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RECAP

"Because nobody else has seen what the mark can do except you, Kuchiki-taichou, and you two are fairly well acquainted, I have decided that Koyumi should be transferred into your division because I will be absent from the soul society for a long period of time, being given a mission in the real world. I have already created a legitimate reason that the head captain has accepted, so starting tomorrow, Toriku Koyumi will be part of the sixth division."

Story Start

Back at 10th division, Koyumi packed her belongings (she didn't have many) which consisted of several books and documents, some clothes including the everyday black shihakusho as well as 2 kimonos, and a framed picture of a young boy with spiky chestnut coloured hair. Hitsugaya watched patiently as his subordinate packed, fixing his eyes upon the picture.

"You still blame yourself, don't you?"

"…"

"Koyumi, it wasn't your fault that it happened…"

The normally calm and distant girl glared at the captain, her face stained with tears.

"This is really none of your business!!! You know it was my fault, they all knew! All of you blame me and now I'm paying for it!!! It was my fault, everything was… Making excuses, you treat me like your friend but I know, even you blame me!!! How can you say it wasn't my fault!??!?!? How can you say it wasn't because of me that Katsu died?!?! Even you, even you're throwing me away and you should! I don't understand! If you planned to throw me out from the start, you should never have pretended to be my friend again when I came into your division. I'm dangerous, and you know it!"

"Is this what you think? Did you think I would be your friend if I blamed you?" the young captain spoke in a sorrow filled voice.

"Just leave me alone!"

"Yumi, you know that I'll always be your friend no matter what and Katsu too. He would be sad to see you like this Yumi." And with that, the white hair captain left the room.

"It's all my fault, everything is my fault. I deserve to die, after what I've done."

Flashback

"Yumi look out! Behind you, hurry, use your shikai!" cried the brown haired boy.

"But I don't know if I can do it!"

"You have to try!!"

"Soar across the frozen skies, Touketsu Kagerou!!!!"

"Hitsugaya-kun! Help!!!! Katsu, he's going to d…" At that moment several more hollows surrounded the boy named Katsu. Hitsugaya was a distance away, struggling to kill the hundreds of hollows that surrounded him.

"Yumi, help me!!!!!!!!!!" Just then, a hollow appeared behind Katsu, but before he could react, it fired a cero at him.

"KATSUUUUUU!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" the girl screamed.

"It's ok, I'm *huff* fine..." a weak voice stated behind the girl.

"Katsu, you're alive!"

"Yeah, I managed to dodge at the last second, but not completely…"

The white haired boy now ran towards the other 2 shinigami when a much larger hollow then approached the 2, standing behind the Katsu, its poison dripping claws reaching for him. The girl's eyes widened as she quickly pushed the boy down, just as the hollow struck at him. Instead, the claw dug into the left shoulder of the girl.

"Yumi!!!!"

The white haired boy quickly ran to the girl, but was instead slashed on the arm with her sword.

"Yumi what are you doing!?"

There was no reply, but as the girl lifted her head, her eyes were dim, faded and resembled deep, never ending pools of darkness. She raised her sword now at the brown haired boy, and before Hitsugaya could do anything, she thrust her sword through the boy's stomach.

"Yumi, I… why did you…"

The girl collapsed afterwards, lying in a pool of blood beside Katsu, her face and lilac streaked hair stained red.

