A/N: NONCON chappie. Ichigo can't stay out of trouble! But something's lit a fire in him, perhaps the protective nature is resurfacing with a vengeance? Its a little violent but Ichigo I think comes through with his personality. At least that's what I hope. I was having issues with the rest of Barragan's fraccion because you can't tell much about their personalities in their breif appearance, but hopefully they aren't too OOC.

Chapter 11: Retaliation

"You're kidding me?" the arrancar with the purple hair said, looking at the two incapacitated fraccion.

His companion, bare-chested and covered in red tattoos snorted. "That's what Barragan said. They got beat up by Grimmjow and Nnoitra."

"Why didn't Barragan do nothing?" the helmet headed Nirgge stated.

Ggio and Findorr were both in Barragan's castle now, both bound up in many bandages and waiting for their bodies to regenerate. The remaining four fraccion stood around them and pondered if perhaps retaliation was in order.

"It's not like we can take on Nnoitra and Grimmjow directly," Charlotte said, flipping his purple locks of her shoulder. "Why did it happen?"

The red tattooed Abirama snorted. "They found a beta, a human shinigami, and Findorr was taking advantage of the proffered flesh. If they didn't want him getting passed around, he shouldn't have been wandering the halls alone."

Charlotte nodded. "If we can't reach them, then we reach their beta."

Abirama looked up between him and Nirgge. "That's perfect. But how?"

"They're keeping close to him, but it doesn't mean that they can't be separated. Especially if we can draw his keeper into a fight," Charlotte offered.

"But if it is one of the espada…" Abirama said thoughtfully.

Now Charlotte grinned wider. "Then we wait for Aizen to call another meeting, and make our move then."

Ichigo awoke very warm and happy. He snuggled into someone who was laying beside him, and curled his arms around the comfortable weight. His head was buzzing and he was pleased with what he felt at that moment. So he remained still until his stomach grumbled telling him he really needed to eat. But then, just as soon a wave of nausea flooded over him and he started fighting to get his arms free, realizing that both were trapped under sleeping forms.

"Get off, you big oafs!" he grumbled, Grimmjow gripping him tighter and growling.

"Goddammit, let me go or I'm going to puke on your head!" he exclaimed, the world rolling sickly in his vision.

Grimmjow's eyes flew open and he sat up, letting Ichigo scramble out of the bed, slipping and landing face first in the floor as he did so. Ulquiorra got up and looked over to see Ichigo sprawled, legs tangled in the blanket and crawling toward the bathroom. Finally, his feet got enough purchase and he proceeded to lavishly worship at the toilet. As soon as he was done, he came out and looked at Ulquiorra and Grimmjow with a smile.

"I'm starved, what about you two?" he said.

Ulquiorra shook his head. "I have matters to attend to, Grimmjow, will you stay and ensure his safety?"

"Whatever, fuck, get out of here," Grimmjow said, flopping back on the bed to stare at the ceiling.

Ichigo opened the door after putting on his hakama, the full ones this time, and shrugging into the new coat. He glanced briefly at his stomach wondering if there would be any outward signs of the reiatsu chambers. Souls really weren't like physical bodies, but then, he had a physical body… Granted this was his soul form, so maybe it didn't matter. He wandered out into the large common area to see Ishida working on some handicrafts. Things certainly didn't all that much.

"Oi, Kurosaki," Ishida said, standing. "How are you?"

Ichigo frowned. "Not good but not bad. This is all just too fucking weird, you know."

"Fuckin' Aizen," Grimmjow grumbled as he came out of the bedroom shrugging into his vest. He looked at Renji. "We have a meeting with the fucker; can you take him to Szayel's? I'm sure the threat of death has been thrown into most the arrancar after yesterday, but yer the closest to an alpha in here that I'll fuckin' trust with him. So I want you and the Quincy bitch to take him down there in an hour or so. And if any fraccion try to touch him you take their head fucking off. I'm gonna ask Halibel to send over one of her fraccion just in case, as well. Between the three of you, I don't think any random fraccion should be a problem."

Ichigo frowned. "I don't need an escort everywhere."

