Spending many years under the desert of Los Mundos, Kano Ashio came to accept his lonely existence. And then, breaking that silence of having no one around him, he ended up meeting Kuchiki Rukia and the others, bringing to his mind some kind of hope that he could eventually come to be a part of soul society again. That, or he would be remembered by someone.

Time passed after that event, his mind not expecting to have anyone come for him anytime soon, as in truth rescuing him and digging him out was something he rather expected of a captain class shinigami. Instead, he stayed in his cave, eating his moss food source. He also went out every so often to fight hollows.

One day, if he could really call time day anymore, he found a spiritual pressure coming and leaving in the Forest of Menos. This caused him to pay attention to the reiatsu, stepping out a distance and giving out his own so that the person who spread their spiritual pressure could find him. He then found the pressure near and went to confront it.

To his surprise, or more of not really to his surprise, he saw a shinigami who appeared to be younger then him cutting down a few grand menos, then saw the pale teal eyes glance up, then move away from where the hollows would gather to find the two of them. Ashio nodded his head towards the male to follow him.

Looking up and down, Ashio felt that he need not test this persons skill. The man had silver hair and remained quite. He also boded an aura that he could fight and take care of himself. They came to Ashio's cave and the man placed a sword on his hilt, watching the man carefully. "I am going to ask if you are friend or foe."

"I would say neither." The man spoke up, his words coming across as strange.

"From my experience, you are either one or the other." Kano sighed.

"I happen to be both at the same time." The man stated. "While I was sent here to get you out of Huceo Mundo, I am not necessarily someone you should trust." There was a paused silence. "I do not want to get into my past. All you need to know is that we are going to head to the surface and you're coming with me. I'm not leaving you behind."

Ashio then took in the man with his eyes at that point, including his silver hair and strange smile. "How bides soul society?"

"You mean in comparison to when Kuchiki Rukia came to you and found you down here?" The silver haired man spoke up. "I personally would rather not go into that at this point."

"You make me not want to trust you and kill you right here." Kano retained his hand on the hilt of his zampaktuo.

"I was part of the problem. I'll admit that much." The man stated firmly. "You are Kano Ashio." The man then went on to talk about the old man's rank and position within the gotei thirteen before he disappeared, then the names of the companions and their rank before they disappeared.

"You know my name and my former information." The man stated, still watching the man carefully. "What is your name."

"I am Ichimaru Gin. Whether I am a member of the gotei thirteen still is left in question and whether I deserved the rank I had is also left to question." The man stated, his face not hinting if he was being truthful or not. However, Ashio decided to listen and to plan their way out, with the older shinigami watching carefully how the man acted.

They came up a plan so that they could get to the surface and began to implement it, Kano still watching the young man as they worked their way along, avoiding detection by the grand menos. The silver haired man remained silent, despite the fact that Ashio offered up chances for conversation, asking how things had changed since he disappeared.

They eventually came to the tunnel and moved towards leaving towards the desert. Everything had gone well up to that point in time. However, luck like that eventually runs out. By the time they got into the new tunnel they found, something had picked up on their trail and as they began to move through the it attacked.

Ashio moved to intercept the hollow, an Adjuchas, only to have Ichimaru move between them, blocking the Adjuchas from colliding with Ashio. "I don't think you understand. My mission is to get you out of here."

"What is the point of getting me out of here, unless both of us get out of here?" The man narrowed his eyes at the man as he blocked a few more blows, taking one to the side himself before he could take it down.

An answer didn't come at first, but then they moved up to the surface, making it up there and they found a spot that was rocky and that they could watch those that approached said rock, not to mention build a hidden fire. Ashio watched as the man worked on patching himself up. The man then spoke up. "If I die, I'll have done it making up for a lot of wrong I've done."

At that, Ashio watched the man, then spoke up. "I refuse that awnser. I've lost to many comrades in the fight against hollows."

"Comrade?" At that, Gin's face looked up, his teal eyes looking at the man, a frown appearing on his face. He then glanced up at the stars. "I don't believe I deserve that, truth be told."

"Then why did you come to rescue me from this place?" Kano watched the man carefully.

"I had my reason." Ichimaru stated, simply pulling an item out from his shinigami robes, letting off a signal of some kind. "Now, we just have to wait. Don't be surprised if the people who come don't treat me as an ally, but instead treat me like a foe."

"Things are that complicated?" Kano simply watched, holding his hands up to the fire, wondering how long it would take for a team to come and get the two of them, his mind wondering about the silver haired man's secrets.