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.

7. Memories of the rain part one

Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!

Clarent excalibur; Thanks very much! Yeah, Grand Fisher is going to appear next chapter with hints this chapter. Yeah, and with Giselle right now, Grand Fisher couldn't take her. We'll be getting a scene or two with Isshin and Giselle next chapter. Aah, Don Kannoji, Takumi will have some feelings about him. Yup, Nemu's coming now! Her, and Takumi are going to meet this chapter, and it's going to be quite...you'll see~ Nemu could stay that long~ Sure, I could see that happening with Kon. Ooh yeah, I can't spoil it, but Takumi and Mayuri are going to have quite the relationship.

Oblivious IJ; Yeah, that would work too.

Skull Flame; Yup, surely did. She is yeah, Giselle's gonna bring some fun and interesting things to this. He tried. She's like a robot, with how she acts. Mayuri's quite a schemer yeah. Yup, you're right, an earlier version of BG9, since we didn't have any backstory on it, I thought it would be fun to use.

Silver crow; Yeah, I just decided to do Saturday, it will be either Saturday or Sunday now. Thanks very much! Takumi's gonna build a body for Kon, not have Takumi's own. Yeah, they recognized him right away~ She surely is determined~ There relationship is going to run quite deep, we'll see more of it in the future. It's something, can't say what yet. Hehe, Giselle is quite fun huh~ And that conversation has a deep meaning to it. She is yeah, Rukia's feelings are going to be cemented quite soon with what's gonna happen. Eh, something like that, though they aren't from Fishbone, it's a different Hollow. Nemu's coming! Sure, Isshin could do that in the future. I couldn't reveal if he is or isn't getting Hollow powers. He could do that with lightning. Sure, Yhwach is going to view Takumi as someone that could cause him problems, as to why, we'll see as the future of the story goes. Indeed, he didn't need the future sight and manipulation, the future sight could've been enough, but with the manipulation of the future, there's just no way anyone would be able to win. He is yeah. I always thought the K was the Knowledge since it seemed to want to always gather data on people and what not. But it could've been the kill. Yup, Rangiku is there~ He could help her achieve Bankai, dunno what it would be though. Sure they could do. Well I can't reveal much but if that's the case, his reaction might be surprising. Yeah it could do. Quincy's can make weapons from Reishi in the air, they don't really need the glove, Uryu had it to make him stronger, they usually use a cross on their wrists or whatever, but we've seen them just pulling out weapons from thin air. He could end up slaying it. Gin and Takumi, they'll have an interesting relationship. Sure, he could. That would be funny. Perhaps they could help with his illness. Sure, that sounds great. I presume Takumi would make something like that for himself yeah. Yeah, that sounds great, and yeah his eyes could do that.

ShadowUzumaki55; He surely doesn't no. Yeah, they didn't seem to hold back~ We'll see in the coming chapters how Takumi's gonna prove his worth to her. She's got conflicting thoughts about Takumi.

A fan; Thanks for the, I'll consider it~ He sounds pretty cool to me.

Guest 1; Ravage them, that would be fun!

joe; Thanks for the vote!

Reviewer Requiem; Sure, that sounds great to me! Those ideas sound great to me! Nice pairing!

Guest 2; I suppose that she could do yeah. That would be something Nemu does. Nemu probably is very intelligent, she just doesn't get to showcase it with Mayuri around in canon. I could see that happening, thanks for the suggestions!

maxbrevan; Thanks very much, and thanks for the votes!

Guest 3; Sure, the A position is open, and I like that, BG9 was never explained where it came from so yeah that could happen.

Guest 4; Yeah, that would be an interesting Rosario Vampire story, I like it! Thanks for the suggestions!

Guest 5; Yup, she'll refer to him like that, and if she does have knowledge on Takumi, we'll see in the future, spoilers and all. That would be quite funny!

Terrariuz; Thanks very much! Glad you recognized that, because it's going to become quite important later on. Giselle's a weird case, as she's never just come out and said what gender she was, people commented she was a boy, but she's never confirmed it, then it's never really brought up against after it being mentioned twice, and everyone just calls her a girl, even Mayuri does so who knows. In this story, she's just a girl, a Zombie girl.

Andrew123456; Sexiest character in Bleach for me, tough question as there's a lot of stunning girls in Bleach, for me personally, I think all the girls have some kind of appeal, Yoruichi is very beautiful, so is Tier, and Nel adult form, Orihime and Rangiku also fit the bill quite well. And thanks!

Guest 6; His lightning colour will represent a few things, I can't spoil what yet though as we'll see Takumi using his sword in different ways, and he might get upgrades to the lightning in the future, representing different things.

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

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Memories of the rain part one

"Aaaaaah! My God!"

Takumi twitched with sparks of electricity around his form, within his inner world.

His Zanpakuto spirit looked upon him, with lightning dancing between her fingers.

His body felt like it was going to break down.

She had very harsh blasts of lightning directed towards him.

"Like that Takumi-kun~?"

The Zanpakuto giggled like a school girl to herself.

Takumi released a small sigh, and went to stand up, when she directed her hand upwards, and from up high, a lightning bolt rained down, Takumi grimaced, and used flash step to disappear from sight, the Zanpakuto released another giggle.

"You are coming along quite well. You've managed to hold on to the power that I've been releasing for a full ten minutes when you didn't last three from a few days ago. I'm quite pleased." Her hand bent towards the back, where Takumi was behind her, and it crackled with electricity. "Now, why don't we stop-"

"Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man!" The Zanpakuto fired off lightning, but Takumi leaped into the air, while red spirit energy gathered in his palm. "Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south!" Takumi flashed before her, and placed his hand towards her. "Hado 31: Shakkaho!"

A crimson energy blast erupted out of his palm, and exploded upon contact with the girl..

Or so he thought.

As soon as the smoke cleared, Takumi saw that the girl seemingly had made a wall of lightning before her. It trickled around like flowing water, her eyes met Takumi's own, who chuckled awkwardly.

"Well, that's not good."

The young girl giggled once more.

"Yup, it isn't good."

The girl unleashed her large volume of lightning for Takumi, who went to move.

But the speed of lightning was very hard to deal with, and it struck him right in the chest, smashing him through a building. The lightning travelled up the building, shattering all of the windows that were above her, the fragments of glass rained down towards her like falling snow flakes.

"Beautiful, isn't it Takumi-kun?"

Takumi, within the building, saw the young woman dancing with glass falling around her.

Something about that, caused him to think about something from his past.

"I-I guess...oww, your lightning is harsh as always…."

The girl placed her hands on her hips.

"Nope, not gonna tell you."

"You're so stubborn!"

"Hmmm, I guess. But, I am giving you something I want, a challenge. So, don't come crying to me."

"I'm not crying about it. It's just, with the Quincy girls out there, I need to gain this power of yours so I don't have to rely on others, I want to be strong enough to protect the others."

The girl slowly pulled closer, and placed a finger on his chest. Running her finger downwards, his cheeks turned slightly red.

"My, ready to get rid of me that quickly?"

"N-No! Of course not!"

She sweetly span around, and Takumi noticed how her outfit barely continued her large assets and because it was so open, he saw that they were bouncing.

"Good, because I don't want to leave you either. Since we only just came together, it would be sad if we didn't converse often. Once you gain your Zanpakuto name, you might not talk to me often anymore."

Takumi saw how her cute expression turned slightly sad, so he reassured her the best that he could.

"Don't worry, I'll converse with you often. I'd be a pretty bad friend if I didn't speak to you. I'll come into this world at least once a week, how about it? More times than that probably."

The young girl wore an innocent expression of a maiden.

"You promise?"

Takumi was almost floored by the cuteness that she was displaying.

"Y-You are too powerful with being cute."

"Thank you, so are you. Now, shall we get back into it?"

Takumi went to answer, when he heard "Takumi!" which he recognized to be Rukia's voice.

"Hehe, it seems that Rukia-chan wants me. I guess a Hollow has been found or something."

"Oh yes, a Hollow. Duty is important after all. Go, and do what you need to do with the Hollow, I'll be waiting here for you to return. Once you've slain the Hollow of course."

Takumi saluted the spirit.

"Yup, I'll be back soon...your name is..."

The girl stuck out her tongue.

"Go on, super hero."

"Hehe, I'm not a super hero."

The spirit wriggled her eyebrows, as Takumi closed his eyes, disappearing.

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Once he opened them again, he saw Rukia before him, and Kon on his face.

"Geez Kon, don't just hold onto my face!"

"You were asleep for a long time!" Kon jumped down. "You worried poor Rukia-chan, so I comforted her with my sexy body. Speaking of, when can I get an even sexier body~?"

"I'm in the process of making you one." His eyes went to Rukia who gave the stuffed toy a disapproving look. "Ah, Rukia-chan. Hollow?"

"Not everything I call you for is Hollow related you know?"

Takumi bowed his head.

"Sorry...but, is this about a Hollow?"

Rukia's eyebrows twitched.

"Yes."

Takumi chuckled lightly.

"Then I guess that we should go and slay the Hollow." Takumi stood up, stretching his arms, and cracked his neck to the left and right. He began walking away when he saw that Rukia wasn't following. "Coming Rukia-chan?"

"Yeah, I'm coming now."

Rukia stood up, and walked away with him.

