A.N: Hello, here's chapter 34, as promised. This isn't the most hilarious chapter ever, but it had to be written out so that we could move on to the funny stuff. I'm sorry about that, but at least Katie and I have been getting these out so quickly, yay for spring break, too bad tomorrow's the last day of break. Oh well, the sooner we get back to school, the sooner we can get on to Summer Vaca. Which is when updates will get out faster, yay!
Oh, and because of the fact that we won't be seeing much of the 'Spada for a really long time, Katie and I have decided to that we were going to put up a drabble series or too all revolving around Aizen and his meetings, so keep an eye out for when we start posting those up.
Disclaimer (yes, we need one): We do not own bleach, Naruto, Naruto abridged, Death Note characters, or any lines we may or may not steal from these shows/ideas/parodies, we are not that rich. Have a good day.
Brooke's Zen of the Day: I don't just want to rain on your parade, I want to blow up all your floats too!!!
Brooke
When Katie and I stepped out of the portal I was happy to find that it had conveniently placed us on the ground, which is weird, seeing as whenever an Arrancar or Soul Reaper uses one, it appears in the air… Must be for the dramatic effect… Looking around I found that the Soul Society was much like what I expected it to be, mainly, big. Seriously, this place was huge. I mean, Los Noches is probably just as big, but I only saw the outside once, and I didn't spend much time marveling at it, now Katie and I were standing on the top of the huge cliff looking over the Soul Society and I just couldn't look away.
"Who are you?" Well that really helps. Instantly Katie and I turned around to see a couple of Soul Reapers that neither of us recognized. They had their Zanpakuto out and ready to skewer us if we didn't answer their questions. "Answer the question, who are you two??"
"Um, well… I am….. Beyond Birthday, yeah. Beyond Birthday at your service, you can call me B.B… Just your friendly neighborhood psycho murder. My hobbies include reading people magazines, kicking puppies, and stealing money from orphans." I told them on the fly. What? I'd already dug a hole for myself, I might as well have some fun, huh? The Soul Reapers looked at me like I was clinically insane. Katie just stood there quietly for a moment before I elbowed her in the side, trying to let her know she needed to say something.
"Oh, yeah… and I am… Sauske Uchiha, and I am an emo kid… and I want to kill my brother." She said, obviously thinking the same thing, if we're going to die right now, were going to die having fun and lying through our teeth.
"Why do you want to kill your brother?"
"He's and ass… he ate the last Klondike Bar."
"What would you do for a Klondike Bar?"
"I just told you kill my brother."
"… Oh." I said looking down for a minute trying not to laugh at the Naruto Abridged reference, before I looked back at my friend, "What would you do for one now that it has a thicker, more Chocolaty shell?"
"Kill my entire family." She told me dead faced, causing the Soul Reapers to look at her like she was the devils on child, or maybe Aizen's in their eyes… Don't know.
"I'm sorry; your brother beat you to it." I laughed slightly, trying to hide my nerves behind a chuckle.
"We should take them to the Head Captain." One Soul Reaper told the other, sounds like the beginning of a joke. Normally hearing a Soul Reapers say that about us would put me in a 'fight-or-flight' mood, and it still did, I just had to keep calm and keep myself from accidentally getting Katie or myself killed with my smart mouth. The other Soul Reaper nodded, agreeing with his comrade, and the next thing I knew Katie and I were being manhandled and brought before the Yamamoto, the Head Captain. Wee, what fun!
"Head Captain Yamamoto!!" they entered the room yelling rather rudely before dropping us on our butts, they could learn a thing or two about manners, and this is coming from me, so that's saying something.
"What is it?" The old man asked still somewhat calmly while starring at Katie and myself.
"We found these two on the cliff, they say their names are Beyond Birthday and Sauske Uchiha!" they exclaimed, they were doing a lot of yelling and it was starting to give me a headache, but it could also be from the fact that Katie and I were no longer in control of the situation and our fates were in the hands of the Soul Reapers, which scared the shit out of me.
"Hiya." I greeted as happily as I could force myself as Katie and I waved at the Head Old Guy like we either didn't care/know what was going on, or we were insane, maybe both. He stared at us for a moment more before speaking.
