The Lost Shinigami

by makoto x chelia

Takumi Urahara, believing himself to be a human who could see spirits yet with no real powers within the crazy world of Shinigami's, and Hollows, went through life trying his best with what little he had to work with, but that changed when he met a certain Shinigami, the same for Karin and Yuzu Kurosaki, and their adventure began, digging into his past, to fight for the future.

5. The parakeet part two!

Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!

Dark King Marcel; Thank you!

Clarent excalibur; Yeah, Giselle's found out something devastating to her, she's doing her best to hide it, but her friends can see that she's quite sad about it. Sure, I could see that happening, it would be pretty cool. Yeah, they'd be good between them, having a sister like relationship. Bambietta's gonna have an eye opening moment during this arc, I can't spoil where though. That would be a funny moment. It is quite fun, Rukia's naive moments always made me laugh. She's going to come to a realization during this arc.

Oblivious IJ; It seems so yeah~ She is yeah, Takumi and Soi Fon are going to have quite the interesting relationship. Yeah, she does have some adorable moments~

Striker Studios; Maybe she will do yeah~ It is quite humiliating for her, and we'll see more of the mind of Bambietta during this first arc. Those look pretty awesome, thanks for giving me some ideas!

ShadowUzumaki55; Yeah, they're surely coming along quite well. Ooh yeah, Zombie Chizuru is back, she's here and she's scarier than ever lol. It seems like Rukia's feelings are beginning to surface, and we'll see something more from her to cement her feelings. Ooh yeah, Yoruichi surely is moving forward with Takumi. She might have been a little serious hehe~

Skull Flame; Yeah, they knew one another, more of that to come later on! Indeed, what is she going to do? He did yeah but not for long. She was yeah, she's back, and she's scarier than ever lol~ Well you never know, Bambietta might be in the future, I haven't decided yet.

Andrew123456; Yeah, I'm thinking about that one~

Guest 1; Sure, I could see that happening, it would be fun to have Nel appear now.

Silver crow; Thanks very much! He did yeah, Yoruichi made a move on Takumi at the beginning~ She did yeah, Yuzu's showing improvement. Yup, they did quite well! She could be something like that yeah~ Yup, the other Sternritter girls have appeared, and are going to be somewhat antagonists during this first arc, though Giselle and Liltotto don't seem to have anything against Takumi, Meninas doesn't really, but she'd help Bambi who hates Shinigami, and Candice just likes attacking Shinigami so she'd be an antagonist as well. It seems that he didn't no. I thought I put her hair was green. She did yeah, she's a Zombie now. They had a small cute moment between them~ He's more under Yuzu and Karin's care, but yeah, Takumi's gonna help out. She'll acknowledge what he did for her, and become a little more softer now. Yup, he's growing stronger huh~? I always found it a little funny in canon when they did it to her, and thought I'd add it here, though in this story, they're more friends than they seem in canon. Glad you liked the fight! Yeah, they might do~ It will become a much friendlier place with Takumi in charge. I dunno about Senna yet. Yeah, what happens to her is pretty sad, I watched the movie recently too. Yeah, there wouldn't be a need for it. Her power would amplify Takumi's since his is the master of thunder and lightning. Haha, that would be funny~ Yeah, they've just recently got their powers, as Giselle said last chapter she needs to begin mastering The Zombie power. Well, she could be any of them, and Takumi's Mother doesn't have to be a Fullbringer for Takumi to be a Fullbringer, all she has to have done to her is be attacked by a Hollow, and survive it. I can understand that, Quincy's are a little more fleshed out than Fullbringer's. I've always been fascinated with both of them, and wonder how many Fullbringer's there could be. And Quincy's do have interesting abilities as well. Sure, those would be pretty easy for Takumi at that point. Well, it will be a little while before the Sternritter girls want to be around Takumi, besides Giselle, and Liltotto. There would have to be a reason for it, other than aesthetics of course. Purple lightning remains of poisoned lightning or something haha~ That would be a nice change, Byakuya deserves happiness after all. He wouldn't have a Hollow hole, if he had Hollow powers, he'd just have a mask, and perhaps transformation. Sure, it could happen. Yeah, they could raise in power. That would be nic if he got the Hollow dog. Those are great suggestions! Maybe they will take a liking to him~

Guest 2; The Zoom, would that power just be to lock onto targets from a distance?

Guest 3; That would be cool, G for the Guard or something.

Crenin; Both feline sexy women yeah~ The Quincy girls, perhaps, I haven't decided yet. About Uryu, check out the bottom for that character. No, it doesn't annoy me, don't worry. And thanks very much!

Guest 4; Sure, they could do that, it sounds pretty good to me. That sounds awesome! Yeah, I'd probably do the movies. It would be nice if they had a child.

A fan; Mayuri's huh, that would be interesting. Poison and Lightning together could be cool, he could paralyze peoples bodies that the lightning touches which would be fun. Yeah, Takumi's quite intelligent, so he'd be able to do something like that.

Guest 5; I don't know about adding them yet, but they'll be a good part of the story.

maxbrevan; Thanks very much! Yeah, I thought that making them appear now to set up things for the future, and have the Quincy's have more of a presence in the series since they didn't really till the end. Thanks for the suggestions!

Guest 6; If going by canon, then she'd be a child since she would have that wound on her Hollow mask, though maybe Takumi could fix that for her, or she could show up as a child, then suddenly switch to adult mode or something. I wouldn't go overboard with it since there's only a certain few that I can imagine gender bent.

Guest 7; Karin's gonna have Ichigo's Shinigami/Hollow powers, so Getsuga Tensho, and Hollow mask, and what not.

Guest 8; My favourite filler arc huh. That's a good question. I know some people don't, but I like a good number of the filler arcs. My favourite is tough to pin down, probably between the Bount arc as I found that idea fascinating and where it could have gone, and the Zanpakuto Rebellion arc as that idea of the spirits rebelling against their Shinigami is quite fascinating to me. So, yeah, it would be between them.

Guest 9; Sure, that sounds pretty cool to me. I like that idea of two katanas that can become shotguns. Sure, I've always liked time powers in media. Yeah, I don't think she has, I'm not fully up to day with RWBY but I can't remember Ruby having a love interest.

Tomare tokio; Sure, he could be that age. He could have Jigglypuff yeah~ A worldwide one sounds good. Yeah, I like those movies. Those sound pretty awesome to me, and yeah, that would be a nice twist.

Well, with those lovely reviews out of the way, it's time to start the chapter!

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The parakeet part two!

Takumi, after dealing with the Quincy girl for the moment, had taken Karin back home with the others following. He went to her bedroom, and laid her down on her bed, where she squirmed, and looked as if she didn't feel well.

"Takumi-kun, what's wrong with her…?"

Yuzu was panicked.

Of course she was.

Seeing her sister in this kind of state, she was worried for her and what was happening with her.

Takumi inhaled slowly, as Rukia answered.

"She's having a negative connection to the bird, probably because she has high spirit energy while it being untamed right now. Then there's the fact that she's close to the spirit in age unlike myself and..." She paused when glancing at Takumi who looked over Karin. "...the point is, that she needs to get some rest right now, and we should probably send that boys spirit to the Soul Society-"

"W-Wait please don't!"

Karin snapped out of her cold fever to grab Takumi's hand tightly.

Takumi looked down at Karin who was panting harshly.

"Karin-chan, what's wrong…?"

"That boy...we have to find the truth out for him..."

Orihime leaned closer, having got a wet rag and placed it on Karin's forehead.

"What do you mean Karin-chan?"

Orihime's kind words were met with a saddened expression from Karin.

Yuzu was surprised that Karin was making a sad face.

She usually didn't do that.

But seeing Karin disheartened, even depressed, was a surprise.

"That boy...he's gone through so much...we have to help him...please don't send him yet...we have to...we have to help him..."

"We will Karin-chan. Don't worry, I wont send him to the Soul Society yet." Takumi assured her, laying her back down onto the bed, where her head rolled backwards, and she groaned while closing her eyes, seemingly being in pain. "Now rest, I'll make something to help you with your fever."

"You know something that could counteract his influence on her?"

Rukia raised an eyebrow.

"I believe so. From what I can tell, his soul is overwhelming Karin-chan's with more information than she could handle alone along with introducing a new kind of spiritual pressure that isn't her own which is conflicting with her own, causing her to have flu like symptoms. If I can make something to stabilize her, these symptoms should subside."

"I think I understand. It happened to someone in the Soul Society once. I remember what happened, so I'll tell you the details of it, maybe together we can come up with something to help stabilize her."

"Thanks Rukia-chan. For now, we should leave Karin-chan to get some rest."

The others agreed, and they all walked out of the room besides Yuzu who gave her sister a worried look. She looked at the bird, and then towards Karin once more, who groaned, shifting around on the bed.

"Call me if you need anything Karin."

Karin moaned something that sounded like "Okay..." so Yuzu picked up the cage, and left with the bird in her arms.

Yuzu paused at the door, and then looked towards the bird that was within her arms.

"I'm sorry."

Yuichi spoke up sadly, Yuzu however shook her head.

"Don't worry about it, Takumi-kun and Kuchiki-san are both very smart, I'm sure they can help come up with something to help Karin."

She assured her kindly, glancing at Karin and saw her in pain, and hoped that what she said was true, that they would be able to help Karin out, and make sure that whatever she needed to happen, would happen with the bird itself.

---

Meanwhile, Bambietta returned back to her base with many cute, and girly things that were around them all, to find Meninas passed out on the floor, and Giselle was drawing on her face with Zombie Chizuru helping her out.

"What are you doing to Minnie?"

"Zombie Chizuru came back here, and Meninas-chan became freaked out when she came onto her! In the end, she passed out, now we're drawing mustaches on her while the others go and get us some food~"

Giselle placed her hands on her face while her mouth made a O shape.

Zombie Chizuru's crazed eyes go towards Bambietta who backs away slightly, looking into her soulless eyes.

"Zombie Chizuru detects lust." Her eyes go towards Bambietta's face, Bambietta's face turns red with anger. "There..." She snarls, sending shivers up Bambietta's spine. "...You are excited, Zombie Chizuru can feel it. Who excited you? Was it Giselle-sama?"

"No, it wasn't Giselle you messed up Zombie!" Bambietta roars, while Giselle giggles wildly. "W-Why is your Zombie not acting like a normal Zombie!? She's weird!"

"I dunno." Giselle waved her hands side to side like scales. "It seems that this Zombie is different to other Zombie's. She'll be a good Zombie, wont you Zombie Chizuru?"

