SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 5 out, this is Chapter 6 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny. Heck, even the pairings aren't mine.

Chapter 6: Hisagi and Tōsen, the Moment of Parting

"Mashiro..." Mashiro shot down towards Wonderweiss, both feet outstretched. "Drop Kick!" she slammed the child-like Arrancar onto the ground. "Victory!" she posed.

"Hey." Hitsugaya voiced. "I need to talk to you."

"What is it?" Hiyori asked. "Make it short. And if it's about who we are, then forget it."

"I don't care about that anymore." Hitsugaya assured. "I need a favor. I know I shouldn't be asking this of strangers like you, but could you handle this Espada? I want to fight Aizen."

"Excuse me!" Hiyori snapped. "What are you, stupid? We came here to murder that baldly Aizen. Instead, we saw you guys getting your asses whooped and decided to save your butts, albeit reluctantly. So why the hell should we let you you Aizen first, huh?"

"I'm going on ahead." Lisa was not in the mood and shot off towards Halibel.

"You're my first opponent, huh?" Halibel dodged Lisa's sword and blocked off her elbow with a hand. "I thought I was going to fight you three against one."

"What a coincidence." Lisa retorted. "I was thinking the same thing." she freed herself and stuck, Halibel dodging the blade. She then fended off the Espada's broadsword with her weapon.

"We'll settle this later." Hiyori snorted. "Let's go."

Parrying Lisa off, Halibel turned and swatted both Hiyori and Hitsugaya off. "It's finally three on one." she managed to force Hiyori and Hitsugaya to keep their distance and pointed her Zanpakutō at Lisa. "That's a good handicap."

"Are you sure you want to remove your masks?" Stark asked his new opponents.

"We can only keep them on for three minutes." Love explained. "Now then, let's begin. That gun can fire Ceros?" he whined, both he and Rose dodging Stark's pistol beam.

"Who are you?" Baraggan asked.

"It's been a while," Hachi greeted Suì-Fēng. "Suì-Fēng."

"I do not know you." Suì-Fēng silenced her babbling Lieutenant with a punch. "I've never seen you before."

"I thought you would say that." Hachi sighed. "You don't think very highly of us. I suppose it's only natural."

"Whatever." Baraggan scoffed. "It doesn't matter who you are and what powers you have. Those things are meaningless to me. All are equal before my power. Now then, turn to bones and perish. Respira." he let his miasma loose.

Clapping his hands together, Hachi locked Baraggan and the cloud of gas in a cross-shaped Kido box.

"Kido, huh?" Baraggan mused.

"I've seen that you have the power to age the things you touch." Hachi stated. "That is why I have come here. All powers are equal if they do not make contact. I have nothing to fear from your powers."

"I see." Baraggan reached out a hand and melted the Kido barrier away.

"Hisagi..." Komamura blinked at the Lieutenant. Are his injuries healed? No, I don't even need to ask him that. He's obviously pushing himself.

"It's been a while, Tōsen." Hisagi greeted his former Captain. "So now, I'll use every skill you've taught me to bring you back to your senses and bring you back to Soul Society."

"You?" Tōsen mocked. "Bring me to my senses? You haven't changed. Suzumushi." he loosened the chain's hold on his Zanpakutō. "Hisagi, I thought I told you 'Those who do not know fear have no right to go into battle.' You haven't changed at all. Even now, your words don't a shred of fear in them."

"Behind you, Hisagi!" Komamura barked a warning after Tōsen dodged Hisagi's charge, the Lieutenant barely having the time to raise his crossed blades to defend himself.

"You do not know true fear." Tōsen droned. "You cannot defeat me." he kicked Hisagi off.

"Foolish ants." Baraggan mocked. "Did you think that Kido do not age? How laughable. People die, animals die, plants die, and even Shinigami die. Aging exists in anything that dies. The things that people create die. The Kido that Shinigami create is no different. There may be Kido that can last for a thousand years, but there is no Kido that can continue for eternity. It's only natural. 'Eternity' is an delusion that was created out of the ear of aging. I'm starting to get bored of playing with ants. Let's end this. Now then, perish!" he exuded his black miasma once more.

