself had given his word and that was good enough for her."And Tatsuki. You're mother is not against the fact that Nelliel is a hollow, she was afraid that her son would die that is all."

Tatsuki looked at he mother as she leant over the edge of the box they were stood in. "Nelliel Kurosaki" Masaki turned back to the group smiling from ear to ear, face bright as the sun "... I like that name already "

With Nel as the fight began

As she struggled out of the bag she looked around where she was. What looked to be an arena was all around her and she could feel insanely powerful spiritual pressures in the stands but one was significantly closer than the rest and it was more chaotic than most to boot. As she turned to the direction she recognised the man who had pulled her from the hole she had been stuck in when she had first arrived, she had no idea how'd she'd done it, she only opened a garganta in her former palace and ended up there.

The man before her wore very minimal clothing with just a purple cape and leather pants on his body, a standard Zanpakuto grasped firmly in his right hand. He had a large black beard and looked rather intimidating to the former espada.

"Hey there, my name's Nel nice to meet you!" She yelled smiling from across the arena, arm waving in the air. The only effect this seemed to have, however was to greatly irritate the man opposite her if the growl that escaped his mouth was anything to go by. This seemed as a sort of wake up call to Nel as she decided now would be an opportune time to take out Gamuza. However, when she went to grab her Zanpakuto she came to an awful, yet unfortunately true realisation, they had removed her of her sword.

As she looked up to see her enemy she saw the smirk on the guy's face, clearly aware of her current predicament. He started to walk towards her one foot at a time, not making the effort to run. Nel on the other hand, at a complete disadvantage decided against head on conflict, instead running from the warrior in pursuit of her.

Upon seeing the female hollow before him begin to turn and flee, Leonidas drew his sword up to his chest and muttered words that almost crushed the stadium. "Extend over the world Ō no yari!"

Following the chant, Nel turned to glance and the chaotic spiritual energy ensnaring the Soul reaper in a black tornado of energy before her, before he emerged from the tornado of power with a spear in one hand and a shield in the other. After the fact this was his shikai had finally clocked for Nel she again began to fun in the opposite direction of the Soul Reaper captain.

At this the captain again began to smirk, pulling back his spear and throwing it in the direction of the female Hollow. As the spear flew through the air time seemed to go slow for Nelliel.

Hollows were not meant to fear death, for it was not in their nature. Sure they'd flee from battle's they knew they had no chance of winning but they would not fear death when it's grasp was inevitable. However Nel wasn't most Hollows, Nel was a very special case. She had more emotion than every hollow in Hueco Mundo combined and she had the ability to love, a power so alien to hollows that it was a taboo to even mention the feeling. Yet Nel embraced it, she had loved her brothers, she loved her friends but more so than any of them she loved Ichigo and the prospect of a life with Ichigo after all this craziness, that alone was enough reason to not want to die.

She dug her feet into the ground sending her toppling over, face down in the sand of arena. As she looked up she saw that the spear had landed dead ahead of her, and with the man now unarmed she saw her opening and she was going to take it. As she got up she felt the footsteps of the soul reaper behind her increase in pace, this was her chance it was now or never.

She sonido'd to the spear and drew it from the ground and took aim. With the power of her resurrection she'd have been able to throw the spear from a much greater distance and at a much faster speed, however she didn't have that luxury. She drew back the spear and threw it at the soul reaper before her.

As the spear span towards it's target both it, and the man she threw it at disappeared and as she felt the rush of wind behind her she started to cry, feeling defeated, deflated and devastated. She had built up her hope just to have it robbed from her moments later. She stood awaiting her death and the blow that would stop her celebrating her life with Ichigo as she felt the energy from the spear travel towards her about to pierce her back she looked up the sky and saw the moon for the final time.

However the impact never came and, after waiting for a few more moments, she turned to see the spear snapped on the floor and the Soul reaper that was about to kill her on the floor with a deep gash running across his chest that was rising up and down in a controlled manor, meaning that the wound wasn't fatal.

She couldn't feel any spiritual energy so she came to the conclusion that her attack had hit home and his attempt to flash step was to reduce the damage. Well that didn't work out so well for him. She then turned around again to get a good look at the stadium to find a way out before she bumped into something solid.

As she bounced off of the object that blocked her path, that wasn't there before, she recognised the fact that this person had a Haori on and she again feared for her life, out of the frying pan into the fire sort of situation. Yet on further inspection, read: looked up, a mess of Orange hair and a face that she would know anywhere was sporting a frown that unsettled Nel.

"Ichigo?"she asked hoping it was him and not some illusion. When the person in question dropped the frown and opened his arms wide Nel received the answer she needed. "Ichigo!" As she clung to his robe he enclosed her in his grasp, feeling her tears run down his Shihakushō he began to mutter sweet nothings into her ear.

"There there Nel, it's fine your safe now I won't let anything happen to you I promise" he whispered so that only the two could hear it. This only seemed to make Nel more upset as she grasped his soul reaper garb all the more tightly.

"Ichigo, I thought that I was going to die back there without having seen you one last time or without telling you that...that I...I" she fumbled her words, not being able to get them out between the tears that were streaming down her face.

"What nel, what is it you want to tell me?" Ichigo was still holding back tears of his own that in potentially her last moments, she wanted to be with him. He was just thankful he got there swiftly.