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Takumi, and Rukia once again had gone out to slay another Hollow, and like usual, it went quite well. They had fallen into a good routine between one another, they'd get the call, and then they'd go and slay it quite easily.

Thankfully, Bambietta, and the rest hadn't shown up for a little while so that was always good.

They hadn't hindered Takumi trying to become stronger.

Which in fact, he had been doing quite well.

Takumi had been progressing quite well with his swordsmanship, and also, he had managed to learn a good level of Kido from Rukia, his Father, and Tessai, even Hachi was also teaching him how to use some of his own special type of Kido.

It seemed that Takumi had a knack for Kido.

As for Kon, Takumi and Rukia found a stuffed lion toy, and found out that the Mod-Soul could be placed into that, and it could move around, and act as if it was a normal body which he found to be quite amazing, and Takumi, being the natural studious person, was also amazed by such a thing.

Rukia watched on as she sat on the side of the hill, which led to the large river, with Takumi fighting off two Hollows, though she wasn't concerned since it seemed like he was able to dispatch these level of Hollows quite well, especially with the attacks he had been receiving from Bambietta, and the likes.

As she watched, she couldn't help but feel a certain something inside of herself…

She felt good.

She felt like that maybe they'd be able to get away with this.

She hadn't felt so calm in a long time, she hadn't had someone to talk to for a long time now, not on a personal level like this.

It was good.

As Takumi finished off the Hollows, he returned to Rukia's side, and gave a wide smile.

"Done."

Rukia adopted a soft smile.

"Record time as well."

Takumi chuckled, moving closer to the young girl.

"Yeah, getting better at this, we're a great team. Speaking of, Rukia-chan. I've been checking your spirit energy, and it is increasing all of the time. Soon, you might even be able to go back into Shinigami form yourself."

Rukia placed a hand over her chest.

"At first, I was worried that I'd be caught by the Soul Society, but you've been helping me so much, and with little regard for your own safety. I thought you were crazy, but I'm glad that we met Takumi."

Takumi was slightly taken aback that she said something like that.

It seemed a little deep for Rukia to say all of a sudden.

He slyly moved closer, poking her cheek while she adopted a frown.

"So, what's with the mushy stuff huh?"

"M-Mushy?! I'm not being mushy! I'm just extending my gratitude towards you! That's all!"

Takumi pulled backwards with a small laugh escaping his mouth.

"Haha, no worries Rukia-chan~ No need to get hyper~"

Rukia puffed out her cheeks…

But she stopped when from the corner of her eyes, she caught something.

Something that she never thought would be possible.

It was him…

It was that Hollow from those years ago…

But, it was impossible.

He was dead.

He was deceased.

It couldn't be possible.

"N-No..."

Takumi bent down to the worried looking Rukia, taking her by the shoulders.

"Rukia-chan, what's wrong?"

Rukia's heart beat increased significantly.

Her body twitched.

Her eyebrows lowered.

Her face broke out into a cold sweat.

Her body began to shake.

Small mumblings escaped her lips, Takumi now was getting worried.

"Rukia-chan, what's going on?"

Rukia's eyes went to Takumi, and he saw it.

Something he hadn't seen before.

At least when it came to Rukia.

True fear.

"We have to go Takumi...we have to go right now!"

"Why? What's wrong?"

Takumi didn't get it.

What was freaking her out so much?

"There's no time! Please just do as I ask! That Hollow..." Rukia looked...but, it was gone. Rukia blinked, looking around, confused. "W-Wait, what..."

Takumi glanced at the area she was looking, and couldn't see anything.

"There's no Hollow over there."

Rukia's eyes narrowed, but she felt herself shaking.

"I'm pitiful to become a shaking mess at the mere sight of the Hollow...did I imagine that Hollow? It was there but it isn't there now, and Takumi didn't seem to sense anything either, and I didn't sense anything but I saw it and the way it looked...it was the same one that possessed Kaien...but it couldn't be. He's dead...I killed him after all...there's no way that the Hollow could still be alive...but, why was it there…? Am I imagining these things…?"

While she was thinking about it, she suddenly felt Takumi's hand petting the top of her head.

Her eyes met his own, and he offered her a gentle smile.

Rukia exhaled her worries the best that she could.

"Rukia-chan, you said you saw a Hollow?"

"You're going to think I'm crazy, aren't you?"

Takumi shook his head.

"Of course not. If you saw it, then you did. We'll look around-"

"No!" She quickly said, remembering what happened to Kaien, Takumi was worried since she didn't seem to be the normal girl she usually was. "W-We need to get to school already, I'm sure that I was just imagining things. You didn't sense anything, did you?"

"Well no but, it could've hid its spiritual power..."

"N-No, it wouldn't." Rukia took his hand and began dragging him to his Gigai. "Come on, lets go."

Takumi furrowed his eyes at Rukia.

She definitely was keeping something from him.

He looked to where Rukia was looking once more, and couldn't see anything.

But something had spooked Rukia, and he didn't like that.

He felt worried for his friend.

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Meanwhile, as that was happening, Karin went towards the Urahara shop, and because it had been different to what she had been through before, and now she was ready to accept her powers, what she would get from Urahara.

She walked into the shop, bypassing Jinta who swung his broom for her, but she stopped it with a single flick of her wrist.

"Try that again and I'll drop you."

Jinta pulled out his tongue.

"So, what are you doing here? Your boyfriend Takumi isn't here!"

"He is NOT my boyfriend! Do not make that mistake again!"

Karin snapped, causing Jinta to back away, as a chucking came from deeper into the shop.

Karin's eyes snapped towards that location, and saw that Kisuke was walking forward with a yawn escaping his mouth.

"When I said come over, I didn't think you'd do it first thing."

Karin gave him a deadpan stare.

"I've got a lot of things to do today." Karin began while stretching her arms. "I've got soccer later on, and then there's a class project, so I could only come now. So, is it ready?"

Kisuke showed a soft smile, pulling out what appeared to be a pill.

But it was a strange pill, it seemed like it was radiating some kind of spirit energy. Karin could see it quickly. She also felt an intense pressure coming from it.

"Yes, this is it. If you swallow this, it will give you a burst of power to release your Shinigami side." Karin took the pill, and went to put it into her mouth when Kisuke stopped her. "Hold on a second."

"What?"

Karin gave him a strange look.

Kisuke though showed a simple expression of a grin.

"Aren't you going to take time to think about it?"

Karin shook her head.

"Not really, I just want to get this over with so I can begin getting stronger."

"Well, wait for a little bit. Maybe talk to your sister about it. Since it is a huge decision-"

"You make me this, and then you suddenly want to detract that from me?"

Kisuke shook his head.

"No. But, as Takumi's Father, I can tell you that it is worrying that your child is going to be fighting Hollows. I know you can't exactly talk to your Father about it, but your sister knows about this. Wouldn't you like that she would want to tell you her thoughts about it? Takumi didn't have that chance with me. But with you, you have the chance to converse with your sister about this. So, promise me that you'll speak to her about it before becoming a Shinigami."

It seemed like Kisuke was looking out for her.

She had some suspicions as to why that was, but it seemed that he was genuine.

She let out a small sigh, and put the pill into her bag that she was carrying, and placed it in a safe area within her bag, into a small compartment within her bag that she sealed up, so it wouldn't get free.

"I'll talk to her about it, alright?"

"Thank you Kurosaki-san. Now, if you're waiting for Takumi and Kuchiki-san, they've just gone off to fight a Hollow so they'll probably just head to school afterwards."

"I've got to get to school anyway. I'll just see him there."

"Alright then."

Kisuke bowed his head, with Karin walking out of the area.

She walked outside, and looked to the sky.

She thought about telling Yuzu about this.

She didn't know how she was going to do this.

Though, she was going to keep her promise.

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Karin got to school quite early, and saw her sister was already there. Since there were not many people around, she walked towards Yuzu, and sat down in front of her, turning towards Yuzu with a soft look on her face.

"Hey, Yuzu...can I talk to you?"

"Huh..." Yuzu looked up from her desk, then to her sister. "O-Oh Karin. Yes, of course..."

"Is something wrong?"

Karin didn't get why her sister seemed to be spaced out.

"It's just...did you forget Karin?"

"Forget what…?"

"Check the date."

Karin took out her phone, and looked at the date.

Her eyes then widened with pure shock.

"Oh God...I completely forgot...it's tomorrow, how could I forget…?"

"We've been busy, so it is only natural. Even I almost forgot, we've been having so much fun with the others, and protecting people, so naturally this would be the last thing we'd want to think about, you know?"

"Yeah..."

"S-So, what did you want to talk about?"

Yuzu tried to hold it together, but Karin noticed that her face was falling.

"Erm...it doesn't matter. We can talk another time."

"Are you sure…? It seemed like you were wanting to speak about something important."

Karin lowered her eyes, then looked to the sky.

"Actually...you know, about what Takumi does...what he is..."

"You mean a Shinigami?"

Karin nodded slowly.

"Yes, that. You see...his Dad, Urahara-san...he came to me and told me that I had the power to become one too."

"B-Become a Shinigami? You can do that?"

Karin shrugged her shoulders.

"Apparently so. But, I promised I'd speak to you about it before anything else happens. Because, this also involves you...it's a big deal, of course. I'd become like Takumi, I'd become a Shinigami, and use my powers...I guess I'd become quite strong and fight against Hollows with a Zanpakuto, and I'd probably be trained with Takumi to use it...but, I...I'm worried that you'd worry about me..."

