NOTE:~ Chapter 4!! Enjoys!! ^_^
Someone Be My Escape
Chapter 4: Blood Under The Sakura Tree
It had been a few days now since their little shopping spree and now was the day of the festival. Time for some fun and good times. At least that was the plan until....
"YOU'RE GOING DAMN IT!!", Tamara exclaimed, hitting Grimmjow over the head in an angry manner.
"NO I'M NOT SO FUCK OFF BITCH!", Grimmjow retorted, wanting so bad to hit her, but knew he couldn't.
"Would you two take your fight elsewhere...", Ulquiorra murmured. He was rather annoyed with them fighting. All because Grimmjow didn't like the idea of people in a largely crowded place with a bunch of people, and if he saw Kurosaki, he knew he'd want to fight him so...there was the problem. "Ulquiorra, make him come!", Tamara called to the emoish male as she pointed at Grimmjow.
"Pfft, like he can make me do a damn thing!", Grimmjow grumbled, crossing his arms.
"I'm not going to force this trash to do anything...", Ulquiorra replied, closing his eyes as Grimmjow began to rant on about how he wasn't trash and some other stuff about being stronger. Tamara smacked Grimmjow over the head once more.
"You better come!!", Tamara scolded, "Or you'll miss out on the memories. Don't ya want memories before ya graduate?! And another thing, I'll stop bugging you if you come~!".
"Fine! Quit your whining now and get out!", Grimmjow exclaimed, turning Tamara around and pushing her out the door. "HEY!", she growled, turning just as the door was slammed in her face, "Asshole...". But despite that, she had a triumphant smile on her face. At least she had won the fight. Now it was time to prepare for the festival. It was in a few hours and the twins would be coming soon to pick them up.
Tamara went to her room and put the kimono on that she had gotten a few days ago. It didn't look half bad on her, and her odd colored hair(black and dark green), and even her snake bites seemed to go with it. She tied her hair up in a bun and stuck two decorative chop sticks in it. She left some hair down to outline her face. Surprisingly she didn't look half bad in the kimono. She slipped on a pair of black sandals and checked herself out once more in the mirror. "Oh...gotta do the make up to...the twins will freak if I don't have any one...", Tamara stated as she headed into the bathroom.
She hated make up, but rather then fighting about it she would put it on. After all, it was a special occasion. As she was doing her lip stick the phone rang. She quickly rushed to it in her kimono, which was rather hard to run in, and lifted it up to her ear, "Ello?".
"Uhm...Tama-chan...right?", came a sweet voice from the other end.
"OH!! Orihime!!", Tamara grinned, placing a hand on her hip, "Hey, glad ya got back to me. I spent hours trying to find your number just for this. We're meeting at the festival, right?".
"Ya! Kurosaki-kun and even Tatsuki are excited about this!", Orihime replied in a cheerful way, "And I'll be packing a picnic for everyone so we can all eat together!".
"Ah, that sounds awesome Orihime! We'll meet you around 6pm, just after the opening fire works", Tamara stated.
"Alright! See you there, Tama-chan!", Orihime replied before hanging up the phone. Tamara grinned once more and headed back to the bathroom to finish her make up. This night was going to be good. She was going to see a few old friends and be able to hang out with them for a bit. All of their friends would probably mingle and get along as well. Only Zeke knew Orihime and Ichigo, the twins and Shiro didn't know them all that well. But Tamara was sure everyone would get along great. Although, she wasn't sure how Grimmjow would get along with Ichigo. They were both kinda hot headed.
A knock at her door startled her for a moment, "Coming!", she called and quickly came from her room to answer the door. There stood the for newest members of their group in their kimono's. The boys didn't really do much with their hair or anything, but Halibel had put her hair up in the back and had put some make up on. She waved a fan in front of her face though so you couldn't really see the make up that much. "Are you ready?", Ulquiorra questioned, looking at her. She looked ready to him.
"Yep. The twins will be here in a few minutes so we my as well go downstairs and wait out in the parking lot for them. Everyone nodded in agreement and headed out after Tamara had grabbed her purse. It was actually weird to see her carrying a purse, and even dressed up so nicely. She was never like this. It was so odd. As they waited for the twins to arrive, Tamara looked over at Grimmjow. "Now what was with all that fuss earlier?", she asked him.
