SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 14 out, this is Chapter 15 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.

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Chapter 15: Urahara Appears! Stop Aizen!

"It's been awhile, Aizen." Urahara greeted.

"Yes, around a hundred years." Aizen agreed.

"In the time I haven't seen you, you've taken up some interesting fashion." Urahara noted.

"Everything in the process of evolving looks ugly." Aizen stated.

"Who said anything about 'ugly'?" Urahara snorted as Aizen's wound closed. "You fused yourself wit the Hōgyoku, haven't you?"

"Not 'fused'." Aizen corrected. "I'd rather you said 'subjugated'; the Hōgyoku you could not control."

"You're right, I couldn't control it." Urahara admitted. "At that time."

"'At that time?'" Aizen echoed. "That is some excuse you have. Though, whether you're trying to make an excuse or not means nothing to me. Because," he Shunpo-ed in front of Urahara and stabbed him with his Zanpakutō. "You have already lost your chance to control the Hōgyoku.

"Rikujōkōrō." the real Urahara pressed a hand on Aizen's back, casting the binding Kido, the figure Aizen had stabbed was revealed to be a portable Gigai.

"Come to think of it, the nonplussed Aizen stated. "Yammy's battle records did list such an item. I let my guard down, figuring you'll never resort to such trickery. So, what do you plan to do now after tying me up with such a weak Bakudō?"

"Such a weak Bakudō?" Urahara echoed. "Then, let's see how many you can take. Bakudō #63: Sajō Sabaku." he tangled Aizen in more light chains. " Bakudō #79: Kuyō Shibari." eight black holes emitting Reiatsu surrounded Aizen, while a ninth manifested itself on the bound traitor's chest. "Limit of the thousands hands, respectful hands, unable to touch the darkness." he followed up by a high level Hadō Kido. "Shooting hands unable to reflect the blue sky. The road that basks in light, the wind that ignited the embers, time that gathers when both are together, there is no need to be hesitant, obey my orders. Light bullets, eight bodies, nine items, book of heaven, diseased treasure, great wheel, gray fortress tower. Aim far away, scatter brightly and cleanly when fired."

"Do you think I'll let you use such a Kido?" Aizen asked. "I can easily break free.."

"Too late." Urahara ended his chant. "Hadō #91. Senjū Kōten Taihō!"

"Incredible." even Komamura was stunned.

"Aizen, it would appear you really did lower your guard when you embedded the Hōgyoku."

"Exactly." the unscathed Aizen agreed, appearing behind the former 12th Squad Captain, his transformation was half-complete. "Too slow." he slashed Urahara with a hand knife. "I did lower my guard. There is no longer any need to be on guard. I can feel it. Even when I was in Soul Society, no one could compare with my powers. But now that I have subjugated the Hōgyoku, my body has surpassed even that. There is no longer any need to dodge a Kido at the nineties level."

"You've got it wrong." Urahara corrected. "Not dodging my Kido isn't what I meant what I said you let your guard down. The old you would never have attempted to attack me twice without thinking." that said, two shackles of Reiatsu lit up on Aizen's wrists.

"This is..." Aizen gasped.

"It's a seal." Urahara explained. "I've sealed the outlets for Reiatsu that are on the wrists of every Shinigami. You will be incinerated from the inside by your ow Reiatsu." with that, Aizen was engulfed by a blinding column of light. "It's not over yet." he informed the Kurosaki family. "It would be child's play if that were all it took to finish him. We could laugh him off as a mere monster. He'll be coming out in no time."

"What the hell is that?" Hirako gaped as Kyōka Suigetsu sliced the light pillar apart and the evolved Aizen walked out.

"Chrysalis form?" Guardian Frost wondered. "What does he think he is, a butterfly?"

"You used a nineties level Kido as a decoy to lure me into attacking." Aizen reasoned, appearing in the middle of the gathered Shinigami and Vizards. "And you used a spell you developed to incinerate me from the inside. If I hadn't been your opponent; no, if it hadn't been me who subjugated the Hōgyoku, the battle would probably have been over. But unfortunately," he plucked out the still glowing bands from his wrists. "The Hōgyoku you created exceeds your ability to understand it. Even this technique you created in anticipation of battling me, has no effect on me." he scattered the bands between his fingers. "Your spell didn't work, so now you're coming at me with your sword?" he inquired when Urahara drew Benihime. "As you wish." he, too drew, Kyōka Suigetsu.

