Chapter Fourteen: Escalation
*Karakura sometime later, Urahara's shop*
It had been a few days after the attack by the arrancar in the park. Soul Society sent a response force to help with the sudden new threat in Karakura. Captain Toshiro Hitsugaya, Rangiku Matsumoto, Ikkaku Madarame, Yumichika Ayasegawa, Renji Abari and Rukia Kuchiki. They were currently gathered at Urahara's shop along with Ichigo, Orihime and Sado to discuss all that happened.
"So what exactly happened?" Asked Hitsugaya
"Well" Orihime began "me and Sado were near the park when we suddenly felt massive surge of hollow energy. We hurried to the park and found practically everyone who wasn't spiritually aware unconscious. We saw Tatsuki standing next to one of the arrancar in conversation with it. we quickly hurried over and told her to get away from it. as we approached the arrancar called out our names, we weren't sure how it knew us. Only after we stopped to get a closer look at the arrancar did we realize who it was. It was someone we thought had gone away along time ago, Yoshiro Abe."
Toshiro and Rangiku had sudden looks of shock on their faces.
"Are you sure?" asked Toshiro
"Yes" replied Orihime "there was no mistaking it was him, but he was changed he was no longer human, he was an arrancar. He had the mask fragment of a hollow on his face and then he showed us his hollow hole."
'How can that be?' Toshiro thought in shock 'he was human, when last he was seen, despite what hollow traits he was displaying.'
Orihime continued "He explained things a bit and told us he was looking for Ichigo in order to fight him as some sort of test for Aizen. Sado activated his power and tried to attack Yoshiro but Sado was easily overpowered and beaten. After that me and Tatsuki ran over to Sado and began to heal him. While I was doing that, he suddenly released a burst of spirit energy even bigger than the first one. Tatsuki collapsed from it and I fell to my knees unable to keep my healing barrier on Sado. Then he walked over to me and actually apologized for hurting Sado and frightening me. Then Ichigo showed up."
"When I arrived" Ichigo began "I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing. Someone I once knew thought to be long gone under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly returned and not even human anymore. I questioned him myself to confirm what I was thinking, and I was right. Then I noticed the damage he had did, I called him out on it. he admitted to it all and apologized even, then he let Orihime go and we started our fight."
"how'd that go?" chimed Ikkaku
"it was as one-sided as it could be. I couldn't hit with any of my moves and he easily kicked me around. I've never felt so easily outclassed in my whole life. He smacked me around like I was nothing. He even let me charge my getsuga tensho to its full power and let me hit him with it. it didn't do a damn thing other than rip up his vest, not even so much as a scratch on him. Then Urahara and Yoruichi showed up and he and his partner, Ulquiorra he called him took off." Ichigo finished.
Toshiro sat there in deep thought trying to make sense of things. His one time prisoner who escaped and hadn't been seen or heard of in over a year. Suddenly back and now a full-fledged hollow, an arrancar of tremendous power. Someone who easily bested someone as strong as Ichigo. None it made any sense to him.
"none of this is good." Hitsugaya spoke.
"there is something Yoshiro mentioned I want you to confirm for me Hitsugaya." Spoke Ichigo.
"what is that Kurosaki?" the young captain replied
Ichigo narrowed his eyes and spoke sternly at Toshiro.
"he said the reason he is as he is now. Is because soul society kidnapped him and thus forced him to escape and flee to hueco mundo. How true is that?"
"it's true" Hitsugaya calmly spoke
"what the hell for!" Ichigo yelled "what the hell did he do to warrant you to kidnap him!?"
"I wasn't technically what he did so much as what we saw what he was." Toshiro retorted "we received a report about a human who was displaying hollow traits. After comparing info in the report to a past assignment involving a human in the search for a vasto lord in Karakura. We realized the person in question was one in the same. Thus it was decided by the captain-commander that the human in question needed to be brought in for questioning."
