Chapter 26: -Act 2 Tyrannicide Back In Black

20 Months/Years Later

The halls of Las Noches had not deteriorated with age

20 years had passed within the walls of the castle and the only difference were the three new arrivals within them

Three children born within the wall of the Castle now stood within it, rapidly matured due to the accelerated time, now on thier teens yet, technically merely toddlers, today is the day everything in their lives would change forever

"IT'S BEEN 20 YEARS" Came a voice all recognized as the voice of Ichigo Kurosaki, amplified through the speak system "WE ALL KNOW WHAT TODAY IS, COME TO THE MEETING ROOM"

With a sigh, a lone woman left her room, she bore a pair of blue eyes that always seemed to be glaring at something, her seemingly permanently narrowed eyebrows seemed to add to that look, a slew of freckles resided under her eyes, a mane of long messy purple hair sat on her head with bangs adorning her face, parted down the middle, framing her face. The rest was tied in a high top pony tail that went to the bottom of her shoulder blades. She wore a dark grey tank top that was cut off just above her midriff, a brown jacket that was also cut at the same place, leaving her stomach uncovered. a pair of suspenders hiddens that went under his shirt kept her grey trousers up, that were covered at the bottom by a pair of boots

She was one of the new arrivals, the daughter of Uryu Ishida and Cirucci Sanderwicci

MITHRA ISHIDA

HUMAN AGE: 19

"So today is the big day they've been talking about" She noted as her footsteps echoed throughout the empty halls

"It seems to be, yes" Came a voice that emerged from the shadows

His skin was a shade paler then hers, he sported medium-length shaggy black hair, the back and sides reaching down his shoulders with the front combed to side, his eyebrows were thin and his eyes a light shade of green and his mouth formed a perfect line. Adorned on his body was a Black jacket with the outer flaps colored White,worn over a plain white dress shirt, standard black pants as well as dress shoes covered his lower half

"I suppose this means it's the day we're finally called up" Came the voice of the son of Orihime Inoue and Ulquiorra Schiffer

DAISUKE SCHIFFER

HUMAN AGE: 19

"I suppose today is the first day you're going to see some real action" Was her reply

"Funny" came a snarky third voice "If I recall correctly, that's the exact response you gave me the first time I asked you out"

He was tall and effeminate looking, he had long dark Orange hair that could be mistaken as brown to the naked eye; that reached down to the small of his back, a few locks hanging infront of his shoulders and a few fell over his face, one between his eyes, identical to the bang in his mothers hair, his eyes purple and he always seemed to have a smirk on his face, he wore a dark red jacket with a loose fitting black t-shirt underneath it, along with a necklace that seemed to be adorned with three tiny roses, his bottom half covered up by a pair of black jeans, with a pair of brown boots covering his feet, a large blade shaped case sat, buckled to his hip

He was the first new arrival born during the shutoff, conceived not long after The Nueva Espada was created

The son of Ichigo and Rukia

ICHIRU KUROSAKI

HUMAN AGE: 20

"The only time you asked me out" She glared "Make sure it stays that way"

"Relax, relax" Ichiru chuckled with a wave of his hands "I'm not so into you nowadays, not with your manly physique any way"

"And what is that supposed to mean?" She growled

"It means you look like a man" he repeated slowly "You got no ti-"

SMACK

"Okay...maybe I deserved that" Ichiru mumbled after he was sent flying into a wall "Did I?...Yeah"

"Honestly" Daisuke sighed

"Don't try to act all high and mighty" Ichiru taunted as he flash stepped beside Daisuke and wrapped his arm around him "You're just as bad as me, hell, you're worse! You little peeper"

"What does that mean?!" Mithra roared

"Little Mr. Schiffer enjoys a good peep show in the ladies showers!" Ichiru exclaimed

"WHAT?!" Daisuke and Mithra shouted in unison

"It's true! He invited me to join him one time! I gotta say Mithra, you gotta shave your pu-"

"BASTARDS!" she roared as she leapy forward, Ichiru dodged her with a quick sidestep

Daisuke was not so lucky

"You bastard! How dare you peep on me!"

"At which point does the lie stop being funny?" Ichiru asked himself "No idea...let's wait here and find out"

Yoruichi Shihouin sat alone in her office, doing what she hated most

Besides changing diapers of course...

Paperwork

Huffing and sighing with each stroke on the ink, she tiredly placed her cheek against her palm, ready to nod off right then and there

Until a new arrival came

"Hello, Yoruichi" Shunsui smiled "Have I caught you at a bad time?"

"Not at all!" She beamed as she practically threw away her pen "I am bored out of my mind"

"Well then, I guess we're two peas in a pod" Kyoraku smirked "Can't say I'm having the most thrilling time myself, thought I'd pop in and see how things were going"

"Well, now you know" she chuckled "Well...how's progress? I take we're no closer to taking down whatever that thing is that's covering Las Noches

Just mere days after the battle with The Nueva Espada, Kisuke Urahara has been ordered to open up a Garganta and the full force of The Soul Society were prepared to launch into battle once again

However, just moments after they arrived. They found the castle of Las Noches encased by a purple done, that, upon contact, swallowed up all who touched it

With no choice, they fell back and allowed Squad 12 to examine the barrier, and study how to remove it

A task that was still incomplete

"'Fraid not from what I've heard, I wouldn't be surprised if they've stopped trying" Shunsui declared with a shrug "Maybe, with any luck, it'll never come down"

...

"So...any progress on finding...him?"

The atmosphere then turned tense

"You've been asking every week for the last 20 or so months...you know as well as I do. There's been no progress" Shunsui sighed "We lost track of Ginjo a long time ago, he blipped back onto the radar last year and just as quickly blipped back off. Besides, the old man doesn't see him as a big deal right now"

"Not a big deal?" Yoruichi snapped "He-"

"Now, now" Shunsui calmed her down "Let's not raise our voices, we don't want to wake the little one. I assume he's sleeping in the next room?"

"No" she grumbled "He's with his father today"

"I see" He noted "Little tyke must be confused, traveling between dimensions like that

Speaking of which, how are things with you and Isshin?"

"We're trying" she shrugged "It's hard maintaining a relationship when you live in two different dimensions"

"I'd assume as much" Shunsui chuckled "Part of me still can't believe it"

"Believe what?"

