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.

9. The spirits are always with you!

Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!

Clarent excalibur; Thanks! I'm glad you like it! Yeah, Karin's a Shinigami now! She did yeah, Giselle was just too strong for Grand Fisher. You never know with Giselle, she might do that with Liltotto. Nemu's quite fun to write for, and she's going to be discovering more about herself, as with Takumi and the others, she's free to explore more about herself. I could see that happening, Nemu would state it in a way which is the most direct. She wouldn't go into great detail, she'd merely say 'Yes, she's in a healthy condition' and things like that. That would be quite funny with Shunsui, and Kenpachi. Yeah, we'll be getting them pretty soon, and yeah, she'd be sat between two busty women~

Striker Studios; It surely is yeah! Is it? I don't know much about Toriko, so maybe. Candice, yeah she very well might be pissed off about it when she finds out about it. He is yeah, he's quite skilled in Kido, he's got decent sword skills, his speed is probably the best thing about him, and his hand to hand is alright, not on the level of Soi Fon or anything but he's always improving. Karin is going to take down at least one member of the Espada on her own, and Yuzu and Giselle also will be taking down a member, but I wont spoil which ones yet. That's a cool idea~ He does yeah. He's going to have a few rivals in the series, one being Mayuri as they're quite similar with their intelligence, but take different paths in life, Aizen and Takumi will also have something going on that's gonna be quite deep (can't spoil why though right now), Kenpachi would fit the bill, he's opposite to Takumi in many ways, Takumi's a thinker, Kenpachi's a doer, seeing their dynamic is gonna be fun.

ShadowUzumaki55; Thanks very much! He did yeah! Yup, Takumi and Rukia are going to have a combination attack with their swords, Orihime and Takumi are also going to be doing a combination or two in the future. She did yeah, it's a very Rukia thing to do to take it on herself to not endanger others. She can yeah~ Karin and Yuzu pushed themselves far. Giselle can see that it would mean a lot to them, so she let them take it.

Andrew123456; She'll be apart of it for a little while, as for Arturo, I wont spoil it, but he might be making an appearance in this story.

Oblivious IJ; She will be yeah, for some fun jokes too~ Kinhime yeah~ Thanks very much! They are pretty cool huh~?

Silver crow; Thanks very much! The first one mostly. Yeah, that's what's gonna be a fun gag in the future between Takumi and Candice. We did yeah~ Nemu is quite fun yeah~ Karin and Yuzu stepped up, and took Grand Fisher off guard a few times, with Giselle mostly finishing him off. She is yeah. Well you never know, it could have been~ Rukia and Takumi's relationship is growing yeah~ He does yeah, he's not an idiot, he notices signs of what's been going on. Yeah, it could be like that. Maybe she could apply it to her body in Bankai or something like that. He could have been, we'll be finding out more in the future. Those are cool names~ Yeah, they probably would be~ Maybe he would have been yeah~

Guest 1; Thanks! Glad that you like it! There will be for different things~ He has yeah. He's gonna have Nel/Tier for Arrancar, just needs a Fullbringer now~ Thanks for the suggestions, and no it wouldn't be~

Guest 2; Thanks very much! Yeah, Rukia's acknowledged that she has growing feelings for Takumi, and Takumi's also beginning to realize that he has something for her, while also feeling strongly for Orihime. That would be a cool name for his Bankai, I had been looking for a name, and that sounds awesome~ Nemu's always fun~ Sure, that could be quite interesting, bringing Shinigami and Quincy together. He did yeah~

Guest 3; Thanks for letting me know, sounds cool!

Guest 4; Sure, I don't see why not. I've always liked the green coloured light sabers. That would be a fun idea, thanks for the suggestions!

Skull Flame; She is yeah, Kinhime's his Zanpakuto. She is yeah, Rukia's beginning to have feelings for Takumi. Similar, while they both control, Orihime's Hollow only controlled, this Hollow could imbue its powers into other Hollows to make them carbon copies of himself. Yup, Grand Fisher's been destroyed now thanks to the combined efforts of the twins and Giselle. Giselle is yeah~ Who knows, Hiyori might call her that. She is yeah, their banters going to be fun~

Guest 5; He'll be making her something yeah~

Guest 6; Percy Jackson could be fun. Yeah, I don't see why he couldn't be born like that. That would be nice, either would be cool. Sounds good to me!

Guest 7; Re Zero, I haven't gotten round to watching yet, I've seen some clips, and I find it fascinating. I'll have to get back to you when I find time to watch it.

Guest 8; She will have a small bust yeah. That would be what fem Toshiro would do. That would be quite funny~ I can't reveal it yet, but Rukia and Takumi are going to have quite an emotional scene around that time.

A fan; That, who knows what it was. It wasn't really explained well. I can't spoil it, but Takumi's gonna have a cool form when he confronts Aizen that I've already began setting up in these early chapters.

Guest 9; Sure, I could see that happening. That would be quite the fun journey, and I like the idea of the weapon~ Elena and him having a dynamic between them would be quite interesting to explore, the Turks have quite a bit of potential for story beyond what was shown, which is why I like the Wutai side quest as we learn more about them, and Yuffie. That would be nice!

Guest 10; They'd definitely be opposites yeah~ Half Angel and Dragon vs Half Devil and Dragon~

Guest 11; I don't know quite yet. That would be interesting dynamic, an half Angel being the apprentice/lover of a half Devil.

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

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The spirits are always with you!

It was a typical day for Candice Catnipp. She had been listening to Bambietta go on and on about how she was going to kill the Shinigami, and right now, she just needed to have a break. She needed to relax, so she switched on the television, and flipped through different channels.

But then as she was, she came across a peculiar looking man wearing predominately red, his mustache she found slightly odd, and she didn't care for his fashion sense either. She saw the shows name come up, Spirit Hunter, she rolled her eyes at it.

"Great, it's going to be one of those stupid shows that try and make believe they can see spirits when they can't see anything at all. And even if they can, it's only just trying to make believe crap that doesn't even matter."

Candice was going to flip off the television show, when it began.

[The spirits are always with you! Bwahahahahahaha!]

She heard the laughter from the strange looking man, which surprisingly intrigued her more than she thought.

She held off switching the television over, and watched with slight interest.

As it went on however, she was drawn more and more into it.

She found it quite interesting.

She began liking the main character.

Don Kanonji.

She found him fascinating.

The way he laughed, and how he was also doing weird poses, it reminded her of a weird superhero show, something that she found to be fascinating.

"Ooh my God Don Kanonji, you are awesome!"

Candice cheered out, as Meninas came into the room.

"What are you watching Candy-chan?"

Candice glanced up at the woman, before turning back to the screen.

"It smells like evil spirits! Bwhahahaha!"

Meninas gave her a worried look, sitting down close by.

"Did you call me an evil spirit?"

"No, but this guy, is amazing. His show is entertaining. Oh my God, he might be tacky, but I'm so into his vibe. He's amazing..."

Meninas gave Candice a worried look.

She hoped that Candice wasn't going through something weird.

---

Several days later Takumi, Rukia, followed by Nemu (who had chosen to be in a Gigai) walked into the school. Nemu watched as Rukia moved herself subconsciously towards Takumi, standing beside him, and looked towards him briefly, before turning her eyes back to the front.

Nemu wrote down in a pad she had [Shinigami female is attempting first contact.] while observing them doing what they were doing.

However, when they got to class, Orihime appeared, with her hands to her chest, in a cross pattern, and she began laughing.

"Bwahahahahahaha!"

Takumi smiled at the young woman, while Rukia and Nemu seemed confused.

"So, Don Kanonji is it? The sp-spirit guy..."

Takumi chuckled out unevenly with his brow creasing a little bit, Orihime raised her finger to the air, winking with her left eye.

"Taku-chan, the spirits are always with you! And that's kind of true now that we can see them~"

Takumi continued to chuckle unevenly, as Rukia crossed her arms like Orihime.

"Bwahahahahaha!"

"You as well Rukia-chan?!"

Rukia gave a sly smile to Takumi.

"It looked like fun."

"Well, it's not." Karin appeared beside Rukia, who jumped as a response. "Yuzu's been doing it all day."

Yuzu shot out next to Takumi, and did what Orihime did.

"Bwahahahaha! Takumi-kun, join in!"

Takumi didn't know if he should or not.

He didn't like the idea of doing it.

"Eeh, maybe later..."

"Executing." Nemu's hands went across her chest, everyone's eyes went towards her seriously. "Bwahaha." She said blandly, before lowering her arms. "Completed."

Takumi and the others sweat dropped.

But then Giselle casually walked into the room with Zombie Chizuru following after her.

"Bwahahaha, that's quite the laugh I've been hearing all day."

Giselle giggled out, as Rukia felt hands cupping her chest.

Fearfully, she turned to see Zombie Chizuru snarling as she rested her head on her shoulder.

"Zombie Chizuru, and Rukia can bwahaha, within the bedroom all night loooooooooooong...and then we can have a sexy bath togetheeeeeeeeeer..."

Fear built within Rukia, as Zombie Chizuru rubbed her front on Rukia's back, making her cringe. What broke Rukia's stability was how Zombie Chizuru tried to lick her face, causing Rukia to convulse heavily from the red headed Zombie.

"Ooh God no! Takumi! Help me! She's coming onto me again!"

Rukia screamed, pushing Chizuru off of her, and shot around Takumi's body.

Zombie Chizuru snarled once more, but then her eyes went to Nemu.

"New presence..." Her eyes went to Nemu's chest. "Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig..."

Her hands reached out for Nemu's chest. Takumi went to stop her, when Nemu took Zombie Chizuru's hands and placed them beside her.

"No. what you are attempting to do is considered bad by standard law. I suggest you desist immediately, Baldy."

