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Toshiro sat awake in the squad four barracks, pondering the recent events. More importantly, trying to figure out who or what had the extensive knowledge to pull it off.
Not Aizen, He thought, He wouldn't be attacking this early in the game, plus, his working level is not with robotics. Is there a group we don't know about? Between the regular hollows, espadas, arracnar, and the whole band of traitors in Hueco Mundo, plus the regular souls on earth, and our weakened state thanks to the loss of three captains, we don't have time to worry about another group, especially if they pose the same kind of threat the Bounts, or even the Quincies, did. The white haired captain put his head in his hands. On top of that, Matsumoto probably hasn't done one ounce of paperwork in my absence.
"You worry way too much, little one"Hyourinmaru's voice was heard in the prodigy's head.
"well someone has too" he retorted.
"my aren't we feisty." The dragon chuckled.
"enough! I'm going to sleep."
"goodnight, Toshiro."
Rangiku wiped a hand across her forehead, leaving a trail of black ink in its wake.
Five more.
Writing was the only sound that could be heard in the vast office.
Only four now.
Sipping her tea, which had a few drops of sake in it, she returned to her task.
Lucky number three!
Write, write… two more…last one!
*Sigh* Rangiku smiled triumphantly, she had finished all the paperwork. The arduous task had left her so exhausted, she couldn't go out drinking with Hisagi and Kira.
"Taicho better take me shopping for all the work I've done!" she pouted. Collapsing on the couch she curled up and went to sleep.
Rukia rested her head on Ichigo's shoulder and closed her eyes. They were dating and had been since the vizard incident started. Ichigo had suggested they take a look around the districts close to the attack sight to see if they could find anything suspicious. Nothing had come up.
Ichigo leaned over and kissed her forehead, "Thanks for coming with me."
"Who else would help you find your way around." She teased nuzzling her head into his shoulder.
He wrapped his arms around her. "This whole thing is messed up, how are we supposed to find anything out?"
Rukia pulled back and looked at him, "Do I hear doubt in the great Ichigo Kurosaki's voice?"
He smiled at her, "No I just am frustrated that we haven't made any progress."
"we could go check out the attack site."
"But aren't Soi Fon and the Stealth force checking that out."
"No, currently they're on a mission in the world of the living with Lady Youroichi."
"Well if I had known that, it would have been the first place we checked out."
"I was wondering."
"you could have spoke up."
"I figured you knew what you were doing so I left it alone." They got up and shoumpoed (sp?) over to the site.
"It really is small from the outside." Rukia commented when they had reached the site. Ichigo pushed open the door and he and Rukia stepped inside.
"We pull up the carpet right?" he asked while pushing the carpet aide.
"Why do you ask rhetorical questions?" she asked, "They're pointless if you don't want someone to answer."
"They help me remember things." Ichigo pulled up the door in the floor. "Let's go."
They went down the stairs into a large stone room. Metal was strewn all over the ground, some of the parts were still moving. "Looks like a scene from a Si-Fi film." Ichigo commented. Rukia picked up one of the robotic arms and rotated it slowly on her hands. She noticed most of the skin covering the arms had been blown off from the explosion. Under a torn piece of skin covering the palm, Rukia noticed something inscribed into the metal. Pulling of the rest of the skin, Rukia saw it was a picture of the sun surrounded by clouds.
"Ichigo! Look at this!"
The orange haired teen walked over to her and studied the picture. "What do you suppose that means?"
"I don't know," she replied, "we'll take it back to the Serietei for examination."
"I'm going to look around a little more." He told her.
"Alright, I'll be upstairs, this place is depressing me."
"I won't be long." Ichigo walked through the ruin, he noticed an area of completely black ash. That must be where the explosion happened. He looked slightly to the left at what used to be the remains of a chair. Broken wires surrounded it, still spurting electricity. He bent down and touched it, sending a shock of pain throughout his body.
"OUCH!...okay that was stupid." He said scanning his eyes around the room. Ichigo saw a door in the wall, he walked over and entered it, inside were lots of damp dark cells. So I go from a Si-Fi movie, the a castle dungeon.
The explosion hadn't reached there, but he still wanted to see if there was any evidence. Inside the cells all he found was straw and in one, blood, but nothing else.
He looked to the end of the rows of dungeons and saw a door, different than the others, at the end. He looked inside and his eyes widened, "no way!"
He ran up the stairs, reaching the top, he bolted out the door, nearly running over his petite girlfriend.
"Ichigo, what's wrong?" she asked him.
"You'll never believe this," he began, "But I entered the cell hall, at the end was a door, different from the others so I looked inside and guess what was in there."
"What?"
"one of those huge TV's the seirietei uses to communicate!"
"That can't be! That means one was stolen, or someone within our very walls wants Hitsugaya taicho, and possibly others dead!"
Ichigo let out a deep breath, "This just keeps getting more and more messed up."