Well, here goes nothing! I'm switching viewpoints now, and to warn you, I like writing from the first person so this will happen often. I will try to minimize how many characters I make you shuffle through and narrow it down to the main ones in my story. Bleach starts to come in now, and while I will try to stay true to the character's personality (as I interpret it), the events will change drastically, at least from this point forward. For my story though, Grimmjow has never fought Ichigo, Inoue Orihime hasn't been captured, which means that the shinigami are not in Hueco Mundo. The reason why will become apparent later on. I also think I should give a warning, this story is rated M for strong language, gore, sexual situations and comments, drug references and possible lemons later. I just want that out there so readers can decide if they are willing to put up with it.
Also, as much as I wish I owned Bleach, I do not, nor do I own any other products/literary works/music/etc. that are mentioned in this story.
Chapter 2
Untouchable
Grimmjow
Las Noches is a boring place. There is nothing to do once you've become an Espada. The hollows and arrancar stay far away for fear of being eaten, or dissected. That must be why Ulquiorra bows and scrapes to Aizen-sama all the time, at least it gives him something to do. Stark just sleeps all day, he must have good weed.
Me, I fight. This used to be a regular past time for me, especially with other Espada, but Aizen has declared we need to be a 'unified front' and has forbidden any Espada from fighting with another. Does he have any clue how quickly that got old?
The god-king's rule is why I am now standing around in the halls of Las Noches desperately hoping that something will happen. I am so bored that I am thinking of trying to kill Nnoitra just for the sake of giving that spoon shaped piece of crap what he desperately deserves. Don't get me wrong, we are all hollows, all evil, all want to kill and eat souls, but he brings us a bad name.
This boredom was the only reason why, when the octava Espada, Szayel Aporro Granz, ran past in a fit, I even bothered noticing.
"Hey, cotton candy man!" I yelled at him, referencing his pink hair, "What has you moving so fast?"
"Shut up, imbecile," he replied back coolly, though I caught the miniscule twitch in his eye that shows itself whenever he is annoyed. "I must speak with Aizen-sama. I am in need of his aid and he is the only one among us strong enough to help!"
Kiss ass, I thought.
I opened my mouth to ask what his big problem was that he needed help with, but he had already begun to run down the hall again toward Aizen's throne room. I followed, of course. Hell, what else was there to do?
"Aizen-sama, I apologize for interrupting you," Szayel practically cooed.
"What is it, my dear Octava?" Aizen asked, showing his usual calmness. He sounded downright condescending in my opinion. I would guess that Szayel heard it too judging by the way he tensed up. That or he has a crush on Aizen. Wouldn't that be a trip?
"I have found a new subject to experiment on sir, a human girl."
Aizen arched a single eyebrow, not seeing the importance of Szayel's announcement. After all, the mad scientist performs dozens of experiments on anything he can get his hands on, including random humans and souls of humans that he gets his fraccion to abduct from the real world.
When he realized that Aizen-sama was waiting for him to continue, he began to tell what the problem with his subject was. "Well, Aizen-sama, I am having some trouble moving her into my lab and thought that with your vast amount of power you may be able to help me…."
Wow, and I thought he was a kiss ass before that speech, I smirked to myself.
"Why is it so important that I try to move her?" Aizen asked with an edge of disdain in his voice.
"Well, you see, the problem arose, um," Szayel stuttered over his answer as if he did not know how to explain the situation, "I saw her laying sleeping on the ground outside my lab and when I sent one of my followers to retrieve her, they never returned. I sent another and he disappeared as well. I accompanied Lumina to retrieve her the third time, but… she KILLED him. She never even woke up!"
Aizen looked intrigued. I definitely was.
"Grimmjow, why are you evesdroppin'?"
I turned quickly to face Ichimaru Gin, Aizen's second in command. The fox-faced man was wearing his typical smile. As much as I disliked Gin, he was at least good for doing things the fun way. I decided to let him in on what was going on with Szayel's attempt at bringing a human girl into his lab. Gin's grin grew wider.
