Hey everyone! Well, this isn't the last chapter fortunately but there will be one more chapter after this; then the encore chat which takes place 12 years into the future followed by chapter of Inherited Nightmares! Since Inherited Nightmares used to be called Life of a Captain's Son, I am going to use the already completed chapter 1 as a base and make the heavy changes from there.

This chapter also contains light fluff between Yachiru and Hanatarou and it's really hard to tell if they are in a relationship or not. After all, Yachiru is still trying to understand love and relationships even though it has been months since their "relationship" has started. I'm not very good at writing fluff unfortunately hehe since this is my first time, so I don't know if it would be any good, but of course you guys be the judge.

Also, I might have told you guys that chapters 12 through 15 will be one video each, but this one will be two since it's a very important chapter and there's lots of content in it (since it's a very important chapter and the secondary climax is going to be in this one as well).

So without further ado, here's the second last chapter for you all!

Chapter 14: The War is Over?

Matsumoto continued to watch helplessly while Hinamori wept beside her deceased boyfriend. Even though her friend had done several things that she did not agree with, such as cheat on her own captain and insult everyone in the chat room that time, she could not bring herself to be angry and unforgiving. She knew that Hinamori had a lot of issues in her life that needed to be sorted out and maybe Hitsugaya was just not right for her.

Now this situation added to those issues. Matsumoto wondered if Hinamori will ever be all right again.

Since she was immersed in the dramatic scene before her, she forgot that Gin Ichimaru was still there. He gave an insane smile as he chuckled darkly. "What a touchin' scene," he commented, making both women look up to him in unison. "Let me make it all better by allowin' you two to join him!"

Hinamori immediately stood up and grabbed her zampakutou in fury. "You bastard!" She hissed as she unsheathed her zampakutou. "You will PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" She charged towards Gin recklessly.

"Hinamori! Don't!" Matsumoto screamed in warning, knowing fully well what Gin was capable of.

With one violent sweep of the back of his hand to her face, Gin sent Hinamori crashing to the ground, knocking her out cold. Matsumoto's eyes fixed on her friend in horror and then averted to Gin who was facing her.

"Now then, where were we?" He chuckled once again as he pretended to be in thought. "Oh yes, I was about to end yer life when I was interrupted by that worthless person whom I called my lieutenant. I always knew he was a weakling and it was one of my greatest regrets having to appoint him as my lieutenant. Oh well, at least he's out of the picture for good. Now, I can finish what I started. So long, Rangiku."

Matsumoto growled as she watched Gin point his zampakutou towards her, knowing that Kira's sacrifice would be well in vain.

Suddenly, a blade flew out towards Gin, making him jump back off guard. Matsumoto knew who would own a blade like this for there was one other shinigami who could extend and retract his zampakutou at will: Renji. Renji jumped in front of Matsumoto, a look of hatred in his eyes.

"R-Renji!" Matsumoto exclaimed.

Renji smirked at his friend. "Sleeping on the job, Matsumoto?"

Matsumoto made a disgruntled face. "Yea right! I'm injured if you can't see that!"

Waving her reaction away, Renji looked down to see his old classmate and best friend lying dead in front of him and his rage increased tenfold. "Did…he do this?!" He demanded as his eyes glued onto the deceased shinigami in front of him.

Matsumoto averted her eyes to a spot on the ground in shame. "Yes… Gin was trying to kill me, but Kira saved me…and he fought as hard as he could but…he was bound and…Gin killed him."

Wisps of reiatsu rose from Renji's surface like steam as he bared his teeth in extreme wrath. "You…bastard!" He hissed as Gin gave a puzzling frown. "I will…" His head shot up, showing his incredible ire. "TEAR YOU TO PIECES! HOWL, ZABIMARU!"

He whipped his zampakutou forward, extending the blade to its square-liked, five-pronged appearance. Gin blocked the attack and the elastic that held the miniature blades together coiled in reaction, pushing him back in violent force. Renji retracted his zampakutou back and extended it once again for another strike; the top-most tip of the sword crashing down above Gin's head.

Gin barely had time to act as the impact caused an explosive shattering of the rubble, and he immediately took off into the air using a combination of shunpo and natural speed. His fox-like eyes opened slightly as he noticed that blade coming towards him again and tried to block it as it pushed him back and sent him crashing towards another building behind him.

