Soifon snapped awake as Yoruichi howled vague lyrics to the song 'Tarzan's Boy' at the top of her voice. She proceeded to do cheesy eighties dancing. She pointed at Soifon as she danced "Jungle life…" She danced more "I'm far away from nowhere on my own like Tarzan's boy!"
"Please stop!" Soifon said groaning
"Oh oh wah oh wah oh wah oh oh oh wah!" She twirled and grinned as he clapped her hands to the infuriatingly loud music.
"School!" Yoruichi said "you've got to go eventually"
"Whatever" Soifon said sitting up.
It was a few days after Aizen's attempt to get rid of Soifon and everything seemed to have calmed down again. She was still a cripple; soon this cast would have to come off she thought as she scratched underneath it with a fork. The apartment Yoruichi owned was nice but it was only that way due to Yoruichi's tasteful decorating skills, this area was appalling! Yoruichi got an almost constant torrent of racism, most of the people on their floor were very Christian 'Southerners' and had a strong distaste to the 'Former Slave and the China Girl'
One such racist gesture came today in the form of a package posted through the letterbox. Soifon walked over and picked it up. "It's for you… I …uh…think" Soifon said inspecting the package with big black maker pen wrote… *(I refuse to use racist slurs so the 'N' word is known as 'The /That Word)* That Word.
"Fuck sake" Yoruichi said taking the package from her "I'm not even African descended"
"I though you said you're family came from Somalia?"
"My mother was Somalian/Hawaiian/ Eskimo combo and my father was Egyptian and Israeli"
"They blend together quite nicely" Soifon said looking up at her lover
"I know" Yoruichi smiled unwrapping the package. She opened the box and stared confused
"It's…fruit?" Soifon said perplexed "and quite a good cut out of you, must've taken ages to cut out that printout" Soifon chuckled picking up the picture that 'Forbes Magazine' used for Yoruichi in their 'Top 50 Richest Women in the World' list.
"Oh there's a message" Yoruichi said "'Southern trees bear Strange Fruit'…"
"What does that…"Soifon stared at Yoruichi who stared at the box with a mixture of horror and rage. "Yoruichi" Soifon said feeling slightly worried "What does it mean?"
Yoruichi crushed the box in her hands, the juice from the fruit dripped on the floor and her face contorted into pure rage. Soifon took a step back; for the first time she was actually scared of her. Yoruichi noticed this and stopped immediately.
"Sorry" She said looking at the box again "go off to school, I'll speak to the neighbours, they've crossed the line"
"I still don't understand!?" Soifon said
"You…" Yoruichi stared sadly at her "you don't wanna know what it means"
"O-okay" Soifon said shouldering her bag. Yoruichi smiled warmly at her and opened the door. Soifon noticed the way she moved…she moved like a killer, she hadn't dropped this. She was going to do something rash and Soifon didn't know what it was. "Off you pop" she said walking out the door with her.
"Uh, Yoruichi, what are you doing?" Soifon said
"Nothing…nothing at all" She said opening their southern neighbours front door. "See you when you get home" she said closing the door behind her. Soifon let a single tear fall down her face as she heard crashing and shouting from inside. She couldn't bear it. Yoruichi had never acted this way before. She turned and walked down the corridor. Just forget about it, Soifon… They deserve it, she thought, but why had that got Yoruichi worked up so badly?
She shook her head and pressed the lift call button. The door opened again and Yoruichi walked out as calmly as she entered. Soifon stared at her bloody knuckles, Yoruichi smiled warmly at her and waved. What the hell!? Something pinged in Soifon's head…maybe it was the elevator but she'd remembered Yoruichi's father once saying he hated racists because they'd once 'road hauled' his wife, Yoruichi's mother. Maybe that was some kind of threat and Yoruichi snapped after what happened to their mother…yeah that was it…nothing to worry about.
She took the elevator to the bottom floor and caught the bus just on time. Toshiro, Momo, Hanataro and Hiyori were all already on it, they got on near Ryuu's Manor as that was where they were staying. "S'up baldy" Hiyori said as Soifon sat next to Hanataro
"Do you know the meaning of…Strange Fruit?"
