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Chapter 41: Meanwhile

- Meanwhile back on Earth -

Masaki was nervous and a little scare as she was walking up to her family home that she hadn't seen in years.

'Would they be able to forgive me?' she wondered.

She sighed and finally rang the doorbell. Yuzu opens the door and doesn't react right away. Her and Karin were only 5 when they lost their mom so she is quite confused feeling she is familiar. She can't quite place her right away though.

Masaki falls to her knees and breaks into sobs as she hugs her daughter who becomes completely stunned.

"Yuzu.." she manages to get out between sobs. Seeing her had made all her emotions hit at once.

Yuzu broke out of her stupor and hesitantly questioned "M-m… mom?"

"Y-yes. I'm back." She answers and Yuzu starts hugging her back tightly and sobbing too.

"Yuzu? What's taking so long?" They hear as Karin comes to look for Yuzu who went to answer the door. It didn't take her long to realize what was going on though and to run up and join then in their emotional hug though.

Just like Karin not much later Isshin also showed up to see what was going on, but he just fell to his knees sobbing unable to believe what his eyes were seeing as he watched his daughters and the wife he believed to be deceased.

"I-I-impossible…" he stammered. He was confused, because everything indicated she had died including the fact that his powers had slowly returned over the 4 years following the events that Masaki and Ichigo went through. The only slight discrepancy was the lack of a body, but with the heavy storms making the river go wildly out of it's bounds this wasn't that surprising even if she hadn't been consumed by a hollow.

They had searched for a long time, but once it became notice le his powers were returning Kisuke had told him this was likely the result of her passing on releasing the seal on his powers and then returning to him.

After a little while of them hugging and Isshin just been complete stunned and in tears Masaki noticed him getting up hand in hand with her girls and going up to Isshin the three of them hugging him too.

"Hi.. honey." she says shyly.

He is still kind of stunned and touches her cheeks as if to make sure she is really there before he hugs her back tightly afraid to let go again.

"Uhm… where is Ichigo?" she manages to ask eventually. Isshin looks at their two daughters a little unsure what to say.

"Uhm… he is on a trip with some friends. We should talk about it later." he eventually decided to say avoiding the topic in front of the two young and innocent girls.

The family spent their time catching up though Masaki concealed most information regarding what happened and where she had been from her daughters since she didn't want to reveal anything supernatural to them yet. Eventually it was time for the girls to go to bed and Isshin had called Uruhara Kisuke to come talk. He showed up not too much later though.

"Oh hey. Welcome back. Where have you been?" Kisuke asked in a frivolous tone when he first saw Masaki.

Isshin shook his head, but was also interested in a more in depth explenation now that their daughters were in bed.

"So how are you alive?" Kisuke asks her.

"It's a long story." She said with a sigh. Isshin put his hand on her back running it gently while nodding encouragingly at her.

"So that night Ichigo and me were attacked. I tried to protect him, but that lead to me being attacked instead. However after he ran it turned out he didn't kill me and instead spit me out." She said. Kisuke's eyebrow raised in curiosity though he still managed to maintain his frivolous demeanor. Isshin still seemed concerned.

"Remember that boy that died 20 years ago when we fought that Hollow?" she asked.

Isshin nods. Kisuke just stared at them curiously. He wasn't there after all only having heard about the events afterwards and dealing with Masaki's problems due to it.

"The Hollow that took me was sentient unlike the others and told me he was that boy. He had turned into a Hollow, but was captured by captain Sōsuke Aizen for experiments." she said.

Now she really had Kisuke's full attention since he was very interested in what Aizen had been up to during his exile. Isshin looked a little sad thinking about that night. Too much had gone wrong.

"So what happened?" Kisuke asked unable to conceal his excitement.

"Well. He managed to escape due to an illusion skill he has that they weren't aware of. Though that took 10 years. He had overheard some of their plans including the attack on me and interfered. He couldn't risk them knowing the attack failed though which is why I couldn't come back until now," she said.

"Now? Why now?" Kisuke asked curiously.

"Well Aizen's plans are starting now. He should have faked his death already and be getting ready to betray Soul Society for good any moment now once he gets his hands on the Hōgyoku." she said.

"Wait how do you know about the Hōgyoku?" Kisuke asked in surprise.

"He overheard it during the experiments. Apparently Aizen is working with a few others in Soul Society. Ichimaru Gin and Kaname Tōsen. He is already effectively the king of Hueco Mundo and is planning to use the Hōgyoku to complete his experiments on merging Shinigami power into Hollow to form hybrids and build an army." she explains the plans.

Kisuke slaps his fist on his palm while saying "That explains a lot with the strange things happening lately."

"Strange things?" Masaki asks.

"Yeah, like Ichigo becoming a substitute Shinigami, his friends getting powers and his little friend that had my Hōgyoku being taken to Souls Society." he says calmly.

"What?! Shinigami? Where is he now?" she asks adamantly.

Isshin was sweating heavily.

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Sorry for the late post, been dealing with a migraine all day.

Chapter 42: Ongoing

Isshin looked at Kisuke trying to find some way to explain this. Kisuke just acted oblivious to his stares.

"Erm... well the girls were attacked by a Hollow. While trying to save them Ichigo got a Shinigami injured and she gave him her powers to save them." he started to explain what lead up to the current situation.