"what happened after you brought him in?" Ichigo questioned.
Toshiro thought for a moment and began speaking.
"me and Rangiku captured him in the human world. upon bringing him to soul society we interrogated him along side captains Sui-Feng and Shunsui. He was displaying hollow like characteristics and power on him. He had used them against me while trying to escape in the human world. even after we used power limiter cuffs, they remained on his physical self. During the interrogation we learned that he was directly connected to the vasto lord we had been hunting a few months earlier. While at the time they were believed to be good friends. When I think back on how he spoke about the female hollow in question. I think they were in fact lovers and most likely still are"
This sent a shockwave of surprise through everyone. Ichigo spoke up.
"he said he did what he had to do in order to get back to those he cared for. Still to be in love with a female hollow? Are you sure about that assumption?"
"indeed" Hitsugaya replied.
"I can confirm that actually." Chimed Kisuke
Everyone looked to him as he kept talking.
"you see, the same day he managed to lure captain Hitsugaya and the others away. He just happened to have his vasto lord friend hide out in my shop out of view. After you all had left, I fitted her with a gigai in order to avoid any more problems like what happened that day."
"you helped it!" Toshiro spoke accusingly
"at the time I was still on the run from soul society myself. it was simply the best thing in mine and their interest at the time. What I can say looking at them interacting with each other. there were obviously starting to have feelings for each other if they hadn't already started a romantic partnership." Kisuke replied casually.
Toshiro calmed down at that.
"what happened next?" Orihime said looking at Toshiro.
"well" Toshiro spoke "after we finished the interrogation, he was sent to a cell. The plan was to bring everything up at a captain's meeting in order to discuss what to do with him next."
"what would you have done with?" Questioned Ichigo
"in all probability" Toshiro said, "we would have had him kept locked up in soul society or handed over to Mayuri for research for why a living human was displaying hollow traits, or just right up execution after some more interrogation." He finished calmly.
Everyone not from soul society had looks of horror and or disgust on their faces from the news.
"no wonder he made a run for it. I would have too." Ichigo spoke with mild anger.
"how did he escape anyways?" Sado suddenly said.
"The escape" Toshiro spat out "you see, he had a pair of headphones and a music player on him when he was captured, I failed to have them taken away before he was put in his cell. He learned the guard rotations and waited until night fall. He used his headphone cord and the cell door to fake hanging himself inside his cell. When the next guard shift came around, the guard freaked out from what he saw and opened the cell to check on him. He knocked out the guard and made his escape from there. By the time the alarm was sounded off for his escape, he had already made it outside the 10th division compound. I rushed there as fast I could in bankai, he had already opened up a garganta and thrown himself into it. I launched an attack in an attempt to stop him, but it was too late. The garganta closed and he was gone. We searched the living world for him but to no avail, we had to accept he must have fled to hueco mundo where we couldn't reach him."
"it was the only place he could go at that point." Chimed Ichigo "I can see why he blames soul society for him having to become what he now is. Regardless, he's working for Aizen now, so he'll have to be dealt with somehow someway at some point I imagine. Still I have to wonder, who discovered and reported him to begin with?"
"it was me" Rukia said solemnly "I was the one who initially discovered and reported him."
*Las Noches*
It had been some time since the mission to Karakura. Nothing new had yet to take place just yet but Aizen had assured them all, everything was going according to plan. Yoshiro understood it well enough, while he didn't care that much for Aizen. He knew he was easily the smartest person around of not of all time, not to mention he had been planning this take over of soul society for far longer then Yoshiro himself had been alive. Who was he to really question his plans for all this? Sadly not everyone saw it that way, some were a little upset they didn't finish certain jobs in their eyes. That someone was a certain teal haired arrancar. Grimmjow and Yoshiro were having a talk in Yoshiro's section of las noches.
"you should have killed Kurosaki, Yoshiro." Grimmjow said
"how many times must I tell you that lord Aizen only wanted him tested and nothing more." Yoshiro retorted.
