Disclaimer: i do not own Bleach or its characters, i do own Haruki, Akuma, Kyoko, Kuma

OMG last chapter *does happy dance!!!!*

Chapter 5

From his post on the roof of the barracks Haruki could clearly see Kisuke and Tessai as they made their way through the trees bordering the road.

"I wonder what they're up to."

"Knowin' Urahara, I'd say no good... So, ya gunna do anythin' about it?"

"No, I couldn't stop them even if I tried," Haruki looked up at the sky as the full moon broke through the clouds, bathing the whole of squad ten in silver light.

"Ya worried, I can tell" Akuma said knowingly, "I can't tell who ya more worried about though, Kyoko or that babe Lisa." Haruki blushed furiously, making Akuma laugh scornfully, "I'm part of ya soul, ya can't hide from me. Though sometimes there are some things that I wish I could bloke out."

"Wh-What's that supposed to mean?!"

"Seriously, some of the thing's ya think of, no wonder ya single."

"Shut your mouth, pervert!" Haruki had never wished so much that his zanpakto would just stop talking.

"I'm the pervert?!" Akuma made no effort to hide his smugness as Haruki looked down at the floor, seriously considering jumping and knocking himself out, just to shut Akuma up. "That's not a very nice thing ta think."

"Haruki?" Rangiku walked along the roof and sat down beside him, "do you think the Captain's okay?"

"Of course she is; why wouldn't she be?" Haruki replied, he looked down at her in confusion when she started babbling incoherently, the only thing that he could clearly make out was, "Please don't tell the Captain."

"Rangiku! Rangiku slow down! Start from the beginning." It took the girl a moment to calm down enough so that Haruki could understand what she was saying.

"Earlier I went to see Kyoko, I needed some help filling out a report that I was doing. Please don't tell her, but Captain Hirako was there and..."

"You heard their argument," Rangiku nodded miserably. "Don't worry," Haruki told her reassuringly, "I won't tell Kyoko, don't worry about those two either, they'll sort it out between them in a couple days."

"Hypocrite."

"Shut up Akuma!" The moon moved across the night sky as the two of them sat there in silence, both worrying about the investigation squad, and hoping that they would come back uninjured.

The rising sun's light stung Haruki's eyes as he sat up groggily, looking around he remembered that Rangiku had gone off to bed a couple of hours after she had arrived, he had meant to go to bed as well, but instead he had fallen asleep on the roof minutes after the girl left. A shadow fell over him and he looked up sleepily, meeting the yellow gaze of the squad two Captain herself.

"Haruki, I need you to come with me, it's urgent." Hoping for something doesn't always make it happen.

OOO

Haruki looked down in complete shock at the nine of them lying on the floor, all of their faces covered by intimidating white masks.

"I don't know what's happened to them," Yoruichi said as she knelt down beside Rose and lifted him carefully off of the ground, moving his head so that he would not stab her neck with the bird-like mask. "All I know is that Kisuke and Tessai were trying to help them and they got arrested for it. I also know that unless we move them quickly all of them face being executed."

"Why did you come to me?" Haruki asked his hands shook at his sides; he resented the fact that he couldn't make them stop. Yoruichi turned and looked him in the eye.

"Because you are the only person that I know I can trust and who I know will be able to handle this." Haruki gulped and nodded, he stepped forwards and picked up Lisa, he was suddenly filled with anger as he looked down at her and the diamond shaped mask that covered her face. "Follow me." Haruki soon fell behind Yoruichi, forcing her to slow down so that he could keep her in sight.

Soon they reached the entrance to a cave and wasted no time in making their way down the tunnel. Haruki gasped in amazement as they came out into a wide desert area scattered with large boulders and rocks.

"This place is amazing!" He said as Yoruichi lead him up to one of the taller cliffs, where he was surprised to see Kuma pacing impatiently. "What's Kuma doing here?"

"I've asked him to guard the gigai's that I retrieved from the squad twelve barracks; would you be able to stand and guard this place while we go and collect the others?" Kuma nodded his head at Yoruichi's question, but as she and Haruki turned to leave he stepped in front of them, glaring threateningly. "I promise, I will explain everything to you, but time is too important to waste now. I'll explain once we have everyone safely here." Kuma sniffed and moved out of the way, seeing the wisdom in Yoruichi's words.

When they got back to the barracks Yoruichi reached down to pick up Kyoko but Haruki put his hand on her shoulder, stopping her.

"Does Kuma know that she's here?" He asked her as she straightened up.

