Yo everybody. Back again with another chapter.
Disclaimer: Don't own Bleach.
I have to say that I'm gonna miss Nnoitra. He was the coolest Espada of all time. The only guy that can considered Kenpachi's equal and rival.
Chapter Thirteen
4:02 pm.
Karakura Town
Orihime as fast as she could. Just like everyone else, she had felt that massive spike of spiritual energy.
She honestly didn't know what was going on, but she didn't care. She wanted to help Ichigo and the others. She wanted to prove to everyone and herself that she wasn't a burden. And above all. she wanted to save Tatsuki, Mizuiro, and Keigo.
"Where do you think you're going?" a cold, monotone voice called out from behind her.
Orihime stopped dead in her tracks. She knew that voice.
Orihime turned around.
Staring back her was Ulquiorra.
Elsewhere
Wonderweiss found himself amazed at this world. This world of the living was new and different from Hueco Mundo.
The sky was bright and blue like the inside of the dome of Los Noches and had a golden glowing orb in the sky. It was kinda like the moon in Hueco Mundo. The ground wasn't covered in the white sand and the trees weren't made of crystal and they were covered in green, orange, yellow and red things.
There were even little things flying in the air that were fun to squish.
Yammy said something to him. But he wasn't paying attention to him. He didn't like Yammy. Or Luppi and Grimmjow for that matter. Which is why he doesn't talk to them.
He wondered where Keigo, Mizuiro and Tatsuki were. He liked them. They were fun and Keigo promised to bring him some food from this world that he called 'candy'. He said that candy was as delicious as a gillian.
Wonderweiss glance at the battle going on around him. Grimmjow was fighting that red haired guy that Keigo called Tattoo Face. Luppi was fighting with all the other soul reapers with his tentacles. Yammy sitting back and watching Luppi and Grimmjow, looking bored.
Wonderweiss felt bored too. So, he decided that he was gonna go find Keigo, Tatsuki and Mizuiro.
He heard Yammy yell something at him as he left. But he wasn't paying attention.
Using his pesquisa, he quickly found the three arrancars. Two were close to each other with two other beings with them. One of the other two beings, felt weird. Like an arrancar but not an arrancar. He didn't like it.
The third arrancar was a little closer then the other two. There was also another being with that one.
Wonderweiss decided to go to the closest one.
A minute later and he arrived that the first arrancar's location.
It was Keigo, who was fighting some big guy with mismatched arms in the middle of an empty street.
"Hey Keigo!" he shouted.
Both Keigo and mismatched arms looked up. "Hey Wonderweiss! What'cha you doing here?"
"I was bored. And I don't like the others."
"Yeah. They're no fun." Keigo said. "Oh, where are my manners. Wonderweiss, this big gorilla is Yasutora Sado or Chad as everyone calls him. A former friend of mine."
The big human suddenly, ran at Keigo and tried to attack him while he was talking to him.
But Wonderweiss wasn't about let this big guy attack his friend. He sonidoed in front of the human's path, grabbed his strange right arm and flipped the human over his head.
The human landed head first on the concrete behind him. Keigo walked up to him and messed his hair affectionately and said, "Thanks Wonderweiss. How about we get you some candy."
Keigo lead him to an empty store with a big colorful sign on the front of it, across the street. The inside was full of shelves with colorful things on them. He had never so many colors in one place before.
"Go ahead." Kegio said. "Everything on the shelves is candy."
Wonderweiss picked up the nearest thing. Something called an Aero Bar. He raised it to his mouth and took a bite out of it. The skin was bland. But the insides were so good!
He quickly stuffed the rest of it in his mouth, savoring the flavor of the Aero bar.
"That was good!" he said.
"I thought you'd like it. But your not suppose to eat the wrapper."
"Wrapper?"
"Here let me show you." he said as he picked up another bar.
"You see, candy is kept in these wrappers. You pull them off before you eat the candy." he said as he pulled off the wrapper and took a bite out of the bar. "See."
He nodded and picked up another bar and pulled it's wrapper off before stuffing the bar into his mouth.
"See. Much better." Keigo said. "Help yourself to whatever you want. Chad's back on his feet, so I'm gonna go deal with him."
