"This Captain's meeting is now in session." Yamamoto murmured, eyes roving over the two lines of Shinigami. "We have received a call for assistance."
A screen set at the far end of the room flickered to life, and Sanura's eyes widened drastically.
"Thank you, Sui-Taicho." The male on the screen bowed. "My name is Pesche Guatiche, former Fraccion to Neliel Tu. Heuco Mundo is in dire need of help."
"You are an Arrancar," Urahara stepped forward. "Yet you ask for help from your enemy."
"I'm honestly deathly afraid of Shinigami," Pesche chuckled, rubbing the back of his head. "But I remember that Ichigo was nice. I thought if I contacted you, Ichigo would come help."
"Kurosaki Ichigo is out of commission." Yamamoto shook his head. "What is the situation?"
"Heuco Mundo has been relativity peaceful since Sosuke Aizen left. Recently, one of the former original Espada as been striking blows at the Vasto Lorde. My charge and former Master, Nel, has been kidnapped by the Espada. Nel also turned on my partner, Dondonchakka Bilstin."
"I do not see how this concerns us." Byakuya frowned.
"Once the former Espada gathers enough of it's former power, she'll head for the Human World, or the Soul Society. What I'm asking is for someone to help eliminate the former-Espada, and if possible I would like someone to heal my friend, and those who have also been injured."
"Those Captains in-"
"Yamamoto-Sui-Taicho," Sanura stepped forward. "As Heuco Mundo was once my home, I will volunteer to help Pesche. It is also still my responsibility to eliminate any who go against Heuco Mundo, as I am still the Cero Espada."
"Very well. Sanura Aizen, your mission is to eliminate the threat. Unohana, select one of your seated officers to go with Captain Aizen."
"I'll leave from the Fourth Division. Unohana-san, shall we leave?"
-;-
"Keep up, Hanataro-san." Sanura smiled at him over her shoulder.
"Hai, Captain Aizen!" The boy picked up his pace. Sanura leapt the other end of her Garganta, landing lightly on the ground as Hanataro face-planted.
"Pesche," Sanura strode forward to the purple humanoid. "My name is Sanura Aizen, and this is Hanataro. He'll heal your friend while you and I search for this former-Espada."
Pesche nodded, trembling.
"Hanataro, get to work. Pesche and I will be back soon."
-;-
"I make you nervous, don't I?" Sanura asked her companion.
"No! What made you think that!?" Pesche laughed, shaking his head.
"You're trembling and keep looking at me." Sanura stopped, closing her eyes.
Pesche watched in wonderment as a six-spiked Hollow mask appeared on her head.
"I am Sanura Aizen, Captain of Division Eleven and a Half, and Cero Espada."
"There are no more Espada, Cero-sama." Pesche shook his head as they began walking.
"Well, they certainly aren't Espada anymore." She smirked, shoving her hands into her pockets. "So what does this former-Espada look like?"
"That." Pesche pointed to the two feminine figures on the rise in the sand.
"Well, looks like we found them."
"Who are you, wench?" The blond female asked, pink eyes narrowed.
"Sanura." The turquoise-haired teen gazed back. "What do you think you're doing?"
"I'm taking back my rightful place as Primera." The blond laughed. "And then I'm going to take revenge on all those who scorned me."
"Release Nel!" Pesche yelled, cowering behind Sanura's back.
"But she makes such a good little pet."
"Let her go." Sanura unsheathed Sanbimu and pointed it at the blond.
"Before I attack, I'll introduce myself. My name is Yukiko Nagoya." The blond placed her hand on Nell's head. "Nel, attack these pests."
"Yes, Nagoya-sama." The small girl nodded, growing taller in but a moment. Her blank hazel eyes narrowed, and she lunged forward bringing her zanpakuto with her.
Sanura ducked under Nell's first attack, a kick to the head.
"Declare, Gamuza." Nel held her sword out horizontally once she had her feet planted on the ground.
"Prevail, Sanbimu." Sanura's swords morphed into two claymore, and she dropped into a fighting stance.
"Lanzador Verde." A lance spiralled from the mist Nell's Resurrection made. Sanura's eyes widened and she sidestepped it.
Sanura dropped her two swords into the sand, pressing her hands together and building her purple Cero between them.
Nell grinned.
"Don't!" Pesche yelled a moment too late. Sanura fired her double Cero, and Nell opened her mouth, sucking it in.
She held it for a second and then fired it back out. The vibrant pink Cero, was too wide for Sanura to dodge.
"Well done, Nell." Yukiko grinned.
