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The Hospital

The body covered by a white sheet wheeled in with a medical staff behind it into an operating room. The staff fully geared exchanged a few words then uncovered the sheet. A nurse by sighed at the sight.

"He looks just like my child. Poor thing he was so young."

"No comments you. We are here to do an autopsy."

"Hai, gomen nasai."

The leading doctor took out his saw and turned it on and went towards the boys sternum. He laid it on and began to cut when the boy let out a shriek. They all looked back at him astonished and the man yanked the saw out of him. The boys eyes scurried around wide eyed to every corner of the room to every face. Once nurse fainted and another ran out. The old women took action and grabbed the equipment necessary to stop the bleeding and soon the physician helped out as well. The old women went over to Sōsuke and softly brushed his hair comforting him.

"It's alright dear, everything is going to be alright now."

"Call his family right away!"

At the beach . . . .

Grimmjow and Rangiku still sat where their loved one had laid hours ago in his last moments. Their faces were blank and dark from their sadness. Their eyes were swollen and pink from the tears and their throats dried out from their wails in mourning his death.

The bluenette inhaled deeply and got up. He went over to the sister and encouraged her to raise up as well but she just became more and more infuriated every time that Grimmjow tried to help her up, till she pushed him and began to yell violently at the teen and ultimately falling into his arms broken.

They heard a phone go off and Rangiku looked to her phone and saw it was the hospital and answered the phone quietly and held the phone to her ear. In the next moments the phone fell from her hands and she ran to her car. Confused Grimmjow grabbed her phone and ran after her.

He hitched a ride with her to what was the hospital and followed her as they rushed in. When inside they went to the front office and were told that the boy that had died in Grimmjow's arms was not dead.

"Well, can we see him?" Asked the frantic sister.

"No you can't right now." The women said behind the desk

"Why the fuck not!" Yelled a furious Grimmjow "Why the fuck can't we see him right now!"

"Because he's in surgery!" the women yelled back

"Surgery? Why is he in surgery? He had more damage to him than we thought?" Asked Rangiku fear lacing her voice,

"Well, I am afraid that while the boy was thought dead he was to undergo and autopsy and well during it he woke up."

"So you guys sawed into him! Oh man I am going to fuck up whoever did that to him! Where's the mother fucker at! Oh when I find him I am goin' to fuck him up!"

"SIR! Calm down or I am going to have to ask security to escort you out!" The attendant yelled over the fuming teen

". . . Fine, but I better be able to see him right away!"

The bluenette said stomping off to the waiting area to sit next a little girl who stared up at him in curiosity. He glared down at her with death ridden in his scorn eyes, which earned him a wail of fright to erupt from the small child. Ultimately calling the mothers attention and grabbing her child, while planting a good smack on the teens face.

Rangiku giggled at the sight and went over to sit next to Grimmjow. She planted her bottom on the seat and let out a hefty sigh and hunched over in her seat. Then a mighty shiver flowed throughout the busty women's body leaving it covered in goosebumps. She wrapped her hands around her torso, rubbing her biceps to warm them.

"Here. You probably need this more than me."

Grimmjow said wrapping a button up shirt around Rangiku. She looked in his direction, nodded and accepted the cloth and wrapped it around herself. After a moment of silence she stared in the teens direction curiosity hinting her lovely features.

"So how did you know Sōsuke? I mean he's never mentioned you before . . . well he actually has never mentioned anyone before, now that I think about it."

"Oh, well I just met him at the beach and we hung out. I've never seen him before that."

"So you guys have just become friends and your this, this committed to him already?"

"Well, I'm not going to leave him now. . . . it's the least I can do after letting him die—"

"You mean 'almost die'"

"Yeah, well I feel really bad a-and . . ."

The blue haired teen trailed off recalling the sight of the lifeless body of his new friend. The pain he felt in his chest at seeing the empty brown eyes staring back at him. The way his skin paled and the frostiness that touched the surface of his body. Grimmjow's eyes glazed over at the memory and shook his head to rid himself of the terrible thought. He turned to Aizen's sister and looked her dead in the eyes with a terribly serious face.

"Rangiku, I promise you from now on . . . I will protect Sōsuke with my life. I will treat him as though he were my own little brother. I made a vow to myself and I will make the same to you, as his elder sister. If anything ever happens to him while under my care. T-then I do not qualify to be his friend, or anything that should have the privilege to associate itself with Sōsuke."

Rangiku stared in misbelief at the man. What kind of person vows their life to protect someone they have just met? It just seemed insane! But after a moment of hesitation and thought she nodded her head with complete confidence in this man she barely knew. He just seemed trustworthy.

