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4-9-15 Never forget
I don't own Bleach :p
Enjoy!
I woke up in a room that looked like it was from a hospital, there was a curtain next to me. I layed on a very plush mattress and sighed, running a hand through my hair as I remembered what happened yesterday. I stared aimlessly at the ceiling when I heard the door open. I tried sitting up but someone pushed me back onto the bed. I gasped as I tried to breathe; aquamarine hair in my face.
"N-Nel I can't breathe." My voice barely heard, I felt my right shoulder getting wet. The sound of silent sobbing reached my ears. I wrapped my good arm around her, rubbing her back affectionately.
"Hey, I'm okay. Don't cry Nel." I said to her and she looked at me angrily.
"You told me that you weren't leaving! You lied to me!"
"Look, it was for the best. You know you're not safe with me."
"I'm not safe either way! You forget who you're talking to!"
"Don't yell so loud-"
"No! You listen to me! My brother and I are the ones that started this plight against The White Cloaks! Do you have any idea how many we've dealt with already?" I shook my head.
"I'll just bring more trouble than necessary to you and everyone else if I stay."
"I don't care."
"You don't, but everyone else will say otherwise." Nel opened her mouth to say something, but someone by the door cleared their throat. Nel turned to look in their direction and slowly got up. I tried to see who it was, but I could barely see from my spot on the bed. I heard the door close and for a moment I thought I was alone and sighed loudly. I turned my head and nearly jumped right out of my skin. A guy with brown hair that was up to his shoulders, was leaning against the wall. He saw my reaction and smiled apologetically.
"Sorry about my sister, she takes after our father when it comes to yelling." I stared back and I guess I must've had a weird expression on my face because he chuckled and extended his hand.
"Once again, I'm sorry. My name is Starrk and I'm Nelliel's older brother, and you are?" I shook his hand with my good arm.
"Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez." He seems like a nice guy. Starrk's face suddenly got very serious.
"Since you're awake now, I'll have to tell you how things work around here."
"Uh sure.." Well, so much for the nice guy act, I might as well do the same and drop the act.
"I'm sure you know this is a base and I'm sure that Nelliel has told you some things." I nodded my head.
"Well then, I already told you my name, so I might as well tell you my position in this mess."
"Mess?" He nodded his head.
"As Nelliel told you, our group is trying to get rid of The White Cloaks and they're trying to do the same to us."
"Yeah, I know about that."
"We also know that their main objective right now is to take you to Aizen."
"Aizen?"
"Yes. Aizen is the founder and leader of The White Cloaks. His position is like mine in the mess."
"Sorry, but, is the mess a type of code word for something?" He looked away and closed his eyes, chuckling.
"How old are you?"
"Sixteen, but I don't see what my age has to do with any of this."
"Actually, it does." I stared at him blankly.
"How?"
"Do you know how to fight? Use a gun or a any weapon for that matter?" I felt a vein starting to throb near my temple.
"Stop beating around the bush and tell me already dammit!" He had a look of amusement and began writing something on a notepad.
'Funny, I never saw him take out the damn thing.' I watched as he scribbled over something and began writing again.
"The hell are you writing?" He smiled, but kept writing.
"Nothing really, just know that when you're healed, be ready to test your strength. Honestly I've never really met someone this feisty. You'll make a great soldier, I'm sure of it." He got up and began walking towards the door. He stopped and turned around,
"Oh, just letting you know, a doctor should be coming in shortly to check up on you." With that, he left. Leaving me confused as fuck.
The doctor turned out to be a guy who looked to be in his early twenties. He walked in and the first thing he did was talk shit about my hair.
"Now this, is different." I stared at him confused.
"Is something wrong?" At first I was worried that something was wrong with my stitches.
"No, no. It's just that, you are the second person in the base with crazy colored dyed hair." I frowned and felt my eye begin to twitch.
"Look pal! My hair is naturally blue! So if talking shit about people's hair is your profession, get the fuck out of here and bring in a real doctor, not a critic." I sneered at the guy. He covered his mouth and giggled.
'What the fuck is wrong with everyone here? It's like they're all happy-go-lucky fuckers!'
"I'm sorry hon', it's nice seeing a change once in a while."
"Change?"
"Oh yes, it gets rather boring seeing the same hair colors, not to mention attitude's." I rolled my eyes.
"Why is everyone so damn relaxed? It's fuckin' creepy if you ask me."
"It's best not to worry yourself to death. Besides, not everyone is relaxed." He said and took out his equipment.
"Well, good news to you, you're healing rather quick. Your stitches are going to be removed very soon."
"How soon?"
"My, you're an impatient one!" I groaned and felt a headache coming on.
"Just tell me when."
"In two or three days."
"That soon!?" He nodded his head and began to change my bandages.
"You know, we thought that you were never going to wake up." Now this, caught my attention.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"It's been almost two months since we found you in the fields."