"I am calling an emergency Captain's meeting." He announced epically.
Less than ten minutes later Katie and I were being forced to stand before all the Division Captains, in between two 'guards' on either side, of course. It was really weird seeing all the Captains in person, it was always weird seeing someone that I'd believed was fictional, even if I already knew they existed, it makes you do a lot of double takes. To tell you the truth, it was down right terrifying to be sitting in front of so many powerful people.
"Who are these girls Head Captain?" I recognized the speaker instantly as Sajin Komamaru, Captain of the Seventh Division. He was a whole lot scarier in person, towering over most of the other Captains; at least he was one of the more rational Captains of the bunch.
"Beyond Birthday and Sauske Uchiha at your-" I started before I was cut off by a rather, agitated, Head Captain.
"Silence!" That really shut me up, "This is Brooke and Katelyn, the two other girls that had been under Aizen's control." A collective murmur of disbelief ran through the meeting room as Captains looked at us, obviously, we'd been the topic of discussion before.
"Hi." Katie greeted as I waved, again. Both of us were still putting on the 'perky, unaffected-by-any-of-this' act, although it was getting to be a hell of a lot harder now that both of us were scared. Well, I was scared at least, not sure about Katie, but it took everything I had not to let my knees knock together and I felt like I was about to throw up, but I'd be damned if I'd let these high and mighty Captains know how scared I was.
"How did they get here?" Someone asked, although I couldn't tell because I really wasn't looking at them anymore, I'd realized that actually looking at the Captains was worse than not so I was studying the wall directly behind and above them. Luckily for me, it was a very nice wall.
"Well, when a Mommy and a Daddy love each other very much…" I trailed off, pretty sure they knew I was just being a smart ass at this point, like usual. Sarcasm is a great emotional defense device; it can hide almost any emotion with ease.
"What are you doing here then? Did Aizen send you?" Soi Fon asked us, sounding totally un-amused by my sarcasm, Captain Bitch-Ninja strikes again, what's new?
"When we found about you guys kidnapping Fran, we talked to Aizen and he wouldn't let us come get her, so we came here without his permission. If he won't let us save our friend, then we don't want to fight for him." Katie explained, a lie we had figured out before hand so we wouldn't get caught with two different stories. Without even looking at the Captains, I could tell that they bought our story, if only a little, based on the change in the atmosphere. I, on the other hand, could tell Katie was still extremely pissed at these Soul Reapers based on her choice of vocab. She used words, like 'kidnapped,' in reference to the Soul Society that painted them in a bad light, while using words like 'talked' with Aizen (although it was more like yell) that made him sound not as bad.
"I see." Head Captain/Old Guy Yamamoto said after a minute, "Now, the question remains, what do we do with you?" I glanced at Katie for a moment, this was the moment of truth, if they didn't believe us, we could easily be place within the 12th division to be experiment on and never to see the light of day again, or they might just kill us.
"I'll volunteer my squad to watch one of them." A voice I recognized as Toshiro Hitsugaya said. Katie and I both turned to face Yamamoto to see who would go where.
"You can watch Brooke." He declared epically, motioning to me. So, I was going to be with the Midget Captain, this would be fun. I smiled in Toshiro's direction, still not willing to actually look at the Captains for fear of losing my nerves. It was silent for a moment while everyone waited for someone to be willing to baby-sit Katie.
"I'd like to research one of them." I didn't even need to recognize to voice to know the speaker, both Katie and I tensed drastically at the idea.
"Um, let's think about that… NO!" Katie almost yelled at the scientist.
"Mmhmm." I snapped, I wasn't worried about Katie because I knew I wasn't going to let that happen anymore than she was, and trust me, she wasn't going to let that happen. Next to me, I pretty sure Katie was glaring down the scientist guy whose name I can't pronounce, so I call him Mario.