"For Giselle-sama, Zombie Chizuru will do her best...I want Gigi's...give me Gigi's..."

Zombie Chizuru continued to snarl out dangerously.

Giselle's face turns upwards, and lightly pats Zombie Chizuru's head.

"You can have Rukia-chan's if you want~"

"Yes...want Rukia...Rukia..."

Bambietta gives Zombie Chizuru a weird look, before Giselle giggles to herself.

"So, what happened to you anyway?"

"It's that boy!" She roared, Giselle tilted her neck. "That damn Takumi Urahara, he managed to get away from me! Damn it all!"

Giselle pulls back while playing with her antenna hair.

"Well, that's good because I want to keep him around."

Bambietta scowled and ignored Giselle.

"It seems that he's quite fast, he's faster than a newbie Shinigami should be anyway. But, I found out that he doesn't have a Shikai, so we could use that to our advantage…."

"She got excited Giselle-sama."

Zombie Chizuru divulged, Giselle's face lifting into a smile.

"Really?"

"Zombie Chizuru detects elevated levels of excitement. She is, very excellent at, denying her thoughts."

"I'm happy for a challenge, that's all you messed up Zombie!" Giselle laughed. "Don't laugh either!" Giselle laughed even harder, Bambietta's face turning to shame. "W-Well, I would have had him if you all bothered to show up!"

"Yeah well, I don't really have any ill will towards him since he only became a Shinigami not long ago, I don't see why I'd have anything against him. In fact, I quite like him, he's so adorable, and I like the way his hair is soft looking. My, is this love at first sight? I don't know, but I can't get over how cute he is!"

Giselle places her hands on her flushing cheeks, crossing her legs for reasons Bambietta didn't even want to know about.

Bambietta shook her head as Liltotto and Candice came back with bags of food, Meninas woke up and looked around meeting the eyes of Zombie Chizuru who blew a kiss to her, making her cringe, Liltotto resisted the urge to laugh at Meninas' face right now.

"About time you girls showed up! I could of used you when I was being attacked by the Shinigami!"

"You went to him first you idiot. Of course he's going to retaliate."

Liltotto noted, placing a lollipop in her mouth.

Candice showed a superior smirk.

"Don't tell me you lost to a mere Shinigami."

Bambietta felt triggered by that.

"I didn't lose! He ran away before our fight concluded. But, he figured out my ability. The rumours of him being intelligent weren't an exaggeration. We have to be careful when we all face him again. And yes, I said all, because we all are going to be facing him together, I wont tolerate no for an answer."

[No.]

Bambietta face faulted.

"Ooh come on! Please help me out! I wont do it without you girls! Can't you understand that?! We can take him together! And I have an idea on how to lure him out as well."

Liltotto gained a curious face.

"And how are you going to do that? Do you want to piss off Kisuke Urahara? We shouldn't go up against someone that's stronger than us."

Bambietta felt like she was being challenged.

She didn't like how this was happening to her.

She felt annoyed.

"No, I'm suggesting we go after someone that doesn't have a Shikai yet. Then we can make a stance with all of us together. Come on girls, together, no one can beat us."

"But, I don't wanna hurt the cute guy~"

Giselle smiled out, Zombie Chizuru's eyes lifted to the sky.

"Zombie Chizuru sees Takumi as an enemy, for the girls affections. I shall fight for Giselle-sama."

"See?" Bambietta smiled. "She's with me even though she's not really powerful and will be useless in a fight, why aren't you girls?"

"I kinda find him cute honestly. I'm not sure if I want to fight him or not."

"What part of him would you like to taste Lil?"

Candice grinned out, Liltotto gave her a dark stare.

"You're disgusting."

Liltotto murmured, Candice rolled her eyes.

"I'll go and fight him with you. It seems like it might be a good challenge, so I can't see why not. We've all heard of Kisuke Urahara, so fighting his son might give me a thrill. I'm with you Bambi~"

Bambietta looked relieved, and then turned to Meninas.

"And you Minnie?"

"Well, I guess that we could. But we can't kill people you know? They're right about us not being able to fight Kisuke Urahara right now."

Meninas spoke with a slightly apathetic look on her face.

Bambietta showed a smirk on her face.

"Good, then tomorrow, we'll lure him to a place of our choosing, and set a trap."

Giselle and Liltotto shared a small look between them while the others looked to be ready for the fight ahead.

---

Takumi currently was within the Kurosaki clinic, and was mixing some chemicals together, with Rukia assisting him, Orihime even was assisting him with what was happening at that moment, Yuzu was sat at a distance, conversing with the bird itself.

"I wonder what she meant about helping the bird boy?" Orihime mused. "Maybe he needs to find resolution somehow...maybe she knows more than we do since she's...viewing his memories, is that right Taku-chan?"

"From what I can gather yeah. Before that girl interrupted me from slaying the Hollow, I talked to it, and it said that it was in some kind of game with the bird."

Rukia folded her arms suspiciously.

"A game? What kind of game?"

Takumi shrugged his shoulders.

"I didn't get much out of him, though it was clear he placed the soul into the bird, I got a sense of evil from the Hollow, more than average kind of Hollows."

"So, you think he could've been an evil doer during his life, and that's transferred to his Hollow side?"

Rukia wondered, Takumi shrugged.

"He had that meeting with the twins and the bird set up."

"And what about that girl Taku-chan? What was her deal?"

Orihime's question was met with Takumi's unsure look.

"She was really weird, she said that she had friends, but they didn't show up. And she displayed an unusual ability to turn things her energy came into contact with into an explosive, and would detonate within a second or so."

"That's a small window to do anything."

"Right." Takumi replied to Rukia with a slightly unsure expression on his face. "But, it still is a window to do something. Avoiding the power would be the best rather than trying to fight against it. From what I saw, it travelled at a constant speed. If she could make it faster, I don't know. But she tried to cross the distance between us so she could get off a good hit against me. Plus since she's a Quincy, she also has access to the powers that normal Quincy's can do."

Rukia pulled closer as Takumi spun some chemicals together.

"And a Quincy is?"

"What Yuzu-chan can do with the arrows, that's what a Quincy can do, but on a grander level. They combat Hollows, but unlike Shinigami, they don't purify Hollows, they destroy them so even their souls can't cross over to the Soul Society. I learned a few years ago about their history, it's kind of sad really. But, what happened to them shouldn't of happened, I wish there could have been a peaceful solution instead of mass genocide."

"...What?"

"T-They were all killed? How horrible..."

Rukia and Orihime were in disbelief, Takumi lowered his head.

"Most of them were yeah. Survivors happened of course, but most of them are gone now, and this girl is a Quincy, and she is out for blood. She is no joke when it comes to power either. In the end, the Shinigami didn't have a choice...well, that's what was said. I'm sure if they had worked together more, then they could of survived. But this happened about two hundred years ago now."

"And she still holds a grudge against Shinigami? Even those that had no involvement?"

Takumi nodded at Rukia.

"They seem to be all the same to her. If possible, I'd like to get through to her, and if she truly does have any friends, them too."

Rukia folded her arms while Orihime looked worried.

"I guess we'll have to be on guard...and that girl, Chizuru...something happened to her. Do you think that a Quincy could of done that?"

"She said she was a Zombie now...a Quincy with the power to resurrect the dead...that would be pretty scary."

Takumi replied with a slightly worried face, Orihime wore a complex face.

"But, she doesn't seem dead to me. She had a heart beat, and she felt warm, not like a cold dead person."

Takumi inclined his neck.

"Rather than traditional Zombie that's a corpse, I'd say that she's more of a puppet on strings that has more durability and what not. Perhaps the Zombie Master, whoever that is, could resurrect the dead as well, but from what I've seen from Chizuru-chan, she's alive, she's just being controlled."

"Controlled, huh..."

"Anyway, I'm examining her blood to see if there's anything different about it. If there is, maybe it is like a Zombie virus that's occurred, and if that's the case, then I'd be able to perhaps reverse the effects, and produce a cure for the virus. Though it might take me a little time about how to do that."

"I hope so Taku-chan, but I'm sure you can do it, since you're so smart~"

Takumi smiled lightly at Orihime, as he continued mixing some chemicals.

Rukia looked on curiously, and then glanced towards the bird, who was talking to Yuzu.

It seemed like they truly were having a deep conversation with one another.

But she wished to send the bird off to the Soul Society.

---

Later on, Takumi had finished the medicine, and went to deliver it to Karin, with the others following.

Takumi saw Karin on the bed, having flashes within her mind, and it caused pain to come to the young woman. Yuzu didn't like seeing her sibling in pain, she was even surprised to see Karin crying. They were barely noticeable, but she saw that tears were being shed from her eyes.

"Karin..."

Yuzu muttered, as Takumi walked closer.

He sat down beside her on the bed, and shook her shoulders.

"Karin-chan, I've got something for you to drink, it will make you feel better, I promise."

Karin groaned, her eyes opening and met Takumi's own eyes.

She looked at the medicine within his hands, then gave him a weird look.

"N-Not going to k-kill me, is it?"

Takumi released a small laugh.

"Of course not. It will help you, I promise Karin-chan."

Karin gripped her head, and slowly pulled herself up the bed. Her eyelashes batted together, and came into contact with Takumi's own. A level of trust came between them. She felt unsure of what was going to happen in the future, but she was sure that she was going to do her best.

She then took the drink to her mouth, and drunk it.

"Gwaaah! T-That's disgusting!"

Karin yelled, showing a little more of her usual self than before.

"Sorry, but I didn't have time to make it taste good."

"That tastes like garbage!" Karin snapped, the others seeing more colour coming to her cheeks. "I always suspected you'd try and poison me one day! And now here it is! You've poisoned me, haven't you!?"

Takumi gave her a curious look, before turning his head slyly to the side.

"You seem to be a bit more chipper to me."

Karin raised her eyebrows, and then touched her head.

She wasn't in pain anymore.

She felt the memories slowly sliding out of her mind, and her body wasn't so hot anymore.

"W-Well...I-I guess that's right, I do feel a little bit better...but, I feel so tired all of a sudden…"

Karin yawned, Rukia nodded.

"Naturally, your spirit energy has been running rampage for a few hours now. So, it would feel like you've run a marathon or something like that. We'll talk more tomorrow."

Karin lowered her eyebrows.

"Thanks. I'm sorry. I do believe we should help the boy out...more than just passing on, he needs to know the truth about...he just needs the truth."

