Ichigo sat in the dark tenth division office, feeling despair eating him. There was simply no way that the Soul Society would hand over Urahara. For starters it was doubtful they could even catch him in order to hand him over to Aizen and then of course there was the problem of that by handing over Urahara the soul society spelled certain doom for itself.

Urahara held all the knowledge of the Hogyoku, if Aizen had him then he could potentially awaken the Hogyoku earlier then expected. Even though Ichigo knew all of this and he knew giving over Urahara was not an option he still couldn't help but to almost wish it was. All he wanted was for Toushirou to be home, safe and in his arms.

"Why? Why didn't you tell me about this mission?" he whispered, burying his head in his hands. As he did so he realized he was sitting as his boyfriend's desk, where he spent most of his time.

Acting on impulse he yanked open the drawer and looked inside. It was filled mostly with blank pieces of paper, brushes, ink and a letter addressed to him.

For a few seconds Ichigo simply stared at the piece of paper before picking it up with trembling fingers. His hand where shaking so hard that he could barely het the letter untied to read, after a few minutes he finally managed to get it open.

The letter was extremely short; in fact it was only three words,

'I love you'

"Yeah, I know you do" he whispered as he stared at the three words, it was then that he knew that he had intended to leave Toushirou in that god awful place with that bastard. Permission be damned, he was Ichigo Kurosaki! Since when did he ask permission?! Especially when it came to saving someone he cared about!

He stood and left the office to gather up some help, he couldn't do this alone after all.

Wait for me Toushirou, I'm coming!


"Are you really that stupid?" Toushirou asked in a horse but amused voice.

"Do you really think that the Soul Society will trade Kisuke Urahara for me?! And even if they did, do you really think Urahara will let them?!"

Aizen grabbed the boy by the hair and kneed him the stomach, causing Toushirou to cough up blood and moan in pain as the motion jostled his broken collar bone.

"You underestimate your value Hitsugaya-kun, and besides if they don't go for the deal I will just have to find another way to get my hands on that damn scientist, it makes no difference either way, I just wanted to give you a chance at freedom." Aizen hissed in his ear.

"Yeah . . . right . . . you . . . suck . . . at . . . lying." Toushirou replied in between deep, painful gulps of air.

Aizen through him roughly up against the wall and Toushirou left a splash of blood on the wall where he hit.

"You still haven't learned respect, well no matter, you had better hope I'm right, otherwise you are going to be here a very, very long time." Aizen turned on his heels and practically waltzed out of the room.

The door closed with a bang and Toushirou heard the lock click into place, leaving him in utter darkness once more.

Don't do anything rash Ichigo!


Slowly he allowed himself to fall over onto his side and curled up in the suffocating heat.

Rangiku, Renji, Rukia, Ikkau and Yumichika all stood staring at Ichigo like he had grown an extra head.

"Let me get this straight" Ikkau began slowly, "you want us to go against our superiors by breaking into Hecco Mundo on a possible suicide mission to save Captain Hitsugaya."

"Um, yeah, that pretty much sums it up."

"That's crazy! Hm, I like it! You can count me in!"

"And me as well" Yumichika added

Renji shrugged his shoulders "Why not? We've done this once before, we can do it again, I'm in"

Rukia sighed and shook her head. "Well someone has to go along to make sure you idiots don't get yourselves killed, so I guess I have to go to."

Ichigo glared at her for a second before he smiled in gratitude and then he turned to the only person who hadn't spoken.

Rangiku raised an eyebrow, "Do you really have to ask? Come on Ichigo, you know I'll do anything to save him."

"Yeah, thanks everyone."

"Don't thank me; I'm just coming for the fights." Ikkau told him and Yumichika nodded.

Ichigo shrugged, "Well thanks anyway."

"Now that that's out of the way, don't you think we should begin our preparations?" said Rukia, causing the men to look at her.

"Preparations? For what?" Renji asked, looking dumbfounded.

"You dummy, preparations for going to Hecco Mundo, duh, what did you think I was talking about?"

"Oh, right"

Rukia rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"As much as I hate to admit it, Rukia's right, we can't just go charging in there. Lets meet back here at nightfall, we'll go to Urahara's and have him open the portal to Hecco Mundo from there" Rangiku told them. The others nodded in agreement and dispersed to prepare themselves for the rescue mission.


"Got bad news fer ya, Lil' Captain." Gin kicked Toushirou hard in the stomach, causing the young captain to cough yet more blood onto the already blood soaked ground.

Toushirou was utterly exhausted; he had been unable to sleep because of the pain and constant torture. His voice had finally given out and everything was one big pain filled blur.

Gin smiled when he saw that Toushirou wasn't going to or even able to respond.

"Yamamoto turned down the offer, guess you're stuck here with us." Gin's smile widened as Toushirou closed his eyes in despair.

"Ah, now don't look so sad Lil' Captain, we'll take good care of ya."

Toushirou suppressed a shudder at Gin's words, because he knew that they would do this again and again and again and when he was on the verge of finally being free they would pull him back and start this sick, twisted game all over again.


Byakuya's Note:

Zx14ninja wishes for me to tell the readers of this fanfiction that she appreciates your reviews and your support.

Thank you for your time,

Captain of the sixth division, Byakuya Kuchiki

Author's note

Zx14ninja: Really?! That all you wrote?! Come on Byakuya! You can do better than that!

Byakuya: I fail to the importance or relevance of me writing a note for you, I have take no part in this story and do not see why I should care.

Zx14ninja: Ichigo's right, you are a spoil sport; can't you at least pretend to care?

Byakuya: I do not see the point of doing so.

Zx14ninja: Because if you don't I will write a scene featuring you passing out drunk in the middle of the Seireitei.

Byakuya: You are threatening me?

Zx14ninja: Yup. By the way did I mention that you would also be naked in this scene?

Byakuya: Scatter Senbonzakura

Zx14ninja: AHHHHHHHHHHHH! (now running for her life) I TAKE IT BACK! I TAKE IT BACK!

Note to self and advice for readers:

When trying to blackmail certain captains make sure to hide their Zanpakuto's first, otherwise you could end up like me, in the hospital with thousands of tiny cuts.