"So, Pinky is havin' a tough time of it, eh? I say we follow 'em and find out how much fun we can have with this, what do you say?" He turned toward me, cocking his head sideways in question.
"Can't think of anything better to do… Let's go!"
We followed Aizen and Szayel out of the heart of Las Noches around to one of the outside walls of one of his labs. We kept our distance as Aizen approached the figure lying on the ground. The remaining members of Szayel's fraccion stepped back as he came toward the girl.
"Come with me," Gin said to me in his typical slow drawl, "I can't see a damn thing from over here. "'Sides, Aizen won't care if you come up with me, I'm 'llowed everywhere, 'member?"
He began moving toward the group. I followed him slowly. If you are "'llowed everywhere" then why the hell were we sneaking around to begin with? I thought begrudgingly to myself.
"What's the sitch, cap'n?" Gin drawled as he came up beside Aizen.
"Well, Ichimaru-san, Szayel is having a bit of trouble moving one of his specimens, and has decided he needs aid in this. Before I help him, however," Aizen gave a pointed look at the pink haired, bespectacled scientist, "I would like to see how she managed to kill a member of your fraccion while asleep."
Szayel sighed, grumbling under his breath about how he would have to create another follower. He called for another creature to come pick up the girl. The large arrancar came to the scene and reached down toward the ground, only to erupt into a ball of blue and orange flames, he screamed for a millisecond before he dissolved into ash.
My eyes grew wide as I saw the result. I decided to finally take a look at the human of interest. I sidled around the group, noticing that even a few Espada had come to see what the explosion had come from, seeing Halibel, Ulquiorra, and Nnoitra among the group of arrancar. When I saw the girl, I couldn't help but audibly gasp.
She was gorgeous, which is something coming from me. She had wavy brown hair down to her hips, and a small frame. She was pale, not death pale but the pale that comes with naturally porcelain skin. Her lips were bow shaped, giving her a naturally pretty pout, and her cheeks were flushed as if she was fueled by an inner warmth. She was curled into a loose ball on her side I couldn't help but notice that her butt was perfect. Wait, how can I see her butt? Holy crap, she's….
Nnoitra beat me to it, the lecherous swine. "She's naked! I'll get her," he said, the sick side of his voice emerging prematurely.
"No," Aizen said forcefully. "Ulquiorra, will you please try."
I caught the flash of apprehension in Ulquiorra's eye, but as quick as it came, it was gone. He obediently went over to the sleeping girl and took his hands from his pockets his confidence grew as he began to reach forward and nothing happened. At a foot away, though, her body began to glow a faint orange. Ulquiorra managed to steel himself before a blast from seemingly no where launched him 30 yards up and into the side of another of Szayel's exterior labs. He coughed and stood back up, his robes charred and still smoking.
"Wow, have a fun flight there, Ulqui-san?" Gin cackled out.
I noticed that all the Espada had gathered, even the notoriously uninterested Stark. This little human had managed to attract everyone's attention in Las Noches. Luckily it seemed that because of her strange powers, none had been able to attack or eat her. I allowed myself to stop looking at the beautiful woman long enough to see the multitude of scorch marks on the walls around her. Damn, and they did try, didn't they?
Aizen observed the girl once more and announced that he would carry her in to Szayel's lab. Everyone went silent as the most powerful man in the known universe approached the innocent looking human. She seemed to glow brighter with every step he took toward her, as if it knew that all power had to be channeled into saving her from this one man.
Aizen began to sweat with the heat she was radiating. He finally got right next to her and an explosion went off that threw the man on his back, made all the Espada duck, and effectively demolished Szayel's lab next to her.
What the Fuck!? I yelled inwardly. How the --. But that was AIZEN! There's no friggin' way….
My thoughts were interrupted as Aizen stood and began to stalk away, obviously upset. "Watch her to see if she wakes up, no one is to touch her."
Completely agreeing, every Espada turned to go back to their respective areas. All except Nnoitra, that is. He slinked up beside me and gave me a sickening grin. "I bet you want to touch her, don't you, Sexta?" he teased with a glint in his eye.
"Not particularly," I said calmly, trying to ignore the lanky ass-hole beside me.
