NOTICE: I edited chapter 19, so you may want to reread it so you aren't lost.

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Sakura looked around as she began to feel a pressure in her chest. She couldn't tell where it was coming from, but it was making it hard to breath. 'Feels like when Urahara gets really pissed.' Sakura had thought she was going to suffocate that time.

She looked down at the bracelets she had on her wrists. She easily unclipped all six and dropped them on the ground. She took a deep breath as the pressure lifted. 'Much better.'

"Sakura?" All eyes were drawn to a single figure walking out from the tree line. His long white hair blew out behind him as his face stared at the group in shock.

"Jushiro?" Sakura was on her feet before she knew it. "Jushiro!" Sakura had a smile on her face as she ran towards him. Her arms wrapped around his neck as he met her halfway.

"Sakura. What are you doing here?" Jushiro held Sakura tightly. 'How did she get here? Why is she with Hollows?' He then noticed her grip had loosened a bit, but she didn't move away. "Sakura?" Jushiro nearly laughed when he heard a faint snore. She had fallen asleep on him, again. "What tired you out this time?" Jushiro repositioned her in his arms so he could carry her more easily.

"Oi! Who the hell are you?" Grimmjow glared at the man that was holding onto Sakura. He seemed to be very comfortable with her. Grimmjow looked behind him as a hand clamped onto his shoulder.

"Relax Grimmjow. He is someone our precious imouto cares for." Starrk sighed as he removed his hand from Grimmjow's shoulder. "Hello again, Taichou-san." Starrk recognized the man easily by his hair.

"Hi." Jushiro was a bit surprised to see the Espada. He had thought he was dead. At least, that was what he had been told happened.

"Ukitake-san? What's the hold up? Why are there Espada?" A man with a white coat over his shinigami uniform and bright orange hair walked up to stand beside Jushiro. He frowned as he caught sight of a certain blue haired man.

"Ichigo!" Nel immediately ran at the Orange haired man and hugged him tightly. "It's Ichigo! I missed you so much!"

"N-N-Nel! Your grown up?!" Ichigo was shocked to see the woman. Especially when she wasn't a child. "Nel...can't...breath..."

"Ha! Going to pass out from a woman's embrace? Pathetic." Grimmjow smirked. He nearly laughed when Ichigo tried to give him a death glare, but failed when Nel pushed him away.

Nel turned away from Ichigo and towards Grimmjow. "Don't be mean to Ichigo!"

"Yare, yare. Seems we have unexpected visitors." All eyes were now drawn to a man with a pink kimono and a straw hat on his head. "What business do Arrancars and Espadas have in Soul Society? Not to cause trouble, I hope." Shunsui gave them all a smile as he tipped his hat up.

"No trouble, Taichou-san." Starrk spoke up as he made his way towards the shinigami. He noticed a few more coming out of the tree line. Most had a white coat or a badge on then. "Just making sure Sakura didn't turn into a Hollow."

Shunsui noticed the gentle gaze Starrk gave the girl that Jushiro had in his arms. He couldn't feel anything Hollow related coming from the girl. "Very well. How long do the rest of you plan on staying? I'm sure you will want to get back before Aizen notices."

"We do not work for Aizen." Tier spoke with venom in her voice. "The man does not deserve our loyalty."

"And his new little Espada piss me off." Grimmjow growled.

Shunsui nodded as he thought. "Well then. Would you like to join us?" Shunsui smiled as he heard shocked gasps from most of the people around him. "Since you aren't working for Aizen, you can help us. That way we can be sure you won't be causing problems for us, and you don't have to worry about us hunting you."

"Soutaichou? Is that really a good idea?" Shunsui looked back towards the Taichou of 2nd squad.

"It's fine Sui-Feng-Taichou." Shunsui waved off any further arguments. "What do you say, Espada-san?"

Starrk looked at the others before he spoke. "I don't know about the rest, but that sound reasonable to me."

Lilynette stomped on Starrk's foot. "Since I go where he goes, I'll agree with him." She avoided a head lock as she glared at the shinigami. They looked like a weird bunch. Especially the pink haired child that was sitting on a spiky haired man's shoulder.

"Yay! I can stay with Ichigo!" Nel hugged Ichigo's neck again as she squealed in happiness. "Is that busty lady around to? Did you finally start treating her like a proper lady?"

"Nel..." Ichigo tried to speak, but he couldn't even get enough air to breath.

"Idiot." Grimmjow laughed at Ichigo's inability to free himself from Nel's grasp. "I'll stick around. Then I can test my strength against Strawberry here."

"Grimmjow, stop instigating." Tier rolled her eyes at the wild cat. "You all aren't terrible, but joining you is better than the alternative." Tier looked at all of the shinigami that were gathered. "Will you lock us up?"

"Not at all." Shunsui gave a smile as the other around him made surprised noises once again. "But I will have to ask that you hand your zanpakutou over. At least until Central 46 determines that you are not a threat. And also each of you will be supervised by a Taichou."