"You as a mother" He chuckled "Free spirit Yoruichi Shihouin, who once walked around the entire seireitei on her hands, whilst naked"

"Ugh" She cringed "You're not going to tell him that when he grows up aren't you?"

"Of course not!" He laughed "I'm going to tell him about the time you got drunk, stripped naked and bet you could shove that whole battle of Sake up your-"

"Alright, alright!" She cut him off "I don't need you to tell my child about my...clothes free days, they're long behind me"

"Way behind you? Then how do you explain last week when-"

"Alright, enough" She cut him off back "What is it you're really here for?"

"What do you mean?" He asked

"I can read you like a book" She stated with a point "You're here for a reason"

...

"Well if you must know...I'm just back from seeing Jushiro"

"Oh" Yoruichi said quietly "I see...how-"

"Not good..." Shunsui cut her off "He's...he's...uh...his...condition's gotten worse"

"How much worse is..." She began

"They don't know..."

...

"He won't die on us" She affirmed "Not for a long, long time"

"I hope you're right" He sighed "Like you, he changed once Ginjo popped back up, he's been on a downward spiral ever since"

"Be honest Shunsui" She sadly muttered "Do you think any of this will change if we find Ginjo?"

"I'm not sure" Was his blunt reply "But I know harboring revenge isn't the way to go on this one, it's how this whole situation with Kurosaki began"

...

"Yeah...I know" She mumbled

"Don't sacrifice everything for the sake of revenge Yoruichi" He informed her "We all know what that leads to"

"WAHHHH!"

Isshin "Shiba" sighed as he put down the paper he was reading, stretching out his legs, he prepared to climb the stairs for the umpteenth today

"Yuzu, you wanna get that?" He asked, clinging to some vague hope he wouldn't have to climb those friggin' stairs again

"I'm busy making dinner" Was her reply, was she lying so she wouldn't have to climb those steps? Maybe...

Knowing there was no way out of his fate, he grudgingly climbed up the steps, groaning and grunting with every movement of his feet. Praising the Soul King himself as he reached the top

And then he opened the door, revealing the screaming little one

Dodging the items laid out on the floor, he gingerly peered into the crib and examined him

A child with a darker skin tone than his but not as dark as Yoruichi, tufts of black hair with a purple tint and golden yellow eyes

His son, Junichi

"Okay, okay" he groaned as he pulled the screaming infant out of the crib "I hear you"

The 11 month old child continued to scream while his father slowly rocked him, Isshin let out a loud sigh as he did

"The others never cried this much" he groaned "Are you really my son?"

He was joking of course but he had noted in the past that the baby bore almost no resemblance to him, it was easy to tell from a distance that it was Yoruichi's child, him? Not so much

"He looks nothing like Ichigo..." He noted "I'm actually kind of grateful for that"

He continued to rock the baby but the crying continued, figuring something else was up, he gave the air a brief sniff

And found the source of the problem

"Umm...Yuzu?"

"Change him yourself"

Kugo Ginjo sighed at the chatter around him before taking a swig of whiskey

Ever since they returned to Japan 5 months ago, they had been dealing with...this

"You know in New York, I didn't have to ask Giriko for a drink" Riruka proclaimed before she took a sip of her wine

"Yes, Riruka" Ginjo sighed as started to glug down his whiskey

"Our penthouse had an open bar" She informed

"I'm aware of this, I was there" He sighed as he placed his glass down

"And the beaches, and the sun and the streets and the cars" She listed off "Why did we come back to dreery old Japan anyway?! Why couldn't we have stayed in New York?!"

"Because New York isn't the most spirtually aware place there is, this, Naruki City is" He proclaimed "There's no chance we'd ever run into a Shinigami in America, let alone New York"

"It is for that reason, we returned here" Giriko added in "Japan is the only place the Soul Society has regular contact in"

"When's the last time you heard of a Hollow attack in the US?" Jackie questioned as she walked up beside them "Or the UK? Germany? France?"

"Japan is Hollow central, they're attacks elsewhere but not nearly as much as here" Ginjo finished the statement "If we're going to find a way to get to the Soul Society, we need to do it here"

"Then why did I have to come back?!" She sobbed

"I don't get it" Yukio sighed as he paused his game "You hated the last few months we spent in America, remember? You barely left the penthouse after that time you got drunk and mooned a TV news camera"

"YOU SHUT UP!" Riruka roared as she launched the wine glass at his head

"Honestly" Jackie sighed

"Implying you're any better?" Ginjo asked "Three glasses of scotch and you went berserk, we found you naked in Madison Square Park having a screaming match with a bench"

"I've told you before, unless you show me photographic proof, that never happened" She growled

Ginjo decided a long time ago that she didn't need to know about the pictures on his phone...

"I'm back" Came a voice that entered the building

The now-thirteen year old Karin Kurosaki

"Thank you for doing the Shopping Ms. Karin" Giriko thanked her as he took the bag

"You took your time" Ginjo noted, peering over to her

"Do you know how hard it is to find the very, very specific brand of Honey that Tsukishima likes, the only brand he will take and will just throw any other brand in the trash?" She grumbled "Very."

Ginjo just scoffed and continued to shrug off the strange feeling he had been having all day

The feeling that something was going to change today...

"Greetings and salutations, peoples!" Ichiru loudly greeted as he, Mithra and Daisuke entered the meeting room

Discovering the serious looks of The Nueva Espada

"What's with all the doom 'n gloom people!" Ichiru laughed "Come on baby! It's Invasion time! I've been waiting for this since I was 9 months old!"

"Sit. down. Ichiru" Ichigo sighed

"Fine, whatevs" Ichiru grumbled as he sat down in his seat, placing his feet up on the table, which were quickly swiped off by Nel

Ichigo merely grumbled at his son, he had always been like this

He himself had remained the same mostly, the 20 years had passed but due to being in Soul form, everyone had only aged two years

His only physical changes were his hair, which had grown longer and he had grown noticeably taller. Rukia remained the same height but had done the opposite of him and cut her hair into a bob. Orihime's hair now sat in a new style and Uryu not parted their hair to the left

Physically, they were only 17, which made them being parents to 19 and 20 years olds all the stranger...

