Chapter 23 – Old Foes Die Hard

'I know that voice,' exclaimed Crystal as everyone turned round it was Usaitar! 'Usaitar, no it can't be. You're dead! No.' Crystal's voice was filled with fear. Usaitar was lowering himself slowly from a black hole in the sky which was probably a gateway to hueco mundo.

'How can this be, I saw you get vaporized with my own eyes,' shouted Haruka.

'Ha ha ha, how much of an idiot can you be? What you saw, was my sword vaporizing a image of me,' said Usaitar calmly as he slowly approached the group. Everyone had drew their sword and Ketu has already backed off to protect Ratiasu.

'What is this nonsense you speak of?' asked Raven insultingly calmly.

Usaitar stopped about ten metres in front of them, 'Nonsense? I don't speak nonsense, I speak the truth.'

'Then tell me, what is this crap about your sword vaporizing an image of you?'

'That, is the ability of my sword, watch, I'll demonstrate.' He unsheathed his sword which was just half the blade and he held it pointing at Hisaigo. A second later Hisaigo was, what looked like breaking apart, and his pieces changed into small blades which pieced themselves together onto Usaitar's sword. 'Hisaigo was just half of my sword you see. My sword's ability is that it's able to split into half, keeping its full strength, and the other half becomes a person who I named Hisaigo who acts under my command and he gets half the strength of my sword. Also the sword can create mirror images of me and I can use them as a decoy, or to fool you as I have done before only bad thing is that the mirror image can't do anything except act. Pretty amazing abilities aren't they?'

'Shit, if that was only half his strength I'd hate to see his full strength,' thought Ketu suddenly becoming frightened.

'Such a shame, I was planning on Hisaigo to wipe you all of you nosy kids out so I don't have to get my hands dirty. But I guess I underestimated a certain Miss Haruka Rose, who'd have guess you had already achieved bankai and can wield so much power perfectly. I must commend you on defeating my sword even if it was only half the power,' said Usaitar with a smirk on his face.

'What are you doing back here anyway?' said Haruka with force behind her words.

'Calm down Haruka or should I say Rika? Isn't that what everyone calls you round here?' Haruka didn't answer, she just stared at him with an expression of hatred. So Hisaigo continued 'Don't worry I'm certainly not here to hurt anyone, not yet anyway, I especially wouldn't attack when my sister is in that state,' he said and nodded at Ratiasu. 'I really must apologize for Hisaigo's ruthless on her, I actually instructed him not to cause her any pain, ah well he got what he deserved all the same.' Ketu looked as if he was ready to kill but didn't dare make a move. No one spoke, everyone stood there. 'Did I make you all speechless? I came here to have a nice chat, don't freeze out on me.'

'How can you expect us to have a friendly chat with you after all that you have done?' shouted Crystal eyeing him viciously.

'Ah touché. I guess I'm not welcome here am I?'

'No, you're certainly not welcome here ever again,' said Naomi with a distinct tone of dislikeness.

Usaitar didn't seem the least bit offended as he carried on smiling, 'Such a shame. I was really enjoying the sights here as well.'

'Well nobody wants you here so why don't you take a hint and get lost,' shouted Crystal forcefully.

'I can not do that just yet, I did not come here to fight this time so no need to be so hostile is there?' Again no one answered, 'I came to help out my dear sister, after all I think Hisaigo did go a little overboard with her.' He started walking towards Ratiasu Ketu automatically stepped in his way.

'Don't take another step towards her or else!' he said through gritted teeth.

'My, my. Such violence, don't worry I won't hurt her, I've already gotten all the information I have from her. So there is no need for me to harm her anymore just yet, all I wish is for her to be well for our next encounter, because at that time it will be when I shall complete my destiny and rule over all of soul society. So please move out of my way,' he seemed so polite when he said this it almost made him humane.

Ketu didn't budge, 'Never, I will not let you come any closer to Terri.'

