Aizen's Kingdom
~ Blocked Passage~
While Ichimaru still felt comfortable around Isshin and his old fukutaicho, truth was he couldn't help but feel some sort of tension between them and him. It wasn't that they disliked him coming there, but the tension obviously resulted from the fact that Shiba Taicho and Tomo Fukutaicho were honestly worried about them.
He left for his division, his footsteps falling on the wooden floor, not really wanting to know what other changes had occurred between the two worlds simply because Aizen could manipulate things. He also didn't want to think of the fate of Hinamori Momo either, because he knew that the man could be very sick and twisted if he wanted to.
Arriving at the fifth division, Gin opened the door and stepped into the office, raising up a hand. "I'm back!"
At that, Shinji glanced up, his hair long like it was during his captaincy. "Honestly Gin, stop copying me."
It was then that particular captain went and began to pick his nose, while glaring at the ceiling like an idiot. Ichimaru shook his head. "Don't you think it is Shiba Taicho who is copying you? I mean, he does what you are doing right now when he wants to annoy people."
"Well, I do it with more flare, so while he does in fact copy me, I am the supreme at this." The blond haired man continued to pick his nose. "Maybe the two of us should have a nose picking contest."
"So... what missions to you have for me to do?" The sliver haired man slid into his desk, only to suddenly frown at the level of paperwork there.
At that, Shinji paused with his finger in his nose, mid pick. "Look... Gin, I've talked to you about this before. You're stuck at desk duty because you're a pain in the neck and it is the one way I am allowed to keep you as my fukutaicho. Yes, captains are allowed to choose their subordinates, but you are causing me no end of worry."
"I'm guessing that this is Aizen's request." Ichimaru picked up the first form, his mouth twisting up in major distaste.
"Lord Aizen. Not that I think he deserves the name. I much would rather have a Lord and King you talk about in that made up world of yours. Honestly, not all of us are lucky enough to retreat there." Shinji paused for a few seconds. "Everyone knows that Aizen is worried about you teaming up with Urahara and Yourichi because you are delusional that they are bad guys."
"Why are you telling me this?" Ichimaru raised an eyebrow suddenly, confusion spreading on his face.
"I know you're in one of your funks now." Shinji said, glancing at the ceiling. "Isshin doesn't pick his nose in this world." At that, Gin found his entire body freezing up, and then he glanced down at the desk. It was the man who instead continued. "Aizen wasn't the one who barred you from leaving Soul Society, or desk work, I was."
"I think you know I am going to have to ask you why." The silver haired man let out a deep sigh.
"I've already lost Hiyori. She died when Urahara and Yourichi supposedly killed Yamamoto and Kyoraku Taicho. Nearly everyone in that room died and it was a bloody mess." The man let out a deep sigh at that point.
"You were one of the survivors, as was Lisa, who has now retired due to the stress of seeing her captain killed like that. Hachigen, whose taken over the Kido corps. Mashiro, whose in the forth division now." The blond haired man then looked at Gin. "While your problems started about fifteen, twenty years ago, your story was the only one that didn't match up to Urahara being the instigator."
"Did you lose Aikawa, Otoribashi and Mugurama Taicho too?" Ichimaru asked, not liking where this was going.
"Kensei was away on a mission at the time, so he's still around. He rather reluctantly sent Mashiro to work in the forth division because her mental state was beyond repair and he didn't want her kicked out. This Hisagi Shuhei is now Kensei's fukutaicho and they actually work well with each other, but he still misses her."
The man then narrowed his eyes. "Stop changing the subject. Everyone chalked up your difference in story due to your young age and the fact that Aizen and Tousen were the ones to come in afterwords, you jumped for awhile to the conclusion that they were the ones that had done the massacre." Shinji glanced at the ceiling. "Sometimes I wonder if what you said though was the truth."
However, it was at this point in time that the alarm system went off.
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