Within the Rukongai area of Soul Society, it was a well known fact that the further away from the Seireitei a district is, the more that district decays into nothing more then lawless, violent, crime-infested area. Since Shinigami only deal with Hollows that are reported within the Rukongai, the normal citizens are responsible for their day-to-day welfare otherwise. However, what was not known to a majority of Shinigami or the residents of the Rukongai districts was that instead of their being 320 districts (divided into four area with 80 districts in each) there was actually 321 districts. In the South Rukongai District was an unofficial 81st South Rukongai district where spiritual energy in the atmosphere is more concentrated then anywhere else in Soul Society cause it to reach the levels one would find in Hueco Mundo. It was here that nonhuman and humanoid spirits lived together with a large number of hollows. However these hollows were different from the normal type that most people were used to hearing about; they were mostly Adjuchas and Arrancar whose only desire was to live in peace. This was something that was not possible in Hueco Mundo since that type of Hollow were constantly hunted as easy kills. After all, what was easier to kill then a hollow that did not have the desire nor the strength to put up a fight.
However, almost on accident, a group of Adjuchas discovered an area of that existed within Soul Society but had concentrated spiritual energy that would allow them to gain nourishment from the atmosphere like within Hueco Mundo but without the danger of being hunted down, while it was also far enough from nearest Rukongai district that they would be noticed by anyone thus they have would have anyone getting the Shinigami to attack them.
Thus the unofficial 81 South Rukongai district was born and for awhile only hollows living there, but eventually others that were not accepted in Huenco Mundo, Soul Society, or the human world who somehow found their way there were accepted. So over time, Adjuchas, Arrancar, Vizards, average souls with and without spiritual power, and later vinzacars all lived there in peace with one another.
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"Wow!" Runa said as she looked around the 81st South Rukongai district in amazement at all the different faces she saw and how they were interacted with each other. She did not understand why, but she found this all to be amazing.
"Runa, this might be your first time here, but please stop looking around like that. It's getting everyone's attention," Asami told her.
"You are one to talk, Asami. While you may be older then I am, the fact still remains that I was the one that brought you here first and your reaction was the same as Runa," Toka told her with smirk on his face.
"I…I…I am going home. I'll see you two there," Asami said hastily as she ran from them with her face down trying to hide the embarrassment she felt at the moment as she remembered that moment.
"Is she going to be okay?" Runa asked while looking up at Toka who just nodded in response. The two of them went down the same path that Asami ran.
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Later on at the house where Toka and Asami lived…
"Were you realized as amazed as I was when you first came here?" Runa asked the two of them were getting ready to take a bath.
On the way home, Runa had tripped on a rock and fell into a puddle while Asami fell in pile of trash after smashing into a pole. Asami did not normally have a problem with being half blind, but since she was emotional at the moment, it screwed up her depth perception even more then normal.
Asami then froze as she noticed what was on Runa's back as she got into the tub. For there printed right on her back was a large number three meaning that the hollow she was fused with was more then likely the third Espada but how did Aizen acquire such a strong Espada for his twist experiment. He was strong but she did not think that he was that strong to take on the third strongest Espada. Asami had her train of thought broken when she heard Runa calling her.
"Asami! Hey, Asami, are you okay?" the dark green hair girl asked. She was jumping out and trying to wave her hand in older woman's face while a puddle formed underneath her.
"I am just fine. It was nothing. Well, let's get cleaned up while Toka is washing our clothes, and next time, do not come out the tub while still soaking wet," Asami said to her and Runa just nodded her head.
"Hey, Asami, why do you have a hole right here?" Runa asked as she point to her right rib area where water just flowed in and out of freely.
"That's my hollow hole. It's something that all vizancar have, but the size of the hole varies. Mine is normal size while Toka's is about half the size of mine," Asami told her.
Runa then began turn about in the tub causing the water to rock and sway up and down when she searched for her own hollow hole. She was a vizancar too so she must have a hollow hole like Asami and Toka, but she could not seem to find it.
"I am a vizancar too right? I can't find mine; where is it? Maybe it's on my back or somewhere I can not see! Asami, tell me where it is?" Runa asked.
The dog woman looked around her back and other areas Runa could not herself, yet the only things she had of a hollow were the mask on her head and the number for the third Espada on her back.
'Could it be that Runa is actually the first completely successful vizancar?' Asami thought as Toka was consider a partial success and she was originally a failure that managed to become who she is now thanks to Toka. Asami was then snapped out of her thoughts by Runa's question.
"Is my hollow hole there?" Runa asked. She did not want to leave here. She may have just met Toka and Asami, but she liked them.
"No, it seems that you do not have one, but that does not mean you are not a vizancar. It just means that you are different type, that's all," Asami told her
"So I can stay here right?" Runa asked and Asami just nodded her head yes in respond.
"Now let's finish up getting clean. Toka made something for us to eat and I do not want it to get cold," the dog like vizancar told her.
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A few hours later…
"Are you serious, Asami? You mean to tell me that not only is there not a hollow hole anywhere on her body meaning that she is what Aizen had been trying to do all this time, a complete merger of Shinigami and Hollow, but also that her hollow half might be the third espada?" Toka said in amazement after dinner and Runa had fallen asleep.
"Yeah, I saw the number on her back, and we both checked all over and neither one of us found any trace on a hole on her body. Maybe unlike us, she can get by without needing to consume souls or being in area like this for nourishment," Asami told him.
'True. I can get by partially without have to consume souls, but still have to do eventually outside areas like this or I will starve, while you can only got nourishment from souls or area with a lot of concentrated spiritual energy like this," Toka sighed which then got Asami glaring at him.
"You're not making fun of me, are you? It's not like I chose for this to happen to me. That bastard Aizen, according to you, probably created me from a gillian and a low rank shinigami," Asami growled.
"I know…I know… this was not your choice and I would never make fun of you. You saved my life a number of times before now," Toka told her.
"When did I ever save your life other then that one time?" Asami asked rather confused. She did not remember ever doing something like that more then once.
"You still were what Aizen would consider a failure at the time, so it's mostly like that you would not remember much about that time," Toka told him.
Unlike him and Runa, Asami had not started out the way she is now. She was failure. Her original personality was taken over by the Gillian. She was merged, which left her close to mindless. However, thanks to Toka, she managed gain a sense of self again and for this reason, she could barely remember her past as a Shigami or a Hollow. Her original personalities were nothing more then two of the many personas that came together to make up her current self.
"Anyways, we just we have to make sure that Runa is safe and that Aizen never learns that she is what he wanted to create. Also we should be helping her control her power since her hollow half is an espada" he said while looking at the room in which Runa was currently sleeping.
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