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Mist: Well here is where the plot will show itself

Whistle: Or not, I don't really care

Mist: Let's just skip straight to the story; I have a LOT of ground to cover.

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Ch 1. I think I just missed an important plot point

Toshiro clenched his eyes shut and prepared for whatever immense pain the gun would cause him, but all he felt was a small tingle then… everything was fine. He heard the boy chuckle and opened an eye to look at him.

"Didn't I tell you that it wouldn't hurt?" The boy smiled as he ruffled his hair again. "It only disabled the cloaking."

"Wh-who are you?" What else could he say?

"Don't worry, kid," The not-arrancar-arrancar smiled even more, "I'm a friend. My name is Ray."

"Ray?" That didn't really sound like the name of an Arrancar…

Ray smiled at him before picking him up and jumping over onto the large building that the other two creatures were. "Hey guys! Looky who I found!" Ray put him down but kept a hand on his shoulder.

The other two creatures rushed over to them.

One was a girl with rangy blond hair with a few black streaks and yellow eyes. Her uniforms shirt had its sleeves ripped off and she was wearing large metal bracelets. Her mask looked like a twisted hairband. "Well if it isn't little Toshiro!" She patted him on the head. "Long time no see!"

The last one was another boy with blond hair with a single orange streak that covered part of his right eye. This was the one who was a normal Arrancar and he wore a dressier uniform than his companions but he also wore an orange necklace that matched his eyes. His mask looked like a headband with little wings on the side. "It's good to see you again," He told him happily, "We've been looking all over for you!"

"You people were looking for me?" Toshiro felt like his head was going to explode! This had to be some short of trick! No way could these Arrancar know him!

The two newcomers looked confused at him.

"He's lost all memory of us," Ray explained to the other creatures before turning to Toshiro. "Toshiro, this is Abila and Kai. They're also friends."

Abila looked him over. "That would explain his outfit," She mumbled half to herself.

"And kids shouldn't be playing with swords!" Kai scolded him as he gently pulled Hyourinmaru out of his hand, "You could hurt yourself if you aren't careful!"

"And we wouldn't want that, now would we?" Ray said as he tightened his grip on his shoulder and pulled him closer.

Toshiro didn't know why, but for some reason he wasn't scared. He didn't feel like these Arrancar were going to harm him, and he didn't feel like trying to escape.

Suddenly out of nowhere an arrow shot out and nearly hit Kai.

Ray quickly pulled Toshiro right next to him and put both of his arms around him in a protective manner. "Stay close," He ordered him. "You can stop hiding behind that sign Mire!"

Toshiro looked over where Ray and the others were looking and show a girl walk out from behind a large sign.

The girl, Mire, had longish brown hair with bright blue eyes and blue bows in her hair. She was dressed similar to a Quincy but with more yellow. She had a Quincy-like Riatsu as well but it was slightly off, just like Ray and Abila's Arrancar Riatsu.

"Release him this instant!" Mire ordered them as she pointed her bow at them.

"Not gonna happen," Ray smirked and tightened his grip on Toshiro. "He's coming with us, but you're welcome to tag along!"

Toshiro looked up at Ray; he felt a little out of it, did that gun to more than Ray said it did? "Where are you taking me?" He asked him.

Ray patted him on the head. "Don't worry about that," Ray told him with a kind smile, "We're your friends; we aren't going to hurt you…"

Toshiro felt tired… maybe he should put his head down for a bit and…

"Snap out of it!" Hyourinmaru's voice interrupted his thoughts, "You need to keep yourself together! These Arrancar work for Aizen!"

"But… they haven't done anything to me…" Toshiro told the dragon

"You mean you need another reason besides them using some short of ray gun on you that's messing with your thought process?" Hyourinmaru asked his small partner.

Toshiro didn't answer the dragon.

He felt someone grab his arm and yank him away from Ray. He looked up and saw a worried looking Ichigo. "You ok, Toshiro?" He asked him, "Why weren't you answering me? What did they do to you? Why didn't you fight back?"

Toshiro blinked in response and looked around to see what was going on. Mire and Abila were fighting and the Quincy boy, what's-his-name, and Kai were fighting while Ray glared at Ichigo. Toshiro noticed that Hyourinmaru was on the ground and walked over to retrieve it.

"Come here, Toshiro," Ray told him when he saw him walk away from Ichigo, "Its ok, I'm not gonna hurt you…"

"Focus, Toshiro," Hyourinmaru reminded him. "We need to get out of here!"

"Toshiro!" Ichigo called to get his attention.

"Y-ya?" Toshiro looked over at Ichigo. The substitute Shinigami looked worried.

"Get away from there!" Ichigo snapped at him.

Without a second though Toshiro jumped away from where he was and got to Ichigo. He looked back to see an annoyed looking Ray standing where he had just been.

"This would have been so much easier if these people hadn't shown up," Ray complained to no one in particular. "We aren't going to hurt you Toshiro…"

"What do you creepy Arrancar want with Toshiro?" Ichigo ordered.

Ray rolled his eyes at the Shinigami. "Patience dumbass, all shall be revealed in due time."

Toshiro found himself chuckling at Ichigo's face when he heard what Ray said.

"You like that?" Ray asked him happily, "I have a lot of those jokes. Perhaps when we get back to HQ I can tell you some more. What do ya say?"

Ray held out his hand to Toshiro with a knowing smirk.

Toshiro took a step forward, then two steps back when Hyourinmaru reminded him that no matter how nice Ray was acting, he was the enemy.

Ray frowned at him. "I guess that the devise is wearing off…" Ray sighed, "Oh well… I would prefer not to hurt a friend, but you're not giving me any choose here…"

Suddenly Kai jumped over to Ray. "We'll have to capture them latter," He told his friend, "We are being summoned by Aizen-Sama."

Ray nodded at him. "Got it," He turned to Abila and yelled, "It's time to go!"

Abila nodded and jumped over and opened the portal for them.

"We'll be back… Toshiro…" Ray told him before jumping through.

"Who were those freaks?" Toshiro asked everyone.

"Our old friends," A voice said from behind him.

He quickly whipped around and saw the two Quincy's.

"But you don't remember that, now do you?"

"We should get going," What's-his-name told Mire.

Mire nodded at him and the two sort of disappeared…

Ichigo shook his shoulder. "Come on, Rukia's at my house right now," Ichigo told him, "She can get us to the Soul Society and we can have squad 4 analyse you."

Toshiro nodded as Ichigo led him away.

"What just happened?"

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Mist: Looks like Toshi-kun is having some trouble fallowing the plot

Whistle: He better snap out of it before he gets brainwashed!

Mist: Tehe

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