Author's Note: didn't expect to hear from me so soon know did you? You see this, one review and already I up dated twice in the same week. Imagine what I would do if I got reviews from two people? But that's pushing my luck so I'll leave you alone; enjoy this chapter, because I sure will writing it! Day two of the weeks' count down for Sara to complete the Hōgyoku. Sorry, sorry I know that this is longer then I expected but at least it didn't take as long as last time right? Sorry I'll make up for it promise. I really didn't feel like changing the first part of the author note, I was going to up date two days from the last time I did but things came up, sorry again.

I DO NOT OWN BLEACH OR INUYASHA

CHAPTER 8

Momo's P.O.V

I looked over to where Shiro-chan and Sara were talking; at first it looked like a normal conversation Shiro-chan would have with anyone but then it turned sort of I didn't really want to think about what that conversation looked like. But if I where honest with myself I would say that it reminded me of when Shiro-chan and I used to talk alone, I looked up as Rangiku-san sat down next to me.

"What'ch thinking about Momo?" she asked but I knew Rangiku well enough to know that she wanted to distract me from the pair in front of us.

"Rangiku-san, what is Sara to Shiro-chan?" I asked getting right to the point, her eyes widened.

"Momo,"

"I want the truth," I demanded.

"I don't think that you're ready for the truth, Hinamori," she said her face had gone cold just like when she had told me that Aizen had been the one to hurt Shiro-chan and had taken two Captains with him, to Hueco Mundo.

"Maybe you're right," I said, thinking that maybe it was nothing but friendship or maybe the end of a chapter in his life that he never told me about; and I really hoped that it was the last one.

Sara's P.O.V

"I'd love to," his voice was wistful wanting, desperately to forget what we where in right now, how we had changed, and ended up in this situation.

"I was eight if you remember," I told him, "And you looked pretty much my age," he looked over to me and practically looked like he was going to glare at me or hit me. But he would never do that.

"I guess that you could say that, if you remember my class had gone to the World of the Living to conduct an examine where we had to eliminate fake Hollows; but it turned out that us fighting there attracted a real one," he said.

"Yeah, and since it was only a couple of students and three new Shinigami you guys couldn't take on that little Hollow," I teased I got the reaction I wanted, he scowled.

"As far as I could see there were more then one there where three," he shot back at me, I smiled.

"Yeah, three that I took care of, and then the lazy Shinigami decide to show up," I smiled again thinking about how much they valued the students that they went and sent a Captain.

"I know and then you decide to run as far as your little legs could carry you,"

"And then you followed me," I said, I asked what I had been wanting to for a long time. "How come,"

"Because, I'm not sure, I heard the voice of Hyourinmaru and he told me to follow you, and at that moment it seemed like the best thing to do," he said I could tell that his thoughts where on that day remembering what we had done.

"Okay people, time to hit they hay!" Rangiku called, I frowned at her. Didn't she know that I still wanted to talk to Toshiro? But we both knew that he wasn't ready to stay alone with me, let alone when we had just talked about that past. We laid down, Tanya was next to me so I slowly let myself relax and focus on sleeping soon my eyes closed; but they opened and I was looking at the group of student Shinigami I had saved so long ago, I smiled Tanya or Ichigo, but most likely Tanya had opened the past up so that Toshiro and I could relive this moment when we first met.

Toshiro's P.O.V

I was sure that I was dreaming, it was that day again, the day when I first met Sara.

Toshiro's P.O.V 8 years ago

I looked out at the little girl that had just destroyed the three Hollows. She was looking at us but her eyes where distracted.

"You aren't full Shinigami, are you?" she asked, boy this girl did have a lot to explain, one what the hell was she doing here, why hadn't they told us about here, and who was she?

"Who are you?" I asked, the Hollows had taken out all the others, we had tried to fight back but everyone but myself had been knocked out, I had listened to Hyourinmaru and some how had managed to fight back with out getting hit.

"Oh, yeah maybe I should tell you, my name is Sara Rosa," she said her voice was light and happy even though she had just killed three Hollows. "What's yours'?"

"Toshiro Hitsugaya, how did you do that?"

