Me: wow. I would just like to say that I am very sorry for making everyone wait for me to update. I have summer homework to do and less than two weeks to do it. XP oh well *sigh* well here is Chapter 15 part 1.

Karin: yay! Winter does NOT own Bleach. Now…if you will kindly excuse me, I need to go beat up something…or someone… *evil laugh*

Me: eh… *sweatdrop* Okay then enjoy!

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Allegiance

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Stephany's POV

(One day later)

Soul Society

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"Grandfather… I will give you a few more days, and then I will reclaim my position as Head Captain." I said.

"Well, what about that girl…Karin? What about her?" Grandfather asked.

"That is none of your concern." I said rather coldly.

Grandfather just flinched and became quite.

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Ten Years later

Soul Society… Captain's Meeting

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"Now, because of the Aizen issue, I am sure you all know about it by now, I have decided to test each captain here and try and find three other people to fill in for the Captains that are missing. Any questions or objections?" I asked. I looked around and Kenpachi caught my eye and I nodded, indicating that he was allowed to speak.

"How ya gonna test us?" he asked.

"I will personally fight you." I said and smiled.

Kenpachi nodded and then he smiled, thinking of a rematch with me.

"I will also need, like it or not, to see each and every one of your Bankai." I said and Kenpachi stiffened. "If there are no more questions, then you are all dismissed." I said.

All of the Captains filed out except one, who started to walk towards me, head slightly looking down. When he approached me, I looked at him.

"Yes, what do you need, Kenpachi?" I asked.

"Idonthaveabankai." He mumbled out.

"What? Speak up." I said gently.

"I said that I don't have a freaking Bankai." He yelled at me. Then he took deep breaths to calm himself down.

"Well then we will just have to take care of that now wont we." I said and smirked.

"Huh? How are you going to do that? I don't even have a freaking Spirit." He said.

I just smiled at him. "May I please see your sword?"

Kenpachi looked down at his sword and then back up at me. Then he slowly withdrew his sword from its sheath and handed it to me.

I closed my eyes and concentrated on the sword, trying to reach the spirit.

Kenpachi's sword began to respond to me and it started to glow a magnificent yellow.

I opened my eyes and smiled once again.

"Captain, may I have permission to speak to your zanpaktou?" I asked.

"Sure…if you can." He said.

"Thanks." I said and then closed my eyes once again.

"Please. If you can hear me, please respond." I thought. I heard a slight rumble and then a voice spoke.

"Yes, I am here. I have been here for a long time and would love to come out." A deep like voice called out.

I opened my eyes to see not the room where the captains meet, but an open plain. The grass was a yellow color (like in Africa). But what made my eyes pop out was what was coming towards me… a Lion. Its yellow mane was beautiful…the whole creature was. Then I found myself chuckling.

"Wow. You are a beautiful creature." I said.

The Lion looked at me and spoke. "Why thank you, Im flattered." It rumbled. I started making my way towards the beautiful beast and saw that I started to extend my arm.

"May I?" I asked.

For an answer, the Lion just approached me and rubbed its giant head against my hand. I slid my hand through its mane over and over again. I just couldn't get over the sheer beauty of the Lion.

I smiled and when into thought. Of course Kenpachi's spirit was a Lion…everything pointed to it. The way the big captain spoke, the way he fought, and heck, even the way his hair was, pointed to a Lion…or a creature similar to one. And then something struck me as funny. Rangiku's spirit was a cat…or more like a midnight panther and Kenpachi was a lion. I thought that that was relatively funny seeing how those two (meaning Kenpachi and Rangiku) were together and both of their spirits were cats.

I looked at the lion and then spoke. "Will you revel yourself to the Captain for me?" I asked him. The Lion nodded and I smiled. "I would like to thank you for allowing me to come here and see you." I said.

The huge cat pulled his head up gently and rubbed against my stomach and let out a nice deep purr. I smiled. Then I thought something funny. Kenpachi and the Lion both had deep voices, and both of them also liked to be in control of most things. I reluctantly pulled away from the Lion and slightly bowed at the waist.

The Lion looked slightly shocked.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"You just bowed to me…" It said and I smiled, understanding. It is very rare to find me bowing to anyone, unless that had my total respect.

"You deserve it." I said. "Um, I think that I have to be going now. Tonight, please talk to the Captain and I will fight both of you in two days time." I said. The Lion nodded.

I stood up fully and closed my eyes. "Goodbye." I heard him say, and then he was gone.

When I opened my eyes, I was lying on the floor and Kenpachi was looking at me warily.

"What?" I asked him.

"Nothing… I was just wondering if you were able to see my spirit or not." He said.

"OH HECK YEAH I SAW HIM!" I yelled and then lowered my voice.