Yuzu tilted her head curiously, and then took Karin's hands gently.

"Of course, I know you'd be worried about me. But please don't be worried, I'll be alright. I know you're special, you've always been able to see spirits better than I could. And you have the power to become a Shinigami like Takumi-kun? That's amazing! I feel kinda jealous that you'd be able to that too~"

"Y-Yeah, that's what I was also worried about. Since you have a massive crush on him, I didn't want you to be worried that we'd have this thing in common, and you'd not be apart of it, because you will be apart of it no matter what else happens."

Yuzu couldn't help but gently smile.

Karin truly was trying to take care of her, and her feelings.

"Don't worry about me, we can deal with this together. If you want to become a Shinigami, then I think you should go for it."

Karin was surprised by what she said.

"Y-Yeah? You'd not be worried?"

"Of course I'd be worried, but I know that you want to help people. Even I would want to help people. If I had the power to do what you could do, then I'd also go for it Karin. So if you want to become a Shinigami, then you have my support."

Karin's face lifted upwards.

"Thanks. I'll...I'll do it after Mom's...yeah, after we visit Mom's grave. I don't need the responsibilities of the Hollows on my shoulders tomorrow of all days."

"Yeah, you're right Karin, that sounds great to me."

As they spoke, Takumi came walking in with Rukia.

Karin glanced at the pair, and saw that Rukia was being awfully quiet, and then towards Takumi who seemed worried for Rukia.

She then stood up, and walked over to him.

"Hey, Takumi. Tomorrow...eeh, Yuzu and I will be busy so...we wont be available for Hollows or anything of the sort."

Takumi looked at the date on his phone, nodding his head gently.

"Of course, don't worry. We can handle the Hollows. You and Yuzu-chan just do what you need to do tomorrow, and leave the rest to us."

Karin bowed her head.

"Thank you Takumi."

Takumi nodded and Karin walked back to her seat. Rukia glanced towards Takumi curiously.

"What was that about?"

"Oh...erm, their Mom. The anniversary of her death is tomorrow so, they wont be able to be contacted. But we can handle anything that comes."

"I see...oh, I'm sorry for them..."

"Yeah. I only know the bare minimum about it so I couldn't tell you much about it. But she died a good few years ago when they were young."

Rukia furrowed her eyebrows, wondering what that would be like to lose someone like that.

"By the way, speaking of Mom's, I haven't seen yours around. Do you have a Mother…?" Rukia paused when seeing Takumi's face falling. "Oh...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be insensitive. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

"N-No, it's nothing like that." Takumi waved his hands in front of his face. "It's just, I don't remember my Mom."

Rukia found that suspicious.

"Nothing at all?"

"Nothing...except one thing. My Mom...her face, looking at me, and whispering "I love you..." but that's it. I don't know what context that was in, what was going on around us. But I just remember my Mom saying that. Also, I tried asking my Father about my Mom, but whenever I bring up the topic, my Father goes quiet, and doesn't say anything about her. From the pain on his face, and also the regret, something clearly must of happened to her. But, I don't know what that is. I want to know what happened, but I wont push my Father until he's ready to tell me."

"That's quite mature."

Rukia noted, believing that to be quite true.

Takumi gave a light smile.

"Now, wanna tell me what's got you down in the dumps? I just shared something personal with you, so wanna share with me?" Rukia's eyebrows lowered as did her face. Takumi reached his hand out, petting her head. "It's alright if you don't want to, if it is painful for you Rukia-chan. But you can always talk to me about anything, we're friends now, and we've been through some wacky things together. So, whatever pain you have and whatever you want to say, whenever you want to say it, I wont judge you."

Rukia's face lifted up into a kind smile.

"Thank you Takumi...you're really nice to me. I don't know if I deserve it but..."

"What are you talking about? Of course you deserve it! Silly!"

Rukia continued to lift her face up…

But then she remembered Kaien, and that Hollow.

She remembered what happened, and that caused her face to fall once more.

As she did, Giselle came walking into the classroom with Orihime behind her. As soon as they saw Takumi, Orihime and Giselle strolled over, and hugged onto his form, causing him to blush lightly at their boobs being pressed against his face.

"A-Ah! Good morning girls!"

"Hey Taku-chan!"

"Good morning Takumi-kun, lets kiss~"

Giselle tried to kiss Takumi, but Orihime stopped her.

"No, you can't do that."

"You haven't kissed him yet?" Orihime's cheeks burned red. "Maybe you should, I'm sure that it will be quite amazing."

"B-But, that would be too quick, wouldn't it?!"

Giselle weighed up her hands like scales.

"I don't know if it would be, but I'm sure you'll be alright either way with it. Kissing is also a form of greeting. I'm sure that you'll get good at it if you keep going at it, you know? It is going to be quite fantastic."

Orihime's face turned slightly red, and she hid her face into Takumi's chest, who chuckled, and patted the head of the young woman.

Yuzu then saw Giselle go to her seat, so she strolled over to Giselle, and gave her a smile.

"H-Hello Giselle-san, I need...erm...if it is possible...tomorrow...is...since you knew my Mom...tomorrow is the anniversary of her death..."

"I...see. I'm sorry about that, I didn't know."

Giselle released a sad breath, Yuzu placed her hands upwards.

"Y-Yeah, I understand. A-And, erm...y-yeah, my family are going to visit her grave...and since you knew her…I thought you'd like to come with us also..."

Yuzu's nerves began to grow more, Giselle gave her a sweet smile.

"That's nice, but wouldn't I be interrupting?"

"Ooh no, of course not! I'm sure that the others would be fine with it! Dad even knew you so he would be alright with it, and explaining it to Karin...also, for me, I also would like to know more about Mom through you so...maybe we could share stories about my Mom...you seemed to really care for her..."

Seeing that Yuzu found it hard to speak and was putting a lot on the line to speak like this to her, Giselle did instead so she wouldn't have to keep pushing herself like this.

"She taught me how to be...she taught me many things in my life. So I owe her a lot. And if you want to talk about her, then I'm always up to speaking about my adorable Masaki-chan! Hehe, I remember once when she was dancing on a table, and fell off it! I was so surprised that I thought she had broken her neck! But then she got up, and yelled "Isshin!" and then that made me laugh~"

"Hehehe, my Mom could be like that...o-okay then! Come to our house tomorrow morning at about eight if you want to come?"

"Sure! Thank you Yuzu-chan! You're a peach!"

Yuzu allowed her smile to protrude forward, and sat back down.

Giselle glanced back at Yuzu, and then towards Takumi, making her smile gently.

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After school that day, Takumi saw Rukia heading back home. He still didn't know what was going on with her, it seemed like she was still out of it, and she asked for some time alone, so he decided spend time with Orihime.

Karin said she wanted to go with Yuzu alone and Giselle casually ran out of the school while yelling "Home!" so he didn't get in between that, so it was only him and Orihime that were alone together. Takumi saw how Orihime seemed to be acting shy a little bit about something.

"Orihime-chan, are you feeling okay?"

"O-Oh yes, I'm fine!" Orihime chuckled nervously. "By the way Taku-chan, what's going on with Kuchiki-chan anyway?"

"I don't know. She said that she saw a Hollow...I'll probably have to look for the Hollow later on. If it is worrying Rukia-chan this much by even her just acting off, I'll have to help her along with her worries, wont I Orihime-chan?"

"Yup! I'll also help Taku-chan! I just wish that I had some kind of power to help you..."

"You don't have to worry about fighting, leave that to me."

Orihime poked her fingers together shyly, while Takumi noticed once more, her hairpins were glowing.

"Even then...Taku-chan, do you think I could help out like you do?"

"Helping out, you already do that for me Orihime-chan."

Orihime blushed lightly as they rounded a corner.

Takumi's hand shyly went to her own, but he hesitated and backed off.

But Orihime, equally shyly, took his hand with her own, and looked towards the side.

"T-Taku-chan, I'm glad...I'm glad that we can be alone like this..."

"M-Me too, it's been quite hectic recently with this Shinigami power and all."

"Taku-chan, do you like being a Shinigami?"

"I...I like the idea of being able to help. Before I became a Shinigami, I had to watch Hollows hurt people. I could barely defeat a middle class Hollow, and now, I can do all of these amazing things. Strength doesn't really matter to me, as long as I can stop Hollows and help out Rukia-chan..."

"Kuchiki-chan...Taku-chan, do you...erm...I mean, do you like Kuchiki-chan…?"

"Of course, she's my friend~"

Orihime smiled at how he said something like that, not seemingly getting what she was speaking about.

"Also, I heard about Karin-chan and Yuzu-chan's Mom...you don't remember your own Mom, do you Taku-chan?"

"No...but, it doesn't bother me. I can't be upset over something I don't know, you know?"

Orihime places her free hand to her face, and she smiled happily.

"Yes, that's right Taku-chan. That's why, I'm glad I don't remember much about my own parents either. Because, my brother became my family, and then Taku-chan, you became my family also."

Takumi's face turned slightly red at what she said.

Orihime considered him family.

"Hehe, you're apart of my family too Orihime-chan. After all, if it wasn't for you, I probably would still be keeping myself to myself. You made me quite happy from the instant I met you!"

Orihime's face curled upwards, and she pulled closer to Takumi.

