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Seireitei was calm. The sun shone brightly with a good amount of clouds in the sky. 11 squad was quiet today as well. Only because they were too busy watching a good fight.

"Eek!" Sakura ducked under another swipe before rolling out of the way of the 11th squad Taichou. Why Grimm-nii had thought this was a good idea was beyond her.

"Oi! You gonna keep running or fight?" Zaraki Kenpachi slung his sword over his shoulder as he watched the Soutaichou's daughter get back onto her feet. She hand't released her zanpakutou, some deal she had made with the blue cat-hollow, and he was getting bored.

Sakura took several breaths. She wasn't strong enough to hold the Taichou back, he was a freaking tank. So she had to resort to redirecting and avoiding his attacks. Which was exhausting. "Grimm-nii! Why are you making me do this?!" She whined to the Espada that was lounging on the porch.

Grimmjow opened one eye and looked over at Sakura. "You said you needed to train. Zaraki is a good choice."

"If I wanted to die!" Sakura glared at the hollow. "Besides, I want to train with my Bankai. So your stupid rule is pointless. And also my Bankai is kido based."

"Che. What a waste." Zaraki looked away from the girl. "You're pretty strong, but your wasted on a kido weapon."

Sakura looked over at the Taichou with a raised eyebrow. "You got a problem with kido, Zaraki-Taichou?" She held her ground as the Taichou turned and met her gaze. She could feel the air crackle with tension.

"It's useless. The real test of strength is with your own muscles and steel." Zaraki smirked at the girl, she had a back bone. "But if you want to prove otherwise, come at me with your precious Bankai. I'll break it."

Sakura gave the Taichou a mild glare. 'Tsubaki, let's show him not to under estimate kido.' She could hear the hollow cackle her agreement as her vision returned to her right eye. She lifted her zanpakutou with both her hands on it, pointing it at the Taichou. "You asked for it. Bankai."

Sakura split her hands apart and held her dream catchers out to the side. She ignored the murmurings from the shinigami around her and Grimmjow yelling at them. Her focus was on the mountain of a Taichou she was up against. And he was starting to grin widely.

Zaraki had to admit, the power coming off the girl was impressive. "Let's get started then!" He shouted as he ran at her with his sword at the ready.

Sakura twisted her hands, spinning her dream catchers and holding them an inch above her hand. First thing she had figured out with the dream catchers was that she could control them even if they weren't touching her hands. But the further they got, the harder it became.

She brought one dream catcher up to block Zaraki's hit. Then twisted around and attacked with her other one. Zaraki stepped back, expecting her to follow her attack, but she brought her blocking dream catcher down at him again. Forcing him to block once more. "You just going to block, or attack?" Sakura knew that was Tsubaki's influence, but it was kind of funny taunting this mountain with his own words.

Zaraki laughed out loud, this brat was playing his type of game. He pushed against her weapon, knocking her a bit off balance and attacked.

Sakura panicked a bit as she danced away from Zaraki's blade. She decided to change tactics and ran at him. Jumping over his sword then onto his shoulder and flipping over him while landing a hit on each of his shoulders. She turned and saw him laughing his head off. "What's so funny? Finally realized how stupid you were before?"

Zaraki let out another bark of laughter. "No. It's nice to see that one of you kido wimps has the balls to actually do some damage." He turned and gave the girl a menacing smile. "Is that all you got?"

Sakura moved her dream catchers to the tip of her fingers. "Not a chance, Zaraki-Taichou." They sped up as she prepared for another attack.

But before they could continue their fight a blond haired girl with gloves landed on the field. "Sakura-chan! I was looking for you! Your mother went into labor!"

"WHAT!?" Sakura sealed her zanpakutou and ran off for the nearest shadow. "Thanks Kiyone-chan!" She jumped into the shadow and took off in shunpo. She stepped out when she spotted her father in one of the openings. It was easy to find other shadow users from the shadow world. "Dad! How's mom?"

Shunsui looked up as his daughter emerged from the shadow in the corner of the waiting room. "I'm not too sure. Orihime-chan kicked everyone but her healers out. Said she would come get us after." He had really wanted to be in there. But it seemed just like the first time, he wasn't going to be there. He sighed as he ran a hand over his face.

