Chapter 2: Hypnosis
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A few days passed quietly, and quickly. Ichgio continued to stay in his room, but this time when his friends came he let them in.
Rukia knocked angrily on his door. "ICHIGO YOU LAZY BUM! GET OUT HERE WE KNOW YOUR IN THERE." She shouted at him.
When Chico's door creaked in, she stomped in. Renji followed chuckling, but also saying a playful "I'm sorry."
Rukia proceeded to scold him on how 'shutting himself in is bad for his skin' and how 'she only had Renji to hang out with.'
"Listen, I'm sorry, I have been sad after my boyfriend left."
"Your boyfriend left?" Renji asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah. You didn't know?" Ichigo said, scratching his head. Rukia kicked him. "How are we supposed to know, if, per say, YOU DON'T TELL US!" She said holding Ichigo down on the floor with her foot.
"Please let me up…" Ichgio cried out in slight pain.
Rukia gave an evil smile. "No. I think I need to stashe you. What do you think Renji?" She said turning to her boy-friend. He nodded in agreement.
"Renji! You're supposed to be on my side!" Ichigo said as Rukia's marker got closer to his face. "Sorry man, you kind deserve it." The red head said smiling evilly along with Rukia.
Soon Ichigo's face met the black end of the marker, and had his own mustache.
"Might I say, you did a fine job, Rukia." Renji said trying not to laugh.
Ichigo, attempting to wash off the marker, frowned at the sink. "You guys suck." He said angrily.
"Well it's your fault, sorry to admit it." Rukia said sticking out her tongue at him.
Ichigo sat on the couch. "I'm really not in the mood to talk, so let's not." He pulled his knees up to his chest.
Rukia and Renji looked at each other, surprised. She pulled him over to the corner and wisped in hushed voices.
Ichigo looked at them, sighed and went to the fridge, pulling out a Coke. When he returned, Rukia and Renji had as well. "Ichi, we think you should see someone. Like a doctor. We might be overreacting, but you're never like this. You blocked us out for a long while, and you're just not yourself. Please, don't lock yourself out. Or in, or whatever!" She said throwing her hands up. "Just see someone, alright? Me and Renji have to go, but don't think that were letting you off the hook. We came over because we are worried about you. Don't do this to yourself."
Ichigo nodded, eyes distant, and took a drink of his soda. Rukia looked at her watch and ushered Renji out of the room. "Find someone Ichigo."
And with that, they were gone.
Ichigo stayed where he was on the couch, but soon stood up and went across the room, through the door, and to the doctor across the hall.
If he is not there I will tell Rukia I tried, if he is… please don't be there. Please don't be there. Ichigo thought. He could just lie to Rukia, but it didn't feel right.
He gave the door two quiet taps, waited a few seconds then began to walk away. Much to his dismay, the door creaked open before he truly got away.
"Hello Mr. Kurosaki. Can I help you?" Aizen said. Ichigo spun around, and sighed. "I wanted to take you up on your offer." Aizen's brow furrowed. "About what?"
"Seeing you, a Psychiatrist." Ichigo said raising an eyebrow himself. "Ah." Aizen said. "Why don't you come in?" Ichigo stepped forward, into Aizen's apartment.
He looked around sadly. It had changed so much since Grimmjow left. What was just junk lying around the room before, was organized and sophisticated things.
Ichigo sighed. "I'm not intruding am I? I could come back some other time…" He said, trying to get away one more time before succumbing to what seemed to the inevitable.
"Of course not. You are not intruding."
"Damnit." Ichigo mumbled under his breath, before sitting down on the couch. "What was that?" Aizen said sitting across from him. "Nothing." Ichigo said hastily then changed the subject.
"I see." Aizen said before pulling out a clip board. "Let's get started." Aizen said, crossing one leg over the other. "How are you feeling right now?"
"Kind of mad. I got stached by one of my best friends and I'm kind of pissed." Ichigo said. Aizen sighed. "I mean physically."
"Why does that matter?" Ichigo said looking at him skeptically. Aizen locked eyes with him. "How are you feeling physically, tell me."
"I feel good."
"Are you anemic?"
"No."
"Good. Stay here."
Aizen stood up and walked into another room. He returned to Ichigo holding a syringe and tourniquet.
"Do not pay attention to me doing this." He said as he tied the tourniquet and plugged the syringe into Ichigo's arm, filling it with his blood. He then untied the Tourniquet and carried all the supplies back to the room he had originally got them from.
Returning to Ichigo, he gave him some gauze to hold over his wound. "Now, you're going to go home and go to sleep. We had a good discussion and you think it helped. You want to come back for more. You will not remember this part of the day. But it helped." Aizen said locking eyes with his patient. The orangette nodded, and stood up, throwing out the gauze on his way out of the room.
Aizen closed the door behind him.
He then left to examine his new specimen. Entering the room, he transferred the blood into a vial and walked over to the tall round container across the room. It was still covered, but wires and tubes where now connected in the back.
Aizen took the blood and plugged it into an IV drip. It wasn't much, but he wanted to see how it affected his project before giving it more. Slowly, the blood began feeding through.
A heart monitor on the other side of the tank began to beat faster.
"Interesting." Aizen said before recording it down on a clip board. "This is the biggest change I have seen in a long time."
Aizen smiled. "I am glad I mastered my Hypnosis, and that I told Kurosaki to come back. He may just be the key."
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