New King Chapter- 8
Holy crud. I'm back. Writers block got beaten down long enough for me to make this chapter. Hope this isn't boring, not my favorite chappie, but eh. Whatever. It's getting better, soon soon. Fyi, i'm sadistic and crazy. Just so you know.
I don't own Bleach.
"We have to move him sir." He's broken half the bars and is attempting to make his way through the kido barrier with his fists." a young low level shinigami explained to Yamamoto, who truthfully didn't like what he was hearing one bit. He never thought Kurosaki, or what ever inner hollow that was possessing Kurosaki would be so powerful. He hadn't gone to see the boy ever since his capture not two days ago, but he heard the reports. Destroyed cells, destroyed reiatsu inhibitors, and just about anything else that could possibly be destroyed, was.
Yamamoto sighed. This even surprised the messenger shinigami a bit. Pacing over to his large wood desk he looked back and said, "Alright. I'll have him removed from the 1st barrack cells soon. Just make sure he doesn't escape before that."
The shinigami nodded and ran out of the office like his life depended on it.
Pacing was the only way he didn't go insane. His knuckles were bleeding, but there were dents in the one wall that hadn't been covered in kido. Every time someone came by he pretended to be hitting the kido covered walls just to fool them. They were easy to fool all the same. After just an hour he figured out that a lower leveled shinigami came to check on him every five minutes, and a seated shinigami every twenty.
After two days, 3 walls, and a fourth pretty soon, he figured it couldn't get much worse.
Figuring that soul society would give him much more time alive anyways. He bet central 46 wanted him deader than dead. A hollow soul? A hollow soul wouldn't, and couldn't ever be accepted in the soul society, even if Ichigo Kurosaki was hidden in there somewhere. Hidden deep he was. After being captured he couldn't even hear his old king anymore. All he could here was Zangetsu's nagging about how 'beating on the cell walls will do nothing'.
Well in that respect, Hichigo believed that Zangetsu was dead wrong. If every time they came in and fixed the cell up, if they didn't have a captain come in and use some insanely powerful kido on him, he would of already escaped and been well on his way to ending Kuchiki's life and getting the life he believed he had deserved long before.
One mistake on the shinigami's part and he could be well on his way to freedom. Whoever said hollows weren't smart?
Footsteps nearing broke Hichigo out of his thoughts and he started hitting his fists to the kido strengthened and protected walls. But this time, it wasn't just a low level shinigami like was supposed to be showing up, it was Mayuri Kurotsuchi, Byakuya Kuchiki, and some other ranked shinigami.
"Hitting the wall won't do you any good Kurosaki. Or may I better address you as hollow." Byakuya icily stated, his eyes not even meeting Hichigo's yellow ones.
"For once, FOR ONCE. Someone has the brains to recognize that I'm not that wimp Kurosaki. I'm Hichigo Shirosaki." Hichigo mused, almost looking like a mental patient the way he was now staring at the ceiling. He thought, at least, the crazier he looked, and the less they would expect him to be able to think up or do.
"It doesn't make any difference to me what you call yourself hollow." Byakuya said, his tone just screaming deep-set anger. The reports had come in. His lieutenant had been killed by this abomination.
"You're being transferred hollow." A shinigami in the back spoke up, and by the reiatsu signature was probably a 3rd or 4th seat. "Transferred to some place where hollows really should be." He then spat.
Rolling his eyes, Hichigo met eyes with the shinigami that had spoke up. After receiving a glare that could unnerve most, the shinigami took a step back with out even knowing it. 'Good to know I'm feared.' Hichigo thought for a second, then looked at Kurotsuchi and aimed one question. "So where ya transferring me? Couldn't be much worse than here."
Kurotsuchi let out a chuckle and rolled his head back, then actually becoming the first person outside the cell to meet Hichigo's eyes. "You're my newest specimen! Yamamoto finally gave me permission to have you. And to think, if you hadn't created all this trouble up here, I might have never been able to convince him!" Kurotsuchi chuckled again and smiled widely, exposing all his teeth in hope of a reaction. A reaction, he wouldn't get.
The hollow side wasn't in the mood to react to Mayuri. Even though this guy freaked him out in a way he couldn't describe, he still wasn't going to give the scientist that satisfaction. That victory. That isn't to say there wasn't an ounce of fear coursing through Hichigo's veins currently. As there was. The hollow, through Ichigo's memories knew full well what the scientist did. The tests, experiments, the things that couldn't even be mentioned. Becoming a specimen of the squad 12 captain was not something to take lightly, even in the eyes of someone who was a bit insane themselves.
"Why exactly would you want me as a specimen? I thought I was just a hollow who needed to be got rid of. I would of thought that your opinion after you all figured out I wasn't weakling would be just to get rid of me." Hichigo said, not really believing much of this himself. Even though his overall composure was calm, he wasn't exactly calm. It was hard to make sense of Kurotsuchi and how he worked, and why Kurotsuchi did things was just another part of that.
Kurotsuchi stepped up a bit closer to the cell, also doing another thing that everyone else had been avoiding since their arrival outside the cell. "I don't feel the need to explain myself to you." He scoffed, somehow still keeping that amused expression throughout while he was speaking. "All you need to know is what cage or cell to sit in and when you need to wake up for tests."
Hichigo's expression darkened a bit and he attempted to raise his reiatsu just a bit more. But the new reiatsu suppressers they had put on him were just not allowing him to do so. Standing in a silent rage balling his bloodied fists he cursed out Kurotsuchi in his mind. Then imagining fifty different and unique ways to bring horror to the demented shinigami scientist while he was at it.
