Harumi walked quietly, and st ealthily behind the captain of squad five. Her breath was near silent and she was very light on her feet.
"I know you're following me Haru." Shinji said stopping and turning to look at the girl.
"Aw, but I was being soooo stealthy, that's not even fair. I never notice you when you're sneaking up on me." Haru pouted.
Shinji laughed. "That's because I'm a captain and you are only a fifth seat." He flash stepped behind her. "The difference is in experience." He voice tickled her ear.
Harumi smirked. "Then I guess I just have to try a little harder." She felt Shinji's arms go around her waist. "Captain that's not appropriate."
"Indeed Captain Hirako, that's not appropriate." Aizen came out of what seemed like no where.
"Lieutenant Aizen, when did you get here?" Harumi pushed Shinji off and looked at Sosuke.
"He was following you." Shinji said simply.
"No, he wasn't don't be so mean." She sighed, and then turned and made her way back to her house. Harumi's mind began to wander, things about Aizen had seemed a little off lately. It was starting to come to her attention that him and Shinji didn't exactly see eye to eye, and it bugged her. She was in love with Shinji, she had been for the longest time, but Lieutenant Aizen was one of her dear friends. Kisuke had told her that Aizen made him slightly uncomfortable and something about him just didn't sit right with him, but Harumi had disregarded his thoughts on it. She wasn't sure how to deal with her thoughts, and lately Aizen had been hanging around her a lot more and she was pretty sure that he wasn't a threat to Shinji or her.
Time passed and Harumi found herself just roaming Seireitei in the night. Her fingers were laced together with Shinji's as the walked in the starlight.
"Harumi." Shinji said looking over at her.
"Yes Shinji?" She smiled at him.
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave soon, you see Mashiro and Kensei are missing, their reiatsu completely disappeared, so I have been assigned to investigate, along with Rose and Love." He sat beside her under a tree.
"I didn't know you had been sent but while I was talking with Kisuke today, I learned that Lisa, Hachigen, and Hyori have been assigned on it too." She frowned. "I don't want any of you to get hurt." Harumi rested her head on his shoulder. "I definitely think I wouldn't be able to live it you got hurt."
Shinji kissed her cheek. "I don't think I'll get hurt."
"Please don't." Harumi pressed her lips to his gently.
"For real you two this is a public place." The familiar voice of the 12 seat of squad 8 Ayako Tanaka rang like a siren through Harumi's ears.
Shinji glared over at the girl. "Really Aya."
"Well, you see I'm hiding from the freak Ichimaru, he's been following me everywhere, but in the shadows thinking I'm not aware." Ayako whined. "He's scaring the crap out of me, and ever since Haru forced me to sit on Byakuya while she gave him the sex talk he won't talk to me!"
Harumi sighed. "Please, he's leaving really soon and I need to talk to him, I'm not in the mood to baby sit you right now Ayako, so please go away."
Ayako pouted and then turned and walked away none of the three were aware of the two lurking in the shadows.
"She better be worth all this Gin." Aizen spoke to the boy beside him.
"She's a prodigy Lieutenant Aizen." Gin said to the older man. "She may be of use later."
"You will tell her of our plan and see if she will join us, if not, I'll have to kill her." Aizen spoke coldly.
"Don't kill Ayako." Gin frowned.
"I guess there is another way." AIzen glared at Shinji. He wished to replace him in every way. He would be captain, and Harumi, would be his queen when he finally completed his plan. "Gin, go." He ordered. the boy nodded and ran off to find Ayako and move forward in the plans.
AIzen watched Shinji as he smiled and Harumi laughed and wrapped her arms around him. "I love you so much." She spoke kissing his cheek.
"I love you more." Shinji spoke kissing her passionately.
"Stupid Hirako." He smirked. "But tonight will be the last night you see Harumi, and the soul society."
"Please don't go!" Harumi begged holding onto Shinji has tightly as she could.
"I'll come back, I promise." He kissed her forehead and headed off to meet up with his team.