Her facial features softened, and her arms wrapped around Takumi's body.

"Taku-chan, I'll always do my best to support you, okay? Even if I don't have any powers, I'll do my best."

"I know, and thank you Orihime-chan."

Takumi petted the back of her head, staying within the embrace.

But then their eyes locked together.

Something about the way that they were looking at the other, how she held him, how he held her, it seemed...perfect.

Takumi could feel his heart racing, and Orihime in turn felt the same thing.

Instincts took in.

Their unspoken feelings came around once more.

That allowed them to lean up and down from Orihime and Takumi respectably.

Their lips parted, pushing ever closer.

It felt right.

It felt like they should.

Since they were alone, they thought it would be for the best to just seal it with a kiss…

But then a footstep behind them stopped them.

It was loud, so they turned towards it, to see that it was Tatsuki.

"Tatsuki-chan..."

"A-Ah, erm...s-sorry! Didn't mean to erm...interrupt anything that was going on..."

"No, don't worry Tatsuki-chan! It's fine! Hows your boyfriend?"

Takumi asked with a sly smile, Tatsuki's face became enraged.

"I don't have one!"

"Are you sure…?"

Orihime's question caused Tatsuki to feel a little more down.

Takumi released a sigh, he was for sure going to express his feelings for Orihime, but it seemed in the end, that wasn't possible.

---

After dropping Orihime back off at home, he went back towards his own home as he could see the sun was beginning to set, heading through the shopping district since it was a straight cut back to his own home.

However, while he was walking through the area, he noticed a young girl staring into a nearby candy shop. She was small, and had blonde hair, she reminded him of Hiyori a little bit, and usually, he would have just left her…

But this was the girl that took away Bambietta.

He moved closer to the young girl, and bent down towards her.

"So, how are you doing Quincy girl?"

The girls eyes went towards Takumi, and then tilted her head.

"Oh, the Shinigami Bambi-chan hates." Liltotto twisted her neck to the side. "My names Liltotto Lamperd."

"Liltotto-san, that's a cute name. My name is-"

"Takumi Urahara." Liltotto spoke up with a tilting head. "Don't worry, I don't want to kill or anything."

"Ooh that's good! I'm glad you don't! I've had enough of people trying to murder me! Though I got that from the last time~"

Liltotto's face curled upwards.

"Yes, I can understand that." Liltotto's stomach began to rumble. "Ooh God..."

"You're hungry?"

Takumi guessed, seeing how she was holding onto her stomach.

"This power is kinda new, and makes me famished."

"New power...so, you've got a crazy power too?"

"Crazy power. I guess that it could be called crazy. I'm G the Glutton."

"G the Glutton...so, you've got a letter for your power?" Liltotto nodded. "So, Bambietta-san's is E the Explode or something? Candice-san is...L the Lightning?" Liltotto shook her head. "So maybe T the Thunder...no, thunder is the sound that lightning makes when...so the Thunderbolt?" Liltotto nodded her head. "Aah, then Meninas-san is...erm, S the Strength~"

"P the Power."

Liltotto replied curiously.

"Aah, I see! Then that's pretty cool! And then there's Giselle-san...I guess she's Z for the Zombie?" Liltotto nodded. "Damn, I wonder how you got your powers...wanna tell me?"

"Maybe in the future I will tell you." Liltotto looked into the candy shop. "Mmmmmmmm..."

Takumi glanced between the two of them, the shop and the girl, before petting her head.

"Come on Quincy girl, I'll get you some candy."

"S-Seriously?"

"Sure, you're the nice Quincy, so I'll give you a treat~"

Liltotto nodded, and walked into the shop together.

She surprisingly got a lot of candy. For a small girl, he didn't know where she would put it all.

After leaving the shop, Takumi and Liltotto walked off together, and found a nearby bench within a park, sitting down on said bench. Liltotto went to eat, when she looked at Takumi, and offered him some of the candy.

"Want some?"

"Aah, you're kind, but I'm alright."

"Okay."

Liltotto began eating her candy while Takumi smiled at the sight.

He was glad to at least meet a good Quincy girl that didn't want to kill him.

"So, Liltotto-san. How about we talk about what's been going on recently? With the Quincy girls attacking me, and what we can do to resolve it. You don't seem to be angry at the Shinigami unlike your friends."

Liltotto placed a stick of chocolate into her mouth, and swallowed it before answering.

"I don't have personal feelings against Shinigami." She began, rotating her shoulder. "I actually don't mind them. Bambi has her own reasons for doing it, Candy's just kinda crazy and will fight anyway. Minnie is alright with it, and Gigi seems to be quite fascinated by you as well."

"I-I see. Well, two out of five isn't so bad."

"I guess...and yes, I also want this to be over. I don't really care about the Shinigami's. Yeah, they killed the Quincy, but there was a reason for it, some Quincy did deserve it I suppose. For what they did. Besides, I don't see the point trying to kill you, so I should tell you now that-"

"Lil-chan!" Giselle came storming over, Takumi gaining a confused face. "W-Why are you with Takumi-kun?! I said that I had first dibs on him!"

Liltotto showed a sly smile.

"You snooze you lose."

Giselle's face turned downwards darkly.

"I'll turn you into my Zombie..." Takumi's eyes raised slightly. "Hehe, oops..."

"I thought it might have been you. So you were the one who turned Chizuru-chan into a Zombie then."

Giselle casually sat down next to Takumi, while Liltotto looked on.

"Well, I kinda didn't have a choice. She would of died without me doing that. So I made her into a Zombie. Also, I don't get why she's being as demonic as she is with you. Maybe she's always like that. I need to perfect my Zombie power."

"From what you've said, you haven't had your powers long. I guess that we're on the same boat~"

Takumi chuckled out, Giselle and Liltotto showed soft smiles.

"Sorry about Bambi-chan, it might be that time of the month for her~"

Takumi's face turned slightly red at what Giselle said, Liltotto sighed.

"I just think she's a bitch."

Takumi was surprised by her language, since she had a sweet face.

"Either way, there must be a way to settle this without any damages to both sides."

Giselle gained a vacant face, and Liltotto raised her eyebrows curiously.

"Maybe she wants to be dominated."

"Pft!"

Takumi did a spit take at what Liltotto said.

"Maybe you could do that." Liltotto said to Takumi who gave an awkward laugh. "Don't dismiss it, why don't you try it? Take her on one on one, and then finish her off."

"When you say finish her off..."

Takumi trailed off, when Liltotto bowed her head.

"I mean that you perform with her in the bedroom."

"Geez, I doubt she'd want to do that with me. She kinda hates Shinigami, if you haven't noticed."

Giselle stuck out her tongue, and waved her head up and down.

"Maybe so. If that's the case, then just do something with me~"

Giselle gave Takumi a smile, while Liltotto casually held onto his side.

"You can do things with me."

"W-What..."

"Yeah, what?"

Giselle lost her happy demeanour, and looked to be quite pissed off.

Liltotto looked down at Takumi's hips, then towards his face.

"I'm fine with him."

"No you are not. At least, I'm not fine with you with him. Do you want me to turn you into my Zombie?"

Giselle growled out, Takumi looked between them and saw that they looked quite annoyed with one another.

---

Nemu had arrived in the human world and was being tracked down the Hollow that had attacked the Shinigami and had killed a good number of them. She had been sent on her own, as she was deemed necessary to destroy it. And while there, she was tasked with finding Rukia, and checking on her location.

Looking around at Karakura town, she sensed some spiritual power.

Though she was surprised when she couldn't sense the Hollow.

She thought that she might have been able to see it quickly.

But it must have the ability to hide its power.

Nemu walked forward through the area, walking in the air, and casually looked between the buildings, wondering if she would be able to find any Hollow that she was looking for.

While she was walking in the air, she felt an impressive amount of power.

She thought it was the Hollow at first, so she shot down into the area, and landed between a good number of people. Since she was in spirit form, no one could see her, but as she usually was, in her robotic expressions.

Her eyes looked around the area.

"I am unable to detect the Hollow's energy. Is this town stopping my senses?"

Nemu spoke out to herself, since no one could hear her anyway, it didn't seem to matter.

She then walked towards the area she felt the power.

It was coming from the nearby area, so she followed it to find that she was within a park. It was a nice little park, and she noticed that three people were sat on a bench together, speaking to one another, and felt power coming off of them.

Her eyes danced between them, and landed on Takumi's form.

The young man's smile caught her attention, she stroll forward, and heard the conversation between the two girls, and heard how annoyed they seemed with one another, Nemu didn't quite get that since she didn't understand a few things like that.

But she stopped herself.

She didn't see the Hollow, so she turned around and walked away from Takumi, and the others.

She didn't want to disturb any humans.

Even if they had strong spiritual power.

However, Nemu didn't get far as when she was walking away, a robotic looking thing came towards her. She looked around, and then looked back at the robotic thing that was before her, which rose up its arm, and showed that it was instead of an arm, it looked to be a minigun, Nemu's head tilting to the side.

"Detecting Shinigami." Nemu seemed to be her usual stoic self, but she felt something inside of her that was intrigued. "Shinigami detected. Destroy, destroy."

Nemu watched as he raised its gun arm, and fired off bullets of energy that appeared to be like arrows, only faster.

