Exiled

History:

It took almost an hour for all 13 captains and their lieutenants to meet in the room, and Kariuzu wasn't shocked by the fact that she recognized almost no one in the current line up. It had been so long since she had been in the Seiretei. She recognized her old lieutenant, and that was it. But luckily he kept quiet even though he stared at her with an open mouth as he stood in line. She ran a hand through her dark red hair as she adjusted her position on the desk, her legs crossing at the knee as Shunsui stood up and walked to stand near where she was sitting. 

"I do apologize for bringing you all out here so late at night. But I need to tell you about this young woman, here. A prodigy who was instantly given a position in Squad Two as a Lieutenant under Yoruichi, until being promoted to Squad Five as Captain almost 300 years ago, she had vanished 225 years ago, and she is here to talk with us." Shunshui supplied, and stepped back. 

"Good evening Captains and Lieutenants, I do apologize as well for asking to call this meeting. I'm sure you are all curious or even angry. But this is a very dangerous situation, and unfortunately, it is the old man's fault."

"Now hold on a minute!" A young white hair man demanded, looking at her. "We don't even know who you are, so you have no right-"

"Captain Hitsugaya!" Shinji shouted, "You may not know her, but I do. She was once my Captain. Lady Kariuzu, please continue."

"Thank you, Shinji Hirako." She sighed. "I have no ill will to the old man, but what I'm about to tell you is very sensitive information, and only three people know it. Yoruichi, the old man and me.

"When I became a Captain to Squad 5, it was a simple stroke of luck. I enjoy the break from the punishment squad until the head captain approached me with a secret mission. I was the only one who could do the job." She began, slipping off the desk, with a sigh. 

"Shinji, do you remember what happened 15 years before I disappeared?" She asked, looking at the blond captain. 

"You mean, that?" He asked his eyes widening before he looked at his feet in shame, she glanced back at Shunsui and he had a look of despair on his face. 

"Will someone spit it the hell out already?" A male voice sounded out, and she glanced at him. 

"Ah, a Kenpachi. They are always the loudest and most irritating." Kariuzu responded, before looking him dead in the eye and she stood in front of the large man. "Kenpachi, shut the hell up, as you are merely an irritation at this point, I"m not even sure you'd be useful in the coming fight."

"You little-" He began drawing his sword until a flash happened, and a man held him back, she looked at the guy and recognized him immediately. 

"Well hello, little brother." She whispered and smiled, looking at Isshin. "Now as I was saying, something happened 250 years ago, that has come back to bite us. After I'd been captain for a while something terrible happened in the South Rukongai District. So back them, the area was 85 districts instead of 80."

"Wait, what?" A young man with orange hair asked in surprise. 

"Exactly. A deadly virus broke out among the last five districts, and it was horrible, we lost over 500 soul reapers, just trying to figure it out. Not to mention it was highly contagious and extremely painful. The virus literally caused people to burst into flames as they were burned alive." She paused as they all looked at her in bewilderment. "We were able to put up dozens of barriers, but it wasn't slowing the spread, and then an order came down from Central 46. From somethings from the Zero Squad, the virus didn't affect the living, only the souls. So we as the protectors of the Soul Society were ordered to remove the problem." 

"Remove it, how?" The orange hair captain of squad 8, asked.

"We were to expel the land and the souls, even those who weren't yet affected, into the Land of the Living. All soul reapers were called back to the Seireitei, beforehand." She sighed. "The decision caused a horrible disagreement between the captains."

"If memory serves, you were the loudest disagreement, Kariuzu." Shunsui suppled, "even slapped the old man across the face in the process." Kariuzu jerked as she slowly turned to look at the new head captain. 

"Why remind me of that?" She shouted. "You know how long it took for my damn hair to grow back?" She demanded, and heard a gasp, she looked around a few of the Lieutenants. 

"Anyway," Kariuzu turned back to the captains. "We did as ordered, and expelled them. We watched as the virus spread throughout the World, destroying souls, and hallows. It was horrible to watch, and experience. But within ten years things were normal enough for us to resume our duties. Until soul reapers started vanishing in the Land of the Living. As well as souls, we were finding bodies, but no souls. No sign of anything. And every person we sent out to investigate never returned, until the old man and Yoruichi suggested I go, as a previous member of the punishment squad I excelled at the art of espionage. I could suppress my spiritual pressure, and my skills with Kido made it easy to disappear and investigate."

"What did you find out, Kariuzu?" Shunsui asked, "after all this time, you must've found out something."

"I did, Shunsui. There were survivors. Souls that somehow survived. They aren't like normal souls, because of already being here, they didn't turn into hallows, but they learned to possess humans, which would kick out the original soul, and destroy it. And those survivors are looking for a way into the Seireitei to get revenge on being expelled. They call themselves the Exiled."