But they had lived 20 years within 20 months, their children aged months within a few days, they had taken their first steps by the time they were 60 weeks old...

But today, the time distorting barrier would be gone...

"What happened to your face?" Orihime asked her son, as he had a noticeable bruise on his left cheek

"It's nothing Mother" Daisuke informed her, taking his seat while his eyes veered off to meet Mithra

"How was I supposed to know Kurosaki was lying?!" She cried out

"Because Kurosaki always lies" Was his groaning response

"Not always!" Ichiru piped in "I was telling the truth when I said you got no-"

A quick shove from Nel sent him and the chair toppling over

"Today, that thing is gone for good..." Ichigo declared "And we will act the instant it comes down, we're splitting into two teams, one for the human world and one for the Soul Society"

"Sweet, roadtrip" Gintoki piped in

"I will lead the charge into the Human World, Ulquiorra will lead the attack on the Soul Society. The purpose of this is to locate the Hogyoku"

"Said it once, say it again. Can't believe you forget it" Uryu noted

"I didn't forget it Uryu, I lost it" Ichigo seethed

"Fail to see a difference" Grimmjow grumbled

"That is not what why we are here" Ichigo growled

"Apparently it is" Ichiru noted as he picked at his nails

"Something to say, Ichiru...?" Ichigo asked

"I think I already have" Ichiru chuckled

"Then hold your tongue" Ichigo scoffed at his son

"I think we both realize that's not going to happen" Ichiru mocked

"You've been talking since the day you were born" Ichigo scoffed "Learn to shut up"

"Why don't you teach me, Old Man?" Ichiru chuckled

"That's enough" Rukia interrupted her husband and son

"Listen to mom" Ichiru noted as he went back to picking his nail

He was his son, he loved him...but Ichigo was never fond of Ichiru's attitude...

"As I was saying, that barrier comes down today and we are tracking down what we-"

"You" Ichiru cut in

"What...we lost 20 months ago" Ichigo growled "As I said, we're splitting into two teams, one for the Soul Society, one for the world of the living"

"I take it we're operating under the assumption that Kisuke Urahara may have the Hogyoku and taken it back to his hideout?" Ulquiorra asked

"Correct, to save time on two trips and the other dimension alerting the other, we're attacking them both"

And before Ichigo could continue any further, a loud bursting noise rang through everyone's ears

The sound of the barrier finally dissolving

"Does this mean we're not going to age a week in 2 days anymore?" Mithra asked loudly over the noise

"NEE-CHAN! NEE-CHAAAAANNNN!"

Kukaku sighed, placing the cup of sake that was so close to her mouth back to the floor

"Almost thought I could get some peace" she sighed as the door slammed open

"NEEE-CHAAAANNNN!"

And with that, Ganju burst through the room

With a screaming infant in his arms

"NEE-CHAN!" Ganju cried "He won't stop crying!"

"Give him here" she sighed as Ganju handed her the child

A small bundle, with her piercing blue eyes and shaggy black hair

Her son

"Little Kaien won't stop!" Ganju cried "I tried everything! I fed him, I bathed him, I changed him, I-"

"He's teething" Kukaku sighed as she held the screaming bundle in her arms

"I CAN'T MAKE HIM STOP!" Ganju sobbed

"Just go Ganju" Kukaku sighed

He did just that, bolting out the room like he was on fire

"Come on..." she sighed as she slowly rocked the baby with her one arm "Come on Kaien, give Mommy some peace..."

The baby refused her request as it continued to sob

"Screw it" she sighed "Come on, we're going to see your dad, he'll have something to stop the pain"

Shunsui Kyoraku made his way to the barracks, tired after a long day, especially after his visit to Ukitake...

All he wanted to do was sit in his office with a nice, cold drink

That was not going to happen

"Ah?" He sounded as he spotted a farmiliar face walking past him "Oh, Tatsuki-chan!"

That instantly got her attention, the black haired girl, donned in the traditional shihakusho turned to him

"Oh, Captain Kyoraku" She said with a bow "I'm sorry, I didn't see you there"

"It's fine, it's fine" he declared with a wave of his hand "How is my favourite Substitute Shinigami?"

"I'm...okay" was her response

"Oh dear, judging by that tone, I'd say otherwise" He noted with a grimace "Dare I ask what's wrong?"

"I'd rather you didn't" she sighed

But before they could continue, a farmiliar face appeared around the corner

Renji Abarai

"And the problem shows up" Tatsuki sighs "Speak of the devil..."

"Oh dear, relationship issues" Kyoraku gulped "Well, I'll get out of your hair, don't think you want me involved in your business"

"There is no business, we-"

"Oh Tatsuki, there you are!" Came Renji's voice as he proceeded towards her

"I'll be making myself scarce" Kyoraku claimed as he did just that

Tatsuki merely sighed

"There you are" Renji said as he arrived beside her

"Screw off Renji" Was her simple reply, not even turning to face him

"Don't...don't be like that" He sighed "Listen, I-"

"Listen, stop right there" She cut him off, covering his mouth "It's over, you need to deal with that"

"But I-"

"Listen, I trusted you" Was Tatsuki's stern interruption "I tried to make this relationship work, I really did, but you're not over her, nowhere close!"

"I am!" Renji sighed "Captain Kyoraku gave me some advice some time back, he told me to move on, I'm trying! But how can I do that when...this is happening to us"

"You know...when I found out you personally betrayed Ichigo and Orihime, I was ready to crush your skull, the only reason I didn't is because the Soul Society didn't trust me and if I pulled that off, I would've been accused of siding with Ichigo and I'd be dead too" She growled "But over time I started to hate you less and less...hell, I started to like you, I convinced myself you were wrongly warped into this when in actuality you were just motivated by jealousy"

"Tatsuki, all I did was-"

"All you did, was start a relationship with me, pretending I was Rukia!" She snapped

"I wasn't pretending you were Rukia!" Renji sighed "All I did was accidentally call you Rukia once! ONCE!"

"While I was kissing you" Tatsuki growled as she narrowed her eyebrows

"It was a mistake!"

"You're right, it was a mistake" She grunted once again "Being with you"

"Look!" He mumbled as he grabbed her shoulders "I really like you and I really want this to work out, I know we can work things out"

"You're clearly not over her" She stated as she removed his hands from her "And until you are, don't even think of trying to fix...us, there isn't an us Renji"

And with that, she walked away from a stunned Renji

Who merely sighed and rubbed his head

"I really suck at this..."

