Ichigo who had followed Hakura, whom herself had been captured, knocked out, and carried off into heuco mundo by her older brother, arrives at the place where Hakura was delivered to about 10 minutes after that. He sees Lord Kurokai holding the Hogyoku in his right hand and gazing at Hakura who was unconscious on the couch. He knows he has to do something quick or else Hakura would possibly be turned against them by force through the Hogyoku's power, knowing Kurokai is most likely planning to insert it into Hakura's body somehow. But knowing he has no idea of Kurokai's abilities yet, he tries to think of something he can use to his advantage in his attempt to save her. At the same time Ichigo is also focusing and angry at the fact of Xaos, wondering why of all places, Xaos would bring his little sister here. Having already been at Byakuya's throat about something of this same nature before, Ichigo is really annoyed that he might have to drill it into someone else's head that the older ones should be protecting their younger siblings instead of trying to do something such as this that might end up resulting in their younger sibling being hurt or worse, their younger sibling being killed.
Meanwhile Ashido, having heard about Yamamoto's trip down to the world of the living, has made it down to Karakura town himself. Upon his arrival, Ashido has started to sense the trouble at hand right away. He tries to feel out where the head captain is, picking up on his spiritual pressure a little soon afterwards. He then shortly after that feels quite an intense amount of pressure to the back of him, glancing behind and noticing the garganta having been open. He then feels Ryuuto's spiritual, feeling it being very weak, but at the same time Ryuuto's pressure being stable for now. Ashido wonders what could have happened to Ryuuto, and he also wonders, the fact he can't sense Hakura anywhere, what could've happened to her. Feeling another spiritual pressure that's familiar to him, that being Uryu Ishida's spiritual pressure also close by, Ashido decides to scope things out a bit to see if he can't find out something about exactly what's going on.
Over at Urahara's shop, contemplating on if she should take action now with Orihime and Uryu, also getting Chad's assistance, considering the situation is getting dangerous rather quickly and knowing Ichigo is still weakened pretty badly still from his fight with Aizen and possibly can't take on whatever challenge awaits him on the battle field that he's heading towards to rescue Hakura, or if it'd be best to wait for Shinji and the rest of the Vizards to join them, Shinji's group of course first having to be informed of the situation that has taken place, Yuzu stands watching the garganta that is open in front of her. Yuzu knows that it's probably smarter to wait for Shinji and the Vizards, or to wait for some of the other soul reapers to arrive and get them to help. Yuzu clutches the pendant of her necklace again feeling very worried about Hakura and Ichigo's safety.
