Ichigo and his friends have broken into Hueco Mundo, Aizen's place of operations, to save their kidnapped friend Orohime Inoue. As everyone splits up Aizen sends his Espada, his strongest men, into battle to defeat this threat. While looking Chad found one of these Espada and was quickly taken out. Yet our heroes got some help in some Captains who are trying to stop Aizen's horrid plan. Rukia Kuchki has wandered into a building and found one of the Espada. What will happen now?

"I thought you would look stronger." The masked man says to Rukia, still holding up her blade.

"Who are you?!" Rukia can feel his Spiritual Pressure and she feels like he is strong.

"Me? I guess I should introduce myself seeing as I know who you are." He takes off his mask which shocks Rukia very much. The maskhits the floor with a clud and Rukia looks up at the mans face. The man is also taking off his gloves. "Much better. It has been awhile since I have gotten a good fight in." He raises his right arm and puts his hand on his sleeve. "I am Espada #9!" He pulls the sleeve down showing his number. "Kaku Ranto!" He moves his arm down and Rukia can fully see his face. He has short black hair, His eyes are are also black. For some reason he still has a part of a mask on the top of his head, it is on the right side corner going to around half way around his head. He looks very creepy and Rukia gets a feeling of his raw Spiritual Pressure. It is creepy and dark, even desolate.

"An Espada?" Rukia is quite shocked that her first fight here will be against an Espada. She can remember what Grimmjow did to her and is slightly afraid. She ducks it up though. "Then I guess i should tell you the name of your death! Dance, Sode No Shiryuki (Sleeves of White Snow)!" She turns her blade down and it transforms into a beautiful white Zanpaku-to.

The Espada smiles a bit. he puts his hand on his blade and draws it. "So shoudl I release my blade then? I guess it doesn't matter I will win." He uses Sonido and appears infront of Rukia lunging. Rukia blocks and backs up.

Rukia quickly stabs the ground quickly four times causing little ice packets there. The Espada looks confused but gets ready for it. "Tsugi No Mai (Next Dance), Hakuren(White Wave)! Huge ice wall comes out towards the Espada. He uses Sondio and dodges but apparently not fully. A part of his left foot was hit and is frozen. He slides down looking up at Rukia charging. He blocks an attacks Rukis used her Spiritual Pressure to make it stronger. She is a bit shocked. She knew they have a strong skin but she thought her attack was strong enough to get through it.

"Impressed? Too bad that was a good attack however..." His opposite fist glows red and he thrusts hit hitting Rukia throwing her back far. He uses the same move to shatter the ice around his leg. "That was Bala. Very quick makes me even deadlier. But we'll get to that later. Rukia stands up she isn't too damages but she struggles to stand up after that hit.

"Damnit he's good. His defense is high and he uses a fast attack like that to surprise the opponent. I need to be careful." Along with that she is trying to think of a way to beat his defense primarily.

Ichigo is running with the kid he notices her moving. He stops and puts her down. "Finally! She's waking up." The child wakes up fully and is shocked as well as afraid. She cowers a bit. "Hey don't worry I won't hurt you. I promise." Ichigo holds out his hand. The child looks at it curiously and then bites it. "DAMN! What the hell was that for?!" Ichigo holds his throbbing finger and hears the child laugh. "You think that was funny huh? Oh your dead!" Ichigo turns around and tries to speak with the child again. "Do you remember anything?"

The child looks at his starngely and responds. "No." Kind of weakly. Ichigo rubs his head and tries to figure out something to do."Nothing?"

The child again respondes "No."

Ichigo sighs then introduces himself. "My name is Ichigo. If you remember your name then tell me."

The child looks at Ichigo. "Itygo? That's a funny name!" She laughs and Ichigo gets an annoyed look.

"It's Ichigo..."

The child stands up. "Um I think my name is Nel... I don't really remember." Ichigo looks at the child a bit.

"Do you know where this place is?" He hopes she will know that.

"Nope." Ichigo falls over at this.

"She can remember her name but nothing else. Damn." He thinks to himself trying to figure out a way to explain things to the child. "Okay let me tell you some things..."

Grimmjow is up watching Orohime annoyed as expected. "I don't see why I should be here. Your friends are already here girl. Sorry but you won't see them again." He looks at freghtened Orihime. Maybe I shoudl just kill you now. That way I can kill Kurosaki." he outs his hand on his blade and starts to draw it. Then Gin appears behind Grimmjow.

"I wouldn't Grimmjow." Gin says dodging him turning around to move Gin away.

"What a surprise Director General." He sheathes his sword and looks at Gin. "So why the hell are you here?"

"I'm making sure you don't do anything stupid. We are a bit alike Grimmjow." Gin stares (with his eyes closed) at Orohime.

"How would that be Director General?" Grimmjow smiles at hearing those words.

"We both like to kill of course. But there is a difference. You are to impatient with it. While I..." Gin Flashsteps behind Grimmjow and puts his sheath on Grimmjow's back like a knife to the back. "I wait for my chances and take more pleasure in it." He walks out of the room leaving a shocked Grimmjow there who falls to his knees afterwards.

After a few moments he stands back up. "Lucky girl. You just got saved." Orohime's face is horrified about all of this.

"Ichigo...Please save me." She looks out her cell window as she thinks this wishing for him to come quickly.

"So you understand?" Ichigo says to the little girl, Nel.

"Not really." Ichigo falls over again at that after he explained it all.

"Just com on with me maybe you'll get your memories back later on." Nel hops on Ichigo's shoulder and they go off.

"BALA!!" A Bala attack rushes at Rukia who had been dodging his attacks still trying to figure out a way to break his defense. "Is this the best you can do? Pathetic."

Rukia is panting hard. "You haven't seen anything yet. "She had to lie to try to trick the Espada. She holds her blade up again trying to make him feel she was telling the truth.

Someone comes through a different portal. "You know what to do. Just check on them. Don't die!" It was Urahara's voice coming out of some sort of communications thing he probably invented. A new person has joined the fight?

TO BE CONTINUED...