"Two fuckin' months!?" He nodded his head.
"Yes if Miss Nelliel hadn't rushed in crying and yelling out orders, saying that we had to search for her friend, you would have probably been dead by now." I stared blankly at the wall as I absorbed this information.
'So, technically Nel literally saved my ass from getting destroyed. No pun intended.'
"You know, she's the one that's been taking care of you since you lapsed into a coma while we were fixing you up." He said aimlessly.
I shuddered and the doctor looked at me.
"May I ask, did anything happen to you when you escaped?" I frowned.
"Well no shit, I got shot twice and got my face fucked up." Now he was the one frowning.
"No, what I meant to say was, did he assault you sexually."
"No, at least I don't think he did." I thought back to the time I had blacked out and hoped that he hadn't done anything to me. I looked at the doctor and watched as he shuddered.
"Well, I sure do hope he didn't do anything to you. Much less shoved foreign objects into you!" I felt my face turn pale.
"W-what do you mean by foreign objects?" He looked at me and arched an eyebrow.
"What? You thought we were going to let the guy go clean? No, after we found you, we went looking for the person responsible."
"You guys killed him?"
"Yes, but that was after we searched the place where he had you. And by golly, I'm glad that you escaped when you did."
"How come?" He chuckled.
"Aren't you so full of questions my dear?" I frowned
"Well, I'd actually like to know what would have happened to me if I hadn't escaped!"
"Fine, I'll tell you." He leaned back on the chair and crossed his arms.
"During our search, we found a door that led to what looked like a basement. In the basement, there was a table and a chair. On them, there were belts strapped on the corners."
"So what? It's just a table." He shook his head at me.
"I'm not done there. In the corner there was a wooden chest with, um, toys." I arched an eyebrow.
"Toys? What the hell can a stuffed animal do to me?" He covered his mouth to stop himself from laughing.
"Oh my, you have no clue what kind of toys I'm talking about, do you?" I shook my head.
"I don't know any other kind of toys."
"I'm sure you've heard of dildos and handcuffs." I blanched.
"What the fuck!?" He began laughing at me.
"If only you could see the beautiful shade of red you're turning! It contrasts nicely with your blue hair." I frowned at him.
"Are fucking around with me?" He shook his head and stared at me.
"I'm dead serious. The sick fuck was going to have his fun with you." He shuddered.
'Man, I'm so glad I got out of there I did!'
"So what's your name doc?" I asked. He looked at me and smiled.
"Shinji. Now you have to tell me yours." I looked at him confused.
"I thought you already knew my name. Don't they have it written down on those clipboards doctors are always carrying around?" He shook his head.
"No, you're just listed as patient number six."
"Oh." He looked at me expectantly.
"Well? What's your name?"
"Grimmjow."
"Grimmjow huh? That's kind of a long name. Do you mind if I call you Grimm?" My eye twitched.
"I do mind actually."
"Well Grimm! It looks like you and I are going to get along fairly well!" My mouth set on a straight line.
"Whatever." He smiled and began to walk out.
"I'll let you rest for a while. You're going to need your strength." With that, he left and closed the door.
The rest of the day was spent drifting off and jolting awake. Honestly, it was getting pretty annoying. Nel had visited a few times but, she made sure that I was asleep whenever she did. The only evidence that she had been in there was the scent of flowers and a cold, wet object on my forehead. I tried to recall if I had a fever or something and instead I came up blank.
"Why the hell is there a cold thingy on my forehead?" I wondered aloud. I didn't really care anymore and was about to lay back into the covers, when I heard the door open. I layed back down quickly and closed my eyes; pretending to be asleep. I heard someone sigh and they grabbed the thing from my forehead. The sound of water falling into a bowl reached my ears and I tried not to open my eyes to see. I felt a cool hand sweep through my hair and rested on my forehead. It actually felt kind of nice and I felt a smile begin to form.
"Oh drop the act, I know you're awake." I sat up and looked at her sheepishly.
"Well, you caught me." She didn't say anything and an awkward silence filled the room. We just sat there, not really looking at each other. I looked over at her and quickly looked away before she saw me looking at her. She hadn't really changed much, other than a black cloak that I had also seen Starrk and Shinji wearing. I somewhat blushed when I realized that I wasn't really wearing much, but shrugged it off. Nel decided then, to break the silence.
"I'm sorry." I looked at her with wide eyes.
"You're sorry? Why the hell would you be sorry? I'm the one who should be sorry!" She shook her head.
"I'm sorry that I brought you into this mess."
"Starrk kept talking about the mess and didn't really tell me what the hell he was talking about." I muttered. Nel sighed and got up from her chair. She sat next to me and I moved over a bit; the bed wasn't really that big for two anyways.
"The mess is basically what's going on."
"Which is?"
"Think of it as a crusade of something." I groaned.
