Chapter Four

Three hours had passed and it seemed Toshiro had near enough cleared his head of unwanted thoughts. The bad thing was that he no longer wanted to sleep cause when he did they came straight back. Karin noticed this after he was thrashing about in his sleep and had accidentally smacked her in the face as she was trying to get some rest. He watched her sleep for sometime before turning once more to the door where Halibel then walked on, half her face hidden as she approached him.

"Aizen-sama has given me orders to take you to him, " she said dully, not really liking the fact she was working for a backstabber like Aizen, "you can either go willingly or I'll take you by force."

Not wanting to bother Karin, Toshiro placed his good arm on the ground and pushed himself up, shaking slightly as he felt stabbing pains in his ribs. Halibel sighed and then appeared by Hitsugaya, knowing what he was trying to do. Toshiro gave Karin once last glance before following the Espada out of the room.

Ulquiorra was at the over side of the building and was standing in front of Ichigo's cell as he finally woke up. Soi Fon glared daggers at him as Byakuya quirked an eyebrow as the barrier surrounding Ichigo disappeared and Ulquiorra picked him off the ground with ease. Now that the Kuchiki could have a better view of him, he finally knew why Kurosaki didn't wake up until now. He must have put up a serious fight to prevent him and Karin from coming here to sustain those wounds…

"Unhand him immediately!" ordered Soi Fon through gritted teeth, her hand tracing round the collar on her neck. Ulquiorra stared at her, then he slung Ichigo over his shoulder and completely ignored her.

"You are simply hostages," said Ulquiorra, "be quiet trash."

Soi Fon started shouting in protest but Byakuya shushed her and went back to his thinking. They had been missing from the soul society and the world of the living for three days now, it wouldn't be long before they noticed something was wrong. Now that he thought about it, wasn't Rukia in the living world too? Surely she would have noticed? Byakuya's brow furrowed at the thought of maybe his sister had been captured too. He heard a door clang and then he was left with Soi Fon, who was now pacing the room once more.

Toshiro could hear screams echoing down the corridors along with someone shouting in desperation, he just couldn't recognize who they were. Halibel stopped and then chapped the door just as the screaming erupted again.

"I SAID STOP IT! YOU'RE HURTING HER DAMN IT!" shouted someone from inside, clearly male. Toshiro set his mind to focus and then recognized the reiatsu to be Ichigo's, but he couldn't sense the other persons reiatsu at doors open and the first thing the Snowflake saw was Kurosaki on his hands and knees, Ulquiorra keeping him down. He quickly glanced to the side to see Rukia Kuchiki chained to a wall, crying and sweating, bleeding and screaming as jolts of electricity was sent through her. Toshiro shuddered as he heard another high pitched scream rip through the air. Ichigo stared at her, horror and mortification written over his face. Soon enough he found Aizen in front of him, cupping his chin and then forcefully dragging him over to Rukia.

"You think that's pain?" whispered Aizen, making Toshiro look at her, "That's nothing compared to what you're going to be going through."

Toshiro's eyes widened and ten the thought of Hollowfication came into his head once more.

"I even have a demonstration for you." said Aizen evilly, turning Toshiro to look at Ichigo on the ground, "He's already a Vizard, but with some help with Szayel I managed to make him go through the same transformation and become twice as powerful if the Hogyoku is used."

"The Hogyoku no longer exists!" spat Toshiro, his hair being grabbed and the then being directed away from Ichigo to a stand across the room, a glowing object at the centre of it. Narrowing his eyes, it was pretty easy to tell what the object was, he just chose not to believe it.A few minutes passed and then screaming and shouting could be heard outside the door and as it opened, stood an infuriated Karin, Grimmjow next to her.

"Karin?" said Toshiro, then feeling his hair being let go as Aizen then approached Ichigo, Ulquiorra switching places with him and making sure the Snowflake didn't move. Karin growled and then booted Grimmjow in the shins, resulting in her ending up on the glared at Grimmjow and then glared at Aizen. He had already picked the older Kurosaki up and was now chaining him to a wall. Toshiro widened his eyes slightly and began to struggle vainly, only for the Espada, to tilt his head to the side and shove his thumb in the pressure point between the neck and shoulder. Karin started screaming once again; her brother and the person she loved were stuck in this predicament and all she could do was watch…

Then the blood curdling screams began.

All the way in the prison cells they were being held in, Byakuya and Soi Fon could hear the screaming, although were unable to recognize on who it was. Their voice had raised much higher than normal, you would almost think it was a girl unless you heard it sounding male at the start. Soi Fon hot to her feet and went to the side of her cell, pressing her ear against the wall in an attempt to hear remained seated and listened from afar, but it was easy to tell on who it was.

"It is Kurosaki Ichigo."

Soi Fon turned and looked at him, annoyance showing through her expression. Now that just pissed her off. She hated being outsmarted anyway."Whatever." she growled in frustration, sitting back down. Byakuya was the suppression cuffs on his wrists and then frowned. Something seems so familiar… he just couldn't put his finger on it…

Toshiro watched horrified from the ground at the amount of pain he could hear through Ichigo's voice. Karin had already burst into tears and was crying out in desperation.

"PLEASE, STOP IT! STOP IT!" She cried, watching a mask form over her brothers face and then the screaming died down, leaving ragged breaths and gasping in its path. That was the most horrible experience she had ever had, watching her brother scream in agony and despair as he formed a second hollow mask that was just like the one before. Toshiro remained limp on the ground, unable to actually do anything for Karin in his current state. It would take another few minutes before he could move his limbs again.

Aizen flicked a bit of spiritual pressure at Ichigo's chains and allowed him to fall to the ground with a dull 'thud'.Karin glared at the man just as he brushed a bit of brown hair behind his ear. How much more evil could one man get? Grimmjow then grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her towards her brother before letting go, he gave her a vicious shove she accidentally toppled over him.

"Ichi-nii…!" she gingerly flipped him onto his back and hugged him, not even paying attention to the mask on his blinked a few times and the managed to sit up again but then felt Ulquiorra's presence right behind him. Aizen had crossed the room and was now talking to an enthusiastic Szayel. At the doors stood Amelia and Jugo.

Moments later Szayel was in front of him, clearly delighted that he was allowed to examine him at last. Karin continued to hug Ichigo as she glared daggers at the psychotic scientist as he stood in front of him with a clipboard, writing notes down as Ulquiorra prevented the Snowflake from attacking him.

"Aizen-sama, we may begin Hollowfication immediately." said Szayel. Toshiro's heart skipped a beat.

Immediately?

A/N: Sorry, I was in a rush to write this so I don't think this chapter is too great. Sorry, but I don't have time to respond to your reviews this time TwT hope to see your names again

2nd A/N: I just went through editing this chapter. Due to my account having strange problems with the site, certain sentences have been mixed up or just deleted and words have vanished as well. Sorry for the inconvenience