"Hey, Ichigo!" Rukia yelled running to the top of Sogyoku hill. It had been 6 months since Ichigo told Momo about Aizen. Ichigo turned and smiled warmly to his childhood friend "Hey, Rukia. Please call me Captain Kurosaki, I am higher ranked than you now." he told her. "I don't feel like respecting you anytime soon." she said mocking him. Ichigo got aggravated and almost yelled "But I'm a Captain now, you should...Oh who am I kidding? You don't give a shit.". "So, what's going on?" she asked sitting next to him.

"Oh I don't know. My luietenant's suicidal, I think. At the very least, she wouldn't mind dying." Ichigo said in response. "Are you serious? And you haven't gotten her any help?" she yelled. He raised his hands up in mock surrender "She won't try to kill herself! More or less, I think she doesn't care if she dies.".

"Does she still hate you?" Rukia asked in a soft voice. "No." Ichigo replied plainly. "You tell her about your mother?" she asked. "Yeah...How'd you know?" "Anytime we talk about anything that has something to do with her you have that look on her face."

"How observant of you." Ichigo said standing up. "It's getting late, I'm going to the barracks." he said looking down at her "I'm going to stay here and watch the sunset." Rukia responded. Ichigo nodded and walked away.

-Meanwhile at the Squad 5 barracks-

Momo sat on her bed, thinking about what Ichigo told her. Why would Aizen kill his mother? Was it even true? Could Ichigo have been acting? She looked at a book on her nightstand. She reached over and picked it up. It was titled:

"Soul Society Laws and Regulations"

She turned to the sevententh page and read the third paragraph:

"Should any shinigami be involed in sexual affairs with others, they will be punished to an extent depending on the rank"

All shinigami involved are any rank lower than luietenant: the shinigami will be imprisoned for 6 months

If a luietenant is invovled: the shinigami will be imprisoned for a life sentence

If a captain is invovled: the shinigami will be executed

It was something that Momo and Aizen dreaded, the thought of being caught.

Momo had been mad at herself. She kept staring at Ichigo. She noticed how handsome Ichigo was. She was mad because she only loved Aizen, but she slowly began falling for Ichigo. She not only liked how good he looked, but she loved how kind he was to everyone, even to her, even after she tried to murder him, he was the kindest to her.

Suddenly a hell butterfly flew in through her window. "Momo, you and Captain Kurosaki are to head to Karakura town and terminate the arrancars there." Momo nodded and grabbed her Zanpakuto. She ran out the door of the barracks.

-moments later-

Momo stood at the gate, waiting for her Captain to arrive. He finally flash stepped in front of her "Sorry I'm late," he said yawning "I'm a little tired."

"Well wake up. We need to be focused." Momo scolded him. He rolled his eyes at her "Let's just go."

They walked through the gate and ran through the cave-like tunnel. As they ran, Momo kept staring at Ichigo. She looked away when he glanced back at her. She couldn't help herself. She loved to stare at every inch of him, EVERY inch of him. But she had to focus right now.

They entered the world of the living. Momo looked around for the arrancar, but found nothing "Where are they?" she asked herself.

Suddenly a red cero blasted by. Ichigo looked in the direction of the cero "Found him."

Momo turned to see a large bulky man with bull-like horns from the remnants of his mask, and no hair. Another arrancar stood next to him, he had a more slim figure and a long white scorpion's tale extending from the back of his neck, he had needle-like claws on his hands and short, wavy blue hair.

"I'll take the bull, you take the scorpion." Ichigo declared, not giving Momo an option and flash stepping toward the large arrancar.

Ichigo stood in front the bull-like hollow "Hey, I guess you have to fight me now." he said in a cocky voice. The hollow put a agitated look on his face "Don't be so cocky you fool!" he yelled and swung his fists down at Ichigo. He only hit air and saw no sign of the orange-haired soul reaper "Where did you go?! Come out coward!" he yelled angrily.

The hollow heard a whistle from behind him. He turned around to see Ichigo standing with his hands in his pockets. The arrancar tilted his head forward and charged a cero between his horns. Ichigo raised an eyebrow in interest. The hollow released his cero and hit the Captain point blank. The cero seemed to split in two, as it cleared up, the hollow saw that Ichigo had his hand held up. He blocked the cero with his bare hand.

"My turn." Ichigo said in an even cockier voice. The hollow charged another cero and, before he could release it, Ichigo drew his Zanpakuto and sliced his left horn off. The horn fell and the cero engulfed the arrancar. It cleared and the dropped and faded away.

Ichigo turned to see Momo with her hands held by the hollow's left hand, the arrancar's scorpion tail was cut off. The hollow cocked back his right hand, aiming all of his claws at Momo's heart. He jabbed his hand at Momo, but was stopped. He looked to see Ichigo with a cold, emotionless face and his wrapped around the hollow's wrist. Suddenly the hollow felt an immense spiritual pressure that began crusshing him.

He felt every one of his bones snapping one-by-one. His wrist shattered, even his claws began to crack and crumble. The hollow screamed in immense pain and disintegrated.

Momo watched as the rest of the hollow faded away. She looked at Ichigo's cold face, it wasn't like him to cause so much pain to an opponent, even a hollow. "Why did you do that? You never caused someone so much pain." Momo said in a weak and fearful voice.

Ichigo turned to Momo, he had a worried look on his face "I'm sorry, it's just...I hate to see people I care about get hurt." he blushed at the last part. Momo had a surprised look "You care about me that much, even as much as to kill a being so cruelly?" she said blushing a deep red.

"Uh...Yeah. I guess you could say that I care about you a lot. You could even say that I...that I...love...you." Ichigo studdered and blushed as he looked deeply into her eyes. Momo leaned in closely to him "Really?", "Yes.". Ichigo leaned in and kissed her passionately. He brought his hand to the back of her head and pushed her closer. Momo wrapped her arms around his neck.

They finally broke the kiss in need of breath. The stared at each other and gave nervous giggles and smiled. "Come on, let's go. We can continue at the barracks." Momo said smiling and blushing.