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Chapter One: Return

I was fiddling with something. No I was building something. It was small and clear. It turned red. I put it on my face; it was a pair of glasses.

Why was I fiddling with glasses?

I saw something a shape. I took the glasses off.

Nothing.

I put them back on, the shape was back. Weird, the glasses revealed something, but what?

I was walking.

Where was I?

A door appeared in front of me, I opened it. Something small collided with me.

A figure of a person, I couldn't make out the face.

It said something in Japanese. I could hear it but there was a strange accent. I couldn't place it. And the words confused me even more.

"Welcome back nii-san!"

The Winter War lasted for a single bloody year. By the end the majority of Aizen's best soldiers were either dead or missing. Of the ten Espada, three had defected to Kurosaki Ichigo's group, five had been killed, and two had gone into hiding.

Soul Society's greatest weren't exempt from the losses either. Kira Izuru was killed by a battle crazed Nnoitra Jiruga, who had somehow survived Zaraki's attack. Komamura Sajin was killed by Aizen himself, after defeating many Arrancar and Tōsen Kaname. Captain-Commander Yamamoto took Wonderwiess Margera down with himself while defending Karakura. Sasakibe Chōjirō was killed shortly after his captain was, defending the Karakura within Soul Society from Aizen. Ōmaeda Marechiyo by a nameless Arrancar towards the end of the war.

The successor to Yamamoto was unanimously decided upon to be Ukitake Jūshirō. His first priority was to rebuild the Seireitei and fill in the missing Captain and Lieutenant spots. Surprisingly these seven spots were filled relatively quickly. Before these spots were filled the Central Forty Six was reinstated. They created a law that stated that required all seated members to undergo an interrogation to confirm their loyalty to the Soul Society, in order to prevent another Aizen.

Due to the heavy losses sustained in the war a new force was created. This force was based in the Living World and served as a permanent advance force of the Soul Society while still remaining a separate element. Shinigami who wished to join this force were allowed to. Seated members who joined were required to return to the Seireitei periodically to perform their duties.

2010, Five Years after the War

Senkaimon

The Karakura Team.

It sounds like some little kids club doesn't it? That's the reaction most of our new recruits have.

You couldn't be farther from the truth.

The Team as it's called is a special force created after the Winter War. Its main function is to locate and train beings with high spirit energy in the Living World. If they don't want to fight we seal their energy away. It's in their best interest; it's either that or getting eaten by hollows. That leads to the second function of the Team: to aid the Shinigami with any Hollows in the Living World.

My job is simple: to monitor. I observe and direct Team members in the field. In an emergency I'm the one that will send out the big guns. I had to perform my duties as a forth seat in the Seireitei and also deliver a few letters. Now I'm in the Senkaimon traveling back to Karakura Town.

Somewhere in Karakura

Kurosaki Ichigo, hero of the Winter War, Vizard, and a Karakura Team captain, sat bored in class. It had been five years since the end of the Winter War, after Aizen's death.

He was studying medicine in the hopes of being more of a help at his family's clinic. Ishida Uryuu was in the same class, studying so he could inherit his father's hospital.

Ichigo glanced at his laptop; a bar was blinking at the bottom. It was a message from Kon.

Yo Ichigo,

Karin and Yuzu are taking care of the hollow outside, don't do anything stupid.

-Kon

Ichigo scowled, sensing his sisters' energies growing stronger as they came closer to the hollow. As if he would run out of class for a hollow that weak. A few minutes later the hollow's energy disappeared all together. It was soon replaced by another, stronger reiatsu.

Rai's back.

Karakura Team Headquarters

A strange smell confronted my nose when I walked into Headquarters. A smell always hung around the ground floor. It comes from Orihime's Arrancar restaurant most of the time. Or it comes from Urahara's lab which is also on the ground floor. Why they put two places prone to mild explosions on the same floor is beyond me.

