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Atsutane flapped his wings forward and braked landing on the hill, now seeing the bodies of dead being tended to by the 4th squad. He lowered Shino on the ground from his arms. Shino was unconcious and still bleeding from a large wound in his right side. "Please I need some assistance!" said Atsutane as he now saw healers a few feet away along with Captain Retsu. His head hurt again as he looked down at Shino, flashbacks went through his mind of his death and how he was unable to save the Boy. He lifted up Shino and headed towards Captain Retsu, now walking holding Shino up in his arms.

"yes, Taichou" said Atsutane as he did exactly as she said and placed Shino softly, his head now resting on the pillow. "I apologize for disobeying, but I am fine, I only have one cut and I am hardly tired yet" Said Atsutane now standing again and quickly checking the wound on his shoulder from the Mantis hollow "Huh?". Atsutane ripped away the kimono sleeve from the place were his wound was, It did not pain him anymore, seeing as the blood had stopped from his large increase in energy in Ban-kai form. "I must go find the other squad members and see if they are alright" said Atsutane as he now felt Matsuda's and Mitsuyo's reiatsu's in squad 5 area and squad 8 area. "If you will excuse me Taichou Retsu" Atsutane said kindly a he bowed to Unohana then stepped a few feet away, and again channeled energy into his wings, lifting off the ground with a large flap of each wing. "Do you need me for anything else? or shall I go continue my duties? taichou" said Atsutane now hovering for a moment, feeling rude to leave without her guidance.

"yes, taichou" said Atsutane as he then flew towards squad 3 building.
" I hope Shino will be alright" thought Atsutane

((Please someone control shino if you wish, I'm kinda tired of controlling him))

A red and black blurr past several fourth squad members, causing some of them to lose balance from thee reiatsu. Dreza stoppeed in front of Unohana, Ikkaku in one hand Renji held in the other. Noticing several shifting, preparing to try to stop him Dreza let his reiatsu rise a bit causing them to falter.

"Madarame Ikkaku should be fine," Dropping him uncermoniously to the ground, Drea smiled to himself at the disgust shown by those watching.

"Abarai Renji on the other hand, is on the brink of death. He has minutes left, if that, before his reieatsu drops out entirly. Setting Renji down a bit more carefully, Dreza turned to leave.

"When they wake up, they will probably ask the same question. The answer is that even I do not know why I did not finish the fight."

Rukia had arrived not long after Dreza left only to find most of the Squad Four members weakened from his reiatsu. She landed and looked around then suddenly spotted Renji and Ikkaku laying side by side completely unconscious. She rushed to Renji's side and grabbed his arm gently. "Renji!" She cried as she tried to feel whatever reiatsu he had left. He had no wounds on his body but it was almost as if he were dead. But Zabimaru was still there, whole, in its sheath. His clothes and hair were a mess but otherwise he looked fine. "Captain Unohana!" She called out, hoping that she wasn't too busy. She looked over to Ikkaku who was also a total wreck, but his body was also in prime condition save for a few scratches. His reiatsu was still very much present, and even slowly increasing as he got better. But Renji was in a much worse state. She gently shook his arm and said, "Renji, please... Wake up..." A tear began to form in her eye as she began to realize that he might not make it. Suddenly she felt Ichigo's Reiatsu appear, but it didn't matter. He would be fine for a while, but otherwise she needed to give Renji her attention.

Then, when she was just forgetting about Ichigo she felt Byakuya release his Bankai! What was going on? She would have to go see once she checked in with Unohana.

*Edit* After waiting for Unohana for about ten minutes Rukia felt Byakuya's reiatsu drop drastically. Her eyes widened and she couldn't say anything other than silently mutter, "What's going on here?" She felt the reiatsu of the man he was fighting and noticed that it felt somewhat familiar. She couldn't just sit here and wait. As she could feel it, Renji was barely hanging on and if Unohana could make it to him soon he would hopefully be fine, but Byakuya losing was something almost completely unheard of with the exception of Ichigo's fight with him. She had to go see her brother if he was at Death's Door. She quickly vanished, headed for the 6th Squad HQ.

"Nagaharu is" whispered Byakuya as he now began regaining his voice, He moved his left hand towards Rukia. "back" said Byakuya faintly.

"Nii-sama!" Rukia cried as he spoke to her. It seemed as though he was slowly getting better on his own, but it would take some time. "Who is Nagaharu? I don't know what you're talking about." She sat down next to her brother and looked at him intently. She hoped and prayed that he and Renji would be all right. Things were just too chaotic for her at the moment. It wasn't getting any better either and all she wanted was for her family and friends to stay alive.