"you sure your just not going soft? I saw how the mission went you were hesitant to kill anyone." The panther arrancar spoke.
"my orders were to find Ichigo and test him, not go on a mad killing spree. Presides what would the point of doing such a thing been anyways. Just prove to everyone that hollows even as arrancar are just mindless monsters that seek to only kill? Not happening, I'm trying to change that perspective of things thank you very much." Replied the blond arrancar.
"I think your just using that as an excuse to justify not hurting any of the people you once knew back in Karakura, when you were still human." said Grimmjow
"well shit Grimmjow, what do you want from me? I only spent 16 of my 17 years of existence in Karakura. Forgive me about wanting to not wreck the place."
"You need to start letting yourself act more like a proper arrancar. You're not human anymore dammit, so stop trying to act like it so much and just forget about your connections to that place and everyone attached to it!" yelled Grimmjow.
"you think I don't wish I could forget Grimmjow!? I didn't become what I am like everyone else remember!? I didn't die in a traditional sense I didn't lose any of my memories like almost every else! I wish I could have just forgotten every fucking thing from back then outside of my memories with Emilou! It would make dealing with this whole god damn situation a whole lot fucking easier!" Yoshiro yelled right back.
"look" Yoshiro said more calmly "I wish this whole thing was as easy as it was for me back when it was just traveling around hueco mundo. It was a lot more, simpler time then, but it's just not anymore. Atleast not for me anyways, I won't hesitate to fight and kill soul reapers but the people who I once knew and still live in Karakura are a completely different story."
Grimmjow heard these words and went quiet for moment in thought. Then he calmly spoke. "I think I get now." Was all he said, while suddenly having a look in his eyes of someone who had an idea of something. This didn't escape Yoshiro, he knew Grimmjow long enough to know what such a look from his friend meant. He was going to do something that probably fell into the lines of stupid and reckless. Yoshiro grabbed his friend by the shoulder to stop him as he tried to turn away.
"Grimm whatever it is your planning on doing, don't."
"relax man, I know what I'm doing here."
Yoshiro turned his friend around, so they were facing each other. Yoshiro put his hands around of Grimmjows head and brought the heads close together to where their foreheads were touching.
"Grimmjow" The blond arrancar spoke with all calm seriousness looking directly into his friend's eyes. "I know you well enough, to have pretty good idea what it is your thinking. Please don't do something rash and short-sighted, things are different now. It's not like it was when we were roaming around hueco mundo. There's going to be problems for doing such things now. Problems and consequences that could affect more than just you. So please reconsider what your thinking, I'm asking you here as your friend."
Grimmjow was silent for a moment then looking somberly back at his friend he just replied calmly. "ok, I'll think about it a bit more. So don't worry so much about it alright?" with that the teal haired arrancar broke from his friends grasp and walked away. Yoshiro just watched his friend walk away with a concerned look on his face hoping his words had gotten through to him.
*Karakura that night*
It was a peaceful night at the moment in Karakura, that was about to change as a garganta opened up in the sky. Grimmjow and all his fraccion appeared in the sky.
"ok" spoke Grimmjow "reach out and look for anyone with spiritual pressure. When you do, find them and kill them, simple as that."
His fraccion simply nodded and began their search. Grimmjow reached out and felt a presence of his own. A smirk went on his face and went off towards the direction of it. when he arrived at the spot of his prey, he saw the soul reaper. It was woman, a bit short, black hair, violet eyes. He landed in front of her a few yards away. "well, well, well look what I've found here, a little soul reaper all by her lone some. How fortunate for me." He said with some glee.
"who are you and why are you here arrancar?" replied the soul reaper in a demanding tone, that mildly pissed Grimmjow off.
"who I am isn't important right now." he sneered back "as for why I'm here. I'm here to finish what my friend Yoshiro didn't is all."
