Onwards we go! I do not own Bleach, characters or locations.

~Urahara's shop~

"It feels good to be home." Ayame and Rini were settling back into their room. They had just gotten back from Soul Society. Rini was the only one that had to go through a different gate because she couldn't split her soul from her body, while everyone else could go as just their souls.

"Hey Rini-chan. Why don't you have a zanpakutou or try to leave your body?" Ayame had tried to ask the same question at various times while they were in Soul Society, but something, or I should say someone, always interrupted before Rini gave her an answer.

'Queue distraction' Ayame thought in her head just as Urahara peeked through the door.

"Are you girls hungry? I heated up the food Inoue-Taichou gave us." He wasn't even sure he could classify it as food, but he knew her 'creations' tasted pretty good, most of the time.

"No. I'm just going to go train with Chiryo-Sha and Kagami." She stood up and walked away towards the training room.

"Are you ever going to tell her?" Urahara knew why Rini only wanted to train in kido, but she made him promise to not tell Ayame why.

"I don't even know if it's true myself, but I will wait until I can get a hold of the information I need. Did you find anything in the library in Soul Society?" Rini felt guilty for keeping secrets from her best friend, but knew she needed to.

"Only that there was no record in the Academy records or any of the squad records about a child being executed or of someone being able to manipulate Hollows. Nothing in the family registers either." Kisuke himself had only been given broad details about what Rini was looking for. All he knew was that she was looking for child, about the age of 7, that was executed for manipulating Hollows, or something like that. 'What are you looking for? Or better yet. Who are you looking for?'

~Training area~

"I can't believe she's keeping secrets from me." Ayame had found Yuzu sitting and watching her sister spar with Histugaya. They were just going at each other trying to perfect moves they had learned. Neither one had an attack type, but neither one was a fighter either.

"I know what you mean." Yuzu shot off her air shield to avoid having Ayame's green and pink fluff ball hit her. "Every time I ask Karin about Toshiro she clams up and says there is nothing between them. You can see that there is something there don't you?"

Ayame moved avoiding a crevasse that opened up beneath her. "Any one could see that there is something between them." Ayame focused her reiatsu on her zanpakutous. The focused Pressure caused the soft fluff on her zanpakutous the stick straight out and become as hard as steel. She had learned this while practicing with Urahara the first day she released her zanpakutou.

"Thank you for agreeing. So what is Rini keeping from you?" Yuzu had reformed her air shield and was preparing for Ayame's attack.

"I asked her why she didn't try to get a zanpakutou. She can control her Reiatsu better than I can and she is far more powerful than I am." Ayame launched at Yuzu knowing the blond would launch her air shield. "So why do I get mine first? It doesn't make sense to me." Ayame did a feint attack to get Yuzu to launch her shield. Only to see that the blond had created two shields. "Nice cover."

"Thank you. Bankai!" Yuzu's zanpakutou split into two blades that covered the back of her hands with deep brown blades that extended past her finger tips. A metal band also covered her fore head and another around her neck. "Hasha Jiwamaru."

"Why doesn't she just tell me? Is it such a big secret that she can't tell me?" Ayame wasn't phased by Yuzu's increase in power.

"Maybe she's protecting you? Maybe if you knew it would put you in danger and if you were in danger she would be powerless to save you?" Yuzu had stopped attacking and was trying to cheer up the saddened pink head.

"You know what? That sounds a lot like her. She did something similar to this before, but I made her tell me and I caused a lot of trouble. She almost had to drop out of school. And it all would have been to protect me." Ayame remembered when Rini covered for her when she broke a kids nose in nursery. Rini had said she had done it. Years later the same boy came back and beat up Rini as pay back. Ayame was sad, but knew there were worse things that could have happened. "Thanks Yuzu!"

Yuzu had let her guard down, but instantly put it back up when she felt Ayame's Reiatsu rise. 'Is she going crazy again' Yuzu was worried about being so close to her at that moment, but passed it off as an effect from the girls Reiatsu.

