Chapter 5
I can't remember exactly what happened, only that I woke up alone in a jail cell. It was so dark that I could not see. To my surprise, most of my minor wounds were healed, but not completely. They still stung like hell everytime I moved, and my strength hadn't fully returned. My zanpakutō was missing, and worse yet, so was my leg.
As I placed my hands against the walls, I knew it wasn't seki seki, so my spiritual powers could work on it. Strangely enough, I couldn't sense anything outside of those jail walls.
Nothing. Nothing at all.
Maybe my captors abandoned me, or maybe they were taking a lunch break. Regardless, I had to get out of there, find Jikan, and escape this hellhole back to my own time period. Luckily, whoever caught me didn't think of sealing off my spiritual pressure. That was a mistake.
Even though it was incredibly painful, I managed to hop towards the door. I straightened out of my arm and used whatever strength I had to conjure up a hadō to blow the door open. It was pure luck that there were no guards outside the cell and, better yet, someone left Jikan near the door. As I picked it up, I noticed that Jikan still seemed to be asleep. Damn! "How long will you keep this up Jikan?" As much as I hated to dishonor Jikan, he would have to serve as a crutch until he awoke. Suddenly, a voice spoke to me, nearly scaring me out of my skin!
"What happened here?"
This shocking voice came from behind me, giving me a jolt. As I turned and face this new enemy, I noticed one thing,: he was a big, strong looking man, a human in fact. "This is weird," I thought. Normally humans can't see us soul reapers. So then how could he see me? He really was huge, maybe bigger than the arrancar I fought! I attempted a battle stance and gave him a warning.
"Hold it right there! Whoever you are! I'm a master of kidō! So move aside or there will be nothing left of you!"
However good my bluff sounded to me, this man obviously didn't care about the threats of a crippled, half-dead soul reaper.
"Fine then!" I fired a weak version of Shō to render him unconscious. However, he took the blast without flinching.
"Whatever he is, this freak sure ain't normal!" I thought.
"Please stop. You're still injured. If you move around a lot, those wounds will reopen."
I was too furious to even care. I focused all of my energy into a more powerful Kidō. At this point, I didn't care about the damage it would cause.
"Hadō 31! Shakkahō!"
With this, I fired an amazing blast of energy towards my opponent.
With a grunt, he quickly reacted. He stopped the blast effortlessly with his bare hand, crushing the force as easily as breaking an egg. I stopped in complete horror, shocked and appalled. I noticed that the man's arm now resembled a hollow's. Deep glowing crimson cracks went down his right arm and connected with his fingertips.
"I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you, but I'm afraid you give me no other choice."
I couldn't move. I was frozen in fear. There was no way I could escape this man. Before I could act, the man suddenly disappeared and the lights went dark as I fell to the floor.
"Wake up!".
It was the angelic voice! It called out to me and I regained consciousness to find myself strapped to a table, with a gigantic headache and worse, gagged with a blinding light in my face. A blurry figure that looked like a woman was looking over me with a needle in her hand. I began to struggle, but was easily restrained by her.
"Cut it out! You're making this harder for yourself!" She stuck the needle into my neck and immediately I knew why the gag was on. Whatever crap she gave me hurt like hell. After a few seconds, I calmed myself and she took off the gag. I noticed that this poorly dressed nurse looked beautiful and weirdly familiar. However, the feeling in my neck made me feel extremely cold towards her.
"What the hell did you give me!" I demanded.
"Poison." She answered with equal coldness.
"What? Poison? That is how I'm going to die, not in some epic battle or of old age, but in some hosp-"
She burst out laughing. "I'm just kidding! It's a painkiller. You were knocked out for half a day. Can't blame him though, I mean you nearly destroyed his room."
"Who's room?" I asked, grateful that I couldn't feel the pain in my head and stump.
"Yasutora Sado, but we call him Chad. Wait, I forgot to fully introduce myself. My name is Aiko Yoshida, and you must be Saidō."