Greetings to all that are reading this story! I'm open to any suggestions and/or constructive criticism. It can only help so please don't be shy. I'm grateful to all that reviewed. So I will make romance interest for Karin later in the story no one has to worry. This first part of this story does take place while Ichigo and the others are trying to rescue Orihime. Caution: a little bit of a spoiler alert for the Fake Karakura town arc toward the end. A tiny bit of swearing included. These chapters just keep growing in length. Chapter 3 is up to bat.
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Ulquiorra was not in the best of moods. He did not like being thrown to another dimension by that idiot Grimmjow. The 6th Espada had always been disobedient to Aizen-sama's orders for his own selfish gains. Ulquiorra's failed retrieval of the healer girl Inoue Orihime had gone according to Aizen-sama's plans. Aizen-sama had a way of knowing a person in a glance. He knew exactly what Grimmjow would do right down to throwing Ulquiorra into another plane of existence to continue his fight with Kurosaki Ichigo. That fool would pay with his life for his bloodlust and pride. Ulquiorra had found his way back from that other dimension in record time thanks to Aizen-sama. Since he had completed his first mission he now headed back to the chambers he had been vacant in just hours ago. In that room held his next task. The child he captured had to still be moved to the lab for the next step of Aizen-sama's plan.
He tapped on the door leading to his destination waiting to be called in. Once he got confirmation he made his way into the room. Shifting emerald eyes scanned the room. Aizen-sama was again over at his desk leaning over papers and the girl was still fast asleep on the bed.
"I gave her a light sedative to keep her asleep so the transfer would be easier. The shiningami are still crawling around the complex but a majority of the fighting has made its way to the outside. Take her to Szayel's lab. He should been able to start the process soon. Leave her with his fraccion and go back to your other task. Make sure you are not seen. I'll be there to check on the process before I leave for the real world." Aizen explained never looking up from his papers.
Ulquiorra said nothing as he walked over to Karin bending over to grab her from the bed she occupied. Her head rested on his chest as he held her in his arms. Looking down at her face he saw she still worn that same expression she had since he had dropped on the bed hours ago. He turned to the door and made his way out of Aizen's chambers not a word was spoken as he left. He began his trek to the labs of the 8th Espada. Ulquiorra made his way swiftly through the corridors of Los Noches stepping over the dead bodies of his fellow hollows. He kept his energy level down to not draw attention to himself.
His eyes drifted to the child in his arms. Whatever Aizen-sama had in store for the girl was not going to be painless. Especially with Szayel Aporra Granz involved with his ideals of a world without non-hollows. What possibility did it mean for her? The man treated his own fraccion as no more research material with no regard for their well being using them for his own little experiments. The pink haired scientist was not kind to his any of his subjects. The screams that came out of his so called 'palace' lab sounded horrified. This girl, being human and not even dead he almost pitied the girl he carried.
Rounding the corner he had reached his destination with no problems. Walking into one of the many room he met with one of the 8th's fraccions. It pointed to the steel table in the center of the room. Nodding Ulquiorra place the girl on the cold table with little hesitation.
"She has been sedated. Where is Granz?" Ulquiorra asked staring at the lesser hollow.
"He is dealing with the intruders as we speak. I will watch over her until he returns." The hollow stated in a gravel voice.
"Aizen-sama will be here to check on her progress later. Make sure Granz knows that." Ulquiorra said with disinterest.
Taking one last look at the girl he walked out. He still had his part to play in this game. He had to get a hold of the healer girl again. She was still needed in Los Noches for Aizen-sama's plan. He began to make his way to the site where a certain Inoue Orihime would be.
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Karin woke with a start. Her arms jerked as she tried to block the harsh light that flooded her vision. Her eyes widened when she realized she couldn't do such a simple task. Karin soon discovered her arms were bound to her sides and with some wild thrashing on her part she realized so were her legs. Panic started to sink into the pit of her stomach as her eyes constricted trying to adjust to the light. That panic that was rapidly bubbling up her chest seemed to halt with the return of her vision. Darting her eyes around the room she was held captive in she took in her surroundings.
Over all it looked to be a very sterile standard operation room white walls everything organized and tools that shined from someone's constant attention. Gazing at the various tools that lined the metal table to her right she listed what she remembered about them. The room looked very much like the operation room at home. It was completed with various machines she didn't recognized. As her eyes made their way back to front; she found big eyes staring back at her. She held back a yelp when seeing the eyes were attached to a rather large creature. It looked much the hollows that she had come across with a mask and yet it looked almost human with the misshape of the mask that seemed to hold emotions. The creature blinked tilting its head sideways as if to examine her closer.
