Backup Plan 2

by Xovinx

It has been over a year since the Aizen Incident, and the forming of the Fourteenth Division of Seireitei. The reincarnated Arrancar now work alongside their once-enemies to defend the Living World... but the line between friend and foe can be blurry, and the young Fourteenth Division cannot afford to make enemies. Unfortunately, that is precisely what they are best at.

36. Interlude 16

Interlude

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The thoughts of a General.

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I wonder if I could have saved Aizen-sama.

Caro ruined everything.

We were all ready for it. He knew imprisonment was a possibility, and we had trained so dedicatedly for the sole purpose of breaking him out if that possibility became a reality. None of the others were powerful enough at the time to be his Espada, and I had no purpose, not after... leaving Seireitei. We were second-hand followers, perhaps, but we were prepared to do our job.

Aizen-sama... did some terrible things. I can't deny it, but he saved me from a life in a lab at the Twelfth Division. For that, I owe, owed, him more then I could ever repay. Even now I can't feel anything but thankfulness to him for what he did. Others would probably call it manipulation, and say he never cared about any of us as anything but tools. I agree, he never cared about us as people, but he got me out.

Caro got me back in.

Working side by side with Kurotsuchi Mayuri, whose very existence is a crime against life, burns me. Physically. I still have the scars where his experiments set me on fire from the inside, and I can feel the flames again every time I see him.

I may be a simple person to see it this way, but I do. Anyone who works with Kurotsuchi is my enemy. And, one day, I will kill Caro for bringing that scum back into my life.

One day.