Legacy of the Moon

Arc I: Forbidden End

Chapter 5: Sesshomaru and the Soul Reapers II

Urahara found Head Captain's reaction quite odd and he said to Yoruichi, "Why Head Captain is not concerned about his race? It is almost as if he already knows about such beings." Yoruichi also felt suspicious of Genryusai's words. "Kisuke, I think Head Captain is trying to hide something from us," she replied to him while expressing her doubts about the intentions of the Soul Society. "Don't worry Yoruichi-san, I will not rest until I uncover the truth of this situation. Now I exactly know what we must do," he muttered with a confident smile on his face.

Late night at the riverside park, Karakura town…

Sesshomaru landed in the tranquil environment of the riverside park after finishing some more of the Hollows who were hiding in Karakura town. "I have searched a significant portion of this city and killed hundreds of those creatures but still I do not have even a single clue about the Tensaiga," he muttered while wondering about the whereabouts of those Hollows who stole his sword.

Suddenly a Senkai Gate appeared at a significant distance away from him and the next moment he noticed some humanoid shadows inside that gate. First of all Chojiro Sasakibe came out of it, following him Rukia Kuchiki, Ikkaku Madarame, Yumichika Ayasegawa, Rangiku Matsumoto, Shuhei Hisagi, Tetsuzaemon Iba, Izuru Kira, Renji Abarai, and Marechiyo Omaeda also walked out of that dimensional portal.

While Sesshomaru was still trying to figure out their intentions, all of them stood around him in a circle and slowly drew their respective Zanpakuto out. Chojiro Sasakibe spoke as he took the fighting stance with his Zanpakuto out, "Don't move… you will only end up making life hard for you." Marechiyo Omaeda added, "yeah, just do as we say." Rukia was observing Sesshomaru closely as he wasn't giving any sort of reaction despite being under siege by ten lieutenant-level Shinigami. "Something is not right about him," she murmured in a serious manner. "Yes Rukia, in fact, I was thinking the same," Rangiku responded to her. "So, you sensed that too, Rangiku?" Rukia asked her. "Indeed I did, he is just unbelievably handsome," Rangiku murmured while staring at Sesshomaru. Rukia frowned upon listening to her words and said, "that's not what I meant."

Now Renji spoke while interfering between them, "huh! It doesn't matter whether he is looking handsome or intimidating because soon I am going to chop him to pieces with my Zabimaru." Rukia said to him, "hmm… just watch out for any shortcomings."

Ikkaku, on the other hand, was getting restless to fight against Sesshomaru, "Hah! Stop the guesswork and let's start the fight already, we will get to know him eventually during the battle," he spoke abruptly. "If he is truly so strong then our Captain would love to battle against him," Yumichika responded as well with a smile. Sesshomaru was observing all of them and he had realized that none of them was strong enough to provide him with a decent challenge. "All of them seem to be belonging to a similar race to that of those two against whom I fought yesterday, I do not wish to gain unnecessary attention in this new world but for now neutralizing them is also important," He thought while looking at all those Shinigami.

Now all of them rushed towards the Daiyokai in order to slash him with their Zanpakuto while he immediately unleashed his long yellowish-green glowing whip of energy in his hand and began to swirl it in a circular motion. The next moment, that energy whip clashed with the blades of all those Shinigami and it not only deflected their sword swings but also injured some of them. Before pulling his energy whip back into his nails, Sesshomaru gave it one strong swing which shoved Rukia away upon clashing with her Zanpakuto. All of them didn't even step back completely by now in order to plan their next move while this time the Daiyokai used his demonic speed and knocked Iba down with a strong punch on his jaw. Rukia, on the other hand, tried to get up in the injured state, "are you alright, Rukia?" Renji asked with concern. "Ahhh… I am fine, you have to be careful, Renji… he is strong." She replied while whimpering slowly.

Renji got extremely pissed upon noticing Rukia's injury. "I will kill you bastard, Hihio Zabimaru!" he spoke angrily as he unleashed his Zanpakuto. Chojiro Sasakibe noticed that the morale of the entire team was disturbed, "everyone, stay strong," he spoke while addressing all and then he also commanded the release of his Zanpakuto "Pierce, Gonryomaru!"

