Hey sorry for the delay. My iPad decided to delete my first draft of this chapter. It was probably telling me to try again, but it didn't have to delete all my other chapters as well. Oh well. I do not own Bleach, characters or locations.
~1st squad barracks~
"I hereby call this Taichou meeting to order." Kyoraku stood at the head of two rows of Taichous with two non Taichous at the ends of each row. "I would first like to welcome Hinamori-Taichou as the newest Taichou of 5th squad." Hinamori shrunk a little from the attention. "As well as the Taichous of our newly established Visored and Hollow squad." Stark was playing with haori that was black with white diamonds and writings on it, still intrigued by the piece of fabric, while Shinji stood across from Stark as Taichou of the Visored squad. "The Hollow squad will stay in Hueco Mondo while keeping in touch with Soul Society through a member of the Visored squad. However with the current situation with Aizen, they will be staying here for the time being.
"Now to business." Kyoraku looked at everyone gravely. Then perked up suddenly. "My Nanao-chan is going to have twins!" Kyoraku smiled widely completely forgetting the seriousness of the situation. All of the Taichous sweat dropped at their Soutaichou's first matter of business. Kyoraku cleared his throat loudly. "Now to more serious business. Urahara-san, what have you found?" He looked to the blond beside Stark.
"Congratulations on the twins." Urahara smiled at the man he addressed. "I have found out a new piece of information about the ritual performed on Abarai Rini." Urahara paused for dramatic effect. "I found that there was writings on the back four pages that appeared blank upon first examination. However, when the book came into contact with a Hollow, text appeared."
Everyone looked toward the Hollow squad Taichou. He just nodded in response to the unspoken question. Then they all turned their attention back to the blond standing beside him.
Seeing everyone accept the explanation, Urahara continued. "In the uncovered text, there was multiple references to split souls becoming one. I think this is referring to losing one's zanpakutou during Hollowfication."
"So you're saying that we can reverse the effects by Abarai-san summoning Shinouta?" Ukitake asked hoping it would give Rini back her memories.
"Where did Shinouta disappear to?" Ichigo asked. None of the Taichous could remember seeing the zanpakutou in the past week. they also could not recall when the last time they saw a member from Zero squad.
"How is Abarai-san doing?" Kyoraku directed his question at Inoue-Taichou.
"She's doing well. Her mark hasn't digressed more than it already has. She also hasn't woken up yet." Orihime wasn't pleased by Rini's condition. The seal mark was already halfway gone. She was worried at how quickly it had progressed and how little time they had to reverse it.
"Stark-Taichou, Hirako-Taichou try to keep your squad away from Abarai-san until we can reverse her condition." Kyoraku got a nod from each Tachou. "Everyone keep an eye out for Shinouta. Dismissed." He ended the meeting and the doors opened.
Standing outside the door was a tall girl shying away from the doors a bit. "Isane-san. Has there been a change in Abarai-chan's condition?" Orihime walked towards her Fukutaichou. A few other Taichous overheard Orihime shouting in the direction of her Fukutaichou.
"Well...um...you see...I went to check on Abarai-san...like you told me to...and well...you see...she wasn't there." Isane was worried about her Taichou's reaction. Inoue-Taichou was known to have a scary face when something went wrong.
"Really." The air got cold, even for Hitsugaya-Taichou. Orihime turned to the pink haired girl that was also standing outside the door. "Ayame-chan. Can you find Abarai-chan for me?"
Ayame saw Orihime's face and knew she couldn't refuse the orange haired Taichou. "Yes, um let's see." She closed her eyes and concentrated. "She's at the training ground." She paused before saying the next bit, but Orihime's dark aura made her say it anyways. "There are several Hollow Pressures near her, as well as some partial Hollow Pressures."
Orihime turned toward Stark and Shinji. Both were terrified by the look on her face. "We'll go set that straight." They both flash stepped towards the exit of the 1st squad barracks, but ran into something solid while trying to pass the 4th squad's Taichou.
Orihime turned to face the two Taichous behind her. "Why don't we go together? That way I know you both took care of the problem properly." She turned to her Fukutaichou with no anger on her face. "Isane-san, head back to the hospital and make sure Abarai-chan's room is straightened out."
Isane bowed to her Taichou and left to head back to the hospital. 'She's just as scary as Unohana-Taichou was.' Her own thoughts scared her.
~training grounds~
"You sure you should be out of the hospital?" The blue haired Hollow looked at the girl infront of him. She had red hair and an outfit that didn't leave much to the imagination. Tight fitting pants with holes cut out of the side, a shirt that clung to her skin and buttoned up to her neck with a cut out just above her cloth wrapped breasts. He liked the look of her.
"Yeah I'm fine." She vanished from sight and reappeared beside him. "But you won't be." She drove her fist into his stomach right above his Hollow hole.
Grimmjow picked himself up. He felt a cracked rib. "Not bad, for a newbie." He launched himself at her, but found himself slammed into the ground again.