Takumi really wished Nemu hadn't of picked that up from Hiyori, and when he tried to explain it wasn't really a way to interact with people, she didn't listen to him though and did whatever she wanted, which made sense to him.

However, Takumi had something he wanted to know.

"Why are you all bwahahahaing anyway? I didn't expect you to be that much into Spirit Hunter or whatever it's called."

Orihime pulled out her phone, and held up what seemed to be a newspaper clip from the internet.

"Check it out Taku-chan, he's coming here tonight."

Takumi overlooked the article, and saw that in fact was true, that Don Kanonji was coming to Karakura town that night. For some reason, he thought that this was going to be headache inducing. He didn't want to have to deal with that.

"Tonight, sounds….fun."

"We should go together Taku-chan!"

Orihime cheered, Rukia leaned in, seemingly interested.

"It does seem interesting. Lets go together Takumi."

Orihime's face didn't change, but her eyes slanted slightly.

"O-Oh, you want to come Kuchiki-chan?"

"Is that fine?"

Rukia's face became lifted up ever so slightly, while Orihime smiled sweetly, with an edge to her.

"O-Of course, it would be great!"

"We'll be going with the family, so don't count us in your plans."

Karin said it with a depressed face, Yuzu's hands waved up and down.

"Don't act like that Karin! It will be great! Don Kanonji is awesome!"

Karin wore a sly smile.

"I'm not so sure about that Yuzu."

"But he is! He is a real spirit detective!"

"We're real spirit detectives, technically." Karin countered, looking between them all, besides Zombie Chizuru. "We hunt those Hollows, so we could be classed more as spirit detectives, than anyone else could be."

Yuzu posed as her finger placed itself onto her chin.

"I suppose you're right...hey, maybe we could have Don Kanonji-"

"Don't finish it Yuzu. He's not joining our group."

Yuzu pouted while Giselle swayed side to side.

"I'll go with you guys! I wanna check out this spirit guy!" Her eyes went to Chizuru. "You're not going with us."

"Zombie Chizuru wishes to gooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

"Go with someone else Zombie Chizuru. I wont have you ruining this for me."

Zombie Chizuru looked complex…

But then she saw Tatsuki.

She walked over to Tatsuki, and hugged her tightly.

"Ugh, go away Zombie Chizuru..."

Tatsuki tried pushing the Zombie away from her, but she wouldn't move. It seemed that Zombie Chizuru was increasing in power, and that scared Tatsuki more than anything, he didn't want to have to deal with the weirdo Zombie.

"No...lets go out...on a date..."

Tatsuki felt like crying at that.

Going on a date with Zombie Chizuru, that frightened her more than anything in that world.

"No, I wont go out with you on a date."

"Zombie Chizuru insists."

"If Zombie Chizuru doesn't get lost, she's going to be on the receiving end of a punch."

Zombie Chizuru lets out a menacing breath that made Tatsuki feel chills down her spine.

"A-Anyway Taku-chan, we can go out together! W-With Kuchiki-chan of course."

She added at the end a little bit uneasily.

Rukia glanced at Orihime, before going to her seat.

Orihime went to her own seat, with Takumi going to his own.

Somehow, either he didn't recognize it before, or the seating arrangement had changed, but he was caught between Rukia, and Orihime sat on both sides of him. Rukia was left, and Orihime was right, and they both smiled towards him.

Nemu stood behind Takumi, within her Gigai, and looked between the two females, before taking out her notepad.

[The Shinigami female Rukia Kuchiki-san, and the human female Orihime Inoue-san, seem to be in direct competition for the affections of Takumi Urahara-sama. Also they seem to be aware of the others romantic intentions with the aforementioned Takumi Urahara-sama. Takumi-sama also seems to be unsure of his own growing emotions for Rukia Kuchiki-san, while his feelings for Orihime Inoue-san seem to be infatuation, perhaps even more romantic intentions, and wishes to move into the territory known as dating. Continuing observation.]

Nemu finished writing, observing Rukia casually hand over a drink that she had just drunk from.

"Want some?"

Takumi didn't even think about what it could mean, and grinned.

"Thanks Rukia-chan!"

As Takumi went to take it, Orihime raised her voice.

"A-Are you sure you want to though?"

"What's the big deal?"

"It's just...erm..." Orihime paused, trying to find the words. "It's an indirect kiss!" Orihime breathed out hard. "I-I mean, a-are you okay with that Kuchiki-chan…? Having Taku-chan drink from your drink after you've drunk from it."

"Try saying that five times as fast~"

Takumi joked, earning a "Haha." from Giselle though she didn't seem pleased with how Orihime and Rukia were fighting over Takumi, when she wanted to get in on the action.

"Oh...is that so…? But even then, it doesn't matter, it isn't like I had kissed Takumi on the lips. Right?"

"E-Even then..."

Orihime wasn't so sure, while Nemu watched on with curious eyes on their forms.

Nemu eyes went to Chizuru when she felt a chill down her spine. Zombie Chizuru lustfully licked her lips at her and mumbling something that sounded like "Love you.", causing Nemu to write in her pad once more.

[Additional, there seems to be a girl of the same sex attraction within this school and has developed an attraction to me, but I had denied her as I do not wish to explore that with her, but I wish her happiness with the female that decides to return her affections, perhaps it is Tatsuki Arisawa-san, from what I have observed. But what intrigues me most is that people refer to her as 'Zombie' when her name is Chizuru Honsho. Conclusion is that she is either deceased, and is in fact a Zombie, or she has an underlying mental condition that hasn't been diagnosed for why is she acting this irrational, and wants to be called a Zombie, as in Zombie Chizuru. Continuing observation.]

Nemu finished writing in her pad, while watching the interactions between Rukia and Orihime, not caring that she was in fact standing behind Takumi, with people behind her unable to see what was actually going on.

The Sensei then came in, and saw Nemu just stood there behind Takumi, unmoving.

"Erm...hello there? What are you doing here?"

"Waiting for Takumi-sama to finish class."

She stated matter of factly.

The Sensei chuckled awkwardly.

"Y-Yes, but he's in class right now so maybe you should..."

"I insist I should stay."

The Sensei cringed with how robotic Nemu sounded, and how insistent she truly was about staying there.

"Oh but..."

"I am doing a study on Takumi-sama and his friends. I need to collect all available data, and according to my research, it shall happen during unsuspecting moments, so I need to be around as much as possible. I shall continue observation, thank you Sensei."

The Sensei didn't know what to say and looked troubled by what was going on, while Rukia murmured "What is she studying?" while Takumi had a fairly decent idea on what she was studying, and he just decided to make it easy so he had Rukia use her Kido into making the Sensei fine with her being there.

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While break was going on, for lunch, Giselle approached Takumi while the others were casually chatting to one another.

"Hey, Takumi-kun. Can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what's that?"

He inquired from the young girl, who put her hands behind her back.

"It's about Yuzu, and awakening her Quincy power. I've thought about how to do it, and since she's not a pure blooded Quincy like me, and it's buried within her, I thought that the best course of action would be to introduce Quincy spiritual energy into her body which should unlock her power. What do you think Takumi-kun?"

Takumi furrowed his eyebrows, then shrugged his shoulders.

"Sounds great to me. Do you know how you're going to do that?"

"Erm….eeeh...well, I could shoot her with an arrow..."

"You're not shooting her."

Giselle stuck out her tongue cheekily.

"I wouldn't dream of doing such harsh things. I thought that it would be an idea. But there are other ways for them to awaken the Quincy power."

"I see...erm, well, you could surround her with Quincy spiritual energy which rebounds into her, which might unlock her powers. It would be a safe and easy method to do. Since you're a Quincy, I could make a barrier with my Kido, and then you'd just fill the barrier with your Quincy energy, and it would surround her, and go into her without her being in danger of being killed or anything like that."

Giselle raised her hands to the sky.

"Awesome! That would be cool! But there was one more thing I wanted to ask."

Takumi cocked his head.

"What's that?"

"Could you make it so my arrows fire off cleansing energy to Hollows instead of destructive ones? I mean like, how your Zanpakuto does it, purifying Hollows and what not. You could do it, right? Since you're so smart."

Takumi coyly placed with the buttons on his shirt.

"Well, I suppose that it might be possible...but, why would you want me to do that…?"

"Because, I want to save people too. And I'm sure Yuzu-chan would want the same. I'm not asking you turn our weapons into Zanpakuto's or anything, but it should be possible, shouldn't it?"

Takumi placed a finger to his chin as Nemu, who had been listening, walked over.

"Takumi-sama, are you intending to invent something's?"

"Well, perhaps, yeah."

"Then I shall assist you."

Takumi didn't seem to have a problem with it, so he inclined his neck.

"Sure, that sounds good to me!"

Takumi beamed out, Nemu cocked her neck curiously, while Giselle seemed to be fine with what was going on.

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"Ravage! Kinhime!"

Takumi activated his Shikai once more, within the training ground, and showed it off to Karin who leaned in expectingly. She looked at the zigzagging blade of lightning, putting her hands together and spoke "Cool!" as Takumi waved the sword towards the left, sending off a bolt of electricity, which crashed with the side of a bolder, shocking it apart all together, Karin was impressed to say the least.

"Damn it, I go and get my Zanpakuto, and you've gotten a new one!"

Takumi chortled.

"It isn't a new one, I just released it, that's all."

"Still, that's pretty cool, a lightning sword. I also want to release my own Zanpakuto, make it happen Takumi."

Takumi chuckled awkwardly.

"I can't exactly do that, you have to converse with your own Zanpakuto and do it the old fashioned way. That's what I did. I asked and I received, maybe yours will be more open to speaking with you in the future. How about it?"

