Bleach: The Alternate Tale

by blackout2010

We all know that Ichigo Kurosaki was a human who became a Shinigami, but what would happen if he was always a Shinigami when the events of bleach happened, perhaps an altered story. Very minor crossover with Sakura Wars. A/U A/T. Contains incest in later parts.

18. infilTraitors: Devils in plain sight

(Author's warning)

Blackout2010: Greetings everyone out there, I have a slight word of caution. In this chapter there's mentioning of religion.

Ichigo: Really?

Hichigo (cult mode): FUCK YEAH! SATAN APPEAR BEFORE ME, I INVOKE THY NAME. SO BLESS UPON ME TO SPILL THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT TO FILL YOUR GOLDEN BABOYLONIAN GOBLET…

Blackout2010:…

Ichigo:…

Blackout2010 (sweat drop): Y-yeah, you know a just small mention of religion. (serious) All that I ask is that nobody get offended, this is a work of fiction…about fiction. This isn't a religious debate since I'd probably lose and it's not to say one particular religion is correct, I just happen to know the most about Christianity so it's easier for me to relate to. So I'm not discrediting Buddha, Vishnu, Shiva, Odin, Horus, Izanagi, Jehovah, Satan (I guess), Brahma, Allah, Virgin Mary, and any other holy deities of the major religions who I probably don't know of…

Ichigo: So what? Shinigami aren't considered a religion?

Blackout2010: Iiiiii'd say SS is more a totalitarian government as opposed to a theocracy, but that's just me. Let see anything else...oh right. Now for the most part as you read each characters perspective of things, I did my best to have it be in chronological order. HOWEVER please remember that certain events and scenarios are taking place simultaneously, remember we are no longer staying with one perspective. Cause and effect whatever Ichigo does might affect Senna and if Senna kills such and such this prevents Shinjiro from meeting that man, meaning Uryu wouldn't get Shin's message detailing where to meet up after running past block 36 so on so forth. Just kinda FYI.

(Author's warning end)

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Author response to the unknown reviews:

To Metalhead1000-san

Thank-you for the review and by chance did your name come from 'Jak 2'. I ask because the main enemy of that game are incidentally called 'metal heads', I mean the other theory is that you enjoy heavy metal, but I wanted to shoot for the less obvious.

As for my grammar, honestly I have no idea how I passed English class. (^.^)''

I mean I've greatly improved from when I was back in high school. I've managed to learn how to correct comma splices: by using either semicolons or periods, but my biggest weakness without a doubt would have to be parallel sentence structure, run on sentences, and fragment sentences.

I could not for the life of me figure out parallel sentence structure even to this day. As for the run on sentences, believe it or not, but I actually write these chapter as if they were a manuscript that needed to be completed before it could be performed which is further complicated by the fact I also do write it exactly how I would say it out loud.

I have very interesting conversation with myself as I try to insert myself into how each character would say the lines I wrote down, which I guess fortunately or not makes me have to go back and rewrite it in a way that it could be seen, while again adhering to what need to happen in the fic. Everything is one big jigsaw puzzle! \(0_0)/

To the person in ch.15 who didn't bother leaving a name

Thank-you for that.

To Kalisticksmaster

Thank-you for that interesting information, I wasn't aware of that. Don't worry so much about the debate, it's cool. You have again legitiment reason for saying what you did, it's more or less Tite Kubo on that one.

Truthfully I do agree with you and I admit I would probably commit a lot of crimes if I had the power to kill people just for being within a couple dozen feet around me, I would also probably utter to those that survived that 'you're cool enough to hang with me' but that would never happen so I digress.

For the fighting thanks, I'm constantly trying to outdo myself sometimes I succeed other times I fail, I just happened to get lucky, fighting really isn't my forte which is why the speed is utterly killed here aside from schooling, there too much violence in this section or sections I should say.

To Kingblaze123 (back in 1)

I admit I originally thought you were BrazeRancor consider your names weren't all that far apart. But I know your not him so anyway I'm getting off track, I'm glad you are liking my story, though if you wanted to read a completed rather than a continued IchiSoi story I suggest you find either Death Goblin's 'Made for each other' or Tsurumaki's 'Bleach: Interlude Beneath the Sakura Tree'. For ones that are currently in progress I suggest Leon Tasume's FF 'Strawberry and the bee', maybe Open Source Artist's 'Lex Talonis' you just really need to adjust to a few changes and it's otherwise fine to read. Those are just me throwing the lines out there, I'm not the first person to create an IchiSoi story and I really really hope I'm not the last either.

Anyway here to the continued existence to this fic, later!

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Quickly approaching the viewers from the distance are three men, the ones on the left and right are were wearing a petticoat with blue colors and vestments with both pale colored trousers and were Caucasian looking fixed atop their heads was some white wigs. The man in the middle was without a shirt with tanned skin and long dark hair that reached down to his back, he had a serious expression on his face

Finally the man on the left steps forward

Guy: Greetings everyone out there, we'd like to take this moment and welcome you to Soul Soceity. My name is Benjamin Franklin.

Middle guy: Sitting Bull.

Last guy: The first president of the united states of America, George Washington.

Ben: Right-o! Now please engage in the meaningless fighting while I talk to the viewers a bit about what caused all this.

They turn to each other

George: But of course! (grabs his Zanpaktou) Cut down, Cherry tree!

Bull: Strike. Thunder Hawk.

Ben: Now as I'm sure you're all wondering where the cast is along with blackout2010

The camera shakes up and down

Ben: Well you see…blackout2010 had a heart at attack as a single thought occurred to him. Which was…

(flash back)

Blackout2010 (leaning against a desk): I wonder…if soul society is where all the good people go when they die does that mean…? (epiphany)…does that mean? (starts to smile) No…no way!...That's means that all the cool people in history could help out our protagonists! This friggin' awesome! (suddenly grabs his chest and falls to the ground)

(flash back end)

Ben: As you can tell he couldn't handle it as his mind was in overdrive…to emphasis his point here is what he envisioned for the prefic banter

(War Council room)

"Gentlemen." A short man in a wheel chair exclaimed in his southern gentile accent "It is time to for the confederation to rise up and take back what is ours. But first…" he moves his hand to the map on the wall "We must eliminate our competition."

He moved his hand to a X above their position on the map "To the north we have King Leonidas and his Spartan army. They are supposedly a force to be reckoned with, HOWEVER! They are merely mindless barbarians, I mean hell just look at this guy, he runs around in a loin cloth, obviously he can't keep his junk in his Greek trunk."

Another X to the east shows up "The east we have the combined forces of the samurai and Chinese han Dynasty, now I may be crippled but I know that a gun can beat a Ka-ton-no any day of god's given week. So we can easily come to the conclusion they will not have very good tactics."

Some of the gathered chuckled

The wheel chaired bound man quirked an eyebrow as a picture of Masamune Date showed up "I'm not kidding here people, look at this guy, he's got a damn crescent moon on his head. He certainly looks like a winner! They believe their honor will carry them, so I say let them have the honor of getting there ass kicked by us, I bet they'll probably smile and enjoy it!"

The group recompose themselves

"Now for our last targets the amazons to the south." A picture of some Amazonian warriors show up on the screen "They are supposedly undefeated and untamed (smirks) obviously they have not met me in bed yet…" turns back to the projector "Gentlemen is time for individuals such as us to rise and dictate. We are the disunited Society of Souls and we will not stand for such unbecoming behavior of our rivals."

One of the guys in the back stands up "What about the weird cult called hail Aizen-sama?"

The man looks back at the other person "Another dooms day cult that probably sucked off that Nostradamus guy for a prophesy!"

(envisionment end)

Benjamin franklin: Yes, it was quite the spectacle indeed. (glances at his watch) Ah! Where does the time go? I must be off to have my spot of tea with Zhuge Liang. Please enjoy your stay, tata!

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Ch 18. infil-Traitors: Devils in plain sight.

The time was 8 am in the morning of this important day. From his spot Ichigo let out an exhalation of air, he honestly couldn't say at the moment if he felt nervous at the moment as he leaned back in his chair Zangetsu resting at his side as he spun and twirled the blade against the wooden floor. As he looked away from his hole drilling sword, he saw Senna at the far of the room talking with Yoruichi having mentioned that her Zanpaktou spirit was rather quiet since yesterday and was wondering if it was normal to which was answered with a change in temperament.

As he tilted his head he saw in the corner of the room Shinjiro sitting in a meditative position with his Zanpaktou resting in his lap. Ichigo figured he too was mentally preparing himself for this rather monumental and outright insane task.

"Here you are." said Subaru as she presented a cup with tea in it and gave it to her lord before walking towards the room other occupants and handing them their choice of drink that she had fetched while Uryu made in the nearby kitchen.

The strawberry blond took a few sips of his tea and let out another excited breathe, his sensitive hearing picking up the sounds of approaching footsteps 'It begins.' He acknowledged serenely turning his focused sight at the door

The door slide open to reveal Ganju Shiba, now garbed in a greenish shirt and head band with black pants with a cleaver like knife hanging on the side, and Kisuke Urahara who had a serious look on his face and a brief case in his hand "Good Morning everyone." He said in a business-like fashion as he stepped through the door "Ein's appears to still be sleeping downstairs, so the sleeping pills did their thing so it's time to move out, everyone knows the plan. Make some noise and get to the tower save Rukia." He turned towards the soon to his weeklong apprentice "Ichigo, no matter what happens don't take too long, after Uryu and I startle the twelfth up, I'm gonna be there as quickly as possible so don't delay, time isn't on our side."

"Roger." He said as he pushed himself off his chair gripping Zangetsu firmer with his fingers, as everyone else also got up and grabbed their gear, a look of determination on their face in spite of the risk this suicidal mission entailed. Ichigo merely smirked as he quickly glanced around the room at all his allies and friends 'I'll protect all of you.' He vowed silently to himself promising to ensure they all survived if he could help it 'Hichigo, Zangetsu get ready to work overtime!'

'You don't need to tell me twice King! I've wanted to have crack at some of the people you've been working with for a long damn time!'

'Ichigo, trust in us and we will become the harbinger of your victory.'

"Let's move out people." commanded the dark haired leader of the infiltrators. As the team left the grounds of Kukaku's place, they were seen off by the ruler of the establishment as well as the monk twins, who promised to fire the flower crane cannon about four hours after she saw the south gate open. Once they were out of sight and heading towards Rukongai's Jidanbo gate, the woman started her preparations in priming her masterpiece

Not having a need to be careful now that all nearby enemies were cleared out, the team made great time getting to the edge of Rukongai, and were pleased to see that the wall that separated Rukongai from Seireitei was gone which meant that no one had left or gone looking for Shinjiro or Subaru.

As they began to approach the wall, Kisuke used his hand to gesture for everyone to get behind some of the nearby building making eye contact with Senna and Ichigo, bringing up the rear the scientist nudged his head around the corner in the direction of the white city then turned back around to address the group "Alright you two, you're on." He said using his index and middlefinger to point out the Kurosaki's

The pair nodded before taking off towards the white concrete sector. As Ichigo, the leading man's, foot made contact against the tiles, Senna looked up to see some golden Domino shaped objects fall from the sky. "Ichigo!" she warned coming to an abrupt halt to brace herself from impact

Ichigo kept going, knowing the way Jidanbo was when it came to entrances. As the Seki Seki rock wall fell down a giant shadow loomed over the gigantic wooden door. The male Shinigami drew Zangetsu, and looked up as the man making the shadow, leapt down and crashed against the floor, knocking Senna off balance and stare in awe at the sheer size of the guy.

The man was easily as tall as the damn wall itself, with huge muscular arms with a metal gauntlet on his left arm. He was clutching two enormous axes in his hand and had a red tassel-like hat atop his crown. "So you still live, eh? Traitor!" he bellowed out having seen the man as he approached the gate with what he assumed to be an accomplice of some kind

"I don't have time for this!" yelled Ichigo as he sunk into his battle stance, knowing time was of the essence in gaining entrance.

The Giant snorted "Heh! Very well." He was about to engage when he saw that the girl got up and was now approaching. "Not so fast!" he bellowed swinging his gigantic axes and creating a wall of debris that not a single soul could hope to climb at least in time to save the strawberry in front of him.

Or so he thought, What Jidanbo didn't count on was the girl to suddenly appear over the landmass riding her Shakujo like a horse over the wall of debris and drop down beside his opponent. "Now hold up!" he yelled a tick mark appearing on his head as he pointed the head of the axe towards Senna as if she just committed a grave crime "You obviously don't know the rules, how dare you interrupt our sacred duel!"

Senna just looked at him and blinked dumbly, she then turned to Ichigo who was staring back at her with a mirroring expression. The pair turned back to the giant at the same time and both threw their combined four yen into the pot.

"You're fighting a traitor in a duel of honor? Are you…stupid or something?"

"Jidanbo, I don't have time for this, so let's cut the crap so I can beat you."

The rage boiling inside the huge man exploded, never had he even been so insulted by a dandelion headed brat, and some random female country bumpkin. "Oh yeah! Well you're both stupid!" he said firing an insult as he raised his axes "Take this!"

The two Kurosaki's watched as the weapon came approaching before simply raising their blades against it. The gigantic axes slammed into the flimsy metals and kicked up a huge cloud of dust obscuring his vision of the two, though he was quite sure that they didn't live through such an ordeal.

"Achoo!" a small sneeze came from down below Jidanbo who glanced back down with now growing fear since the only living things down in that direction shouldn't be still living.

"Gazoontite." said Ichigo now coming back into view one hand on Zangetsu while he looked over at Senna who also was holding back the attack with her sword with one hand as her free arms was rubbing her nose.

