A/N: Sorry about the short chapter and the time it took me to update. My damn computer got a virus and I got homework. XD Sorry about any mistakes that are in the chapter, and don't worry, part two of chapter six will be added soon! :)

Chapter 6 Part 1: Alone

When Uryu arrived home he noticed that his brother wasn't there. This wasn't abnormal because whenever Uryu didn't come home on time his brother would frantically go out searching for him, thinking that something horrible had happened to him. When he finally found Uryu he would be angry for some time before calming down, but it was strange that he hadn't found Uryu yet. Normally he would be able to find him after just an hour's searching. But what if he had found him? What if Akira had come to save him only to find him seemingly helping their enemy, an ally of those cruel people who had ordered their grandfather's death and theirs as well? He would have been furious! Akira would probably run away without even thinking, but no. Hopefully he would have enough sense to realise that Uryu would not betray him. For several minutes Uryu searched for Akira's spiritual pressure with no results. As more time went on he began to worry more and more, yet there was no reason to worry. Sometimes Akira left the house with no reason to go and train. He would stay away from the house for a day and then return acting like he had never disappeared in the first place, although with the shinigami here he was doing it less and less.

By the time a week had passed Uryu truly wished that he had gone searching for his brother. He felt like he was being torn apart inside. Yes it was great to have a friend like Ichigo but without his brother beside him he felt like he was falling through an endless black pit. Now that he had thought about it he decided that it was most probable that Akira had seen him with the shinigami and ran away. Akira would never leave Uryu unless he had been hurt very badly. Uryu's heart clenched. Akira must have felt so betrayed; having his only family betray him after the hard life he had had before he came to live with Uryu. The only thing that Uryu wanted to do at that moment was to run away, find Akira and drag him back but he knew that Akira was much better at hiding his presence than he was. Uryu would not be able to find Akira unless he wanted to be found, and that didn't seem very likely at the moment.

Every day Uryu continued to go to school and get good grades but he was missing something. Even though he now spent his lunches surrounded by friends he felt empty, hollow. He felt like those beasts that he had hunted for years, so inhuman. Uryu had never realised how much he needed his brother to be in his life. He had always done everything with his brother and now even training felt pointless and boring. What was the point of anything now that Akira was gone? For all Uryu knew he might have gone back to his old life as the ninja, Naruto Uzumaki.

Uryu's days had continued on like this until one day he felt two spiritual presences enter Karakura, they were powerful, more powerful than Ichigo. Uryu swore as he recognised the presence that they were heading towards. Rukia. Even though the shinigami had killed his grandfather, Uryu decided that Rukia wasn't that bad. She might have just been acting like Akira said she would but Uryu doubted that. The emotions that always crossed her face were too strong, too vivid for her to be something as cruel as the monster that had killed his grandfather. He would trust her and fight with her. For now...

Footsteps pounded down the pavement as Uryu hurried to make it in time, he knew he wouldn't be able to beat the shinigami in the condition that he was in; still injured from helping Ichigo, but he could hold the shinigami for several minutes before Ichigo came. Gasping he pulled breath after breath of cool evening air into his lungs. It burned but he needed to keep on running. With any luck the shinigami would not want to start a huge fight and come back later. Uryu reached the trio just in time to block a red haired shinigami from cutting off Rukia's arm. He glared at both of the shinigami as they looked at him like he was a dog. Suddenly Uryu had the urge to rip the shinigami apart, but he held his feelings back. He wouldn't be able to beat the shinigami, and charging in blindly would just get him killed.

Before Uryu could even start to react, the second shinigami appeared before him, slicing his side wide open and sending him into peaceful darkness.

~Dreaming~

Uryu felt himself drifting through the deep endless blackness that surrounded him, suffocating him and making it impossible to see even a foot in front of him. Vaguely he wondered how he had gotten here as he had just been fighting two stuck up pricks who called themselves shinigami. Uryu gritted his teeth. Was he dead? Did Ichigo get to Rukia in time? Questions floated through his head before disappearing as fast as they had come. There was something distracting about the darkness, something that kept him from thinking much. Suddenly Uryu saw a bright white light in front of him. He chuckled as he thought of what his brother would do if he was there at the moment; probably make a joke about "not going towards the light". Yes, that is exactly what Akira would have said…But back to the matter at hand.

Uryu could feel himself being pulled towards the light as if some unknown being was dragging him onwards. He struggled fiercely but there was nothing he could do but allow whatever it was to pull him along like a broken rag doll while he cursed his weakness. He wondered how he always got himself in these strange situations. It either ran in his adopted family or was something that all Quincy experienced as this kind of thing had always happened to him, his grandfather and Akira. No! He shook his head. Those thoughts weren't going to do him any good in this situation. The best thing to do would be to think carefully and plan every step, even if he could not control where he was going he would plan. He was in unknown territory right now and he didn't like it. Not at all.

As Uryu was pulled further and further up the light became so blinding that he was forced to squeeze his eyes closed, lest his eyes be burned out of his skull. He could feel the light on his skin, slightly lifting the tiny hairs covering his arms until suddenly it disappeared giving way to a cool light that seemed rather like the light that would trickle through the leaves in a large forest. Opening his eyes, he was surprised to figure out that his guess was right. Somehow he had found his way into a large forest but it was unnatural. Not a leaf stirred and there were no bird calls or the chirping of insects. He looked around his position warily. He had no idea what was happening or where he was and suddenly he began to feel that he was way over his head as he decided that he was most probably in his mind at the moment, seeing that he had none of his injuries from the previous battle. Whatever had brought him here must be powerful because just what kind of a monster could break into someone's head and control them?

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