A man with pink hair and weird glasses entered the room. A look of displeasure accompanied the combo. From Karin's position on the table she could clearly see the man had been in a fight. His top had been completely blown off with tiny scratches littering his torso. Lifting her head to examine the man further she spotted something that made her take a sharp intake of air. Karin's eyes expanded with surprise, this man's chest had a hole much like the horrible creatures that her brother fought against. Karin's entire body tensed up at that realization.
The pink haired man drifted his eyes over toward Karin's general direction. The man said something in a hushed tone to the odd looking creature that had been staring at her moments ago. The agitated mood he seemed to have been in vanished as the creature whispered something back to him. Now turning his body to face her completely his lips curled into a kind smile as he observed her; but his eyes held a different emotion completely. Unlike the mysterious man who brought to the place; this man's golden eyes had a gleam of insanity in them. Karin began to resume pulling on the leather restraints that were wrapped around her arms and legs with more vigor.
"You know you are just going to rub those precious wrists of yours raw. Besides there will be more than enough time to do that later." The man chuckled.
"Who are you?" Karin growled pulling even harder on the restraints distaste clearly in her voice.
"Me? You should show more respect you pathetic excuse for a human. You are talking to Szayel Aporro Granz the 8th Espada. Which is a much better status then you as of right now. After all I'm not the one strapped to the table." The man stated his grin stretching across his face making his smile match his eyes.
"Aren't you just a cup of sunshine pinky?" Karin stated sarcastically as she kicked her feet testing the restraints.
The 8th Espada's grin slipped off his face and a slight frown crept up in its place. Moving at speeds Karin's eyes couldn't follow the pink haired Espada had slammed her hard into the steel table she was strapped to leaving a dent in the steel underneath her. Karin eyes popped open as she tried to suck back in the air that he had knocked out upon impact. Golden cat like eyes gleamed behind those odd looking glasses. His hands grasp tightly around her already sore shoulders leaving hand shaped bruises in their wake making her cringe in pain.
"You really don't want to make me mad Kurosaki Karin. Lets set the record straight. I am far superior to you in every way. I am much stronger and faster than you. Not to forget that I am far more intelligent. No matter how much you struggle and scream you cannot beat me. Although screaming I really don't mind I actually encourage it. It gives me such pleasure. Let this be your first and only warning. I don't need any sass from you. Got it?" The pink haired man voice dripped with venom.
Karin said nothing as she rapidly began to understand she was in the hands of a psycho. What in the world did these people want with her? Between the quiet emeralds eyed one that had taken her and now the psycho shirtless pink haired one she didn't know what to think. She wasn't sure what a Espada was but it apparently meant scary powerful. Karin could feel the pressure in the room rise from the man's mini outburst. How the hell had she gotten to this place and more importantly what the hell was the bipolar psycho going to do to her in a room full of medical equipment?
Extracting his hands from Karin's shoulders he walked over to the creature that was in the corner and resumed his conversation. After a few minutes he turned to a cart off to the side of Karin's location. He shifted some of the instruments around before pulling a pair of latex gloves from a box on the counter. As he snapped on the gloves the creature rolled over an odd looking machine that had a clear box in the middle that had several tubes connected to it. The top was decorated with various colored buttons and switches. Azayel grabbed a handful of IV needles in his left hand and a long rubber band in his right. Karin's panic that had stopped earlier resumed its flow once she saw needles in his hands. The creature with the cart had moved behind her placing his limbs over her tiny body ceasing her struggling.
Tying the band around her upper arm the Espada slapped her arm to make the veins on her arm stand out. Finding a vein he found acceptable he impaled the first needle. He secured the needle with skill that only a doctor or in his case a man who has had much practice. He then proceeded to place needles in her other arm, two ain her neck, two in her temple, one in each leg, and one hooked right under her bellybutton. The task seemed agonizingly long while in reality it only took about five minutes. With each prick of the needle Karin's panic made it way a notch higher in her throat.
"What the hell are you doing to me?" Karin moaned out a he finished the final needle.
"Starting the process to make you something worthy of the ground I walk on. Now be quiet, rest your voice while you can because you're going to be screaming in a couple of minutes." Azayel said the insane grin had returned to his face.
Turning away from Karin he began to take the individual tubes that were attached to the machine and twisted each one to a needle on her body. Once all tubes were hooked up to needles the pink haired Espada walked to the cabinet on the other side of the room to retrieve a box filled with bluish green liquid.