"Like hell. You realize if you get fucked by another male, the reiatsu chambers get destroyed, right? And yer stuck with their cubs instead of ours?" Grimmjow said, eyeing him.

He got the expected shock. "I…I didn't know, but I'm not going to let…"

"You don't understand, these are hollows. It is a fuckin' drive to take a beta they find with cubs and replace it with their cubs. They go back, get taken care of by their stronger alpha, not knowing that the cubs being carried aren't their cubs. That's how the lower ranking alphas work," Grimmjow growled at him. "Yer too weak to fight, so until you aren't, you get a fuckin' escort. I'd make fuckin' Szayel come here, but he needs his equipment to determine what he's looking for."

Ichigo nodded. Renji looked up. "If there's a meeting, won't Szayel be there?"

Grimmjow nodded. "Yeah, but his fraccion can get him hooked up to the machine to measure the reiatsu chambers, and by then we should, hopefully, be done."

He headed out and before long there was a knock at the door, and Halibel's fraccion with the short, dark cropped hair stood there. Appacci, if Ichigo remembered correctly.

"I'll be out here, you should shower and change first," she said nodding to him.

Ichigo did just that, standing under the streaming hot water for a long time, so long that he heard banging on the door. He sighed, stepping out, hearing Renji complain that they needed to go. He dressed quickly; another pair of white hakama had been left for him, and a long jacketed coat. He wished he had shoes, but oh well.

Soon enough, they were walking out, Renji and Ishida at his side, and Appacci walking ahead of them. It wasn't far, but it was good they had Appacci with them to lead the way. Ichigo had gotten hopelessly lost the day before. All the damn corridors looked the same. Ichigo didn't was talking idly about the annoyingly white structure when there was a bang and in front of him, Appacci hit the ground in a lump, a huge arrancar having leaped down and knocked her out with a single blow. Ichigo leaped back into Renji at the huge man, at least ten or twelve foot tall, leaning over in the tall hallway.

There was a clang and Ichigo swung around to see another arrancar had slapped some sort of reiatsu dampening collar around Renji's neck from behind. How'd he get there? He hadn't even heard a sonido! Renji fell to his knees out of the helmet headed arrancar's grasp. Ishida had managed to manifest his bow, only to have his wrist grabbed and wrenched painfully behind him. He let out a shriek of pain and looked over at the purple haired arrancar that had him in a vice grip.

"Now, now, Quincy, none of that," a fourth one said, this one bare chested with red tattoos all over him. He looked at Renji, struggling with the reiatsu sealing collar. "I like you, too bad we can't fight right now."

Ichigo felt corned as he backed into the wall, looking down and seeing Appacci not moving. His heart was in his throat. "See, we didn't really like what happened yesterday to Findor and Ggio. They are fellow fraccion, after all. And Barragan-sama needs his fraccion. Yet somehow, Grimmjow and Nnoitra got to do what they did with no repercussions. All over you. A fragile, breakable, human."

Ichigo really wished he had Zangetsu right at that moment. His eyes glanced back and forth wanting to run, but there was a burst of sonido and the freaky red marked arrancar was there, pinning his shoulders flat to the wall.

"Charlotte, what do you think is so special about him?" he called over his shoulder.

The purple haired one, Charlotte, it seemed shrugged. "He's weak now, but I don't think he is weak in the long run. Maybe one of those special ones that can carry more than two without having his entire being wilted away, Abirama."

Abirama pressed a hand to Ichigo's midsection. He frowned then ripped open the coat he was wearing, revealing the bare flesh underneath and repeated the action. "Oh, he is primed. Wouldn't be a shame if I ruined the espada's day? Who's cubs?"

Ichigo swallowed, shaking his head, not intending to tell them anything. It was met with a sound slap to the face.

"Fuck you!" Ichigo responded. "I'm not telling you!"

Abirama sighed. "Are they Grimmjow or Nnoitra's?"

Ichigo turned away. "Don't know yet, so I can't tell you!"

"Ah, then they might be Grimmjow's or Nnoitra's? Well, since they messed up my fellow fraccion, I think I'll mess up their precious offspring," he said, reaching down and unknotting the obi on Ichigo's waist.

