"Under attack?" you heard Noitora ask, though your attention was fully directed at Aizen.
"Yes. Kaname, the reflection."
"Yes." You heard the tall black man reply, as he pulled a lever. The table opened in the middle, and everybody's chairs swiveled to watch the image that was flickering to life above the hole. You saw three boys running through Hueco Mundo, far away from Los Noches.
"The intruders names are as follows. Ishida Uryuu." It zoomed in on the boy with glasses and blackish bluish hair.
"Sado Yasutora." It now zoomed in on the biggest of the three, the kid with darker skin and dark brown wavy hair.
"And Kurosaki Ichigo." Finally, it zoomed in on a boy with orange hair and a giant Zanpaku To strapped across his back, and he was wearing a shinigami uniform.
You noticed out of the side of your eye as Grimmjow's face became alarmed.
Arrionero asked about them, as did Barragan, and you said, "Barragan has a point, they're just kids. How is this a problem?"
"Do not underestimate them. They are the ones called "Ryoka". These four humans alone invaded Soul Society and challenged the Gotei 13."
You heard Zommari speak from next to you and you turned your head as he spoke. "Four…? Then we are still missing one, aren't we? Who's the other one?"
Ulquiorra answered him, simply saying "Inoue Orihime."
You stared at everyone. You were highly confused.
Aizen chuckled lowly. "Raine-san, sorry for not telling you of our mission. Grimmjow and a few of his Fraccion went to the human world and fought, where Grimmjow had lost his arm. But as you see, he has both arms at this moment. This is because Ulquiorra fetched Inoue Orihime from the human world and brought her here. Miss Inoue is currently in her room, but she has the power to reverse time in a small area, thus being able to heal anything, no matter if the arm was completely severed or if it was only sliced a little bit, even though she is only a mere human."
You wondered when this all happened, because you had been talking to Ulquiorra or Grimmjow all day long.
Aizen chuckled again. "Even though the pattern of the sky matches that of the one in Japan, time in Hueco Mundo does not move the same as it does in the human world. Thus allowing both Grimmjow and Ulquiorra time to go to the human world and have all of this happen in such a short time in Hueco Mundo."
Things started to fall into place for you, and you listened as the other Espada spoke again.
"So they came to rescue their friend? Isn't that sweet. Even though they look so weak." Noitora said, smiling.
You heard Halibel's voice come from down the table. "Didn't you hear? Aizen-sama's speech confirms that they are not to be taken lightly."
"I didn't mean it like that, for fuck's sake!" Noitora retorted, now frowning, "What's your problem anyway? You scared or somethin'?"
Halibel was silent for a moment, and then you heard the scuffing of a chair across the floor. You looked towards Aizen and saw Grimmjow had pushed his chair back and stood up.
Grimmjow started to walk towards the door as Kaname said "Where are you going, Grimmjow?"
"Out to kill." He replied, stopping for only a few second to speak to him, "To smash those little bugs that came here. The faster the better, right?"
"Aizen-sama has yet to order anything of the sort." Kaname said loudly, "Return to your seat."
"It is for Aizen-sama's sake that I will destroy them!" Grimmjow got angry. He started to walk forward again.
"Grimmjow." Aizen said, and Grimmjow stopped, but didn't turn to him.
Grimmjow was quiet for at least 10 seconds and said, "Yes." And turned halfway to him.
"I'm very glad to see you acting on my behalf, however, I still have much to speak of. I'd very much like it if you sat back down now." Aizen did not turn to Grimmjow; he addressed him from his spot at the head of the table. Grimmjow said nothing, just stared at Aizen. "What's wrong?" Aizen asked after a minute of silence. "I didn't catch your reply, Grimmjow Jaegerjaques." Now he swiveled towards Grimmjow.
You felt a spiritual pressure that hurt to even be in the same room as it, but it was not directed at you. You watched at Grimmjow's face changed from rebellious to pain, and he was forced to his knees. Soon after, you felt the spiritual pressure recede and Grimmjow started to pant.
"I see." Aizen said as he stood up, "Seems like you've understood."