"We'll be staying tonight Karin-chan so you can rest peacefully."

Karin bowed her head, and watched the others walk out of the room.

Yuzu glanced at her sister, who gave her a soft smile.

"I'm alright, the idiot did the trick. I'm feeling better now."

"I'm glad...I'm sorry Karin. I wish I could do more for you at this time. And you cried...I've not seen that in years."

Karin's face took a small dip.

"...I've not had a reason to cry for a long time. But, seeing that boys past...it has gotten to me quite a bit."

"We'll help him Karin. All of us will help him. Takumi-kun, Orihime-chan, Kuchiki-san and us as well."

Karin allowed a soft smile to appear on her face.

"Heh, I guess that we're becoming apart of the band of weirdos aren't we?"

"But, we're all great friends now so we can rely on one another!"

Yuzu smiled out, and left the room.

Karin gripped her hands on the bedsheets, inhaling deeply.

She thought about how she had endangered lives that day, and she saw Takumi take a hit for her. In his head, he had been attacked, and it also endangered the others. She wished that she had the power that Takumi had, and the knowledge that Rukia had...

"Thinking about your powerlessness, are we?"

Karin's eyes snapped open, shooting her eyes for the window, and saw Kisuke sat there.

"Geez! I almost punched you then!"

Kisuke waved his hand in front of his face.

"I have been seeing you progress."

"My progress…?"

Kisuke sat down on a chair nearby.

"You don't realize it Karin Kurosaki, but you have amazing potential for power."

"M-Me? I do…?"

Karin seemed quite baffled.

But Kisuke continued his weird smile that sent shivers down her spine.

"That's correct. Truthfully, your power has been growing more and more in recent times, but I've felt your power for years now. You, have the potential to become what Takumi is."

"A-A Shinigami you mean?"

Karin was surprised.

How could she do something like that?

As far as she knew, Takumi gained his powers from Rukia.

Did she have the same kind of power?

"That's correct, you have the power to become a Shinigami."

Karin let out a small gasp.

She had that kind of power…

Being able to have that kind of power...

"So, you're saying that I could have a kickass sword like Takumi's sword as well?"

Kisuke let out a small chuckle.

"Yes, that's quite right. But your sword would be different, everyone has a different Zanpakuto. But I can say that you have incredible dormant power. And if you want, I can help you release your powers."

Karin furrowed her eyebrows at that.

Kisuke was offering something that would help her grow in power.

"However, don't be mistaken. Once you gain access to these powers, then you'll be dragged into the world of Shinigami's and Hollows, and it wont be easy."

"Your son is in that world though, and you allow that."

"Trust me, I tried to stop that the best that I could. But since he is in that world now, I can't stop him from doing what he's doing, he's going to want to save the people from the Hollows. In the moment he became a Shinigami, he didn't have a choice, but you have the choice. You can become a Shinigami, but you'll be entering into a world full of danger, and you simply can't just go back to normal either."

"...I've already been dragged into this world already. So what would be different?"

He could understand why she thought it wouldn't be different, but there was a major difference that she didn't count for.

"The difference is, your life would be on the line if you become a Shinigami. Takumi understands that and has accepted it, if you choose to have the power, then the consequences of what that means will also come back to you. Maybe this experience with the boy and the bird will help you decide."

"So you know about that then?"

"But of course, I know about everything hahahaha~"

Karin's eyebrows twitch, and her hand tightens.

"You and Takumi both have that laugh that pisses me off."

"Haha, I suppose so Kurosaki-san. Well, have fun and get some nice sleep."

Karin watched as he slid out of the window, and left her alone.

Karin shut her window, and walked back to bed, thinking about what Kisuke had said to her.

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Later that night, Takumi casually was within an office area within the Kurosaki clinic, and was looking at the blood of Chizuru, examining it as closely as he could. Orihime and Rukia were in the guest room together, he only imagined how that was going. Orihime said she wanted to stay as well, since they were a team, and Rukia stayed because she wanted to be there in case a Hollow showed up.

Takumi was staying on the couch, but he was currently mixing chemicals, and had earphones in, listening to some music, bobbing his head up and down at the beat that he was listening too, with a bunch of other vials nearby, along with strange looking wire.

However, he wasn't alone for very long, as the door opened behind him, revealing Yuzu in her nightgown.

She had Takumi in her house.

She simply couldn't just sleep.

So she walked closer to Takumi, and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Zombie Chizuru no!" Takumi whizzed around, Yuzu jumped, but Takumi them chuckled awkwardly, pulling out the earphones. "Oh, Yuzu-chan. What are you still doing awake?"

Yuzu's eyes softened, sitting down beside Takumi.

"So, you thought that I was Zombie Chizuru?"

"Well, that girl was a little weird today...yesterday I guess."

"I guess so..."

Takumi glanced at Yuzu, and it seemed like there was something more than she was saying.

She wanted to speak but it seemed that the words lost her.

"Yuzu-chan, is something wrong? Has something happened?"

Yuzu played with her fingers, and looked shy about something.

"Takumi-kun...today, I saw Karin cry...it was really surprising. She hasn't cried in so long...seeing her like that was really hard for me...Karin sometimes is hard to read..."

"Yuzu-chan...don't worry about Karin-chan, she's quite tough..."

"She doesn't let her emotions out often Takumi-kun. I'm worried about her. I wonder if she'll always be closed off..."

Takumi could understand that.

Yuzu worried for her sister, it was natural. Especially when seeing her crying that day.

"She wants to keep you safe Yuzu-chan." Takumi spoke up to her surprise. "She wants you to be happy, and wants you to be able to do many different things with your life, and not worry about her. Maybe I'm off base, but I feel like she can see how amazing you are, and wants to be just as amazing."

Yuzu's face began to turn red.

"M-Me…? Amazing…?"

"Of course, you picked up after your Mom...you made sure the family was pulled together, and took up the slack. It couldn't of been easy to do something like that."

"W-Well...after Mom died...I just had to...I had to make sure everyone was okay. Dad's kinda useless with housework, and Karin...she seemed so down at that time, it was like she had broke when Mom died...and I don't know how to put her back together..."

Yuzu's eyes became slightly teary, Takumi inhaled slowly, and wrapped his arms around her body.

"Don't worry about Karin-chan, she isn't broken, she's making sure that you don't worry about her."

"Ye-Yeah..."

Takumi gave a happy expression on his face to cheer up Yuzu from feeling sad like she was.

"She's doing it so you don't have to worry. I can see that she really does love you Yuzu-chan. She cares so much about you. You probably don't know, but when you both found out about this, she told me to swear to always keep you safe. She knew that this could be dangerous, so she wanted me to protect you, so that just proves to me that she truly does love you. I thought that it was quite beautiful, don't you think so Yuzu-chan?"

Yuzu's face turned upwards, thinking about Karin and despite her cold nature, she truly did do things to make sure that she was safe. Even when she didn't know about it. It just made Yuzu appreciate how much Karin truly cared about her, and vice versa as well.

"Yes...that's very beautiful. Thank you for telling me Takumi-kun, Karin never would."

Takumi continued to smile at the sight of the young girl.

Then they talked about various things for a little while before she went to bed.

---

The next day, Takumi, Orihime, Rukia, Yuzu, Karin and the bird were all sat at the dinner table, and having some breakfast that Yuzu cooked.

"So, you're feeling better than last night?"

Karin nodded slowly at Rukia.

"I feel better, I suppose I have to thank you for that Takumi."

Her eyes went to Takumi, who waved his hand while wearing a goofy smile on his face.

"No worries at all~ So, wanna tell us-"

"GOOD MORNING KARIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN! AND YUZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

Isshin came rushing up behind the pair, and tried to hug them both, but Karin casually slammed her fist behind her, smashing it into her Father's face, and forced him backwards onto the ground, his eyes rolled around in the back of his head.

"Don't be an idiot Dad, we have guests."

"Owwwwwww...your punches are harsh as always Karin..." Karin's eyes snapped towards her Father, who flinched, which Takumi thought was quite appropriate honestly. "Hahaha, Yuzu, your boyfriend is here again. Oooh, he did stay here last night, so...Hmmmmm, well, welcome to the family-" Karin decked her Father while Yuzu's eyes turned to tears. "-son..."

"Dad, shut up! You wanna make Yuzu cry?! Go and sit in the corner of the next room, and assume the fetal position right now!"

Isshin's eyes sprung tears, but complied with his daughter, and went to the corner, getting into the fetal position, looking over to Karin, who raised her eyebrows, his eyes went downwards, and then hugged his knees, placing his head to his knees, Rukia, and Takumi shared a look, while Orihime cocked her head, seeing Karin closing the door so they could speak together.

"Wow Karin-chan, it seems that your Dad is really scared of you."

"Naaaah, he's just doing this to annoy us, he'll be quiet now." Karin wiped her mouth. "Anyway, we have to find that Hollow, and make sure that he promises the young boy to bring his Mother back to him. I saw it in his memories...a killer came and took his Mom away from him...he's so young, he watched her die, and then the killer also died before him..."

Rukia, and Takumi shared a curious look, Yuzu tilting her head.

"That's what you want Yuichi-kun? To have your Mom back?"

The bird lowered his head, nodding slowly.

"I want to be with my Mom again. He said that if I could run for three months and keep myself away from him, then he would bring my Mom back for me."

Rukia didn't even want to say it.

Takumi also knew what he said couldn't happen.

Orihime glanced at the pair, seeing their expressions falling, but Karin and Yuzu remained oblivious.

"If we can find this Hollow, then we could force him to bring the Mother back..." Karin glanced at Takumi who shook his head slowly. "...It can't be done, can it?"

"No." Rukia replied. "The Mother of this boy, if she's dead, then she can't be brought back to life. The only way that she could is if she had her Chain of Fate still attached to her body. But, if she was murdered, she wouldn't have a Chain of Fate attached to her. More than likely, she is probably gone right now."

Takumi lightly petted the birds head.

"I'm sorry kid, but this Hollow was lying to you. He can't bring your Mom back."

The birds eyes began to produce tears, Yuzu placed a hand over her heart, and took the bird out of the cage, and gently embraced the bird, while Orihime's face turned crestfallen.

"Taku-chan, can we do anything to help him? Anything at all?"

"The only thing we can do is help him pass onto the next world. To the Soul Society. His Mom might even be there right now, waiting for him to come."

Yuichi's eyes went to Takumi, who gave him a smile.

"Would my Mom really be there…?"