Now the rest of them looked towards each other and then Ikkaku said loudly, "Now it will be fun… extend, Hozukimaru!"

After Ikkaku, Yumichika unleashed his Shikai as well, "Bloom, Fuji Kujaku!" he murmured.

"Raise your head, Wabisuke!" Kira spoke as he released his Zanpakuto.

Hisagi uttered while releasing his Shikai, "Reap, Kazeshini!"

"Crush, Gegetsuburi!" Omaeda screamed while unleashing his Zanpakuto.

"Growl, Haineko!" Rangiku spoke as she released her Shikai.

First of all, Ikkaku confronted Sesshomaru and then the former swung his spear-shaped Zanpakuto with great momentum toward the latter. The Daiyokai easily parried that swing by pushing it away with his bare hand. However, Hozukimaru turned into a three-sectional staff (Sansetsukon) but Sesshomaru countered it as well at the same time with the help of his energy whip. Ikkaku was shocked to witness the display of such incredible speed from the Daiyokai but before he could have attacked once again, the disc-like rotating blades of Kazeshini arrived very close to Sesshomaru. He immediately jumped high in the air and successfully dodged the spinning blades while both Yumichika and Kira pursued him in the air. He countered Yumichika's sword swing with the help of a powerful blow from his claw which not only neutralized the Shinigami's attack but also pushed him toward the ground. Yumichika somehow managed to regain his stance in the mid-air and saved himself from getting crashed. "What kind of monster he is… he deflected my Fuji Kujaku's swing with his bare hand, I can't believe this," he murmured upon landing on the ground.

The blades of Kazeshini were still pursuing Sesshomaru in the mid-air. Kira approached him from behind and now Sesshomaru allowed the Kazeshini blades to come closer to him and when they were just about to hit him, he used his demonic speed to grab the chains and then he pulled them in a way that Kira had to counter them with his Wabisuke. Since the Daiyokai was holding the chains hence he immediately sensed the increase in its weight and it was enough for him to figure out that somehow they were getting heavier upon clashing with Kira's sword. The next moment, he hit Kira with those blades a few more times, making them heavier enough to make him crash into the ground along with them.

Now both Chojiro and Rangiku took a few steps back in order to have an opening to attack while Omaeda was simply unable to attack him out of fear. Meanwhile, Sesshomaru landed on the ground after taking care of both Kira and Kazeshini but now Renji was approaching him with great anger. He swung the extendable blade of Zabimaru on him which the Daiyokai deflected by using his energy whip. Renji immediately used the flash step technique and came close to him for an opening. However, before he could have swung his sword at Sesshomaru, the latter shoved him back by hitting him with a powerful kick in the chest.

Next, Sesshomaru turned around and noticed that both Ikkaku and Yumichika were about to attack him once again. Just as they arrived close enough to him and swung their respective Zanpakuto, he used his poison claw technique and severely damaged their swords with a powerful clash while both of them also received some burns due to the splashed fumes of the poison.

Suddenly Rangiku's voice echoed, "Neko Rinbu!" The next moment, a cloud of ash enveloped Sesshomaru and then she began to move the hilt of her Zanpakuto as if she is cutting something. However, after some time she realized that there wasn't a single cut on his body. "Your technique is not strong enough to penetrate my demonic aura," Sesshomaru said to Rangiku while casually walking out of the ash, scattering it away like a mere dust cloud by using some of his demonic energy. Now before she could have used any other technique, Sesshomaru directed the released demonic energy right on her in the form of a surge which not only neutralized her Zanpakuto but also shoved her a significant distance away.

Hisagi shouted upon seeing Rangiku in such a condition, "RANGIKU-SAN!" he shouted further at Sesshomaru, "Damn! You… Bakudo 62, Hyapporankan!" Whilst in the air, Hisagi generated a blue-white glowing rod of energy in his hand which he threw towards the Daiyokai. Suddenly the rod got multiplied into a hundred more rods, which started to rain down on him. However, the Bakudo technique proved to be useless against his superior demonic abilities because he dodged each and every single rod which was thrown at him.