"Umm, I'm honestly not sure, I just did what she told me," she held up her Zanpaktō I wanted to laugh at this girl, but the way that she talked about her Zanpaktō made me want to have that kind of connection with my Zanpaktō but I could work on that later.

"What are you doing here?" I asked her, she looked at me kind of funny. "What?"

"I live here, the question Toshiro is how come you're here," she said, but then smiled. "But that's okay because you kind'a feel like I do so it's okay, I never met someone like that before, not even my new family and we're a weird bunch."

"What do you mean new family?" I asked her, she looked away and I regretted it at once, the little golden start that was in front of me began to fade.

"I lost my family," she whispered.

"I'm sorry," I said resting a hand on her shoulder, I felt a warm sensation pulse at where my hand was on her shoulder; her eyes snapped to mine, I held her gaze until I felt a gate open I turned around as I saw Captain Ukitake and Captain Unohoana stepped through, I was shocked that they would send two Captains when it was only three Hollows. Under my hand I felt Sara tense, she began to shake, she took one more look at me, and ran. I started blankly after her as I felt the Captains come closer.

Go after her, I froze surprised that I had heard my Zanpaktō talking to me. Go after her and never let her go.

I thought about that small fragile girl and despite what she had seen she was able to smile, about how nice it felt to have my hand on her shoulder. Without another thought I ran after Sara.

Sara's P.O.V eight years ago

I was running as fast as I could I felt like my lungs where about to explode; I didn't know what had happened I saw them and I had seen scary things, blood pain, all that if I was with them. I didn't stop running, I ran and I ran. And then I wasn't running I was on the ground and Toshiro pulled me up, his eyes so wide and innocent transmitting worry for me.

"What is going on, are you okay?" he demanded I nodded my head. "Why did you run?"

"I don't want to hurt anyone," I said thinking about all the people covered in blood.

"You won't. Don't be afraid," he said slowly I began to calm down as he sent calming messages to me. I turned as the two Captains came into the clearing.

"Little one what's your name?" the woman asked me.

"Sara," I answered she gave me a warm smile.

"Sara, will you come with us?" she asked me.

"My mommy told me not to go with strangers," I said remembering the old words.

"My name is Captain Unohana Retsu, we aren't strangers anymore are we?" she asked.

"But he is," I said trying despite knowing that I was going to follow, to stay as long as I could.

"Yes, how foolish of me, my name is Captain Ukitake Jushiro," he said, he looked rather old and weak, his hair was white, not the same shining silver of Toshiro.

"Captain Ukitake, take care of these two while I go and attend to the injured," Captain Unohana said,

"Yeah," Captain Ukitake called after Captain Unohana. "Well how about you two follow me back to Soul Society?" he opened a portal like the one that they had come through, I hesitated as I got closer; I felt Toshiro's hand grab mine.

"It's okay," he mumbled I nodded and let me him take me through.

Toshiro's P.O.V eight years ago

I sat down next to her.

"You're leaving," I said but she answered it like a question.

"Yup," she said.

"How come?" I asked her.

"I want to go back, I don't belong here, but you do Toshiro, you'll do great things in Soul Society become someone," she told me and then here voice got lower. "I will never belong here this isn't my home right now, maybe we'll meet again, Toshiro, but that isn't today, I'll miss you good bye." I reached out to her grabbing her hand as she got up to leave, she turned around.

"We will meet again and it may not be for a very long time, but we will, good bye Sara," without thinking I hugged her and I felt that warm feeling again, she hugged me back.

"Good bye Toshiro," she waved as she passed through the gate again, I looked as she left. I hoped that I did meet her soon until then I would remember this small little golden star.

Sara's P.O.V (present time)

I rolled over and up, I smiled think about that day again, and then I remembered that he currently was sleeping as far away from me as possible. I sighed and got up moving to sit next to the fire leaning on a tree I put more wood to get it blazing again. I rested my head on my knees, I hadn't realized how much it would have hurt to remember that day and then wake up in this one. Maybe it hadn't been the best idea to bring up the past in this case, I looked up at the moon and did the only thing I could at the moment to stop the tears; I opened my mouth and began to sing softly.

