Disclaimer: Tite Kubo owns everything in this story except for the storyline

Hello, sorry for the wait – even though it was only a few days. I've been thinking about the story and how I should make it end and how everything is going to fit together and stuff like that.

I've actually also been working on another Bleach Fic, but I'm not going to post it up, I'm going to post it on this site after I'm halfway done. Oh, this chapter I'm going to explain some things – hence the chapter name 'explanations'.

Chapter 5 – Explanations

"Heh, so you're here eh?"

Gin turned with a slight frown on his face. He looked at Isshin with no interest, in fact he seemed to be looking past Isshin, at something else. No emotion showed on his face that the elder shinigami could see, and a long silence stretched for a couple of minutes before another voice spoke.

"Dad! What's going on?" Ichigo asked, wondering why his dad asked him to come to Urahara's underground training area. When he spotted Gin, a frown appeared on the young adults face and his hand twitched, moving slightly to Zangetsu on his back. Gin and Isshin noticed the slight movement, the first man smirked and the second man laughed out loud.

"Save the fighting for later Ichigo, Gin isn't your enemy!" His father said, whacking his son on the head quite hard, while laughing out loud, completely not seeing the anger and annoyance on his grown sons face.

A moment later, more people arrived. Hitsugaya frowned at seeing Gin and Kira looked a bit unsettled and avoided looking at his captain, who smiled in amusement at seeing the two new arrivals actions upon seeing him. Behind his smiling mask though, was a hidden feeling of loneliness.

"Good, you're all here," Yoruichi said, coming up quietly to the group of shinigami. Her arms were crossed and her face grim. She didn't look happy and her seriousness affected the whole group, no one smiled. "As you all know, something strange is going on… and I will explain it to you," a look of pain flashed across Yoruichi's face but it disappeared as fast as it appeared.

"If you remember, After the winter war, Kisuke was testing bringing back dead souls. No one minded because he said he was just testing upon shinigami on the good side… that was a lie, I only found out few years ago what he was doing. Somehow… Kisuke had managed to bring back Aizen, but luckily he had taken precautions and took to mind-wipe him so he remembered nothing except the fact that he was dead… or so we thought," Yoruichi paused, breathing deeply as if to control herself.

"We learned… a year ago that Aizen was just acting. No, he wasn't doing an illusion because me and Kisuke took precautions to never look at his zanpakuto, it seems he remembered everything and just stayed here to research about some of Kisuke's other inventions that Soul Society did not know about… one of the inventions Aizen was interested in was the Ijinyari (Devil Spear),'

"The Ijinyari is something Kisuke created when he was also quite power-hungry, back long ago when he created the Hougyoku, he knew that with the Hougyoku it would be possible to rule Hueco Mundo, but he also wanted to see what Hell was like… and so he created the Ijinyari, something that could control all the devils trapped in hell, but I was able to make him gain his senses and make him stop creating these things… I urged him to destroy this thing, but it was to powerful, we couldn't destroy it and so Kisuke hid it inside of him, so that no one would ever find out, we never told the people in Soul Society either,'

"This wasn't the only thing Aizen was interested in though, he also read about the OTHER thing the Hougyoku could do, as you know the Hougyoku was created to destroy the barrier between Hollow and Shinigami, but it was also created to destroy on more barrier… Shinigami and Zanpakuto. I am sure you remember Baishin, Urahara tested the Hougyoku on him and when we saw the results… we decided to keep this power of the Hougyoku secret. We didn't know how Aizen found these documents but he did, and he wanted to find these. About a month ago, he kidnapped Kisuke, I don't know how but there was a note he left behind. I didn't learn out that the Kisuke up until a week ago was fake until about the time Isshin did," the poor woman looked like she was about to break into tears despite her strong composure.

The others waited for more info, all frowning, Gin's mouth switched between smirk and frown. The Ijinyari was a dangerous thing… Aizen obviously wanted the power to rule the demons in order to start another warm, Hueco Mundo AND Hell vs Soul Society, it was obvious who would win. The beings of hell were dangerous, an average demon was as strong as a Adjuchas.

"I always knew Kisuke wasn't as nice and kind as everyone believed him to be," Isshin muttered, gripping the hilt of his zanpakuto. Yoruichi didn't answer, shame was shown all over her face.

"Why does 'e want Ran-chan?" Gin asked, cutting another long silence.

"…When Rangiku was re-born, Kisuke hid the Ijinyari within her, because he knew her strong reiatsu would be able to shield the power of the Ijinyari… but Aizen obviously managed to wrestle the information out of Kisuke… that is why he attacked Matsumoto," Yoruichi said, her voice confident now that she was able to regain her composure. Although a trace of sadness still showed in her eyes.

Gin was silent for a moment, his hands twitched and then balled into tight fists even though his face showed no emotion, it was obvious to tell how angry the man was because of the murderous feeling of his reiatsu.

"Wait... does that mean Aizen can merge with his Zanpakuto? But if you do… isn't it permanent like Baishin, and won't he lose his mind?" Ichigo asked suddenly, remembering painfully about Baishin who was consumed by his zanpakuto.

"No… after that incident, Kisuke modified the Hougyoku and tested it out on other people. Now it's like turning into a viazard, you can merge with your zanpakuto anytime, if you are a viazard you may also merge with zanpakuto, but arrancar may not because their zanpakuto's are just their true forms trapped into the image of a sword," Yoruichi said quickly answering the next question on Ichigo's mind.

"What would happen… i-if someone merged with their z-zanpakuto?" Kira asked tensely, gripping his sword with white knuckles.

"Mm… different things," Isshin was the one to speak this time, "If Ichigo merged, nothing much would change except that he might gain a burst in speed and power and his appearance might change to that of his zanpakuto, but Ichigo's zanpakuto isn't very special so not much might happen, unlike someone with an elemental zanpakuto," Isshin said.

"So… would I be able to use my zanpakuto's ability, like getsuga tenshou with my hands or something?" Ichigo asked, a bit annoyed at the way his dad described zangetsu at the end.

"Yep, basically," Isshin said, grinning at his sons obvious displeasure.

"Where as you, Hitsugaya, might turn into a half dragon. Your arms, parts of your head, feet, might grow claws and resemble a dragon. Along with wings and a tail like your bankai, and you'll probably be able to summon quite a bit of ice as well as possibly control the weather and summon ice dragons, people with elemental zanpakuto's will be noticeably stronger then those with a non-elemental zanpakuto," Yoruichi said, glancing at Hitsugaya.

"So… what ability might I have?" Gin asked, slightly amused. Even at times like this, he could imagine swords shooting out of his hands, and being able to stretch himself like rubber.

Yoruichi looked at Gin for a moment but didn't answer, not that the ex-shinigami expected her to anyways.

"So, anymore questions?" Isshin asked, no answer.

"Then lets go," Yoruichi whispered with a dark face.

I know this chapter was pretty short to, I'll explain more if you want, about merging with your zanpakuto and about the Ijinyari more if you would like me too.

I guess I'm getting lazy about going into detail, sorry about that, but seriously if you want me to make this chapter longer and to explain the things more, I will. I won't have any problem with it. Oh and you can have fun with imagining what other shinigami would be like if they merged with their zanpakuto, so far I've imagined Ichigo, Gin, Hitsugaya and Byakuya as well as Matsumoto and Kira. Aizen I can imagine as well.

Oh and about the 'Ijinyari' thing, I don't know if the translation is correct, so if it's wrong, please correct me.


Anyways, enough of my ranting – Next chapter will come in… a week... or less, eh, you'll find out sooner or later.

-Griƒƒen