I saw groups of recruits talking by the elevators. I take the stairs. I dislike recruits, and students. Every time they see me, they either stare or start badgering me with questions. They do this with every Team captain. Probably because all Team captains are Winter War survivors. Or they do it because of my …reputation.

"Yutaka-sensei!" a voice called when I reached the top of the stairs. A few recruits ran up to me.

"Could you answer a few questions for us please" the ringleader asked.

"Sure" I replied, I was used to this by now.

"Is it true that you fought the fifth Espada during the War?" asked a red haired girl.

"Is it true that you hold the record for finishing the academy in the shortest amount of time?" asked another red haired girl, identical to the first.

I nodded to both. Before they could ask any more questions Kurotsuki came and shooed them away, saying I had to take my medicine before I started hallucinating…again.

Bright screens light up my dark office. Maps of areas around the world adorn the bright screens. This room is probably the last place any normal person would find or want a person who is mentally unstable. But then again who ever said we were normal?

Kurotsuki handed me a pile of papers, "these require a captain's signature."

I sighed, more work.

I nodded to Tia Harribel as she made her way out of the dark room.

"Harribel" I called, "there's a group of students down the hallway, I'm sure they'll be overjoyed to have their training master back."

If Harribel could smile in her sealed stated I'm sure she would've. I could almost see the recruits' reactions to her return.

"Urahara-Sensei, Urahara-Sensei! Yutaka-sama is pretty strong right?" a recruit was asking Urahara Kisuke.

"Yes, he's also smart he was the one that figured out how to defeat Noitra, or at least prevent him from re-growing his arms," Urahara replied. "I'm intelligent nice."

The recruits stared at him wide eyed.

"You think we'll ever be on his level Sensei?" Another recruit asked. None of them had noticed the dark skinned woman come in, so most of them jumped when she spoke.

"You'll only get stronger if you train, not stand around asking questions all day!" the blond Arrancar said.

"Harribel -Sensei!" A recruit gasped

"I want all of you to run ten laps around the track!" She ordered

"Ten!" gasped another student. "They like to gasp don't they?"

"Did I stutter? Get to it or it'll be another ten!" She stated calmly as if commenting on the weather.

The recruits practically trampled each other as they fled the room before Harribel could add more laps. She was infamous for it.

I shook my head, I have work to do I couldn't stand around hallucinating. I really should take my medication now. I sat down at my station and put the stack of papers next to the mod soul plush dragon. I brought up the screen with on duty Team members and turned on the headset.

"Alright when you hear your name please respond with something halfway intelligent"

Elsewhere in Headquarters

"You'll only get stronger if you train, not stand around asking questions all day!" Harribel said scaring the recruits.

"Harribel -Sensei! "A recruit gasped

"I want all of you to run ten laps around the track!" She ordered.

"Ten!" Gasped another student.

"Did I stutter? Get to it or it'll be another ten! "She stated calmly as if commenting on the weather.

The recruits began a mad dash for the elevators and stairs before Harribel could add more laps. She probably would anyway, but it was a matter of principle.

Back in Monitor Land…

Bounce. Bounce. Bounce. Bounce.

Rai's eyes followed the bouncing ball of pink. It seemed happy.

"Haro happy! Haro happy!"

Yep definitely happy. Rai assumes that Haro is its name. It was flapping its arms each time it was airborne. It was highly amusing. It was also referring to itself in third person. Rai thought he only referred to Rai in third person.

"Sir?"

"Hmm?"

"What are you looking at?"

"The bouncing pink thing that's saying Haro happy."

"Sir."

"What?"

"Take your medication before you become irrational."

Rai shrugged grabbing the pill bottle and a water bottle, and then took the required amount of medicine. The bouncing Haro was gone.

"I was hallucinating again wasn't I?"

Unknown Location

A figure in green and black strode arrogantly down the dimly lit hallway. The large double doors opened to a room with stairs leading up to a throne. The green and black clad figure knelt in front of the stairs, and addressed the cloaked figure seated on the throne.

