"Is this it?"
"Yep…"
"Are we going to stand here all day then?"
"I really was hoping we run for our lives before she showed up."
"Nick, if you ever want to accomplish anything, you need to face your fears…or let me summon Big O."
"Big what now?" Phoenix asked, looking over at his brother with a confused look.
"Big O," Roger explained like it was no big deal. Phoenix had a blank look on his face as Roger suddenly became annoyed with him. "Giant…robot…"
"Oh…dude, how are you able to hide a giant robot in a town like Kurakara?"
"I have my ways…" Roger stated with a gleam in his eyes. Nick raised an eyebrow and sighed.
"…look, as much as I want to have her office to be destroyed via giant robot, there's no way I'll be able to pay that and the town's repair bills!" he sighed, before walking in.
"I'm still going to summon it if something goes wrong…hell we can use it to find out what happen to your girlfriend."
"Not my girlfriend, Iris is, but she's in jail at the moment so I can't do anything about that right now," Nick sighed.
"Wait…wouldn't that make you single and cheating on her?" Roger asked with a bemused look.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Nick asked, looking insulted from that comment.
"You were the one who was drooling over your dead mentor!" Roger said like he was right…which he might be. Nick just gapped at him, causing him to add, "…am I not right?"
"I-I was just happy to see her again! T-that's all!" Nick stuttered, a blush on his face. "I'm just worried about Maya at the moment…wonder if she avoided that fight that Mia was talking about…" he muttered as the elevators doors opened to reveal a certain whip-wielding prosecutor. "…oh shit…"
- - -
"Oh god, I'm full!" Maya sighed contently as she leaned back in her chair, Renji doing the same.
"Ichigo is so going to kill us once he finds out…" Renji muttered, recalling that Maya had practically inhaled at least four courses AND half of the desert that they had been planning on sharing with some of the others.
"If he finds out," Maya pointed out, laughing a bit.
"How are you still skinny??" Renji asked, looking over at her skinny frame.
"Some people believe I have four stomachs like a cow!" Maya smiled like it was nothing. "And they might be right…" Renji gave a stare that made him wonder if she really was a Fey or not. "So, what were we talking about before we got distracted?"
"About the recent events of what happened, here in the Soul Society, how Aizen and two other captains abandoned and betray the Gotei 13," Renji answered.
"And Ichigo was the one who fought him along with you?"
"Yep; right now we're just resting and figuring out what he's going to do next," Renji answered.
"Wow, tough break for everyone," Maya sighed before grinning. "Maybe I can help out somehow!"
"Wait, you don't even know what's going to happen or how it went all wrong," Renji pointed out.
"Neither do you, but I could at least run around and get some info from everyone, find out what happened or if they have any info about this item, right?" Maya counteracted. Renji looked doubtful at this as Maya added, "Then we could combine both of our info and find out what probably did happen!"
"Right! Let's go investigate!" he stood up proudly before realizing something. "Crap, I need talk to my captain about this. Or at least ask him for any info. Not sure how he'll react to a Fey member asking," Renji explained, Maya nodding.
"You probably know him better than I do and I'm not really used to the whole Noble thing yet (even though it sounds cool)," she answered, standing up. "Let's go!"
What appeared to be several hours later:
Maya was walking out of one of the buildings, waving goodbye to a pink-haired girl. "Man this is a lot of stuff," she sighed, looking at her notes, which appeared to be endless. "Better than nothing I guess…ok, I talked to a drunk guy and his assistant and best friend with long white hair, Toshiro, another guy with white hair, and Matsumoto. Who else did I talk to? Oh right! Some guy with glasses and some Mexican guy."
"Maya!" a voice called out, causing her to look over and wave.
"Hey, Renji, how did it go?"
"It went fine til Ichigo and Orihime showed up looking for Rukia," the redhead sighed. "Sounds like they're about to leave soon so we'll have to talk to them before they leave for the human world. Ready to go?"
"Yep! Just talked to that little girl in there," she nodded happily pointing over towards the building she came out of. Renji looked over and nearly paled. "What?"
"Let's just leave before Kenpachi comes back," Renji stated, quickly picking her up and running off. "Sorry for having to do this!"
"It's fine!" she said, practically blushing again though she wasn't sure from what. Then again, Ichigo was doing this earlier, but he really never gave a reason why that time, she considered before remembering it was because Kenpachi was chasing after him and apparently would've fought or made her road kill if Ichigo hadn't rescued her.
"We are so d-" Renji started to say before it was drowned out by,
"RENJI! You're heading for Ichigo aren't ya?!" a voice boomed out from the other side of the road behind the two.
"HOLY SHIT! HYPERSPEED!" Maya spat out spotting the spiky haired man in the distance (who wouldn't with that hair style and demonic smile?). "Or whatever you call it!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!"
"Oi, Renji, what the hell are you doing?" one of the guys Maya talked to, who was adjusting his glasses, asked.
"Avoiding crazy-man's attempt of killing and/or fighting us?" Maya offered, the man nodded and started running.
"Did you really have to pick up the girl?" he asked, looking at Renji.
"Hey, we were on our way to talk to Ichigo and we figured this was faster…" Renji explained, Maya nodding also.
"Unfortunately, I just came out of that building there so…" she added pointing over at the building before Renji turned the corner. "Plus, it was mainly bad timing on my part too, I guess…do you know of a place that serves burgers?"
"Say what now?!" the man asked, blinking in surprised by the last comment.
