Sorry I'm late updating you guys! (again) I sort of forgot I had a paper due so I had to do that. . It's kind of a slow chapter, but enjoy!

Warm breath fanned across his face, he felt the moisture collect on his upper lip and let his eyes slid open. Only inches from his face stood a man with slicked back brown hair that had a little strand that fell between his eyes. The man had a sincere smile on his face, but his eyes were cold and calculating. The man stared him down before he backed away.

"I'm glad to see there were no, unfavorable, side effects to the drug, I do hate it when my lovers have defects." Ichigo's eyes widened at the comment. 'L-lover? Why is this man referring to me with such an intimate name?' Ichigo sucked his teeth and let his eyes drift over the man, he was still wearing a stark white short kimono that was neatly tucked into a pair of white hakama. The ensemble was complete with a black obi and a white cape with black trim over the whole outfit.* The man kneeled down and stretched out his hand toward the orangette.

"Come now Ichigo, I must introduce you to my companions." A strong hand grasped Ichigo's and pulled him to his feet, the startled man teetered for a second before he righted himself and narrowed his eyes at the man.

"Before I follow you anywhere, I want you to tell me who you are and why you have proclaimed me as your lover." Ichigo stated, he hoped dearly that his father and Shirosaki were okay and weren't freaking out about his absence.

"Why, I am Sōsuke Aizen and you don't have a choice as being a lover, I will have you whether you are willing or not. Now come, we have many people to meet with." Aizen tugged harshly on his arm and forced him to walk beside him. Ichigo grit his teeth and absently thought about what had happened to the candy he had bought.

Shirosaki tore through the halls of the castle, he had searched high and low for Ichigo and couldn't find him anywhere! The albino threw the door to the throne room open and stalked up towards the King.

"Isshin! I can't find King anywhere!" Shirosaki yelled at the man calmly sitting upon his throne. Isshin sighed and looked down at the boy glaring daggers up at him.

"Yes, I know. We haven't been able to find him since he left the castle yesterday."

"Ehhhh? He when did he leave the castle?! Why would he go alone? Yer the king, why'd ya let him go so easily?" Isshin sighed again.

"He apparently wanted to go get you a present for your birthday and asked someone to keep you preoccupied so you wouldn't notice. He told me that he wanted to be alone, which is odd so I had him followed and lo and behold, he went into town." Shirosaki fumed at this, he knew Rukia didn't need help cleaning the whole kitchen!

"Well why'd ya let him go without a guard? Ya never let him to this stuff!" Isshin averted his gaze.

"I thought that maybe if he had the freedom and could look at how the area was, he'd ask before he went again and take someone with him."

"Yer dumb! King woulda never told you he was leavin'!" Isshin looked down and appeared as if he had just been scolded.

"I know, he goes to you about far more stuff than he does with me. I'm a terrible father." Isshin whispered. Shirosaki faltered, he'd never thought of it that way but it did seem that Ichigo never wanted to go to his father about anything. It was sad really, any parent would want to be at least a little involved in their child's life.

"'m sorry, I just thought that ya two were closer." Isshin smiled sadly at him.

"No, its fine Shiro, I'm just glad he has someone to go to, he used to talk to his mother all the time before she passed away." Shirosaki nodded, he'd never met the woman but he'd heard very good things from Ichigo about her. He shook his head and looked back up at Isshin.

"We got off topic, we gotta focus if we wanna find King! Do ya think he just left?" Shirosaki asked, he didn't want to believe that Ichigo would leave without saying goodbye, but it was an option.

"No Shiro, he more than likely was taken. He was going to buy something for you anyways. Which reminds me, when we get Ichigo back we're all going to sit down and have a little chat about your relationship." Isshin pointedly stared at Shirosaki, the albino was red with embarrassment as he remembered Isshin basically walking in on him and Ichigo making out.

Ichigo stared around the table and took in all the faces around him. He recognized Grimmjow and Ulquiorra but knew nothing about the other ten. Luckily, it looked like introductions were about to be made because Aizen had just finished his tea. Said man locked eyes with Ichigo and smiled softly before standing up and walking to the person to his direct right. The man was abnormally pale, almost like Shirosaki but not quite and had shoulder-length silver hair.

"Ichigo, this is Gin Ichimaru and he is my right hand man. If I am not around, he will be with you to make sure you have everything you need." 'Man, for getting kidnapped this was a pretty sweet deal. I get to live in a castle with people waiting on me all the time.' Ichigo thought before he pushed it from his mind, he didn't want to be finding reasons to stay, he had to get home, to Shirosaki! The orangette faltered for a second, 'Shi.. I wonder how he's doing.' he frowned, 'I'm going to miss his birthday if I don't get home soon.' Aizen moving brought him from his thoughts, he then stood behind a man with dark skin and braids trailing down his back.

"This is Kaname Tousen, he is my third in command and in charge of security here. Please, don't try to bother him much, he takes his job very seriously and will attack if he feels threatened." Ichigo shivered and the threat and stared into the exotic skinned man's blank eyes, they were all white so he assumed the man was blind. 'How is he in charge of security then..' Ichigo wondered.

"The rest of the people you see here are my Espada ranking for one to ten, one being the highest. Number one is Coyote Starrk, number two is Baraggan Louisenbairn, number three is Tier Harribel, number four is Ulquiorra Cifer, number five is Nnoitra Gilga, number six is Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, number seven is Zommari Rureaux, number eight is Szayelaporro Granz, number nine is Aaroniero Arruruerie and number ten is Yammy Llargo. They will be around and will attend to you if need be." Aizen listed off the people and they nodded at Ichigo as they were called. The orangette had no idea what was with the ranking system but figured he'd eventually find out.

"Now that everyone is introduced, I do hope that you will grow accustom to our humble abode dear Ichigo." Aizen said with a sickly smile on his face that made Ichigo want to puke.

* Mkay so I don't know how many of you actually know that short kimono's are what the "shirts" of hakama's are called. Also, the obi is a belt.

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