SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 9 out, this is Chapter 10 and the final chapter of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.
Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny. Heck, even the pairings aren't mine.
Chapter 10: Final Chapter - Zanpakutō The Alternate Tale
"Hyōrinmaru!" Hitsugaya sent an ice dragon at the Menos in front of him, Ikkaku and Hōzukimaru taking down another Menos beside him.
"Captain, that was the last one." Matsumoto reported.
"Yeah." Hitsugaya agreed, the two ranking officers of Squad 10 watching the still expanding Reiatsu sphere in the distance. "What's going on in there? What?" he breathed when the sphere started imploding from the inside.
"What just happened?" Rukia wondered, getting back to her feet after she was knocked off by the powerful wave of Reiatsu.
"I don't know why, but the Hollow Reiatsu has vanished." Sode no Shirayuki answered.
"Kurosaki." Inoue gasped when the mist lifted to show Ichigo on the island, kneeling beside the dying Muramasa.
His Zanpakutō blade breaking into half, Muramasa dissolved into Reishi.
"Rain?" Karin blinked when the overcast sky started to rain.
"What's this?" Hebi wondered.
"I feel kinda of strange." Haineko mused.
"I want to go home." Tobiume smiled and returned back to Hinamori's blade.
Hōzukimaru and Ruri'iro Kujaku followed suit, returning to Ikkaku and Yumichika.
"So, you've come back." Ikkaku smirked.
"Welcome back." Hinamori told her Zanpakutō.
"Let's go." Saru told Hebi and returned to Renji's blade.
One by one, the other Zanpakutō returned to their own Shinigami.
"Captain..." Matsumoto voiced, sensing Haineko had returned to her and Hyōrinmaru had also returned to Hitsugaya.
"Yeah, they sure were a handful." Hitsugaya admitted.
Omake: Shinigami Illustrated Picture Book
In Hueco Mundo...
Ulquiorra: (Sitting calmly on a rotating chair with a side table with a cup of tea on it)
Ichigo: Why are you so calm about this, Ulquiorra? Aren't we going back to the Arrancar Arc?
Ulquiorra: (Sipping tea) Don't be a fool.
Chibi Nel: That's right, Ichigo! (Lands on Ichigo's head) There's still some stuff going on with the studio execs. Here you go. It's next week's script. (Pulls out script booklet and hands it to Ichigo)
Ichigo: (Twitches as he opens the script) Why am I always the last one to find out?
Chibi Nel: You're not much airtime, so you were low priority.
Ichigo: (Complains) Oh, come on! I'm the main character!
Ulquiorra: (Addresses audience now that Ichigo is out of commission) Everyone, bear with us.
SailorStar9: At the start of the next arc, in the fake Karakura Town, Halibel continues her fight with Hitsugaya. Halibel releases her sword, Tiburón, and slices Hitsugaya's body in two. As she attempts to move toward Guardian Frost to exact revenge on him for destroying her Fracción, Hitsugaya reappears and reveals what she sliced was merely an ice illusion.
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