Wonderweiss nodded as he began to explore the shelves and taste everything in sight.
Elsewhere
As the battle between Tatsuki and Shinji raged in the skies above him. Ichigo found himself staring at the battle in concern. He knew that the others were still fighting. That Rukia and Mizuiro were fighting nearby. But he couldn't turn his attention away from the battle overhead.
He was worried that Tatsuki was about die at Shinji's hands.
Ichigo watched in horror as Shinji's cero struck Tatsuki His heart skipped a beat when he saw Tatsuki fall to the ground like a meteor.
Getting back up his feet, Ichigo moved as fast as he could to where Tatsuki landed.
He was relieved when he reached the crater and found her injured but alive and slowly trying to get back on her feet.
There were numerous cuts and burns all over body. Her jacket looked more like a tattered rag, half covering the black tank-top she wore underneath it.
Shinji landed next to him, his attention on Tatsuki.
"So you fire your own cero into mine to minimize the damage." Shinji said. "Not bad."
Tatsuki managed to get to her feet, and looking extremely annoyed. "Your mask! That cero! What the hell are you?!" she shouted at Shinji.
"I'm the opposite of what you are. I am a vizard. A soul reaper who has crossed into the realm of hollows." he replied.
Tatsuki started to laugh, a dark, angry laugh. "You think that just because you have a mask and can do a cero that you have truly crossed over in the realm of hollows. You know nothing of hollows! You know nothing of a hollow's pain! It's fear! It's hunger! You, vizard, and your whole race sicken me!"
Tatsuki's eyes filled with a rage that he had never seen in her eyes. Even when someone tried to hurt Orihime, her eyes never held such rage. Such fury. Such hatred.
"Allow me, vizards, to enlighten you on what a hollow truly is! By ripping your fucking faces off!!"
Tatsuki raised her sword and pointed it at her own chest. "Impale Verdugo!"
Tatsuki then grinned and pushed the blade into her own chest. But the tip of the blade didn't come out her back, nor did she seem to feel any from the act. Instead, a white liquid started to pour out of the wound and spread across her body as she continued to push more of her sword into her chest.
Elsewhere
Wonderweiss sat in front of the candy store, digging into the pile of candy on his lap as he watched Keigo fight the guy with the mismatched arms.
Keigo had been right about the candy. It was delicious. It came in different shapes, sizes and flavor. Some sweet. Some sour. Some shaped like things. Some colorful. Some not. But they were all equally delicious.
He turned his attention to back to the fight as he devoured a handful of gummy worms. The human losing badly. He was just too slow to keep up with Keigo. But Keigo wasn't attacking him that much. Choosing instead to mock and taunt the human and occasionally fire a bala or two while the human wasted his own energy fruitlessly trying to attack Keigo.
Keigo suddenly appeared next to him and said, "Hey, you tried any of those chocolate whacking oranges?"
He shook his head.
"Pass me one. I'll show you how they work."
Wonderweiss search his pile and passed him one.
"Thanks." Keigo said before sonidoing away.
Keigo reappeared behind and above the human. And as soon as he appeared, Keigo hit the human in the back of the head with the chocolate orange.
"You need to hit it on something hard. Like Chad's thick head here. That breaks it into chocolate orange slices."
Keigo tossed the chocolate orange back to him. Wonderweiss tore open the wrapper and began stuffing chocolate orange slices into his mouth.
"Man, Mizuiro was right. You are way, way too slow, Chad." Keigo taunted. "If I broke both my legs, I'd still be faster than you."
The human didn't said anything. Instead, he fired an energy blast from his right hand. Keigo dodged it by sonidoing behind the human.
But the human spun around and punched Keigo in face.
Only to have his hand go through a fading Keigo while the real Keigo appeared on the human's left side.
"Wow!" Wonderweiss said in awe.
"Yeah. But don't tell Zommari tell that I can perform his Gemelos Sonido." Keigo said. "He won't like that. Even if I can only create two afterimages compared to his five."
Wonderweiss nodded. He didn't like Zommari. He wasn't fun.
Suddenly, two tears opened up in the sky. One above him and the other above Keigo.