Renji retracted his sword back to him and the multiple blades re-attached as he watched rubble tumble on top of his enemy. Baring his teeth in a furious snarl, he took off towards the building, ready to strike his enemy down at the first given chance.

Hisagi and Tousen's battle was intense when it started and both opponents were equal in strength even though they did not release their zampakutou yet. They took a break for a bit to catch their breath.

That was when Hisagi sensed what happened to Kira where he had left Matsumoto. What happened down there? Could Kira be…? The lieutenant shook his head vigorously. That could never happen! But there was a strong chance it did for Hisagi felt Kira's reiatsu level drop and then disappear. He tightened his hold onto his unreleased zampakutou in despair for his best friend, grinding his teeth together in a slight growl.

Shortly after that sensation came to him, another followed but this time it was Renji's reiatsu. It fluctuated due to intense anger. This anger was far worse than anything Hisagi felt.

However, the feeling that was greater than any of those other feelings was his worry for Matsumoto. He had a feeling that something would happen to her for he knew that Gin's power was greater than her own, and he made a promise that if Renji does not get to finish Ichimaru, then he will step in after he is finished with Tousen.

"You seem lost in thought," Tousen trailed off, breaking his former lieutenant from his thoughts. "You worried about your dear girlfriend? Or for your friends? It doesn't matter anyway…you will be joining Kira soon."

Hisagi gasped with shock. "What the hell are you talking about?!" He demanded, hoping that his theory would be incorrect.

"Kira lost his life at the hands of Gin Ichimaru when he was trying to protect Matsumoto. Apparently she got seriously injured to the point where she could not move and Kira stepped in to fight Ichimaru off, but why am I telling you pointless information anyway? Let's see if you're as weak as Kira was."

He really struck a nerve as Hisagi held out his zampakutou in front of him. "Reap, Kazeshini!" The sword split into two spiked staffs, each forming two curved blades facing away from each other, and a tethered chain joined the staffs together.

Hisagi gave a deathly glare to his former captain as he held his staffs tighter. "So be it then. Let's go!" He charged towards Tousen and slashed his scythes towards him alternatively and repetitively; the latter blocked each strike that came to him, being pushed back slightly by the impacts.

With all of his strength, Hisagi threw one of his scythes at his former captain, causing the chain to extend and the blade to twirl at vicious speeds toward its target. Tousen dodged the blade, leaving Hisagi with an opportunity to throw his second blade the second after the first returned to him.

Once again Tousen dodged the blade and countered, shouting, "Cry, Suzumushi!" A high-pitched sonic wave blasted out of the sword and knowing fully well what it was capable of, Hisagi immediately closed his eyes and covered his ears before disappearing out of range of the formidable wave.

He appeared above Tousen's head and swept one of his scythes in a fluid motion, hoping to decapitate his opponent, but Tousen thought fast. He blocked it with his sword and parried Hisagi away. Then they faced each other for another break, panting while glaring at each other.

Standing on top of a tall building overlooking Sereitei, Aizen smirked as he was transfixed on the battles happening below him. He could feel the excitement pulse through his veins as destruction occurred in every area. Very soon, everything will be his for the taking and his goal will finally have been reached.

Suddenly, a blur caught him off guard and a long deep gash formed on his shoulder. Aizen darted his eyes back and forth, curious as to what or who had attacked him.

He could almost swear to see orange mixed in the blur. Impossible! He knew he had his sword lodged deep into Ichigo's heart. No one in his right mind would survive something like that. What the hell is going on?

Another blur came charging towards him but this time Aizen was ready. He blocked the attack and his eyes widened at the site of a hollow with long, bright orange hair and horns leering right at him. The black blade that he was holding immediately gave it away.

Aizen smirked. "Well, well, well. Look who came back from the dead?"

The hollow narrowed his eyes as he attempted to slash across his opponent but the attack was blocked instantly. "I hate to break this to you, Kurosaki, but even in that form you will never defeat me. Don't even try. Maybe you were lucky before, but this time is completely different." He parried off Ichigo, who threw down his blade.

"Oh? Giving up already?" Aizen inquired with a hopeful smirk.

Leaning forward a bit, a bright light formed between Ichigo's horns and an extremely powerful cero exploded forward, crashing towards Aizen with brute force. He bared his teeth as he attempted to block the technique only to be slashed across the back.