In the operating room the surgeon had finished up and ordered everything to be cleaned up. He went out the door through some double doors, through another set of double doors, to reach the final pair of double doors, upon which entered to the prepping area and past some rooms to reach a door that lead to the lobby and waiting area. He turned in his clip board to the receptionist behind the counter and exchanged a few words with her to have a hand pointed towards a pair of people asleep in the corner huddled under a blanket. The doctor walked over to them and shook softly. The man awoke with a start, but the women did not seem to even nudge. The blue haired man looked around dazed then rubbed his eyes and stared up at him after a moment.

"Uh, are you here for Sōsuke Aizen?"

"Yes! How is he? Can we see him? Is it that bad? Were you the fucker that cut into him?"

"Sir, please calm down. He is fine and is just resting up now and well he will have to stay here for tonight and from that we will see if he will need to stay a little longer for more medical help. . . And no, I was not the one who cut into him."

"Can we see him?" Rangiku's voice rang in.

"Well you can see him, but most likely he'll be asleep still from the anesthetic."

"Okay then. What the hell are we still doing here? Let's go see him." Grimmjow said jumping on his feet.

"Very well then."

The doctor led them to the room and both faces took a look of sadness. Rangiku ran to her brothers side and grabbed his hand. Grimmjow walked over slowly to the other side looking up and down Aizen's body. The doctor left, giving them their privacy. They sat down watching the brunette's chest rise and fall. Grimmjow squeezed his lifeless hand and brought his head down to rest his head next to Aizen's hand.

They stayed there till they were forcefully kicked out.

Aizen's eyes moved crazily under his eyelids when they suddenly opened to see white. He closed his eyes again as he tried getting up. He was pushed back down as an aged women's voice resounded from the left of him. He took the advice and relaxed into the bed, but he did manage to crack open his sore eyes again. To the left stood an old nurse tinkering with the machines that were apparently connected to him. Then to the right stood a chair and a nightstand with a land, behind that was a window covered with curtains. His gaze fell back towards the old women and he re-booted his mind to operate.

"E-Excuse me . . . where am I?"

"Oh dear. You're in a hospital my child."

" . . . Why?"

"Well, you chart says you . . . drowned and . . . died but resuscitated at the hospital during an autopsy and had to undergo surgery to reconnect your sawed threw sternum."

Aizen looke down towards the bandaged portion of his torso and dragged a hand across the bandage remembering what had happened. "That explains why I woke up in that odd place with a huge pain."

"You poor dear. Would you like to eat something?"

" . . . I suppose some nutrients would be good idea."

With that the nurse left him to fetch him some food. The teen closed his eyes in silent thought as he tried to recall all that happened. Suddenly it all came flooding back in a ravenous flurry, giving him a major headache just as the women came back in with his food.

"Oh! Do you have a headache? It's common to have some affects from surgery. Here this should make you feel much better."

She said placing his food on the table and adjusting his morphine levels a little. She then fixed the table and placed his food on it in front of Aizen to eat.

He looked down towards the food in suspicion. Eggs, apple sauce, toast, juice, bacon, and pudding? He shrugged and grabbed the pudding and began to eat it. The old women smiled at him in contentment then sat down next to him. Sōsuke looked over at her with curious eyes before speaking.

"How long was I out?"

"Oh only for about a day my dear. No worries. Just rest."

". . . has my sister came to see me at all?"

"Oh! You mean Rangiku-san? Oh she is a precious child. She practically lives here. She refuses to leave unless kicked out of course."

"Oh . . . that's nice to hear."

"Yes and another person. Oh what was his name?"

At that Aizen's eyes grew wide and he leaned over to hear. The old women looked up in deep thought.

"How did he look like?"

"Well he's quite handsome and is built and has blue eyes and . . . blue hair and he—"

"Grimmjow?"

"Yes,Yes! That was his name! Grimmjow Jeagerjaques?"

"Yes. So he's been coming to see me as well?"

"Yes. He is always with your sister. Waiting and sometimes causing some fuss to just stay with you a bit longer. But I would let him stay, because I could see how much he cared for you. Are you two best friends?"

Aizen was taken aback at the comment and thought. They had barely met and Grimmjow was acting like they had known one another for the longest time. He didn't know how to react to all he was hearing.

"You could say so."

"Oh that's nice to have a friend like that. You don't find many like that nowa'days. I would hold onto him as long as I could. I would cherish a friendship like that for a lifetime."

The old women said leaving as the door opened to reveal his elder sister and shortly after, his to be best friend.