Prologue: "New Shadows"

"Why did you order us here, Kisuke? The fight against Aizen has been over for five years. There is nothing more for us to do.", The blue-haired girl says calmly and looks at him coldly, whereupon he just grins behind his fan and then nods in agreement. "It may well be that the traitor is defeated, but shadows are emerging again. We need your special skills.", The former Taicho replies to his five guests, who are sitting at the table with him and drinking tea. "What kind of shadows are they? Hollows? If that is what the Shinigamis in Seireitei can take care of. For us these fights are long history.", The red-haired woman speaks up and looks at Kisuke seriously, whereupon Kisuke just laughs. "You cannot escape these fights. You are the only ones who can help us. Ryu, I beg you. Open one of your gates into another dimension and bring four people here. No matter how. They could help us against our new opponents. Nanashi, when that’s you again you have to do something for me. Kurosaki Ichigo lost his powers at that time. Help him to regain them. " just look at yourself. "Hikari, Yoru, you stay here and help Kisuke as far as you can and look for Akito. We will be able to use him. Hiko, Ryu, we'll go and get these four people.", Says the smallest of them with an icy voice and gets up , whereupon the black-haired and the red-haired go down into the underground room and start to create the gate. “Then I have to raise my gun again and fight.” The blue-haired woman smiles weakly and is given an envelope with the four pictures of her target persons in it, whereupon she only nods. "I'm sorry to ask you to help again because you paid the greatest price.", He says, smiling gently and guiltily, and also gets up, whereupon both of them go to Hiko and Ryu and stand in front of the gate. "I think the two are finished with the preparations. You should leave and please take care of yourselves. This world is different from ours," he continues and looks after his three protégés as they step through the gate.

Meanwhile to another place….
"Here it is. Nii-san said that these strange phenomena appeared here." "Says Lenalee calmly and looks around the old ruin, whereupon the redhead nods and yawns." We should stop here. Tomorrow cr ", says Allen calmly, whereupon the other three just nod and they set up camp together.

A flash of lightning illuminates the area. Without thunderstorms or thunder. The small group looks at each other and makes their way to the place where the lightning struck. When they arrive at the site of the impact, three girls are standing there, looking at each other thoughtfully and talking to each other.The conversation seems to be serious because their faces show no emotion, whereby they also do not notice the four exorcists who are looking at them in confusion.
Now the smallest with the blue hair turns around and looks at hers calmly. "Hiko, Ryu, it's you. Ryu build a gate. Hiko and I take care of these people.", She says coldly, which she could use to freeze the surroundings, whereupon the redhead just grins and giggles slightly. "Don't become like Hitsugaya-Taicho and our dear Ryu. I can't stand three blocks of ice. But I think we shouldn't keep the four waiting and neither should Kisuke-Taicho.", Says the Tsuki and draws two of her swords, whereupon the addressed only grumbles softly and draws a small slick dagger. "Fenikkusu, get up from the ashes !!!", Hiko calls and the third sword now hovers around her. Just like the other two, besides, her body now hovers a few centimeters above the ground. Nanashi looks at her and just shakes his head. "So you want to fight in Bankai right away. Well, I think that it is of no use and a waste of energy, but since you fight like that I can do that too. But don't forget that we need her alive.", Says the blue-haired woman thoughtfully and looks at the small group in front of them skeptically, whereupon she notices that they have also got ready to fight. "Well, that will be funny for sure. Kantori-Ki, bring them death.", She continues and then briefly looks up at the sky, where it is starting to rain. Nanashi holds the dagger in front of him and runs over the blade, which then changes completely and turns into a completely black scythe.

The exorcists look at each other confused and do not understand what this is about. "They are not Akumas ... But they are not human either. I don't understand. I only see three souls." Allen says quietly and doesn't know what that means, whereupon Kanda looks at the three girls and looks at them thoughtfully . However, two of them, or rather the red-haired and the blue-haired girl, attack them, whereupon they had to evade and then activate their innocence.

Nanashi and Hiko just grinned and then look at their opponents. "When will you take over? Since there are only two of us fighting it is a fair division.", Asks the older of the two and then looks over her shoulder at Ryu who is setting up the gate so that they can go back as quickly as possible. "I take the white-haired guy and the guy who fights with the sword. They look like worthy opponents.", The smaller one says calmly and attacks the two who only evade and then attack as well.

Some time later, both groups face each other, with the fighters on both sides already quite exhausted. "Nana-chan ... I will soon not be able to anymore. They are pretty strong and besides, I feel weaker since we came into this world.", the Tsuki says exhausted and looks at Ryu, whose gate keeps disappearing, whereupon the addressed only nods and slumps a little." Hiko, loosen your Bankai. It is enough. ", the Sarana begins calmly and transforms her scythe again into the little dagger and puts it away, whereupon the addressed reluctantly puts away her swords." I'm sorry that we attacked you, but we wanted to convince ourselves first that you are able to help us. ", she continues coldly and calmly and walks towards the small group in front of them, whereupon they still point their weapons in their direction and seem to think that they will attack them again. Hiko escapes a laugh and she stands next to hers Comrade, noticing how Ryu also appears next to her and has her hand on the handle of her katana. "We won't attack you again. Killing you wouldn't do us any good. We should introduce ourselves first I think ... I'm Tsuki Hiko, next to me is Taki Ryu and the blue-haired block of ice is Sarana Nanashi. ", says the redhead in a friendly manner and with a big grin on her lips, whereupon those addressed introduce themselves as well.

"I'm Lavi, the Moyashi next to me is Allen, the girl's name is Lenalee and the guy who looks so angry is Kanda Yuu.", The Bookman Jr. also says with a smile and looks at one after the other.

"What are you doing?", Everyone now answers and looks at all three with interest, whereupon those addressed consult. "We are Shinigamis. Well, better said we are ex-Shinigami .... We were banished by ours ... You know ... That was ...", Hiko explains with a slight sad smile, but is then silenced by Ryu. "We had an agreement, Hiko ... It's nobody's business.", She says coldly and then looks at the others, whereupon all three of them just look confused and don't understand anything. "What are Shinigami?" Asks Allen confused and looks at Lavi, whereupon Lavi just looks thoughtful and tilted his head slightly. "Shinigamis are gods of the dead. They are responsible for leading the souls of the deceased into the afterlife. I had actually always imagined Shinigamis to be different ... Dark and creepy ...", says the redhead and grins broadly, whereupon Lenalee slaps him on the back of the head gets "Don't even think about it.", she says in a stern tone and looks at the three girls, whereupon they both just look confused. "We should bring them to the order.", Kanda says coldly and doesn’t even look at them when he goes back to the camp, whereupon his friends just sighed softly and went back with the Shinigami as well.

"So these are Shinigami? That will certainly be very interesting.", A shadow says, amused, and laughs as well, before disappearing into nothing.