The soul reapers eyes went wide a bit from that statement and retorted. "you mean Yoshiro Abe I assume, the human who somehow became a full-fledged arrancar?" she finished with assurance that didn't escape Grimmjows notice.
"you seem to know my buddy somehow, how is that? You weren't around when he showed up here before." He asked.
"I know him because I was the one who originally discovered and reported him to soul society." She said with honesty.
"I see" retorted the teal haired arrancar. "what's your name soul reaper?"
"give me yours first" retorted the soul reaper.
The arrancar glared a bit "Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez"
"Rukia Kuchiki" she replied
"Rukia Kuchiki?" spoke Grimmjow "looks like I need to find different prey than."
"what's that supposed to mean" Rukia said
"simple, woman. My pal Yoshiro has been wanting to know the soul reaper who's responsible for setting of the chain of events. that was responsible for wrecking his old life here in this town. He has rights to your head, not me." He finished
Rukia wasn't sure what to say to that statement. Before she could though a certain orange haired human with soul reaper powers appeared at her side. Grimmjow just smirked at this new arrival, he had found some prey after all.
*Some time later at las noches*
Yoshiro was relaxing in his wing of las noches with Emilou and his fraccion. He was still thinking about his talk earlier with his friend Grimmjow. He hoped he had heeded his words and didn't do anything stupid. Emilou noticed he was troubled by something and decided to see if she could find out what it was.
"Yoshiro" she spoke up, he turned his attention to her as she continued. "your troubled by something, what's wrong? You can tell us."
Now his fraccion Yin and Yang were listening intently as well, wanting to know what was troubling their master and friend. Yoshiro gave out a sigh and explained his talk earlier with Grimmjow.
"I see" Emilou spoke with concern "I know Grimmjow can be impulsive, but I don't think even he would do something so bold." She took his hand and wrapped her hand around his. Yoshiro merely squeezed gently in return.
"I agree with lady Emilou" spoke Yin. "you would have to be a total fool to pull such a thing." Said Yang.
Yoshiro remained quiet still unable to shake an uneasy feeling in his gut. Emilou took his head with her other hand and turned his head towards her and planted a gentle kiss on his lips which he returned. She gently spoke. "please try not to worry too much, whatever happens things will work out in the end. The always seem to for us."
Before Yoshiro could respond his mother entered the room with a look of trouble on her face. She spoke up before anyone else could.
"All espada have been called for an emergency meeting. Someone apparently went out on an unauthorized mission to the living world" she said with all seriousness. Yoshiro suddenly had a look of complete shock and horror on his face. A sinking feeling suddenly fell into everyone's stomach over what may have happened.
15 minutes later all the espada and their fraccion atleast that bothered to bring them was there. Yoshiro had Yin and Yang with him and all of tres bestias came along with Halibel. Yoshiro noticed Vega was there as well with the segunda. A feeling dread began to fill Yoshiro as he noticed Grimmjow and the crew weren't there.
"son of a bitch, he didn't listen" Yoshiro muttered to himself. The comment didn't escape his fraccion or his mother and tres bestias. They all looked at him with concern for how he may react to whatever the coming news may be.
Then Aizen and gin walked in, Tosen was noticeably absent, that didn't help Yoshiro sinking feeling. "Greetings everyone, you've have been called here due to one our rank going out on an unauthorized mission. Tosen is currently bringing him back as we speak." Aizen spoke with calmness.
No sooner he had finished speaking when suddenly Tosen with a noticeably roughed up Grimmjow in tow appeared. Yoshiro notice none of the crew was with them, he suddenly felt sick about everything. Tosen began to question Grimmjow for his actions. Grimmjow replied in his usual manner but Tosen wasn't having it and revealed the news Yoshiro was dreading.
"your actions costed the lives of all your fraccion" Tosen spoke accusingly.
