Days had past since Hana had left the Soul Society. She had searched for Rukia and found her, when she did, she was shocked. Rukia had lost her powers to a human. She had met the human. Right now, she sat in her room. She was trying to make a proper rapport about the last few days for Arashi but she didn't know how to tell him that his squad member had lost her powers. She looked up when she heard a knock on the window, she stood straight and opened it for her visitor. ''Rukia?'' she said surprised. ''You could..'' she said but was stopped. ''I want you to not send any rapport.. Your in my brothers squad if he finds out'' Rukia said. ''I know.. I know... But my rapports are not for my captain..'' Hana said and Rukia looked at her a bit confused. ''They are for the one that gave me this mission.. Which is not your brother.. It is the lieutenant of your squad'' she said. ''Arashi-sama?'' Rukia said. ''Yes'' Hana said and walked to the small counter in the apartment. ''Tea?'' she asked the black haired girl. ''No.. Thank you'' she said. ''How did you met Kurosaki-san?'' Hana asked. ''His family was attacked and I was disabled..'' she said. ''Wow.. Well... I think I would have done the same'' she said. Hana sat down, took a butterfly instead of a letter and left the message Arashi, I think you can better come here yourself... It is hard to explain but it seems that Rukia lost her powers somehow...

More days past by and Hana helped Rukia and Kurosaki-san when they were at school. She had refused to join them as a 'substitute'-student, and was killing hollows when they were at school. That way, the boy wouldn't have to disappear every time and people wouldn't start to figure things out. Though Hana didn't expect anyone to figure things like this out. Today, she walked around in her gigai and just looked a bit around the city, a little wondering why there were so much Hollows coming to the city, the past three days she had fought almost ten of the monsters. Most of them were weak, and that made it easy. She had send a new butterfly to Arashi, telling him that even though Rukia lost her powers, it looked like she was still able to use kido.

Turning around the corner, Hana stood eye in eye with an arguing Kurosaki-san and a boy she had not met yet. ''Hey! What is going on?'' she asked. Both looked up. ''Oh Kaori-san, nothing is wrong'' Kurosaki said. Hana didn't believe him and walked over to both guys. ''Who is this? A friend?'' she asked. The black haired guy rolled his eyes. ''Never I will be his friend.. We are enemy's'' he said. ''All I know is that you have to watch out with who you call a enemy boy'' Hana said and looked at him. The black haired one shook his head. ''Twenty-four hours Kurosaki-san'' he said and opened something Hana had never seen before. ''What did you just do?'' she asked. ''Uryuu wants a contest between him and me, the one that kills most Hollows will win'' Kurosaki said. ''What?!'' Hana said and looked at Uryuu. ''Are you insane!'' she yelled and took her mud-soul. Taking it in, she got seperated by her human body. ''Go home... Or something, but do not, I repeat not anything that could hurt you'' she said. ''Aye aye'' the mud-soul said. Kurosaki had done the same and both guys were gone already.

Hana jumped up and landed on a roof, she looked around the city, seeing Hollows appear and disappear off and on.. This was bad, very bad, the soul society would find out soon enough about this..This could become a real disaster and she knew that Rukia would also be in trouble then.. She closed her eyes firmly and wished for a miracle.. After opening her eyes, she saw a hell butterfly. It landed on her nose and she got the message. Be safe Hana.. It was Arashi-san, a miracle did come to her.. She only hoped now he wouldn't arrive to late.. She laid a hand on her shade. ''Well.. At least lets kill some monsters.. I am sure he will arrive soon'' she said with a smile around her face.

Arashi stepped forth from the gate to behold a sight from something very unusual going on, no wonder his presence had been requested, if the spiritual pressure he was feeling was accurate, there was an enormous hollow incursion going on, and he could feel the barriers between worlds were weakening at a specific point he couldn't quite pinpoint just yet, but he could tell already if it broke it would be a very large breach.

He'd received a number of alarming messages from Hana, his subordinate had lost her powers? How on earth had that happened? And then the messages had come in about a major hollow incursion, normally a lieutenant wouldn't have been called in but...

The point of the breach he was sensing, he was told was a Class 8, which meant a Menos of some sort was breaking through into the real world, an astonishingly rare event as it happens, Menos almost never took an interest in the human world or even Soul Society, they feasted on other hollow's after all so why would they care about human souls?