"So...this is the sky"

"What are you babbling on about Kurosaki?" Mithra asked as she joined him peering out the window "We've seen the sky, every single day"

"Only that artificial, clear skies, sunny day thing" Ichiru noted "Seeing an actual night sky...honestly, I thought it would never happen"

"With that barrier gone, thing will change" Daisuke stated as he joined them "We'll no longer be a victim of accelerated aging"

"Do they know that for sure?" Ichiru asked he turned to Daisuke "We aged faster because we were born within that barrier, Szayel said it was like the air itself changed how our DNA works, how do we know that's changed?"

"Because it was the barrier that did that, and the barrier is gone" Mithra grumbled as she pointed the sky "That's how things work Kurosaki"

"How do we know that?!" He cried as he threw his arms up "Are we forever doomed to the spell of accelerated aging?! Art thou going to be confined to a wheel chair at the ripe of age of five?! SHALL WE THREE FACE THE DIRE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS?!"

"What is wrong with you?!" Mithra snapped

"IS THIS THE PRICE TO PAY FOR POWER?!" Ichiru screamed as he flailed his arms about

"I find it best when we just ignore him" Daisuke sighed as he rubbed his temples

"POWER IS SIN! SIIINNNN!"

"SHUT UP!" Mithra roared as she drew back her fist

"W-W-W-W-W-Woah!" Ichiru panicked as he lowered his hands "Joke! It was a joke!"

"Honestly!" She growled

"You really need a sense of humor" He pouted before he threw his arm around Daisuke "Like Schiffer here!"

"Unhand me" was his flat reply

"No"

"Alright you three, that's enough" Came the voice of Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, clapping her hands to get their attention "It's time to get ready"

"Finally" Mithra sighed, lowering her fist "You two need to knock it off and get ready"

"Kurosaki, unhand me" Daisuke asked again

"Nope"

"For the love of-" Mithra sighed

Little did they know, they had a pair of eyes fixed on them from the distance

Rukia Kurosaki's eyes

"Ichigo..." Rukia mumbled to her husband beside her "I think he should come with us. We should take Ichiru to the real world with us, him going to the Soul Society-"

"He'll be fine" Ichigo stated as he wrapped his arm around her "He's not a baby anymore"

"He hasn't been a baby since he was seven weeks old..." she sighed "I mean...when Ichiru...fights, he..."

"I know...but he'll be fine" Ichigo noted "I'm aware that Ichiru...had a disadvantage in combat...but he'll get over it"

"Are you sure?" Rukia asked him "He's not experienced to true combat, he doesn't know what it's like to be in a life or death battle"

"Then he'll learn" Was his reply

"It's time to let them go on their own"

They turned their heads, meeting with Uryu and Cirucci

"It's time to let them fight their own battles" Uryu stated "They may have disadvantages in battle but it's time..."

"To let them go" Cirucci continued

"They're not even technically two years old..." Rukia mumbled "We're sending our children off to war"

...

"Are you sure about sending Mithra?" Ichigo asked Uryu "We both know that-"

"Every single one of them had a handicap" Ulquiorra stated as he joined the conversation "Daisuke too lacks a quality of battle"

"Are we doing the right thing here?" Orihime asked as she too joined in "Can they really fight for us...is it our right to send them?"

"They are soldiers, we are The Nueva Espada" Was Ichigo's closing statement

"POWER IS SIIIIINNNN!"

SMACK

"Shut up Kurosaki!"

"And with that, the paperwork is done for today" Seinosuke Yamada sighed happily as he threw his pen up into the air "Will you join me in the nearest watering hole, Isane?"

"No Seinosuke" She sighed

"Captain Yamada" He reminded her

"Captain Yamada" She sighed

"My, my Isane" Seinosuke chuckled "Why ever do you dislike me so? I struggle to find a better word than disgust to describe how you act to me"

"It's nothing sir...Captain" She quickly corrected herself

And then yelped as Seinosuke gave her a quick slap on her bottom

"They why do you dislike me so?" He smiled as he groped her

"Enough!" she snapped as she smacked his arm away

"Easy, easy" he laughed "It was just a joke

"Well take your jokes elsewhere" she snapped as she pushed past him

"Shoving your captain? How rude" Seinosuke laughed as he grabbed her by the shoulders

"I said let go-"

Her sentence was cut off as Seinosuke's palm covered her mouth

"That's no way to talk to your Captain...no way at all" He slimed as his other hand drifted lower until her was cupping Isane's crotch "No way at all"

Isane growled and attempted to sturggle away from him, but his grip was vice-like

"I am your Captain, you serve me in whatever way I see fit, If I cop a feel, you smile and nod" He smiled as he caressed Isane "You serve me without hesitation, If I order you to march naked through the barracks, you will do so without question, understood?"

Isane threw her elbow back, attempting to land a blow

Only for Seinosuke to catch it and twist her around, slamming her into his desk

Isane's head was spinning from being smacked onto the wood structure, but by the time she regained her exposure, she realized that Seinosuke had loosed her obi

And yanked down her hakama

She yelped but before she could get up and fight him off, Seinosuke was already pinning her head down

"Shhh shh" he whispered in her ear "You're shaking, Isane"

"R-Release me!" She roared

"Tough words coming from a girl with her pants around her ankles" He laughed as he look a look "Ooh...bright blue panties"

"Oh god...oh god, he's actually going to rape me this time!"

"So unsexy" he chuckled as he fondled with the elastic "Let's do both of us a favor and take them off"

"Oh god no...please no"

"Go on" He stated as he released his grip on her head "Take them off"

Isane made no motion to move from her position of the desk

"I said...take them off" He said with an oily quality to his voice

Isane slowly pushed her way up but refused to turn to face him

"Take them off or I will" he said with a noticeable change in tone

Isane merely stared at the wall in front of her

"Fine then"

And with one hand, he reached out and started to yank the garment down

Isane's senses awoke as she attempted to pull away from him, attempting to pull her garment away from his grip

Only to find his Zanpakuto held at her neck

"Take. them. off" He whispered slowly

Shoving her away, from her, knocking her out of her hakama pooled at her ankles, her back colliding with his desk

"I'm running out of patience Isane" He smiled "And those panties are still around your hips when they should be around your ankles"

Her face shadowed by her hair, her two shaking hands made their way to the elastic waistband, her thumbs dipping into the garment

And as slowly as a slug moving, she gently eased the side of the garment down

With no signs that she was in a rush to pull them down, Seinosuke reached out and pulled them down for her.