Senna sniffled and breathed out to clear her sinuses against the flying dust particles "Thank-you, Ichigo."

Jidanbo's eyes nearly popped out of his head as he saw that they didn't even look the least bit hurt or even winded for that matter. He continued starting at the pair before he laughed out loud "AHAHAHA! My eyes must be deceiving me as you clearly must have dodged it since there's no way you could have stood against my colossal strength!" he exclaimed as he tried to play off having hit them with his weapons for no effect

"You're kidding…" Ichigo said with a sweat drop, since Jidanbo was clearly both in denial that Senna could deflect his weapon, and seemingly forgetting that as a high ranked seated officer, he could kill Jidanbo if he really wanted too.

"Wow, your weak." The other Kurosaki muttered deeply disappointed that for such a big guy he lost out to such a tiny girl who was no bigger than his thumb "Are you not feeling well?" she asked concernedly

Once again another tick mark appeared on his face from the slight unintended jab "I am NOT! I was just going easy on you. Now I'll show you my true strength!" he roared out as he re-raised both his axes and his muscles started to bulge and he stopped inhaling air as he held it within his large frame. Feeling at his best he then brought them down repeatedly and declared the name of his attack "Dual Ax Finisher: Jidanbo Ten strikes of the thousand year festival!"

The two reapers continued to look on as the axes came down only allowing themselves a small feeling of annoyance before otherwise gripping their weapons tighter so as not to lose them.

(Other side of the wall of debris)

Once the giant's attention had been diverted due to the fighting the rest of the team moved closer and we're sitting down using the rubble wall as cover to prevent themselves from being seen by the gate keeper. Kisuke had the briefcase his grand nephew brought opened with a small black vial being held inside the grip of his latex gloves

"So does he do this often? I wasn't one to leave Seireitei much." asked Kisuke to the two resident soul reapers who were still with them.

"Not sure." said Shinjiro "It's not like we fought him before, though I do think they are kinda taking their time." He answered as another slamming noise was heard along with what he thought he heard was number twenty-eight being called out by Jidanbo

Kisuke sighed and with his free hand banged against the wall separating them from the fight "Hey hurry it up in there, we got places to invade and people to destroy!"

(Other side)

"Yeah, yeah!" Ichigo groaned out in annoyance as he blocked yet another strike which was number fifteen in the series so far. 'I wonder if I should tell him he's already past ten.' He glanced back at Senna who was also getting tired of this festival "Senna!" he called out to the beauty who briefly glanced at him, to which he nudged his head in the direction of the axes. The girl nodded her head in response.

As the twin hatchets came back towards them the pair of reapers pulled their arms back and together sliced into one of the axes each. The toothpick by comparison swords crashed into the enormous blades stopping them cold. After a moment or so, the sound of cracking could be heard, as the axe heads shattered and exploded into thousands of shards that Ichigo expertly dodged while Senna used her sheath to knock down as they approached her persons.

"N-no way." The giant said dumbly as he backed up against the giant wooden wall, his eyes not believing what he saw. No one had ever defeated him before in battle. It was at that moment that he started to feel fear for his life, the fear of it coming to an abrupt end.

With the threat eliminated Ichigo put his blade away and stared at the terrified behemoth who was quivering against the door "Calm down damn it!" he then looked away in annoyance "I swear everyone's all 'kill on sight', does anyone in Soul Society believe in me?"

"You, your not going to kill me?"

"Of course not when did I ever say I would!" barked Ichigo as his temper peaked "Look just do what I'm about to tell you ok?"

The giant nodded his head as he kept his gaze on Ichigo still worried that he might still be attacked anyway. Recomposing himself Ichigo spoke in a much calmer tone "I want you to open the gate and send a hell butterfly to the Sou-Taicho, telling him that earlier today a man with bright orange hair, a Zanpaktou and Hakama attacked you, and then retreated back into Rukongai."

Jidanbo's eyes widened at what Ichigo was telling him. The giant may have been a bit slow on some things but he wasn't stupid enough to misread something akin to a declaration of war, and an arrogant one at that!

"Please Jidanbo, do it for me." The male Kurosaki said with a frown

"But why? Why did you of all people turn your back?" the rumbling voice of Jidanbo questioned since something wasn't making much sense since nobody would nicely request something when attempting to declare war, as it would weaken the intimidation factor.

"I can't give you the full details Jidanbo since I don't know if they'll do something to you, but I can tell you that I didn't turn my back." Ichigo replied as he looked away his blade's edge touching against the ground.

"We're here to stop the real enemies, big guy. The ones who framed Ichigo and his mother into looking like the bad guys." chimed Senna hoping to clarify it just enough where he could understand but still be left in the dark, since she didn't have a clue if he could be trusted or not.

The building sized man took in a breath before nodding his head "Very well. I will do as you ask." He then turned around to face the wooden door leading to where the pair wanted to go "You could have easily done away with me, and the fact that you do not, means there is some truth to your words Ichigo and girl." He then brought his hand down underneath the gate "But know that some people might not be so friendly with what you have to say, some people like the captain of squad two." He said calmly making Ichigo's face pang from the jab

"I know." He said more to himself as the giant began to open the gate to the Seireitei 'I'll have to think of something for that…'

(Kisuke & Co.)

The creaking of the huge wooden door rang into the group's collective ears. Kisuke stood up from his spot and ordered the group to be ready to move once the message was sent and the pair returned from the other side.

(Ichigo and Senna)

As the man's muscles started to bulge out from exertion, the wooden gate began to rise up. As it continued to rise upward the three individuals saw a less than pleasant sight being revealed from the feet up. Less than two-hundred yards away was the grinning form of Gin Ichimaru, Taicho of squad three.

"Well, well, well what have we got here?" he asked aloud as if he was addressing numerous others around him, even though he was in fact alone. He stopped his walking and looked at the angry face of Ichigo and the girl beside him "Ahh~ Ichi-kun, how have you been? I heard that you were feeling a tad bit 'dead tired' back in the human world."

"No, thanks to you traitor!" yelled Ichigo as he drew Zangetsu, his anger rising rapidly at seeing one of the major factors of these events standing with that arrogant smile and cool façade

Ichimaru feigned a hurt look "Why whatever are you talking about? You'd accuse me of being a traitor? A Taicho? Tell me which one of us is fighting to destroy the current government regime while the other is here to enhance it and protect it, Hmmm? I swear if that's not the pot calling the kettle black I don't know what is."

As the man grinned menacingly from his perch the miko turned to Ichigo and whispered quietly "Pss…Brother is this guy dangerous or can we take him?" Senna asked her brother as she held her weapons in both of her hands similar to a crude X.

"No, not as we are." Ichigo whispered back but not daring to remove his eyes from the captain "This man is a Taicho, one of the highest spiritual officers in our army, he outranks even me."

"Are you two done whispering to each other?" The silver haired snake asked from his spot as he pulled out his Zanpaktou "If so allow me to remove you from these hallowed grounds." The Taicho then pointed his sword in their direction "Shoot to kill, Shinso." He declared causing the blade to shoot out at a rapid speed towards the trio.

Reacting on instinct Ichigo shoved Senna out of the way with his free hand and gripped his blade hard in a reverse grip using the large sword as a shield as the Zanpaktou crashed into him and knocked him off balance, sending him to the ground. "Now for you, Mr. Gatekeeper" Gin said in an almost cheerful manner as he twisted his wrists and cut into Jidanbo's shoulder and forced him to the ground as he let out a loud cry of pain that rang throughout Seireitei.

The massive door slowly began to fall back down, Jidanbo's good arm not having the strength to keep it up on its own. As the smaller Shinigami got back unto their feet they saw Gin less than twenty-yards away with his red eyes revealed and a smug look on his face. The man leaned over and said "Try and make things interesting for me, Ichigo."

The loud clunking of the door as it fell into place was the sound that marked the moment of Ichigo's anger to take over. With a loud roar he swung his sword firing off the beam of light at the wall that crashed against it leaving a noticeable burn mark.

"Brother, calm down!" chastised Senna as she got beside her brother to get his attention "We don't have time to lose we need to get the plan underway or we'll be in big trouble!"

The male Kurosaki's eyes flitted to Senna's passive face before stealing back to the door. With a calm inhalation he steadied himself and glanced back to his sister "You're right. Let's get out here." He then turned to Jidanbo "I'd heal you Jidanbo but there's something I need to do first, just send out that hell butterfly with what I requested."

"Got it, now get out of here." The giant bellowed as he clutched his arm taking time to catch his breath before sending word to the Taicho's.

With a quick nod the two Shinigami quickly hopped over the rock wall, where they met with Kisuke and company. After a quick recap of what just transpired and Kisuke assuring that Gin won't dare make any noise since that'd probably compromise Aizen's position, they flash stepped to the direction of the east gate.

Once the gate was in sight, the team stopped and Kisuke took Ichigo behind a building and applied the hair gel changing his vibrant but identifiable orange to the common conforministic black. As the now hair dyed duo walked back to the group they were met by an eerily silent Ganju who stuffed Yoruichi inside his green jacket, as he and Ichigo planned to initially play out the Shiba was a new show around, which would be dropped after Ichigo picked up a certain someone that he'd yet to mention to the green clad warrior.

Shinjiro nodded his head as he led the group to the gate keeper of the east. As the rather large squad approached, the gatekeeper's sharp eyes spotted them as he turned his massive muscular body towards the person he had met the day prior.

"So you and you're group return." The shaggy haired giant known as Kaiwan stated in a dull flat tone, he then pointed his tree sized finger towards Ganju and Subaru "What are they doing amongst you're group?"

The now dark haired Kurosaki raised his arm up to flag the giant's attention as he walked closer to Ganju "He's with me. I was sent out to scout for some talent for Shino academy, as part of my patrol route," he jutted his thumb at Ganju who grinned like an idiot to help believability "He's the only one I've found so far."

The wild looking giant nodded his head as it did seem logical since patrol routes around Rukongai sometimes entered from one gate and came in through another, and there never really was any particular set pattern or order in which it was to be conducted. Taking a small moment, the gatekeeper sensed the spiritual power and potential within the little man, solidifying the story. "And you?" he said turning his gaze towards the spy of the group

The spy step forward and bowed to Kaiwan and spoke still bowed "I had just received a recall order from Soifon-taicho via hell butterfly. I am currently on my way to find out why, when I ran into this group and accompanied them since they are entering you're gate. I hope that is acceptable."

The pale giant scoffed "Bah! It's fine, less work for my friends Jidanbo and Danzomaru. You may all enter just give me a moment." The mountain man turned and began opening the gate up after raising about twenty feet up, the group passed through silently, only giving the audible noise of a thank-you for Kaiwan's assistance.

As the enormous door closed behind them, the team broke up into their two man squads and with a silent nod or lingering stare, they separated each going to a different direction all aiming to get as much of a head start as possible before, they would be forced to engage in fighting.

(Kukaku's house)

Kukaku Shiba stood at her front patio overlooking Rukongai, when her eyes caught sight of Jidanbo and the gate opening in the distance, she wheeled around and barked out to Koganehiko and his brother to ensure everything was in order while she herself walked towards the missile silo and began her ritual to prime the flower crane cannon for launch. None of them saw the shadowy figure leave from the Shiba estate and enter into Rukongai following his feet to take him to the place where Ichigo's spiritual pressure still lingered, as well as hers.

(Route to Masaki's home)

On the streets of Rukongai, a ear pierced man in a white business suit with vertically standing black hair and a steel briefcase in his hand strolled through on route to his destination. He was given rather odd looks by the people of Rukongai for his strange clothes, but he didn't bother paying even slight fraction of attention to them.

No, he was focused on reaching his destination. Turning a few more times down the following intersections he arrived at his destination and was mildly surprised to see a pair of Shinigami outside of the building. As he approached the building the death gods overlooking the place took notice of him "Halt." The one sitting on the railing said as he dropped from his perch down to the gravel road to stop the weird looking intruder from taking another step further unto the premises, while his buddy went down via stairs showing a bit more class.

The man in the business suit stopped as the men barred his way "I have business here." He said placing his briefcase down unto the ground knowing he wouldn't need his Zanpaktou that was sleeping inside of it, even if things did turn ugly.

The red haired partner of the gray haired rail sitter stepped forward with an arrogant smirk "Well, I guess you'll just have to reschedule. This area is off limits by the orders of the Sou-taicho." He then feigned a mock look of wonder and brought a hand over his mouth "Oh! But you must not know who that is stranger." He then pointed to the Seireitei in the distance "He's the guy in charge of this place, and placed us in charge to make sure no one goes in this place since it's under investigation. So either back off or…" his smirk returned as he tapped the hilt of his Zanpaktou threateningly "face the consequences."

"Are you done?" the tattooed man questioned in an annoyed tone as he crossed his arms "I'm really not in the mood to deal with insignificant pest, who are getting in way over their heads."

The middle aged gray haired Shinigami quickly took offense to the spirits words "What did you just say to us you arrogant little-"

His rant was quickly cut off by the tan man in the white suit "I was giving you a choice of getting out of my way and living or me single handedly wiping you from creation." He then closed his eyes in slight frustration "But it seems you've made your choice."

The red haired man quickly pulled out his sword "Oh yeah! Think your hot shit, Billy Badass? Come on Argyle, let show-" his confident words were lost in his throat as he turned to his partner and saw that his entire right shoulder was missing from his body actually dangling a couple feet back in the air, and the now named Argyle didn't even seem to realize it.

The man was about to speak to get his companion's attention when he felt a painful strike crash into his rib. With a violent convulsion of his body he tilted his head enough to see the man they were threatening with his hand inside his body.