"You think that a Cero could kill me? I'm the Cero Espada!" Sanura snarled.
"Yet you still brought out a mask." The blond tittered.
Sanura growled. Her dual eyes, now gold and lime, narrowed into slits and she lunged for the problem.
However, the hybrid was intercepted by the centaur-like woman.
Nell's eyes flickered from blank to fire filled within moments.
"Thrive, Nejireta Kiseicho." Yukiko snarled. "Kiseicho Sutinga."
Yukiko's zanpakuto flashed silver, and dissolved. Moments later, a sliver flying bug appeared, and it launched forward. Nell stiffened as the bug latched onto the base of her neck.
"You're controlling her mind, aren't you?" Sanura turned her eyes to Yukiko, who nodded. "Don't worry Nell, I'll save you."
"Nell, kill her."
"Yes, ma'am." The green-haired centaur nodded, galloping forward.
Sanura glanced behind her, eyes fixing onto the lance the former-Espada had thrown.
'I have to keep her from reaching that lance.'
"Pesche, get out of here. I'm going to release my bankai." The humanoid nodded.
"Well, this should be interesting." Yukiko raised an eyebrow.
"Bankai!" Sanura yelled, black reitsu flowing around her. "Kuronosen-sen Sanbimu."
Bright flames spewed from her reitsu, and Sanura lifted her hands.
"Interesting. None of this will do much good though, wench." Yukiko snorted. "You don't have a weapon."
"That's what you think." Sanura grinned, snapping a whip of fire across the back of Nel's neck, and sending another rush at Yukiko.
The blond shrieked, barely dodging the flames that devoured the arm of her feathery tunic.
"You monster." Yukiko snarled.
Nel wavered, her four legs folding in on her. Her form shrank, and Nel turned back into a child.
"Pesche, return with Nel to Hanataro." Sanura hefted her swords, before launching herself at Yukiko.
The two females met in a large spray of sand.
Pesche nodded, running for his life.
-;-
Sanura panted, pushing herself up onto her feet.
"What will you do?" Yukiko asked, voice muffled by her mask. "You have no Resurrection, no swords to defend yourself with. It's high time I kill you."
Sanura watched with wide eyes as Yukiko strode forward.
The blond woman had released her Resurrection, covering her body with a protective white armour. From the top of her head, two feathery antenna dashed to the ground.
"Goodbye, wench." Yukiko's feelers snaked forward, one pushed itself through Sanura's stomach and the other through her shoulder. The blond smiled, lifting one hand and building a Cero in it. "I wanted to kill you slowly."
'I can't- I can't die. Not here. Tesla needs me. Gin needs me. Grimmjow, Starrk, and Nnoitra need me. I can't die-'
'Then don't.'
'Hichigo...!'
'You're a fucking Espada right?'
'Only half...'
'Then you can do what Ichigo did, when he was fighting Ulquiorra.'
'Huh?'
'Ichigo lost control. Of me. So, you need to do the same. Lose control, Sanura. I'll help release your instincts.'
'I'm not sure I trust you, Hichigo.'
'But what choice do you have?'
Yukiko froze, pink eyes growing as the wind shifted direction.
She leapt backwards, putting as much distance as possible between herself and Sanura.
Black purple-edged reitsu rose around her, and she twitched.
"What did...What did you do?" Yukiko asked, fear clouding her eyes.
Sanura lifted her head, and Yukiko scurried back in terror.
The Cero roared, rising to her feet.
Yukiko stared.
Sanura's black Shinigami robes had turned white
Her skin had also turned white, and was covered in swirling green lines and straight black tiger stripes. Two red marks stretched from the ends of her eyes to her collarbone, and branched upwards to her eyebrows.
Two sharp horns protruded from the top of her head. Black fur wrapped around her neck and spread down to her breasts. Her waist length turquoise hair had grown to her knees.
"Get away from me!" The blond woman scrambled across the white sand.
Sanura took two steps forward, suddenly appearing in front of the former-Primera.
Yukiko, in a panic, snarled at the beast.
A scary smile spread across Sanura's face as she grabbed Yukiko's head, cracking her skull with sharp nails.
Sanura pressed her other hand against the blonds head, purple glowing around both of her hands.
Yukiko scream, struggling desperately to get away.
The beastly teen fired off her Cero.
Blood splattered against her face and coated the ground in crimson.
Sanura's mask and white armour shattered, falling to the ground in a rain.
-;-
Hanataro glanced up at the full 'thump' not far from him, standing in but a second.