He glared down at her, "Shut up", he folded his arms, placing them into the sleeves of his kimono. She was annoying like always. When the twins arrived, Zeke and Shiro were already in the vehicle so after they all got into the limo, they were off to the festival. "Oh, Orihime called me back. She said that we're meeting up with her and her friends. They'll meet us at 6 after the opening fire works and Orihime is making a picnic for everyone so...everyone make sure to be nice and at least TRY her food", Tamara stated, chuckling slightly.
Once again the Espada tensed. This was not good. They couldn't allow this, or at least they couldn't be around the group while they were around Orihime or Ichigo, but then again that was going to be hard since they were supposed to watch over Tamara. This was definitely not good. At least they wouldn't recognize Halibel. They only knew Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, and Yammy from previous fights. But they had never met Halibel. At least she could stay close to Tamara.
The group arrived at the festival at 5:45PM. 15 minutes before their meet up with Orihime and her friends. Good, that gave Yammy, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow to lose everyone in the crowd of people there. This night was going to be difficult but they could do it. They were Espada for gods sakes! The group stood near the back of the crowd as a women stood on the stage, announcing the events of the night and what not. Opening ceremony stuff.
"HEY! Tamara-chan!", came a familiar voice. Everyone looked over, their gaze falling on the red headed female with a few other people.
"Hey Orihime!", Tamara called back, giving her a slight wave as the girl came over with her friends, "Oh, let me introduce you to everyone". Tamara turned to face her friends, only to realize a select three boys had disappeared. Where had they run off to? "Oh...looks like we're missing three. Oh well. Everyone, this is Orihime, Orihime this is Shiro, the twins, Natasha and Natalie, Halibel, and you already know Zeke".
"It's very nice to meet you all", Orihime replied, smiling at them before looking back at her friends, "This is Ichigo, Rukia, Tatsuki, Chad, Uryu, and Renji".
"Nice to meet you all", Tamara said with a small wave, "I dunno where a select three boys ran off to...but you'll meet them later on, I guess...". Tamara gave a quick glance around to see if the might've been close by or something. But they were no where to be seen. Her attention was grabbed however when bright lights began to flash in the sky. She turned her head and saw the beautiful explosions of the fire works. "Let's go eat first!", Orihime exclaimed.
Everyone nodded and they all headed off to find a nice place to picnic. Everyone seemed to be getting along, even Halibel seemed to enjoy talking with Orihime and her friends, but Tamara was distracted. Where exactly had Yammy, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow run off to? They better not had run off and caught the train home. Bastards. She looked over at everyone and smiled, "Excuse me everyone. I'm going to see if I can find those three. They're missing out".
With that, she got to her feet and headed away from their picnic area. 'Where could those three be...? They better not have snuck off and taken the train home! I swear I'll kill them..!', Tamara thought to herself, folding her arms into the sleeves of her kimono. She walked through the crowds of people, looking around for the familiar faces. They wouldn't be that hard to spot out of the crowd. Yammy was quite large, so he wouldn't be hard to miss, Grimmjow's blue hair would be easy to spot, and Ulquiorra...Well he was paler than anyone else there. Not hard to find at all...right? Wrong. "I'm annoyed now...", she murmured as she leaned against the railing of a bridge that lead over a small stream, "Where could they have gone?". She stared at her reflection in deep thought.
She couldn't figure out how she couldn't find them, or why they even separated from the group in the first place. As she stared at her reflection, a strange breeze blew by. That was odd. Where did the sudden breeze come from? It shook the Sakura trees, causing some of the flowers to blow off and dance in the air. It was pretty. She smiled as she watched the flowers dance around. "What are you doing out here alone?", a voice suddenly spoke from behind her and she jumped, quickly whirling around.
Her nerves calmed down though as she saw it was only Ulquiorra. She placed a hand on her chest and a small smile crossed her lips, "Don't do that!". She let out a soft sigh. She actually thought he might've been some mugger or something. "Hey...why did you, Yammy, and Grimmjow run off anyway?", she asked, now crossing her arms and glaring at him.
"We wanted to explore the festival...", he stated monotonously.
