17 Ways of Erase and Rewind

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Special thanks to my Beta Chancewriter that makes my crazy ideas understandable and readable. You're THE best!

Warning: SPOILER ALERT! this story is up to date with manga 421: Decide 23. A/N in the bottom, italics plus quotation marks (" ") are for thoughts, and some cursing but nothing major.

But I cannot forget
Refuse to regret
So glad I met you
Take my breath away
Make everyday
Worth all of the pain that I have
Gone through

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Chapter 1: Out of a fairy tale

"You are not supposed to be here, Hirako-san." A beautiful, tall and well shaped woman with glasses said, while she stepped forward to him. He couldn't shun taking in what he was seeing. She had a long, shiny, slick, black ponytail that finished at the height of her perfect hips, big green eyes and a serious line painted on her lips. The attire of this woman was a long strapless black dress with four little red hearts in the area of the skirt that fitted her body like a charm and a pair of white open heels. Her presence could only be described as perfection; not one wrinkle in her clothes, not one hair out of her ponytail, her beauty was breathtaking.

Shinji glanced at her from the corner of his eye, not fully trusting the woman that was moving on the same width branch that he was. The blonde leader of the Vizards was standing in the biggest and tallest tree that was in the middle of an inner world filled with high pines, green grass and the image of a recently finished sunset, so the darkness prevailed but a couple of rays of sunlight still could be seen.

Cautious and oddly he decided to keep quiet for the time being and not answer to the person who was before him.

"If she sees you here, it would be worse for her." The woman said, stopping and looking directly at the man with an air of superiority, her facial expression didn't change even if he noticed a bit of worry in her tone. Him being in this forest was the result of an experiment made by Hachi's and Tessai's kidou, and Urahara's calculations, but it had to be him who disturbed Sarugaki Hiyori's inner world, it couldn't have been anyone else. Unohana had told him that there wasn't any more the 4th squad could do, since the healing process of her inner reiatsu wasn't complete, Hiyori's body couldn't heal completely and the Taichou and Urahara had guessed (because when it came to Vizards you couldn't get facts) that this ordeal was because of her Hollow.

"Good." The ex-Captain replied drily, "She is the one I'm looking for." he didn't want to waste any time with someone that wasn't his target.

The woman laugh amusedly, the sound was like hearing a perfect classical song played by Mozart.

"Then the only thing you have to do is wait, she will find you. She likes you" The woman emphasized the last three words. "She likes you a lot and if I noticed you were here, she probably knows too. I just thought I'll give the master of the zanpakutou that has made me stronger good advice."

Shinji chuckled "Neither Sakanade nor me has made you stronger, Kubikiri Orochi. It's the person who swings you. She's the one who has accomplished everything you are."

A sudden murderous laugh came into hearing in the middle of the dark forest they were in. Shinji turned at the directions of the sound; the reiatsu he could feel was thick, dense and heavy. A reiatsu worthy of nothing more than a vicious Hollow, her Hollow.

The laugh half stopped and a couple of words were echoing in the background.

"How touching. The idiot in shining armor has come to save the ugly monkey princess."

Shinji's face remained impassive, while Kubikiri Orochi's mouth was a line of anger.

The laughter restarted and gained more strength. It wasn't a contagious laugh; it was one full of spite and hate, a venomous laughter. "Ain't this your classic fairy tale, but I wonder who plays the dragon?"

Then something very fast happened.

A couple of strands of dark blonde hair lay in the wood of the branch. The bitch had attacked him without warning and luckily he moved just in time or instead of losing hair he would have lost his head.

"Good reflexes. I was only helping you to fulfill the nickname our sweet little monkey princess gave to you. Ain't that right Baldy?"

The source of the laughter was now in full view. Shinji's eyes opened in shock and his mouth separated for a second reflecting the same feeling. He couldn't take the appearance of the thing before him; it was too much for him to pass off as if it were nothing. The first thing he noticed was that she was wearing a Shinigami kimono, probably to enrage and remind Hiyori of what she was before the Hollow came into her life. But the kimono that stood before him was white and the sash and the nagajuban were black, the hair was white as the skin, and the look of those yellow eyes were something that Shinji had never seen in Hiyori's, but he had seen it in a Hollow that looked exactly like him. There was nothing to be surprised about this monster; this one was just like his, but hers, so his face changed again to impassiveness.

"Thank ya." He replied pertly. "Ya have good swordsmanship. You take after your master, Hollow." He chose his words carefully, master/slave was not an accurate definition of the Vizard relationship with their Hollows, but he needed it to establish his ground against her.

The Hollow Hiyori shook in rage and clenched her hands at the notion that she was under the command of the little girl, but after a moment an evil grin replaced her angry expression.

"You can call me Miyori and I can call you intruder." she said resting her back against the tree that was directly facing Shinji. "He'll pay his impertinence one way or another", Miyori mused.

Shinji chuckled "You took the words out of my mouth" The Hollow was not the owner of this inner world or this body, and she need it to be remind of that fact.

Kubikiri Orochi had not moved an inch; she only looked at both of the blondes as it were a tennis match.

