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~Dark Forest~

Someone within the Dark Forest saw Brielle leave at breakneck speeds, and knew that someone hurt Ichigo. This creature narrowed his eyes and growled. 'Whoever hurt him…is going to wish they were never BORN!'

~With Ichigo~

Ichigo got to where Rukia is and saved her just in time from tentacles. After he saved her, he saw that the sinners had his sisters. "Yuzu, Karin! Let go of my sisters, darn it!" Ichigo demanded.

The one with the tentacles muttered, "It seems that Taikon and the others couldn't hold him off."

The guy next to the one who spoke replied, "It matters not." He walks a little in front of him. "Ichigo Kurosaki, if you want your sisters back, you'll have to do us a little favor," He said.

Ichigo's eyes widened, and then pointed his right sword at them. "Like heck I'll do something for you!" Before the orange-haired teen could do anything, someone brought a blood red sword down towards the guy with the tentacles, but missed because he moved out of the way; the person that attacked, Ichigo recognized as Brielle in her human form. 'Why is she in that form? She hates being a human,' Ichigo thought.

A tentacle was aimed at Brielle; she blocked it, and then cut it off. Brielle's eyes narrowed. 'How am I going to get close without hurting the girls?' She mused. "Who are you? I heard that you had a favor for Ichigo, but what makes you think he is going to do it, or even be able to?" Brielle asked, trying to stay as calm as possible.

"We're sinners from Hell. My name is Shuren, and this here is Gunjo," He said the last part while pointing at the guy with the tentacles. "The task is a simple one, but only for him." Shuren pointed to Ichigo after he was done explaining. Brielle didn't understand what that meant, that answer could have two different meanings.

'Is he saying that only Ichigo is allowed to do it, or that he's the only one strong enough?' The more she thought about it the more she thinks it's the latter.

Ichigo charges at Shuren and starts fighting him. While Ichigo was doing that, Brielle was fighting Gunjo and trying to get her sisters back without hurting them, but she wasn't doing a good job of that since he's holding her off very well.

In the meantime while Brielle is trying to come up with a plan to get her sisters back, Ichigo is defending himself from Shuren's fire attacks. It was a good thing Ichigo had two Zanpakutos or else he would be having a bit of a problem. He blocked the one attack, but was able to swing with the larger sword almost getting the sinner, but Shuren blocked the attack with another blade of fire.

Ichigo brought up his left leg and kicked Shuren in the side, sending him to slam into Gunjo's back. In a way both Ichigo and Brielle wanted him to drop the girls, but in another they didn't because the sinner would try to stop them and the girls would be falling to their deaths.

Shuren turns to his partner. "Gunjo, go on ahead. He'll have no choice but to follow."

"As you wish." Gunjo obeyed by opening a portal that looked like a Garganta, but it was red on the inside with blue fire around it.

"Yuzu, Karin!" Ichigo and Brielle said in unison. Brielle went after Shuren, who was trying to stop her brother from getting to their sisters, but it would seem that they didn't even need to move; someone showed up and cut off the tentacle that was holding Karin.

The man held onto the black-haired girl while he backed away from the other sinners. Brielle saw that he came out of the portal, and with what Rukia asked means that the chances of her seeing it too were next to none.

"Does it matter who I am?" The man replied to Rukia's question.

Gunjo and Shuren try to get Kairn back from the man in white, but they were having a hard time, especially when Brielle almost got Yuzu back with a blade made of pure dark energy. The two jump back and Shuren says, "Just go back, we really only need one."

Gunjo opened another portal and went through it. Ichigo tried to stop him, but it closed just when he was about to reach it. "YUZU!" Ichigo almost got hit by the flame sinner, but Brielle blocked it with her blade that was now made of ice, cold water. With both elemental blades locked with each other, they made a lot of steam to the point they couldn't see, but this wasn't really a problem to Brielle since she can smell her enemy. She fires an arc of water at the sinner, much like Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho. It hit into Shuren, creating a gash on his torso.

While that happened, the man that saved Karin gave her to Rukia. "Hold on to her for me," He said.

