"Um…" Yylfordt wasn't sure to do besides stand in line with the rest of the company. "What now?"

"Nothing." Ikkaku Madarame whispered back, missing Yumichika a bit. "Just wait for the Captain to give orders."

"Oh. I see." Yylfordt laughed a little and nervously fixed his hair that was still somehow caught in his hollow mask. After sleeping restlessly on the floor of his small room, his hair was a horrible tangled mess. "And…um…sorry?"

"Don't worry about it." Ikkaku muttered, turning his attention back to the large doors of the Eleventh Company who was no longer one person short. "And don't be too scared by-"

"What is going on today?" Kenpachi walked in the courtyard without Yarchiru on his shoulder as she was out terrorizing some other company today. (Last thing he knew, it was Mayuri's turn to watch after her for an hour.) "Oh yea." He stopped in front of the new comer who was shaking in his pretty white sand-resistant shoes. "Welcome. Be prepared to die."

"Ahaha…." Yylfordt didn't know what else to say besides, "I… I know someone taller than you."

Kenpachi paused. "Really?"

"Ye…you're kinda crushing me with your Riatsu and yea… I do know… someone…" Yylfordt glanced down at the ground, feeling a little sick. "Taller."

"Really?" Ikkaku couldn't think of anyone taller than his captain.

"Do tell." Kenpachi glared down at the… Hollow, was it? He couldn't remember what Old Man Yamamoto told him about the Eleventh Company's temp-officer.

He said it was some kind of…. What was it? "And then tell me what you are."

"Um…" Yylfordt grinned, wanting to cry and run away. This captain was scary. Very, very…scary! It didn't matter how many times any of the Espada were mad at him because this guy made up for all the time they could have been mad. "And my thoughts don't make any sense! Ahaha…. Yeah…. Bro. Taller guy… Yeah. Right on track there! Yeah, the guy I know is Seven-feet tall and goes by the name Nnoitra Gilga. Scary too. Just like you. But I think… I think you're more scary because you're a Soul Reaper and well… I'm just a small Numeros Arrancar and um, I would like to say that it would be nice if I didn't die! Because I kind of…I don't wanna die and I wanna be Barbie and Little Bo-Peep, Cinderella and Britney Spears! Do you know who she is? Just curious if you all here listen to the top-ten charts or not. If not, that's fine! Because not everyone like the same mus-"

"Ah…That's right…" Kenpachi frowned, making Yylfordt even more scared. "You're an Arrancar… So. Where do you rank?"

"Um… Fifteenth." Yylfordt chattered, wanting to back away and he would have if Ikkaku wasn't holding onto his shoulder so tightly. "I mean, it's not really in order of strength once you get past nine…. It's kind of the order we were created. Because I know that-"

"I see. So. You are not an Espada are you?"

"N….no sir! I wanna be, but I can't because I would be crushed like a bug if I even asked!"

"Oh. Disappointing."

Yylfordt dropped to his knees. Begging for mercy was the only way to survive! "AHHH! I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I'm a failure!"

"Nn…" Kenpachi wasn't sure if he like the new recruit. He was better suited for Unohana's division with a heart like that. "Don't be. We already have another Arrancar here."

"I'm sorr-another?!" What were the Espada? World Travelers?

"Yeah." Kenpachi watched the new recruit climb to his feet. "We do. Kurosaki brought them back from Hueco Mundo after failing to rescue his friend."

"Heh…. Really?"

"Really." Ikkaku nodded, "I think you two should meet after our Captain gives us orders."

"Those are my orders." Kenpachi wanted to keep this Arancarr as far as possible from the Eleventh Company. He didn't want it to mess up anything, touch anything… breathe on anything at all. "Ikkaku, take…him. To the Third Company and out of my hair."

Ikkaku bowed, "Yes, Captain."

Before Yylfordt could say or do anything similar, he was being dragged across the skies of Soul Society. "Heeeeyyy! Where are you taking me?!"

"To…here." Ikkau flickered in to existence in front of a large bamboo building that was nothing like anything Yylfordt had seen before. It had a curved roof that came to points and on in roof itself was a whole bunch of little lights and greenery and- "What did they do to this place? It isn't even Christmas yet."

"Ah…" Yylfordt hated to asked as he stood up. "What is Christmas?"

"It's a human holiday." His escort replied, hating the faint sound of 'Jingle-bells' coming from within. "Come on."

Ikkaku walked up to the front doors and knocked gently, wishing that he brought some earplugs as 'Grandma Got Run-over By A Raindeer', began to play over the ruckus inside.

"Hey! Someone get the door!"

"I'm busy fixing your stupid socks, Ichigo! I can't get the door!"

"Fine then! Someone else get the door!"

"Don't you think it would be wise to look through the peephole first?"

"This is Soul Society! Not Heuco Mundo, you loincloth wearing…thing!"

"I'm insulted! If it wasn't for me-"

"You two shwat up! I get da door!"

"Wait!"

It was too late. The wooden door was slid open to reveal a small girl with large brown eyes and sea green hair. She was wearing a tiny Soul Reaper outfit that only seemed to clash with the broken white mask on her head. "Hello and welcome to the Third Company."

"Yea, yeah." Ikkaku shrugged off the greeting and walked inside. "Nice to see you too. This here is…." His voice trailed off.

Yylfordt wasn't moving.