"I don't know, but it's better if you go over there, or you'll eventually turn into a Hollow."

"I-I'd turn into one too?"

Rukia nodded, continuing the conversation.

"That's right, but we can change that, and make sure you go to the Soul Society."

"We have to get that Hollow first though." Karin interrupted. "To make him pay for doing this to Yuichi here, he forced him to run away and he stole his life from him. Forcing him to run, and be in danger for months on end..." Karin's hands began to shake, while Yuzu gently held onto her hand. "That's what we do, right? Like you did for Inoue's brother, shouldn't we find peace for this boy too?"

Takumi glanced at Orihime who gave a gentle smile. Takumi smiled back at her, then turned to Karin once more.

"Yes, you're right Karin-chan. That's what we do. We will take out this Hollow, and get the true story from him, and then we can slay the Hollow, and protect others from his evil influence, then we can help him cross over."

Karin released a breath.

"Good, then we'll-"

Before Rukia could finish, Takumi's eyebrows lifted and felt a presence.

"That feeling..."

"Yes, I'm feeling it now too."

Rukia looked out of the window.

Takumi went towards the window, peering out of it.

"It seems strange...it feels like the Hollow from yesterday, but not exactly. I don't know, it seems like something is wrong with this..."

"I have a feeling you're right. It seems to be something different..."

"We should go then."

Karin spoke up, but Takumi waved his hand.

"Karin-chan, Yuzu-chan. Stay here with Yuichi-kun. Rukia-chan, and I will go and see what's going on. If it is the Hollow or someone else entirely. I have a feeling that this might not be what it seems. Since you have your weapons, the Hollow that appeared yesterday, your weapons will be enough to take that down if you work together."

"How can you tell that though Taku-chan?"

Orihime's question was met with a smile.

"Because, the feeling of this power is different to what we felt yesterday. Though it is only so slightly. I can't tell if that's because of the distance, or because someone is luring us there. Either way, it very well could be a trap, so we should keep Yuichi-kun here just in case."

Karin didn't like it.

But it made sense if it was going to be an enemies attack.

She merely bowed her head, and Takumi looked to Rukia, who nodded, and released him from his body, revealing his Shinigami form. Takumi cracked his neck, and then walked out of the door, with Rukia following, even Orihime followed after them.

---

Takumi, Rukia, and Orihime went towards the location of the Hollows power. Takumi took out his blade, seeing them going to a location that wasn't occupied, and he knew that this could be a trap, so he was being careful, as much as he could be anyway.

It took them about five minutes to get to the location that they needed to be at.

"Orihime-chan, you sure you want to come?"

Takumi showed concern for her, but Orihime bonked herself on the head.

"Yup, leave it to me Taku-chan! I can handle this too! Since I have my glasses, and earrings, I will be able to see the Hollow too!"

The others stayed behind Takumi, Rukia holding up her watch.

"It seems like the Hollow should be around this abandoned warehouse district."

Takumi furrowed his eyebrows.

"I suppose so. But this feels very odd. I feel as if we're walking into a lions den right now."

"You think it could be that girl with the bombs, don't you?"

Takumi didn't know how to answer that since he didn't know if it was or not.

"We just have to be prepared for anything, so keep yourselves back."

Takumi continued moving forward while Rukia, and Orihime stayed a good distance behind him.

Then, as they neared the Hollows location, from up above, a bolt of lightning rained down towards Takumi, Takumi saw the flash of light from the lightning casting a shadow on the ground, so he instinctively used his flash step to pull backwards, as a bolt of lightning ruptured the ground.

"Damn it! He dodged it!"

Candice snarled out, landing on a nearby building.

Bambietta, and Meninas also appeared there. Bambietta had a bloodthirsty smile on her face, and Meninas seemed to be quite apathetic to many different things, she didn't even seem to care that Takumi had appeared.

"Takumi...it seems that we were right to be cautious."

Rukia gazed at the trio stood together, Takumi waved his hand towards them.

"Hey girls, what's going on?"

Bambietta smirked, stepping forward.

"There's no way out of it this time. These two are my friends, Candice, and Meninas. As you might have guessed, they're both Quincy's as well. Interesting, isn't it? The fact that three Quincy's are opposing two Shinigami, and a human."

Takumi looked towards Rukia, and Orihime.

"Orihime-chan can't fight these people, there's no way, and Rukia-chan doesn't have her powers. So, I guess that I'll have to fight them if we can't resolve this peacefully." His thoughts were paused when Candice threw some electric towards him, forcing him to dodge out of the way. "Hey, why are you throwing lightning at me anyway?"

"Because, Shinigami kinda piss me off. And you hurt Bambietta yesterday."

"She attacked me, I only defended myself."

Meninas stepped forward, and then slammed her hand downwards, ripping off a part of the roof she stood on, Orihime, Takumi and Rukia's eyes broadened at the sight of what she was doing, and then looked at Meninas' small smile on her face.

"But, you're still a Shinigami, you know? We have to take care of you."

Meninas casually threw a piece of the building right at Takumi and the others, Takumi growled, and flashed to Orihime, and Rukia, lifting them up, and flashed away as the building smashed into the ground, causing a large crash behind them, that then was turned into an explosive by Bambietta, exploding behind them and created a shock wave that caught Takumi and the others up in it, sending them skidding across the ground, and nearly hit a building, only for Takumi to return to his feet, and scowl at the three women before him.

"Hey! If you want to fight me, then don't get these two involved!"

Bambietta leaned forward with her knee extended, resting her elbow on her knee, and then her head in her hand, smacking her lips together with a rude expression on her face, it seemed like she was going to do a few things.

"Sorry about that, but if they're with you, then they're involved. If you want to fight us alone, then that's your beef. But if they try and get involved, then I'll attack them as well."

Candice cracked her neck left and right.

"Come on boy, I'll show you some lightning blasts!"

"So, lightning, incredible strength and explosive energy...alright then, I guess that this is going to be quite a fight."

Takumi swung his blade around, Rukia tightened her hand.

"Takumi, these girls together have incredible spiritual power. I'm not sure that you'll be able to handle it alone."

"You're right, this might be beyond my capabilities right now, but I've got some ideas to use them against each other." Rukia didn't understand, but Takumi showed a wild grin. "Lets go!"

Takumi, Bambietta, Meninas and Candice all charged for one another, Rukia looked worried, and Orihime felt a pounding in her chest, as if she was going to see something scary, she didn't want anything bad to happen to Takumi, but Orihime noticed Takumi going into his robes, and allowing something to circulate his hand, wondering what he was going to do with that...

---

Meanwhile Karin and Yuzu were left alone together, so Yuzu put on her glasses and earrings so she'd be able to see a Hollow if it were to come. Karin pulled out her sword, and Yuzu pulled out her bow and arrow just in case.

"I guess that we'll have to be prepared Yuzu."

"Y-Yes, Karin. I guess that we can handle this..."

"We can. You heard the idiot, we can handle this Hollow. We did it the other day with the Hollow, so lets do that now. And take care of this Hollow together if it shows up." Her eyes went towards Yuichi, and her face lifted up kindly, something that surprised Yuzu. "Don't worry Yuichi, we'll take care of this Hollow, and make sure that you're safe and sound."

"I'm really sorry, I never meant to put you through all of this..."

Yuzu shook her head.

"Don't worry about that, we can do this together. Besides, Takumi-kun, and the others also are experts at this, since you managed to come here to us, we will be able to keep you safe."

"T-Thank you so much...you're all so kind...before I met you all...I was so lonely, I was always alone...but now it feels like I'm back with my Mom again..."

Yuzu's face lifted upwards, while Karin chuckled lightly.

"You saying that we are old enough to be your Mom kid?"

Yuichi's sweat dropped from his forehead, while Karin continued to laugh slightly.

"N-No! Not at all!"

"Haha, don't worry Yuichi, we'll take care of you. You can be our kid brother."

"B-Brother?"

Yuichi tilted his head, Yuzu's face lifted upwards.

"Yes! That's right! You can be our little brother Yuichi-kun!"

"I'd be your little brother...yes! I-I really want to be your little brother!"

"Hehe, then you'll be Yuichi Shibata-Kurosaki! Welcome to the family Yuichi-kun!"

Karin had to admit that the scene before her was quite beautiful.

Seeing her sister and the little boy getting along made her smile. But more than that, it also showed more to Karin that being with friends, and being with family was important, and protecting them, and she kept going back to her meeting with Kisuke and what he said to her about having power.

But that didn't last long as ten minutes later, both of their watches went off.

"Karin..."

"Yeah, a Hollow."

Karin's eyes shot outwards of the window, and saw the Hollow from yesterday. Its creepy eyes went towards her, and Yuzu, who looked unsure of what to do, but Karin already knew what she needed to do, and put Yuichi back in his cage.

"Karin? What are you doing?"

"We're leading the Hollow away from here so Dad doesn't become involved. Lets head for the old park. That should be empty at this time of day. You take the bird, I'll force the Hollow to come towards us with my sword. We can't leave Yuichi here, we can't be sure if the Hollow might have friends like the little thing it attacked us with yesterday."

Karin seemed determined.

That determination was also quite stunning for someone like Yuzu.

"Karin...should we wait for Takumi-kun and the others?"

"They should feel this power sooner or later. And as Takumi said, we can handle this on our own. We're the Kurosaki twins, no mere Hollow is going to take care of us."

Yuzu nodded, and held the bird tightly in her arms within the cage, and they both got on their shoes, walking outside of the door, and faced down the Hollow that was perched on a house nearby, looking down towards them both.

"My, you tasty morsels are alone~"

The Hollow let out a disgusting tone, Yuzu's eyes slowly went to the bird, whispering "Don't worry, you'll be okay." giving comfort to the bird, Karin glanced at Yuzu who nodded, and began pulling backwards while Karin stepped forward.

"You want this boy, do you?"

"Not just him, but you tasty girls too. Your spirits seem to be too good for me to not devour. I have two for the price of one. Twin souls, I've not consumed twin souls before. This is going to be easy."

Karin smirked.

"Who said we need a Shinigami here?"

The Hollow's eyes turned suspicious.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm about to show you!"

Karin pressed the button of her sword in, and swung it downwards, releasing a crescent energy blade, the Hollow called Shrieker let out a scream while pulling to the side, the energy cutting off one of the Hollows toes.

"W-What the hell!? You're not a Shinigami! How did you do that?!"

"Because we know a smart guy that invented stuff for us. You want us? We wont go down without a fight!"