"That I love you Ichigo, maybe it's because of the time I spent as a child and how you protected me or that you were willing to fight an entire army for your friends. But when I finally got control over my adult body back I finally understood it. We were made for each other Ichigo Kurosaki, I just know it." She finished staring up at the man of her dreams, initially worried as his face was emotionless, before it turned to glee and happiness as he lifted her into the air and began spinning the pair around laughing happily before again letting her down to her feet.

"Nel you have no idea how happy I am to hear you say that. I was so shy over the whole feelings aspect and I tried to act to everyone like I wasn't interested in anyone, but even when I lost my powers I never lost hope that one day you and I could be together. And now we finally can, after this war I'm gonna make you the happiest woman in all of the three worlds." Nel beamed up at him bright, wide smile plastered on her face. Before leaning up and pecking the substitute soul reaper on the cheek.

"Thank you Ichigo, now lets get out of here before that thing gets up again" she spat out the last section as she looked back at Leonidas as he started to apply healing kido to his wound. Ichigo scratched the back of his head awkwardly, god this was gonna take some explaining.

"Erm Nel?" She turned to him happily signalling for him to continue. "If someone you really loved and cared for was in trouble would you help them?"

"why of course Ichigo, I'd do anything for you." She giggled and sent the boy a wink, enticing a blush out of the soul reaper.

"th-that's not what I was implying but okay. And say for instance that the thing that was after that particular person was someone who was meant to be your ally and that they needed to be stopped, would you harm them to do so?" He needed to be sure that other people would see things his way, and what better way than to try and explain all of this to someone who really didn't understand most things unless she really wanted to...eurghhh.

"well if Sharky-chan was after you I'd stop her no matter what." Nel pondered with her finger on her lips, this got a relieved exhale from Ichigo, well at least it made sense to somebody.

"Then we should have nothing to worry about" he took her arm in his before remembering one key bit of information. "Oh yeah Nel?" She looked up at him beckoning him to continue. "there's someone I'd like you to meet" with that he lifted her into his arms, her giggling all the way as she squirmed whilst he tried to get her in a comfortable position before making his way up to the balcony again via flash step.

Back at the balcony

"DAMN IT SOUL KING TELL ME WHEN HE'LL DIE SO I CAN WARN HIM" Masaki yelled at David as he buried his head in his yukata.

Since Ichigo had left and she had figured out the soul king knew what would happen at any point in the universe, Masaki had not stopped asking when her family members would pass on or when they'd get married or who they'd be married to, what jobs they'd get. And naturally David was hating every minute of it.

"For the love of me (Banter) Masaki please stop asking me these questions,I'm not going to tell to tell you any more of the future telling you Ichigo wouldn't die was acceptable because you needed to calm your nerves, but that was only short term, past that I'm not going to tell you anything more." The kings disgruntled face poked out from behind his hand and dress, god this woman would be the death of him and she wasn't even his wife. 'Isshin Kurosaki, when this woman goes back to earth please never let me see her again.' He pleaded to the empty air.

Back on earth

Isshin looked up from his doctors desk, smelling the air like a dog

"….Whos chatting shit about me? For they shall get banged!" He lept onto his table before promptly falling off head first and crawling to the portrait of his wife crying. "Masaki the invisible thing is mocking me and I know it."

As far away from that as I can get you

"it hasn't been easy for me, it has not been easy for me"

How has this twat got in my story guys?

"I grew up in Brooklyn my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars"

Get the fuck out of my story trump, Jesus christ on a bike. Right need to be more specific with the directions I give my story, okay back to the balcony.

Yoruichi lookedover the arena before chuckling and going back too those present. "Well Ichigo saved the girl and beat the bad guy, what's new though is there isn't a scratch on him so that's going well for him."

As if on que Ichigo arrived with Nel in his arms, before letting the girl hop down and take him into another hug before she too turned to the group surrounding them.

"Hey everybody!" She waved at all present "My name's Nel and I'm Ichi's friend so...so please don't try hurt me any more." As she finished she backed into the safe arms of her love, as she heard him chuckle she looked up at him.

"Don't worry Nel there are three people here I trust with my life and the other two are earning it as we speak." Following his comforting words she emerged from the safety of Ichigo's arms and stood infront of him. "Now Nel there's one very special person I'd like you to meet." He took her arm in his and led her over to his mother next to Tatsuki.

"Now Nel, on the left is my twin sister Tatsuki." At the mention of her name tatsuki walked over to the arrancar and took her into a large hug, that promptly turned into a head lock.

Seeing the discomfort on the hollow girl before her masaki spoke up.

"Tatsuki let the girl go now." The finality in her voice shocked even Ichigo, in his wildest dreams he'd never imagine his mother using any sort of anger in her voice.

Seeing her mothers look of disapproval, Tatsuki let go of Nel with the latter turning to the woman that ordered her release moments prior.

"You must be Nelliel then?" She spoke, all anger gone and a small smile on her face, instantly making nel feel warm and cosy inside. She nodded frantically. "Well my name is Masaki Kurosaki and I am Ichigo and Tatsuki's mother, alongside maybe your Mother-in-law soon hmm" she smiled at the hollow, as she too opened her arms t the green haired arrancar, wo then began hugging the life out of each other.

'After all this is over, life's gonna be great' Ichigo thought to himself