Ichigo froze. "Stop, no, come on, let me go…" he cried, struggling and finally kicking out to knee the guy in the groin. He dropped him reflexively and Ichigo scrambled, nearly falling from his hakama trying to fall off his hips when he was grabbed by the thick, helmeted one. He was screaming obscenities at him as he kicked and punched, but there was no effect as he felt his hair yanked from behind, eliciting a loud yelp from him. The guy was a little taller than him, but not too much.

"Little beta bitch, you'll pay for that," he said and before Ichigo could react he was tossed, slamming back first into the wall beside Ishida.

He saw stars as he stood up, staggering to the side. He saw Ishida struggling against the purple haired guy and he tried to lunge at him so Ishida could go free, but once again his hair was yanked back painfully.

"Bastard!" he yelled as he was picked up to his tip toes by his hair. "Fuck! They're going to kill you for this!"

He smiled. "But not before yer knocked up with my cubs instead of their cubs. And Charlotte maybe, and perhaps Nirgge over there. I'd let Choe over there have a chance too, but I'm afraid if Nnoitra almost killed you, he definitely would split you in two. Then you'll have cubs for Barragan-sama, and not those other worthless espada."

Renji wrestled to try to even stand, but his legs wouldn't hold him. He couldn't even scream. Ishida was only human, he wasn't a shinigami, so he could only do so much, and that flouncy purple haired arrancar had a tight hold on him, but if he didn't do something…

Suddenly, Renji yelped as he was yanked up by his own hair and dragged over to the wall beside Ishida. The gigantic arrancar, Choe by name, reached down and clamped him against the wall in a huge hand.

"Now, now, we can't have you running off," Abirama said with a grin, still holding the struggling Ichigo slightly up on his tip toes.

He pulled Ichigo down and bit down on his neck fiercely, blood spurting outward and he screamed at the pain but then he was dropped. He tried to regain his footing, attempting to hang onto his hakama with one hand as he scrambled to his feet, only to tumble face first into the floor as the hakama were yanked off him in a smooth move from the arrancar behind him.

"Stop!" he cried out as he felt his ankle grabbed and pulled toward him. He turned over and struck out with his opposite foot, managing to connect with the arrancar's face. He barely flinched before punching him soundly, knocking a lot of the fight out of him.

Ishida wanted to turn away, and he found himself hoping someone would come soon. Ichigo was holding him off, but barely. Every kick or punch the young shinigami connected with was returned with a much more vicious one. When he looked up the next time he tried to disentangle himself from the arrancar, his face was swelling already, and the wound on his neck was still bleeding. It looked like he'd smashed his nose into the floor, blood freely flowing from it.

"This is ridiculous, Niggre, hold him down already, I like a little fight but this is getting out of hand," he said as Ichigo managed to slip away again before he pinned him to the ground.

Soon he found himself slammed roughly into the floor on his back, the huge helmeted man pressing his shoulders until he swore they were straining to pop out of place. Still his legs were free and he kicked up, nailing the arrancar in the chin. He looked down with eyes full of anger and before he knew it, he screamed as he felt his shin bone crack from a quick strike.

"Shut the fuck up or I'll break the other one, too," he growled and held down his legs at the knees. Ichigo panted and continued to struggle.

"You don't have to be conscious for this, boy," he growled.

"Knock me out, fucker!" Ichigo screamed. "That's the only way you'll get this done without a fight!"

He kicked up with his still unbroken leg to try and smash him in the back of the skull only to have it caught and the ankle twisted until it snapped. He screeched again, dropping that leg painfully to the ground, panting. His mind was swirling for things to try and defend himself. He called out desperately to his inner hollow.

"Help, I need your help!"

King if I help you now, the cubs die. I'm the only thing keeping them safe.

Ichigo rolled his eyes, about ready to pass out only to receive a slap to the face, bringing him out of the stupor.

"Nah, I want you awake so you can scream for me some more while I kill what's trying to live inside you, because you'll feel each one of their souls dissipate into nothingness only to be replaced by my own," he said and Ichigo tried to pull away from the crushing weight on his shoulders. He turned his head, both Ishida and Renji were watching wide eyed and completely immobilized by the two arrancar.

