An: SERIOUS QUESTION: should I keep my author notes here or at the end of The story?
Hey guys, so I've decided my goal for this story is 100,000 words. I will probably upload once every 1-2 weeks unless I have more free time.
I haven't quite figured out my OC's zanpakto yet, so if you were wondering why it hasn't appeared in the story yet. I have all the abilitys and stuff down but I'm not sure yet on a name or what it should look like.
Also, I'm not sure what to do with Aizen and Kaname, so if you have any ideas please pm me or leave it in a review c:
I almost forgot, I know I said Her name would be announced this chapter, but it will be in the next chapter for sure!
Please remember to rate and review :)
Chapter three: Proven Innocence
She stood in a small clearing surrounded by trees at least eight times the size of her. "That's weird, I thought this place would be a disaster. He's definitely hiding something from us all, weather or not it's betrayal I'll find out."
Taking a step forward she glanced around, trying to spot his zanpakto, that was until the spirit tapped her shoulder making her jump and spin around.
"Are you looking for me?" The zanpakto said in a voice much like Ichimaru's. That does make sense considering zanpakto are supposed to be like their masters unless they were in a situation like Kyoka's where their master got deluded and abandoned them.
"Yes, you see your master is in a lot of trouble and I need to find out if he's guilty or not. Something tells me there's something more to this situation. May I get your name?"
As she examined the zanpakto, she noticed how similar her demeanour was to Gins. She had long white hair with bangs that cut straight across her face, a fox mask on top of her head and her body seemed to replicate that of a snake. Her entire body was covered in white-grey scales It was a weird build but somehow looked tragically beautiful.
Her eyes were bright blue and held a sinister yet playful edge to them. The only clothes she had on her snake like body was a kimono that was cut short due to her leg less body, it was a light brown with darker brown designs all over.
"My name? How 'bout you guess and I'll tell you if you're right" She said in a sarcastic tone.
"Figures, she just had to have Gin's annoying personality"
"I'm just joking" the spirit said tilting her head with a faint chuckle "it's Shinsō, now please explain what trouble my dear master has gone and gotten himself into now." She said intrigued yet almost careless.
"He is being accused of betraying the soul society, but we need more evidence before we can do anything. Something about this whole situation feels off. "More like something about the two of you"
"Well, that's not good" Shinsō said with fake worry "it would be devastating if he was found guilty"
Leaning in, she looked at the zanpakto expecting her to elaborate. "Why does she have to be so difficult"
"Fine *sigh* I guess I have to save his sorry ass once again. Gin hasn't done anything wrong."
"What do you mean by done nothing wrong?" "Come on just spit it out Shinsō"
"Do I have to explain everything??" The zanpakto said glaring daggers at the girl. After a moment of just staring she gave up.
"Fine, but only if you never pester me again."
(An: Shinsō just tells her everything that proves Gins innocence, once again I'm to lazy to type it out. She tells the OC how gin planned to stop Aizen by touching his zanpakto and killing him and ect)
Outside of the mind scape
Looking up at Ichimaru, she was in a daze. Quickly shaking her head she jumped up and apologized and went to were she was supposed to be. "Damn, I almost forgot I was on a mission." She thought as she just remembered why she went into Shinsō's world.
She quickly glanced at the old man and gave a small nod to tell him that the first half of the mission was a success. Now came the hard part, getting into the blind captains mindscape.
Gins p.o.v (starting from when he got to the hall)
"Well that's odd" Gin thought as he got to the captains hall. "Something about her is familiar, could it be? Nah. Oh wait, maybe from there? Gah. A little help here Shinsō?"
"I'm not sure what your rambling on about now"
"That girl over there, something about her makes me feel like I've seen her before. Although, maybe the other soul reapers are right. I might just be going insane after all"
Leaving his thoughts just in time to see Hitsuguya-Kun drop the girl infront of the captain "what happened" he thought only half caring.
After his sarcastic inquiry to the head captain, he watched as the surprisingly short soul reaper headed towards the empty space beside him. "Why did he choose for her to stand here?" Something is off about this situation.
In a split second he realized she had tripped-it almost looked forced- and without even thinking he reached out and caught her "shit, I should've let her fall" he thought as he felt Aizen's eyes on him. He remembered the last time he slipped up like that and Aizen questioned his loyalty.
Quickly making a cover up remark, he felt something odd, it disappeared as soon as it appeared. It was something pulled on his mind. "Was it her?" She looked really dazed, almost as if she had just woken up.
Normal p.o.v again
Waiting through the captains meeting was one of the most boring things she had to do in her entire life. This just added to the list of reasons she declined the postion. Every time it seemed the old man was done talking, he'd start up again. "Come on you senile bat. I know you're dragging this on just to piss me off"
It didn't help that Gin kept glancing at her, at first she thought he knew but after a thorough evaluation, he was just looking at her with curious eyes. She figured he probably just felt something when they touched, after all he is a captain.
After talking to his zanpakto she felt some sort of sadness for him, Almost pity at how he's fooling everyone into thinking he was evil when in reality he was just posing as a bad guy posing as a good guy who everyone thinks is a bad guy.
"Dismissed" she jumped in joy as Yamamoto had finally ended the meeting. The moment everyone was out of hearing range she spoke up, all emotion wiped from her face.
"Captain of squad three Ichimaru Gin is innocent of all accused crimes. His plan was to infiltrate Aizen's plans and then execute him when an opportunity to do so arises."