"ARE YOU STILL HUNGRY?! We just ate like five hours ago, and you had twice as much as I had!" Renji yelled.
"Wait what?!" Uryu, since this author is being annoyed by the fact that we keep calling him 'the man' when there's a freaking maniac right behind them and Renji that could also be identified as that, asked, gapping at them.
"Long story short: I possibly have many stomachs!" Maya concluded happily before frowning. "And are you calling me fat?"
"N-no?" Renji hesitated, not sure how to answer a Noble…even if Maya didn't act like one.
"Liar!" Maya teased, laughing a bit. "Nick questioned that a lot too…wonder how he's doing…"
- - -
"OH GOD WHY?!" Nick shouted as a light blue haired woman whipped him as he curled up on the ground, his brother curled up into a ball as well. "I blame you for this!"
"I'm the one who had to deal with my sunglasses dying again!"
"Should I even care about-"
"SHUT UP YOU FOOLISH FOOLS OF FOOLISHRY!" Franziska yelled at them, whipping even faster.
- - -
"I'm sure he's fine!" Renji reassured her, Uryu raising an eyebrow. "Some friend of hers in the human world. She just came and well…she's like Rukia, but not a Shinigami."
"Wait so you mean like she's a noble?"
"Apparently…" Renji and Maya shrugged, both not seeming to believe the fact that Maya was part of a noble family and the fact that she remembered what happened before she crossed over.
"So…shouldn't she be carried some other way?" Uryu asked, smirking lightly.
"What do you mean?" Renji asked, oblivious to what Uryu was implying. Maya shrugged once more before blinking.
"Um…can Kenpachi make himself faster?"
"…why?"
"Because he's about a few feet away from us," Maya answered, Renji quickly speeding up. "Do you even know where you're going??"
"Of course I-" Renji started to answer before running into a dead end. "…don't…"
"…crap…" Kenpachi, Maya, Yachiru, who was riding on Kenpachi's back, and Renji sighed.
"…Ichigo and Orihime are this way…imbeciles," Uryu said, before Renji and Kenpachi faced towards him with an evil gleam in their eye. "…oh boy."
A few minutes later, Uryu was running at high speed from Kenpachi and Renji, both of them carrying Yachiru and Maya respectively. Uryu was screaming his head off as he ran towards Ichigo, an orange-haired girl, and a short black haired girl that were standing next to a giant tower.
"Well there's Uryu and Ren-KENPACHI?!" Ichigo started to say before starting to run off also. "Not in the mood to fight, thanks! We're just about to leave!"
"Not even a practice round?" Kenpachi yelled as he stormed after him, his passenger laughing along side him. Uryu dived out of the way, and then proceeded to faint.
Renji just slowed down and collapsed onto his bottom, Maya falling over onto her face then her side. "I'm alright," she sighed, rolling over so Renji could lie down also.
"Renji, what are you doing?" the black haired girl asked, looking somewhat annoyed.
"Resting….too…much…running…from Kenpachi…and after Uryu…" Renji replied, with an equally annoyed look.
"Breaks are good…" Maya muttered, agreeing with Renji, causing some weird looks headed that way. "I think the kid's talking my ear off is either getting to me or something else…" she explained, rolling over to her stomach.
"Maybe your stomachs are finally catching up to ya," the red-head man laughed, lazily whacking her on the head with his fist. "Oh yeah, Rukia, mind if we ask you what happened when you went to the human world and right before it?"
"Why?" the black haired girl blinked in surprised, as Maya looked over. She certainly holds herself high and from what Renji had told her, Rukia was adopted into the noble family. Maya felt about the size of a flea despite the fact that she was possibly taller than the girl.
"We figured that if we piece together what happened, we can find out what happened or when Aizen betrayed us."
"And who is she?" Rukia asked with a look that could be called a glare (seeing how this author always sees her with a sour look, I wasn't sure if it was a glare or if she was just born like that.)
"Someone who's worked with a defense attorney and knows about getting to the truth!" Maya injected, almost shouting "Hold it!" or "Objection!" like Nick. Renji and Rukia blinked, obviously confused. "…someone who helps defend people when they're charged with crimes."
"Oooh!" they stated, now with bright eyes like she just told them the meaning of life. Or in this case why Aizen betrayed them.
"Now we got that established, tell us what you know!" Maya said, sitting up and grabbing the notes she somehow managed to hold onto. Renji raised an eyebrow confused on this concept as well. "…Court Record," she answered, like it was as easy as two plus two. They just nodded like it was a normal thing in the real world. Rukia then proceeded to explain the events of what occurred when she left for the real world.
- - -
"…oh so you're Roger…I need your help in this foolish case!" Franziska stated, the men on the ground groaning. "GET UP!" she shouted, starting to whip them again.
"Franziska! Please, stop!" Phoenix groaned as he rolled away and stood up. "Listen, I'm not in the mood for this, and frankly, my brother has a GIANT EFFING ROBOT that's ready to attack this building if you don't stop!" That caused the prosecutor to stop for a moment as Roger got up and pulled back his sleeve revealing a watch.
"I'll do it!"
"…fine. Let's head for the office…hopefully that gave enough time for him to get enough relaxation time," she grumbled, walking into the elevator.
"Ten bucks says that it's someone you know," Roger glared at Nick, cursing under his breath. Nick was just lightly dusting himself off as he raised an eyebrow coolly.
"I-"
"GET YOUR ASSES IN HERE!"
"GAH!" they both yelped running into the elevator.