Chapter 35. Lords unite

{ KAZUMI'S POV }

Kazumi gaped in devastation and eventually lowered her shaking hand, dropping the telephone down on the side table. She stared at the wall as her tears slowly dropped into the carpet, hence it was the first time she'd ever experienced that sad emotion. Her entire body began to panic, wrapping her arms around her head.

" No...it can't be.... Aizan, you can't be dead." She muttered.

With minutes passed and two or more tears ran down on her face like a waterfall, she took a deep breath huffed with her mouth wide opened a couple of times, before went berserk and screamed in agony and threw the telephone on the wall.

[ *SMASH* ]

[ *SHATTER* ]

Along with furnitures and other objects being thrown and smashed into pieces, she weakly collapsed on her knees with a booming hyperventilated scream that echoed throughout the castle and followed with a blubbering sob.

When Bezel and Lila arrived to figure out the ugly crying voice coming from the living room, they saw Kazumi in a mourning situation. They briskly went towards her and Bezel asked:

" My queen. You seemed distressed, what make you so upset at this beautiful morning?"

Just before she could answer him, a shadowy figure swiftly went from a dark room to the living room where Kazumi spent almost her entire hour, landed on Bezel's shadow. As it raised its entire body, revealing Jupiter, his emotions were filled with contempt and remorse.

" Lord Beelzebub‡, Lady Lila. It's so good that you two are here, but today is not a good day." Jupiter said, in a gravely, sad tone which spooked Bezel.

" Oh, Jupiter. You scared me for a second. You told me that today is not a good day. What makes our queen so blue?" Bezel asked some more.

Jupiter simply shook his head in disbelief, leaving Bezel anxious. Kazumi couldn't hold back her tears, felt as if her heart broke into thousands of pieces when Kisuke told her those spiteful news

When he finally took a deep breath, he answered:

" This is bad, really bad. Surely, the yellow hornet must've spread the news, right about now. You haven't heard about his passing, right?"

" No, I didn't. Who died actually?" Bezel asked with a venom etched in his voice, ready to be spat out.

" Well, it's Aizan. Apparently he was found dead early in the morning. I couldn't detect who it was, but my theory it could be one of Yamamoto's soldiers." Jupiter finally explained, which boiled Bezel's blood with livid. Kazumi still couldn't stop crying as Lila tried comforting her. Whilst, Jupiter managed to follow him.

Bezel stormed out of the living room and in rage, as he turned to Jupiter and hissed :

" Those bastards! How can Yamamoto let this happened?! How can he be so heartless and cruel?! He let this dragon bitch and killed him in cold blood. The Soul society won't get away with this and I'm certain of this. I'll get to the bottom of this."

" But we need some strategies to do so.

Their much stronger in numbers and so does Yamamoto, despite his age." He stated.

Bezel simply massaged his chin and in deep thoughts he found an answer. He ordered Jupiter:

" Jupiter, go to the Soul society and get me every information on his funeral. Whatever it is they were doing. We'll take his body and bury him ourselves with dignity."

By then, Jupiter deviously grinned behind his shadow by Bezel's upcoming plan.

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MEANWHILE IN THE SOUL SOCIETY....

Somewhere on the 4th division houses, sat Captain Unohana on her bed. She carefully read the Yellow hornet's news that was displayed in newspaper size. She had neither showed any remorse nor contempt by Aizan's sudden death, but a relief. Whoever was capable of such tremendous fatality, might be doing this to their own benefit.

" Aizan's dead already?" Captain Unohana asked herself, then continued with a soft scoff: " I see. I think he deserve it for everything he'd done. Kisuke might be making a mistake of keeping him alive, but his death could be the light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, at the same time could spell disaster. I wonder what reaction Genryusai is receiving after was threatened to destroy the Soul society by him. "

Within seconds, she took the candle from the shelf and set the newspaper alight. She watched as the newspaper slowly turned into ashes.

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At the Soul society, time slowly kept its pace and transformed it into the middday during a late autumn day. Many residence from the Rukongai district participated on restoring and cleaning nearly a quarter of the damaged buildings, including the damaged wall from the clinic.

Some were guarding anyone from the Sēireitei who tried to pass, whilst the colossal man was in recovery. Starrk went back to the carriage, whilst Haēn, Yuma and Kenny were reuniting with Akamaru and Shūrū. In the meantime, Yumikō and Hirōshi were still in Yamamoto's office and the rest of the remaining captains were back on their duty.