Sakura sat beside her dad and gave him a hug. "It's gonna be fine dad. Don't worry." She smiled as her dad gave her a hug. "Have you thought of a name?"

"We have actually. Orihime-chan isn't positive about the gender, so we picked out a name that works for a girl or a boy." Shunsui was hoping for a boy. But he would love another daugther as well. "Your sibling will be named Sora. Now as for the gender...another little princess would be nice-"

"But you want a little boy?" Sakura giggled as her dad chuckled. "I've learned that no matter what, little kids are a handful. I babysat my cousins a lot. The boys will say anything, and I mean anything, and think it is the funniest thing in the world. And little girls are control freaks. About everything."

"Sounds like fun." Shunsui was looking forward to parenthood. They had missed out with their first child.

"Yeah." Sakura sat back as silence took over the room.

~Some time later~

Sakura woke up to someone shaking her shoulder gently. She opened her eyes and was a bit confused to see Jushiro smiling at her. He placed a finger on his lips as he gestured over to Sakura's father. Shunsui was passed out across several chairs. His sakkat on his chest and snoring slightly.

Sakura got up and followed Jushiro to another waiting room down the hall. "How long was I asleep?" She wiped the sleep from her eyes. She was a bit sore from having slept sitting up.

"It's been about 6 hours since I sent Kiyone to tell you. Not sure how long you were asleep." Jushiro fixed a few strands of Sakura's hair that was in her face. "I almost didn't want to wake you. But I guessed you would have been sore later. I'm surprised Shunsui didn't lay you down."

Sakura yawned, sleep still clinging to her. "He fell asleep first. I didn't think I would also fall asleep. But I have been known to fall asleep almost anywhere." She gave Jushiro a smile as he wiped the tears from her yawn away.

Jushiro smiled back at Sakura before leaning down and pressing a kiss to her lips. They hadn't had any real alone time since Sakura had left the academy. Since she was mostly living with her parents, so she could help out with the baby. But he was determined to remedy that.

Sakura couldn't keep the smile off her lips when their lips finally split. "I missed you too." She reached up and pulled Jushiro into another kiss.

Jushiro held Sakura close as he deepened their kiss. His mind going a bit fuzzy as she moaned into his mouth. He pulled away slightly trying to regain control of the situation. "Sakura...we should go back...before Shunsui wakes-" He was interrupted by another quick kiss.

"I'm damn tired of having to sneak around my father." Sakura frowned at Jushiro. "He is going to have to accept this. I love you, Jushiro." She blushed when it dawned on her what she said, but she didn't look away. She wasn't a coward.

Jushiro was stunned by her confession, but his surprise turned to happiness. "I love you too, Sakura." He gave her one more kiss before taking her hands off his shoulders. "Now let's go back. Don't want to miss the arrival of your new family member." He led her back the way they came. Her hand still in his.

Sakura held his hand tightly as she followed him. "Yeah."

They entered the waiting room and found Shunsui still fast asleep. They sat down and continued waiting. But their waiting was halted by the sound of the alarm going off. That is what Shunsui woke up to. "Ma, What is going on?" He quickly got up and made his way to the front desk.

His walk was interrupted by the arrival of a 2nd squad messenger. "Kyoraku-Soutaichou, 12th squad has detected multiple Garganta opening within the walls of Seireitei. Also the reiatsu signature of Aizen Sosuke has been detected among other reiatsu signatures detected."

Shunsui frowned at the report, Aizen was making his move. "Thank you. Send out the message to all squads, prepare for battle. Destroy Aizen's forces on sight." The messenger gave him a nod before vanishing to deliver his orders. He looked over to his daughter, briefly wondering when Jushiro had shown up. "Sakura, you should help your squad."

Sakura gave her dad a nod and Jushiro a kiss on the cheek before running out of the hospital and towards 8th squad.

To say people were panicking was an understatement. There were people running around for no reason everywhere. And some were just standing still. Some were crying and others looked to be completely lost.