"Stark said not to do anything till he got out of his meeting." Tier had a foot on his back holding him down. She hated having to babysit the immature kitten.
"Well it's taking too long." He tried to stand up, but found himself unable to. "Can you get off me already?!"
"With that attitude, it's best she doesn't." Nel put her elbow on Tier's shoulder. "What do you think Lilynette?" The green haired Hollowed looked to where she thought her companion would be, but didn't see her there. "Lilynette?"
"So you guys joined the Gotei 13?" The three Hollows looked towards the sound and found their companion with a short blond shinigami. "That's pretty cool."
"Yeah. But we're still basing rank off of numbers. So we still have our own system. Not much of a change." Lilynette quite liked the short tempered blond. "Guess we're going to be seeing quite a bit of each other."
"Yeah. Or at least that's what the idiot thinks." Hiyori still had a hard time grasping why everyone had chosen Shinji as the Taichou of the Visored squad. She was surprised at how well she was getting along with the Espada.
"Who's the newbie?" Lilynette and Hiyori stood infront of Tier, Nel and Grimmjow. Blood stood a ways back, but she started moving closer when Lilynette spotted her.
"She said her name is Blood. Aizen's newest creation." Grimmjow spoke while still trying to get out from under Tier's foot. So far he wasn't making any progress in escaping.
"Nice to meet you." Blood stood beside Nel and smiled at the smaller Hollow. Lilynette could see that Blood was strong. "Want to spar?" Lilynette smiled at the new Espada.
"Sure, but all I can do is Cero and hand to hand." Blood didn't know why she didn't have a sword. She felt out of place, but knew she had one. She just didn't know where it was or how to get it back.
"You could try kido." Hiyori wasn't sure if Hollows could use it, but it would be fun to see it fail.
"Show me." Blood was interested to see what the shinigami was talking about.
"Maybe next time." Shinji stood behind a surprised Hiyori. "I'm going to barrow the shrimp for a bit." He pick Hiyori up and threw her over his shoulder. There was a bit of pink on her cheeks when he turned to leave the training grounds.
"I can walk on my own, idiot!" Shinji didn't put her down. He just left quickly so he didn't have to deal with the silently angry Taichou that was a short distance from him.
"Hollow squad. We're going to have a meeting. So get off Grimmjow or drag his butt with you." Stark headed in the direction of their temporary barracks.
"He can drag his own butt back." Tier used Grimmjow's back to launch herself after Stark.
"It was nice meeting you Blood." Nel waved at Blood with a smile while following after Teir with an angry Grimmjow beside her.
"Next time I guess." Lilynette was actually looking forward to testing her skills against someone with Stark. "See ya round." She followed her other half while waving at Blood.
"See ya." Blood was surprised at how easy it was to get along with the group of Hollows. She turned to find a coldly smiling Taichou behind her. "Can I help you?" She asked tentatively. Some how the woman in front of her scared her more than Aizen did.
"Yes you can. Why don't we head back towards the hospital? There are some tests I was going to do once you woke up." Orihime was happy Rini was complying to her orders. Even if she tried to keep her distance.
~some part of the forest outside of the wall~
"She won't come. She doesn't even know I exist anymore." A girl wearing a tattered dress was tied to a fairly large tree. Her hair was knotted with leaves and twigs. She had, had a hard few weeks. "You can't reclaim what you lost. It's no longer yours-"
"But it will be mine, again" a tall man with dulling red hair grasped the girl by the throat. "She will come for you. Whether she knows about you or not. Her blood will bring her to you, because it is her destiny. The way mine is to possess your power forever." He turned away from the girl and looked towards the tall wall in front of him. "Soon this will all be mine. I will be its king.
"Then you should step out of the shadow, Shinchi Itachi." The red haired man turned to see a brown haired man wearing a white suit. "I can help you gain more power than the one you seek."
"The only power I seek is the one to restore the honour of my Clan, the Chike Clan." Itachi was surprised the man knew his name. "Now tell me, what is your name? Since you seem to know mine. Not many people know the name of a traitor."
Aizen chuckled at the man's simplemindedness. "The power I offer you can do what you wish and much more. My name is Aizen Sosuke, and I would like to help you redeem yourself and your Clan's honour."
"How do I know I can trust you?" He saw by Aizen's smile, he wasn't going to get an answer. 'I might be able to use this man' Itachi could see how making a deal with Aizen could help him, but he could not help but wonder why Aizen was so willing to help him. "You have a deal, but if I smell something going south, I'm out."
"Glad to know we can come to an agreement." Aizen smiled at his accomplishment. 'So much simpler to use a stupider monkey.'
Shinouta stared at the scene infront of her. 'Rini-sama, please stay safe. What ever you do, don't come looking for me.'
Aizen walked over to the captured zanpakutou spirit. "Now to set the bait." he smiled wickedly as he saw his plan begin to fall into place.
May not be able to post for a bit. Midterms and a lot of homework. I'll post when I can. Please give feedback.