And as it so happened, he believed he'd heard a report that a Quincy was in the area, and had used hollow bait...but that was the strange part, in no way should such a thing be able to lure in the incredible amount of the creatures that Arashi was witnessing with his very eyes even now, there was easily at least a hundred of them, if not more, fortunately the hollow's didn't seem to be interested in eating the souls of humans, or there would have been a serious problem.

No for the most part, they seemed to be trying to go for several reishi signatures that gave off high levels of energy, focusing on the powerful souls rather then the weak, and for the most part the number's were being kept down by these signatures who were...You're joking me Came the thought to Arashi's mind, he could sense the spiritual pressure of Urahara Kisuke himself!

Not only that, but he was apparently helping take down the small fry, which was good because at the moment...the breach was beginning to crack open, and he could now sense the spiritual signature of a Menos...a Gillian, Arashi thought attempting to break free What on earth could tempt a Gillian from Hueco Muendo? He thought as he began to move with all haste towards Hana's soul pulse, which was close to the breach.

When he reached her, he eyed the people nearby, an orange-headed lad with...that was quite the zanpaktou he had there, Rukia and Hana and...a quincy who gazed at Arashi balefully, to which he merely smiled cheerfully in response before checking on his subordinate "Are you alright I...hear you lost your powers, though as to how I think I can guess now." Arashi said to Rukia with a pointed look at the orange head, she blushed faintly in embarrassment "Um, lieutenant! I wasn't expecting you here! I can explain! I swear I-" Arashi cut her off "Relax, I really don't care one way or another, Ukitake was merely worried about you, and so was I for that matter, so anyways, if you haven't figured it out yet, a Gillian is about to come through that hole," Arashi pointed, he'd put his hand on her shoulder and that's when he felt something strange...a slight wave of energy seemed to flow into him, and a faint chill moved down his spine before disappearing, not missing a beat he continued on. Strange...what was that?

The orangehead spoke up then "What the hells a Gillian?" Arashi smiled faintly at the question "You haven't even taught him that Rukia? For shame, a Gillian is a hollow formed from the body of many such creatures, about a couple hundred of thousand, so it's many times more powerful then other hollow's, that's why I'm here, such incursions on the human world are the jurisdiction of Lieutenant's and up, wouldn't want to see you lot get vaporized by a doom flash afterall."

"I think we could handle it," Said the orangehead confidently and Arashi raised an eyebrow as Rukia shook her head and muttered something about 'you idiot' and asked "Have you even seen a Menos before boy? I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here, the hole up there is just where it's head is level at, it hasn't even fully opened the breach yet."

The boy paled a bit, before flushing and muttering something uncomplimentary about Arashi to himself, what a firebrand this lad was...as hot tempered as his hair color was he could tell.

"He'll come through in about a few minutes." Said Arashi cheerfully before turning to Hana "You doing alright?"

Hana knew that Arashi wasn't really happy by the fact that Rukia had lost her powers, she could see it in his eyes. She kept her mouth shut during his chat with Kurosaki-san en the Quincy. In stead of standing there, doing nothing, she attacked a few hollows that were about to attack them, she kept her eyes on them and smiled a little. She was happy that Arashi came and not someone else. She didn't know how she would have reacted on that, probably not as easy as this. She really felt a strong bond between Arashi and herself, but that might be just her imagination. She saw him as her best friend, almost like family, but she didn't know how he saw her.

Of course Kurosaki-san was trying to be a smart-ass, but since he wasn't that smart, he was just being a ass. And quite a annoying childish man since he acted like he knew more than a real Shinigami. She landed on her feet in front of Kurosaki-san and Arashi and looked at them. ''How I am doing? Mwuah, I am OK I guess, during the day I've been killing hollows so he didn't have to skip his classes, and further more I didn't do much, some meditating and I tried to play a instrument but that didn't sound great'' she said and chuckled a bit. ''But hey, that was because I really didn't know what else I could do on the hollow-free days.'' she said and then looked at the Menos Grande almost coming trough. ''Arashi? Maybe it is time to start sending that thing back to were it belongs?'' she said, she never had seen a real Menos Grande and she kinda got scared since she knew that it was a real strong hollow.