Sakura located Kurosaki-Taichou's reiatsu and made a beeline for it. She found him directing the seated officers to help relocate the unseated officers that weren't going to be of any help. Lisa-san was also there. She was getting everyone else organized for the coming battle.

"Yadomaru-Fukutaichou!" Sakura called out as she got closer. "Where do you need me?"

"You're with Taichou and myself." Lisa smirked at the shock on the girl's face. "Where did you think you would go? You have a Bankai now, get used to being in the front."

Sakura gave a nod as Lisa continued doing her job. She guessed she would just wait where she was. She looked up and wondered how 12th knew there was an attack. The sky was clear and the wind was blowing gently. She spotted something glint in the sunlight, a string of some kind. She reached out to touch it, pulling her hand back as it cut into her skin. "They're here!" She called out as multiple people cried out in pain.

"Battle stations!" Ichigo shouted as he drew his zanpakutou and cut through some near invisible strings that were hanging in the air. "Show yourself, Espada!"

Laughter filtered through the air, freezing most in their places. The picture perfect sky split open above them. A single figure stepped through, followed by a large black cloud. The figures bright blue hair blew around his head as he gazed down at the shinigami below him. He perked up a bit when he spotted a certain brunette. "Hey, it's Sakura-chan. How nice to see you. Did you miss us?"

Sakura shivered as she remembered this Espada. She looked over as a spider the size of a mouse crawled up her arm. "Gah!" She quickly swatted it off of her and backed away from it.

"Aw. He missed you Sakura-chan. He liked how you tasted." The Espada smiled as more of his spiders landed on the ground. "Shall you become my food, Sakura-chan?"

"Stop it Carivore!" Sakura drew her sword and cut the spider in half. She was done with spiders. Forever.

The Espada gave Sakura a frown. "Aw. Sakura-chan is being so cold. Didn't I tell you to call me by my first name? You said it last time." He stepped back as a pair of swords nearly cut his neck. He dodged a few more attack before getting away from his attacker. He looked at the orange haired man curiously. "You must be Kurosaki Ichigo. Aizen-sama has mentioned you quite a bit."

"I doubt anything he said was true." Ichigo glared at the man. He didn't like him one bit. "Who are you? Why is Aizen attacking now?"

Carivore shook his head and sighed. "Sakura-chan never talked about me? That's sad. I'll have to punish her for that." The Espada dispersed the rest of his spider hoard. "My name is Carivore Antonio. 10th Espada of Aizen's grand army. Please let me feast of your flesh."

Ichigo was now creeped out and disgusted by the man as well. But at least he was only 10th. "Kurosaki Ichigo, 8th squad Taichou." With that said he charged at the Espada.

Sakura was following Lisa-san's lead of taking on the spider hoard. They carried in size from a normal spider to that of a small dog. She really didn't like spiders anymore than she used to. She cut down one of the larger spiders when she got another shiver. She looked behind her and found a spider the size of a car. "What the hell?!"

She jumped up as the spider lunged at her. As she fell back down she stabbed her zanpakutou into it's head. But it didn't penetrate it's skin. 'Not good.' She was thrown from the spider was it reared up and bucked her off.

'Mind if I have a go?' Tsubaki merged herself with Sakura, giving them both full vision.

Sakura brought her hand up to her face and gathered reiatsu. 'Have fun.' She mentally stepped back and allowed Tsubaki to take over as her mask formed over her face and her hair turned white.

"Hell yeah!" Tsubaki shouted as she ran at the spider. Ducking under a leg while cutting off another. "Stupid bug!" She wove around it's legs, confusing the large arachnid. She got under it's belly and stabbed up. "How about you get a taste of a cero?" Tsubaki charged up a cero and filtered it through the zanapkutou, splitting the spider in half. "See, not that hard."

'Yeah, but you're a homicidal maniac.' Tsubaki frowned at Sakura's statement. 'Most of the time.' She laughed at her amendment.

"Damn right." Tsubaki turned and shot a cero off at a group of spiders heading for a group of unsuspecting officers. They were startled a hollow would help them, but the hollow was wearing a shikahokusho. "Quit messing around and get spider squashing!" Tsubaki yelled at the men. They instantly ran off to do just that, or hide. Tsubaki didn't really care.

