Author: Uhm... I don't own Bleach and its characters, except the ones that aren't suppose to be in it!

Chapter Eight:

Petals scattered all over the floor, nothing was out of the ordinary to her as she had arrived in her den, she was no longer by his side and no longer needing his attention as once she had apologized she vanished. What horrified her to thing was the fact she no longer wanted to be around him, at one point she cussed at him before she was summoned back into Hueco Mundo with a disgusted look upon her face, many of her colleagues had done the same before her dear Master threw and dragged her across the room in thought of teaching her a common lesson.

Of which she never will learn.

How could an old dog learn tricks?
Especially when treatment she was giver were those of a slave in ones blood-shredded chamber.

It was clear she never had a chance of letting go, all she wanted to do... Was cry... Yet, nothing came out. Just emptiness escaped her body, or what she thought had been at the fact that the rose was merely held inside a smaller glass of which sheltered it from the vile air that Hollows breathed. It disgusted her more at the fact she knew the truth, the painful truth that sent agonizing pain through her Hollow body.

She was dead.

And not even her thoughts could save her then, she was completely, and utterly facing the fact that she was about to fade... Into... Into one of them...

Whilst, back in Seireitei, many Division Captains and their Leiutenants of the Gotei 13 had revised a plan of which would continue their duties while trying not te get easily distracted with the Hollow's sudden ambush in certain districts of both the Human world and Soul Society. Many have lost their lives countless of times, and in painful reality, the leader of the fleet was once their own.

"We can't just keep hiding here." Aizen looked towards their General as Gin stretched and nodded, "You know, there is such a thing as attacking."
"Well it's strategy, we cannot let her know we are affected."
"Especially Byakuya." Gin grinned, they sat directly opposite one another and it had angered him more and more each time the situation between him and Gin were once again brought up. They had once fought over one woman and she happened to have disappeared and neither the truth nor the lies helped he tension.
"Now, now, we don't need to settle it in personal terms as in consideration that everyone else has their own perspectives of what happened that night."
"General," Byakuya spoke after placing away his tea cup upon the table and glanced towards their leader with respect, his eyes so shallow as it had been another week since she vanished and no longer been found close by. "I do find it quite accidental to barge into her one evening, but I understand if I was let go of this mission."
"Captain Byakuya," General Yamamoto cleared his throat, "I do sense tension, but I shall insist you do this mission along with the hunt for Kuchiki Rukia."
Byakuya nodded, his eyes closed as he stood from the table and left the meeting, Renji had bowed and followed behind as they exit the room with utter silence. Since Byakuya returned to Seireitei he had not spoken once about what had happened and only Rukia had seen what had happened that evening she faded. It wasn't a coincident that she happened to have looked at him with pain, but it was just the way she glanced at him, and before she had vanished, the mask appeared by her face as she grasped her Zanpakuto and left without another word.

''I've heard a few things before she vanished," A servant whispered to Hisana, it was the eve of the funeral, the Kishin clan had all been buried within their lands and with respect had been given a tomb of which resembled the old home that was shattered. It was Hisana who pleaded for aid with the many resident nearby who respected and uphold the bond they had with Yumiki, but the fact her body wasn't found had ached the most considering she was no longer able to be seen as the one of the most looked upon woman in Seireitei.
"Was she really ill?"
"No." Hisana frowned as she wiped away the tears that beckoned down her face, her eyes had been red the whole day as she couldn't accept the fact Yumiki, her Mistress yet her closest friend had died in an instant, with no signs of her body nor her blood, there was no hope to have done a search as she had later on faded at the sight of both her and Kuchiki Byakuya. "Yumiki-sama, she was not ill, she was tainted. Two weeks before her death, she mentioned she was engaged and a week ago it was later revealed Captain Gin had captured away her dignity and she was willing to commit suicide if she had Byakuya-sama find out of the truth."
"What truth?"
Both ladies gasped, they turned and bowed, hiding away the tear covered eyes from the Kuchiki Noble, he had respected the Kishin's countless of times and had never found the will to ask the Kishin Elders to be able to have Yumiki as his wife as they both were declined to have an arranged wedding between the Kuchikis and Kishins.
"Byakuya-sama." Hisana sniffed as she stood up straight and asked, "What really happened to Yumiki-sama? What drove her to sanity?"
"Gin." That was all the Kuchiki muttered before he turned and walked away, he had wandered countlessly in search for clues of what may happen. But what horrified him in his search was of what he found.

"Yumiki was a hollow." And what was worst was that he saw what had happened to her in her time of transformation, he told everyone he couldn't do anything once she killed the Hollow that ambushed the Kishin clan. Yet there was a horrible truth behind it all, he saw it, he had nightmares of it and he even told Hisana the fact that Yumiki had died because of a Hollow was a lie.

"Kishin Yumiki was the Hollow who killed her clan..." Byakuya muttered. "There had to be a reason..."

Of course there would be.
But only she knew and for them to find out would be terrible.

"Yumiki. What have you done today?"

The Kishin survivor looked over her shoulder and smirked before she faced out at the balcony of her room. "There were a lot of things."
"Like?"
Yumiki turned around fully, her eyes covered by her hair before she flicked it away, it revealed a hollow mask that covered half her nose and her left eye up to her forehead. It was something that nearly a lot of tainted spirits have gone through, and yet to find a Kishin be one?
Maybe that was why she killed her clan...
Did they know?

A/N: Excuse the rusty ness.