Kurosaki then suddenly ran off with his zanpactou in his hand, screaming loud and jumping up to the air to attack the Menos Grande. Hana was shocked. ''That kid really wants to die! For real I mean!'' she said and looked at Arashi. ''I guess we have to stop him'' she said and wondered what he was going to do. She maybe was a lieutenant but she kinda believed that everyone, except kids, were smart enough to know what they did before they attacked. Arashi was smarter that her, she knew that and she didn't mind. She even liked the fact that he was way calmer than her, to her they could form a very good team. She held her hand on the handle of her zanpactou, she had to be ready for attack. ''You know, I do not mind if you put me on the smaller ones... As long you are careful...'' she said and looked at Arashi with a little smile, she wasn't scared. Not really at least, she just didn't want to stand in his way.

OOC: So sorry for the delay, finally have a moment to myself to work on this

"Hold your horses son," Was all Arashi said as he calmly grabbed the strawberry by his collar and yanked him back "I'd guess your stupid, or you haven't been paying attention to Rukia, because you clearly don't know how to sense spirit pressure, the soul flare of the Menos there is many many times your own, you wouldn't even be a distraction for it." All too true, likely the Menos would outright ignore the young Ichigo, and the look on Rukia's face(currently a facepalm) indicated that her lieutenant's guess about the young substitute's education(or lack thereof) was all too accurate.

Arashi said this, but he could feel an unusual amount of energy inside of the human, and his eyes studied the thrashing, verbally and audibly protesting boy, how was it a human had so much soul energy? And that soul slayer...was quite large for a shinigami, however...the boy was still nowhere near powerful enough to fight a Menos "Rukia, direct the boy to take care of the small fry with...ah right on time Urahara-San!" Arashi smiled in a friendly manner as the mysterious and enigmatic former 12th Captain showed up, he'd heard of the nature of this fellow from the 2nd Squad.

He was considered extremely dangerous, and for good reason even if Arashi didn't really agree, Urahara was one of the most brilliant and devious Shinigami alive, capable of outwitting any opponent numerous times over, you never knew what he was thinking beneath that friendly smile and faintly stupid look on his face, it was after all an act...Which the former Shinigami was putting on with gusto, acting like his usual 'I'm a huge dolt, and totally not a threat' self.

"Well, you know my name! I'm so flattered Lieutenant-san!" He smiled amiably and said "We'll take care of the small fry, and make sure he behaves himself, if you would be so kind as to take care of that thing over there?" Arashi merely smiled back, feeling a flush of irritation knowing Urahara could defeat a Menos with ease.

With that he looked at Hana and asked "How are your defensive abilities?" In the meantime he ignored the sounds as the Menos steadily invaded this world more and more, piece by piece.

Hana was kinda relieved that Arashi could have stopped the substitute. She looked at Ichigo and how he was struggling to get free from Arashi's hold. She giggled softly and shook her head, taking the hold over from Arashi so he could focus on the rest. ''Don't worry Arashi-san, I won't let him go'' she said and pulled him to the ground so he sat in the grass. ''Maybe, you should try to calm a little.. That energy of yours is drawing more and more hollows here'' she said and looked not very amused. She then heard footsteps and turned her head, seeing a blonde man walking towards them with a weird white green striped head and a stick. She had seen him before and so he was the one that had given her a human body, or gigai, so he called it.

Arashi and the man, Urahara-san seemed to be his name, had a short talk and Hana handed Ichigo over to a huge tanned man with glasses and a mustache. ''Have fun with that one.. He sure is a pain in the ass'' she said and looked at Arashi. She was ready to fight and smiled when he turned to her. ''My defensive skills? Hmm.. Quite good, but I wouldn't dare to come close to the menos, I can take care of the stronger hollows to help you, if that is something that can help you'' she said and looked around. ''My time here is spend with training and meditation, I did some progress.. Yet this is not the time to discuss that'' she said and looked at the Menos which came closer and closer into the world of the living.

OOC: That is okay, I am sorry for the shorter post, I did try my best, really

"Hana...your shikai has defensive properties right?" Asked Arashi calmly, no doubt she'd wonder how he knew that "I have access to some of that information due to my rank." He explained, then continued "I need you to draw that things fire, be a decoy and take the hit from it's cero, that Gillian is growing towards becoming an Adjuchas, so I can't just straight up rush it, while you've got it distracted I'll hit it from behind and bring it down before it can react."