Hachi shifted forward and readied his next Kido spell.

"I told you that it would rot." Baraggan snorted when a wall of white blocks manifested between him and his opponents.

"Brethren-in-arms withdrawing for the distance of 8 sun and standing still; blue bolt, white bolt, black bolt, red bolt; sinking into the ocean together seeking redemption." Hachi began his Kido incantation.

"A follow-up incantation," Baraggan noted. "Chants added to Kido without an incantation in order to strength a barrier. How clever, but you're not going to make it in time."

"Ryūbi no Jōmon!" Hachi cast his spell. "This completes it!" he ended the barrier structure with a wide beam across it's breadth.

"That's an impressive trick." Baraggan remarked.

"Suì-Fēng." Hachi turned to the 2nd Squad Captain. "Please lend me your strength. I need the power of your Bankai."

"You even know about my Bankai?" Suì-Fēng hissed. "That man... he never ceases to annoy me."

"I can understand you not wanting to work with us, who are associated with Urahara." Hachi explained. "But you must also understand this, this isn't the time to be saying things like that. Very well then, I'll offer you a deal."

"How worthless." Baraggan scoffed. "Even something as grand as this is only good enough to buy yourself some time. Rot." he raised a hand when he realized Hachi's Kido spell was not complete.

"Kokō no Jōmon!" Hachi solidified his next barrier. "Kigai no Jōmon!" the hexagonal shards of his next barrier fitted into place. "Hōyoku no Jōmon!" a fire circle appeared above the other three Kido spells as planks descended downward from the fire circle. The flames then extinguished, the planks closing in to form a lampshade-like structure. "Shijū no Saimon!" he ended the massive Kido, locking Baraggan in a black transparent cube.

"How laughable." Baraggan mocked. "Do you think you've sealed me away? How ridiculous. You really are just trying to buy yourself some time. I control aging. Trying to buy yourself time is like spitting at a god. Though I suppose I should commend your pitiful efforts."

"That barrier is not meant to seal you away." Hachi corrected. You avoided Captain Suì-Fēng's Bankai by releasing your aging powers on it, detonating it before it hit and directed the blast away from you. In that case, if you were in a place where you couldn't escape the force of the blast, and if you were at a distance at which your aging powers couldn't work fast enough, what would happen?"

"You bastards!" Baraggan spat, Suì-Fēng's Jakuhō Raikōben missile was already pointed at him through the gap of the Kokō no Jōmon.

"Promise me one more time." Suì-Fēng instructed. "That tomorrow, you'll trap Urahara Kisuke in one of your barriers for a month."

"I promise." Hachi confirmed.

"All right." Suì-Fēng smirked. "Jakuhō Raikōben!" she fired off the missile directly at Baraggan.

"Oh dear..." Ichimaru sighed.

"It looks like another one of your allies has gone down." Hirako grinned.

Omake: Karakura Town: Secrets of the Seven Mysteries

Keigo: Hey, Ichigo, do you know about this town's seven wonders?

Ichigo: Seven wonders?

Keigo: Our town has seven urban legends. One of them involves our school. Late at night, when nobody's around, you can sometimes hear guitar noises coming from the music room.

That night, Ichigo in Shinigami form returned to Karakura High.

Ichigo: (In front of the music room) This is some terrible guitar playing. Hey! (Flings the door open) You there! I'll perform a Konso on you, so stop that terrible guitar playing. (Bewildered when a tearing Hisagi comes into view)

SailorStar9: In the next chapter, Baraggan survives Suì-Fēng's Bankai, though half his face has been destroyed. In anger, he fires out his Respira attack until he rots away Hachi's right hand. However, Hachi removes his hand using a barrier and transports it inside Baraggan's body, causing him to start deteriorating painfully. Baraggan tosses his ax at Aizen, but it disintegrates and Baraggan dies. Stark shows distress at his death and vows to avenge him.

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