Yuzu nodded, and yelled "We wont let you bully Yuichi-kun anymore!" while Shrieker narrowed his eyes.

"If that's what you think, then have this!"

From the fur on the Hollow, two small creatures came out. Yuzu pulled out her bow, and aimed, firing off two arrows which pierced the creatures within their torsos, ripping through their bodies, and went for Shrieker, who pulled upwards, and avoided the attacks, but seeing his small frog like creatures being killed off immediately, it was shocking since these girls didn't seem to have any powers.

His eyes shot for the girls, and saw them running down the street.

"As we said, you want us, come and get us asshat!"

Karin waved to the Hollow, and caused it to follow after them, the Hollows face twisting into annoyance.

---

Back with the fight with Takumi and the others, Bambietta crossed the distance, and swung her sword for Takumi, who parried the attack, pushing her backwards, only for Meninas to come in with her hand tightening, summoning her strength and sent it off towards Takumi.

"Bakudo 4, Hainawa!"

Rukia was impressed when she saw yellow rope come out of his hands, wrapping around Meninas' fist, and forced it towards Bambietta, who was forced to jump back, Meninas looked towards Takumi, and saw that his sword was heading for her body, but it wasn't the blade, it was the dull side of the sword so he didn't slash her down.

"Impressive, you aren't so bad. But, I'm not alone, you know?"

Takumi gained a question mark by his forehead, only to realize that Candice wasn't with Bambietta, so he turned upwards, sensing her power, and saw her charging up a lightning arrow, using her bow from her Quincy power, and her lightning power from...Takumi didn't know where she got it from, but it didn't matter.

"Time to be shocked bastard!"

Candice unleashed her large lightning arrow downwards. Takumi went to move when Meninas broke through the rope he made with pure strength, and grabbed his hand, lifting him upwards.

"Eh..."

"Sorry, not sorry."

Meninas with one hand, threw Takumi up into the air, and towards the arrow.

He grimaced at the sight, but then smiled at the sight, and threw his sword up towards the incoming lightning arrow, clashing with one another, which allowed Takumi the time to settle his feet in the air, and then aim his hand upwards, shooting off a Sho blast to knock back Candice, but she dodged out of the way, and aimed her arrows right for Takumi, Bambietta, and Meninas doing the same thing.

Rukia looked between all three of them, seeing that they had surrounded Takumi as he caught his falling Zanpakuto.

If he went upwards, Candice would be there. Left and right were Bambietta, and Meninas respectably. And going downwards could work if he was fast enough, and they had all surrounded him.

"Hey! Why are you even starting this kind of fight anyway?!"

Rukia roared at them, hoping to help Takumi out.

Bambietta smirked at her.

"Didn't we tell you? Shinigami are our enemies. They aren't anything good for me. I couldn't care less if they're recent Shinigami or not. All of them are to blame for what happened to the Quincy, and we will enact our revenge on all Shinigami! Starting with this blonde guy right here!"

Rukia narrowed her eyes, Orihime's face turned to worry.

Takumi cracked his neck, then took out a single vial of strange coloured liquid.

The girls all looked towards it curiously, and then Bambietta yelled out.

"Fire at him before he can use that weird shit!"

Bambietta, Meninas and Candice all unleash their arrows towards Takumi, who casually throws the liquid in the air, and slashes it with his sword, which begins raining down towards him.

Rukia and Orihime saw that when the arrows came close to Takumi, the arrows lost their speed and stability, which allowed Takumi to swing his sword outwards, and cleaved through them all. If they had gone at the speed that they had been, then some would have gotten through. But Takumi managed to use his drug to slow down the arrows and cut them all down.

Rukia's face lifted upwards at the sight, while Orihime looked relieved to see Takumi manage to take down the arrows with his intellect.

"W-What the hell?!"

Candice yelled out, Takumi smirked.

"My enemies right now are Quincy's. I've been studying Quincy's for years, did you not think I'd not be prepared in case a Quincy was to attack me? It's a special kind of drug that slows down spirit particles that manage to come close to the area, allowing me to cut through them. Honestly, I thought they might have slowed down more, but it seems that your arrows are stronger than the average Quincy, I'm quite impressed."

Bambietta, Candice, and Meninas were all stunned that he had something like that.

Rukia however was relieved by what was being said, and how he managed to do that.

Bambietta wasn't having any of it.

"Screw this you bastard! I am going to destroy you!"

Bambietta thrusted her hands forward, and shot off some of her energy. Takumi cocked his head, before using his speed to avoid the blasts, Meninas however ripped some of the ground outwards, and threw the ground at the energy behind Takumi, forcing him to go forward as it exploded below him, where Candice had her hands trickling with lightning.

"Come here!"

Takumi span in the air, as lightning came outwards, Takumi shot for the ground, the lightning going over his head, appearing down at the ground, to see Meninas being there, ready to punch him right in the face.

"You're quite fast, but can you dodge a barrage of punches?"

Meninas allowed her fists to sail through the air right at Takumi which left a cut on his cheek from the way her fist was angled, but he managed to use his speed to avoid the rest, he felt the air by his face shifting from the speed and strength of her punches, and he knew that if any punch managed to hit him, he'd suffer a very damaging injury, so he was kept on his toes by Meninas.

"You're pretty good yourself, Supergirl."

Takumi ducked one fist, lowering his body, and contemplated using his sword on her.

But he opted to grappling her legs with his own, twisting his body with his hands on the ground, and then launched Meninas right towards Bambietta who was scowling, avoiding the young woman, and Meninas' body smashed into a nearby building, Takumi hoped that it would at least hinder her for the moment, while he himself had to do various backflips to dodge a myriad of lightning bolts from Candice herself, which themselves broke through the ground and could cause immense damage to Takumi.

"How dare you do that to Minnie?! I'll shock you to death!"

"Hello, she's attacking me! I am defending myself!"

"I'll destroy you with my lightning bolts!"

Candice hurled her hands downwards, streams of lightning rained down at Takumi who continued moving backwards from the blasts, only to see that Bambietta had used that chance to get close to him, with her hand stretched out.

"Oh shit..."

"That's right. Time to explode!"

Takumi grimaced, and swung his sword for her, while she shot off her power, allowing it to come into contact with his body, and it exploded, Rukia, and Orihime gasped at the sight of Takumi being exploded, and the large cloud of smoke that rose into the air.

Meninas who came out of the building she was in, seemed relatively unharmed, her hands tightened, thrusting herself into the smoke, and saw Takumi with his shirt having been blown off, and wounds appeared across his body.

"...I quite like your torso."

Meninas admitted, Takumi gave her a strange look as she thrusted a fist at him.

"Thanks, I think."

Takumi avoided the punch, and swung his blade left for her, forcing her to jump backwards, only to come back with a hard punch for his upper body, but he flipped over her body, and swung his sword downwards, hitting Meninas at the back of her head, forcing her body forwards, Takumi landed behind her, only to see that Bambietta came close and took out her blade.

"Try two at once!"

Bambietta swung her blade, forcing Takumi to clash with her, and create sparks between their blades, Meninas appeared behind him, and swung her fist for his face, Takumi grimaced at the sight of her fist, so he was forced to hit her in the torso with his leg, his strength surprising her, and saw her being pushed backwards slightly on the ground.

"Your strength, you must have a good trainer."

Meninas commented, while Bambietta clutched her blade, and swung for Takumi's neck, though he ducked the sword, and embedded his elbow right into her torso, her eyes widening at the impact, and she coughed up bile, pushing her backwards, where Takumi jumped into the air, spinning his body, and kicked Bambietta in the face, the air bending around his kick, and forced her body away from Takumi's body, but at the same time, she shot her power forward which connected to Takumi's foot, his shoe, so within the split second that it was caught, he kicked it off, and exploded near his body, catching up his body in the power, and forced his body through the air, Orihime saw the wounds on Takumi's body from the blast impact, seeing his legs having been scorched by the attack, and bled as well.

"Taku-chan!"

Orihime panicked, Takumi span in the air, and landed on the ground where Meninas was already there, her fist heading for Takumi's body. He barely had time to use his Zanpakuto to block the strike of her fist, but the force of the impact flung his body through the air, and smashed him through a building, and came out the other side of it, where Candice was appearing up above him, and had her lightning dancing within her hands.

"And have this as well!"

Candice allowed her hand to aim downwards, and her lightning came down towards Takumi who had to avoid the energy that Bambietta had sent out.

Rukia gasped, and took out her gun, shooting it right for Candice herself, Candice's eyes lighting up with worry.

"What the hell?!"

Candice had to abandon her attack on Takumi, seeing that the blast wasn't a joke, so she turned her lightning to the attack, and they collided, destroying one another in a beautiful burst of light within the air, Orihime placed a hand over her heart.

"I wont allow you to harm Takumi!"

Rukia declared strongly, Orihime was surprised she sounded like that considering she hadn't been friends with Takumi for all that long, but it seemed like she was determined to keep Takumi safe as well.

"You really want to get involved?!"

Candice turned towards Rukia, and aimed her hands towards her.

Rukia sent off more blasts of Chappy faces at Candice. Candice wasn't sure if this was going to be too dangerous or not, so she decided to avoid them with the Quincy version of flash step, appearing at a small distance away from Rukia and Orihime, aiming her hand towards her, and gathered her lightning.

"Time to be shocked, you bitch!"

Rukia grimaced, and went to pull away when Takumi appeared there, and pushed the pair out of the way, just as the lightning left her hand, and connected with Takumi, the lightning ran through his body…

But, there was something odd.

It didn't seem to really hurt.

It seemed more like he had been accustomed to lightning before.

He didn't really get how that was.

But the lightning blast didn't do much to him, which confused Candice.

Then she felt his hand touching her own, so she pulled backwards.

"Over here Shinigami."

Meninas ripped a wall off a building and threw it at Takumi, who went to slice through the wall with his sword, while sparks of electric surrounded his form, but Bambietta summoned her energy and it connected with the wall, turning it into a super explosive, exploding right in Takumi's face, and flung him away through the air, smashing his body into the ground, Rukia grimacing at the sight.

Orihime's eyes began to produce tears.

"Stop it! W-Why are you doing this to Taku-chan!? He's the kindest person! You might hate Shinigami, but Taku-chan is the kindest Shinigami!"

Bambietta's annoyed eyes went towards Orihime, and aimed her hand towards her.

"You want to join him in death? Because-"

"Leave her alone!"