Grief and anger took over Yoshiro all at once. All of the previous crew was dead? All dead because Grimmjow couldn't keep his own urges in check, even after he had practically begged him not to do anything rash and stupid. Then a moment came no one expected, Tosen cut one of Grimmjows arms clean off and then destroyed it. Grimmjow yelled in pain and was about to attack Tosen when Aizen stopped him and announced that they would need a new Sexta. Grimmjow suddenly looked utterly defeated, sadly it wasn't going to get much better for the now former espada. Yoshiro who had been trying to keep his emotions in check at everything no longer could. He practically yelled as he approached Grimmjow before anyone could stop him.
"You, stupid bastard!" he roared as he grabbed Grimmjow by the back of the head forcing him to look into his eyes. "I fucking told you not to do anything like this! I practically begged you not too and you still did it anyways! Now look what has happened to you! You've lost your arm, your position and worst of all, our friends are dead! All because you couldn't keep yourself in check god dammit! Why dammit! Why couldn't you have fucking listened to me!" Yoshiro finished spitefully.
Grimmjow still looking defeated just quietly spoke so only Yoshiro could hear him. "I'm sorry" Yoshiro looked surprised at him, he never thought he would hear such words come from Grimmjow. The teal haired arrancar using his only arm grabbed Yoshiro by the back of the head and pulled his head close to his and whispered into his ear.
"I found out the name of the soul reaper you're looking for. Her name is Rukia Kuchiki, she sticks close to the Kurosaki kid." He finished.
Yoshiro pulled his head back with a look of shock on his face. He calmed himself and simply replied "Thank you" with that said he let go of Grimmjow and returned to his place next to his friends and loved ones. Aizen dismissed everyone and they returned to their sections of las noches.
After they returned to their section of las noches. Everyone just hung around the main living area, processing everything that had just happened. Yoshiro leaned up against the wall, looking out to nowhere with a thousand yard stare. Noticing this Emilou spoke up to him.
"how are you holding up Yoshiro." She knew everything that had just happened weighed heavily on him. She was hoping to talk it out in order help get over it sooner then later. The loss of so many of his friends so soon would be hard on anyone. However the reaction she got was not what she was expecting.
He started laughing a bit seemingly to himself. This caused everyone to look at him with shock and worry. He continued to laugh a bit more before stopping and a wicked grin spreading across his face.
"I have name finally." He spoke with a low growling malice. "I have the name of the soul reaper I've been looking for, Rukia Kuchiki. I'm going to find you when I have the chance and I am going to make you pay. For my friends, for my loved ones, for myself, everything I've had to endure because of what you started. I will make you pay for it all." He finished with snarling viciousness; his teeth bared with all the hate he could muster. It sent a chill through everyone present, no one dared to say a word.
*One month later Las Noches*
One month had passed since the incident, things had changed. Grimmjow was in a state of seeming constant depression. Meanwhile Yoshiro had slowly become more and more obsessed with getting his hands on the Kuchiki woman. Emilou was becoming increasingly worried about what it was doing to him. He became withdrawn, silent, and more. She decided to address the situation. They were alone in their bedroom and chose to talk.
"Yoshiro, we need to talk." She said politely. Yoshiro turned to her and closed his eyes a bit, he had an idea of what this talk was going to be about. He sat down next to her on the bed.
"Yoshiro" she began "I'm worried about you. Ever since that night a month ago, you've haven't been yourself. you've been withdrawn, more vengeful and more distant. I know you have a right to feel as you do over this situation with that soul reaper. I am worried your allowing yourself to lose control of who you are in your obsession. I don't want to see the person I fell in love with disappear over this."
Yoshiro just stared out with his eyes narrowed a bit. "what are you trying to suggest exactly Emilou?" he asked in a low voice.
Emilou suddenly became a bit nervous but pressed on. "couldn't you by chance just let it all go?" she said carefully.
Yoshiro's eyes went wide at the statement and immediately stood up and walked to other side of the room, his back to Emilou. A deathly pause hung in the air then Yoshiro spoke out. "I can't do that." He spoke in a tense voice.