"I'll watch her." Someone spoke up who I didn't recognized based only on voice/vocab. Risking my nerves to know my friends fate, I looked down to see 69-guy, otherwise known as Shuuhei Hisagi, Lieutenant of the Ninth Division. It makes sense that he'd go to an 'Emergency Captain's Meeting' seeing as ever since Tousen left he's basically been the acting Captain of the Ninth Division. Turning around, Yamamoto nodded, probably pissing off 'Mario', which was fine by me.
"Fine, Brooke will stay with Captain Hitsugaya and the 10th division and Katelyn will stay with acting Captain Hisagi and the 9th division. However, I will grant Captain Kurotsuchi time to study the girls, just like the other one." Okay, now it was my turn to be pissed, this was not going to end well, most likely, and someone was going to end up maimed or dead… "With that settled, the meeting is dismissed." He announced banging his big stick/Zanpakuto on the ground.
"Umm, excuse us Mr. Head-Captain-Man," Katie started, acting like she didn't know what to call him when she was really just trying to show disrespect, "but Brooke and I have a request…"
"We need to see Fran, if you don't mind."
Surprisingly enough, we got our request, although we weren't aloud to speak to her in private, for obvious reasons. We found out that our friend was staying in the Sixth Division with Byakuya and Renji; Byakuya was in for a big surprise if he hadn't already figured out what a handful Fran could be.
"FRAN!!!" Katie and I yelled as soon as we saw our friend before glomping the hell out of her causing the three of us to fall on the ground, Fran seemed rather surprised by our appearance, but quickly got over her surprise, or at least put it to the side during our reunion.
"Oh my god guys! What are you doing here?!?!" She asked as soon as Katie and I finally let go after Byakuya cleared his throat; he's must not be one for PDA, isn't his life going to be fun.
"When we found about you getting kidnapped, Aizen wouldn't let us come get you so we left instead!" I lied, as Katie nodded next to me. Fran quickly figured out that I was lying and did an excellent job playing along with the fib.
"But that doesn't matter, are you okay Fran? They didn't hurt you or anything right???" Katie asked genuinely concerned about our friend's well being, there was a faint hint of anger in her voice but it was easily ignored.
"I'm fine, trust me, you don't need to burn the whole place down, yet." Fran joked causing us to laugh. It was weird, we were acting like everything was okay even though we were being held hostage by the enemy and who knows when will see our strange, make shift family again.
"In that case… We heard you got some pretty cool abilities, what are they?" I asked, I was pretty sure the Soul Society already knew what Fran could do, or they wouldn't have gone through so much trouble to kidnap her and as her friend, I reserve the right to know what kind of chaos she can create, it's part of the Friend-Code. It specifically states that, 'If one discovers that you have un-natural abilities to create destruction, you must tell at least one friend of your discovery.' See? We're just trying to follow the rules for once in our lives, is that so bad?
"Well, according to Szayel, who had a field day trying to figure this all out let me tell you, I apparently have some freaky Sixth Sense thing and before I started 'training' it," my guess is that was code for when Aizen used the Hogyoku, apparently the Soul Reapers didn't know about that can of worms yet, "I was only getting flashes of the immediate future. Buy ever since I began 'training' I've been able to see things farther into the future and they've been a lot clearer too!" Oh, my, god, my best friends a psychic?? That's so freaking cool!!!
Suddenly, a picture filled my head; it looked like the living room in the beach house. I could see that it was really sunny outside and the house was quiet. Aizen was seated on one of the chairs, with Fran on the couch and Szayel was standing up with a clipboard in his hands.
"Based on the results of her brain scan," Szayel was talking, reading something off the clipboard as he did so, Aizen looked interested and Fran looked like she just wanted to go outside, "it seems like the activity of the more subconscious parts of her brain has increased drastically from last time I ran this test. It proves that not only is it the reason that she can see through your illusions like we originally thought, but my hypothesis was correct and her powers are increasing the more she trains. I believe that her abilities have always been there, but when you used the Hogyoku on her, it, 'awakened' them per say, and with the proper training, who knows what she'll be able to do." Pinky finished looking right at Aizen, who seemed extremely interested at this point.
"So… What about the voices?" Fran asked finally, I turned to look at Szayel expectantly, hoping that he'd clarify what was going on.