"Damn you!" Aizen growled as he turned sharply around and attempted to slice through Ichigo's mask but the move failed as Ichigo immediately dodged the attack before it struck him.

"You're no ordinary hollow," Aizen complimented.

Without speaking, Ichigo unleashed more ceros at his enemy. Aizen blocked each one of them but a sharp pain immediately erupted through one of his shoulders. He also did not notice that there were severe burns on his wrist and arm from attempting to block the cero, but what was even more shocking was the missing arm.

His eyes averted to his assailant holding his severed, bloody arm tightly in his claws. "What the fuck is with you?" he questioned with a growl.

Ichigo tossed the arm aside and lunged at his enemy once again. Aizen blocked his attack and both opponents were locked in a temporary stalemate. "Why the fuck won't you answer me?!" He demanded, "Are you really that stupid or do I have to repeat things for you again and again?!"

"You…murderous…FREAK!" was all Ichigo could say as he disappeared and sent a roundhouse kick flying towards Aizen's head, knocking him down with the impact. Grasping his sword tightly, Ichigo stepped slowly towards Aizen, letting out an aura of steaming reiatsu.

Aizen grabbed his katana and narrowed his eyes. "So he wants revenge huh?" he whispered while staring at the hollow walking slowly towards him, "We'll just see about that." He managed to slowly stand up and then held his zampakutou in front of him, pointing downward. "Shatter…"

Before he could say the name of his zampakutou, Ichigo disappeared from view and slashed Aizen across the chest and then across the stomach, letting loose a large quantity of blood before sending his enemy crashing once again to the ground with a violent kick.

Eyes locked onto one another, Tousen and Hisagi stood several kilometres apart. Both rounds of their battles proved to be quite intense and other than having plenty of cuts, gashes and bruises, Hisagi was unscathed from any attack that Tousen had given him. Tousen, on the other hand, barely had any scratch on his dark skin.

Another thought had entered Hisagi's mind. Some really powerful entity had appeared where Aizen was. Its reiatsu was so enormous that it was on par or if not greater than Aizen's reiatsu, but who could it be?

Hisagi had realized that the reiatsu was like a hollow's but around ten million times greater than any minor hollow, but how could a hollow attack Aizen, the ruler of all hollows? It just did not make sense.

"You done pondering yet?" Tousen asked impatiently, eager to continue their battle.

Hisagi's mind snapped back to reality. "Yea," he replied as he held one scythe in front of him and the other behind him in a fighting stance.

"Good," Tousen commented as he held his hand over his face. "I guess it's time to go hollow then."

Hisagi gaped as his former captain whipped his hand in front of his face, unleashing a blank, white mask. "You remember how I told you that I could hollowificate at will?" Tousen inquired as Hisagi thought back to their previous fight. "Well, since you are worthy enough to see it," Tousen explained, "might as well show it to you. However, this is just phase one."

He dematerialized and re-appeared in front of Hisagi, swinging his zampakutou at him. Hisagi blocked with one of his scythes and countered with the other one. Tousen quickly parried the attack away and came back with another slash of his zampakutou – this time more violent than the initial strike.

Hisagi blocked the strike immediately but was pushed back by the force of the attack. He could feel that his captain had gotten ten times stronger than he was a moment ago and he knew that the mask was to blame. If that was the case, then what is phase two? Hisagi shuddered at the thought and continued blocking and countering his former captain's techniques.

"You're slowing down, Hisagi," Tousen remarked as he swiftly slashed his blade in all directions. With a giant sweep, he managed to shallowly slice through his opponent's abdomen. "Or maybe it's just me."

Hisagi panted but before he could heal his wound, his former captain slashed at him again, making him barely block the attack before it touched him again.

"You're slipping, Hisagi," Tousen remarked again. "You know that you can't heal yourself when you've got your hands full."

"Shut the hell up!" Hisagi snapped as he countered with his full strength. "You're no longer my mentor, so what gives you the right to criticize my fighting style?!"

Using shunpo, he teleported further away from his opponent and while Tousen was charging towards him, he held up his hand and shouted, "Bakudou 62 – Hyapporankan!" A rod of light formed in his hand and he threw it javelin-style towards his opponent.

Tousen dematerialized before the rod touched him and clashed his blade against Hisagi's once again. "Nice try," he remarked while pushing his former lieutenant back, "but not good enough!"