Karin furrowed her eyebrows, staring at her larger sword.

"At least my swords long."

"Compensating for something?"

Takumi grinned, Karin's eyes narrowed, and swung her sword for Takumi who parried it with his own, and then swung it downwards to try and get him, but he managed to parry the blade to the left, and cut the distance between them, placing a hand on Karin's hand that held onto her blade, her eyes narrowing at the young blonde.

"That only works on men you idiot! Or, are you saying I'm a man?!"

Karin bellowed out with her annoyance growing even more by the second.

Takumi retreated back slightly, seeing her grip on her sword tightening.

"No, of course not~ I was having a joke~" Takumi sang out, waving his hand side to side. "I'm just saying that your sword is indeed big. It's probably from your unruly spiritual energy, that's all Karin-chan. No need to get hyper about it."

"Even if it is big, I can still wield it easily enough. It doesn't feel heavy at all."

"Yeah, that's good~"

"Anyway, are you going to that bwahaha guy tonight?"

Takumi scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"I'm kinda being forced to go with Orihime-chan and Rukia-chan. It seems that they wish to see it, and asked me. It isn't really my scene."

"Yeah, mine neither. Though it seems that Yuzu and Dad are going so I'll probably be going with them. With luck, maybe a Hollow will show up and save me from having to listen to that grating voice that guy has."

Takumi chuckled lightly.

"You really don't like him all that much, do you?"

"Don Kanonji, no I really don't. Urgggh! He really does my head in! I can't stand the idiot! If I could, I would turn my Zanpakuto on the idiot! I doubt that he even has the power to see spirits!"

"I dunno about that."

Karin paused her movements, while Takumi shrugged.

"What are you saying? He has spiritual power?"

"I don't know. I haven't met him. But if he does, I doubt it would be on our level. He might be able to see spirits, it isn't limited to us, there's many people on this planet that can see spirits and what not. Rarely though, does it go beyond that. It takes a special type of person to have that kind of power to actually fight a Hollow, normally speaking, and it is even less rare to develop powers. Though there have been instances where a human has developed powers."

"Like the Quincy's that Giselle is, right?"

"Yes, like her. But there are other beings in this world that can develop powers."

Karin seemed quite interested.

"As in just normal humans?"

"Something like that. Sometimes they can gain powers from Shinigami, or even Hollows from what I've seen before."

Karin keenly listened to what Takumi had said, before raising her blade.

"If I have to go towards this thing tonight, clash swords with me!"

"Sure, I don't mind."

Takumi took out his sword, and swung it around, allowing a trail of lightning to circulate the air. Then Takumi aimed his sword downwards, and unleashed a bolt of lightning, causing Karin to jump back, and saw that it had left a large crack within the ground itself.

Karin grimaced, looking to Takumi's area he was in…

But he had already disappeared.

Her eyes darted left, and right, but she couldn't find him…

Then she felt a tap on her shoulder, so she instinctively swung her sword in that direction, seeing Takumi's body sailing into the air, his foot touching her blade for a brief second, before leaping over her body, getting behind her, and aimed his sword towards her body.

"Burst Kinhime."

Karin let out a "Shit!" before turning to see the lightning bolt. She tried to avoid the attack, but since it was literally travelling at the speed of lightning, she couldn't, and she was struck in the chest with the lightning blast, blowing her off her feet, and away from his body.

He didn't put out a strong burst, he didn't want to hurt Karin.

It was also training for him so he could measure the output of the attack that he wanted to release, and didn't want to burn through the power of the lightning too quickly on attacks that weren't necessarily going to hit, or attacks that could hit but not kill.

"D-Damn it!"

Karin snapped, with sparks going off around her body.

"Don't fret, you just became a Shinigami, it takes time. I'm still in the process of learning myself, don't worry about it."

Karin didn't seem satisfied with that though.

She got up from the ground.

She then pointed her Zanpakuto at Takumi once more.

"I'll fight you once more!"

Karin dashed forward at quite a good speed, Takumi however flashed beside her within a few seconds, surprising the young woman, and swung his sword for her body, but she parried with her own blade, knocking her sword up into the air, allowing Takumi to place his hand towards her body.

"Hado 1: Sho!"

Takumi unleashed a small blast from his hand, digging into Karin's body, and forced her backwards. Her feet skidded across the ground, but she dug her sword into the ground, stopping her progression, only to see a bolt of lightning flashing towards her body, her eyes widening at the sight, she decided to leave her Zanpakuto in the ground, and leap into the air, the sword of Karin's taking the hit for her instead.

"Here I come!"

Karin pushed the air as she shot for Takumi.

Takumi span his sword around, and orbs of lightning began to form around him.

Karin looked surprised as he shot off the orbs of lightning, each heading right for Karin who was airborne.

"S-Shit! I can't get out of the way!"

Takumi chuckled, and swung out his blade, dispelling the orbs of electricity, so she didn't get effected by them.

"No worries, Karin-chan."

Karin landed on the ground.

"How do you do that fast movement thing? I can do that too, right?"

"You mean Flash Step?" Karin nodded strongly. "I can teach you Flash Step. It does help when trying to fight opponents, to move faster. It's pretty handy."

"Good, because I want to be able to do that too."

Takumi gave a smile.

"I'll teach you how to do that then~ Now, lets continue."

Karin smirked.

"Right! Lets do this!"

Karin charged for Takumi who did the same, clashing blades against one another's...

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Later on that night, Takumi wearing casual jeans along with a short sleeved shirt with 'Love and Death' written on the front of his shirt, something that Orihime had picked out for him, was overlooking the hospital that the man himself, Don Kanonji was going to be coming in rather soon.

He saw many people that were gathering around the area, both old and young and kept going "Bwahahahaha!" again and again. He saw Karin with Yuzu and their Father, also doing the same laughter that the others were doing.

He himself stood with Nemu and Giselle.

He didn't know where Rukia, and Orihime where, they said they'd meet them there.

"This is going to be exciting, isn't it Takumi-kun~?"

Giselle grinned out, playing with her long hair antenna.

"I suppose it could be fun. Though I'm not a fan of Don Kanonji himself, he kinda gets on my nerves."

"This Don Kanonji, I have researched his information, and have deduced that he runs a television program, if he can see spirits is uncertain. The levels of enjoyment from this activity, uncertain. The chances for studying behaviour between male and female optimal."

Takumi gave Nemu a strange look.

It seemed that she was determined.

Takumi then spotted Tatsuki walking in with Zombie Chizuru.

He gave them an odd look, while Tatsuki grimaced as Zombie Chizuru held her hand.

"Zombie Chizuru is excited Tatsuki. Though you do not have the same sized cheeeeeeeest...you are as good as Hime, and better than that man, Takumi Uraharaaaaaa..."

Tatsuki felt like weeping at that moment.

"G-Great, can you leave me alone now…?"

"Nooooooooooooooo..."

She growled out like a wild tiger.

Tatsuki frowned, and pushed away from Zombie Chizuru, storming into the area, bypassing Takumi and the others without sharing a glance with them at all, Zombie Chizuru followed after her with a wild expression on her face.

"You need to reverse Zombie Chizuru."

"I dunno how."

Giselle replied to Takumi who wore a complex expression on his face.

As they waited, more and more people came in, while Giselle looked at the rundown large building before them with some broken windows.

"So, what is this place anyway?"

"It's an abandoned hospital, it's been abandoned for years now, they probably want to believe that ghosts might be here. Makes sense due to it being a hospital. There might even be a Jibakurei spirit being here."

Giselle adopted a cute expression on her face.

"Jibakurei huh. I suppose that an earth bound spirit could be here. Though usually they wouldn't bother showing themselves unless their area is disturbed." Giselle began while swaying, but stopped when she saw Rukia and Orihime walking closer. "Ooh they've arrived! Great."

She seemed happy at first, but then she lowered her expressions and looked sad.

Orihime wore a cute blouse with a flowery design on the left side, the colour being a shade of pink and a contrasting yellow skirt that flowed down to her knees, showing enough leg to entice Takumi, while Rukia wore a relatively normal looking dress that was white in design with blue flowers dotted around the dress itself, it being slightly risqué in design, but still quite modest.

"We're here! Taku-chan!"

"Yea-Yeah, sorry for being late."

Orihime jumped forward, and clung to Takumi, while Rukia walked closer.

"Hey girls, you're looking lovely tonight."

Orihime blushed up a storm while Rukia's face gained some redness to her cheeks.

Takumi went to speak when he noticed something…

He saw Bambietta, Candice, Meninas, and Liltotto all walking towards the meeting area that the others were at.

His face drained of colour, while Bambietta's face grew into a scowl.

"Why are we even here Candice?"

"I like Spirit Hunter, alright?! It's weird, and yet it is awesome! Don't mess with me now! I want to enjoy tonight! So help me if you mess with me then I'll electrocute you all!"

"Tch, don't snap at me."

Bambietta growled, only for Meninas to look on with apathy.

"Even then, it should be fine. We can have fun and forget the Shinigami."

"Forgetting, can you do that Bambi-chan?"

Bambietta wore a confident face answering Liltotto while turning towards her… But then saw Takumi with his group while she was turning to Liltotto, and her eyes slitted.

"Ooh come on! Not you again!"

Takumi released a small sigh.

"It seems that our evening might not be so fun after all if they cause trouble."

Besides Liltotto, he was sure that the others might try something.

Bambietta stormed over to Takumi while the others kept trying to pull her back to no avail.

"Oi Shinigami! What do you want now?! Come to ruin this for us too?!"

Bambietta screeched at Takumi who scowled right for the young woman.

"Contrary to what you believe, I don't have anything against you. In fact, I thought you came here to attack us or something of that nature."