The tattooed man looked into the other man's eyes apathetically "I'm not allowed to interfere with the major scheme of things, but then I already told you that you were insignificant, even the spirit king agrees." He then leaned in close to the man's ear "That's why the bastard won't save you from me." And with his peace said grabbed hold of one of the Shinigami's ribs and yanked it out of the man's body, sending blood and flesh splattering out, the man crashed to the floor dead, his partner shortly collapsed in pain as well his mind now recognizing his crippled state, and bleeding out from the area of where his limb should have been.

His pain would quickly come to an end as his partner's killer would turn his index finger before launching a beam of energy that engulfed his body leaving no trace of his body behind as the smoke cleared. "I have no pity for those who obstruct my path." He remorselessly claimed using the other dead shinigami's wardrobe to clean his bloodied hand, since he would no longer care wherever he was now.

With it sufficiently clean he picked up his briefcase that carried his weaponry and looked at the door, a small bit of worry and fear with having to reunite with his wife especially since he had run out with infant Senna, after she had heard the truth of himself…and their children. He closed his eyes as the memories of that night and the following day played out, leaving him emotionally pained.

He breathed in a deep inhalation of air to clear his head and steady himself 'I've already gone through so much, and now that I know she's alive I can't run away again. It's time to face the music.' He then disappeared from his spot and reappeared in front of the door. He then tapped the door lightly careful not to use his immense strength to startle the one who should be living here. "Masaki-chan. It's me, open up."

When no reply or sound came to him, he mistook it for her anger at him instead of the vacancy that it was. "Please, open up I'm sorry. I wanted to tell you for a really long time about that little fact." He then lowered his head slightly hoping that she might hear his sincerity "But, I was afraid that we would lose the status quo. That you would hate me for what I was…am…a monster. That's why I fled that night and, when I guess you left with three year old Ichigo to look for me the following day, some stupid souls decided to loot and destroy our old house. I just happened to arrive to find our sleeping daughter and save her before making the decision to flee Soul Society, I couldn't fight back the fear that perhaps someone overheard such information or worse." His hand started to slide down the metal door and fell back to his side "I immediately assumed the worst, I knew I couldn't risk anyone having heard such information…for what could happen to you or the children, so I had no choice but to flee, but I had assured myself that by raising Senna into a moral capable woman, one that would make you proud, when we reunited on the other side you'd see that I wasn't a monster, at least by human standards. M-maybe I was wrong to assume what you would think, but having witnessed the way this particular world is, and knowing how you lived all your life here before I came back into it, I couldn't be certain." He closed his black eyes and hung his head in shame, as he re-raised his shaking clenched fist "So please Ma-chan open up and forgive me, we promised to always be open, so at least talk to me now. Say you hate me, tell me that you never want to be near the children again but don't let me hear silence, it is too unbearable." And tapped it against the door

When contact was made by his fist the door fell inside the house's foyer, it's busted hinges no longer able to hold it up, which deeply surprised the sadden man as he barely touched it. After a moment's deliberation he moved one foot unto the metal door and stuck his head into the doorway before stepping inside the dimly lit apartment fully.

"What is this?" he questioned as his eyes, after attuning to the dimly lit corridors, examined various scratch and claw marks along with sword marks. Realization soon dawned on him as he remembered seeing that particular monster Ichigo was fighting so hard ferociously in the cemetery outside Karakura, from his perch thousands of feet above them. Quickly dashing inside the man entered the building and came to what he could tell was the kitchen and dining room…or what was left of it.

His eyes widened just a fraction as he saw the disarray the room was in. The round parlor table was flipped over and broken with the base leaning against the wall, while the circular oval had traces of blood stains on it. Scattered on the ground was various tabloid and news articles that he assumed must have been out when the struggle occurred.

Looking away from the broken chairs and various broken pieces of metal, he saw that all along the walls there were scratch and slash marks as well as slight indentions that seemed to be from blunt force damage and impact. 'Masaki-chan…' he thought already having a mental picture of what no doubt transpired here, but it also left many questions

"I don't get it." he muttered as he turned back to face the door that lead into the building. 'That door was broken from it's hinges on the inside. If this place was under investigation, why would they bother putting it back up? It'd just fall back over again.'

As he continued to ponder the man leaned against the wall with his arms crossed 'and Masaki-chan while friendly and child-like wouldn't just let anybody waltz through here, and considering her strength to be taken down is virtually impossible by some random monster.'

His thoughts then started drifting to various scenarios that could lead to this and made him wonder how it was his son wasn't killed either. It then hit him like a ton of bricks "Shinigami." He said as everything made sense now "Ichigo's a Shinigami, which means…Aizen. I wouldn't put it past the man to say that he was a friend of Ichigo's but…" his sharp eyes turned back to the wall an noticed the three streak marks "These are without a doubt claw marks, which means that the monster Ichigo fought is Grand Fisher."

The man shook his head "That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I had actually spent the better part of my existence looking to eradicate that confounded creature to protect Ma-chan. I didn't know that's what it looked like previously, it seems I failed." Letting out a tired sigh he half turned around and looked up towards the ceiling "It seems I will have to take a little more drastic measure since you seem so unwilling to move. Damn your so-called mercy, willing to wipe away life to start 'anew' as you call it. If you had just gotten rid of one man this would never happen, but I suppose it's all for your amusement in the end, just another twisted little game. I became your proverbial devil to humor you and I accepted the pact of servitude, and to let things play out because I had no choice, but if things end as they had again with my son powerless and slain once again, I will lead Aizen to you, and kill you before killing him."

He then fiercely turned his back around as he stood in the doorway "This marks the second time you took her away from me, you owe me." As he turned to walk away a voice rang in his head causing him to stop

Truly, creation zero? 'I owe you?' Remember I could have easily done away with you but I felt pity upon you and showed you mercy and bestowed upon you an important role in the grand scheme of the universe, my opposite, my destroyer, my servant, and my constant reminder. Hmm…I've taken your words into consideration and had a small change of heart so if you still feel that way then heed my words. Go back to Kukaku's house before heading down to the Seireitei, you will find Aizen, join him and perhaps then maybe you might find your prey, what you do afterward is up to you, it's the beauty I've given of free choice. Just remember to let things play out. I wish to see how things would play out a little more fairly in this game of chess and will not tolerate an unfair advantage on either side.

"Some 'god' you are." the man said bitterly to the voice "You certainly are answering all the prayers of the desperate people struggling out there!"

Hmhmhm, I am like a stern father to his children. I cannot bear to be forced to destroy outright and for all eternity, but I do wish to see their possibility to grow, which can only be achieved by letting them suffer and endure hardship. Hmph, besides…to create and destroy with but a whim and without having to answer to anyone…is that not what it means to be a god?

"I suppose, but then who am I to answer?" the man then left to return back to Kukaku's place and put an end to the charade, leaving the spirit king to plan the path that 'Ein' would follow. The divine being smirked coyly as it knew just what to do in both punishing his devil for his impertinence whilst maintain the balance of order.

(Three hours after entry: Ichigo team)

"Come on, Ganju." Ichigo gritted out for what he guessed was the tenth time today, as he led him in the direction of squad four to kidnap Hanataro so they could have access to the sewer system which would greatly assist in getting the two of them to Rukia, and if successful in getting her out, hinder Aizen's plan while he trained for Bankai to take him out.

"R-right." The robust man said rather meekly as he kept his eyes planted square on the back of the now night black locked Shinigami. During their entire stint so far Ganju had never felt more nervous around someone else, even when they were stopped and questioned by the occasional Shinigami walking on by as to why Ganju, or the Rukongai scum by the ruder ones, was here, did he feel such nervousness. It was beginning to irritate him 'Come on Ganju focus! This guy AIN'T Kaien. He looks like him, but he's just another stinkin' soul reaper.'

Turning down some more of the corridors, Ichigo and Ganju soon came upon a rather shady alleyway that wasn't easily noticeable. "Alright we'll stop here for now." commanded the fourth seat, as they would move out again in a straight shot to grab Hanataro once the panic and chaos really started.

"Fine." replied the green clad Shiba as he plopped down beside Ichigo and rested his head against the white wall of the Seireitei, sending occasionally glances to his 'partner' who sat down cross legged and performed Jinzen to commune with Zangetsu while awaiting the Kukaku special.

(Senna's team)

The only estrogen filled team continued on their route to the eighth division looking as relaxed as possible to seem as inconspicuous as possible. However deep inside Senna's mind scape the hollow, currently taking a back seat and letting the light side be in control, was stewing in her own negative thoughts revolving around last night.

'It's always about her…' The dark Miko thought to herself bitterly 'What makes father think she's so much more special than me? I'm still his daughter too.'

Her anger started to rise within her having remembered being so harshly chastised by her parent 'I am her, and she is me. So why does he favor her more!' Barring her teeth her golden eyes turned away to the nothingness inside the light half 'That bitch…' "Rrrgh HOW DARE THAT SLUT THINK SHE'S BETTER THAN HER MISTRESS!"

As Mirokumaru made the declaration in Senna's mind, an unexpected result had occurred within the real world around Senna. The two Shinigami continued walking, until Subaru only heard her own foot steps against the white concrete floor of the Seireitei, turning back around she saw Senna with her head directed to the ground standing as if she was in a trance.

"Senna?" asked the spy trying to garner the girl's attention. When no response was given she turned around fully and examined her from where she was "Senna? Are you ok?"

Senna still kept her head down but this time spoke "ahh, y-yeah, just a head ache." She said to the spy 'Interesting' commented the one who was actually in charge of Senna's body without her knowing 'I didn't know I could do this. Maybe I'll have my day in the sun sooner, or perhaps…were meshing faster than anticipated.'

"Are you sure?" Subaru said warily since her voice seemed to be a little colder than before. Turning her head in the direction they were going she assumed they weren't too far from Kyoraku's division but she wouldn't make any promises since they had been going rather slowly "Would you like to stop and rest, it'll be one of our last chances."

The female Kurosaki lifted her head up but smiled with her eyes closed in case they had changed "Sure." She answered 'I suppose this little turn of events will satiate me for the moment, I don't wish to cause this other person to kill me now that I've found this little outlet.'

Mirokumaru then began to rein her anger back into the inside of the light half's head, and allowed Senna regain control. Senna being none the wiser immediately clasped her forehead and fell to one knee, which greatly worried the spy about her master's sister's health.

"Senna are you alright!" she asked as she rushed beside the girl and loaned her shoulder

"Y-yeah." She said weakly. Her smile soon gave way to a concerned look "Umm…what were we just talking about, I can't really remember?"

Subaru looked into Senna's face with a calculated look, as she saw that Senna was genuinely serious in her slight moment of lapse. Seeing that nothing else was wrong with her she wrote it off as possibly fatigue since she was no doctor "Let's stop until the cannon is launched. We can't have you collapsing."

(Yoruichi's groups)

The samurai and cat team continued trekking in their own awkward silence. They were currently on route to squad six having briefly joined Ichigo in his respective direction mostly at Shinjiro's bequest to maximize Ichigo's safety before separating to the fastest route he knew available to the penance tower.

"You do know where you're going correct?" asked Yoruichi as she sat upon the man's shoulders curled in a furry ball of fluff

"Yes, now be silent as feline companions do not talk." hushed Shinjiro as he continued walking forward sparing just a small glance to the cat on his shoulder to goad her into remaining quiet

The cat opened one of her eyes and stretched her neck "Come on, I'm just trying to lighten the mood and have a friendly conversation." She purred

"I understand your reasoning, but I just don't wish to partake in it as my mind is currently preoccupied with something else."

"And that would be?" pried the black cat

The man turned down another corridor "My sister, the one you left behind." He said quietly, which brought a sour look unto the cat's face

"I thought you, Ichigo and that other one already understood that it wasn't our fault."

Shinjiro nodded as he continued at a leisurely pace, not sensing any other Shinigami nearby "Yes, I've been aware of this for a while now." He said in confirmation to her claim "I was just thinking about my own guilt…" he stopped walking and looked at the cat who jumped off his shoulders and looked up at Taiga "For a while in the beginning after you left, it was Subaru and I who actively encouraged her to take revenge against you, we fed her flames of anger, and I suppose in our desperate struggle to ensure she kept her sanity from the grief, helped turn her into what she is now." The samurai scratched the side of his head "Though I do blame you in the fact that you could have at least sent a hell butterfly to her prior to leaving to at least say 'you didn't abandon her' or something...anything."

The cat tilted her head as she scratched her ear then stood straight up on her hind legs, like a statue "True, but there isn't much I can change about what happened in the past. I made my choices, and failed to consider others, I admit I could have done something like that, but I'm not going to let it get to me. I'll deal with it when I get the chance." She then started to slink off "But you should be careful, spend too long thinking about the past and you will never live in the present."

As the cat continued walking Shinjiro shrugged "I suppose." He muttered as he continued to follow the cat's lead "So Yoruichi what do you plan on doing? Ever since we separated from the main group you look like you've wanted to ditch me for a while."

The cat turned to look at the face of the serious looking samurai who was awaiting an answer to his question "Well, you're not much fun to be around, and I don't have a lot of time to spare in messing with you. I've got a few things I need to get done, and visit maybe a captain or two to see who I can convince to come along quietly with our plan, and those who won't I'm going to have to put out of commission."

