Chasing Corridors

A/N: I feel like Gin hasn't being screwing people over enough yet, and so here I go to fix that :P Hope you people don't mind too much XD

"Silver Alert! I repeat Silver Alert! This is not a drill! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

"Erm Ulquiorra...?" Orihime began but stopped when she saw the face of the caretaker.

"...The reckoning has begun..." His voice was filled with a fear that she had never heard before. Usually the fourth espada was full of confidence, but whatever was being said over the speakers had unnerved him more than seeing Grimmjow naked in the showers.

Orihime heard the mad scrambling of feet out in the hallway behind her. "W-what's going on? Are we under attack?!"

Ulquiorra didn't respond again. He was too busy trying to memorise the safe zones. Thankfully Grimmjow poked his head through the door at that very moment. "Come on idiots; we don't have much time! The nearest safe zone is..."

"WHAT IS GOING ON?!" Orihime was fully freaking out by this point. It was one thing for Sargent Serious to be worried, but when Captain Cocky had lost all colour in his face too she knew something really bad was going down.

"Gin...Gin is on corridor duty." A fourth voice, one filled with absolute dread, called from the hallway before thundering away.

Until that moment Orihime had never been truly scared. Watching Ichigo fight Byakuya? No worries. Storming the Soul Society? A breeze. Being kidnapped by Ulquiorra? "Well I guess that wasn't too bad..."

"C'mon cupcake," Grimmjow said, slinging her over his back, "It's not like I like you or anything but I'm not letting anyone get left in this hell!"

He sprinted out of the room and down the corridor as fast as a man carrying a screaming Orihime could, which is to say pretty fast because you know, he's fucking Grimmjow. "Is...is it really that bad Grimmy?" She whimpered in his ear.

"Hiya guys!" Gin's voice boomed over the speakers and the red head felt a shiver go down her friend's back. "Well I guess I'm on corridor duty today. Now I know some of ya's are worried cos of last time..." A small arrancar that they passed in the hallway cried "Oh god I can't go back to this again!" before decapitating himself with his own zanpacto. "...but I'm tellin' ya; those guys died due to a complete freak accident with the flooring!"

"More like they died because you are an insane lunatic." Ulquiorra materialised beside them with a grim look on his face. "The nearest safe zone is..."

"At the entrance to the second corridor on the right." Grimmjow finished. "Dear god we may actually make it there alive!"

"...and so Captain Aizen is holdin' the funerals on Tuesday. Now since the boring stuff is out of the way its time to get to the fun part!" The trio could literally hear the rest of Las Noches quivering in fear. "I've decided to spice of the arrangements for a change!"

"You do this every time you piece of shi-...NO PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF-..." A voice came from the corridor behind them which was shortly followed by snarling and screams of pain. Orihime was starting to wish Grimmjow could run faster.

"Firstly; the animal and experimental monster cages have all be linked to the main corridors! Happy hunting all your happy-go-lucky killing types. Yes I am referring to you Nnoitora. Secondly, using zanpactos ain't allowed in the corridors as usual. As fun as it is to see ya's hack and slash everything up, I'm, also on cleanin' duty this week and finding someone to push the work onto is gonna be a pain..."

"We made it!" The sexta espada yelled as they turned the corridor to find...empty walls. "Wait...what the fuck?!"

As if he'd heard him, which knowing Gin he almost certainly had, the announcer gave out his final point. "Finally, 'nd most importantly, I changed all those 'safe rooms' around from last time. Ya all bored me with being safe at the end 'nd I can't have that!"

Orihime didn't think it was possible for Ulquiorra to get any paler, but right then any semblance of colour left his face. "He has...become what I have always feared. The devil."

"Happy hunting guys!" And with that all hell broke loose.

-Over three hours of Tartarus later-

"We've...been here before haven't we!"

"Woman your moaning is not constructive."

"Still say we punch through the walls until we hit a room where we can hole up for the night."

"Grimmjow that idea is not only incredibly destructive to Lord Aizen's palace, but also did not work the last time you tried it. Remember how there were electrodes in there the last time?" The blue haired man nodded. "Watch." Walking over to a nearby corpse, he picked it up and threw it hard against the wall. Instantly the white corridor sprung alive as some sort of flesh eating maggots wriggled out and devoured the body within a matter of seconds.

"What the shit?!" Grimmjow yelped and leaped back in surprise.

"Ahh I was hoping you'd put ya own arm through there Ulqui." They could practically see his grin spread across the entire wriggling mass. "Shame. Still, Szayel gave me 'em so he could get out of this. Fair trade I guess."

The caretaker gave his surroundings a glare. "I suggest you stop watching us before I personally feed your eyeballs to Yammy."

"Insulting him isn't going to help." Orihime whispered and hopped onto his back. Because she couldn't run anywhere near as fast the two espada they had been taking turns carrying her around, much to their displeasure.

"Flattery won't help ya either hun!" Gin cackled. "Worth a shot tho."

"Guess so." Orihime smiled weakly and put her chin on Ulquiorra's shoulder. "How much longer have we got until his shift ends?"

"Approximately one more hour woman. Four hour shifts are indeed a blessing from Lord Aizen himself." He was too tired to complain anymore about where she put parts of her body. All he wanted to do was survive this, get back to his room and drown his sorrows in tea. Tea laced with gin. Or gin laced with tea. Basically gin.