Masaki looked nervous since she still hadn't see Ichigo unlike everyone else.

"Then two Shinigami came to take the female Shinigami away and attacked Ichigo and his friend while destroying the source of Ichigo's Shinigami powers." he continued before glancing at Kisuke again.

"Then Kisuke helped him regain his powers and created a portal for Ichigo, his friends and Yoruichi to travel to Soul Society so they can save her and bring her back." he finished.

"Are you two crazy?" she asked them.

"Well I hid the Hōgyoku in the gigai that the Shinigami Kuchiki Rukia used fusing it with her soul." Kisuke explained.

"So that is how Aizen is trying to get his hand on it?" she asks him.

"Well... Yoruichi is there to help them." he tries to justify. Masaki glare at her husband.

"And how is just she supposed to keep them safe?" she asks.

"They're stronger than you think and I had to be here to take care of our daughters and he didn't know about our background." he said nervously.

"There is nothing I can do now, but if they don't come back safely. So help me..." she says threatening most of all to Isshin.

Isshin tries to apologise and looks as pathetic as possible unable to make any good excuses to calm down his wife who is ready to rip off his head and given the spiritual pressure she is giving off she just might be able to do it.

"Meanwhile you're sleeping on the couch until they do get back." she completed his sentence.

Kisuke raised his eyebrows as he noticed Masaki's spiritual pressure.

"Didn't you lose your powers?" he asked both in curiosity and hoping to change the subject.

"I did lose them, but over the years spent near that Hollow they re-awakened. Well that isn't all. Can you set up a barrier isolating this room from the outside?" she asks Kisuke.

Kisuke nods and sets up a barrier surrounding the room they are in isolating it from the outside by all senses.

"Ok, we're clear." he says.

She nods and starts to unleash her Nichtig form causing the Hollowfied armour to spread all over her and her eyes to turn black with an orange iris while her incisors elongated. Finally she also shows off her [Unheilig Bogen] that her [Heilig Bogen] transforms into during the transformation.

Kisuke walks closer to her inspecting her eyes and touching the armour with intrigue.

"How interesting. The armour is kind of like the material of the Hollow mask and the transformation is kind of like the Visored, but there is no Shinigami power involved." he ponders to himself.

"Also this explains why your powers returned." he says to Isshin who has been trying to not be noticed as much as possible right now.

"Eh?" he blurts out.

"It seems the Hollow part of her power displaced the Shinigami part of yours that was sealed inside her slowly over the years driving it out and returning it to you. Also somehow in this process it managed to remain in equilibrium with her Quincy powers that had gone dormant somehow." he hypothesised.

"It wasn't quite at equilibrium right away. I almost died when the Hollow side burst out and almost went on a rampage if I hadn't been stopped." she clarified.

"Although it's a lot like the Visored this shouldn't be possible because unlike Shinigami where it is hard, but possible, her Quincy spirit power should clash with the Hollow part until she died. However, somehow with your Shinigami power having suppressed it and slowly allowing it to integrate over time instead of at once it succeeded. She is probably the first person to succeed instead of die, probably the last too." he says.

Both Masaki and Isshin don't look like they follow a lot of it and just kind of nod along with what he is saying as he speaks his mind mostly for his own benefit. Meanwhile Masaki releases the transformation turning her back to normal again.

"I'd love to get some measurements to see just how the two are blending while you maintain your transformed state." Kisuke says.

Masaki frowns as that is just about the least of her priorities right now.

"Maybe we can do that some other time." she said reluctantly, more concerned about her son than satisfying Kisuke's curiosity for now. Although she eventually would want more information about what she had become she couldn't focus on that right now.

Kisuke ended up leaving not much later leaving the two alone where Masaki just shot Isshin one last glare as she headed to the bedroom while he knew he didn't have much of a choice beyond trying to coax her over the next few days and hopefully make some progress at calming her down.

- Back in Hueco Mundo -

Hisashi had just finished fighting another small group of Gillian. He kept avoiding large groups. because although he was far more powerful than a regular Gillian and was able to trick most of them quite easily if he were to be surrounded by dozens of them all firing their Cero at him at once it was still very likely he could end up dead. Also with those three Adjuchas chasing him down even if it didn't leave him dead it very well could leave him injured and recovering while they find him.

So instead he looked for small groups of stragglers on their own that he could pick off instead. Although this was much slower it was so much safer and though in a rush he wasn't in a rush to die.

[Evolution requirements met]

[Evolution commencing]

'Oh shit!' Hisashi thought as he suddenly got the warning at the last moment.

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To be honest this one was a struggle. It's hard to justify sending Ichigo and his gang into Soul Society knowing that Isshin was actually a Shinigami all along and friends/acquaintances with Kisuke since before Ichigo was even born and just how powerful both are, but they send a bunch of kids to try to retrieve Rukia or really in their interest the Hōgyoku. It has to happen for the plot to happen, but looking at it retroactively the only way I can explain it is Isshin after losing his wife is just kind of a shitty parent and just allows his son to go into a life threatening situation that he himself would be far more equipped for. Maybe it can be said he subconsciously kind of blames Ichigo for the death of his wife too and thus would rather stay home and protect his daughters from minimal risks than risk his own safety for his son.

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