Chapter 25: Brothers in Arms. The Wrong One.

Rellik followed behind Blast to a small building. Once inside they began to hide their spiritual pressures so not to be found by their foes. Rellik smiled and approached Blast holding his arm extended.

"Man you have no id..." Rellik was cut off with a fist to the face. Rellik went flying backwards his left arm colliding hard against the wall and fierce pain shot through Rellik.

"You're a fucking moron Wade!" Blast yelled picking Rellik up by his collar ramming his fist into his once best friend's face again. "You gave up everything you had!" Punched Rellik again. "Alexis came home in tears!" Again punched Rellik hard. "Jen stood up for you and you turned her away!" Kicked Rellik, this time, in the ribs. "Mac and I were waiting for you to return home! We were going to ask the Head Captain and Central Forty-Seven to just put you in Facility X-H!"

Facility X-H was the maximum security prison where the most dangerous criminals of the Seireitei and Roukon District were sent. Many said it was a mad house, while others speculated that the screams that could be heard from the inside were from the inmates being experimented on.

"Facility X-H?" Rellik said standing up against the wall. "You would rather have me put away for an eternity then watch me die?" Rellik coughed spitting up blood.

"IDIOT!" Blast said ramming his fist hard into Rellik's gut, causing him to spit up even more blood. "We would rather have you alive then watch you disappear forever!"

"Putting me in X-H is just as bad as sentencing me to death..." Rellik said coughing heavily sliding to the floor.

"What happened back there" Blast asked rubbing his knuckles.

Rellik coughed some whipping the blood from his mouth. "Well. I tried to talk to them to get some help to prove my innocence. When they saw that I had drawn my sword and the Quincy drew his bow, well..."

"Well what?" Blast asked still rubbing his knuckles.

Rellik sighed heavily. "I opened my big mouth," Rellik confessed, "What else do you think happened?

Blast stepped away from his friend before turning around and ramming his fist into the Rellik's skull causing his friend to fall to the ground. Blast sat on the other side of the room as Rellik sat up against the wall staring over at Blast.

"We were brother's Blast..." Rellik said heaving his breaths. "We grew up from BlackValley, to the academy, to the Seireitei... We did something with ourselves... I trust you like no..."

"Shut up Rell." Blast said sternly looking over his friend. "You wanna call us brothers in arms?" He asked laughing. "Yeah. Alright. I'm going to tell you something Rellik that I've been keeping secret for years. Remember the day you got that?" Blast asked running his thumb down his face in the same sight of where Rellik's scar was. "Well..."

-_Flashback_-

Blast stood outside the door twirling a stick with Jen, Mac, and Winry pacing around the small shack. They were worried about their friend who was struck down that monstrous of a soul reaper. Rellik had stopped moving and breathing even after the blonde hair captain administered the antidote that the other soul reaper had dipped the blade in. Now he had Rellik in the shack operating on his face trying to save the young man's life.

"Blasty..." Winry walked up to Blast and held her small blue ribbon in her hands looking up at him, "Will big brother Rellik be ok?"

Blast nodded his head 'yes', but couldn't bring himself to say it. He hoped and prayed to the reishi that Rellik would survive this ordeal.

A loud clamoring could be heard from down the road. As Blast looked up he noticed another Soul Reaper coming down the road. This one two wore the Captain's kimono. Yet he was different from the others. He walked as though he belonged there in the BlackValley. He was a tall man, medium built with unkempt brown hair and large glasses covering his face.

"Excuse me young people." He said stopping by the shack. "Have you seen two other people, one man and one woman, wearing this same kimono?" He asked smiling towards all of the children.

Mac shook his head no staring over the man. Jen and Blast did the same. Winry just stood by the front door of her shack staring at the man.

"Go away!" She yelled. "We don't want no more of you people here!" Her eyes were burning with hatred as the Captain approached her.

"I promise I'm not going to hurt anyone." He said reassuring her. "Tell me young child, what is your name?"

"Winry." She said backing up against the door even more.

"What a beautiful name for such a beautiful little girl." The captain said brushing some leaves from Winry's hair. "My name is Sosuke Aizen. I'm a captain. Trust me, I'm not dangerous."

Winry shrugged from the man but didn't flinch from him. "Are you friends with the monster man?"