Hisagi was terribly shocked by the scenario and he couldn't believe that he managed to dodge all of them. The next moment he felt a tight rope-like grip around his neck which was actually Sesshomaru's energy whip. On the other hand, the Daiyokai noticed that Renji had gotten up and thus he didn't waste much time on Hisagi and shoved him very hard into the ground using the energy whip, making him unconscious.

Now he walked towards Marechiyo Omaeda who couldn't even move his body out of fear since he was clearly seeing the consequences of facing Sesshomaru all around him. However, Renji swung his extendable blade towards Sesshomaru from behind the moment he was about to hit Omaeda. The scared fat Shinigami used this opportunity to run away from the Daiyokai while the latter grabbed Zabimaru with both of his claws and to Renji's surprise he ripped it off like a rope.

Omaeda approached Chojiro Sasakibe and began to request him to use his Bankai while Sesshomaru, on the other hand, approached unarmed Renji with cold and serious expressions on his face. "Master Genryusai's order will be followed at any cost. I will not hesitate to use any means in order to capture you," Chojiro spoke loudly and anxiously. "You hurt Rukia… I won't spare you no matter how powerful you are… Higa Zekko!" Renji also muttered angrily while hitting the ground with his broken Zanpakuto. Now all the disconnected and broken segments of Zabimaru started to levitate in the air right above Sesshomaru while Chojiro's spiritual pressure was skyrocketing as he was about to release his Bankai.

Chojiro shouted loudly, "deal with this you monster… BANKAhhh!" Before he could have released his Bankai, Yoruichi hit his neck from behind with a powerful Karate chop which put him out of his senses for the time being. "Well, that was pretty easy," She said with a smile while standing right behind fallen Chojiro. "Bakudo 81, Danku!" Urahara's voice echoed and a rectangular invisible barrier appeared right above Sesshomaru which stopped the one-shot omnidirectional attack of Renji before it could hit him. Upon noticing that both Urahara and Yoruichi had interfered from his side, Sesshomaru muttered to them "that was an unnecessary interference."

"No, it was very necessary since these are our friends and we didn't want anyone of them to die by your hands," Yoruichi replied him. Sesshomaru responded to her words, "Hmm… fair enough." She added while smiling at him, "and you don't seem to be a bad guy either so we didn't want our friends to hurt you as well."

"You have to admit that you don't know much about our world but we are willing to help you with all the information you need because even we want this matter to get resolved as soon as possible," Urahara said to Sesshomaru, "with the least possible violence… however, we will need your cooperation to do this," the Shinigami added.

Yoruichi spoke while walking up to Sesshomaru, "he is right, come to our home, so that we can discuss the rest over there." Sesshomaru replied, "Hmm… very well." Now Urahara took out his cell phone and called on his shop's number, "Tessai, come to the riverside park along with Jinta and Ururu. Some lieutenants are lying unconscious over here… some of them need medical attention as well."

Later that night, the Urahara Shop…

Sesshomaru and Urahara were sitting in the living room while Yoruichi was preparing food for everyone. "We were close to the riverside park, that's why it didn't take us long to reach there but I must say that you managed to beat them up pretty badly in such a short time."

"Hmm…!" Sesshomaru responded coldly to which Urahara smiled and said, "huh! It looks like you won't talk about anything except the important stuff."

After finishing all the chores, Yoruichi joined them as well, "okay, so let's begin like this, tell us about yourself, like..what's your name?" She asked in a pleasant tone. "Sesshomaru!" He replied.

"Finally! You are talking to us," Urahara responded.

"So, where is your home, Sesshomaru?" Yoruichi asked the Daiyokai.

"It doesn't concern you, once I find my sword, I will leave."

"Hmm… so, he is simply searching for his sword and most probably he believes that it is stolen by the Hollows." Urahara pondered upon listening to Sesshomaru's reply.

"So, umm… what are you exactly? I mean, it's obvious that you are not anything that we are aware of," She asked with great curiosity.

"I am a Daiyokai."