"You called my lord?"

The cloaked figure stood and walked over to a pool of water to the right of the kneeling man. It's back facing the kneeling figure.

"Tell me, when you look down on the world what do you see?"

The man in green walked over to peer into the water. A world of tall buildings and paved streets was depicted in the water.

"A world which one day we shall rule"

"A good answer, do you know what I see?"

"No my lord."

"I see a world, a world that is rotten."

Another Unknown Location

A man was sitting on a bench, the birds at his feet gobbling up the crumbs he tossed. He was surrounded by grass and trees. A girl was leaning on the back of the bench seemingly looking out at the lake in front of them. Her eyes were unfocused.

"So this is where you two were"

A stern looking woman walked up to them. The man stopped his crumb tossing at glanced at the woman.

"Have you come to observe the potentials like the young one?"

The girl snapped out of her daze and shot a glare at the man.

"Shut it, bird man"

"Now, now you two, don't fight."

The girl shrugged and went back to staring off into space.

"How is the boy doing?" the woman asked.

"He still hasn't remembered"

"And what about that former member? Has he showed any signs of recovering?"

"Not yet, and his grandson hasn't developed any further either"

"Have you seen anything about the fate of the first?" this was directed to the girl.

"Yes, he was killed by one of them, they seem to be targeting members" the girl replied in a distracted voice.

"He's the one I'm worried the most about" the man stated

"Why?" the woman asked

"He's, shall we say different from the other members, he's one of the only ones with a piece of the fragment and the only with multiple souls" the man explained. "If he made it to the Soul Society there's no telling if he'd still be the same, we don't even know if he'd be a singular being."

"Well there is one good thing." The girl said a thin smile on her lips.

"Oh and pray tell what is it?"

"The boy's past is affecting him, if the first made it to Soul Society in one piece, he'll probably go to the academy…."

"And the boy will either recognize him either from his life or from his death." The man finished smiling.

Description
Chapter One: Return

I was fiddling with something. No I was building something. It was small and clear. It turned red. I put it on my face; it was a pair of glasses.

Why was I fiddling with glasses?

I saw something a shape. I took the glasses off.

Nothing.

I put them back on, the shape was back. Weird, the glasses revealed something, but what?

I was walking.

Where was I?

A door appeared in front of me, I opened it. Something small collided with me.

A figure of a person, I couldn't make out the face.

It said something in Japanese. I could hear it but there was a strange accent. I couldn't place it. And the words confused me even more.

"Welcome back nii-san!"

The Winter War lasted for a single bloody year. By the end the majority of Aizen's best soldiers were either dead or missing. Of the ten Espada, three had defected to Kurosaki Ichigo's group, five had been killed, and two had gone into hiding.

Soul Society's greatest weren't exempt from the losses either. Kira Izuru was killed by a battle crazed Nnoitra Jiruga, who had somehow survived Zaraki's attack. Komamura Sajin was killed by Aizen himself, after defeating many Arrancar and Tōsen Kaname. Captain-Commander Yamamoto took Wonderwiess Margera down with himself while defending Karakura. Sasakibe Chōjirō was killed shortly after his captain was, defending the Karakura within Soul Society from Aizen. Ōmaeda Marechiyo by a nameless Arrancar towards the end of the war.

The successor to Yamamoto was unanimously decided upon to be Ukitake Jūshirō. His first priority was to rebuild the Seireitei and fill in the missing Captain and Lieutenant spots. Surprisingly these seven spots were filled relatively quickly. Before these spots were filled the Central Forty Six was reinstated. They created a law that stated that required all seated members to undergo an interrogation to confirm their loyalty to the Soul Society, in order to prevent another Aizen.

Due to the heavy losses sustained in the war a new force was created. This force was based in the Living World and served as a permanent advance force of the Soul Society while still remaining a separate element. Shinigami who wished to join this force were allowed to. Seated members who joined were required to return to the Seireitei periodically to perform their duties.