Isshin took the opening to attack Aizen, the former 5th Squad Captain raising a foot to block Isshin's blade. With a kick, he force the sword upwards.

Urahara closed in for an attack, Aizen meeting him sword-to-sword, his foot reaching out to kick Isshin, who blocked it. Twisting his body, Aizen threw both former Shinigami Captains off, only to find himself locked in place with a pair of chains tangled on his sword wrist and ankle.

"What nonsense is this?" Aizen asked. "Do you really think..."

Yoruichi then came in, all four limbs were encased in special armor.

"You're..." Aizen was slammed to the ground by a fist. "Yoruichi?"

With a war cry, Yoruichi started pummeling Aizen with a rain of punches. "Well?" she frowned, Aizen was embedded into the ground. "Did that work?"

"Yoruichi, get out of the way!" Urahara warned.

Yoruichi was taken aback when a burst of Reiatsu erupted from Aizen, the power shattering one of the leg armors she was wearing.

"What's the matter?" Aizen mocked, powering up yet again. "You're not done already, are you? You'd better make your next move quickly. I will crush them one at a time down to your last remaining one. The number of methods you contrived to defeat me is proof of your effort and strength. At the same time, it represents the amount of hopes you hold. If that is so, then what I must do is to crush each one of them. Now, come at me with your next attack, Urahara Kisuke, Shihōin Yoruichi. And, Kurosaki Isshin."

"Here he comes." Urahara reminded.

"I know." Yoruichi replied.

"Yoruichi!" Urahara gasped, when Aizen suddenly knelt between him and Yoruichi, sending the former 2nd Squad Captain into the air with a swing from his sword. He was then forced to fend himself from Aizen's blade as Isshin charged in from behind.

Kicking Urahara away, Aizen turned to engage the Kurosaki patriarch.

Yoruichi came down from above, her right leg stretched to kick Aizen, who merely jumped to dodge the attack.

Not relenting, all three former Captains closed in on Aizen, before being flung off by an explosion of Reiatsu.

"Hey, hey." Kyoraku chided, catching Isshin before he was tossed too far back.

"Careful." Hirako managed to grab Urahara.

"Yoruichi." Komamura cushioned Yoruichi with his body.

"It's useless." Aizen rebuke, catching Lisa's punch with a hand as Rose's whip caught his other wrist. "I'm telling you it's useless." he repeated, Hirako coming out from behind Lisa. With a swing, he tossed Lisa and Hirako off. Still not moving from his position, he fended himself rather easily from the other attackers.

Omake: Shinigami Illustrated Picture Book

Kyoraku: What is this old album? (Muses at the old photo album on the table)

Ukitake: It was left in the Captains' meeting room earlier.

Kyoraku: (Opens the album) Let's have a look.

Ukitake: This is... (Sees the page is of the time where the Vizards were still Shinigami)

Kyoraku: This brings back memories. This is about a century ago.

Ukitake: Everyone is so young.

Kyoraku: (Teasing) Yama-jii hasn't changed much.

Ukitake: (Kyoraku flips to another page) This one's back when we were in the Academy.

Kyoraku: How many centuries was that?

Ukitake: Sensei was young back then.

Kyoraku: (Wide-eyed as he and Ukitake look at each other in shock) He looks exactly the same.

Ukitake: (Stunned) How long has he been like that?

SailorStar9: In the next chapter, Ichimaru pulls a surprising move, abandoning his fight with Ichigo and impales Aizen through the chest with his Bankai. He then reveals that the true ability his Bankai turns his Zanpakutō to dust when it contracts and retracts, capable of leaving a lethal poison in one's body that dissolves it at a cellular rate. Aizen begins to perish as Ichimaru snatches the Hōgyoku, presenting it to Guardian Frost. Claiming the Hōgyoku, the Ice Guardian pulled out a silver key with black stripes around it; a key Isshin recognized from memory.

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