"Awww...It's time to go. I wanted more candy." he said as a pair of Negacion fields dropped down on them.
"Farewell Chad." Keigo said as the two of them rose into the air. "I don't think I'll be back in Karakura for quite sometime, if ever again."
Elsewhere
Grimmjow was getting annoyed.
This red haired punk was wasting too much of his time. The punk wasn't as strong as Kurosaki, but he was strong enough to keep him from finding Kurosaki and kicking his ass.
And now that Urahara guy had shown up and was now kicking Yammy's ass. And Yammy wasn't the only one in trouble. Luppi had failed to finish off that pint size captain when he had the chance and was now being beaten by him.
They were pathetic. As much as hated to admit it. He rather be fighting along side Arisawa, Asano and Kojima. He hated them, especially Tatsuki, but at least they could get the job done. Not like these two dumbasses.
The soul reaper's bankai shot out towards him again. He dodged it and fired a cero at the soul reaper. The soul reaper blocked it with the coils of his bankai but lost several segments in the process.
"Getting tired, arrancar?" the punk taunted.
Who was he kidding? He was fine. The punk on the other hand, had several gashes and large cuts on his body and he was beginning to tire.
Grimmjow was about to insult the soul reaper when the four tears opened up in the sky.
"NO!" he shouted.
The mission had been completed. And now they were being recalled.
Before he had gotten to fight Kurosaki.
"Damn you soul reaper! You kept me from my prey!" he screamed as his body started to rise up to the portal to Los Noches.
"Quit your complaining, Grimmjow." Yammy said. "The mission's been accomplished. So what are you complaining about?"
"Shut up dumbass. It's none of your business." he shouted as he entered the portal.
Now he'd have to wait until they launched final attack against Karakura to finish off Kurosaki.
Ichigo and Shinji both raised their zanpaku-tos as Tatski pushed her sword further into her chest. About half of her sword was in her body and about half of her body was covered by the white liquid.
Ichigo had heard from the others, just how strong arrancar became after they used their resurreccion. And now, he was about experience his first resurreccion. From Tatsuki no less.
Fate must have a twisted sense of humor.
Suddenly, a hand shot out and stopped the blade from going into any further, causing the liquid spreading across Tatsuki's body to stop as well.
It was Ulquiorra.
"We're done here." he said to Tatsuki.
"Let me finish them off!"
Ulquiorra's response was to pull her sword out of her body. The liquid flowed back into the wound as he did.
"The mission has been accomplished. There is no reason to stay." he said.
"I don't think so Ulquiorra. Tatsuki, Mizuiro and Keigo are staying here. I'm gonna find a way to fix them. And no one. Not you. Not that bastard Aizen, are gonna stop me from doing that!"
Tatsuki laughed at him while Ulquiorra stared at him with the same emotionless expression. "Negacion." he said.
Suddenly, a tear in the sky opened up and a pillar of light descended on the two while another Negacion field dropped down a few blocks behind him.
Ulquiorra and Tatski rose off the ground towards the opening in the sky.
Ulquiorra stared at him for a moment. "There are remnants of reiatsu here. And it seems, that you have attained some sort of new power." he said. "Though, is that all you can achieve with it?"
When he reached the opening, he added, "This is the end. There is no way for you to intervene now. The sun has already sunken into our grasp."
"Dammit!" Ichigo shouted as he punched the ground.
Again, he had them in his grasp and again, they slipped through his fingers.
Saturday 12:15 am.
Los Noches
Orihime was quiet as Ulquiorra escorted her to Aizen's throne room.
When they arrived, they found Grimmjow, Yammy, Luppi, Tatsuki, Mizuiro, Keigo and a blond arrancar she had never met before, waiting.
Luppi, Yammy and Tatsuki appeared to have been injured. Though Tatsuki seemed to have taken the worst of it.
Aizen walked into the room from a side passage and sat down on his throne.
"Welcome Miss Inoue, to our castle, Los Noches." Aizen greeted. "Sorry to ask this of you, but I want to demonstrate that ability of yours now."
Suddenly, Orihime felt a massive wave of spiritual pressure hit her. She barely managed to say, "Yes."
