"Put that child down now! What reason do you have for forcing her to submit to treason?! She has not betrayed anyone, she has hollow blood running through her veins, she is of the Kuchiki blood and of the Hollow blood, she is…. The power of destruction and the source of life itself! Rayona Marie Kuchiki!" Ginrei Kuchiki shouted and making Isshin release his choke hold on her, she fell to the ground panting and quickly scrambled to her grandfathers side.
"It's not my fault! I can help it if I have an inner hollow! Just leave me alone all of you! I've abandoned my role as a Soul Reaper since I have been discovered by Unohanna; I won't go back no matter what you say! Not even you Ichigo, or you, Yamamoto. Not ever." Rayona said with tears in her eyes, clutching her fist over the hole in her chest as it slowly but surely started healing as she realized her true purpose for living.
She broke down crying and Ichigo picked her up, though she was fighting back, and disappeared, he then landed inside the canopy of Los Noches, set her down and wiped her tears away. Rayona looked up and he kissed her immediately, she still had tears streaming down her face but she kissed him back, wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. He let go of her and hugged her tightly, he was glad she was safe; he didn't care if she was of hollow blood, he loved her, but her love for him was gone. She let go of him and turned around shamefully, she spoke slowly with a ton of guilt in her voice.
"I... I'm sorry Ichigo, I can no longer return your love, my heart has moved on since you have betrayed my trust, I thought you would be there for me but you were only there for Rukia, Now, my heart has filled the void with someone else who's also a Soul Reaper. You know him but you may not like him, his name is Shūhei Hisagi. I'm so sorry Ichigo, I really am so sorry, but if you give me time on it, I may come to return your feelings, at least the ones you give me, not the ones you hold for Rukia. Goodbye, Ichigo Kurosaki." With those final words they parted and she never saw him again, except for a few times in Hueco Mundo and in the Soul Society.
"I don't care, I'll always love you Rayona, no matter how long I will always love you until the day I die, ill be waiting for you to return to me with the feelings that you will return to me, until then, remember that I'm always here for you." Ichigo said hugging her tightly before he disappeared and left her there crying.
"Rayona where were you?! Why aren't you in the Seireitei anymore?!" Shuhei Hisagi yelled at her the next time she went to the Soul Society to carry out an agreement between Las Noches and the Soul Society.
She didn't look into his eyes, she looked down and away from him, she was feeling guilty, and she felt like she didn't belong there. She was part hollow and every time she went back to the Soul Society all of the Soul Reapers stared at her and whispered because she was wearing an Arrancar uniform instead of her Soul Reaper uniform and she had a haori on but instead of her captains' haori it was just like except the symbol on the back was that of the Espada Afilado symbol, the symbol of the true government of Hueco Mundo. Captain-Commander Yamamoto called a captains meeting and had her attend to it as part of her agreement, the Captain-Commander arranged it with Ulquiorra Cifer to have her attend Captains meetings and be a Captain if she would not harm humans or the Soul Society itself. She protested being put back in the Captains role but it was against her will, then she found herself in a room full of Captains, she the only Arrancar/Visored. She wasn't allowed to call herself a Soul Reaper anymore because she had 2 hollow masks, one as a Visored, and one from her hollow blood, when in her Arrancar uniform she had her cracked hollow mask on, for it was a symbol she was powerful enough to be among the top 3. At times when she was in combat that she had to, she used her Visored mask; she rarely used her Arrancar mask because if she did then the hollows would take over her. Hisagi had asked her the same question and she turned and tried to walk away, but he caught her wrist and looked at her intently, he was determined to keep her there in the Seireitei. She yanked her hand back and kept walking, turning her back to where she didn't belong and continued down the road of her destiny, the truth is, she was afraid to change her path because she wanted to not get involved with anymore death. She then thought of her duty for protecting the Soul King, she shook her head and kept going, a single tear fell and hit a hell butterfly, within the tear was a hidden message she didn't know, and it spread throughout the Seireitei quickly. She reached the 1st divisions headquarters and she opened the doors, she saw all the Captains, plus the lieutenants, Orihime Inoue, Chad, Uryuu Ishida, and even Kieske, Tessai, Jinta, and Ururu.
"Hmf, so you've all come to witness my betrayal yourselves? Well not today, I'm strictly here for business and then I'm gone. First, I hope you've signed the contract,, because that's due right now, plus I've come to give this back to you," Rayona said, setting a bag down with her captains haori in it, along with her shinigami clothing and her empty Zanpaktu swords and cases. She had removed Sakurako and KuroiHonooNoko from their Zanpaktu casing and turned them into Arrancar also, but they were still her weapons so none of them carried any weapons, Rayona always had both of them stick close to her.
"What is this? Are you resigning from being a Soul Reaper? This isn't a surprise though; I always knew you'd eventually leave us for the Soul King, right….. Isshin?" Head Captain-commander Yamamoto said sternly looking at her.
She flinched at his name, she held in her anger and hate for him, he was the most popular protector of the Soul King, she hated only hearing his name and only seeing his name in the Soul Society book of powerful beings that nobody can surpass. He smiled at her and waved shortly, her face twitched and she turned around and starting walking away. Stopping to whisper something to Ichigo, Hisagi, and Toshirou, she then resumed walking with dignity.