"He knows that she is here but not what has happened, though it won't take him long to figure it out" Yoruichi replied, her eyes widened when she realised what Haruki was trying to say.

"We'll take Kyoko last" Haruki said as he walked over to Hachi and took one of his arms, "if Kuma goes into a rage there are only three people who can control him without seriously injuring him or just making things worse, and all three of them are lying over there" Haruki said as he tilted his head towards Hiyori, Kyoko and Shinji.

As they moved back and forth between the locations Haruki could see Kuma growing more and more anxious. Finally Kyoko was the only one left, Haruki picked her up and quickly left the barracks behind, he was outside the entrance to the cave when he noticed that Yoruichi had disappeared. He glanced behind him but she was nowhere in sight, he decided that taking care of his injured friends was more important. He was already covered in blood from the other's wounds and knew that the best thing to do at that moment was get them seen to.

Kuma's eyes were shining angrily as Haruki walked slowly towards him.

"Kuma stay calm" the Lieutenant said quietly as he walked over to where Shinji was lying, "the worst thing that could happen is us being discovered, please just stay here and stay calm." Haruki knelt down and placed Kyoko gently next to Shinji, as she slid out of his arms Haruki nearly retched at the amount of her blood that coated his uniform.

That was too much for Kuma, with a deafening snarl he bolted for the exit. Without thinking Haruki sprang after him and tackled the wolf to the ground, both of them tumbled down the rocks, both fighting to gain the advantage. When they hit the base of the cliff Kuma was standing over Haruki with his fangs inches from the man's throat, Haruki's knuckles turned white with strain as he gripped Kuma's horns, barely keeping the glistening fangs away from his neck. Instinctively he remembered everything that Kyoko had told him to do if he ended up in a situation like this. He made himself as small as possible, which wasn't difficult compared to Kuma's bulk, he held the wolf's furious gaze for a second before turning his eyes away. It took more will power than he thought possible but slowly he stretched out his neck, leaving his throat exposed; and there he had been thinking that being submissive to an angry member of squad eleven was a bitch; that was nothing compared to this.

"Please calm down; you'll only make things worse if you go tearing into the Seireitei like that, besides you need to guards this place to make sure that nothing else happens to Kyoko and the others." He spoke quietly and briefly caught Kuma's gaze before letting his eyes slide away again. Slowly, the wolf's breathing became more even and the pressure that he had been putting on Haruki's arms lessened, he sighed and stepped off of his captive as Yoruichi returned, followed by Kisuke and Tessai.

"Thankyou, Yoruichi" he heard Kisuke say as the two of them made their way back up the cliff.

"No need to thank me," Yoruichi replied as she unwrapped a scarf from around her head, "I'll smack you later for not coming to get me last night. We brought all nine of them here; I also brought all of the new gigais that you've been working on. Now start talking! I want whatever strategy you thought up for the worst case scenario back when you first heard about this whole incident from Hirako." Kisuke looked at her with a slightly lost expression on his face, Yoruichi stared him down.

"So you've completely seen through me" he said eventually with a grin on his face, "what a sneaky woman."

"Like you're one to talk" she replied.

"Tessai, could you please freeze time for Hirako and the others, and put level two and three barriers around this area." He looked at Haruki as he walked up beside them before talking to Tessai again, "within the next twenty hours, I'll make ones for the three of us and the nine of them, twelve gigais which will completely cut off our reiatsu."

"Should I go back to Seireitei and see if I can cause a distraction?" Haruki asked, feeling very cut out in the conversation between the Captains.

"What are you talking about?" Kisuke turned to him with a confused expression on his face, "one of the gigais is for you, did you really expect us to leave you here to take all of the damage? Aizen will know by now that you helped us, if you go back now you'll be killed, either you'll be executed or Aizen will kill you, either way it's the same result. You're coming with us."

"What about Yoruichi?" Tessai asked.

"Don't worry about me" Yoruichi said calmly, "I can get away on my own."

"We'll hide in the real world and take our time while we deal with this problem," Kisuke continued, "we'll do it; we'll find a way to reverse hollowfication. Haruki, would you take a look at their wounds; some of them were hurt pretty badly. You won't be able to heal them once Tessai has frozen time, but its best that you know what there is to deal with."

OOO

Haruki slumped down on the sofa exhausted; healing nine people with serious injuries had turned out to be more stressful than he had thought. It had been a whole month since they had fled from the Soul Society and taken up refuge in the abandoned warehouse. Kisuke's base in the human world had looked neglected when they arrived but now it looked as homey as an abandoned warehouse could, with a sofa and numerous chairs scattered around the main room, a basic kitchen and a multitude of bedrooms, each of which was being occupied by one of the hollowfication victims.