Meanwhile, a strange looking white pigeon was riding a Qilin*, carrying a bag full of herbs and other healing kits. On its broken right wing was covered in bandages. When no one ever noticed something unusual, it didn't take long before they placed a wanted poster of Rakshasa. Which the poster wrote:

BEWARE: SAI RAKSHASA

WANTED FOR BEWITCHING AND CAUSING HAVOC ON THE SOUL SOCIETY

REWARD: 200,000,000 ¥

" Even if anyone else see a white pigeon riding a Qilin, just so you know, that would be Rakshasa!" Shouted one of the soul reaper. With mixed reviews spreading across the group, the pigeon happily walked away undetected. The moment when a female soul reaper spotted a pigeon riding a Qilin, she immediately shouted:

" THERE HE IS!! RAKSHASA!!"

Everyone turned their backs and saw him. All of them drew their zanpakuto and headed straight towards the pigeon and the Qilin. With its left wing raising towards the sky, an arctic blue coloured mist appeared from it as it threw it to the ground, creating a smoke bomb effect.

Although it didn't make any sounds, loud coughs and raspberry sounds were monotonous. As soon as the smoke was clear, they noticed a Qilin galloped towards the Kuchiki manor, leaving so many concerns.

" Rakshasa is heading towards the Kuchiki castle. We have to stop him!" One of them half yelled.

" But going there is a suicide mission!" Another one yelled as well.

" Hey, I heard Lieutenant Kuchiki is back. I suggest we ask her. Or we could ask the wife of the 8th division captain. " The third one responded.

When all argue with frustrating individual chattering, it was the moment of seconds before they agreed. All were split into four groups and went to their separate ways in. However, the white pigeon was hiding behind the trees along with the healing equipments. Its smirk appeared on its beak before it flew away.

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{ ICHITARO'S POV }

Li and other remaining lieutenants went back from the world of the living after Abaddon's fierce attack as they went back to their workplace. Only Chōjirō stayed behind for a further investigation. When Li arrived around the late morning, he wasted no time as he simply grabbed and opened one of the Unohana's vintage style first aid kid.

At first, he opened Ichitaro's wound, which was spiking bright red due to high inflammatory. Then, he used an ancient Chinese healing hand style technique by pressing both of his fingers on his injured leg in order to cool his wounds down.

Both Rukia and Ichitaro's sisters were there, yet have Li enough time for his healing process. Anxiety were in their minds.

One of the soul reapers ran towards Rukia and asked if Rakshasa was there.

" You know you don't say that to someone from the royal squad. What if someone from the 6th division finds out about this or worse? " She asked.

" We know that. But it's the Kuchiki elders who requested this." Spoke the soul reaper.

In annoyance, she sighed and scratched her head.

" Very well then. I'll check on Captain Kuchiki and see if the white pigeon conspiracy is true."

Eventually, without saying a word, she briskly left Yoshimura and Rangiku at the hospital passage in a ` vulnerable ` position.

When Li was done within few minutes and Ichitaro's leg injury was cooled almost completely, he grabbed the bandage from

Both Yoshimura and Rangiku were genuinely surprised when Ichitaro's wound was cleaned and treated as if his scars are almost unseen.

After Li was done, he noticed that both of the twins were there, but not Rukia. He looked from left to right and even sensed her spirit energy from the hospital. It seemed she was already gone.

" Say, where is Lieutenant Kuchiki by the way?" He asked.

" I don't know. Maybe some guy asking her on her brother. A family crisis of involving Rashka or something."

' Oh no. Sai is back.' Li thought and kindly request, " Alright. Would you please guard the patient until I come back? I don't want every single one of them to come here and attack him. Especially that eye patched captain, do you understand?"

" Don't worry about a thing, Dr Li. We'll take great care of him." Yoshimura replied. As soon as Li left with a smile on his face, Rangiku noticed that she can`magically` hear his thoughts from his mind. She was confused at first before checking how Ichitaro was doing.

When they walked through the door and saw Ichitaro waving, both girls sat on each side of the bed and were pleased their twin brother was lucky to be alive.

Time slipped by in the middle of the day and the `fake` Hanatarō was searching for something or someone. When he somehow sensed a spirt energy coming from the room where Ichitaro was there, he didn't hesitated to go there.

The girls were baffled, but at the same time very hostile at him.

" Wait, isn't that same messenger that gave the Yokai king a butterfly that an old man was giving him some kind of a cryptic message or something?" Rangiku asked.

" Yeah, it is him. He's also the same guy that brought me here before I gave up my ghost. " Said Ichitaro.

Both were impressed at Hanatarō's bravery, but had taken him further at side of the door.

" I wish I could thank you for saving my twin brother, but it's Dr. Li's ordered us not allowing anyone, including the eye patched captain, near him."

" Oh n..no problem. I was just checking if he's alright."

" Yes. He sure is." Rangiku muttered.

Suddenly, another soul reaper arrived and it looked just like him. He too was shocked as he was, as if he saw mirror version of himself.

