'We're coming.' was Ichigo's last thought as he jumped through the opening.
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'I knew Aizen was coming….but why so soon? Couldn't I have that one small happiness? Please, why must he take everything…..why?'
Ulquiorra stumbled to his room. He collapsed onto his bed, crying till he drifted off to sleep.
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"how much longer?" Ichigo yelled, frustrated that they were still in the world between the human world and Hueco Mundo.
"Be patient, Ichigo. We'll get there. You just have to wait," Toshiro calmly replied.
"You said that 15 minutes ago!" Ichigo furiously yelled.
"He said relax!" Rukia said, hitting Ichigo's head, almost knocking him off his small reiatsu bridge.
"Ow! What the-! You want me to die!"
"If it'll shut you up, then yes!"
"Be quiet, you two. I have a feeling we're almost there," Toshiro interrupted.
"About time!" Ichigo said.
"What did I just say!"
"Damn it Rukia!"
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Ulquiorra opened an eye. Someone was coming. Nnoitra stepped inside his room. "Hey! Wake up! Aizen told me he needs you."
"How do I know you're not lying?" Ulquiorra replied, warily.
"Because he said I can use force to get your ass over there."
Ulquiorra slowly lifted himself off his bed; he was sore. He wounds were still open. He gave up trying to figure out why Aizen liked to torture him after the rape. Maybe he was just that sick. Ulquiorra slowly walked towards Aizen's quarters. Occasionally getting shoved for walking too slow. He knocked on the door.
"Enter," was the reply.
He entered. The lord looked up from his book. "Ulquiorra come have a seat," he said, motioning to a chair across from his own. Ulquiorra sat down, wincing at the slight pain in his rear end. "I see you still haven't recovered enough to go again," Aizen said, chuckling. Ulquiorra looked at his feet.
"W-why did you call me?" Ulquiorra asked, not looking up.
"Oh, I just wanted to tell you that your 'rescuers' in the human world are gonna try and come and get you again," Aizen answered, waving a hand. Ulquiorra stiffened at the statement.
'Are they really coming to get me? Are they-?'
"Don't get so happy. They won't even get pass the front door," Aizen said, noticing Ulquiorra's reaction. "I'll make sure of that." Ulquiorra didn't reply. "I don't want them to have my favorite arrancar, now do I?" With that, he laughed.
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"This is Hueco Mundo?" Renji said, looking around at the almost barren world. The place looked like desert, except the building behind them, Las Noches.
"I would presume we have to get into this building," Toshiro said, placing his hand on the wall. "Where's the front door?"
"Getsuga Tensho!"
"Roar Zabimaru!"
The wall collapsed from the combined attack. "You were saying something about a door," Renji grinned, shouldering his zanpakuto. Toshiro shook his head and stepped through the hole, followed by Rangiku, Ikkaku, and Yumichika.
"They could really use some décor," Yumichicka said looking around. "Make it beautiful, like me."
"Oh, shut up. Why would they decorate it? It suppose to be a type of fort," Ikkaku retorted.
"But it doesn't have to look so ugly. They could at least put some color in here."
"Maybe you can color it red with your blood," Nnoitra laughed.
"You took Ulquiorra didn't you?" Toshiro asked, getting ready for battle.
"It doesn't matter if I did or not, you're gonna die anyways!" he answered, laughing.
"Where is he?" Ichigo demanded.
"Why should I tell you?" Ichigo gritted his teeth. "You little weakling couldn't even stop me in the human world." Nnoitra laughed more. "I'll make you a deal. You beat me, I fess up. You lose, you die. " Ichigo glared at the arrancar as he laughed again. "But you're such a fucking weakling you have no chance!" Nnoitra laughed harder.
"Ichigo, we'll distract him and you find Ulquiorra," Toshiro whispered. "We'll attack him, leaving him occupied so you can slip pass him."
"Thank you, Toshiro. I owe you."
"We accept your challenge," Toshiro said, making the arrancar stop laughing, and grin at them.
"Come at me then!"
"Sit upon the frozen heavens Hyorinmaru!"
"Roar Zabimaru!"
"Extend Hozukimaru!"
Bloom Ruri'iro Kujaku."
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Ulquiorra left the lord's room when he felt Ichigo's spiritual pressure break through into Hueco Mundo. He looked up with a small smile barely showing on his lips. Aizen walked out of his room.
"Damnit. They weren't suppose to come this early. Oh well. Nnoitra!"
"Yeah?"
"You can use any means necessary to beat the crap out of those fucking soul reapers, especially Ichigo Kurosaki," Aizen said, grinning.
"Heh heh, with pleasure," Nnoitra said, bowing and disappearing. Ulquiorra looked at Aizen in horror. Then he looked at the floor, why was he surprised?
"Now Ulquiorra, go back to bed. I have no further use of you." Ulquiorra turned to leave. "Oh and don't try to save Ichigo and his friends. They'll be dead by the time you get there," Aizen added as he walked to the throne room.
Ulquiorra didn't look at the lord. Then he heard the boom. He looked up and let out a small smile as he walked towards the source of the noise.
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Ichigo ran. He ran like there was no tomorrow. H ran down on hall, stopped and listened. Only his thudding heart and panting. "Good I think I lost them." He looked around. "But where the hell am I gonna find Ulquiorra? I don't even know where I am." Ichigo thought for a bit. "Ah ha! I'll try that thing that Uryu uses to find people. Just concentrate." He closed his eyes and concentrated.
"I found him!"
"Crap! " Ichigo ran down the hall, towards a spiritual pressure he thought was Ulquiorra's. At least he hoped it was…
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'Where is he? He was just here. I hope I can get to him before Aizen does. I-I don't want him to get hurt…'
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Ichigo turned left, then right. "Where is he?" he said between each breath. He stopped, and leaned on his knees, catching his breath. He stood up.
"Ok, let me try that thing again," He said as he closed his eyes and tried to concentrate. "Mmmm…." Ichigo's face turned into a scowl. "Damn, how does Uryu find that one person with millions of spiritual pressures around!" he exclaimed, giving up. "Fine, I'll find him without that stupid thing!"
Ichigo jogged down the hall, turning. "Crap!" There were a few fraccion at the other end. He backed up behind the corner. He peered out and sighed. "Good they didn't see me." They rounded the corner. "I have to be more careful," Ichigo said to himself, as he crept quietly down the hall.
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Ulquiorra hurried down the hall. He was sure Ichigo was just there. "I have to find Ichigo before something happens to him," he said, to himself.
He rounded the corner, and felt the said person's spiritual pressure. Ulquiorra sighed, relieved to know he's still alive and so close. He walked down the hall and rounded the corner…
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Ichigo jogged down another hall, pausing. "This spiritual pressure feels like…." Ichigo ran down the hall, and rounded the corner.
At the end of the hall was the lord of the arrancars himself, Sosuke Aizen.
Aizen turned and smiled, "Glad you can join me, Ichigo Kurosaki."
Kyo: Sit upon the frozen heavens Hyorinmaru-Toshiro's shikai release command
Roar Zabimaru-Renji's shikai release command
Extend Hozukimaru-Ikkaku's shikai release command
Bloom Ruri'iro Kujaku-Yumichicka's shikai release command.
I didn't put Rukia's shikai in cause I didn't think it was needed, not cause I forgot her. I have a feeling you did though….please R&R! Show support! Onegai shimasu! I really like to read what the reader thinks of my writings! - OMG! I never knew my computer could do that! O.o I learnt something today.