"I know it's hard for you to probably do so." She began gently "but I think it would be for the best I could just let it go and-" he was suddenly interrupted.
"I can't do that!" he roared turning to look at her with a glare that could freeze over hell in an instant. Emilou immediately froze up, the eyes staring at her weren't the usual caring and fun loving ones. Instead it was the eyes of an angry and superior predator. Her hollow instincts screamed at her to run but she couldn't, she was to much in shock at Yoshiro's reaction to do anything. Then he began to approach her, she suddenly did the only thing that came to mind she simply put her hands up in front of her and yelled.
"STOP!"
Yoshiro froze in his tracks, suddenly snapping out his current state. He looked at Emilou and saw something that made him disgusted with himself. She had her hands in front of her, wide eyed with some tears streaming down her face. She was looking at him as if he was the most terrifying thing in existence. He didn't know what to do, what to say. He just looked down at the ground in shame with himself and turned around and left the room without saying a word.
He walked out into the main living area of the wing, ignoring his fraccion as well as Mila and Sung-sun. he simply stood there against the wall in hatred at himself for what he had just done. Suddenly a call for a meeting between all the espada went out on the intercom system. He immediately left and headed towards the meeting room. A few minutes passed and his mother suddenly appeared next to him, she looked less than pleased with him to say the least.
"what happened between you and Emilou?" she demanded
"something I'd rather not speak about at the moment." He replied with a tinge of anger aimed at himself more than anything. Next thing he knew he was tossed against the hallway wall with his mother's arm forearm pining him against it. if she wasn't pissed off before, she certainly was now.
"You scared Emilou to near death!" she yelled "I've been holding my tongue for the last month giving you the benefit of the doubt of your current behavior, but I was clearly wrong! I will not tolerate you acting in such a manner! Now you will explain yourself to me this instance!"
"I'm sorry" he weakly choked out. "this feeling of everything about that has happened in over the last year, wanting to find the one who essentially destroyed the old life I had. It's been slowly eating away at me for a long time. Now that I finally seem to be so close to my goal, I can't stop thinking about it. it invades every aspect of existence now, I… I just need to put closure on this whole matter. I never meant to snap like I did I feel so fucking terrible for having done it. I'm sorry, I really am." He finished as tears of his own began to slide down his face.
Halibel looked at her son with a mix shock and sympathy and still holding some anger about had transpired earlier. She removed her arm, Yoshiro simply slumped down to the floor when she did. He looked more broken at the moment then he did when he was still blaming himself for her death. She simply looked down at him and spoke with a stern yet softer tone.
"I can see you are deeply troubled by this all. You must put this to rest as soon as possible for your own sake and more importantly for those around you. You also will go to Emilou when this all over with and do what must be done to earn her forgiveness. Now then you need to pull yourself together, you can't present yourself to everyone else as you are." She finished sticking a handout to her son.
Yoshiro took moment to take in the truth of his mother's words, he then took her hand and stood up. Focusing himself back into a more composed state, he steeled himself for the meeting with everyone else. He looked to his mother and softly spoke.
"I really am sorry about this all, I never should have let this happen to begin with. I feel so ashamed of myself."
"we all have our breaking points" she retorted "you simply reached yours is all, while it does not excuse all of your actions. It important that you atleast understand the wrongness of your actions and seek to correct them" she said with a sagely tone. "now let us get to the meeting."
Yoshiro simply nodded and they walked off together to the meeting. As they entered Yoshiro made a point to put on his best face of composure on. He didn't need anyone else knowing about what had transpired. He looked around and noticed Grimmjow was there for some reason. Then he noticed the new Sexta espada, Luppi Antenor.