Nemu used her incredible speed to dodge the attacks, though because she was limited by the fact that she was in the human world, she wasn't as fast as she could be within the Soul Society, and one of the bullets managed to graze her leg, causing Nemu to wince slightly, and because of that, more bullets came near her, so she dodged out of the way, but she received the bullets to her side. Unlike normal lead bullets, they didn't linger within her body, so only holes appeared on her body.

"I do not know what you are, but desist in firing at me. Perhaps, I should have the limiter released, so I can defeat you. Though I am very unsure of what you are. Are you a robot? Are you an artificial form of life?"

Nemu warned the best that she could.

But the robot didn't heed the call, and fired off more bullets towards her.

Nemu had no choice but to dodge the attacks again and again, each dodge however left her with small wounds appearing on her body, cutting into her flesh, and her eyes widening slightly at the pain that she was feeling.

Then the robot opened up its cloak, and revealed what appeared to be a missile coming out of its chest.

Nemu gave it an odd stare, as it fired the missile at Nemu, and it exploded near her, creating a shock wave that knocked her off balance just enough for the robot to gain distance, and aim its gun at her.

"Hah!"

With a robotic like cry, Nemu swung her leg at the robot, which knocked the sight of its head, only for the robot to grab her leg, and fling her down into the ground, cracking the pavement, and she spat out bile at the impact.

"Shinigami is weakening. Commence death."

Nemu scrunched her eyebrows, and managed to place her hands outwards, which began to spin around dangerously. Because of the rotation of the hands that she had, the robot decided to let her go as she shot her hands for the robot, which allowed her to return to the ground, only for the robot to unleash a hailstorm of bullets towards her.

Because she was regaining her stance but not there, the bullets managed to pierce through her leg, making her cry out.

But she didn't quit, and leaped upwards.

In the air, the robot followed with the bullets, and she then shot downwards towards it.

Her hand strengthened, and she thrusted her hand to the robot when getting close, only for the robot to use a version of flash step, disappearing from Nemu's senses, appearing behind her, and pointed its gun at close range to her temple.

"Now you die, Shinigami."

Nemu looked at the robot, and wondered if this was going to be it.

If she was going to die there...

"Haaaaah!"

However, before a bullet could leave the gun, Takumi came in with his sword, and sliced right through the gun, saving Nemu from being shot in the head by the robot, and he grabbed her body, flashing away from the robot a good pace as Giselle and Liltotto unleashed their arrows upon the robot, and forced it to jump backwards.

"Seriously, she's even done this."

Liltotto sighed out, Giselle stuck out her tongue.

"I guess that Bambi-chan's more bitches be crazy than before."

While they forced the robot away, Nemu looked upon Takumi's form.

"You are a Shinigami. I...do not recognize you. What is your name, squad and your rank?"

"Name, squad...and rank….eeh...y-you're also a Shinigami…?" Takumi looked her up and down, seeing how short her outfit was, and that she didn't have a Zanpakuto, also he panicked due to how she was asking questions. "Where's your Zanpakuto?"

"My Zanpakuto?"

Nemu replied with her robot like voice.

"Yeah, your Zanpakuto...erm, you know, this." He held up his sword, and showed it to Nemu. Nemu gave it a stare. "So, you're...ooh, erm...m-my name is F-Floyd Emerson and I am in S-Squad...erm, 3…? A-And I am...F-Fourth Seat of Squad 3...y-yes, that's it."

"Oh yes, Floyd Emerson, I recall that name."

Takumi sweat dropped "There's really someone called Floyd Emerson in Squad 3?" but then stopped when he turned to the side, and saw that the robot was holding up its sliced off minigun.

However, as he went to speak, the minigun began to reform itself once more.

"What the hell…?"

"It seems to be gathering in spirit particles, and energy to reform its weapon." Nemu informed. "Also. It seems that it wishes to do us harm. I suggest a tactical retreat."

"I concur."

Takumi went to move, when Nemu dropped to the ground, her leg having been hit a few times, as well as her body.

He bent down towards her, and offered his hand.

"Come on, we should go now."

Nemu looked at his hand curiously, before taking said hand, and allowed him to pick her up. However, the robot didn't seem to hold back either, and placed its gun out towards them, and shot forward a number of bullets.

He went to move, when Giselle got between them, and placed her hands outwards, with the bullets piercing her body.

"Giselle-san!"

Takumi yelled, worried for her.

But Liltotto twisted her neck.

"She'll be fine."

"B-But, she's being pierced by the bullets!"

He knew Giselle was a Quincy, therefore even bullets would kill her if she took them on like she was.

"Yes, but she's also a Zombie girl now. Mere bullets wont bother her that much. Even without using Blut Vene, she's going to be okay. But, I suggest that we retreat, this thing has the capabilities that could take on high levelled Shinigami, and even Quincy's."

"So, you know what it is?"

"I'll tell you when we escape."

Takumi nodded, hauling Nemu over his shoulder, and then picked up the blushing Giselle who placed her fingers to her cheeks, pushing them in for a goofy expression.

"I'll carry you too."

"Ooh my, I'm so blessed~"

Takumi looked at the robot, seeing that it was gearing up to fire once more.

"How fast can you move Liltotto-san?"

"Fairly decent, why?"

"Then, we're gonna outrun this thing."

Liltotto nodded, and allowed her energy to appear by her feet.

"Right, then lets go."

Takumi nodded, and the pair turned around, and flashed into the sky. The robots eye went towards the pair dashing through the air, and activated its own type of speed movement, and flew in the air after them.

"Is this thing a Quincy or something?"

"It's rather complicated."

Liltotto murmured, seeing the robot getting closer.

Takumi looked around, but then heard bullets being fired, so he moved his body left, and avoided the hailstorm of bullets coming for them, then Liltotto turned around and fired off an arrow, only for the robot to fire off its own bullets to counteract her arrow, getting through the arrows that Liltotto made, and got close to her body.

Liltotto grimaced, and was going to move, when Takumi grabbed her with his foot, and flicked her upwards, avoiding the bullets, and she landed onto his back, Liltotto held onto his back tightly, and wouldn't let go.

"Geez this robot is a pain."

Giselle sighed, while Nemu blinked at the robot coming close.

"Gigi use yourself as a shield so we can escape."

"You do it, and then I'll make you my Zombie."

She growled out, showcasing an annoyed expression on her face.

"Don't you threaten to Zombie me."

"I will! You wanna join Chizuru-chan?! Alright then!"

Takumi flashed to different rooftops, trying to disorient the robot that was trying to lock onto their location, though because of his speed, it seemed like it wasn't able to do something like that.

Nemu looked towards Takumi who leapt off a building, and noticed something nearby.

A body of water.

A body of water big enough for the robot.

"I insist you desist running away."

The robot spoke up, Takumi ran across a roof, changing direction to the large body of water.

"Yeah right, sorry robo cop."

"Pft! Robo cop?! Because it's a robot! Good one Takumi-kun!"

Giselle grinned out, Liltotto rolled her eyes.

"It wasn't that funny."

"Shut up you loli, I'll Zombie you."

Liltotto rolled her eyes once more at Giselle, who casually hit her upside the head.

The robot to took aim and fire off some bullets, the Quincy's grimacing, and went to speak, when Takumi slid off his shoes, and kicked them at the robot with such accuracy that the robots face was hit by the sandals of his, blocking its vision just long enough for Takumi to get close, slicing through its minigun, and smashed his foot against the robots face, so hard that Takumi thought that his foot was going to break, the robot had very hard metal plating, but his strength was enough to fling the robot away, and forced its body into the water, skidding across the water, and it sunk down into the water, Takumi felt his foot throbbing.

"S-Shit, that hurt..."

"Yes, according to my analysis, your foot currently has some bruising from kicking the...robot."

Nemu analysed, Takumi gave her a curious look, before Giselle petted Takumi's head.

"It was a good idea, but the robot wont become water logged for long. We should go. Don't worry about others, it only will go after people with Shinigami power, and I guess us Quincy's too~"

"Right, lets go!"

Takumi took off speeding away, with the three girls clinging to his body for dear life.

The robot came out of the water a few moments later, looking around, but couldn't detect Takumi and the others.

---

Karin and Yuzu just had a meeting with their Father, about what they were going to do tomorrow, and how they're gonna make it work. But then Yuzu raised her hand, and showed a kind smile on her face.

"Erm, Dad. Karin. I...I invited a friend from school to come tomorrow, is it alright…?"

"Who?"

Karin's question was met with a smile.

"Giselle-san."

"Giselle-san? The girl that started not long ago?" Yuzu nodded. "Then, why are you asking-"

"Because your Mom used to help her with her studies." Isshin replied while swaying side to side. "So, you invited Giselle-san then! I don't mind, she really did think of your Mom as an older sister, maybe even a Mom like figure!"

Karin was baffled.

She didn't know anything of this.

"I see, I didn't know that. So, is that where she used to go on a Monday's, and Friday's?"

Isshin nodded, and leaped onto the table, doing a dramatic pose.

"Right! She used to spend time with that girl! And they became friends, and she moved away not long before your Mom...well, what happened to her happened. So, when she showed up, I was surprised. But, that's quite good Yuzu! Yes, we should go along with Giselle-san tomorrow!"

"Are you sure though Dad? She's a little...eeh..." Karin watched him moving around weirdly, so she sweat dropped. "Right, never mind then. I forgot I was dealing with an idiot. So, we're going to be taking this girl huh."