Opening a hatch on the top of the clear machine he proceeded to dump the liquid in. The mystery liquid shared the same consistency as pancake batter; it had thick and had a slight clumpy texture to it as it dripped into the machine. Shaking the box to make sure that nothing was left he closed the hatch. After setting the box down he began to fumble with colorful buttons on top of the machine.
Karin's eyes followed the descend of the thick liquid into the inner works of the machine. Her eyes roamed the structure searching for anyway to stop that liquid before it made its way into her body. Following a sequence of beeps from the machine it roared to life. Karin struggled against her captor hefting her upper body trying to gain any leverage she could to maybe knock the creature off balance. It seemed to work the nameless minion of the Pink haired monster let go of her body. Karin let herself have an inner cheer as she went to get up from her steel prison.
Unfortunately all hope was banished as another two restraints were added to her person. One was placed around her chest and another around her torso. The creature had merely let her go to restraint her in a different way. Karin let loose a frustrated growl as she shifted her head pulling at the needles in her temple and neck.
"I really wouldn't do that if I were you. We wouldn't want you ripping out the needles in the middle of the procedure. Now would we? Trust me those restraints are for your own sake. I wasn't lying when I said you were going to be in a lot of pain." Szayel stated with his back turned in a teasing tone.
"Go to Hell!" Karin screamed thrashing her head violently stretching the skin were the needles were injected.
This guy was really starting to piss her off. Karin had never wanted to kick some one in the family jewels so badly as she did now.
Turning around without a word Szayel slammed her head in place and produced a head strap restraint tying said strap around her forehead securing each end to the table. Karin saw stars and her vision blurred after the blow. The pressure from his hand released after making certain the strap was snug making the stars disappear. As she came back to reality she found that the Espada was already standing by the machine again. As the Espada finished typing he turned to her with one hand still on the machine.
"It has been wonderful meeting you but as you might have already guessed my dear I have business to attend to." He stated as he gestured to his naked torso.
"Try not to scream too loud. Normally it would be such a site for me to watch. Alas I already have guests in the complex and I wish not to alarm them. I have to change and meet my guests. As a good host I can't l can't keep them waiting. I'll be back later to check up on your progress." He smiled insanely as he accepted the clothes his minion.
As he smiled the hand that wasn't occupied by the clothes danced over to a lever beside the buttons of the machine and swiftly pulled down. The seemly quiet machine began to slowly pump liquid into the tubes that were connected to her body. The bluish green liquid's texture caused a slow descend downward. Buttoning his coat up he turned to his patient whose face was rapidly losing color as her eyes followed the liquid that made its slow descend to her veins. Leaning over his one time patient his smile widened further watching the expression on her face. Karin's eyes narrowed at the pleasure he got from her fright. With all the energy she could muster she pulled back her head and gathered the little liquid left in her mouth left. Lunging forward she spat on his face. As he reeled back she gave herself a mental pat on the back.
"You know my name so I assume you know my brother. Once he finds out that you people took me you're going to be in big trouble." She threatened her eyes still concentrated on the liquid flowing down.
"Want to know something funny little human? Your brother is already here with his friends and sorry to disappoint you, but they are not here for you. They have another person they are trying to find." He laughed wiping spit off his face, "It really is funny they could walk right passed your room and not have the slightest clue you are being kept here."
"You just watch. My brother is known for surprising people. He will find me." Karin stated mustering all the confidence she had left.
"I highly doubt that. He is after all a little preoccupied at the moment. Even if he did by some miracle find you it would be too late. The process has started already. Things are going to change very quickly for you. Who knows. You might not want to see him after this. Besides I highly doubt after all the trouble that Aizen-sama went through to get you here; that you will be going anywhere." His golden eyes gleamed even brighter.
"Aizen?" Karin questioned before griming the bluish-green liquid had started to push its way into her veins.
"Oh, that's right you haven't met him yet. No worries you'll meet him soon. After all you are going to be his pride and joy. Got to run Kurosaki Karin. Enjoy the experience it will be like nothing you have ever felt." He said in a sing song voice giving a smirk.
Taking one final look at her and with a nod to his minion he made his way out of the room. After all it was time for his grand entrance for the second time that day. That idiot shinigami Renji and Quincy Isida Uryuu would learn what true power was. Little did the 8th Espada know that this would be his last time he would step in his so called palace. In a matter of hours a certain scientist shinigami would have the proud Szayel Aporro Granz begging to end his Espada existence.
Karin could only bite back a scream as the liquid worked it was through her system. It felt as if she was being lit on fire from the inside out. She arched her body violently against the restraints every time the greenish liquid was pumped in her veins. As the machine that made the liquid run its way through her blood stream the liquid would slow to a stop. Her body sagged back to the steel table she was strapped to at these times. The liquid was set to pump into her system a certain amount liquid for a certain amount of time.