"Hmph, I have better things to do than follow you around. Come on ladies, lets watch Spirit Hunter."

Bambietta turned with the other girls, besides Giselle, and walked away. Liltotto seemed to be conflicted about it, but she followed after Bambietta regardless, leaving the others to not be sure what was going on with her.

"Well, if she's not going to do anything, I don't see why we still can't enjoy our night watching whatever Spirit Hunter is."

Takumi gave Rukia a strange look.

"You don't even know what this is, do you?"

Rukia held a smile on her face, but despite that, she seemed to be unsure.

"I thought that it was about a person that laughs oddly, and does wacky adventures. Was I wrong?"

Takumi wasn't sure if he should praise her for that accurate description of the show, or that it should be weird that they were going to see something like that.

"W-Well...not really, I guess. He's a supposed medium and can see spirits. Who knows if he really can."

"Even if he can, I doubt he'd have the spiritual power that we have with us here."

Rukia explained, as bright lights began to flash around the area, Orihime's face lifted up.

"Ooh, it's starting Taku-chan!"

Orihime wrapped her arms around his arm, and pulled him along.

---

The others followed them into the crowds, and saw a helicopter in the sky, with bright lights flashing into the sky, the man in the sky itself was man dressed with a cape flowing behind him.

Karin and Takumi just looked tired when seeing this man, Nemu seemed passive about it, while everyone else was laughing along. A small man that was slightly overweight raised a mic to the sky, dramatically bringing it to his lips.

"Good evening everyone! This weeks Spirit Hunter is brought to you in an abandoned hospital of Karakura town! Where the tortures screams of the dead can be heard echoing through the halls! Who knows what horrifying sights we'll witness this evening! Now folks, lets give him a warm welcome! Everyone's favourite spiritual medium, and messenger from hell! Don Kanonjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"

The crowd went insane and cheered very loudly, while Nemu blinked at how he was a messenger from hell, wondering if that was serious or not, and if she should step into the fray and put a stop to him immediately.

The man from the helicopter jumps out, with his cape flashing around and his flamboyant attitude being on high, waving his hands towards the crowd, as he announces a catchphrase of his, a catchphrase that causes Takumi to feel dead inside.

"The spirits are always with you! Bwahahahahahaha!"

[Bwhahahahahahaha!]

The crowd mimic his attitude and cross their arms over their chests while laughing like that, Takumi and Karin both sigh at the sight, they weren't really having the best time, though it seemed like Bambietta and the others are getting into it from what Takumi could see.

"Holy shit! Love you Don Kanonji!"

Candice surprisingly cries out, igniting worry within Bambietta.

A parachute opens up from behind him, allowing him to land on the ground dramatically. Takung out his staff that he had, he swings it around while Candice waves her arms up and down like a hyperactive fan, drawing in the attention of Karin who murmurs "Great, she's nuts." while Takumi sighs deeply.

"And how is everyone tonight!? Are you ready to hear the spirits cries~!? Hold onto your seats my babies for this wild ride! The stench of the spirit world hangs around us! I have to say that..."

[It smells like bad spirits!]

The crowd cheered around Takumi who looked surprised.

Candice though raised her hand to the sky.

"Preach it my Don Kanonji!"

"There's something wrong with this bitch."

Liltotto murmurs to herself, and looks quite sad about what was happening with this.

"Bwahahahahaha!"

[Bwahahahahahaha!]

If Takumi didn't hear that laughing again, then it would be too soon, and then they cut to commercial, and began moving towards a different part of the hospital grounds, the others began walking that way.

Rukia glances up at Takumi's face, giving him a questioning look.

"You don't seem to be having fun."

"This isn't my scene. I don't like how he's exploiting the afterlife for his own fame and fortune. It just seems a bit, tacky to me."

Rukia weighed up her hands.

"It probably is tacky, but as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, then I don't think it's that bad."

"His laugh is grating though."

Giselle commented, leaning her head on Takumi's shoulder.

"Either way, it isn't like that he'll bother us I suppose. We were talking about Jibakurei before you two came."

Rukia placed a finger to her chin.

"It's possible that a Jibakurei might show itself with all of these people here. They are tied to places they held regret, and it is possible that in a place like this that one could show up. But even if one does, it probably wont be a bother to us."

"Even then, we should be on our guard."

Takumi assured them, following the others to see Don Kanonji once more. As they waited for the show to continue, a dark howling erupted into the night, Karin's and Yuzu's eyes widening at the sound, looking around.

"Was that a Hollow…?"

"I don't know Karin. But we're all here. If one does show up, maybe we could ask Don Kanonji for help?"

Karin sweat dropped "Yeah that's not going to happen." while Orihime turned to Takumi with worry.

"Taku-chan that noise..."

"Did you hear it Orihime-chan?"

The reason he asked was because she wasn't wearing any of the equipment he made. It seemed that her spiritual power was increasing to the point that she didn't need any equipment anymore.

"Yes, that howling sound, it sounded like a Hollow..."

"Close." Giselle brought up. "It's a Jibakurei, or more easily put, on the way to becoming a Hollow. A Demi Hollow if you will."

"Demi Hollow?"

Orihime seemed confused, so Rukia broke out her drawings and they looked like awful rabbits, while the spirit himself, with chains wrapped around his body, one attached to his chest which had opened up a hole could be seen.

Without even Takumi saying anything, Rukia threw the pad at him, which he ducked, and bounced off Nemu's arm. Rukia cupped her mouth with worry, but Nemu just blinked, she didn't even seem to be effected by it.

Rukia exhaled, and continued.

"There's a few paths that a soul can take to become a Hollow. One such way is a Jikaburei that has strong attachments to a place, regrets within their life, unable for them to move on. They're bound to the place that they have the deep regrets, such as this one, and it is difficult for us to locate them. But it takes months, if not years for them to fully transform into Hollows. Hence Demi Hollow. A spirit, on the way to becoming a Hollow. Their screams can be heard bleeding into the night. And as you can see, the hole isn't opened all the way. I say we've got about six months before he becomes a Hollow."

"Providing someone doesn't mess with the hole."

Takumi added, Rukia swayed her hand through her hair.

"What are the odds of that happening anyway?"

"You just had to say it."

Rukia gave an accusing stare to Takumi.

"What?"

"When someone says that, it means it is going to come true. Most of the time it happens. Like a curse or something."

"Hmmm, I hadn't expected someone as intelligent as you to believe in silly superstitions."

"I'm not." He countered. "But it feels like this is a jinx. Knowing our freaking luck, it's going to happen."

Orihime's face curled upwards.

"Don't worry Taku-chan, we're all together, nothing bad is going to happen!" The lights from the stage lit up once more. "Ooh, it's starting again!"

Takumi chuckled "Great." and watched with the others.

Nemu's eyes glanced at Rukia who seemed to be paying more attention to how Orihime clung to Takumi than the show itself, Nemu began jotting down a few notes to herself.

"Lets see this bad spirit everyone! Bwahahahahaha!"

[Bwahahahahahaha!]

Everyone, even Karin, and Takumi, who were forced to do it, began laughing like Don Kanonji did. Candice seemed to be in love, laughing the loudest and the happiest, it was surprising for a girl like her to be so invested in something like this.

---

Then Don Kanonji leaned closer to the spirit, rubbing his chin in seemingly deep thought, while the angered spirit leans closer to Don Kanonji.

"Huh!? You got something to say? Why are you looking at me?! This is my hospital, get out! What's with the crazy freaking hat anyway?!"

"Seems like he's not on the verge of becoming a Hollow anytime soon."

Takumi commented, Rukia nodding strongly.

"Exactly, as long as nothing happens, we can come back later and perform konso on him."

As they were speaking, Don Kanonji spun his staff around, ramming it right into the hole of the Demi Hollows chest.

"A-Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

The Demi Hollow released a screeching sound out of his mouth, while Don Kanonji stirred the hole, peeling more and more of it open, the other spiritually aware people all grimaced, besides Candice and Bambietta.

"What is that fool doing?!"

Rukia yelled, Takumi gave her a smirk.

"Told you so."

"Grrr, damn it, we need to stop him."

Takumi nodded, and went to move forward, when a hand laid itself on his shoulder.

"Bambietta-san, I don't have time for..." He turned to see that it was in fact Candice and not Bambietta that had dragged him backwards. "C-Candice-san, what are you doing?"

"I wont let you interfere with him! He is a beautiful human with a pure soul doing his best Shinigami trash!"

Takumi and the others sweat dropped.

"Pure soul...really?"

Candice's eyes snapped hard on him.

"Shut up! You don't understand his beauty! His soul is lovely! And I wont allow you to do anything to him!"

"Sorry!" Takumi brushed her hand off him, and aimed his finger at Don Kanonji. "A low level Kido spell should do the trick." Candice's eyes flared, while Bambietta smirked, seeing this as a chance. "Hado 1: Sh-"

"Dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Bambietta punched him in the back, setting off a giant explosion against his, he spat out blood, and was shot into the air, firing off towards the building. Orihime gasped, noticing that some kind of paper had been stamped onto his back.

"Takumi!"

Rukia cried out, while Nemu's eyes snapped upon Bambietta who growled, and swung a fist for her, so she quickly retreated out of her Gigai, flipping backwards, and nailed Bambietta in the chin, forcing her body backwards, but as she was getting flung backwards, Bambietta pointed her hands at Nemu.

"Explode bitch!"

Bambietta went to release her power, when Orihime took out what seemed to be Rukia's Chappy gun, and fired off a Chappy face blast at her, colliding with Bambietta, and knocked her down onto the ground.

"That's for attacking Taku-chan."

Bambietta looked at Orihime with surprise that someone like her actually attacked her.