He swept his zampakutou forward with great force, but Hisagi dodged using shunpo and appeared above and slightly behind his former captain's head. Putting one arm his bicep and other outward with the palm faced forward – he held his scythes with his thumbs in a crisscross formation – he shouted, "Hadou 66 – Soren Sokatsui!" Two balls of blue fiery energy shot out of his hand and collided with Tousen with great explosive force.

Hanatarou watched as Ryuichi played happily and sighed. This was definitely a long day. First, rushing everywhere on Yasochika's demands and then finding out about Rukia, who is now in a deep coma. Now he was given the responsibility of watching over Ryuichi while Yuzu is undergoing some kind of therapy. What next?

He sighed once again. This day was definitely a long and tiresome one, he thought to himself, smiling wearily as Ryuichi studied a certain toy with upmost curiosity, if only Yachiru-chan were here then things would be more interesting.

As if on cue, Yachiru bolted in the room and tackled a surprised Hanatarou with a happy squeal. "Hana-kun!" Ryuichi looked up from his toy to see what was going on.

Hanatarou saw stars for a bit before gazing into Yachiru's eyes and beamed brightly. "Hey!"

Yachiru gave Hanatarou a small kiss on the cheek before hopping off his chest and kneeling beside him. She did not like giving kisses on the lips since she thought they were gross and even though she still could not understand love very well, she did not know where her feelings for Hanatarou lay. Hanatarou, on the other hand, could understand the pink-haired girl's feelings and settled for being her friend, although she still gave him kisses on the cheek every now and then.

"So whatcha doin'?" Yachiru asked playfully as she gave her friend a warm smile.

Hanatarou blushed before turning back to Ryuichi. "Oh, just a little babysitting. His aunt is undergoing some sort of therapy after what happened and his mom is in a coma."

Yachiru followed his gaze to the baby. "Is that Ichy's son?"

"Yep," Hanatarou replied. "I think Kurosaki-san is fighting somewhere."

"Me too!" Yachiru piped in. Then she frowned. "I heard what happened though and it is very sad. I hope Ryu's mommy gets better soon."

Hanatarou gave her a sad smile as he stared at her for a moment; a small blush tinted his cheeks as he gazed into her eyes. "So where's Zaraki? Shouldn't you be with him?"

Yachiru shrugged. "I would rather be with you than with him. He doesn't trust my sense of direction very well, I don't think. So I snuck off to be with you."

Hanatarou's eyes widened with slight fear. "Oh…w-wouldn't he be mad?"

Yachiru gave him a charming and reassuring smile. "Ken-chan will be fine without me. Besides, he's too fixed up with the war to worry about me."

Hanatarou sighed in relief as Yachiru pressed her head against his shoulder, shooting his nervousness to new heights. He calmed down with a deep breath as they watched Ryuichi continue playing together.

Laughing as he rushed through the streets of Sereitei, Zaraki Kenpachi was searching for any enemy that he knew he would slaughter.

As soon as the war started, he was so excited to start fighting that he completely forgot that Yachiru was not riding on his shoulder like she always did. He never knew that the little girl had frequently snuck off to be with Hanatarou, and he was too excited to fight off an espada or two to care.

He sharply turned a corner with a toothy grin, still guffawing like an evil demon and his eyes widened in exhilaration as he saw a figure standing not to far in front of him. "Looks like the lion found its prey," he chuckled as he sped towards the figure, holding tightly onto the hilt of his rusted sword.

Szayel had expected to be spotted like this and blocked Zaraki's attack as though he had eyes at the back of his head. "Welcome," he slyly greeted with a confident smirk.

Zaraki chuckled once again. "This should be good." He brought back his sword and attacked once again only to be blocked by Szayel's sword.

Reiatsu flowed between them as they began their battle, swinging their swords at one another and blocking each other's attacks. Zaraki laughed with each strike as his thrill increased, and Szayel chuckled as he matched every movement his opponent had made against him.

Hisagi waited for the smoke to clear, anxious to see how the kidou spell had affected his opponent. Even though he hit him point blank, he knew that the chances of the spell defeating his former captain were very small. His hands held tightly to the shafts of his scythes in excitement.

The smoke dissolved in the air and to Hisagi's expectations, Tousen was still standing still as though the smoke had very little effect. There were only a several minor burns where the attack at struck his skin but other than that he was unscathed from the impact.