Starrk shrugged as he walked up to the pink clad man. "Sounds reasonable." He pulled his zanpakutou from its sash he held it out for him to take. "We never introduced ourselves, Taichou-san."

Shunsui took the Espada's zanpakutou with a smile. "No, we didn't. Kyoraku Shunsui, Soutaichou of the Gotei 13. But back then I was 8th Squad Taichou."

"The Soutaichou back then was the one with the fire around him?" Starrk nodded as Kyoraku nodded in response. "Coyote Starrk, Primera Espada. Or, I guess it's former Primera now."

"Guess you'll be hanging around with me. It'll help keep Central 46 from panicking." Shunsui didn't not need Central 46 intervening.

"I get to hang out with Ichigo!" Nel hugged Ichigo and spun around with him.

"Wow. You have women just throwing themselves at you, Taichou." Lisa smirked at the scene before her.

"Who is this?" Nel let Ichigo go as she looked down at the woman in front of her.

"Nel, this is Lisa. She's my Fukutaichou." Ichigo straightened out his uniform as he spoke. "Now Nel, if you are going to stay, I'll need your zanpakutou."

Nel pulled her sword from her belt and passed it to Ichigo. "Please take care of me."

"Doesn't that always end up being my job with you? Where are the others? Aren't they usually with you?" Ichigo was surprised the girl's care takers weren't with her.

Nel hugged herself gently. "They usually are, aren't they?"

Ichigo noticed the sad look on Nel's face. His sisters had the same look after their mom died. He walked over and hugged the woman. "It's okay Nel. You'll see them again someday. I know you will."

Nell hugged Ichigo back. "Thank you, Ichigo."

"Too sappy." Lisa turned and began walking away from the two.

Lilynette looked passed Starrk. The man had gone ahead and given his zanpakutou over to the pink bastard. "Idiot."

"Who's an idiot?" Lilynette jumped at the voice that spoke beside her. She looked down at the pink haired girl she had spotted earlier. "You're funny."

"And you're tiny." Lilynette shivered as a large shadow loomed over her. She looked up and found the spiky haired guy looking down at her. "And you're massive."

"Ken-chan, can she stay with us?" Yachiru hugged the green haired girl. "Please."

Kenpachi looked down at the girl. She felt strong, despite her looks. "Fine. Hand over your zanpakutou, kid."

"I'm not a kid!" Lilynette hated being called a kid. "The names Lilynette." Lilynette pulled her sword out of the horn on her helmet and handed it to the Taichou.

"Yay! Lily gets to stay with us Ken-chan." Yachiru climbed onto the girl's back and hugged her tightly.

"Yachiru, don't go pissing her off." Kenpachi could see anger growing on the Hollow's face. He sighed thinking of how troublesome the two were going to be.

Tier spotted her opponent from the last time she fought the shinigami. She also spotted the two that were fighting her Fraccion. But she didn't blame those girls. They didn't deliver the final blow.

Tier approached the small white haired Taichou. He seems to have gotten a bit taller. "Never learned your name, shinigami."

Toshiro looked up at the tan skinned Espada. He recognized her, and felt sorry for her. She had lost everything in that war. "Hitsugaya Toshiro. And you, Espada?"

"Harribel Tier." Tier pulled her sword off of her back and held it out to the Taichou. "Looks like we are allies now."

Toshiro took the large sword from the Hollow. "It would seem that way." He didn't know if he should say anything else, but his Fukutaichou did.

"I'm sorry about what happened to those girls." Matsumoto gave the woman a sad smile. "They were really loyal to you. And they liked you a whole lot."

Tier cocked her head and smiled with her eyes. "They put me on a bit of a pedestal. And thank you. I kept telling them that they shouldn't use Anon. But they always said they would use whatever they could to make sure I didn't have to worry about them."

"Matsumoto Rangiku, 10th squad Fukutaichou. We'll be seeing each other a lot. So you can consider me a friend." Rangiku smiled at the woman.

Tier was a bit surprised by the woman's open friendliness.

"Just accept it. She already considers you a friend, so she won't leave you alone." Toshiro smirked at the Hollow's obvious shock.

Grimmjow frowned as he looked around. The others were all chatting with various other Taichou's that now had their zanpakutous. He gave a sigh. "Looks like the strawberry got taken. Wonder who else is strong."

"You missed out on the fighting squad." Grimmjow looked towards a silver haired man walking towards him. "That would be the spiky haired guy the little girl picked."

Grimmjow looked over and saw Lilynette trying to pulled a pink haired child off of her while she was yelling at a rather feral looking man. "Figures. So who are you? You feel a bit like a Hollow." Grimmjow found it almost a bit unnerving. A shinigami sent off weak Hollow vibes.

"That would be because I have Hollow powers. Muguruma Kensei, 9th squad Taichou. And you?" Kensei eyed the Hollow.

Grimmjow noticed the shinigami eyeing him. "Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Sexta Espada. Now former Sexta, twice." Grimmjow kicked the dirt with a growl. "Second time I've lost my place. Oh well. At least I didn't have it given away like last time." He looked over at the shinigami. "You strong?"