"You bitch, you dare to attack me..."

"You attacked Taku-chan, I wont allow you to do that again."

Bambietta smirked, and walked closer, but Nemu stepped between them, Bambietta's eyes narrowing.

"Who the hell is that?"

One bystander spoke, while another whipped out their phone, to record Takumi.

More and more people looked at Takumi in the air, some paid attention to Bambietta and the others who had been having a mini scuffle.

He sailed through the air while Don Kanonji looked up, muttering "Who's that kid?" and saw him spinning in the air, surprising most around, and Rukia aimed her hand towards Takumi's body, drawing out her energy which was increasing.

"Rukia-chan! Do something! She's put something on my back that's stopping me gathering energy for Kido! I can't get it off in time!"

"Already on it!" Rukia aimed her hand towards Takumi's body, drawing out her energy which was increasing. "Bakudo 37: Tsuriboshi!"

Like she had done to herself, a net of Kido energy came out, sticking itself to different points around the area, allowing Takumi to use it like a spring, the audience were in awe at the sight of what Takumi was doing, they couldn't see the Kido so they record him all the more and cheered for him instead.

"Mommy! He's a ninja!"

"No, he's a magician sweetie, look. He's standing in the air."

"Yay! Mommy! I want his autograph, he's so cool!"

Orihime heard a conversation between Mother and son, while Isshin raised his hand.

"Yuzu! Your boyfriends awesome!"

"Dad! Don't call him my boyfrieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeend!"

Yuzu cried, while Karin slapped herself in the head.

"Great, now he's magical ninja, that's not gonna draw attention at all..."

She rolled her eyes sarcastically.

Takumi though shot right back at Bambietta, ripping off his shirt, and tossed it away, showcasing his chest to the others, while teenage, and even adult women began blushing at the sight, Orihime and Rukia blushed at the sight as did Yuzu and Giselle, even Karin was a little red faced.

"Come on then punk."

Bambietta scowled and withdrew her spirit sword, swinging it at the incoming Takumi, who dodged in mid air, and aimed a hand towards her, chanting off a Kido spell.

"Hado 33: Sokatsui!"

Bambietta leaped back, but she was caught in the Kido spell, nailing her in the torso, and blew her backwards, while Candice raised her hands to the sky, sparks of lightning going off around her body.

"Do not ruin this for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

She aimed her hands at Takumi, who wasn't in Shinigami form right now, and shot off a huge bolt of lightning towards him. He jumped back from the bolt, but she followed with her hands, and he ran back towards the hospital, away from the crowd so they wouldn't be hurt.

"Watch what you're doing! You could hurt people!"

"Don't you speak to me like that! Bambietta was right, Shinigami truly do want to ruin everyone's pleasures! Just this one thing, and you're interfering! Now I will make you stop interfering!"

Candice's lightning went to hit Takumi, when Takumi raised his hand to the ground, and gathered Kido energy within his finger, along with what seemed to be a lightning bolt shaped metal that he had with him, stabbing that into the ground, and jumped backwards, aiming his finger at the metal.

"Hado 4: Byakurai!"

He shot off a bolt of electricity and charged up the rod, which directed the lightning of Candice's to her shock, creating a large discharge of electricity, which went through the ground, rupturing it around Takumi, while the crowd went nuts, Rukia seemed surprised by what jusy happened but Nemu understood.

"Takumi-sama's already experimenting with his Zanpakuto and its unique abilities and applying that with science."

"But he's not in Shinigami form."

Orihime murmured, Nemu inclined her neck.

"Agreed, however that piece of metal had been infused with a small fragment of his Zanpakuto while it was in Shikai. It acted as a lightning rod when it had a jolt of electricity from Takumi-sama's Kido spell, diverting the lightning of the blonde haired girl, so it would harmlessly infuse into the lightning rod to keep others safe. His own Zanpakuto also remains as strong as ever, since the fragment that Takumi-sama removed recovered itself within a few seconds as Takumi-sama's sword is made up of lightning, and can reform itself easily."

At Nemu's explanation, the others were quite surprised Takumi managed to make something like that so quickly.

Don Kanonji's eyes shot for Takumi as the crowds sounded "Magician boy!" again and again, completely ignoring Don Kanonji.

"Hey kid, you're ruining my bit here. Could you try and find fame somewhere else?"

"I am not trying to find fame! You need to stop right now!"

Don Kanonji scoffed, and continued on.

Takumi growled, while Candice roared.

"Never! This is unacceptable! Don Kanonji is number one! I wont allow this to happen ever!"

Candice pulled out her bow and arrows, firing off a barrage of them to Takumi, as Bambietta came back, smirking, and aimed her hand towards Takumi to fire off some of her explosive energy, only for Nemu to grab her hand.

"W-What are you doing?"

"I insist you desist right away."

"Get lost woman! This is my chance! I will never lose!"

Nemu bowed her head.

"Then, you may have to leave right away."

Nemu lifted Bambietta's body high into the air, and threw her away.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

She screamed within the air, getting flung away a few good miles, while Rukia sweat dropped at the sight.

"W-What the hell…?"

"I got rid of the nuisance, so Takumi-sama may handle the girl with the lightning attacks. I aimed for the river, she should be crashing into the river harmlessly by my calculations..." Bambietta's screams stopped. "...now."

Rukia sweat dropped even more as Candice's arrows shot for Takumi, who's body began to move like flowing water. The arrows pierced around his form, blowing up the ground which seemed to be in time with what he was doing, and did back flips, and front flips, and other dance like martial arts movements, the crowds were going wild even more with what was happening, Don Kanonji looked shell shocked by what was happening.

"B-But, kid! You can't steal the crowd!"

"I am not stealing the crowd! I am trying not to die by a fangirl of yours! Stop doing what you're doing! Can't you see that it is wrong!?"

Takumi snapped, but Don Kanonji didn't stop.

"Yahoooooooooooooo! Look everyone! I've nearly vanquished the spirit!"

"No! You can't do this!"

Takumi went to get to him, when Candice appeared beside him, extending her leg, and smashed it against Takumi's form, who used his arm to block.

But surprising, she was stronger than he thought, and he was sent flying back into the building, smashing through the glass doors, doing a roll, and got to his feet, to see Candice firing off some more arrows towards him.

"Karin-chan! You take care of Don Kanonji! I've got lightning girl here!"

"R-Right!"

Karin replied shakily, as Takumi rushed into the building, avoiding the barrage of arrows, while Candice chased him down, Giselle scowled, and used her Quincy flash step to cross the distance, following after them.

"Ooh God, Taku-chan's not in his Shinigami form, he's not at full power. He's in danger...we have to help him..."

Orihime expressed her concerns.

"We will help him by making sure he has only one enemy to deal with." Rukia nodded, but saw what was happening with Don Kanonji, so she rushed to Karin and slapped her on the back, releasing her Shinigami form, Yuzu catching her body as their Father casually glanced, understood what was going on. "You take care of Kanonji, Yuzu watch her body. Nemu, and I will watch over that girl called Meninas in case she tries to interfere."

"Alright, but what about Takumi? He's not got his Shinigami form out."

"That Giselle has gone after him, he'll have to be fine on his own for a little while. He's got Kido, and his increased strength. Besides, he's dealing with a lightning user, he'll know how to overcome that somehow, I believe in him."

Karin saw that something had changed within Rukia.

She wasn't the same. In the ways that she was talking about Takumi. It seemed that she had some concern for him, beyond normal friendship.

Karin dashed forward with her hand, and force palmed Don Kanonji away from the spirit, who fell back onto the ground. The others only saw that it was an unknown force that had knocked him backwards.

"W-What are you doing kid? First that blonde kid, now a black haired girl. And what's with the outfit?"

Karin looked down at herself, then back to Don Kanonji.

"So, you can see me?" Her eyes went towards the spirit, and saw that the chains had smashed off his body, and he was screaming loudly. "Damn, we were too late..."

Karin even could see that, and saw the spirits body explode, creating a small duststorm. Rukia and the others watched with eerie silence, wondering what was going to happen next.

"I have vanquished the evil spirit everyone!"

Don Kanonji cheered loudly, and the crowd seemed mixed. It seemed that half cheered for him, and half cheered for Takumi though they couldn't see him. Don Kanonji didn't exactly seem pleased about that though.

Rukia took out her phone, while Nemu directed her hand upwards.

"It's forming up there."

Rukia's eyes went upwards to see that in fact was true. The body of the spirit, had turned into a Hollow. The face was getting crusted over with the whiteness of the mask of the Hollow, and small fragments of the mask fell down to the ground, its fingers digging into the roof of the building, denting it with his strength.

They then heard the howling, so they both looked up to see the Hollow itself.

"What is that?"

"It's called a Hollow." Karin informed. "I hope you're happy."

"What do you mean?"

"That Hollow was formed because of you."

Don Kanonji didn't seem to understand what Karin was talking about.

How could it be because of him?

He didn't have time to think about it as the Hollow leapt downwards towards them. Karin took out her sword, briefly pausing when seeing the others in the crowd, and then Don Kanonji himself, thinking about what to do.

When Don Kanonji pushed Karin's shoulder, pulling her backwards, and he went forwards.

"What are you doing moron?"

"I understand! Now that the evil spirit I sent away before is gone, it's evil master has shown up to take us all on! Do not worry young girl, I shall use my staff and end this beasts life once and for all!"

"Not quite jackass."

Karin sighed out, while the Hollow came slamming down towards them. Seeing that Don Kanonji couldn't take it, Karin jumped forward, and sent her foot crashing into the side of the Hollows face, the pressure from the kick was intense, and knocked the Hollow right away from them, smashing it into the side of the building.

"What are you doing kid?"

