A.N: Sorry for taking such a long time to update, I should be able to update more now that the summer holiday has started. This is going to be another combined, three people Chapter since the three people in question never really got a main part in the Bleach series. There was a lot of character interaction between them, though, so it makes sense that they be in a Chapter together.
Chapter Seven- Kaname Tosen, Komamura Sajin, Hisagi Shuhhei
Aizen POV
I'll admit, out of all the people in Los Noches, I trusted Kaname the least. He never elaborated on his reasons for joining me, he would only go into a rant about how it was the 'path of true justice' and how his eyes could only see 'the path of least bloodshed'. I doubt anyone else thinks this is the path of least bloodshed, considering the path of mangled corpses I left on the way out of the Seiritei, I also cannot see how this is the path of 'true justice' to him. It is for me, because I feel I should be at the top, and that I deserve to be there. Him on the other hand . . . well, his reasoning is flawed and he's lying, or he's got a reason for revenge against the Shinigami, and 'true justice' is killing them all.
I could see the second reason, after all, Shinigami shed more blood than any other race I've known. If he had a true reason to hate them, then he was working perfectly.
That being said, if 'the path of least bloodshed' is 'kill Aizen', which is much more logical, then I have a rather big problem. Tosen has all the reason to want me dead, he was close to Komamura and Hisagi. Not to mention, I betrayed everyone around him, deceived all. That's hardly an honourable path to follow.
When I used kurohitsugi on Komamura it had been with the intention to kill him (unfortunately, while I accounted for his size, I did not account for the thickness of his skin and the level of his reiatsu. He must keep it constantly in check for me to have never properly measured it) and test Tosen's loyalty.
However, it was a failed experiment, Komamura lived, and I didn't properly encourage Tosen's wrath.
Oh well, there's always next time.
He was also close to his Lieutenant, Hisagi Shuhhei, who he took in as a rebellious son. Although their views often differed, the two of them shared many fundamental beliefs and formed a tight bond. That being said, Hisagi is a Lieutenant, and he doesn't have a chance, so Tosen probably has braced himself for that death already.
There are some casualties of war that are unavoidable.
And if it turns out Tosen is deceiving me . . . he'll be yet another unavoidable casualty.