Looking at her, eyes studying probingly, wonderingly "Do you think you can do that? I won't ask you to do it if you feel you're unable, but I could use your help, you should still be around my level."

Hopefully, she could do it, either way if she couldn't..."I'll work on sneaking up on him either way, if you wanna jump in, go for it, but don't try anything you feel you can't do." He told her with a smile and a hand on her shoulder, before turning and with a blink he was gone.

"Bwuh!? How'd he do that!?" Kurosaki exclaimed in amazement, eyes wide as he goggled at where Arashi had been a moment before, he'd vanished in a heartbeat, which was no surprise as some were placing bets he'd be faster then even Byakuya one day.

They were unaware that he had higher aspirations, the fastest warrior was the one who won, and Arashi wanted to be just like his namesake...he wanted to be faster then lightning, he wanted to be the storm...and he could only do that by surpassing the name of the Goddess of Flash.
He smiled to himself, chuckling at his hubris, surpass a woman that even the 6th Squad Captain hadn't ever beaten? Any one of the captains, hell not even them would tell him he was getting cocky, jumpy.

As he hurtled through the air, his single steps when he landed carrying him miles and miles as he rapidly circled around the Menos as it slowly, ponderously began to finally cross the rest of the way into Earth, the human world, the real world some called it, it had many names...and all had at some point called it home, and would again, an endless cycle of death, and rebirth.

Neverending, spirits and shinigami alike in Soul Society perished, and their reishi flowed onwards and caused them to be born anew on Earth, the focal point between three worlds, humans died and became spirits, shinigami or Hollows...
Hollows died and were reborn anew as other spirits, and vice versa, even those that were consumed by other hollows, though their power was gone, would be eventually reborn.

Now, he was at his destination, and he cast about to see what was going on, had Hana taken up his offer? Or had she left it to him, he wouldn't blame her, a Menos was a fearsome opponent and not to be taken lightly.

Hana looked at Arashi, a little shocked not only that he knew she got strong enough to cast her Shikai but also that he knew it was a defending and attacking one at once. She listened to him, saying that he wouldn't blame her and that he wouldn't ask her if he didn't know she could help him. ''Geez Arashi-sama! Don't talk so much..'' she said when he finished, right before he flashed away. ''Of course I'll help you! You wouldn't blame me, but your not only my teacher but also my best friend, I would blame myself if you got hurt while I could have helped you'' She said, more to herself and the others since he had flashed away already. She took one last look at the substitute.. ''You are such a kid.. Watch the show that comes now boy.. You will hopefully only see it once'' she said and did a flash-step to get away.

Even though she wasn't at fast as Arashi, she got in less than a minute next to him. ''You are fast Arashi-sama'' she said and grabbed her zanpactou. ''I am ready'' she said and laid her hand on the blade of her sword. ''Mizūmi no suitora'' she said and her sword disappeared, a wave of crystal blue water appeared around her. ''I am more than ready now'' she said and looked at him. She had been having a little trouble since her zanpactou spirit and she never really were on, what you could call the same wave but since a long and intensive training she had managed the wave of water, where her zanpactou was hidden in, to do exactly what ever she wanted.

There it stood, a huge menos grande, ready to react and she gulped once. She was scared yes, but her loyalty to Arashi-sama would always come before her own fears. Fears where there to kick away when needed, and this was a moment she needed to kick it away. Yet she had the feeling she had been in a sort of same situation before. She took a deep breath and went a few steps higher than Arashi to attract the Menos its attention. ''Hey you, big face!'' she said, it would probably not help but she could always try.

''Okay.. Suitora.. No jokes today, this is serious business'' she whispered and looked at the Menos, loading a Cero. She went more to the ground so she wouldn't get the full blast at once and made a shield of the wave right at the moment the Cero got fired off. ''Nnnnnggg...'' She held the handle of her zanpactou in her right hand and stood on the ground. ''Come on Arashi-sama...'' she whispered, not knowing what he was doing since she had to focus a lot on her energy, since she didn't want to get attacked in the back by some filthy little hollow.