"As in the…Billie Holiday song?" Toshiro said looking confused
"Dunno?" Soifon said "Yoruichi got given a weird parcel with those words and a picture of herself with some fruit
"What!?" Toshiro choked "that's shady" he said "that's Bambietta class shady". Bambietta scowled but said nothing. She strangely sat on her own and ignored Gisselle and Meninas.
"What does it mean?"
"You don't wanna know"
"Yoruichi said that!" Soifon said huffing
"You just don't" Toshiro laughed jadedly, "It takes someone with a fucked up head to make a threat like that in this day and age"
"Never mind" Soifon crossed her arms
"How's your arm?" Hanataro said
"It's good" Soifon replied "it'd be a lot better if it wasn't broken" She scowled at Bambietta who amazingly didn't return it and only guiltily stared at the floor. Wow…everyone seemed to be acting off today! Maybe it's because the Prom was tonight, Soifon had to admit…she was both nervous and excited for it, in the past five days she'd really learnt to let a bit of her old confidence back into her life. She was equally looking forward to having a few drinks with all her friends, she was strongly considering showing them the Treehouse and the Meadow, it just wasn't right for that place to fall into disrepair as Yoruichi and her friends don't go to it anymore.
"Who are you taking to the Prom Hanataro?" Momo asked
"Uh…" He glanced off to the left "no one, I just think I'll come to watch…i-if that isn't weird"
"Suit yourself" Momo said. Soifon glanced to the left, only Bambietta and Hiyori's best friend Mashiro sat that way. Maybe Hanataro had a crush on Mashiro?
"Take that Rukia chick" Soifon said "she seemed to dig you"
"R-really?" He said frowning "I didn't catch that vibe she seemed to be hitting on Ichigo"
"Whatever" Soifon said "I care little"
"Where are you going for the…uh…honeymoon?" Momo said
"Dunno" Soifon said "Yoruichi wants to get all this Aizen bullshit behind us before we really go ahead with our marriage"
"Fair enough" Momo said
"I can only imagine the pupil's faces when they hear you're married"
"I'm sure everyone will have a ruddy good laugh at my expense" Soifon said glancing at Bambietta who had her eyes closed and was listening to music; she wanted to throw something at her…Bambietta usually did that when Soifon was distracted. "Yo, Bambietta" Said the most popular boy at the school Jayden.
"What?" She replied
"We still going to the prom together?" He asked ignoring a vicious stare from Gisselle
"Why not" She said leaning back on her seat
"Uh…what are you listening to?"
"Bob Sinclair, leave me alone" She said putting her earphones back in
"Who knew she had taste" Toshiro muttered raising his eyebrows in appreciation
"I think you judge too harshly" Hanataro said
"I knew you still had the hots for her" Hiyori said "you're too nice"
"Being nice doesn't get you very far" Hanataro said longingly
"Maybe you can turn her into a semi functioning human being" Soifon chuckled
"I doubt even Hanataro has those skills" Toshiro chuckled
"Nonsense" Soifon laughed "One ride on Hanataro and she'll be a new person" Soifon patted his back and laughed.
"But still" Toshiro's face went serious "have you heard Yamamoto's endgame strategy?"
"No what is it?"
"A fucking Revolution"
"What?" Soifon said staring at him
"He intends to…and this is no word of a lie: do a full Che Guevara and take over the entire of Rukon by military force, using Kukaku's influence to stop military backup coming from the mainland"
"A coup d'état" Momo said "He intends to dethrone Aizen with his own two hands by bringing full-fledged war to the streets"
"Fuck me" Soifon said "How many of us are there?"
"Maybe fifty at best" Toshiro said "The Kotowari Centre is eleven, You and Yoruichi are thirteen, Yamamoto and the former gangsters makes fifteen, Ryo, Shaozu, Kukaku, Urahara, Ichigo, Grimmjow and his buddies, Kuchiki's, some of Mr Hirako's old buddies from the army are gonna help too and Kukaku ordered in a group called Xcution, that makes about fifty people"
"Apparently Grimmjow already bought himself one of those berets that Che himself wore in the Cuban revolution"
"Is…" Soifon looked at them "are you guys being serious?"