With a loud squel, Isane quickly covered her exposed womanhood while Seinosuke fully pulled off the garment

"Ah" he smiled as he stood up and held the garment in front of his face "Not a very pretty pair, you need better taste in undergarments Isane"

She only suppressed her disgust as he gave a loud sniff of the pair

"Lovely smell though" he smirked "I'll be keeping these, you can get going"

"W-What?"

"Get going" he stated as he kicked her discarded Hakama over to her which she quickly grabbed "I have no more use for you today"

"You bastard...you sick, sick bastard"

"Nuh-uh-uh" He waggled his finger as Isane attempted to re-dress herself "Don't put them on until you're back outside..."

...

"Yes sir" She mumbled quietly, making her way to the door, making sure to hold her hakama in front of her as to not give him a look at her most private area

"Remember Isane" He smiled coldly as he opened the door "Tell anyone about our little adventures and you'll find yourself joining Kiyone in the ground..."

...

She remained silent, thought her teeth were quite clearly biting into her lip

"Understood?" He repeated

...

"Yes..."

"Yes, what?"

"Yes...Captain Hamada..."

"Good girl" he smiled before giving her a thunderous slap on her rear end, causing her to let out a scream

"Quiet now, you wouldn't want anyone to see you like this, would you?" He smiled before he shoved her out the room so hard, she slammed into the wall on the opposite side "Now go on, maybe go out and buy yourself some new underwear"

And with that, he slammed the door shut and Isane quickly dressed herself

The instant she secured her Hakama and Obi, her hand teased the handle of her Zanpakuto

But she knew, even if she had the courage to go in there, Seinosuke could cut her into ribbons the instant she stepped in

She was no match for Seinosuke...that's why she had no choice but to endure this humiliation, this torture, it's why she endured the molestion, it's why she endured the comments about Kiyone...

Releasing the grip on her Zanpakuto, she ran off, her silent tears falling down her cheeks

"Captain Unohana...why didn't I leave with you?"

"Alright, the preparations are complete" Ichigo stated as Rukia opened two Senkaimon "The one of the left leads to Soul Society, the other Karakura town"

"Woo, finally" Gintoki sighed as he stretched his arms "Some quality time, right Zura?"

"I'm not Zura, I'm Katsura!"

"So who's heading where?" Gamma asked

"You are coming with us" Ichigo stated, prompting Gamma to let out a surprised grunt "This is a war, your personal feelings do not belong on a battlefield"

"But-" Gamma began to protest "I won't...Retsu is-"

"We show no mercy, but don't forget, our objective is locating the Hogyoku" Ichigo declared "Make sure that's your top priority, use torture if nessacery"

"Neat" Ichiru piped in

"Uryu, Gintoki, Katsura, Gamma, Rukia, Cirucci, Arturo. You're with me" Ichigo declared "Ulquiorra, Orihime, Grimmjow, Nel, Szayel, Ichiru, Mithra, Daisuke. You're heading to the Soul Society"

Ichiru was about to proceed forward, until his mother wrapped her hand around his

"Be careful..." was her short statement

"Who'd you think you're talking to, old lady?" Ichiru scoffed "I-"

SMACK

"Is that anyway to talk to your mother?!" Rukia roared

"N-No" Ichiru squeaked as he covered the lump on his head "Sorry Mom"

"Pathetic" Mithra mumbled

"Okay kids, it's time to go!" Orihime said with a clap of her hands "Make sure you hold hands so you don't get lost"

"Mother, stop" Daisuke demanded

"I have a question though" Ulquiorra stated as he stepped into the conversation

"Father?" Daisuke questioned

"I take it the Senkaimon here will take us through to the Main Senkaimon located in the centre of the Seireitei, if that's the case-" Ulquiorra began "Why don't we enter straight through Garganta?"

"The Senkaimon is heavily guarded, it will make your presence know quicker"

"So we're putting a target on our backs the instant we step in, nice" Mithra scoffed

"It's to attract attention, the faster you grab someone's attention, the quicker you can interrogate them for the location of the Hogyoku"

"So what're we waiting for?" Nel asked

"Nothing, it's time to go" Ichigo stated as he unsheathed both his swords "Everyone take your positions"

"Alright chums, let's do this!" Gintoki roared "LEEEEROOYYY-"

"Okay, okay that's enough" Shinji sighed as he pulled Lisa off Mashiro

"Let me kill her!" she roared

"You're mean!" Mashiro pouted

"Do I even want to know?" Kensei sighed as he walked to the scene, morning coffee in hand

"Apparently, Mashiro borrowed some of Lisa's swimsuit magazine's without permission" Love stated

"Is that all?" Kensei asked

"She also scored out all the naughty bits with permanent marker" Rose piped in

"Ah" Kensei nodded as he took a sip of Coffee

"You're a filthy girl Lisa-chan!" Mashiro pouted once again "You shouldn't been looking at those kind of pictures"

"If I want to look at pictures of naked women, I will look at pictures of naked women!" Lisa screamed "What I masturbate to is none of your business!"

"Too much info" Shinji groaned

"Silly Lisa-chan, women don't masturbate to pictures of other women!" Mashiro laughed

"I do! I'll prove it!" Lisa roared as she attempted to reach under her skirt, only to have her arms grabbed by Shinji "Someone get a magazine she hasn't drawn on yet!"

"That's...enough" Came a voice that entered the fray that turns out to be Yasutora Sado

"Ah, Chad! Do you mind giving me a hand?" Shinji asked

"Sure" he nodded as he grabbed Lisa and held her up high

"Let me go!" Lisa roared "Put me down and let me take off my panties!"

"What's going on?" Hiyori asked as she too entered

"Hiyori, take off my panties!" Lisa roared

"What?"

"Take them off!"

"No"

"Fine, I'll take them off myself!" She snapped as she wiggled her hips wildly

"What're you-"

FLOP

...

