Hello again, it´s Shadow Typhoon.

Sorry for the delay. I have just been too lazy to write anything. And then when I finally sat down to write, I had to leave the computer again. But anyway, here´s the next chapter. Please enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, even if that´s my dream. But I do own my own character, Ryushiro.

Dark Ice

Chapter 12: Infiltration

By Shadow Typhoon

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Hitsugaya stood once again in front of Aizen. He was pretty nervous, so he couldn´t stand still. Aizen just smirked.

"Well, Hitsugaya, as you know, I have a mission for you. It includes both you and Ulquiorra."

Behind Aizen, Ulquiorra appeared and walked over to Hitsugaya´s side. He nodded and waited for Aizen to continue.

"This mission is pretty dangerous, but it is also very short."

What kind of dangerous mission would Aizen give me? Hitsugaya thought and waited patiently, even thought he craved for an answer.

"Well, let´s just hope it doesn´t involve shinigami" Ryushiro said. Hitsugaya agreed.

"I am going to send you to Soul Society"

Hitsugaya was speechless. His worst nightmare had just come true.

"You´ll have to sneak in and steal a special scroll. The sacred scroll. You´ll have to steal it from the secret library"

"Secret library?" Hitsugaya asked. He had never heard about it before.

"Of course, since it´s a secret library, no one knows about it. Except the soutaicho of cause."

Aizen then proceeded to explain the mission, and then finally, Ulquiorra and Hitsugaya were to go.

What am I going to do? I can´t contact Ukitake and explain him the situation, since I am going now. This is going to be a catastrophe. Hitsugaya thought.

"I´ll have to agree with you on this one, young one" Hyourinmaru growled.

Ulquiorra opened a garganta and they stepped through it into Soul Society.

"Let´s get to work" Hitsugaya said with a steady voice. If he did this properly, no one would be wounded or dead. Or at least he hoped.

Matsumoto was sitting in the tenth division´s office doing paperwork. Many were surprised at first, Matsumoto doing paperwork? But they became used to it.

She had just returned from the mission in the living world, so she had to do extra paperwork. She scribbled furiously on the paper, trying to forget all the unwanted thoughts.

She wanted to become a role model for the other shinigami. She wanted to become stronger, and she wanted all the other shinigami to become stronger.

So that they could defeat Aizen, Ichimaru and Tousen. To defeat all the arrancar and espada. And to defeat her ex -captain, Hitsugaya. She knew it would end like that- that all of them would be killed or executed if they survived the war. And this included Hitsugaya. She wanted to stop thinking of Hitsugaya like a friend and captain. Now he was her sworn enemy-one she had to defeat.

She wanted to kill him for making her feel like this. Desperate, suicidal, weak and lonely… Never would it happen again. Never. From now on, she would become stronger and stronger, so that no one could ever dream of betraying her again.

Or that was what she had said to the others, Kira, Renji, Rukia, Ichigo, and Hisagi. To make them think that she was strong. That she had overcome the loss and betrayal of her friend and former captain.

Deep inside she knew she was wrong. She could never think of killing Hitsugaya. And she could never forgive herself, if she did. Even if she was fighting him, she would try to convince him, that what he did was wrong. To convince him, that Aizen was evil. To convince him, that taking over the world was wrong.

It was a nice day, the sun shone outside and Matsumoto could hear birds sing. She leaned backwards. Right now, she was very content. But, of cause, this was soon spoiled.

A little Hell´s moth came flying and stopped in front of her.

"Matsumoto vice captain, an intruder has been sighted near the court of the pure souls. We need you and your division´s help immediately; the intruder seems to be an espada. "

She stood and marched out of the office. She got the rest of the division gathered, and soon they were off to the court of the pure souls.

Hitsugaya stood behind a shield which covered his reiatsu.