'Terri? Is that her Nickname? I must say, you have given her quit a cute name, it indeed suits her.' He sighed, 'It's ok if you don't want to move, I can understand why. No matter, I'll just healed her from this distance then.' He then chucked something into the air from his hand, it looked like a ball of white substance. The ball shattered above Ratiasu and rained on her, she glowed slightly and nothing happened after that.

'What did you do, tell me,' demanded Ketu grabbing Usaitar.

'Calm down my friend.'

'NEVER call me your friend,' shouted Ketu in his face.

'Alright, easy now,' Usaitar grabbed Ketu's hand and easily removed it from his clothes. 'Don't you worry, all I did was give her some healing energy that will heal her inner wounds, the ones that her bankai's ability can't heal. Maybe now you understand where he healing ability comes from, it comes from our parents who were the best squad four members at the time more than five hundred years ago. So we both inherited their amazing healing abilities. Though I must say, they haven't come in use for me much at all, but at least my sister's ability has served her well.' He walked calmly and slowly away from them.

'Hey where are you off to, I thought you wanted to take over sou society,' shouted Haruka after him. Naomi threw Haruka a dirty look as if to say, let him leave, we can't handle him.

'As I've said earlier, I only came this time because I wanted to personally heal my sister's wounds. I mean after all we may be enemies but doesn't family always come first?' And again no one answered. 'Is it just me or are all of you too quiet today?' Silence once more, 'Whatever, I'm off to get the final piece of my sword. A quest that I've been meaning to complete for centuries now. When I do gain my full strength I will return and take what rightfully mine, soul society.'

'So that was what Hisaigo was absorbing from Ratiasu's head. It was memory,' stated Raven.

'You got it. Still, Hisaigo went over the top when absorbing the memory.' He sighed again, 'Well, I'm off, see you all soon.' He walked away back to the wreckage.

'Dammit, if I let him get away now he'll become even more powerful once he obtains his last sword piece. No I can't let him get away,' thought Haruka, and she ran towards him shouting, 'Sorry about this but I can't just let you walk away, shira-enkou-yari.' A wave of white flaming spears shot from a black hole that appeared in front of her sword and they slammed into Usaitar who had stopped walking when he heard her shout. The spears also blasted into the ground and raised a curtain of dust and debris into the air. She followed through with her attack and charged into the cloud sword pointing forward. There was instantly a huge bang and the cloud was chased away to reveal that Usaitar had indeed with stood her spear and has also blocked her sword, with his bare hands no less (his sword hung from his waist).

'A surprise attack? I never thought you'd try something as sneaky and as low as that,' said Usaitar mockingly. He wrapped his hand around her sword and threw her back to where she was originally. She rolled along the floor as she landed coughing up dirt and blood. 'A valiant effort, but don't expect it to work.'

A beam of yellow light suddenly shone from a gateway to hueco mundo and Haruka knew that there was no chance of stopping him now.

'I must commend you however on trying to get me when I was leaving, because if you had stopped me then that would have been that. All of you other dimwits were even too stupid to move, if you had all teamed up, you might've had a chance to kill me before I left. But alas, destiny is on my side, and my destiny is to rule soul society. For now I return to hueco mundo and retrieve the last piece of my sword, yes it is in hueco mundo you heard right. A good hiding place to say the least, it was the last place I'd have ever thought to look. Good job on hiding it for this long sis, but destiny wanted me to find it. If however you think you can stop me after I gain my full strength then please come to hueco mundo, I welcome you. But at least be a bit stronger if you do, I'd hate to have to kill people too easily, it'd be boring, don't you think? Well, that's that,' he was nearly at the gate, 'see you all again, very soon. Oh and by the way, there is a fourth release, find it then face me. Bye.' The gate closed and Usaitar's smirking face vanished with it.

Everyone was speechless, it was like a veil of silence, no one said anything, until Haruka broke the silence and shouted, 'Just you wait Usaitar, I'LL GET YOU.'

End of Part 2

Good plot twist don't you think? Well, hope you enjoyed it, that's the second part finished though it was a short ending chapter, but I think I got most things cleared up, third part will begin next week so look forward to it