Golden moon, shinnying star

Glowing bright, to follow my tears

Come down again

Come back to me

Show me how to get up again

It seems that I'm the only one falling down here,

Golden moon, come and save me

Just one more time

Just one more time

It didn't work as well as I had thought but the soft flow of words slowly lulled me to sleep again.

Yachiru's P.O.V

I stayed really still as Sara got up, and I felt the warm brush of the fire again, she was always so nice going out of her way to help us; it didn't really bother me that she kept things from us; and then she began to sing, it was so soft that I thought I was dreaming it. I had never though that someone could have sung something so beautifully, her words made me think about Ken-chan again. I felt the prickling in my eyes, as I though about the only person that had ever bothered to take care of me.

Come back to me

Show me how to get back up again

Those two lines, they stuck the most, I repeated them over and over again in my head. It brought my thoughts back to the day that Ken-chan saved me from those men, and how even covered in blood I still saw him as a nice person better then the ones that had surrounded me. But the way that she sang made me think that she needed help, like she really did want the moon to came and help her, I shuddered think that she had more then enough reason to want that.

Rukia's P.O.V

It was hard so hard to get up when I wanted nothing more then to stay here and forget that the outside world existed; that the cold harsh outside world existed. I felt a hand stroke my face, it was warm and had a familiar home smell, I opened my eyes desperate to see who it was, I looked up into the face of Ichigo, he had a worried expression on his face.

"What's up?" I asked in a horse voice, he stroked my cheek again, and I fought back the blush that threatened to emerge.

"You're crying," he said. "I figured that it was a dream so I woke up, you okay?"

"Yeah, don't worry about," I said getting up looking around, everyone else was asleep.

"What was it?" he asked I looked over at him surprised.

"What was what?" I asked him he rolled his eyes at me.

"The dream," he said.

"Oh," I said. "I dreamt them; I saw them, only that I saw them die,"

"You shouldn't be thinking about that," he said his voice was firm but gentle.

"She didn't really tell me exactly what happened, so I guess I was trying to fill in the holes," I murmured.

"Sometimes the best thing is to not, ask questions," he contradicted.

"Maybe," I offered, he didn't say anything and just sat back up, I looked at him, he was worried because of me, I could tell; and despite what he said he really did want to know what had happened to them. He looked back at me and brushed my cheek again, my hand flashed to my eyes but they where dry I looked up at him, a question in my eyes. His cheeks seemed to grow red but in the dim light I couldn't tell. He laid back down, next to me, and was facing me, he was propped up on his elbow, without really thinking about it I moved a little closer.

"What is it?" he asked, I could tell that he was shaken.

"Sometimes the best thing is to not, ask questions," I smiled slightly repeating his words, he laughed softly and came all the way down.

"Your right, go to sleep, Rukia, don't worry I'll be here when you wake up," his words, though cliché, his words where warming and true, even if they had all left at least he would be here when he got back.

Rangiku's P.O.V

I rolled over and realized that if I had been in a soft bed I might have been able to fall asleep, but since I wasn't I opted for getting up.

"Usually, Rangiku, you're the last one to wake up, but it looks like this time you beat everyone but me," Sara was sitting by the fire, it was blazing again.

"Well can you blame me, Sara, the ground is so uncomfortable," I complained, she smirked.

"Is there something that you won't complain about?" she asked.

"If I find it I'll tell you," I promised she laughed, score one for Rangiku.

"Yes then I'll have to go make a shrine and try to make that thing tell me how it does it," she said, I smiled; yes I was amazing I got her sense of humor back.

"I'm not that bad," I protested.

"Sure you're not,"

"Hey, not cool!" I said. "I'm hungry,"

"Don't see how that can be helped," she told me looking over. "I don't really have a clue how we're going to get food."

"This sucks!"

"A lot of things suck, Rangiku, just let it fly away," she said I would have made fun of her if she hadn't said it so seriously. So instead I opted for waking everyone else up to try and distract myself, I started with the Captain and began to poke at him.

"Rangiku, if you don't leave me alone I swear that I'll take away your shopping money," he threatened, he didn't even bother opening his eyes.

"No fair Captain, you should take better care of your subordinates," I complained he opened one eye to glare at me.

"As far as I can see you're perfectly fine," he contradicted.