Since Yuzu wasn't there, and Karin was safe, Brielle didn't see a reason not to hold back with the sinner that she and Ichigo were fighting. She turns her sword into a whip; it is the same color as the sword, the hilt had the little red orb at the end of it while the black crystal was acting like the guard. At the end of the whip it had another red orb like the one on the end of the hilt, but there were also black pointed crystals attached to it.

Brielle swung the whip at Shuren; he dodged it, but the Dark Dragon found out she could control the crystal with her mind. The whip also extends, so it was able to still grab hold of Shuren. Once she had a hold of him, she tossed him over to Ichigo, who was ready with a Getsuga.

Sadly, Shuren turned into flames and he was gone. Brielle and Ichigo were looking around; the black-haired teen could still smell him, so that means he's still around. "Where are you?! Show yourself you cowered!" Brielle shouted.

Out of nowhere a fire ball was sent at Rukia who was on a roof of a building. Brielle and Ichigo knew they wouldn't get there in time, but that didn't stop them from trying. Luckily, Chad made it, but unluckily for him, he got burned really badly.

"Chad!" Ichigo cried out, seeing the rest of his friends showing up.

"Ichigo Kurosaki." Ichigo heard Shuren's voice and tried to locate it, but couldn't find him. "If you want your sister back, then come to Hell."

Ichigo spun around. "Where are you?! Come out!" Ichigo demanded.

"We need you to do us a little favor before we hand her back over to you though," Shuren ignored Ichigo, but he did attack him one more time. Ichigo blocked the attack with Shiro Zangetsu - the small sword is put away at his hip. "Destroy the Gates of Hell. After that, you can have your sister." Ichigo cut through him, but he was made of fire again. "I'll be waiting for you in Hell!" He said while laughing.

After all that, Brielle could no longer smell his scent. "He's gone," She said.

Ichigo shunpoed over to the man that helped and grabbed him by the collar. "Who the heck were those people, and what did they mean by the Gates of Hell?!"

The man raised his hand is a surrender position. "Whoa, calm down for second," He said.

"Answer me!" Ichigo shouted, but before he could do anything, Brielle slammed him over the head with her whip that she decided was going to be used like her tail while in human form.

"Both of those were stupid questions. I could answer them both on my own. They were sinners from Hell, and they want you to destroy the Gates. The reason, I'm still thinking of one," Brielle said.

Ichigo turned to his soul sister, and sighed in defeat, and then let go of the man in white. "You're right, those were stupid." After he calmed down, he remembered something. "Why are you in human form?" He asked.

"Now that's a better question. To answer it, I had a visitor. They tested me for the Dark Crystal Sword, but I could only use it while in human form," She explained. {There is also a secret weapon that it can turn into, but I would need to be tested by someone else, and to know how to use the other weapons that the crystal can turn into,} She finished in telepathy.

"Right, I guess that make sense," Ichigo said with a finger on his chin in thought. When he looked back up from seeing a purple glow, he saw that Brielle's whip turned into a necklace. It was red like the sword and whip, and the two red orbs at the ends of the strings melded together at the back of Brielle's neck, and the charm part of the necklace is the same black crystal that was at the guard of the whip and butt end of the hilt of the sword. "Why is it like that?" Ichigo asked.

"This is its standby mode," Brielle replied.

"Oh…"

"Let's get Chad to a hospital, and get Karin home."

Ichigo nodded his head. "Yeah…"

TBC

Well, that was fun. Not much longer before you guys find out what I meant in the summary. :) Trust me; your jaws will be kissing the floor. Well, maybe not, but it's a good mental picture. ;) I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Oh, and I want you guys to try and guess who that person was in the beginning of this chapter. Have fun with that! :D

Ichi: What about me? :/

Enj/Bri: You're whole body is going to have a date with the floor.

Shiro: Don't worry, King. Not even I know what she's going to do.

Ichi: What's going to happen to Yuzu?! D=

Enj/Bri: Nothing back will happen to her, but that's all I can say.

Ichi: Doesn't stop me from being scared. :(

Enj/Bri: Please review! ^-^