A/N: HAHAHAHA Cliffhangers FTW! Ok, so I lied about holding this chapter hostage…it's not like it woulda mattered either way LOL!!!!
Disclaimer applies here as well. I like to GET MO BLEACH but I don't own it.
"Sayonara…"
Yoruichi looked down at the man she had lusted for and even loved for a brief time period. The same man who turned that love into intense hatred. She had been waiting so many years to be the one to kill him, and now she finally had done it. He had been easily deceived by a hint of emotion and let her approach him like that. What a fool, she thought. No one toys with me and gets away with it. She remembered her first victory against him all too well.
The junior class officer elections were being held on that muggy June morning. The lively Shihouin Yoruichi was running against the stolid Aizen Sousuke. Rukia had been spreading word for everyone to vote for her, and it seemed to be working…for the most part.
Ichimaru Gin had taken up door-to-door campaigning with Aizen, telling people the same message over and over again. "He is strong man, he will crush his opponent and he will be powerful like, eh, Stalin and not tolerate people who ah bad. Will you vote for my friend?" When this was met with amusement and a witty answer, Gin would continue. "If you do no vote for him, he will take power. If you vote for him, he will make sure that you and your family will have a very good years, but if you do not vote for him, you will be sorry." Sometimes he would snap a pencil in half at the end to buttress his point.
There were exactly 199 people in the class; thus, the first person to obtain 100 votes would be the winner. However, Ichigo and his followers/friends were all in support of Aizen. Not even the two most popular girls in the grade could have enough influence to sway these people. That is, until Yoruichi came up with the idea to have Rukia slowly but surely turn Ichigo into her obedient pet. She would make sure that this would begin with Ichigo voting for her after much coaxing from Rukia. Thus, she would easily win this election.
What she did not know about at that time, however, was that the only person affected by this move was Ichigo himself. Thus, when the results were tabulated, Yoruichi won…by 1 vote. Kurosaki, who was running late to school, cast the 199th and final vote that put her over the top, 100-99. No one knew this however, except for herself and Rukia. Aizen never found out until that following October. By then Ichigo was under Rukia's charm and the collapse of the Kurosaki-Aizen coalition was imminent. Aizen was left with only his two LTG brothers now, and the odds were stacked against him.
Aizen never gave up, however, and maybe that is why she continued to show signs of wanting him even after those elections nearly 2 years ago. Being nobles, nobody had ever before questioned her and Rukia. They were 1 and 1a in terms of social status in the school; they were idolized to the point where anything they said was considered canon the moment it left their lips. When Ichigo joined their side, they were left with only one main source of discomfort: Aizen and his ideologies. LTG was a self-proclaimed clique dedicated to "abstaining from any and all liberal behaviors." Here, Yoruichi saw a significant threat to her superiority. Thus, she continued to hold meetings to monitor LTG's every move; these congregations turned into parties, thus serving as an incentive for more to join their side just for, if anything, "free booze."
Once by her lonesome, Yoruichi was too drunk to even sit up straight. She wondered why she had done this to herself. Why had she gone off the deep end just to become Aizen's opposite?
Because she hated him. Hated him with all her unrequited love could handle, thus proving that there certainly was a fine line between love and hatred.
She would call her group the "Soul Society" just to show that her comrades still had emotions as opposed to the soulless shells of humans that made up Los Tres Grandes.
Aizen would pay for all that he did to make her hurt so much.
Hearing a chuckle, she snapped out of her reverie to see Gin still sitting down, grinning wider than ever. Yoruichi was shocked and annoyed that he would laugh at a time like this.
"You idiot! How can you sit there and laugh while you see the body of your dead leader?"
"Because I'm not dead."
Yoruichi's eyes widened. She looked at the corpse and asked…"What did you say?"
"I'm right here Yoruichi, can't you see me?" Hearing the voice come from behind, she turned around to see none other than…
"Aizen…"
"I see you really meant it that time, Yoruichi. Still, you almost had me fooled right then and there."
Yoruichi was still not understanding anything. "B-bakkano! You're right here! My knife is embedded in your chest!" she turned around to prove that the corpse was right there.
To her shock, it was slowly deteriorating like an after-image. After about 10 seconds, Yoruichi was standing there with her left arm making an imaginary circle while her right hand held her dagger above her head. How is this…
"Did you not listen to a word of what I said yesterday? Kyouka Suigetsu's 'Complete Hypnosis' is completely flawless. Even if you know you are under it, you cannot escape."
Yoruichi closed her eyes and hung her head in total and complete defeat. "So that means…"
"Yes, you've figured it out. There is no way for you to kill me."
With a deep sigh, Yoruichi turned around to face her enemy for the past 3 years. "Aizen…you win. Happy? You win, again. Even the time you lost, you should have won. Just get out of my life now…"
Aizen was confused. The time he should have won? That's right, it was when Ichigo had started to fall for Rukia. He lost the class presidency that year to Yoruichi by one vote. Truthfully, he had never originally planned on running; he just did it to give the Shihouin noblewoman something that she had to work for. He also believed that he did not oppose her, that hubris of hers would grow at an exponential rate.
With a victory smirk, he asked, "So you finally came to you senses, huh?"
"JUST GET OUT"
Aizen saw those numerous emotions flash through her eyes in the span of second: first admiration, then hope, betrayal, hatred, and finally, comprehension.
Admiration is the furthest thing from comprehension.
"Very well. I will see you on Monday, period C then. Let's go Gin."
As Yoruichi shut the door behind them, she leaned against it and began to cry all the tears that had been threatening to spill earlier.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tousen was getting ready to go out for some tennis when he received a phone call.
"Moshi moshi…"
20 seconds later he said, "I'll be right there," and promptly hung up his phone.
A/N: The end draws near. Read and Review please.