"I give you points for trying to hit me with all you've got," Tousen remarked nonchalantly, facing his opponent through his solid mask but you know that you can't come close to defeating me. I think we should finish this quickly, don't you think?"

Hisagi gulped as he knew what his former captain was saying. He grasped his scythes as he prepared for the next round in their battle.

Thick, dense reiatsu rushed around Tousen's form as he began to change shape. Hisagi felt slightly overwhelmed as he felt the suffocating pressure from his position, but he kept his eyes glued to the transformation as his former captain's form swelled and metamorphosed into that of a giant insect. Beads of sweat dripped from his brow but he did his best to keep his composure.

Once the reiatsu cleared, Hisagi felt that he could breathe again, but his breath caught his throat as he saw his opponent's current form. His body resembled that of a giant fly or gnat, with giant wings sprouting from his sides like those from a dragon. His mask had also changed to be more insect-like as there were spheres of a thousand eyes each on either side of the mask. Antennae waved above the mask and Tousen's unnatural, insect-like mouth turned upwards into a toothy grin.

Hisagi shakily tightened his holds on his scythes and he breathed raggedly. This grotesque form was frightening, and even if he tried his best he could not hide his fear.

"Frozen in fear, are you?" Tousen inquired with his echoed hollow voice. "Don't worry. It comes naturally!"

Using sonido, he flashed towards Hisagi at great speeds. The lieutenant could not remember how to breathe but he knew he had to be ready. He barely blocked his opponent's attack with his scythes in a crisscrossed formation and was immediately pushed back with force unlike any other he had ever felt.

Tousen chuckled with amusement as he opened his mouth wide.

Hisagi's eyes widened with utmost fear as a bright light shone within the hollow's mouth. "Crap!" He shouted under his breath as he used shunpo to get out of the cero's path. Knowing that this would be the case, Tousen changed his aim to Hisagi's current location and cero shot towards him with great speed and power.

Hisagi crossed his scythes to block the fiery beam, but even that had the power to push him back slightly. He pushed his scythes upward to redirect the beam upwards and glared at the insect-like hollow with pure hatred. However, his face relaxed as a plan entered his mind and a small smirk graced his lips.

Tousen's toothy grin vanished from his face as he puzzlingly stared at his former subordinate. "What's with that smug look on your face?" he demanded as his great wings vibrated on either side of him.

That was when Hisagi did the unthinkable: he reverted his scythes back to their unreleased states. Tousen gaped in shock at what his opponent had done. "Are you fucking crazy?!"

The smirk never went away from Hisagi's face as he calmly yet confidently stared at his former captain's fearsome form. "You might say that for I have decided to give up this fight. It's too fruitless to continue."

"FRUITLESS?!" Tousen screamed with frustration. "Are you still that young man that is afraid of battle even after everything I've taught you?! Are you implying to me that you haven't GROWN UP YET?!"

"You could say that," Hisagi replied, continuing to smirk. "You can do away with me what you will for I have no intention of continuing this fight whatsoever."

After a deep sigh, Tousen calmed down. "Very well. I always knew that you would show some kind of weakness in our fight one way or another." With a giant flutter of his wings, he sped towards his former subordinate – a bloodthirsty disappointment showing in his multiple eyes.

That's right, come for me, Hisagi beckoned as he continued to smirk, let's finish this!

As soon as Tousen got close enough, Hisagi immediately jumped on his back and thrust his katana inside Tousen's insect-like head. "What is the meaning of this?!" Tousen gasped as he tried to shake off his opponent but to no avail.

Hisagi's smirk turned into a malicious grin as he laughed. "Fooled you! Reap, Kazeshini!" The unreleased zampakutou immediately turned into the twin scythes as the curved blades ripped through Tousen's skull and through his mask.

"WHAT?! NOOOOO!!!!!!" Tousen screamed as he thrashed with all his might to throw Hisagi off him. Hisagi ripped his scythes out of the hollow's skull and jumped off its back before it started to dissolve into thin air. "YOU BASTARD!!!! NOOOOOO!" Tousen screamed as he disintegrated into dust before Hisagi's eyes.

In triumph, Hisagi once again reverted his zampakutou back to normal and sighed in relief. "That's why you shouldn't let your guard down, no matter what your enemy says. It was one of your lessons anyway. Turns out that I'm smarter for your own good." With a goofy grin on his face, he left the area using shunpo to see if Matsumoto was all right.