Takumi flipped in the air, and shot for her, forcing Bambietta to avoid his sword swing, which sliced the air in front of her, and cut off some strands of her hair, which fell down to the floor while managing to punch her in the torso, forcing her backwards, and skidded across the ground as Meninas came forward, attempting to do a direct fist attack at Takumi, but he ducked, and thrusted his foot upwards, connecting with her chin, and then casually thrusted his palm against her torso, knocking her a good distance away.

"You're quite speedy. I am having so much fun. Even without Shikai, it seems that you aren't so bad after all."

"I suppose, but this has gone too far. You attacking us without telling us why. Saying you hate Shinigami isn't a good enough reason, you can hate Shinigami, but you've targeted my friends, and I wont allow that to happen!"

Bambietta's eyes shot for him, and went to place out her hand…

When Takumi smirked.

Bambietta's eyes narrowed as Candice raged on.

"What are you smirking for?"

"Nothing Candy-chan~"

"D-Don't call me Candy-chan!"

Takumi snickered, Candice's rage soared higher and higher.

She thrusted her hand outwards...but her power didn't come out.

"W-What's happening?!"

Candice didn't get it, Bambietta however summoned her energy in an attempt to explode Takumi, when he casually raised his Zanpakuto, which had a thin wire wrapped around it while pulling it, and then felt her hands being pulled together, and saw that the wire was also attached to Meninas and Candice's bodies, Bambietta's eyes widening as Takumi released the wire from around his Zanpakuto which pulled the girls even closer together, having a sort of pull since it was so tight.

"Ooh fu-"

Bambietta's cries were overshadowed when the energy touched the wire, and spread around the wire, around the girls, and exploded a very harsh explosion, the smoke erupting into the air, the three girls flew into the air with wounds across their bodies.

Takumi casually placed his finger out and announced "Bakudo 4: Hainawa!" and yellow rope came out, wrapping around the three girls, and brought them down to the ground.

"Oh shit."

Bambietta looked angered, but felt the wounds that she had on her too.

Meninas went to move, when she saw Takumi moving closer.

"Hehehe...be kind?"

Takumi raised an eyebrow.

Bambietta, Candice and Meninas all looked up and saw Takumi having his sword out to them.

"Oh, we fucked up Bambi."

Candice sighed, Meninas poked her fingers together.

"Well, we were winning until he did whatever it was..."

"You see, before coming here, I made this wire that constricts around the opponent when I activate it, just for you Bambi-chan." Bambietta scowled. "Because your focus was on me, you didn't notice I was allowing a thin wire to wrap around you girls during this fight. You said you had friends, so it wasn't enough to just stop you, I had to time it right to not only catch you off guard, but deliver blows to your friends to stop them." His eyes went to Candice and grinned. "By the way, when I touched your hand, I put a drug on your skin that destabilizes spirit energy for half a minute depending on the enemy, with the stronger the enemy, the less time it takes to regain control, that's why your lightning didn't come out."

"Seriously...e-even then...y-you planned it out..."

Candice admitted, not because that he used a drug, but because he thought that far ahead to do that and act within such a limited time window.

"I needed the opportunity, and this was it, your guard was down along with your bodies being tired, you thought I was out, and you acted recklessly. Honestly, together, you're more powerful than I am, your abilities are amazing, and very dangerous, that's why I turned them against you. As my Father would say, always make plans upon plans, plan for every eventuality, even during the fight you're in. I was worried during a few times in that battle, I could've seriously gotten wounded, and did end up with some wounds on me."

Bambietta scowl grew more and more.

"You think you've won, but we wont surrender to you. Not until you Shinigami's are extinguished!"

"I don't want to fight you, I want to resolve whatever it is you've got against me peacefully." Takumi glanced at Rukia and Orihime. "You both okay?"

"W-We should be asking you Taku-chan! Y-You were attacked! You saved us Taku-chan...thank you."

Takumi shook his head.

"Her explosions hurt. The lightning not so much, I don't know why that is though. And yeah, the strong girl could of ruptured my organs with a punch, good thing I dodged and blocked that huh~?"

Orihime stifled a laugh, while Rukia gazed upon Takumi.

She saw what he did for her, he risked his life for her again. Even during the first meeting, he risked himself to save her, and did it again. He also did it for Orihime and her brother. Seeing Takumi continue to risk his life for others, and protect them along with how he made her feel…

"Are you blushing Kuchiki-chan?"

Rukia gasped, seeing Orihime's eyes on her.

"W-What are you saying?! I wasn't blushing!"

"I-It's okay if you are, e-even I find Taku-chan's body nice..."

Orihime admitted while poking her fingers together shyly.

But then, Liltotto and Giselle came walking over, Bambietta's face lifted up.

"Gigi, Lil! Attack them while their defences are down!"

Takumi sighed and went to pull his Zanpakuto out, but Liltotto placed her hand outwards.

"We're not here to fight." Her eyes went to Bambietta. "We're going now, and if you want us to save you, you better listen to me and leave the Shinigami alone." Bambietta growled, as Liltotto turned back to Takumi and the others. "Sorry about this, some of us actually know where to place our anger, and not onto Shinigami that had no business in the Quincy slaughter."

Takumi was surprised by how soft Liltotto was sounding.

"N-No, don't worry, I just don't want to be enemies."

"I feel the same way. So, if it is alright, I'll take these girls and leave you guys alone."

Rukia furrowed her eyebrows.

"I don't know, you did attack us without provocation..."

Takumi glanced at Giselle who licked her lips sensually towards him, his eyebrows lifting upwards in confusion.

His eyes then went to Liltotto, and bowed his head.

"You can go."

"Takumi!"

Rukia called, but Orihime nodded.

"He's right Kuchiki-chan, we can't keep being at war, both sides will only get hurt like today, and continuing just proves what they believe Shinigami's are to be, shouldn't we try and change their minds? I don't think they're truly evil, they're just angry and misguided."

Takumi nodded at what Orihime said.

"If we can find a peaceful solution, then that's what we should do." His eyes went to Bambietta and the others. "However, I will fight you if necessary, and stop you, I wont allow anyone to be hurt because of your actions."

Bambietta scowl grew, while Candice bit her lip, Meninas tilting her head.

Giselle casually walked over to Takumi, and placed a hand on his body, slowly running down his chest, Orihime's eyes flared with jealousy.

"Hehe, you're so adorable up close~" Giselle stuck out her tongue, and touched her nose with it. "My names Giselle Gewelle, nice to meet you~"

"N-Nice to meet you Giselle-san."

Giselle tilted her head, then laid her lips onto his blushing cheek, Orihime's face turned red with jealousy along with shyness mixed in, and Rukia looked on dumbfounded, Liltotto slapped her forehead.

She then stuck out her tongue at him.

"Sorry, I had to. Just to confirm, that's all." Giselle began playing with her hair antenna. "Anyway, you're so nice to let these bitches be crazy go, considering what they did. Don't worry, I'll keep them in line." Giselle pulled closer to Takumi's body once more, he felt her breasts pressing against his body. "Next time, lets go on a date, okay~?"

""W-WHAT!?""

Orihme and Rukia yelled out, Takumi's mouth let out small mumbling's.

"D-Date is..."

Giselle placed her hand to her forehead, and saluted Takumi.

"Bye Captain, see you next time~ Lets go Lil-chan, and punish these naughty girls~"

Liltotto turned to Bambietta, Candice, and Meninas who grimaced.

"See? You should have listened to me, now you're gonna have to face the consequences."

Liltotto and Giselle grabbed the girls, and strolled off with them, Takumi smiled slightly.

"I hope you know what you're doing by letting them go."

Rukia spoke up, Takumi's eyebrows furrowed.

"I get the feeling that something truly bad has happened to them. From the way they fight, and what they said...yeah, I think this might begin a true friendship between Quincy's and Shinigami's, at least for the nicer Quincy girls. But don't worry Rukia-chan, if they do attack again, I wont hesitate to stop them, I just want to give them a chance to see that not all Shinigami are out to kill them, and we can work side by side."

Orihime nodded again and again, while Rukia bowed her head.

"Of course, that sounds like you, and I'm glad you're willing to take action just in case."

"Of course, I'm not foolish, I will be ready if they attack again."

"Good, I'm glad..." Rukia then remembered their mission. "Wait, if they used some kind of power or technology to mimic the Hollows spirit energy, then where is the real Hollow?"

Takumi grimaced, and looked around…

Then from a distance, he sensed Karin and Yuzu, so he turned in that direction.

"We'll have to go and see what's going on."

"But Taku-chan, you're hurt..."

Takumi gave her a light smile, and took out a vial of green liquid, injecting himself with it, and his wounds began to heal, Rukia watched on with surprise.

"These are damn hard to make and the ingredients for them are hard to replicate so easily, but I thought I might need it in the fight with the Quincy girls, so I only have a short supply of them. I only use it when necessary."

"That drug...it has healed your wounds."

"Yeah, call it a healing drug. It can't heal like, death or anything, but injuries I have, they're healed. Now, lets get going~"

Takumi began running with Rukia, and Orihime chased after him, unaware that Kisuke and Yoruichi had been there, watching, and was glad that Takumi managed to take care of the situation himself, and proud that he was trying to unite the two races together.

---

Karin and Yuzu were being chased down by the Hollow. They ran through the streets of Karakura town, and avoided populated areas so normal people wouldn't be attacked by the Hollow itself, and it was becoming annoyed.

"Stop running away from me!"

Shrieker yelled out, only for Karin to smirk, and look behind her.

"What's wrong? Worried that you can't beat us?"

A tick mark appeared at the head of the Hollow.

"Don't annoy me!"

Small frog like creatures came out of its fur, and opened their heads, leeches began to spring out of their heads, Karin grimacing at the sight, jumping forward, and avoided them, only for the Hollow to show its fork tongue, and it began to release a noise, which in turn turned the small leeches into explosives, Karin was caught in the attack, and knocked backwards towards a nearby wall.

"Karin!"

Yuzu cried out, only for Karin to glance at her.

"Don't worry about me, just get yourself safe!"

"No, I can't leave you Karin!" Yuzu rushed towards her, and lifted her up. "We need to do this together. I want to protect you too!"

Karin was surprised that she was saying such things.

But she also saw the determination within Yuzu's eyes.

But from behind her, she saw that the small creatures were pouncing on them, so she pushed Yuzu to the side, and swung her sword outwards, and released a crescent blade of energy for the pair of creatures, only for the creatures to explode upon being sliced, and the fact that the Hollow vibrated his tongue, forcing Karin and Yuzu backwards.