Ayame focused on her zanpakutou spirits. 'Shall we succeed?' She asked them in her happy cheery voice.

'What happened to trying?' They both asked their curiously bubbly master. They knew she had to beat them to get Bankai, but they both knew they would lose in a heart beat.

'Do or do not, there is no try' Ayame was determined. 'I will follow Yoda-sensei's teachings.'

'You do realize he isn't real, right?' Chiryo-Sha questioned her. 'Maybe she really is crazy?' Kagami butted in, there was a long pause before they both chuckled, 'What are we saying? Of course our master is crazy. Why would we have it any other way?'

Ayame smirked at her zanpakutous. "Bankai!" She hit her two zanpakutous together. They changed into one long staff with a blade on either end. Both blades were surrounded by pink, blue, green, and orange fluff. "Chishihansha" Ayame looked at her zanpakutou. 'You guys look great' she complimented them.

'In this form we are one' the voice was only one. It didn't sound like one or the other, but a mix of the two. 'You should look at yourself.'

Ayame shunpoed over to one of the hot springs. She looked at her reflection in the water. "Holy Crap!" Her hair color was the same as the fluff on her zanpakutou. She did a double take. "Not bad." It was quite her style.

"So that's two out of three." Both Ayame and Yuzu screamed at the shopkeeper's sudden appearance. "Why don't you two go up against Zaraki-Taichou?" He sense the large Taichou heading in their direction.

"Let's! I want to see what Chishihansha can do." Ayame said while draping her zanpakutou over her shoulder.

"How interesting. A single zanpakutou split into two and two joined into one." Kisuke said to himself after the to girls headed off in the direction of the 11th squad Taichou. He could feel their powers growing as they met the Kenpachi head on.

~Toshiro and Karin~

"You OK Toshiro? You seem distracted." She swept Hiwamaru's blade over the ice at her feet so she could step on solid ground.

"It's nothing." He quickly blocked Karin's swing at his head. However, he was still partially lost in his thoughts.

"It's not nothing. If it was either, I would be a Popsicle or you would be a dried dragon fruit." To prove her point she released more Reiatsu to increase the temperature around them.

"It's not something you need to worry about." He was hoping she would drop the subject, but he knew better than that.

"Like hell it is!" Karin had used shunpo to get behind him and caught him off guard. He barely got Hyorinmaru up in time to block. Karin started getting more aggressive. 'Does he think I can't handle anything?'

'Maybe he has a reason?' Hiwamaru winced at the force of Karin's anger.

'It better be a damn good reason.' Karin wasn't bothering to lower the temperature of the room. She found it quite comfortable.

'I think she's pissed master' Hyorinmaru commented as he felt his master becoming uncomfortable with the increasing heat.

'You think!' He said sarcastically to his zanpakutou.

The words were out of Karin's mouth before she realized what she said. "Bankai!" Flames erupted around her, but she didn't get burned. She didn't even feel any heat. When the flames subsided Karin stood with her gleaming red bladed zanpakutou, her hair looked like it was fire, and she had a pair of flaming wings on her back. "Kisaki Hiwamaru"

Toshiro stared at her in amazement. She looked like a Phoenix, but he knew she was a dragon. "Looks like I'll need to get serious." He let his Spritual Pressure bring the temperature back down to a more comfortable temperature for himself. "Bankai! Daiguran Hyorinmaru." Since the last time Karin had seen his Bankai form, it had changed. He finally perfected it. It's wings were light, but strong and looked more like wings rather than jagged pieces of ice. He had a tail that was long and thin, making it easier to control himself while flying, and the ice that covered his body was stronger despite being lighter.

They both stood facing each other neither one breaking eye contact. They were both about to move when they both felt a strange Reiatsu. Toshiro knew exactly whose it was, but Karin had no clue who it belonged to. She saw that Toshiro's face was contorted into a pained look. "What's wrong, Toshiro? Who is it?"

Toshiro looked at her having taken several deep breaths. He said one word with all the hatred he had in him, "Aizen."

I know I'm terrible. I left a cliffhanger. Stay tuned. Please write feedback.