My ears hurt; I wish he would just shut up! I turned to him, his white blonde hair shone in the false light, his violet eyes were pointed towards the ceiling and he was slightly taller than me which really got annoying when I try telling him off.

"Blanco, Blanco! Please just be quiet!" I pleaded, while rubbing my ears. He shrugged and continued talking in the voice that I suddenly loathed,

"But Akiko you need to know this, Ulquiorra-sama told me to tell you this, he said it was important." Blanco, my fraccion never stopped talking, I swear he talks in his sleep. But when someone walks past he suddenly goes quiet and respectful, bless the little mercies. He was slightly older than me and never lets me have a moment peace,

"Okay, what did Ulquiorra say?" I asked feeling defeated. I was the seventh espada, been so for about a month. Blanco took a deep breath and started on his long reply of what Ulquiorra said, or at least it seemed long

"Well, the next Espada meeting would be held today at lunch, he needs a new fraccion and I really need some manners." He finally stopped and looked triumphant. I gasped, the meeting was on now!

"Shit! I have to go! Blanco go bother someone else." I sprinted off; Blanco had adoration all over his face, life was easier when I was Ulquiorra fraccion.

I burst into the conference room panting for air, everyone turned to me, but I was used to that its happened loads of times.

"Sorry I'm late. My fraccion was being annoying." There were some changes to the table. Nnoitora, Barragan and Tosen were dead so we had to fill some spots. There was a major explosion in Szayel's lab and of course he wasn't hurt because he was protected but the bystanders weren't.

The espada were now as follows:

1 Starrk

2 Halibel

3 Ulquiorra

4 Grimmjow

5 Tesla (Nniotora's old fraccion)

6 Zomarie (he's a big scary dude)

7 Me!

8 Szayel

9 Aaroniroe (floating heads)

10 Yamy

Most of the espada had nothing against me but Grimmjow and Tesla couldn't stand me. Like how Grimmjow and Nniotora had hated me Tesla had taken his place. What really bugged me was that they were both above me. Now the leaders of us were just Aizen and Ichimaru. I sat in my seat next to Grimmjow (I know bad luck right?) and across from Tesla. Tesla kicked my shins and Grimmjow smirked at me. I hated them so much. Ulquiorra glanced at me, his eyes were amused but he tried his hardest not to show it.

Aizen continued talking about something really boring. Tesla and Grimmjow continued torturing me, they knew I would try my hardest not to show anything on my face and that made it even easier to not get caught. They kicked me, shot cero at me under the table and whispered abuse ever so quietly. Ulquiorra, my knight in shining armor, kicked Grimmjow and Tesla and pointed to Aizen without anyone except us three noticing. Ulquiorra pretended that he was annoyed by them but I knew he secretly wanted to protect me.

"Akiko." I looked up from the table, I was studying my reflection. "You have your fist mission." Aizen said to me. Grimmjow and Tesla didn't take their eyes off me.

"What is it Aizen-sama?" I asked innocently. Everyone around the table seemed interested by his new mission. The hougyoku was destroyed a couple of years ago so Aizen hadn't given anyone a mission for a while.

"You will infiltrate the Soul society as a shinigami." He said like it was a sane thing to say. "Szayel has made a drug and an antidote which can make you exactly like a shinigami. Your aim is to steal the king's key." I sat there completely stunned. Ulquiorra stood up, his eyes were wild but n the outside he was calm.

"But Aizen-sama don't you think that is a bit too hard for her. She just became an espada a couple of months ago." Ulquiorra protested.

"No I think she's ready." Grimmjow smirked; Tesla nodded and smirked as well.

"Yes I think so too." Aizen said closing the conversation.