"Ne…" She was dead! He knew she was dead. It was all that his brother bragged about for weeks afterwards. Maybe even months. And yet, she was… It had to be her. Yylfordt would know that brilliant green hair anywhere. "Lady…Neillel?"

"Yeah?" She replied, suddenly remembering his face. She hadn't bothered to tell her brothers that she began to recall things after she entered Los Notches, months ago. They would have naturally freaked out and whisked her away from her home. So, Nelliel kept it all to herself and tried her best to act like the kid she no longer was. "It's I."

"Please forgive me!" Yylfordt wished he could bow deeper. "My hands were tied. I…I knew what they were planning and yet I could do nothing! I am sorry my Lady! If you find it fit to kill me, please do so."

She smiled.

Yylfordt Granz hadn't changed one bit since the last time she met him.

"I…I find no need to end your humble life." Nelliel replied, "I however, appreciate your sincere apology. I understand that Szayelaporro has a way with manipulating people and so, I do not hold you responsible in any manner. I have always found it quite interesting how different the two of you are."

"Yes, Lady Nelliel, we are quite different."

"We?" Ikkaku was lost. What was all of this about?

"Yes." Nelliel glanced up at the confused Soul Reaper. "This is Szayelaporro's older brother, Yylfordt Granz."

"Brother?!" He had no clue that any hollows anywhere were related. "But don't…don't…"

"It is true." Neilliel continued, "Hollows tend to consume their own kin. However, I have no clue to…" she gestured at Yylfordt, "this occurrence."

"It's getting stranger by the moment." Ikkaku muttered, "Don't tell me you two have a mom."

Yylfordt cracked a smile at this comment. "No. We don't. Kinda wish we did though, now that you mention it. She would come in useful when it came to disciplining my evil bro."

"Evil?"

"Yeah. You heard me, Soul Reaper: Evil. And no. We are not twins. That would just make life worse."

"So," Nelliel changed the subject, "How are you liking it here in Soul Society, Granz?"

"Um… It's…" He glanced around at the bright surroundings. "Bright."

"Yeah. I had the same reaction. Why don't you come inside and have some…never mind. You don't want tea do you?'

Yylfordt couldn't help but make a face at the idea. "No. Thanks."

"Isn't it wonderful?" She led the two guests inside the main building of the Third Company. "Aizen is finally gone all thanks to…Orihime." She whispered, not wanting Ichigo to rant about how it was all his doing and that Orihime stank because she ran off with 'Emo-face'.

"Yes, Lady Nelliel, it is."

"Why do you keep calling her, Lady?" ikkaku never used such a formal tone with this small and very strange officer of the Third Company.

"She is higher ranking than I." Yylfordt replied.

"High…er?"

"Yes." A warm smile appeared on Nelliel's face. "I am the former Third Espada."

"Th...third?! But you are just a…kid!"

"I was not always so." Nelliel sat down at the small wooden table in the reception area where tea was steeping and there were countless sweets on plates. "It is a long story that I wish not to re-account. But yes. I was an Espada. Speaking of which, how is Harribel?"

"She's good. I don't think she knows you exist, though." Yylfordt sat down and grabbed a frosted snowman cookie.

"I don't think that you shou-" Nelleil watched him choke and cough on the large bite of cookie. "Eat that."

"Aheigh…" Yylfordt coughed, grasping his throat. "What… aheh.. Was that?!"
"Cookie."

"Ahgg! It tastes horrible!" He cried. "But it looked so good!"

"Yeah." Nelliel agreed, wishing she could eat some of the pretty cookies. "That's human food for you. It tastes horrid."

"Why?!" Yylfordt couldn't just sit at the table and drink tea! Aizen = Tea!

"I don't know. Let me get you something to wash the taste out."

"What?! Something like tea?"

"No, no…Hollow. Let me get you some."

What was this place coming to?! Ikkaku nearly screamed. This was Soul Society! No cannibalistic hollows were allowed! And no Espadas! Next time he talked to Yamamoto, he was going to put an end to all of this. Soul Reapers inside, Hollows outside! And no one cross this line! Yeah. This one. Right here!

Author's Note: I would like to apologize for false hope. I thought I would be able to post a chapter a day... but my life is really busy so far with the end of the semester coming up. I will, however, post a lot more until Monday because I have a Thanksgiving Break.

On another note: AHHH! Nelliel! (And I promise she will be as awesome as Orihime. I don't write weak girl characters.) And I think that Ikkaku and Yumichika are the Old Grandparents aka Ma and Pa. They never fight really...sure they argue, but it's not anything damaging. Anyhow, I feel like they've been together forever and don't really talk about it much. And, they are very wise and worldly.

To keep all of you updated on the growing list of names:

The Old Married Couple: Szayel and Nnoitra

The Old Divorcees: Grimmjow and Ulquiorra (Because they fight like it and actually, once shared a very drunken french kiss. It's a long story that is in the book before this one. Under the chapter: It Happened One night In A Bar.)

The Sweethearts: Orhime and Ulquiorra (Because they are just so nice to each other.)

Grimmjow and Tia don't have name yet. If you have any ideas... Just put them in the review box. It might catch on. :)

And some sad news... I had Ishida and Ichigo dubbed, the 'Newly Weds' because of the way the fought (They were not actually together..) But this was before I learned that Ichigo and Ishida were kinda sorta related. So. that's scrapped. But I think... I have two people to replace them.

But that's later.