Grunting and brushing himself off, Gin squinted through narrow slits as he slowly stood up from the mess of rubble only to be met with the coiling multiple blades of Renji's Zabimaru. He tried to block the topmost of the blades with Shinsou, grunting some more as he was pushed back.

After casting his zampakutou behind him, Renji sent it flying to its target once again, growling and seething in extreme anger. Gin had nothing to make of his opponent's murderous rampage but since he had killed his friend, he had an idea of how Renji would react.

Renji retracted his zampakutou back to him, and, holding onto the hilt tightly, shouted, "BANKAI!"

Smoke exploded outward from all around him as his zampakutou's form changed to that of a gigantic skeletal snake with red fur outlining its head like a main. A pink furry cape enshrouded Renji's shoulders and a murderous glare shone in his eyes as he growled, "Hihiou, Zabimaru."

"Oooh, scary," Gin whistled as he eyed the monstrous weapon from head to hilt. "So this is how yer gonna avenge your friend."

"You're damn right!" Renji snapped and then he whipped the snake forward. "Howl, Zabimaru!"

The giant snake slithered towards Gin and crashed its monstrous jaws into the former captain, sliding him violently across the concrete streets. Gin growled as he tried to stop the snake, but to no avail. Before he could crash into another building, however, he dematerialized out of the snake's mouth and extended his blade towards Renji.

The red-haired lieutenant noticed this and whipped the snake towards his opponent, coiling around the elongated blade, constricting it with every inch it took as it sped towards its target. Gin tried to pull his sword out of the snake's grasp, but he could not and, using a vast amount of destructive power, it exploded upon him like a gigantic bomb. Renji immediately re-assembled the pieces of his snake with his reiatsu and then waited for the smoke to clear to see if the attack had done the trick.

Sure enough, when the smoke cleared, Gin stood there covered with blood and severe burns but was still standing nonetheless. "Oooh! That was quite the wild ride!" Gin remarked as he checked himself over, "and you sure as hell gave me some damage, but it definitely got the ol' heart rate up!"

Renji growled in annoyance and whipped his zampakutou towards his opponent once again. Gin mockingly shook his head as he tried to outrun the swift snake that charged towards him. "Don't ya got any other tactics than that? Seriously! It's gettin' a bit old!"

But Renji had other tricks up his sleeve. He dematerialized behind Gin and shouted, "Hikotsu Taihou!" A red beam of destructive light energy shot from the snake's mouth, and Gin attempted to block the beam with his zampakutou, only to aggravate his burns further.

Renji then teleported behind Gin as he was struggling against the beam and placed the palm of one hand towards him while the other hand on his bicep. "Hadou 31 – Shakahou!" Another crimson beam collided with Gin's back, causing a highly destructive explosion to erupt around him.

Abarai used shunpo to escape back on the ground and looked up, only to see a very severely damaged Gin fall head first from the clearing smoke. A smirk graced his lips as he moved towards his nearly defeated foe to get a better look at him.

"You're finished, Ichimaru!" Renji announced proudly as he held his palm out towards him again. "This is for Kira. See you in hell! Shaka…"

Before he could finish the kidou spell, however, the sky that rained upon Sereitei for what seemed like an eternity, started to crack open and several beams of golden light shot downwards. One of these beams of light caught Gin and slowly turned him upright.

"Negacion?!" Renji gaped as he watched the beam of light pull Gin upwards into Hueco Mundo. He looked all around him and had seen that other beams of light were pulling the espada that had survived the war until now upwards. "Oh come on!" he angrily exclaimed as he turned back to Gin who was escaping in his beam of light. "Just when I was getting my revenge!"

Gin chuckled weakly. "Hehe, too damn bad, Abarai, but next time we'll meet again!"

"You bastard!" Renji yelled in frustration.

Szayel and Zaraki repeatedly clashed their swords against each other for what seemed like hours. Every time when Szayel had gotten a hit onto his opponent, Zaraki would laugh with enjoyment as he countered with his rusted sword. He had enjoyed every moment of their battle and had wished that they would fight for eternity.

However, to his disappointment, a beam of light engulfed Szayel within its walls. The mad scientist looked up. "We're leaving already? Ha! Probably something is happening to the boss. Oh well. Looks like I'm going to have to rely on my pure ingenuity to piece him back together again!"

Zaraki growled as his opponent was being lifted into the air. "You coward! Running away from me, you stupid espada?!"