As the pain increased what little resolve she had to not cry out vanished. She finally gave into the panic that had been building inside her and the pain that was becoming more present. She gave a blood curdling scream following a long string of curses. Then she proceed to call out for her brother to come get her. To anyone that would stop the pain. As those cruel golden eyes seemed to haunt her vision increasingly with every burst of pain.
The cycles in which the pain came were getting close together with every pasting minute. She was so tired; the spasms that shook her body left her weak and fatigued. She no longer had the strength to curse and give sarcastic remarks or beg for her brother. Her throat was completely raw. That monster with glasses and pink hair was right. No matter how much she called for her brother he wasn't coming. As her vision began to blur once again her thoughts wandered elsewhere. Body completely spend she finally passed out from the pain.
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She went to her special place in her mind where no one could hurt her. She was on a beach that stretched for miles and crystal clear ocean that touched the horizon. She was dressed in a simple white dress that went down to her knees and no shoes. Her toes wiggled in the wet sand as she took in a deep breath of ocean air. The salt in the air smelt so real it almost made her think she had dreamed her situation up.
Alas the beach she was located on had been a favorite place to go too hid from reality throughout her childhood. Ever since her mother had died she had been able to come here; her safe haven from all pain. She sat down on the sand resting her head in her arms that were on her raised knees. She stared at the endless ocean that was before her as she sorted her thoughts.
She wasn't dead yet because she was here but was she going to die? The pain she had endured made her feel like that was a possibility. The more she thought about it the more angry she got at the man that had put her in this situation. She didn't know why these people wanted her but when she woke up she sure as hell was going to find out especially this Aizen character that seemed to have organized the entire thing. Her thought drifted to more depressing thoughts as drew circles in the sand with her pointer finger.
What would her family do if she did die? Oh god. What would Yuzu do? Her heart twisted. Her sister was probably going nuts by now. Images of her family flashed before her. A kind smile adorned her honey haired twin Yuzu's face, a goofy grin from her father, and that special reserved smile for her from only brother Ichigo. She thought about the people that had touched her life and made her thankful. Her teammates, the idiot Jinta, and that nonsense shinigami boy that came to her rescue more than once. The thought that they were slipping through her fingers made her want to cry out.
An image of her sister filtered out from the rest until she stood before Karin alone solid. The image looked straight at Karin as it looked more real than the others. It seemed to recognize Karin's distressed mood. Her kind smile morphed into a panicked one as she screamed out to Karin. Whatever she was yelling sound like it was going through a wind tunnel. Only softed whispers that madw little sense made it through. The image Yuzu reached out for Karin but Yuzu went right through her falling to the ground. Karin lifted her hand to help her up but retracted it after realizing what she was doing. Her mind had made an image of Yuzu for her to see. Karin closed her eyes to will away her fake sister. She couldn't take the look of worry on her face. The Yuzu gave a look of panic and tears slid down her delicate face. Karin could only give a watery smile as her twin faded from existence.
The stress on her body must have caused her to think up such an image. Her own mind was trying to comfort her in a way. Slapping her hands against her head she shook the images from her mind.
Again her thoughts drifted to this Aizen person that these hollows seemed to work for. Why her of a people? She wasn't anything special, but her brother was. Her eyes widen as she stumbled to that fact. If they were using her to get to him they had another thing coming. She would kill herself before that happen. She would do anything to protect her family.
"Good." A voice whisper into her ear, "That's what I like to hear."
Whipping around to see the person that had interrupted her thought Karin's jaw dropped. A woman she had never met before had appeared in her safe haven. The woman was gorgeous, she had the longest wavy red hair Karin had ever seen. It seemed to flow with a mysterious wind around it. She had endless silvery-white colored eyes and blood red stained lips. The woman was pale as snow and her developed body was encased in white silk that covered her breasts leaving her stomach bare and as the rest encased her lower half in a skirt that went just above the knee in the front and billowed out in back reach way beyond her feet. Long white ribbons was tied around each wrist the tails of them hung down, the ribbon along with the rest of the material seemed to float in time with her flame like hair in the same mystery wind. She was barefoot much like Karin. Karin frowned at the woman before her. Was she another illusion made by her own mind?
"No I am quite real Karin. I know you have many questions and if you like to listen I have a story to tell you that will answer them." The woman's eyes held nothing but kindness and warmth as she looked at Karin.
"Who are you and what story? I don't understand what a story is going to do for me right now. How did you get in my mind? I've never seen you before. How can I trust you?" Karin said looking her up and down.