"Stopping you killing yourself, and everyone else around us!" Karin watched as the Hollow got to its feet, and charged for them. "Great, now I've got to lead it away from everyone." Karin jumped upwards, and got to the second story while grabbing Don Kanonji's body, the crowd went nuts at seeing that. "Come on you bastard Hollow! Come and get me! Tasty soul right here!"

The Hollow roared out and jumped up towards them. Karin smashed a window with her foot, hopping inside of the building, and stabbed her sword out of the window, stabbing the unsuspecting Hollow's shoulder, dragging the body of the Hollow through the opening of the window, and tossed it inside of the building, kicking its body off her sword, and it skidded across the ground, landing on the other side of the corridor, grabbed Don Kanonji, and hightailed it out of there.

---

Meanwhile, Takumi ran deep within the hospital, as Candice followed after him. Her eyes scanned the area, seeing him rush down a corridor, so her bow landed in that direction, aiming an arrow for the young boy.

"As if you're going to get away from me!"

Candice fired off an arrow, Takumi aimed his hand backwards, and span his hand around while announcing "Bakudo 39: Enkosen!" and forming from his hand, was a round orange shield, tanking a hit from Candice's arrows.

"Sorry Candice-san, but I can't simply do anything like that!"

"Well I don't care! Shinigami are my enemies as well! So don't try and run away from me!"

Candice used Quincy flash step to appear before Takumi.

"Shit!"

"Right, shit!"

She smirked, pulling back her arrow, and aimed it for his chest, to pierce him through, Takumi quickly pushed himself to the left, as she unleashed an arrow, piercing him in the shoulder instead.

"D-Damn..."

"Sorry, it seems while you're stuck in your Gigai, you can't do anything against me. I'll wipe your existence off the face of this earth!"

Candice grinned evilly, and threw her hand forward, shooting off a bolt of electricity.

Takumi however aimed his hand towards the incoming bolt of lightning, and yelled "Hado 33: Sokatsui!" and shot off a pale blast of energy, clashing with her lightning bolt, creating a large explosion that forced the pair of them backwards.

Takumi skidded across the ground while Candice elegantly flipped, returning to the ground with markings on her body, her Blut Vene, protecting her from the explosion for the most part, Takumi smiling at the sight.

"You Quincy girls intrigue me, your Blut Vene is quite amazing to see."

"Hmph, Blut Vene is quite useful for attacks like that."

"I suppose that it is. I'm kinda jealous. All I've got is this Kido spell I'm going to fire at you~"

"What?"

Candice seemed confused for a few moments, only for Takumi to clap his hands together, then pulled his hands apart, summoning several barriers between the space that Takumi had created with his hands.

"Chocolate Bar Slider!"

"What kind of shit name is that?!"

"Hacchi made it up! Don't blame me!"

Takumi roared as multiple barriers in the shape of boxes shot for Candice. Candice went to use an overwhelming attack to take them down, when they began multiplying again and again, until dozens of boxes were created, bombarding Candice's body, smashing as they hit her body, leaving some wounds on her, despite her using Blut Vene.

As she was being pressured by the barrage of barriers, she yelled out angrily, and increased her electricity, allowing it to swarm around her, and extended it outwards, destroying Takumi's Kido spell, and forced Takumi backwards, where Candice summoned her bow, and arrow, infusing her lightning into the arrows, and unleashed a hailstorm of them.

"S-Shit!"

Takumi took off running.

Without his Zanpakuto, he was going to have difficulty taking them down with Kido, he wasn't skilled enough yet to take them down with Kido alone. Takumi zigzagged through the corridor, with the arrows sailing past his body.

But some cut into his body, slicing his arms, and legs.

He used some Kido to block some of them, but they were never ending.

However, as Takumi saw the corner coming up, he had an idea.

Takumi rounded a corner, and announced "Bakudo 27: Kyokko!" Candice flew into a rage, shooting around the corner to find...nothing.

He wasn't there at all.

She didn't get it.

Where had he gone?

Somehow, he had become invisible with the Kido spell Kyokko.

"Come out now!"

She shot off lightning down the corridor, but it didn't hit anything. The windows nearby shattered upon the lightning nearing. When she didn't hit anything, she cautiously took out her bow, readying to fire off an arrow.

"Why are you doing this?"

Takumi demanded, Candice turned to see nothing in the side room.

"Because you're stopping my program from happening!"

"That's a pretty weak reason!"

"It's the only reason I need! Well that, and I just hate Shinigami as well after what your kind has done to us in the past. And when one gets in my way, I shall shock you to death!"

Candice unleashed a few arrows into the room, in case Takumi was there.

But nothing came out of it.

She growled at the feeling of not hitting Takumi.

"Boo!"

But then Takumi appeared beside her, with his hand extended, unleashing a Kido blast right for her body, nailing her in the torso, and blasted her away. Candice however used Blut Vene to subvert the damage as much as possible, and barely looked intrigued at all, and sent off a devastating blast of lightning for Takumi.

The young boy went to dodge when Giselle appeared beside him, grabbed his body, flashing to the other side of the corridor, avoiding the large lightning blast of Candice, who narrowed her eyes at Takumi and Giselle while unleashing a number of arrows, Giselle pulled back her bow, and fired off many arrows to combat Candice's own arrows, matching them hit for hit, dispelling them out of the air, which impressed Takumi.

"Seriously Giselle, are you working for the Shinigami now?"

"You're attacking him over a guy named Don Kanonji, so you aren't in a position to lecture me."

Candice narrowed her gaze, and pulled her bow backwards, gathering electricity within her arrow.

"It isn't just about that. Didn't you see it?"

Takumi cocked his head.

"See what?"

"The happiness on everyone's faces! They all were happy, and you were going to ruin it!"

She announced, firing off her lightning arrow, Giselle growled, knowing her arrow wouldn't be enough so she quickly whispering to Takumi, who nodded, placing his hand outwards to create a Kido blast with Sokatsui, clashing with the arrow, while she fired an arrow for the centre of the lightning arrow, dispelling it away from them, Candice being forced to leap out of the way of the Sokatsui spell.

"To stop a Hollow being formed!"

Candice landed on the ground, twitching her neck.

"We can take care of a measly Hollow easily. Hollows aren't worth worrying about, what is, is the Shinigami." Candice's hand sparkled with lightning. "Do you know why Bambi-chan hates you Shinigami so much?"

"Because of what happened to the Quincy two hundred years ago?"

Candice shook her head with a laugh.

"No, we all couldn't care less what happened two hundred years ago. No, we each have a reason as to why. Bambi-chan's reasons are different to mine. Mine are quite simple, I saw some disgusting Shinigami's simply abandoning humans to be devoured by Hollows. These poor humans hadn't done anything, and these Shinigami were laughing as they died! They laughed! How dare they laugh?!"

Takumi furrowed his eyebrows at Candice.

"They weren't good Shinigami then. Shinigami come in different ways as do humans. They're all different. What you saw was a bad variety, there are good Shinigami's out there that wouldn't abandon humans to die by Hollows. Rukia-chan's a good example. She could have simply left me to die the day she gave me her powers. But she didn't. She stayed, and sacrificed herself for me, and the others. I don't know what kind of Shinigami you've met, but they weren't good Shinigami's like Rukia-chan is. So stop attacking me, and we can come to a good resolution."

Candice bit her lower lip, thinking about what he said.

But she couldn't get it out of her head.

She could still see the blood.

Hear the screams.

She was just a child at the time, and couldn't do anything.

She simply couldn't do anything.

"I grew to hate Shinigami for that. To just leave them to be devoured by Hollows. They could have saved them, and all they did was laugh about it. That's why I'll have my own hate for Shinigami's, and anyone that gets in my way shall be electrocuted out of existence!"

Candice's lightning surrounded her, which charged the broken hospital with energy, causing the lights to come on until there was too much, and it shattered the lights, and she aimed her hand towards Takumi and Giselle.

"So that's why you're okay with attacking me. What does Don Kanonji have to do with this?"

"As I said, everyone was laughing outside. They were happy. It's weird, I usually hate people like Don Kanonji, who are always boasting and being showboaty. But, there's this twinkle in his eye. Yeah, he's doing stupid things. But he's bringing laughter to the world. I think that's really nice. And then you were going to stop it. Either way, that Hollow was going to be formed, and we would have vanquished it. So why not just allow the laughter to continue?"

Takumi begun to understand more about Candice now.

She was hot headed sure.

She was quick to anger.

But he could see the reason behind her anger.

She wanted others to laugh.

It was simple, yet it was quite impactful.

Even she could tell that Don Kanonji had done something wrong.

But if it was to make people laugh at good things rather than killing things, along with it to do with the supernatural, is what Takumi believed to be the case in regards to Candice which made it more special to her.

As she had seen the supernatural being horrible, disgusting and people mocking the existence of humans.

She wanted humans to enjoy the supernatural world, and laugh at the happiness it can bring.

"As I hear more about you Quincy girls, I grow to understand you all the more. But I simply can't allow you to attack me and get away with that! I wont be your punching bag! You'll see that we can be allies!"

"Yeah right!"

Candice thrusted her hands forward, unleashing a heavy duty bolt of electricity that shot for Takumi and Giselle.

Takumi grimaced, allowing his Kido to swim around him.

"Hako Okuri!"

Takumi announced, as the lightning neared Giselle and Takumi.

From behind Candice, an orange box opened up, and what was inside, was the fragment of metal that diverted Candice's lightning beforehand, and this time, it was doing the same thing, the lightning stopped near the pair, and turned direction, like they were being drawn to it, and shot right back for Candice.

"What the hell is going on?!"

Candice tried to stop her lightning, but it wasn't obeying her command.