Grimmjow started to heave a little, but it looked more like he was chuckling silently, instead of readying himself to puke.
"Espada." Aizen address you all again. "As you can see, we have three enemies." He lifted his hands into the air. "While there is no reason to underestimate them, there's also no need to make an uproar. Please return to your rooms and act as if everything is normal. Without excessive pride, and without fail, just stay put and wait for our enemy. Do not be frightened." He smiled and lifted his hands higher. "No matter what may befall us, as long as you walk by my side, an enemy that may stand up to us…" he paused dramatically, "Shall never exist." He finished, and you all stood up from the table.
You exited the room right in the middle of the group of Espada, and you saw as you followed that all of the Espada had rooms in the same hallway. Most retreated into their rooms, but Noitora walked straight through the hallway. You decided to follow to see what he was up to.
"So, Noitora. Is your room not with the other Espada or something?"
"Nah, it's right by yours. But why should I wait there when I could go kill someone?"
"Because Aizen is significantly more powerful than all of us and he gave an order?"
"He is more powerful, but that's what I'm working towards. I want to become more powerful than him."
You were both silent as you walked together. "So where are you headed, then?"
"The front gate. I figure they might go through there. At least one of 'em. Where the fuck is Tesla?"
"Tesla?"
"My fraccion."
You had been informed of what fraccion were during your debriefing. "Oh. I still need to get some of them."
"Yeah, someone'll probably be finding you pretty soon to show you which hollows are a good idea to pick as fraccion."
You were both silent again as a man with blond hair and a lab-coat type uniform appeared behind Noitora. You figured this was Tesla. "Hello, Tesla."
"Arina-san." He nodded towards you.
"About time you got here, fucktard."
"Noitora-sama." He nodded towards Noitora.
"Yeah, whatever. Well, I think you should be going to your room, Arina, 'cause you'll get in trouble if you ain't there when you're needed, since you're afraid of getting in trouble."
You agreed and turned around and headed back to your room. When you got there, Halibel was standing at your door.
"Halibel-san. Hello."
"Come with me. I'm supposed to tell you more about Fraccion." You followed her as she told you about how to pick good Fraccion and which ones she suggested, and what they were for and everything. You finally reached a room and you sat down at a table.
An image appeared above the table and she gave a brief description about each Arrancar that appeared.
"So who will it be?"
"How many can I pick?"
"You may have up to 20."
"Oh. Wow." You went through them again, and when you found one you thought you might want, you asked more about them. You ended up picking three, two women and one male, all fairly good-looking and fairly powerful for being a weaker class of Arrancar.
The first female was Acadia, who had long black hair that was in braids down her front, a helmet on her head, much like Ulquiorra's, but it was slightly different, and she had laughter in her eyes. The second woman was named Quin, with a cracked mask that reached from her shoulders up to her neck and a bit behind her head, who had cropped red hair and her huge brown eyes and short stature pleaded her innocence, though you were told she was excellent in combat. And finally, the male was named Trae, who had blond hair like yourself and green eyes, which were not like your ocean blue ones. His mask was shaped much like a pair of headphones, oddly enough.
No sooner had you left the room after choosing them than they were behind you.
"Hello! I'm Quin!" she bounded up next to you, her bright red hair making her much more noticeable than the other two, who had neutral hair colors. She smiled up at you, your height of 5' 6" a giant against her size of 4' 10". You smiled back.
"I'm Trae." The man slid up next to you on your other side. He was slightly taller, at 5' 9". "Nice to meet you." He smiled and held out his hand. You were about to take his hand when he was pushed out of the way.
"I'm Acadia! Pay no attention to that loser, he's just got the hots for any chick her sets his sights on." She nearly matched your height at 5'7".
"I do not!" he shouted, blood rushing to his face.
"He does." Quin whispered to you, snickering.
You laughed. "I'm happy I picked amusing Fraccion, I was worried maybe you guys would be boring."
"Well, I'd say I'm most interesting," Trae started, "I was born and raised in France, until I was killed, whereas these two were both from Japan."
"Huh. I was born in France, but I went to Japan sometime when I was young. I don't remember when."
