The day after he announcement some of the espada were gathered in the throne room with their luggage, already in their gigais and waiting for their mighty lord to appear. The only ones that were still late were the octava and his fraccion, who would stay to take care of the laboratory. Grimmjow and his crew were trying to ignore Illforte, who was talking with Findor about the clothes they were taking to the trip.
"I have to say that your stile is amazing" said the bull.
"Thank you! Your sweater is precious too!" answered the other blond. In that moment someone enter to the throne room.
"Sorry I´m late!" said Szayel, adjusting his glasses. The panther and company turned around to face him and their mouths fall to the floor.
"This is just ridiculous" said the espada, looking at the pinkette. He was wearing an outfit identical to Illforte´s, just in pink. The blond Granz did the same as his fellow fraccion and gave an appreciative look at his younger brother, who did the same.
"You are changing now" said the octava with a glare.
"Of course not, but you are doing that right now, baby bro" said the older brother. The two of them were getting closer.
"Don´t mess with a Granz and his clothes" said Nakeem in a lower tone.
"SHUT UP!" yelled both siblings.
"You have the same bad taste as ever, Illforte, you look like a lemon"
"Look, the fashion disaster is talking… Oh, no! It´s my little bro, who couldn´t make a different between a scientific diary and a fashion magazine"
"Where did you get that, Aniki? The fruit lover´s festival?"
"And you, otouto? What thing did you dissect and turned into that?"
"You old man…"
"I can be older, but I´m not ruined by the chemicals"
"Said who uses a ton of make up every day"
"And who is the one that makes anti age treatments in his lab?"
"You are going to die"
"Oh, no it´s you"
With that both, Granz began to fight. They were so concentrated in that, that didn´t realized that Aizen has just arrived. Neither the other arrancar that were too busy yelling "fight, fight!" and surrounding the brothers.
"What is happening here?" asked him in his calmed voice. Everyone calm down and Illforte and Szayel let go off each other. The y arranged their clothes and, with a last glare, returned to their previous positions away from each other.
"Nothing, just some family discussion about fashion… or lack of it" said the espada, earning a new glare. Aizen look at the siblings again and they stopped.
"It seems that you are not the only ones" said the lord of hueco mundo, turning around and eyeing Lilynette and Stark.
"I´m older than you!" said the half male.
"No, I´m older!" said the female half.
"I´m the one who do the resurrecion, you only turn into guns! It´s obvious that I came first!"
"No! I´m the one who gave you amazing powers! I was born first!"
"Primera, calm down" said Aizen and they stopped.
"Lord Aizen, who of us was born first?" asked Stark. Lilynette looked at their leader, waiting for hi answer.
"None of you, when a something split in half it created two new things at the same time. Why do you ask?"
"For nothing" said both of them at the same time, turning red.
"Idiots" muttered Barragan and his fraccion laughed.
"Thank you, Lilynette, for making us see like stupids!"
"Thank YOU, Stark! It was you who said he was older!"
"You started! I couldn´t even sleep with our fight"
"You couldn´t sleep? You are sleeping all day! It was me who is lacking sleeping now!"
"Isn´t it a little weird to argue with yourself?" asked Di Roy to Grimmjow, who just laugh. The primera espada, both halves, glared at them. The sexta and his fraccion were willing to fight, but Aizen has not the same idea.
"Everyone stop right now"
"Yes, Aizen-sama" answered the Arrancar.
"Well, now open the garganta. We´re just in time for the first tour"
"Excuse me, Sosuke, what first tour?" asked Ichimaru.
"To Auswitz!"
"Auswitz?" asked Tousen.
"Do you know something about that?" asked Barragan.
"It´s a concentration camp in Poland, build to imprison the judies during the second world war. It happened during the Third Reich in Germany" answered Ulquiorra.
"How do you know that?" asked Yammy.
"I… I just do" answered the Cuarta, wondering why of all sudden a flow of Germany knowledge was making his way to his mind.
"Well… maybe you lived in Germany when you were alive" said the silver haired shinigami.
"Yes indeed, I remember now. I used to live in Berlin before became a hollow" answered Schiffer with his usual tone of voice.
"Do you remember everything?" asked Tousen.
"No, just the city and… a flag. I think it was red"
"Don´t worry, I´m sure that Ulquiorra would remember when it is time, means when we reach Berlin" said Aizen, a little bit worried. The flag could only mean two things and neither options was good.
"What were you saying about that place, Ulqui-chan?" asked Ichimaru.
"Basically it was a huge dead rode. There were a lot of gas chambers where the people in there were killed, daily executions and other tortures during the war. When the third Reich fall, well… all the world discovered what happened there and didn´t liked it" said Illforte.
"You lived in these Berlin city too?"
"No. I remember Frankfurt, I used to live there with him. Then we moved… I don´t know where, but we didn´t live together anymore" said the blonde, pointing at his brother with his finger.
"You forgot about the illegal experiments taking place in the labs. Mengele was the head, his team of scientists do a lot of genetical researches mostly in twins" said the octava, glaring at his brother
"Anything else we have to know?" asked Shawlong to the blond.