Haruki rubbed his green eyes tiredly as he turned on his back and stared up at the high ceiling; over the month Lisa, Kyoko and the others had all been confined to a room each, when he needed to see to their injuries they always had to be knocked out and restrained, Haruki had found out the hard way what would happen if they weren't; if Tessai hadn't been with him at the time Hiyori would have easily ripped his head clean off of his shoulders.

"Why the hell is it taking so long to find a solution to this?!" Haruki suddenly shouted as he drove his fist into the back of the sofa.

"These things aren't easy to reverse" Kisuke said as he walked into the room and sat down in one of the chairs, he put his head in his hands and sighed, looking even more exhausted than Haruki did. "How well are they healing?"

"Except for obvious problems they're otherwise pretty much completely healthy, except for Kyoko. I spent nearly all of my career as a Soul Reaper in the medical corps and I can honestly tell you that I have never seen a sword wound that bad, and it doesn't help that the hollow's reiatsu isn't reacting well to my kido." Haruki flipped back over and looked directly at Kisuke, "if we don't reverse this soon she isn't going to survive. What do you know so far?"

"There isn't much to it really" Kisuke said as he relaxed back into the chair, "their bodies act on their own as a normal hollow would while their souls reside in their inner worlds, being suppressed by the hollow's souls. I don't want to use the Hogyoku too soon; if I tear down the walls between them the hollows could kill them instantly. We just have to trust that they can keep fighting for now."

Kisuke looked deep in thought while Haruki went through what the scientist had told him. He knew that this was a long and taxing scenario on Kisuke and all of them, but he also knew that if they didn't think of something soon Kyoko would definitely die. There was also Kuma to think about; when they had arrived at the warehouse he had also taken residence in one of the bedroom, he had not come out once since and Haruki was starting to worry about him. Every day the wolf was becoming quieter and eating less and less food.

"Fight..." Kisuke sprang to his feet, startling Haruki out of his thoughts as he walked quickly out of the room, returning swiftly a few minutes later with Tessai and Yoruichi. "Haruki, Tessai, I need you to get Kyoko and move her down to the training ground, afterwards restrain her however you see necessary and place level three barriers around her. Yoruichi, you come and help me." Without answering any of their half asked question the blonde man rushed from the room, Yoruichi close at his heels.

OOO

The Hogyoku glowed ominously as Kisuke held it out towards the barrier, there was a bright flash and a deafening roar as the kido spell that held Kyoko down incinerated; the hollow glared hatefully at them as it stumbled to its feet, its black rimmed yellow irises glowed madly through its green marked white mask. The mask was an oval with tapering tips that covered her whole face, the eyes slits were a continuous cross shaped opening in the centre of the mask, narrow tapering oval discs rimmed the eyes, extending slightly out from the main mask. Horns extended from above each eye, rimming the dark green oval markings that decorated the forehead, fangs added to the terrifying appearance as the hollow stalking around the training area, unable to reach the Soul Reapers through the barriers.

"What now?" Haruki asked as kisuke stepped forwards.

"We fight the hollow's body while Kyoko fights it's soul, if my theory is correct and she defeats it, she will probably turn back to normal," he answered.

"What if she doesn't defeat it?" Haruki continued. Kisuke hesitated before answering.

"If we don't try something she'll die soon anyway." Without another word Kisuke stepped through the barrier.

The hollow's head snapped around, instantly focusing on Kisuke as he walked towards it.

"I see that you're still as observant as ever" Kisuke said, light shone off of Benihime's blade as he swung the sword in a wide arc, taking his time to examine the hollow and see how it would react. Kisuke was taken aback as the hollow sprang forwards immediately, reaching newly formed claws towards his throat. He dodged and moved behind the hollow, this was obviously going to be a lot different to fighting Kyoko herself, all of the patience and preciseness that she usually put into her battles was gone.

The hollow snarled as a hole ripped its way right through her chest, as the hole formed a pair of thin white plated arms grew from underneath her main ones, adding extra deadly weapons to her weaponry. Kisuke braced himself as the hollow recovered itself and charged again, he noted that the hollow was moving much slower than Kyoko would have, he took his time in dodging away from the attack. The fist connected with the boulder just beside his head, Kisuke's eyes widened in surprise at the amount of damage the strike had caused, the boulder had been cracked half way through. Grimacing he swung Benihime around in a counter attack; sparks flew into the air as the hollow brought its bare arm up to bloke the attack.

