Bleach: 300


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07: Where's Soifon?


 "Have any of you seen Soifon?"

"No."

"Nope."

"Nada."

"Haven't seen her."

"Who's that?"

Yoruichi had secretly dropped by to give her subordinate an important message. (Basically a "Hi, how are you? Me? I'm fine. Oh, don't worry about Urahara, etc etc…") But Soifon seemed to have disappeared off the face of Seireitei. The last she heard, the Second Division/Special Forces captain had been dispatched to the 11th Division Headquarters a week ago for a retrieval mission concerning a DVD.

A DVD?

Upon interrogation, Zaraki loudly professed to have no idea where Soifon had gone. "The last time she dropped by, she seemed to be thirsty," the madly-grinning maniac gaily admitted. "So we gave her a drink."

His whole Division backed his statement. That told Yoruichi they had done something to Soifon. Strangely, though, she felt that Zaraki was sort of telling the truth. That worried her. The 11th Division wasn't renowned for honesty– or sanity.


After pointlessly quartering the length and breadth of Seireitei via flash steps, the exhausted Yoruichi sat herself on the lip of the 11th Division's HQ's brand new well– and what's with this?– to try impose logic on her frustration.

"Where are you, Soifon?" Yoruichi asked the air almost plaintively.

A gurgling noise caused her to look over her left shoulder.

"Huh?"

A liquid-logged mop head rose out of the well's blackness to face level with Yoruichi.

"… seven… days…"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

THUD


 "Yoruichi-sama? Yoruichi-sama?"

"She fainted…"

"Uh, Soifon-sensei, I think you scared her…"

"…"


 "Hey, Ikkaku! Where did you get the water for the well?" Zaraki did not remember an underground reservoir beneath the 11th Division HQ.

"Oh, I improvised with readily available materials. Mayuri-taichou would be extremely pleased with my ingenuity."


The blue liquid filling the well shivered.