"Please...Please don't hurt them!"

Yuichi cried out, Karin grimacing, while Yuzu rubbed her head.

Their eyes looked around the alleyway they were in, and saw that it was deserted.

"It isn't the park, but this place will do."

"Right Karin."

Karin and Yuzu stood up, a stark contrast to how they were running away before. Yuzu placed Yuichi behind her, and took to her bow, while Karin held her sword tightly within her hands, Shrieker looked quite surprised by what was happening.

"W-Wait, what's going on? You seem a little more confident than before..."

Shrieker displayed slight worry, while Karin walked forward.

"The Hollow that took the spirit out of a child, and placed it into the bird, that's you, wasn't it?"

"So what?"

Shrieker demanded, only for Karin to show a side to her that Yuzu could understand.

Anger.

They both were angry at the Hollow.

"That boy didn't deserve what you did to him, and his Mother. You're the one that killed his Mother, and then killed the boy by ripping out his spirit. He also told me that if he could survive three months from you chasing him, then you'd bring back his Mother. But you can't do that, can you?"

The Hollow showed a repulsive smile on its face, igniting rage within Karin.

"So what if I did? I couldn't just allow myself to become bored. That brat there ruined everything for me. Maybe you might of heard of me, I was a famous serial killer. I managed to take down many people, and I wasn't ever caught! I stayed one step ahead of the police! But then when I killed that brats Mother, we were at a balcony you see, and he pulled my shoes, and I ended up going over the side, and died."

Karin and Yuzu's expressions turned darker.

They didn't like what they were hearing at all.

"So, after you died, you became a Hollow eventually...and did what you did to that boy? To Yuichi?"

"Little brat killed me! Of course I wanted to get revenge!"

Shrieker yelled right back at her, Yuzu however couldn't take it anymore.

"You murdered his Mom!" Yuzu cried out, tears falling from her eyes. "Y-You did the unthinkable to him, and to others, and took their lives away! Their hopes, and their dreams! They're all gone because of you. And now this boy...he's...he's..."

"Dead." Shrieker let out a sinister snicker. "He's gone from this world now, don't worry about him though. Once I've devoured you, I'll keep this game up. I'm having a blast so far! I've managed to get many peoples souls! I've also killed some Shinigami as well! They tried helping the brat, but I ended up devouring them as well! It was a thrill! Maybe he did me a favour by making me a Hollow who knows. But I am enjoying myself right now!"

He seemed to be excited.

Karin was sick of hearing his voice.

So was Yuzu.

They had enough of the Hollow itself, and raised their weapons to the Hollow.

"You said the wrong thing there pal. You enjoyed causing pain and misery. That's a death sentence, don't you know that?"

Shrieker was surprised that Karin said that and summoned some of his frog like creatures, only for arrows to pierce through them, with small bombs attached to them, which exploded, Shrieker let out a large cry as blood poured out of him, his body came falling to the ground, slamming against it, and caused the ground to crack.

"S-Seriously?! You are more scary than before!"

Karin rushed forward, seeing the Hollow bring up its claws, and swung for her body, but she parried the swipe with her own blade, and then activated the ability of the blade, drawing in her spiritual power, and unleashed her energy at the claw, which managed to cut through the claw, blood shooting out of the Hollow, while the Hollow Shrieker let out a howling sound.

"It isn't compared to what you've put that boy through. You lied to him!"

"So what if I did? That's nothing compared to what I've been through! I was happy before meeting that brat! He gave me entertainment, and then I got to finally see that-"

"Yeah, yeah! I don't care!"

Karin turned her sword on the Hollow, and swung it outwards. Seeing no choice, he went up into the air, but received a slice on his leg, Shrieker let out a cry from the pain that he felt, and then looked down at the two humans, seeing Yuzu releasing a number of arrows in quick succession.

"You girls don't let up!"

Shrieker flew off up to some trees, to cover the body of the Hollow, and then small frog like creatures came out of its fur, and shot for Yuzu and Karin, but they didn't see that some more came out, and sneak around them.

"Not this shit again. Yuzu!"

Yuzu nodded, and rather than aim her arrows at all of them, she aimed for the one that was in the middle, and allowed an explosive go to the end of the arrow, taking aim, and then fired it off in a swift burst, piercing the Hollow, and it exploded, the explosion was strong enough to knock back the other creatures, which hit the ground because of their descent to the earth, Karin smirked at her sister.

"Karin, I've taken them to the ground, finish them off."

Karin nodded, allowing her sword to be filled with energy and she swung it downwards, unleashing her energy, destroying the creatures that were before her, but Karin let off a small pant.

"Damn, used more energy than I thought-"

"What's wrong?" The Hollow taunted. "Are you getting too weak?"

Karin scowled up to the Hollow.

"That's not something you have to worry about. I have enough power to take you down. And even if I didn't, I still have my sister with me. Together, we can take you down."

Yuzu allowed a smile to appear on her face.

It sounded like Karin was relying on her.

If she was then she wouldn't disappoint at all.

Karin leaped upwards, and she climbed a tree at hyper speed. Yuzu was surprised to see that she was doing something like that, but then she saw that Karin looked back at her.

Without even saying anything, Yuzu understood what Karin wanted, seeing Karin perching herself on a branch. It seemed like she was ready to deliver a good blow to the Hollow itself.

"Hey Hollow, I wont allow us to lose!"

Yuzu pulled back the string, and then shot off an arrow towards the trees, cutting through the air, forcing the Hollow to dodge out of the way. It smirked and began speaking "You're weak..." but it didn't get to finish as Yuzu kept launching more and more arrows to the Hollow, forcing it towards the left hand side, but she changed up pace, and fired more arrows in that direction, and didn't stop, forcing her to go down towards the ground.

"Stay away from me!"

The Hollow let out a small cry, and his tongue stuck out, ready to use some kind of sonic attack, but Yuzu wouldn't allow it, and rather than aim for him, she aimed for the ground, and unleashed an arrow with a small explosive on it a fair distance away, exploding the ground and created smoke.

Shrieker didn't get why she was doing that.

But it became clear when an arrow came outwards from the smoke, he didn't have time to react to her attack, piercing his shoulder, and another came outwards, so he flew downwards, where Karin was who raised her blade, lining herself up.

"Try this!"

Karin leaped forward, and her sword swung downwards, releasing a crescent blade of energy, which cleaved off the right arm of the Hollow, the Hollow roared out in its pain, and dropped it down to the ground harshly, bouncing off the ground, and clutched its arm with its free hand, Karin landed on the ground and rolled across the ground, getting to her feet after two rolls.

"W-What have you done!?"

"As we said, you caused that boy pain. We can't let you keep going on with such pain. Lying to him, causing him to have hope when there was no hope anymore."

Karin sounded truly angry at the Hollow.

"That's right, I did do that. He cried for his Mommy, and ran as far as he could. He placed others in danger to make sure his Mom came back. And now that I've caught him, you'll have no choice but to obey what I want you to do."

"You haven't..."

Yuzu's eyes turned to the cage, and saw the frog like creatures on the cage, and leaches coming out of their heads. Karin also noticed that, and her teeth gritted together.

"So, you'd even use him to stop us. That's sad, and pathetic."

"That doesn't matter to me, I have to do everything I can to make sure that I can escape. I wont die to a bunch of teenage girls. Now, be good girls, and come one by one as I devour your souls. You've given me much fun, and while I lost an arm, and what not, I managed to have some good fun with you all."

Karin didn't know what to do.

Yuzu didn't know what to do.

If they made a move, then the bombs would go off, and they would see Yuichi being blown up.

Karin cursed it.

The power that she couldn't use.

Her eyes closed, and so did Yuzu's own eyes.

They wished that they could do something...

They wanted to be strong.

They wanted to do what they could to fight.

They wanted to win this fight.

They had to win this fight.

For Yuichi.

Karin's eyes shot open, and took full gaze at the Hollow before her.

"By the way, how does it feel?"

Karin demanded, moving closer, the Hollow stuck out his tongue.

"D-Don't come closer, or I will use my tongue to detonate my bombs on that bird! You don't want him to die, right?!"

Karin paused, while Yuzu's eyes slowly lowered.

But then Karin flipped a switch on the sword, and gathered her power, and threw the sword at the Hollow, who let out a small cry, as the energy was released mid flight, forcing the Hollow to leap out of the way, unable to fly due to having only one arm now, which had the wing attached to it, while Yuzu turned to the creatures.

"Leave Yuichi-kun alone!"

She fired off her arrows, and pierced through the creatures, running up, and kicked the last one off the birds cage, the Hollow scowling and went to vibrate his tongue, when Karin appeared before him, holding onto his tongue and pulled it forward.

"Yuzu!"

Karin yanked the tongue and gave her a shot.

Yuzu lined up the shot, and fired off an arrow, slicing through the tongue, and pierced the shoulder of the Hollow, knocking it backwards, where Karin swung her foot, kicking the Hollow right in the face, and knocked it down to the ground.

Then Yuzu walked forward and aimed her weapon at the Hollow.

"Don't move."

Yuzu spoke angrily.

The Hollow became panicked.

Seeing between the twins, he didn't have any moves left. He couldn't detonate his bombs anymore, making more wouldn't do any good because Yuzu and Karin could dispatch them easily enough, and finally, the pair were ready to kill him off.

---

"My, you did good girls."

Karin and Yuzu heard a familiar voice, turning to see Takumi with a panting Orihime and Rukia behind him.

"Takumi-kun! W-What happened?!"

Takumi waved his hand "Later." and moved closer.

He took out his Zanpakuto, tossing it to Karin and Yuzu, who caught it together.

"Whats this for?"

"This is your fight, use that to end that Hollow."

Takumi replied to Karin who clutched the handle with Yuzu.

Then their eyes went towards the Hollow who was panicking for dear life.

"Wait! Wait! Please don't do this! You can't do this to me!"

Yuzu and Karin shared a look, before they together, rammed Takumi's Zanpakuto right through the Hollows head, splitting the mask into two, before it shattered, and the head ended up being pierced right through and the sword ended up coming out of the other side.

But he didn't disappear.

They were surprised.

The Hollow didn't even seem like it was going to disappear.

"What's going on? Shouldn't it disappear?"

Karin thought that was the case.

But that was soon stopped when two large doors came into being. With two skeleton looking creatures attached to the door, Yuzu let out a cry, and hid behind Takumi as did Orihime, Karin pulled back away from the door, going near Rukia who closed her eyes.