"No I'm not! I'm starving and there is nothing to ea!" I managed to make it sound like it was the end of the world.

"Rangiku, that's not going to kill you go back to sleep or go bother someone else," he murmured.

"Nope, if you don't wake up I'll just wake everyone else up and then blame it all on you," I threatened.

"I don't think that would work," he said, I frowned he may have been right, so I took another approach.

"Sara, tell the Captain to stop being so mean!" I complained.

"Rangiku why don't you leave me out of this and you and your Captain can go bite each others heads off some where else because if you keep at it everyone else will get up," she stated, fine then if that's how they where going to be.

"THAT'S SO NOT FAIR AND I'M HUNGRY!" I made sure to say it in a more then necessary loud voice, everyone shot up and they turned to glare at us three.

"What's with the noise we are trying to sleep," Rurichiyo hissed, her emerald eyes glaring at me, she was right though.

"It's way too early to start anything Rangiku," Renji said lying back down.

"I'm hungry is that so much to ask for some food," I said making it mellow dramatic.

"That's why, BB, you woke us all up?" Yachiru said standing of my head.

"Get off you'll mess up my hair!" I yelled pushing her off.

"Lord, have mercy, it really shouldn't surprise me but then again I didn't really think that you were serious," Sara said getting up. "Kohaku do you mind helping me?"

"Sure," he said getting up and following her.

"Where you going?" Ichigo asked, funny how that should have been the Captain question but it wasn't.

"To look for food since Rangiku decide to make an open proclamation of being food deprived," she said walking away Kohaku following her. I looked at the group as the glared at me, oh joy, I wasn't going to have a fun time; but at least I would have food.

A while later we where sitting around the fire eating breakfast, not the best but decent enough. I really couldn't take it anymore, I really wanted to know what Sara would be doing in the White Flower Festival so I did the only the thing I knew.

"Sara, what are you going to do in the festival?" I asked she looked over at me suspicion in her eyes.

"Sing, most of us sing," she said calculating her words.

"What will you be singing?" I asked, we had dispersed by this time but I could tell that they where all paying attention.

"A song that all 4 of us composed," she said. "And I will not sing it," she had guessed my next question.

"Pretty please, Sara," I begged she just looked at me, and then an idea popped into my head.

"What if I beat you at Rock-Paper-Scissors?" I asked.

"You think that I would sing even if you did beat me?" she asked, bingo that was my way to win.

"Well if you think that you can't lose then why not try it, but no cheating, don't look into the future I can't do that," I said, she rolled her eyes.

"Fine then, I'm still going to win," she said, I met eyes with Ichigo.

"Ichigo, why don't you make sure that Sara doesn't cheat," I said, he smiled.

"Sure," he said walking over to were we were and sat down behind Sara. I looked at him and he nodded his head, I smiled as he held up his hand in the shape of rock.

"Rock, paper, scissors,"

I held my hand out the perfect shape of the rock and Sara's hand was the shape of scissors.

"Yes I win!" I shouted. She turned around Ichigo was 10 feet away from were he had been.

"You think that I wouldn't have noticed that didn't you?" she asked calmly but I could hear the fury underneath it.

"Sara, you have to sing now," I sang, she turned to glare at me.

"Fine," she snapped she looked around and then settled for looking away from all of us, and then she began to sing her voice was soft, gentle, and it compelled you to listen.

And you wonder why I can drop all hope

And keep on walking, even when there's no way out

But you forget

That I know how to live this way

I can throw away hope

I can stomp on the light that guides my way

And all because you taught me how to live this way

That day, so far away

You chose your way and I chose my own

No matter how much it killed me to see you walk away

I let you leave me, I let you leave me

And you wonder why I can drop all hope

But you forget

You taught me to live this way, when you walked away

My hand was clutching at my heart, Sara's eyes where cast down, that song it had stirred up what I had been trying to suppress for such a long time, what I had been trying to forget. She had song that song with so much emotion as if she did truly believe what she was singing, I felt my lips twitch, she had more then enough reason to believe it was so. But how had she decided to sing something like that?

"Mrs. Holly makes us sing all the songs we know, and then she decides on the one that we seem more capable of singing at the time, she picked this one," she said as if guessing my thoughts.

