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I am exceedingly sorry for the obnoxiously long update. Anyway, here is chapter 25.

Here is the sequel to "A present for the sadist" Enjoy!!!!

Espada Zero

The senbon blades danced inside the small room of the laboratory trying to hit its target while avoiding the boy on the table.

"Dark arts 88: Pentagon" Aizen chanted as a green, transparent pentagon appeared before him and repelled the small petals attacking him. "Well now, you're the last person I thought I'd see here"

"Aizen, return to us Hitsugaya taichou this instant" Byakuya threatened.

"Do you think I would give him to you just because you told me to? A precious doll like him?" Aizen smirked as he reappeared behind the Kuchiki, blade pressed against the nobleman's neck "I don't think so"

A loud piercing scream echoed through the Las Noches.

The eight creatures all gasped for breath in an almost rhythmical manner as they glared at the fourth espada in front of them.

"Is this all you trashes got?" Ulquiorra said in his monotonous voice.

"Kuso" Ichigo cursed. He's already donned his hollow mask and yet not a scratch can be seen from the arrancar's body. Ikkaku and Renji had released their bankais with little results.

"Kurosaki kun" Orihime whispered as she looked back from healing Yumichika, Sado and Ishida to the orange haired shinigami.

"Oy, pretty boy, you're stronger than you look" Ikkaku smirked despite his numerous injuries.

"Only fools judge their opponents with looks alone" The espada countered suddenly appearing in front of the shinigami, delivering one clean stab on the abdomen with bare hands.

"IKKAKU!!" Renji shouted as he commanded his bankai to attack the espada.

Ulquiora easily dodged the small attack and proceeded in stabbing the lieutenant in the abdomen.

"Renji!" Rukia stared in horror as her childhood friend fell to his knees. The scene was short lived, however, as her vision blurred when she felt a hand that went through her stomach.

"Rukia!" Ichigo charged at the fourth espada. But as luck would have it, his hollow mask broke leaving his sword shattering into bits and pieces when it collided with ulqiourra's steel hardened skin.

"It's over, Kurosaki Ichigo" the arrancar muttered as he attacked.

"KUROSAKI KUN!" Orihime shouted

His breathing was labored and he gasped for air again and again. His abdomen continued on releasing blood. Why didn't he sense the presence of that shinigami. Aizen Sousuke should have sensed her coming.

"Forgive my tardiness, Kuchiki taichou" Unohana smiled as she leaned her scythe, covered in aizen's blood, on her shoulder

"Unohana taichou" the Kuchiki muttered.

"Unohana taichou, Kuchiki taichou!" the voice of Kyouraku entered the room as he and Ukitake appeared by the doorway.

"Kyouraku taichou, Ukitake taichou, how nice of you to join us!" Unohana beamed.

"Well, well, well, looks like we have a lot of guests today" Aizen smiked as he neared the four captains.

"Aizen taichou…" Unohana stepped forward "…I'll be your opponent"

Aizen was visibly shaken by that announcement. He hasn't forgotten his last brush against the woman dressed as a doctor.

"Unohana taichou, are you sure?" Ukitake exclaimed. The doctor simply nodded as she swung her scythe to the left where it hit something.

Aizen appeared out of thin air as he blocked Unohana's attack.

"Get Hitsugaya taichou out of here" she announced. Byakuya nodded as he headed for the table where the boy lay gasping for air.

"Hitsugaya taichou" Byakuya announced, looking down on the boy and removing the seals on his limbs. Before he could carry the injured captain, however, Aizen appeared out of nowhere and thrust his sword forward.

The Kuchiki narrowly avoided the blade as he jumped back and looked at the small gash of wound on his right cheek.

"You're not going to take him away from me, this precious doll, I won't let you" Aizen's smile is nowhere in sight as it was replaced by a frown. Just as quickly as it disappeared, however, the smile returned as he revealed before the captains the hougyoku.

"Aizen, what do you plan to do with that?" Ukitake hissed as he glared at the man.

Aizen's smile merely grew as he jumped back to avoid the senbon blades the Kuchiki threw at him.

"If a Vasto Lorde type hollow is a powerful foe, then what more if the heavenly guardian becomes a Vaizard"

The four pairs of eyes widened as realization hit them.

"I won't let you!" Byakuya charged as blade made of the flower petals gathered in his hands to form a katana.

Aizen easily blocked the attack and pushed the captain away. He then dashed for the experiment table where the figure of a gasping Hitsugaya lay, half conscious.

The boy captain gasped for air. He can hear noises and sword clashes. However, he has no idea of what's happening outside. His vision is blurry and his sense of reiatsu is weak. All the torture his body has been through these past couple of days has taken their toll on him and all his senses refuse to work properly. Every system in his body is on emergency mode, trying to keep him alive and conscious, or at least half conscious, as long as possible.

Aizen kicked Ukitake on the adomen, driving the man away from him while blocking an incoming attack from Kyouraku who came from the left.

"Kuso" Byakuya muttered as he tried to release the boy from the binds that held him on the table.

"Get away form him!!" Aizen yelled as he kicked Unohana off of him and charged for the kuchiki, the senbon blades that cut through his face and robes not even bothering him.

Byakuya jumped back from his position as he avoided Aizen's blade which aimed for his neck. He regretted his decision to evade the man's attack when Aizen placed hougyoku on top of Hitsugaya's battered chest.

"ARISE…." Aizen's grin reached his ear as the Hougyoku glowed brightly.

The four captains tried to stop the process but it was too late. The hougyoku has already recognized Hitsugaya's reiatsu and is now emitting a strong wave of energy preventing anyone to come close to the site.

Hitsugaya's chest rose high up, while he screamed in pain as the hougyoku tried to insert a foreign reiatsu on his body.

Byakuya shielded hi eyes as his feet slid on the ground, unable to resist the strong energy the hougyoku emitted.

Aizen held on the the hougyoku tightly as his grin widened every second that passed "ARISE, ARISE…ESPADA ZERO!!!!!!"

A huge explosion rocked the entire Las Noches.

To be continued

Like I said, I am exceedingly sorry for the obnoxiously long update. As a make up for it, I have drawn a picture of Hitsugaya during the torture session. It is not a very good picture. The drawing is childish and poor, but it should give you guys an idea on what he looked like.

Right now, I am trying my best to upload it. Please bear with me

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