"That still doesn't really explain it ya know?" She smiled at me.
"You're going to have to get use to it, since here at the base we sometimes talk in codes. Like right now, the soldiers are talking in codes." I arched an eyebrow.
"Soldiers? As in the army?" She shook her head.
"No, they're just regular people like you and me. They just get some intense training done and they're set to go out and look for survivors."
'Survivors? Just what the hell happened while I was in a coma?' Nel saw me frown and spoke up.
"They started bombing the day after we found you." I stared at her with wide eyes.
"Seriously!?" She nodded.
"We were in the fields and we heard a really loud explosion nearby, not to mention the giant tower of smoke."
"Giant tower of smoke?" She shrugged.
"Later on, we heard a jet pass us from above the base. Turns out they stole the jets from an army base." She stopped for a minute,
"Everything's gone! They've destroyed the majority of the country's defenses, we're all that's left. As far as we know anyways." She said trailing off.
"Aren't there any other bases in the state?" She nodded and pulled out a thickly, folded piece of paper from a hidden pocket in her cloak. She unfolded what appeared to be a map that was littered with different colored circles.
"What's with the colored circles?"
"Red are bases, blue are safe zones, purple are possible signs of other resistances like ours, and black are...areas that have been taken over by them."
"There's only one base?"
"Yeah, but it's near Idaho's border."
"But, how do you know that nobody's taken over that base?"
"We have soldiers stationed out there as backups, which is the point of the base. If this one were to be terminated, we'd have to use the backup base."
"How the hell did you and Starrk have the time and money to make these!?" Nel laughed at me,
"We, actually didn't build the bases. My dad was the one who got us involved." I sat in thought for a while, thinking over some things.
"So then how exactly do you have electricity? If I remember correctly, those White Cloaked bastards said that they were cutting off all electricity."
"We have backup generators and keep warm with kerosene lamps."
"Oh."
"You want to know how this all came to be, don't you?" I nodded my head and Nel leaned against the headboard.
"It all started when my father and Aizen worked together as scientists."
"Scientists?"
"Yeah. They were partners since before Starrk was born. All was fine, until the accident." She said and lowered her voice as if someone else was hearing.
"They say that Aizen went crazy with his experiments and invented something bad.
"Bad?"
"Uh huh. Aizen was soon fired and that same day he tried killing his wife and his two month old son. They arrested him and was sentenced to life in prison. Later, he broke out of prison with some of the worst criminals."
"But what exactly did he do to go to prison? I mean he tried killing his family but, I'm sure that there is another reason why he was sentenced for life."
"During his time at the lab, Aizen began to see things his own way. He wanted to control the country and have people live by his ways. His ideas were rejected and later identified as threats, so he was fired. But that didn't stop there. They say that he invented a rare chip called the Hogyoku. The Hogyoku is a very controlling device and only one other has been made. I heard that it's very dangerous if it gets injected into the bloodstream and no one has actually done that, until Aizen tried it with his son."
The whole time she was talking, my mind began to race and I wondered, where is Aizen's son now? Is he crazy strong? Or is he with Aizen?
"What happened to Aizen's son? Did he survive?" Nel shrugged and looked away for a second.
"I don't know. When my father and the other scientists found out, they managed to get to his house before the Hogyoku was injected into the boy's arm. His wife had been beaten pretty badly; almost unconscious. They shot Aizen's leg and handcuffed him."
"This Aizen guy sounds like a total dick if ya ask me." Nel laughed at that.
"Anyways, his family moved far away from him, but we don't even know if they're still alive." She began to say something else but the door opened and Starrk, along with three other men in black cloaks walked in. Nel got up quickly and nodded to Starrk, who nodded back, and she walked out. Starrk looked at me and signaled for the men to leave. They quickly left and Starrk sat on the wooden chair.
"So I'm guessing that Nelliel told you about Aizen. Am I right?"
"Yeah..." Starrk sighed and crossed his arms.
I'm sure you've noticed that Nelliel and I don't look alike, with her hair color and all."
"I just thought that you guys were actually siblings."
"Nelliel is my half-sister. My mother was killed by Aizen and our father was killed by Aizen's men around two months ago."
"Sorr-"
"Don't. From what I heard from my sister, your mother was killed by them." I nodded.
"Does that anger you?" He asked, his voice calm.
"Yeah, but there's nothing I can do about it n-."
"You can."
"What?" He leaned forward slightly.
"It's called revenge. The only way to avenge the deaths of those dear to you, is to get rid of the one who caused them pain."
"You want me to go on a killing spree?"
"No, do what you got to do."
"There you go again, talking in fucking riddles!" Starrk raised an eyebrow, amused.
"Well I guess it seems to me that you're ready to start your training. How 'bout it?" I leaned back with a smirk on my face.
"Bring it on."
A/N: Hope you liked it!