Szayel pushed his glasses further up his nose. "It's not me that's causing this. Something is happening to Aizen-sama, so we're fleeing. That substitute shinigami you got there is truly something for beating him to a pulp like this. You've won this war, shinigami, but we will be back next time!"

Throwing his sword in front of him with intense fury, Zaraki let loose a golden aura of reiatsu. "You fucking coward! You better come back so that I could rip you to fucking pieces!"

Back on the tall building, Aizen panted as a puddle of blood surrounded him. He could not believe that he was losing this battle again and this hollow that had ripped him to pieces was pissing him off to no end.

He also could not believe that Tousen, one of his loyal followers, had been defeated. However, he did not care what would happen to any of his followers as long as he was still alive…for now at least.

Ichigo stood above him, eyes narrowing in complete disgust behind his mask. A cero formed between his horns as he anticipated the completion of his revenge, excitement growing every second.

Aizen growled weakly. He knew he could not move because of the amount of blood that he lost and his heavy injuries weighing him down, but he was not ready to die just yet – especially not from some crazed, mindless hollow who shared a body with someone whom he loathed the most out of all of his enemies. If he could move and have both arms intact, then he would have this hollow under his complete control like all the others and defeat the shinigami, Ichigo Kurosaki once and for all.

An insane smile widened on his face as he stared death in the face, contemplating how he would escape this situation and brew up a completely different plan. That was when the sky above cracked and beams of light shot down towards him and his followers.

Using perfect reactivity, Ichigo sensed the negacion was coming and jumped out of the way, watching with frustrated disappointment as his opponent was moved upright before being lifted into Hueco Mundo. The hollow exterior cracked and shattered, from his horns to his claws, leaving his very weary shinigami form. His shuhakushou completely torn from his chest, but he was still in his bankai form. He did not care about his fatigue as he growled up at Aizen.

"So long, Kurosaki!" Aizen called weakly. "You have proved to once again be a very worthwhile foe and I look forward to seeing you in the near future! Maybe next time, I will kill you for good!"

Ichigo spat to the side as he tried to hold himself upright using his zampakutou as support. "You wish, you bastard! Just so you know, I will never forget the bullshit that you have done to my family and friends. Either way, our battle isn't finished yet!"

Instead of responding from his beam of light, Aizen laughed weakly as he was lifted through the crack with the rest of his followers and nothing than a minute after, he was gone.

Ichigo growled as his legs gave out under him and he collapsed onto the cracked concrete of the building, darkness weighing on his heavy eyelids. He could barely make out strong hands lifting him up and carrying him away.

Next time on Incomplete Sorrows…

Ichigo's eyes slowly opened to greet the bright light of the medical room. He had no idea how long he had been out for, but he could not forget Aizen's disappointing escape into Hueco Mundo. What were even more infuriating and unforgettable were the horrible things that Aizen had done to his family as well as Rukia, who is now considered as family.

Speaking of Rukia, did she get the treatment she deserved? He remembered the horrifying appearance of her lifeless body in Aizen's throne room. Also, what about Ryuichi and Yuzu? Worry weighed heavily on his chest as he hoped for the best.

There's another long chapter finished! I had a really hard time with this chapter, especially with Tousen and Hisagi's fights but I had a really fun time regardless though. Also, I had to write this chapter during a writer's block too which is incredibly hard. Ah well, at least I managed to get it finished.

I apologize to the disappointing end to the war though, but don't worry everyone! There's still the sequel to look forward to, where Aizen is going to target Ichigo and Ryuichi again but this time it's not for revenge. It's for their hollow powers, and yes Ryuichi has some hollow powers of his own that have yet to be awakened. I can't wait to start the chapter!

While you guys are waiting for chapter 15, I am going to take a bit of a break from this story to bring you a one shot IchiRuki songfic that is also my first shot at Alternate Universe. The songfic is also based on a metal song by a band called Airbourne and it's called Diamond in the Rough. I can't wait to work on that either. I am also going to take a break from working on the Incomplete Sorrows video series to work on an AMV tribute to two of my favourite couples Naruto x Hinata and Ichigo x Rukia using the song While Your Lips are Still Red by the band Nightwish. You could say that it's a bit of a 9-monthiversary present to my boyfriend but also it's dedicated to those who like the couples as well.

In the meantime though, let me know what you guys think of this one!