Grimmjow walked down the hallway of Los Noches, glancing over his shoulder as he walked. This was not as easy as he first thought. "Who would ever-"
"Itsygo!" His face suddenly met the floor and Nel began to dance on his back in a joyful celebration. "You came back!"
"Of course-OWW!"
"I'm smart! No?!" Nel stopped dancing and sat down on her new chair that just so happened to have a name. "Right?"
"Yeah, you are…" Ichigo told her again, not sure how they all pulled it off to begin with. Or how they all managed to stay in character for a brief meeting that ended up lasting seven hours.
After he, Chad, Rukia and Ishida met Nel in the vast sands of Heuco Mundo along with her two strange friends, Pesche and Dondochakka, Rukia realized that they could easily save Orihime by impersonating the heads of the Arrancar army known as the Espadas; after Nel told her she saw them leaving for somewhere.
"I don't know where they go…but… They Espada bad." Nel told her new friends who were actually kind enough to play Eternal Tag with her. "Anywa-"
"What?!" Ichigo cried, "Where could they be going?! We have to warn everyone we know! Send out postcards!"
"Really?" Rukia sighed, giving Renji a look. "I don't think so. I think that Aizen wants their leaving to be secret."
"Of course he would." Ishida agreed, fixing his glasses that would not stay on his nose today. "That's what bad guys do, Ichigo."
"I know! I'm not-"
"Hold it right there." Rukia cut them off. "Nel. Can you tell us about these Espadas?"
"Yea…." She glanced at Pesche nervously. "Can I?"
"Of course. They are our friends we must help. And we here will fill in what Nel doesn't know."
Mostly. As long it would help to keep her away from Nnoitra…
Nel put her thumb in her mouth and began to talk. "So… there are ten Espadas and they scary and powerful…and I don't know that Itsygo and friends can pretend all of them."
"What do you mean?" Rukia sat down next to the little Aarrancar so she could hear better.
"Well…I haven't seen them in person…But… They have numbers that are one to nine…Pesche? I donno."
"You did well." Pesche patted Nel on the head and sat down as well. "There are ten Espadas and it is not possible to impersonate all of them as some have their oddities that a Human can not fake."
With this, Peshe went to describe all of the current Espadas as well as he could, leaving out a lot of details of Nnoitra and Szayelapporo who tried to murder Nel only to have her become a child again. "And so…this will take a great deal of acting and right choice on my part. As I will assign you each an Esapada who I believe you could pull off convincingly enough. Thank goodness Aizen has very brain cells left."
"Me first!" Ichigo cried, stepping forwards. "Me first! I'm the leader!"
"All right…" Pesche stood up so he was standing next to the orange-haired soul reaper. "Stand a little closer, I have to see how tall you are."
Ichigo scowled and moved so he was standing next to the weird thing."Is that better?"
"Yes… Let's see… Um…" Pesche looked his material up and down. "Are you a grouchy mad?"
"Trust me, he is." Rukia said with a smirk. "And stubborn too."
"Great… You get to be our Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez. He's like your evil twin. More grouchy and cross."
"Cool!" Ichigo grinned and stepped away so that Chad could be measured next. "I got a cool name!"
"And…" Pesche hated to do this, but…there was only one Espada who Chad could act as. "Zommari Rureaux. Sorry. It's the only male dark-skinned character but you so far in the story."
"That's okay." Chad said, pleased he would at least get to help farther the mission to rescue Orihime. "But seriously… This story needs more Ethnic Characters."
"I know…" Ishida said, wondering for a moment how he seemed to be ten times more pale than everyone else. "Now, who am I?"
"Can you play dead-pan?" Pesche wondered, a thought lingering in the back of his mind. "And serious."
"Of course. I am always serious."
"And then… we have Aizen's right hand man, Ulquiorra Schaffer. The Gothic Emo character of the story who…never mind. And you, Rukia…You don't give me much to work with here with your height…All the Espadas are insanely tall…" Pesche gently stroked his chin in thought. There had to be someone that she could be….
"And so, you are very smart, Nel." Ichigo said, hoping she would stop crushing him into the hallway floor. "Now can I get up?"
"No! I wanna play tag!" Nel cried, tears coming to her eyes.
"No! We have things to-"
"Hey you two…" a sweet voice said.
Ichigo and Nel looked up to see Aaroniero towering over them. "Hey, what is it?"
"I just heard a commotion…" Aaroniero reached up and pulled the white mask off to reveal the smiling face of Rukia Kuchiki. "And so I came to see what was up."
"Nothing. Nel just crashed in to me."
"Sorry about that. Ulquiorra wants to talk with all of us." Rukia said, offering her hand to Nel who took it. "Come on, let's go." The two of them walked down the hallway happily.
Ten minutes later when they reached the meeting room, Renji was making a stink about his guise. "Why do I have this idiot Telsa following me around and wanting to shine my shoes?!"
"I don't know." Ishida said, squinting so he could read his own notes on the clipboard. With out his glasses it was quite difficult to read anything. "I suppose that is what he did for the Real Nnoitra."
'Well, you could have it worse." Yumichika Ayasegawa of the Fifth Company complained from across the table. "You could have had to bleach and dye your beautiful black hair and have a shit-load of weird hollows trailing you everywhere!"
"True." Renji sighed, resting his case.
When Pesche realized that they needed impersonators of Tia Harribel and Szayelapporo Granz, it was time to call in a reinforcements.
"Well at least I get to dress in these hot clothes!" Rangiku Matsumoto, of the Tenth Division laughed. "And I didn't even have to tailor them!"
"Of course you didn't." Ishida said, "You're chest is the right size."
"I know! And I found these little gloves that fit so nicely too! And I found my drinking buddy!"
"Okay…" Ishida muttered, not sure what to say. "So you have a drinking buddy who's a hollow."
"Kinda. An Aarancarr that I just so happened to meet at this cute little pub and we got talking you know. Real nice fellow and, you met them Renji. I know you did or-'
"Yeah, yeah. I did. I still can't-"
"Can we just get on with this meeting without getting so sidetracked?!" Ishida had many things on his list to do today and all of them were highly important.
"Of course we can." Rukia said, walking in with Nel in hand. "So, what is situation?"
"Aizen is baffled and our task is to keep him in a state of confusion." Ishida stated from the head of the table. "No matter what it takes. The we move on saving Orihime."
"And?" Renji asked after a long pause.
"Nothing. Meeting closed." Ishida grinned and walked out of the room, leaving all of his friends in a daze.
Author's Note: Wow... I love this chapter. We will be seeing much more of these wonderful characters in the near future . I honestly love when Ichigo panics and wants to send postcards to every one he knows.
As for ishida and Ichgo, I am sniffing a Not So Old Married Couple, rather the Newly Weds. But I don't think I will be going there in this story as I already have enough pairings to deal with. As I have Tia and Grimmjow. Szayel and Nnoitra. You all can enjoy the battles and what ever else happens as who knows Ishida and Ichigo's days to come. These characters run around by themselves, so I honestly don't know what is going to happen.