"So my spirit is a boy…huh." Kenpachi said and I sweatdropped.

"Okay…well how long was I out?"

"Five minutes at most."

"Okay, well I have to get going, but I am going to fight you in two days. Tonight, you will meet him, tomorrow, you will train, and then in two days, you will fight. All clear?"

"Yeah…" he said and then walked away.

~ WAITY? ~

Two days later

Stephany vs. Kenpachi

"Are you ready to fight, Kenpachi?" I asked him.

"You bet…and everyone is in for quite a surprise." He said and grinned.

I nodded and then spoke to all of the Captains that were here. "You are not required to win, just to show me your abilities." Then I turned towards Kenpachi. "You ready?"

Kenpachi nodded and took his stance.

I smiled in anticipation and nodded. "Ready, set…GO!" I yelled.

Kenpachi quickly drew his sword and then charged towards me. When he was arms length away, he swung his sword down, trying to inflict some sort of damage before he used his "secret weapon". Even there were a few well-aimed swings; he still couldn't hit me because I was just too fast for him. So, he decided to use him.

Kenpachi chuckled and then called out loud and clear. "Blaze, Shishi no Hono!"

I stopped running to look at what his sword would do and I was not disappointed. Kenpachi's reitsu increased about ten times more. Then Kenpachi's sword was enveloped in a glowing yellow light. Then it released a bright light, temporally blinding everybody, but when the light died down, right beside the large Captain stood the Lion.

I looked around and almost everybody looked stunned. Even Byakuya Kuchiki had his mouth hanging slightly open.

"Oh, I didn't know that you were trying to catch flies Captain Kouchiki." I said and then looked at his reaction. I smiled when he looked even more stunned and just simply for his sake, didn't respond, as to hold any dignity he had left.

I quickly returned my attention back to Kenpachi, who was now starting to charge at me, the Lion right on his heels. As Kenpachi was about two feet from me, he swung his sword down, but what surprised me was that he completely missed me. As I was wondering why he did that, I soon found out the answer. Me hesitating one second let Kenpachi's plan fall into place. As I was looking at Kenpachi's zanpaktou, the Lion jumped at me, his claws outstretched.

"Oh so it was a diversion when Kenpachi missed me. Wow, that was well planned; and in all honesty, I was impressed. However, I had a strong felling that Kenpachi was not the one who planed it… I suspect that his Lion gave most of the advice to the Captain when they were training yesterday."

"Very nice Kenpachi. That was a great strategy but this battle is far from being won." I said and then attacked him myself. I used my light speed (A/N: Light Speed is so much faster than shunpo…the light speed is as fast –or faster- than light itself.) I made my dragon tail appear and swung it down upon Kenpachi's head from behind him, wondering what would happen; and what did happen surprised me. Kenpachi's Lion jumped head first into Kenpachi's stomach and sent him flying backwards and as my tail descended on the Lion, dust flew everywhere. When the dust cleared, the Lion was lying in front of me, unmoving and Kenpachi was sitting in some rubble from the wall he flew through. I just shrugged it off for the moment and turned my attention to Kenpachi, who looked beyond stunned.

"Wh…what? Shishi…no…" he growled and then turned towards me, and his reiatsu just continued to rise. However, I was unaffected by it.

"I will kill you for what you did to him…" he said and then disappeared. I looked calmly around for him and then looked up and saw his sword descending upon my head. I closed my eyes and swung my tail up over my head and it collided with Kenpachi's sword. Kenpachi was pushing down as hard as he could and as I was resisting, his force was so strong, that where I was standing, there was a forming crater. I smirked and pushed my tail up easily and Kenpachi went flying.

When Kenpachi stood up, he had a somewhat surprised look on his face, but the look disappeared quickly, and to replace the surprise look, determination flooded his eyes.

I sighed and decided that it was around time to end the battle. I stood and crouched down like a cat, ready to pounce on its prey. I smiled and my teeth got sharper and then I charged. Just as I was closing in on Kenpachi, I heard something behind me and before I could turn around, something hit me dead on my back.

I roared out of pain and anger and transformed. After I had transformed into my dragon form, I looked down and saw a small puddle of blood from my back as a human. I stood up but then roared very loudly. My back was hurting me.

Kenpachi was looking at me closely, trying to guess what I would do next.

I closed, my eyes and my whole body was enveloped in a green light. I felt the large pain in my back disappear and I stood up to full height and looked around. I was still wondering what had hit my back until my eyes found the answer. I had failed to notice in my moments of pain that Kenpachi's Lion had returned to battle and was standing by the Captain, waiting for me to make my next move.