"It was a beautiful song," I told her, she looked at me her eyes unreadable, then she smirked.

"Really? I never really thought about it that way," she said.

I had my work cut out for me, I looked at the Captain, his gaze was cast down and the hand that wasn't propping him up was in a tight fist, the veins on the back of his hand where standing out.

Rukia's P.O.V

Her voice was beautiful in every sense of the word, even singing such a sad song; her voice was capable of drawing out the emotion it wanted transmitted. Her eyes where casted downward her face was soft and I thought that I saw her eyes fill up, her eyes flashed to the side and I followed her gaze. Captain Hitsugaya. He was looking away from her, from all of us, he always did that, always pulled away, but something was different, her voice, it may have been just me, but it felt as if it where calling to him. He had tried to force us back to Soul Society and yet here he was, staying as far away from her as possible, it didn't seem fair, it didn't seem right. He lifted his gaze when he felt my gaze on him, I froze as the legendary ice eyes met mine, and I managed to lower my eyes. My breath had slightly sped up my heart was hammering, and it wasn't that wonderful feeling, it was terror. I was afraid and it wasn't of Captain Hitsugaya, it was of that look of emptiness. I had never seem someone look so helpless, so alone. And I couldn't help but wonder, if it was his own fault, as my eyes once again looked at Sara.

Ichigo's P.O.V

I was sitting down playing with the grass when I felt Sean; it wasn't like I heard his voice but more as if I were feeling what he wanted me to do. Unsure I turned my gaze up and saw them flying closer, they weren't hallows that was easy to tell but they weren't human, I had no idea what they where, the answer however came. Demons, they where demons.

"Heads up, demons coming our way," I said getting up and drawing my Zanpaktō.

"What the hell is that?" I heard Renji asked.

"Demons, it would be better if you drew your Zanpaktō," Sara said. He along with the others drew their swords, I looked to my right and I froze. I felt my eyes widen.

"Toshiro you grew!" yes it was a bad time to say it, but hey he was as tall as I was, I hadn't expected that. Then again I hadn't noticed because he never stood next to me, the others turned and their faces also filled with surprise.

"This is not the time," Sara said as she cut a demon in half and others advanced on her.

"If we weren't in this situation, Kurosaki, let me tell you would never again think about saying something like that again," Toshiro said moving out of the demons way and cutting it in half. I ignored him and advanced on the demons that where surrounding Rurichiyo, damn it! It was fucking shit that I couldn't use Zangetsu properly. I stopped dead in my tracks as something flashed in front of me; it destroyed the demons that were around Rurichiyo. I turned and saw Kohaku; he was holding the weapon that had flashed in front of me.

"Thanks," Rurichiyo called as she moved on to go shot more demons. It was hard to wrap my mind around the idea that she could properly protect herself.

"Son of a bitch," I turned to look at Renji.

"Fuck," I murmured, in our distraction we hadn't realized that the demons had us surrounded.

"Stay still," it was Sara she was holding her sword relaxed. "I mean either that or you'll end up dead. I knew by now that what ever she said was most likely true, so I also relaxed. The others however where still positioned to attack.

"Idiots, do you really feel like dying here?" she asked angry.

"If we don't do anything we'll end up dead anyway," Renji hissed at her. I placed my hand on Rukia's shoulder she was closets to me.

"Relax," I told her, she looked at me questions in her eyes, but she too relaxed, and soon everyone else did. Now, well I had no idea what to do. Suddenly a flash of light destroyed the demons in front of. Inuyasha stood his friends around him all of them had some what apologetic and ready to fight expressions. They each took turns destroying the demons, Kagome with her arrows, Sango with the Hiraikotsu, and Miroku with; I think he called it the Wing Tunnel.

"Come this way," Shippo said and we followed him away from the mess of them fighting demons and we stood at the edge watching.

"They aren't half that bad," Rangiku said.

"No they aren't, but they still could do better," Momo said they were studying them.

"What are you talking about, you where the ones sounded by demons!" Shippo cried. "If it weren't for us-"

"We would have been fine," Yachiru said. "We're Shinigami after all,"

"Is that your explination for everything?" Shippo asked.