"Well," he began, "to bad!!"
He threw me at the girl lying on the ground. I clamped my teeth together preparing for my own personal explosion to send me flying the opposite direction.
"Oomph!" I grunted as my arms hit the ground.
Nnoitra was staring at me bug eyed. "Don't be pissed because you threw me off target," I yelled at him. Then I noticed he was not the only one staring at me. Everyone had stopped to see what was going on. I looked around in confusion, then looked down. I had landed on top of the human! How was this possible?
I jumped back as I saw her begin to move, stretching to wake up.
She opened her eyes and I was greeted with the warmest and strangest shade of brown I had ever seen, as if chocolate and honey were mixed with an orange ring around the pupil. She smiled gently, and then her brows knit together in confusion.
She scrambled to her feet, and backed against one of the shards of wall behind her. Her eyes began to glow slightly, and I took another step backward away from her.
"Where am I?" she asked in a feeble voice. She turned those piercing eyes on me. "Wait, are you… Grimmjow?"
My eyes opened wide. How the hell does she know that? I turned my attention back to the girl as her eyes roamed the crowd in shock, naming off each person she came to. Everyone stood in shock as a girl, apparently very powerful pointed them out, without them ever having seen her before. "Stark and Lilinette, Halibel, Ulquiorra, Ichimaru Gin, Nnoitra, Szayel…. This can't be happening, this isn't real…" she seemed to say to herself.
Aizen approached her slowly. She seemed to cower in fear of him, which seemed a bit off to me since she was the first person to knock Aizen on his back in centuries. Heat started rolling off her in waves. He froze.
"I am…" he started calmly.
"I know who the hell you are!" she said forcefully, nearly frantic. "Stay away from me!"
Nnoitra stepped forward, determined to try to get the nude vixen to open up to him. "My dear, we won't hurt you. Why don't you come with me?" he purred sickeningly.
"Oh no, I would rather go with that jack-ass," she stated, pointing at Aizen, who's eyebrows rose, but calm look remained. "Why would you want to help me anyways? You are a sick, sadistic, piece of…" her voice trailed off as she looked down at her exposed body and gave a small squeal, quickly dropping back to the ground into a ball to cover herself.
Everyone just stared at her, not sure what to make of the woman in front of them. Halibel snapped back to consciousness the quickest. She sonido'd over to Szayel, ripping his lab coat off. She gave him a look with her harsh eyes that threatened death if he protested at all. Szayel was smart enough to know better. She slowly approached the girl and wordlessly held out the jacket.
The girl studied her for a minute then reached out and took the jacket from her. "Thank you," she said softly. Haribel nodded silently in response, but as she turned to go, she grabbed Nnoitra by his coat and dragged him way from the girl. She seemed to giggle under her breath at the sight and called out a little louder, "Thanks for that, too." Haribel paused, and then threw a wink at the girl over her shoulder.
"Would you mind not looking at me for a minute?" she asked Aizen meekly. He nodded his consent and threw a glare around the group, letting everyone know to do the same. The girl stood up and shrugged on the lab coat.
I pictured the view I had while staring down at her when she was waking up, to help me avert my mind from the fact that she was now covering up that delicious body. I licked my lips absent mindedly while my eyes were closed, only to receive a smack on the back off the head.
"What the…!" I roared as I turned around, seeing the most beautiful smile ever gracing a beautiful face. "I'm so sorry," I stammered out. "I didn't mean to be harsh."
"Now, now," she chided playfully, "That's not the tough Grimmjow that I was expecting, especially since I know what you were thinking."
"I tend to get more careful when faced with complete obliteration," I said sharply.
She looked confused. "Why would you be worried about that?" she asked. "Well, I'm hungry and have questions so let's go to Las Noches. Is that okay Aizen-sama?"
"Yes, I have some questions of my own…" he said softly.
The girl nodded and then began walking purposefully towards the large castle in the desert.
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Well here is chapter 2, the plot is beginning to build. I will try to update soon. Please R&R, I need encouragement majorly! Thanks!
~Echo