A sudden explosion blasted them all with rubble he trio turned round to find an unexpected surprise. "Starrk?!"

"Yes yes I'm amazing and you love me," The primera espada rolled his eyes and stepped out of the hole in the wall he had created, "now come with me if you want to live."

"I'm so glad movie night was a thing!" Orihime thought before she was jolted to some unknown part of the fortress. It wasn't that Ulquiorra was bad at carrying her, more the fact that it was pretty much impossible not to feel uncomfortable whilst hurtling around at ridiculous speeds.

"Dammit!" Starrk cursed and they came to an abrupt halt. The sudden lurch almost threw Orihime through a wall, but luckily Ulquiorra was there to catch her. Yeah...don't ask me how he does half of this stuff because I'm just as clueless as you people.

"Don't tell me Gin's screwed us over again?!" Grimmjow roared and began pounding the floor. Well, he did until maggots started spilling out and attacking his arms. Then it was more of a yelp and a "WHAT THE FUCK OH SHIT GAAAAAH?!"

The curator sighed. "Hope was indeed too much to ask for."

"Aww don't be sad Ulqui Pulqui! Playtimes almost up!"

If it hadn't been for Lord Aizen's restrictions on release forms, Ulquiorra would have flattened the entire complex at that exact moment.

"Amazing...for once he's telling the truth." Starrk mumbled as he checked his watch. "Only fifteen minutes to go..."

"Aaaaaand ya know wha' that means!" Gin cackled and a horn sounded through the corridors.

It was at this point that Grimmjow literally shit himself. "Oh...oh god not again!"

"A-are you panicking?! Should I be panicking!?" Orihime squealed, not knowing why all three of her friends looked like they'd just saw Tousen taking a shower.

Ulquiorra was first to respond. "We have to move quickly."

Starrk nodded and Grimmjow looked at them in despair. "Y-you don't think he'd pull the same trick twi-..."

"Nope Grimmy!" They could taste the smugness in his voice. "This is the all new and improved Hunt 2.0! Cos there were too many livin' from the last one, I got Tousen to give me some scary beasties this time!"

In case they had any doubt that he could pull this off, a blood curdling howl echoed through the corridors. "...oh sweet Jesus no!"

The next fifteen minutes were all a blur for the ryoka girl. There were a few splashes of blood (in many colours), several shattered limbs, many many ceros and a boat load of pain. By the end of it all one thing was for certain; the most dangerous man alive was not Aizen or even the Soul Society's head captain, it was Gin Ichimaru with a corridor controlling device.

-That night in Aizen's pad-

"You all wished to speak with me?"

Orihime frowned and leaned towards Ulquiorra's ear. "But we didn't make an appointment so how did he know we were coming?"

"There's mics all over the place!" Gin answered for her, appearing out of thin air as usual. The group of espadas gave him a collective snarl.

Aizen hushed them with a wave of his hand. "Always a sceptic, aren't we Gin?"

"Not at all Captain Aizen, I just know ya better than the rest."

"YOU INSANE SON OF A FUCK I'LL KILL YOU!" Yammy roared and rushed forward at the grinning fox. Luckily Starrk knocked him out before he could hurt himself.

"Lord Aizen," Ulquiorra began, "we are here to make a formal complaint against Commander General Ichimaru."

"Oh?" Aizen said with mock surprise, "And why is that?"

"Well how's the fact that he killed over half the arrancar in this shit hole for a start?!" Grimmjow growled, eyeing up his superior with hatred and fear.

"Indeed because of him I'll have to find some new Fracción." Barragan sighed.

"His games also set my research back by at least three weeks." Szayel moaned. "Even after he had agreed to leave me alone."

Aizen turned to his lieutenant and frowned. "Games Gin? I thought you were on corridor duty?"

The silver haired man shrugged. "Well it was borin' and I needed stuff to liven it up."

It was Aizen's turn to sigh. "Gin we've talked about this. Senseless killings won't do here. We need every arrancar possible for our invasion force."

"Awww but I only killed the weak uns!" He protested then pouted. "Ya so mean sometimes!"

"Gin..."

"Back in the Soul Society ya never did this! Wha happened to my fav captain?!"

"Gin I..."

"Remember the ice cream n' the hollows? Now that was fun...!"

"Gin!" Aizen snapped , thoroughly irritated. Everyone else in the room started heading for the door. "This has gone on long enough! I can no longer turn a blind eye to your mischief."

The espada and Orihime shared a group high five while Gin shifted uncomfortably. "What's the punishment?"

"Hmm..." Aizen thought for a moment. Meanwhile the strongest arrancar each dreamed for either torture, execution and, in the case of Szayel, genetic experimentation. "Your chores shall be doubled for the next two weeks."

Everyone in the room bar the two commanders and the human stiffened. "But Lord Aizen, that means that Gin will..."

"Be on lunch duty and room cleaning duty on four separate days, yes Starrk."

"Well that's good right?" Orihime smiled and looked at her protector. The smile was quenched when she saw the look of utter despair written across his face. "R-r-right?"

"Oh don't worry Captain Aizen," Gin's face twisted into his trademark grin while the rest of them prepared their individual funerals, "I'll make it up to everyone I promise."

A/N: Another one done. Not entirely sure what to do for the next chapter so any suggestions would be awesome haha. Hope you all enjoyed it. Read, review and recommend :)