"I'm only asking you once, so pay attention and answer correctly, Blondie." The Hollow stood and shunpoed to a millimeter in front of Shinji's face. "What the fuck are you doing here?" She whispered, dragging the words. Her lips were curved in a false smile and her breath was cold and venomous.

He didn't flinch. He didn't move.

"You already know it, so I'm not wasting my breath in explaining things to you, Hollow." His tone was firm, and serious, but his trade mark grin showed he was toying with her.

"Wrong answer." A zanpakutou was approaching his neck in a matter of seconds, but a replica with inverted colors was the one who stopped the Hollow's weapon.

"You are meddling in this too?" The yell could be heard in the entire forest. Miyori's angry eyes were shooting murderous looks at the female zanpakutou.

The clash of the swords broke and Kubikiri Orochi moved Shinji behind her in a protective gesture. "He's the love of my master. I'll protect him with my life!"

Shinji thought the Hollow would laugh again, but apparently the word love had done the trick because monster was behaving beyond rage.

"Love you say?" She was screaming, irritated, and if her face wasn't as pail as snow her cheeks would have been filled with crimson red.

"That little useless piece of crap? The same who was hopelessly cut in half? Feel anything? And especially love?" The laugh was back in the mouth of the Hollow "You're cracking me up, sword! Next you'll tell me he's here because he loves her?" She made a dreamy face openly mocking the ex-captain.

"If she dies you will die with her." The Vizard said;straightening up and showing his zanpakutou in his right hand.

"So what? If she lives, I'm still in my little cage aren't I?" Miyori said furiously, but smirking. "Besides if she dies maybe I'll get to see a glance of your pretty face contracting in fury and sorrow before we disappear." She was showing her teeth and her left long fang.

"Tell me Shinji-kun will you miss her if she is gone?" The Hollow went on with a mocking girly voice and this time Sakanade and the Hollow's swords were the ones that were clashing with a sonorous bang. "Will you miss the monkey princess? She is not your type anyway. Look at it as an opportunity to get rid of her and pick one of your –"

The blonde hollow moved back to avoid being hit with a blow to the head. She tilted her head and put her finger on her chin showing that she was thinking.

"Oh yeah, one of your first loves." She said completing her previously rudely interrupted sentence. She was enjoying voicing those two words and it showed on her face. "I remember the endearing term because she hates the fact she's never been called that, but who could blame you." She voiced falsely empathetic.

Shinji didn't lose his patience, not in front of the enemy, not even Aizen's words had been a problem for him to keep his cool, but hearing someone that had a face that resembled so much to Hiyori's, pointing out something she truly felt…it was like knives in his heart.

"Did I hit a nerve, Blondie?" The hollow replied to his change of expression. "I can give you a lot more insider information on pigtail's mind, you only have to say please." The whitened girl told him. Shinji moved again to face her.

"Shut up. You're annoying." And his sword moved to strike, but she dodged it. The Vizard had known the second he invaded Hiyori's inner world that being aware of a lot of feelings Hiyori may have kept bottled up would be hard for him, but it was a risk he was willing to take.

"I have a proposition for you." The blonde ex-captain told his opponent changing the subject of the talk to one that he would be more comfortable. The girl only raised an eyebrow.

"Spill it! Don't make me wait." And she launched viciously again against his sword.

"A simple fight," Shinji said as he moved back and was now explaining like he was the teacher of this Hollow. "You win, I'll die here and my consciousness is lost forever…"

"And the monkey princess dies too." Miyori reminded him with the evilest of grins, not hiding her obvious enjoyment.

"If I win you'll help her to heal." His voice was a 360° turn in tone. He was serious and he wanted the Hollow to know he was. The whitened girl smirked again.

"You have yourself a deal, Hirako Tai-cho-u." And that word provoked a little flash back that came into Shinji's mind: Blue skies, a fake city, Shinigamis and Espadas, Aizen taunting, him warning, a couple of pigtails flying past him, Ichimaru's snarky comment and then a girl falling. Shinji had put his guard down for just a second and that was all it took for the Hollow to take him by surprise. He had failed to comply with one of those warnings he had given Hiyori when they trained together in Soul Society: NEVER get distracted or your opponent will use it to his/her advantage. Obviously, daydreaming counted as being distracted.

The Hollow had won. "Fuck!" This time not even Kubikiri Orochi would be able to help him, their fight had moved too far from the materialized zanpakutou.

He had failed. He had failed her again.

"O Lord, mask of flesh and bone, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of man, truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws, hadou 33 sokotsui!"

"That voice!" Shinji thought. "It had worked!"

The reason he was there in the first place, the plan of Urahara's and his had worked! The motive that he was the only who could've gotten away with Urahara's plan was because they didn't need to subjugate her Hollow; brute force won't do the trick this time. SHE was the one who had to recover enough reiatsu to wake up in her inner world, and "hell…it had worked". His smiled was bigger than his head. Right there in front him was a very short, blonde-haired girl who had her short hair in stubby pigtails, wearing a red jogging suit and sandals. The ogre of his nightmares, and the woman he had loved since the first time he protected her: Sarugaki Hiyori.