´Flashback´

"Firstly, you´ll have to distract them. Ulquiorra, you´ll have to gain their attention, so they won´t see Hitsugaya. I have made a special barrier, which only allows shinigami with a low reiatsu to pass. Ulquiorra has to hide behind that barrier. Captains, vice captains, 3. Seats, 4. Seats, 5. Seats and so on cannot pass the barrier. Only the weakest shinigami is able to pass the barrier. So it´s easy for Ulquiorra to defeat the weak shinigami. All the shinigami will be distracted." Aizen said.

"Then you can easily sneak into Seireitei and steal the sacred scroll. But before that, you have to hide behind another barrier, which disguises your reiatsu. When Ulquiorra starts to attack the shinigami and thereby distracting them, you can sneak in. After finding the scroll, you´ll have to send a signal to Ulquiorra, so he can retreat."

Aizen gave Hitsugaya a small blue box and a remote control. Or at least it looked like a remote control, but it was the signal for Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra got a green box. On the blue and green boxes there were small buttons, which would activate the barrier.

"Good look, you´ll need it" Aizen said and then dismissed them.

They stepped into the garganta and began their mission.

´End Flashback´

Hitsugaya was waiting patiently for Ulquiorra to begin the distraction. It was only a matter of minutes now…

Ulquiorra had just activated the green box barrier and was also waiting patiently for the shinigami to arrive. To think that they haven´t sensed him yet, what kind of enemy were they?

He sighed and took his hand up from his pocket. He held a small chain with a green gem. The gem was carved like an eye. The Quiorra heritage. He pocketed the gem and looked up. In front of him stood the entire 10. Division. Hitsugaya´s division, Ulquiorra thought. Now let the game begin…

Matsumoto stood in front of the pale espada. He wasn´t doing anything. He had his hands in his pockets and an almost bored look on his face.

Matsumoto raised Haineko and charged. But as she came close to him, she was blocked by an invisible force. She was blown backwards, but twisted her body and landed on her feet like a cat. She frowned. What did just happen? She thought. The espada didn´t do a thing, and yet I was blown backwards. How could that happen?

The third seat and the fourth seat charged as well, but they were also thrown backwards. Many shinigami repeated the same act with the same outcome.

Izumi Amaya, a newcomer who just graduated from the academy, charged as well, but she wasn´t thrown backwards. She passed the invisible barrier with a shocked expression and almost tripped from the surprise. But she forgot Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra stepped right next to her and punched her in her stomach. She was thrown backwards from the impact and hit the wall. She fell down and landed flat on her face.

Now Matsumoto got angry. She charged again and again at the barrier, but failed miserably. The few shinigami who could actually pass the barrier, got slaughtered by Ulquiorra. They were sent to Unohana, so that they could get healed.

But they had to continue. An enemy was an enemy. And every enemy had to be slaughtered or captured. That was the rules.

Meanwhile at Hitsugaya´s hideout…

He could hear some ruckus from the area where Ulquiorra was and decided that the time was right. He stepped out from the barrier, but kept it open. He hid his reiatsu, so it was hard to locate him. He then flash stepped towards the first division, where the secret library and the sacred scroll were located. He just hoped, that he didn´t meet any shinigami on his path, otherwise… The answer was on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn´t say, or rather, didn´t want to.

He sneaked into the first division. The corridors were like a labyrinth, mind manipulating and never-ending. The new recruits always had troubles with finding themselves in the complex division, and even the most skilled shinigami became lost from times to times.

He ran aimlessly around for some time, he didn´t know where the secret library was, how could he then find it? Wait a second, Hitsugaya thought, it´s a secret library. Of cause, I can´t find it by looking aimlessly, I´ll probably have to use my reiatsu. But if I do that, I will alarm the shinigami. But on the other side, I don´t know how long time Ulquiorra's barrier can hold the pressure. So I´ll have to do it. Even if it means, that I´ll have to fight some shinigami on my way out.

Hitsugaya then let his reiatsu leak and flow around. His reiatsu overwhelmed his sensed, almost like he was in a bubble. He felt every tiny particle of spiritual energy in the air, but no secret library. For another 10 seconds he looked but couldn´t find anything. But wait! There was something! It was behind a thick wall, protected by various spells and such. A very tricky illusion.