"I see so I take it your leaving now?" Taiga asked though he had a good guess all things considered

The cat hummed before it jumped up to the top of one of the man corridor tops "Yeah," she said as she looked over her shoulder "Don't take it the wrong way Shin-kun, but your just not my type a guy, waaaay too uptight and rigid like Byakuya-chan." She then smiled her catty grin "See ya!" and disappeared over the wall

Shinjiro looked at the spot Yoruichi disappeared from and shook his head disappointedly "I know I'm happily married but for some reason, when SHE says that I'm too uptight, it gets to me." Ignoring the slight feeling of shame from literally being brushed off by something close to a lower species he continued on route to squad six.

(Yamamoto: 3h &30m after intrusion)

Sou-Taicho Yamamoto stood at attention with a visibly angered look upon his face. Not even two hours ago, he had received a hell butterfly from Jidanbo of the south gate. He nearly had a heart attack from what was detailed in the message, along with the actions of Taicho Gin Ichimaru, which was precisely why he had called an emergency meeting to order, and was now only awaiting the arrival of Ichimaru.

After a matter of minutes the ever smiling Taicho finally slinked into the room "Sorry I'm late, I got a little tied up with my troops and giving instruction, (sigh) Kira's got a long way still." He then glanced at the assembled crowd of stern looking Taichos "My, my all this for little old me, I hope I didn't keep you ladies and gents waiting too long."

"You are fashionably late to this meeting," stated Yamamoto coldly from his spot "But since part of what I have called you all here for, of which pertains to you as well, just stay where you are."

Having addressed that little detail the ancient Shinigami took in a deep breath of air before he spoke again "Ladies and Gentlemen of this assembly, I just received word from the gate keeper of the south gate, Jidanbo, that we were under attack by an unknown force, but from what was described, it is obviously Masaki Kurosaki's faction making itself known now."

Unohana felt a small jab at his words, still in conflict with the decision but acknowledging that since there was nothing to the contrary she was to be labeled a traitor, though in her eyes she was still her Sensei. Recomposing herself she asked "Are you certain of this? What was it that Jidanbo described that draws to the conclusion that it is her forces?"

"The assailants who attacked the gate was a boy and girl."

Now it was Byakuya who would speak, his mind jumping to one man "This boy…" he spat "doesn't happen to have orange hair and a sword as long his body correct?" The silence the Sou-taicho gave in response to the question was all the answer that the gathered team needed.

"It seems you are losing your edge, Byakuya Kuchiki." Soifon said coldly even though she was feeling quite mixed on the inside, since she had wished for this chance to see him again and didn't know if this was miracle or a curse.

Byakuya turned an impassive eye to the woman "My blade has lost none of its bite, though I will rectify the situation, if it would please everyone."

"Oh? This is getting interesting. A man who can survive being decimated by a Taicho, sounds like my kinda fellow." Zaraki mused with infernal grin at this latest development "Heh, Why don't I go deal with this little problem that fancy pants can't seem to handle."

"All of you silence." commanded Yamamoto as he banged his cane against the wooden floor of the hallway, regaining their attention "I am going to pardon Kuchiki-Taicho's failure in the regard that this woman who was seen with Ichigo might possess the ability to resuscitate the dead or I suppose in this case dying, which might have something to do with Masaki if we can capture her, it may give us more insight to the situation."

"Thank-you Sou-Taicho, I will have a word with Fuka-Taicho Abarai later since he claimed to have dealt with a female individual which now makes me doubt his loyalties particularly of his own relationship to the one we have captured earlier on that mission."

"Your devotion to the law is quite inspiring Taicho." Gin complimented in a smooth tone as he clapped his hand together "You're a model to us all."

"Speaking of devotion." said Aizen as he looked to the only captain not standing in line before pushing his glasses up with his index finger "Why is it that we were told Ichimaru-Taicho, had something pertaining to him and yet he has not been brought up so far."

Yamamoto nodded his head "Yes, thank-you for returning us back to the point I was going to make about our Taicho in front of us. You see detailed in the report from Jidanbo, he clearly stated that you, Gin." He poked his staff towards the man "attacked the intruders with your Shikai and then attacked Jidanbo, wounding him while simultaneously failing to kill the intruders he also says he heard you say something about 'making things interesting'. You also failed to make a report about that incident, so tell me what do you have to say for yourself?"

If it was possible the side of the man's lips curved upwards from being put on the spot. "Weell let's see I suppose I should start at the top with the first accusation, otherwise you might get lost." He opened his eyes for just a minute while still maintaining the smug look on his face "Wouldn't want that…" he then closed his eyes and crossed his arms with a look that said 'I'm thinking here' "I happened to be taken stroll in that side of Seireitei after finishing my paper work, which I am proud to say I got done in record time, when I happened to see the gate rising. So figuring I should be a respectable role model I went to go give congratulation for our hard working Shinigami returning, explaining why I went off in that direction. It was there that I saw the boy and girl entering."

Taking a small breath the third Taicho continued with his childish grin still in place "I recognized the man since he was the hot commodity of last year, and I had wanted him in my division even though he ended up going to Soifon-chan, in the end."

"Get to the point, Taicho." demanded Soifon not appreciating being called Soifon–chan or any other deviation of the affectionate phrase by anyone she didn't even remotely like.

"All right, all right." He said defensively as he brought his hand up to ease the girl off his case "Back to where I left off, since I saw the guy I decided to stop them. I figured since I was in Seireitei and thus at full power Shinso would be more than enough, to kill him as to failing to report it well...I didn't want to smear the Kuchiki name by saying 'Oh you missed a spot'. As for the gatekeeper, can we really trust his words? After all he did open the front gate to our most hated enemy."

As the words left the man's mouth, the assembly took in Ichimaru's account and despite it's suspect nature, the man in question sense of professionalism notwithstanding, they had to bring a light upon Jidanbo and his actions, since they too were treasonous and Gin did act perhaps not the best of actions but certainly well enough to avoid most punishment for his oversight.

After mentally weighing things and after seeing how it would take more than marginal effort Yamamoto opened his mouth and give a verdict on Gin only to immediately close it as the building started to shake and a ear piercing screech was heard throughout the hall. All the captains looked to see Fuka-Taicho Sasakibe running frantically towards them having barged through the double doors. As he dropped down to his knees an abnormally loud thunderclap rang

"A thousand apologies, Taicho's but we seem to be under attack. Roughly fifteen minutes ago, a large star like object appeared in the southern sky and it has just now come crashing into the seki seki shield." The very tan man looked up at his captain "What are your orders!"

"Calm yourself, Sasakibe." ordered Yamamoto who narrowed his eyes as he thought up a good course of action for now "All right, captain's Soifon, Ukitake, Ichimaru take some of your men and send them to the other side of Jidanbo's gate. Investigate for any suspicious individuals. Lethal force is authorized. Is there anything else that you can report?"

"No, sir. Nothing unusual except that the attack was a golden sphere that seemed to flatten before breaking apart.""

"No chances can be afforded to be taken. I am also going to authorize that all Shinigami are to carry their Zanpaktou's as well as allow them to release their Shikai. In addition, I want all of your men to increase patrols and if they find anyone even remotely suspicious to arrest them, we have little room for anymore mistakes. Remember to try and capture the ring leaders particularly the woman or boy mentioned by Jidanbo. I will inform you if I make any changes to my orders, otherwise you are free to act at your discretion. You have your orders dismissed." The head Shinigami commanded as he turned around to return back to his office to try and think of what might be coming next since they knew nothing of their enemy thus far.

As the Taicho's started to file out, Toshiro Hitsuguaya as well as Soifon happened to overhear a snippet of conversation between Aizen and Gin as the former passed the later

"You certainly know how to slither out of danger, don't you Gin." said Aizen with a calm smile despite being less than pleased by his subordinates actions

"Perhaps, but if things always worked out perfectly, it'd just be sooo~ boring. I prefer to liven things up a bit if that's ok with you." The silver haired devil said with a sub seated grin

"I will be keeping a much firmer eye you now." He said as he passed by following behind Unohana and Soifon

"Whatever makes you happy, just watch yourself."

(Toshiro)

After the meeting had ended, Toshiro quickly returned back to his office as fast as he could to put this new found information to good use. As the miniature man entered his office, he immediately called Rangiku to his side.

"What's up Taicho?" she said with a cheery smile as she approached her captain's desk and took a seat on the edge of it

"I may have just picked up another lead." replied the small man as he looked at the bombshell with a brooding stare "You might not like it, but at the Taicho's meeting Gin Ichimaru and Sosuke Aizen had a brief conversation as they passed by each other."

Rangiku's smile decreased at what he was saying "Are you saying that they had something to do with what happened to Ichigo-kun?"

Despite the pretense that Rangiku brought, Toshiro didn't falter "I understand that it seems strange, but Aizen along with myself suspect Gin of being the culprit. However there's this huge gap that makes no sense. If what that second division member said is true, Gin met Ichigo prior to this, so then why attempt to kill him? To make it seem staged?" He asked analytically trying to work out this puzzle

"You think he was showing off?" Matsumoto queried "But to who exactly?"

"That's what doesn't make sense. According to the meeting the gate keeper opened up, it would be more productive to let them in and never report it, and yet he did." sighing the Taicho got up from his desk and walked around it allowing his mind to try and play out anything that could be of use

As the fuka-taicho watched the tiny man work his brain she decided to throw in a simple short term solution to give the confidence needed for a breakthrough in the investigation "Well, why don't you observe Gin then if he's on your mind so much." She said simply bring the other person's attention back to her "I don't want to say it but If he is a traitor and he's under watch by Aizen-Taicho, shouldn't you keep an eye out to make sure nothing happens between them?"

Letting the words filter through, the intelligent man did agree with her words and started toying with the idea that maybe Mayuri tinkered with her brain thus why she was rather spot on "That's actually a very good idea." The man then smirked approvingly "A very good idea indeed, Matsumoto."

The orange haired bomb shell clapped her hands together and sent a wink and smile at him "Great, so you do that, and I'll investigate the nearest Sake bar, you hear all kinds of rumors there!"

Toshiro moment of happiness was abruptly shattered as reality seemed to kick back in for Rangiku. He was about to bark out an order against her usual antics but a thought came across him "Alright, I'll let you go to the bar to 'find some rumors' if you bring Hinamora to me."

"Oh?" The woman smiled brazenly at the implications "Looking for some alone time Taicho?" she teased seductively to the boy

"NO MATSUMOTO! I was just worried about something!" he shot back taking down her claims of intimacy despite his flush of embarrassment "I was just worried that Ichimaru if he is a traitor might try and lash out against Momo for being Aizen's Fuka-Taicho."

The worry in his voice from the scenario, made Rangiku grimace since it was a distinct possibility and while she didn't like to suspect Gin for being a traitor, she wouldn't dare deny his outlook on life was always changing and that he seemed oddly fixated on shaping people. "Alright, I'll be back." She said quietly as she turned to the office door, after opening it and stepping through. She looked back at the frowning face of her captain and decided maybe it was time to lighten the mood before leaving "Oh, captain. I put the latest report in the first drawer of your desk, it kinda needs attending." She informed before disappearing

'That's odd…when does she actually work around here?' the man thought to himself having seen the woman off. Still he supposed that if she actually decided to do something, he shouldn't ignore such s blessing in disguise. Pushing his easy chair back he clasped the knob of the first opening and pulled it out.

Peering into the drawer his eyes suddenly began to twitch in annoyance and anger at what he saw. Instead of a stack of documents like his lazy fuka-taicho had promised their lay a single flat circular device that had one word written on the packaging.

Trojan.

"MMMAAATTTSUMOOTOOOO!" the voice of the irate Hitsuguaya rang all throughout the tenth division barracks

(Soifon)

Having vacated the meeting hall with that odd bit of conversation the cold captain walked through her barracks and back to her office to put together this strange occurrence. 'Not once, but twice have captains failed to kill him…' she mentally recited trying to hide her annoyance that two highly distinguished captains failed to do a task like that, though she did have some understanding as the boy in question was quite good at doing impossible things.

"Still Ichimaru should have made sure that the boy was dead before leaving, so then why?" she asked herself as she stepped into her office. Removing her Haori and throwing it to rest on the back of her chair, she sat down to mull over what she heard.

As seconds and then minutes continued to tick by with no answer in sight, the woman decided to forgo it, as it seemed that Aizen was already on top of it so she shouldn't get too involved, besides she as well as Ukitake and Gin himself had orders to mobilize their men. Reaching down she pulled out her roster for all members of the stealth and punishment force and members of squad two to decide who would go out for the mission.

She started to read down from the top of the list. 'Soifon' she read before immediately grabbing a red pen and slashing her name off the list since she had other duties to attend and couldn't afford to waste her time on guard duty unless it turned out to be the front line of everything which she wouldn't bet too much on since the enemy forces size was unknown at this crucial point in time. Coming next in line was 'Omeada', here she had a mental debate with sending him off to his possible death which was a neat prospect, and would get the clan proposal off her back, the only opposition that she could come up with was it being ethical decision or even a logical decision. It was however shot down when the female remembered it was joint-operation with three and thirteen meaning more competent people to make up for her lack of competent fuka-taicho so with a dark smile she circled his name, and continued which brought the woman to 'Subaru'. She frowned as it had been about a day and a half since she last heard or even seen the spy, which did worry her about the third seat's well being.

'Certainly not like her to skip out on work and not inform me, I'll need to have chat with her later…' she concluded as she crossed her name off the list since she couldn't very well send out someone who wasn't around and couldn't be contacted via normal means, which brought her to the fourth name on the list.

