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Chapter 5: Embarrassment

Miaka's mouth fell open at his words and looked at Szayel in disbelief. "Excuse me?"

Szayel looked at Miaka over his clipboard. "Please, remove your shirt. I have to take measurements, take your blood pressure and all that," he explained.

Miaka hesitated, but did as she was told, all the while her cheeks burning the color of Seika's hair.

Szayel did his little tests before moving on to other, more important tests. " Please remove all clothing except your bra and underwear. I need to test you for your strength, abilities, blood, and your over all physical and mental condition," he explained to her.

If at all possible. Miaka's cheeks grew about ten shades of red darker. "T-t-t-to my bra and p-p-panties?!" she asked skeptically.

Szayel sighed and turned around, facing away from her. "I'll be waiting for you to tell me when you are ready to begin the test. Just don't take too long, I also have to test your friend, too," he said and walked over to the big screened computer.

Miaka looked after him and sighed in great embarrassment. 'This sucks! This really fucking sucks!' she thought as she undressed before lying down on the table he had indicated to her earlier.

"I'm ready," she said meekly.

"Alright then, I'm beginning. Stay still," Szayel replied from the computer.

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Seika sat in the lab room surrounded by what seemed to be Szayel's fraccion. They were constantly bugging her with questions, such as 'How old are you?', 'What's your special ability?', and the one that pissed her off the most, 'Are you single?'. Seriously, couldn't these 'arrancar' tell she wasn't interested in any of them? Seika sighed and ignored them until the door from the testing room opened and Miaka and Szayel walked out together. She noticed that Miaka's face was flushed and she seemed like she was about to pass out.

'You look flushed. What the hell happened in there? Did he ravish you?' she asked opening the link.

'N-no! He just did some experiments like a normal doctor would for a check-up, only he also checked for mental things,' Miaka explained. 'Of course, he does ask for you to take clothes off for some tests.'

'Ah, so that's why you're embarrassed. Great, just what I needed, embarrassing moments…Too bad this is required or I'd have never agreed to it in the first place,' Seika sighed.

Miaka looked at her with a guilty look. 'Sorry, I brought you into this.'

'It's not your fault, so don't apologize. I chose to stay here by your side, by my own free will,' Seika said and closed the link.

Miaka nodded her understanding before walking off into the hall.

"Seika, you're next," Szayel said switching out clipboards.

Seika followed him into the room and waited for her own torment to start.

"Remove your shirt, please," he said, and Seika did as she was told.

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As Seika stripped down to her bra and panties for the last test, she stopped when she heard the door open and saw Grimmjow stop in mid-step in the doorway.

Their eyes locked and they stared at each other for a brief few moments.

"What is it that you want Grimmjow?" Szayel asked.

Grimmjow tore his gaze away from Seika to look at Szayel. "There is a tres cifras here to see you," he replied.

"Oh, I'll see them when I'm finished. I'm almost through here. Please, wait outside," Szayel said and turned back to the screen.

Seika let go of the breath she wasn't aware she was holding once Grimmjow left.

'Did that really just happen? He looked back at me as he was leaving..' she thought, and continued what she was doing. "I'm ready."

"Then let's continue. Stay still, this will only take a few moments."

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When the test was over and Seika was dressed, they both walked out into the main lab to see Grimmjow standing by the doorway, and another female arrancar sitting where Seika had been while waiting on Miaka to finish.

"Szayel-sama," the female said and stood up when she saw him.

"Grimmjow, could you take Seika to her room?" Szayel asked, and waited for them to leave before talking to the girl.

Seika's face was on fire as she followed behind Grimmjow. He was walking slowly, and she could tell that he wanted to say something. "You know, if you have something on your mind, you should say it instead of holding it in."

She didn't see his reaction, but she was sure he had a look of surprise on his face before he spoke, "You know, you're an interesting girl."

"…..And you're commonly misunderstood," Seika said, her gaze on the floor. Without realizing it, she bumped into Grimmjow, and fell back. He caught her by the arm before she could do hit the ground, and pulled her back up, inches from his face.

"How do you do that?" he asked angrily.

She was so close to him, she could feel his breath on her face and she grew weak as she looked into his eyes. She had pegged him right on the mark. "I don't know, it just comes to me naturally," she replied.

He searched her eyes for a moment and then released her. "Hmph, you're pathetic," he said and walked off.

The rest of the way to her room was silent, and when she was about to step into the room, Grimmjow moved his arm to the other side of the doorway, blocking her path.

She looked up at him with an icy glare, which he returned. "Keep an eye out for the tres cifras, if they notice that ability," he started but was cut off by Seika.

"It's called empathy."

"Whatever, just don't use any of your abilities in front of them. They are dangerous and maybe even planning something. So be careful," Grimmjow finished and them stalked off quickly down the hall.

Seika walked into her room and closed her door. A smile spread across her lips. 'Well, that was interesting.'

'Seika?' she heard Miaka's voice in her mind as the link opened.

'Yeah?'

'Did you read anything about tres cifras?'

'Why?'

'Szayel-sama, warned me about them and using my powers around them.'

'From what I read, the tres cifras are arrancar with three digits. They are arrancar demoted from the rank of espada, and are known as privaron espadas because they are fallen espada.,' Seika explained.

'So they used to be espada?' Miaka asked.

'To put it simply, yes. They used to be espada, and now they are no longer espada, and cannot take a number eleven through ninety-nine, they are given a three digit number, proving their former glory as an espada even more.'

'Wow, so they got demoted. Was it because they were weak?'

'No, they are still powerful, because they used to be espada. They were more than likely demoted when Sosuke Aizen entered Hueco Mundo and took control. He created more powerful arrancar that were closer to a Vasto Lordes, than the previous espada, and also because some earned the demotion due to disloyalty, or did something to get them demoted,' Seika said.

'Wow, that's little confusing but I think I get it. Thanks, you really know how to explain things,' Miaka said.

'Miaka?'

'Yeah, what is it?'

'……Never mind,' Seika said and closed the link.

Seika looked down at the floor and leaned against her door. How was she ever going to tell her best friend that meant the world to her, that she was falling in…love? And with an Arrancar Esapda at that? Seika sighed and walked over to the bed, falling on it like a dead weight. 'What do I do…?' she thought before she drifted off into a not so peaceful sleep.

That night, Seika dreamt of Miaka and how she was going to join Sosuke Aizen, Souske Aizen plotting something, anything, to get her to join, and of…..

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So who or what do you think Seika's dreaming about?! And what's the deal between Miaka, Seika, Grimmjow, and Szayel?

Hopefully you'll find all that out in the next chapter, Chapter 6!