DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT WON BLEACH
Who do you want to bring in second?"
Gin smiled. Captain Commander Yamamoto, The second warrant is for Keiji Kuchiki. . . .
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The guards had a prisoner on the ground with his hands and feet cuffed.
"Is this who you were looking for, Ichimaru taichou?" one of the guards said. The guard had his foot on the back of prisoner. He reached down and pulls the prisoner's hair so that the face was exposed to Gin. Keiji's face was dirty from being pushed in the ground. His green eyes found Gin.
Gin looked down at the prisoner. He knelt down to look in the prisoners eyes. He noticed that Keiji had a black eye. "Yes," Gin answered. He pulled out a piece of paper. "I have a warrant for your arrest, Keiji Kuchiki." Gin threw the warrant in his face and smiled. "Get him out of here."
Gin got up and walked to the opening. The first thing that hit him was the smell. It was a smell like a lab, Mayuri Kurotsuchi's lab. When he stepped in through the opening, the brightness of the wall was a sharp contrast from the area outside. The floor was tiled in a white ceramic tile and the walls were a bright green. Gin continued down the hall until he found the door to the lab. It was filled with members from the Twelfth Division. They were going through Keiji's notes and inventory. He walked farther down the hall. He found a file room. It had a desk and a chair. A single light was coming from a lamp. This is what he was looking for. He looked at the drawer. They were label with the alphabet. He found the drawer labeled 'H-K'. Gin opened the drawer and began to leaf through the files and found what he was looking for. He pulled the file and began to read it. He found two other files and pulled them out. He closed the drawer and walked out of the office. As he began to walk down the hall to leave, he heard Kira calling him as he was running down the hall.
"Ichimaru taichou," Kira shouted, "come see what we found." Gin turned and jogged down the hall with Kira. When they arrived to the new room, an unseated Shinigami was on his knees, vomiting in a trash can. Gin took a deep breath and walked in the room. He had a strange feeling that he wasn't going to like what he was about to see.
Gin and Kira stepped into the room. The room was a morgue. Bodies were everywhere; men, woman and children everywhere. There were even animals in this room. Gin walked and stood in the middle of the room. He closed eyes and took a deep breath. The bodies look like they were on display. A couple of bodies were in various stages of an autopsy. One body had a cut down the middle and the skin was pulled back to show the muscles. Gin walked deeper into the room. He saw a man's body with no head and a woman's head with no body. Gin's thought went to Byakuya. 'Was this a fate for my husband if he did not cooperate?'
"Kira, come here," he yelled. Kira walked up to him. "When they start to remove these bodies, I am looking for the body of Rie Kuchiki. I have a feeling she is here." Kira bowed. Gin felt his angry rise. He turned and walked out of the room.
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Gin was sitting a room with a single table and chair. A guard came in the room and whispered in Gin's ear. Gin gave a small smile.
"I will let you know when I ready to speak with him." Gin got up and walked around the table. He wanted to make Keiji wait. After about 20 minutes, Gin asked the guard to bring Keiji into the room.
Keiji Kuchiki sat in a chair. His hands and feet were bound by shackles. His hair was combed back. His green eyes watched as Gin sat in front of him with files in his hand. Gin kept reading as he sat down.
"I can play this game too. What are you trying to do? Impress me?" Keiji said to Gin. Gin said nothing. He continued to read the files. Keiji started to become angry.
"Look, do you know who I am? I'm Keiji Kuchiki, head of the Kuchiki Noble Family. The Gotei 13 has no business arresting the head of a noble family. I will take pleasure in having you removed, Ichimaru taichou," Keiji said with the arrogant smile on his face.
Gin continued to read the files. The more he read the files, the angrier Keiji got. Finally, Gin closed the files and looked at Keiji.
"You're head of the Kuchiki Noble Family? I thought that responsibility belong to Byakuya Kuchiki," Gin said in a calm voice.
"He has not been seen in about a month. I think he is missing or maybe dead," Keiji said with a smile on his face.
"Keiji Kuchiki, you are charged with two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder. The count can change as we are still going through your lab," Gin said still using a calm voice.
"As I said before, the Gotei 13 no jurisdiction over the Kuchiki Family," Keiji said with a smirk over his face.
"True, but the Kuchiki Noble Family is part of the Soul Society. There are laws . . ."
"You have no right . . ." Keiji interrupted Gin.
"Shut up!" Gin yelled as he slammed his hand on the table. Silence filled the room for minute.