They continued fighting like that for fifteen minutes, every minute the hollow kept transforming, so much so that Kisuke began to fear that he had been wrong, that this wasn't going to work. The hollow swung a clawed hand out viciously, slicing Kisuke's arm and sending him staggering back. The hollow stopped and roared triumphantly before moving in to finish him off. Yoruichi kicked it in the back and sent it flying awkwardly over his head. The hollow shrieked in agony and writhed on the floor, sending shard of rock into the air as it pounded the ground.

"Damn" Yoruichi said as she stood beside him, "I didn't mean to hurt her that much."

"Fighting this one, I think fifteen minutes is going to be the limit for all of us" Kisuke gasped.

"Is it working?" Yoruichi asked anxiously. Kisuke shook his head mutely.

"We'll go through all four of us for fifteen minutes, if she hasn't defeated the hollow by then, we'll have to presume that she won't defeat the hollow at all, and we'll have no choice but to kill her."

OOO

Kyoko opened her eyes and glared at her mirror image as she walked across the dark red water of her inner world towards her. The moon's silver light shone off of the woman's ink black hair and malicious black and yellow eyes; her pale skin looked ghostly in the light.

"So they finally decided ta risk usin' that Hogyoku thing did they? Heh, they must be gettin' desperate, who would have thought that ya would make friends with such idiots."

"Idiots, huh?" Kyoko replied as her inner hollow leapt onto one of the higher rock platforms, "I would have thought that ya would find this convenient, know ya don't have ta tear down that wall yourself."

"Hmmm, I guess that's true" the hollow said as she drew a zanpakto, it looked identical to Amaya, except the hilt was green rather than red and the blade was pitch black. "I wonder if you'll be able ta forgive them."

"What the hell ya talkin' about?" Kyoko snapped as she drew her own sword.

"'Cause of them I don't have ta waste loads of energy destroyin' that wall. Which means..." The hollow jumped off of the rock and swung her sword at Kyoko's head. Kyoko cried out as she blocked the attack and realised that the hollow was a lot stronger than she looked. "Killin' you will be a much easier job!"

The hollow swung her blade around again; Kyoko side stepped and leapt from rock to rock, trying to put distance between herself and her enemy, a feat which she was surprised to see didn't take long.

"Get back here and fight me!!!" The hollow shrieked as she struggled to keep the fleeing Soul Reaper in sight, "ya really think runnin' away from me is gunna solve this?!!"

"What's wrong?" Kyoko called back, seeing an opportunity to gain the advantage, "can't ya keep up?"

"SHUT IT!!!" She stopped in her tracks and pointed her clenched fist in Kyoko direction. "CERO!!!!!!" The green energy beam struck the rocks to Kyoko's right, smashing them to splinters.

"I can't believe that ya aim is even worse than mine!" The Soul Reaper called back; she didn't notice the flying debris from the explosion until it had struck her in the head and sent her tumbling down to the red-mist coated ground.

"Wow" Kyoko scrambled back to her feet as her copy leapt down in front of her, a smug expression on her face. "I can't believe that ya got taken out by a piece of rock!" She laughed as she crashed into Kyoko; sparks littered the air as the two of them fought against each other, trying to gain the upper hand.

"Ya think that ya can beat me in a contest of pure strength? Ha! For a Captain ya still have a lot of shit ta learn about the world. Too bad, it's not gunna matter soon." The hollow rushed forwards and crushed Kyoko against one of the rocks. She smirked as the Soul Reaper struggled but couldn't get loose.

"Hado 33! Sokatsui!" The hollow squealed as she clawed at her eyes, Kyoko took the opening and darted away, she was half way back up the rocks when a heavy weight fell on her and dragged her back down. She heard a clattering sound as her sword fell into the shadows, completely out of her reach. The hollow snarled as she lifted Kyoko against the cliff by the neck of her shirt. Kyoko grunted as a powerful fist connected with her face, she could tell by the pain and by the amount of blood running into her mouth that her nose had broken instantly.

"Enough of the cheap tricks; without ya sword ya dead, now all I have ta do is enjoy it." Kyoko was thrown to the ground by her double ganger, she screamed as her opposite stomped on her back, pinning her down. "Awful bit of déjà vu there, wouldn't ya say?" The hollow said as she twisted her foot sharply between Kyoko's shoulder blades, ripping another scream from her throat. Flash backs of that night a month ago, cold hands on her arm, a foot pinning her to the ground. Couldn't get out. Couldn't move. Couldn't move. Couldn't move...

