Apologies for the severe lack of updates for this story. It is a crime how long this one has been neglected for. I have severe ADD (and OCD) when it comes to writing. And i've just been going through a lot of stuff in RL, and my workload isn't helping me.
Anyway, I'm sure this one has been very long awaited, so I will shut up now and let you read it.
12 - Life as an arrancar
"Ulquiorra Schiffer."
That was L Lawliets new name. And from here on out he would come to be called that name by every other arrancar and espada that would ever meet him. That was his new name, his new identity. Yet another alias for him to go by. He was renamed and given his new identity. He was slowly being turned into the arrancar that we all know and love today. And unlike the popular belief that many of the masses held, it would be a gradual process. It would take time. Because drastic changes do not always happen overnight, they are gradual. Slow.
"Ulquiorra... Ulquiorra..."
L kept repeating that name to himself as he walked, he got some strange looks but it was not unusual for him to talk to himself. Because saying it was incredibly difficult at first and it would definitely take some getting used to.
Well for one, his new name was so incredibly hard to pronounce. And two, it was, technically, a whole new identity. He felt like he was in the witness protection program after having seen a murder all over again. And he had just been given a whole new life and a completely new identity.
Getting another chance to start again.
It would be a fresh start for him, even though he could barely pronounce his own name yet.
He was walking down one of the many corridors of Las Noches, just wandering around and trying to remember where everything was, making himself a map in his head. He did have a photographic memory after all. But he soon came to realise that the hallways kept on changing. He was a little perplexed by this, and so this kept throwing him off. Every time he had things all set in his head they would change again. So he decided to go and find out what was changing them. Aizen wasn't the sort of man with a taste for practical jokes that he had installed walls that moved on timers every so often, surely. So he made it one of his top priorities to find out.
He managed to find out though. In the end, he did manage to find out.
It was none other than Ichimaru Gin, that pale, scrawny shinigami that Aizen had brought with him to this world. The one with the white-ish hair and the squinty eyes. Yes, that shinigami. And L found him sitting at a control panel surrounded by security cameras and playing with numerous buttons. Giggling to himself from what L could gather as he walked slowly and quietly up behind him.
"What are you doing?"
The reaction he got was quite amusing. Gin practically jumped out of his skin.
"Jeez Law-kun, ya scared me!"
"Not quite my intention." he lied. It really was his intention. After all, L did like his pranks.
"So this is why the hallways kept on changing, I see." he pondered aloud to himself, propping himself up on one of the spare chairs, in his usual fashion. Prompting some strange looks from Gin.
"Haha, Ulqui you sit weird!"
"So? This is how I usually sit."
"Tha's a strange way a sittin' if I don' say so myself."
"Sitting like this helps me to think."
L sat there, looking up at all of the screens before him. Screens showing empty corridors and random hollows walking around everywhere. But he didn't see anyone else looking remotely human like him. And if there was anybody else, L didn't see them. So it was probably safe to assume that he was the only converted or 'humanised' one. He was sitting there, pretty much lost in his own train of thought as to how the wall changing system worked, pondering to himself in his head, when Gin, after some time of observing him, interrupted his pattern of thinking.
"Oh yeah Ulqui-chan, I jus' remembered somethin'"
"Hm, what is it?"
"Aizen-chan wanted to see us fer somethin'. He said to find ya an' then report back to 'im."
"Oh... okay then. Shouldn't we get going then?"
"Yep." Gin stood up and took a few steps, stretching his arms out on his way towards the door.
"Aizen wants to see us!" He said cheerfully, grinning as always from ear to ear, beckoning the newly made Ulquiorra to follow him out of the room, almost like he was singing happily to himself as he spoke while bouncing out of the doorway.
"Come on Law-kun, we don't wanna be late~"
I really do not want to look at my inbox after this one now because RL is leaving me no time for review-reading. PM me for important questions that aren't in your reviews please, because those will actually get read. As of uploading this update I am currently sitting on 43 unread alerts for various fics dating back to the 25th feb. One's stories should not be this awesome. Period.