After this brought him a little peace his expression softened and he stared at Kurotsuchi with a renewed confidence. "Do ya think I care? Think up whatever ya want you crazy lunatic. I'm not helpless." he reminded the scientist. Even though he barely believed what he was saying.
Mayuri faked being tired in an almost flamboyant and incredibly sarcastic way by putting his hand on his head and giving one of the most fake yawns Hichigo had ever heard. "You tire me you know? But now maybe it's time for you to leave your nice little place here to go to your new home, which I'm sure you won't enjoy." with faked enthusiasm he clapped his hands together and moved backwards as Byakuya and a few other shinigami prepared to open the cell. Byakuya was only there because of his ability with kido, so he hung back until they where almost ready to open it.
Once they were seconds from opening it Byakuya walked up and held his hands out, chanting the incantation quickly. Once there was a hole in the kido, Hichigo went for it. Launching himself at Byakuya guarding the entrance Byakuya in turn finished the incantation and Hichigo was reduced to crashing down the floor with six beams of light constricting him and making it impossible for him to move. Clenching his teeth he struggled, but his persistent struggling was all but ignored. Two of the seated shinigami pulled him to his feet and put cuffs around his ankles, restricting any movement Hichigo could make with his feet other than a tiny step.
Being prodded forward he was lead along with Mayuri into lead, Byakuya not far behind, all while being surrounded by seated members. They all kept a fearful eye on him, even though he was excessively restrained. With reiatsu suppressors he couldn't break through the kido. With the kido he couldn't move his arms or even much of his legs, and the cuffs made it so all he could walk at was a very slow moving small step walk. Almost a shuffle.
Being led through dark hallways he would of much rather been running free through searching for the Kuchiki girl to kill infuriated him, but his expression remained the same the entire time. No showing of any emotions whatsoever. He inside his head though, was beyond pissed. Being restrained so easily and then being shipped off to evil scientist land was not in the escape plan.
After what may have been an hour of being led through various corridor and hallways, the only thing he knew was that it was underground. But he knew where he was going anyways, so all these extra precautions irritated him just a bit. Byakuya had left long before they had gone underground, so it was just Mayuri in the lead along with all the previous shinigami who had been there surrounding him. Stairs could be seen at the side of the corridor and this is where Mayuri came to a stop. Turning around he stared at Hichigo, but only staring at him like a scientist would inspect his specimen.
"I haven't used that passageway since my last prisoner turned specimen!" Mayuri stated. "Good thing I remembered the way, or we might have been stuck there for awhile..."
The shinigami surrounding Hichigo all simultaneously sweatdropped at the mention, as if they already weren't uncomfortable with the whole situation.
Mayuri grabbed a key and approached a door they wouldn't have even noticed if Mayuri hand been putting a key into it. The sound of old gears moving filled the silence until the door opened to the inside. The shinigami surrounding Hichigo took a step forward to go through the door but the scientist only stopped them with his hand outstretched. "No no." he told them like he was talking to little children. "You all can't come in here. Only the hollow is going any further."
Another simultaneous sweatdrop occurred as all those who had walked for the last hour remembered how far, and how dark the way back was.
Mayuri sighed. "I guess I have to be nice." He then grabbed something that seemed to be just behind the door. "This is a modified Jigokucho. It will lead you back." he told them, as he let it go. But as soon as it left his hand it went zooming off in the direction they came from. The shinigami raced after it right away, because if they didn't, they would be lost in the darkness of the tunnels.
Kurotsuchi chuckled and walked through the door. Hichigo with no other options followed.
The room he had brought into, was quite obviously were the scientist stored his specimens. Different cages and clear glass boxes were dominating the room. The specimens inside though, Hichigo wasn't sure on if they were dead or alive. Jars lined the walls on shelves, their contents better left unknown. The high ceilings complete with the constant sound of different systems and experiments that must still by some chance be alive.
The light was dim, but even in the light it would have been hard to make out the other exit in this pure madness. This even made Hichigo shiver a bit. Even more so to know that he would soon be a single piece of this madness.
Mayuri showed the way and went on and on about his various experiments in progress. Hichigo ignored him, though he did listen for any mention of the exit. The exit he knew would be the key to escaping this hell hole.
After walking not so long, lined up against the wall was 3 cells barely tall enough to stand in. Kurotsuchi motioned for Hichigo to go inside, but he just stood.
His patience had come to an end for mad scientists and he wasn't going to take any more direction from Mayuri as long as he could resist. Standing in one spot he did his best to look unconcerned and bored.
But Mayuri had also had enough, and enough was enough. Drawing his zanpakutou in a flash it was up at Hichigo's neck, a wicked grin crossing the scientist's features. "I wouldn't cross me now hollow. My blade is covered in a poison right now, so deadly if I even nick you with it, you will have to take an antidote every day to stay alive."
Pure raw fear went through Hichigo now as he considered being at the mercy of Mayuri for as long as he lived. Mayuri saw this, and of course was filled with joy. "Finally you show emotion." he mused.
Hichigo scowled deeply and if not for being cuffed, kido'ed and bring threatened with a poisonous blade he figured he would of already cero'd the scientist. "You're just full of surprises." the scientist said, pulling the blade away.
Stumbling blindly in the cell, Hichigo's mind raced as the door was shut and locked. The kido released and his arms were free again, though the cuffs at his ankles remained. Immediately trying a hard punch at the bars he realized something unfortunate. The cell bars were kido reinforced as everything else was. Sinking down to the floor, unintentionally Hichigo's hand went to his neck. He felt something sting and brought his hand up to inspect what was going on. On his hand was his own blood. Coming right from were Mayuri's blade had been pressed to his throat.
Hichigo had been fooled.
End of Chapter 8