"What's this?" The hollow purred in Kyoko's ear, "is the little Soul Reaper afraid?"

OOO

The only thing left of his Captain was the mess of dark brown hair falling over the creature's shoulders. Haruki gritted his teeth as the hollow whipped out its long, snake like tail; he brought his zanpakto up to bloke the attack but was too slow. The tail smashed through the shaft of the spear and sent it scattering across the field in splinters.

"Shit!" Haruki cursed as the creature stormed forwards and drove its fist into his stomach, sending him to his knees. "Kyoko..." Haruki gasped as the hollow stood over him, "Kyoko, you can beat this; you can't lose. There's too much to leave behind." Haruki looked up into the hollow's yellow eyes, hoping to see his Captain in there. He cried out as the creature swung at him and sent him flying across the ground.

Haruki gagged as he struggled to his hands and knees, he froze as a dark shadow fell over him...

OOO

The rock face shivered as Kyoko crashed against it. She slumped limply to the ground as the hollow walked leisurely towards her, taking all of the time that she wanted.

"Well isn't that interstin'" she said after pausing for a second. She knelt down in front of Kyoko and grabbed her chin, forcing their eyes to meet. "Do ya want me ta tell ya what's goin' on outside? That little Lieutenant of yours is tryin' ta call you back!" The hollow laughed as if it was the funniest joke she had ever heard. Kyoko clenched her hands angrily, but she couldn't do anything, she no longer had the strength to move at all.

"Oh I can't wait to see their faces! The faces of those four idiots tryin' ta save you! Can't you imagine what they'll look like when they realise that ya gunna rip them ta pieces? Hahaha, I can't wait!" The hollow smirked as a new thought came to her, "oh, and not ta forget those other hollows. They'll have ta go to, can't have too much competition, ya know how it is."

"Don't... Go... Near them..."

"Hmmm?" Kyoko tried to stand up only to be pushed back down by the hollows hand on her stomach. "Oh of course!" She said happily, "that hollow with the pharaoh mask is your lover isn't he? Haha! I'll have ta make sure ta really take my time with him; I think I'll leave him till last; it'll be easier ta make sure that ya watch that way. I'm pretty sure I can do that; if ya lucky I might leave enough life in him so that he can call ya the stupid little nickname before he dies. Can you hear it?" The hollow asked as she leaned closer, she hadn't realised that Kyoko's hand had found the hilt of her sword and wrapped tightly around it.

"Can you hear it?" She asked again, "I sure can, I can already hear him screamin'!" Blood rushed into the air. The hollow backed away and cursed, clutching a bleeding shoulder.

"You won't touch him" Kyoko said as she used the wall to help support her back to her feet, "you won't touch any of them." Blood dripped off of her sword as she swung it around, "this ends now."

"Fine by me" the hollow hissed as she gripped her own sword and charged forwards.

OOO

"Haru...Ki...?" Haruki looked up in surprise as the hollow backed away sharply, thrashing around and wildly clawing at the mask on its face. There was an ear-splitting roar as cracks began to appear all long the creature's body and its skin and extra limbs began to crumble off, shattering to dust as they struck the ground.

Kyoko looked at him blankly as she stepped precariously away from the creature remains, she was covered in blood and Haruki noticed that she had some broken ribs as well as a broken nose. His relief turned to concern as she suddenly crumpled to the ground, unable to hold her own weight.

"Kyoko!" Haruki ran towards her, forgetting any possible danger as he knelt down at her side.

"Haruki?... You... Okay?..."

"I'm fine" he replied, carefully not letting her see the bleeding gash on his arm.

"Th-Thank... You... Haruki..."

OOO

Kyoko ground her teeth as blood flowed from her shoulder to the dark ground, she could feel the pain slowly crawling down her arm as she struggled to stay standing.

"Bitch!" Blood sprayed from the hollow's mouth as she cursed foully; "damn you..." Black shadows erupted from the point of Kyoko's blade were it had passed through the hollow's chest. "I guess, this mean ya stronger..." she sounded disgusted as she began to fade away, her body ripping into wisps of black shadow. "I'll leave for now, but you and that little brat of a zanpakto remember this. The second I see the slightest sliver of weakness, I'll be back. Mark my words, next time I'll tear ya world apart in front ya eyes 'n' make ya suffer every second of it!"

"We'll see" Kyoko said as her hollow disappeared.