"Huh? Well you could've at least came and ate with the rest of us first. I mean, Orihime prepared all that food – mind you it's weird food, but good – for this day and you guys just disappearing without a word like that. That was just rude!", Tamara stated, shaking her head.
"Hey", came another voice from behind Tamara and she turned to see Orihime's four eyed friend, Uryu, standing there. "Oh hey, you're Uryu right?", she asked. He nodded. "I was just talking to...", Tamara's words faded as she turned around to see Ulquiorra was gone. She let out a low growl. "God damn it! Where did he run off to NOW?!?!", Tamara let out an annoyed sigh and faced Uryu.
"So is there something you wanted...?", Tamara asked.
"Nothing in particular. I just came after you because I thought you could use a hand in finding your friends, not to mention a girl like you shouldn't be wandering around alone. These things can be dangerous", Uryu replied.
"Uhuh...Well ya don't have to worry about me. I'm not a bad fighter", Tamara replied, "But thanks for that".
"Well even if you're a good fighter, by the looks of that kimono, you can't move well to fight in it", Uryu responded as he pushed up his glasses back onto his face.
Tamara's gaze lowered, "Hm...guess not...".
"So who are those three you're looking for anyway? As I said, I'll help you find them", Uryu asked.
"Oh, uhm...well one is a really grumpy guy with blue hair, his name is Grimmjow JeagerJaques. The next one is a rather emo looking one with a 'none caring' attitude, his name is Ulquiorra Schiffer. The last one is a rather large man, kinda stupid in some ways, his name's Yammy", Tamara stated, describing each of them so Uryu would have a good idea on who she was looking for. But it no longer seemed as if Uryu was interested in helping her find them. For some reason he seemed worried.
"Tamara, you have to stay away from them", Uryu began, "They're -.", but before Uryu could finish his sentence, Ichigo, Rukia, Chad, and Renji came running.
"Hey Uryu, we need you for something, come on!", Ichigo called, grabbing old of Uryu as they ran by. Tamara looked after them in confusion. "Huh?", questions ran through her head. What was Uryu trying to say? Had she said something wrong? Now she was really confused. She shrugged it off and turned around to continue her search, only to have the crap scared out of her yet again by some strange man in a black cloak. He had his hood lowered so you could see his face. He had Dark blue hair and brown eyes, and a rather erie looking smile on his face.
"Oh, pardon me. I didn't mean to scare you Miss Yachiki", the man said, tilting his head slightly to the side as his smile grew wider.
"How do you know my last name...?", Tamara questioned, taking a step back from this stranger.
"Oh I know a lot more than just your last name, Tamara", the man said darkly, "I know exactly who and what you are".
"What the hell are you talking about? Are you some sort of creepy stalker?", Tamara questioned, balling her hands into tight fists. If she had to fight, she would. Though, as Uryu had pointed out, it would be difficult to fight in the kimono she was wearing right now.
The man chuckled, "Stalker...? Now that's a new one...", he held out his hand, "Why don't you come with me and I'll show you what I'm talking about..?".
"No way in hell am I ever going with you, you weirdo", Tamara hissed, taking a few more steps away from the man as she rejected his hand.
His smile seemed to fade now as his hand dropped to his side, "What a shame...", he let out a sigh, "Well if you won't come quietly then I shall have to take you by force. I suggest you don't fight back. I really hate hurting women". The male suddenly lowered his stance into a fighting one and pulled out a sword, bringing it down towards her. Tamara was out matched. Her fists against a sword. Yeah, that wasn't going to work.
She pulled her arms into an X shape over her head to protect herself from the blade, or at least try to, but she felt a suddenly blast of air in front of her and as she reopened her eyes, she saw Ulquiorra was standing in front of her wielding a blade as well. Where did he get that? Come to mention it, his clothes were different as well, and there was a strange horn like thing on one side of his head. Just what the hell was going on?! This had to be some sort of act, right? Something everyone worked up to scare her. RIGHT?! Wrong.
Ulquiorra pushed the man back with no trouble at all and the man merely grinned at him. "Ah, the 4th Espada of Aizen's army. So he even went to such lengths as to send someone like you on this mission. A mere mission to protect one girl. If I'm not mistaken, there are also 3 other Espada, right? Her powers must be really something if Aizen would send four of his highest rant people to protect this girl", the mans grin grew wider as a blade came across his neck.