The four fraccion of Barragan were engrossed in the scene playing out in front of them, but Renji heard a gasp and looked over to see Nel hiding in the shadows. He stared at her and nodded and hoped the childish arrancar would know he wanted her to go get help. She must have got it because she turned and ran back down the hall, hopefully to get Chad and Rukia, or the other espada.

Ichigo's scream brought him back to the scene in front of him. It looked like the brute had succeeded in pushing one of his shoulders out of place. Ichigo was panting and running out of ways to fight, and Renji knew it was inevitable at this point.

"Get fucking off me!" he yelled still, trying to get his knees up to use them, even if he couldn't use his whole leg.

Abirama grinned and grabbed him by the broken ankle with one hand and grabbed the other shin and pulled them up onto his chest, getting a yelp as he yanked them around his waist. "This could have been easy for you, you know, if you didn't fight, and now I have to do this the hard way."

With that Ichigo, arched his back and screamed out as he rammed himself into him. And Ichigo could feel the malic roiling off of him as he felt the tears start in his eyes as the man over him mercilessly forced himself on him. He felt the hollow inside him screaming out to make him stop because they would die if he didn't get him to stop before the foreign reiatsu blasted the chambers from existence. So focused were they on what was happening, they didn't notice that Appacci had recovered and stood bleeding where she'd fallen. She lunged at Abirama, his pace quickening and becoming erratic as he neared his release, and thus the end of the cubs that Ichigo carried.

With a feral scream she landed a hard, flying kick into his temple, sending him backward. Ichigo's hips hit the floor and he yelped at the jarring it sent through both his legs and their injuries. The other one stood up, and Ichigo managed to roll to his stomach to pull away from where the fraccions were fighting. Appacci was going full out on Abirama, and now Nggire was joining to gang up on her together. The other two remained where they were, watching but not sure if keeping the prisoners was more important or the fight.

That question was immediately solved as a ball of blue fury flew at the massive beast of a man. Ichigo looked up, realizing that Grimmjow was in released form. He'd never seen that. He sighed as he felt someone grab him and he realized it was Renji. He looked up at his red haired friend, who shucked his own kusodo and wrapped him up in it and hefted him up with quickly to get him away from the fights that had broken out between Barragan's fraccion and apparently, Hallibels, because now as Sun-Sung, and Mila Rose had joined in to help their sister against Abirama and Nggire.

Charlotte had let Ishida go and had been engaged by Ulquiorra. Now Ishida kneeled against the wall as Renji held Ichigo in his lap. Ichigo had passed out, and Renji looked down at him and felt sick. This had been to get back at Grimmjow and Nnoitra for attacking the other two fraccion. Before long, Barragan's fraccion had all retreated, and Grimmjow and Ulquiorra kneeled down where Renji held Ichigo.

"What the fuck?" Grimmjow asked hotly. "What the fuck did I leave you in control for!"

Appacci walked up, bleeding and leaning on Mila Rose. "Fuckers were organized, Grimmjow. This was about getting you and Nnoitra back after what you did to Findorr and Ggio. They brought me down, then incapacitated those two, while Abirama went after Ichigo." She paused to breathe heavily. "Fuckin Choe knocked me flat, didn't even see him. I think if Primera is on your side, you should have him take this up with Barragan."

Grimmjow nodded, and saw the collar on Renji's neck. "The fuck is that, Red?"

Renji winced, trying to pull it but got a shock for his efforts. "Sucks…my…reiatsu…"

"We gotta get to Szayel. Looks like he gave Abirama a helluva fight," Grimmjow muttered.

"Fuck yeah he did," Renji said, gathering the strength to speak. "He fucking fought him so much the other one had to hold him, and he still managed to nearly kick his head off. It earned him the broken ankle though….and I think his shoulder's out of joint, and his shin bone on the other side I think he snapped."

Grimmjow looked up at Ulquiorra and back at Ichigo. "This fuckin' human has more balls than half the fuckin' arrancar around here. He doesn't know how to fuckin' quit. Again, pinned down like that, knowing he doesn't have shit for power, yet he still fuckin' tries to kill them."