rosie: okay, since rosiehater hasn't updated To Guard lately, we're going to go ahead and post another story in the creator series. both rai and i will be making an appearance in this one.

Sosuke Aizen enters his throne room in Las Noches one morning, only to find someone already in the room. No. Not just in the room, but lounging in his throne! Taking a moment to calm himself and prevent any unwitting imitations of his sixth Espada, Aizen studies the intruder who has somehow managed to penetrate so far into his domain without raising any alarms.

Sitting in the throne is an apparently young man with long golden blonde hair flowing down his back to his waist, a pair of matching fox ears perched on his head the first apparent sign that he is not anything that was once human, their occasional movement indicating that they are indeed real. Aside from the hair and ears (one of which seems to be pierced), because the young man is turned away from him, he can really only see that he's wearing nearly skin tight black leather pants, a black silk tank top, a blood red choker with at least one matching armband, and a pair of blood red Japanese fighter's slippers. Leaning against the throne within easy reach of his hand is a sheathed katana, and he is currently studying what appears to be a glowing black glass rose as he twirls it between the first two fingers of his right hand.

After another moment or two, the young man turns a pair of piercing ice blue eyes to look at Aizen, saying quietly, "Looked your fill? Honestly, if Creator-chama hadn't asked me to come here before the others, you'd have met us all at once."

Aizen raises an eyebrow slightly at this, "Who exactly are you? What are you talking about?"

The young man grins mischievously, "I actually haven't introduced myself yet, have I? Well, Creator-chama has assigned me the name Rai Kit for my stay here.", his expression turns a bit rueful before he continues in a tone that suggests he is talking mainly to himself, "I swear that woman is a bit too much into tongue-in-cheek names. Honestly, naming a gold kitsune whose main element is lightning Rai is bad enough, but taking my age into account by adding Kit is a bit much.", he seems to remember Aizen's presence then, saying, "Anyway, what I was talking about before is that Creator-chama has decided to allow some of her creations to come into this world on a sort of field trip. Since you had the best accommodations of the factions in this war, they'll be coming here. Creator-chama has grouped them accordingly under the name Espada Negra. I'm sure your Espada won't mind looking after their transdimensional counterparts for a bit, right?"

Aizen takes a moment to think about this before saying, "I take it that you will be acting as my counterpart for these Espada Negra, am I right?"

Rai nods, "Yes. Creator-chama has charged me as well as my female counterpart with the role of leader for this little escapade, after personally looking into the personalities of your Espada to be sure that her Espada Negra and any of their accompanying Fraccion will not be tempted to interfere with the upcoming war. This is, after all, only a vacation for our group, and we will most likely leave before anything major happens."

"They'd be bringing Fraccion as well?"

Rai smirks a bit, "Some of them have family members that they would refuse to leave behind, or someone who must otherwise be looked after, though there would only be about six in total. So, any questions before I leave to gather them?"

"Anything personality wise I should know about?"

Rai looks thoughtful for a moment before saying, "Our first has absolutely no desire to fight, and was pretty much just looking for a way to get away for a bit. The second and third are twins, and are actually already familiar with things here. The fourth, fifth, and sixth are also siblings, and other than our fourth being a berserker, they match up almost eerily well with your corresponding Espada members.", he laughs a bit at Aizen's resulting expression before continuing, "Our seventh is actually quite young, perhaps a bit older than the captain of squad ten appears to be (a small laugh from Aizen). Our eighth is actually an alternate version of our fourth, and our ninth is engaged to be married with one of our tenth's Fraccion."

A portal somewhere between a senkaimon and a garagantua opens up beside the throne before Rai can continue, and he sighs a bit before picking up his sheathed katana and attaching it to his waistband with practiced ease, turning to face the portal before saying over his shoulder, "That's my cue to leave, for now. My counterpart, Rosie, and I will return with the Espada Negra in two days. It might be worth it to keep this a secret from your Espada if only to see their expressions. Ja ne, Aizen."

After saying this, he walks through the portal, which immediately closes behind him, leaving a thoughtful Aizen alone in his throne room.