The bluenette let out an exasperated sigh as she moved her arm to rest her head against it and stared at the name with a mix of disdain and calmness "Ichigo." She uttered

Breaking her gaze away she pushed herself out of her chair and started to pace around her office space casting the occasional glance back at the roster, standing perfectly straight for a second to look at it as if to say something before suppressing it and continuing her aggravated pacing. "Damn it." she said as she stopped her pacing and shot a dirty look at the documentation almost as if she was sending it to the person she was thinking about "Y-you don't hold sway over me! I am Captain Soifon of the second division, I am the leader of the Onimitsukido and I am without exploitable weakness. I don't hesitate. I stand vigilant in protecting the law of Seireitei, I do any order without fear and I…" her voice trailed off as a cold shutter seeped through her body 'have never been more alone.'

'No, no, no!' she mentally yelled at herself for her pathetic self-pity and obvious show of weakness "You are my enemy, I won't hesitate to eradicate you, I will find you and eliminate you and all of your allies Kurosaki or my name isn't Soifon!" She proclaimed ferverently, unwilling to allow herself to rest while he was still out there. Returning back to her desk, she slammed the intercom to life and called for Omeada to get his large ass in here for a mission.

One of great importance.

(Kukaku)

"Hahaha! Would you look at that!" the grinning lady of Shiba exclaimed from seeing the damage the flower crane cannon was capable of doing against the Seki Seki Barrier around the Seireitei, she was very impressed indeed.

"What shall we do now Kukaku-sama?" the twin in yellow asked from his kneeling position looking up only with his head

"Heh. You really have to ask!" she then flipped her head to the side the rough black hair swinging behind her as her very dangerous grin grew by the second "We're gonna go down there tomorrow when the reapers send out a scout party and kick some Shinigami ass!"

"Yes, Ma'am!" the twins replied in unisonance

"No. You will stay here, and I will go now." A voice called from behind them to stop them from intervening with his plan

Turning around it took the fireworks master a moment for her to place the voice and the face when it clicked "Hey you're…"

(Ichigo's group)

"You still with me Ganju?" Ichigo asked as they ran down another corridor moving as quickly as they can since all the attention would be diverted to the south gate leaving them a clear path to abduct one Hanataro Yamada.

"Yes, I'm with ya! Dandelion head." he muttering the last part

Still turning down the corner the duo saw a pair of Soul reaper's heading their way laughing and joking from the direction of the fourth. The one on the left was a bald man with some red war paint extending from the upper portion of his eyes, his mouth was hanging open as the laughter came from his throat, his standard issue hakama parted in the center to provide a resting spot for his hand as he walked beside his comrade. The other man? That Ichigo and Ganju saw was a very effeminate looking individual with a pair of feathers protruding from a lock of his black hair and from his left eye brow. He was clad in Shinigami attire except that around the neck an orange turtle neck of sorts stuck out.

"Haha! That was so much fun screwing with those wimps right Yume-" the man stopped mid sentence as he looked at the black haired Shinigami in front of him and his fellow in green "Who the hell are you guys?" the bald guy asked

"The Shinigami here was just taking me to the fourth division." Ganju said using the lie that was thought up to get them past most patrols

The effeminate looking one squinted his eyes before turning his head in disgust "Oh my where did you pick this horrendously ugly cow? And that smell…did you get him from a manure farm?"

"What was that!" Ganju snarled hotly as he barred his teeth while Ichigo had to stop himself from laugh aloud

"Ugghh…it's look at me." Yumichika scoffed disgustedly "Ikkaku can you kill it for me, I feel it's gaze is causing blemishes upon my countenance."

The bald man now known as Ikkaku laughed even harder "Sure, why not. I was looking forward to a fight today," he moved his eyes over to Ichigo as a devilish grin started to spread across his face causing Ichigo to take step back and grab Zangetsu's hilt "And I think I lucked out."

"Attacking a fellow Shinigami is a crime you know…" Ichigo warned trying to get the guy to back down before he complicated things

Too bad for Ichigo, Ikkaku wasn't one to back down over technicalities or the law "So what! A man's gotta know when to put his pride and life on the line. 'To enjoy fighting and do it till ya die' that's the eleventh's way." He replied pulling out his sword from it's sheath while using his free hand to hold the sheath in a battle stance

"Ganju stand back." Ichigo warned to his comrade who gave the strawberry a wide berth "Fine, if I can't convince you, I suppose I'll have to beat you into submission."

'Be wary Ichigo, if you use too much power you will certainly gain Shaolin, Toshiro or Retsu's attention which will result in your death.' Zangetsu warned since they were the most familiar with his spiritual signature and probably hadn't sent out all their soldiers yet.

'Got it.'

Yumichika boredly turned his eyes away from the two combatants and peered over to Ganju "Hmmm…I suppose if you want something done you should do it yourself." He started to walk over to the man his hand lightly touching the hilt and pulling it out from it's sheath "Bloom for me, Fuji Kujaku!"

Ganju took a back step as he watched the metrosexual's sword change from its single edge into a curved four bladed scythe attached to the hilt of his blade.

Understanding the man's purpose Ichigo tried to get between Ganju and Yumichika only for him to be forced to jump back as Ikkaku swung his sword preventing him from interfering "Sorry, but he's not your enemy."

"I won't let you kill my charge!" Ichigo gritted as he tried to think of some way to save Ganju. As the man's words of the eleventh division's motto resurfaced in his mind he decided to at least jump for straws "If you want a fight so badly then I'll do it, but if your friend there doesn't stop messing with him, I'll be distracted and lose."

Ichigo's word clicked at the man's reasoning center. Madarame could tell this person was strong, but he seemed to be diverting more attention towards the guy in green beside him rather than him the guy who was trying to off him. "Hey, Yumichika wait up a second!" He called to his friend stopping him in his tracks and thankfully taking his eyes off the ugly pig as he so put it

"Yes~?" he said with a sparkly smile

"How about a little wager? I beat you and Yumi here gets a crack at bandana man, you win we'll let you walk right on by!"

"Agreed!" said Ichigo while Yumichika muttered about leaving something so disgraceful to taint the world but was ignored by the hot blooded men.

"Fine then but first tell me you name!" the eleventh division member demanded as he slammed his hilt into his sheath holding it horizontally in front of his body

"…Hachi Yojimbo." lied Ichigo taking a moment to think up some kind of alias since he didn't anticipate being asked such a question, usually only getting a 'where you heading?' or some variation of the question.

"You're lying." Ikkaku spat disgusted that the man wouldn't tell his real name like an honorable warrior "Are you trying to disrespect me? I asked your name because I deserve to know the name of the man who killed me, should you do it here. Your lie is insulting my integrity!"

Ichigo's eyes looked into the angry face of Ikkaku "Sorry…I didn't mean to do that…but associating with me is rather…dangerous. That's why I lied to you."

"Fine, I can take that answer then Mr. 'Hachi Yojimbo'." He said with a vicious smirk at the idea that this guy might be like his captain who left a trail of bodies in his wake "My name is Ikkaku Madarame third seat of squad eleven, so don't be mad when I kill you! Extend Hozukimaru!"

The man's weapon and sheath lit up as it started to grow outward and became a large naginata with a wooden handle that extended of the full length of Ikkaku's arms with a small tassel of red hair dangling from the back end. Sinking into his stance the spearmen lowered the edge of the naginata close to the ground showing he was ready. Ichigo cast one final glance to Yumichika before charging Ikkaku.

Ikkaku quickly gripped his weapon and charged back raising the weapon in a quick upward arc, that Ichigo dodged by shifting his body to the left. The bald man grinned since his opponent had fallen for the ruse of his weapon "Split apart!" he yelled

The Naginata separated into three parts and with a quick lashing of his arm struck the neck and shoulder area of the orange haired Shinigami with the hard wooden parts while the blade left a scratch mark from pulling away from his clothing.

Allowing himself to touch the wound he was relieved that it wouldn't be anything severe. "Seems your weapon's got it's own bag of tricks." said Ichigo as he steadied himself while Ikkaku spun his weapon around his shoulders quickly before hardening it back up into its naginata form

"You ain't seen nothing yet!" he declared as he lunged the spear forward which Ichigo countered by striking against the wooden part just underneath the naga's blade keeping it away from him. As it separated again, Ichigo ducked under the sweeping return of the weapon and brought his sword up in an attempt to slash the bald man, only for said man to spin his weapon like a nunchaku around his shoulders knocking Ichigo's attack back.

Seeing an opening Ikkaku whipped around his three sectional staff and tried to smash the man against the side of his head. Ichigo's hand however let go of the hilt of Zangetsu and grabbed the weapon and with a quick yank pulled the man in before delivering a kick to his mid section.

As the man got kicked back he returned the favor by pulling on his end of the Zanpaktou sucking the blades edge through Ichigo's hand and cutting the man, forcing him to wince and shake his hand to numb off the pain.

Pulling his blade back into it's spear form the older man couldn't help smirking at his opponent "Well, well, you got some nice hand to hand moves, I'd say you're from the second ain't ya 'Hachi-san'?"

Ichigo didn't reply as he raised his guard up once again, which caused Ikkaku's grin to grow even wider as he thought he was starting to get to him "Well fake name aren't you gonna answer? Or does the cat got your tongue?"

"You didn't bother fighting fair with your Zanpaktou ability, so I think it's fair that I don't give you any more information." Ichigo said with a smirk

Ikkaku was slightly taken aback before he busted out loud laughing "Ahaha, that's pretty good. I guess you got a point." He took his eye and stared into Ichigo's own eyes and saw a certain fire inside of them, a fire that made him more excited by the second "Tell you what let's decide this right here right now!" he quickly spun his weapon over his head before bringing it down the blades edge shimmering in the light

Ichigo sensing that Ikkaku spiritual pressure was rising decided he needed to end it before it go too large and people started to take notice "Fine." He said as he turned sideways a bit and flipped Zangetsu into a reverse grip and had it lean against his hip while the blades edge wrapped around the backside of his body.

'Let's see this should be the stance for the Yamato quick draw.' Ichigo imitated having been taught just a little of the fundamentals of the Yamato style of combat from Shinjiro during his year long stint

"Here. I. COME!" the man yelled as he jumped high into the air as he brought the naginata down ready to run his opponent through

Focusing all his attention on the incoming enemy, Ichigo's breathing slowed down a bit and with expert timing quickly drew the zweihandler and slammed into the edge of Ikkaku's weapon knocking him off balance in mid air, and providing Ichigo the stop necessary to pull back his sword for his real attack.

Quickly pumping energy into his Zanpaktou Ichigo slashed at Ikkaku knocking his dangling body back several yards but not using enough energy to force out that beam like attack he had been using on a more frequent basis. Ikkaku let out a groan as he slammed into the ground and toppled over to his stomach his Zanpaktou laying just out of arms reach.

Take a quick inhalation the third seat propped himself up only to feel the cold blade of his opponent against his neck. Turning his head Ikkaku shot an excited grin to his executioner "Your really something, you know that." He turned his head away and bowed his head "You beat me now get it over with!"

To his surprise Ichigo pulled the sword away and motioned for Ganju to come to him, feeling slighted by the dark haired man's ignoring off him, he yelled out "Don't you dare turn your back on me!"

"Shut up." Ichigo said with a chilling look "I let you live because killing you doesn't help my cause. Be thankful." And continued to walk on by continuing his journey to the fourth while nursing his small wounds via healing kido

Ikkaku looked at the form of the man and his guy as they started to put more distance between them. Taking a small glance at his naginata the man quickly jumped to his feet and called out "Hey!"

The pair stopped again and turned back to the man "What?" he said with a hard edge signifying his annoyance now

"Give me your real name. I want to know the name of the guy that beat me."

Looking into his eyes, Ichigo could see that the guy would probably hound them if he didn't give some kind of response which would kill their inconspicuous nature so far. Taking a few more seconds to mull his thought over Ichigo turned back around and yelled back "Only way to beat me is to go through Soul Society, because I'm going to defeat everyone from non-seated officer to captains to get the real culprits. You can train yourselves on them until we meet again, as for a name…I'm Ichigo, Ichigo Kurosaki, son of the miracle worker."

With his peace said the two men quickly fled down the road to try and make up the lost time in having to deal with this slight distraction. Seeing the forms of the men disappear down another alleyway the untouched Yumichika walked over and picked up Hozukimaru from the ground "Hmmm…that man certainly lives up to his claims of being dangerous." He then smiled as he extended his hand that had the weapon out to Ikkaku "His pristine words radiate such beauty, add to the fact that he is going against such formidable powers merely accents his elegance. I must admit I never thought I would find someone who matches so closely to our own beauty."

"Heh! Your damn right Yumichika!" the grinning man beside the fifth seat proclaimed, the words of Zaraki telling him of how lucky he was to be able to survive ringing clearly in his ears "Let's go talk to Kenpachi, I'm sure he'll be looking forward to this kinda blood-shed."

"Hmmhmm, then let us be off."

(Evening: Omeada)

Marechiyo Omeada looked on boredly as he sat against the Rukongai side of the Seki Seki wall, while the rest of the Shinigami from various other squads waited for any further possible attacks. It had been little over three hours after being called into his spitfire's office, mostly because since Jidanbo was unable to open the door they had to go the long way through the west gate and travel around the side. The large man let out a contented sigh as he recalled being selected for the mission against the evils that threatened the union between them

(Flash back/Omeada Vision)

Upon entering the office of squad two's captain Soifon. Marechiyo Omeada caught sight of the smug grin she was sending his way. "Omeada-kun, have a seat I have a mission just for you." As the man took a few swagger filled step to the chair in her office, he propped his feet up on her desk and sent her a confident smile

"So what can THE Marechiyo Yoshiayamenosuke NikkōtarōemonOmeada do for you beautiful?" he asked in smooth tone, that judging by the look on her face, she couldn't help but feel impressed by how cool he looked and had to remember her place and stop herself from squealing out loud like one of his legions of fan girls, but she knew he probably wouldn't have minded the outburst.