"The Hollow had to have committed sin in life, for this to happen."

"But, what are they?"

Karin asked Rukia, who went to answer when Takumi did.

"It is the Gates of Hell."

"Hell..."

Karin murmured, as the doors opened.

Orihime clung to Takumi for dear life, but Takumi smiled.

"Don't worry Orihime-chan, everyone. This isn't going to kill us or anything. It is after the Hollow here. Because of the sins committed in life, it's going to be punished in Hell. The Zanpakuto can only cleanse the sins of the Hollow, not of the human before it became a Hollow. Unlike your brother Orihime-chan, this man was evil and did many disgusting acts while alive, so he's going to be punished in Hell now."

Rukia nodded, and they all watched as a large blade came out. It was thick, and was the size of a house easily. The Hollow was then bound with chains coming out of Hell, and held up the Hollow who pleased for life, but it ultimately fell on deaf ears, and they watched together as the Hollow was pierced right through the body, taking up most of its body with the blade, and dragged back into Hell.

The Hollow continued to scream out, but it didn't amount to anything, and they watched as it disappeared into the abyss of darkness from the gates of Hell. Then once it was gone, the doors closed behind it, and then the doors shattered into a million pieces, disappearing into the air itself.

Once it was gone, Takumi and the others turned to Yuichi.

"It's gone now, Yuichi."

Karin smiled out, Yuzu nodding.

"You don't have to cry anymore, he's gone to a place where he will be punished for what he's done."

"B-But my Mom...I wont see her again..."

Karin bent down to the cage, and let out the bird.

It flew onto her shoulder, were Karin petted the head of the bird, and so did Yuzu.

"Don't cry. Remember, you are apart of the Kurosaki family now. You're our little brother."

Karin's softness caught the others by surprise.

Yuzu giggled.

"She's right, you're our brother. And you don't know if your Mom will be there or not. But, it will be a better place, right Takumi-kun?"

Takumi nodded his head.

"That's right, it will be a better place. The Soul Society will be the place you'll be going. Your Mom might even be there right now, waiting for you to come back to her."

Yuichi's eyes looked towards Takumi who smiled.

Then Orihime leaned forward.

"Maybe you'll see my brother. Sora Inoue. If you do, say hello to him for me, okay?"

"Y-Yes...thank you. All of you. You risked yourselves for me. I'm sorry for putting you all in danger."

Rukia waved her hand.

"Don't worry, you'll go to a better place. You'll be happy over there, and you'll be safe from Hollows over there as well. So, why don't you let Takumi perform Konso on you."

"Maybe one day, when we depart this world, we could meet up again and have a family reunion?"

Yuzu suggested, Yuichi's face curled upwards.

"Y-Yes! That would be the best thing ever!"

Takumi adopted a small smile on his face, and then walked closer.

"Goodbye Yuichi-kun."

"Yes! Goodbye!"

"See you later kid."

"Have fun over there!"

"We'll see you later, count on it."

Takumi, Orihime, Rukia, Yuzu and Karin all spoke sweetly, and then saw saw the spirit of Yuichi standing beside the bird in ghost form.

Each of them smiled, as Takumi performed Konso, releasing the spirit to the Soul Society.

Orihime and Rukia smiled at one another, Karin smiled to herself, while Yuzu's eyes became moist.

"Don't worry Yuzu-chan, you'll see him again one day."

Yuzu looked towards Takumi, and then hugged onto him, crying her eyes out. Takumi comforted her by hugging her back, Karin's eyes glanced at the young Shinigami boy, and then let out small soft laughs at the sight.

Now with this Hollow disappeared, Karin was sure she knew what she wanted to do now.

Even Yuzu felt the same way.

They both knew that they would continue helping out people that needed it.

---

The next day, Karin strolled towards the Urahara shop.

Takumi was surprised that he saw her there as she opened the shop doors early in the morning with her school outfit on.

"Karin-chan, something you need?"

Karin shook her head.

"No, I just...I came by to say, thanks for the other day. With the metal beam and all, that could've killed me, yet you took it for me without even thinking about yourself. I thought you were some weird guy...but, underneath your weirdness, you're quite decent, Maybe this is what Yuzu sees all of the time, who knows."

Takumi waved his hand at her.

"No worries at all, I'm glad you're feeling better. You are, right?"

Karin displayed a surprising smile, putting her hands behind her back.

"Yeah, I'm feeling much better than before, I'm glad we were able to help Yuichi. And, I think I get it. Why you seem so willing to do this." Takumi cocked an eyebrow while she continued. "Because, the feeling of knowing you've helped out. That feeling I had with Yuichi yesterday, that must be what you feel each time you slay a Hollow, knowing you've saved that persons soul, and also, saved their future victims."

Takumi's face curled up.

"You're right, that's exactly how I feel. To know I've done good to someone, and saved others, it's a great feeling. But more than that, I'm happy to help out Rukia-chan since she can't do it right now."

Karin lowered her head but retained her smile.

"Yeah..."

Before she could continue, the door behind Takumi opened, revealing Rukia.

"Takumi, a Hollow." She announced, glancing at Karin. "Oh, Karin. Good morning."

"Yeah, morning Kuchiki-san."

Rukia adopted a small smile, while Takumi cracked his neck.

"Never any rest for the Shinigami, hahaha~" Rukia allowed a small chuckle to escape her lips. "Want to come Karin-chan?"

"I'm actually a little busy, I've got to go soon."

"Aah, alright then. Make yourself at home, have some candy, my treat~" Karin gave him an appreciative nod. He turned to Rukia with a grin. "Ready Rukia-chan?"

"Definitely, lets take it down."

Rukia and Takumi ran out of the shop together, leaving Karin alone.

She waited for half a minute, while moving forward into the shop.

"Oi, Urahara-san. I know you're here somewhere."

Surely enough, as soon as she said it, Kisuke came out of the shadows with a yawn.

"Ah, Kurosaki-san. Can I presume you've made a choice?"

Karin nodded with conviction.

"Give me the power of a Shinigami."

Kisuke saw that she truly meant it. It wasn't just said on a whim, she had thought about this.

"...Alright then, give me a week, and I'll have it ready for you. In that time, if you change your mind, let me know."

"Thanks, but I wont change my mind."

Kisuke raised an eyebrow.

"Oh?"

"Yesterday, with Yuichi, and the Hollow. I got a realization...they need saving too. Not just the spirits, but the Hollows need saving from that life, and punishment if they were evil in life. As I am, I don't have the power Takumi has, nor the knowledge Kuchiki-san has. If I had the power too, then we'd be more efficient in taking these damn things down. Takumi and I could take these things down and save more people. And...I'd also be able to keep Yuzu safe. Seeing her in danger...no, I wont allow anything to harm Yuzu, and now that the Hollows are attacking her, and could harm my Dad, I want the power to keep them safe."

Kisuke's face fell into understanding.

"Yes, protecting your sister and Father is a noble goal."

"Exactly, so make whatever it is, and I'll be ready for it."

"Alright then, Kurosaki-san. One week, then you'll be a Shinigami. It will give you time to change your mind, and if you do, then do not feel bad, this is your choice after all."

Karin gained a small smile on her face, ready for what was going to happen next.

She had made up her mind.

She was ready, to become a Shinigami.

---

"Aaaaaaaaagh!"

"N-Noooooooooooooo!"

Screams rang out within the area that looked to be a woodland type place.

Blood scattered across the ground.

Bodies of Shinigami's laid on the ground, and were being devoured by a large beast Hollow. The Hollow is a six-limbed creature with a large, flame-patterned mask and a flock of tentacles on his back, and its body colour being a greenish gray colour, the eyes of the Hollow being unseen due to the darkness that was being shown, and also had fur growing across its body.

On the ground, was a lone Shinigami, who was quivering under the watchful eyes of the Hollow.

It's expression turned twisted, and its tentacles on his back swayed around.

"These Shinigami were useless, maybe I could eat you and gain some more power."

"N-No...please..."

"Sorry, but that's how it is!"

The Shinigami pulled backwards, but the Hollow leaped forward, ready to pounce on the Shinigami.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

The Shinigami screamed as the Hollow went to kill the Shinigami...

But then suddenly, a purple haired young woman with an almost robotic expression on her face, leaped forward, and delivered a super fast kick right to the torso of the enemy Hollow, her strength was so grand that the Hollow was forced backwards, and smashed its body into the ground, away from the Shinigami.

The Shinigami looked up towards the girl, and recognized her.

"L-Lieutenant..."

"I was ordered, with some other members to find out what happened here."

She said with nearly no emotions.

Then the Hollow looked upon the girl, who stared back calmly.

"And you'd be?"

"I am Nemu Kurotsuchi, Lieutenant of Squad 12."

She replied while other Shinigami appeared behind her.

They withdrew their Zanpakuto, and pointed it at the Hollow, who growled.

"D-Damn it..."

The Shinigami went to move forward, when the Hollow turned heels, and began running away from the area.

Nemu watched on while other Shinigami were ordered to go ahead by another Lieutenant, but she suspected they wouldn't catch the Hollow.

How she knew that, was a mystery.

However, what she didn't know was, that Hollow was going to cause her to meet someone important in the future...

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End chapter!

So, quite the fight! Takumi fought with three Quincy girls, and managed to do pretty well against them, though they got off some great hits on him too, and as Kisuke's kid, he came prepared and managed to think of plans while fighting new enemies with strong powers. Karin and Yuzu became closer with Yuichi, and one another, Takumi assuring Yuzu that Karin does have strong emotions, but keeps them to herself, and Kisuke offered Karin to become a Shinigami, and by the end of this chapter, it seems like she's resolved herself to do what it takes to protect her sister, and everyone else. And also, Nemu has appeared! What's gonna happen with her and that Hollow, we'll soon see!

Also, here's a question and opinions I've been getting about Uryu, and about if he should be in the story or not, so I'll leave it to you! I thought about Giselle taking what Uryu does in canon, besides the hollow bait as Giselle doesn't have anything against Takumi and the others, I'd have someone else do that in that case. But yeah, people have been asking about if he should be or shouldn't be in the story, I can work with either, so I thought that I'd ask you all!

So yeah, please vote on that, and until next time, thanks for reading!

Takumi; Orihime, Rukia, Yuzu, Karin, Nemu, Giselle, Soi Fon, Yoruichi, Hiyori, Nelliel, Tier, Rangiku.