***Change***
Nel smiled as she listened to Soifon's conversation. "Yamamoto you old bastard" She laughed. Ryuu had seen this coming, he'd said it would happen and goddamn it she was excited, there was always a slight giddiness with an oncoming storm, a kind of curiosity to see who'd be the victor, she wanted to sit this one out and see who'd win but unfortunately she'd have to help because Ryuu theorized that Aizen would decimate Yamamoto's power in a single hour, what did he have that made him so formidable?
Candice's soft but strong arms wrapped themselves around her chest and squashed her boobs. "Hey" Nel said resting the back of her head on Candice's shoulder. Their cheeks brushed "What's up?"
"You got the Oken, right?"
"You got the Anti-Static wristband I asked for?"
"Here" Candice said holding it up. Nell pulled away from the comforting hug
"Thanks" She took it and put it on. She picked up the Oken. It was basically gold and diamond encrusted key, one of those old style ones. After a few minutes of fiddling with it she realised it unscrewed and inside it was the black film that went inside floppy disks. Putting the Anti-static wristband on she pulled the film out and placed it inside an empty floppy disk. She'd used the Oken to disable Pesquisa, Aizen was spying on everyone, and he was omnipotent just like her whilst he had Pesquisa. She'd be able to destroy Pesquisa with it.
"So" Candice said running her hand through her hair. Nel stared lustfully at Candice, She really didn't want to take her to the grave with her but there was no other way to do it without going against Ryuu's plan and she vowed never to do so after he'd tracked her down and smashed three of her teeth out of her face whilst looking for Aizen and after she'd told him everything she knew she literally grovelled and begged at his feet to give her another chance and this was his chance…die to them or die to me…
***Change***
Aizen smirked as he walked through the Governor's building in Karakura. He'd just got off the phone with Harribel, she happened to live in the apartment block like Yoruichi also on the same floor. With a set of binoculars she could see right into the woman's window. Aizen knew with the Oken Nel would destroy Pesquisa so Harribel's surveillance would be good!
He sighed as he remembered he only had three Espada left, it wasn't too good he'd have to send them out. Once upon a time Aizen recruited criminals, often faking their deaths and making them his subordinates promising massive sums of money or women or kids or whatever they desired for their subordination, he'd obtained Grimmjow and his posse this way along with Starrk and Nnoitra. There were more of course, most operated outside Rukon; he'd have to recall them for the War.
He opened a door and walked in. Four young men sat, two played a PS4 and shouted profanity at each other as they played. One of the ps4 players wore one of those 'Snapbacks' which was tilted to the side, another had a tattoo on his cheek a Chinese Sǐwáng for 'Death' he also played the ps4 and was doing most of the swearing, another sat staring at a wall whilst wearing one of those stupid hats with the beer cans in them, he sucked idly on the straws Aizen often wondered how he never got drunk, he almost constantly drank beer from his beer-hat. The last was the oldest and the leader. He had dark rings around his eyes both cause by slight eyeliner and going three years without a single night of sleep. He smoked a cigarette.
"I've got something for you to do" Aizen said
"Go fuck yourself" Said Motoi, the tattooed one. Aizen swallowed the urge to slice him in half, these men were dangerous, and they may even be able to kill him if they really wanted to.
"Apologies" said Lei, the smoker "continue"
"Yes well I need you to dispose of some unsightly people"
"Oh?" said Bolin, the beer hat one; he turned at stared blankly at Aizen
"Yes" He replied "there is a Coup d'état planned on my behalf"
"I don't care for the French, cheese eating, surrendering, frogs leg eating, arrogant bastards" said the final one Senju.
"Never mind your uneducated brain about it" Lei said "who and where?"
"I have a list of fifty people" Aizen said
"Any specifics in their deaths?" Lei said looking at the list "Shaolin Feng?" he looked back up at Aizen
"Make sure they suffer, all of them"
"Consider it done" Lei smiled
The Feng brothers all laughed at the sound of their weak, sickly, pathetic little sister's name…this was gonna be fun!
[End of Chapter 25]
Back already…Damn right! Also quick note to…uh Shadowknight1121 (I think) I made one of my characters a tribute to you and now he's gonna be one of the biggest assholes in the story…sorry