OOO

"Kuma" Kyoko said exasperatedly as the white wolf shifted and leaned against her, "personal space is a wonderful thing." Kuma grinned at her and rested his head in her lap, his tail wagging slightly. Haruki smiled and tentatively patted the wolf's back as he took the last of the bandages off of Kyoko's back. He breathed in sharply when he saw the long, knotted scar that ran from the base of her neck right down to her right hip. Two months had healed the wound but no amount of time would ever erase a scar like that.

"Is it bad?" Kyoko asked quietly. "Tell me the truth Haruki." When he remained quite she got to her feet and walked over to the set of mirrors set up on the other side of the room. Kuma grumbled angrily at being disturbed but stopped abruptly when he saw Kyoko. She turned and slowly walked back to them, a vaguely blank expression on her face as she tried to hide her emotions.

"Have you talked to Shinji yet?" Haruki asked from outside the door as Kyoko got changed, the prolonged silence from inside the room gave him more of an answer than words would have. "Why are you avoiding him?" Haruki continued, "if you just talk you'll be able to sort everything out. Shinji might start acting like himself rather than the zombie that seems to have replaced him lately." Silence. "I'm going to go for a walk" Haruki called as he walked away.

Kyoko sighed and rubbed her eyes as she exited the room; it took her a moment to realise that Kuma had disappeared as well. She didn't think much of it as she walked through the warehouse, their new home; that wolf was always wandering off on his own. Love and Rose walked past her as she walked through the door into the main room, as she looked up to say hello she saw the reason that they had left when she entered.

Shinji was looking at her uncertainly as he sat cross-legged on the sofa; without thinking Kyoko walked forwards and wrapped her arms around him, she buried her face in his chest as she hugged him as closely as she could, afraid of the moment when he would make her let go. Tears slid down her face as she felt him return her embrace.

"It wasn't true" Kyoko said quietly as she looked him in the eye, "he was lyin'... I wouldn't... I couldn't..."

"I know," Shinji replied as he pulled her closer to him, "I didn't believe him from the beginnin'; though Haruki practically attackin' helped clear my head a lot to."

"He what?" Kyoko asked, astounded.

"If Lisa hadn't been there I think he would have actually tried ta hit me." Kyoko smiled, she had never thought that Haruki would actually go that far.

"I'm sorry" Kyoko continued, "about what I said before, I shouldn't have..."

"Angel" Shinji interrupted, "ya don't have ta say sorry." He cut off her reply by pressing his lips to hers, ending their conversation there.

OOO

"Hey" Lisa called as she walked along the edge of the river, the orange light of the sunset reflected on her glasses as she turned and sat on the ground next to Haruki.

"Hi" he replied as she settled next to him, "errr, nice sunset huh?" He said, at a complete loss at what else to say.

"Yeah" Lisa replied as she turned to look at him, "what are you doing out here anyway?"

"Just felt like going for a walk. Has Kyoko talked to Shinji yet?" He asked after a moment's pause.

"If you count kissing each other's faces off as talking then yeah" Lisa replied, finding it impossible to keep the smile off of her face.

"Well that's one problem solved anyway" Haruki sighed as he lay back and starred up at the pink and orange sky, watching it darken as the sun sunk further below the horizon.

"Haruki, what are we all going to do know?"

"I don't know" he replied to her question, "I suppose the best thing that we can do right now is survive."

"I guess you're right." Without any warning she bent down and kissed him quickly on the cheek before getting to her feet and walking back towards the ware house. Haruki could feel his face going bright pink as he lightly touch the place that she had kissed him; perhaps this exile thing wouldn't be so bad after all.

*hugs Akuma* i don't no y but i just luv writing about u!!!!!!!

Akuma: Some1 get this crazy bitch off of me!!!

lol anyway... i not really that happy with this chapter, the only thing that came out anywhere near the way i wanted it to was Kyoko's fight with her inner hollow. Her hollow was a fun character to write, i wonder if it says much about my personality, the fact that i find it easiest to write the psychotic killers, lol.

Well thats the end of another Bleach story. I'm not gunna be writing 4 bleach for a while because i want to focus on writing my Vampire knight story, Pure Water's Poison *just ta stop Stebbins Stella nagging at me lol* however i do have some ideas for some oneshots that i will probable post when i need a break from VK.

After VK i am going to be writing the Bleach story which is set in the present time line and focuses on Haruki going with Ichigo and co. to Soul Society to save Rukia.

Thanks for reading the story and pls review!!!!