Arashi watched in concern as it let loose it's attack, an enormous wave of searing, blazing hot energy rocketed forth, a deafening blast of thunder echoing through the atmosphere as it hurtled towards Hana, and he was suddenly worried she wouldn't be up to the task, the ability wasn't called 'Doom Flash' for no reason, it took a long time to charge, but once it was let loose it was devastating, terrifying, and utterly undeniable in its destructive force.

Few attacks could match the sheer, raw power of a Cero.

But the shield was holding, with difficulty and she looked rather strained as a continuous wave of volatile, blood red energy hammered down into her, the air was tinted red, winds gusted and howled furiously at the sheer force, trees uplifted and scattered and Arashi was in awe of spite of himself, now he understood why Menos were usually tackled by multiple Lieutenant class shinigami or higher.

And this was almost to the level of an Adjuchas.

Focusing his power, he began drawing reishi, his spiritual pressure raising higher and higher, it wouldn't be long before the Menos noticed the growing wave of power. He was drawing forth all of it, every last ounce of energy that Arashi had, he needed to end this one blow, they could not survive a sustained battle with a Menos, not with that kind of firepower at it's disposable.

I am...the storm He thought as he spoke "Let the skies thunder with your sorrows...Ikazuchi-Hitan." With a single flash step he was there behind the hollow as it finally noticed him, ceasing it's assault on Hana and moving with great speed that belied it's bulk to face this new threat, but it was already too late as Arashi's zanpaktou exploded into a beam of crackling lightning, so bright that it hurt to look at, like a piece of heaven itself, blazing with fury.

The long loop of lightning lazily whirled and swirled about Arashi, the Menos already had begun to charge an attack, but it was too late as Arashi merely whipped the lance of skyfire forward, it shot forward faster then any eye could see, slamming down into the Menos, it convulsed and the very recognizable sound of a screaming hollow burst from it's mouth as it reeled back in agony as fingers of lightning seared through every inch of it's body.

Stumbling around in pained confusion, it finally got a hold of itself, and deliberately, slowly pulled itself back to Hueco Muendo, a gaping rent in it's body.

It's odds of survival had dropped significantly, and Arashi sealed his blade as it retreated and rushed to see if Hana was okay.

It was a lot and very very close to getting to much when Hana suddenly heard Arashi saying something and then seeing the attack. She had a hard time holding back the Cero but was not planning on getting killed by this monster. Then, when the cero was gone, Hana fell on the ground having some trouble breathing thanks to the heavy fight she just had with one single beam. She knew now, that she would be scared for a cero for life probably.. But she didn't mind, as long as she could have helped Arashi-sama. She didn't really see anything, as she was sitting on the ground after her zanpactou pulled itself back into its normal form. ''Thanks.. Suitora.. You did a great job'' she said

She sat more straight to see what was happening up there but closed her eyes seeing a little piece of Arashi's attack. That was so bright. She held her eyes closed and hoped that it would end soon. Luckly it did and not fast after she had seen the Menos slowly going back. She heard someone landing behind her. She looked back and smiled some. ''Welcome back Arashi-sama'' she said with a little smile. She got up but felt a little dizzy. ''Oh god..'' she said and in a respond on not the willing to fall on the ground, she laid her hand on his shoulder. ''Sorry for leaning on you..'' she said and looked at him. ''This was a though block..'' she said with a little smile.

She then heard someone calling them and looked back. It was the kid, Ichigo. He walked to them. ''You both okay?'' he asked. Hana looked at him. ''You are crazy..'' she simply said, got herself together and looked at Arashi. ''Let's go back to the others'' she said and laid a finger on his forehead. ''Let's go.. You sure need to rest'' she said and then laid her hand around his wrist, taking him with her to the others.

"Good work," he told her simply with a smile "That was a rough spot, didn't think a Menos would be so strong, remind me again to never try and take on one of those without five other lieutenants, we got lucky we got through that unscathed, Captain will probably scold me when I get back, ah well." Looking over he gestured for Rukia to come over to him, "Hey Rukia-san! Just wanted to say be careful, I'll just let the Captain know you're fine, and I'll keep an eye out for when you return, don't stress too much about...well you know, anyways I'll catch you some other time."