" Hōshi, what are you doing there? We know what will happen if Li would be there! " He shouted.

When the triplets peeped through the door, they saw two Hanatarōs at the same time.

Once another Hanatarō headed towards them, he simply grabbed the fake one before leaving.

" Wait a minute, two flower boys?" Ichitaro asked in confusion.

" Sorry about Hōshi's mess they created." Hanatarō answered.

" Hōshi? I thought you're Tsunayashirō."

" No, I'm Yamada. They are Tsunayashirō."

" They? What are you taking about?" The triplets asked in unison.

" Pardon my impromptu visit, Sir and two madam. As I have explained to everyone from the entire divisions, they are androgynous and non-binary. Since you're new here, I'd like to introduce them. "

" Their name is Hōshi and they are my right hand person since 2 years. They are a skilled warrior and they have the ability to shape shift into any entity. Hence that's why I chose them. My apologies if they're getting you into trouble." Hanatarō explained.

By the time Rangiku wanted to asked as well, Captain Zaraki arrived too.

" Stop right there, Hanatarō Yamada. Captain Yamamoto wants to see you and Hōshi." He ordered.

" Oh okay. See you later, then." Hanatarō said before both him and Hōshi left.

Meanwhile, Rangiku could once again hear in Zaraki's thoughts :

' Stupid fool. You are as naive as your brother, Hanatarō. Defending someone who's surname was the exact same terrorist. '

When they finally left, Yoshimura gaped in amazement and asked:

" What the fuck just happen?"

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Inside of the Kuchiki manor, Byakuya sat down on his bed. He was in deep thoughts and held with a small Chinese style cup of warm green tea on his hands. After the catastrophic attack on the Soul society and nearly died just by saving his adopted sister and killed Jupiter, he was treated with his serious wounds and was lucky to be alive.

However, when he and Jupiter fought, he managed to escape and instantly stabbed in the collarbone and on the midsection, almost killing him.

The moment he started at the trees shredded their leaves into almost completely naked, it didn't take minutes before a white pigeon arrived at the doorstep and it turned itself into a gorgeous looking young man with a snow white hair and yellow eyes, wearing a white shitagi. He was carrying healing herbs and bandages in his bag and he drew closer towards Byakuya.

" Tsagaan*, I have missed you so much. I-I have to get so many medical equipments and try to make you feel better." The young lad said with a shy smile on his face.

Byakuya was agitated at first, then, like lightning on a snow storm, he smiles back at him as they drew closer together and hugged each other immediately.

" Oh, Sai." Said Byakuya, gently grabbing his body closer to his. He softly stroked his smooth face and continued, " You went through all this trouble for me? I was worried if your wound could be reopened on your arm again. "

" Don't worry about me, I asked one of the maids from my village for help." He explained, which eased Byakuya's worries away.

As they glanced at each other, Sai wrapped around his arms on Byakuya's shoulder when someone, accidentally opened the door.

Sai, immediately turned himself into a white pigeon again and when a person showed up, it was Rukia.

" Hey, Byakuya..... Is that a pigeon sitting on top of your crotch?" Asked Rukia when she saw her brother and Sai sitting a little `too` comfortably.

" There's nothing for you to worry about." He answered.

Rukia was astonished by his honesty. She went towards him and sat down right next to him. They were silent for minutes and finally she broke silence as she said:

" You have to apologise for one of your members. They just want me to find this ordinary white pigeon on the way to the Kuchiki manor."

" It's okay. The elders must've been overprotective of me when I first met an old friend of mine who was a Khitan. "

" Oh I see. And I want to thank you for trying to save me back there. "

" I know you're trying to protect these kids. That's because you can defend yourself, doesn't mean you don't need help at all. As long as I'm alive, I'll take care of you." Byakuya spoke as he rubbed Rukia's arms for comfort.

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At Captain Commander Yamamoto's office, Captain Yamamoto, finally concluded his meeting with Emperor Hirōshi and Dark lord Yumikō Mishima. He even invited them for Aizan's `execution` along with the other rulers from the different spirit world.

" His execution will start by three days." He reported.

Both of them were shocked and Hirōshi asked:

" The same day the Quincy king came and attack this place thousands of years ago?"

" Indeed. When winter strikes, that is the day when Juha Batch and his troops declare war on the Soul society for his father's sacrifice and his wife's murder. " He explained.

" Aizan once believe that when he had the hōgyōku and his zanpakuto reached its full hypnosis, he's already invisible. But when he died, there's an obvious explanation, we are not above Celestia's rule. "

" When there's a balance between life and death, there is nothing we can do to stop it. Whether we're humans or supernatural entities, her rules remain the same. Which is why we finally agreed with our alliance." Yamamoto continued and both of them agreed.