"You're dead", stated a grim voice.
"Ah, Number 6 Espada, Grimmjow. From what I know, you hate humans and shinigami, even your own kind, no?", the man asked as he suddenly disappeared in a whirl of wind and appeared floating in the air. He sheathed his blade and held out his hands in front of him.
"It really is a pity I have to harm you, Miss Yachiki. You should have come with me quietly...", the mans hands suddenly lit up as two balls of brilliant blue light formed in his hands and he shot them down at Grimmjow and Ulquiorra, who simply dodged them with ease, but as they dodged the balls of light hit the bridge, causing it to crumble and the three to fall into the water. "Goodbye now", the man said, waving to them as the water sudden got ruff and sent the three coursing through it at a rapid pace.
~Halibel&Yammy's POV~
"This isn't good...", Halibel whispered, crossing her arms over her chest, "They know something is up and Grimmjow, Ulquiorra and Tamara are missing right now...".
"I wonder where they ran off to...", Yammy murmured, scratching the top of his head. Suddenly a loud crash was heard and the two quickly turned. That didn't sound good. They rushed to the location, finding the river was flowing at a rather fast pace and had risen quite a bit. They caught a glimpse of Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, and Tamara a little ways down in the water before they disappeared. That was not good. Halibel went to go after them when a ball of energy blasted out in front of her. She jumped back, looking up into the air and saw a smiling man looking down at her and Yammy.
"Now we can't have anyone saving them now can we? It's best to separate the group...easier to take out...", the man stated, drawing his sword. This was definitely not good.
"Who the hell are you..?!", came a familiar voice and Halibel and Yammy looked across the broken bridge to the other side to see Ichigo and his group of friends, all but Orihime who was still with Tatsuki, the twins, and Shiro. He was talking to the man in the air. The man looked over at Ichigo and chuckled.
"My, my. If it isn't the little strawberry boy and his band of marry men!", the man laughed at his little pun, "Go home kiddo. This doesn't concern you at all, or the likes of the Soul Society".
"Like hell I'll go home!", Ichigo exclaimed, "and why are you here?! Espada!". Ichigo was now looking at Halibel and Yammy. Halibel merely turned away from the question and looked up at the male still standing in the sky.
"You just lost her...you know that, correct...?", Halibel asked the man, "As soon as Ulquiorra and Grimmjow break out of the water, they'll take her to Los Noches. You've lost". Halibel crossed her arms over her chest.
"Lost? Haha! Oh no my dear Halibel, 3rd Espada. I have not lost. You see, I made a whirlpool in the water that is actually a portal. The three get pulled inside and take them to a place where their reitsu is useless and there for not trackable either. They won't be going anywhere until I get what I want. Or they die. Either way, we win", the man held out his hand and a women seemed to appear out of thin air, not holding his hand, "the plan is in motion".
"Good", the women spoke, looking at everyone below, "Let's kill them all".
"We're not dying yet!", Ichigo exclaimed, "Especially to any likes of you!". He leaped into the air, slicing between the two strangers, slicing off the mans arm as he landed on the other side near Halibel and Yammy. He looked back up and watched as the man didn't cry out in pain. He merely stared at the cut limb and his grin returned, his arm suddenly regenerating and reforming as good as new.
"You are too naive boy. Your blade, Zangetsu, can not slice off my limbs. And to think, I actually had faith that this time my arm wouldn't return. Foolish me...", the mans grip on his blade tightened and in a flash he suddenly appeared beside Ichigo. Ichigo's eyes grew wide as a huge gash was cut through his right arm, cutting it off and he dropped his blade to the ground, screaming in pain as he fell to his knees. "Oh, looks like I can cut you though. Very nice color of blood by the way...", the man said as he licked Ichigo's blood from his blade.
"Stop playing around and just kill him", the women spoke, glaring at the man now.
"Oh, what? I can't have any fun Kira? You're the one who wanted to play around in the first place", the man spoke, glaring up at the women.
"Yes, Yusaki, but that was before the asshole wanted them dead and his prize early so hurry up and finish this before the bastard shows up to finish it himself", Kira growled.