Luppi was an interesting one to say the least for Yoshiro. He had some dealings with him in the past, while he was certainly a little too arrogant for his own good. Yoshiro didn't really mind the guy all that much. Speaking of which, Luppi was easily the most effeminate looking person he had ever met, if one didn't know better one could easily mistake him for short haired/flat-chested girl. In fact Yoshiro had almost done that very thing when they first met. While some may question Luppi's appointment as Sexta, Yoshiro had seen Luppi fight a few times in the training grounds. He had the power for the position he knew that much. While Grimmjow in his opinion at his full strength was probably a bit stronger. A full blown fight between the two and their peak, could honestly go either way.
Luppi turned his head and noticed Yoshiro's and Halibel's arrival and addressed them in his playful effeminate voice. "Hello, Trecera, Quinta good to see you have arrived." Halibel merely nodded her head in response, while Yoshiro simply took a seat next to the new Sexta and greeted him. "how's it going Sexta?"
"oh you know nothing much, just waiting for whatever it is we were called here for. Though your arrival has made the wait more bearable." Luppi playfully shot towards Yoshiro. Normally Yoshiro wouldn't be sure how to take Luppi's usual flirtatiousness towards him. Normally while he would be a little unsure of it, he couldn't say he disliked it. He had to admit it provided a welcome distraction to his other thoughts about earlier at the current moment. He decided to play along with it for the sake of the distraction he desperately needed.
"Glad to see I could improve your mood a bit Luppi." He spoke giving his hair a bit of flip, while looking at the effeminate arrancar.
"oh my" Luppi responded "my dear Quinta are you by chance" he said as he leaned up against Yoshiro. "coming to term with some truths about yourself?"
Yoshiro decide to just let Luppi do his thing and retorted. "Luppi I have always been confident in my sexuality; I have always known myself to be a firm Bi-sexual. Granted I do have a bit of lean more towards women, but I won't deny I have found some men attractive from time to time."
Which was the truth, granted he just never quite figured out how to act upon his romantic interest until he had met Emilou. Even though they had an open relationship in their love life, he wasn't sure if she would go for something like him wanting to bring another guy into things. He noticed his mother's head snap in his direction overhearing his statement. 'damn that's right, I've never told her about that side of me. More shit to deal with at a later date it would seem.' He mentally sighed to himself.
"would I be one those few you find attractive by chance" Luppi playfully chimed looking up at the Quinta. Yoshiro simply stared back at the new Sexta not really wanting to tell him he was right. Luppi figured out his silence was a yes and gave a coy smirk in response. Yoshiro suddenly wanting to change the subject looked for anything he could find to do so. He noticed Aizen was in deep focus working on something, it appeared to be the creation of another arrancar.
"what's lord Aizen working on?" he quickly asked
"a new arrancar, that apparently will have an important role in the coming war. Apparently once his transformation is finished, he will be joining the team of todays mission as a test run of sorts." Luppi replied
Then as if on cue the glass box holding in the new arrancar blew apart. The new arrancar was kind of the small side and had blond hair, not too mention he seemed a little dopey in the Quinta's eyes. 'this guy should be interesting to say the least.' Yoshiro though to himself. Then the new arrancar was whisked away to get properly fitted with cloths and such. Aizen then called for the espada to take their seats at the meeting table. Aizen began speaking to them in his usual manner.
"Welcome my espada, I have called you hear plus a few extras for an important mission. You see after analyzing the information of our recent dealings in Karakura, a new person of interest has come up. I will be selecting a team to go to Karakura town and bring this individual back to me here in las noches."
"just who is the individual in question lord Aizen?" questioned Yoshiro.
Aizen just looked directly at the Quinta and spoke with perfect clarity.
"Orihime Inoue"
A/N
Author: Another chapter finally down, woot!
Yoshiro: I feel like a bastard for scaring Emilou.
Author: Don't worry too much about it.
Yoshiro: how the hell do you know?
Author: Because I am the author duh.
Luppi: You can always come to me for cheering up Quinta.
Yoshiro: Kami please help me.
Halibel: Please Review