A tear rolled down Harumi's cheek. "Be safe!" She called out to him, and then bit her lip. "But I don't want him to leave, this mission sounded dangerous."
After thinking over the idea of following him she realized that he was probably long gone, she ran off following his reishi. She wandered for a while before she heard yelling and saw flashes of kido. "Shinji!" She screamed running towards the noise.
"Hachigen! Bind them!" Love yelled, currently helping Rose hold down a struggling Mashiro. Hachigen turned towards the group, his hands clasped as he shouted, "Bakudo number 75! Gochutekkan!"
"Shinji! What's happening?" Hachigen asked, his eyes wide as he stared at Kensei.
"Shinji!" Harumi muttered from where she was hiding, if she interfered with his mission he may be angry with her.
Before Shinji could reply, Kensei was howling, his arms that were binded shook and a bright light flashed around him. Kensei suddenly broke the kido spell and now growled at the group.
"He beat a high level kido spell with strength alone!" Hachigen yelled freaking out.
Kensei charged after Lisa, Hachigen who saw his attack performed another Kido spell, "Bakudo number 99! Kin!"
"Nice," Shinji complemented the lieutenant of the kido squad.
"I think I over did it," Hachigen replied, a small smile on his lips.
"Can they be fixed?" Shinji asked Hachigen.
"I don't think kido will do much," The round man frowned.
"Shinji!" Harumi called running to him from her hiding spot.
"Haru, what are you doing here." He asked worried as she wrapped her arms around him. "You shouldn't be here." He waled towards Hiyori.
Harumi let go and ran over to the girl. "Hiyori, are you okay?" She looked at the girl, she was very pale.
Suddenly white sputtered from her mouth and began to cover her. "Haru, get away!" Shinji screamed.
Shinji walked over and grabbed onto Hiyori's collar and pulled her aside, commanding Hachigen to watch over her, Kensei and Mashiro.
"Hiyori!" Tears rolled down Haru's face. "What's happening to you?"
"Y- You!" Lisa yelled randomly.
Harumi turned unsure of what to expect, and saw the 5th seat of Kensei's division. He wore a white mask that covered half of his face, while his eyes stared at them pupil less.
"You trai-" Lisa screeched, suddenly cut off when a wave of pain passed through her, she collapsed onto the grass, coughing and grunting like Hyori. Hachigen was next, then suddenly everyone but Haru and Shinji fell to the ground.
"W-what's happening?" Haru wrapped her arms around Shinji and held tightly to his haori.
"You need to g.." Shinji pushed her away and grabbed his chest, white began to cloak his face.
"Wonderful, just as planned," Haru turned she knew that voice that was the voice of Sosuke Aizen.
"No." Haru fell to her knees.
"Aizen…" Shinji whispered, glaring.
"Maybe you should apologize to your friends, because I chose you, your friends ended down there on the ground with you…. Captain Hirako,"
"Aizen!" Shinji yelled. His voice that usually made Haru feel safe filled her body with fear. It was not the normal friendly and warm voice she knew, but the one that reminded her so much of the cruel sound of pain and death. "What is this!" Shinji stood from where he knelt and pointed his zanpakto at Sousuke. Suddenly forced back onto his knees as he let out a grunt like howl. "Damn! your doing it to me too!" Shinji growled.
Haru looked at Shinji in horror. "Sousuke!" Haru screeched, "What have you done? What's happening to Shinji!"
"I hadn't planned on you seeing this, but I guess it doesn't really matter." Sosuke voice was only creating more pain inside of Haru.
"Shinji! Fight it!" Haru cried pulling him into her arms.
"I really did love you, Haru." He whispered.
"No, stop, you aren't going to die!" Tears fell from her eyes. "Let me sing to you, that always made you feel better."
Shinji smiled. "I'm so sorry Haru."
"Goodnight, sleep tight, no more tears. In the morning I'll be here, and when we say goodnight, dry your eyes. Because we said goodnight, and not goodbye. We said goodnight, and not goodbye." Haru sang softly. "You are going to be fine!"
"Thank you for being such great test subjects." Aizen smirked.
