Unfinished Gems

Soul Brothers - 12

It seemed that the soul society had sensed his power boost, and called him in to explain it.

Only to be shocked as Yoru demonstrated his new Bankai.

Since it wasn't fully complete, they didn't press him to become a captain.

Soi Fon, however, decided to help him along...by enlisting Byakuya. His Bankai was close enough to Yoru's that it would help him train. While Ichigo and Tatsuki trained with the vizards, Rukia trained with Orihime, Chad and Renji improved on their skills...

Everyone was preparing for the long battles ahead.

And it was Unohana who enlisted Yoru to use his secondary Bankai state. She found his secondary ability to be of great use in freeing up beds.

(In exchange for using his secondary for them, they agreed to teach him more healing Kido).

Yoru was taking a break with Rukia and Ichigo. Apparently a rare event was about to happen, and he was the test subject for the R&D department.

~

And his day had gone so well. Ichigo took out another hollow, Yoru got to laugh at him for being an idiot, and they followed an unusual signature.

For some reason, the weird spirits didn't seem to notice them...until Yoru sensed someone appear.

All of a sudden, the colors on their weird faces turned from an off rose red to a crimson red.

Yoru saw a flurry of leaves come from nowhere. The weird spirits began to vanish wherever the whirlwind touched them.

A bizarre gust of wind blew the rest away.

Yoru was wondering where that odd girl came from. She seemed really happy about getting rid of the weird spirits.

~

Ichigo and Rukia left, and Yoru decided to hang out with the weird girl...who's name turned out to be Senna.

Luckily Yoru knew exactly how to handle her.

He bought her lunch.

"So what do you want to know?" asked Senna, eating her sandwich.

"First off, what the hell were those things?"

"I have no idea."

"You didn't know, and you still attacked them?"

"I just had the feeling that I needed to."

"Meh...I've heard worse excuses...Where are you going?"

"I want to look around!"

"Do you have any money?" he asked, amused.

Seeing the look on her face, he grinned.

"Lucky for you I have my wallet on me. Let's go shopping!"

Yoru didn't regret going shopping with the girl. She had better fashion sense than he did.

~

By the time Ichigo had reported what Urahara had mentioned, Yoru was eager to learn more. Rukia had gone back to report interference with her soul pager.

(Yoru had one as well, but his was built personally by Urahara).

'So how's it going with our mystery girl?' Ichigo asked through their link.

'She has no idea what they are, only that she needed to get rid of them.'

'Great...another dead end.'

'Not quite. Chances are that she is connected, we just haven't found our link. Who did they send anyway?'

Before Ichigo could answer, he spotted a familiar head of hair.