Chapter 10: Aizen's Proposition
In Hueco Mundo, Naraku and Kikyo are being escorts by Grimmjow and Ulquiorra. The surrounding of this dreadful has really intrigued Naraku The scene is basically black and white with a crescent moon in the black sky. "So is it just night time here?" Naraku asks the two Errancars in front of him. "This is the one of the many parts of Hueco Mundo." Ulquiorra answers him quickly. "We're coming from the south side of Las Noches." He adds the second part. "Las Noches?" Kikyo tilts her head to get a better look up ahead. "It's our palace of this world. We'll be meeting Lord Sosuke Aizen." Grimmjow said to the dead priestess without turning his look at her behind him. They make it to the grand entrance of the palace. The size of this place has made Naraku run for his money, since his own was destroyed. "We have arrived." Ulquiorra announced themselves as they make their way inside.
At the throne room at the back of the Palace a young man with brown hair parted all the way back with a strand hanging in front of his face with a unknown expression on his face. With him was another man that is deeply tanned with purple hair in an unusual braid and a eye-gear where his eyes are. On the other side of the man in the middle is another male with whitish-blue hair and his eyes are shut as if he doesn't want to look at anyone. "I assume Ulquiorra and Grimmjow have arrived with our visitors." The tanned man speak to the lord. "Kaname, you are indeed right. Our visitors have arrived." Aizen nods back. "They will be in good use to help us." Aizen adds his statement. "If I may, Aizen, I'm curious you would want this Naraku and Kikyo to help us?" The white-blue hair asks. "Gin, this Naraku possesses an item that can grant an individual's deepest desires, and Kikyo is one person to watch out for. She isn't alive, she's dead like us. But she has to maintain that form made out of clay and bones." Aizen explains Kikyo's life. Gin nods to show he's gets what Aizen is talking about, but knows that he isn't telling all of the dead priestess's background.
Soon the doors open up to expose Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, Naraku and Kikyo. Aizen stands up to his feet from his throne. "Welcome to Las Noches, Naraku and Kikyo. I take it you are full of questions as in to why I need your assistance." Aizen walks down to the two visitors with Kaname Tosen and Gin Ichimaru right behind him. Ulquiorra and Grimmjow immediately left the room to give the rest of the group a private conversation. As the door shut in the background, Aizen begins. "Naraku I've heard of great evil that you have possesses since you heard about this mystical item called of the Sacred Jewel of The Four Souls." Naraku grins like a wicked man and pulls out the tainted jewel from his kimono. "Yes, I have unlimited power as long as I have this in my hands." Nraku responds as Gin and Kaname look at the jewel. "And Kikyo, you have the advantage here. As you can see that me and everyone are dead like you, but you have to be in the world to settle an old score with someone you were close to." Aizen smiles down to the woman.
Kikyo shows a distrusted face, "I was indeed tricked into killing a man I was in love with. You might know that it was this man standing right beside me that did this objective." She points to Naraku. Gin walks up to side. "What has got me thinking is that why you with this mastermind and you resurrected to the Feudal Era." Kikyo turns her glaze to Gin. "It was because when I died after shooting my arrow to the man to the Sacred Tree, I was reincarnated to a girl from Modern Tokyo. Her name is Kagome Higurashi and she has been born with the Sacred Jewel from within and she was able to travel through time with the Bone Eater's Well in the forest by my village." Kikyo explains to them. "And how was it that you were revived?" Aizen questions the woman. "I was revived by the demon Urasue that wanted me to track down the shards of the Sacred Jewel. She had to use the soul from my reincarnation and my ashes. Ever since then, I had to stay in that with dead souls from dead maidens." She finished her past. Aizen holds his chin, "Interesting, and you had these soul collectors to gather them for you." He looks around hoping to see one. Sadly there isn't. "Maybe I can help you stay in that state much longer than a single soul you absorb." Aizen temps her. Kikyo narrows her eyes, "How can you say such a thing since my only thing I can use are souls of the dead?" Aizen chuckles, "Kikyo we're in a world where the dead exist and therefore you don't need any souls around here." He gestures the outside of Las Noches. All around are dead beings wander aimlessly. "But if you were to go to the world of the Living, you'd need souls, and I can assure you that some of the souls can be seen by human alone." Aizen kindly warns her in the end.
Getting irritated Naraku and Kikyo star at Aizen. "What is it you really want us for?" Naraku demands. Aizen raises his hand, "I just told you that I need your assistant to help bring down the Soul Society. I hear that this man Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara have been training there to defeat us. You see I have this object similar to yours. The Hogyoku. This item is an invention with the same principal of the Sacred Jewel. I was hoping that we could join these two objects to grow in power." Aizen explains as he pulls out a bluish-purple clear crystal orb with a blue light dimming in the center. Naraku looks down to the tainted jewel in his hand and back to the Hogyoku in Aizen's hand. "If I have what it takes to kill my enemies, I'll help out. Kikyo?" Naraku accepts the offer and turns his gaze to her.
Kikyo on the other hand doesn't seem too convinced. The only thing she's able to do is stay here since it's technically hell, one of her desires has been granted but it's not truly what she wants. But what choice does she have? Thinking over Aizen's bargain. If they did what he asks them to she didn't have to absorb another soul into her own body. What got her thinking so hard on is that Inuyasha, his brother, and his friends are in the Soul Society, training to take them down. She deceived herself to get into the wrong hands of anyone she comes across. "I'm in." She gives her word.
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