All three were silent. "Is that just because you had a crappy memory when you were a human or something?" Quin asked.
"No, I had pretty good memory. But I just don't remember a few things. Why?"
They were silent again. "Well, that's not a good sign, if you can't remember things from when you were human." Acadia said, "It means you probably excelled as a Hollow too quickly. You became too powerful too quickly. It also damages your tolerance to wounds when you are in a fight. In other words, you die quicker."
You were all silent again. You took it in. Because you thirsted so badly for power, you hurt your chances of victory in battle. What the fuck was that?
"Well, here we are. This is my room." You opened the door, and there were already three other beds in your room, as well as three other desks.
"I call the bed by the window!" Quin said, running over to it surprisingly fast and jumping on it.
"I get this one!" Acadia said, sitting on the one nearest the door.
"I guess this one's mine." Trae said, laying down on a bad that lay on the far side of the room.
You sat down on your bed and tried to clear your mind. Why did you have to excel so fast?
"Holy crap, you guys get a TV?" Acadia picked up the remote and turned to a talk show hosted by some random Arrancar.
"This place rocks, compared to our old rooms…" Quin said, flopping down on a bean bag that you hadn't noticed before now.
You shook your head. "You guys can stay here; I'm going to ask Ulquiorra more questions. I need answers."
"M'kay." Acadia said, making herself comfortable on her bed.
You walked across the room and pulled open your door to see an empty hallway.
**Now which room was his?** you questioned yourself, and you knocked hesitantly on a door at the end of the hallway. You were greeted by Grimmjow at the door. "What the fuck do you want?"
"Oh, sorry, I thought this was Ulquiorra's room…" blood rushed to your face.
"What, goona have more hot sex with him?" he grinned.
"Oh yeah." You rolled your eyes at him. "Of course not, you freaking dumbass. I needed to ask him some questions."
"You can always ask me some questions." He moved so his body was leaning against the door frame. You noticed for the first time he wasn't wearing a shirt.
"I think you might get angry again." You turned away and started to walk across the hall to see if Ulquiorra was there.
"Why? What're you goona ask?"
"I want to know more about how us Espada killed ourselves."
Grimmjow was silent and you raised your hand to knock on Ulquiorra's door.
"Wait." You heard him whisper.
You turned your head towards him. "Hmm?"
"I stabbed myself in the stomach with a kitchen knife. Six times."
You were silent, and you dropped your hand to your side.
"Why are you telling me this?" you turned your whole body towards him.
"Because I trust you."
You stared at him for a full minute before either of you said anything.
"Why?" you asked, seriously wanting to know.
"I can't explain." You stared him down again.
"Alright. Answer my questions, then?"
"If I can."
You walked back across the hallway and past him into his room.
His room was slightly different than yours. It had most of the same items, but they were arranged differently and he had a larger TV than you, as well as a computer. You sat cross-legged on his bed and he slumped down in a beanbag. You changed your position from sitting to lying on your stomach, facing him.
"I'm curious. Do you know anybody else's methods of suicide?"
"Not really. Just Noitora's. He shot himself in the eye. And I heard a rumor that Halibel wears the large coat that covers her mouth because she stuck a pistol in her mouth and played Russian roulette with 6 bullets."
"That's not really Russian Roulette…"
"That's not the point. It's just she has a huge hole in the middle of her face, apparently, so she hides it. And I don't' even know where some of the Espada's holes ARE. But Yammi's hole is on his chest 'cause he hung—"
"Himself." You finished, smiling. He looked at you funny.
"How did you…?"
"That question's already been answered. People who hung themselves have holes in random places."
"Oh." He grinned meanly again. "There was a joke going around that Szayel had cut off his dick and that's where his hollow hole was, thus making him the girliest Espada we had."
You laughed. "I'm sure it wasn't a joke."
You both stared at each other and smiled dumbly for a moment, before Grimmjow realized he looked retarded and stopped smiling. "Any other questions?"
You slid off the bed and sat facing him. "Can I kiss you?"
"I was waiting for you to ask that." He leaned forward and your lips met, and he drew you into a passionate kiss.