Takumi ran a hand through his hair as he explained, using Hainawa to wrap yellow rope around her body so she couldn't escape the attack, Candice's eyes met his own and she looked a little worried about what was going to happen next.

"It's a Kido that teleports anything within the barrier I make. It can either be from what I've got on my person, or on something I've endowed with my power. Hacchi and my Father taught me a bit about Kido, and it's uses, I just modified it a bit for my own personal usage."

"To modify Kido! That's insane!"

"Call me insane then."

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Candice cried, as the lightning struck her.

It sent all of the power that she had sent at them, right into her own system, shocking her to a high degree. Her eyes rolled around, her body smoked from the attack, while Giselle placed a hand over her mouth.

"Amazing Takumi-kun, you're so smart~ You used her own power against her~ You were just getting her to let her guard down, right?"

Takumi nodded, as Candice's lightning spread out, shattering apart of the wall, leaving a hole there.

After half a minute, the lightning stopped and she was left staggering. She walked left to right, unable to stay on her feet for long from the intense shock. She wasn't completely immune to electricity, as Takumi in his Shinigami form wasn't either. They had a resistance to it, but it still could cause them damage of this magnitude.

"Sorry Candice-san, but I had to stop you from hurting us, and others."

Candice shook her fist at Takumi, unable to speak.

Wounds had appeared across her body, and smoke rose from her form. Her hair was also messed up from the shock, and had grown into an afro like look, Giselle secretly took a picture of Candice this way to keep and look at later.

Takumi noticed that her body was getting dangerously close to the opening of the building where she could fall out, and called out to her.

"Candice-san, it's dangerous there-"

Candice shot at arrow at Takumi, which Giselle repelled with her own arrow.

"We'll get you back for this Shiniga-" Candice lost her footing, and she began falling out of the window. "-miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"

"Candice-san!"

Takumi dashed for Candice's body as it fell from the building.

The crowd outside could see Candice falling. Many gasped, and some cried out for help.

It was like time was in slow motion.

Every second felt like an eternity to her…

Then she felt a hand grab her own hand, and she dangled in the air.

"Got you!"

Takumi announced, to the relief of others.

Rukia placed a hand over her heart, and Orihime smiled brightly.

Candice looked up to Takumi who was pulling her back up.

"Why are you helping me? I could get seriously wounded falling from here. My bodies been shocked so it's gonna take me a few minutes for me to recover. I could have been taken away, yet you've saved me...I don't get it."

Takumi gave her a kind smile, lifting her up, and carried her bridal style to her annoyance.

"I'm not going to let you die. Just because you hate Shinigami, and me, it seems that you care about others happiness, that tells me that you've got kindness in your heart somewhere. So why don't we stop for now?"

Candice stared at him for a few moments.

In those moments, Candice saw Takumi as something different.

He wasn't like those Shinigami that she saw in her childhood.

This Shinigami was helping her, a Quincy.

Those other Shinigami had turned their backs and laughed about human suffering.

She also was coming to an understanding now.

She hopped out of his arms, and turned away.

"Fine, I'm going home."

Candice walked away on staggering legs, while Giselle pulled at her hair antenna.

"It seems that you might have swayed her a little bit Takumi-kun."

"Maybe. She also said that Bambietta-san has a reason for hating Shinigami. I wonder what that is?" His eyes then went to Giselle who cocked her neck at him. "And what's your story Giselle-san? Want to share with me?"

"My story? We all have pasts after all, even you do Takumi-kun. I'd be interested to hear yours sometime."

"I don't remember much of my past. So I couldn't tell you."

"I see. Well, maybe I'll tell you some about me in the future." Giselle skipped forward, and took his hand. "Lets get going Takumi-kun!"

"Yeah...ooh wait, Karin-chan! She might need assistance! Lets go and see!"

"Yup, yup!"

Takumi and Giselle took off together down the corridors to make sure that Karin was safe.

---

Meanwhile, as that was happening, Karin ran down the corridor on the opposite side of the hospital, carrying the overzealous man Don Kanonji on her shoulder.

"Has everyone ever told you you're very strong for your height?"

"Heh, I get that a lot."

"But, why are we running?"

Karin sweat dropped, muttering "Why me?" before answering once more.

"Because we're protecting the others down there. And I'm going to find a nice safe place to drop you off, so I can fight the Hollow, uninterrupted."

"Unacceptable!" Don Kanonji jumped out of her arms. "I am the Hero here! I shall protect you fair maiden!"

Karin whacked him upside the head, causing his head to shake around.

"Do not try and act all manly now."

"I'm not! But, I'm doing this for my ratings!"

"Great, so you're doing it for your television show? You're not vain at all..."

"It isn't like that! Did you know that my show is has twenty five percent! One in every four households watches my show! And many of those viewers are, children." Karin furrowed her brows. "Those children watch my adventures, and their hearts are inspired by me. They see me stand up to evil spirits, and learn what true courage is! So don't you get it? With all those kids watching my show, how could I let them down now? I wont run from it, and show my courageous side!"

"You're right." Don Kanonji nodded, and went to move forward, but Karin stuck out her hand, stopping him. "But, you're also wrong."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying...that spirit from before, wasn't an evil spirit, that spirit, was a human suffering from pain, and you caused him more pain."

Don Kanonji's eyes locked with Karin's own, confused, and also, a little scared that she could be right.

"Y-You're saying..."

Before he could continue, the Hollow came rampaging towards them from down the corridor, so Karin went to withdraw her sword...but stopped when realizing how confined the area was, so she opted to do something else.

"Hey! Follow me you asshat!"

Karin lunged for the Hollow, Don Kanonji yelled "Watch out!" but she used her honed skills from playing soccer, to slide under the opponent, and then whiz back around, kicking the Hollows body forwards, and then turned around to the stairwell close by.

Don Kanonji watched as Karin dashed up the stairs, and the Hollow chased after her.

Unable to let it go, he chased after both of them, making it to the roof as the Hollow charged for Karin. Karin, who now had a wide space, revealed her Zanpakuto and swung it for the Hollow's incoming hand, slicing it clean off, twirling into said Hollow, and nailed it in the torso with the butt of her sword, the Hollow's eyes popped open, and she was flung away into the railings of the building, Don Kanonji cheered.

"Well done girl! Hey, maybe I should make you my student?!"

"No thanks, I'd rather die."

Don Kanonji released a cry out of his mouth.

"It would be an honour being my student!"

"It would be a horror being your student."

Don Kanonji released an even higher pitched cry, drawing the Hollow towards him.

It howled, and charged for him, so Karin ran forward towards the Hollow to intercept it from hitting Don Kanonji, the Hollow had other ideas, turning around and spat out green goo towards her.

Karin's body naturally sailed forward, she did a number of cartwheels to avoid the slime itself, which hit the ground and created a gooey substance, which she didn't care to be in.

She dodged a good number of the attacks, before getting close with her sword.

She went to stab the Hollow with her blade, when it spat goo for her face, so she raised her blade, and allowed it to take the hit for her, the goo spreading across the blade, and when she swung it downwards to get the goo off, the goo spread from the blade, hitting the ground, creating a glue like substance that she couldn't pull off the ground.

"What the hell…?"

Karin tried pulling her sword away, but she couldn't.

The glue like substance was hardening by the second.

The Hollow however saw this chance to attack her, opening its large mouth to bit her since it was so close.

"Kid!"

Karin turned to Don Kanonji who threw his staff to her, so she caught the staff, spinning it around, and impaled the Hollow through the hole she had created before, making it bigger than before, and used her increased strength to lift it off the ground, surprising Don Kanonji, tossing said Hollow away from her body, and into the roof access area, smashing the small looking door to smithereens.

Don Kanonji looked impressed.

"Well done kid! You did good with my staff!"

Karin gave him a sly smile, tossing the staff back to him.

"Yeah, but with my sword stuck to the ground, I can't purify the Hollow."

"Purifying it with your sword? I see, so you need it! Then as we're partners-" Karin began crying at that. "-I shall help you out!" Don Kanonji tightened his hand, seemingly began concentrating. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I need the power of the Kanonji Cannon Ball! My ultimate technique!"

"The Kanonji what?"

Karin watched with slight interest as his hand erupted with a glowing of blue energy, which turned into a small sphere. Karin blinked at the sight, seeing that Don Kanonji was sweating from using this technique.

Then the sphere travelled rather slowly to the goo holding down the sword that she had, and then erupted with an explosion, tearing through the goo, and released her sword, as the Hollow came charging for them once more.

Karin went to move when the Hollow swiped for her, forcing her to duck, and retaliate with her sword stabbing the Hollow right in the face, between the two eyes, and brought her sword upwards, cutting in half the head of the Hollow, dropping the body of the Hollow into two pieces.

"Aah! Well done my student! You have succeeded!"

"Knock it off with the student crap!" Karin turned towards him with a serious expression. "As I was saying before, what you did to the spirit of that man before, wasn't purifying it, it was helping it become the beast that's before us."

Don Kanonji stepped backwards with confusion.

"You're saying..."

The Hollows mask faded away, to reveal the face of the man that he was before becoming a Hollow. Then his body rippled away, having been purified by Karin's Zanpakuto once more.

"When you were messing with the hole and opening it up, the Hollows body was being created faster. The Hollow itself, from what I overheard from my friends, had a few more months left before it became a Hollow. We could have used our swords to sent him to the afterlife. Instead..."

Don Kanonji's face filled with shame, regret. His eyes danced with fear, fear at what had been happening until that point in his life, dropping to his knees.

"Instead, I sped up the process, and turned him into that being...No...what have I done…? Those spirits before...I've done this...I've caused this..."

A lone tear fell from his eyes, before he began crying a little harder.

