Hah! Not even an hour and I got a review! Kaiser969, you rock! OK! Chapter 2 ladies and gentlemen!

Random quote of the day: 'You ever see a Lamprey? That's your girlfriend's face; that's how ugly she is!' -My Brother

_CHAPTER START_

"Can you do it?"

Ichigo stood off to the side of a room made of bricks. The room had two metal sinks in the corner, and a bookshelf across from it. Their were bright flourescent lights dotted the ceiling and the lamps hung above the five stainless steel examination tables; one of which had the body of Yoruichi Shihouin. The other tables had bodies covered by white sheets, they were clearly female because of the lumps of varying sizes on the chest area. She had only been dead a week but her once exotic, chocolate skin had turned a faded, sickly blue. A man with blonde hair and a heavy-looking mask was opening her eyes for some reason hoping to find something only he knew to look for. The man stood up off his stool and threw off his rubber gloves.

"Of course I could, that's the problem." He said, throwing his gloves in a disposal bin.

Ichigo furrowed his brow. "What do you mean?"

The man flung his arms into the air. "You know what I mean! This procedure is reserved for... 'special cases'..." He said, his head tilting down.

Ichigo grabbed his shirt and lifted the man toward him. "She is special, Alec!" He roared.

Alec simply stared at him. "You know what I mean: Politicians, soldiers, bureaucrats; anyone that knows something we need to know, not on the whim of a suspended soldier!"

Ichigo sighed. "I'm not suspended, I'm retired; indefinitely..." He slowly set Alec down and walked over to the table yoruichi was laid on and leaned on it with both hands, while the other man just watched.

"I... I think I loved her Al; I would do anything to bring her back." He inclined his head at Alec slightly without looking at him. "I've never asked for much from anyone, least of all a doctor, but I'm begging you: Please, please let me see this wonderful woman again, she's worth all the shit the others with give me... Please..." He pleaded.

Alec just sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Alright Ichigo, but you gotta do something for me." Ichigo turned to him; he could almost feel the peaceful smile he had under his mask. "Save my bloody ass when the shit hits the fan, eh?" Ichigo smiled and shook Alec's hand.

"Deal!"

Alec passed him and opened a nearby closet, and rolled out a platform with a glass tank filled with a glowing blue liquid, and attached it to an IV with flowed into Yoruichi's dead veins. Ichigo looked at the other tables and walked over to them. He lifted one up and his eyes widened as he found the third Espada, Tia Halibel. He lifted the other sheets and discovered her fraccion, and turned toward his friend.

"Hey! What's with these girls?" He asked.

Alec looked up at him. "You didn't think I would sit back and let such interesting bodies be disposed of, would you?" He looked back to Yoruichi and continued the procedure.

"What are you gonna do with them?"

"I figure I'll give them the same operation I'm giving this woman and sell them to the highest state faction." Alec answered without looking back up.

Ichigo stared at them for a minute. "How much?"

He heard a clattering of metal and saw that Alec had dropped his scalpel. "Why the hell would you want them?" He yelled.

Ichigo just stared at him. "You know how long untrained women last with us?"

The doctor sighed. "A million and a half for the lot."

Ichigo frowned. "That's steep..."

"Take it or leave it."

"Fine... you know my account." He groaned at the fatal blow to his bank account.

The doctor grabbed a gasmask from the same closet he got the tank from and looked at Ichigo. "This is the part where you don't want to be here."

He started out the door but Alec grabbed his shoulder. "We both know, Ichigo, you never really retire until your dead in this business." He was incredibly serious.

Ichigo seemed to want to deny it but nodded. "I know, but at least I'm not on the Dullahan list anymore..."

Alec nodded. "Lot of work; being on that list."

Ichigo looked at Yoruichi with worry. "Take care of her, doc." He walked out of the room.

He waited until he heard the door of the building close and whispered. "Like she was one of my own, brother...

_CHAPTER END_

I know! You're all confused! All will be explained in later chapters!