Sonata of the Storm in its entirety.

Well, here it is. Character backgrounds, story plots, what I wanted to write and to achieve, the epilogue. Everything. It will most likely take place over the course of one or more entries. Although I was a bit concerned that revealing all of this might give someone incentive to take the finishing of the story into their own hands, but since then I do not care as much as I did before. I don't want to be credited with it anymore, even though it was my idea. I'm not necessarily encouraging it, and would rather prefer that people did not take it and try to finish it, but there is nothing that I can do about it.

For your appetizer, the biography of the main villain. (written before the plot summary, has yet to be edited so do not pay attention for contradictions it may have with the rest of these posts. things had not been organized when I decided to delete)

Matsuo Keiji- exiled Shinigami from 100 years ago.

zanpakuto: Raijin

Powers stripped by Yamamoto and sealed. some young boy with high reiatsu touches the tree that Matsuo was sealed in. sealed in Zaraki district. the boy takes off the barrier slips that immobilized Matsuo. he wants revenge.  (Still has Raijin, but no shikai) Master swordsman, goes on a killing spree in Rukongai and ends up obtaining the "seal of Raidon" (seal of the thunder god) from murdering an authority from one of the four noble families of Soul Society. Attacks Soul Society in the fourteenth division, and takes Sayuri. Threatens her with killing Toshiro and Ichigo. She struggled against him, but he threatened her and told her not to resist. Takes Sayuri to an abandoned cave like the one Yamamoto was in when Muramasa looked into his memories. Toshiro Ichigo and Mitsuki go to find her against Yamamoto's orders. (He told anyone who finds her to kill her- see trailer of DDR) Sayuri's bankai will be the trigger to activating the seal; power starts to unleash from it and restores Matsuo's powers to a greater extent. Becomes huge and jacked from the power of the seal of Raidon. Seireitei becomes enveloped in a web of electricity. Goes on a rampage killing Shinigami with single lightning strike. Sayuri and Toshiro work together (her bankai rains, the water helps Toshiro). Toshiro uses the really strong attack he used on Halibel on Matsuo. Freezes Matsuo in ryuusenka and Sayuri shatters him with a huge shockwave or lightning strike. (When Sayuri goes bankai, Toshiro can't get into the hurricane thing, but Sayuri lets him in through an opening and closes it.)

For the main course, the plot summary and motives

Matsuo's motives:

Matsuo had a lover, Sasaki Kaede. Kaede had bright green eyes, long brown hair, a low voice, and a crooked grin.

When Matsuo was a young Shinigami 3^rd seat in the 8^th division under Kyoraku, before Aizen yet still while the Vizard were there, Kaede was vice-captain of the 14^th division under Erizawa Akira, the former captain who was in charge of the division prior to Sayuri. Erizawa-taichou was a very loving person, much like Ukitake. He had mid-length, dull blonde hair (almost a tannish color), wore round glasses (I would call them spectacles almost), he was very observant, however he was very quiet about his observations. A very tactful captain. Older, kind to his subordinates, and very powerful, however he always refrained from violence if possible. [The present 14^th division members, Mitsuki and Tatsuya, absolutely adored him for the way he always joked around with them. He was very father-like and kept the squad together in the worst possible times.]

Kaede was Erizawa-taichou's vice-captain. Erizawa-taichou looked like Soubi from Loveless, for future reference.

Erizawa, unlike the rest of the Soul Society, trusted Kaede completely. He believed she was neither a threat nor capable of causing such harm to Soul Society. Kaede was a very smart girl in the academy, and her battle skills were exceptional. Soul Society saw Kaede as a threat, more like -Yamamoto saw Kaede as a threat, and that is why Matsuo hates him the most out of all of the people in Soul Society. So Kaede started to become shunned by some of her cohorts, and it made her more distant. Aizen used that to his advantage, so he started killing people (not when Shinji and them were banished from Soul Society) and made Yamamoto assume it was her, so Yamamoto had to strip her of her powers and locked her away in a chamber in Inuzuri (unbeknownst to Matsuo, but that is where he has been looking for her because he can sense extremely faint traces of her reiatsu) where she could slowly decay.

Matsuo retaliated against Yamamoto and directly attacked him. Even for a third seat he was incredibly strong, and no one besides Kaede ever knew that he had his bankai achieved. Very advanced in kidou, and not quite but close to par with Yamamoto's powers. And then Yamamoto locked away Matsuo in Zaraki to purposely keep him away from Kaede. Some little boy with intense reiatsu touched the tree that he was sealed away in, and Matsuo was freed. He would have aided in the destruction of Aizen, but by the time he was freed, Aizen was already dead, and Matsuo would have not been able to help because he spent the time from between the end of Breaking Through the Storm and the time up until the beginning of Sonata of the Storm recovering his powers. He found Kanai and Nariko slightly after he was unsealed from the tree, as Kanai is the one who touched it to unseal it. He took the two children in and became very attached to them. (Side note: Kanai and Nari are like brother and sister to each other, like Rukia and Renji's relationship)