"How'd you do that?" Shinji asked the garments dangled around her ankle

"Practice!" she roared as she kicked off the garment, the pair landing swiftly on Kensei's head

"Wonderful" he sighed

"Now hand me a magazine!" She snapped

At that point, Gantenbainne came to see what was going on

"Screw it, I don't wanna know"

And promptly left

While this comotion was going on, a person sat on the roof of their hideout, gazing at the sky

"There you are..." Came a sigh from behind him

The voice caught his attention, he twisted his head around, facing the speaker

"Lilinette?" he questioned

"What're you doing up here, Starrk?" She grumbled, delivering a kick to his spine

"Geez..." He groaned, rubbing the point of impact "You really need to pack that in"

"Answer the question" she grumbled

"I was getting some fresh air" He sighed

"You mean getting away from them?"

His only response was a sigh

"Do you really think they accept us?" Starrk asked her

"Would we still be here if we weren't?" She questioned back

"Do you really think that Shinigami and Hollows can live together in Unison? In peace? In a world with borders"

"I just said we are, dumbass!" She snapped, smacking his head "What's with you?!"

"Knock it off!" He growled

"Why are you asking these questions?!" Lilinette grumbled

"It's...It's something in the air..."

"...Did you fart?"

"That's not what I meant!" Starrk snapped "I mean...something feels off"

"Oh, for..." Lilinette sighed "You've been saying it feels off ever since we left Hueco Mundo"

"I know, but today feels..."

"Starrk" Lilinette sighed

"There's gonna be a day when Kurosaki comes back" Starrk noted to her "And when he does-"

"Starrk, leave it" Lilinette groaned as she stood up "You're just paranoid"

"What if I'm not? What if this perfect world can't exist?" Starrk questioned her as she walked away "What if..."

Lilinette didn't turn back to him, she merely left the roof and re-entered the building

"I don't what it is...but today feels..." Starrk mumbled as he gazed back up at the sky

"Chad, if you're looking up my skirt, I will actually kill you!"

"Kensei, put her panties back on, would ya?"

"Do it yourself!"

"The hell is going on down there?"

"Relationships are a hard deal" Shunsui sighed as he took a sip of his tea "Right, Nanao-chan?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about Captain" was her monotone responce

"Now, now Nanao-chan!" Shunsui laughed "Are you forgetting our glorious sexcapades?"

SMACK

"There were no glorious sexcapades!" Nanao snapped as she struck her Captain with a nearby book

"Ah, Nanao-chan! Not in front of our guest!"

"It's fine" Tatsuki sighed as she took a sip of her tea "I'm used to it by this point"

"Oh, you too, Tatsuki-chan?" Shunsui moaned "I thought you were level headed"

"I'm getting over a break-up, pity me" She droned before taking another sip

"I myself, have had my fair share of break-ups" Shunsui piped "Let me tell you, Sake beats Tea everyday of the week"

"I'll stick to tea, thanks" She chuckled

"Are you sure? The extra strong stuff will toss away all those bad feelings. Just a word of warning though, it's strong stuff, you may wake to find yourself naked in the middle of Mexico with a only a novelty sized Sombrero superglued to you...happened...to a friend of mine"

"I'm still sticking to the tea" She smiled

"So...nothing to report to Kisuke?" He asked

"Nothing...same as the last 20 months" Tatsuki sighed "That barrier things still there, right?

"Last time we checked" Shunsui nodded

"We're no closer to taking it down from the day we started" Nanao sighed

"Nevertheless, it feels tenser everyday" Shunsui noted "Everyday, It feels like Old Man Yama is going to discover we were the ones who busted out Unohana, Soifon and the Vizards"

"And that I'm just a spy for Kisuke..." Tatsuki quietly added

"With any luck...he will never find out..." Shunsui sighed once again before downing the rest of his tea

"Hopeful praying" She concluded before finishing her tea

"With any luck, that barrier will never-"

BOOM

"What the-?!" Nanao shoted as the entire foundation of Soul Society seemed to shake

"An explosion?" Shunsui questioned as he stood up and rushed to the door

Spotting a faraway section of the Seireitei bathed in green light and smoke

"Well that certainly got their attention" Grimmjow whistled as he looked at the destruction brought on by Ulquiorra's Lanza Del Relampago

"It's time to split up" Ulquiorra declared "Orihime, we must go"

"Be safe" Orihime sweetly told her son as she gave him a bone crushing hug

"Mother, you are hurting me" was his monotone responce

"Don't worry Ms. Inoue, I'll take good care of him!" Ichiru exclaimed as he grabbed Daisuke by the collars and ran off

"Idiots..." Mithra sighed before she began to follow him

"I'll poke around, see what I can find" Grimmjow sneered before vanishing in a trace of Sonido

"I have a certain person I'd like to inspect" Were Szayel's short words before he too departed

Nel & Harribel decided to depart without a single word

"Come" Ulquiorra stated to Orihime as she grabbed onto his shoulder and they too vanished in a flash of Sonido, they too vanished

"What the-" Yoruichi cried as she dashed out of her barracks "This reiatsu! This reiatsu is-"

"Arrancar..." Hitsugaya growled "They're back"

"Captain!" Matsumoto cried as she ran into his office

"I know!" He stated "Come on Matsumoto, we have to head to the front lines!"

Seinosuke Yamada sat at his desk, feeling the reiatsu from the Invaders, surging all over the Seireitei

But despite this, she still sat there, softly corressing the underwear he removed from Isane earlier

"Oh well" he sighed before giving them one more sniff and throwing them in a drawer

With the rest of Isane's clothes he had confiscated and stolen over the months

"Suppose it's time for me to do some actual Shinigami work" He smirked "I'll see if Isane wants to join me on the front lines"

Hidetomo Kajomaru stared agape at the destruction from afar

Before running back into the Squad 13 Barracks

"Captain Ukitake!" He cried as he ran down the halls "Sir, it's...it's-!"

"So...it seems the time has come" Came the booming for Shigekuni Yamamoto

"So it appears, sir" Chojiro Sasakibe nodded "I will be heading to the front lines"

"I see...In that case, I too, shall proceed forward" Yamamoto declared "Alert all of the Gotei 13, the time for war has come once again"

"Oh god..." Shunsui gasped as he looked at carnage

"Is...it..." Tatsuki stuttered "Is it Ichigo?"