"Yup! We'll all have quite good times! We can learn more about Mom Karin from her!"

Karin wore a sly smile on her face.

"Yeah, you're right. Lets do this then."

Isshin smiled at the two young girls, his daughters, and thought that maybe it would be good to have a strong Quincy like Giselle around just in case something was to happen.

---

Takumi was going to go to the Urahara shop, but he also had a Shinigami with him, so he decided to go to a place where his own lab was set up. It was a little distance away from the Urahara shop, and he had to give himself a good place to store his items.

"Wow, where are we?"

Giselle wondered, as she was placed down with Liltotto and Nemu.

"This place currently is giving off high levels of electricity and also, a sense of inventing."

Takumi and Liltotto both sweat dropped "How can she feel the sense of inventing?" while not voicing their thoughts.

Takumi then went to the door, to the keypad, and pressed the buttons on the panel.

"What would happen if you tried to break in~?"

Giselle's question was met with a grin from Takumi.

"You'd be electrocuted. Nothing fatal, but it will make you feel weird."

"That sounds delicious Takumi-kun~"

Giselle smacked her lips together, and the door opened. Takumi then helped Nemu inside, who had been injured and hobbled inside, only to see Hiyori sat at his work table, playing with what seemed to be a vial of medicine.

"Don't touch that Hiyori-chan!"

"Waaah!" Hiyori tossed it up into the air, and it fell down towards her, but Takumi flashed forward, and caught it. "What the hell does that drug do?!"

"It makes you feel a burning sensation inside of you."

Hiyori scowled, and went to speak, when she noticed Nemu.

Her eyes scanned the woman, and her robes, then sweat dropped from her forehead.

"Hahahaha...h-hey, come here Baldy..."

Hiyori grabbed Takumi's hand, pulling him into the lab deeper, while Liltotto tried to grab the food, but Giselle slapped her hand away from it so she couldn't touch it, while Nemu watched the young women begin an argument.

"Why did she call him Baldy? He wasn't bald."

Giselle and Liltotto glanced at Nemu who looked back with her usual emotionless expression.

Hiyori dragged Takumi to an area of the lab, so they could talk in peace.

"So, what's wrong Hiyori-chan?"

"What's wrong with you?! That's a Shinigami! You brought her here?!"

"We were being chased by a robot, I couldn't leave her there to be killed, and I couldn't take her back to the Urahara shop, Rukia-chan and the others are there. She doesn't know who I am, so I'm hoping to get away with this, and help send her on her way before she finds anything out. Just have to slay the robot."

"Hold on, a robot? A serious robot? Like that wasn't human at all?"

Takumi shrugged.

"I think so yeah. It walked and talked like a robot, and the Quincy girls said it was a robot, so I don't see why not."

Hiyori ran her fingers across her temples.

"A serious fricken robot. Of course, why not."

"By the way, what are you doing here?"

Hiyori released a small sigh out of her mouth.

"The hideouts internet connection is down, come and fix it. I thought you might be here since you weren't at the shop. I can't watch anything online! I'm missing my damn shows already! I'd go to Urahara, but he'd totally just troll me like he always does! I can handle your level of trolling, not his!"

"I don't troll you."

Hiyori snickered.

"Alright then sunshine, whatever you say." Her eyes went to Nemu at the far end. "We need to get rid of her, so I'll activate my Shikai, and-"

"We're not killing her."

Takumi's words didn't hold any water for Hiyori.

"We're taking her out, we can't allow her to find out about us."

"She wont find out about you guys, I've got this. She thinks I'm someone from the Third Division of the Gotei 13. Isn't that wild? I managed to guess a real person from that squad."

"Yeah, it's almost frightening." Hiyori released a small sigh out of her mouth. "Then, lets find out what she wants, and just give it her so she can be on her merry way. Is she after the robot? Though she seems more robotic than I thought a Shinigami would be."

Takumi gazed upon Nemu, and then allowed his neck to crack side to side.

"Lets go and find out then."

Takumi and Hiyori walked back to the others, seeing Giselle pinning Liltotto to the floor, and was rubbing her knuckles against her skull, making Liltotto cry out.

"Trying to eat all of the food, punishment time~"

"I-I'm sorry, get off!"

Hiyori gazed upon her, and nodded her head slowly.

"Yes, I love this girl. She's very scary. I approve."

Takumi glanced at Giselle with a raised eyebrow, she giggled awkwardly, and got off Liltotto's body.

He then looked towards Nemu who was patiently waiting.

"Aah, Shinigami-san…."

"Nemu Kurotsuchi-"

"Did you just say Kurotsuchi?"

Hiyori demanded, Nemu nodded.

"Yes, Nemu Kurotsuchi, Lieutenant of Squad 12."

"Damn...I see, then Baldy, explain why you're here."

Nemu looked at the braid in her hair, and then back towards Hiyori.

"I currently have hair."

Hiyori was taken back by that, she couldn't believe that she was called out on what she said.

"N-No, I didn't actually mean...b-but, you're Baldy so..."

"No, I have more hair than you, Baldy."

Takumi slapped himself in the head, it seemed like Nemu was trying to interact with Hiyori in the way that she was seeing, and repeated what Hiyori said by calling her 'Baldy' as it seemed like Nemu's sense of social skills didn't seem to be up to scratch to what others thought it would be.

But to Hiyori…

Her eyes looked deranged.

She looked like she was going to cut Nemu done.

She slowly withdrew her Zanpakuto, and raised it high.

Seeing where this was going, Takumi flashed behind Hiyori, and lifted her up, pulling her backwards.

"LET ME GO BALDY! I'LL KILL HER I SWEAR!"

"It seems that you have anger issues. I suggest counselling."

Hiyori's rage grew higher and higher.

"DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Hiyori tried desperately trying to get to Nemu who was currently just staring at her with no emotion. She swung her sword above her head, Takumi yelled "Hiyori-chan please!" and yanked her backwards, only for Takumi's hands to slide up her shirt, and accidentally cup her breasts, and squeezed due to pulling her backwards, making Hiyori moan, Takumi's bottom lip trembled, while Giselle looked down at her own chest, and smiled slightly, Nemu looked on curiously.

"H-Hiyori-chan! I-I'm sorry about that! I didn't mean to grope your breasts! I-I had to stop you so..."

Hiyori looked back towards him, blushing madly, and saw that rather than anger, she surprisingly looked a little shy.

"Y-You groped my boobs..." Takumi was then pushed down onto the ground, and his head hit the floor hard. "You can't just grope me without my permission!"

Takumi twitched on the ground, while Nemu

"From your wording, it sounds as if you would like him to secretly grope you." Hiyori's eyes shot for Nemu who looked back emotionlessly. "Based on the pitch of your voice, the flushing of your cheeks, your eyes squinting, and how the levels of heat inside of you are increasing, I determine that you indeed actually liked him cupping your breasts, and squeezing them."

Hiyori inhaled and exhaled.

She was getting more angry.

She looked as if she was going to murder Nemu.

She looked embarrassed.

She looked ashamed.

It seemed like Nemu had hit the nail right on the head.

Takumi stood up once more, and pushed Hiyori behind him, since it seemed like she was about to attack.

"S-So, Nemu-san, can I call you that?"

"Yes of course Emerson-san."

"Who the hell is Emerson?"

Hiyori murmured, Giselle gave her a creepy smile, making her shudder.

"That's me." Takumi whispered. "So Nemu-san, what are you doing here? Is it for the robot?"

"No, I am looking for a Hollow that has killed a number of Shinigami, along with checking on the condition of Rukia Kuchiki-san. The Hollows power has been reported to have come here, and also several locations in different towns. Shinigami have been dispatched to these towns to see if they can find it, and I have been dispatched here."

Takumi felt a pulse from his heart.

"They've come to see Rukia-chan. She's not back to full power yet..." Takumi thoughts were halted when see Nemu stood up. "Hey, you're injured, you can't go just yet." Takumi walked over, grabbing a syringe from the side, and placed it near Nemu. "Here, this will help you heal from your wounds."

Nemu watched curiously as he injected her, with her permission, and the liquid flowed into her, which began mending her wounds. Nemu felt a warmness inside of her body, and saw that her wounds were being healed.

"I see, a flesh mending drug."

"Yup, that's right."

"So that's where Mayuri-sama..." Nemu spoke up, Takumi eyes furrowed at the name. "Yes, this is quite good. It is hard to replicate, so I am sorry that you had to waste your drug on me."

Takumi smiled softly, waving his hand.

"Don't apologize for being hurt, and having to be healed."

"I...don't have to apologize?"

"No, of course not." Takumi waved his hand at her. "So, you're after a Hollow, and to find...a Shinigami huh."

"Yes. Finding Rukia Kuchiki-san is secondary to my mission to slay the Hollow. The Hollow has an unusual ability to possess victims, and also has the ability to enslave other Hollows to do its bidding by imprinting its own genetic makeup onto the Hollow, causing them to look the same, along with other abilities I shall inform you about soon. However, it cannot enslave stronger Hollows than itself."

"The ability to enslave Hollows?" Takumi whispered to Hiyori who growled. "That's quite the ability. But thank God it can't get stronger Hollows to follow what it wants."

"Yeah, but depending on the Hollows it has, it might be dangerous on your own, so for this, I'll go with you Takumi."