"I have always been here Karin. You just never tried hard enough to see me. As for who I am I have tried to tell you several times before but you just aren't ready to hear it. The story I wish to tell is what the monster Szayel Aporro Granz did to you. I wish to share this information if you will let me." The woman said in a promising and motherly voice.
For whatever reason Karin felt she could trust this beautiful the panic and pain drifted away. Karin felt at peace around her. She slowly nodded and watched the woman sit down next to her. After all if this woman knew what that monster did to her she was willing to listen.
"Now you must listen carefully because if you don't you might forget before you wake. Much like my name you are not ready to hear this information but you must. It is needed for your survival." The woman turned so she was facing Karin face to face.
Karin nodded and the woman once again smiled. She then opened her red stained mouth to weave a tale that would change Karin's life forever.
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Aizen walked through the ruined halls of Szayel Aporro Granz dubbed palace. A small smile sat on his face. His plans were going perfect. The brother of his true objective and his friends were occupied. Bringing the healer girl here was an excellent idea for distraction. Eyes scanned for loose debris as he made his way to where Karin was hidden. His plans were almost to a turning point. He still had his part to do yet. After he checked on Karin's progress he would descend to her hometown to attempt to steal the souls of 100,000 people to create a key to over throw the old man Yamamoto-taichou in the Soul Society.
While that part of the plan would eventually come to pass. He knew it wasn't going to be possible this time around. The shinigami had a defense system against this kind of event. The shinigami had to be stupid if they thought he didn't know about the ways that they chose to protect the human world. This venture to the fake Karakura Town they would make was yet another way to mislead them. With the shinigami captains spread thin between the Huceo Mucho and the fake Karakura Town he would be able to thin their numbers even more.
Aizen knew he would lose most of his Espada to this phrase of the plan but it was a necessary step. After all he could always make more. Reaching his destination excitement coursed through his veins. Walking into the room he scanned for the object of his excitement. He found her resting in a clear tube filled with a purple gel in the corner. Aizen's eyes shifted to the creature in the chair off to the side.
As if the creature knew what he was going to ask it began to explain. Karin had fought hard against the restraints and stress of the formula that had been pumped in her veins had caused her many wounds. After untying her and removing the needles from various places it placed her in the healing agent to help her speed up her recovery time as Szayel wished. Aizen dipped his hands into the gel filled tube that contained Karin slowly caressing her tension filled face.
"Her progress is going just as planned. She's taking well to the formula that Szayel-sama made." The creature stated.
Smiling ever so slightly dropping his fingers to frown stained lips, "She has all the makes to be the perfect trump card. Unfortunately, Szayel has gotten himself in over his head so I'm going to need you to finish her process. I trust Szayel-san showed you what to do in his time away."
For a fleeting minute a look of confusion made its way across the creature's misshapen features. Shifting its eyes between Karin and Aizen trying to process the information said to it. Realization took over its face when meeting the unnerving smile on Aizen's face. The creature snapped to attention at that moment. Moving faster than the creature ever had. It went on to explain the process that Szayel Aporro Granz had planned for Karin down to the littlest detail; being careful to point out that the 8th Espada had made the creature go over the process several times upon being chosen to help on the project.
Aizen's eyes swelled with an emotion that the creature couldn't recognize but it made a shiver go down the creature's back. His hands never leaving Karin's prone form incased in the gel like substance. He stroked slow circles on her cheeks as he looked at the creature before him. He stared intensely at the creature search for something. Finally Aizen turned his head to the object of his ministrations seeming to have found whatever he need in the creature off to his side turning his full attention to Karin. He muttered softly to her prone form. He stroked her hair for a few more minutes before removing his hands from the tube. Taking a towel from the side table he wiped hands clean. Soon after he left leaving Karin in the creature's care.
Aizen made his way to the meeting place for his venture outside of the Huceo Mundo. Smiling as he met Gin and Tousen along with a handful of Espada. The portal was glowing behind them as they waited for him. Moving forward his group followed him through as the portal close behind them trapping a certain group of shinigami and friends.
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Elsewhere a terrified Yuzu woke up in a sweat from a nightmare about her twin in trouble. Yuzu's eyes shifted to the bed next to her. Panic swelled in her chest at the sight of the empty bed next to her. Putting her head in her hands she cried as images of Karin on a beach with a defeated look on her face and tears in her eyes played over again in her mind.
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Ok Chapter 3 is done. An extra long chapter for you guys today. I almost made it end back up before the dream sequence. So review and let me know what your thinking.
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