2010, Five Years after the War

Senkaimon

The Karakura Team.

It sounds like some little kids club doesn't it? That's the reaction most of our new recruits have.

You couldn't be farther from the truth.

The Team as it's called is a special force created after the Winter War. Its main function is to locate and train beings with high spirit energy in the Living World. If they don't want to fight we seal their energy away. It's in their best interest; it's either that or getting eaten by hollows. That leads to the second function of the Team: to aid the Shinigami with any Hollows in the Living World.

My job is simple: to monitor. I observe and direct Team members in the field. In an emergency I'm the one that will send out the big guns. I had to perform my duties as a forth seat in the Seireitei and also deliver a few letters. Now I'm in the Senkaimon traveling back to Karakura Town.

Somewhere in Karakura

Kurosaki Ichigo, hero of the Winter War, Vizard, and a Karakura Team captain, sat bored in class. It had been five years since the end of the Winter War, after Aizen's death.

He was studying medicine in the hopes of being more of a help at his family's clinic. Ishida Uryuu was in the same class, studying so he could inherit his father's hospital.

Ichigo glanced at his laptop; a bar was blinking at the bottom. It was a message from Kon.

Yo Ichigo,

Karin and Yuzu are taking care of the hollow outside, don't do anything stupid.

-Kon

Ichigo scowled, sensing his sisters' energies growing stronger as they came closer to the hollow. As if he would run out of class for a hollow that weak. A few minutes later the hollow's energy disappeared all together. It was soon replaced by another, stronger reiatsu.

Rai's back.

Karakura Team Headquarters

A strange smell confronted my nose when I walked into Headquarters. A smell always hung around the ground floor. It comes from Orihime's Arrancar restaurant most of the time. Or it comes from Urahara's lab which is also on the ground floor. Why they put two places prone to mild explosions on the same floor is beyond me.

I saw groups of recruits talking by the elevators. I take the stairs. I dislike recruits, and students. Every time they see me, they either stare or start badgering me with questions. They do this with every Team captain. Probably because all Team captains are Winter War survivors. Or they do it because of my …reputation.

"Yutaka-sensei!" a voice called when I reached the top of the stairs. A few recruits ran up to me.

"Could you answer a few questions for us please" the ringleader asked.

"Sure" I replied, I was used to this by now.

"Is it true that you fought the fifth Espada during the War?" asked a red haired girl.

"Is it true that you hold the record for finishing the academy in the shortest amount of time?" asked another red haired girl, identical to the first.

I nodded to both. Before they could ask any more questions Kurotsuki came and shooed them away, saying I had to take my medicine before I started hallucinating…again.

Bright screens light up my dark office. Maps of areas around the world adorn the bright screens. This room is probably the last place any normal person would find or want a person who is mentally unstable. But then again who ever said we were normal?

Kurotsuki handed me a pile of papers, "these require a captain's signature."

I sighed, more work.

I nodded to Tia Harribel as she made her way out of the dark room.

"Harribel" I called, "there's a group of students down the hallway, I'm sure they'll be overjoyed to have their training master back."

If Harribel could smile in her sealed stated I'm sure she would've. I could almost see the recruits' reactions to her return.

"Urahara-Sensei, Urahara-Sensei! Yutaka-sama is pretty strong right?" a recruit was asking Urahara Kisuke.

"Yes, he's also smart he was the one that figured out how to defeat Noitra, or at least prevent him from re-growing his arms," Urahara replied. "I'm intelligent nice."

The recruits stared at him wide eyed.

"You think we'll ever be on his level Sensei?" Another recruit asked. None of them had noticed the dark skinned woman come in, so most of them jumped when she spoke.

"You'll only get stronger if you train, not stand around asking questions all day!" the blond Arrancar said.

"Harribel -Sensei!" A recruit gasped

"I want all of you to run ten laps around the track!" She ordered

"Ten!" gasped another student. "They like to gasp don't they?"

