The Nueva Espada

Chapter 4:My Blade As My Pride

"What!" Rukia shouted as the broken remains of Ichigo's mask fell onto the ground

"S-Shit!" Ichigo cursed as he fell onto the ground

"What the hell" Sado said in a small voice as he turned towards the scene "Damn it! the mask broke"

"Well, Well" Mayuri chuckled "Looks like your trump card just bit the dust"

All of a sudden, Ichigo's white armoured skin and long hair literately exploded off of him, it took the form of Blue energy that circled in the air before it shot back down onto Ichigo like a beam, after the smoke cleared, Ichigo's Hollow hole was gone

"Ichigo…" Rukia whispered

"Now you die boy!" Byakuya shouted as he lifted up his Zanpakutou "I Don't know what that thing was but it's doesn't matter because now you are dead!" and with that he swung it down

"Ichigo!" Chad and Rukia shouted out in unison the Orange haired boy laid motionless on the sand

*Slash*

Rukia closed her eyes, dreading the worst, Chad however was unable to tear his eyes away...and he was thankful he didn't

"Ishida!" He shouted

"What?" Rukia shouted, She opened her eyes to find the quincy with his bow drawn, and the slashing sound had come from…

"Ahh!" Byakuya shouted as he held his deeply wounded arm, caused by the arrow fired by the Quincy

"What the hell is going on down here?" Uryu shouted

"Ishida!" Rukia shouted as he she flash stepped next to him "Where's Inoue?"

"I Left her on the roof" He Explained

"What!" Rukia snapped "Are you insane?"

"I Didn't choose to leave her there, she didn't want to come down" Uryu explained "She felt Kurosaki's reiatsu…"

"Oh…" Rukia said, solemnly, She knew that Inoue was scared to death of his hollow powers.

"But onto more important matters…Just what the hell is going on down here, I Saw Kurosaki was about to attack your brother so I had to act quick"

FLASHBACK

Uryu used the blue surfboard-like device made out of Reishi to literately skate down the tower that connected Las Noches to the roof, As he moved in closer, his worst fear was realised, Kurosaki had indeed turned into that thing once again, He knew immediately that it couldn't be good, he remembered how the Espada had stopped him by cutting one of his horns off, He pulled a Seele Schneider and managed to break the horn off with a well place shot, however he noticed that Byakuya had then lifted up his Zanpakutou, intent on killing him, not entirely sure what to do, he fired an another arrow at the captain, Nearly severing his arm

END FLASHBACK

"So it was you that broke Ichigo's mask" Rukia said out loud, Uryu was confused as to why she sounded slightly angry

"Y-Yes" he stuttered, Rukia scowled at him

"Idiot! He was our last hope!" She said as she smacked him in head

"Gah!" Uryu shouted as he held his now bruised cranium "Kuchiki-san, what are you talking about?"

"We've been betrayed" Sado explained as he Sonido'ed beside him

"B-Betrayed?" He stuttered "What do you mean?"

"They knew we would come to Hueco Mundo to rescue Inoue" Sado began