"Again, am I supposed to be impressed with you?" Keiji said. He stared at Gin with his stoic look and superior attitude.
Gin smiled and stood up. "You should be. I am a genius." A guard came to the door. Gin walked over and spoke with him. He gave Gin some papers. Gin sat down in front of him and smiled. He placed the papers on the table and slid in front of Keiji.
"You have been charged with twenty-five counts of second degree murder and an additional count of murder has been added," Gin said as his voice dripped of sarcasm that he knew would have annoyed Byakuya if he had heard him. "Oh yes, add two counts of conspiracy against the soul society."
Keiji smiled. "Since you are this 'genius', tell me, who am I to have murdered?"
Gin smiled again. He opened one of the files. "Tell me, why did you kill Hisana Kuchiki?" Keiji sat back in the chair and threw his head back. He started to laugh. He jerked his head back so that he was looking right into Gin's eyes.
"Hisana, she was murdered? And you think I did it?" Keiji said with a sly smile.
Gin looked at him silently. He thought he had to think of a way to make Keiji talk. After a minute of silence, Gin smiled. "You're right, Keiji. How could I think you are capable of murder?"
Keiji smiled. "But of course, I could not do such a thing."
"I guess Aizen was right. You are not capable of doing anything on your own. Let's see he said, 'Keiji does not have the intelligence to do anything, let alone plan a murder.'" Gin noticed that as he made the comment, Keiji stopped smiling. He continued. "Yeah, I have to agree with him. You just don't seem too bright," Gin continued to goat him. He closed the files and stood up. "I now see why the members of the Research and Development Institute were laughing at you about your lab. They were making comments about how amateur this lab was." Gin walked out of the room. He stood outside of the door so that he could see Keiji. Gin noticed that Keiji face had changed. He was becoming angry.
"Aizen didn't say anything about him," the guard said to Gin.
"I know, but," Gin said with a smile, "he doesn't know that." Gin continued to look at Keiji. Keiji started to ball his fists. The tighter he balled them, the whiter his knuckles got. He banged his fist on the table and then put his fist up to his mouth. Then he did something Gin he did not expect. He started to bite his nails. Gin smiled and looked at the guard. "I got him."
Gin walked back in the room and sat down. "Now, let's start over. Tell me about Hisana."
"Hisana's death was a test gone wrong. When it was rumored that she was pregnant, I could not let that child be born. My plan was that I was to lead the family. A baby by Byakuya was not in going to happen. As soon as I found out, I started to put something in her tea. It was tasteless and odorless. She did not know what hit her. A few days later, I found out she was not pregnant, but it was too late. I could not stop it. I did not have time to make an antidote before she started to show the symptoms. She died not long afterwards." Keiji started tapping his finger on the table. "If you read in my notes, I recorded everything. I learned and knew how to correct my findings."
"Yes, I see. You corrected your mistakes. It took you years but I see from your notes you were able to perfect the correct dosage after experiments on your subjects. Now, tell me about Ginrei Kuchiki. How did you do it?" Gin said as he open Keiji file on him.
"Uncle Ginrei was no threat to me but to Mira Kuchiki," Keiji smiled, "he was, as she put it, a thorn in her side."
Gin raised one of his eyebrows. "A thorn in her side, Why?"
"I don't know. All she told me that she wanted him out of the picture. She told me that he trying to stop us in our plan for me to take over our family. I never asked her how he found out but I was not going to let anyone get in the way of my plans. So, I gave him one of my cocktails and it worked perfectly. The timing was perfect. It caught everyone off guard. It was made to appear like a heart attack. It was slow and he was in pain. No one suspected anything." Keiji started to smile.
Gin just stared at Keiji. He picked up another file. "Why did you kill Rie, your wife?"
"She was a weak person. I only married her because Byakuya married Hisana. I was felt in competition with Byakuya. He was the 'golden child'. My Aunt Mira always supported me; made sure I was in the game with Byakuya. She introduced me to Rie. She married me not long after Byakuya got married. I thought it was strange he got married to a woman but he did love her. He loved her as person. Anyway, she was to have my baby. Later on I found out she could not get pregnant. So we just played the role of a happily married couple. One day, Aunt Mira told me that Rie was planning on killing me. I was just waiting for her to make her move. She tried to drown me in my tub but I was ready for her. I was not going to let her get the best of me. So, I killed her."
"Why did you fake your death?"
"It was all part of the plan. It was all centered on Byakuya. Let me just say, I was going to come back from the dead as Byakuya Kuchiki," Keiji smiled. "It is a complicated plan. I'll tell you about it later."