"Ooohh! A demon!" Yoruichi responded with a surprised expression.

"There are many Yokai almost as many as that of the humans, Hanyo are also there but the lowest in numbers are the Daiyokai, the most powerful among my kind. We coexist in the same world but it looks like..none of us survived until this era," Sesshomaru spoke further.

His words amazed Urahara even more than before and he couldn't help but ask abruptly, "in this era?… Are you implying that you belong to some other timeline?"

"After observing your world and the type of things available here, I presume that my timeline is hundreds of years behind yours."

"That's unbelievable but how did you manage to come in our time?" Urahara asked him further.

"I came here through a well, in your time it is inside a house in a city south of yours," Sesshomaru answered.

"Wow! Something like this exists in the World of the Living and yet we weren't even aware of it," Urahara muttered with a smile.

Now Sesshomaru took out a small piece of a remnant of Hollow-mask and said while handing it over to Urahara, "those Hollows who stole my sword, they dropped this near me." Urahara immediately analyzed it using his machines and spoke to Sesshomaru while returning it to him, "this is a Hollow-mask remnant of a female Vasto Lorde, I wonder if it's a clue or a trap."

"Then it seems I have to find her," the Daiyokai uttered while putting the mask remnant back in his kimono.

Afterward, as the discussion continued, Sesshomaru told them a lot of things about his time after which Urahara concluded that he belonged to the Feudal Era, at least 500 years before now. On the other hand, both Urahara and Yoruichi also told him a lot of things about their time and the other worlds such as human development, Shinigami, Soul Society, Hollows, Hueco Mundo, etc. All of a sudden Urahara stopped talking and began to think something very deeply.

Yoruichi noticed him and asked, "what happened, Kisuke?" Urahara snapped out of his thoughts and replied, "It's nothing, Yoruichi-san!" She narrowed her eyes at him. "There's something, now say it," she insisted. "Yoruichi-san, if demons existed until 500 years ago then why didn't we ever find them? And why Soul Society doesn't have even a single record of their existence?" Urahara spoke while expressing his doubts which made her serious as well. "You are making sense, Kisuke… now I really think that the Head Captain is hiding something big from us as well as from the entire Soul Society," Yoruichi replied. "I am 500 years ahead in time which means something happened within these 500 years which wiped out our existence," Sesshomaru responded to their conversation.

Now all three of them got quiet for a few moments but Yoruichi broke the silence as she said, "Let's just think about how we can find the Tensaiga."

"You are right Yoruichi-san…"

"Sesshomaru, I am pretty sure that you will find your Tensaiga in the Hueco Mundo," Yoruichi muttered to him.

"Hmm… the world of the Hollows?" Sesshomaru responded.

"Yes, and the good news is, we can send you there," Yoruichi spoke with a smile.

"Yoruichi-san, we also have to sneak into the Soul Society and check the ancient records. I need to fix my Zanpakuto as well."

"We will get Isshin's help in the Soul Society," she replied to Urahara.

Soon all three of them moved to the basement of the shop which was actually a gigantic training space with artificial daylight and where the device to open a Garganta was situated. Urahara said to Sesshomaru while activating the portal, "Garganta are very unstable dimensional portals, so just push your way to the Hueco Mundo using your demonic energy because if once you get trapped into the dimensional gap then we will never be able to bring you back."

"And try not to gain unnecessary attention over there," Yoruichi advised him as well. "I am not a kid," Sesshomaru responded to her and then they looked at each other with soft expressions before he entered the Garganta without any fear or hesitation the moment it appeared above Urahara's setup.

To be continued…

Author's Note:

Hello, my dear readers, I hope you are enjoying the story so far. The initial phase of the ongoing Arc is finished with this chapter. Now the middle phase will commence from the next chapter and is going to be about Sesshomaru's adventures in the Hueco Mundo. So far the story must have left you with several questions but I assure you that sooner or later all these questions will be answered in the future chapters. If you have read all the chapters so far or even some of them then let me know through your valuable comments/reviews what you think about the story. Or you guys can also ask me questions or doubts if you have any. I will be looking forward to your comments.

Take care and stay tuned…