"I don't feel Ichigo Kurosaki's reiatsu, but...it's definately recognize some of this Reiatsu" Nanao said, shaking and sweating "It's the Arrancar"

"Tatsuki, we have to get you out of here right now!" Shunsui shouted

"Ain't gonna happen"

With that declaration, the ground in front of them seemed to explode

"Damn!" Shunsui growled as he shielded his himself for the dust

"I'm gonna need all three of ya here" Came a voice as the dust began to settle "You see I got a question that needs answering"

"Who are you?" Shunsui questioned

"'Name's Grimmjow, and like I said" He scoffed with a smirk on his face "I got a question"

"Mayuri-Sama"

"Yes, yes Nemu" He cut her off as he stood up from his chair in his lab "I feel it too"

"Are they here to locate-"

"Of course they are, you stupid girl" Mayuri scoffed "It's most likely their motivation for this attack"

"Should we take precautions?" She asked

"Of course not" He scoffed again "They will never locate where I have hidden the Hogyoku"

"Oh, is that so?"

At the sound of that oily voice, Mayuri creeked his head to find the source

"Sorry for barging in like this but the door was unlocked and I had a hunch..." Came the oozingly, mockingly polite tone "Thank you for confirming that you are the one hiding the Hogyoku"

"This is our third meeting is it not?" Mayuri questioned "And yet, the mere sight of you never fails to irratate me"

"Oh how hurtful" Came the voice as it's owner finally stepped out of the shadows "I take it you've forgetten my name?"

"Oh not at all" Mayuri smiled as he began to unsheath his Zanpakuto "Szayel Apporo Granz"

"Ah perfect" he smiled as he too unsheathed his blade "Well then, let's get this over with. I'm sure Kurosaki-sama will reward me greatly once I return what is rightfully his"

"You see?" Urahara piped as he gently rocked Kaien "That's all he needed!"

"You're a lifesaver" Kukaku sighed as she took the baby off his hands

"I don't think I deserve thanks for taking care of my own son" Kisuke smiled as he rubbed his sons head "Isn't that right? Daddy's always right? Isn't he Kaien?"

"Honestly" Jinta gagged "You two make me sick"

SMACK

"Don't be so rude" Tessai informed him

"Damn it!" Jinta roared as he held the lump on his head

"Do you need a band-aid Jinta?" Ururu asked

"You shut it!"

SMACK

"Damn it Tessai!"

The whole situation awoke an adorable giggle from Kaien

"Well would you look at that" Kukaku smiled "You know, you're much better at this whole parenthood thing than I am"

"I wouldn't say that" Kisuke laughed "Little Kaien here just likes his daddy"

"Apparently more than he likes him mommy" Kukaku sighed "I don't get it, I can't even get him to stop screaming at night"

"It's easy once you know what you're doing" He smiled

"There, please god, tell me what I'm doing wrong" she sighed

"Well-" He began but the sound of a door opening instantly caught his attentions "Apologies, it appears I have a customer"

"Go, I can wait two minutes" Kukaku mumbled

With a small tip of his hat, Kisuke opened the door to the front of his shop

"Hello there and welcome to Kisuke Urahara's house of emporioum! What can I do you fo-"

"Hello Kisuke"

His sentence, his thoughts, every single thing within him froze at the sound of that voice

All those in the back room too, were paralyzed by it's mere sound

The sound of the voice of Ichigo Kurosaki

"And actually, there is something I need from you..."

Renji Abarai was nothing short of dumbfounded from the instant he sensed the Reiatsu

The instant they appeared, he knew it was them

He knew what it meant

It meants these 20 months of peace are over

"Sonuvabitch" He cursed as he grabbed his Zanpakuto

"I don't sense Ichigo or Rukia...but I feel some farmiliar Reiatsu, it's definately them, It's-"

"INNNNCCCCOOOOMMMMMINNNNGGGGG!"

CRASH

"Ow..." Came a grumbling voice from the debris

"What...the hell?" Renji cursed

"That hurt" Came the same voice

"You are the one who wished to make a dramatic entrance" Came a deeper, monotone voice

"Honestly..." Came a mocking female one "You two are nothing more than children"

"Take's one to know one, sister" Came the cocky voice once again

SMACK

"Ow!"

Renji merely raised an eyebrow before the dust finally cleared and the idenitity of the voices were revealed

"'Sup?" Came the cocky one's voice, adding a pop sound "Name's Hamura, this here is Daisuke and this 'ere is my babe Mithra, we got a few questions for ya"

...

"Your...babe?"

SMACK

"OUCH! DAMN IT WOMAN!"

Nelliel Tu Odelschwank continued to Sonido towards that location

The location that just seemed to have an impossible occurance

A mass amount of reiatsu flourished up and then just a quickly vanished

It was impossible, how can someone's reiatsu go so high and then drop down to nothing in an instant

She didn't know, but she was going to find out

Dashing down the halls of the building, which she noted were empty

"Their soldiers must already be on the battlefield"

She dashed down with Sonido, narrowing closer and closer to the area where she last felt that Reiatsu

Each hallway seemed to get darked and darker, she wasn't sure if she was going underground or if the lights were dimmer but it was almost pitch black when she reached her destination

A lab

And it was then she realized what had happened

As she saw a Shinigami Liutenant drag away the corpse of Szayel Apporo Granz

Which was cut cleanly in two

"Ah execellent"

Nel instantly jumped at the voice from behind her, snapping her head around to face her

"A live specimen" Came the words from his grinning mouth "Nemu, disregard the cadaver, restrain her"

Feeling a creeping danger from behind her and sensing no time to reach her Zanpakuto, she threw her elbow back

Only for Nemu to grab her arm and instantly dislocate it

"Good, good" Mayuri smiled at Nel's screams of pain "Nice to see the improvements I made to you have been worth it"

"Thank you, Mayuri-sama" Nemu nodded before a surprise kick from Nel sent her flying across the room

"Damn it" Nel breathed as her lower arm simply dangled

"Or maybe not" Mayuri sighed "Oh well...I take it you're here because you sensed the massive rise in reiatsu, eh Arrancar?"