"Not bad there kid." Lisa placed a hand on Sakura's shoulder. Though she guessed it was Tsubaki in control, her hair was white and she felt more like a hollow. "Come on, Taichou needs some help."

Sakura took control and dispersed her mask before following Lisa into the sky. She stopped beside Kurosaki-Taichou as the three of them faced the 10th Espada that was frowning.

"That was mean Sakura-chan. What did Robert ever do to you?" Antonio pouted as Sakura glared at him. "Now I'm going to have to tell Antoinette why her favorite pet isn't coming home." Their stand off was interrupted by a large explosion. Antonio chuckled as Sakura and Ichigo tensed. "Looks like Aizen-sama found what he was looking for." He charged up a cero and shot it at the group.

"Ichigo!" A green haired woman got between the Espada and shinigami, the cero vanishing into her mouth. Nel glared at the Espada before sending his cero back at him with one of her own. "Don't hurt Ichigo!"

"Taichou...that was..." Sakura was stunned and was having trouble breathing. The explosion had come from 4th squad hospital.

Ichigo nodded grimly as he prayed Orihime was alright. "Let's finish this first." He looked back over at the still mostly unharmed Espada. "You're done here."

"Couldn't agree more." Antonio brushed as much soot off of him. "My job was to keep you all distracted. And it seems I did my job. And I even got to see Sakura-chan again." Antonio tapped the air behind him, opening a Garganta. "I'll be taking my leave now. I'll even take my friends with me."

"Not happening. Getsuga Tensho!" Ichigo let out a blue wave, it was always blue in his sealed state.

Antonio casually back handed the attack. "Try harder, Kurosaki-"

"Baka!" A fist hit Antonio over the head. A pick haired woman glared at him. "Aizen-sama is waiting. Get in here!" She reached over and grabbed his ear to pull him into the Garganta. She spotted Sakura and smirked. "Hey Sakura-chan. See you soon." She waved as the Garganta closed just before several ceros hit it.

Sakura growled as the two Espada escaped. But her anger was replaced with worry when she remembered the explosion. "Mom!" She took off with shunpo in the direction of 4th.

Sakura ran through the tents of the make shift relief center. After helping to clear rubble for an hour she was told her mother was here. Now she was trying to find her as calmly as she could.

"Hello Kyoraku-chan." Sakura froze mid-step. She slowly turned to see Inoue-Taichou smiling at her sadly. "Your mother is this way. Your father is already with her." Orihime led the girl through the relief station. Almost half the hospital had been demolished in the explosion. Luckily she had been able to shield the area she was in. Which also happened to house the main supply room.

Sakura followed the healer anxiously. She was worried for her mother, and her sibling she had yet to meet. When they reached a tent, Sakura entered as Orihime turned to return to work.

Sakura entered the tent, finding her mother and father. Her mother was in tears. "Mom! Are you alright?" She ran over to the woman's side.

Nanao looked up and smiled at her daughter in relief. "Sakura." She pulled her daughter into a tight hug. "I'm so glad you're alright."

Sakura hugged her mother back. She also felt her father half hug her with her mother. "What happened?" She could tell by the atmosphere in the room something was not right. "Sora?"

Nanao felt her tears renew as Shunsui held her tightly. She couldn't talk about it. Only shake her head.

Shunsui noticed his daughter's worry increase. "He's alive, Sakura. But he isn't here."

Sakura sighed with relief. Her baby brother was alright. "But where is he? What happened?"

"Aizen has him." Shunsui growled out the man's name. He had already authorized Aizen's extermination. He was to be killed on sight.

Sakura was frozen in place. That monster had her little brother. She clenched her fists tightly. "Then let's get him back."

That's another chapter. And in such a short amount of time. This one was surprisingly easy to write. Let me know what you thought of the chapter.

Next few chapters might be a bit on the long side, Or I might break them up and make them short but many of them. But I think I will stick with just having them be very long.

See y'all again soon.