Now that Sayuri is in Soul Society, and he is now aware of her zanpakuto's nature, he by chance found the person that is the other part to the “gift of life” (name pending), which is Sayuri. He wasn't planning on finding her and wasn't aware of her, but while he was killing the people in Zaraki at first but went unnoticed because -well, obviously, it's Zaraki. Then to Kusajishi, and then moving his way toward Inuzuri, gradually. He didn't start killing mass amounts of souls until he got more of his powers back and got to Inuzuri, where he found a special ops team and slaughtered them and got more powerful, giving some of the energy to Kanai and Nari. (This special ops team was the one that Tatsuya and Mitsuki were supposed to find) That is where he felt the faint traces of Kaede's reiatsu. Before he was just wandering around, not quite remembering what had happened to him, but remembering there was something very important he was forgetting and feeling very angry still, hence the killing, and then he remembered his hatred for Yamamoto. So he tried to find Aizen, and then thanks to Kanai's power of being able to “read minds” he was able to find out from a Shinigami he murdered that Aizen had been killed. Then he found out from an elder in Inuzuri about the “gift of life,” which is basically if the two twin zanpakuto of Raidon have their spirits reunited, by legend the power was said to be strong enough to undo even the worst damage possibly done to a soul. It won't restore Shinigami powers, but it can bring a soul back to life from near death. (Picturing Kaede as a wrinkled old woman now, even though she would still look quite young if it weren't for being sealed away) The elder told him if he had Raijin, then the other zanpakuto would most certainly be named Rai-Joshin. Matsuo spent months trying to find out who was the holder of the zanpakuto Rai-Joshin (Sayuri), and when he finally found out it was her, he plotted to get her to come to him so he could take her zanpakuto from her.

That's when Mitsuki and Tatsuya come into Inuzuri and the Hollow is crying out, looking for Sayuri. Then Matsuo retreats to the hideout he'd been staying in near the edge of Inuzuri since he remembered about Kaede. And then he goes to Zaraki to see if he can find any clues in the place where he was sealed as to how to free Kaede. But then the covert ops team came to Zaraki to investigate the intense amount of reiatsu and spiritual pressure disturbances in Zaraki, and they were heading closer and closer to the spot where he was sealed, so to keep them from seeing it so they wouldn't know it was him just yet, he slaughtered them all, which is where Ichigo and Toshiro's mission comes in. He finds out from Kanai about Yamamoto's current plans to have Ichigo and Toshiro go to Zaraki, where he was sealed but he doesn't want them to find out about him being freed. He does not kill either of them because he found out from Sayuri's memories of Toshiro that he can use them both as leverage.

Eventually, since he does not know exactly where in Inuzuri Kaede is located, Matsuo will eventually have to come to Seireitei and Kanai will have to “read his mind” to find the location of Kaede. Also, Matsuo also discovered Sayuri's location recently, seeing as Kanai was able to find her and invade her dreams.

Then the Soul Society finds out about Matsuo's sealing place being empty, and puts the entire Soul Society on alert. They are still unaware that Kaede was framed and that Matsuo was trying to get Sayuri for her zanpakuto, not just for no particular reason.

And then that's when the action kind of starts to kick in, because Matsuo comes to Seireitei and creeps into Sayuri's bedroom in the middle of the night and gives her 5 days to make up her mind whether she will come with him or not. About two chapters take place over those five days where the decision haunts her, and she becomes unreasonably distant from Toshiro. Her and Toshiro get into a big fight, and that's when Sayuri makes the mistake of going with Matsuo, not only because she is hurt that Toshiro would yell at her like that but she also wants to protect Toshiro and Ichigo at the same time. Then Yamamoto goes on with something about Sayuri being a traitor when they discover her missing, and since there was no sign of forced entry in her bed room, so she's wanted by the Soul Society, and it conflicts with Toshiro because he doesn't want to break the rules right then and there by ignoring Yamamoto's orders to find and execute Sayuri himself, but eventually his love for Sayuri is so much stronger than his compliance with the rules so he goes to find Sayuri giving Yamamoto the impression that he will kill her, but he in reality really won't.

Meanwhile Matsuo is trying to extract Sayuri's zanpakuto spirit, who has gone dormant to protect herself and Sayuri. He did not kill Sayuri or threaten to when he came to get her because that would have been useless to him as Rai-Joshin would have died if Sayuri had died. So he is trying to get Rai-Joshin to come out of her dormant state where he can reunite the two zanpakuto. When Toshiro comes and Sayuri sees that he is unharmed, Toshiro convinces her that she can take care of it in a way where she does not have to aid Matsuo, and she starts to help Toshiro who had started to attack Matsuo. But unfortunately when she releases her bankai, and strikes Matsuo with lightning while his own bankai is released, her zanpakuto gets reunited with Raijin, and she sees Rai-Joshin being, like, sucked out of her zanpakuto, and she loses her bankai ability. Just when Matsuo finds Kaede, he has her body laying on the ground and before he can put the small gold pebble like thing that is the “gift of life” that Raijin and Rai-Joshin formed, Sayuri tackles him to the ground and forces it into him, which since it reverses any effects done, it drains him of all his powers. The stone/pebble once forced into him, it shoots out of his body because his soul can't handle the amount of power it has on him. A ray of light shoots at him and drains all of his powers, but once it is finished draining him of his entire life, it splits apart because Raijin's half into the stone fades because his Shinigami is dead. Rai-Joshin returns to Sayuri's empty katana, which you can tell because it has a spark in it again.

[Yay we did it! ending chapters Yada yada yada....]

Ends with Toshiro holding Sayuri and he says how when Sayuri was gone and ordered to be executed, it made him realize just how important she was to him, and then proposes to her.

Then the epilogue I had planned.

(Give Ichigo a minor scene where he is horrified about having to kill his own twin sister)

CHAPTER 10: FLUFF CHAPTER

CHAPTER 11: TURN BACK THE PENDULUM, SONATA OF THE STORM STYLE (matsuo's past)