Nel chose not to respond, only to unsheath her blade

"Very well then" Mayuri chuckled as he reached into his haori "You see...when a Shinigami wishes to gain a second Zanpakuto, the manifestation of the two blades must battle, should his Zanpakuto lose this battle, then he is rid of both forever, but should he win, he shall be bestowed both blades power"

"What're you-" Nel panted

"You see, I made some...adjustments to my Zanpakuto" He smiled "To ensure I wouldn't lose and that my newly aquired second Zanpakuto would be in my grasp with no problems whatsoever"

"You..." Nel growled "He's utilised the same technique as Ichigo..."

"So you see, I now have a second Zanpakuto..." he smiled as he pulled a blade out of his outfit "A little doozy that I discovered dropped in the Fake Karakura town I created, no one was going to miss it so I just scooped it up"

"That's-!" Nel gasped as she instantly recognized the blade

"Bankai, Kamishini no Yari"

...

She couldn't respond

The instant the blade's name was spoken, it had pierced her stomach, leaving a massive gaping hole

"You see" Mayuri smiled he retracted the blade "That massive surge then drop of Reiatsu was me releasing my new Bankai, slaughtering that fool and then just as quickly tucking it away"

Nel couldn't respond, all she could do was bleed out of her wounds as he she fell to her knees

"That Gin Ichimaru, he continues to be interesting, even in death" Mayuri smiled as he wiped Nel's blood off the blade "I'm already getting better with it, I didn't kill you with one blow"

Nel's face smashed into the concrete, the lasts words she heard she heard before blacking out were an order from Mayuri to Nemu to not let her bleed out...

The air in the Kurosaki household went heavy in an instant

The instant they felt it, they knew what was happening

"Ichigo..." Isshin mumbled under his breath

"Ichi-Nii..." Yuzu mumbled

"Yuzu, look after Junichi!" Isshin shouted as he grabbed a small lion shaped plushie

"Hey yo, what're you doin'?!" Came it's voice before a small green pill was ripped out of him

"Dad!" Yuzu cried out before Isshin swallowed the pill, seperating him for his Human body

"Kon, listen to me" Isshin, now in Shinigami form demanded "Take Yuzu and Junichi to the basement, under no circumstances do you leave, got it?!"

"Y-Yeah..." The mod soul, located in Isshin's body mumbled

"Yuzu!" Isshin shouted to her once again

"Yeah!" Yuzu shouted back as she picked up her half-brother who was sitting on the floor, prompting a moan of protest from the baby

"Stay safe" he demanded as he placed kisses on both his childrens heads

And then rushed out the door

"Another!" Ginjo demanded

"No" Giriko refused

"Aw come on!" Ginjo pouted "I'm thirsty!"

"You're drunk" Giriko stated back "At noon, no less"

"Blah, blah, blah, time, pfffft" Ginjo mocked as he blew a raspberry "More booze!"

"Honestly" Riruka scoffed "You were just like this in New York, remember when-"

"Not this again" Yukio sighed

"You shut up!" Riruka snapped back

"Oh for gods sake" Jackie sighed

"Here we go again" Karin sighed

Before the situation could resumed, a spark awoke in all of them

A spark ignited by the sensation of reiatsu

They all froze, their eyes as wide as dinner plates. The sheer shock the situation caused Ginjo to drop the glass he was holding which smashed instantly on the counter

"This feeling..." Jackie mumbled, awestruck

"This is...Shinigami reiatsu...a lot of it" Ginjo noted, his voice nothing but a whisper

"Not just Shinigami" Karin added, awestruck "This is...Ichi-Nii"

Groggingly opening her eyes, Nelliel awoke to unfarmiliar scenery

It was pitch black as far as the eye could see, she seemed to be illuminated solely by a spotlight. Every single breath she echoed throughout the area. Even through the gag covering her mouth

She attempted to step forward, but it was not until she attemped to move her feet did she discover she was suspended above the ground. Looking up, she confirmed that her hands bound in chains, chains so long that they too vanished in the shadows. She noted her arms were bare, one look down and she discovered that she had been stripped completely naked, the massive wound on her stomach covered by a few loose stitches, her ankles too, bound by chains

"Ah you're finally awake"

The sound of that voice instantly reminded her what was going on, she began to shake wildly, attempting to free herself, only to stop when she felt a sharp pain

"Uh-uh-uh" Came the voice from the shadows "I wouldn't move around so much, you could re-open your wounds"

And the owner of the voice, stepped out of the shadows

Of course, it was Mayuri Kurotsuchi

"I wouldn't bother moving at all really, I gave you a small injection that prevents reiatsu flowing through your body, it will only last a few hours but don't worry, I'll give you plenty of top-ups"

Before he continued, he noted something about the arrancar

The bright red hush that had come over her face and tears were forming in the corner of her eyes

"Oh my, are you embarrassed?" Mayuri laughed "Humiliated that I've stripped you naked?...Well...you do havea lovely body"

Nel shut her eyes tightly and let out muffled cries as the scientist fondled her breasts

"Very...very lovely" he smiled as his hands drifted down until his fingers were twidling some of her pubic hair, which he plucked out, earning a small cry from her

"Very nice..." Mayuri smiled as he corressed her buttocks "So very nice"

Nel closed her eyes, her tears of humiliation welling up

However those eyes shot wide open, once she felt Mayuri entered a finger into her ass

She squealed and tried to pull herself off him, but the digit remained in there

"Well, what's this?" Mayuri chuckled as he noted a clear liquid beginning to drip down Nel's legs "I see, are you enjoying this?"

Nel screamed as loudly as she could through the gag

"Well no matter" Mayuri sighed as he removed his finger and walked in front of her "I didn't bring you here to fufill any sexual desires, heavens no"

And then he reached into the shadows and pulled into the light, a cart full of surgerical tools

"I brought you here because I can't be experimenting on an Arrancar in my lab!" he laughed "My Squad don't even know I possess the Hogyoku! How would they every react to me keeping an Arrancar?"

With his statement done, he picked up a scalpel from the cart, promptly Nel to start shaking

"A live Arrancar for me to play with...it must be Christmas"

With a grin on his face, her grabbed the shaking Arrancar by the jaw and held the scalpel to her stomach

"Now then Arrancar" She said with a slimy smile "Let's see what makes you tick"