Takumi looked at her, flabbergasted by what she said.

Hiyori then covered her mouth when realizing that she just said Takumi's name.

Nemu looked between the two, then pointed at Takumi.

"Takumi, not Emerson?"

"E-Eh….erm….eeh...t-that's...erm...shit...that lasted about an hour...great."

Giselle stood up, and hugged Nemu tightly.

"Don't worry about that! Be a good girl, and I'll cuddle you all night long!"

Liltotto gave her a curious look.

"She's not a lesbian or anything."

"You don't know that Lil-chan."

Liltotto breathed hard out of her mouth, while Giselle continued hugging Nemu.

Nemu looked at Takumi, his features, and then raised her finger, pointing towards him.

"Your name is, Takumi. You, lied about your name."

"W-Well, lying is a term that you might use, I like to say misconstrued the truth..."

"I do not mind." Nemu spoke surprising words. "You saved my life, I am in your debt. If it is keeping your name silent, then I shall follow that request."

"F-For reals?"

"For reals."

Takumi had to hold back a small chuckle at how she said 'For reals.' as it sounded weird coming out of her mouth.

"Then, that's good! S-So yeah, thanks Nemu-san! Now, since you're hunting a Hollow here, wouldn't it be better if we go along with you, doubling, even tripling our chances of encountering and beating this Hollow? I'm surprised the Soul Society sent only you on your own though."

"I was deemed appropriate in dealing with the threat since I do not have to rely on a Zanpakuto to fight."

Takumi nodded.

"I see...then, why don't you relax for tonight, and we can go out together tomorrow, and hunt for the Hollow. Since you've been attacked by the robot, and was damaged, it would be better to be at full force just in case, yes? In case when you're looking for the Hollow, and the robot shows up, then we can tag team them, right?"

Nemu paused for a few moments, before nodding her head.

"Yes, I agree."

"Good, good." His eyes went towards Giselle, and Liltotto. "Now, wanna explain what the hell the robot was?"

"I would also like to know."

Nemu spoke up, Giselle and Liltotto glanced at the other, before Giselle bowed her head.

"We didn't think she'd go so far. Think of it like a terminator. It has one objective, and that's killing Shinigami. Bambi-chan must've done this behind our backs, it shouldn't of been unleashed. As far as I am aware, it is a failure."

"A failure? It seemed pretty successful before."

Takumi voiced his thoughts, Hiyori glanced between them all.

Liltotto lowered her neck.

"It was a failure because its got flaws, so it was scrapped as far as I was aware. But clearly, it is still around and kicking. I'd say that it could take a Lieutenant Shinigami easily and might be able to contend with a Captain class if pushed. It might take our combined efforts to take it down Takumi-kun."

Takumi stroked his chin.

"I see...so is it completely robotic? Or does it have organic components?"

"As far as I'm aware, completely robotic, with the power to utilize Quincy techniques, why?"

Takumi smirked.

"Because if it is a robot, then maybe we can find a way to fry its systems and destroy it before it destroys us, maybe even reprogramming it for our uses~ Ooh, tinkering with a robot with Quincy powers, this makes me feel all tingly~" Takumi chuckled out while shaking side to side at the thought of reprogramming a robot. "But, we'll have to wait until tomorrow to do anything. If it is a robot, and since it is getting late at night, the robot might have the advantage in the dark. We should try and lure it towards a place of our choosing."

"Well, I thought you'd say something like that Baldy." Takumi watched Hiyori raised her arm and yawned. "It would be better if I went with you, so you got beds in this place?" Takumi nodded, pointing towards the end of the long lab. "Then I'm heading to bed. You, purple haired Baldy, come with me, you're staying where I can see you."

"I see, blonde haired Baldy." Hiyori snarled dangerously. "I shall comply, and rest for the moment."

Nemu then pulled at her robes, and her outfit became a little loose, her cleavage coming more and more into view.

"H-Hey! Nemu-san! Y-You don't have to strip or anything!"

"Strip…? Yes, I am currently going to take off my outfit, so I could fix the damages to the outfit."

"B-But I'm a guy! You can't strip-" Nemu slid off her outfit, and revealed her panties, and bra to him, he could see her large breasts. "-N-Nemu-san! A-Aren't you bothered that I can see your nearly naked body?!"

Nemu tilted her head, then Giselle casually slid her hand under her shirt, and releases her shirt, revealing her bra covered breasts to Takumi, his bottom lip trembled at the sight of the young girl, who smiled up towards him.

"Don't worry, you can look at-" Liltotto casually hit Giselle in the back of the head, knocking her backwards. "-me..."

"Don't be an idiot." Her eyes went to Takumi who looked between Nemu and Giselle, then she saw Hiyori looking annoyed. "What's wrong with your face? Are you jealous that they have big boobs compared to you?"

Hiyori's face flew into a rage, jumping Liltotto, and grabbed her body, throwing it over her shoulder, and towards the ground, but Takumi grabbed Liltotto and held her on his back, so she didn't get attacked by Hiyori.

"You're on borrowed time girl!"

Hiyori grabbed Nemu, and Giselle, dragging them to the back room.

His eyes went to Liltotto, who stared back at him curiously.

"Erm, yeah...Liltotto-san, I'm gonna have to go and inform Rukia-chan about this, since this Shinigami is also after her, could you keep an eye on things here? I'll be back soon. You seem the most responsible here, so please~?"

Takumi watched as Liltotto nodded, and walked away from the area, Takumi inhaled, and went to go and find Rukia.

---

Rukia, who was back at the Urahara shop, was gathering some items together. She grabbed her gun Takumi had made her, she grabbed the spheres that she could find that could bombard a Hollow, and other things that she could find from Takumi's items he has made.

"I can't involve Takumi in this. If this truly is the same Hollow that killed Kaien...I can't lose Takumi either. I can do this, I'll defeat this Hollow so Takumi doesn't have to be placed in danger. I've placed Takumi in too much danger already...I'll kill this Hollow by myself."

Rukia had made up her mind.

She wanted to be strong, and not have to let Takumi get hurt, or worse, die.

She placed a few items in a bag, inhaling slowly.

She wanted to keep him safe no matter what.

"Hey Rukia-chan-"

"Waaaaaaaaah!" Rukia jumped, to see Takumi walking in. "D-Don't just come into my bedroom!"

"This is my bedroom too."

Rukia wore a dumbfounded expression.

"I-I guess you're right...but, don't sneak up on me."

Takumi gave her a curious look, seeing Rukia's bag.

"Going somewhere?"

"N-No, just getting stuff ready for school tomorrow." She lied, Takumi could sense some hesitation within her voice. "So, what's going on?"

"Well, actually. There's something that I need to talk to you about."

Takumi then began explaining about Nemu, and the robot among other things. Even the Hollow, though he had a guess that Rukia had seen the Hollow, he wasn't completely sure, and he was more concerned about Rukia being brought back to the Soul Society.

Once he was done, Takumi saw Rukia's face.

She wasn't showing worry, but from her eyes, he saw them wavering.

He knew that she was worried deep down.

His hand slid onto her shoulder, making her eyes meet his own.

"Don't worry, I'll protect you."

"I think it might be a little too late for that-"

"Maybe not."

Rukia became confused.

"W-What do you mean?"

"I thought that this might happen, where the Shinigami would come to check on you before we're ready for you to reclaim all your powers. So I've been developing something that will be able to help convince the Shinigami that you've still got your powers, it involves a Gigai and your spirit energy, so it should hopefully convince them that you're in Shinigami form, and not in a Gigai. I've even made a sword reminiscent of your own sword, though obviously it can't activate your Shikai with it, but it should be able to fool the Shinigami."

Rukia was surprised.

He had been thinking about it for this long, and had made something to help her.

She didn't know if she deserved it though.

She didn't want to place him in danger.

No, she didn't even think she deserved to place him in danger anymore than she had done.

"Takumi, I really appreciate it, but..."

"I wont let anything happen to you Rukia-chan." His soft words caused her to stiffen. "I'll protect you, no matter what I have to do. You're my friend, I wont allow any damn Shinigami do something to you because of what you did back then. Giving me your power, is not a crime Rukia-chan, at least it shouldn't be. To save your life, to keep yourself, and us alive, you didn't do anything wrong. So let me help you."

Rukia felt her resolve waver.

She thought that she'd be able to handle this on her own.

She also thought about the Hollow, and knew that she would have to face it.

And now with the Soul Society there, with the Lieutenant of Squad 12, it seemed like things had become complicated.

"...Takumi, you're such an oddball, trying to help me like this."

"Of course, that's what we oddballs do after all."

Rukia adopted a small smile on her face.

She could see why Orihime liked him.

The way that he was self sacrificing for her.

She didn't believe she was worthy for what happened to Kaien.

What happened to him, and now with that Hollow around…

She definitely knew that she'd have to take that Hollow down.

She'd have to destroy it before it could get near Takumi.

That's how she thought anyway.

So, she wasn't going to endanger Takumi.

She knew what she would have to do now, no matter what.

---

The next day, Karin and Yuzu were walking up a hill slowly in the morning. It was so early, the sun had barely got into the sky, and it felt hot, very hot. It felt like the air itself was hard to breathe in due to the heat.

"Damn, this day is hot, for even June."

"I know what you mean Karin, I almost forgot that it takes a while to get up there."