"As your brilliant mind has no doubt figured out, and your ears have almost guaranteedly heard, we were under attack earlier today, specifically from the south gate. I was ordered to send some of my forces and name a commander for my squad."

The large man let out a groan that seemed to stem from dismotivation sending worry through the female captain of losing her star fuka-taicho and fiancée's attention "I don't know Taicho. I got a bunch of other things to do are you sure no one else can go?"

The captain shook her head "I'm afraid not. You see my options were: choose my horrendously incompetent, unforgivably ugly, and dipshitted fourth seat who, fortunately for me, is going to be killed for the traitorous vermin that he is unlike you." sending the man a small wink making his smile stretch a bit more and continued with her deductive reasoning "My third seat Subaru, I would have gone with this one and chose not to disturb you, unfortunately she isn't here at the moment, and I will have to speak with her about punctuality and take after your shining example, next would be you as your brilliant tactics and overwhelming power would quash any opposing forces and well…" the bluenette turned away with from what he saw a firm dashing of pink on her cheeks "if I didn't choose you then I'd have to go myself, and I wouldn't be able to welcome you back, Marechiyo-kun."

The man's cool smirk didn't leave his face as he continued to look at the woman, her embarrassment from almost having to beg for HIS assistance would have been comical to some, but to him it just made her all the more adorable "Oh? Well, since it's you…I guess, I can make an exception." He claimed as he brought his feet of the table and leaned over the desk bring his face close to his lover, the closeness making the girl stiffen and gulp no doubt from the man's charisma and charm "But I'll be expecting something in return if you catch my drift."

"J-j-just go Marechiyo." She stuttered out seemingly regretting not leaning forward and catching his lips, as he started to exit the room he heard her say in an almost dreamy fashion "What a man~."

(flash back/Omeada Vision end)

The large man finished his recollection of the event as he returned his gaze back to one of the many approaching members of squad two

"Sir, we have confirmation of an individual approaching the gate. Your orders?" the messenger asked patiently

The giant kicked himself off his comfortable resting spot and eyed the idiot in front of him "Use your head stupid. Go tell the other groups so we can get ready to greet our guest." He barked out, as the man turned to leave the fuka-taicho rested both his hands on his Zanpaktou's hilt to at least seem important in the grand scheme of things, while the rest of the Shinigami scrambled into their ranks, and Jidanbo waved off his healers to let them go tend to any allies that might get hurt, his own experience with dealing with Ichigo having taught him to just let anyone else of the 'invading' forces to waltz on by without incident.

As the individual came closer they saw that it was a man with short black hair and tan skin, with a round tattoo in the shape of an 'o' on one of his cheeks and a round silver earring resting in his ear lobe. He was wearing a white business suit and slung just underneath his left arm was a katana, which all the Shinigami recognized as a Zanpaktou. The man stopped his easy stroll forward as the large collaboration of black clothed Shinigami started to converge closer to his location. The man continued to watch them annoyance beginning to flicker across his features doing his best to remain calm and follow according to the plan and promise.

Once they were within two hundred yards he called out to the black-clad mob "Can I help you, ladies and Gentlemen? I'm currently in a hurry and you are all impeding my path."

Omeada broke away from the assembly and approached the man with Kiyone and Sentaro flanking him. The large man and the two third seats stopped a few feet away from the lone figure. "Evening commoner." proclaimed the bulky man as he grabbed his Zanpaktou, his eyes half-lidded with smugness "You are currently under arrest for the attacking of Seireitei as well as conspiracy and seeking to overthrow the Shinigami. Do you have any last wishes before we put you out of your misery?"

Isshin sighed as he tried to fight off the headache that was starting to pound inside his head with having to deal with some many idiots getting in his way recently "Look, I normally don't like hurting people. But I'm in a foul mood and you are really starting to piss me off, so I'll give you an easy choice: Either let me on by or I'll show you what I can really do." He threatened releasing a very small fraction of his power which worried the three since it was about third seat or even fuka-taicho and the man didn't seem like he was trying.

Acting quickly Kiyone tried to be the peace-maker of the group to prevent casualties "Look, if you want to enter Seireitei, you're going to have to surrender your weapon and answer a few questions. We've already been attacked before and we're to arrest anyone suspicious, which you fall under sir."

The man cast a bored look to the blond girl before turning his eye back to the round fuka-taicho beside her "As sensible as that is, and I would normally cooperate. I'm quite familiar with Seireitei's judicial system; trust me I've been around the block several times compared to everyone else here. So while you may earnestly wish to cooperate, the ones in charge will easily overrule you should they feel to the contrary."

"Don't do this." Sentaro warned trying to salvage what he could, which didn't seem to work as the man merely shook his head in disagreement

"I am doing something that the universe and all forms of life hinge upon, I did enjoy this chat and for that I shall spare you, however I must show my strength now or the one I wish to meet will merely overlook me, besides this is all part of the plan." As the words left the man's mouth he quickly vanished and appeared behind them, their bodies hitting the floor all of them being struck multiple times and falling unconscious.

Seeing some of their commanders down the mob rushed forward to attack the man and bring him down with their overwhelming numbers. The ancient Kurosaki had to bite back a laugh from escaping as he levitated backward slightly into the air and pointed a single finger at the oncoming group "Cero." He muttered as a red beam of light gathered an inch away from his index finger expanding within seconds and shot outward consuming a fair portion of the charging group in the crimson light.

The devastating and unheard of attack made all the Shinigami who remained freeze in terror at just what kind of monster they were dealing with. As the man softly touched upon the ground again, he quickly passed through the crowd in a matter of seconds before staring at the large wooden gate less than 10 yards away from Jidanbo spot. He merely dusted his hands off as he put one hand under the massive gate and did a feat that almost no others could do. He lifted it up, just enough where he could walk underneath it, as he continued to walk forward proceeding into Seireitei he stopped about half-way through and looked back at the stunned assembly, his mind recalling Ichigo and his friend's plan from the times he overheard them "Before I take my leave I thought it be just a certain amount of fair sportsmanship to tell you a little something-something." A smirk on his face already anticipating their reaction "The ones who are attacking Soul Society are Soul reapers just like you from a bunch of other divisions, good luck finding out who to trust." And with that he walked the remaining distance and allowed the door to slam behind him forcing the other on the other side to have to go through the east or west gates again to reach Seireitei, with information that would greatly change things.

With the gate closed the man closed his eyes and used his senses and found his target, just like it was promised. Using his sonido he rushed through to the place where he needed to be, as came out of his speed of sound movement he saw two Taicho's walking in the opposite direction of him. Though they were easily able to detect his presence since his reiatsu was riled up and turned to greet this new comer who could apparently see them despite Aizen having everyone he could think of believing him to be in his office. "Can I help you sir?" asked Aizen intrigued by this anomaly but would soon slide into eradication if something else tried to jeopardize his plans further

'Ein' smiled as he stared into the calculating face of the guy who had caused untold suffering and wide-spread devastation without anything beyond the tools that he already possessed. Noticing that the question still went unanswered the man chirped up "Sorry, it's just been so long since I last saw you Sosuke Aizen. I almost forgot what you looked like." His smile that he had soon faltered into a business look "But yes, I do believe you can help me. You see I'm quite aware of what you plan to do."

"And that would be?" the bespectacled man queried as he shut off the sound of anyone within the nearby space in case any passersby happened to overhear

"You want to become a god or something right? Well I'm saying I'll help you for a price."

A cold gaze launched itself at the tan man from the genius who was less than pleased to find out that someone else was aware of what he was doing, turning a slight gaze to Gin, who caught the hint and reached for his Zanpaktou. He was quickly stopped as the man crossed the distance and placed a hand on the hilt preventing him from drawing it further "Let's keep things civil." He said in a low tone "After all if we were to get in a fight, I'd have to hold back so I would die but then so would you."

"You certainly seem confident, that you could take on both Ichimaru and I. If what you say is true tell me then why do you need our help?" the smiling face of Aizen asked of the man while he silently told Gin to stand down for the moment.

Removing his hand from his soon to be comrade, Isshin explained "Let's just say I have a gut feeling the person I seek to destroy is within your ranks. So instead of pretending you don't exist and spend another good chunk of my life searching afterlife in all its entirety, I think I'll expedite my search of the creature by temporarily partnering with you, it's puppet master. Don't think it solely benefits me however for in exchange I'll fight alongside you until I die or feel to the contrary and back out on our arrangement."

Aizen blinked as he stared into the eyes of his prospective gutsy and still nameless comrade, as he peered he saw a brief hint of emotion that made the man extremely confident about his chances should he be doubled crossed in the future, the look of sheer desperation. "Very well, follow me and I shall transport you to Hueco Mundo where you will await my orders."

Sosuke then turned around and beckoned for them to follow him to the central forty-six's head quarters. As they proceeded Gin asked aloud blatantly ignoring the other man's presence with his words "So why aren't you going to use Kyoka Suigetsu on him? You were mad enough at me, when I messed with your plan earlier. Doesn't this even remotely seem like a liability, we barely know anything about this guy?"

Aizen looked back to his comrade for the future "Not at all you see desperation is a cage upon the mind itself, that foolish individuals traps themselves in to cling to hope, forgetting the fact they leave themselves open to words and shadows of what they wish to grasp. So you see there is no point in trying to control a desperate man any further then he already is. I already hold him within the palm of my hands for I know what he desires, We both know he will do well to not skirt the line of my patience. Regardless Gin, we will enter phase two of the plan, I hope you've prepared yourself from the attention you will no doubt be receiving from Hinamora and Hitsuguaya."

"It's not my fault you're gonna die." Gin muttered with a devilish smirk with being able to mess with so many people with but a single action, even if he virtually had almost nothing to do with it.

"You're certainly confident, I wish you well." Isshin bided the men 'because it won't save you from my son and daughter Aizen.'

Aizen turned to the third wheel "Confidence is for the foolhardy. I am merely making calculated risks with a level head, anticipating a specific outcome which will benefit me in the end. Now come Hueco Mundo awaits you."

(Evening: Urahara and Uryu)

The exceedingly intelligent members of the infiltration force continued their walk to the twelfth division. They had taken a rather bizarre route by Uryu's standards that seemed to cut into the directions almost heading away from, what he guessed since he'd never really studied the Seireitei, their destination. It wasn't until that Kisuke explained that he was taking active stances to minimize the chances of them being found out by Mayuri's security scanners, easily giving the Quincy the statistical probability of being found out by anyone going this route.

"So how did you discover all these paths Grand-Uncle?" the grand nephew asked in fascination since Kisuke was never really much of an outdoorsy kind of scientist, so he was naturally curious since this would take a lot of manual labor and guess and check work.

Kisuke chuckled as he turned down another corridor, this time their destination was clearly in sight just a few thousand more yards "Because I used to mess with my ex-fuka-taicho Hiyori-chan. I'd always send her out to other divisions and then booby trap the ways she would come back, after the second try she started wizening up a little and started going other ways. Each time I saw her 'smiling face' I'd order but mostly just ask how she got here and so through much experimentation, I've come up with 78 different routes to the twelfth, and knowing how Mayuri probably set up traps for some unfortunate soul, I used my own figurative data and knowledge to bring us here with the least amount of resistance, which is no doubt sending him off the deep end."

"What makes you say that?"

The ex-blond stopped walking and pointed to the rafters of the hallway "Because his little spy bot right there is listening in." he then turned fully and waved childishly "Hi Mayuri-chan, I'm coming to visit so why don't you give me a nice big hug and 'welcome back sir! oh, and maybe some cookies while we're at it, remember no raisins.'"

In Mayuri's private scanning room, the demented scientist gritted his teeth as he watched the live video feed with the ex-taicho making idiotic request. Kurotsuchi slammed his fist into the big red button on the edge of his desk "That talentless ignorant blonde Neanderthal is mocking me!" He then spared just a small glance to the intercom that cracked on to life "Nemu! You useless artificial whore, get in here immediately!"

Taking his hand off the button he got up from his desk and pressed another button to call the spy bot back. He wasn't going to waste lackeys on this one. No he was going to deal with it himself, as the door opened up revealing his 'daughter' he grabbed his Zanpaktou and cap before going to deal with this problem personally.

(Back to Kisuke)

The pair saw the bug take off and fly in the direction of the twelfth division, just as Kisuke expected since he didn't want to waste time and needed to return to the cave to train Ichigo, and by goading Mayuri into facing them directly would cut down substantially on time even at the cost of being attacked in these narrow corridor. "Come on, kid and be ready for a fight, no matter what happens win or lose head straight to the penance tower. We don't need delays." The scientist stated factually as he brought out his cane and kept walking to the twelfth with a grin on his face, Uryu blinked calmly before following after silently.

(Late evening: Hitsuguaya's office)

Inside the tenth division's office Toshiro Hitsuguaya was finishing up speaking with Hinamora. He left out some information such as why she should be on the lookout since he couldn't relate that information lest it leak out to Gin Ichimaru. "That's why I want you to be careful and trust no one just yet. Should anything happen to Aizen, unless there is any indication otherwise, suspect Gin Ichimaru and let me know what happened prior to any confrontations." The white haired Genius said sternly not putting anything to chance here, since not only did his investigation hinge upon this lead, but also Hinamora could very well be in danger by association and if that happened, well he supposed no one in Seireitei would be complaining about the summer heat over near the third division.

"Alright, I'll keep my eyes open." She denoted in keeping a more vigilant eye for her captain and friend Sosuke Aizen and Toshiro. She pushed herself from her seat and looked at Toshiro catching his attention

"Is there something wrong?" he asked as he reached to sort through some documents

"I…" she looked away to think of how to phrase this "you've been looking into something that supposedly nobodies supposed to be talking about."

