A/N: 10,000 hits! Hurray! It happened a while ago... but I wasn't able to get to it until now... anyway enjoy the chapter which has less speeches than last time... hopefully you'll enjoy!

Chapter 12: Working Together

Two of the three were ready to fight the hollows. The third just stared there confused.

"Back to back how so?" asked Uryu.

"That's a stupid question." Said Kyoko.

Uryu stared at Kyoko.

"You mean fight together?" asked Uryu,

"What else?" asked Ichigo.

"Duh…" said Kyoko.

"but Quincy and Soul Reapers are like cats and dogs." Said Uryu.

"Come on, I've seen plenty of times where cats and dogs got along." Said Kyoko.

Uryu couldn't come up with a response to that.

"She has a point you know." Said Ichigo.

However that was when a hollow was about to strike Uryu from behind, Ichigo grabbed his shoulder, jumped over and cut the hollow in half.

Another hollow was about to attack them, however Uryu managed to shoot it in the face quickly and kill it.

Yet another Hollow tried to attack them from above, however Kyoko managed to stab it in the face killing it.

"See there you go." Said Ichigo.

"Make no mistake I shot it so it would kill me." Said Uryu.

"Fine!" said Ichigo.

"What?" asked Uryu.

"It's kill or be killed. And fighting alone with tough." Said Ichigo.

"Me and Ichigo already got each other." Said Kyoko, "But you can't fight alone."

"Isn't survival a good enoguh reason to settle our differences?" asked Ichigo.

"I'm originally a human. I don't know much about Soul Reapers. It's not like I'm doing thus work for the love of it. But I do want to defeat Hollows." Explained Ichigo.

"Why?" asked Uryu.

"My mother… was killed by a hollow." Said Ichigo.

Uryu was surprised.

"Now you get it? That's reason enoguh… But it's not the only one." Said Ichigo, "It's like I don't want anyone else to go through that. Since that hollow killed my mother my dad and sisters have had a rough time. I don't want to see anyone else go through that!"

Uryu couldn't help but to think about something his grandfather said.

"I'm not Superman. I can't protect the whole world. But I don't want to just protect the few I can hold in my arms eithers." Said Ichigo, "I want to protect as many people as I can."

"Are you done yet?" asked Kyoko.

"what?" asked Ichigo.

"I'm half tempted to say what you said a few minutes ago." Said Kyoko.

"The point is fight together so we can fight each other later right?" asked Uryu.

"That's right." Said Ichigo with a smirk.

"Remember it's going to be a two on one fight." Said Kyoko.

Uryu smirked.

"I have one more thing to say." Said Ichigo.

"Seriously?" asked Uryu.

"I can't forgive you for putting so many people's lives in danger." Said Ichigo.

Uryu didn't say anything.

All three of them began to kill the hollows, but even with the three of them more kept coming.

"Seriously how many did you summon!" yelled Kyoko.

"I don't know." Said Uryu shoot another one.

Ichigo swiped at the Hollows killing a few.

Kyoko sighed.

"Looks like I have to get creative." She said.

A hollow was about attack her but her strange diamond shaped barrier blocked it from attacking.

"You can do that!" yelled Uryu.

"Oh yeah, you can do that." Said Ichigo.

"There's not much use for it in a fight." Said Kyoko, "It's mostly to make sure no one gets involved in any of my fights."

"Seriously?" asked Ichigo.

"Yeah…" said Kyoko with a shrug.

"Wait… why didn't you use with Don Kanonji?" asked Ichigo.

"When I was supposed to do that! He was like glue during the entire situation!" yelled Kyoko.

"You could have found a way!" said Ichigo.

"Aren't you the ones telling me we shouldn't be fighting right now." Said Uryu.

That was when the Hollows began to act strangely, crying out and acting if they were praying.

They looked towards the cracks in the sky and a gigantic face appeared from those cracks.

"What is that!" yelled Ichigo.

"How should I know!" yelled Kyoko.

"I don't know what is it either." Said Uryu.

"Great…" muttered Kyoko.

"We cant' fight that thing and multitudes of hollows at the same time!" said Uryu.

"What other choice do we have!" yelled Ichigo.

Kyoko sighed.

"Whatever that thing it's something one of can't face alone." Said Kyoko.

"We can tell!" yelled Ichigo.

"What I'm saying is that one of stays behind and fights as many Hollows as we can while the other two fight that thing." Said Kyoko.

"You can't be serious." Said Uryu.

"I'm serious…" said Kyoko, "It has to be me or Ichigo you know… because of the whole end of the world thing…"

"I have a better option." Said a voice.

That was when they noticed a Hollow suddenly explode.

They turned to where explosions came from.

It was that little girl they've seen with Kisuke.

She bowed at them while holding a strange hand cannon that was covered in seals of some kind.

Turns out Kisuke the others were there as well.

"Mr. Kurosaki!" he said, "We're here to help!"

"You're Rukia's friend, Mr. Hat and Clogs." Said Ichigo.

"That's seriously what you've been calling him?" asked Kyoko.

IT turned out the boy had a large baseball bat like object that he was able to hit the Hollows hard.

The girl's cannon did a lot of the work.

And the large man was able to strike many hollows very quickly. The three of them were able to take down the Hollows very easily.

"Should have known he was powerful." Said Kyoko with a smirk while watching the large man.

"Their thinning out the Hollows." Said Uryu.

"What are you doing here?" asked Ichigo, "Why do you always show up wherever I go?"

"Didn't I just tell you, I'm here to help." Said Kisuke.

"Weren't you listening?" asked Kyoko staring at Ichigo.

Kisuke

"We'll take of the hollows around here." He explained, "So you three can concentrate on fighting that guy. Go on there's no time to talk."

He pointed to the gigantic Hollow like creature.

Which was breaking through the crack, tearing it open.

"It's coming through." Said Ichigo.

Which Rukia and Kon they were also watching the thing coming through. Rukia looked completely scared.

"What is it?" asked Kon becoming completely scared.

"That's a Menos." She explained.

"A Menos?" asked Kon.

"A giant hollow formed from hundreds and hundreds of regular hollows. Until now I have only seen pictures in books." She explained.

Kon wasn't sure how respond.

"It's impossible…" whispered Rukia, "When that appears the Royal Taskforce has to deal with it. Way beyond the abilities of a single Soul Reaper."

Indeed the Menos was coming through… and hopefully the three would be able to deal with it.

A/N: 10,000 hits! Hurray! It happened a while ago... but I wasn't able to get to it until now... anyway enjoy the chapter which has less speeches than last time... hopefully you'll enjoy!