No the chapter title is not bad spelling it's just a bad pun! Anyway no time for laughing this chapter's very sad so let's continue...

Episode 34: Hole-heartedness

"So...you ended up becoming a Shinigami?" I say still shocked at my brother's arrival.

"That's right! When I died Mitzuki showed me the path to peace and justice. I vowed I would become a Shinigami to free people from hollow like you. I was told that we purify souls and guide them to a better place..." He grits his teeth and tries to hide tears. "WHY HAVE YOU PUT ME IN THIS SITUATION!"

"Michael please..." I try to reason with my brother but he has been brainwashed by the Shinigami.

"NO I CANNOT FORGIVE YOU FOR THIS!" He raises his sword to his own brother – me! How can one betray his own blood? How can he put the duty of a Shinigami over his own family?

"Please...I cannot possibly fight you." I offer my hand in a truce but he pushes it aside with his sword.

"No I must purify your soul, let me end this quickly." He presses the tip of his sword near my chest just under the hole that was once my heart.

If he were just any other Shinigami I could kill him with one swat of my claws. His reatsu is that of a low-ranking Shinigami , yet I can't amount the courage to fight my own brother. I am supposed to be born of fear yet I fear what will become of me if I attack my brother.

"I will not allow your body to be corrupted with morals and virtue."

But I can't kill him he is my brother...

"But he is also our enemy...besides you will die if he pushes that sword through your chest."

I don't know what do do anymore...maybe he's right...maybe I do need to be purified...

"WHAT NONSENSE! THE ONE THAT NEEDS PURIFICATION IS HIM!"

The one that needs purification is him...

"That's right...now remove those negative thoughts from your mind and show your brother the way of true desire."

Yes...for his own good...

As the sword slowly penetrates my flesh I grab the blade with my hand, stopping it before it reaches my vital organs. I wrench it out, making my brother – no, enemy – fall back in surprise.

Michael stammers but tries to maintain his composure. "I knew you would follow them in the end...you've always tries to oppose everything I stand for. We even had that stupid argument about food that night..." He points his sword accusingly. "It was because of you that I was killed."

My body has entered a trance. I'm now driven by the hollow's urge to kill. "It was because of you I died because I was foolish enough to try and rescue you...and you were sent to Soul Society instead of me...you have always received the better treatment because you were the youngest."

"Shut up that's not true!" He tries to rebut but it's useless against me.

"You were blindly taken in by that armless Shinigami." Referring to Mitzuki. "He chose you instead of me...I will repay you and him for the injustice you have caused me."

"I had no power of that Steven please understand." Now that he realises the futility of the situation he seemingly kneels on the ground before me.

I return a cold, heartless gesture. "I have seen thins no man should ever have to see. More deaths than any sane individual could tolerate, more heartbreak than a torn family, more bloodshed than in a horrid war, I have slept cold nights crying myself to sleep. The only thing that kept me alive through those times was the hope that one day I could see my brother again in those unreachable heavens...but after seeing the way you Shinigami treat our kind I have regretted ever expressing such pathetic human emotions." I press one of my claws against his heart. "Perhaps I should remove that useless organ so you may be purified as well."

"DON'T DO IT BENSON!" I hear that other wretched Shinigami pleas.

"You will be purified next Mitzuki." I reassure him.

"Gnagh!" Michael pushes my arm aside and tries to flee but its useless. I fire a small cero at the ground. He winces as his foot is charred to ash.

"I am Banzai Benendes, an Arrancar by name but hollow by nature...you cannot possibly understand our struggle unless I enlighten your soul."

"BAKUDO 1...SAI" He performs some strange spell which entangles my arms behind my back.

"Hah! Do you think such sorcery will defeat me." Easily breaking off the spell.

"HADO 1... SHO" I'm briefly stunned by the close-range attack spell but this pursuit will only lead to the same outcome.

Someone barges into me from behind. "So you still think you can fight Sheehari" I try to cleave him on tow but he blocks with one leg, capturing my arm.

"I'm in the punishment squad, I know a thing or two about how to break an arm with just one leg." He wrenches his leg dislocating my shoulder from it's socket and shattering the bones inside.

I curse but smile when I notice my lopped hand has finally regenerated. "Oh no! I am defenceless now." I feign the injury and stab through his abdomen. He tries to curse back but his mouth is welling up with crimson liquid. I twist my claws inside his guts, cutting away every organ and blood vessel. "Where have you run off too brother?" I shout out to the cowardly Shinigami. "This is your fate soon enough."

"Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south! HADO 31...SHAKKAHO!" I'm blasted by a giant explosive ball of red energy. I almost mistake it to be a cero until I realise it came from my Shinigami brother. My armour has melted away but I'm otherwise unharmed by the attack.

"Now for something even more terrifying brother." I form a larger cero this time. "I will not let you continue to live a life of ignorance and blind allegiance to the murderers of us hollow...CERO!"

"SANTEN KESSHUN... I REJECT"

"EL DIRECTO!"

"LICHT REGEN!"

An orange shield deflects my cero and allows two other attacks through an immense ball of blue energy alongside a volley of hundreds, if not thousands of reishi arrows. Who could possibly be behind these attacks. These powers are not that of the hollows or Shinigami.

Three brave souls now stand between me and my sworn enemies. I recognise two of them from the encounter with the mad scientist Shinigami. However the third man – a Goliath of one if you will say, it is him who strikes me as the most odd. He bears an armoured right arm. The reatsu he emits faintly resembles that of a hollow, but it is evident that these three are mere humans.

"We must stop you from killing them Ben-san." Orihime says in a sweet and soothing voice.

"Though I despise the Shinigami my primary duty as a Quincy is to kill all hollows, unfortunately that includes yourself." Uryu points his bow.

"I must protect the weak and fight for justice!" The third man exclaims as blue reatsu flares out of his shoulderblade.

"So I must now fight against three? Very well then." I create blades of cero on the tips of my clawed fingers. "If I die I can at least show my brother the difference in power between a hollow and a Shinigami."

The two males step forth ready to attack. The three of us charge forward in unison. "HYAAAGGHH!"

After being betrayed by my own brother I have resorted to my true hollow desires. No longer will I be plauged by emotions and filthy values of the so-called 'good and righteous'. All that remains is to kill all those who stand in my way. Will this trio of wayward human souls be the next to recieve my Just Punishment? Find out in the next thrilling chapter!