"Then how do you know what I'm doing."

"Aizen-Taicho, he said that you were busy doing some kind of project when I was leaving, and asked me not to stay too long, so as not to disturb you. When I asked him about it to see if I could help, he said he wasn't allowed to speak about it."

Toshiro sighed, "Yeah, it is rather dangerous. In fact it clearly represents the situation we are in." he then looked up and cast her a faint smile "Don't worry everything is going to work out, I just got a few things to take care of."

The girl returned the smile but it didn't seem to have the same radiance like it did back when they were kids. With a quick bow Hinamora turned around and proceeded out to the door, casting one final glance back at Toshiro who seemed to be looking through some more paper work.

(Eleventh division)

Kenpachi Zaraki having found a new challenge walked through the eleventh division with a renewed smile. He knew that despite having all of those Shinigami stand guard of the south gate, that the traitors as they were called wouldn't be stopped so easily, and while he couldn't explain it readily he really didn't care since it meant that someone powerful was going to be arriving at his door step any minute now. He could practically feel it in his blood.

"Zaraki sir!" a burly looking underling called out that Kenpachi's mind seemed to place the name 'Maki Maki' to the man, at least from what Yachiru kept calling him

"Yeah, what's wrong?" the large man asked eagerly almost wondering if his prayers were being answered already

"Ikkaku and Yumichika have just returned and Madarame seems to have been hurt." Maki Maki reported as Zaraki gained a sly grin his earlier prediction already coming true.

"Tell me where they are."

"The courtyard sir-

He never got to finish as the unkillable beast heard all he needed and ran through the building and occasional walls to get to where he needed to. Barreling through the outer wall the powerhouse came upon just the pair of men he wanted to see, and sure enough his third seat looked roughed up with a busted lip and a couple of bruise marks on his face. The strange pair having noticed their leader gave a mock salute as they sauntered on over with smug smiles.

"You look like you got in a fight." Zaraki commented as his excitement started to building inside of him

Ikkaku swung his three sectional staff over his shoulder "Absolutely, and I lost too."

"Really?"

Yumichika gave an affirmative nod "Yes, his opponent took down marvelous Ikkaku with his own brand of grace. I think he might have been holding back as well since he did nothing too flashy, even by squad two standards."

"Yeah, I agree with Yumi. I don't think what I fought today was even a tip of his full power and it's pretty damn exciting."

At this Kenpachi was practically foaming at the mouth he NEEDED to find this enemy and test meddle if he defeated Ikkaku as effortlessly as he himself had, and with the constant talk of this rebellion he instantly recalled the unbound fighter from last year, Ichigo Kurosaki. Now his blood was roiling.

Seeing their captain's heart soar the bald warrior decided to keep on talking "You want to know what else Taicho, the guy I fought said he's gonna beat down every single warrior from the lowest unseated officer all the way to the Sou-taicho himself, hehe ya shoulda seen the look on his face when he said it. I think that bastard just might actually be able to pull it off."

"Tell me where you found this guy, I want to fight him NOW!" the man barked his mad grin growing at the encountering of this guy that he was determined to find if it was the last thing he would do.

"He's went to the four division earlier but I doubt he'd still be there now." commented Ikkaku who started to walk towards the barracks "If you need me, I'll be in my room and start some 'training' tomorrow."

Zaraki watched the man go off and turned an expecting gaze to the bubbly fifth seat who smiled at his captain understanding his confused state "Ikkaku and myself are going to train against some of the other Shinigami so we can be ready to fight that dignified fighter again, thus why we're going to support this rebellion. It will be a battle unmatched and we aren't going to sit back and watch sir." The effeminate man's smile grew even more "Would you care to come with? It could be just like old times."

Kenpachi didn't even need to stop and consider it, he could only laugh heartily "Nah, I think I'll go out on my own. I honestly can't wait to meet this guy if he's ballsy enough to want to go against the other Taicho's, I can use this excuse to test myself against some of the other Taicho's and get to fight this Ichigo Kid all in the same invasion. HeheheHahaha! This sounds like good day to be alive in the eleventh!"

Yumichika could only nod his head in agreement, his heart to a flutter with the opportunity to fight anyone he wanted without consequence.

(Night: Senna and Subaru)

"This should be far enough." Subaru said as she stopped her walking and turned to face Senna who looked a bit confused, so she decided to clarify "Senna, you're going to need your strength, you need to rest at some point or another, and the cover of night should be enough."

The girl agreed with the idea as she leaned against the wall her Shakujo resting across her chest. She had to admit despite not getting into any fights today, tomorrow was no doubt going to be a different question. Turning her head Senna looked over at Subaru who seemed to be looking off into the distance thinking about something. "Something on your mind?"

"I was just guesstimating how far away we might be from squad eight. We'll probably be there by morning if we don't get into any fights."

"But we have to." Senna said trying to stick as close to the plan as possible

Subaru nodded "Yes, I was just saying in general. We'll probably get their by 8 or 9 if we can keep the fighting in a favorable outcome." The girl walked back to sit beside Senna, she was going to strike up a conversation when a detail she had forgotten cropped back up "I hate to say this Senna, but I think I might have to go away for a little bit." She turned to the Miko to continue explaining "You see, I still have to attend my duties as squad two's third seat."

"I get it you have to keep up appearances." The female Kurosaki guessed since she and Shinjiro were the only ones who actually should be at their posts during this kind of chaos, and if they never showed up their cover would be blown.

"Exactly. I'll help clear a path for you Senna before I take off." She then turned her head down in the direction of their destination "The eighth division members prefer to fight with flashy moves and exotic fighting styles, you should have no problem dealing with most of them the only ones you need keep an eye out for would be fuka-taicho Nanao Ise and her Taicho Kyoraku. But you're only going to be doing a hit and run at the base, so once you've gotten their attention head east and I will meet up with you as soon as I can break away from my division. Afterwards we can head to the penance tower as there shouldn't be much resistance." She paused "unless something big has happened but I will learn that information after visiting my Taicho."

Senna smiled at the plan, while she wasn't too certain she could kill people she was quite content with bashing their heads in. As the girl stood up to stretch her tired muscles her stomach let out a loud gurgling noise breaking the noise of crickets. The now self-conscious girl put a hand on her stomach "I guess I'm kinda hungry." She said meekly

"Wow, I must say that you've managed to trek all this way after two days and I don't recall you eating anything. You must possess some very powerful stamina." The spy commented almost approvingly of her observation. Pushing herself off the wall she started to walk towards the darkness "I'll filch something from another divisions food supply and bring it back, wait here."

Watching the girl fade into the darkness Senna diverted her eyes away from the alleyway and turned to her Shakujo and leaned back against the spot. She wondered how the others were doing out there, she knew that if she didn't try her hardest here then everyone she knew was gonna die, but at the same token she was also afraid of her own life and didn't want to stick herself so far out that she'd be doomed. She closed her eyes trying to find some level of moderation between both extremes "Just one step at a time." She muttered as she leaned her head against the wall, her eyes resting upon the stars in the night sky.

As Senna continued to look the sky started to spin and her eye lids became heavier and heavier. Letting out a yawn, she leaned over to rest on her side until her companion would return with much needed food.

(Kisuke and Uryu)

Finally reaching the end of the long route, the two men stopped as they had both sensed the lingering spiritual power of a strong foe. They didn't even need to call out to their stalker, as the shadows seemed to move out of the way for two individuals. The first one was easily recognizable to Kisuke with his black and white paint and strange crooked hat "Hey Mayuri-kun how ya been?" the hair dyed merchant asked, both he and his grand nephew casting an eye over the other individual who seemed to be another design from his Ururu series of robots, since she had the same only slightly shinier black hair, pale expression and diminutive attitude the only real difference was size and her green eyes.

"You bastard! How dare you waltz here unto my territory like you own the place." The scientist exclaimed as he adjusted his head to see Nemu while keeping his new play things within his sights "Nemu, go retrieve our newest research experiments, you useless whore!"

The girl nodded her head in acknowledgement to the command but didn't get to take another step as Uryu's Quincy arrows landed in a small barrage in front of the woman calling both Shinigami's attentions. The tension was starting to build within both sides as each one grabbed their Zanpaktou. "Uryu why don't you take the little miss here and show her a little of the Urahara charm, while I catch up with her dear old father here."

The teenager glanced at his uncle who nodded his head with a smile letting him know it was fine, and using his Hirenkyaku quick step vanished over the wall and headed away from the two heavy weights. The female android glanced at her creator and when no visual command way given as he was too busy staring down his predecessor she took that as the ok to go ahead and pursue, the other male play thing, as her father dubbed it.

(Uryu and Nemu)

Easily sensing that the fuka-taicho was following behind him, he led her as far away as possible from the twelfth and more to where he decided to make his escape since it wouldn't take too long for him to get to the penance tower and get the Kuchiki that Senna and Ichigo were so fixated on. Dropping down to the middle of the road he turned around and conjured up his Quincy bow at his side awaiting his opponent who appeared a moment later with a vacant stare.

Using his free hand the navy blue haired Quincy adjusted his glasses as he looked at the pale girl, his mind seemingly scanning her as she merely awaited for some aggressive sign before attacking him "Hmm, judging by the way you moved back their along with your quiet or I guess in this case lack of personality, you must be an artificial creature."

"Yes, I am the artificial daughter of Mayuri Kurotsuchi-sama, Fuka-Taicho Nemu Kurotsuchi." She affirmed quietly throwing in a small bow for the sake of formality which Uryu responded by tipping his head slightly before continuing speaking a small smile on his face now

"It's a shame, your rather beautiful in my opinion, even though you are merely the younger sister unit of Ururu." He shook his head of the thought since it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination for Ururu to grow up into Nemu if she was real, a fact that made him cringe since it was borderline pedrophilia given his nutritious nature to Ururu. "Shame, I suppose, it would have been nice to try and take you out on a date." He stepped back and pointed his bow at her causing the girl to widen her stance to intercept "Though I doubt your father would be happy to hear about such a thing."

The girl merely blinked "Your sexual attraction to my body is little more than hormonal fluctuation of your genes, and expectations of beauty; however, after you are subdued I will inform my father if it would be ok to proceed in the biological process of sexual reproduction to investigate further of what you are like as well as the extent of your Quincy abilities, Uryu-kun." She said in a flat unfettered monotone, making it hard for the Quincy not to be flabbergasted that she would say that with such a straight face, even accounting her construct origins.

"I pray that you'll forgive me." He said as he commenced his attack on the girl while trying to avoid losing on purpose to see if such a theory would come true. His blush notwithstanding.

(Kisuke and Mayuri)

"Haha! Whoo! You missed me again!" Kisuke chided as he cleanly dodged another one of Mayuri's ear scythe attack, the incessant laughter and childish behavior slowly working upon the nerves of the mad scientist who pulled back his weapon and reached into his lab coat

"Very well you ignoramus try this on for size!" and threw a pure yellow vial unto the white ground, the glass shattering on impact while the liquid contents started to smolder as it came in contact with the air. The laughing man kept a firm eye as the liquid slowly started to wobble upward into a shape of a slime-like creature. The yellow monster let out an unearthly roar while Mayuri watched on in delight. "Devour his soul!" he commanded

The creature's body wiggled before launching itself like a flood to the other man who jumped back as he dug into his own bag of tricks ready to subdue the beast. As the monster's slime-like tendril lunged forward, Benihime cut the appendage making break apart as if it were like water before being reformed and continuing in it's attack.

Turning to evade only when the situation called for it, Kisuke was sending what he intended to Mayuri. A message of he was only making a mockery of his achieved scientific abilities with his showing. Turning his eye back to his opponent he quickly pulled out a small syringe prepared for just this occasion and after pulling back to avoid another bite, he supposed, jabbed the needle into the neck area of the creature and jumped back giving a second or two for the vial to work it's magical contents wonders.

The tiger-like liquid creature turned around to try and overpower it's intended meal only to seemingly cough as if it was being suffocated. Shaking it's body to get rid of this cold sensation it let out another roar and found it's cry to be stifled. Mayuri looked on trying to figure out what Kisuke had done only to see that crystal ice had started to form on the body and within a matter of moments completely covered the creature turning the liquid beast into an ice statue.

"Now this is art." Kisuke proclaimed as his hand rested upon the head of the monster. Pushing himself off, he slammed Benihime into the glass shattering it and destroying the monster within "So what's next?"

The adventurous smile of Kisuke was working it's wonders upon Mayuri's anger and the man lashed out by launching his hand that seemed to be attached by a cord and wiring out to strangle the man, the blond easily moved his head out of the way already used to flail like attack due to training with Ichigo prior to all of this. As the hand reached back to it's master Mayuri closed the distance and swung his sword to lob off the man's head.

Turning Benihime he blocked the attack with his blood mist shield technique, and flash stepped away already sensing the remote controlled bombs that Mayuri had snuck behind him in order to blow him sky high. As Kisuke looked back from his vantage point now standing on top of the roof he looked down at his opponent with a bored expression "I gotta say you're really boring me here. I was expecting at least a giant robot of sort." He whipped out a small circular device with a blue center "I so wanted to use this specialized EMP mine on that. Ah well, I suppose it's time to put an end to this."

Mayuri narrowed his eyes in disgust "If my lackeys and inventions won't get you, then I will myself." he tilted his head as he held his Zanpaktou vertically "Rip, Ashisogi Jizo!"

