Summary: She was making a deal with the devil as she watched her empire fall apart
Disclaimer:I do not own bleach
TI-ME:the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole
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Chapter 1
Thursday, January 5, 2014. 5:45am
"Ishida-kunnnnn!", screamed Orihime. Her high pitched, but yet demanding voice filled the small dim lit room, creating an intoxicating aura that was felt throughout the atmosphere.
They where in a secluded room in Orihime's office. A room reserved purposely for her disclosed meetings with the shadows, with only a dim light emitting from the wall, barely casting any light upon the fragments of faces that were scattered across the room.
Uryuu hurried back into the room for the umpteenth time, tending to Orihime's needs.
The auburn beauty tilted her head to the side as she gazed up at Uryuu, with hooded red eyes, making her request as a smile formed upon her lips. "These finee gentleman neeeeed some more vodka in theirrrrr cups. Go and pass mee some more Greyyaa Gooseee now will ya?" slurred Orihime, her face crimson red
He stared into her lost doe eyes, searching for any last hope of sanity in this women.
The room reeked of cannabis and alcohol, as he saw several plastic bags filled with weed, laid out across the round table. The strong odor created an unsettling feeling in his stomach as he could never quite understand how this young women could intake such high doses of cannabis a day.
He sighed to himself as he nodded back to her, silently but mentally letting her know that he would carry out her demands.
She smiled at him, and turned her ahead, adverting her attention back to the men.
Walking out of the room, Uryuu took a long deep breath as he thought about his companion.
To see his long time friend so far gone, so detached from this world, so
broken.
And it teared his heart into pieces as he saw what she had become, or rather what she was becoming.
But he couldn't blame her, no one could. He knew she was on edge, the savage look that was in her eyes, anxiety driving her mad, that she felt it. That they all felt it, and maybe that was the icing on the cake for her.
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They all were on their heels, all knowing the truth but no one wanting to approach the subject that the Inoue Empire was falling apart by the second; stocks plummeted, secrets were getting exposed, goods were getting stolen, lies were ripping them apart. So the gentle auburn beauty had changed so much, trying to save all what she had, doing anything in her power to keep this empire alive.
And Uryuu knew deep down in his heart that if anyone stood in her way, they'd
be x'ed out.
And maybe it was the madness, the savaged look in her eye, the desperateness, all the things that she was willing to give up.
That scared him the most.
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"Now gentlemen", breathed out Orihime as she passed the Grey Goose around the table. "I've had such a wonderful time tonight, sitting here with you all but I think its time that we get down to what we really came here for", she proclaimed as she starred at the group of shadows that sat before her, a serious demeanor now forming upon her.
She drew her blunt to her lips as she felt the smoke burn her trachea ever so lightly, a painful but yet such a comforting feeling. Dealing with shadows, you had to get your point out some way or another. You didn't want to be to aggressive but you also wanted to show them that you meant business. Gentle but yet assertive was Orihime's tactic, even though she hated sugar coating these men, but she had no time for games, as time was not in her favor.
"Soooo", she managed to say as she blew smoke out of her mouth
"We all know that the profit increase for this quarter has been drastically low, and I'm a little concerned about why the jobs that I have been assigning each and every one of you haven't been going so according to plan", said Orihime as she tossed her dead blunt to the ground.
A ghostly silence filled the room until finally someone spoke.
"Profits have fallen tremendously do to the recent hijacking of our trucks. We've been doing everything in our power to find out who is stealing our gems", spoke Jinata as he sat lazily in his chair.
"Is that all you have to say?", gritted out Orihime, her patience evaporating by the second. She had no time nor any tolerance for the lack of suggestions that her team currently were putting forth.
The room went quiet again.
"Are you all so possibly dumb that you think because of one fucking mess up, that were on the brink of losing everything!"
The shadows said nothing, as they feared the buxom beauty's wrath.
Someone spoke again. This time it was Mizuiro Kojima who tried to ease the tension that was now present in the room.
"Well due to the hacking of our data center , we've run into some technic..."
Mizuro stopped mid sentence, startled as Orihime banged her fist on the table; dangerous amount of heat radiating from her body.
"Now what exactly do you mean by technical difficulties, Mizuiro", the angered beauty gritted out of her teeth
"What happened to the net security shields that I whole heartily trusted Yukio and you to make sure were fully secure?", Orihime practically screamed at Mizuiro
Miziuro rubbed his forehead, trying to figure out the proper way to phrase what he was about to say next without receiving the wrath of his boss.
"Well the hard drive that was breached lost a value amount of our information. Were trying reboot our shields, encrypting them in firewall protection ten time stronger than the one that we currently have, strengthening them tremendously. We've been working on it diligently, but its taking longer that we had originally anticipated. It can be done, but we need more time ", Mizuiro declared
"Time", mumbled Orihime; more as if she was talking to her self then any of the people that were present in the room.
"Time", she said again as she adverted her eyes from the group of men and up towards the ceiling
She leaned back into her chair, closing her eyes as she lit another blunt, taking a drag an extensive drag. Everyone stood still as Orihime perched her feet onto the table, reclining back into her chair, leaning back lazily while, feeling the high take over her body.
The men starred at each other, all antsy and unsure of what would come next
Then finally, Orihime spoke
"Boys"
"Gentleman"
She opened both of her eyes and leaned forward with a smile pasted across her face.
"Time is of the essence, as it is not in our hands at the moment."
She paused suddenly, but then continued
"Time and us are running two different games here, two different codes of conduct. Time and us are in two different worlds overlapping as one. But somehow or someway, time advances with no sign of stopping, triumphing over us, defeating us at our own game. So I have one word of advice to you gentleman, don't depend on time to stand still, and wait for you to catch up."
Orihime sneered and took a sip of her half filled glass of vodka
"Because before you know it, time will sneak up like a thief in the night, and your time will be up."
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"So I ask you boys or maybe I should call you all shadows."
"Will you let time beat us at our own game?"
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Hey folks!
I hope you guys liked this chapter, I'm not to sure how I feel about it tbh; I've had so many ideas for this story but this one really felt like it was the right one. Anyhoww, this is the first of three installments(or maybe 2) of the Nirvana series. I'm excited to continue this story, but am a little hesitate because i really have no clue where i'm going with this story LOL, so leaving me a review with some sort of suggestion would be REALLY appreciated. I decided to give you guys this as a New Years treat since you all have been so supportive and friendly to me and just because i really love this story :] (despite me not knowing what i'm doing with this) lol im such a mess. I have no clue when the next time I'm updating, winter breaks almost up and classes will presume so my head will be in the books tryna get the gradess up. But i'll try my hardest to update maybe twice a month, no promises! I know this is like crazy long lol but I just wanted to get this out of the way before questions are asked. Last but not least, Ichigo will be making his appearance soon folks so be ready. Soo buckle up, relax and enjoy the show!
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