"Ah, this is the final folder I wanted to ask you about. Why do you have a folder on him?" Gin opened the folder. Now his anger started to rise.
"Byakuya is a fool. He has too much of a heart. It made me angry to see how easy things came to him. After his grandfather's death, Byakuya began to become the Kuchiki everyone expected him to be; Head of the Kuchiki Noble Family. When he became captain, he changed. He must have met someone because he started to stay away at times." Keiji began to laugh. "Little Byakuya found a man. This went on for years until one day Aunt Mira told me that Byakuya was pregnant."
Gin sat up in his chair. His thoughts went to Byakuya. For some reason, he knew Byakuya would be here soon.
"How did she know?" Gin asked.
"I don't know but she told me that if this baby was born, I would never, ever become head of the family. So, this is where all my experiments and time paid off." Keiji started to smile again.
This time Gin became angry. He put the file down. His hands started to move towards his katana. "Please, continue, Keiji," he said.
"The same thing I did to Hisana, I did it to him. It worked perfectly. I put it in his tea. I watched as he drank the tea. It did not take long to take effect. He knew something was happening. I asked him was anything wrong. He told me no but I saw it in his eyes. Later he said he wasn't feeling well. He left. I told Aunt Mira that it was done." Keiji smiled.
Gin looked at him. He thought about how that night he felt Byakuya cry out to him. That is why he went to the mansion that night. He remembered climbing through the window and finding Byakuya in his bed, bleeding. All he could do while picking him up was to carry him to Fourth Division. The baby was stillborn. It was too young to survive outside of the womb. Gin remembered how Byakuya cried as he held on to the baby. He remembered how he kept yelling that 'she' killed my baby. He remembered the look in Byakuya's eyes. The look he still gets anytime they talk about the baby, the look of someone's heart being torn out.
Gin attention went back to the psychopathic killer sitting in front of him
In a flash, Gin jumped out of his chair and pulled his katana out. He grabbed Keiji by the throat and slammed him against the wall behind him. Keiji eyes were stretched wide open and the look of fear was all over his face. Gin took his katana and stabbed Keiji in his side. Keiji screamed in pain. "Now, do I have your attention?"
"Why are doing this?" Keiji whispered. The guard could not get in the room due to the spiritual pressure from Gin.
"Stay back!" Gin yelled at the guard.
Gin leaned closer to him. Gin got so close to him that Keiji felt Gin's breath on his ear. "You know killers like you are brilliant in planning the perfect crimes," Gin said as he began to tighten his hand around Keiji's neck, "but you never plan for the unexpected. Gin's smile became broader. "I am that unexpected." Gin started to ease the katana deeper in Keiji's side. "Byakuya's baby, you know the one you killed," Gin said as he began to push his katana deeper into Keiji, "that baby was mine." Keiji took a deep breath and held it. Gin smiled as he saw Keiji make the connections. "I do have your attention." Gin began to sink the katana in deeper. "I told Byakuya that if I ever found the person who killed our baby, he or she was good as dead and guess what, I found you."
Just as Gin was about to go in for the kill, he stopped. He looked over his shoulder because he felt the reiatsu. His reiatsu.
"Byakuya"
Byakuya stepped into the room. "Gin, I want to finish this." Gin knew Byakuya was one of the few people he would allow to pass through his spiritual pressure.
Gin looked back at Keiji and spoke into his ear again. "I just wanted you to know, if my husband does not kill you, I will." Gin smiled, pulled his katana out and let Keiji fall to the floor. Keiji screamed as he fell. Gin noticed he was bleeding heavily. Gin placed his katana back and turned to look at Byakuya. Gin walked and stood beside Byakuya. He knew that Byakuya had been crying but his eyes were dry and angry. Gin grabbed his hand.
"How much did you hear, Bya?"
"Enough to know the truth," Byakuya said as he squeezed Gin's hand. "Thank you."
Gin walked out of the room. Ukitake, Aimi and Kyoshi were standing in the hall. Gin spoke to them. "Don't let anything happen to him." Ukitake nodded. Aimi tried to stop Gin but Kyoshi stopped her. Gin continued to walk down the hall.
"Let him go, Aimi. Just let him go. This is a fight only he and Bya can fight."
I hope to have a couple more chapters to this story. My friend is very pleased with this story. When I finish this story I get my prize. An audio book by James Patterson, 'I, Alex Cross'. I am excited. I got to keep going. Thanks to all who emailed me with reviews. Love you guys. Enjoy