"That's a relief, I don't think we could handle loosing three captains" the old man sighed "when will you be able to find out if Kaname is guilty or not?" He asked, stressed out from this mess.
"I can get the information by sun fall, but first may I request something"
Gin's p.o.v
"What a lovely day" he sighed as he walked away from the meeting hall. "There's something off about that girl and I still can't figure it out. Shinsō, do you have any ideas?"
"I do, but I'm gonna let you try to figure it out on your own~"
"Damn zanpakto, and I thought I was the king of this companionship"
"Guess you thought wrong cause I got a checkmate"
Snapping out of his daze he found himself in front of his division "sigh, I was hoping she would tell me. I guess I'll have to do some snooping around later"
Reaching the third division training grounds, he looked around to see most of his division slacking off like usual. "If I wasn't going to be leaving so soon I'd make sure their training was hell. Maybe even a few of the useless soul reapers would quit or better yet die from the torture that they would endure"
"Captain Ichimaru!" He heard his lieutenant call out. "Your back so early, is there anything that needs to be done? I've already completed the divisions paperwork and made sure everyone did their chores."
"By made sure, he probably did them all himself. I really wish I didn't have to leave my lazy good for nothing squad to him. Poor poor Izuru. He's gotta learn how to say no. I hope they find a replacement for me fast." "Hm, well when you put it that way I think you should just relax like the rest of the division"
"B-but sir! I couldn't just-" "then make me some tea" Gin interrupted with a sigh knowing full well he wouldn't give up until he got a task. Without a second to spare Izuru was gone.
Leaning against the wall Gin saw a hell butterfly come towards him. "What does the old man want now" he thought sweat dropping. Didn't he just come from a captains meeting? Why does he have to walk all the way back there? Guess Izuru will be waiting a while to deliver that tea.
Normal p.o.v
"I request that we fill Captain Ichimaru in on our knowledge of his situation and get him to help us."
"But dear, that would mean he would know of your identity"
"I'm fully aware, but this needs to be done. What if they scheduled to leave tomorrow and he leaves with them not knowing that there is another way?"
"Fine. I'll send for him now"
Thinking back to her bold request, she waited impatiently for the lazy captain. "I swear, after this situation is dealt with in never gonna associate myself with or see the snake like thing again"
13 minutes later
As soon as gin appeared in the meeting hall and saw the captain with the mysterious girl, he tensed up. "What's going on? Did they find out? No they couldn't have. I would already be dead if they did" he thought confused at Shinsō's laughing. What did she know that he didn't??
Upon seeing him arrive, Yamamoto put up a spell of some sorts that didn't allow anything to pass through or leave. Not even sound or light.
"Ichimaru Gin" the first captain started making Gin tense up more. "We have a proposition for you, if you would" he said gesturing for the unnamed girl to continue talking for him.
"When you caught me earlier today, you felt something off did you not?" She asked looking gin dead in his closed eyes "I wonder what color his eyes are? Wait stop thinking like that!"
"Yes, I asked my zanpakto but she refuses to tell me anything. Im just gonna take a wild guess here, but you're not an academy student are you?" He asked, his usual sarcastic tone wavering a bit under the atmosphere of the room.
"Your correct about that. Well when we made contact I entered your zanpakto's inner world and she told me some interesting things" she said referring to the planned betrayal.
"Do I run? Wait, they said they had a proposition. Whatever it is I'm so screwed" Gin thought, his mind in total panic. His racing mind came to a halt when he saw the girl laughing. "Wha-"
"You're not in trouble, but the look on your face was priceless" she barked out almost falling over. "Did I really look that stupid?" Gin thought briefly.
"You have actually been called her to help stop Aizen. You see we know you're innocent but I'm still working on Kaname. Although your zanpakto told me your innocent, she didn't say anything about Aizen and the time his plans will take place"
The meeting went on with Gin agreeing to helping them and told them about Aizens plans and even gave evidence proving Kaname's guilt.
"I'm so glad I didn't have to go into his mindscape" she thought thinking about how scary Gin made Kaname and his zanpakto sound. To be so obsessed with peace that he was blinded by Aizens offer (pun intended :p)
Gin had honestly looked so relieved and happy that he didn't have to leave. He was basically sparkling as he walked out of the captains hall. Anybody that saw him freaked out thinking that he was planning some kind of mass genocide, which quickly spread across the soul society leading to his current situation of running away from the captain of squad 11, Zaraki Kenpachi who was currently trying to cut off his head.
Next morning
"Finally, today we catch Aizen and Kaname and then this whole mess will be over." she was currently walking around the divisions. She thought she should give her mind some fresh air. Today she was supposed to capture and execute two captains.
It was about 6am when- "AHHHHHH" quickly taking action she flash stepped towards the scream "that doesn't sound good." She thought, it held a heavy tone of despair.
Reaching the girl who screamed she almost collapsed. "Th-there's no way" looking at where the girl was staring, she saw Aizen. Dead. "Where's Kaname" she quickly thought looking around for his reiatsu. "It's gone? Wait. So is Aizens. That means this is a fake a body, but they weren't supposed to leave until Rukia's execution?"
She was a little bit relieved to still sense Gins reiatsu, she honestly thought he would have went with them. Sensing the tenth captain heading this way, she quickly made the decision to report to Yamamoto. The girl would be ok, so she flash stepped away without anyone noticing her presence.
"Whatever the future holds for us all, it's bound to be stained with lots of blood. I have a feeling my life is about to change drastically"