Cold...It's cold...so very cold.
Light shone through, as Rukia's eyes slowly opened, her surroundings becoming clear. She was in a white room. Everything was white.
"Morning, Rukia chan!" A cherry familiar evil voice sounded through the door as a grinning Gin walked in.
"I see your up and well, and don't ya worry about the cold, we yall went through familiar phases." He said happily.
"What? What happened? What do you mea..." She trailed off, images of that night crept into her head. The screams...the blood...the feeling of falling...the darkness.
Her hand immediately shot to her chest, ready for the pain and a big gaping wound, but instead found nothing. Not flesh, nor bone, not even a heart beat, absolutely nothing.
What have they done to me?
She slowly looked down, wondering when fear would take her in its grasp but instead felt nothing. She starred lifelessly at her hollow chest, exactly where her heart would have been.
Still nothing. Not shock. Not pain. The feeling of nothingness.
Is this how it feels to be heartless?
Voices in her head and images of people, but no names. A sharp pain hit her head.
The voices, the nameless people all faded away. Everything...fading...away.
"This ain't good!" Gin said, his smile collapsing into a straight line. In an instant he picked Rukia's unconscious body from its resting placed and shunpo'd off to Aizens lab.
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"Lord Aizen! Rukia chan, she's..." Gin said, placing Rukia on a cold white examining table.
"Oh there's no need to worry, Gin. It's all part of the plan. You see, Rukia was all but a test. Thanks to her we can start conducting other experiments on other Shinigami." Aizen said smiling.
A hollow will always be nothing but a hollow, week, pathetic, even when you do "upgrade them" to Arrancar, they're nothing but worthless powerless monsters. But when using a Shinigami and turning them into an Arrancar, all the powers of which it once held will remain with them as well as Arrancar powers, creating the ultimate species, weapons." He said walking up to Rukia.
"Rukia will remain with us for the time being, just until we have stronger Arrancar in our grasp. And when she wakes, she'll remember nothing, not one person from her past. Of course only her powers, she'll remain intact with. See to it we have either Grimmjow or Ulquiorra keeping a close eye on her. We don't want any...unwanted memories." He said stroking his hand along Rukia's cheek.
"She'll be fine. For now." He whispered as he evilly smiled towards the still figure under his hands.
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Hello Rukia, time to eat, my little pet...