The Hollow was lost in a curtain made of smoke that the Hadou Spell had lifted, and the same voice who had pronounced the spell literally kicked him out of his thoughts with a yellow sandal. "I love that sandal so much now."

"It hurts! Why in the hell did you do that for, Hiyori?" rubbing his stomach that she had just bruised.

"What the fuck are you doing here, Baldy?" He showed his toothy smiled at her words; they had been the same ones as her Hollow self had just pronounced, but her tone was amused and her usual scowl was only half there.

"I thought that a midget like you could use the help of a gentleman like me." He announced trying to sound gallantly. She looked at him dismissively but with a half smile slightly twisting her mouth.

"There are two lies in that sentence, Dumbass." She raised her fingers. "One, you're not a gentleman, you're a lewd baldy, and two… I don't need your HELP!" The last word came accompany with a blow to the head. "Besides, I ended up helping you, you good for nothing." Now it was a slap.

Kubikiri Orochi had shunpoed next to the couple, she was smiling in the same serious character that distinguished her, but behind that sober smile it could be seen true happiness.

"So-Sorry" Shinji stuttered sitting up to recover from the blows and cleaning up his now bloody nose. Hiyori was scowling and looking straight ahead taking in her surroundings and keeping an eye on the reiatsu of her Hollow.

When Shinji raised his eyes he only could see Hiyori's back, and he started smiling again.

"Shinji," And her tone had lost its usual angry tone; she was serene. "Thank you." And she turned only her head to dedicated him a smile. His Hiyori was giving him a real smile; his world could do the conga right about now.

Her head refaced the direction of her Hollow.

"But you can leave now, moron. This bitch is mine." She moved her hand to one side and Kubikiri Orochi nodded, disappeared and reappeared in her shikai form in the hand of the blonde girl.

"Whatever, geez… ya really don't appreciate nice gestures, stupid." He said in his playful voice."I'm never helping ya ass again".

"I hope that's not an empty threat." She defied him. He snorted.

"You know," he came close to her and whispered in her ear, "It really is."

Their eyes met for a second. She knew why he did this and he knew she'd do fine. They won't have any heartfelt confession of love and devotion. They were not like that.

"Don't take too long." He said in a sober voice walking away and grabbing his sword. "I'll be waiting".

"It will be just a second." The girl told the air because he had already disappeared. The curtain of smoke vanished and a white double of her launched into an attack.

"As if." Hiyori scowled and prepared for the clash. The blonde girl squeezed her sword, and smiled triumphantly.

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A/N: Ok some explaining is needed in this chapter.

In the line of these stories the first thing Shinji gave Hiyori in order with keeping his promise to her was some kind of truce with her Hollow, or maybe just a tranquilizer. The obvious memory he was trying to erase was her first fight against her evil half . On that subject, her Hollow's name is pretty self explanatory, right? You move the H in Hiyori, and replace it for an M, as a result Miyori. Also, you can caller her Dragon. Did you notice she made a reference? If Hiyori is a princess in her inner world, a dragon to fight her is an appropriate way to name her Hollow, at least for me.

Like you've read, I invented the figure of Kubikiri Orochi, I just thought it would have been nice to have her there supporting Shinji.

I chose her to be really pretty and perfect for 3 reasons. First, her order when she goes into shikai is cut clean, so that means she's a zanpakutou who has structure, discipline and boundaries, and for some reason I imagined her like a little mixture of Megan Fox and Nanao-chan, so there you have it a visual aid. And remember she is a snake, so I made the connection between snake/forbidden fruit/Tree/Eve. Second, if you have ever watched the fillers, the zanpakutou arc to be exact, some zanpakutous showed in their personalities what their masters where hiding in reality, like Senbonzakura was laidback and problematic in opposition to Kuchiki Byakuya, so I decided to have a girly but strong sword as Hiyori's materialized weapon. Third, the clothes Kubikiri Orochi is wearing is actually because of her shape and color, mostly she is black when her shikai is activated, therefore: black dress, a tiny bit of white in the edge of the sword, so her shoes are white, and in the tsuba when the sword is not on shikai it has 4 little hearts, did you know that? I actually discovered reading Hiyori's profile in Wikipaedia. Can you spell girly girl in a closet? LOL.

Another thing I want to point out, many of you probably are saying something like: WHY in the hell Hiyori used Kidou to interrupt the fight between Shinji and Miyori, well how rude of asking in that manner! LOL sorry I'm kidding. Well remember that her zanpakutou was next to the fight and in the anime she uses kidou (probably the same one, but she doesn't do any name calling or incantation, so I had to guess) against Ichigo (I think it is episode 128 the first couple of minutes in the beginning.) AND also remember she was a Fukutaichou, so things like kidou had to be in her education as a Shinigami, the fact that she doesn't used them a lot I THINK is just a personality trait.

Anyway welcome to this new adventure you'll be seeing me in the next chapter soon.

Ba bye

Kate

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