Karin's eyes shoot backwards to see that Isshin was coming up the hill, looking extremely happy.

"It doesn't help that he's still being so happy on a day like this."

"But, he's only trying to make our lives happy, isn't he Karin?"

Karin gave a sly smile.

"I don't know about that."

The twins continued to walk up the hill, with the pavement feeling like fire with each step they took. Not because of the heat, but because they were going to go and see their Mother's grave, and they didn't think that they'd be able to handle it.

After everything that had happened to them over the weeks with Takumi, and the others, it seemed almost scary of what they'd even say.

Karin replayed the time that her Mother had...died over and over again within her mind.

However, that didn't last for as long as she thought as she saw that at the top of the hill, was Giselle who was waving down towards them.

"So, how does she know Mom again?"

Karin asked Yuzu, and before she could answer, Isshin comes shooting in towards the left of her.

"I can answer that! She is your Mom's student! She is very good isn't she to teach this girl?!"

"Great, and what did she teach her in?"

Isshin laughed awkwardly, which somehow pissed her off more than she thought it would.

Giselle continued to wave, as Yuzu waved back.

"Giselle-san! I thought I said we'd meet at the house!"

"Aah, I overslept, and quickly shot up here, that's all. Phew, been a busy day~" Giselle spins around, then points at Isshin. "And you are?"

"What!?"

"Just kidding!" Giselle rushes forward with her goofy smile, hugging onto Yuzu who blushes brightly. "Don't worry Yuzu-chan, I'm here now! Since we're going to see Masaki-chan, it would be better if we all went together, don't you think so?"

"Y-Yes! That sounds great Giselle-san!"

Giselle salutes Yuzu and begins skipping forward.

She thought about Takumi and what he would be doing.

---

Soon enough Giselle, Karin and Yuzu had made it to the memorial of Masaki. Giselle saw that Yuzu was crying, while Karin had poured some water on the grave. Giselle looked over the stone before her with Masaki's name being there.

She didn't like it.

She hated it.

She also noticed that Isshin had gone to do something.

Maybe it was because she was there, and didn't want to speak to her, she didn't know.

"Geez Yuzu, we're teenagers now. You shouldn't cry."

Karin said it in a manner that showed that she cared about her sister, she didn't want Yuzu to suffer anymore than she already was.

"B-But Karin, this is really sad..."

Giselle looked over the stone, and bent down towards it.

"Hey Masaki-chan, it's me, Giselle. Though you aren't here right now, I guess you'll never hear me again and I'll never hear you again. But, I'm here, and alive, sort of. I'm kind of a Zombie now, so I guess that's interesting. Also, it seems that your daughters are also doing weird things like trying to take on Hollows. I wonder how you'd feel about that? You always said to me that you didn't want me to fight Hollows either, but now these girls are also trying to do such dangerous things...and I've found love! It's true! I have found love, and I am so happy! I can't believe that this is happening!"

Giselle laughed out loud at her own thoughts, which frightened Yuzu and Karin a little bit.

"What's wrong with you anyway?"

Karin glanced at Giselle as she said it.

Giselle ran a hand through her black hair, twirling her hair gently.

"Nothing at all. So, what happened to Masaki-chan anyway?"

At that, Karin paused.

Yuzu looked at Karin who's face began to fall.

"I mean, it's Masaki-chan so I doubt she'd-"

"I killed her."

Karin said while her eyes blinked, trying to rid herself of sadness.

Giselle gave her a curious stare.

"What do you mean by you killed her?"

"Because of me, she died back then...I-I...I...I don't..."

Karin became more and more distraught. The look on her face, the sadness behind her eyes. The way her body was pulling away from the others. Giselle could also sense regret within the raven haired Kurosaki, and her face was twisting and contorting into different ways.

"Karin..."

Yuzu tried to speak to her sister, but Karin pulled away and turned around. Yuzu thought that she probably was hiding her face so she didn't have to admit that she was trying to hold her tears back, that's just how Karin was.

"I-I have to go and have a drink, I'll be back soon."

Karin walked off from the others, Giselle glanced at Yuzu who watched her sister leaving sadly.

"So, what's going on there? Why did she say that she had killed Masaki-chan? As I see that as quite impossible."

Yuzu's face lowered, sitting down near her Mother's grave. Her eyes then went to Giselle who sat down next to her, playing with her hair gently.

"Karin blames herself for Mom's death. It wasn't her fault. Karin said that she had seen a girl trying to jump into a river one rainy day. I was with them, but I didn't see anything. And I don't know if Mom did or not, but Karin did, and she tried to save her. Before that day, she was always smiling, and now...she's rarely ever seen smiling. But, I've also seen that Karin smiles when she's around Takumi-kun, and the others. It seems that we've become closer because of these Hollows."

"Hollows...speaking of Hollows, you can't see them now, can you?"

"That's right. Though I can sense their proximity now. Before getting involved with Takumi-kun and the others, I couldn't really see spirits even as an outline, and now I can see their outlines without the glasses that Takumi-kun gave me."

Giselle raised her head to the sky.

"You know, several years ago, I knew your Mom well. But, I had to leave this city, because...well, I'll tell you some other time. But, I came back to see her again. She gave me a smile, when no one else ever did."

"She was really kind, I really miss Mom..."

Yuzu's eyes became wet some more, so Giselle gently embraced her.

"Don't worry about it. You're really cute after all. But, you know, if Karin-chan could see this girl, and you couldn't, then it might've been a ghost. But a ghost wouldn't of killed your Mom...sorry to say this, but it probably was a Hollow."

Yuzu gasped, looking at the direction Karin had left.

She thought about Karin and wondered if Karin had also thought about their Mom being killed by a Hollow.

"Is that possible…?"

Giselle furrowed her brows, knowing that she would have to explain something difficult, something that she had been thinking about since the beginning.

"Hollows are drawn to strong people, with strong energy. Karin-chan probably had strong energy, and Masaki-chan..." Yuzu tilted her head. "….ehehe, suffice to say that Karin-chan was probably drawn to save it, and back then, she more than likely wouldn't of been able to tell the difference. As a child, I had trouble distinguishing between the living and the dead at some points. Obviously now it is easy enough. But that's how it was. Anyway, she blames herself, because most likely, the Hollow went to kill Karin-chan and Masaki-chan got in the way." Giselle furrowed her eyebrows. "Even then, I have to wonder what's going on with Masaki-chan unable to kill a Hollow. Was it something Gillian level…? No, she'd be able to take that easily. Then why wasn't she able to do anything against this Hollow…? Who was this Hollow…?"

Giselle thought about it.

But she didn't have an answer.

She didn't get why Masaki had been killed by the Hollow.

Yuzu placed her fingers together.

"If this Hollow killed our Mom...then that is horrible...that's why we have to stop them from hurting others, don't we…?"

"We do yeah, we have to stop Hollows. Also, don't worry about it. Karin-chan isn't at fault here. The Hollow probably used a lure to get close. Stronger Hollows have powers that can lure in others towards them. That day, she probably was lured towards them, and then they took the chance to kill her, but they got Masaki-chan instead. She might've even driven off the Hollow with her...with her ability to protect you children."

Giselle almost let slip about Masaki being a Quincy.

She couldn't do that just yet, she didn't know what Isshin thought about that, but she also wasn't sure about them knowing about their powers regardless.

"I-I see...so Mom saved us that day...after that day though...Karin stopped feeling many things. She used to go down to that river, and just...stayed there, she sat there, and she watched the river. And then she stopped crying. That's why I was surprised when she was….when she cried with Yuichi-kun's past, I thought I'd never see her cry again. And I know that she blames herself for Mom's death...maybe this is why. Because she's considered that Hollows were the reason our Mom died, and she couldn't do anything..."

"Don't worry about it, this isn't your fault. We can't control the actions of the Hollows."

"Even then, I wish I had the same power that you have Giselle-san or Takumi-kun. I can't even see spirits quite well. I feel like I wont ever be able to help you all out, I wont be able to become strong."

Giselle lightly pets the top of the girls head, giving her a goofy smile.

"Don't worry about it so much. We can deal with this ourselves."

"I-I guess..."

Giselle whistles out, and stands up, swaying side to side.

"Well, I'm going to go and get a drink, see you soon~"

Giselle pulled at her face, and ran away, leaving Yuzu alone at the grave. However, what they didn't know was, they were being watched carefully, and the eyes of this being had been set on Yuzu, and Karin.

It was the Hollow that had killed their Mom years ago...

Grand Fisher.

---

End chapter!

So, both Rukia, and Karin along with Yuzu are going through quite a few things now. With a Hollow remarkably similar to the one that had killed the former Lieutenant of Squad 13, Rukia's feeling worried about the same thing happening to Takumi, and speaking of, Takumi's met Nemu! They had...a fun interaction with Giselle and Liltotto getting in on the action, while being chased by a robot. And at the end, it seems the Kurosaki twins are being stalked by Grand Fisher, he's going to try and take them out, and with Takumi busy helping against this other Hollow, they're going to have to step up with Giselle to fight off Grand Fisher!

Also a few people have been asking about a female Toshiro being in Takumi's harem. I don't personally mind if Toshiro is or isn't, as I could work with either, so I'll leave it up to you all!

Well, until next time where Rukia confronts her fears, Takumi shines and the twins step up, thanks for reading!

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