"It seems that there still some who are not in agreement with our new guest. Isn't that right Luppi?"
"Of course." Luppi answered as he bow at Aizen. "To say that our whole battle was for was for just the purpose of bringing that woman over here. I just can't accept that."
"My fault." Aizen replied, his voice full of mirth. "I didn't expect you to get that torn up after all."
Luppi didn't say anything.
"Now, Orihime. In order to test your abilities, restore Grimmjow's left arm."
Luppi started laughing. "Yeah right! That's like one of Keigo's bad jokes!"
"Hey!"
"Grimmjow's arm was incinerated Tosen! There's nothing left to heal! What is she, God?!"
Orihime ignored him and walked over to Grimmjow's left side.
"Soten Kishun. I reject." she said quietly, summoning Shuno and Ayame to restore Grimmjow's arm.
Luppi laughed even harder. "If you're trying to put on a good performance! Quit while you're ahead! If you can't do it, we'll just just kill you! Since that power of yours is just a scam, there's no reason to keep such a...person..."
He stopped when he saw Grimmjow's arm reforming.
When she was done, Grimmjow raised his left arm and stared at it. He started flexing his fingers and balling them into a fist.
"Impossible! His arm was destroyed!" Luppi shouted. "What the hell did she do?!"
Aizen's grin widened. "You still don't get it Luppi? Ulquiorra reported this as time reversal."
"That is correct." Ulquiorra replied.
"No way...There's no way a mere human could have such a powerful ability." a shocked Luppi said.
"But it is. However you look at it. This is pure event rejection."
"What?!"
"Her ability allows her to choose a target and subsequently deny that it ever happened." Aizen explained. "No matter what event happened, she can return the target to a previous state. She can easily supersede any event God has designated to occur on the ground level. This power violates the realm of God."
"Hey, girl. Heal this too." Grimmjow said as he pointed to his back.
Orihime complied and started healing the burn scar on his back, revealing a black number six.
"What are you trying to pull Grimmjow?!" Luppi shouted at his predecessor.
Grimmjow turned his head towards Luppi as a feral grin spread across his face.
Before anyone could react, Grimmjow impaled Luppi with his restored left arm.
"Grimmjow! You bastard!"
"Farwell, former number six." Grimmjow said before firing a cero, destroying Luppi from the waist up.
"Damn. I lost another bet to you." Keigo said.
"Oh?" Tatsuki asked. "What was it this time?"
"Who would win between Grimmjow and Luppi. And I picked Grimmjow before Keigo could, forcing him to bet on Luppi." Mizuiro replied.
"It's back! All of my strength has returned!" Grimmjow shouted in joy. "I'm number six again! HA HA HA HA!!!"
"Not quite Grimmjow." Aizen said.
"WHAT?!"
"You weren't punished for disobeying my orders a second time."
"When?! I've followed all of your orders!"
"Oh but you didn't." he said as another grin spread across his face. "You attacked Tatsuki when you were specifically told not to even acknowledge her. And for that, you have to fight one more person before you can reclaim the position of Sixth Espada."
"Who?"
Aizen's grin widened as he answered. "Tatsuki."
Who will be the new Sixth Espada? Tatsuki or Grimmjow? Gonna have to wait for the next chapter to find out.
A few things I just wanna clear up. First off, the act of Tatsuki's release, isn't a slow thing. The time between those two scenes is less then a second. So I don't want anyone to think that Tatsuki impaling herself was a slow act. And to anyone who thought I was actually gonna show Tatsuki release form. Gotcha! I said in earlier chapters that I wasn't gonna show their release forms until the Hueco Mundo arc. So your just gonna have to wait.
Secondly, I'm taking a temporary break from this story. During which I will work on and post the first few chapters of Zanpaku-to, my Naruto/Bleach crossover. Don't worry my fans, I'm not abandoning this story. I'm just switching gears for awhile.
Finally, I didn't put in the scenes were Ulquiorra spoke to Orihime and Orihime's farewell to Ichigo. They happened pretty much like they did in the manga/anime. Which is why I didn't write them.
Later. Please Review.