"Well, I believe that your abilities are developing and letting you actually hear the very top layer of people's thoughts, with practice, you could eventually be able to dig into a person's subconscious." Szayel told her.
"So, I'm not crazy, right?" Fran asked sounding slightly worried.
"Not to my knowledge." Fran let out a sigh of relief before Aizen finally spoke.
"Alright Fran, you may go, but do not tell anyone besides Ulquiorra of this, we may need to use your abilities later and having the others know may make it impossible." Fran nodded at Aizen before getting up, bowing to the ex-Captain, and leaving to run outside and with that I was brought back to reality.
Holy shit, I looked at Fran and she nodded, telling me that she had indeed done that before I looked at Katie, whose face told me she saw the same thing I did. My friend is a freaking mind reader/future seer. It kinda explains how she knew that we were going to be attacked when we had wandered out into Hueco Mundo, and how she knew about the fireworks before anyone else had.
"Oh, my, God." I muttered quietly while looking at my, apparently psychic, friend in awe.
"That's amazing!!" Katie said, agreeing with my thoughts, I nodded excitedly before we all started babbling on and on from one topic to the next until we were told that Katie and I had to leave, it's looks like we have visiting hours, and they were up.
"Bye Fran!! See you tomorrow!" Katie and I waved as we left the Squad Six Barracks I walked with Katie and Shuhei till we got to the Squad Nine Barracks. The walk was rather awkward seeing as neither Katie nor myself really knew what we were supposed to say at this point. When we got to the barracks, the place Katie would be staying for who knows how long, I saw Toshiro waiting for me.
"Bye Katie, I'll see you later." I said, hugging my friend before following the Child-Protégé. When I caught up to him I quickly realized that I was actually taller than him, Bazing-a! The walk to the Squad Ten Barracks where I would be staying was rather quick, that's probably because we were at the Squad Nine Barracks, so it makes sense, and it was just as awkward as the walk with Katie and Shuuhei. It was an extremely clear night, and all the stars were really bright, so that was enough of a distraction to keep me from getting agitated by the awkward walk.
"Well hey Captain, who do you got there?" Rangiku asked when we entered the barracks; I was slightly surprised that she was still in here and not out drinking somewhere.
"This is Brooke, she was one of the girls that was under Aizen's control and she will be staying here." Toshiro introduced me seriously; he really needed to lighten up.
"Hiya!" I greeted, waving slightly as I did so, I was feeling much more confident than earlier, but I was still putting on a slight act but that's probably a good thing in enemy territory.
"Matsumoto, can you set up a place for her in your room for her?" Toshiro questioned his Lieutenant, well than would probably solve the rooming problem and it made a lot of sense that I would stay with a girl…
"Sure Captain." She nodded to her captain before turning around. "Come on, I'll show you where you'll be staying." She smiled before she turned to leave.
"Thanks for taking me in, later Toshiro." I quickly turned on my heals and ran to catch up with Rangiku just in case Toshiro would get mad at me for not talking to him with respect. Based on the irritated sigh I heard, he did. Either way, I followed Rangiku to her room that she was sharing with me, she opened the door to reveal a rather room-y looking, well, room with a desk to do paper work (that looked like it hadn't been used in a long time) and a bed in the corner.
"Just set your bag down anywhere, I'm going to go get you a bed to sleep on." She told me as she left to go do said task. I stood for a moment before deciding to sit with my back against the wall; setting my bag in my lap, I started rummaging through it to make sure I had grabbed everything. We'd left in such a hurry that I wasn't positive that I grabbed everything I needed. Luckily for me, the only thing I forgot to grab was my sleeping pills and extra pencils, both things I was sure I could get here.
I turned my IPod on and listened to a little Ron Pope to help me calm down from such a hectic day. It looks like I was more tired than I thought I was seeing as I don't even remember Rangiku coming back in the room. I was far too busy dreaming about an angry video game, midgets made of ice, an all seeing eye, and a strange, grumpy cat.
END CHAPTER!!!!!
A.N: Well, how did you like that? Now that Fran's a psychic, how will that change everything? I wonder what will happen next???
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