The Blood Prince
Chapter 9: Cornered explanations
Gin!" Renji blinked, "Gin Ichimaru knows?"
"But…was that why Aizen went straight for you and Renji?" Rangiku asked slowly.
Toushiro shook his head, "Aizen didn't know, he must have narrowed it down to our group then with teams we were in narrowed it down to me and Renji. He finally knew it was me once he asked the question."
"But none of you reacted," Ikkaku said in thought.
"Exactly," Rukia clicked knowing her red-headed friend, "Renji would have panicked if it was him but you saw through his bluff."
The demon nodded again.
"So does it really matter if the fox-face knows or not," Yumichika sighed, "I mean if Aizen already knows?"
"But think about it," Rangiku wanted to be hopeful about this, "Gin didn't tell Aizen where the thing he was looking for was…you would think as Aizen's ally he would."
"Hmm…I don't trust him. He might have kept the information back for fun." Rukia murmured.
"This the guy with the extendo sword?" Ichigo was making sure,
They nodded,
"Okay, then I'm with Rukia that guy is weird."
"But a lot of fun at parties," Rangiku giggled as some prank memories.
"Hmm…with me usually on the receiving end," Toushiro grumbled.
"That's a point, why did you never report him captain?" The strawberry blond asked.
"He quite liked using this little secret as black mail but…never for anything more than not getting him into trouble."
"Ah…" She nodded.
There was silence for a while. Toushiro had to think. That cat was out the bag for him but not because of Gin. The man had stayed true to his word which meant that Toushiro had no choice but to keep up his. Though the situation called for it he had to keep quiet about the great secret of Gin Ichimaru he had found that night.
"Back to business," Urahara came in, "There are quite a few things we need to know about Hitsugaya. For example why is Aizen suddenly interested in the devil's son?"
"Aizen needs me to complete a deal with my father," He replied, "I'm not sure what Aizen asked for in return but for the price to be me and no doubt his soul has to be something big."
The room froze a moment. Deal with the devil…
"You remember before I said he was waiting," he continued, "I bet he's not waiting it's just that father is not willing to finish the deal without me in his hands."
"Why though and that other demon-"
"Terial," He filled in the gap for Rukia.
"You know her?" Ichigo asked.
"She acted as my guardian or dare I say, babysitter for my father," He replied, "I'm not sure how she's out of hell but I can only assume it was something Aizen made to bend the seal or something."
"That is yet another question we have there Daygon," Urahara was really enjoying saying the blood prince's name, "The seal has held strong for a long time and is strengthened with the help of the strongest Kido experts every hundred years. Not only how did she get out but how did you get out all those years ago?"
He took a breath at the amount he was going to have to tell them. The amount he didn't want them to know but couldn't keep to himself any longer. This is why he wanted to run away.
"Father designed my abilities to be able to bypass the seal."
"Designed?"
"Demon aren't supposed to be able to create therefore cannot reproduce," he began to explain, "Father worked centuries to try prove this wrong as well trying to find a way out into the other worlds. Eventually he found his answer. He created me from his DNA editing it to be what he wanted. A younger-looking version of himself with all demon abilities and dimensional manipulation. This meant I could slip passed the seal without it even realising someone has gone through and when my powers had grown enough the rest of the demons too,"
"That's what she meant then," Renji was looking at the ground trying to take it all in.
"What did she say to you?" The boy looked round,
"She'll be back for you when it's time to end our world," Rukia replied.
Sighting again and hating every moment of his situation he was about to ask something himself when Ikkaku piped up with a question so simple the other probably haven't thought of it.
"Why haven't you tried to change back, Captain or you know, look like your old self?"
"If I could I wouldn't be able to hold it for long…" He replied, "These marks, they're glowing at the moment cause my power isn't under control. Those times you felt my reatsu flare is when it's surged and tried to escape. I had hoped it could calm down before I anyone had to find out about this…"
"So you're stuck in looking like that until your powers calm down," Yumichika asked not seeming that repulsed but his appearance at the moment.
Toushiro nodded.
"Now what about this collar," Urahara brought up, "I' like to be able to separate fact from fiction with the item."
"The collar that's supposed to control you cause you were too mischievous," Rangiku giggled.
Toushiro rolled his eyes, "It horrible item can take away my freedom like the story says but father obviously built it for a different reason."
"And what reason would that be?" Renji asked.
"He built it because I began to learn and question what he taught me. When I learned of mortal values of self-sacrifice and other people's lives mattering something father would say I was developing design flaws and when he couldn't get the ideas out of my head," He smirked silently thanking a certain dragon for that, "He built the collar to as he would say 'make me perfect again.'"
"How does it work?" Urahara seemed fascinated, "I mean…what is it programed to do to you?"
If it wasn't for the fact that His father had explained to him exactly what it would do to him before it was first put round his neck he wouldn't be able to answer that question.
"I suppose the easiest way to explain it would be similar to how Muramasa controlled the zanpactou," he answered, "Except instead of instinct you could call it base programing."
"And so we are prepared for the eventuality," Urahara looked at him, "What would you say that programing is?"
Hitsugaya's eyes fixed on his ankle high boots as he said,
"To kill, to torture, to play. To scare, to destroy and obey." He eyes ventured up but straight back down again, "There's probably more to it but that's the most detail I'd get out of father."
"I suppose you won't care about friend or foe like that?" Renji spoke up.
Hitsugaya nodded, "If fact I'm even more likely to arrack you guys cause your reaction would be…"
He didn't want to say it through fear of sounding like his old self but the others seemed to get the picture.
"But on the brought side I can say you won't have to face Hyorinmaru." He added.
"Why's that captain?" Rangiku blinked.
"Cause he won't listen to me like that,"
There was a burst of the dragon's reatsu to tell them he was right and Toushiro let a small smile eascape. Where would I be without you Hyorimaru?
Authors notes: I do not own bleach
Sorry it's been a long time. I've been a bit reluctant with this capter cause it is just one biiiiiig explanation but i supose these things have to be done
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