"Oh yeah old man Yama, I have joined squad zero, and I've become the leader, and then I'll be closer to my goal. So beware old man, I will come for you someday, even if it kills me, I will defeat you and prove that I am not a failed experiment that Kieske Urahara created, I will prove that I can surpass god, and even the immortal, Souske Aizen. You've been warned, great-grandfather!" Rayona said with pride and dignity to old man Yamamoto, she turned back around and disappeared from the Soul Society.
Rayona stopped at the edge of the Garganta; she turned around and giggled at the sight of the Soul Society, then stepped into the Garganta, she made quick work going through it and in no time she was back at Los Noches. She quickly ran to Ulquiorra's receiving room, knelt down gaining her composure, and waited for his requests. He came out silently and without warning, but only from the entrance and caught her by surprise, she stood up, bowed and he whispered orders to her and left again. She smiled and single tear slipped down her face, it hit the ground and suddenly she felt a throbbing pain in her chest. She opened her shirt and saw that her hole in her chest for being an Arrancar was closing up and that the mark of her rankings in the Arrancar was disappearing. She was the "0" in the scale of 0-9, but mostly she had the number 10 on so it looked like the scale went from 1-10; she cried smiling for a while and looked at Ulquiorra with loving eyes.
"Thank you master, I shall now return to the Soul society as you wish, and I will carry out the last order you have given me. Then I will come back and prove to you that I am the head of the Kuchiki family and that I will defeat Old Man Yamamoto so we can keep the Soul Society and Las Noches in harmony." Rayona said through tears and vanished from Hueco Mundo, after that the hole in her chest disappeared and her Arrancar mask disappeared too.
She came to the Human World to train with Shinji Hirako and Hiyori Sarugaki, they would understand her situation, and she needed to get control of her Hollow inside her and to get some stress problems out on them anyway. She arrived at their hideout and entered, they all were hanging around reading, sleeping, or eating, they all looked up at her surprised, and she smiled and waved to Shinji and Hiyori to come down there. She talked for awhile to them laughing and explaining herself, they looked at each other and without notice they attacked. She jumped back and smirked, put one hand on her Zanpaktu, and whipped it up in it's sheath holding it out towards them with her head down. Some laughter exploded out from her and all was in chaos, she took out her Zanpaktu and attacked them, laughing mechanically with her Hollow mask forming.
"I told you I was serious about this Hiyori, Shinji, now fight for real! This is no time pondering how to kill me, just do it already!" She yelled and attacked again, driving them into a corner.
"Why'd she have to show up all of a sudden?" Rose complained to Love, Lisa, and Mashiro.
Rayona swung her Zanpaktu at Shinji and he got her in the side, she dropped to the ground onto her knee, holding her left side and panting, she coughed up blood and stared at the ground, smirked and stood up. She held out her Zanpaktu, threw it up and it disappeared, as it disappeared she made hand sign of the ninjas to focus her reiatsu, Shinji and Hiyori were confused and tried to attack her while her Zanpaktu was gone. When they tried to attack her, a barrier stopped them and she said the one word of a shinigami Captain status. Blue flames raged around her as her reiatsu exploded from her body and her eyes turned crystal pink.
"Bankai… Kuroi hi no tenshi kira. Now, try to face my Bankai and see if you survive me and KuroiHonooNoko's attacks!" She yelled and suddenly her appearance completely changed to mimic her Zanpaktu's, and KuroiHonooNoko started materializing next to Rayona.
"Hmph, so you've finally let me accompany you in a battle I see, but to pull out Bankai this short after sealing your shinigami powers away is extremely difficult on you right, master?" The arrogant little girl with her long hair swaying with Rayona's, said to her, looking up at her with tease in her eyes when she was done materializing.
"Che, shut up you little brat, who said you could talk like that to me anyways, is Sakurako teaching you that stuff, or is it Neki, my hollow?" She asked smirking and taking a stance of close combat.
KuroiHonooNoko smiled and took the same stance as her and they both drew the swords out in their shikai form, both identical and both looking menacing. Rayona nodded at her and they both flew forward, she slashing away at Shinji and her Zanpaktu at Hiyori. They were in unison and it was a perfect Bankai, nobody got away alive from it so far, she was glad to have two Zanpaktu's. She flew back from a hit from Shinji and skidded to a stop in mid air, blood flowed down the left side of her face, and she saw the deep crimson blood trickle onto the ground. Her eyes went wide and she screamed gripping her hands in her hair with her head tilted to the sky, the blood started turning a midnight black and started flaming with black flames. KuroiHonooNoko looked at her and rushed to her aid, helped her up and tried to stop her hollowfication process. She started wobbling and suddenly white gooey material started rapidly coming out of her mouth and eyes, in a matter of seconds her inner hollow was free to control. A piercing scream rang out as her hollow renounced it's joy and she lifted her head up to reveal a similar mask to Ichigo's but her stripes were in different places. It also had the same grinning face of a killer and along with it, horns protruded out of the sides of her head that were huge and menacing to anyone. She growled at them and leaped forward but someone, something stopped her in midair, her body was thrown into the wall and her horns fell off. She was panting hard and looked around confused, she felt a light breeze make the blood on her head colder and her brother and sister, Byakuya and Rukia, were standing there. Byakuya with a light expression on his face, and Rukia with a sad, concerning expression, both directed towards her.
"You should be careful; you could end up killing someone with that personality in your hollow state, Nii-san." Byakuya spoke coldly but with love in his eyes.
"Byakuya-Nii, why …. Did you… come here?" She said through her panting, her vision blurring and the light dimming, she shook her head and got up, wobbling but awake and alert.