Karin developed a surprisingly sympathetic face, shaking her head.

"This isn't your fault, don't place blame upon yourself. You didn't know. Heck, I didn't know until recently when I was told." Karin then heard the cheering's from the crowd, causing her to smirk to herself. "Besides, as you said before, you've got those children to look after, right? To inspire them with courage. I think your show is lame, but you've got to be doing something right if there's really one in every four households watching your program. You've got to inspire those kids, haven't you?"

Don Kanonji looked up to Karin who gave a soft smile on her face.

It seemed so simple now that she was looking like that.

Don Kanonji walked over to the side of the railing, and began laughing once more.

"Mission accomplished! Bwahahahahahahaha!"

[Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!]

The crowd laughed along with him, Karin looked over the edge and saw Yuzu. Yuzu waved up to Karin who waved back down, while glancing at Don Kanonji who was moving closer towards her, freaking her out.

"Y-You keep away from me!"

"But, I just want to be friends! Can I call upon you if I need help in the future?"

Karin grimaced, but nodded slowly.

"I suppose that's fine..."

"Great! You're being promoted from my student, to my number one disciple!" Karin began shedding tears. "Tears of happiness! I didn't think you'd be so pleased with me being here for you! Well done my girl!"

Karin continued to cry, she didn't like this at all.

But then she felt a hand on her shoulder.

She whizzed around to see that Takumi and Giselle were stood there.

"You did great Karin-chan for your first solo Hollow extermination."

"Thanks. Had a little help from Kanonji though. Dunno how I feel about that."

Takumi gave an awkward chuckle, as Don Kanonji turned an accusing finger towards Takumi.

"You are my rival from here on out!"

"E-Eh?"

Takumi watched as cameras appeared from...he didn't even know where, focusing on both Takumi and Don Kanonji.

"I can see it! People are cheering for you boy! You will be my rival in my show! You are now apart of the cast!"

Takumi's eyes widened in horror while the announcer from before let out a bellowing scream into the microphone.

"Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Don Kanonji has added a new cast member to Spirit Hunter, as his very own rival, Takumi! How is he going to respond!?"

The announcer asked Takumi who looked into the camera shell shocked, then looked to Giselle who shrugged her shoulders, since Karin was in Shinigami form, she couldn't be seen by others.

"Erm...well, that's...eeh..."

Takumi didn't even know how to respond.

"My rival is speechless! Are you worried about the challenge!?"

"Takumi-sama is your rival?" Nemu appeared beside Takumi, who jumped. "The one named Don Kanonji, Takumi-sama shall join your show as your rival."

"Nemu-san...why?"

Takumi cried out, but Nemu stared back at him calmly.

"So I can study the interactions between humans, I wish to understand more, and this shall help broaden my perspective. Please help me with my request Takumi-sama. I shall compensate you for your troubles."

Takumi let out a sad sigh, Don Kanonji raised his hand to the sky and did an odd pose.

"Bwahahahahahaha! The evil rival of mine named Takumi has now joined my show as my rival!" Don Kanonji got close to Takumi's ear, whispering intently. "This will be good for both of us, I've found young talent that I don't have to compete against, and will boost my own show as well. So lets have fun on the show my rival."

Takumi gave him a dry look with his hand shaking.

[Bwahahahahahahahaha! The rival of Don Kanonji, Takumi!]

The crowd cheered from below, only adding fuel to this fire.

The cameras kept switching between the two of them, while the crowd went insane. Takumi sighed deeply, while Nemu looked on with her usual expressions.

---

At the end of the day, Takumi returned back home, still shirtless (he didn't know where it went after he tossed it off, despite looking for it for over twenty minutes), Rukia came up beside him, seeing the wounds on his body.

"That Candice didn't hold back."

"Yeah...but, as I get to know them, I understand that they each have some kind of past. Candice-san said that she witnessed Shinigami allowing humans to be devoured by Hollows, and laughing about it."

Rukia placed a hand on his arm, feeling his warm flesh, and her cheeks turned slightly red, but she fought through that and began using her healing Kido to fix up his wounds.

"It does happen, there are Shinigami out there that love seeing the pain of humans. For the most part, you'll see all sorts of Shinigami that are indeed good, but there are ones that do turn out to be evil."

"I thought so. Heh, at least I managed to survive again."

"Yeah, and you're also becoming an internet sensation. According to Inoue anyway. Though it seems that aren't aware of what happened truly with the Hollow and Quincy girls, thinking it was an elaborate battle between you and the Quincy girls with special effects."

Takumi sighed deeply, feeling as if this was going to become a bother.

"I really don't need that. Even Don Kanonji has called me his so called rival, and now I'm on his show...how did they know my name? They kept calling me Takumi, I don't recall saying my name."

"Well, they were asking around about you, and Yuzu told them your name while Inoue spoke nothing but sweet words about you. It seems that they liked the idea of you from their descriptions of you. But, isn't this everyone's dreams? To be famous?"

"What? On Spirit Hunter with Don Kanonji?"

Rukia released a chortle.

"Well, it might not be so bad. We have serious lives, so why not have some fun every now and again. Besides, you'll gain some fame in this human world. It wouldn't be so bad."

Takumi sweat dropped.

"I suppose I have to see the good side of it if there's anything to enjoy about this...by the way Rukia-chan, I saw you having fun and you were smiling. I'm glad you were able to relax, I can tell you've been feeling stressed lately."

Rukia's lips curled upwards.

"Yeah, today was nice, despite the hectic of the Quincy girls, and the Hollow appearing. It's better than me almost dying last time."

"I guess you're right. Even Nemu-san seemed to be having fun...in her own way. I guess if I end up liking this show stuff, it's thanks to her for her...erm, forwardness I guess?"

Rukia gave Takumi a soft smile, as he did the same thing.

Then she had finished healing his wounds, allowing her soft fingers to slowly slide down his arm.

Neither said anything, and just stared at the other with their smiles showing, but with feelings bubbling underneath, while Nemu watched on from the door, pulling out her notepad.

[According to recent data and my own knowledge I have researched on romantic behaviour from literature, and have been explained to by Kisuke Urahara-san, Rukia Kuchiki-san has growing romantic feelings for Takumi-sama, while Takumi-sama is beginning to feel torn between his feelings for the one known as Orihime Inoue-san, and his growing ones Rukia Kuchiki-san. Continuing observation.]

Nemu put the pad away, continuing to watch as the pair just talked.

It wasn't a deep or meaningful conversation.

It was merely a conversation between the two to get to know one another even more.

But it seemed that they both were becoming slightly aware of what was happening between the two, and neither knew how to approach the subject.

---

Meanwhile, the Quincy's returned back to their base, barring Giselle and Liltotto who had refused to go back after what happened during the night with Don Kanonji and how they had attacked Takumi and the others.

Candice herself had torn feelings on the matter at hand, and what she hadn't revealed is that she was the one who took Takumi's shirt for herself. She didn't know if she hated Takumi, liked him, or somewhere between where she could stand him.

Bambietta walked back into their base, and was wet from head to toe, water was literally flowing off of her body like a river.

"Pft! Hahahahahahahahaha!"

Candice burst into laughter, while Meninas held a hand to her mouth, resisting the urge to giggle.

"Don't laugh at me!"

"I'm sorry but come on!"

Candice laughed louder.

Bambietta scowled even more, twitching her neck side to side.

"Don't laugh, because I'm not holding back...wait, where is Gigi and Lil?"

Meninas looked at Bambietta with a small sigh.

"They aren't coming back."

"Why?!"

"Because of what happened with Don Kanonji."

Bambietta seemed confused.

"Because I punched that idiot Shinigami in the back?"

"They said you went too far, you could have killed him."

"Good! He's a Shinigami, he needs to be stopped! And you attacked him as well Candy! Finish him off!?"

Candice let out a breath, shaking her head.

"No, I couldn't finish him off in the end."

Bambietta released a sigh.

"Fine, whatever. It doesn't matter. Because I've had enough. We're going to all out war with them. This time, I wont be holding back. We wont be holding back. With what I have recently received, it's time for us to move out. With BG5, and an army of Hollows backing us up."

"An army of Hollows?"

Meninas seemed confused, Bambietta smirked, and pulled out what seemed to be a ring.

"Hollow Bait."

Candice observed, Bambietta nodding strongly.

"With wanting to protect this town, and with BG5, we will be able to win this time. We wont lose this time, and soon, the Shinigami will be gone, like they should be."

Bambietta's evil smirk grew on her face.

Candice and Meninas looked between each other, and knew that this was going to become complicated.

Even they could see that Bambietta was going too far.

---

End chapter!

So this was a little relaxing chapter, though we found out a bit more about Candice, how she seems to have some fondness for Don Kanonji, and why she hates Shinigami, Nemu's settling in quite well, taking notes on others for her 'research' and threw Bambietta away to not interfere with the battle, showcasing some attachments to the team, and seems quite intrigued by the relationships between Takumi, Orihime and Rukia. We saw Takumi's ingenuity, his skills in Kido increasing from Hacchi, and his Father teaching him, modifying some Kido to his own personal use, and how he's utilizing his Zanpakuto, and infusing it with technology to create things, he's even training Karin how to use her Shinigami abilities more, how to use flash step among other things. Karin also soloed a Hollow with a little help from Don Kanonji who's named her his disciple, and Takumi's his rival in the showbiz world with how he drew a crowd unwillingly. Giselle also asked Takumi about having her, and Yuzu's Quincy crosses being able to purify Hollows rather than outright destroy them like Quincy's usually do. And finally, Bambietta's getting ready to unleash the Hollow Bait! What's going to come through when she unleashes this Hollow Bait?

Well, until next chapter! Thanks for reading!

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