"Not as strong as some, but yeah. I'd like to think that I am." Kensei smirked at the Espada.

"Kensei is the strongest!" Kensei rolled his eyes at the green haired woman that had jumped on his shoulders. "So are we looking after him? I think that will be fun. Don't you think so Hisagi-kun?"

"Kuna-Fukutaichou, I don't think Muguruma-Taichou likes you on his shoulders." Hisagi could almost see smoke coming out of his

Taichou's ears.

"But Kensei hasn't said anything. So I. Sure it's okay. Right Kensei?" Kun's looked down at Kensei with a smile.

"Mashiro...GET OFF!" Kensei stood still as he yelled at the woman on his shoulder. "Honestly, are you a child?!" He continued to yell as Mashiro got off of his shoulder and skipped away.

"Kensei is so mean!" Mashiro yelled back as she walked away from Kensei.

Kensei sighed heavily in frustration. "Sorry about her. She gets hyper, often. So, you okay with staying?"

Grimmjow wondered how crazy everyone in this place was. But then shrugged it off. 'I'm not that sane myself.' He took his sword out of his belt loop. "Might as well. It's better than having both you lot and Aizen hunting my ass down." He held it out for the shinigami to take.

Kensei took the Espada's zanpakutou. "I'll warn you now, Mashiro will annoy the heck out of you. Just ignore her as best as you can. And when you can't, yell at her and ignore her crying."

"I'll keep that in mind." Grimmjow started wondering if he would be okay. But Mashiro certainly couldn't annoy him anymore than the other Espadas that were still at Los Noches.

Jushiro looked around at the group around him. Some where getting to know their guest, while others were glaring at the new comers. 'This is certainly about to get interesting.'

He looked down at Sakura as she stirred in his arms. But she showed no signs of waking.

"Alrighty then." All eyes were back on the Soutaichou. "Now that that is all settled, let's head back to Seireitei. And please try not to lose each other. We don't need everyone panicking." Shunsui knew there was going to be a bit of a scene. After all, they were escorting very powerful Hollows into Seireitei.

Jushiro followed closely and easily caught up to Shunsui. "I'm going to take Sakura to 4th."

Shunsui looked from his friend down to the girl he was carrying. She couldn't be any older than his Nanao. "Alright. But head to 1st right after. I'm calling a meeting once the Arrancar get settled."

Jushiro nodded at his friends answer.

Once they reached the gate into Seireitei, Jushiro angled himself towards 4th squad. He landed in front of the front entrance and calmly walked into the hospital.

"Ukitake-Taichou? What brings you here?" Jushiro turned and spotted the Taichou of 4th squad walking into the waiting room. "And who is this?" The orange haired Taichou looked at the girl in the man's arms. She had never seen the girl before, but something felt familiar about her.

"Her name is Sazumi Sakura. She is someone I met in the human world. Can you make sure she is alright, Inoue-Taichou?" Jushiro spoke camly. Despite the chaos his zanpakutou were causing. 'Sogyo no Kotowari, calm down. We will find out who did this later.'

Orihime gave the Taichou a smile. "Of course." Orihime led them to a private room. "Just lay her on the bed. Is she why all of the Taichous were called out to the Rukongai?"

"No. She was there with the Espada that had also shown up." Jushiro laid Sakura down gently. He tucked a loose strand of hair out of her face.

"Oh. What happened to the Espadas?" Orihime approached the girl and began checking her over with a kido. She frowned more as she continued to check.

"They are here. Seems like they defected to our side." Jushiro couldn't help but worry at the face that the healer was making. "Is something wrong."

"Health wise, nope. She is completely healthy. Reiryoku wise, he body is just getting used to not having it fully suppressed. She is very powerful. Probably in the same class as a Fukutaichou. Maybe even some Taichous." Orihime wasn't expecting the girl to be that powerful. "But that isn't what is thumping me."

"Something stumped you?" Jushiro looked from Inoue-Taichou to Sakura.

Orihime nodded slowly. "Her reiatsu signature feels familiar, but I know I have never seen this girl before. It could be that it is just similar to someone else's, but the only way that would be possible...would be if she was a sibling or child of someone."

Jushiro couldn't help but agree with the healer. But how could that be possible. "She is human. A relative of hers could be around."

"Was human, Ukitake-Taichou." Orihime saw surprise light up the Taichou's face. "There is no trace of a chain of fate." She sighed heavily with a sad smile. "Her parents must be upset."

Jushiro looked back at Sakura. He had never met her parents in the human world. He didn't know how they would be feeling. "Will you tell me when she wakes up? Kyoraku called a meeting for all Taichous."

"Finally, someone tells me something!" Orihime spoke dramatically. "I didn't even know about the last mission until everyone had already left. I'll get Isane to keep an eye on her. So you will be the second to know when she wakes up."

"Thank you." Jushiro gave the woman a nod as he made his way out of the hospital and towards 1st squad. "Time to see how Shunsui intends to deal with this chaos. Nanao-san would be very useful right now."

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