Hitsugaya flash stepped over to the secret library as fast as he could, knowing that the shinigami was tracking him down. There was no second to spill. He had to act fast.

He stopped in front of the hidden entrance, trying to figure out how to open it. He felt the bricks, tapping them to hear if one of them sounded different. Clank, clank, clank, click. Bingo, Hitsugaya thought and pushed the brick. The wall disappeared and revealed a giant door. He pushed it open and ran inside.

He ran past bookshelves, books after books and scrolls after scrolls, but nothing which seemed to be sacred. But then he saw it. It was inside a glass monitor, on a red pillow. He broke it and pulled it out. It seemed very old. He hid it under his clothes and decided to get out of secret library.

He ran past another bookshelf, but stopped abruptly.

There, in front of him, was a silver pendant. There was a dragon carved on it. There were small sapphires and diamonds on it too, the biggest gem as the eye of the dragon, but the eye gem was red as blood. It was an extremely beautiful handcrafted pendant, it shone in Hitsugaya´s eyes. It was almost like he had seen it before. But where? He didn´t know and didn´t have time to think. He shoved it into his pocket and ran out of the secret library.

Ulquiorra was doing well as an distraction. The shinigami still haven´t sensed Hitsugaya. The plan went perfectly fine. But unfortunately, as soon as he had thought that, it all changed.

Hitsugaya´s reiatsu flared up like a torch in the night. The shinigami´s heads snapped up, trying to locate the once friendly reiatsu. This included Matsumoto.

She looked dazed for a while, but then woke up. She called up a hell´s moth.

"We got an urgent problem. It seems to, that the former captain, Hitsugaya Toshiro, has been spotted. We need emergency backup. The emergency backup has to find and disarm the traitor, before he has done whatever he came for."

"Understood, Matsumoto vice captain!" Keep the espada at bay, while we catch Hitsugaya Toshiro"

"We will!" Matsumoto answered.

She turned back to face Ulquiorra. Back to work, she thought and charged again.

Hitsugaya was trying to get out of the first division, but he couldn´t. He was terribly lost. It was almost like the walls changed all the time, so that he couldn´t get out. Out of the corner of his eye, he actually saw a corridor change spot and direction.

"Damn, what am I going to do?" Hitsugaya thought with gritted teeth.

He could feel shinigami nearing, but he couldn´t do anything to avoid it. Just as his hope scrimped to a small walnut, he found a way to get out of the first division. He leaped out and ran towards his blue barrier.

The shinigami was nearing.

He pressed the button on the remote control wannabe and waited for Ulquiorra to show up. He only had to wait for a few seconds before Ulquiorra showed up. But so did the shinigami guards.

"Catch them!" one of them shouted and leaped forward.

Ulquiorra opened a garganta in a millisecond and stepped inside. Hitsugaya followed him and the last thing he saw, was the zanpukatou of the shinigami guard aimed straight at his face.

And then it all became black before he was in Las Noches again. Or more precisely, the throne hall. And Aizen was waiting. Now he could hear what exactly Aizen needed the sacred scroll for. And he feared for the worst…

Finally I have updated. And again, sorry for the delay. Every time I had to write anything, some fanfiction caught my eye, and I just had to read it. It´s almost like I´m addicted. "Starting to scream in panic"

Oh well, it´s not like I can do anything to change that fact. I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter.

Oh, as you can see in the beginning of the chapter, there is a small introduction. After reading tons of fan fictions, the most pleasant ones to read were always the ones with this kind of introduction. That´s why I am adding a similar introduction to every chapter in my fanfiction. Please enjoy it.

I won´t reveal anything about the next chapter, but it is going to be interesting. Oh, and this is my longest chapter up to date.

So until we see each other again, have pleasant dreams.

See ya

Shadow Typhoon.