"You don't get it do you? If the demons did something to us, we would just walk out of the gigai and we would be perfectly fine," Rurichiyo said. "We're dead remember,"

"Well you tend to forget that when you're walking, talking, and breathing," Shippo shot back.

"Shut up and pay attention," Sara shouted. It happened rather quickly after that, she dived in front of then and took the full impact of a flying demon. Followed by Rurichiyo and Yachiru falling of the edge we were standing on. That started the chain reaction. Tanya reached out to grab them, but that didn't work she fell as well, then Momo, followed by Rukia, then Rangiku, somehow Sango and Kagome joined, and then it ended when Sara grabbed Kagome's hand.

"Don't just stand there do something!" she yelled at us. Shit this was not good.

Sara's P.O.V

I was holding on to them, which wasn't easy, I looked down, Yachiru almost touched the river running below, it was calm the worst that would happen would be that we all fell and got covered in mud, but I didn't like that idea. But apparently fate wasn't one my side, because as the others moved closer to help a sudden burst of air sent me falling down, I heard myself scream along with others as we headed straight into the river below. I felt the water invade every part of my cloths, I could feel them all become wet, even my shoes. I hissed as the others around me tried to get up, a couple of hand pressed on my stomach were the demon had hit me, I still hadn't been able to heal myself. I looked up as an arm wrapped around my waist, Toshiro; he helped me to the shore.

"Are you okay?" he demanded.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I responded.

"Stop lying where did you get hit?" he asked, shit I really hoped that they hadn't noticed but then again I had yelled at them before I pushed them out of the way.

"If you already knew then why did you ask," I told him, I really didn't want the fuss. But then again I wasn't sure if I could get up.

"I saw a manor on our way here, and a demonic aura, I'm sure we can get a place to stay and a change of cloths if we go," Miroku said.

"Not that again," Inuyasha said.

"We don't have much of a choice, it's going to get dark soon and we have to find a warm place before the ladies get sick," Miroku answered. "And I think that Sara may need to rest for a while, you got hit hard didn't you?" Shit even they had noticed.

"I'll be fine," I said.

"Well we should get going," he said.

"Where to exactly?" Toshiro asked.

"Miroku likes to get a place to stay by helping people get ride of demons in there homes so we're going to a manor that we saw near by, we can get some cloths to change into and a place for Sara to rest, because despite what you said I think that you're really hurt." Kagome said, I ignored it, I was pretty sure that I wasn't getting out of the whole getting better stage.

"Come on it isn't far," Inuyasha said, I tried to get up, but as I feared earlier I couldn't, I sighed.

"You can't get up," Toshiro said, it should have been a question.

"Not really," I answered, he bent down and picked me up, I stopped breathing.

"It doesn't bother you?" he asked as we followed them.

"No, I'm fine," I said softly, it didn't bother my wound or me for that matter. This was the closest I had been to him in a while.

"How hurt are you?" he asked me, I really didn't feel like talking about it considering that the wound would disappear in a few minutes.

"Like I said I'm fine just a little scratch," I told him, I felt his hand press against my stomach, in any other situation that would have made me very happy, at the moment it made me want to massacre him. A small scream escaped my lips and the worst part was that he was barley touching me.

"You know that you can't lie to me, and if you weren't really hurt you wouldn't have screamed, I barely touched you," he said calmly.

"Again if you knew why did you ask?" I demanded, screw manners and everything else, I was hurting like shit and he wasn't helping.

"I don't know how bad the wound is, I just know that it's pretty bad if you screamed," he told me, I sighed as we reached the place where we were going. He took me to the room they directed us to and he set me down and he was replaced by the rest of the girls. We were brought a change of cloths and they sent someone in to come see me.

"Come on Sara, I'll help you get changed before they send someone to help you," Rangiku said.

"Sure, sure," I said, she helped me into a two peace kimono, the top was lavender and the bottom was a dark purple.

"We have to leave right now so that the doctor can come in but we'll com back in a bit," Rangiku said as they stepped out. I sighed this was going to be a long night.

Author's Note: Sorry for the wait, honestly I didn't think that it would take this long to finish writing it. I'm sorry and I'll try to up date soon promise, I think I said that last time but I mean it. We'll have more drama next time and introduce a well know villain.