"Ah! Captain Aizen!" He panicked, stumbling forward and dropping to his knees beside her. "Captain Aizen, are you alright!?"
Sanura didn't answer.
"Captain Aizen!?"
"What's wrong with Grimmjow's girl?" Nel asked, pudgy hands clenching her dress.
"Captain Aizen!? Sanura-san!?"
"Cero-sama?" Nel looked worried.
"Ah! I need a Hell Butterfly!" Hanataro cupped his hands together.
-;-
"Captain Abarai!" One of the First Division Shinigami rushed towards Renji, skidding to a halt and dropping to one knee. "Yamamoto-Sui-Taicho has a special emergency mission for you. Please hurry!"
No sooner did the man finish speaking, then Renji was gone.
He appeared at the First Division no long after.
"Sui-Taicho?" The redhead bowed.
"Abarai Renji, I'm sending you on a retrieval mission to Heuco Mundo. Seventh Seat Yamada Hanataro has requested help."
"Sir, I can't heal." Renji looked a little confused.
"Abarai!" Yamamoto boomed. "You are the Retrieval Unit!"
"Yes, sir." Renji nodded, rising and bolting out of the older man's chamber.
"Taicho," Renji paused by Ururu. "Where are you going?"
"Renji?" Rukia gave him a serious look. She and the younger lieutenant were walking together.
"I'm going on a mission. I shouldn't be too longer, Ururu-chan." He patted her head.
"Alright, Mr. Moocher." The little girl nodded, smiling.
A tick mark crossed over Renji's face, as he opened a Senkaimon.
-;-
"Captain Abarai!" Hanataro sighed in relief. "Thank goodness."
"Oh, hey." Renji put his hands in his pockets, gazing down at the younger boy. "So, who am I retrieving?"
"Captain Aizen...She took a lot of damage." Hanataro stepped aside, allowing Renji to see past him.
Sanura was lying on a white sheet, deathly pale and covered in still oozing cuts.
"I don't have enough energy to heal her, and I can't carry her. I'm not very strong." The boy sighed, rubbing the back of his head.
"Alright. Let's get going. Did she save the kid?"
"Nel is alright now." The small former-Espada nodded, sitting beside her 'brothers'.
Renji bent, gently pulling Sanura into his arms. She twitched, and her purple eye opened.
She blinked it once before it focused enough for her to figure out who had her.
"Renji...?"
"Hey, you took quiet a beating." He smiled, moving to the still opened Senkaimon.
"Nel says thank you!"
"You look like a pineapple..." Sanura giggled, bloodloss making her dizzy. "The Red Pineapple of Death!"
"Yeah. I've been called that before." Another tick mark appeared again.
"Your eyes are so brown..." The hybrid yawned, eyes unfocusing again. "Like...Like chocolate."
"Uh...than-"
"And for a pinapple..." Her eyes closed, and Renji had to lean forward to hear her. "...You're kinda handsome."
Renji flushed.
"Hanataro...People say weird things when they lose a lot of blood, right?"
"Sometimes. Other times they been keeping it to themselves and they don't realize that they're saying it." The raven haired boy placed a finger on his chin while he thought about it, and then turned his brown eyes to the Fifth Division Captain.
"I mean, yes...Yes, they do!"
SR- TRANSLATIONS:
Nejireta Kiseicho- Twisted Parasite [Japanese]
Kiseicho Sutinga- Parasite Stinger [Japanese]
Reviews! Yay!
Hikiri- [But Grimmjow on catnip and sake might be amusing...however if you give me Ulquiorra I might review. Isane and Grimmjow seems like an interesting pairing if that's where you're going with this.] Very well, you can borrow Ului-chan. I do need him back though, cause he's gonna get some love later. Hehehe. And yes, one of the pairings is Isane/Grimmjow. Isane doesn't get enough loving. And it kind of went POOF while I was writing the scene in the Fourth Division. It's cute.
GrimxUlqui- [When I first watched his Bleach episode, I first though the scene with the watermelon monster was a tentacle hentai scene... ._.] I kind of thought the same... And I never knew that Unohana had such a twisted sense of humor.
Guest- [BEST STORY I'VE READ! D Keep going! I can't wait for the next chapter!] Aww, thank you! I like it when guests review! Except for the flame I got on the fic leading to this (This the sequel to The Cero Shinigami.)
So, as in the above response to Hikiri, one of the pairings has been guessed.
Grimmjow/Isane.
Now, who wants to guess the other ones?
Ahhh, poor Hana-chan. So clueless.