Flashback End…

The following day, Koyumi was transferred to the sixth division, her office across from that of the sixth captain. The days slowly dragged on. Each day Koyumi completed the stacks of paperwork placed before her and visited her brother Saito in the fourth division. Each day, her captain would ask her to have lunch and they would eat in silence as she did not know what to say. Koyumi was afraid that she would say the wrong words, or reveal something that would drive her captain away. All she could do was occasionally glance at her captain with her large, azure eyes, wishing that perhaps one day, she could fit in, that she did not have to hide so much from others. But most of all, she wished that maybe one day she would be able to tell her captain how she felt about him. Months had past since she first saw him, but she never gave away her true feelings. Not even Hitsugaya truly knew how she felt. She did not want to love her captain, she wasn't even sure if it was love she was feeling. Nobody had ever loved her, not even her parents, so she didn't really know what it felt like to be loved or what it felt like to love. She had been thrown out, cast away, unwanted and unneeded. Her parents didn't care whether she was dead or alive. She tried to block out thoughts of her captain; she didn't even know why she liked him, but she knew it would be better for him if she didn't. She would only cause him trouble and it didn't matter as he would never like somebody like her, somebody who never smiled, who was going to die. She knew she wasn't worthy of being loved by anyone, and especially not someone of noble status. She eventually closed her mind off and rejected those foolish thoughts completely, pushing them down into the deepest recesses of her mind so they would not resurface again.

After several weeks, she was finally given a mission to investigate strange appearances of hollows in the forests of the West Rukon District with her captain in place of Renji, who was on another mission in the real world.

"Koyumi, we are leaving now."

"Hai, Kuchiki-taichou."

The two flash stepped to the West Rukon district in silence, each immersed in their own thoughts.

'She hasn't said anything in the past 3 weeks besides the line: yes captain…Maybe something else is going on… Wait, why am I thinking about her again?! She looks so familiar' and thus were the thoughts in the so called cold and heartless captain's mind. Koyumi on the other hand, thought about the past, as she had done for the past few weeks. The two arrived at the forests, but nothing out of the ordinary could be seen.

"Koyumi, we will separate and search for any signs of hollows"

"Hai, taichou."

The two separated and at first nothing seemed to be wrong, but suddenly a Menos Grande appeared. The problem was that while the captain of the sixth division had sensed it the minute it appeared, his subordinate could not and it had appeared only about 200 metres distance away from her. The only reason Koyumi noticed it was because of its size and the noise it made. Even after seeing it, she could not sense the Menos in front of her at all.

"Soar across the frozen skies, Touketsu Kagerou!"

Koyumi easily defeated the Menos, but more began to appear around her. 'This is strange, why am I unable to sense them and why are they all gathering around me!?' Koyumi thought. Suddenly a voice rang inside her mind: 'Are you surprised, little Yumi-chan? You're thinking, why am I unable to sense the hollows. Well the reason is that I am not allowing you to sense them. I am watching your every move Yumi-chan; let us see the full extent of your powers! *evil laugh*'

Koyumi's eyes widened as she fell on to her knees, frozen. 'Who are you and why are you doing this!? Stop!!!!' Pain was now spreading across her stiff body, but she could not do anything. She could not even scream. The symbol on her shoulder was appearing again, but this time, the blue marks extended down not only her left arm, but halfway down her back as well. The menos were getting closer, soon they would devour her whole and there was nothing she could do.

"Somebody, help m—" 'That's right, nobody's going to come. Hitsugaya isn't going to save me, he's not even a friend anymore…Brother… he can't save me…Nobody cares whether I'm dead or alive…'

Byakuya POV

I flash stepped quickly to where the menos had appeared, but when I arrived, there were about 5 menos surrounding Koyumi. She was lying on the ground, not moving at all. I was about to call out senbonzakura when a strange aura began to surround the girl. She glowed with a blue light and began to float into the air. Her eyes had begun to glow as well. Suddenly, everything around her began to freeze as she chanted a strange incantation, unlike those of kido spells. Three beams of light shot down from the cloudy skies and engulfed her. As I watched, her shihakusho turned pure white and feathery wings sprouted from her back. Strange blue markings began to crawl onto her left cheek. All the menos around her were instantly destroyed, but not only did she succeed in destroying them, she also froze everything within a 2 mile radius into solid ice.

Normal POV

Koyumi fell from the sky; her wings shattered and fell like shimmering dust particles. She landed gently in the arms of her captain who had flash stepped to catch her.

"Taichou, my apologies for troubling you," the girl said before slipping from reality.

The cold captain gazed down at the pale and dying girl in his arms and quickly hurried back to the fourth division.

'I've seen this girl before, I'm sure of it…'

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