Harumi felt more tears roll down her cheeks. "You'll be fine, don't listen to him." She rested her head on his.
"Oh? What an interesting guest," Sousuke turned his attention to Kisuke as his lieutenants badge was cut off his arm. Kisuke stood from where he was crouched and looked at Shinji.
"Kisuke…why'd …you come, …you idiot," Shinji said breathless.
"Are you okay, Haru?" Kisuke asked smiling at her and Shinji.
"Lieutenant Aizen?" Kisuke spoke.
"Yes" Sousuke replied.
"What are you doing here?" Kisuke questioned.
"Nothing," Sousuke paused, "As you can see, I just happened to find the members of the investigation unit in charge of the vanishing soul case who were injured in battle, and I was attempting to rescue them,"
"Injured in battle? You call these 'injuries'? You mustn't lie,… this is hollowfication," Kisuke argued.
"Hollowfication?" Haru held Shinji closer.
"Yes, the vanishing soul case; squad members disappearing one after the other, as if erased, and now it comes to this, those were probably all… Hollowfication experiments," Kisuke closed his eyes and looked down.
"Stand clear! Kisuke!" Tessai commanded, "Hado number 88, Hiryu Gekizoku Shinten Raiho!"
A blinding large blue lighting ray shot from Tessai's hands and was aimed right for Sousuke. Who had his back turned along with Gin and Tousen.
"Bakudo number 81... Danku," Sousuke smiled, and got away.
Shinji wrapped his arms around Haru. "Will you just sing to me one more time?"
The salty tears from Haru's green eyes fell onto Shinji's face. " Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, my love. I can't hide, can't hide, can't hide what has come. I have to go, I have to go, I have to go, and leave you alone. But always know, always know, always know That I love you so, I love you so, I love you so. Oh" She sang to him softly stroking his cheek. " Goodbye, brown eyes, goodbye for now, goodbye, sunshine take care of yourself. I have to go, I have to go, I have to go and leave you alone. But always know, always know, always know. That I love you so, I love you so, oh. I love you so. Oh. La lullaby. Distract me with your eyes. La lullaby. la lullaby. Help me sleep tonight. La lullaby. I have to go, I have to go, I have to go. And leave you alone. But always know, always know, always know. That I love you so I love you so, I love you so, I love you so, I love you so, I love you so, I love you so. Goodbye, brown eyes goodbye my love." She ran her fingers through his hair as she finished the song.
"Run away, Haru, run back to the soul society." Shinji whispered.
"But Shinji." Harumi cried.
"Listen, it's not safe her go."
Haru bit her lip. "I love you Shinji, I'll see you again!" She ran her fingers through his hair and then ran for the forest.
She sat silently under a tree, there was a huge flash of light where she had been before and the forest was now completely silent. She closed her eyes and thought of the awful things she had seen, and thought that she way never she Shinji ever again. Soon everything was black and she was unconscious.
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"Aizen, what are you doing with her?" Gin asked.
"She is still important to my plan." He picked her up. "Did you successfully get Ayako dealt with?"
"Yes."
"Go Gin, I need a moment." Aizen spoke, the boy nodded and went on his way. He pushed some auburn hair from Haru's face. "Awake my queen" he whispered.
Harumi's eyes slowly opened. "Sosuke?" She whispered, and then her eyes widened in horror. "Shinji!" She screamed.
"Shinji is dead, but don't worry about that Haru." Aizen carried her away. "You won't be burdened with this memory any longer."
"What do you mean, Sosuke explain what's going on, what did you do to Shinji!" She slapped him.
"You shouldn't slap me Haru." Aizen kissed her cheek.
"Tousen!" Aizen called as they entered a building.
Haru looked around, she saw lots of jars and other assorted odd things, but the strangest was Ayako passed out on a table. "W-where are we?"
She felt something stab her. "Relax, this will all be gone soon." Aizen whispered before pressing his lips to hers.
Haru didn't have the strength to fight but Aizen pulled away quickly. The last thing she saw was a smirk on his face as everything went black.
"Don't touch me!" Tears filled her eyes.