The katana in his hands soon warped out in extraordinary ways as the guard of the sword was replaced by from what Kisuke could tell was the face of a golden colored baby with three protruding ends the left and right ends of the trident-like sword were jagged and bent, while the middle one while bent a hair in the center was about an extra six inches more than the other two. The child in the centers eye opened as Mayuri brought the blade close to his face a maniacal grin showing his joy as the poison started to flow from it's open mouth.

"Well, that's interesting." Kisuke commented mildly amused now "Good thing I took my medicine in advance."

"Your medicine won't save you from me!" the scientist sneered as he re-engaged the ex-taicho. His sword clanged against the steel of Benihime trying to break through and paralyze a limb of the blond. Kisuke closed his mouth to prevent any of the toxic smoke from entering his body and more than it already was, even with taking precautions and injecting into his own body various counter-active poisons to combat anything Mayuri threw at him, he still predicted only about a 60% chance of surviving after the battle, in favorable conditions.

Not wanting to risk getting infected further he pushed the demented Scientist back and launched a higher powered kido spell to create a small area that would repel the poisonous gas for a time and allow him to concentrate on the fight. The momentary distraction to create the safe little hub came at a price as the scientist launched his arm that carried his sword and cut him across the chest, turning the cut zone white paralyzing part of his shoulder and preventing some of his torso movements.

Quickly reaching into his pocket with his free hand the blond scientist pulled another needle and jabbed it into a vein in his arm, a sharp pain caused the man to flinch before a relaxing soothing wave of what felt like ice flowed through his body allowing him to quickly flex his arm and shoulder much more readily then it had before.

Seeing that his Zanpaktou's abilities were countered, Mayuri merely tsked before casting a displeased look to the man "You think you have the answer to everything don't you?" he sneered "Very well, then answer this! BANKAI!"

As the words erupted out of the man's mouth the child, on the hilt of the blade, eyes opened and a piercing shriek erupted from it making Kisuke cover his ears from the sharp cry. As he continued to look on with his eyes the sword started to expand outward more and more, as gigantic limbs reached out and slammed into the walls sending up a huge cloud of dust, a monstrous figure loomed overhead

"Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo!" Mayuri said with a sick smirk as the golden caterpillar creature opened it's mouth spilling out a huge wad of poisonous gas over the area, and turned it's enormous head to face the scientist who was breathing much heavier as the poison, despite the antidotes and barrier, was starting to take effect upon him. "Kill him!" he declared as the creature roared unleashing it's hidden forest of blades underneath it's body and charged forward.

Whipping the blood that started to drip from the corner of his mouth from the bursting of blood cells the poison seemed to be doing, he stood his ground his plan to defeat both this creature and it's master already formed in his head. As the monster came rearing it's body closer to skewer and run over the man, Urahara called out the name of his technique "Blood mist shield!" he yelled as the red energy barrier started to gather and formulate but what Mayuri hadn't expected was for the shield to form at the neck of Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo.

A brief smile graced the merchant's lips as the creature seemed incapable of moving any further since he had isolated the neck and brain from the rest of the body. "What closely Mayuri, I don't even need to use Bankai to defeat you who relies only on his servants." He taunted as he started to pour more and more of his reiatsu into the shield causing it to expand further and in greater size. The shield kept growing until it overpowered Mayuri's and like a guillotine severed the head from the body, destroying the creature.

The Taicho watched in horror as his Bankai was near effortlessly defeated by his predecessor. "Impossible!" he exclaimed

Not wasting a second and using the destruction of the great beast as a distraction, Kisuke closed the distance between Mayuri and himself and reached into his jacket and pulled out a black vial while simultaneously sticking a green vial into Mayuri's body. A panicked look flooded Mayuri face as he watched the man pull away "What did you do to me!" he demanded the answer as he started to feel weak in the knees

"Relax, I'm only liquefying you while taking the precious antidote to your Bankai." He said while undoing the lid to the vial, knowing that like any good scientist you keep an antidote on you in case the liquid vials you carried happen to spill on you or worse be used against you.

Kurotsuchi's body soon started to break apart and turn into a green slime like mixture "I'll get you one day, Kisuke this far from over."

The other's scientist's cheery demeanor quickly dropped away with these words "You could take a hundred if not a thousand years, and you would never come within a quantum or nano measure of what I can do or create. Your nothing but a second rate hack, and unless you bring more things to the table or start training, I'm always gonna beat you. Remember that Mayuri-kun, for when we meet again."

He watched the slime mixture go drain itself down the sewer system. With his nemesis gone and unable to reform for at least a few days, he quickly downed the mixture finding it surprisingly sweet making his opinion change slightly of what Mayuri could do, and maybe give him career advice in the medical field. Taking a moment he found Uryu spiritual pressure still doing fine while his opponent was on her last legs, turning away he headed to the training cavern to await Ichigo to begin Bankai training.

(Uryu and Nemu)

Despite having been smacked around a couple dozen times by the android's strength, Uryu Ishida had managed to find some kind of pattern in her attacks, and acted accordingly though he did admit that spinning her hand like a drill really would have killed him had he been next to the wall when she instead shot the eye laser at him. Launching another volley of arrows into his opponent's mechanical legs, he found her to not be the quickest of foot and had managed to slowly ground her and pin her down.

The android girl despite her wounds raised her arm up and launched another rocket punch which connected with the blue haired boy's jaw and knocked him from his perch above her, though she knew it would be a useless endeavor since she could barely move at this point.

Nudging his wounded jaw and finding it still workable, he stood up and looked at the girl and pointed his bow at her who merely looked at her opponent's eyes, and realized there was no escape now for her. Closing her eyes she bowed her head so he would have a clear shot at her forehead which would effectively kill her until her father revitalized her.

Seeing her bow in submission, Uryu let out a relieved sigh and undid his bow, allowing him to wipe the sweat that had built up on his forehead, an action that brought confusion to the android "Do you not wish me dead?"

"You are defeated to go any further would bring shame not glory to the Quincy honor." He replied back

"Even if I told you that most of the Quinces are dead because of me and my father you would still not kill me?"

Narrowing his eyes, the glasses wearing teenager thought over her words and replied with a negative connotation "I can't hold you responsible as you only act as you are told. You like Ururu have no real soul." He replied his words cutting deep into her for some reason "If your father asked you to kill yourself, I have no doubt you would. You do as you are told, and from the way you're looking so helplessly, I think now is the first time you've come to realize it. I might end up killing your father though as he has the moral conscious of right and wrong but crosses that line multiple times."

The android interrupted in a sadder version of her monotone "I implore you not to hurt him. That is the only thing that I would ask of you Quincy."

The words filtering into the man's mind, forced him to stop and give Nemu a once over. "Fine. I won't kill him…for now, only if you stay out of this little invasion process. I don't need any more people getting in my way. Do that and I won't be the one who kills him for his crimes against my people, though afterward all bets are off."

"Understood." She replied back with but a small smile. Her hand soon reacted as the man threw something at her from his pocket which from what she analyzed seemed to be some kind of healing ointment.

"Take it and live well, Nemu Kurotsuchi." The Quincy said as he turned to head off to the penance tower 'Shame, she's really a looker.' He thought

(Really late: Hinamora)

Unable to sleep after being given that warning, Momo got up from her room and headed out to go visit her captain to at least make sure he was still ok. She smiled her to herself as she reaffirmed that she was doing this for the well being of her captain and being a good friend to Toshiro for watching his back. As she approached the shoji door to knock and ask to speak with him, it slid open revealing her Taicho's surprised face having clearly not expecting her this late at night

"Ah, momo. It's good to see you." He said in heartwarming sweetness

"Hi, Aizen-Taicho." She responded back happily "I didn't mean to disturb you, but umm…"

"Yes, what is it? If something is bothering you then feel free to tell me, I'd do my best to help you out with any problem you might be having."

"Can I come in for a little bit, I know that you were about to go out for something, but I just wanted to know if I could talk for a little while."

The brunette laughed and gave a friendly smile "I was only going to go out for a small walk to clear my head on a…important issue." When the girl recoiled since she didn't want to disturb him he placed a hand on her shoulders "But I can do that later, if I can talk to a friend."

Momo's face lit up and she nodded allowing herself to be led into the chambers of her Taicho. The man slid the paper door closed a sly smile on his face as everything was going according to plan.

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Blackout2010: Long f-ing day...

Keisuke: It's been such a long time since I've gotten to fight ahaha!

Uryu: Indeed (hmm, I wonder where Nemu is)

Blackout2010: So yeah a lot happens if you have any questions pm review let me know, by the way sorry if the fight seem kinda short, I was practicing the writing technique where we cut into action, so I hope it worked out ok.

Kenpachi: Ichigo I'll find you! (runs off)

Ichigo: Hmm? (pokes head out) Some one call me?

Unohana: Till next chapter.

Aizen: Unless I have something to say about it.

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(Omake: Gundam fight! Ready! GO!)

Mayuri: And now you shall face this! [pulls out a control panel]

Blackout2010 (off screen): ahhh…actually Mayuri.

Mayuri (irate): What is it!

Blackout2010: I just got a call from Rain Mikamura, apparently her boyfriend Domon got sick and well…the giant robot bit won't happen, thus making the EMP mine useless.

Keisuke (sadden): Really? Dang…

Mayuri: Then I will build one myself! [storms off]

[10 hours later]

Mayuri: Behold the Mayuri XL9- version 4!

Keisuke: (whistles)

Blackout2010 (awed): Wow [blinks]…

Mayuri: Why do you look like you wish to say something!

Blackout2010:…I don't know how to pilot a Gundam…

Keisuke (sweat drop): Me either. [looks at Mayuri] Got an instruction manual?

Mayuri: Ummm…n-no, I forgot to make that.

Blackout2010 (disappointed): [Sigh] Alright, well we'll just have to make do. Let's take it from the top Scene 36 take 4. Action.

(Omake: Gundam fight! Ready! Go! End)

(Omake: Storage space)

Blackout2010: Should be arriving any moment…

Ichigo: Hey you just got a package from some guy named 'Leon Scott Kennedy'

Blackout2010: Awesome, this so solves the Zanpaktou problem. (tears open the package revealing the attach case version XL)

Ichigo (sweat drop): That's a big brief case.

Blackout2010 (excited): No kidding, do you know what Leon was able to store in this baby? At one point during his rescue mission of the president's daughter he managed to fit a rocket launcher, Shot gun with a drum, a sniper rifle, a large salmon, a pistol, and an assortment of herb mixtures, grenades and of course ammo. (surprised) I actually kinda wonder how he was able to lug all this stuff around what with his various combat maneuvers.

Ichigo: Whatever, just give it here and I'll give it to dad so he can put Engetsu in there. [takes it and leaves]

Blackout2010: Hmmm…maybe I should ask Leon to send me a Chicago typewriter while I'm at it. It would certainly help when Isshin mows down a bunch of soul reapers. Nah,…that what special effects are for.

(Omake: Storage Space end)

(Author's lament)

I know I mentioned how that there would be some really cool dead people who would actually be alive in soul society at the time during this course of events. I'm deeply saddened that I might never actually get to do such a indepth perspective on it, particularly in the case with the Australian hero: Steve Irwin aka the Crocodile Hunter. I thought the guy was so cool and consider the fact that he's dead he'd be in SS, figuratively speaking…I think it would be so cool to have the chance to have the almighty crocodile hunter assisting Ichigo and company for the greater good of the universe. Mother Nature's number one endanger species conservationist, rest in peace, and maybe someday I might be able to include you in a Fanfic…maybe.

(Author's lament end)

(Author's vow)

Hey blackout2010 giving I guess one last thing before our seperation. I read a small rant from Flyingthunder cloud no jutsu which is copy and pasted below, and after agreeing with it. I would like to make the promise to improve on detail as much as I can...you know without going overboard, just a small contribution to maybe one day bring the bleach section out to it's full story telling potential, but just remember it takes readers and writiers, so never be afraid to express yourself.

FTCNJ's words announcement from 'Black' chapter 2:

I would like to say something to all of you that's been on my mind for a while. I looked through the Naruto fanfiction section a while back and I thought how there is such a variety of stories there. You can find a simple love one-shot, an all-powerful main character hack n slash style story, a modern day mafia thriller, and I've even seen one where godzilla's involved. This got me looking back at the Bleach section and shaking my head, wondering why its not the same. Then I realized later on that what it is is that the world of Naruto is more developed, while in Bleach the characters are really the only things significantly detailed. This makes it so that going with the traditional systems of writing stories on this site – based on exploiting the detailed subjects in the real world counterparts – allows Bleach authors to change the characters, their powers, and their interactions in lots of different ways, but the only venues for expression are the traditional cannon world, either on Earth or in the Seireitei, while in Naruto the characters are all switched and given various powers and attitudes, but the detailed cannon landscape allows for a massive amount of setting possibilities that can be changed completely like the characters of both series. This made me consider where the Bleach fanfiction section was at and I decided that if it were to become as diverse and reader-friendly as the Naruto section, the traditional means would have to be thrown out. So I made an account and began writing stories in entirely new environments, making entirely new worlds from scratch for the characters to interact in. My three main stories (this, Cut the Sky, and Wrath of the Wraith) I believe show the kind of ground-up attitude that needs to be taken if the Bleach section will ever become as grand as the Naruto section. Now I'm not saying that no one has done this, as a couple great authors have (Theresa-Crane comes to mind) but it's far too few. A couple authors, no matter how good, are not going to be able to single-handedly create an entire Bleach section. So if there is change to be had, everyone needs to think with this open-minded alternate-anything attitude. Even if you don't write it, the simple spreading of the idea could start something wonderful.

– Flying Thunder Cloud no Jutsu