"As you wish...", Yusaki said with a sigh and raised his blade over Ichigo's head, ready to slice it off. As the blade came closer and closer to his neck, Halibel suddenly blocked it with her sword. "What's this?! An Espada protecting a shinigami...?", the man almost burst into laughter but he was pushed away by Halibel before he could say or do anything else.
"Don't get me wrong, shinigami", Halibel began, stepping around Ichigo to face Yusaki, "we are still enemies. But against this man...I think there's an exception for a temporary truce..".
"Halibel...we're not supposed to...", Yammy began, pointing at Ichigo.
"I know", Halibel merely replied before leaping at Yusaki and beginning their fight.
~Tamara, Grimmjow&Ulquiorra's POV~
"Err...fuck...", grunted Grimmjow, slowly pushing himself up into a sitting position. His head was killing him and his body ached like hell. His gaze shifted around. Just where the heck were they? As far as he could tell, they were in some sort of canyon or something like that.
"Fuck...", he cursed once more. He didn't see anyone else around him. He slowly got to his feet, feeling his left arm was out of place. He placed his hand on it and push hard, causing a loud 'Pop and crack' as it went back into place. "Ahhh...", he breathed out, beginning to slowly walk through the strange place. He looked around at the canyon. It was quite a long ways from there to the top, and for some reason there was this force that was making him feel so weak and drained. Like he couldn't do a damn thing. He didn't like this feeling.
His gaze shifted forward now as he spotted Tamara up ahead. She was still unconscious. "Fuck, you better still be alive bitch...", Grimmjow grunted as he made his way over to her. He placed a hand on her neck to check for a pulse. There was one. Good. That means Aizen wouldn't have to kill them.
"Hey...", Grimmjow called down to her. No response. He growled, "Hey, get the fuck up!", he slapped her lightly across the face. Still nothing. "Fuck...", he cursed yet again. He seemed to be doing a lot of that at this point in time.
"Don't hit her again...", came that familiar monotone voice of Ulquiorra. Grimmjow looked ahead and saw Ulquiorra making his way over. He looked like he was sick or something from the way he was slouched over.
"What the fuck happened to you?", Grimmjow grunted.
"It's not what happened. It's what's happening right now", Ulquiorra corrected the idiotic espada as he took a seat on the ground, "There's something here that is draining our reitsu, making us weak. We can't do anything, not even bring up a gargantua".
"Oh that's just fucking great!", Grimmjow cursed, "God damn it! I hate this fucking mission, I hate this stupid human! Fuck!". Grimmjow's rage began to grow, but even that was just making him feel tired and even worse.
"It's best not to stress yourself", Ulquiorra spoke up, watching as Grimmjow sat down as well. "Oh shut the fuck up...", Grimmjow hissed, leaning his head back to stare at the far away blue sky at the top of the canyon.
"This is gunna be a long fucking day...", he murmured to himself.
"Mmm...", the sounds of waking up were heard from Tamara and the two Espada watched as she sat up, holding her head. It was pounding and her body felt like it had just been hit with a ton of bricks. She rubbed her eyes and slowly looked from one Espada to the next. It took her a minute to actually freak out. Since their gigai's hid their masks and holes, she never knew they had them. But they were no longer in their gigai's so she could see their mask remnants and their hollow holes.
"What the hell are you two?! I want answers, now!", Tamara exclaimed, getting to her feet and pointing an accusing finger at the two Espada before she stumbled back to the ground.
"Che.", Grimmjow grunted, closing his eyes and turning his head away from this girl. Yeah, like he'd listen to her and say a damn word.
"We were not fully briefed on just what you are or your sort of power. All we were told was that you have a power that needed to be protected", Ulquiorra said coldly, "We are Arrancar, or rather Espada. We are part of a man named Aizen Sousuke's army. You'll have to discuss this further with him, women".
What the hell?! No more calling her by her name?! "This is so confusing...", Tamara groaned. She was too confused and tired to even get angry about him not calling her by her actual name anymore. "Yammy and Halibel....their Espada to, right?". Ulquiorra merely nodded in reply.
"Great...", Tamara murmured, rubbing her temples. She couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next. It couldn't get any worse, right? Once again, wrong.
END:~ I know...not as much blood and violence as I promised. But you got to read Ichigo getting his arm cut off xD. Come on! That should be satisfying enough! Lol. Please Review, thanks! See ya next chappy!
