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Shunsui watched as the small girl slept peacefully. He had dimmed the lights down so as not to wake her up. He smiled as she curled up and snuggled his kimono. She looked so cute wrapped in pink.

"Excuse me." Shunsui looked towards the fabric door to the room. He saw a student standing there. She looked nervous. "Um...I was told to give you this." She held out a piece of paper.

Shunsui got up and took the paper from her hand. "Thank you very much." He gave her a smile.

The girl left as quickly as she came.

Shunsui looked down at the sheet of paper. He didn't recognize the hand writing and there was no traces of any reiatsu on it. He frowned as he read the note.

'Please meet me in the peach tree garden. Now.'

There was no signature on the note. The last word seemed to be written with urgency. He wondered what it was about. He placed a kido on the door to alert him if anyone entered the room. He placed another one that would tell him who had entered the room. With that done, he went off to see what the note was about.

He got to the peach tree in about ten minutes. He looked around and saw no one there. He scanned the area for any reiatsu signatures. There were none.

He tensed as he heard a faint hissing sound. He scanned the area again. This time looking for anything unusual. Still nothing. He frowned as he continued to hear the hissing sound.

The hairs on the back of his neck stood up. He turn and pulled out his wakizashi. He slashed at the snake that lunged at him. and he cut it clean in half.

He looked down at the snake as it disintegrated. He caught sight of the white mask on its face. "A...Hollow?"

Shunsui sheathed his zanpakutou as he walked around the tree. He heard nothing other than the wind blowing over the roof and the rustling of the leaves on the tree. He frowned as he began walking back to the nurses office.

~nurse's office~

Nanao slowly opened her eyes and looked at the dimly lit room. It was empty except for a few chairs and desk. 'Where am I? Did I fall asleep?'

'You used up quite a bit of energy back there. And you are in the nurses office, again.' Nanao looked over to the desk that had a lamp on it. She could see her zanpakutou sitting on top of the desk. 'How do you feel?'

'Tired.' Nanao curled up in the warm silky fabric wrapped around her. She smiled as she breathed in the outdoors. 'Is this Shunsui's kimono?'

'Yeah. You kind of had a death grip on it when he brought you here.' Nanao blushed at Chibara's words.

Nanao sat up and stretched a bit. She decided to go look for someone. The office was far too quiet. She reached over to her zanpakutou.

A hand reached out of the darkness and grabbed onto her wrist. Nanao opened her mouth to scream, but a hand covered her mouth.

Nanao followed the arm up to see who it belonged to. She was met by a pair of cold dark eyes.

"Hello, Ise-san." Aizen gave the girl a cold smile. "Did you have a nice trip down memory lane?" He was pleased at the terrified face she was making.

Nanao tried to pull away from Aizen, but her small muscles weren't strong enough. She cursed herself for bein stuck in her child body.

"You will not be able to stop me. And I think causing some trouble would do very well. It will at least get rid of one, if not two, Taichous." Aizen cast a silent binding kido on the girl's body as he kept a hand over her mouth. "After all, some people have terrible reactions to having their reiatsu suppressed by someone else. And Shunsui-kun seems to already have taken a liking to you." Aizen pulled a syringe out of his pocket. The syringe was filled with a faintly glowing yellow liquid.

Nanao watched with terror as he brought the syringe close to her arm. She couldn't help but watch. She felt a burning pain as the liquid was pushed into her blood stream. She started to see the room spin and melt together. She felt like she was going to vomit or faint.

"Sweet dreams, Ise-san. You should have a lovely sleep, forever." Aizen smiled as the girl's eyes dropped down. He release the kido and she fell over. He walked out of the room as he felt her reiatsu rise and drop dramatically. He didn't have to worry about her anymore. And now he just had to watch and see what one of the oldest Taichous would do.

Nanao tried to keep her eyes open as she laid on the bed. But it wasn't working. 'Chibara...Chishitoge...Gaikotsu...help...' Nanao could feel herself slipping as the room darkened further. She couldn't move a muscle, and her body felt like t was on fire. She couldn't even gather enough energy to cry out. But tears were falling from her face.

'Nanao!' She heard all three of her zanpakutou call out to her.

'Nanao! Use my powers. You don't need to hold me to use it. Call me!' Nanao listened to the voice of her newest zanpakutou.

Nanao took a shaky breath and whispered softly. "Breath The Air Of Life, Gaikotsu." She closed her eyes as darkness took her.


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