"Monster man?" Aizen asked looking over at the other children. "Do you mean Mayuri Kurotsuchi?" He asked to which Winry just shrugged. "I see. Well he told me had had struck down a young man who had attacked Captain Urahara, I just wanted to see..."

"Rellik didn't do anything!" Winry yelled clutching the sides of the door harder. "My brother did nothing to the funny blonde man!"

"I see." Aizen said. Smiling looking over the small red haired, green eyed girl.

That night Blast heard a loud clanging from down the street. When he went to investigate he saw the two soul reapers from earlier standing outside the house looking around.

"Where could she have gone?" Kisuke asked Yoruichi. "There is no way a little red haired girl can just disappear."

Yoruichi punched the ground hard causing a small tremor to echo through out BlackValley. "I can't believe I messed up! I closed my eyes for just a minute and now she's gone!"

"Don't blame yourself Yoruichi-san." Kisuke said clasping his friend's shoulders in his hands. "Maybe she wandered off to one of the other children's homes."

Blast stepped from his hiding place running towards the two captains. "Did you two lose Winry?!"

The two looked over at the young man who was visible shaking in anger. "I believe she was abducted." Kisuke said leaning down to talk to the young boy. "She was sleeping in her room one minute, the next she was gone."

Blast stood there for a few seconds before running to Rellik's house. Yoruichi tried to stop him, but Kisuke's hand on her shoulder stopped her. Blast burst into the house and saw his friend laying on a small pallet, half his face covered in gauze. He ran past Rellik into the back room where the two normally slept to see Winry's cot empty.

-_Flashback End_-

"What did that man want?" Rellik asked looking over his friend. "Did anything happened after Winry told him everything?"

"No." Blast said coldly staring up at his friend. "The man just left saying if we saw his friends again to tell them he was looking for them. I didn't tell them though."

Rellik was burning with rage. If he were able to move he would repay Blast the beating he had given Rellik. "You... You..." Rellik tried saying, "You could have protected her... Saved her if you had told them!"

"Don't you dare turn this around on me!" Blast shouted. "You were the one who went and got yourself in trouble! Like always! Poor little orphan Rellik, running his mouth getting the rest of us into deep shit!" Blast continued. "You think you can just flash that smug smile of yours and think we forget everything! That maybe true, for Mac and Jen, BUT NOT ME! I remember everything you've ever done, everything you've ever caused!

"That day in BlackValley when we fought," Blast said standing up, "I wasn't overheated! I wanted to fight you! I wanted so bad to smash your skull in. I thought to myself, 'I could end all the hardships. I could save Mac, Jen and myself from ever having to risk our necks for this piece of shit ever again!' But I didn't. Instead I just figured to kick your ass, beat you so bad you didn't want to fight anymore and maybe you would just go away! But I got cocky and you beat me. I never forgave you! For the fight or for WINRY!" Blast admitted spitting in Rellik's direction.

"Don't you talk about her." Rellik said trying to muster enough strength to stand, only falling back down for his troubles.

"You know," Blast said standing up walking over to Rellik standing over him, "I'm starting to feel good getting all of this out there like this. Want to know why I always hung around you growing up Rell? It was because of Winry. She was so beautiful. If she was around now she would be beyond beautiful." Blast said staring up towards the sky. "Her hair would be long... Her eyes would be even more breath taking." He looked down at Rellik and his face turned to disgust. "Instead we get you! You trouble causing freak of nature!" Blast yelled ramming his fist in Rellik's skull once again. "Why couldn't you have just gave up and died that day? Maybe your sister would still be here if you had just quit!" Blast said raining his fist down into Rellik's face. "Why must you continue to haunt us all?!"

Rellik laid on the floor, his face swollen and bloody. "W-w-w-why sa-save m-m-m-me th-then.." Rellik asked his vision going blurry.

Blast dropped him onto the ground and started to walk away. "I do want you dead. Not only for killing Gonzales. But for Winry too. The wrong sibling died that day Rellik." Blast said opening a window before stepping out of. "I've sent word to Captain Vincetti. He's on his way to make sure you don't see another day. I figure, if you're going to die it might as well be by someone who's killed other soul reapers before."

"Blast..." Rellik said holding his hand out towards his friend as he took off out the window. "I-I-I-I'm so-s-s-so-sorry..."

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