After five seconds, my back was fully healed and I was ready to fight once again. I roared to indicate that I was going to attack, but I had a power that no one knew about. I smiled and then as I was running towards the Captain and the Lion, I duplicated myself. When I reopened my eyes, I stood in front of Kenpachi and there were four other clones that made a circle around the challengers.

"Wind Hurricane!" I roared and the sky turned dark grey and it started to rain on just Kenpachi and the Lion. The rain was pouring down hard and I could just barley see Kenpachi's form. Then I roared and the rain stopped immediately. I looked down and saw that Kenpachi was soaked and the Lion had retreated back into the form of the sword. I looked at Kenpachi and the spoke.

"This is your one chance to leave almost completely unharmed."

"Your joking right? There is no way that I would stop a battle like this. Its getting to be so much fun." He said.

"Very well, I will finish you with one last attack…" I said. "Fire-Lightning Strike!" I yelled and five huge bolts of lightning came down and struck Kenpachi. Kenpachi didn't have enough time to get away, so the attack made a direct hit. Then, to finish the job, I recalled my clones to me and then I swung my tail down and made yet another direct hit to Kenpachi… the fight was over.

I turned around and looked at all of the Captains and Lieutenants. I started to laugh because most of them had their mouths open. I used my light speed and got my camera from my room and hurried back. Before anyone knew it, I had taken a picture of everyone who had a funny face. Even Captain Kuchiki had his mouth hanging open once again and the look of astonishment written all over his face.

"Nice look you got going on there, Byakuya." I said and then turned to face Captain Unohana who looked like she was ready to run out and look at Kenpachi.

"Go ahead." I said and she wasted no time running to look at him.

"Rangiku, you may go as well." I said, not even looking at her.

I heard Rangiku start to run over to Kenpachi's side and I smiled. Of course she would be worried about him. With this thought in mind, I became somewhat depressed as I remembered Karin, who had agreed to stay in the human world with Yuki because she didn't want for Yuki to have a hard childhood because of her father. I sighed and wondered how they were. Karin and I agreed that I would reclaim my place here in Seireitei and Karin would stay in the human world. Karin and I had made that decision ten long years ago. Yuki was probbley now around fifteen. I bet that she had grown drastically. I smiled, trying to picture what Yuki now looked like. I was still upset because Karin had ardently persisted that I leave and quote "take everything of Soul Society, back with me". That hurt me when Karin had spoke those words. I had said a quick good bye to Yuki and then I left and came to Soul Society. Man, do I miss those two so much…

Just as I thought about the two, that was when disaster struck. Everyone could feel a reiatsu heading towards where we all were. I became worried as I noticed whom the reiatsu belonged to … Karin.

I transformed back into my human form and ran to meet her. I was surprised to see Karin's eyes were very close to tears.

"K-Karin!" I yelled and embraced her. Karin looked like she had been holding in her tears for some time, and she suddenly let them out. Karin was sobbing on my chest. After a good ten minutes of calmly talking, Karin composed her self the best she could and faced me.

"Stephany. It is great to see you." She said. "I have missed you dearly. However, I am very sad to say that I am not here to catch up with you… I come with a piece of good news and a piece of very bad news, but I need to speak with you privately." Karin said, looking around. I nodded and then spoke.

"Everyone please leave. We will continue tomorrow, but for now, everyone is dismissed and is allowed, if they wish, to take the day off." I said and I saw that I brightened up many people. Quicker than I thought possible, everyone but one particular captain left.

"K-Karin… may I stay?" the small captain asked.

Karin growled but nodded because she needed to tell me the news, quickly.

"Okay, the good news is that my brother, Ichigo and Rukia, got married maybe a few months after you left and they just had a baby two weeks ago." She said.

"Karin, that's great! Please give them my hello and congratulations." I said but then caught Karin's look. I looked around, but noticed something was missing. I swallowed, getting an idea about the bad news, but not really wanting to confirm it, but it had to be done.

"…And the bad news?" I whispered, getting too scared to hear the answer.

I heard Karin take a large and deep breath before continuing.

"The bad news is that… Yuki has disappeared."

"No…" I whispered. Karin had confirmed my fear… Yuki wasn't with Karin, and I couldn't feel her reiatsu anywhere.

"Yuki… missing…" I whispered and a single Dragon Tear formed and dropped to the ground…

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Me: well I hope everyone liked this chapter, and I am so very sorry about being so late to update. It is 1:30 AM here so I am tired, but I have good news. The next chapter is called "Shiroi Yuki". The reason for this chapter will be explained in the second part of this chapter. I am coming to an end with WAITY? - Meaning that this story is almost over- … yes I am very sad but I have good news. I already have a sequel planed. That story is going to be called, "Legacy". Well that's all, and please REVIEW!!! Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed and have fun with the cliffhanger. Until next time…