"Hum… not that I remember" said the older Granz.
"I… remember you with a military uniform in a ugly place. And it was really formal, in the collar you have a distinctive, but I don´t remember it exactly" said the younger.
"It´s enough, human memories can be confusing after all these years as hollows, don´t let them guide you. Let´s enjoy the trip" said Aizen, ordering the others to open a garganta.
"Do you really want to visit places from your past, Forte?" asked the sexta.
"I will be alright, I don´t believe I was specifically in these Auswitz place. Like I said, I lived in Germany, not in Poland"
"Okay, let´s go, fuckers" said Grimmjow and started walking through the portal. They arrived in a bus stop near the frontier between Poland and Germany.
"What are we doing here?" asked Stark, still a little angry after his fight with Lilynette. His small half was talking to Ggio and ignoring her male counterpart.
"We are taking a bus to Auswitz" said the almighty god of hueco mundo.
"And, when is it coming?" said him.
"No idea, I don´t speak german" said their leader. They all sweatdropped.
"In an hour there is a bus to Auswitz" said Illfort signaling a sign.
"Ah, of course. You, the emo and the freak are from here, Forte. Of course you could read that thing" said Grimmjow, praising his fraccion.
"Then you three can translate for the rest of the group" said the brunette ex shinigami captain. "Now, I think we have time for breakfast before going to the tour"
"Entschuldigung, wie viel Uhr ist es?" asked Ulquiorra to some guy before they could enter to the cafeteria for a snack. He answered and the cuarta turned around to face the group.
"What have he just said?" asked the sexta to
"That clock isn´t working, the bus is going to come in five minutes or so" said the black haired arrancar.
"There goes our breakfast" said Aaroniero, who was in the form of Kaien.
"We can take it later" said Tousen, who was holding Wonderweiss hand to guide the little arrancar.
"Nut I want food!" said Yammy.
"Stop complaining and get into the bus!" said Barragan, that was getting into the just arrived bus.
-In soul society-
"We have detected a move from Aizen´s forces" said Kurotsuchi in front of a monitor. The other captains and the lieutenants of the three captainless divisions were there.
"Are you sure the espada are there? In Germany?" asked Kyoraku. He and Ukitake looked at huge map of Europe where some red and white lights signaled the enemy´s position.
"Yes, accompanied by the three traitors and their fraccion. My machines never make mistakes" said the mad scientist, grinning to him.
"Of course" said the lazy captain. He and his old friend know what that grin means: the madman was blackmailing them. Jushiro and Shunsui have been dating for a long time and kept that a secret. The bad thing was that last week, when they were together, Kurotsuchi was making an illegal research about reaiatsu changes. Apparently, loves changes the colors of reiatsu. He went to the thirteenth squad to find out what it was and found them. The scientists have a lot of pictures of the two lovers in a compromising situation that would be handed by Nemu to Hisagi the moment they didn´t do what he said.
"The problem is that all of them are there and we can´t just leave soul society defenseless" said the Soutaicho, looking at his captains.
"Indeed, that's why I think we should send a few taichos with their fukutaichos in a mission" said the painted man. Yammamoto´s eyes passed through the hall, eyeing his captains.
"Don´t look at me, that place is so… royal" said Zaraki.
"I´m surprised that a barbarian like you know something about another country in the living world" said Byakuya in his usual tone of voice.
"Maybe is the rightful place for you, Kuchiki-hime" said the eleventh captain.
"I think you are right, Zaraki-taicho" said Yammamoto.
"And I think that Ukitake-taicho and Kyoraku-taicho would be perfect for these mission too" Shunsui glared at the scientist when he said these, but he and his boyfriend stay quiet.
"Maybe we need one more to complete the mission… Hitsugaya-taicho, you know a lot about the human world, you will join the mission"
"Yes, soutaicho" said the captains and retreat to start preparing their trip or to do their usual business.
"Why did Mayuri propose us for these mission?" asked Jushiro to his lover.
"To pester us, maybe" answered him.
"That is incorrect" said a voice behind them.
"Kurotsuchi…" said the brunette, taking his hand to his zanpaktou.
"Haven´t you hear about France? It´s capital is Paris, the city of love. For two lovebirds like yourselves it will be heaven" said him about to laugh.
"We are going to Germany, not France" said the white haired male.
"But I found these" he said pulling some papers. "Apparently Aizen wanted a vacation with all his espadas and their fraccion. They are going to make a trip to Europe, including famous cities like Berlin, London, Paris… yesterday he booked some train tickets for Barcelona in in some days"
"Why are you doing these to us?" asked Shunsui. The prospect of going to the city of love with Jushiro was great. In normal circumstances they would go to an elegant restaurant for a dinner, maybe a dance and then going to a romantic hotel to make love. But these was no normal, it was a trap from Mayuri Kurotsuchi…
"Because I hate you… Enjoy your trip to Paris" said the madman as a goodbye.
"Better defeat Aizen in Germany" said the eight captain. The other just nodded in agreement.