"Did I stutter? Get to it or it'll be another ten!" She stated calmly as if commenting on the weather.

The recruits practically trampled each other as they fled the room before Harribel could add more laps. She was infamous for it.

I shook my head, I have work to do I couldn't stand around hallucinating. I really should take my medication now. I sat down at my station and put the stack of papers next to the mod soul plush dragon. I brought up the screen with on duty Team members and turned on the headset.

"Alright when you hear your name please respond with something halfway intelligent"

Elsewhere in Headquarters

"You'll only get stronger if you train, not stand around asking questions all day!" Harribel said scaring the recruits.

"Harribel -Sensei! "A recruit gasped

"I want all of you to run ten laps around the track!" She ordered.

"Ten!" Gasped another student.

"Did I stutter? Get to it or it'll be another ten! "She stated calmly as if commenting on the weather.

The recruits began a mad dash for the elevators and stairs before Harribel could add more laps. She probably would anyway, but it was a matter of principle.

Back in Monitor Land…

Bounce. Bounce. Bounce. Bounce.

Rai's eyes followed the bouncing ball of pink. It seemed happy.

"Haro happy! Haro happy!"

Yep definitely happy. Rai assumes that Haro is its name. It was flapping its arms each time it was airborne. It was highly amusing. It was also referring to itself in third person. Rai thought he only referred to Rai in third person.

"Sir?"

"Hmm?"

"What are you looking at?"

"The bouncing pink thing that's saying Haro happy."

"Sir."

"What?"

"Take your medication before you become irrational."

Rai shrugged grabbing the pill bottle and a water bottle, and then took the required amount of medicine. The bouncing Haro was gone.

"I was hallucinating again wasn't I?"

Unknown Location

A figure in green and black strode arrogantly down the dimly lit hallway. The large double doors opened to a room with stairs leading up to a throne. The green and black clad figure knelt in front of the stairs, and addressed the cloaked figure seated on the throne.

"You called my lord?"

The cloaked figure stood and walked over to a pool of water to the right of the kneeling man. It's back facing the kneeling figure.

"Tell me, when you look down on the world what do you see?"

The man in green walked over to peer into the water. A world of tall buildings and paved streets was depicted in the water.

"A world which one day we shall rule"

"A good answer, do you know what I see?"

"No my lord."

"I see a world, a world that is rotten."

Another Unknown Location

A man was sitting on a bench, the birds at his feet gobbling up the crumbs he tossed. He was surrounded by grass and trees. A girl was leaning on the back of the bench seemingly looking out at the lake in front of them. Her eyes were unfocused.

"So this is where you two were"

A stern looking woman walked up to them. The man stopped his crumb tossing at glanced at the woman.

"Have you come to observe the potentials like the young one?"

The girl snapped out of her daze and shot a glare at the man.

"Shut it, bird man"

"Now, now you two, don't fight."

The girl shrugged and went back to staring off into space.

"How is the boy doing?" the woman asked.

"He still hasn't remembered"

"And what about that former member? Has he showed any signs of recovering?"

"Not yet, and his grandson hasn't developed any further either"

"Have you seen anything about the fate of the first?" this was directed to the girl.

"Yes, he was killed by one of them, they seem to be targeting members" the girl replied in a distracted voice.

"He's the one I'm worried the most about" the man stated

"Why?" the woman asked

"He's, shall we say different from the other members, he's one of the only ones with a piece of the fragment and the only with multiple souls" the man explained. "If he made it to the Soul Society there's no telling if he'd still be the same, we don't even know if he'd be a singular being."

"Well there is one good thing." The girl said a thin smile on her lips.

"Oh and pray tell what is it?"

"The boy's past is affecting him, if the first made it to Soul Society in one piece, he'll probably go to the academy…."

"And the boy will either recognize him either from his life or from his death." The man finished smiling.