Then he looked over at the orange headed kid "Keep your cool kiddo, and listen to Rukia, you've got a lot to learn if you want to do your job as a substitute, you've got to do Rukia's job for her so that the higher ups don't notice anything out of the ordinary, so do a good job and keep it quiet, for her sake alright?" The kid merely looked at him solemnly for a moment, before he nodded, eyes resolute.

Arashi nodded in satisfaction "Good, alright then, well let's be off Hana." Quietly, he focused and summoned the Hell Butterfly, and opened the Senkaimon, grateful that the Butterfly meant they didn't have to pass through the Dangai, not a nice place to be...

Then they were back and he bid Hana farewell for the time being "I have to give Ukitake-san my report, I'll catch you later for some sake, I think we've earned a little R&R eh?"

Arashi hurried back to his squad headquarters, and for once the Captain was up and about, his face not so pale and wan this time, he looked up in surprise at the arrival of his Lieutenant and then broke into a tired smile "Ah, there you are, how did it go?" Arashi then related to him everything he had seen, and had been told to him by Hana.

The Captain leaned back in his chair, expression thoughtful, "She gave her powers to a human boy? Curious...that's a fairly illegal thing to do for a Shinigami, but she seemed to have good reasons for it, and ultimately so long as the boy is doing her job, then I think I can keep this quiet until I have a chance to talk it over with the Commander, and good work on taking down a Menos, though that was very reckless of you to try."

His lieutenant smiled faintly and apologized "I-I'm sorry, you're right and I should have called for help, but...I was afraid of others finding out the condition Rukia was in and...my bloodlust overwhelmed me, there is no excuse, forgive me Captain, I behaved like a member of the 11th." Ukitake chuckled "Oh, all's well that ends well, nobody got hurt, and you did help keep Rukia's situation quiet for a while longer, so I think this time you can be excused!" He said this with a friendly twinkle in his eye as he dismissed Arashi, who bowed and murmured his thanks before excusing himself.

With that he went to his quarters, and began rummaging through his storage for a good bottle of sake, humming to himself as he went.

Hana looked for a last time at Rukia, her Captains sister and she kind off wondered how to keep it quiet for him since only a simple handmovement could make you tell everything. She decided not to worry about this, in fact she would even not tell Renji about this cause she just knew he would make a lot of trouble. She bowed and looked at the others. ''It was a great pleasure to meet you all and to see this world with my own eyes..'' she said and then looked at Arashi. ''I am fine with going yes.. This was adventurous enough for at least a year'' she said with a soft giggle.

Right before she followed Arashi, she smacked Ichigo on his head. ''I'll come for you if you get Rukia-san in trouble, and I'll not be nice'' she said with a smile but a rather serious blink in her eyes. She then ran into the Senkaimon and looked at Arashi.

Bach in the Soul Society she looked at Arashi and nodded. ''I'll make some rapport to make sure my Captain will not get suspicious... Let's meet in the shadows of the forest where we trained last time'' she said with a smile and gave Arashi a friendly smile and a soft punch on his arm before walking off to her chambers where she would fresh up a little.

Once she was there, a not so nice surprise was waiting on her bed. She looked straight in the eyes of Renji and he seemed not happy. ''Why did you stay away so long without reporting?!'' he asked a little mad. ''I did report... To Arashi, we made that deal remember'' she said and was really to tired for this. ''And why not to me?'' He asked. ''Geez Renji! Are you really as dumb as the butt of a monkey!!'' she said and massaged her head to make sure she didn't attack him which she was close too. ''Your so hot-heated.. Are you sure you don't belong in the 11th squad ?'' he asked. She made a soft growling sound and smacked his head. ''Auw!'' he said and looked at her. ''You know very well that every report goes to our Captain first.. Please think before speaking and now go... I want some time alone please'' she said and Renji understood it.

He left and Hana got to change her outfit to a kimono, a kimono she had worn a lot on the sake and flute-playing moments she shared with Arashi during their student time. The only thing changed was the size of the kimono. After she found out she didn't fit well in the old kimono, she bought a new one but still exact the same. She brushed her hair and bound it together with a hair-tie and then looked around. That report could be done later.. Now she just wanted to relax and enjoy a bit of Sake and so she went to the spot she had said where to meet Arashi and smiled. She wondered if he could still remember the kimono.