Savin' Me
By Inuyoshie
Prologue
From within Las Noches, Aizen paced. Everything was wrong.
The attack on Karakura town did not go as planned. For one thing, the Vizored's attack came at the wrong time- Aizen was expecting them later, not earlier. And Wonderweiss… everything was just off. He was so close… and then he was back in Las Noches, licking his wounds. Alright, so the Soul Society didn't know that, the Soul society were still frightened of Aizen and Aizen could use this to his advantage but only once he got his head out of his ass and figured out what went wrong.
"Ahem."
Aizen's head snapped up. A woman stood in front of him, in his throne room, dressed in a rough traveling cloak. She had wavy black hair and dark red eyes. The woman smiled. "Hello,"
"Who are you?" Aizen demanded coolly. The woman's smile widened.
"My name is unimportant. What is however… is you. You are in quite a mess I see," she remarked casually. Aizen frowned. How did this woman get it? And where did she get the audacity to talk to him like that?
"I think I'm doing fine-"
"Well you're wrong," the woman cut him off. Aizen twitched.
"And who are you to tell me I'm wrong?" he demanded.
"I'm me,' the woman replied simply. "And I'm here to offer you a wager."
"A wager?" Aizen blinked. He didn't generally gamble.
"Yes yes, and even if you don't generally gamble I think you'll like the stakes," the woman smiled wider. "I can get you your Espada back,"
Aizen rolled his eyes. "They are of no use to me," he informed the woman. "To my plans-"
"Souske, Souske that's your problem… a game of chess cannot be won using only one piece, even if that piece is powerful. A pawn can take a queen," the woman chided. "You cannot win this war on your own. Even if you have Ichimaru with you, the Soul Society will overwhelm you. And they have that Kurosaki boy."
"So? He's interesting, and fits into my plan-"
"That boy has cosmic forces around him Souske, he will win." The woman told him flatly.
"Cosmic forces," Aizen sighed. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well you see… there was this wager between Lady Luck and Fate about the boy's father and his mother… and since Lady Luck won that bet Kurosaki Ichigo's odds are a little, er… tampered with," the woman laughed slightly. "They seemed to be having fun influencing the human and spirit worlds, so I thought I'd try my hand at it,"
"…who exactly are-"
"Now, for my wager. I'm willing to bet that half of your Espada cannot fall in love." The woman cut Aizen off. Aizen blinked, and then burst out laughing.
"OF course not. They're hollows, they have not hearts. Just… holes,"
"Well yes I know that but the point is for them to overcome the holes in their hearts, and then they become powerful and then you can have them working for you again," the woman sighed, as if she was explaining the rules of dominos to a small child.
"Yes but all of my Espada are dead." Aizen pointed out. "Well… Yami might be alive somewhere, and it's possibly an arm of Szayel's is still squirming,"
"Yeah I can bring them back," the woman shrugged. "So, do you accept my wager?"
"What are the rules? Limitations? Which Espada are you bringing back-"
"I'll tell you when you accept," the woman replied.
"That's… rather unfair," Aizen pointed out, almost in a petulant tone.
"I've been told that I'm like that," the woman sighed. "Humans… honestly-"
"You're life." Aizen blinked.
"No, I'm Life. Get it right. Now do you accept?" Life demanded. Aizen frowned, and then nodded.
"I accept,"
After all…what was there to lose?
"Excellent! Come on, you'll miss the show!" Life grinned, grabbing Aizen's wrist and pulling him out of the world he was in… and into the sky over a bustling city.
"This is Coral City, Ohio." Life intoned, pointing to five streaks of light falling into the city. "These five Espada shall encounter someone whom they have to fall in love with. If they fail to do so, they shall be sent back to where I fished them out of,"
Aizen blinked, and then realized what she was talking about. Hell.
"You personally can interfere with one case. You can summon four other people to assist with the others," Life shrugged. "Or you can just watch from up here. Oh, and to make things more interesting, Fate is getting involved. Since he's a little annoyed about the Kurosaki family, he's looking to make my wager not work," Life sighed. "That man… he's so proud. Anyways. Enjoy the show~!"
Aizen stared down at the city, and nodded, watching with a slow smile. Such games were enjoyable… and he had a little time to kill. If he won (more like when… Aizen lost to no one) then Aizen could attack once the Soul Society had relaxed its guard. Perhaps this was…
Fortuitous.
"Loneliness… Nihilism… Despair… Destruction…Madness…" Life murmured, watching the lights with a slight smile. "Those aspects that infect the hearts of man and ultimately cause their death…. "
Prologue End.
Inuyoshie's after the chapter special
Yo.
Okay, so this story is kinda five stories in one… five Espada, five OCs. Stark, Ulquiorra, Nnoitera, Grimmjow and Szayel if you didn't guess by the whole aspects of death things. I tied their aspects into their OCs.
Speaking of their OCs, their OCs are gonna have issues. That's one of the main themes of this story… kinda all salvation and such. I'm gonna be covering a lot of the stuff you heard about in health class… you know, drugs, sex, alcohol, depression… and one of them is going to be 'normal' but… she has some issues too. You shall see. IF you read this and are all like 'Inu, I was through that shizz and it is NOTHING like what you say' then tell me how to fix it. I wanna kinda make a point.
Also, if I rub your political/moral feathers the wrong way, I apologize. This story is supposed to make people think. But it shall not be all emo! I will throw in some funny… I always do~!
Yes. So review?